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Allen Jackson - Miracles, Healing, and You (Part 2)

February 8, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Miracles, Healing, and You (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Miracles, Healing, and You (Part 2) | February 8, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: you know, around the world,
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  • Allen: isaiah 53 is a messianic prophecy.
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  • It's a prophecy written about the messiah, who he will be and
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  • What he will accomplish.
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  • It's been one of the most highly debated chapters in all the
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  • Bible because the jewish scholars said the christians
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  • Added it, then the christian scholars said it's just
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  • Spiritual, but time and again god has reinforced it.
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  • But isaiah 53, it's speaking of messiah.
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  • "he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed
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  • For our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace
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  • Was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed."
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  • Healing, the physical restoration of his people is a
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  • Part of the presentation of god's interacting with his
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  • People from the opening chapters of the bible to the conclusion.
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  • Matthew chapter 8, jesus's public ministry, "when jesus
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  • Came into peter's house, he saw peter's mother-in-law in bed
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  • With a fever.
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  • He touched her hand and the fever left her, and she got up
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  • And began to wait on him.
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  • When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to
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  • Him, and he drove out the spirits with a word and he
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  • Healed all the sick.
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  • This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet
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  • Isaiah: he took up our infirmities and carried
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  • Our diseases."
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  • Now, there's many voices within christendom, highly
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  • Educated, sophisticated.
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  • You know, in the same way that attorneys argue in cases, say
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  • Things and you listen to them and you go, "they really didn't
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  • Just say that," ministers are equally guilty, have
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  • Constituencies or audiences or whatever the motivation.
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  • I've been in multiple settings where i've heard people say that
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  • Isaiah 53 was about our spiritual transformation.
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  • It had no relevance or no bearing for our physical.
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  • I was involved in some conversations like that multiple
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  • Times through the years.
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  • The first time i had it i wasn't aware of the passage
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  • In matthew 8.
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  • When somebody say, "well, isaiah 53 is just spiritual," i
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  • Just sat there and i looked at him and i thought, no.
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  • Then when i read matthew 8 and matthew is quoting isaiah as the
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  • Authority through which jesus was praying for the sick and
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  • They were being healed.
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  • So it isn't just spiritual.
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  • And then there's voices go, "well, you know, sure, jesus
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  • Did that.
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  • But we're not jesus.
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  • And this is the 21st century, not the 1st century, and now
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  • We've got all sorts of healthcare and technology
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  • And science."
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  • When i read hebrews 13, it says jesus is the same yesterday,
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  • Today, and forever;
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  • That what he would do in jerusalem or on the shores of
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  • Galilee, he'll do in middle tennessee or wherever you're
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  • Watching this, but he's not limited by time or space.
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  • Again, i'm not saying this to diminish science or to say you
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  • Shouldn't follow the science.
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  • I'm just saying you should follow the truth of god first.
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  • There's a hierarchy in this.
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  • Science isn't a thing, it's a process.
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  • Science is not a collection of facts, science is a methodology
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  • By which we understand the world in which we live.
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  • God can withstand the scrutiny of science.
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  • I promise.
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  • Our redemption is a complete and entire provision for our
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  • Whole person.
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  • In galatians chapter 3 in verse 13 says, "christ redeemed us
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  • From the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us."
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  • Why does a curse come on us in-- to begin with?
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  • Because of disobedience.
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  • Whether it's intentional or in ignorance, it doesn't remove us
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  • From the consequences.
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  • But christ redeemed us.
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  • Redemption has a technical meaning too.
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  • It's to be bought back, it's to be redeemed, it's to have
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  • Something done for you that you can't do for yourself.
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  • "christ redeemed us from the curse by becoming a curse for
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  • Us: 'cursed is everyone who's hung on a tree.'
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  • He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to abraham might
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  • Come to the non-jews through the messiah jesus, so that by faith
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  • We might receive the promise of the spirit."
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  • That's an amazing declaration.
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  • I saw a little post in social media sometime back, but it
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  • Stuck in my head.
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  • It said, "hard times make strong men, and strong men make good
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  • Times, and good times make soft men, and soft men make hard
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  • Times, and hard times make strong men."
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  • Well, i read that the first time and then i wrote it down and i
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  • Thought about it a good bit.
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  • And it seems to me--i've spent my adult life in christendom and
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  • We've had good times for so long.
