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Allen Jackson - A New Beginning (Part 1)

June 6, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - A New Beginning (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 - A New Beginning (Part 1) | June 6, 2026
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  • Allen: hey, i've encouraged you for a long time
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  • To lead with your faith.
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  • Take your faith outside the church building
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  • Into all the places that your life takes you,
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  • Where you have influence, where you have a voice.
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  • We've created some pieces to help you do that:
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  • A tote bag, a blanket.
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  • Maybe you're going to a ball game or the park or the beach,
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  • Wherever that may be.
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  • You take these along, they are a celebration of our nation's
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  • 250th anniversary.
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  • Somebody will want to know where you got it, what it's about.
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  • It gives you an opportunity to share your faith.
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  • You know, i've had the privilege of living in some places outside
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  • The united states.
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  • Things like a grocery store or fast food or food delivery,
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  • Those things weren't possible in the places i lived.
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  • When i come home, just walking through a grocery store reminds
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  • Me of the goodness and the faithfulness of god,
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  • His blessings on our nation.
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  • Use your voice to say god has blessed america.
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  • Something as simple as a tote bag can open a door
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  • For your god story.
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  • Together, we're gonna lift up the name of jesus in this
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  • Generation and see god bless america again.
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  • Allen: i want to extend the invitation.
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  • I've only got a little bit--a few more days left before we're
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  • Gonna move on, but for a long time now, for several years, i
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  • Invite you at the beginning of the year to read your bible with
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  • Us and certainly i wanna extend that.
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  • But this year we took a little different tack.
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  • I've asked you not only to commit to read your bible, but i
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  • Suggested we start with the gospels and an invitation just
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  • Around the gospels.
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  • There's only four--matthew, mark, luke and john.
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  • They're very short books.
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  • You're familiar with most of the characters and many of
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  • The places.
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  • The story around jesus's life is a part of culture.
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  • I mean, most of us that are just marginally aware know something
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  • That happened in bethlehem or jerusalem.
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  • And so the gospels have a familiarity to them, but with
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  • About 10 to 15 minute investment a day, you can read
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  • Through all four gospels in just about 60 days.
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  • So what i've asked you to do is not just raise your hand and
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  • Say, "i'm gonna read the bible or read the gospels."
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  • I've asked you to invite some people to read it with you.
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  • If you have younger children at home, read it with them.
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  • You probably won't make it every day if your life is like most
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  • Of ours.
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  • But let's say your goal is to read it and you only made it
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  • Four days a week.
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  • You're four days a week ahead of not reading it.
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  • I know you're busy.
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  • I know there's demands on your time.
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  • I know many of the excuses.
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  • I'm sure i don't know them all, but i know many of them.
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  • Read it anyway.
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  • All right, invite a friend, a co-worker, a neighbor.
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  • Let's see just how many people will join us in reading through
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  • The gospels.
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  • No, i've already told you when we get done with the gospels,
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  • I'm gonna ask you to read the rest of the new testament
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  • With me.
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  • We'll have it done by memorial day.
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  • It's not a huge lift, folks.
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  • I'm not talking about war and peace.
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  • This isn't a dostoevsky novel.
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  • This is just the new testament.
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  • But let's start with the gospels.
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  • Have you invited somebody?
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  • I've been inviting--every platform i have been given an
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  • Opportunity to speak to, i've been inviting people to do this.
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  • I have an agenda.
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  • I believe it will bring good things to your life.
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  • I believe it will bring good things to your home, and i
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  • Believe it could bring the blessing of god to us as
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  • A people.
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  • Folks, we don't have a political problem nearly as much as we
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  • Have a spiritual problem.
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  • And if we can encourage people, invite them, join us, walk with
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  • Them, whatever that looks like, you're far more likely to keep a
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  • Commitment, any commitment, if you make it with another person.
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  • If you say to yourself, "i think tomorrow i will diet," you'll
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  • Wake up ravenous and think, "well, today i'm gonna lay in
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  • Some extra stores 'cause tomorrow i may diet."
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  • But if you tell two people, "tomorrow, let's all of us
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  • Decide we're gonna eat less," it's harder to show up with a
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  • Dozen donuts under your arm.
