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Allen Jackson - Living In God's Blessings (Part 2)

August 20, 2025 | S25 E235 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - Living In God's Blessings (Part 2)
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 2) | August 20, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: hey, i sat down recently with my father to do
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  • A podcast for my "culture & christianity" podcast and it was
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  • So valuable to me.
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  • I mean, we, it was stories that obviously i'm familiar with, but
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  • 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' 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 awhile 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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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: there's a piece of territory at the end of the
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  • Mediterranean sea that god promised to the descendants of
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  • Abraham, isaac, and jacob as a part of his covenant with them.
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  • And he could care less what the un security council thinks.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • Allen: it's a point of tremendous consternation in the
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  • Earth these days.
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  • There is, lately there has been almost weekly some new public
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  • Diatribe against the jewish people.
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  • It's illogical, it's irrational, the only way i think it can be
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  • Understood is as with a spiritual motivation.
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  • Again, that's a little beyond the scope of this particular
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  • Lesson, god's promises.
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  • First of all, to abraham, isaac and jacob as a part of that
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  • Covenant, they got a promised land.
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  • In the new covenant, god gives to his people the land of
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  • His promises.
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  • Not a place on planet earth.
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  • He didn't say middle tennessee is unique to a group of people
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  • But what he has given us is a life defined by his promises,
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  • The understanding of his covenants, his provision for the
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  • Descendants of abraham, isaac and jacob was complete, total,
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  • And entire.
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  • His provision for your life and mine is complete, total,
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  • And entire.
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  • Christians quibble about this.
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  • Well, i don't know if i should pray that god will bless me or
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  • If god will heal me or if god will provide for my needs.
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  • All that is expressing is a lack of awareness of scripture.
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  • You can't evaluate the depth of your spirituality by those
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  • Things, but they're a part of the promises of god.
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  • Look at 2 peter 1 and verse 3: "his divine power has given us
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  • Everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge
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  • Of him who called us by his own glory and goodness."
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  • Who wrote that passage?
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  • I mean, directed by the holy spirit, but it was peter,
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  • The fisherman that jesus recruited, an observant
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  • Jewish man.
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  • He keeps kosher.
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  • He celebrates the jewish holidays.
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  • He's kept the law of moses since his youth, and yet when he's
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  • Writing this, he said, "god's divine power has given us
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  • Everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge
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  • 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, 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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  • Say, "god, i need help."
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  • Well, his help is in his promises.
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  • We have to understand how to believe them, how
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  • To 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.
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  • 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.
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  • I, with all my heart is on it, i 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
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  • Heart and confess with your mouth that jesus is lord, you're
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  • Not saved."
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  • So saying out of your mouth, "well, i, you know, i'm just
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  • Open to whatever," that doesn't help.
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  • You'll miss the promise.
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  • Well, there's some other promises.
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  • We've looked at several of them through this series.
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  • You have to forgive in order to be forgiven.
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  • Which means if you have been mistreated and you have.
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  • Some of us egregiously.
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  • You have to forgive in order to be forgiven.
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  • This isn't optional.
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  • Exodus 19, moses has led the former slaves of egypt into
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  • The wilderness.
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  • God's fashioning a nation out of them.
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  • "then moses went up to god, and the lord called him to the
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  • Mountain and he said, 'this is what you're to say to the house
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  • Of jacob.
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  • This is what you're to tell the people of israel.
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  • "you yourselves have seen what i did to egypt, how i carried you
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  • On eagle's wings, and i brought you to myself.
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  • Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of
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  • All the nations, you'll be my treasured possession."'"
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  • Sounds a lot like genesis, doesn't it?
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  • I've chosen you.
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  • "i've delivered you, i've crafted everything for
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  • Your benefit.
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  • But it's, there's, it's a, it's conditionally, said, 'if you
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  • Obey me fully and keep my covenant, although the whole
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  • Earth is mine, you'll be for me a kingdom of priest and a
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  • Holy nation.'
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  • These are the words you're to speak to the israelites."
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  • It's a covenant that's being made.
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  • It's not some arbitrary religious language.
