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Allen Jackson - Obedient To The Vision (Part 2)

January 29, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Obedient To The Vision (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Obedient To The Vision (Part 2) | January 29, 2026
  • ...
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  • Allen jackson: you know, around the world people are searching
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  • For truth, and together, we're doing our very best to help them
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  • Find it.
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  • Who are committed to strengthening the church and
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  • Sharing god's word through every available channel, television,
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  • Your monthly partnership helps us equip believers to reach new
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  • Audiences and to take the hope of jesus to people who may never
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  • Have heard the gospel otherwise.
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  • Together we can stand firm in our faith and make god's truth
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  • Known right here at home and around the earth wherever god
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  • Opens the door.
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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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  • You can find more about becoming a ministry partner
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  • At allenjackson.com/partner.
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  • [music]
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  • [music]
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  • Allen: god is faithful.
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  • You'll have to think about it, you'll have to meditate on it,
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  • You'll have to talk to yourself.
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  • "well, i don't feel like god is," it's not dependent on
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  • Your feelings.
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  • It's about a decision.
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  • Paul gives us another lesson in philippians 2, verse 3, he said:
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  • "do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain
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  • Conceit," nothing.
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  • "but in humility consider others better than yourselves.
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  • Each of you shouldn't look only to your own interest, but also
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  • To the interest of others.
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  • Your attitude should be the same as that of christ jesus."
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  • Your attitude matters.
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  • And he goes on in the following verses to give you a handful of
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  • Characteristics about jesus's attitude, but the primary
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  • Message is you've got to accept responsibility for
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  • Your attitude.
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  • Nobody gave you an attitude.
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  • If yours is bad, you chose it.
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  • Joseph had every reason under the sun for a bad attitude.
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  • Paul had every reason under the sun.
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  • They chose not to.
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  • And you and i can choose an attitude
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  • Affirming the goodness of god and the faithfulness of god, or
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  • We can choose an attitude that says we're a victim and we can
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  • Be angry, and resentful, and embittered, and filled with
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  • Unforgiveness, and we will forfeit the purposes of god for
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  • Our lives.
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  • You may not forfeit your salvation, but you'll forfeit
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  • The purposes of god.
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  • "well, this wasn't what i expected."
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  • Okay.
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  • "it wasn't what i wanted."
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  • Duly noted.
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  • "this wasn't my plan."
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  • I'm pretty sure joseph didn't plan all the things that
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  • Happened to him.
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  • I'm pretty confident that saul of tarsus, when he thought,
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  • "well, if i get on the right side of this and i know who the
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  • Real messiah is, it's not gonna blunt the momentum of
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  • My career."
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  • Well, it completely reordered it.
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  • And then the third thing paul tells us in colossians 3, "since
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  • You've been raised with christ, set your hearts on things above,
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  • Where christ is seated at the right hand of god.
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  • Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
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  • For you died and your life is now hidden with christ in god.
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  • When christ, who's your life, appears, then you also will
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  • Appear with him in glory."
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  • He gives us two very clear directives.
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  • Did you hear them?
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  • Set your hearts on things above and sets your minds on
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  • Things above.
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  • What you're longing for and what you're thinking about needs to
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  • Be directed beyond time.
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  • That'll make you different from most of your secular
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  • Acquaintance or your casual christian friends.
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  • The ambitions of your life are going to be focused
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  • Someplace else.
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  • In proverbs, we're told above all else to guard our hearts,
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  • Because it's the wellspring of our lives.
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  • How many times have we heard or have we said, you know,
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  • "i had my heart set on--" and you can fill in the blank.
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  • "i had my heart set on that promotion.
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  • I had my heart set on that vacation.
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  • I had my heart set on that new car.
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  • I had my heart set on--and i'm so disappointed.
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  • I don't know if i can get over it.
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  • I'm so angry.
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  • I'm so frustrated.
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  • I had my heart set on that."
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  • Paul said we need to set our heart on things above.
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  • "well, that's not easy."
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  • No, i didn't--nobody said it was easy.
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  • We're done with easy.
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  • We've done all the easy.
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  • We used easy up before covid.
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  • It's all gone.
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  • Now we're gonna have to do the things that aren't easy.
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  • "well, i don't like that."
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  • Okay.
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  • Let's go anyway.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • And then in ephesians 6, paul writes something that i'm not
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  • Sure you would expect.