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  • Use that same imagination and read your bible with
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  • Some friends.
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  • At least read the gospels with us.
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  • I believe the lord will honor it in your life and our lives and
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  • In ways i don't even know how to articulate.
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  • That's really my prayer.
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  • We've been praying that as our offertory prayer and i don't
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  • Wanna turn loose of it yet.
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  • It's too important.
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  • I asked some other larger groups to do this with us and they
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  • Weren't particularly interested.
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  • Doesn't surprise me. i got it.
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  • But i have seen that we've been doing this as a congregation for
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  • More than a decade and i'm not aware of any other single thing
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  • That's been as transformational.
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  • It just changes us.
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  • Now i also find we're terribly resistant to doing
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  • Something collectively.
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  • "pastor, i'm reading the bible, but i'm not following our plan."
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  • Okay, it's all right.
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  • "you know, i don't have to read it like
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  • Systematically every day."
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  • Okay, but i can tell you there is something that is
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  • Very significant.
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  • I had a conversation with a friend this week and he looked
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  • At me said, "you know matthew 25--" 'cause it was our portion
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  • For the day.
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  • And off he went with something that was real to him out of
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  • Matthew 25 that morning.
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  • And it didn't require any other background or any
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  • Other explanation.
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  • And if we multiply that across a whole community of people or
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  • Across even a broader group of people, there's something
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  • Significant in that.
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  • Just humble yourself and let's read along for a bit.
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  • We've been working through a study with the general title of
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  • "stormproof foundations."
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  • And in this session i wanna talk a bit about a new beginning.
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  • I love the beginning of years.
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  • I always liked the beginning of a semester in school, those
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  • Brief few hours before i was behind.
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  • I always have that same sense of anticipation at the beginning of
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  • The year.
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  • You get a fresh calendar and all of those things.
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  • This particular weekend, really exponentially so, we're on the
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  • Precipice of a change of administrations in our nation.
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  • That's become something that's far more tenuous than it
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  • Once was.
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  • You can give the lord a hand.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • You know, for all the rhetoric about doing it peacefully and if
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  • You're paying attention and you're watching it all, almost
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  • The exact opposite happens and what we have discovered is we
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  • Can no longer take for granted things that we have taken for
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  • Granted most of my life.
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  • Fair elections, the opportunity to vote, simple things.
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  • But we are on the the precipice of a change of administrations,
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  • And, with that, there's always a sense of hope and anticipation
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  • Or dread, depending on where you stand on the spectrum of ideas,
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  • But this weekend in particular kathy and i, we had a number of
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  • Invitations to be in washington this weekend for some part of
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  • The inaugural festivities and i learned a lot about it just from
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  • The invitations.
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  • I knew they had a lot of parties, but i didn't know they
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  • Were expensive.
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  • And i declined a couple and they said, "well, we will pay for
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  • Your tickets."
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  • And i'm so stupid.
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  • I didn't know there was a ticket, but thank you.
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  • And what was in me was a very real sense that it was more
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  • Important to be here this weekend.
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  • And i don't say that lightly.
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  • I think what happens with the people of god in these next few
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  • Months is even more significant than what will happen in the
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  • Political realm.
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  • And i'm not suggesting that politics isn't important.
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  • It has a place and a role.
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  • I'm not denying that.
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  • But i can assure you without significant spiritual
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  • Realignment and transformation, no changes implemented by
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  • Politicians are sustainable.
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  • You see that every time there's a change of administration;
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  • There's a great roll back of whatever their agendas were.
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  • And if you're of the opinion that a biblical worldview should
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  • Influence our lives and our schools and our universities and
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  • How we conduct ourselves, then it's not a long step to say the
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  • Church has to be different because we've been witnessing
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  • For several decades the most precipitous decline of the
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  • Influence of the christian values, judeo-christian values,
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  • In the history of the church.
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  • Rome plummeted.
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  • They lost an empire.
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  • But christianity only came to the empire late and the decay
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  • Had already taken deep root.
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  • Not so with us.
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  • So i like this idea of a new beginning and
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  • Storm-proof foundations.
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  • The bigger picture theme of the discussion is kingdoms in
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  • Conflict, but i'd like to start with jesus's teaching
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  • In matthew 7.
