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Allen Jackson - Nominated For Assignment (Part 1)

April 14, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Nominated For Assignment (Part 1)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Nominated For Assignment (Part 1) | April 14, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: hey, would you like to make an impact for the
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  • Kingdom of god in this generation?
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  • I have an idea and, oh, by the way, it's biblical.
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  • Let's practice hospitality.
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  • I know it doesn't sound very complicated, but imagine your
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  • Kitchen table as an expression of the hope and the love of god.
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  • We've all got the ability to do this.
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  • You don't have to be martha stewart.
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  • You don't have to be a gourmet chef.
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  • Let's just invite--open our home, invite people to our
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  • Kitchen table, and then watch what god will do as we live out
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  • The assignment of being ambassadors for his kingdom.
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  • God's moving in the earth. let's go with him.
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  • Female announcer: welcoming people to a meal around the
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  • Kitchen table is one of the easiest ways to share life and
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  • Your faith.
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  • Our tools for hospitality set will help you get started.
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  • It includes a custom kitchen towel, three of pastor allen's
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  • Favorite family recipes, and a short booklet with
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  • Practical encouragement.
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  • Request the tools for hospitality set with your gift
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  • Of $25 or more at allenjackson.com or call...
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen jackson: we're in the midst of a short series under
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  • The general theme of "leading with our faith."
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  • But it's really targeted towards this unique season of the year
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  • And the opportunities it presents.
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  • You know, there's some world class leaders that gather on our
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  • Campus every weekend in all sorts of arenas.
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  • Some in education, some in business, some in communication,
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  • Some in the entertainment world.
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  • And i find that we have tremendous confidence in those
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  • Places where we've either pursued education or we have
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  • Great life experience or we've had some accomplishment.
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  • And--but oftentimes i meet people that have tremendous
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  • Confidence in their leadership skills in those varied arenas.
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  • But when it comes to our faith, we have little to none.
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  • You know, i'm not a scholar.
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  • I don't know how to pronounce all the names.
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  • There's so much i don't know.
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  • And we forfeit all those leadership skills, all that
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  • Influence that we represent across our community because of
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  • That sense of inadequacy.
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  • And my real objective over these weeks is to commission you in
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  • The name of the father and the son and the holy spirit to lead
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  • With your faith.
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  • In spite of all that we're not, in spite of all of our
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  • Inadequacies, the goal is to use the influence that you have your
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  • Knowledge of the lord, your life experience with the lord and to
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  • Share it from that place.
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  • Not something that you haven't experienced.
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  • Not something you don't know.
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  • Not something beyond your life experience.
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  • That's foolishness.
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  • That's arrogance.
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  • It's pride.
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  • It's presumptive.
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  • It's destructive.
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  • But from within your life experience.
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  • There are many things i don't know but let me tell you what i
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  • Know about the lord.
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  • And that's a safe platform.
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  • So if you wondered why you came to campus today or why you've
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  • Tuned in or why you're taking a moment to listen, it's to accept
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  • That commission.
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  • I'm far more excited than you are but it's okay.
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  • So here's the premise.
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  • I want to inform you, if you didn't know, you've been
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  • Nominated for an assignment.
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  • Gee, i just wanted to come to church to make my wife happy.
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  • You know, i'm like, i want the kids to go to sunday school and
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  • He's up there nominating me for something.
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  • He's gonna ask me for money before we get out of here.
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  • I know he is.
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  • He's gonna try.
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  • Could be.
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  • You know, we've just survived and i suspect you know this,
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  • Another election cycle.
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  • And it's with, yeah, and in this particular cycle, there's been
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  • An expression for some rather sweeping change.
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  • So we have new imagination for government leaders now.
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  • We're anticipating seeing some things we haven't seen for quite
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  • A season.
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  • We're considering we're anticipating outcomes that we
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  • Haven't experienced.
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  • I would invite you to not adopt a passive stance.
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  • We prayed for weeks and weeks that we would be able to have an
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  • Election that was perceived as fair by all participating.
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  • That those who wanted to vote and had the legal right to do so
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  • Would be able to do so.
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  • Those who did not would not be able to do so.
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  • I think the prayers are perhaps more important now.
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  • We're in a transitionary time.
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  • You know, that notion of transfer of power, we--the whole
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  • World does not live with that.
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  • And it's a very--there's a great deal of emotion on both sides of
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  • The discussion all the way around all the ideologies.
