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Allen Jackson - Living In God's Blessings (Part 1)

August 19, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - Living In God's Blessings (Part 1)
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 - Living In God's Blessings (Part 1) | August 19, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: hey, i sat down recently with my father to do a
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  • Podcast for my "culture and christianity" podcast, and it
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  • Was so valuable to me.
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  • I mean, we--it was stories that, obviously, i'm familiar with,
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  • But as i heard him recount his faith, it ignited something in
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  • Me about the faithfulness of god across generations.
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  • Well, i encouraged my dad to put together a book about his
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  • Experiences with the holy spirit.
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  • It changed his life, my parents's life, ultimately my
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  • Family's life.
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  • I believe the book will be a real encouragement to you.
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  • I wanna make it available to you right along with "unleashing the
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  • Power of the holy spirit".
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  • It's something i put together a while back that's been one of
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  • The most effective tools we've ever had in the ministry.
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  • Together they'll open the doorway for you to not just have
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  • Language around the holy spirit but to have something to
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  • Actually do to invite him into your life on a regular basis to
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  • Give you the wisdom you need to help you unlock the problems
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  • That we face.
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  • The spirit of god within us to help us, guide us, and direct
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  • Us, that's invaluable, and these books will help you understand.
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  • Allen: we've been doing a series under the theme of "god's plan,
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  • God's promises and god's people."
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  • In this session, my intent is to bring a conclusion, at least to
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  • This segment of the study.
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  • The idea is that god has a plan for the earth.
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  • It's not random, folks.
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  • Any more than the earth's orbit around the sun is random or the
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  • Genetic material in your body is random.
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  • There's nothing about creation that suggests it's just the
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  • Result of happenstance or statistical probability.
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  • It's an expression of god's plan.
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  • And that plan is communicated to us through god's promises,
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  • Through his covenants.
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  • The objective of all of that is that god might have a people
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  • For himself.
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  • I mean, that is the big-picture view of this story, and we've
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  • Looked at several of those promises and their implications
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  • For our lives and what it would look like to begin to address
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  • Them in personal ways.
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  • And in this session i would like to do the--a bit of an overview
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  • To why i believe those promises are so significant and why they
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  • Have the potential to change the trajectory of a life.
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  • It's unfortunate that oftentimes the only promise we really take
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  • Down or try to apply is that if we'll confess with our mouth and
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  • Believe in our heart, we can be saved.
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  • And while i believe that is a wonderful part of the promises
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  • Of god and a part of the covenant that's available to us,
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  • It's by no means the fullness of that.
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  • And i wanna see if i can put it in just a bit of a context.
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  • I can't afford to get lost on this rabbit trail.
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  • But the why component of this, i think, matters a great deal.
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  • You know, if the world is stable and you imagine that the next
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  • Three or four decades are gonna be a reflection of the past two
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  • Or three decades, we have the luxury of something of a
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  • Static faith.
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  • You know, a set of values that we hold and we can practice them
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  • As their previous generations have practiced them and we'll be
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  • Fully equipped for what's next.
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  • But there's very little about our experience that suggest
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  • That's true.
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  • You know, for hundreds of years, the life skills of a grandfather
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  • Were adequate for his grandchildren to succeed
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  • In life.
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  • And while the values of the grandparents are still adequate,
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  • The life skills don't meet the challenges of the
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  • Current generation.
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  • My grandfather earned a living with a team of horses and mules.
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  • And while i like horses and mules, i'd have to be very
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  • Creative to earn a living with a team of horses these days.
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  • The ability to harness a team of horses and hitch them to a wagon
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  • Or some other implement is not in tremendous demand.
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  • And yet, that skill set had worked well for hundreds and
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  • Even thousands of years.
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  • The world has changed.
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  • Well, because of that, it isn't that our faith has to change,
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  • But understanding the time and season we're in and how to live
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  • Out our faith has to fit the demands of this generation.
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  • That is precisely what jesus was saying in the gospels.
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  • He said, you have all of the information about how to worship
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  • God, but you've made the sabbath about rules and not about god.
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  • And he was constantly in trouble because he was challenging
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  • Sabbath rules or kosher rules in the midst of the covenant
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  • People of god.
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  • Well, i would submit to you that we are watching a culmination of
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  • This age.