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  • He's giving us some instructions on how to prepare for life.
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  • I'm thinking if the king of kings and the lord of lords is
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  • Willing to give me a little up close coaching on how to
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  • Flourish in life, maybe i should pay attention.
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  • And that's precisely what this brief passage has in matthew 7.
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  • Jesus said, "every tree that doesn't bear good fruit is cut
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  • Down and thrown into the fire.
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  • Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them."
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  • I'm gonna read the whole passage and then we'll come back and
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  • Unpack it briefly.
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  • "not everyone who says to me, 'lord, lord will enter the
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  • Kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my father
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  • Who's in heaven.
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  • Many will say to me on that day, 'lord, lord, did we not prophesy
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  • In your name and in your name drive out demons and perform
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  • Many miracles?'
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  • Now i will tell them plainly, 'i never knew you.
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  • Away from me, you evildoers.'
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  • Therefore," therefore is a summary word.
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  • It means "because of what i just said, let me give you
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  • The conclusion."
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  • "therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and puts
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  • Them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on
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  • The rock.
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  • The rain came down, the streams rose, the winds blew and beat
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  • Against that house, yet it didn't fall, because it had its
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  • Foundation on the rock.
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  • But everyone who hears these words of mine and doesn't put
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  • Them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house
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  • On sand.
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  • The rain came down, the streams rose, the winds blew and beat
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  • Against that house, and it fell with a great crash."
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  • Thus our title, "stormproof foundations."
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  • We're given the opportunity.
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  • Jesus gave us a plan, a perspective,
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  • Some guidelines for how to storm proof your life.
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  • You can't keep storms from coming, but you can make
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  • Them survivable.
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  • I had a conversation with one of the leaders of samaritan's purse
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  • On thursday.
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  • They're building more than 1000 new houses for people who've
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  • Lost them in the floods in carolina.
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  • You can't keep the storms from coming, but you can build your
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  • Life on a foundation that will make them survivable.
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  • Allen: hey, we're celebrating this year the 250th anniversary
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  • Of the signing of the declaration of independence.
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  • What a wonderful privilege we have.
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  • You know, god has blessed our nation so many good things.
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  • People say to me, "well, our whole history is not good."
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  • Well, folks, you know, my history is not great.
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  • Your family history is not perfect.
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  • But you love your family, you love your children.
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  • In spite of our weaknesses-- well, our nation hadn't been
  • 00:11:42.550 --> 00:11:45.487
  • Perfect, but through that whole story, the goodness of god
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  • Is evident.
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  • It still is.
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  • Let's ask god to bless america again.
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  • I believe he will.
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  • Allen: now, jesus gave us some very clear instructions.
  • 00:12:23.858 --> 00:12:25.994
  • Let's go back to verse 19.
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  • Jesus presents just two possibilities for every tree.
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  • Every tree, he said, that doesn't bear fruit is cut down
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  • And thrown into the fire.
  • 00:12:35.637 --> 00:12:36.971
  • So there's two options for trees.
  • 00:12:36.971 --> 00:12:39.774
  • Now, god created almost an infinite number of trees, but
  • 00:12:39.774 --> 00:12:43.378
  • There's two options.
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  • You're either gonna bear fruit or be cut down.
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  • There's no third lane.
  • 00:12:49.918 --> 00:12:52.420
  • Now, that's important 'cause that's the framing of this
  • 00:12:52.420 --> 00:12:54.856
  • Whole thing.
  • 00:12:54.856 --> 00:12:56.224
  • 'cause when we get to the "how do you stormproof your life?"
  • 00:12:56.224 --> 00:12:58.660
  • It starts with a discussion about how to be a
  • 00:12:58.660 --> 00:13:01.229
  • Sustainable tree.
  • 00:13:01.229 --> 00:13:02.564
  • Sustainable farming is very chic.
  • 00:13:02.564 --> 00:13:07.702
  • You know, farm to table has become a dining category.
  • 00:13:07.702 --> 00:13:13.675
  • The dining category i'm most focused on is fork to mouth, but
  • 00:13:13.675 --> 00:13:18.446
  • I'm okay with farm to table.