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  • See, we have to decide if we believe there's a god who
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  • Created the heavens and the earth, that there is, and you
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  • Can know him, that's the greatest assignment of
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  • Your life.
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  • There's no greater opportunity.
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  • I'm not opposed to making money and having achievement
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  • And accomplishment.
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  • Those things all have a place, but they all pale in
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  • Significance to knowing god.
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  • I'm not talking about knowing church and knowing how to be
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  • Religious, who cares?
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  • If there's a god, get to know him.
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  • It's an amazing thing that the creator of heaven and earth
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  • Says, "you could know me.
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  • I would like to have a relationship with you."
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  • 1 peter chapter 2, this is the fisherman again.
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  • "you're a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, of
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  • People belonging to god.
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  • He called you out of darkness into his wonderful life.
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  • Once you were not a people."
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  • You were people, but you were not a people.
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  • See, the people of god are different.
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  • We're at the center of his purposes.
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  • "but now you're the people of god; once you had not received
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  • Mercy, but now you have received mercy."
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  • What's that mean?
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  • The mercy is the promises of god have been extended to you.
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  • You're under the covenant.
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  • The promises are your inheritance.
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  • Once they weren't your inheritance, how do you qualify
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  • For that?
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  • I'm gonna tell you before we go.
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  • Galatians 3: "christ redeemed us in order that the blessing given
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  • To abraham might come to the gentiles through christ jesus,
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  • So that by faith, we might receive the promise of
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  • The spirit."
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  • So the covenant god made with abraham has an implication for
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  • All of us.
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  • Romans chapter 11 gives us a little more insight into that.
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  • He's using--paul is using the illustration of an olive tree.
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  • And he's saying that abraham and isaac and jacob's descendants
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  • Are an olive tree.
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  • And he's gonna describe the grafting in of a group of people
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  • Who don't share genetic material but who share
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  • A spiritual inheritance.
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  • "if some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though
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  • A wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and
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  • Now sharing the nourishing sap from the olive root, don't boast
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  • Over those other branches.
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  • If you do, consider this: you don't support the root, but the
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  • Root supports you."
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  • Do you understand the arrogance in the christian community that
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  • Says the jewish people are irrelevant?
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  • That flourishes amongst evangelicals.
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  • Without the jewish people, we have no scripture, we have no
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  • Prophets, we have no law, we have no messiah.
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  • We have no hope.
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  • "you'll say then, 'branches were broken off so that i could be
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  • Grafted in.'
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  • Granted, but they were broken off because of unbelief, and you
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  • Stand by faith."
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  • Heard that?
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  • Well, they rejected jesus, like we haven't.
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  • You know we tell peter's story about that night he
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  • Denied jesus.
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  • I mean, he denied jesus under threat of arrest and execution,
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  • Tremendous pressure.
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  • We've denied jesus under threat of not being invited to a party.
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  • We've denied jesus under threat we might lose
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  • A business opportunity.
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  • "do not be arrogant, but be afraid.
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  • For if god didn't spare the natural branches, he'll not
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  • Spare you either."
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  • You see, we're not separate from.
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  • We are joined together with.
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  • You're not sure you believe me.
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  • Look at hebrews 11.
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  • Hebrews 11 is the hall of fame of faith.
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  • The the great listing of men and women of the faith, and they've
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  • All come from the old testament.
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  • And they're held out to us as these examples of what it means
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  • To be people of significance in the unfolding purposes of god.
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  • Remember our conversation, god's purposes and god's people,
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  • That's where we wanna be.
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  • "since these were all commended for their faith, yet none of
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  • Them received what had been promised."
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  • They had revelations of jesus.
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  • They understood he was coming.
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  • "god had planned something better for us so that only
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  • Together, only together with us would they be made perfect."
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  • You see, we've read that and we thought they were incomplete,
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  • They were inadequate.
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  • They needed us.
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  • No, not really.
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  • They needed jesus, they needed the messiah.
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  • But the scripture says only together.
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  • Together isn't one sided.
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  • You with me?
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  • It's not like together means well one's more important than
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  • The other.
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  • Only together with us can we fulfill what god has.