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  • There's a tremendous amount of very incendiary language that
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  • Tragically has a home in much of the legacy media which still
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  • Encompasses the mo--the primary messaging voice across our
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  • Nation and your prayers that we be able to walk through this
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  • Peacefully, respectfully, are very, very important.
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  • If you're happy about the results, i would give you the
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  • Advice they gave me when i was a child.
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  • I'm a tad competitive.
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  • You know, and they would say, "if you win, act like you've
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  • Done that before.
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  • And if you've lost, have the dignity to treat those who won
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  • With respect."
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • But i'll tell you the real key.
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  • I don't believe elections will fix us because i don't believe
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  • Our primary problem was political.
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  • I believe the fundamentals of our problems are spiritual which
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  • Means an election is just a temporary assignment.
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  • We've been here before.
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  • The administration that's headed back to washington has been to
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  • Washington before.
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  • And when the end of their term came, the changes they initiated
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  • Didn't last six weeks.
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  • So that would make you foolish if you like the changes
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  • You're anticipating.
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  • And i do many of them.
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  • I think we need to understand that unless there's a heart
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  • Change broadly in the american people, whatever changes are
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  • Initiated will not be able to be maintained.
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  • I look forward to the opportunity of having choices
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  • Between a whole array of candidates across the political
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  • Spectrum who all embrace the biblical world view.
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  • That's our assignment.
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  • So i have new imaginations of the people of god.
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  • That the responses we have not made before will begin to
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  • Come forward.
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  • That outcomes we have not experienced will become a part
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  • Of our expressions of faith.
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  • That we're not just going to sit on our good intentions with
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  • A little happier smile on our face and imagine the problems
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  • Have been solved and addressed.
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  • We have to be different.
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  • And i believe that has to have some very personal implications.
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  • How are we going to live out our faith so that it looks
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  • Differently than it has in the past?
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  • I'm not content with this notion that i'm born again pastor.
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  • I've been baptized.
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  • I read my bible from time to time.
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  • I attend my church occasionally.
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  • What do you want?
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  • Well, it isn't a matter of what i want.
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  • It's a matter of understanding the invitation of almighty god.
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  • And i believe the assignment isn't to experience the new
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  • Birth, it's to serve him with our lives.
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  • And i think we have overlooked that part of the bargain.
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  • It's easier to see in what we're watching around us.
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  • With the new election comes a whole host, hundreds and
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  • Hundreds of new appointments, new assignments.
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  • The party that wins the election takes the people that support
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  • Their ideology, at least theoretically, with them into
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  • Positions of authority.
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  • And we're watching that happen.
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  • And if you like the outcome of the election, you're smiling and
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  • If you didn't, you're probably uncomfortable.
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  • We are watching local pete hegseth has been nominated to be
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  • The secretary of defense.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • We have a new department apparently emerging,
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  • The department of government efficiency.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • That feels a little paradoxical to me.
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  • It's like the department of dry water.
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  • I don't know how that's gonna work but elon musk and vivek
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  • Ramaswamy are going to lead that initiative.
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  • You know, what i would ask you to pause and think with me about
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  • Just a moment because be absolutely clear on this.
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  • I'm asking you to change.
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  • I'm suggesting we cannot maintain the status quo
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  • For ourselves.
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  • And i'm gonna use those individuals kind of as
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  • A template for understanding this.
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  • Three weeks ago, those people i just mentioned were citizens,
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  • I promise, you with lives filled with responsibility.
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  • They weren't looking at themselves thinking, "what am
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  • I gonna do today?"
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  • Their lives were crowded.
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  • They were busy.
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  • They had assignments and families and children and
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  • Commitments and all of those things.
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  • And today they've been nominated for positions of authority in
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  • The united states government.
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  • So they are dramatically planning significant changes
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  • To their lives.
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  • Reordering of their schedules, shifting responsibilities.
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  • When it happens that suddenly it's an intrusion.
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  • You said, "oh, it's a great honor."
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  • Uh-uh, and i would remind you that they're agents of
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  • Temporary change.
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  • President-elect trump has been elected president before and i'm
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  • Grateful for his willingness to serve.
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  • I marvel oftentimes at positions he's willing to take and the
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  • Courage he's demonstrated.
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  • But his ideas were resisted broadly and quickly swept aside.
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  • We have to have a heart change.
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  • Which brings me to this theme of leading with our faith.
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  • You see, i think we have a very critical role to play.
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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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  • Let's keep gathering his people and building his church until
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  • The day our king returns.
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  • Allen: so here's my question to you.
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  • I'm gonna get to the scriptures.
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  • You've looked at those scriptures that dear god we'll
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  • Be here to.
