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Allen Jackson - Looting Interrupted (Part 1)

May 11, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Looting Interrupted (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 - Looting Interrupted (Part 1) | May 11, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: one of my heroes in the bible is saul of tarsus.
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  • He becomes the apostle paul.
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  • I know you know his story.
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  • He's written two thirds of our new testament by title.
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  • Now, one of the most remarkable characters we meet in all of the
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  • Scripture, he was a pharisee with a remarkable education,
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  • Brilliant mind, and he hated jesus and jesus's followers,
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  • Until he met jesus one day.
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  • He's on the road to damascus, and jesus interrupts his life,
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  • And he becomes the apostle paul, one of the most powerful voices
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  • For jesus that history has ever known.
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  • We put together a 90-day devotional.
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  • It's "lessons from paul."
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  • I'm still learning from paul, and i just wanted to share it
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  • With you.
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  • There's a little--there's a scripture verse, there's a bit
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  • Of a devotional, there's a place for some journaling.
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  • It's really intended to provide some direction so that you and i
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  • Become overcomers.
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  • Overcomers of our past, overcomers of the opposition in
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  • The present.
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  • It doesn't matter what the adversary is, the power of god
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  • That delivered paul, he'll deliver you and me.
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  • I believe you'll enjoy "lessons from paul."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: we're talking about breakthroughs, trying to
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  • Understand the nature of breakthroughs, so that we can
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  • Participate in them more fully, gain the benefit of god's
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  • Interventions in our lives.
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  • When i say "breakthrough," what i mean is god's intervention,
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  • When there's an outcome presented to us that is beyond
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  • Something we could have achieved on our own.
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  • But the--there's a great deal the bible has to tell us about
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  • Those interventions, about those breakthroughs, and completely
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  • Candid, it isn't what we have been taught.
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  • Far too frequently i've spent my adult life in the church, i've
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  • Listened to lots and lots of messages, and i'm grateful for
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  • That, but there's much we can learn from scripture.
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  • In this particular session, we're gonna talk about
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  • Looting, interrupted.
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  • I believe that's a breakthrough.
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  • I believe it requires an intervention of god, once
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  • Looting begins, for it to be interrupted.
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  • If we use this little paradigm of when god intervenes, i'll
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  • Remind you of some of the more significant breakthroughs you
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  • Know from your bible.
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  • Moses at the burning bush was a breakthrough, particularly if
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  • You were a slave in egypt.
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  • God was recruiting help for you.
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  • He was recruiting a leader.
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  • If you were moses, i don't know if it's a breakthrough or not.
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  • Pretty heavy lift, big dog assignment, late in his life.
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  • He had a lot of momentum in a more comfortable way and god
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  • Interrupted him, but i'm confident it was a breakthrough
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  • For him as well.
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  • Changed his eternity.
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  • Paul on the road to damascus was a breakthrough.
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  • Angry, violent man hating people who follow jesus, and jesus
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  • Stepped into his life.
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  • Mary, a teenage girl in a little insignificant village tucked
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  • Away in the hills of galilee.
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  • She had a visit from gabriel and said, "god has an assignment for
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  • You," and it completely reoriented mary's entire life.
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  • She lost friends; a breakthrough.
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  • You see, i think we've had a wrong imagination
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  • Of breakthroughs.
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  • We've imagined that breakthroughs were when we have
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  • A problem or a need or a bad diagnosis or we're behind on our
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  • Payments and we want to get out of this tough place and we want
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  • A breakthrough.
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  • We want to be healthy and we want our bills to be paid.
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  • There's nothing wrong with that.
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  • I believe god responds to those prayers.
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  • But what our imagination has been is we get out of the
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  • Difficult place so we can go back to doing what we've
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  • Been before.
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  • And i honestly don't think that has very much to do with the
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  • Biblical presentation of these breakthroughs.
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  • None of the individuals i just mentioned to you returned
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  • To normal.
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  • I think it was a breakthrough for simon peter one day when
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  • An itinerant rabbi passed him on the shores of galilee and he
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  • Said, "follow me, and i'll make you a fisher of men."
