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Allen Jackson - A New Reformation (Part 2)

February 1, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - A New Reformation (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - A New Reformation (Part 2) | February 1, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: you know, around the world,
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  • Allen: i mean, there's a pretty good debate rippling across
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  • Evangelicalism today now about the wrath of god.
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  • Whether we should even think in terms of that.
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  • "but god's not so harsh."
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  • Really?
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  • Do you think he sent jesus to the cross because he was having
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  • A bad day?
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  • We've got to recalibrate a little bit, folks.
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  • We want a reformation.
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  • You know, we talked about the reformation typically in terms
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  • Of a change that came into the expression of the church in
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  • The earth.
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  • If you're a protestant, you'd think it was long overdue.
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  • But the reformation really spoke to the hearts of people.
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  • The church had become structurally corrupt, had lost
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  • Their concern for the well-being of the people.
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  • And god raised up voices to challenge that and to bring a
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  • New direction to the church.
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  • Now, as is typically the case, it doesn't take long for those
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  • New directions that god initiates to be co-opted by our
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  • Own carnal nature, and there was enough expressions that came out
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  • Of that that have caused a great deal of pain.
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  • But there is a historical precedent for god
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  • Bringing reformation.
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  • A change of heart.
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  • We need one because on our watch, we're witnessing a nation
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  • That's had the most liberty and freedom to proclaim the gospel
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  • In the history of civilizations and the blessings associated
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  • With that proclamation of the gospel, descend into paganism
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  • And lawlessness.
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  • And that doesn't happen because of some demonic onslaught or
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  • Some grave expression of darkness; that happens because
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  • Of the capitulation and the failure, the impotence of
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  • The church.
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  • Our light has grown dim.
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  • To which we--say, well, not mine, somebody else.
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  • So, i have an invitation for you, and i wanna spend the
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  • Balance of our time giving an application to it if you'll
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  • Co--if you'll participate.
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  • Let's change.
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  • Let's stop waiting for somebody else.
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  • Let's not wait for an election.
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  • Elections are just revelations of the character of the people
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  • In the nation.
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  • And how many elections do we have to see where we choose
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  • People who are in favor of gross immorality, sacrificing
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  • Our children?
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  • I mean, the list goes on and on.
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  • How many times do we have to do that before we recognize we have
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  • Our problem?
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  • I look forward to having the choices between multiple
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  • Candidates across all the political spectrum who embrace a
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  • Biblical worldview.
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  • Wouldn't that be wonderful?
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  • Let's change.
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  • In mark 1, jesus was speaking, the beginning of his ministry
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  • Said, "the time has come, the kingdom of god is near.
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  • Repent and believe the good news."
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  • I believe that has to begin in the hearts of god's people.
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  • The word we use for that is typically salvation, conversion,
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  • The new birth.
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  • Jesus said nobody can enter the kingdom of god unless he's
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  • Born again.
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  • It's become a cliche phrase.
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  • It's become almost an imagination of kind of
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  • Magic words.
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  • You can repeat the magic words and you get a ticket to heaven,
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  • But you don't really have to pay much else attention.
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  • That's called deception.
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  • No such thing.
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  • Conversion, that transformation from the kingdom of darkness
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  • Into the kingdom of the light is the greatest miracle that will
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  • Ever touch the life of a human being.
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  • I don't believe your resurrection from the dead
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  • Matches in significance.
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  • What happens when you move from the kingdom of darkness to the
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  • Kingdom of light?
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  • I brought you four words and they're really four responses to
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  • God that i'm gonna invite you towards--repentance, to
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  • Renounce, to release, and to resolve.
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  • They're not new, we've talked about them before, but it
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  • Reflects a kind of a fully formed response to a different
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  • Attitude towards the lord.
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  • I think we have adopted, in contemporary christendom this
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  • Idea that we can just move on, we don't have to think about it,
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  • Let's just live past it, let's live through it.
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  • You don't live through sin.
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  • You may get to a new chapter in a new season, you may be able to
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  • Cancel some of the social media.
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  • Most of you are very grateful you didn't grow up with
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  • Social media.
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  • Look at the person on your right, say "he's not talking
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  • About you."
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  • You see, i think we have kind of had the imagination spiritually,
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  • It's like having an aggressive disease but we prefer to
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  • Ignore it.
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  • If we just don't talk about it, maybe it'll go away, but the
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  • Reality is it has to be addressed.