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  • I know it's in our bibles, but he said, "finally, be strong in
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  • The lord and in his mighty power."
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  • Well, okay.
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  • I'm all right with that.
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  • I wanna be strong in the lord, don't you?
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  • I'd like for the power of god to just resonate through my person.
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  • Wouldn't you?
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  • Yeah.
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  • It's the next verse that's kind of problematic.
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  • "put on the full armor of god so you can take your stand against
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  • The devil's schemes."
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  • And we all wish that said pastors, because then it would
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  • Mean for most of us, that's not about me.
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  • "for our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the
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  • Rulers and the authorities and the powers of this dark world
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  • And the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
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  • Therefore," because all of these spiritual forces of evil exist.
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  • "therefore, put on the full armor of god, so that when the
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  • Day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground."
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  • Remember who wrote this?
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  • Saul of tarsus.
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  • The one with the scar tissue on his back that has him bent over.
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  • The one who's been stoned and left for dead.
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  • The one who's a frequent visitor to roman prisons around
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  • The mediterranean.
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  • "so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand
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  • Your ground, and after you've done everything, to stand."
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  • We read that as if there's some spiritual conflict in the world
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  • But, you know, we're gonna deal with it in fancy spiritual
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  • Language and nuanced greek words.
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  • My experience is the spiritual struggle invades our lives.
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  • It confronts us in the reality of our unfolding stories and the
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  • Challenges in our lives and the lives of our children and the
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  • Circumstances in the world in which we live.
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  • There is a spiritual conflict that is boiling all around us,
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  • And paul's saying to us, "you better put on the armor of god."
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  • There's a struggle in the earth.
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  • And more than that, what he understands and he's pointing us
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  • Towards is we have a need for protection.
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  • There's a hubris that exists in our hearts in a way that is
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  • Not helpful.
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  • "well, i'm christ followers, i didn't expect--"
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  • You didn't expect what?
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  • Did you read your bible?
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  • Did you read what god said to joseph when he was a little boy?
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  • "your brothers are going to bow down to you, your father,
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  • Your parents."
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  • Well, between here and there, you've got a stint in a prison
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  • And some immoral temptations.
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  • Saul, you're my chosen vessel to bear the gospel to the
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  • Non-jewish world, and they're gonna beat you within an inch of
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  • Your life, your jewish brothers and sisters.
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  • [music]
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  • Allen: welcome to 2026.
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  • Happy new year.
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  • We've created a new book to help you.
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  • It's called "turn up the light."
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  • It's a devotional for the whole year.
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  • It's a really simple idea.
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  • I can join you for a cup of coffee in the morning.
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  • We'll have a brief conversation with the spiritual principal to
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  • Start our day, a scripture verse, a prayer, and then when
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  • You're tired of me, you can close the book.
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  • It's perfect.
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  • In all seriousness, we do wanna "turn up the light."
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  • Let's not rage against the darkness.
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  • Let's invite god into the midst of this year and then just see
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  • What he will do.
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  • Announcer: pastor allen's new devotional, "turn up the light,"
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  • Is designed to equip you every single day of the year.
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  • Inside, you'll find 365 short devotionals, each with a
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  • Scripture, teaching, and a prayer.
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  • As you begin this new year, don't rage against the darkness.
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  • Instead, choose to "turn up the light."
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  • You can request this book when you donate $25 or more today at
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  • Allenjackson.com, or by calling...
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  • Allen: i'm gonna come back to the good listener piece, but
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  • Let's step down in your outline for a minute.
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  • I gave you just a bundle of verses.
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  • I think this is so overlooked that i just wanted to give you a
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  • Little broader set of passages for your reflection.
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  • I don't have time to comment on them in any detail, but the
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  • Spiritual protection we need is for the challenges in our
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  • Journey through time.
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  • Some are physical, some are spiritual.
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  • They may all have spiritual motivations, but they affect us
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  • In very physical ways, whether it's our health or our safety
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  • Or our our well-being.
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  • We need to understand the necessity of god's protection in
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  • Our lives.
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  • Then we don't wanna do anything that would diminish our place in
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  • The protection of god.
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  • You know, god designed us physically with an amazing
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  • Immune system, multi-layered protection against the organisms
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  • That would tend to harm us or diminish us or sicken us.
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  • It's the most remarkable system he's given us.
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  • Well, he's given you a more remarkable system of
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  • Spiritual protection.
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  • But in the same way you can break down your own physical
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  • Immune system, you can walk out
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  • From under the protection of god.