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  • You may be, doors are locked.
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  • Here's the question.
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  • Would you be willing to accept a role in a significant
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  • Change initiative?
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  • If your phone rang, if you got a text, would you be willing to
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  • Accept a role in a significant change initiative if it meant
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  • You had to make changes.
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  • "well, you know, actually pastor, what i would like is
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  • There to be significant changes and me just do what i wanna do.
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  • You see, i have a plan.
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  • I've been planning it for a long time.
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  • It's the fulfillment of my dream."
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  • Yeah, i get it.
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  • And if a friend of our church has been nominated for one of
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  • These assignments, governor mike huckabee to be the ambassador
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  • To israel.
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  • I promise you that is very disruptive to the life plan
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  • He had 30 days ago.
  • 00:12:03.906 --> 00:12:07.676
  • And the acceptance of that would make a significant impact upon
  • 00:12:07.676 --> 00:12:11.147
  • Many people in his life.
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  • Not just himself and his wife.
  • 00:12:13.983 --> 00:12:15.684
  • Not even just his children and his grandchildren.
  • 00:12:15.684 --> 00:12:19.255
  • I have some friends and acquaintances who've been laid
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  • Off from their jobs because governor huckabee is gonna be
  • 00:12:21.624 --> 00:12:24.293
  • Going to israel.
  • 00:12:24.293 --> 00:12:26.762
  • To accept those kind of decisions and the implications
  • 00:12:26.762 --> 00:12:29.331
  • Of them is not a small thing.
  • 00:12:29.331 --> 00:12:33.936
  • You know, here's the reality.
  • 00:12:33.936 --> 00:12:35.571
  • It's improbable that the majority of us are gonna be
  • 00:12:35.571 --> 00:12:39.608
  • Nominated by president-elect trump for some position.
  • 00:12:39.608 --> 00:12:45.014
  • [laughing]
  • 00:12:46.649 --> 00:12:49.718
  • But you may not be aware of the fact that you have been chosen
  • 00:12:49.785 --> 00:12:52.955
  • By the creator of all things, the most high god, the king of
  • 00:12:52.955 --> 00:12:56.125
  • Kings and the lord of lords.
  • 00:12:56.125 --> 00:13:01.831
  • And that's better than a piece of stationery with the
  • 00:13:01.831 --> 00:13:04.166
  • Presidential seal of the united states of america on it.
  • 00:13:04.166 --> 00:13:08.337
  • And it's a far more significant invitation.
  • 00:13:08.337 --> 00:13:10.506
  • And if your response is, "i've been born again, it's not
  • 00:13:10.506 --> 00:13:13.409
  • My problem."
  • 00:13:13.409 --> 00:13:15.044
  • You're deceived.
  • 00:13:15.044 --> 00:13:17.313
  • Or at least ill-informed.
  • 00:13:17.313 --> 00:13:20.216
  • Or maybe you're just a beginner and you don't know.
  • 00:13:20.216 --> 00:13:23.686
  • I brought you one verse of scripture.
  • 00:13:23.686 --> 00:13:25.154
  • I could have taken many but i have another agenda.
  • 00:13:25.154 --> 00:13:27.823
  • Mark 16.
  • 00:13:27.823 --> 00:13:29.191
  • This was jesus post-resurrection just prior to his ascension.
  • 00:13:29.191 --> 00:13:31.460
  • In fact, in mark's gospel, it's the last thing he has to say to
  • 00:13:31.460 --> 00:13:34.230
  • His friends.
  • 00:13:34.230 --> 00:13:35.598
  • Last words have heightened significance.
  • 00:13:35.598 --> 00:13:38.901
  • "he said, 'go into all the world and preach the good news to
  • 00:13:38.901 --> 00:13:41.403
  • All creation.
  • 00:13:41.403 --> 00:13:42.771
  • Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does
  • 00:13:42.771 --> 00:13:45.741
  • Not believe will be condemned."'
  • 00:13:45.741 --> 00:13:47.309
  • The choice is either being saved or condemned.
  • 00:13:47.309 --> 00:13:49.678
  • Those are the options.
  • 00:13:49.678 --> 00:13:51.013
  • There's no third bucket.
  • 00:13:51.013 --> 00:13:53.649
  • But then he doesn't leave it at that.
  • 00:13:53.649 --> 00:13:55.017
  • He said, "there'll be some evidence if you're engaged
  • 00:13:55.017 --> 00:13:57.186
  • In this."
  • 00:13:57.186 --> 00:13:58.821
  • He said, "these signs will follow those who believe.
