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Allen Jackson - Luke (Part 1)

December 20, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - Luke (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 - Luke (Part 1) | December 20, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: we began allen jackson ministries
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  • To strengthen the church.
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  • Thank you for your partnership.
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  • Together we made an impact in this nation, but we're not done.
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  • In fact, in many ways i believe we're just beginning.
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  • The status quo is not adequate any longer.
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  • We can't sit in our churches and have our polite bible studies
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  • And sing our favorite choruses while we watch
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  • Darkness increasing in the world around us.
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  • We have to have the courage to tell the truth to our culture.
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  • A biblical worldview to engage current events in a way
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  • To make what we believe apart of the fabric of our schools,
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  • Our homes, our communities, our nation, and beyond.
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  • We have invitations now from war-torn countries
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  • In israel and ukraine to strengthen the churches there.
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  • I want to ask you to make an investment with us
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  • In allen jackson ministries
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  • To make 2026 the most fruitful year we've ever had together.
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  • God is moving in the earth.
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  • We want to keep the pace.
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  • We want to take new steps to make a new impact.
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  • Your help makes that possible.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen jackson: in this session i want to look with you
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  • At the miracle of jesus's birth, but i want to do it through the
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  • Lens of the gospel of luke.
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  • In the previous session, we looked at jesus's birth from
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  • Matthew's perspective.
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  • You know, in matthew's gospel, the jesus's narrative--the
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  • Narrative of jesus's birth is inseparable from the prophets.
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  • It reminds us of how so many of the components of jesus's entry
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  • Into our world was fulfilling what the prophets
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  • Had said about him.
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  • So the new testament begins very much rooted in the words of the
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  • Old testament, the hebrew bible.
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  • Luke takes a slightly different perspective.
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  • It's worth a bit of time irrespective of holidays to
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  • Understand those birth narratives because i believe the
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  • Circumstances in the world at the time of jesus's first entry
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  • Into time will be very similar to the circumstances in our
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  • World when jesus comes back.
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  • I'm not suggesting that the roman empire will be
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  • Reassembled; but i think that expression of authoritarianism
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  • And all the things that came with that, some of the pressures
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  • That the people felt, particularly god's people felt,
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  • Will be mirrored when jesus comes back to the earth.
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  • So the better we understand the circumstances of the 1st
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  • Century, i believe, the better prepared we'll be to welcome the
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  • Lord back when he comes.
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  • I start with the obvious.
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  • I hope you're aware of, i hope you're paying attention that we
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  • Are witnessing a really unprecedented, at least in our
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  • Lifetimes, rise of paganism.
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  • That's not intended to be a derogatory term, it defines how
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  • You stand in relation to christianity.
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  • Rome prior to constantine the emperor was a pagan empire.
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  • Certainly the rome that we meet in the new testament
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  • Was a pagan empire.
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  • And what we witness around us is there's a growing intolerance of
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  • A biblical worldview and that corresponds to something that's
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  • Happening on an individual basis, and that's the
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  • Deterioration of human character.
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  • The values which have shaped western culture for hundreds of
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  • Years are being discarded.
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  • You know this.
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  • And they're not being discarded quietly, they're being labeled.
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  • They're being derided and maligned.
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  • You understand this because if you have the boldness to address
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  • The name of jesus or interject the name of jesus into the
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  • Public square or the corporate boardroom or the academic
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  • Settings, you're very much aware of the kind of labels
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  • That come your way.
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  • You'll hear things like out of date, or patriarchal, or racist,
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  • Or xenophobic, or transphobic, or homophobic.
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  • We're phobic about a lot of things.
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  • Repressive, capitalistic, uninformed, anachronistic,
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  • Fundamentalist, christian nationalist.
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  • The list goes on and on.
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  • None of them are complements.
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  • They're very much intended to belittle, to demean,
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  • Fundamentally to bully anyone who would dare to suggest that
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  • They'd embraced a biblical worldview and understood
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  • That to be the authority for their lives.