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  • I didn't say you walk out from under his love,
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  • But you can make yourself vulnerable.
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  • David understood, psalm 91.
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  • The whole psalm deals with the topic, but i gave you
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  • Two verses.
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  • "he who dwells in the shelter of the most high will rest in the
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  • Shadow of the almighty.
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  • I will say of the lord, he's my refuge and my fortress, my god,
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  • In whom i trust."
  • 00:11:07.749 --> 00:11:09.884
  • So, we tend to read that and think, "oh, isn't that
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  • Beautiful poetry?
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  • Well, the hebrew poets are just spectacular.
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  • It just warms my heart."
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  • No, i don't think david was writing that as some flowery
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  • Expression of poetry.
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  • This is the man that samuel was afraid to come anoint to be king
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  • Because he knew if he anointed him, saul would want to kill
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  • Him, the prophet.
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  • And for years, david lives as a fugitive.
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  • So, when he writes that, "i'll rest in the shadow of the
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  • Almighty and i'll say of the lord, he's my refuge in
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  • My fortress."
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  • He knows he needs protection.
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  • Now, he didn't bury his sword and dismiss his soldiers.
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  • But he understood god was his security.
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  • Look at psalm 27, "for the--in the day of trouble, he will keep
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  • Me safe in his dwelling; he will hide me in the shelter of his
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  • Tabernacle and set me high up on a rock."
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  • Psalm 31, "in the shelter of your presence you hide them from
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  • The intrigues of men; in your dwelling, you keep them safe
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  • From accusing tongues."
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  • I like the honesty and the integrity of scripture.
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  • We don't just need security from physical threats, we need
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  • Security from the assault of people's words.
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  • Do you know how much we cower because we're afraid of what
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  • People will say, "oh, you can't say that.
  • 00:12:32.901 --> 00:12:35.270
  • People will say you're sexist.
  • 00:12:35.270 --> 00:12:38.406
  • You can't say that, they'll call you a christian zionist.
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  • You can't pray for your country, they'll say you're a
  • 00:12:42.811 --> 00:12:44.879
  • Christian nationalist.
  • 00:12:44.879 --> 00:12:49.450
  • You can't say that we shouldn't be judged by the color of our
  • 00:12:49.450 --> 00:12:52.086
  • Skin, somebody will call you a racist."
  • 00:12:52.086 --> 00:12:55.089
  • So, we're silent.
  • 00:12:55.089 --> 00:12:57.759
  • I have a label for that, faithless.
  • 00:12:57.759 --> 00:13:02.230
  • We have an assignment to tell the truth,
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  • Not to win the applause of the wicked.
  • 00:13:05.400 --> 00:13:11.406
  • It's amazing what the scripture promises.
  • 00:13:11.406 --> 00:13:13.575
  • Peter understood this in 1 peter 5 and verse 6.
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  • He said, "humble yourselves under god's mighty hand,
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  • He will lift you up in due time."
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  • This is peter that spent several days in prison, held by the same
  • 00:13:24.886 --> 00:13:28.756
  • King that had murdered.
  • 00:13:28.756 --> 00:13:34.796
  • Had murdered james.
  • 00:13:34.796 --> 00:13:37.065
  • And he's intending to murder peter.
  • 00:13:37.065 --> 00:13:39.434
  • Now, the angels came and got peter the night before he's
  • 00:13:39.434 --> 00:13:41.669
  • Gonna be executed, but it's never been exactly clear to me
  • 00:13:41.669 --> 00:13:44.539
  • Why they left him in prison for so many days.
  • 00:13:44.539 --> 00:13:48.877
  • So, when peter says, "god will lift you up in due time," i'm
  • 00:13:48.877 --> 00:13:53.348
  • Saying to god, god, my time seems due.
  • 00:13:53.348 --> 00:13:58.386
  • But you're faithful, and i'm not moving off of that.
  • 00:13:58.386 --> 00:14:03.992
  • I'm here and ready to go when you're ready for me.
  • 00:14:03.992 --> 00:14:06.995
  • Cast all your anxiety on him.
  • 00:14:06.995 --> 00:14:09.364
  • He cares for you.
  • 00:14:09.364 --> 00:14:11.900
  • See, we have morphed this into this generic, syrupy, sweet, god
  • 00:14:11.900 --> 00:14:19.007
  • Cares for you, oh, bless your heart.