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  • I don't know the timeline, i don't know how that--i don't--i
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  • Wouldn't pretend to.
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  • But i can tell you the symptoms that the bible gives us of what
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  • Will happen as we approach the end of the age are escalating
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  • Around us on a weekly basis.
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  • Matthew 24, luke 21, jesus's most lengthy prophetic passage,
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  • One of the characteristics jesus said, for instance, was he said
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  • There would be a tremendous increase of lawlessness.
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  • How many have a sense that lawlessness is
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  • Increasing exponentially?
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  • He gave more than a dozen signs and the--the ultimate sign, he
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  • Said it was the gospel will be preached in the whole world.
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  • And then the end would come.
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  • You know, as a younger man, that required a completely different
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  • Attitude than it does today.
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  • I was a supporter and an advocate and did a great deal to
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  • Advocate for missions organizations like wycliffe that
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  • Did bible translations.
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  • And it used to be an imagination from the time somebody raised
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  • Their hand and said, "you know, i wanna go to an unreached
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  • People group," it was--it took years of preparation, language
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  • Study, skill set, intercultural communication.
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  • And i'm not telling you that it's fully resolved, but now you
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  • Can pick up one of those little portable handheld wonder devices
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  • And pull up google translate and you can talk to lots of
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  • People anywhere.
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  • Or we can have a little country church on the periphery of
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  • Nashville and turn on the digital tools and we talk to
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  • People around the globe on a weekly, daily basis.
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  • We're watching the fulfillment of that and we're also watching
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  • The demonic onslaught that's trying to withstand it.
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  • So the practice of your faith needs to reflect an awareness of
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  • What's happening.
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  • Lawlessness is increasing.
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  • Please don't ignore it.
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  • We talked about an open border.
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  • While the people in charge, the head of homeland security--i
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  • Just ran the tape this past week--multiple times stood in
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  • Front of cameras and large audiences and says our borders
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  • Completely secure, hundreds of thousands of people, millions of
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  • People pouring across the border.
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  • And we're still facing the residual impact of that.
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  • We have sanctuary cities and sanctuary states, cities and
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  • States that refuse to enforce federal laws while they demand
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  • Federal dollars.
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  • Not a new thing.
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  • That's been flourishing for decades.
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  • That's not on a single administration or even a
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  • Single party.
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  • It's been tolerated for decades.
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  • It's absurd, if you ignore federal law, you shouldn't get a
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  • Federal penny.
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  • That's absurd.
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  • [congregation applauding].
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  • It's like asking for scholarship money and i don't go to
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  • Your school.
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  • I just want somebody to keep me in the manner that i've
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  • Grown accustomed.
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  • I can give you some examples closer to home.
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  • A couple of weeks ago, belmont was in the news because, well,
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  • The federal government said, "we won't give federal funding to
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  • Universities that promote and institutionalize dei,"
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  • Diversity, equity, and inclusion training.
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  • Belmont got caught on video tape saying, "we're gonna rename it,
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  • But we're actually going to expand it in our university."
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  • A christian university openly acknowledging they're gonna
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  • Practice deception and dishonesty.
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  • They're gonna transgress the federal regulations while they
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  • Demand or request federal dollars.
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  • Well, it got even more personal this week at the university
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  • Of tennessee.
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  • Announces they're in the same bucket.
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  • "we're just renaming it.
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  • We're expanding the programming.
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  • We want the federal money, but we're gonna relabel it."
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  • It's lawlessness.
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  • In our universities where we're training young people,
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  • Theoretically, about integrity and character formation, in
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  • Christian and secular universities close to us, not in
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  • Some part of the country that we consider to be troublesome, we
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  • Have leading voices modeling for our students deception,
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  • Dishonesty, and lawlessness.
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  • Gee, i wonder what that will produce when they gain positions
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  • Of authority.
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  • It's much easier to come in our buildings and do a bible study
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  • On the first century and talk about the miracles of jesus or
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  • Pauline theology or the circumstances in ephesus or the
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  • Moral content in the church in corinth, but the awkward nature
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  • Is that we're living in a season of, in our lifetime, of
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  • Unprecedented lawlessness.
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  • And you could expand that list far beyond the ones i've
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  • Handed you.
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  • So what's the response of the people of god?
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  • Well, i would submit to you we need to understand god's plan,
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  • What's he going to do in the earth.