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  • I'm good with that.
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  • But the tree--your life and my life--there's two
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  • Available options.
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  • We're either going to bear good fruit or we'll be cut down and
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  • Used as firewood.
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  • And in verse 20 jesus gives us a little bit more clarification.
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  • He said, "by your fruit, you'll recognize them."
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  • Fruit is the key to identification, not the species,
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  • Not the denomination, not the worship style, not the wardrobe,
  • 00:13:42.303 --> 00:13:47.775
  • Not the bank account, not the education, not the iq, not the
  • 00:13:47.775 --> 00:13:50.979
  • Physical attributes, not all the things that we use to separate
  • 00:13:50.979 --> 00:13:54.148
  • Ourselves, not all the characteristics that get pumped
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  • Into dei.
  • 00:13:56.351 --> 00:13:57.685
  • Those things don't matter.
  • 00:13:57.685 --> 00:14:00.488
  • He said because of the character of your life, there will be a
  • 00:14:00.488 --> 00:14:03.691
  • Fruitfulness to you and you'll either bear good fruit or you're
  • 00:14:03.691 --> 00:14:06.961
  • Not sustainable.
  • 00:14:06.961 --> 00:14:10.665
  • And then he says, in verse 21, something is pretty startling.
  • 00:14:10.665 --> 00:14:14.102
  • He said, "not everyone who says to me, 'lord, lord' will enter
  • 00:14:14.102 --> 00:14:17.071
  • The kingdom of heaven."
  • 00:14:17.071 --> 00:14:20.241
  • Well, i don't know about you, but he's got my attention.
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  • He's talking to the jewish people, to the covenant people
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  • Of god.
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  • Their whole lives are invested in the observance of religious
  • 00:14:27.515 --> 00:14:31.619
  • Rules and rituals.
  • 00:14:31.619 --> 00:14:32.954
  • Their diet is defined by that.
  • 00:14:32.954 --> 00:14:34.722
  • Their holidays are defined that way.
  • 00:14:34.722 --> 00:14:37.058
  • Their physical health is defined that way.
  • 00:14:37.058 --> 00:14:39.761
  • They understand themselves to be separate from all other people
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  • On earth.
  • 00:14:42.997 --> 00:14:45.533
  • And jesus said that's really not adequate.
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  • There's more to the story and he gives it to you.
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  • Now if you don't care about entering the kingdom of heaven,
  • 00:14:53.341 --> 00:14:55.043
  • You don't really need to read any further.
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  • If that's of no interest to you, if that's not on your to-do
  • 00:14:58.780 --> 00:15:02.050
  • List, if it doesn't matter, there's a biblical description
  • 00:15:02.050 --> 00:15:06.220
  • Of that.
  • 00:15:06.220 --> 00:15:07.588
  • Jesus gives it to us in the book of revelation.
  • 00:15:07.588 --> 00:15:08.923
  • He says, "let the one who wants to be righteous be more
  • 00:15:08.923 --> 00:15:10.525
  • Righteous and let the one who's wicked be even more wicked."
  • 00:15:10.525 --> 00:15:15.430
  • Have the courage to choose.
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  • Don't slouch your way through life.
  • 00:15:19.500 --> 00:15:24.839
  • There was a book written some years ago called "slouching
  • 00:15:24.839 --> 00:15:26.908
  • Towards gomorrah."
  • 00:15:26.908 --> 00:15:29.344
  • The title was fascinating to me.
  • 00:15:29.344 --> 00:15:32.280
  • Sometimes we act like we don't have a choice; we're victims.
  • 00:15:32.280 --> 00:15:36.117
  • Folks, evil touches every life, some in far more profound ways
  • 00:15:36.117 --> 00:15:39.687
  • Than others, but don't live your life as a victim; choose.
  • 00:15:39.687 --> 00:15:45.026
  • The power of god is sufficient to deliver you from any
  • 00:15:45.026 --> 00:15:47.895
  • Intrusion of evil--anyone.
  • 00:15:47.895 --> 00:15:53.267
  • Not saying it's easy, but it's possible.
  • 00:15:53.267 --> 00:15:56.771
  • Now in verse 22, jesus gives us the entrance requirement for the
  • 00:15:56.771 --> 00:15:59.707
  • Kingdom of heaven.