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  • Now, the results of this paganization are becoming
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  • Abundantly clear.
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  • You don't have to be particularly aware
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  • To notice them.
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  • Increasing violence, justice is applied unequally so often to
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  • Gain or to maintain power.
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  • We're witnessing widespread censorship, state-sponsored
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  • Deception, rapidly-rising authoritarianism in our nation
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  • And around the world, diminished rights for the minority,
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  • Immorality, families no longer imagined to be the fundamental
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  • Training point for children.
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  • It's hard to say that out loud.
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  • We're watching it happen, but it's difficult to get
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  • Our minds around.
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  • Disrespect for authority, greed, envy, the unbridled pursuit
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  • Of pleasure.
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  • Children are becoming increasingly prey for demonic
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  • Ideas and activity.
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  • It's happening around us.
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  • We're facing a circumstance that in my opinion will lead to one
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  • Of two outcomes.
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  • The first would be an awakening of god's people and will
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  • Correspond with a heartfelt repentance, not a casual
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  • Repentance, not a one-time repentance.
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  • Not just a repentance for our own personal transgressions; but
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  • A repentance for the world in which we live and the attitude
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  • With which we've held, a grief for the darkness and the
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  • Wickedness that we see around us.
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  • The second alternative would be an expression of god's judgment,
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  • And it isn't clear to me which of those two
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  • Will define our future.
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  • I'm not sure the decision has been made.
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  • I think the decision, the responses of god's people are
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  • Really the critical issue in what the future will become.
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  • Many of our current circumstances remind me of the
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  • 1st century bc, that period when jesus was born.
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  • And i believe there'll be many parallels between the season
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  • When jesus returns to the earth and his first entry into time.
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  • So it's worth understanding those birth narratives is more
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  • Than just a holiday script.
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  • Jesus was born into a world of roman occupation, authoritarian
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  • Oppression of the people.
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  • The wealth of israel was being siphoned off to fund
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  • The whims of rome.
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  • They were billeting roman soldiers and suffering the
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  • Indignities that come with that and the violations
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  • That came with that.
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  • I'm not suggesting we live in that world, but i am suggesting
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  • That we serve--we see the foreshadowings of that.
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  • I think we have a hard time processing the discrepancies
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  • Between what we are told and what we watch happen.
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  • After 9/11 there was the formation of the department of
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  • Homeland security.
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  • It's a wonderful idea somebody working diligently to secure our
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  • Homeland and yet we find ourselves with an open border
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  • With millions pouring across, and that same department of
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  • Homeland security forces millions of american citizens to
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  • Vac--into vaccinations that they would prefer not to take.
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  • They promote and sponsor censorship, propaganda.
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  • They collude with media platforms to protect the
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  • Powerful.
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  • They tell us on a regular basis that domestic terrorists are our
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  • Greatest threats.
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  • "don't look at the border.
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  • Don't consider the people from more than 100 nations that are
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  • Pouring across our border without documentation, without
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  • Vaccination, without means or support."
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  • They tell us our own citizens are a greater threat
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  • Than our enemies.
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  • Again, i don't believe we've arrived completely in the world
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  • Of that 1st century, but we see its tentacles around us.
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  • So i would submit to you that the message of jesus's birth is
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  • Relevant to us as more than just a historical reminder, and we're
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  • Going to walk through luke.
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  • It's a majestic presentation, so beautifully done.
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  • I would remind you luke's day job was a physician.
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  • Of the gospel writers, he's the one who is gentile.
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  • He's non-jewish, so he writes with a very unique perspective.
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  • Luke presents to us a supernatural account.
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  • The primary characters that we're going to meet, and i'm
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  • Sure are already very familiar to you, are aware that the
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  • Events that are enveloping their lives are beyond them.
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  • They're not things they could have orchestrated themselves,
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  • And luke takes great pains to help us understand that.
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  • The structure of those first two chapters is helpful.
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  • I'll give it to you in just big blocks.