  • 00:13:58.821 --> 00:14:01.156
  • They'll accompany those who believe in my name.
  • 00:14:01.156 --> 00:14:03.192
  • They'll drive out demons; they'll speak in new tongues;
  • 00:14:03.192 --> 00:14:05.261
  • They'll pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink
  • 00:14:05.261 --> 00:14:07.763
  • Deadly poison, it won't hurt them at all; they'll place their
  • 00:14:07.763 --> 00:14:10.132
  • Hands on sick people, and they'll get well."
  • 00:14:10.132 --> 00:14:12.534
  • That there'll be an accompanying presence of almighty god on this
  • 00:14:12.534 --> 00:14:16.405
  • Almighty god assignment.
  • 00:14:16.405 --> 00:14:19.642
  • Things will happen that people who know you will go,
  • 00:14:19.642 --> 00:14:23.112
  • "that couldn't be them.
  • 00:14:23.112 --> 00:14:25.147
  • I went to school with them.
  • 00:14:25.147 --> 00:14:26.515
  • They can't do that."
  • 00:14:26.515 --> 00:14:29.285
  • And i believe that is the nature of this bargain.
  • 00:14:29.285 --> 00:14:32.554
  • That there's been a power greater than ourselves that has
  • 00:14:32.554 --> 00:14:35.224
  • Given us an invitation to be a part of his eternal kingdom.
  • 00:14:35.224 --> 00:14:38.961
  • And then he says, "with the remainder of your days, once
  • 00:14:38.961 --> 00:14:41.430
  • You're birthed into that kingdom, you have the lifetime
  • 00:14:41.430 --> 00:14:44.800
  • Of a kingdom assignment."
  • 00:14:44.800 --> 00:14:47.036
  • Not church attendance and surviving sermons.
  • 00:14:47.036 --> 00:14:49.238
  • How long will this one last?
  • 00:14:49.238 --> 00:14:52.274
  • Not a lifetime of dodging commitment cards.
  • 00:14:52.274 --> 00:14:54.810
  • "i'm not serving with the kids.
  • 00:14:54.810 --> 00:14:56.345
  • No way. no how."
  • 00:14:56.345 --> 00:15:00.349
  • You see, i think the church has lived way below what god
  • 00:15:00.349 --> 00:15:04.653
  • Intends us to be.
  • 00:15:04.653 --> 00:15:07.056
  • And so it's why i'm asking you to consider leading with
  • 00:15:07.056 --> 00:15:09.291
  • Your faith.
  • 00:15:09.291 --> 00:15:10.726
  • I'm not asking you to be weird.
  • 00:15:10.726 --> 00:15:12.094
  • Weird does not make you spiritual.
  • 00:15:12.094 --> 00:15:14.229
  • Weird makes you weird.
  • 00:15:14.229 --> 00:15:20.769
  • If you're aware, don't blame jesus.
  • 00:15:20.769 --> 00:15:25.374
  • You can say it this way, "you know, one of the great things
  • 00:15:25.374 --> 00:15:27.376
  • I love about the lord that i was so weird and he chose
  • 00:15:27.376 --> 00:15:29.578
  • Me anyway."
  • 00:15:29.578 --> 00:15:31.480
  • But don't blame him.
  • 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:33.916
  • There are some types and patterns in scripture.
  • 00:15:33.916 --> 00:15:38.220
  • Types is kind of a fancier word of saying god shows us something
  • 00:15:38.220 --> 00:15:41.824
  • That he intends to reproduce.
  • 00:15:41.824 --> 00:15:43.659
  • He models something that he will do in our lives.
  • 00:15:43.659 --> 00:15:48.130
  • The bible's filled with them.
  • 00:15:48.130 --> 00:15:50.532
  • One of the examples, one of the greatest leaders in all the
  • 00:15:50.532 --> 00:15:52.835
  • Bible, perhaps the greatest leader until we get to jesus,
  • 00:15:52.835 --> 00:15:56.105
  • Is moses.
  • 00:15:56.105 --> 00:15:58.040
  • And god recruited moses.
  • 00:15:58.040 --> 00:15:59.375
  • He's a failure. he's a murderer.
  • 00:15:59.375 --> 00:16:02.144
  • He grew up in a broken family.
  • 00:16:02.144 --> 00:16:03.545
  • He grew up with tremendous emotional strain and stress.
  • 00:16:03.545 --> 00:16:07.883
  • Genetically, he belongs to the hebrew slaves.