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  • New year, new opportunity.
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  • Our schools are broken.
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  • Our universities for the most part are godless.
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  • Our christian universities embrace immorality and
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  • Ungodliness at a level that almost matches the completely
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  • Secular schools.
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  • Too many of our theological training institutions deny the
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  • Authority of scripture, the divinity of jesus.
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  • The uniqueness of the redemptive work of jesus.
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  • How much longer?
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  • It's not that we don't know, it's just so awkward to have to
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  • Talk about it.
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  • The fraud has become so rampant.
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  • Hundreds of billions of dollars on such a scale of such a
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  • Magnitude, it's impossible to ignore, but it's just
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  • So awkward.
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  • It's so awkward to admit that hundreds of thousands of people
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  • Are stealing.
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  • Well, won't somebody do something?
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  • I mean, can't somebody?
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  • It starts with us, in our hearts.
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  • So, i'd like to start with the first step--
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  • I don't know a better way to begin the new year--
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  • With a simple prayer to make jesus lord of our lives.
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  • Some of you have hidden in church like i hid in
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  • English class.
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  • I went to class--from my earliest memories of school,
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  • They started teaching us english.
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  • And i bluffed my way all the way through till i got into college
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  • And i had to learn some foreign language, and i realized i
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  • Couldn't learn the foreign language because i didn't
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  • Know english.
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  • I mean, i knew southern, y'all.
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  • But i mean, you know, like "proper."
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  • And i had all sorts of, well, you know, i don't wanna be one
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  • Of those snooty people.
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  • And some of us have sat in church that way, we know when to
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  • Sit and stand, and we kind of know the general themes and
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  • We've got a bible someplace, and occasionally we do something or
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  • We give a little, or we--but it's not like we're really
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  • Sold out.
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  • It's not like jesus is lord of our time, and he's not lord of
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  • Our money, and he's not lord of our future.
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  • I mean, we're kind of holding on to that stuff.
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  • We'd just rather not go to hell.
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  • Well, you can't strike that bargain.
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  • You can't negotiate with god.
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  • Either jesus is lord of all or he's not lord at all.
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  • There's nothing less than that.
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  • And you'll either serve him wholeheartedly or you won't.
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  • Now, we learned to do that, we grow up in that, but you have to
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  • Have the intent, and if you lack the intent, no one can say that
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  • Other than you.
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  • And we've had this disruptive idea that if you made that
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  • Decision once and you really met it, you don't ever have to
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  • Revisit it again.
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  • I'm not trying to question your salvation, i'm telling you, if
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  • You're not living for the glory of the lord, what's
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  • The evidence?
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  • If you're not bearing fruit, what is the evidence of
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  • Your faith?
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  • So, i'd like to start with an invitation to a prayer.
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  • We can just say it together, it's really simple.
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  • We're going to acknowledge that we need a savior, and we will
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  • Readily admit it isn't us.
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  • Now, in order to need a savior, we'll have to be willing to
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  • Admit our sin.
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  • And in humility, to ask for forgiveness, and the only
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  • Qualification beyond asking is we have to be willing to
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  • Forgive others.
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  • That's the essence of it.
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  • I'm gonna walk you through it.
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  • I have a--i have an agenda, i'll confess.
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  • I fully imagine that the majority of you have already
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  • Accomplished that in your life, but i want you to be comfortable
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  • Enough that you could help someone else.
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  • If you've been in church more than six or eight months, don't
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  • Imagine you need somebody else to help you lead somebody to
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  • The lord.
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  • What are you doing?
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  • We gotta mobilize, folks.
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  • Either we believe this or we don't.
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  • And if we do believe it, we've got to prepare.
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  • We can't--how long are we gonna work in someplace and not see
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  • The people we work with be exposed to the truth
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  • About jesus?
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  • Or how many ballgames are you gonna watch sitting next to
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  • People and talking about the weather, and the sports, and
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  • Local politics?
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  • "well, i don't wanna be offensive."
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  • If they're offended by jesus, that's called an opportunity.
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  • "i don't want to be one of those--"
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  • Exactly what does that mean?
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  • You wanna be a covert christian?
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  • We need a reformation.
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  • But it's gonna grow from a heart revolution.
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  • We're gonna say a prayer together.
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  • Just close your eyes, forget the people around you for a minute.
