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Allen Jackson - One Home At A Time (Part 2)

October 30, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - One Home At A Time (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - One Home At A Time (Part 2) | October 30, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: you know, we're witnessing something of a crisis
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  • In our nation, something i never thought i would see: expressions
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  • Of antisemitism, hatred for the jewish people, coming from
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  • America, coming from the christian community, the
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  • Conservative side of the ideological spectrum,
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  • To a degree and scope i've never seen before.
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  • Well, it was important enough that i stopped and put together
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  • A book.
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  • The title of it is "supporting israel: how far is too far?"
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  • It's an important concept that isn't political.
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  • It's grounded in a biblical worldview.
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  • I think we need to understand our responsibilities to the
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  • Jewish people, to the modern-day state of israel, not from
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  • An ideological perspective, not from the perspective of nation
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  • States, but as people of god.
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  • It's important.
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  • It's an important season, a lot of voices.
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  • You know, i know there's some fatigue with the conflict in the
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  • Middle east, but we can't afford to be fatigued with our
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  • Assignments to honor god and the responsibilities that come
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  • With that.
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  • I believe the book will be a help to you.
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  • I believe it'll help you navigate the conversation with
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  • Your family and your friends.
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  • Enjoy the read.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: you know, i understand that hospitality and opening
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  • Your home, it's inconvenient, it's uncomfortable, it's not
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  • Restful, it's a sacrifice, that--all of those things
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  • Are the components
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  • That make it possible for god to use it in a remarkable way.
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  • I don't want you to be reckless or--but i don't want you to wait
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  • For the perfect environment.
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  • I've learned i can't tell who's gonna respond to the lord.
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  • Oftentimes people i think would be the most likely candidates to
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  • Be significant in god's kingdom don't seem too interested in
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  • People that "i think oh they, no way."
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  • They have a heart for god.
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  • But i can tell you as the church was trying to get their legs
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  • Under them to figure out what to do after jesus left.
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  • One of the foundational components was this practice
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  • Of hospitality.
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  • In acts chapter 5, as the story emerging, it says, "day after
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  • Day,"--there's a theme here.
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  • Every day it said, daily, now, "day after day, in temple courts
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  • And from house to house, they never stopped teaching and
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  • Proclaiming the good news that jesus is the christ."
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  • And i hear people say, "well, the new testament church was
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  • A house church," please don't say that.
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  • The ignorance it suggests about scripture is stunning.
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  • On the day of pentecost, thousands of--3000 people
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  • Were baptized.
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  • There's people being saved every day.
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  • Just in the city of jerusalem, there are thousands and
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  • Thousands of people coming to faith.
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  • They're meeting on the temple mount on a regular basis.
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  • That temple mount would accommodate tens of thousands
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  • Of people.
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  • They were gathering people in such numbers that it caused the
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  • Sadducees, the religious political leaders to become
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  • Jealous of the apostles.
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  • So it's true they met in homes for meals and such, but it far
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  • Outgrew their homes.
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  • What i'm suggesting is that your home is an incubator, it's
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  • A cell.
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  • It's an opportunity for you under the influence of your life
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  • And your spiritual momentum and your spiritual maturity and
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  • Wherever that is to practice hospitality being hospitable to
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  • People and saying, "god has changed my life and i believe he
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  • Would change yours."
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  • When we say that the change is gonna begin at our
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  • Kitchen tables.
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  • I certainly--i mean, we're inviting you and i hope you've
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  • Begun one meal a week as a family.
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  • No device, just one meal a week.
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  • It's kind of a spiritual health check.
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  • How you been since we were together last?
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  • What have you wept about?
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  • What have you celebrated?
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  • What victories have you had?
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  • What's frightening to you?
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  • If you made new friends, how are your old friends?
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  • It's a checkup.
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  • But you can use that same kitchen table for another
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  • Gathering of people beyond your family.
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  • Oh, i knew you wouldn't be satisfied with one night.