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  • But peter never earned his living fishing for very long
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  • After that.
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  • His whole world got reoriented.
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  • So what i wanna--i'm asking you to consider with me is, what
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  • Would it look like if we had breakthroughs?
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  • If god intervened in our lives, are we willing to be a part of
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  • That story?
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  • It gets personal really quickly.
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  • Are you willing to change your calendar and your schedule and
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  • Your work flow and how you interact and your social
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  • Schedule and your plans for the future?
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  • Or do you just want god to bless you so you can go on your own
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  • Jolly, old way?
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  • Breakthroughs, deliverance, revelation, insight,
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  • Understanding, redirection, when god's purposes and plans
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  • Are initiated.
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  • Not these kind of fanciful stories where we click our heels
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  • Together and everything's just perfect, but we don't really
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  • Have to change anything.
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  • I mean, occasionally god does that.
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  • I find that god does that in two circumstances: in scripture
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  • Predominantly for very new--when you're very new, when your faith
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  • Is childlike and your maturity is small, and i find that god
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  • Does those kind of remarkable interventions when the
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  • Circumstances are so dire that it requires a dramatic
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  • Intervention of god.
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  • You need a talking donkey or you're gonna lose your life.
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  • And god in his mercy gives you a talking donkey.
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  • May i suggest you don't want to build a life plan where the
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  • Choice is the donkey speaks or you die?
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  • So that kind of idealistic breakthrough really isn't
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  • The target.
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  • We want the revelation, the insight, the understanding, the
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  • Invitation to grow, to change, to become, to emerge, to lead in
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  • A new way, to respond to god.
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  • Are you with me?
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  • Breakthroughs, breakthroughs.
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  • Well, in this session i want to talk specifically about this
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  • Idea of looting being interrupted.
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  • And it's a biblical principle.
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  • I'm gonna try to show it to you, i'm gonna take a moment with it.
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  • So i'm gonna need you to think with me for a minute.
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  • I know history probably isn't your favorite subject, but it's
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  • Biblical history, so it's not like--i'm not just gonna talk
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  • About martha washington.
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  • We're actually gonna look at scripture.
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  • But the looting, or the plundering, of the people of god
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  • Throughout scripture is presented to us as a form
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  • Of god's judgment.
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  • God's judgment is discipline so that when we see it happening in
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  • The pages of scripture, we understand god is disciplining
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  • His people.
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  • It's a very frequent occurrence.
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  • It's not something from just one or two unique points in the
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  • History of the hebrew people.
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  • Israel or judah is often a vassal state subjugated to
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  • Another nation, typically, again, as an expression of
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  • God's judgment.
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  • It isn't primarily about political might or
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  • Military ability.
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  • A secular assessment might explain it in those ways because
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  • They deny the supernatural engagement of god in the
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  • Unfolding story of history, but i don't.
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  • I believe god is very much engaged in the unfolding
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  • Narrative of history.
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  • In the beginning, god created the heavens and the earth, and
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  • At the end of the book, he's coming back to rule and reign
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  • Over a new heaven and a new earth, and the lion will lay
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  • Down with the lamb.
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  • He's not separate from history.
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  • There are many accounts of god delivering his people in the
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  • Face of overwhelming odds.
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  • Defeat is typically an expression of discipline.
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  • It's not about the size of the enemy or their
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  • Technical prowess.
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  • It's about the condition of the hearts of the people of god.
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  • In the book of judges, there's a whole book of these leaders.
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  • Before there was a monarchy in israel, god would raise up
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  • Leaders, gideon, samson, deborah, jephthah, the whole
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  • List of them in the book of judges, from these people who
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  • Would oppress them: the midianites, the philistines.
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  • During the monarchy, after there's a king, nations
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  • Oppressed them: egypt, babylon, assyria.
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  • You're familiar with some of the names, perhaps.
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  • In the new testament, it's not just an old testament concept,
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  • In the new testament, the hard cry of jesus's disciples is:
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  • "will you throw the romans out?"