  • 00:14:19.007 --> 00:14:27.916
  • Do you know jesus cares for you?
  • 00:14:27.916 --> 00:14:32.720
  • And we've--you know, it's like something you'd say to a little
  • 00:14:36.925 --> 00:14:41.696
  • Child, "oh, come here, give me a hug.
  • 00:14:41.696 --> 00:14:44.732
  • I care for you so much."
  • 00:14:44.732 --> 00:14:48.503
  • But i'm not saying that's a completely absurd way of
  • 00:14:48.503 --> 00:14:51.673
  • Understanding, but it's not what i read in the context of peter's
  • 00:14:51.673 --> 00:14:54.609
  • Life in the larger passage.
  • 00:14:54.609 --> 00:14:56.244
  • He said, "listen, you can cast all of your worries on god
  • 00:14:56.244 --> 00:14:59.447
  • Because he's caring for you.
  • 00:14:59.447 --> 00:15:02.550
  • He's watching over you.
  • 00:15:02.550 --> 00:15:05.687
  • And 1000 may fall at one side and 10,000 may fall at the other
  • 00:15:05.687 --> 00:15:09.524
  • Side, but it's not coming near me because god's caring for me."
  • 00:15:09.524 --> 00:15:15.830
  • It's not some casual childish, syrupy.
  • 00:15:15.830 --> 00:15:22.136
  • It's like, no, no, you come on, god cares for me.
  • 00:15:22.136 --> 00:15:25.773
  • He's watching out for me.
  • 00:15:25.773 --> 00:15:29.944
  • I gotta live with that.
  • 00:15:29.944 --> 00:15:31.279
  • I gotta let that grow in me.
  • 00:15:31.279 --> 00:15:34.449
  • Because it's easier to act like you don't notice.
  • 00:15:34.449 --> 00:15:38.152
  • It's easier to do a polite bible study than talk about depravity
  • 00:15:38.152 --> 00:15:43.224
  • And sin and godlessness that's invaded the church.
  • 00:15:43.224 --> 00:15:48.129
  • You better believe god cares for you.
  • 00:15:48.129 --> 00:15:52.133
  • Be self-controlled and alert, why?
  • 00:15:52.133 --> 00:15:53.801
  • Because you've got an enemy prowling around like a roaring
  • 00:15:53.801 --> 00:15:56.004
  • Lion, looking for someone to devour.
  • 00:15:56.004 --> 00:15:57.872
  • Resist him.
  • 00:15:57.872 --> 00:16:00.408
  • Peter understood we needed god's protection.
  • 00:16:00.408 --> 00:16:02.944
  • That's the point.
  • 00:16:02.944 --> 00:16:05.146
  • I really just want to introduce you to the topic.
  • 00:16:05.146 --> 00:16:06.981
  • I want you to reflect on it, to think about it.
  • 00:16:06.981 --> 00:16:09.117
  • We need the protection of the lord.
  • 00:16:09.117 --> 00:16:12.987
  • This isn't about some bible study.
  • 00:16:12.987 --> 00:16:14.789
  • Do you all know all the pieces of the armor and how to
  • 00:16:14.789 --> 00:16:17.125
  • Appropriately deploy them?
  • 00:16:17.125 --> 00:16:20.895
  • Well, kind of.
  • 00:16:20.895 --> 00:16:24.465
  • What i'm very aware of is i have an adversary and that i want to
  • 00:16:24.465 --> 00:16:29.704
  • Dwell in the shadow of the almighty, and i want to
  • 00:16:29.704 --> 00:16:33.741
  • Understand who my protector is.
  • 00:16:33.741 --> 00:16:36.944
  • John understood it.
  • 00:16:36.944 --> 00:16:39.113
  • I gave you a bit of revelation chapter 1 already, but in
  • 00:16:39.113 --> 00:16:42.116
  • Revelation 5, john has this vision of the throne room of
  • 00:16:42.116 --> 00:16:44.752
  • God, and he's weeping because there's no one worthy to open
  • 00:16:44.752 --> 00:16:47.855
  • The scroll that tells him about the end of the age.
  • 00:16:47.855 --> 00:16:50.558
  • And one of the elders says, well, the lion of the tribe of
  • 00:16:50.558 --> 00:16:52.660
  • Judah could do that.
  • 00:16:52.660 --> 00:16:56.497
  • John has this majestic vision.
  • 00:16:56.497 --> 00:16:58.499
  • It's--every time i read it, it's amazing to me.