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  • We've been arrogant.
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  • See, i think the reason we haven't had the kind of tenacity
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  • That's often needed is we haven't believed seriously the
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  • Promises of god.
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  • We haven't believed with the same tenacity that the jewish
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  • People understand that the land of israel is significant to
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  • Their future.
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  • They're very clear that without accepting the promise that god
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  • Has given to them, they have no chance of survival.
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  • I assure you they understand that.
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  • And i promise you that unless we understand the promises of god
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  • For ourselves, we have no chance of survival.
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  • I have no question that there's a force of evil in our world
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  • That hates the jewish people.
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  • But i understand with equal clarity there's a force of evil
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  • In the world that hates all of the people of god.
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  • Allen: so the invitation is to believe the promises.
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  • The promises bring blessings, disobedience to the promises
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  • Bring curses.
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  • It's very plain language.
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  • I'm always a bit amazed at christians that go, "you know,
  • 00:14:14.068 --> 00:14:16.070
  • Pastor, i just don't know how i feel about that curses thing."
  • 00:14:16.070 --> 00:14:21.109
  • Well, i'm happy that you have feelings, they make your life
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  • More full, but feelings can be wrong and when your feelings
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  • Disagree with the word of god, change them.
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  • Sounds like a country song.
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  • In galatians 3, there's a commentary on the blessings.
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  • "the scripture foresaw that god would justify the gentiles by
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  • Faith, and announced the gospel in advance to abraham."
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  • Did you know god explained to abraham what he was gonna do?
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  • "all nations will be blessed through you.
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  • So those who have faith are blessed along with abraham,
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  • The man of faith."
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  • That's galatians 3.
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  • If you're counting, it's the new testament.
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  • There's a blessing that comes to us because of the covenant that
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  • God made with abraham.
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  • In revelation 22, in verse 3, it says, "there will no longer be
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  • Any curse.
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  • The throne of god and the lamb will be in the city, and his
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  • Servants will serve him."
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  • That's very near the end of the last book of the bible.
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  • And it says the curse will be addressed fully.
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  • There will no longer be any curse.
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  • Up until that time, there's been a curse in the earth.
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  • Now some will say, "well, it's the curse that came with sin."
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  • You're right, it's the curse that entered the earth with sin,
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  • But when you and i choose to reject god and don't cooperate,
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  • When we don't choose him, what do you think comes to your life?
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  • Do you think the fact that you are a christ follower eliminates
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  • You from the impact of sin?
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  • Do you think that a profession of faith completely eliminates
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  • The consequences of ungodliness?
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  • Then you haven't read your bible.
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  • There's a blessing for obedience.
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  • Look at deuteronomy 28, verse 1: "if you fully obey the lord your
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  • God and carefully follow all his commandments i give you today,
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  • The lord your god will set you on high above all the nations
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  • On earth.
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  • All these blessings will come upon you and accompany you if
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  • You obey the lord your god."
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  • You see, the challenge really isn't to seek the blessings.
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  • The challenge is to seek god.
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  • If you will seek god, the blessings will come to you.
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  • Well, how do you seek god?
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  • By recognizing his promises and meeting the conditions.
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  • If you forgive those who sin against you, you'll be forgiving
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  • Your sins.
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  • How do you seek god?
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  • By purposefully, intentionally being willing to forgive people
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  • Who have sinned against you.
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  • "well, they could have done better," i know.
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  • "they should have done," i know.
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  • I'm not telling you to get back in line for additional abuse.
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  • I'm telling you you gotta make a decision to forgive them.
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  • There's all kinds of promises.
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  • We've been accepted in the beloved.
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  • If your life has been tagged by rejection, and almost every one
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  • Of our lives have.
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  • With the prevalence of divorce.
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  • I mean, just any number of ways, the rejection comes to
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  • Our lives.
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  • We feel like we stand on the outside, that other people got
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  • The playbook and nobody gave it to me.
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  • I don't really know how to fit in.
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  • I don't know how to be a part.
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  • Feel pretty isolated.
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  • Well, my bible says that we've been accepted into the beloved,
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  • We are children of god, but i have to choose to believe that.