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  • I'm not gonna make you bow every head and every eye closed, but
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  • We could sing "just as i am," i'm not--let's just say a
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  • Prayer together.
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  • Almighty god, i'm a sinner and i need a savior.
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  • I believe jesus is your son, that he died on a cross for my
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  • Sin, and that you raised him to life again, that i might
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  • Be justified.
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  • Forgive me of my sin, and i forgive all those who have
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  • Sinned against me.
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  • Jesus, be lord of my life.
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  • All that i am, all that i have, all that i'll ever be.
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  • And i thank you now, that i belong to the family of god, the
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  • Most remarkable family in the universe.
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  • I'm a child of the king.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • As far as i know, that's the only requirement for entrance
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  • Into the kingdom of god-- that you believe in your heart--
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  • The bible says that we confess with our mouth
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  • And believe in our heart that jesus is lord.
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  • It emerges from a spirit of repentance.
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  • Repentance is a change of thought and a change
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  • Of behavior.
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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 on
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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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  • Allen: there is still a great deal of growth on our part ahead
  • 00:13:46.508 --> 00:13:50.646
  • Of us.
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  • It's like going to the hospital tonight and looking through the
  • 00:13:52.414 --> 00:13:54.283
  • Glass windows at the new babies in their little bassinets, and
  • 00:13:54.283 --> 00:13:57.920
  • Going, don't they have wonderful lives?
  • 00:13:57.920 --> 00:13:59.555
  • Well, not so much yet.
  • 00:13:59.555 --> 00:14:02.224
  • They cry and make a mess, but they're filled with incredible
  • 00:14:02.224 --> 00:14:06.595
  • Potential and we're grateful for every one of their lives.
  • 00:14:06.595 --> 00:14:10.466
  • We will do our best to protect them, and guide them, and
  • 00:14:10.466 --> 00:14:12.768
  • Help them.
  • 00:14:12.768 --> 00:14:14.303
  • But the same is true of us when we're birthed into the kingdom
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  • Of god.
  • 00:14:17.106 --> 00:14:18.874
  • We may have all the genetic material necessary to be a fully
  • 00:14:18.874 --> 00:14:21.977
  • Functioning christ follower, but we haven't yet grown up into the
  • 00:14:21.977 --> 00:14:25.547
  • Fullness of that, and that's where these other words come
  • 00:14:25.547 --> 00:14:28.784
  • Into play.
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  • Most of us have been exposed and have participated
  • 00:14:30.986 --> 00:14:33.489
  • In ungodliness--
  • 00:14:33.489 --> 00:14:35.824
  • Oftentimes even after we've made a profession of faith.
  • 00:14:35.824 --> 00:14:40.095
  • And we collect baggage the way a boat in the water collects
  • 00:14:40.095 --> 00:14:43.432
  • Barnacles, and we just try to act like we don't notice.
  • 00:14:43.432 --> 00:14:49.305
  • "what baggage?"
  • 00:14:49.305 --> 00:14:51.907
  • And we just keep perserv--we'll go to another bible study.
  • 00:14:51.907 --> 00:14:55.444
  • We'll sit in another service, we'll learn how to
  • 00:14:55.444 --> 00:14:57.613
  • Spell nebuchadnezzar.
  • 00:14:57.613 --> 00:15:01.317
  • We'll think that we can learn our way out of the spiritual
  • 00:15:01.317 --> 00:15:04.153
  • Baggage that we accumulate.
  • 00:15:04.153 --> 00:15:06.488
  • When in reality, a simple application of the truth brings
  • 00:15:06.488 --> 00:15:09.224
  • Freedom, it's not a power contest, it's a truth encounter.
  • 00:15:09.224 --> 00:15:14.697
  • So, i want to suggest to you that we have to be willing to
  • 00:15:14.697 --> 00:15:16.932
  • Renounce our past, to separate ourselves from our past.
  • 00:15:16.932 --> 00:15:21.570
  • To say to the lord, it's a little--it's a little
  • 00:15:21.570 --> 00:15:23.572
  • More--it's--we're not gonna add anything to the redemptive work
  • 00:15:23.572 --> 00:15:29.345
  • Of jesus.
  • 00:15:29.345 --> 00:15:30.946
  • It is complete and entire.
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  • There's nothing that can be taken from it and there's
  • 00:15:33.682 --> 00:15:35.384
  • Nothing we can add to it, but its application in our lives--
  • 00:15:35.384 --> 00:15:41.290
  • I have helped hundreds and hundreds of people.