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  • Because israel is once again a vassal state, this time of rome.
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  • It's important.
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  • In the book of judges chapter 6, just to give you a couple of
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  • Samples, says, "whenever the israelites planted their crops,
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  • The midianites, the amalekites, and the other eastern peoples
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  • Invaded the country.
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  • They camped on the land, ruined the crops all the way to gaza,
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  • And didn't spare a living thing for israel, neither sheep nor
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  • Cattle nor donkeys.
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  • They came up with their livestock and their tents like
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  • Swarms of locusts.
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  • It's impossible to count the men and their camels; they invaded
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  • The land to ravage it."
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  • Israel is being looted.
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  • They're taking the livestock, they're taking the harvest,
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  • They're plundering the country and leaving the
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  • People destitute.
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  • And god raises up gideon in this case.
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  • It continues in their history when there's a monarchy in place
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  • In 1 kings 14: "in the fifth year of king rehoboam," it's
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  • Very early in the in the life of judah as an independent nation,
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  • "the king of egypt attacked jerusalem.
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  • And he carried off the treasures of the temple of the lord and
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  • The treasures of the royal palace.
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  • He took everything, including all the gold shields solomon
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  • Had made.
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  • So king rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and
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  • Assigned these to the commanders of the guard on duty at the
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  • Entrance to the royal palace."
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  • The temple was the national bank, it was the
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  • National treasury.
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  • So the ostentatious wealth of the temple was plundered, was
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  • Looted, by the egyptian king.
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  • He took the gold that solomon accumulated and took it back to
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  • Egypt, and the king of israel says, "we'll just make
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  • Brass shields."
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  • The people are being looted.
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  • In 2 kings 23, "jehoiakim," this is near the end of the nation of
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  • Judah, "paid pharaoh the silver and gold he demanded.
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  • In order to do so, he taxed the land and exacted the silver and
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  • Gold from the people of the land according to their assessments."
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  • They're being looted.
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  • Perhaps the most notable example of this is the exile.
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  • When i use that word, i hope you know what i'm talking about.
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  • In 721 bc, the northern kingdom of israel was conquered by
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  • Assyria, and the ten tribes of israel were dispersed throughout
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  • The assyrian empire.
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  • The southern kingdom of israel, called judah, with the capital
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  • In jerusalem, survived for about another 150 years.
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  • Finally, in 587 the babylonians destroyed the city of jerusalem
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  • And they took much of the population back to babylon.
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  • Biblical scholars or people who study it call that period the
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  • Exile because the people that were promised the land of israel
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  • Weren't living in the land, they were exiled.
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  • It was god's judgment upon them.
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  • It had nothing to do with the babylonian army.
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  • It had everything to do with god's judgment.
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  • What we are not quite as familiar with was the exile was
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  • Not a singular event.
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  • It wasn't a single siege of jerusalem when the babylonians
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  • Won and the jews lost.
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  • It was a series of events, a series of events bringing judah
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  • And the jewish people further under babylonian control.
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  • The end result of that, over a long period of years, was the
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  • Destruction of jerusalem and the temple.
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  • If you don't know that, you miss the expressions of god's grace.
  • 00:11:52.026 --> 00:11:57.298
  • Time after time after time, god would intervene to the people
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  • And he would say, "there is an opportunity for you to
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  • Be different."
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  • And time after time they took a pass.
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  • Allen: the first stage of babylonian encroachment,
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  • It was about 605 bc.
  • 00:13:32.126 --> 00:13:34.229
  • Nebuchadnezzar, the king of babylon, laid siege
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  • To jerusalem.
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  • After jehoiakim--i'm gonna show you some scriptures in just
  • 00:13:39.234 --> 00:13:42.237
  • A moment.
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  • I promise this is biblical.
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  • Because the king of israel, the king of judah, had made an
  • 00:13:46.541 --> 00:13:49.077
  • Alliance with egypt, and egypt and babylon were enemies, and
  • 00:13:49.077 --> 00:13:53.381
  • The babylonians were not going to allow israel to expand
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  • Egypt's influence.