  • 00:16:58.499 --> 00:17:00.368
  • They sang a song, it's verse 9, "you're worthy to take the
  • 00:17:00.368 --> 00:17:03.237
  • Scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with
  • 00:17:03.237 --> 00:17:05.706
  • Your blood you purchased men for god from every tribe and
  • 00:17:05.706 --> 00:17:11.212
  • Language and people and nation.
  • 00:17:11.212 --> 00:17:12.713
  • And you made them to be kingdom and priest to serve our god, and
  • 00:17:12.713 --> 00:17:16.451
  • They'll reign on the earth."
  • 00:17:16.451 --> 00:17:17.785
  • We didn't do that for ourselves.
  • 00:17:17.785 --> 00:17:19.353
  • We didn't study our way into the kingdom or work our way or
  • 00:17:19.353 --> 00:17:22.323
  • Earn our way.
  • 00:17:22.323 --> 00:17:23.691
  • We were purchased out of the kingdom of darkness with the
  • 00:17:23.691 --> 00:17:26.094
  • Shed blood of jesus of nazareth so that we could be kings
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  • And priests.
  • 00:17:30.064 --> 00:17:31.399
  • We need his protection.
  • 00:17:31.399 --> 00:17:34.135
  • It has a vision of 100 million angels surrounding the throne
  • 00:17:34.135 --> 00:17:38.306
  • Room of god.
  • 00:17:38.306 --> 00:17:40.441
  • I can't--i don't have the imaginary ability to get that.
  • 00:17:40.441 --> 00:17:45.913
  • We've got what, a population in the us over 300 million?
  • 00:17:45.913 --> 00:17:49.717
  • So, let's say a third of the population of the us in
  • 00:17:49.717 --> 00:17:52.620
  • One scene.
  • 00:17:52.620 --> 00:17:55.857
  • Well, you'd have to have a drone a long way up.
  • 00:17:55.857 --> 00:17:59.594
  • I mean it's angels for as far as you can see in any direction
  • 00:17:59.594 --> 00:18:03.197
  • Around the throne of god.
  • 00:18:03.197 --> 00:18:05.366
  • Singing a song, "worthy is the lamb."
  • 00:18:05.366 --> 00:18:09.737
  • Well, angels are ministering spirits sent forth in the earth
  • 00:18:09.737 --> 00:18:12.740
  • On our behalf.
  • 00:18:12.740 --> 00:18:15.977
  • It takes 100 million of them to help us along the journey.
  • 00:18:15.977 --> 00:18:21.182
  • And then we do a study going, you know, i'm not sure what i
  • 00:18:21.182 --> 00:18:23.718
  • Think about angels.
  • 00:18:23.718 --> 00:18:26.754
  • Well, i think i need their help.
  • 00:18:26.754 --> 00:18:29.757
  • And if you don't want yours, send them my way.
  • 00:18:29.757 --> 00:18:34.862
  • John understood, peter had seen, paul understood it.
  • 00:18:34.862 --> 00:18:39.800
  • We're in a struggle, and we need the protection of god, and he's
  • 00:18:39.800 --> 00:18:43.771
  • Provided it.
  • 00:18:43.771 --> 00:18:46.174
  • And finally, it seems to me paul was an exceptional listener.
  • 00:18:46.174 --> 00:18:49.877
  • Time and time again, i don't have the time.
  • 00:18:49.877 --> 00:18:51.379
  • I'm not gonna take the time to unpack that.
  • 00:18:51.379 --> 00:18:54.015
  • I'll leave it for your own reflection, but i'll give you
  • 00:18:54.015 --> 00:18:56.918
  • One example.
  • 00:18:56.918 --> 00:18:58.252
  • Paul, he's on a roman ship.
  • 00:18:58.252 --> 00:18:59.987
  • It's taken him two years to get to rome.
  • 00:18:59.987 --> 00:19:02.023
  • The holy spirit told him, "you have to go to rome to bear
  • 00:19:02.023 --> 00:19:03.958
  • Witness for me about jesus."
  • 00:19:03.958 --> 00:19:08.062
  • And his pathway, you know, if the lord told me that, "i want
  • 00:19:08.062 --> 00:19:09.997
  • You to go to jerusalem and bear witness about me."
  • 00:19:09.997 --> 00:19:14.502
  • I think, great, can i have a business class ticket?