  • 00:15:59.707 --> 00:16:02.010
  • He said, "only he who does the will of my father.
  • 00:16:02.010 --> 00:16:05.380
  • Many will say to me on that day, 'didn't we prophesy in your name
  • 00:16:05.380 --> 00:16:09.751
  • And drive out demons and perform many miracles?'
  • 00:16:09.751 --> 00:16:11.619
  • And i'll tell them plainly, 'i never knew you.'"
  • 00:16:11.619 --> 00:16:15.356
  • The interest requirement is he who does the will of my father
  • 00:16:15.356 --> 00:16:17.925
  • In heaven."
  • 00:16:17.925 --> 00:16:19.360
  • We had an enormous school of thought in christendom that
  • 00:16:19.360 --> 00:16:22.530
  • Says, "works don't matter."
  • 00:16:22.530 --> 00:16:25.400
  • "oh, you're works-based."
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  • "i'm grace-based."
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  • You've been caught in one of those discussions?
  • 00:16:32.840 --> 00:16:36.477
  • Oh, i have. i've had to write papers.
  • 00:16:36.477 --> 00:16:40.281
  • They meet me up.
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  • "pastor, i know what you said, but let me tell you what
  • 00:16:41.616 --> 00:16:43.217
  • I think."
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  • Oh, would you?
  • 00:16:44.552 --> 00:16:51.225
  • Jesus very clearly is articulating something.
  • 00:16:51.225 --> 00:16:55.096
  • I'm not trying to diminish grace, but he said, "the only
  • 00:16:55.096 --> 00:16:58.699
  • One gonna enter the kingdom of heaven is he who does the will
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  • Of my father in heaven."
  • 00:17:00.802 --> 00:17:02.136
  • Well, what about romans that says, "if you confess with your
  • 00:17:02.136 --> 00:17:04.038
  • Mouth and believe in your heart, you'll be saved"?
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  • I don't believe jesus is negating paul's explanation.
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  • We're being birthed into the kingdom of god and sustaining a
  • 00:17:16.117 --> 00:17:21.689
  • Spiritual life are different.
  • 00:17:21.689 --> 00:17:24.459
  • We get way heated up about our categories, folks.
  • 00:17:24.459 --> 00:17:28.529
  • I don't want you to be worried about losing your salvation.
  • 00:17:28.529 --> 00:17:32.133
  • It's a fruitless discussion 'cause you won't really know the
  • 00:17:32.133 --> 00:17:35.670
  • Answer until it's too late to amend the outcome.
  • 00:17:35.670 --> 00:17:39.640
  • So how about just living every day like it matters.
  • 00:17:39.640 --> 00:17:44.512
  • Does that make sense?
  • 00:17:44.512 --> 00:17:47.648
  • And jesus, what he said it was very plain language: "if you
  • 00:17:47.648 --> 00:17:51.152
  • Don't intend to do the will of my father in heaven, you're not
  • 00:17:51.152 --> 00:17:54.722
  • Going into the kingdom."
  • 00:17:54.722 --> 00:17:58.459
  • So there is some role for the desire to do the will of god.
  • 00:17:58.459 --> 00:18:03.464
  • And then jesus expresses that it is even more narrower than that.
  • 00:18:03.464 --> 00:18:06.701
  • He said, "there will be many--" that's jesus's word, not mine.
  • 00:18:06.701 --> 00:18:09.737
  • He said, "many will say to me, 'i prophesied.
  • 00:18:09.737 --> 00:18:15.042
  • I drove out demons.
  • 00:18:15.042 --> 00:18:17.612
  • I did miracles.'"
  • 00:18:17.612 --> 00:18:20.181
  • And that's not a denigration of prophecy or deliverance or
  • 00:18:20.181 --> 00:18:25.119
  • The miraculous.
  • 00:18:25.119 --> 00:18:26.487
  • You know, christians arrive in some goofy places.
  • 00:18:26.487 --> 00:18:30.291
  • "see, their healing doesn't matter unless you're sick."
  • 00:18:30.291 --> 00:18:36.264
  • The larger point is jesus is saying that group identification
  • 00:18:36.264 --> 00:18:40.101
  • Is inadequate.