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  • You know why lawlessness is increasing?
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  • You know why lawlessness has to grow at the end of the age?
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  • Because the ultimate battle as we approach the end of the age
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  • Is between the spirit of antichrist and the spi--and
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  • Christ, the spirit of god.
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  • And ultimately, it will come down to the embodiment of that
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  • Spirit in a person, who is the lawless one.
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  • And it will require the return of the king to thwart the
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  • Lawless one, or he would destroy us all.
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  • So you understand that god's purposes are moving towards a
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  • Conclusion, but they require god's people to be aware and
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  • Living in the full authority of the covenant, the promises he's
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  • Given us.
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  • The most binding word in scripture for an agreement from
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  • God is covenant.
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  • There is no stronger commitment god can make to a human being
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  • Than a covenant, and the promises are the application of
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  • The covenant.
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  • The promises are available to us because of the covenants that
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  • Have been established.
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  • They're not whimsical.
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  • They're not arbitrary.
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  • They're not casually extended.
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  • They're not--they shouldn't be considered optional.
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  • You will not complete the assignment for which you were
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  • Created unless you by faith received the promises of god.
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  • The adversary will overwhelm you.
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  • You will not overcome evil.
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  • You'll be overcome by evil unless by faith you appropriate
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  • The promises of god.
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  • So this isn't arbitrary.
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  • I'm gonna move pretty quickly.
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  • It's kind of a big picture, but i hope to put into context the
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  • Promises we've been talking about.
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  • Whether i succeed or not will require the help of the
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  • Holy spirit.
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  • We should pray.
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  • Lord, help us.
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  • We don't need to hear more words.
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  • We need to hear from you.
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  • Not the wisdom of a person, but truth from you that will bring
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  • Freedom to us and hope to us and insight to us.
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  • Help us.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • Allen: hey, i sat down with my father recently, did a podcast.
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  • He told the story of how he came to faith, how god transformed
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  • Our family, they started a home bible study, all the way up to
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  • The beginning of this church that i've served now
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  • For decades.
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  • As i listened, the heart of it was the work of the holy spirit
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  • In his life and through his life.
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  • I asked him to do a book around the topic, and we have it, so
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  • That you can invite the spirit of god to be the dynamic
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  • Presence of the power of god to bring change and life and hope
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  • No matter what the circumstances.
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  • Allen: let's start with god's plan, it's important.
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  • If you want to get it, you gotta go to genesis.
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  • That's where we're introduced to god.
  • 00:12:49.083 --> 00:12:50.451
  • "in the beginning, god made the heavens and the earth," and it
  • 00:12:50.451 --> 00:12:53.054
  • All unfolds from that.
  • 00:12:53.054 --> 00:12:54.389
  • But in genesis 1:26 says, "god said, 'let us make man in our
  • 00:12:54.389 --> 00:12:58.026
  • Image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the
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  • Sea and the birds of the air and the livestock and over all the
  • 00:13:01.696 --> 00:13:04.098
  • Earth, and over all the creatures that move along
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  • The ground."
  • 00:13:05.767 --> 00:13:07.135
  • You see, humanity is not just the highest rung on the
  • 00:13:07.135 --> 00:13:09.804
  • Evolutionary ladder, that's not at all what's described.
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  • God said, "we're gonna create man in our image."
  • 00:13:13.975 --> 00:13:18.246
  • We are image bearers of almighty god and we've been given
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  • Authority over all creation.
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  • You're more important than a snail darter.
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  • You're more important than a baby seal.
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  • I'm not saying we shouldn't be responsible to creation.
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  • I believe we are stewards over god's creation, but don't
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  • Worship it.
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  • It makes you an idolater.
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  • It's a false god.
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  • Teach your kids.
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  • They tell us that our faith isn't welcome in the public
  • 00:13:46.808 --> 00:13:48.943
  • Schools, and our schools and universities have built shrines
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  • To any number of idolatrous things.
  • 00:13:52.413 --> 00:13:56.784
  • And we've just been numbly going along.
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  • It's time for a change.
  • 00:14:00.355 --> 00:14:04.325
  • "so god created man in his own image, in the image of god he
  • 00:14:04.325 --> 00:14:07.028
  • Created him; male and female."
  • 00:14:07.028 --> 00:14:09.330
  • It's worth noting there was two options.