  • 00:16:07.883 --> 00:16:12.488
  • But his experience was growing up in the palace of pharaoh.
  • 00:16:12.488 --> 00:16:15.257
  • That will torque you emotionally.
  • 00:16:15.257 --> 00:16:18.127
  • He had an anger problem because as a young man, he murdered
  • 00:16:18.127 --> 00:16:20.929
  • An egyptian.
  • 00:16:20.929 --> 00:16:23.098
  • His own people, the ones that he shared genetics with,
  • 00:16:23.098 --> 00:16:25.901
  • Didn't trust him because he grew up in the palace.
  • 00:16:25.901 --> 00:16:27.536
  • The people in the palace where he grew up didn't like him
  • 00:16:27.536 --> 00:16:30.172
  • Because he was one of the slaves.
  • 00:16:30.172 --> 00:16:34.009
  • So with all of that, in spite of all these reasons he can't,
  • 00:16:34.009 --> 00:16:37.112
  • He shouldn't.
  • 00:16:37.112 --> 00:16:38.480
  • All those things that you and i experience, all the things the
  • 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:41.050
  • Devil tells us why we're not qualified, why we won't be able
  • 00:16:41.050 --> 00:16:44.453
  • To, moses had his own list and then god recruited him.
  • 00:16:44.453 --> 00:16:50.092
  • I put a bit of it in your notes.
  • 00:16:50.092 --> 00:16:54.296
  • If i'd have looked at my notes before i put that in there,
  • 00:16:54.296 --> 00:16:56.398
  • I gave you isaiah.
  • 00:16:56.398 --> 00:16:57.733
  • But let's start with moses.
  • 00:16:57.733 --> 00:16:59.435
  • Well, is this a work?
  • 00:16:59.435 --> 00:17:00.769
  • It's exodus 3: "the lord said, 'i have indeed seen the misery
  • 00:17:00.769 --> 00:17:04.773
  • Of my people in egypt and i've heard them crying out because of
  • 00:17:04.773 --> 00:17:07.242
  • Their slave drivers, and i'm concerned about their suffering.
  • 00:17:07.242 --> 00:17:10.212
  • So i've come down to rescue them from the hand of
  • 00:17:10.212 --> 00:17:12.181
  • The egyptians."'
  • 00:17:12.181 --> 00:17:13.515
  • After that point, you can see moses he's going like,
  • 00:17:13.515 --> 00:17:14.883
  • "that's so awesome."
  • 00:17:14.883 --> 00:17:16.385
  • Tears running down his face, "they need help.
  • 00:17:16.385 --> 00:17:20.422
  • It's awful the way they live.
  • 00:17:20.422 --> 00:17:21.857
  • They've been abused for hundreds of years.
  • 00:17:21.857 --> 00:17:23.525
  • God, thank you. i'm so grateful."
  • 00:17:23.525 --> 00:17:26.428
  • I mean, it's an emotive point, right?
  • 00:17:26.428 --> 00:17:29.231
  • I mean, it's, you can feel the tremendous release.
  • 00:17:29.231 --> 00:17:32.434
  • Thank god.
  • 00:17:32.434 --> 00:17:33.802
  • I gave my future away trying to help those people.
  • 00:17:33.802 --> 00:17:38.006
  • Moses is completely on board.
  • 00:17:38.006 --> 00:17:41.043
  • And then in verse 9, god says, "the cry of the israelites has
  • 00:17:41.043 --> 00:17:43.445
  • Reached me, and i've seen the way the egyptians are
  • 00:17:43.445 --> 00:17:45.180
  • Oppressing them."
  • 00:17:45.180 --> 00:17:46.515
  • Yes, yes, god, thank you.
  • 00:17:46.515 --> 00:17:49.384
  • Verse 10, "so now, go.
  • 00:17:49.384 --> 00:17:50.719
  • I'm sending you."
  • 00:17:50.719 --> 00:17:58.327
  • You had me right up to the i'm sending you part, "i'm sending
  • 00:17:58.327 --> 00:18:04.099
  • You to pharaoh to bring my people the israelites out
  • 00:18:04.099 --> 00:18:07.836
  • Of egypt."
  • 00:18:07.836 --> 00:18:09.705
  • And moses said, "who am i, that i should be doing there?"
  • 00:18:09.705 --> 00:18:14.610
  • And it elicits this rather lengthy discourse that we're
  • 00:18:14.610 --> 00:18:16.979
  • Gonna use as our template a bit.