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  • It's not in your notes.
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  • I just gave you the text.
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  • But luke tells us about the birth of john the baptist being
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  • Announced prior to his conception.
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  • There's an angelic messenger that tells us that zechariah and
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  • Elizabeth will have a son; and luke parallels that with jesus's
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  • Birth being foretold, angelic visitors to joseph and mary.
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  • And then the birth of john the baptist is recorded and the
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  • Circumstances surrounding that, followed by the birth of jesus
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  • And the circumstances that follow that.
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  • To loop the activity of angels is of tremendous significance.
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  • In those two chapters, angels are referenced more than 14
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  • Times, 14.
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  • The involvement of the holy spirit is essential to the story
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  • That luke is telling not just in the birth of jesus but the
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  • Following life and ministry of jesus.
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  • Luke's account is an account of belief, inviting the reader, i
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  • Believe, to accept god's plans and purposes for our lives and
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  • Not just stand as voyeurs watching the plans and purposes
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  • Of god unfold in the lives of others.
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  • Do you imagine that god is moving in the 21st century just
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  • As certainly and just as dramatically as he did in the
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  • 1st century?
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  • I refuse to accept sitting in a church building is the
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  • Equivalent of following god.
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  • I will not accept the premise that religious dogma is the same
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  • As a life yielded to the lordship of jesus.
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  • The gathering in a building and the recitation of a prayer is
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  • Not the equivalent of the dynamic of a life infused with
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  • The spirit of god accepting assignments and responding to
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  • God's purposes in the earth.
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  • We've been lulled into kind of a religious coma.
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  • We've learned to check the boxes and how to behave in a polite
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  • Way so that we don't stand out too much; but i'm afraid we've
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  • Missed the invitation to be the people of god on the earth, the
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  • People who make a difference, the ones who capture the
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  • Attention of the creator of all things and luke vite--invites us
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  • Back right into the middle of that narrative.
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  • We better get to the text.
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  • Luke chapter 1 and verse 5, "in the time of king herod of judea
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  • There was a priest named zechariah, who belonged to the
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  • Priestly division of abijah; and his wife elizabeth was also a
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  • Descendant of aaron.
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  • And both of them were upright in the sight of god, observing all
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  • The lord's commandments and regulations blamelessly."
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  • Maybe you'd like to make the book and have your description
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  • Be that you were upright in the sight of god and you did
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  • Everything he asked you to do.
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  • I'm afraid if my narrative was in there.
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  • It'd read differently, but i'm working on it.
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  • Do you aspire to that, or do you think of god in--more in terms
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  • Of fire insurance?
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  • You don't want him to intrude too much in your day to day; you
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  • Just want that policy so something unexpected happens you
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  • Don't go south, and i don't mean alabama.
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  • I think we've accepted a rather shabby substitute for a vibrant
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  • Vital faith.
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  • "once when zechariah's division was on duty and he was serving
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  • As a priest before god, he was chosen by lot, according to the
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  • Custom of the priesthood."
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  • And he went into the temple.
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  • Verse 11, "an angel of the lord appeared to him, standing at the
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  • Right side of the altar of incense.
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  • And when zechariah saw him, he was startled and was gripped
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  • With fear."
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  • But the angel said something.
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  • "zechariah, do not be afraid.
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  • Your prayer has been heard.
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  • Your wife elizabeth will bear you a son, and you're to give
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  • Him the name john.
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  • He'll be a joy and a delight to you, and many will rejoice
  • 00:12:53.222 --> 00:12:56.592
  • Because of his birth, for he'll be great in the sight
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  • Of the lord."
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  • Parents, what's your aspiration for your children?
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  • Good grades in school, athletic abilities,
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  • Achievement, accomplishment?
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  • I don't believe there's any greater opportunity for a human
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  • Life than to be great in the sight of the lord.
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  • If you want a prayer to pray for your children, begin to quietly,
  • 00:13:21.784 --> 00:13:25.187
  • Persistently, repetitively, unyieldingly pray they will grow
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  • To be great in the sight of the lord.