  • 00:19:14.502 --> 00:19:18.472
  • I'm open.
  • 00:19:18.472 --> 00:19:21.275
  • Paul's arrested and there's multiple assassination plots
  • 00:19:21.275 --> 00:19:24.078
  • Against his life.
  • 00:19:24.078 --> 00:19:25.580
  • He's tried before multiple roman governors and leaders.
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  • He's finally put on board a ship that's caught in a storm.
  • 00:19:30.451 --> 00:19:33.254
  • They think they're going to die.
  • 00:19:33.254 --> 00:19:34.589
  • After all of that, an angel shows up and says, "paul, it's
  • 00:19:34.589 --> 00:19:42.430
  • Gonna be okay.
  • 00:19:42.430 --> 00:19:46.067
  • Don't be afraid."
  • 00:19:46.067 --> 00:19:48.703
  • You know why angels tell you not to be afraid?
  • 00:19:48.703 --> 00:19:52.506
  • Because we're afraid.
  • 00:19:52.506 --> 00:19:55.376
  • It's not like empty words.
  • 00:19:55.376 --> 00:19:56.744
  • It's not some biblical greeting.
  • 00:19:56.744 --> 00:20:01.182
  • It's gonna be okay.
  • 00:20:01.182 --> 00:20:03.818
  • Your ship will run aground.
  • 00:20:03.818 --> 00:20:05.152
  • The ship's gonna be destroyed, but you and the crew, you'll be
  • 00:20:05.152 --> 00:20:07.154
  • All right.
  • 00:20:07.154 --> 00:20:08.923
  • Just ride it out.
  • 00:20:08.923 --> 00:20:12.126
  • You gotta love paul.
  • 00:20:12.126 --> 00:20:13.461
  • He turned around and told the whole crew,
  • 00:20:13.461 --> 00:20:14.795
  • "i told you not to sail."
  • 00:20:14.795 --> 00:20:17.598
  • But throughout the journey, you hear--
  • 00:20:21.469 --> 00:20:23.504
  • You find paul listening to the lord.
  • 00:20:23.504 --> 00:20:26.807
  • I wanna be a better listener.
  • 00:20:26.807 --> 00:20:30.344
  • He changes his schedule.
  • 00:20:30.344 --> 00:20:32.480
  • He changed the entire trajectory of his life.
  • 00:20:32.480 --> 00:20:37.018
  • I mean, he burned a career all the way to the ground.
  • 00:20:37.018 --> 00:20:40.554
  • He lost all of his friends, his associates.
  • 00:20:40.554 --> 00:20:43.991
  • He took an education that was remarkable and seemingly set
  • 00:20:43.991 --> 00:20:47.962
  • It aside.
  • 00:20:47.962 --> 00:20:49.297
  • God used it, but he didn't use it for the purposes that paul
  • 00:20:49.297 --> 00:20:51.032
  • Built it.
  • 00:20:51.032 --> 00:20:54.702
  • He was willing to listen to the lord.
  • 00:20:54.702 --> 00:20:57.204
  • See, i have an insistent tendency that god listened
  • 00:20:57.204 --> 00:21:02.043
  • To me.
  • 00:21:02.043 --> 00:21:05.346
  • You know, i spend a lot of time in christian literature and
  • 00:21:05.346 --> 00:21:08.182
  • Stuff, and we write a lot of messages and a lot of books on
  • 00:21:08.182 --> 00:21:10.718
  • How to get your prayers answered and the hidden keys to
  • 00:21:10.718 --> 00:21:14.322
  • Get god to do what you want, the secret path to, you
  • 00:21:14.322 --> 00:21:17.858
  • Know, whatever.
  • 00:21:17.858 --> 00:21:19.193
  • And i mean, so much of our language is how to get god to
  • 00:21:19.193 --> 00:21:21.128
  • Listen to me.
  • 00:21:21.128 --> 00:21:23.030
  • And i would submit to you that the real essence is how can i
  • 00:21:23.030 --> 00:21:25.566
  • Learn to listen to god.
  • 00:21:25.566 --> 00:21:28.269
  • Do i really wanna hear him?
  • 00:21:28.269 --> 00:21:30.271
  • Or am i afraid he's gonna ask me to do something that i don't
  • 00:21:30.271 --> 00:21:32.907
  • Wanna do?
  • 00:21:32.907 --> 00:21:34.241
  • Listen, if god asks you to do it, it will be better if you
  • 00:21:34.241 --> 00:21:36.243
  • Do it.