  • 00:14:09.330 --> 00:14:13.334
  • "god blessed them and said to them, 'be fruitful and increase
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  • In number; fill the earth and subdue it.
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  • Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and
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  • Over every living creature that moves on the ground."
  • 00:14:20.074 --> 00:14:23.111
  • God's intent, he created human beings, he gave them authority
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  • Over all the earth.
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  • He said everything you need is here.
  • 00:14:29.884 --> 00:14:31.653
  • It's an idyllic environment.
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  • At this point, sin hasn't intruded.
  • 00:14:35.223 --> 00:14:39.193
  • You know, jesus is coming back to the earth to rule and reign
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  • On planet earth.
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  • Do you understand?
  • 00:14:45.433 --> 00:14:47.535
  • There may be an interim.
  • 00:14:47.535 --> 00:14:48.903
  • If your earth suit stops before jesus returns, your spirit will
  • 00:14:48.903 --> 00:14:54.108
  • Go to be in the presence of god, but jesus is coming back.
  • 00:14:54.108 --> 00:14:57.045
  • Your earth suit will be resurrected, you're gonna get
  • 00:14:57.045 --> 00:14:59.647
  • 2.0, and ultimately we will reign and rule on this earth
  • 00:14:59.647 --> 00:15:06.788
  • With jesus.
  • 00:15:06.788 --> 00:15:09.023
  • Well, the language of that suggests something has to
  • 00:15:09.023 --> 00:15:11.893
  • Be subordinated.
  • 00:15:11.893 --> 00:15:15.163
  • See, i think we've thought of the return of christ and his
  • 00:15:15.163 --> 00:15:18.399
  • Rule on the earth as something that's casual and passive.
  • 00:15:18.399 --> 00:15:21.502
  • The bible talks about him railing--reigning with an odd
  • 00:15:21.502 --> 00:15:24.839
  • Of--a rod of iron.
  • 00:15:24.839 --> 00:15:29.043
  • That's beyond the scope of this discussion, but that's
  • 00:15:29.043 --> 00:15:31.312
  • God's plan.
  • 00:15:31.312 --> 00:15:32.680
  • Look at matthew 6, this is new testament.
  • 00:15:32.680 --> 00:15:34.015
  • Some of you get a little biased.
  • 00:15:34.015 --> 00:15:37.118
  • You know, there's no such--it's not like a god of the old
  • 00:15:37.118 --> 00:15:39.120
  • Testament and god of the new, right?
  • 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:40.455
  • We understand that?
  • 00:15:40.455 --> 00:15:42.790
  • God didn't have some gummies when he finished malachi and
  • 00:15:42.790 --> 00:15:45.827
  • Mellow out and write the new testament.
  • 00:15:45.827 --> 00:15:49.764
  • Ah, really?
  • 00:15:53.134 --> 00:15:54.736
  • Well, i mean, i've had--i've heard people say in this
  • 00:15:54.736 --> 00:15:56.704
  • Building, "you know, i don't read the old testament.
  • 00:15:56.704 --> 00:16:02.210
  • It's harsh."
  • 00:16:02.210 --> 00:16:03.578
  • Well, you know, the one who put the old testament together when
  • 00:16:06.581 --> 00:16:09.050
  • You see him is gonna be a little harsh, if that's your attitude.
  • 00:16:09.050 --> 00:16:13.388
  • Matthew 6--i'm sorry.
  • 00:16:13.388 --> 00:16:15.423
  • This is jesus, "this, then, is how you should pray: 'our father
  • 00:16:15.423 --> 00:16:18.326
  • In heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your
  • 00:16:18.326 --> 00:16:21.529
  • Will be done on earth as it is in heaven.'"
  • 00:16:21.529 --> 00:16:26.401
  • Jesus said this is your prayer.
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  • Let your will be done in all the earth.
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  • It sounds a lot like genesis 1 to me.
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  • It's god's plan.
  • 00:16:34.142 --> 00:16:36.644
  • "so, what's god want me to do with my life, pastor?
  • 00:16:36.644 --> 00:16:38.546
  • If i just knew what god wanted me to do, i'd be doing it."
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  • Let your will be done on earth.
  • 00:16:41.382 --> 00:16:45.053
  • Wherever he sends us, we're to give it--be a living expression
  • 00:16:45.053 --> 00:16:48.523
  • Of the will of god.