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  • In acts 5:42, the church grew from house to house, and they
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  • Never stopped.
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  • In acts chapter 8, the opposition has become very
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  • Pointed because of the jealousy.
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  • And it says, "saul began to destroy the church.
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  • Going from house to house, he dragged off men and women and
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  • Put them in prison."
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  • If you'll allow me, i would submit to you that the house to
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  • House description is a description of the front line of
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  • The spiritual conflict that was emerging in jerusalem.
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  • The message of the gospel is growing from house to house.
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  • It's not limited to the houses, and the hatred for the
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  • Christians is being expressed from house to house.
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  • That seems very contemporary to me.
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  • In the attempts to redefine our homes, to redefine our families,
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  • To redefine human sexuality.
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  • To set aside biblical prescriptions of authority and
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  • Responsibilities in the home.
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  • To try to separate parents from their spiritual responsibility
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  • For their children.
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  • To elevate voices other than parents as being primary
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  • Assignment givers in our homes.
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  • I don't believe teachers, teachers unions, should have
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  • An authority greater than the parents in their home.
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  • Bear with me a moment.
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  • I don't believe coaches, and whatever extracurricular
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  • Activity your children are involved in, whoever is leading
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  • Them, i don't believe they should have greater authority
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  • Than the parents in their homes.
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  • There's an attitude that's emerged that's unsettling to me.
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  • I don't think it's godly.
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  • I don't care if it's coming from christian settings.
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  • I don't think it's god honoring.
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  • There's a battle for our homes, for the priorities in our homes,
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  • And the values in our homes.
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  • And parents, we've got to understand it's important and
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  • That's why the hospitality becomes so important.
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  • Engage your family in that.
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  • Well, we have things to do.
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  • We're busy we're committed to all these activities.
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  • We're too busy to practice what the scripture tells us 'cause
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  • We're busy doing what the culture tells us we should do.
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  • These are the things we have to do or to limit our future and
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  • It'll limit our opportunities.
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  • And so, we're chasing something other than god's invitations.
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  • I like sports and extracurricular activities.
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  • I've been engaged in it most of my life.
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  • But i don't wanna substitute him for honoring the lord.
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  • Teach your children how to practice hospitality.
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  • I'm not clever.
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  • I was shown to me very early in my life and i saw the outcomes,
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  • And it's still with me today.
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  • This church grew from a home, somebody opened up.
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  • And this church continues to grow because people just like
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  • Those of us gathered, open our homes and our lives to people
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  • And say, we believe god would change your life.
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  • He's changed mine.
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  • And people look at us, "well, if he could do it for you, it'd be
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  • Easy for him to do it for me."
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  • And we're going, "yeah, it probably would."
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  • Acts 28, this is the end of the book of acts.
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  • Paul's made it all the way to rome as a prisoner.
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  • It's been kind of a bumpy journey.
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  • But he arrives in rome, he's under guard.
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  • He's awaiting trial.
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  • He says, "for two whole years paul stayed there in his own
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  • Rented house and welcomed all who came to see him."
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  • What's the word for that?
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  • Hospitality.
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  • And, "boldly and without hindrance he preached the
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  • Kingdom of god and taught about the lord jesus christ."
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  • He's a prisoner.
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  • Hospitality initiated by god in acts chapter 10.
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  • The cornelius, the centurion in caesarea has an angelic visit,
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  • So he sends some people to find this peter that he was told
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  • About, and they get the joppa and they find peter and "the men
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  • Replied, 'we have come from cornelius the centurion.
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  • He's a righteous and god-fearing man, who is respected by all the
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  • Jewish people.
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  • A holy angel told him to have you come to his house."'
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  • An angel told him he should open his house and invite in
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  • A jewish man.
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  • So here we are, would you please come with us?
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  • We have brought you an invitation.
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  • An expression of hospitality opened the non-jewish world to
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  • The outpouring of the holy spirit.
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  • Who are you and i to say that practicing hospitality is
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  • A small thing?