  • 00:18:16.979 --> 00:18:19.815
  • The idea i wanna hand you for the moment is god saying to
  • 00:18:19.815 --> 00:18:22.885
  • Moses, "i'm sending you."
  • 00:18:22.885 --> 00:18:25.854
  • I'm sending you. i'm sending you.
  • 00:18:25.854 --> 00:18:29.691
  • And i would inform you that whether you're conscious of it
  • 00:18:29.691 --> 00:18:32.628
  • Or not, god has sent you.
  • 00:18:32.628 --> 00:18:34.963
  • There are people within your sphere of influence that i
  • 00:18:34.963 --> 00:18:37.499
  • Believe god created you to be a point of contact for on behalf
  • 00:18:37.499 --> 00:18:40.669
  • Of his kingdom.
  • 00:18:40.669 --> 00:18:43.372
  • Now, if you opt out if you raise your hand and say, "i'm
  • 00:18:43.372 --> 00:18:46.208
  • Not interested."
  • 00:18:46.208 --> 00:18:48.644
  • If you choose not to co-operate, i trust the grace and mercy of
  • 00:18:48.644 --> 00:18:51.713
  • God to create an alternative to reach those people.
  • 00:18:51.713 --> 00:18:54.516
  • But you will have forfeited your opportunity in the kingdom.
  • 00:18:54.516 --> 00:18:58.687
  • I believe, i believe accurately from scripture.
  • 00:18:58.687 --> 00:19:02.424
  • God has said to every one of us, "i'm sending you."
  • 00:19:02.424 --> 00:19:06.595
  • He hadn't sent us all to a pulpit.
  • 00:19:06.595 --> 00:19:09.031
  • He hasn't sent us all to theology school.
  • 00:19:09.031 --> 00:19:11.166
  • You have a skill set that will bring the trust of people into
  • 00:19:11.166 --> 00:19:14.069
  • Your life that would never trust me.
  • 00:19:14.069 --> 00:19:17.206
  • For many years my father practiced veterinary medicine.
  • 00:19:17.206 --> 00:19:21.343
  • He was a christ follower but he paid the bills and raised his
  • 00:19:21.343 --> 00:19:24.479
  • Family and fed his boys, which is no small task if you have
  • 00:19:24.479 --> 00:19:27.049
  • Three of them, by treating sick animals.
  • 00:19:27.049 --> 00:19:31.720
  • And i can't tell you how many people i have watched.
  • 00:19:31.720 --> 00:19:34.189
  • They bring fluffy into the vet and fluffy doesn't feel good and
  • 00:19:34.189 --> 00:19:40.362
  • The doctor helps the dog get better.
  • 00:19:40.362 --> 00:19:43.865
  • And whatever recommendation he makes after helping fluffy,
  • 00:19:43.865 --> 00:19:46.835
  • They are very open to.
  • 00:19:46.835 --> 00:19:50.973
  • I've watched him impact more people with his faith, inviting
  • 00:19:50.973 --> 00:19:55.444
  • Them towards the kingdom of god than most ministers i have
  • 00:19:55.444 --> 00:19:57.813
  • Ever known.
  • 00:19:57.813 --> 00:19:59.648
  • And there are people in your sphere of influence that will
  • 00:19:59.648 --> 00:20:01.750
  • Listen to you that have no intention of listening to me.
  • 00:20:01.750 --> 00:20:07.556
  • "i'm sending you," the lord said.
  • 00:20:07.556 --> 00:20:10.058
  • That's not the only assignment.
  • 00:20:10.058 --> 00:20:11.426
  • I can give you multiple examples.
  • 00:20:11.426 --> 00:20:12.761
  • I'll put one more in your notes.
  • 00:20:12.761 --> 00:20:14.129
  • It's isaiah chapter 6. isaiah is a young man.
  • 00:20:14.129 --> 00:20:18.634
  • His career is not really established at this point.
  • 00:20:18.634 --> 00:20:22.037
  • I mean, we know him as a prophet, one of the
  • 00:20:22.037 --> 00:20:23.705
  • Major prophets.
  • 00:20:23.705 --> 00:20:25.040
  • But at this point in his unfolding story, he's not that.
  • 00:20:25.040 --> 00:20:28.610
  • He's just a young man and he has a vision.
  • 00:20:28.610 --> 00:20:32.514
  • He sees the throne room of god and all of its glory
  • 00:20:32.514 --> 00:20:35.784
  • And majesty.
  • 00:20:35.784 --> 00:20:37.152
  • And his response is, "woe to me.
  • 00:20:37.152 --> 00:20:38.487
  • I am ruined.