  • 00:13:57.485 --> 00:13:59.554
  • So the babylonian king marched to jerusalem and defeated the
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  • City and they took some of the sons of the judean nobility
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  • As hostages.
  • 00:14:09.230 --> 00:14:10.598
  • That's where you'd pick up daniel and his friends.
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  • They're gonna go back to babylon.
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  • You know, some of those stories about a lion's den?
  • 00:14:16.004 --> 00:14:18.706
  • About a fiery furnace?
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  • Remember those?
  • 00:14:20.708 --> 00:14:22.543
  • That's a part of this exile narrative, but that's not
  • 00:14:22.543 --> 00:14:24.779
  • The whole story.
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  • Some years later, it's about 597, the second stage of this
  • 00:14:26.347 --> 00:14:29.651
  • Babylonian incursion took place.
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  • They conquered jerusalem more completely and exiled parts of
  • 00:14:32.387 --> 00:14:35.223
  • The population, including, this time, a different king:
  • 00:14:35.223 --> 00:14:39.394
  • King jehoiakim.
  • 00:14:39.394 --> 00:14:41.529
  • The third stage was 587, that i've mentioned already, bc.
  • 00:14:41.529 --> 00:14:45.533
  • Nebuchadnezzar, this time, attacks jerusalem and destroyed
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  • The city, destroyed the walls of the city.
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  • He destroyed the temple in the city.
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  • They took the golden vessels that were there.
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  • Some of them have been plundered years and years ago by the
  • 00:14:55.643 --> 00:14:58.513
  • Egyptians, but they took anything that was left in the
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  • Temple that was valuable, any wealth that had been accumulated
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  • Or remained or maintained from solomon's time.
  • 00:15:04.519 --> 00:15:10.124
  • The babylonian exile ended in 538 bc when the persian king,
  • 00:15:10.124 --> 00:15:16.064
  • Cyrus the great, came to power.
  • 00:15:16.064 --> 00:15:17.632
  • He had a different attitude and he allowed the people to
  • 00:15:17.632 --> 00:15:21.135
  • Go back.
  • 00:15:21.135 --> 00:15:22.503
  • Who fits into that narrative?
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  • What biblical characters do you know?
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  • Well, esther was a queen to the persian king, nehemiah was the
  • 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:31.980
  • Cupbearer to the persian king, and he got permission to go back
  • 00:15:31.980 --> 00:15:36.484
  • And to rebuild the wall around the city, remember?
  • 00:15:36.484 --> 00:15:40.455
  • All of that is a part of this exile narrative, the judgment of
  • 00:15:40.455 --> 00:15:44.559
  • God upon his people, warning them, "your behavior is going to
  • 00:15:44.559 --> 00:15:50.231
  • Bring destruction.
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  • I can't defend you in your ungodliness, in your immorality,
  • 00:15:52.033 --> 00:15:55.737
  • In your idolatry.
  • 00:15:55.737 --> 00:15:57.472
  • If you persist in these behaviors, you will lose your
  • 00:15:57.472 --> 00:16:00.975
  • Freedom, your liberty.
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  • Your children will suffer."
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  • It's the message of the prophets.
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  • It's said over and over and over again.
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  • This whole thing got triggered in my brain by our
  • 00:16:10.018 --> 00:16:11.886
  • Bible reading.
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  • If you're reading with us, we're doing ezekiel, and the reading
  • 00:16:13.254 --> 00:16:16.624
  • For either today or tomorrow is ezekiel 40.
  • 00:16:16.624 --> 00:16:19.660
  • And ezekiel, it's in your notes, ezekiel gives you
  • 00:16:19.660 --> 00:16:21.696
  • A little timeline.
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  • He says, "in the twenty-fifth year of our exile"--"we're 25
  • 00:16:23.064 --> 00:16:26.034
  • Years into this exile," he said.
  • 00:16:26.034 --> 00:16:28.836
  • But look at his next phrase.