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  • Who are we to say that a glass of sweet tea, or a cup of
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  • Coffee, or the inconvenience of opening our home
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  • Is insignificant.
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  • I'm quite confident cornelius, didn't think, "you know, i bet
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  • I could do something for the entire non-jewish world."
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  • No, i think he just said, "yes," to an invitation that god put in
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  • Front of him.
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  • They got peter in trouble.
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  • He goes back to jerusalem.
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  • The holy spirits poured out in caesarea just like it was in
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  • Acts chapter 2, on the day of pentecost, and he goes back to
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  • Jerusalem, which at this point in the story is the center of
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  • The church.
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  • The leadership team of the church is in jerusalem.
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  • It says, "the apostles and the brothers throughout judea heard
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  • That the gentiles had received the word of god."
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  • Well, you would think the next phrase would be, and so they
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  • Erupted in praise.
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  • "so when peter went up to jerusalem, the circumcised
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  • Believers,"--that's code for the jewish believers,
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  • "criticized him."
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  • What did he do?
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  • Did he read from the message?
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  • "they criticized him and they said, 'you went into the house
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  • Of uncircumcised men and you ate with them."'
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  • Guilty.
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  • But actually, and then peter tells him--you should go read
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  • It, there's over half a dozen places where peter said this was
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  • Supernaturally directed.
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  • "an angel visited cornelius.
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  • I had a vision of a sheet.
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  • Strangers knocked on my door and said we had an angelic visit.
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  • When we got to cornelius's house, we hardly said anything,
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  • And the holy spirit fell on them.
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  • But we were guilty we accepted their hospitality."
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  • Hospitality initiated by god changed the trajectory of the
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  • Moving of the spirit of god in the earth.
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  • It still happens that way.
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  • Hospitality is an expression of gratitude.
  • 00:10:54.970 --> 00:10:57.740
  • In acts 16, in philippi.
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  • "one of those listening to paul was a woman named lydia, a
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  • Dealer in purple cloth from the city of somewhere, and she was a
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  • Worshiper of god.
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  • And the lord opened her heart to respond to paul's message.
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  • And when she and the members of her household were baptized, she
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  • Invited us into her home.
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  • 'if you consider me a believer in the lord,' she said, 'come
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  • Stay at my house.'
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  • And she persuaded us."
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  • In this case, hospitality was an expression of gratitude.
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  • What's your motivation for practicing hospitality?
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  • Gratitude to the lord for what he's done for you.
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  • "well, pastor, can we hire you to be hospitable for us?
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  • You look like a friendly sort."
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  • Same chapter, acts 16.
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  • This is interesting.
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  • They're still in philippi now paul's and his crew are
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  • In prison.
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  • For their ministry and it says at the hour the--you remember
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  • The story, he and silas are worshiping the lord and the
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  • Jail shaken.
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  • And their chains fall off and the jailer comes in and if the
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  • The the people you're in charge of caring for escape, you'll pay
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  • For their escape with your life.
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  • So the jailer draws his sword imagining that everybody has
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  • Evacuated, escaped.
  • 00:12:12.848 --> 00:12:15.017
  • And paul says, no we're all still here.
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  • And he tells the jailer, his jesus story.
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  • He says, "at that hour of the night, the jailer took them
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  • Washed their wounds; immediately he and his family were baptized.
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  • And the jailer brought them into his house and set a meal
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  • Before them.
  • 00:12:31.767 --> 00:12:33.169
  • And he was filled with joy because he'd come to believe in
  • 00:12:33.169 --> 00:12:35.538
  • God--he and his whole family."
  • 00:12:35.538 --> 00:12:36.906
  • Why did the jailer practice hospitality towards paul
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  • And silas?
  • 00:12:39.842 --> 00:12:41.177
  • They're prisoners, they're hated.
  • 00:12:41.177 --> 00:12:43.579
  • They--they've already--they're public enemies.
  • 00:12:43.579 --> 00:12:46.215
  • Why would he practice that kind of hospitality?