  • 00:13:29.491 --> 00:13:34.730
  • "zechariah asked the angel--" i think that takes some hutzpah.
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  • You imagine an angel showing up and giving you an announcement
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  • And you decide you're going to play 40 questions.
  • 00:13:42.037 --> 00:13:47.142
  • "zechariah asked the angel, 'how can i be sure of this?
  • 00:13:47.142 --> 00:13:49.645
  • I'm an old man and my wife,
  • 00:13:49.645 --> 00:13:57.987
  • Well, she's well along in years.'
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  • The angel answered, 'i am gabriel.'"
  • 00:14:01.991 --> 00:14:06.762
  • And i think in the original language it says right there
  • 00:14:06.762 --> 00:14:08.597
  • Knucklehead, but i'm not sure just--"i'm gabriel.
  • 00:14:08.597 --> 00:14:12.468
  • I stand in the presence of god, and i've been sent to speak to
  • 00:14:12.468 --> 00:14:15.104
  • You and to tell you this good news.
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  • And now you'll be silent and not able to speak until the day this
  • 00:14:19.241 --> 00:14:22.544
  • Happens, because you didn't believe my words, which will
  • 00:14:22.544 --> 00:14:27.383
  • Come true at the proper time."
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  • That's how luke chooses to begin us on the pathway that will
  • 00:14:30.786 --> 00:14:33.322
  • Ultimately lead to the birth of the messiah.
  • 00:14:33.322 --> 00:14:36.759
  • He tells us about a priest and his wife.
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  • Upright people, godly people, people of integrity, people with
  • 00:14:38.761 --> 00:14:44.033
  • Disappointment, people with broken dreams, people who stand
  • 00:14:44.033 --> 00:14:49.638
  • Apart a bit.
  • 00:14:49.638 --> 00:14:52.775
  • It begins with a narrative about prayer.
  • 00:14:52.775 --> 00:14:56.412
  • The angel said, "i'm here because you have prayed.
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  • You and elizabeth have prayed for a child."
  • 00:14:59.682 --> 00:15:03.419
  • I don't think it's accidental that luke slides in to the
  • 00:15:03.419 --> 00:15:05.587
  • Narrative that while zechariah is serving in the temple there's
  • 00:15:05.587 --> 00:15:08.924
  • A great crowd of people standing outside praying.
  • 00:15:08.924 --> 00:15:15.397
  • The response that comes is one that's god-initiated.
  • 00:15:15.397 --> 00:15:19.468
  • I believe the great initiatives in earth are god-initiated.
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  • God sent gabriel, an archangel, to visit with zechariah.
  • 00:15:24.840 --> 00:15:29.845
  • God said, "i'm going to do something beyond your prayers.
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  • I have an imagination beyond what you've asked for."
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  • We desperately need a church that has a hope in their heart
  • 00:15:37.119 --> 00:15:40.856
  • That almighty god is doing things in the earth beyond what
  • 00:15:40.856 --> 00:15:42.891
  • We can do, beyond what we would even dare to ask for, beyond
  • 00:15:42.891 --> 00:15:46.261
  • What we can imagine.
  • 00:15:46.261 --> 00:15:48.897
  • We have retreated.
  • 00:15:48.897 --> 00:15:50.299
  • We have yielded the field to the idea that the great power
  • 00:15:50.299 --> 00:15:54.770
  • Available to human beings is something other than god.
  • 00:15:54.770 --> 00:15:59.742
  • I'm not denying the reality of economic power, or political
  • 00:15:59.742 --> 00:16:02.511
  • Power, or the power of the people, or whatever expression
  • 00:16:02.511 --> 00:16:05.781
  • Of power you choose; but the greatest power available to
  • 00:16:05.781 --> 00:16:10.686
  • Human life is the power of almighty god, and the church of
  • 00:16:10.686 --> 00:16:14.690
  • Jesus christ has to be awakened to that point or we will forfeit
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  • Our future.