  • 00:16:28.836 --> 00:16:30.238
  • "in the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the
  • 00:16:30.238 --> 00:16:32.573
  • Year, on the tenth of the day of--the tenth of the month, the
  • 00:16:32.573 --> 00:16:36.477
  • Fourteenth year after the fall of the city," in ezekiel's
  • 00:16:36.477 --> 00:16:40.715
  • Understanding, the exile began 25 years ago, but it's only been
  • 00:16:40.715 --> 00:16:43.985
  • 14 years since jerusalem was destroyed.
  • 00:16:43.985 --> 00:16:48.156
  • Again, it wasn't a singular event.
  • 00:16:48.156 --> 00:16:52.293
  • It was a series of events spread out over many years with god
  • 00:16:52.293 --> 00:16:56.197
  • Pleading with the people, "don't keep going this way."
  • 00:16:56.197 --> 00:17:04.839
  • The first stage, i put it in your notes, pretty
  • 00:17:04.839 --> 00:17:06.974
  • Simple chronology.
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  • The king in judah at this point is jehoiakim.
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  • 2 kings 24, "during jehoiakim's reign, nebuchadnezzar the king
  • 00:17:12.713 --> 00:17:16.851
  • Of babylon invaded the land, the king became his vassal for
  • 00:17:16.851 --> 00:17:21.222
  • Three years.
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  • But then he changed his mind and he rebelled
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  • Against nebuchadnezzar."
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  • The prophets told him not to.
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  • They said, "don't do that."
  • 00:17:29.297 --> 00:17:32.500
  • He did it anyway.
  • 00:17:32.500 --> 00:17:34.335
  • "and the lord sent babylonian, aramean, moabite, ammonite
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  • Raiders against him.
  • 00:17:37.672 --> 00:17:39.107
  • He sent them to destroy judah, in accordance with the word of
  • 00:17:39.107 --> 00:17:41.742
  • The lord proclaimed by his servants the prophets."
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  • And the exile begins.
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  • Babylonian has authority over jerusalem.
  • 00:17:48.049 --> 00:17:51.419
  • Babylon has authority over judah.
  • 00:17:51.419 --> 00:17:54.489
  • But it doesn't stop there.
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  • The next stage comes up a few years later.
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  • There's actually a two-stage deportation in 597 and then
  • 00:17:58.359 --> 00:18:02.063
  • In 587.
  • 00:18:02.063 --> 00:18:03.397
  • But in 2 kings 24, this time the king is jehoiachin, with a c-h.
  • 00:18:03.397 --> 00:18:09.937
  • "jehoiachin the king of judah and all of his attendants
  • 00:18:09.937 --> 00:18:14.675
  • Surrendered to nebuchadnezzar.
  • 00:18:14.675 --> 00:18:17.311
  • In the eighth year of the reign of the king of babylon, he took
  • 00:18:17.311 --> 00:18:20.781
  • Jehoiachin prisoner.
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  • As the lord had declared, nebuchadnezzar removed all the
  • 00:18:22.116 --> 00:18:25.086
  • Treasures from the temple of the lord and from the royal palace,
  • 00:18:25.086 --> 00:18:28.389
  • And he took away all the gold articles that solomon the king
  • 00:18:28.389 --> 00:18:31.159
  • Of israel had made for the temple of the lord.
  • 00:18:31.159 --> 00:18:33.828
  • He carried into exile all jerusalem: all the officers and
  • 00:18:33.828 --> 00:18:37.365
  • The fighting men, and the craftsmen and the artisans,"
  • 00:18:37.365 --> 00:18:40.735
  • He took the smartest people, the most talented people, he took
  • 00:18:40.735 --> 00:18:43.504
  • Their wealth.
  • 00:18:43.504 --> 00:18:44.872
  • What's he doing?
  • 00:18:44.872 --> 00:18:46.207
  • He is looting the nation.
  • 00:18:46.207 --> 00:18:49.644
  • It's not the first time.
  • 00:18:49.644 --> 00:18:51.913
  • It's being done systematically, incrementally.
  • 00:18:51.913 --> 00:18:55.583
  • It's a little bit like harvesting a crop.