  • 00:18:40.101 --> 00:18:41.435
  • You have to decide to bear fruit.
  • 00:18:41.435 --> 00:18:42.937
  • You have to have a desire to do the will of god.
  • 00:18:42.937 --> 00:18:47.275
  • If you're using the supernatural as a means of self-promotion,
  • 00:18:47.275 --> 00:18:52.513
  • The pursuit of selfish ambition, he said, "bad fruit.
  • 00:18:52.513 --> 00:18:58.686
  • Bad fruit."
  • 00:18:58.686 --> 00:19:02.123
  • He said, "i will tell them plainly, 'i don't know you.
  • 00:19:02.123 --> 00:19:07.428
  • You're an evil doer.'"
  • 00:19:07.428 --> 00:19:08.763
  • Now he's got my attention, folks.
  • 00:19:08.763 --> 00:19:11.032
  • Covenant people doing miraculous things in the context of
  • 00:19:11.032 --> 00:19:16.237
  • Biblical faith and jesus says, "i don't know you."
  • 00:19:16.237 --> 00:19:21.008
  • I don't wanna be in that category.
  • 00:19:21.008 --> 00:19:23.611
  • And then the "therefore."
  • 00:19:23.611 --> 00:19:26.280
  • He says, "therefore" and then there's this famous little
  • 00:19:26.280 --> 00:19:28.282
  • Parable that almost everybody that's ever walked past the
  • 00:19:28.282 --> 00:19:30.618
  • Church knows.
  • 00:19:30.618 --> 00:19:32.386
  • "everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into
  • 00:19:32.386 --> 00:19:34.822
  • Practice is like a man who built his house on the rock."
  • 00:19:34.822 --> 00:19:39.293
  • Who's the one that survives the storms?
  • 00:19:39.293 --> 00:19:43.464
  • The one who hears the words and puts them into practice.
  • 00:19:43.464 --> 00:19:48.002
  • You can't just hear them.
  • 00:19:48.002 --> 00:19:49.870
  • You have to be a practitioner.
  • 00:19:49.870 --> 00:19:51.839
  • Well, how do we know if you're a practitioner?
  • 00:19:51.839 --> 00:19:53.474
  • He just told us: "your life bears good fruit."
  • 00:19:53.474 --> 00:19:57.645
  • "well, i'm more of a student.
  • 00:19:57.645 --> 00:20:00.948
  • I'm more of a theoretical.
  • 00:20:00.948 --> 00:20:03.751
  • I like to accumulate facts and figures and information
  • 00:20:03.751 --> 00:20:06.387
  • And names."
  • 00:20:06.387 --> 00:20:08.456
  • Well, bless your heart.
  • 00:20:08.456 --> 00:20:10.791
  • I like to learn too.
  • 00:20:10.791 --> 00:20:13.294
  • I could have been a professional student, perhaps, if the lord
  • 00:20:13.294 --> 00:20:15.997
  • Had signed off on it.
  • 00:20:15.997 --> 00:20:17.331
  • He didn't.
  • 00:20:17.331 --> 00:20:20.334
  • But at the end of the day, we have to put into practice the
  • 00:20:20.334 --> 00:20:23.437
  • Truth that we know.
  • 00:20:23.437 --> 00:20:25.640
  • And christians are a unique group of folks.
  • 00:20:25.640 --> 00:20:28.276
  • We will work really hard to explain that we don't have to
  • 00:20:28.276 --> 00:20:30.678
  • Practice what the word of god says anymore.
  • 00:20:30.678 --> 00:20:34.382
  • Please don't do that.
  • 00:20:34.382 --> 00:20:37.018
  • Now, i wanna add to that one more passage.
  • 00:20:37.018 --> 00:20:39.220
  • Remember, the goal is how do you stormproof your life.
  • 00:20:39.220 --> 00:20:42.223
  • How do you build your life and how do you get into the
  • 00:20:42.223 --> 00:20:43.958
  • Foundation established so well?
  • 00:20:43.958 --> 00:20:46.927
  • Well, one of the more popular approaches to that is just to
  • 00:20:46.927 --> 00:20:49.530
  • Deny that there's storms.