  • 00:21:36.243 --> 00:21:39.180
  • I don't have anything that's gonna help him.
  • 00:21:39.180 --> 00:21:45.986
  • I want to be a better listener.
  • 00:21:45.986 --> 00:21:48.422
  • Now, that handful, it's not an inclusive list.
  • 00:21:48.422 --> 00:21:51.325
  • Maybe we'll work on a more expanded list.
  • 00:21:51.325 --> 00:21:52.993
  • I don't know.
  • 00:21:52.993 --> 00:21:54.795
  • But for the most--for the moment, i want to invite you
  • 00:21:54.795 --> 00:21:57.331
  • Away from allowing unexpected circumstances and unpleasant
  • 00:21:57.331 --> 00:22:01.068
  • Circumstances and unplanned circumstances to rob you of your
  • 00:22:01.068 --> 00:22:04.739
  • Momentum with the lord.
  • 00:22:04.739 --> 00:22:07.708
  • There may be a threat against your life or a plot for your
  • 00:22:07.708 --> 00:22:10.511
  • Assassination, or it may just feel like your future has been
  • 00:22:10.511 --> 00:22:14.115
  • Threatened, or someone has tried to choke the life out of your
  • 00:22:14.115 --> 00:22:17.852
  • Dreams, but god is faithful.
  • 00:22:17.852 --> 00:22:22.690
  • And i wanna invite you, and if there's work you need to do, if
  • 00:22:22.690 --> 00:22:25.559
  • There's spiritual work you need to do to forgive or repent or
  • 00:22:25.559 --> 00:22:30.331
  • To overcome, ask the holy spirit.
  • 00:22:30.331 --> 00:22:32.433
  • He will help you.
  • 00:22:32.433 --> 00:22:33.834
  • There are tools available.
  • 00:22:33.834 --> 00:22:35.336
  • You don't have to carry those--that baggage.
  • 00:22:35.336 --> 00:22:40.074
  • You can be free.
  • 00:22:40.074 --> 00:22:41.409
  • Let's complete--let's be faithful to the vision
  • 00:22:41.409 --> 00:22:44.779
  • From heaven.
  • 00:22:44.779 --> 00:22:47.014
  • The quicker we commit ourselves to preaching this gospel of the
  • 00:22:47.014 --> 00:22:49.784
  • Kingdom in the whole world, the quicker the king will come back
  • 00:22:49.784 --> 00:22:52.486
  • And we'll get on with next.
  • 00:22:52.486 --> 00:22:55.122
  • I'm ready.
  • 00:22:55.122 --> 00:22:56.490
  • I don't know about you.
  • 00:22:56.490 --> 00:22:59.326
  • "well, you know, i was just hoping i could go on my
  • 00:22:59.326 --> 00:23:01.662
  • Summer vacation."
  • 00:23:01.662 --> 00:23:02.997
  • Well, i'm pretty much sure the king in his glory is better than
  • 00:23:02.997 --> 00:23:06.734
  • The beach you picked out.
  • 00:23:06.734 --> 00:23:09.937
  • Well, i'm okay with the beach, but i brought you
  • 00:23:09.937 --> 00:23:16.210
  • A proclamation.
  • 00:23:16.210 --> 00:23:17.778
  • We stand together.
  • 00:23:17.778 --> 00:23:19.213
  • If you're at home, stand up with us.
  • 00:23:19.213 --> 00:23:20.548
  • We're gonna say it together.
  • 00:23:20.548 --> 00:23:22.883
  • You don't have to be in the building to get free.
  • 00:23:22.883 --> 00:23:26.187
  • You know, i have learned that in the last, i don't know, a
  • 00:23:26.187 --> 00:23:30.291
  • Handful of years.
  • 00:23:30.291 --> 00:23:31.692
  • I've talked to dozens and dozens of people across our nation and
  • 00:23:31.692 --> 00:23:35.129
  • Beyond who have found tremendous freedom from the lord by
  • 00:23:35.129 --> 00:23:40.434
  • Watching on a phone.
  • 00:23:40.434 --> 00:23:46.006
  • That violates almost all the things i was trained for.
  • 00:23:46.006 --> 00:23:50.744
  • You know, i was told we had to provide adequate parking that's
  • 00:23:50.744 --> 00:23:56.016
  • Convenient, and you have to maintain the building in a
  • 00:23:56.016 --> 00:24:00.287
  • Certain way, and the square footage in the nursery per the
  • 00:24:00.287 --> 00:24:02.656
  • Number of adults who attend, and i know the numbers.