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  • You know, persecution--christian persecution in the culture we've
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  • Lived in throughout my lifetime is about inconvenience, right?
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  • I mean, predominantly, we weren't being hunted, or
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  • Arrested, or executed, or our properties confiscated.
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  • And there may have been some outliers, but as a--but we've
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  • Had good times for so long that it seems to me the church has
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  • Grown weak, and passive, and uninformed, and apathetic.
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  • We didn't have to really wrestle with whether or not we should
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  • Pray for one another and believe that god is a healer, 'cause we
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  • Could take our kids to the doctor, or there were schools
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  • Available that we trusted to help educate them in an
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  • Appropriate way or whatever they need.
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  • And then we didn't really pull out our god card and begin to
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  • Even think about prayer until there was some crisis moment,
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  • Some extraordinary.
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  • We didn't have to bake it into our behavior and into our belief
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  • System for interacting with the world, 'cause we could make a
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  • Way for ourselves.
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  • We could take care of our families and we could protect
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  • Our kids and we could do a--until you got to that unusual
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  • Crisis, the percentage on the periphery of outside the
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  • Normal curve.
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  • And then we get frustrated because, like, "well, god, why
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  • Aren't you listening to me?
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  • Why aren't you responding to me?
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  • Now, never mind, i haven't been interested or i don't know you
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  • In this way or i have no familiarity with you in this
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  • Way, but i'm expecting you to show up front and center 'cause
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  • I got a problem here right now."
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  • And we say, "well, see, i knew there was nothing to it."
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  • It's very, very difficult to figure out what to do with
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  • Goliath if you've never learned to trust god for your
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  • Deliverance until you hear a giant bellow his challenge.
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  • Remember what david said?
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  • He said, "oh, no, i can do this because when i was just a
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  • Shepherd kid and my assignment was to take care of the dumb
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  • Sheep, if a predator came, god delivered the predator into
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  • My hand.
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  • Well, i was outmatched."
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  • I'm sure he was terrified.
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  • "but i've seen god move before."
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  • And he said, "this big galoot has defied the armies of the
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  • Living god, and god will deliver him into my hands."
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  • What i'm inviting you to begin to do is become familiar with
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  • The truth of god and the tools he's given us to be overcomers
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  • Before you have to listen to goliath.
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  • Can we admit we've been a little soft?
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  • We could do this.
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  • We didn't have to believe in the miraculous or the supernatural.
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  • We didn't wanna be one of those people.
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  • Folks, we cannot afford to let the generations come behind us
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  • Not to know the power of god.
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  • We cannot.
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  • Allen: we have partnered with our friends tim and david barton
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  • To make available to you a two-volume set
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  • On american history.
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  • It's "the american story."
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  • And it focuses on the part of american history that's been
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  • Lost in much of our public education these days.
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  • It's god's engagement with this nation and how he brought the
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  • American story forward.
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  • Our nation is more than politics or republicans and democrats.
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  • It's god working in the lives of people to shape a nation that
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  • Had brought forth his purposes in the world.
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  • I believe it's an important part of our faith journey this year,
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  • And i believe the books will be a blessing to you.
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  • Gain a greater understanding of where we've been so you can
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  • Allen: look at romans 3.
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  • "a righteousness from god, apart from the law, has been made
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  • Known, to which the law and the prophets testify.
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  • The righteousness that comes from god through faith in jesus
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  • Christ to all who believe."
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  • A right standing with god comes through faith in jesus to all
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  • Who believe.
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  • That's the only way it comes, folks.
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  • It doesn't come through faith in buddha, or muhammad, or your own
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  • Strength, or your towering intellect.
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  • There is a right standing with god that comes through faith
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  • In jesus.
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  • The church has to return to this message.
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  • We have apologized for it.
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  • God, forgive us.
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  • "there is no difference, for all have sinned and fallen short of
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  • The glory of god, but we are justified freely--" remember
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  • Justified, acquitted, declared not guilty.
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  • You are freely acquitted by his grace through the redemption
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  • That came by jesus.
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  • The definitions matter here.
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  • It's not just religious language.
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  • Understand the language.
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  • It's your contract.
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  • You can be justified, made righteous through faith
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  • In jesus.
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  • You better believe i wanna be identified with him.
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  • It's more important to me than the name on the sign of the
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  • Place where i worship or the tradition that i may have been
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  • Reared in.
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  • I belong to jesus.
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  • I serve at his pleasure.