  • 00:15:41.290 --> 00:15:43.425
  • I meet people and i'll explain to them some perspective
  • 00:15:43.425 --> 00:15:47.062
  • On--i'll explain to them the new birth and they'll go, "i
  • 00:15:47.062 --> 00:15:49.298
  • Cannot understand.
  • 00:15:49.298 --> 00:15:51.166
  • It makes no sense to me."
  • 00:15:51.166 --> 00:15:52.668
  • Clever people, highly educated, sophisticated, rational people.
  • 00:15:52.668 --> 00:15:58.073
  • And i'll try two or three times, and after my second or third
  • 00:15:58.073 --> 00:16:00.376
  • Attempt, i'm reasonably good at explaining the fundamentals of
  • 00:16:00.376 --> 00:16:04.013
  • The gospel.
  • 00:16:04.013 --> 00:16:05.981
  • And if they're still looking at me and they say, "you know, it
  • 00:16:05.981 --> 00:16:07.850
  • Makes no sense to me," i've learned to say, well, have you
  • 00:16:07.850 --> 00:16:10.486
  • Ever been involved in the occult?"
  • 00:16:10.486 --> 00:16:14.790
  • "well, no."
  • 00:16:14.790 --> 00:16:17.126
  • "not in any way?
  • 00:16:17.126 --> 00:16:18.460
  • Didn't play with ouija boards, you didn't read your fortunes,
  • 00:16:18.460 --> 00:16:20.029
  • You didn't go to fortune tellers?"
  • 00:16:20.029 --> 00:16:22.564
  • "well, i mean, i didn't mean anything by it."
  • 00:16:22.564 --> 00:16:26.335
  • "well, would you be willing just to say to the lord, 'i'm sorry
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  • That i sought guidance and direction from something other
  • 00:16:30.205 --> 00:16:32.408
  • Than you, from the holy spirit'?"
  • 00:16:32.408 --> 00:16:36.712
  • "i don't understand why, but yeah, i will."
  • 00:16:36.712 --> 00:16:40.516
  • I've prayed that prayer with dozens and dozens of people, and
  • 00:16:40.516 --> 00:16:42.885
  • I can't tell you the dramatic transformation after they say,
  • 00:16:42.885 --> 00:16:46.355
  • "lord, i'm sorry.
  • 00:16:46.355 --> 00:16:49.091
  • I renounced any involvement i've had with the occult."
  • 00:16:49.091 --> 00:16:54.329
  • They have an openness to the gospel that simply wasn't
  • 00:16:54.329 --> 00:16:56.765
  • Present a few seconds earlier.
  • 00:16:56.765 --> 00:17:00.469
  • And it's just not the occult, we're engaged in all sorts of
  • 00:17:00.469 --> 00:17:04.773
  • Things, sexual immorality.
  • 00:17:04.773 --> 00:17:08.410
  • The statistics on the number of people who sit in churches that
  • 00:17:08.410 --> 00:17:11.413
  • Say that they're christians that live together before they're
  • 00:17:11.413 --> 00:17:14.683
  • Married, or involved in adultery, or pornography,
  • 00:17:14.683 --> 00:17:17.953
  • It's--the list goes on and on.
  • 00:17:17.953 --> 00:17:19.321
  • Greed, jealousy, that's why we have those lists that paul
  • 00:17:19.321 --> 00:17:25.127
  • Writes and he said, "you can't practice these things," but
  • 00:17:25.127 --> 00:17:27.429
  • We do.
  • 00:17:27.429 --> 00:17:29.798
  • And then we come to the place, "well, i don't wanna do that
  • 00:17:29.798 --> 00:17:31.700
  • Anymore," and maybe you've got enough willpower, you kind of
  • 00:17:31.700 --> 00:17:34.103
  • Extricate yourself or you rearrange your friends, or--but
  • 00:17:34.103 --> 00:17:37.172
  • You still live in the tension of that.
  • 00:17:37.172 --> 00:17:39.775
  • But you've opened the door for spiritual influences.
  • 00:17:39.775 --> 00:17:44.279
  • And there's a prayer of renunciation where we say,
  • 00:17:44.279 --> 00:17:46.315
  • "lord, i am sorry.
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  • I not only repent of my sins, i wanna renounce that.