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  • Allen: zechariah gets a little choked up on it all.
  • 00:17:29.398 --> 00:17:32.968
  • "how can i do that?"
  • 00:17:32.968 --> 00:17:35.137
  • And gabriel says, "oh bother."
  • 00:17:35.137 --> 00:17:38.373
  • I'm in good old southern living bible.
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  • "really? i'm gabriel.
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  • Did you read the lanyard?
  • 00:17:42.644 --> 00:17:46.048
  • I stand in the presence of god.
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  • Now, you just be quiet for a while."
  • 00:17:49.785 --> 00:17:54.289
  • And when zechariah came out from serving, he was mute.
  • 00:17:54.289 --> 00:17:59.828
  • You didn't know you could spread a message faster
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  • By not talking than by talking, did you?
  • 00:18:01.430 --> 00:18:05.267
  • Now, luke immediately takes us to
  • 00:18:05.267 --> 00:18:07.870
  • The jesus's narrative.
  • 00:18:07.870 --> 00:18:10.572
  • He just introduced us to how john's birth was foretold, but
  • 00:18:10.572 --> 00:18:14.109
  • Now in verse 26 it says, "in the sixth month, god sent the angel
  • 00:18:14.109 --> 00:18:16.778
  • Gabriel to nazareth, a town in galilee, to a virgin pledged to
  • 00:18:16.778 --> 00:18:22.985
  • Be married to a man named joseph, a descendant of david.
  • 00:18:22.985 --> 00:18:25.654
  • And the virgin's name was mary.
  • 00:18:25.654 --> 00:18:27.956
  • The angel went to her and said, 'greetings,
  • 00:18:27.956 --> 00:18:29.291
  • You who are highly favored!
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  • The lord is with you.'
  • 00:18:30.726 --> 00:18:33.295
  • Mary was greatly troubled at his words
  • 00:18:33.295 --> 00:18:34.897
  • And wondered what kind of greeting this might be.
  • 00:18:34.897 --> 00:18:37.633
  • The angel said to her, 'don't be afraid, mary, you have found
  • 00:18:37.633 --> 00:18:40.002
  • Favor with god.
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  • You'll be with child and give birth to a son, and you're
  • 00:18:41.537 --> 00:18:43.172
  • To give him the name jesus.
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  • He will be great, and he will be called the son of the most high.
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  • And the lord god will give him the throne of his father david,
  • 00:18:51.513 --> 00:18:54.183
  • And he will reign over the house of jacob forever;
  • 00:18:54.183 --> 00:18:56.985
  • His kingdom will never end.'"
  • 00:18:56.985 --> 00:19:01.056
  • You'll note the angel didn't just come to
  • 00:19:01.056 --> 00:19:02.524
  • Give her a birth announcement.
  • 00:19:02.524 --> 00:19:03.859
  • He came with a prophetic message about the role jesus would play.
  • 00:19:03.859 --> 00:19:08.463
  • That's more than just a you're-going-to-be-pregnant
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  • Story.
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  • He said, "the son you're going to give will be great and called
  • 00:19:11.900 --> 00:19:14.336
  • The son of the most high god, and god will give him the throne
  • 00:19:14.336 --> 00:19:16.838
  • Of his father david and he will reign over the house
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  • Of jacob forever."
  • 00:19:20.075 --> 00:19:21.476
  • The angel is coming to instruct mary on what's ahead, and mary
  • 00:19:21.476 --> 00:19:28.183
  • Asked a question.
  • 00:19:28.183 --> 00:19:31.720
  • "'how will this be?
  • 00:19:31.720 --> 00:19:34.623
  • I'm a virgin.' the angel answered, 'the holy spirit will
  • 00:19:34.623 --> 00:19:38.594
  • Come upon you, and the power of the most high
  • 00:19:38.594 --> 00:19:40.128
  • Will overshadow you.
  • 00:19:40.128 --> 00:19:42.631
  • So the holy one to be born will be called the son of god.'"