  • 00:24:02.656 --> 00:24:06.293
  • And there's some truth in all of that for a local community, but
  • 00:24:06.293 --> 00:24:09.897
  • The reality is, god's desire to help his people be free is so
  • 00:24:09.897 --> 00:24:13.267
  • Great that if we will expose ourselves to the truth and
  • 00:24:13.267 --> 00:24:16.470
  • Receive it, you can be free however or wherever you get
  • 00:24:16.470 --> 00:24:19.874
  • The truth.
  • 00:24:19.874 --> 00:24:21.208
  • Some of us have forfeited freedom in christ because we
  • 00:24:21.208 --> 00:24:23.611
  • Were mad about a parking place or the carpet in the nursery.
  • 00:24:23.611 --> 00:24:26.514
  • That's absurd.
  • 00:24:26.514 --> 00:24:29.984
  • Lord, forgive us.
  • 00:24:29.984 --> 00:24:32.486
  • Now, i'll do all the work to provide the tools and the
  • 00:24:32.486 --> 00:24:35.022
  • Resources, and i will listen to the experts on where comfort is
  • 00:24:35.022 --> 00:24:38.058
  • Defined, but at the end of the day, i intend to serve the lord,
  • 00:24:38.058 --> 00:24:40.995
  • And i wanna invite you to intend to be free.
  • 00:24:40.995 --> 00:24:45.065
  • Do not allow the enemy in his attacks.
  • 00:24:45.065 --> 00:24:47.601
  • Nothing, the things that happened to joseph weren't fair.
  • 00:24:47.601 --> 00:24:49.837
  • The things that happened to saul of tarsus were not fair.
  • 00:24:49.837 --> 00:24:52.907
  • John being imprisoned was not fair, but they were profitable
  • 00:24:52.907 --> 00:24:59.747
  • For eternity.
  • 00:24:59.747 --> 00:25:02.383
  • Now, you and i have to decide, are we gonna live with the grief
  • 00:25:02.383 --> 00:25:06.520
  • That evil has brought to us?
  • 00:25:06.520 --> 00:25:08.022
  • Are we gonna to cancel its invitation in our hearts and say
  • 00:25:08.022 --> 00:25:11.759
  • We've been set free in christ, god is faithful in our lives?
  • 00:25:11.759 --> 00:25:16.530
  • I brought you a proclamation.
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  • I said that.
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  • Here we go.
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  • "we have cast our lot with the prince of peace, we have yielded
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  • Our will to the lord of lords, we are servants of the king, we
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  • Reflect the beauty of the lily of the valley, we stand in the
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  • Strength of the lion of judah, we live in health through the
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  • Great physician, our needs are met because he is our abundance.
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  • We know our path because we follow the great shepherd.
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  • We are participants in the kingdom of god
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  • Because we found the door.
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  • Congregation: we are righteous because of his sacrifice.
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  • Allen: we have taken hold of true life because he is risen.
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  • His name is jesus of nazareth, he is christ, our lord and king,
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  • We will not stop," amen.
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  • God bless you.
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  • Allen: how we begin our year, it matters.
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  • So, we've created a tool to help you get the year off on the
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  • Right foot.
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  • It's a devotional for this year.
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  • We've taken our email devotionals that you're familiar
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  • With and we've edited into a book, 365-day devotional with a
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  • Little short thought for the day, a scripture verse, a
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  • Prayer, just a little momentum for every day.
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  • Let's start this year on purpose, inviting god's best
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  • Into our lives.
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  • Many of you are familiar with those devotionals.
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  • You get them in your your inbox.
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  • We want to give you a hard copy, maybe you get a second copy,
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  • Share it with a friend, use it as a mission project this year,
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  • Maybe take it to work, recruit somebody that you're
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  • Working with.
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  • It's a simple way to invite god into the beginning of your day
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  • On purpose, and if we do that, i believe the outcome will be
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  • Truly significant.
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  • God in the midst of whatever we're doing makes the
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  • Outcomes better.
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  • It's an exciting time.
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  • I like the beginning of a new year.
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  • All the promise and the hope that that brings, let's put god
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  • In the center of it.
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  • "turn up the light" is the name of the devotional, and i believe
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  • It'll do just that in your life.
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