  • 00:17:50.185 --> 00:17:53.655
  • I wanna separate myself from that.
  • 00:17:53.655 --> 00:17:55.457
  • I don't want it to have any place in me.
  • 00:17:55.457 --> 00:17:57.025
  • I don't wanna keep any relics.
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  • I don't wanna celebrate it.
  • 00:17:58.961 --> 00:18:00.596
  • I don't wanna highlight it.
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  • I wanna be free."
  • 00:18:04.032 --> 00:18:05.834
  • See, we've got to come beyond talking about spiritual things
  • 00:18:05.834 --> 00:18:09.404
  • And begin to live like we think they're real.
  • 00:18:09.404 --> 00:18:17.146
  • And rather than have a lecture about it, i'm gonna invite you
  • 00:18:17.146 --> 00:18:19.348
  • To a prayer the same way we said the sinner's prayer a
  • 00:18:19.348 --> 00:18:21.416
  • Moment ago.
  • 00:18:21.416 --> 00:18:22.985
  • I'm gonna invite you to repeat a prayer of renunciation with me.
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  • It's not in your notes, doesn't mean it's not legitimate.
  • 00:18:25.754 --> 00:18:29.391
  • It's in my notes.
  • 00:18:29.391 --> 00:18:32.361
  • We'll put it someplace where you can get a copy.
  • 00:18:32.361 --> 00:18:35.998
  • Do something really radical.
  • 00:18:35.998 --> 00:18:37.366
  • Go back and listen to the audio and transcribe it.
  • 00:18:37.366 --> 00:18:43.872
  • "well, that would be like work," because you think it's valuable.
  • 00:18:43.872 --> 00:18:53.882
  • I repent.
  • 00:18:53.882 --> 00:18:57.252
  • Let's pray together.
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  • Heavenly father, i renounce my involvement in each and every
  • 00:18:58.954 --> 00:19:06.295
  • Expression of ungodliness.
  • 00:19:06.295 --> 00:19:11.133
  • I'm gonna lead you through a general prayer.
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  • Excuse me for a moment.
  • 00:19:12.668 --> 00:19:15.304
  • But in my own life, this is where i would highlight the
  • 00:19:15.304 --> 00:19:19.408
  • Things i know i've been involved in.
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  • I'd tell the lord because i wanna be free.
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  • I don't intend to give evil any opportunities in my
  • 00:19:26.682 --> 00:19:29.818
  • Life, consciously.
  • 00:19:29.818 --> 00:19:33.722
  • So i would be pretty--not pretty, i would be as honest
  • 00:19:33.722 --> 00:19:38.794
  • With the lord--you're not surprising him, he knows.
  • 00:19:38.794 --> 00:19:42.764
  • If it's been the occult, or sexual immorality, or greed, or
  • 00:19:42.764 --> 00:19:46.068
  • Jealousy, or lust, or perversion, if it's murder,
  • 00:19:46.068 --> 00:19:48.637
  • You've been so angry--or hatred.
  • 00:19:48.637 --> 00:19:56.545
  • Well, let's go back to the beginning.
  • 00:19:56.545 --> 00:19:57.913
  • I'll leave it with you.
  • 00:19:57.913 --> 00:19:59.248
  • I'm gonna give you the general outline of the prayer, but you
  • 00:19:59.248 --> 00:20:00.849
  • Know how to apply it, okay?
  • 00:20:00.849 --> 00:20:03.819
  • Heavenly father, i renounce my involvement in each and every
  • 00:20:03.819 --> 00:20:09.925
  • Expression of ungodliness.
  • 00:20:09.925 --> 00:20:14.129
  • Through the blood of jesus, i'm delivered out of the hand of
  • 00:20:14.129 --> 00:20:17.899
  • The enemy.
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  • My body is a temple of the holy spirit, redeemed and cleansed by
  • 00:20:20.135 --> 00:20:25.774
  • The blood of jesus.
  • 00:20:25.774 --> 00:20:29.278
  • Through the blood of jesus, all of satan's claims against me
  • 00:20:29.278 --> 00:20:35.317
  • Are canceled.
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  • I am free, hallelujah.
  • 00:20:37.452 --> 00:20:40.622
  • There's another element of this.
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  • You've renounced your involvement, then you've got to
  • 00:20:43.225 --> 00:20:46.561
  • Release the people, the institutions, the ideas, the
  • 00:20:46.561 --> 00:20:49.631
  • Events that you've been holding.