  • 00:20:38.487 --> 00:20:39.855
  • I'm a man of unclean lips."
  • 00:20:39.855 --> 00:20:41.189
  • He says, "i don't belong here.
  • 00:20:41.189 --> 00:20:42.658
  • Whatever this is, i am not this."
  • 00:20:42.658 --> 00:20:47.329
  • "and i live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have
  • 00:20:47.329 --> 00:20:50.132
  • Seen the king, the lord almighty.
  • 00:20:50.132 --> 00:20:52.234
  • Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand,
  • 00:20:52.234 --> 00:20:54.936
  • Which he'd taken with the tongs from the altar.
  • 00:20:54.936 --> 00:20:56.605
  • And with it he touched my mouth and he said, 'this has touched
  • 00:20:56.605 --> 00:20:59.308
  • Your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin is
  • 00:20:59.308 --> 00:21:01.943
  • Atoned for.'
  • 00:21:01.943 --> 00:21:04.479
  • And then i heard the voice of the lord saying, 'whom shall
  • 00:21:04.479 --> 00:21:07.316
  • I send?
  • 00:21:07.316 --> 00:21:08.684
  • Who will go for us?'"
  • 00:21:08.684 --> 00:21:11.987
  • And i said what?
  • 00:21:11.987 --> 00:21:13.355
  • 'here i am.
  • 00:21:13.355 --> 00:21:15.324
  • You could send me.'
  • 00:21:15.324 --> 00:21:17.993
  • "and he said, 'go and tell this people: be ever hearing, but
  • 00:21:17.993 --> 00:21:22.030
  • Never understanding: be ever seeing, but never perceiving.'"
  • 00:21:22.030 --> 00:21:26.435
  • That is not a fun message to deliver.
  • 00:21:26.435 --> 00:21:29.171
  • Imagine if my message to you today was you people you are
  • 00:21:29.171 --> 00:21:34.509
  • Ever hearing but you never understand and you see a lot but
  • 00:21:34.509 --> 00:21:38.647
  • You never really perceive anything.
  • 00:21:38.647 --> 00:21:41.550
  • That is not affirming.
  • 00:21:41.550 --> 00:21:45.153
  • That's the introduction to the message god said he was going to
  • 00:21:45.153 --> 00:21:47.656
  • Give isaiah.
  • 00:21:47.656 --> 00:21:49.624
  • But isaiah said, "i'm here, let's go."
  • 00:21:49.624 --> 00:21:56.465
  • He started with, "woe to me."
  • 00:21:56.465 --> 00:21:59.034
  • He recognized he was unprepared, he was unworthy, he was in the
  • 00:21:59.034 --> 00:22:01.837
  • Midst of a people who were unworthy.
  • 00:22:01.837 --> 00:22:05.707
  • I would allow you if you will, i would suggest that is a lost
  • 00:22:05.707 --> 00:22:09.911
  • Imagination amongst the people of faith in our nation.
  • 00:22:09.911 --> 00:22:15.250
  • We say things like, "we can do anything we want to do.
  • 00:22:15.250 --> 00:22:18.487
  • I'm forgiven, cheap grace."
  • 00:22:18.487 --> 00:22:21.757
  • Well, i believe in forgiveness.
  • 00:22:21.757 --> 00:22:24.459
  • But i don't believe in being flippant about it.
  • 00:22:24.459 --> 00:22:30.866
  • Isaiah had a different attitude and it qualified him for a role
  • 00:22:30.866 --> 00:22:34.202
  • Of great significance.
  • 00:22:34.202 --> 00:22:36.104
  • Now god made provision for his sin.
  • 00:22:36.104 --> 00:22:38.273
  • It was an expression of mercy.
  • 00:22:38.273 --> 00:22:39.641
  • An angel took a coal off the altar and it wasn't physical,
  • 00:22:39.641 --> 00:22:42.978
  • This is a vision.
  • 00:22:42.978 --> 00:22:44.346
  • Well, god's made provision for our failures and
  • 00:22:44.346 --> 00:22:45.814
  • Our shortcomings.
  • 00:22:45.814 --> 00:22:47.149
  • It required not a coal from the altar.
  • 00:22:47.149 --> 00:22:48.517
  • It required his son.
  • 00:22:48.517 --> 00:22:51.086
  • So the nature of this invitation shouldn't be considered lightly.
  • 00:22:51.086 --> 00:22:54.723
  • It shouldn't be imagined to be something flippant.
  • 00:22:54.723 --> 00:22:56.858
  • It required the incarnate son of god.