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  • Ephesians 1:7 says, "in him," in christ, "we have redemption
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  • Through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in
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  • Accordance with the riches of god's grace."
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  • Required the sacrifice of jesus's life for me to be
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  • Redeemed, for me to be bought out of an empty way of life.
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  • In colossians 1 it tells us we've been delivered from
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  • Satan's dominion.
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  • He's rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought
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  • Us into the kingdom of the son he loves, in whom we have
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  • Redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
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  • We were placed under the dominion of satan with no means
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  • Of delivering ourselves.
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  • Talked to a person this week who's a third-generation
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  • Journalist from venezuela.
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  • Her father had owned a newspaper there.
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  • Her grandfather had owned a newspaper there.
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  • And she was beyond herself with hope at the removal of maduro.
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  • She said, "we're not finished yet.
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  • Don't leave us in this place."
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  • She said they've been disappearing people for years.
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  • We don't live with that kind of fear.
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  • She said if you spoke out against the leader or you spoke
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  • Out in favor of your faith, you disappeared.
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  • You and i were under the dominion of the kingdom of
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  • Darkness, and god rescued us through jesus.
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  • Yes, i will identify with him.
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  • I will be an ambassador for him.
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  • I will represent.
  • 00:14:10.765 --> 00:14:13.868
  • Not always easy.
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  • We've been sanctified.
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  • 1 peter 1, "we've been chosen according to the foreknowledge
  • 00:14:18.606 --> 00:14:21.776
  • Of god the father, through the sanctifying work of the spirit,
  • 00:14:21.776 --> 00:14:24.545
  • For the obedience of jesus christ and sprinkling by
  • 00:14:24.545 --> 00:14:29.017
  • His blood."
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  • To be sanctified, another word, means to be set apart, in this
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  • Context for the purposes of god.
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  • Remember when moses was giving instructions to the former
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  • Slaves of egypt about the tabernacle and all the furniture
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  • And the clothing for the priest?
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  • We'll get to that reading.
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  • We're in the gospels right now.
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  • Enjoy.
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  • But everything that was involved in the worship of god--the
  • 00:14:51.873 --> 00:14:55.176
  • Clothing that the priest would wear, the utensils that they
  • 00:14:55.176 --> 00:14:57.779
  • Used when they served-- everything had to be sanctified.
  • 00:14:57.779 --> 00:15:02.183
  • It had to be purposely set apart for the purposes of god.
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  • And the message is that jesus, through his sacrifice,
  • 00:15:06.821 --> 00:15:10.758
  • Sanctified us through the sanctifying work of the spirit
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  • For obedience to jesus.
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  • You've been set apart for the purposes of god.
  • 00:15:20.535 --> 00:15:24.272
  • Now, here's where we have to grapple 'cause most of us go,
  • 00:15:24.272 --> 00:15:26.240
  • "well, you know, pastor, really, i just want to go to heaven.
  • 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:33.648
  • I mean, all that god purpose stuff, you know, i don't know.
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  • I don't know.
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  • Can i just go to heaven?"
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  • No.
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  • You can't live for the devil until you see the finish line
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  • And go, "jesus!"
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  • Now, there are stories of a thief on a cross, but i would
  • 00:15:50.531 --> 00:15:54.602
  • Not encourage you to bet your future on your sense of timing.
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  • Amen.
  • 00:16:02.410 --> 00:16:06.047
  • Sanctified, set apart for the purposes of god.
  • 00:16:06.047 --> 00:16:08.616
  • Begin to bring a different kind of integrity into your
  • 00:16:08.616 --> 00:16:10.952
  • Discussion with the lord.
  • 00:16:10.952 --> 00:16:12.854
  • Begin to tell him the truth.
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  • "you know, i don't really enjoy you that much.
  • 00:16:15.023 --> 00:16:18.826
  • I don't like those people that know you that much."
  • 00:16:18.826 --> 00:16:21.562
  • Whatever that truth is, that may not--but tell him the truth.
  • 00:16:21.562 --> 00:16:24.032
  • He knows.
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  • Open the conversation.
  • 00:16:25.733 --> 00:16:27.068
  • He will help you.
  • 00:16:27.068 --> 00:16:29.270
  • "god, i'd like to know you better.
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  • I'd like to understand the joy of my salvation, 'cause a lot of
  • 00:16:32.040 --> 00:16:35.977
  • Times it feels like an obligation."
  • 00:16:35.977 --> 00:16:38.546
  • He will help you.