  • 00:20:49.530 --> 00:20:52.099
  • I don't believe in the devil.
  • 00:20:52.099 --> 00:20:54.168
  • I don't believe in demons.
  • 00:20:54.168 --> 00:20:55.870
  • Christians can't have a demon.
  • 00:20:55.870 --> 00:20:58.205
  • Christians can't be possessed, and then we start parsing
  • 00:20:58.205 --> 00:21:01.242
  • Language between possessed...
  • 00:21:01.242 --> 00:21:07.948
  • As if we're not gonna be influenced by evil.
  • 00:21:07.948 --> 00:21:10.918
  • What world are you watching?
  • 00:21:10.918 --> 00:21:15.022
  • Well, i enjoy definitions and i think they matter.
  • 00:21:15.022 --> 00:21:17.458
  • Words do matter and definitions do matter, but in ephesians
  • 00:21:17.458 --> 00:21:20.661
  • Chapter 6 and verse 10 says, "finally be strengthened by the
  • 00:21:20.661 --> 00:21:25.132
  • Lord and by his vast strength.
  • 00:21:25.132 --> 00:21:26.500
  • Put on the full armor of god so that you can stand against the
  • 00:21:26.500 --> 00:21:30.137
  • Tactics of the devil.
  • 00:21:30.137 --> 00:21:32.440
  • For our battle isn't against flesh and blood, but against
  • 00:21:32.440 --> 00:21:34.608
  • Rulers and authorities, against the world powers of this
  • 00:21:34.608 --> 00:21:37.144
  • Darkness and against the spiritual forces of evil in
  • 00:21:37.144 --> 00:21:39.480
  • The heavens.
  • 00:21:39.480 --> 00:21:41.282
  • This is why you must take up the full armor of god, so that you
  • 00:21:41.282 --> 00:21:43.551
  • May be able to resist in the evil day, and having prepared
  • 00:21:43.551 --> 00:21:46.987
  • Everything, to take your stand.
  • 00:21:46.987 --> 00:21:48.956
  • Stand therefore, with the truth like a belt around your waist,
  • 00:21:48.956 --> 00:21:51.992
  • Righteousness like armor on your chest, and your feet anointed"--
  • 00:21:51.992 --> 00:21:56.163
  • Your feet, i'm sorry--"sandaled with readiness for the gospel
  • 00:21:56.163 --> 00:22:00.401
  • Of peace."
  • 00:22:00.401 --> 00:22:02.470
  • More instructions on what to do in the midst of the storms, how
  • 00:22:02.470 --> 00:22:06.374
  • To stand.
  • 00:22:06.374 --> 00:22:07.875
  • That's pretty good coaching these days.
  • 00:22:07.875 --> 00:22:09.310
  • It's not easy to know how to stand.
  • 00:22:09.310 --> 00:22:10.711
  • What do you believe? who do you believe?
  • 00:22:10.711 --> 00:22:13.047
  • Where do you go for the truth?
  • 00:22:13.047 --> 00:22:15.416
  • What do you do in spite of widespread deception and lies
  • 00:22:15.416 --> 00:22:18.386
  • And ungodliness and perversion being sanctioned
  • 00:22:18.386 --> 00:22:22.223
  • As appropriate and mainstream?
  • 00:22:22.223 --> 00:22:23.958
  • What do you do? do you be quiet?
  • 00:22:23.958 --> 00:22:26.193
  • Do you say something?
  • 00:22:26.193 --> 00:22:27.561
  • Do you huddle with a few like-minded people and have a
  • 00:22:27.561 --> 00:22:29.263
  • Private bible study about 1st century culture or do you raise
  • 00:22:29.263 --> 00:22:32.400
  • Your voice and talk about faith in the 21st century?
  • 00:22:32.400 --> 00:22:34.735
  • It's not simple.
  • 00:22:34.735 --> 00:22:37.838
  • Well, we have some instructions.
  • 00:22:37.838 --> 00:22:41.208
  • Paul says, "first of all to be strengthened by the lord and by
  • 00:22:41.208 --> 00:22:43.878
  • His vast strength."
  • 00:22:43.878 --> 00:22:45.212
  • That's verse 10.