  • 00:18:55.583 --> 00:18:57.518
  • You know, if you go through and you take the choice things and
  • 00:18:57.518 --> 00:19:00.922
  • The most obvious things, we have an expression for it, we call it
  • 00:19:00.922 --> 00:19:03.457
  • The low-hanging fruit.
  • 00:19:03.457 --> 00:19:06.294
  • And these invading forces that begin to insert themselves, they
  • 00:19:06.294 --> 00:19:10.031
  • Take the low-hanging fruit, the obvious wealth, the most
  • 00:19:10.031 --> 00:19:13.801
  • Visible things.
  • 00:19:13.801 --> 00:19:15.770
  • And then as they begin to insert themselves more fully, they loot
  • 00:19:15.770 --> 00:19:19.207
  • More completely, until finally they said, "we're gonna take
  • 00:19:19.207 --> 00:19:23.477
  • Your smart people and your talented people, and we're gonna
  • 00:19:23.477 --> 00:19:26.447
  • Destroy your ability to reproduce, to maintain
  • 00:19:26.447 --> 00:19:31.052
  • Your equilibrium."
  • 00:19:31.052 --> 00:19:32.520
  • That's the final stage of this looting in 2 kings 25.
  • 00:19:32.520 --> 00:19:36.724
  • "on the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of
  • 00:19:36.724 --> 00:19:39.927
  • Nebuchadnezzar, the commander of the imperial guard, an official
  • 00:19:39.927 --> 00:19:44.999
  • Of the king of babylon, came to jerusalem.
  • 00:19:44.999 --> 00:19:46.867
  • And he set fire to the temple of the lord."
  • 00:19:46.867 --> 00:19:49.904
  • They're gonna burn the bank.
  • 00:19:49.904 --> 00:19:52.473
  • "we've taken everything these people have, we can burn the
  • 00:19:52.473 --> 00:19:54.842
  • Bank now."
  • 00:19:54.842 --> 00:19:57.345
  • "the royal palaces and all the houses of jerusalem.
  • 00:19:57.345 --> 00:20:00.715
  • Every important building he burned down."
  • 00:20:00.715 --> 00:20:02.617
  • They've plundered everything they want.
  • 00:20:02.617 --> 00:20:06.254
  • You see, jesus said it in john chapter 10 and verse 10.
  • 00:20:06.254 --> 00:20:09.590
  • If you'll ever come to the conclusion that spiritual forces
  • 00:20:09.590 --> 00:20:12.693
  • Are more real than any other force, the bible and history
  • 00:20:12.693 --> 00:20:16.230
  • Will make much more sense.
  • 00:20:16.230 --> 00:20:18.332
  • Jesus said, "i've come that you might have life, and have it
  • 00:20:18.332 --> 00:20:20.501
  • Abundantly, but the thief comes to steal, to kill, and destroy."
  • 00:20:20.501 --> 00:20:24.639
  • When god withdraws his protection, the end result is
  • 00:20:24.639 --> 00:20:29.076
  • Complete destruction.
  • 00:20:29.076 --> 00:20:30.778
  • It may not arrive immediately, it may look like looting and
  • 00:20:30.778 --> 00:20:35.449
  • Plundering, it may look like a slow deterioration, like
  • 00:20:35.449 --> 00:20:39.587
  • Momentum is being lost, but what has happened is god has stepped
  • 00:20:39.587 --> 00:20:44.091
  • Back, or the people have walked out from under the protection of
  • 00:20:44.091 --> 00:20:46.727
  • God and refused his invitations to repent or to change or to
  • 00:20:46.727 --> 00:20:50.197
  • Bring realignment or to engage in obedience again, and they
  • 00:20:50.197 --> 00:20:53.901
  • Continue in their stubbornness.
  • 00:20:53.901 --> 00:20:55.236
  • And all the wealth has been plundered, everything's been
  • 00:20:55.236 --> 00:20:57.672
  • Looted, so the only thing it's good for now is to be destroyed.