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  • Romans 5, we've been justified.
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  • So now we've been justified by his blood.
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  • How much more will we save from god's wrath through jesus?
  • 00:16:46.654 --> 00:16:52.060
  • We won't face the curse, because we've been justified by the
  • 00:16:52.060 --> 00:16:56.330
  • Blood of jesus.
  • 00:16:56.330 --> 00:16:58.533
  • 1 john, we've been purified.
  • 00:16:58.533 --> 00:16:59.901
  • "if we walk in the light, as he's in the light, we have
  • 00:16:59.901 --> 00:17:01.869
  • Fellowship with one another, and the blood of jesus, his son,
  • 00:17:01.869 --> 00:17:05.540
  • Purifies us--" the verbs in that verse are all in the continuing
  • 00:17:05.540 --> 00:17:09.143
  • Present tense.
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  • They're not past tense.
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  • They're not once and done.
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  • If we walk and continue to walk in the light, if we have
  • 00:17:15.116 --> 00:17:18.753
  • Continual fellowship with one another, then the blood of jesus
  • 00:17:18.753 --> 00:17:22.490
  • Continually purifies us, but you have to walk and you have to
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  • Have fellowship.
  • 00:17:26.627 --> 00:17:28.896
  • Really, we gotta stop this.
  • 00:17:28.896 --> 00:17:30.231
  • We go, "oh, i don't have to be with other christians
  • 00:17:30.231 --> 00:17:31.699
  • To be a christian."
  • 00:17:31.699 --> 00:17:36.904
  • Which bible do you read?
  • 00:17:36.904 --> 00:17:39.807
  • I'm not telling you you have to sit in our building,
  • 00:17:39.807 --> 00:17:41.843
  • But you need the community and you have to be under authority.
  • 00:17:41.843 --> 00:17:48.049
  • We all do.
  • 00:17:48.049 --> 00:17:51.886
  • I wanna wrap it up with an application.
  • 00:17:51.886 --> 00:17:53.988
  • Theoretical christianity is of little interest to me.
  • 00:17:53.988 --> 00:17:57.525
  • We'll go pray for one another, but i wanna give you the
  • 00:17:57.525 --> 00:18:01.896
  • Application in exodus.
  • 00:18:01.896 --> 00:18:03.264
  • We talked about the deliverance of the hebrew slaves.
  • 00:18:03.264 --> 00:18:05.967
  • This was their last night in egypt.
  • 00:18:05.967 --> 00:18:07.368
  • Moses said to the people, "when the lord goes through the land
  • 00:18:07.368 --> 00:18:09.303
  • To strike down the egyptians, he'll see the blood on the top
  • 00:18:09.303 --> 00:18:11.572
  • And sides of the doorframe and he'll pass over that doorway,
  • 00:18:11.572 --> 00:18:14.876
  • And he'll not permit the destroyer enter your house or to
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  • Strike you down."
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  • The spirit of death passed through the land of egypt, and
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  • Every house where there wasn't blood on the doorpost, the
  • 00:18:21.015 --> 00:18:23.584
  • Firstborn died, humans and animals.
  • 00:18:23.584 --> 00:18:29.857
  • Let me ask you a question.
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  • Do you think there was anybody in the hebrew community that
  • 00:18:31.192 --> 00:18:32.660
  • Didn't put blood on their doorpost?
  • 00:18:32.660 --> 00:18:36.631
  • Absolutely.
  • 00:18:36.631 --> 00:18:39.066
  • Ask you a follow-up question.
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  • What do you think the tone was middle of the night when death
  • 00:18:41.836 --> 00:18:47.074
  • Began passing from house to house to house?
  • 00:18:47.074 --> 00:18:52.246
  • I can't imagine it.
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  • I really don't.
  • 00:18:53.581 --> 00:18:55.383
  • The terror, the fear, the panic.
  • 00:18:55.383 --> 00:19:00.488
  • When the sun came up, they gave the hebrew slaves whatever
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  • They wanted.
  • 00:19:04.292 --> 00:19:05.626
  • "take our gold, take our silver, take our food.
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  • You take whatever you want.
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  • We don't want you here.
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  • You go.
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  • We don't ever want another night like that one."
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  • And the line of demarcation between complete panic, and
  • 00:19:15.836 --> 00:19:18.973
  • Death, and despair, and hopelessness and in a completely
  • 00:19:18.973 --> 00:19:22.944
  • Different future was the blood on the doorpost.