  • 00:19:42.631 --> 00:19:46.535
  • We read that as if it answered all of mary's questions.
  • 00:19:46.535 --> 00:19:52.341
  • "'even elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her
  • 00:19:52.341 --> 00:19:54.643
  • Old age, and she who was said to be barren is in her sixth month.
  • 00:19:54.643 --> 00:19:58.213
  • For nothing is impossible with god.' and mary answered,
  • 00:19:58.213 --> 00:20:01.250
  • 'i'm the lord's servant.
  • 00:20:01.250 --> 00:20:02.718
  • May it be to me as you have said.' and the angel left her."
  • 00:20:02.718 --> 00:20:07.322
  • Now, i don't know where you stand on the issue of angels.
  • 00:20:07.322 --> 00:20:09.558
  • I don't know what role they play in your thoughts or your prayer
  • 00:20:09.558 --> 00:20:12.427
  • Life or your imagination, but there is no jesus's story
  • 00:20:12.427 --> 00:20:16.265
  • Without angels.
  • 00:20:16.265 --> 00:20:19.668
  • So maybe we need to have an imagination that invites them
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  • Back into our lives.
  • 00:20:22.204 --> 00:20:23.538
  • The bible tells us they're messengers, that they are
  • 00:20:23.538 --> 00:20:26.608
  • Dispatched at god's direction on our behalf.
  • 00:20:26.608 --> 00:20:31.780
  • I would submit to you we will not complete our assignments
  • 00:20:31.780 --> 00:20:34.316
  • Without angelic help.
  • 00:20:34.316 --> 00:20:37.019
  • Again, we've imagined ourselves to be at the center of this
  • 00:20:37.019 --> 00:20:39.688
  • Narrative and in many respects we may be at the center of god's
  • 00:20:39.688 --> 00:20:43.825
  • Purposes, but we are peripheral to the power of god and the
  • 00:20:43.825 --> 00:20:47.029
  • Purposes of god.
  • 00:20:47.029 --> 00:20:49.965
  • It's not god doing my bidding; it's me yielding myself to be
  • 00:20:49.965 --> 00:20:54.303
  • Included in the plans and the purposes of almighty,
  • 00:20:54.303 --> 00:20:57.706
  • All-knowing, the eternal god and then all the resources of heaven
  • 00:20:57.706 --> 00:21:02.277
  • Are dispatched and deployed as we join god in what he's doing.
  • 00:21:02.277 --> 00:21:07.082
  • That's a much better way to live than demand god do what i want
  • 00:21:07.082 --> 00:21:09.351
  • Him to do.
  • 00:21:09.351 --> 00:21:13.288
  • We've had such a diminished view.
  • 00:21:13.288 --> 00:21:15.223
  • We read the stories, but we don't pay attention
  • 00:21:15.223 --> 00:21:16.758
  • To the words.
  • 00:21:16.758 --> 00:21:20.295
  • In verse 28 gabriel says, "the lord is with you."
  • 00:21:20.295 --> 00:21:25.334
  • It's an invitation to a different life.
  • 00:21:25.334 --> 00:21:29.338
  • You see, being a christ follower is an invitation to a different
  • 00:21:29.338 --> 00:21:32.040
  • Life, not a diminished life, not a buttoned-down life,
  • 00:21:32.040 --> 00:21:35.944
  • Not a polite life, not a tame life.
  • 00:21:35.944 --> 00:21:38.246
  • There's nothing tame about the adventure mary and joseph are
  • 00:21:38.246 --> 00:21:40.849
  • Getting ready to embark upon.
  • 00:21:40.849 --> 00:21:43.985
  • God's purposes intersect our lives, and we have a choice to
  • 00:21:43.985 --> 00:21:47.356
  • Make at that point.
  • 00:21:47.356 --> 00:21:50.325
  • And it's not a singular choice just about conversion or
  • 00:21:50.325 --> 00:21:52.828
  • Salvation, it's a series of choices.