  • 00:20:49.631 --> 00:20:52.501
  • You've taken them hostage.
  • 00:20:52.501 --> 00:20:53.835
  • You're not going to release them until they apologize, until they
  • 00:20:53.835 --> 00:20:56.438
  • Make restitution.
  • 00:20:56.438 --> 00:20:58.807
  • You hold those events.
  • 00:20:58.807 --> 00:21:01.710
  • You hold the anger, you hold the memories of those expressions of
  • 00:21:01.710 --> 00:21:04.546
  • Evil that have been leveled against you, and you forfeit the
  • 00:21:04.546 --> 00:21:08.984
  • Blessings of god.
  • 00:21:08.984 --> 00:21:12.721
  • We've made--we live in an aggrieved culture.
  • 00:21:12.721 --> 00:21:18.260
  • We have the most destructive form of leadership seeking for
  • 00:21:18.260 --> 00:21:22.197
  • Opportunities in our lives that tries to separate us based
  • 00:21:22.197 --> 00:21:24.933
  • On grievances.
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  • It's wicked.
  • 00:21:27.336 --> 00:21:29.738
  • So, i'm gonna invite you as a christ follower to release
  • 00:21:29.738 --> 00:21:32.841
  • Those people.
  • 00:21:32.841 --> 00:21:34.309
  • We can't--we have to turn loose of anyone or anything,
  • 00:21:34.309 --> 00:21:37.079
  • Any hindrance.
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  • They're not getting away with it.
  • 00:21:38.413 --> 00:21:39.781
  • You're relinquishing it to almighty god and he's a
  • 00:21:39.781 --> 00:21:41.650
  • Just judge.
  • 00:21:41.650 --> 00:21:43.518
  • Actually, you're the one that's being set free.
  • 00:21:43.518 --> 00:21:46.955
  • Some of you have carried anger, and resentment, and bitterness,
  • 00:21:46.955 --> 00:21:49.157
  • And hatred for so long, it's a part of your persona.
  • 00:21:49.157 --> 00:21:53.528
  • You'll feel unprepared to go in public without it.
  • 00:21:53.528 --> 00:22:00.068
  • In a simple prayer, let's say it together, in obedience to
  • 00:22:00.068 --> 00:22:02.804
  • Scripture and to my lord, i release all those who have
  • 00:22:02.804 --> 00:22:08.877
  • Harmed me.
  • 00:22:08.877 --> 00:22:12.147
  • I forgive and i set free every person, every organization,
  • 00:22:12.147 --> 00:22:20.322
  • Every group of people who have caused me pain or suffering.
  • 00:22:20.322 --> 00:22:26.895
  • I relinquish them into god's care and by a decision of my
  • 00:22:26.895 --> 00:22:32.667
  • Will, i bless them that i might be blessed.
  • 00:22:32.667 --> 00:22:39.508
  • In jesus's name, amen.
  • 00:22:39.508 --> 00:22:43.445
  • And the last word is resolve.
  • 00:22:43.445 --> 00:22:46.281
  • Resolve is--means you set your heart on a new course.
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  • I may have walked that way, i may have been inconsistent, i
  • 00:22:50.452 --> 00:22:54.556
  • May have been the prodigal 14 times over, but i choose a
  • 00:22:54.556 --> 00:22:58.994
  • New course.
  • 00:22:58.994 --> 00:23:01.863
  • I choose a new course.
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  • Without the intent to choose a new course, it's highly
  • 00:23:03.899 --> 00:23:07.102
  • Improbable you will find one.
  • 00:23:07.102 --> 00:23:10.772
  • God's not gonna violate your will.
  • 00:23:10.772 --> 00:23:14.509
  • He's not going to make you.
  • 00:23:14.509 --> 00:23:17.712
  • We have to choose him with our whole heart.
  • 00:23:17.712 --> 00:23:20.782
  • Tell him the truth.
  • 00:23:20.782 --> 00:23:23.685
  • The biggest breakthroughs in my life have come when i've been
  • 00:23:23.685 --> 00:23:26.054
  • Able to be honest with the lord.
  • 00:23:26.054 --> 00:23:29.357
  • Psalm 139 is the best prayer for this, or at least it's a good
  • 00:23:29.357 --> 00:23:32.360
  • Prayer for this.