  • 00:19:22.944 --> 00:19:28.182
  • We have a similar picture in the book of revelation.
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  • It says they, the believers on earth, overcame him, who is
  • 00:19:32.253 --> 00:19:35.756
  • Satan, by the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony;
  • 00:19:35.756 --> 00:19:40.461
  • And they didn't love their lives so much as to shrink from death.
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  • See, i believe the way we apply the blood of jesus to our lives
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  • Is by the word of our testimony.
  • 00:19:47.401 --> 00:19:49.904
  • We say what god has said about us.
  • 00:19:49.904 --> 00:19:53.040
  • What's it say in romans 10:9-10?
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  • If you believe in your heart and confess with your mouth that
  • 00:19:54.609 --> 00:19:56.611
  • Jesus is lord you'll be...
  • 00:19:56.611 --> 00:19:57.945
  • Congregation: saved.
  • 00:19:57.945 --> 00:19:59.280
  • Allen: it's not enough to believe it in your heart
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  • Or read it in a book.
  • 00:20:00.615 --> 00:20:02.216
  • You have to say it out of your mouth, because your mouth is an
  • 00:20:02.216 --> 00:20:04.619
  • Expression of what's in your heart.
  • 00:20:04.619 --> 00:20:08.122
  • And you say, "well, i know all of that."
  • 00:20:08.122 --> 00:20:09.523
  • Yeah, but do you say it, do you live it?
  • 00:20:09.523 --> 00:20:13.027
  • Do you say it someplace other than in church?
  • 00:20:13.027 --> 00:20:21.569
  • I didn't put it in your notes, but in job 13, job said, "though
  • 00:20:21.569 --> 00:20:24.005
  • He slay me, yet i will hope in him."
  • 00:20:24.005 --> 00:20:27.008
  • See, our confidence is in the lord not because of our
  • 00:20:27.008 --> 00:20:29.443
  • Circumstances or our feelings but because what he said
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  • About us.
  • 00:20:32.813 --> 00:20:34.849
  • So when you talk about praying for the sick--and i mean
  • 00:20:34.849 --> 00:20:37.051
  • Principally tonight, when you are not well and you're praying,
  • 00:20:37.051 --> 00:20:39.654
  • When you're trusting god for an outcome in your life, we get
  • 00:20:39.654 --> 00:20:44.258
  • Frustrated because we don't like the timing.
  • 00:20:44.258 --> 00:20:45.793
  • We don't stop going to the doctor.
  • 00:20:45.793 --> 00:20:49.230
  • You don't stop waiting for there to be a breakthrough, a
  • 00:20:49.230 --> 00:20:51.465
  • Scientific breakthrough for the pharmaceutical industry to come
  • 00:20:51.465 --> 00:20:54.802
  • Up with a better solution to the symptoms that challenge you.
  • 00:20:54.802 --> 00:21:00.341
  • Why is it?
  • 00:21:00.341 --> 00:21:01.709
  • We say, "well, i prayed--twice."
  • 00:21:01.709 --> 00:21:05.146
  • Is it possible that we could continue to learn, to seek
  • 00:21:05.146 --> 00:21:07.715
  • The lord?
  • 00:21:07.715 --> 00:21:09.083
  • I don't understand god's timing.
  • 00:21:09.083 --> 00:21:10.418
  • I don't know why abraham waited 40 years to have a child.
  • 00:21:10.418 --> 00:21:14.889
  • I don't know why david got anointed to be king and had to
  • 00:21:14.889 --> 00:21:17.158
  • Be a fugitive for more than a decade.
  • 00:21:17.158 --> 00:21:21.462
  • I don't know why the apostle paul had to suffer physically as
  • 00:21:21.462 --> 00:21:26.033
  • Horribly as he did.
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  • I don't know.
  • 00:21:27.368 --> 00:21:30.204
  • I don't pretend to know.
  • 00:21:30.204 --> 00:21:33.207
  • But i have seen god move too many times for me to withdraw
  • 00:21:33.207 --> 00:21:38.479
  • From continuing to seek him.
  • 00:21:38.479 --> 00:21:41.315
  • And i wanna invite you to establish for yourself.