  • 00:16:48.523 --> 00:16:50.725
  • God's perspective, god's truth, god's attitude, god's ideas,
  • 00:16:50.725 --> 00:16:54.896
  • Everywhere we go.
  • 00:16:54.896 --> 00:16:56.230
  • It's not about being a full-time professional whatever, butcher,
  • 00:16:56.230 --> 00:16:58.699
  • Baker, candlestick maker.
  • 00:16:58.699 --> 00:17:00.435
  • Let your will be done in my life today.
  • 00:17:00.435 --> 00:17:04.372
  • You can't stand in the face of ungodliness and wickedness and
  • 00:17:04.372 --> 00:17:07.208
  • Immorality and lies and deception and be silent and pray
  • 00:17:07.208 --> 00:17:10.845
  • That prayer and maintain your integrity.
  • 00:17:10.845 --> 00:17:15.416
  • That's god's plan.
  • 00:17:15.416 --> 00:17:17.585
  • But we live in a broken world, a fallen world.
  • 00:17:17.585 --> 00:17:20.688
  • Evil exists, unimaginable, even heinous, unthinkable, beyond
  • 00:17:20.688 --> 00:17:27.695
  • What's appropriate to describe in a setting like this.
  • 00:17:27.695 --> 00:17:31.933
  • And to counteract that, god has given us his covenants,
  • 00:17:31.933 --> 00:17:34.602
  • His promises.
  • 00:17:34.602 --> 00:17:36.704
  • In romans 2, verse 9 it says, "there will be trouble and
  • 00:17:36.704 --> 00:17:41.476
  • Distress for every human being, for every human being who does
  • 00:17:41.476 --> 00:17:45.880
  • Evil: first for the jew, and then for the gentile; but glory
  • 00:17:45.880 --> 00:17:48.516
  • And honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the
  • 00:17:48.516 --> 00:17:51.819
  • Jew, and then for the gentile.
  • 00:17:51.819 --> 00:17:53.855
  • For god doesn't show favoritism."
  • 00:17:53.855 --> 00:17:56.824
  • God has told us what's coming.
  • 00:17:56.824 --> 00:17:59.494
  • He said that evil exists and there'll be human beings who are
  • 00:17:59.494 --> 00:18:04.599
  • Engaged in evil and, ultimately, it will bring trouble and
  • 00:18:04.599 --> 00:18:07.268
  • Great distress.
  • 00:18:07.268 --> 00:18:10.171
  • But he said his will will be established.
  • 00:18:10.171 --> 00:18:12.807
  • And for everyone who does that, there'll be glory and honor.
  • 00:18:12.807 --> 00:18:15.543
  • You got to decide which one you are.
  • 00:18:15.543 --> 00:18:17.145
  • You've got a choice.
  • 00:18:17.145 --> 00:18:18.913
  • There's no third option, folks.
  • 00:18:18.913 --> 00:18:21.983
  • No trans christianity.
  • 00:18:21.983 --> 00:18:25.453
  • You got a choice to make.
  • 00:18:25.453 --> 00:18:26.821
  • I don't mean to be funny.
  • 00:18:26.821 --> 00:18:28.256
  • We've created too many gray areas.
  • 00:18:28.256 --> 00:18:31.392
  • We've had too much sloppy agape.
  • 00:18:31.392 --> 00:18:34.729
  • We've got to decide in our hearts if we're gonna serve the
  • 00:18:34.729 --> 00:18:37.031
  • Lord or we're not.
  • 00:18:37.031 --> 00:18:39.200
  • Near the end of the book of revelation, there's this
  • 00:18:39.200 --> 00:18:40.735
  • Remarkable statement made.
  • 00:18:40.735 --> 00:18:42.069
  • It says, "let the wicked be more wicked and those who want to be
  • 00:18:42.069 --> 00:18:45.573
  • Righteous be even more righteous."
  • 00:18:45.573 --> 00:18:48.142
  • It's time to decide.
  • 00:18:48.142 --> 00:18:49.477
  • The middle is disappearing.
  • 00:18:49.477 --> 00:18:52.680
  • The gray area is evaporating.
  • 00:18:52.680 --> 00:18:54.382
  • The little phrase, "to the jew first, and then for the
  • 00:18:54.382 --> 00:18:56.417
  • Gentile," is a biblical pattern.