  • 00:21:52.828 --> 00:21:56.832
  • Zechariah and elizabeth are living upright lives and the
  • 00:21:56.832 --> 00:22:00.435
  • Purposes of god come to them.
  • 00:22:00.435 --> 00:22:03.138
  • Mary and joseph are conducting themselves in a manner of
  • 00:22:03.138 --> 00:22:07.275
  • Purity, integrity before the lord that qualifies them for the
  • 00:22:07.275 --> 00:22:10.612
  • Purposes of god to be pursued in and through them, but they have
  • 00:22:10.612 --> 00:22:16.818
  • To continue to make godly choices.
  • 00:22:16.818 --> 00:22:18.820
  • So do we.
  • 00:22:18.820 --> 00:22:20.789
  • It's not easy.
  • 00:22:20.789 --> 00:22:23.325
  • Now, i remember as a young person thinking if you ever
  • 00:22:23.325 --> 00:22:24.826
  • Made--you know, if you lived long enough to be 25, by then
  • 00:22:24.826 --> 00:22:28.964
  • You'd be so old you just want to be godly.
  • 00:22:28.964 --> 00:22:35.537
  • And now that i'm in my 30s--well into my 30s, i find that that
  • 00:22:35.537 --> 00:22:44.079
  • Tendency towards ungodliness doesn't just evaporate.
  • 00:22:44.079 --> 00:22:48.483
  • I still have to choose the lord.
  • 00:22:48.483 --> 00:22:52.053
  • I still have to say yes to the lord.
  • 00:22:52.053 --> 00:22:53.822
  • God still puts invitations in front of me and sometimes my
  • 00:22:53.822 --> 00:22:56.258
  • Initial responses is, "i'd rather not.
  • 00:22:56.258 --> 00:22:59.761
  • No, i'm good. thanks.
  • 00:22:59.761 --> 00:23:02.431
  • I know who you are. i've made a profession of faith.
  • 00:23:02.431 --> 00:23:04.466
  • I've read my bible a few times.
  • 00:23:04.466 --> 00:23:07.335
  • I've done some things for your kingdom.
  • 00:23:07.335 --> 00:23:08.670
  • I've got a little track record.
  • 00:23:08.670 --> 00:23:10.005
  • If you looked at my scrapbook, i got some pictures
  • 00:23:10.005 --> 00:23:11.406
  • I can show you. i'm good.
  • 00:23:11.406 --> 00:23:13.909
  • Thanks."
  • 00:23:13.909 --> 00:23:17.546
  • And then i realized that the creator of heaven and earth has
  • 00:23:17.546 --> 00:23:20.348
  • Put an invitation before me.
  • 00:23:20.348 --> 00:23:23.785
  • He's asked me to consider saying yes to him yet again.
  • 00:23:23.785 --> 00:23:28.623
  • Folks, don't lead a life without a persistent yes to the lord.
  • 00:23:28.623 --> 00:23:34.296
  • Stop telling the stories of what you did for the lord and start
  • 00:23:34.296 --> 00:23:37.199
  • Telling the stories of what god is doing in your life now.
  • 00:23:37.199 --> 00:23:41.837
  • It's a much, much better way to be.
  • 00:23:41.837 --> 00:23:48.810
  • It can be a bit embarrassing 'cause we'll probably have to
  • 00:23:45.006 --> 00:23:51.079
  • Acknowledge that we took some time off or we got sidetracked
  • 00:23:51.079 --> 00:23:54.049
  • Or derailed.
  • 00:23:54.049 --> 00:23:58.720
  • You see, too often i think we prefer our god life to begin
  • 00:23:58.720 --> 00:24:01.122
  • With eternity.
  • 00:24:01.122 --> 00:24:03.692
  • We're all for being godly people when we're done, but we seek to
  • 00:24:03.692 --> 00:24:09.531
  • Live our best life in time.
  • 00:24:09.531 --> 00:24:14.736
  • And the key point in there is our best life.