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  • So i have to renounce that spirit of rejection.
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  • You don't have authority in my life, in jesus's name.
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  • I may have been rejected by people, but i've been accepted
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  • By god.
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  • See, it's not enough to say i don't care, because that's not
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  • Really true.
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  • I meet people frequently, "i don't care what people think
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  • About me."
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  • Oh, stop.
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  • It's better to be applauded than stoned.
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  • I don't think you can afford to live your life in the breeze of
  • 00:18:27.989 --> 00:18:31.726
  • Public opinion, it'll make you nuts.
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  • It'll tear you apart.
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  • We shouldn't pretend like we don't care.
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  • I learned some lies as a kid that i had to unlearn as an
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  • Adult that had me stuck.
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  • "i don't care what you say about me."
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  • That'd roll out of me in a hurry, "i don't care."
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  • Then i learned another one that added to it, "that didn't hurt."
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  • I like sports, but i didn't get crazy gifts.
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  • And i couldn't jump over things.
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  • I wasn't really fast.
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  • I was just stubborn and mean.
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  • That was my contribution.
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  • Which meant if you knocked me down, i'd get back up.
  • 00:19:12.433 --> 00:19:15.770
  • You knock me down again, i'd go find an equalizer.
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  • 'cause if the fight really matters, it's not about
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  • Being fair.
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  • But i had to overcome that because it did hurt.
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  • It did hurt to get your teeth knocked out.
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  • It did hurt, wasn't fun.
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  • And i had this whole wrong sense of wasn't honest.
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  • You see, we've got to come, we've gotta begin to appropriate
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  • The promises.
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  • It's not simple.
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  • We have to choose to obey.
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  • What if you don't choose to obey?
  • 00:19:57.912 --> 00:19:59.847
  • It's not a neutral thing, and this is where i think we have
  • 00:19:59.847 --> 00:20:03.584
  • Missed a great deal.
  • 00:20:03.584 --> 00:20:04.919
  • Same chapter, deuteronomy 28, verse 15: "however, if you do
  • 00:20:04.919 --> 00:20:09.290
  • Not obey the lord your god, and you do not carefully follow all
  • 00:20:09.290 --> 00:20:12.960
  • His commands," it's not like no harm, no foul.
  • 00:20:12.960 --> 00:20:19.734
  • "all these curses will come upon you and they'll overtake you."
  • 00:20:19.734 --> 00:20:25.039
  • You won't outrun them.
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  • Say, "well, i don't like that."
  • 00:20:29.343 --> 00:20:32.146
  • I'm not always thrilled with gravity but that doesn't
  • 00:20:32.146 --> 00:20:36.083
  • Change it.
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  • You say, "well, i don't believe that."
  • 00:20:38.986 --> 00:20:40.354
  • It won't, you can say you don't believe that ice cream will make
  • 00:20:40.354 --> 00:20:42.523
  • You fat, but it won't make you skinny when you eat it.
  • 00:20:42.523 --> 00:20:46.260
  • I mean, we've adopted some goofy behaviors amongst ourselves
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  • As people of faith.
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  • What the bible is giving us is a blueprint.
  • 00:20:51.632 --> 00:20:54.135
  • We can choose to be obedient to god, or we can choose not to be
  • 00:20:54.135 --> 00:20:58.105
  • Obedient to god.
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  • It's our choice.
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  • He's given us that privilege.
  • 00:21:00.808 --> 00:21:02.643
  • But option a will bring blessings if we'll appropriate
  • 00:21:02.643 --> 00:21:05.446
  • The promises, and option two will bring curses.
  • 00:21:05.446 --> 00:21:10.718
  • That's the game plan.
  • 00:21:10.718 --> 00:21:12.353
  • What's god's objective?
  • 00:21:12.353 --> 00:21:14.522
  • He wants us to flourish in the earth.
  • 00:21:14.522 --> 00:21:16.857
  • He's given us authority over everything.
  • 00:21:16.857 --> 00:21:20.227
  • But evil exists.
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  • So he's addressed it.
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  • He's given us a way to overcome it.