  • 00:22:56.858 --> 00:23:00.095
  • The son of god to put on an earth suit and come amongst us
  • 00:23:00.095 --> 00:23:02.998
  • And we did not treat him well.
  • 00:23:02.998 --> 00:23:06.134
  • We wouldn't listen to him.
  • 00:23:06.134 --> 00:23:07.502
  • The majority of us rejected him.
  • 00:23:07.502 --> 00:23:09.337
  • When push came to shove, we did both.
  • 00:23:09.337 --> 00:23:13.375
  • We blindfolded him and hit him over the head repeatedly.
  • 00:23:13.375 --> 00:23:15.844
  • We spit in his face and said, "if you're the son of god, tell
  • 00:23:15.844 --> 00:23:19.681
  • Us who hits you."
  • 00:23:19.681 --> 00:23:22.350
  • Then we tortured him to death.
  • 00:23:22.350 --> 00:23:26.388
  • And he endured all of that so that you and i might spend our
  • 00:23:26.388 --> 00:23:31.460
  • Journey through time, our days under the sun, as ambassadors
  • 00:23:31.460 --> 00:23:35.964
  • For his kingdom.
  • 00:23:35.964 --> 00:23:37.299
  • That we might be a part of his kingdom.
  • 00:23:37.299 --> 00:23:39.401
  • You don't have to be.
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  • You could choose to live your life completely apart from god.
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  • You have that privilege.
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  • He's given you free will.
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  • We're not just creatures of instinct.
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  • We're not like the swallows that return to capistrano or the
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  • Salmon that go back to the stream where they were born.
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  • We have a choice.
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  • And i'm inviting you to choose to honor the lord with
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  • Your life.
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  • God recruited isaiah.
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  • He's recruiting today.
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  • Are we willing to say, "here i am."
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  • Or are we more likely to say, "we elected him.
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  • Let's let them fix it."
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  • Well, they got a heavy lift.
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  • We're in some kind of mess.
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  • I hope they're willing to turn their lives upside down.
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  • I hope they're willing to endure all the criticism, all the
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  • Things said about them.
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  • I heard somebody this week in the media on a large platform, a
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  • Person with a lot of credentials looked at one of these nominees
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  • And they said, "they're a russian agent."
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  • I thought, "really, haven't we had that conversation?"
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  • And we expect those individuals that are nominated for those
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  • Places to absorb all of that.
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  • It's just a part of what goes with it.
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  • It's a tough business.
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  • Politics is not a tougher business than standing up to the
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  • Kingdom of darkness.
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  • "oh, pastor, that's not my calling."
  • 00:25:04.352 --> 00:25:08.757
  • Oh, really?
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  • Tell me about that.
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  • You're a covert operative.
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  • You're an undercover christ follower.
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  • I see.
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  • Well i should remind you of what the boss said.
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  • He said, "if you deny me in front of people, i'll deny you
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  • Before my father."
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  • Allen: i wanna pray with you before we go.
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  • Though god doesn't abandon his people no matter what besets our
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  • Lives even if it's god initiated, even if it's god's
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  • Judgment, he does not abandon us in those places.
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  • He gives us a way back to restoration.
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  • That's the point of the cross.
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  • That jesus exhausted the curse of our sin that we might receive
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  • The fullness of his obedience.
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  • Let's pray together.
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  • Father i thank you that you love us.
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  • That no matter our circumstances and no matter the challenges,
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  • No matter the choices we've made, that if we will come in
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  • Humility and repent that you will bring restoration and
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  • Renewal to our lives.
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  • We trust you for it this day and in this year
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  • In jesus name, amen.
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  • God bless you.
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  • Allen: you know, i've often said that what happens in the white
  • 00:26:20.795 --> 00:26:22.731
  • House is not more important than what happens in your house.
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  • I have an assignment, if you'll accept it.
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  • Imagine your kitchen table as an expression of the love of god to
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  • Our generation.
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  • Let's start to practice hospitality from the inside out,
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  • From our kitchen table to our neighbors, our friends.
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  • God will meet us in that place as we take those simple steps of
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  • Obedience, honor him at our kitchen table, and we can join
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  • With what god is doing in the earth.
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  • Now, that is an opportunity.
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  • Announcer: some of life's most meaningful moments happen around
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  • A kitchen table.
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  • That's where stories are shared and faith is passed from one
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  • Generation to the next.
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  • To help you welcome others for a meal, we've created a tools for
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  • Hospitality set.
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  • Favorite recipes, and some simple tips you can use to help
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