  • 00:21:41.315 --> 00:21:47.221
  • If you've made a profession of faith and you know what it is to
  • 00:21:47.221 --> 00:21:51.025
  • Be forgiven and to be cleansed and you've experienced the
  • 00:21:51.025 --> 00:21:54.662
  • Transformation that comes with a new birth, you also know the
  • 00:21:54.662 --> 00:21:57.398
  • Struggle that comes with your old earthly, carnal nature.
  • 00:21:57.398 --> 00:22:01.302
  • Being a christ follower doesn't automatically transform
  • 00:22:01.302 --> 00:22:03.804
  • Every thought or every desire or every circumstance, but it
  • 00:22:03.804 --> 00:22:08.409
  • Doesn't diminish the reality of your new birth.
  • 00:22:08.409 --> 00:22:12.046
  • Do not leave outside your experience the fullness of the
  • 00:22:12.046 --> 00:22:16.951
  • Redemption that is yours in christ.
  • 00:22:16.951 --> 00:22:20.755
  • I brought you a proclamation.
  • 00:22:20.755 --> 00:22:22.123
  • It's really a summary of those verses we read about what the
  • 00:22:22.123 --> 00:22:24.925
  • Bible says the blood of jesus does for us.
  • 00:22:24.925 --> 00:22:28.963
  • But i wanna begi--i wanna pray for you before we go.
  • 00:22:28.963 --> 00:22:31.399
  • It's time to go.
  • 00:22:31.399 --> 00:22:32.733
  • I know.
  • 00:22:32.733 --> 00:22:34.268
  • But if you're here and you need healing--not your friend, your
  • 00:22:34.268 --> 00:22:37.538
  • Family, just you tonight.
  • 00:22:37.538 --> 00:22:39.673
  • We'll do the rest of.
  • 00:22:39.673 --> 00:22:41.041
  • This is more than a single session.
  • 00:22:41.041 --> 00:22:42.743
  • But if you're here and you say, "i have a physical need."
  • 00:22:42.743 --> 00:22:45.946
  • It could be emotional, it could be physical.
  • 00:22:45.946 --> 00:22:47.615
  • "but my wellness.
  • 00:22:47.615 --> 00:22:48.983
  • I need god to touch my body.
  • 00:22:48.983 --> 00:22:50.418
  • I need a better outcome from the processes i'm involved in."
  • 00:22:50.418 --> 00:22:54.255
  • If that's you, just stand really quickly.
  • 00:22:54.255 --> 00:22:55.723
  • If you're at home, you stand with us.
  • 00:22:55.723 --> 00:22:58.025
  • You don't have to be in the house for the prayer to work.
  • 00:22:58.025 --> 00:23:07.935
  • I think a part of the reality is we have to acknowledge that
  • 00:23:11.605 --> 00:23:15.176
  • God's people need god's help.
  • 00:23:15.176 --> 00:23:19.180
  • We've been idolatrous.
  • 00:23:19.180 --> 00:23:20.514
  • We've trusted everything else more readily often than we've
  • 00:23:20.514 --> 00:23:22.516
  • Trusted god.
  • 00:23:22.516 --> 00:23:24.785
  • Seek the lord.
  • 00:23:24.785 --> 00:23:27.121
  • When you do your bible reading, when you take time to pray, say,
  • 00:23:27.121 --> 00:23:29.490
  • "lord, help me to understand."
  • 00:23:29.490 --> 00:23:33.594
  • God showed moses what to do about bitter water.
  • 00:23:33.594 --> 00:23:37.164
  • The whole multitude was complaining and moses prayed and
  • 00:23:37.164 --> 00:23:39.700
  • God showed moses solution--a solution.
  • 00:23:39.700 --> 00:23:42.236
  • I believe he can show us solutions.
  • 00:23:42.236 --> 00:23:45.573
  • Say, "i don't want a solution,
  • 00:23:45.573 --> 00:23:46.907
  • I want god to heal me instantly..." amen.
  • 00:23:46.907 --> 00:23:53.681
  • But god doesn't always do that.
  • 00:23:53.681 --> 00:23:56.584
  • He's more interested in me getting to know him.
  • 00:23:56.584 --> 00:23:58.052
  • And to be honest, i'm not that interested.
  • 00:23:58.052 --> 00:24:00.888
  • I just want out of the difficult place.
  • 00:24:00.888 --> 00:24:06.594
  • Well, pray for me.
  • 00:24:06.594 --> 00:24:07.962
  • If you're much better than that, just pray for me.
  • 00:24:07.962 --> 00:24:09.296
  • I'm okay with that.