  • 00:20:57.672 --> 00:21:00.775
  • That's a demonic expression.
  • 00:21:00.775 --> 00:21:02.476
  • It's the judgment of god.
  • 00:21:02.476 --> 00:21:06.080
  • "every important building he burned down.
  • 00:21:06.080 --> 00:21:08.749
  • The whole babylonian army, under the command of the guard, broke
  • 00:21:08.749 --> 00:21:11.585
  • Down the walls around jerusalem."
  • 00:21:11.585 --> 00:21:14.422
  • If i could take you to the city today, we could stand on
  • 00:21:14.422 --> 00:21:18.125
  • The--you could see the destruction.
  • 00:21:18.125 --> 00:21:22.997
  • "the commander of the guard carried into exile the people
  • 00:21:22.997 --> 00:21:25.366
  • Who remained in the city, along with the rest of the populace
  • 00:21:25.366 --> 00:21:29.003
  • And those who had gone over to the king of babylon.
  • 00:21:29.003 --> 00:21:31.706
  • But the commander left behind some of the poorest people to
  • 00:21:31.706 --> 00:21:35.443
  • Work the vineyards and the fields.
  • 00:21:35.443 --> 00:21:36.811
  • And the babylonians broke up the bronze pillars, the movable
  • 00:21:36.811 --> 00:21:39.313
  • Stands, the bronze sea that were at the temple of the lord," it's
  • 00:21:39.313 --> 00:21:42.750
  • Where they prepared the things for sacrifice.
  • 00:21:42.750 --> 00:21:45.152
  • They were made out of bronze, so they cut up all the bronze and
  • 00:21:45.152 --> 00:21:47.355
  • Carried it back to babylon.
  • 00:21:47.355 --> 00:21:49.824
  • Again, this is not a one-time event, the exile.
  • 00:21:49.824 --> 00:21:53.794
  • There are many breakthroughs in this process.
  • 00:21:53.794 --> 00:21:57.064
  • There are multiple times and places where god intervenes,
  • 00:21:57.064 --> 00:21:59.767
  • Where he sends a prophetic message.
  • 00:21:59.767 --> 00:22:01.836
  • He sends a person to say, "don't go this way," to provide
  • 00:22:01.836 --> 00:22:05.005
  • Direction, to give the people alternatives.
  • 00:22:05.005 --> 00:22:08.876
  • And repeatedly, not once or twice or a handful of times,
  • 00:22:08.876 --> 00:22:13.114
  • Dozens and dozens and dozens of times, when god intervenes and
  • 00:22:13.114 --> 00:22:17.284
  • He gives the people a choice of a fork in the road, they rebel.
  • 00:22:17.284 --> 00:22:24.125
  • You see, breakthroughs require change on the part of those
  • 00:22:24.125 --> 00:22:26.394
  • Who benefit.
  • 00:22:26.394 --> 00:22:27.995
  • If we take the breakthroughs, if we take god, his interventions,
  • 00:22:27.995 --> 00:22:31.031
  • And we continue on our own way, we give momentum to destruction.
  • 00:22:31.031 --> 00:22:36.637
  • The inhabitants of the land did not anticipate god's judgment.
  • 00:22:36.637 --> 00:22:40.741
  • They only understood god to be a god who would bless them because
  • 00:22:40.741 --> 00:22:45.179
  • He delivered them from egypt and it's a part of their narrative,
  • 00:22:45.179 --> 00:22:48.482
  • Because he fed them manna in the wilderness, it's in a part of
  • 00:22:48.482 --> 00:22:50.785
  • Their national story, because he turned back assyrian armies and
  • 00:22:50.785 --> 00:22:55.122
  • He turned back moabite armies and he defeated goliath
  • 00:22:55.122 --> 00:22:58.125
  • And--they have this rich history of the interventions of god, and
  • 00:22:58.125 --> 00:23:01.996
  • So they can scarcely imagine that their enemies can
  • 00:23:01.996 --> 00:23:04.365
  • Conquer them.