  • 00:24:14.736 --> 00:24:16.505
  • I want my best life in time.
  • 00:24:16.505 --> 00:24:18.607
  • I'll think about god's best life when i'm done with time, and
  • 00:24:18.607 --> 00:24:23.044
  • That's really deception.
  • 00:24:23.044 --> 00:24:25.380
  • It just doesn't work that way.
  • 00:24:25.380 --> 00:24:27.682
  • We want to lead every day so that god's best is expressed
  • 00:24:27.682 --> 00:24:31.920
  • Through us.
  • 00:24:31.920 --> 00:24:36.491
  • Jesus presents each person with an invitation.
  • 00:24:36.491 --> 00:24:40.495
  • It's not a part of this birth narrative, but you know the
  • 00:24:40.495 --> 00:24:42.631
  • Passage that's one of the best known in the new testament.
  • 00:24:42.631 --> 00:24:44.566
  • "come to me, all you who are weary.
  • 00:24:44.566 --> 00:24:51.206
  • Come to me."
  • 00:24:51.206 --> 00:24:52.574
  • He's still extending that invitation.
  • 00:24:52.574 --> 00:24:55.076
  • Allen: oftentimes for me the most difficult part of following
  • 00:24:55.143 --> 00:24:57.879
  • The lord is making peace with god's timing.
  • 00:24:57.879 --> 00:25:00.882
  • He just doesn't always pay attention to my agenda, or my
  • 00:25:00.882 --> 00:25:03.051
  • Request, or when i want something done.
  • 00:25:03.051 --> 00:25:05.887
  • I bet you know what that feels like.
  • 00:25:05.887 --> 00:25:07.789
  • Well, i want to ask you if you got the courage to forgive god
  • 00:25:07.789 --> 00:25:10.325
  • For messing up the timing.
  • 00:25:10.325 --> 00:25:12.794
  • He didn't answer in the time and the place and in the way that
  • 00:25:12.794 --> 00:25:15.030
  • Perhaps you would have preferred him to, and we're left with the
  • 00:25:15.030 --> 00:25:18.099
  • Mess of that.
  • 00:25:18.099 --> 00:25:19.501
  • Well, if we can make peace with god, it puts us in a place to
  • 00:25:19.501 --> 00:25:22.037
  • Receive what he has for us next.
  • 00:25:22.037 --> 00:25:24.439
  • It's a better outcome.
  • 00:25:24.439 --> 00:25:26.107
  • You're willing to do that?
  • 00:25:26.107 --> 00:25:27.442
  • Let's pray.
  • 00:25:27.442 --> 00:25:28.777
  • Heavenly father, i thank you that you love us, that
  • 00:25:28.777 --> 00:25:30.211
  • You have a plan for our good and not for our harm.
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  • Forgive us for being impatient, frustrated, angry;
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  • For stamping our feet.
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  • Lord, we want your best in our lives in your time.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • Allen: allen jackson ministries was created
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  • To strengthen the church.
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  • With your help, we've been able to take some steps in that
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  • Direction, but we're more determined than ever to
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  • Make an impact in our world.
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  • We have some invitations internationlly to step into some
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  • War-torn countries, into israel and ukraine,
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  • To help strengthen the church there.
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  • We plan to respond to that.
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  • But as importantly in this nation, folks, business as
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  • Usual isn't gonna get this done.
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  • We can't be timid and sit in our churches and have polite
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  • Bible studies and sing our favorite choruses.
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  • We've got to take the truth into the public square, a biblical
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  • Worldview back into the midst of our culture.
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  • We're creating tools to help you do that in your home,
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  • In your church, in your community.
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  • You, it's time for the church to be the church.
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  • We have an advocacy for jesus of nazareth that has to be heard
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  • In this season, or our children and grandchildren
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  • Will pay the price.
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  • Will you make an investment in this ministry to make 2026
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  • The most fruitful year we've ever had together?
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  • Thank you.
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