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  • Here's the punch line and i'm done, jesus accepted the curse
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  • So that you and i might have the blessing.
  • 00:21:28.869 --> 00:21:31.572
  • This is why the promises are available to you and me.
  • 00:21:31.572 --> 00:21:34.542
  • Galatians 3:13, "christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by
  • 00:21:34.542 --> 00:21:38.546
  • Becoming a curse for us."
  • 00:21:38.546 --> 00:21:40.214
  • On that cross, he became the curse.
  • 00:21:40.214 --> 00:21:44.118
  • He exhausted the curse of sin.
  • 00:21:44.118 --> 00:21:47.388
  • "for it is written: 'cursed is everyone who's hung on a tree.'
  • 00:21:47.388 --> 00:21:49.990
  • He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to abraham might
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  • Come to the gentiles through christ jesus, so that by faith
  • 00:21:55.996 --> 00:22:00.368
  • We might receive the promise of the spirit."
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  • I've said it to you on many occasions.
  • 00:22:03.904 --> 00:22:05.506
  • On the cross, there was a divinely ordered exchange.
  • 00:22:05.506 --> 00:22:08.209
  • Jesus exhausted the curse of sin.
  • 00:22:08.209 --> 00:22:10.544
  • He took all the punishment that we deserved.
  • 00:22:10.544 --> 00:22:14.048
  • So that we might have all the blessing that he deserved.
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  • We have to believe it, we have to choose god.
  • 00:22:18.953 --> 00:22:21.822
  • This isn't as complicated as we often make it.
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  • Let's begin to choose to honor god.
  • 00:22:24.658 --> 00:22:28.863
  • See, we don't just choose god so we can go to heaven, we choose
  • 00:22:28.863 --> 00:22:31.332
  • To honor god so our journey through time is better.
  • 00:22:31.332 --> 00:22:34.535
  • We had to teach our children to choose god.
  • 00:22:34.535 --> 00:22:38.139
  • It's countercultural, it's counterintuitive.
  • 00:22:38.139 --> 00:22:40.608
  • Most of the messaging that cascades over us, doesn't really
  • 00:22:40.608 --> 00:22:44.879
  • Encourage that.
  • 00:22:44.879 --> 00:22:46.213
  • You'll have to use your voice.
  • 00:22:46.213 --> 00:22:47.581
  • You'll have to go to extraordinary measures to help
  • 00:22:47.581 --> 00:22:49.617
  • Your children and grandchildren get this.
  • 00:22:49.617 --> 00:22:52.119
  • You'll have to resist enormous temptations to coalesce and be
  • 00:22:52.119 --> 00:22:55.523
  • Like the secular culture.
  • 00:22:55.523 --> 00:22:57.024
  • You'll have to be willing to be different from many in your
  • 00:22:57.024 --> 00:22:59.460
  • Peer group.
  • 00:22:59.460 --> 00:23:02.663
  • Choose god. choose god.
  • 00:23:02.663 --> 00:23:06.200
  • [congregation applauding]
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  • Allen: i learned it as a young man and i don't have an
  • 00:23:09.737 --> 00:23:12.273
  • Improvement on it.
  • 00:23:12.273 --> 00:23:13.641
  • If you want god's best, you have to want god's best.
  • 00:23:13.641 --> 00:23:20.214
  • Every day, "god, i want your best today."
  • 00:23:20.214 --> 00:23:27.354
  • Wonder how many of you would say that to the lord tonight.
  • 00:23:27.354 --> 00:23:29.123
  • My time's up. i didn't bring you a prayer.
  • 00:23:29.123 --> 00:23:31.859
  • I want you to make a commitment to the lord, not in front of me
  • 00:23:31.859 --> 00:23:34.361
  • Or these other people.
  • 00:23:34.361 --> 00:23:36.263
  • If you want god's best, if you'll choose him with your
  • 00:23:36.263 --> 00:23:39.834
  • Whole heart.
  • 00:23:39.834 --> 00:23:41.235
  • And for most of us, that means there's some places we have been
  • 00:23:41.235 --> 00:23:43.871
  • Holding out.