  • 00:23:04.365 --> 00:23:09.036
  • Their conscience have been--come so calloused, that the message
  • 00:23:09.036 --> 00:23:13.641
  • Of grace and mercy is so prevalent, that they can't
  • 00:23:13.641 --> 00:23:16.677
  • Imagine a just god.
  • 00:23:16.677 --> 00:23:20.114
  • There's breakthroughs in babylon with daniel and his friends,
  • 00:23:20.114 --> 00:23:22.883
  • In persia with esther, but god doesn't bring them freedom
  • 00:23:22.883 --> 00:23:26.187
  • From their slavery or from their difficulty.
  • 00:23:26.187 --> 00:23:28.823
  • In fact, there are--70 years will pass before the people can
  • 00:23:28.823 --> 00:23:32.760
  • Return to jerusalem.
  • 00:23:32.760 --> 00:23:34.862
  • Think of all the children born into slavery.
  • 00:23:34.862 --> 00:23:37.898
  • Think of all the children born that never worshiped in the
  • 00:23:37.898 --> 00:23:39.967
  • Temple, they never had a passover meal on
  • 00:23:39.967 --> 00:23:42.536
  • The mount of olives.
  • 00:23:42.536 --> 00:23:44.271
  • Think of the young men and women that spent their entire lives in
  • 00:23:44.271 --> 00:23:47.942
  • Foreign lands, speaking a foreign language, thinking
  • 00:23:47.942 --> 00:23:51.312
  • About jerusalem.
  • 00:23:51.312 --> 00:23:52.680
  • Nehemiah was so grieved when he heard about the condition of
  • 00:23:52.680 --> 00:23:55.182
  • Jerusalem that he left the service of the king and made
  • 00:23:55.182 --> 00:23:57.918
  • A very dangerous journey back to jerusalem.
  • 00:23:57.918 --> 00:24:01.622
  • Folks, it is not a simple thing to ignore the lord.
  • 00:24:01.622 --> 00:24:06.260
  • When you see the looting begin, we should understand god is
  • 00:24:06.260 --> 00:24:11.465
  • Sending an invitation.
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  • There were tremendous generational losses because
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  • Of failures to respond.
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  • Breakthroughs involve the faithfulness of god around both
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  • His discipline and his purposes.
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  • We have to care about the purposes of god, or we're
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  • Self-absorbed, and god loves us too much simply to give us
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  • That permission.
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  • And if you'll allow me, i would like to take that biblical
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  • Perspective and see if we can understand the world we're
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  • Living in.
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  • Because what i want to submit to you is that right now our nation
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  • Is being looted.
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  • And i don't understand it to be a political issue.
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  • I think christians hide from the discussion because they--and
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  • They use the word "politics," but i truthfully don't think it
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  • Has anything to do with politics.
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  • I think solutions may give an expression in those political
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  • Realms, but i think we're being looted.
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  • I think our wealth, our strength, our opportunities,
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  • Our futures, our children's futures are being diminished on
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  • A daily basis because of the hardness of our hearts.
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  • Allen: you know, idolatry is not primarily about statues carved
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  • Out of wood or metal, something we would bow down before.
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  • Fundamentally, idolatry is about priorities.
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  • Anything we put in priority above our allegiance to jesus,
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  • Any passion we put in front of that, any commitment above that
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  • Is an idol.
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  • We need the help of the holy spirit to help us
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  • Recognize those places that we have given way to something
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  • In a wrong priority.
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  • Do you have the courage to pray that prayer with me?
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  • Let's pray.
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  • Father, i pray that if there's any place in our lives we have
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  • Misaligned our priorities, that we've given our hearts to things
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  • That are displeasing to you or destructive to us, that you
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  • Would help us to see.
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  • We want to give you first place in our hearts, in our emotions,
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  • In our ambition, in our future.
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  • I thank you for your great love for us.
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  • Help us to learn to love you more completely.
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  • I thank you for your faithfulness.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • God bless you.
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  • Allen jackson: you know, around the world,
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  • People are searching for truth, and together we're doing our
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  • Very best to help them find it.
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