  • 00:18:56.417 --> 00:19:00.621
  • The jewish people have been a demonstration of god's purpose
  • 00:19:00.621 --> 00:19:04.725
  • And intent to form a people for himself, and they've
  • 00:19:04.725 --> 00:19:08.930
  • Demonstrated to us the responsibility of that.
  • 00:19:08.930 --> 00:19:11.766
  • It comes with great blessings and it comes with
  • 00:19:11.766 --> 00:19:13.601
  • Great responsibility.
  • 00:19:13.601 --> 00:19:16.637
  • God chose them, they didn't choose him.
  • 00:19:16.637 --> 00:19:19.740
  • The scripture's very clear: out of all the peoples on the earth,
  • 00:19:19.740 --> 00:19:22.243
  • God said, "i choose that group of people.
  • 00:19:22.243 --> 00:19:24.912
  • I have a purpose for them and a plan for them."
  • 00:19:24.912 --> 00:19:28.082
  • They didn't all like it, they haven't all wanted to cooperate.
  • 00:19:28.082 --> 00:19:32.486
  • But some have.
  • 00:19:32.486 --> 00:19:35.256
  • And when they lived in rebellion, when they rejected
  • 00:19:35.256 --> 00:19:37.358
  • God's invitations, they faced his discipline and they have
  • 00:19:37.358 --> 00:19:40.228
  • Suffered a great deal.
  • 00:19:40.228 --> 00:19:42.530
  • You shouldn't imagine there's anything different for you under
  • 00:19:42.530 --> 00:19:44.699
  • The new covenant.
  • 00:19:44.699 --> 00:19:46.934
  • God chose you. you think you chose him?
  • 00:19:46.934 --> 00:19:48.469
  • I assure you, he chose you before you chose him.
  • 00:19:48.469 --> 00:19:52.673
  • And once you come to the awareness that he's chosen you,
  • 00:19:52.673 --> 00:19:55.443
  • You have to choose him with your whole heart.
  • 00:19:55.443 --> 00:19:59.213
  • Not just once, not just in response to an altar call, some
  • 00:19:59.213 --> 00:20:03.618
  • Emotional plea, i--those are okay with me, i'm not
  • 00:20:03.618 --> 00:20:05.987
  • Opposing that.
  • 00:20:05.987 --> 00:20:07.555
  • But you have to make a choice for the lord every day of
  • 00:20:07.555 --> 00:20:09.757
  • Your life.
  • 00:20:09.757 --> 00:20:12.994
  • My bible says in hebrews that god disciplines those he loves.
  • 00:20:12.994 --> 00:20:15.696
  • If he doesn't discipline you, you're an illegitimate child.
  • 00:20:15.696 --> 00:20:18.199
  • Abraham, isaac, and jacob, and their descendants, god's
  • 00:20:21.936 --> 00:20:25.873
  • Covenant was about a promised land.
  • 00:20:25.873 --> 00:20:27.541
  • It's genesis 12.
  • 00:20:27.541 --> 00:20:28.943
  • "the lord said to abram, 'leave your country, your people and
  • 00:20:28.943 --> 00:20:31.245
  • Your father's household and go to the land i'll show you.
  • 00:20:31.245 --> 00:20:34.382
  • I'll make you a great nation, i'll bless you; i'll make your
  • 00:20:34.382 --> 00:20:36.550
  • Name great, you'll be a blessing.
  • 00:20:36.550 --> 00:20:37.885
  • I'll bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you i'll
  • 00:20:37.885 --> 00:20:39.620
  • Curse; all people on earth be blessed through you."
  • 00:20:39.620 --> 00:20:42.023
  • It's an amazing promise.
  • 00:20:42.023 --> 00:20:44.158
  • "all people on earth blessed through you."
  • 00:20:44.158 --> 00:20:45.660
  • That'd be a little--that might fuel your ego a little bit.
  • 00:20:45.660 --> 00:20:51.299
  • No, you gotta be a bit more sophisticated.
  • 00:20:51.299 --> 00:20:53.200
  • You have to know more than one verse.
  • 00:20:53.200 --> 00:20:55.770
  • The only verse in the bible you know is god said he'd bless
  • 00:20:55.770 --> 00:20:58.172
  • Those that blessed you and curse those that cursed you, your
  • 00:20:58.172 --> 00:21:01.008
  • Faith is incomplete and inadequate.