  • 00:22:45.212 --> 00:22:46.881
  • I love--how are we gonna stand?
  • 00:22:46.881 --> 00:22:48.215
  • How are you gonna stormproof your life?
  • 00:22:48.215 --> 00:22:50.017
  • We're gonna have to understand how to be strengthened by the
  • 00:22:50.017 --> 00:22:52.753
  • Lord and his vast strength.
  • 00:22:52.753 --> 00:22:57.591
  • I don't believe we'll make it without that.
  • 00:22:57.591 --> 00:23:01.095
  • I don't believe a one-time interaction with the lord will
  • 00:23:01.095 --> 00:23:03.764
  • Be sufficient for you to have the strength you need to stand
  • 00:23:03.764 --> 00:23:09.036
  • Or we wouldn't be reminded.
  • 00:23:09.036 --> 00:23:10.871
  • Again, i'm not questioning the veracity or the reality or the
  • 00:23:10.871 --> 00:23:15.209
  • Impact of conversion or the new birth or salvation.
  • 00:23:15.209 --> 00:23:17.578
  • I'm very much an advocate.
  • 00:23:17.578 --> 00:23:20.614
  • But there are things that come beyond that.
  • 00:23:20.614 --> 00:23:24.485
  • I pulled a couple of passages, i won't read them all, but
  • 00:23:24.485 --> 00:23:27.288
  • 2 timothy 4--this is paul near the end of his life.
  • 00:23:27.288 --> 00:23:30.090
  • He said, "at my first defense, no one came to my support."
  • 00:23:30.090 --> 00:23:32.893
  • He's on trial for his life and his friends abandoned him.
  • 00:23:32.893 --> 00:23:35.729
  • That would be difficult.
  • 00:23:35.729 --> 00:23:39.300
  • "everyone deserted me.
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  • May it not be held against them.
  • 00:23:40.668 --> 00:23:42.169
  • But the lord stood at my side and gave me strength."
  • 00:23:42.169 --> 00:23:47.208
  • The lord gave me strength.
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  • There's all sorts of biblical support for this idea, the
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  • Angels that ministered to jesus after his temptation in
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  • The wilderness.
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  • The angel that brought food to elijah after his confrontation
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  • On mount carmel and he fled into the desert because jezebel said
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  • She would kill him.
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  • Time after time after time, god's people are strengthened,
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  • Received strength.
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  • Folks, we better move out of a theoretical faith that puts our
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  • Bottoms in churches with no sense of application or meaning
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  • And learn how to be strengthened by the lord.
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  • Turmoil is upon us.
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  • And if you think a new administration is gonna fix
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  • This, you're not paying attention.
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  • "be strengthened by the lord and his vast strength."
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  • Then in verse 11, paul said, "put on the full armor of god."
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  • It wasn't a suggestion; it's a directive.
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  • Put on the armor of god.
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  • "well, pastor--"
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  • Same verse, "stand against the tactics of the devil."
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  • I have a question. did you understand?
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  • Have you consciously thought about the fact that the devil is
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  • A tactician,
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  • That he's a strategist, that he's not random,
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  • He's not incidental,
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  • That he intends your destruction?
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  • He plans it; he plots it.
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  • If the kingdom of darkness can't achieve that, they'll do
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  • Everything they can to impede, to discourage, to hinder, to
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  • Resist, to oppose, to diminish.
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  • Those are all descriptions we're given throughout scripture of
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  • The impact of evil.
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  • Allen: i wanna pray before we go, but i wanna encourage you to
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  • Begin on a daily basis to maintain your good news list.
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  • It's not just your personal god stories, but the truth of god
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  • You see that's making its way into the public square.
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  • It will strengthen your faith and it will help you navigate
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  • The confusion.
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  • Father, i thank you that you are the author of truth in life and
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  • I pray that you will awaken us to hear your truth, to see it,
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  • To recognize it, to understand it, that we may stand in the
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  • Strength of that life transforming truth.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • God bless you.
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  • Allen: 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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  • Together, we can stand firm in our faith and make god's truth
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  • Known right here at home and around the earth, wherever
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  • Let's keep gathering his people and building his church until
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