  • 00:24:09.296 --> 00:24:11.799
  • But god is helping us to learn to trust him.
  • 00:24:11.799 --> 00:24:17.805
  • Father, i thank you for your word, for the promise that it
  • 00:24:17.805 --> 00:24:21.075
  • Brings to us.
  • 00:24:21.075 --> 00:24:23.611
  • Lord, we come tonight to acknowledge that we were frail,
  • 00:24:23.611 --> 00:24:29.016
  • But, lord, we know there is no challenge that we face, no
  • 00:24:29.016 --> 00:24:31.819
  • Physical symptom, no diagnosis, there's nothing that we--there's
  • 00:24:31.819 --> 00:24:36.824
  • No challenge we have that is beyond you.
  • 00:24:36.824 --> 00:24:40.494
  • And we invite you now into our lives.
  • 00:24:40.494 --> 00:24:43.697
  • Bring health to our mortal bodies.
  • 00:24:43.697 --> 00:24:46.667
  • Bring peace to our souls and hope to us.
  • 00:24:46.667 --> 00:24:51.171
  • Lord, if there are things we need to see or understand, holy
  • 00:24:51.171 --> 00:24:53.707
  • Spirit, we ask you to give us an understanding heart and the
  • 00:24:53.707 --> 00:24:56.377
  • Insight, the revelation that we need.
  • 00:24:56.377 --> 00:25:00.748
  • I praise you for it, lord, that you watch over us, and so you
  • 00:25:00.748 --> 00:25:04.418
  • Secure our futures.
  • 00:25:04.418 --> 00:25:06.453
  • If there are behaviors that need to be changed, lord, give us an
  • 00:25:06.453 --> 00:25:09.089
  • Awareness and then the willingness to change.
  • 00:25:09.089 --> 00:25:13.193
  • Forgive us when we haven't sought you.
  • 00:25:13.193 --> 00:25:17.364
  • Forgive us, father, but we come tonight and i thank you.
  • 00:25:17.364 --> 00:25:20.467
  • We rejoice at the fullness of your provision for our lives.
  • 00:25:20.467 --> 00:25:24.238
  • Lord jesus, thank you that by your stripes we are healed, and
  • 00:25:24.238 --> 00:25:29.577
  • May your life now come to our mortal bodies.
  • 00:25:29.577 --> 00:25:32.947
  • In jesus's name, amen.
  • 00:25:32.947 --> 00:25:37.484
  • If i was--if i were walking through a health challenge, i
  • 00:25:37.484 --> 00:25:39.420
  • Would take that proclamation i gave you and i would say it
  • 00:25:39.420 --> 00:25:42.923
  • Morning, noon, and evening like i were taking medicine.
  • 00:25:42.923 --> 00:25:46.727
  • "i testify to what the word of god says the blood of jesus does
  • 00:25:46.727 --> 00:25:49.697
  • For me.
  • 00:25:49.697 --> 00:25:51.065
  • Through the blood of jesus, i am redeemed out of the hand of
  • 00:25:51.065 --> 00:25:53.534
  • The enemy."
  • 00:25:53.534 --> 00:25:54.902
  • All those statements are grounded in the verses we
  • 00:25:54.902 --> 00:25:56.570
  • Just read.
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  • And i would give that application in my life morning,
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  • Noon, and evening and keep thanking god for
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  • Your breakthrough.
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  • Amen?
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  • God bless you.
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  • Allen: this is the 250th anniversary of our nation.
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  • It's a big deal.
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  • Now, i know a lot of us don't care a whole lot about history.
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  • We didn't have great experiences in school.
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  • I understand that, but here's the reality.
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  • If they can steal our history, they'll rob us of our future.
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  • So history really does matter.
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  • Well, because of that, we have partnered with some good friends
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  • Of our ministries, wallbuilders david and tim barton.
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  • They have the best of the best on this topic.
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  • It's a two-volume set on "the american story," and it helps us
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  • Learn american history with a faith component, with a god
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  • Perspective--how god has been engaged in the unfolding
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  • Narrative of our american story.
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  • That matters because we need god to be involved in the future of
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  • The american story.
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  • That affects our lives, our families, our communities, and
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  • Ultimately our nation.
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  • The books will be a blessing to you, but more than that, i
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  • Believe they'll open your life to the imagination that god is
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  • Moving in the earth, and we can participate with him in the next
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  • Chapters of american history.
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