  • 00:21:01.008 --> 00:21:04.879
  • It's not that simple because there are times god has used any
  • 00:21:04.879 --> 00:21:10.885
  • Number of gentile rulers, gentile leaders to bring
  • 00:21:10.885 --> 00:21:14.755
  • Discipline to his people.
  • 00:21:14.755 --> 00:21:18.292
  • God called 'em his instruments, his agents, his servants.
  • 00:21:18.292 --> 00:21:23.798
  • So, i believe that we have an assignment.
  • 00:21:23.798 --> 00:21:26.467
  • I believe we owe a tremendous debt to the jewish people.
  • 00:21:26.467 --> 00:21:30.204
  • But there, again, there's a lot of casualness in the way
  • 00:21:30.204 --> 00:21:32.640
  • Christians approach this.
  • 00:21:32.640 --> 00:21:35.543
  • But god promised them clearly a piece of land, genesis 15.
  • 00:21:35.543 --> 00:21:39.847
  • "abram believed the lord, and he credited it to him
  • 00:21:39.847 --> 00:21:41.816
  • As righteousness.
  • 00:21:41.816 --> 00:21:43.184
  • And he also said to him, 'i'm the lord, who brought you out of
  • 00:21:43.184 --> 00:21:45.052
  • Ur of the chaldeans to give you this land to take possession
  • 00:21:45.052 --> 00:21:48.489
  • Of it.'"
  • 00:21:48.489 --> 00:21:50.024
  • There's a piece of territory at the end of the mediterranean sea
  • 00:21:50.024 --> 00:21:53.461
  • That god promised to the descendants of abraham, isaac,
  • 00:21:53.461 --> 00:21:56.163
  • And jacob as a part of his covenant with them.
  • 00:21:56.163 --> 00:21:59.633
  • And he could care less what the un security council thinks.
  • 00:21:59.633 --> 00:22:03.371
  • [congregation applauding].
  • 00:22:03.371 --> 00:22:07.208
  • It's a point of tremendous consternation in the earth
  • 00:22:07.208 --> 00:22:10.044
  • These days.
  • 00:22:10.044 --> 00:22:11.746
  • There is--lately, there has been almost weekly some new public
  • 00:22:11.746 --> 00:22:16.384
  • Diatribe against the jewish people.
  • 00:22:16.384 --> 00:22:20.287
  • It's illogical, it's irrational.
  • 00:22:20.287 --> 00:22:22.289
  • The only way i think it can be understood is as--with a
  • 00:22:22.289 --> 00:22:25.593
  • Spiritual motivation.
  • 00:22:25.593 --> 00:22:28.162
  • Again, that's a little beyond the scope of this
  • 00:22:28.162 --> 00:22:30.498
  • Particular lesson.
  • 00:22:30.498 --> 00:22:31.832
  • God's promises, first of all, to abraham, isaac, and jacob as a
  • 00:22:31.832 --> 00:22:35.803
  • Part of that covenant, they got a promised land.
  • 00:22:35.803 --> 00:22:38.906
  • In the new covenant, god gives to his people the land of his
  • 00:22:38.906 --> 00:22:42.977
  • Promises, not a place on planet earth.
  • 00:22:42.977 --> 00:22:45.913
  • He didn't say middle tennessee is unique to a group of people.
  • 00:22:45.913 --> 00:22:50.618
  • But what he has given us is a life defined by his promises.
  • 00:22:50.618 --> 00:22:56.557
  • The understanding of his covenants, his provision for the
  • 00:22:56.557 --> 00:22:59.226
  • Descendants of abraham, isaac and jacob was complete, total,
  • 00:22:59.226 --> 00:23:01.962
  • And entire.
  • 00:23:01.962 --> 00:23:03.497
  • His provision for your life and mine is complete, total,
  • 00:23:03.497 --> 00:23:07.001
  • And entire.
  • 00:23:07.001 --> 00:23:09.170
  • Christians quibble about this.
  • 00:23:09.170 --> 00:23:10.504
  • "well, i don't know if i should pray that god will bless me or
  • 00:23:10.504 --> 00:23:12.973
  • If god will heal me or if god will provide for my needs."