  • 00:23:32.360 --> 00:23:33.695
  • "search me, o god, and know my heart; test me and know my
  • 00:23:33.695 --> 00:23:36.565
  • Anxious thoughts.
  • 00:23:36.565 --> 00:23:38.200
  • See if there's any offensive way in me, and lead me in the
  • 00:23:38.200 --> 00:23:40.902
  • Way everlasting."
  • 00:23:40.902 --> 00:23:43.104
  • It's simply an affirmation of my intent.
  • 00:23:43.104 --> 00:23:46.975
  • My resolve to seek the lord.
  • 00:23:46.975 --> 00:23:51.346
  • Brought you one last prayer, it's kind of a summary of all
  • 00:23:51.346 --> 00:23:53.114
  • We've done.
  • 00:23:53.114 --> 00:23:54.683
  • You've got a little pathway now, if the lord brings something to
  • 00:23:54.683 --> 00:23:58.153
  • Your mind, you get some picture of the past and you get all the
  • 00:23:58.153 --> 00:24:00.589
  • Emotions that come with it, repent.
  • 00:24:00.589 --> 00:24:03.692
  • Renounce it.
  • 00:24:03.692 --> 00:24:05.360
  • Release whoever needs released, and establish your resolve to
  • 00:24:05.360 --> 00:24:08.964
  • Honor the lord in that aspect of your life and your personality.
  • 00:24:08.964 --> 00:24:15.737
  • Let's have a reformation.
  • 00:24:15.737 --> 00:24:18.607
  • Let's have a revolution from the inside out.
  • 00:24:18.607 --> 00:24:23.812
  • But you stand with me, we'll pray.
  • 00:24:23.812 --> 00:24:29.751
  • Just take a deep breath, and we carried a lot of stuff in here;
  • 00:24:29.751 --> 00:24:35.290
  • We don't have to carry it out.
  • 00:24:35.290 --> 00:24:37.993
  • Through the blood of jesus, we're different.
  • 00:24:37.993 --> 00:24:41.863
  • We are different.
  • 00:24:41.863 --> 00:24:43.198
  • We've had such a limited spectrum of what god could do.
  • 00:24:43.198 --> 00:24:47.269
  • I believe with all my heart in conversion, i've experienced it,
  • 00:24:47.269 --> 00:24:49.838
  • I've seen it in countless thousands of people, but there
  • 00:24:49.838 --> 00:24:52.674
  • Is freedom through the cross.
  • 00:24:52.674 --> 00:24:58.613
  • This prayer is not original with me.
  • 00:24:58.613 --> 00:25:00.015
  • I borrowed it from daniel, a slave that knew a great deal
  • 00:25:00.015 --> 00:25:08.523
  • About freedom and the judgment of god.
  • 00:25:08.523 --> 00:25:13.495
  • Let's read it together, "o lord, the great and awesome god, who
  • 00:25:13.495 --> 00:25:18.199
  • Keeps his covenant of love with all who love him and obey his
  • 00:25:18.199 --> 00:25:22.537
  • Commands, we have sinned and done wrong.
  • 00:25:22.537 --> 00:25:26.274
  • We have been wicked and have rebelled; we have turned away
  • 00:25:26.274 --> 00:25:30.045
  • From your commands and laws.
  • 00:25:30.045 --> 00:25:32.414
  • We have not listened to your direction.
  • 00:25:32.414 --> 00:25:35.250
  • Now, o lord our god, hear the prayers and petitions of
  • 00:25:35.250 --> 00:25:39.187
  • Your servants.
  • 00:25:39.187 --> 00:25:40.555
  • For your sake, o lord, look with favor on your people.
  • 00:25:40.555 --> 00:25:45.293
  • Give ear and hear; open your eyes and see the desolation of
  • 00:25:45.293 --> 00:25:50.298
  • Our day.
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  • We do not make requests because we are righteous, but because of
  • 00:25:51.700 --> 00:25:56.004
  • Your great mercy.
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  • O lord, listen.
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  • O lord, forgive.
  • 00:25:59.374 --> 00:26:01.543
  • O lord, hear and act!
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  • For your sake, do not delay, because your people bear your
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  • Name, amen."
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  • Hallelujah, god bless you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: this is the 250th anniversary of our nation, it's
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  • 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: if they can steal
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  • 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."
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  • And it helps us learn american history with a faith component,
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  • With a god perspective, how god has been engaged in the
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  • Unfolding 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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