  • 00:23:43.871 --> 00:23:45.873
  • We've been negotiating.
  • 00:23:45.873 --> 00:23:48.209
  • We've been making excuses.
  • 00:23:48.209 --> 00:23:49.543
  • We've been justifying.
  • 00:23:49.543 --> 00:23:50.911
  • We're doing all those things we do and we're doing
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  • Our own thing.
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  • If you really would say to the lord, "i'm gonna walk in the
  • 00:23:54.248 --> 00:23:56.383
  • Light of the truth that i know, i wanna walk uprightly
  • 00:23:56.383 --> 00:23:59.053
  • Before you."
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  • If that's you and you mean it just stand with me real quickly.
  • 00:24:00.421 --> 00:24:02.523
  • I wanna pray for you.
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  • We're gonna go, we gotta go.
  • 00:24:04.124 --> 00:24:05.493
  • There's kids to pick up.
  • 00:24:05.493 --> 00:24:10.798
  • That's the ugly part of children's ministry here when
  • 00:24:10.798 --> 00:24:12.967
  • I go too long.
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  • It's a serious thing.
  • 00:24:18.305 --> 00:24:20.474
  • The holy spirit will show you.
  • 00:24:20.474 --> 00:24:21.809
  • God will help you.
  • 00:24:21.809 --> 00:24:23.143
  • He'll show you attitudes that you need to address.
  • 00:24:23.143 --> 00:24:26.680
  • There may be relationships you have to change.
  • 00:24:26.680 --> 00:24:28.849
  • Stop making excuses.
  • 00:24:28.849 --> 00:24:31.519
  • Get serious with it.
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  • Folks, remember where we started with the timeline.
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  • We're closer to the end.
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  • Lawlessness is increasing.
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  • It's all around us.
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  • You can't be sloppy.
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  • Let's pray.
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  • Father, thank you for your word, it's truth, it's power
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  • And authority.
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  • We stand in your presence tonight with the desire to
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  • Honor you.
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  • We choose you.
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  • We choose you with our whole heart, our whole mind, our whole
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  • Soul, our whole body.
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  • We wanna honor you with all that we are and all that we have.
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  • Forgive us for our indifference, forgive us for our stubbornness,
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  • Forgive us for our rebellion.
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  • Forgive us when we have refused to cooperate.
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  • We come tonight in humility to ask for your forgiveness, to
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  • Repent of our sin, to choose a new path.
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  • Holy spirit, help us.
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  • If there's any ungodly way in us, make it clear to us.
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  • And grant us the courage and the humility to choose you.
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  • May your blessings fill our lives.
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  • For those who are standing in faith, father, i pray you give
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  • Them strength.
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  • That by your spirit, you'll help them to overcome, to persevere,
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  • To endure, to triumph.
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  • I thank you that nothing is hidden from your sight.
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  • And that we stand under your watchful care.
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  • I thank you that your blessings are writing our future and that
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  • We can trust you for all that you will do, in jesus's
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  • Name, amen.
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  • God bless you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen jackson: hey, i got a question, what's the eternal
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  • Breath of life?
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  • Well, the answer is a new book my dad just wrote.
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  • When i sat down to do a podcast with him and i was listening to
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  • His story about how god had moved in his life and my
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  • Family's life all the way up to the beginning of the church that
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  • I've served now for several decades, i was so reminded of
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  • The purpose and the power of the spirit of god in our lives.
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  • I asked him to put it in a book.
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  • That's what we're sharing with you.
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  • We all need god's help, we all face challenges.
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  • Life's not easy no matter who you are, but the spirit of god
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  • Is present within us to bring the power.
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  • And purposes of god to bear in our lives.
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  • I believe the book will be a blessing with--for you.
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  • You'll pair it with "unleashing the power of the holy spirit,"
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  • One of the most effective tools we have.
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  • It'll give you a pathway that i believe will bring god's best
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  • Into your family.
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  • You may not plant a church, but you have been given the
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  • Assignment as an ambassador for the kingdom of god, and we need
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  • The help of the holy spirit.
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  • Enjoy the book.
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  • ♪♪♪
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