  • 00:23:12.973 --> 00:23:16.444
  • All that is expressing is a lack of awareness of scripture.
  • 00:23:16.444 --> 00:23:21.515
  • You can't evaluate the depth of your spirituality by those
  • 00:23:21.515 --> 00:23:24.585
  • Things, but they're a part of the promises of god.
  • 00:23:24.585 --> 00:23:26.787
  • Look at 2 peter 1 in verse 3, "his divine power has given us
  • 00:23:26.787 --> 00:23:31.091
  • Everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge
  • 00:23:31.091 --> 00:23:33.694
  • Of him who called us by his own glory and goodness."
  • 00:23:33.694 --> 00:23:36.263
  • Who wrote that passage?
  • 00:23:36.263 --> 00:23:38.566
  • I mean, directed by the holy spirit, but it was peter, the
  • 00:23:38.566 --> 00:23:41.235
  • Fisherman that jesus recruited, an observant jewish man.
  • 00:23:41.235 --> 00:23:46.507
  • He keeps kosher, he celebrates the jewish holidays.
  • 00:23:46.507 --> 00:23:54.715
  • He's kept the law of moses since his youth.
  • 00:23:54.715 --> 00:23:58.185
  • And yet when he's writing this, he said, "god's divine power has
  • 00:23:58.185 --> 00:24:01.922
  • Given us everything we need for life and godliness through our
  • 00:24:01.922 --> 00:24:05.926
  • Knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness."
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  • He's not just referring on the covenant.
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  • He's not ignoring the new covenant.
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  • "through these he's given us his very great and precious
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  • Promises, so that through them you may participate in the
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  • Divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused
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  • By evil desires."
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  • Can we agree that there is corruption in our world caused
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  • By evil?
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  • I think we can agree on that.
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  • There's two things in that--those two verses stated in
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  • Perfect tense, which means they have already been done,
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  • They're complete.
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  • There's nothing to be added to them.
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  • There's no amendments coming forth.
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  • It is a fait accompli.
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  • It's done.
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  • The first, it says he's given us everything we need for life
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  • And godliness.
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  • He's not gonna give you something else.
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  • You say, "god, i need help."
  • 00:24:58.779 --> 00:25:00.514
  • Well, his help is in his promises.
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  • We have to understand how to believe them, how to
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  • Appropriate them.
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  • The land that god gave to the descendants of abraham, isaac,
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  • And jacob, they had to occupy it, they had to fight for it.
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  • And you'll have to occupy the promises of god.
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  • They will not fall on you like so much ripe fruit.
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  • We have a lot of language in amongst us that isn't helpful.
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  • You know, whatever god has for me, i'll receive it.
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  • I'm just open to whatever the lord wants--whatever god--i
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  • Would do, just, you know, i--with all my heart is on it, i
  • 00:25:31.912 --> 00:25:36.216
  • Just want--stop it.
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  • Do you understand you can go to hell with that attitude?
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  • The bible very clearly says, unless you believe in your heart
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  • And confess with your mouth that jesus is lord, you're not saved.
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  • So saying out of your mouth, "well, i, you know, i'm just
  • 00:25:53.834 --> 00:25:56.003
  • Open to whatever," that doesn't help.
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  • You'll miss the promise.
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  • Allen: being a christ follower is not as much about an
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  • Experience and a completed activity, a prayer, a visit to
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  • An altar, a response to an evangelist.
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  • It's certainly a beginning point of welcoming jesus into your
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  • Heart, but it's a life that we lead, so we continue to grow and
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  • Learn and gain strength.
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  • As life presents challenges, we get to know god in a new way.
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  • Well, i believe this book about the holy spirit is a tool to
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  • Help you gain a new momentum, to grow through the things in your
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  • Life under the direction of the power of the spirit of god.
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  • Folks, we're not gonna outwork evil or outthink evil.
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  • We're not gonna outorganize evil.
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  • The only thing evil will yield to is a power greater than
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  • Itself, and that power is the spirit of god and you and me
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  • Manifest in the earth through people of faith.
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  • We're salt and light, we're change agents.
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  • I wanna pray.
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  • Heavenly father, give us a discernment to recognize your
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  • Spirit, how we can welcome him into our lives and cooperate
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  • With him to bring your breakthroughs into our lives,
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  • Our homes, and our churches.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • ♪♪♪
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