  • 00:12:46.215 --> 00:12:49.618
  • Because he's so grateful for the message that they brought him.
  • 00:12:49.618 --> 00:12:53.756
  • You see, when you and i practice hospitality, it's gratitude for
  • 00:12:53.756 --> 00:12:57.193
  • What god has done for us.
  • 00:12:57.193 --> 00:12:58.527
  • Why would corrie ten boom and her family risk the wrath of the
  • 00:12:58.527 --> 00:13:02.665
  • Germans, to hide jews?
  • 00:13:02.665 --> 00:13:05.067
  • Because they were so grateful for what god had done for them.
  • 00:13:05.067 --> 00:13:10.673
  • Remember what jesus said, "the one who has forgiven much,
  • 00:13:10.673 --> 00:13:14.877
  • Forgives much.
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  • And if you think you're forgiven little, you forgive little."
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  • I don't think we understand what god has done for us.
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  • How blessed we are, the goodness he's shown us, the abundance of
  • 00:13:26.722 --> 00:13:29.725
  • Our lives, the freedoms and the liberties that have been so full
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  • Around us, the opportunities for our children.
  • 00:13:33.929 --> 00:13:41.770
  • Allen: now how should we respond to the nation of israel and the
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  • Jewish people?
  • 00:13:48.811 --> 00:13:50.145
  • It's a complex question in today's world.
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  • Well, i've written a book, "supporting israel: how far is
  • 00:13:52.314 --> 00:13:55.084
  • Too far?"
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  • To help us establish a biblical perspective on what has become a
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  • Complex question in contemporary culture.
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  • We don't wanna follow the guidance and the counsel of some
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  • Of the elite universities in this nation.
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  • We wanna form a perspective that's built from god's word.
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  • If we'll do that, it'll bring his blessings to our lives.
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  • Allen: i thought just--i thought since we--both of those passages
  • 00:14:48.237 --> 00:14:51.473
  • From act 16, were in philippi.
  • 00:14:51.473 --> 00:14:53.676
  • When morning comes, they send a message to release paul and
  • 00:14:53.676 --> 00:14:56.478
  • Silas from prison.
  • 00:14:56.478 --> 00:14:57.813
  • Some remember the story.
  • 00:14:57.813 --> 00:14:59.181
  • And paul sends back and says, "no, we're roman citizens.
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  • You tried us and you had us beaten without due process, we
  • 00:15:02.284 --> 00:15:07.489
  • Won't leave.
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  • You broke roman law, now you're in trouble."
  • 00:15:09.925 --> 00:15:12.594
  • It says that the magistrates came down to see him frightened
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  • And said, "may we escort you out of the city."
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  • We'll give you a parade if you will leave.
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  • And look what it says in acts 16:39.
  • 00:15:23.672 --> 00:15:25.507
  • "they came to appease them and escorted them from the prison,
  • 00:15:25.507 --> 00:15:28.711
  • Requesting them to leave the city.
  • 00:15:28.711 --> 00:15:30.946
  • And after paul and silas came out of the prison, they went
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  • Back to lydia's house."
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  • I love the symmetry of that.
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  • The woman they met when they were sharing the gospel that
  • 00:15:41.557 --> 00:15:44.026
  • Opened their home to them.
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  • After the public riots, and the imprisonment, and the
  • 00:15:46.228 --> 00:15:48.964
  • Transformation of the jailer's home, they're being escorted out
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  • Of town.
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  • Before we go, we gotta go stop and see lydia.
  • 00:15:53.268 --> 00:15:55.771
  • She opened the door for us in this town.
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  • Folks, hospitality is available to every one of us.
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  • I brought some observations.
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  • They're on the wall in the light lobby.
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  • You can go check me after church.
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  • These aren't original with me.
  • 00:16:08.050 --> 00:16:09.418
  • A whole team of people worked on this.
  • 00:16:09.418 --> 00:16:11.253
  • I took three from the ten boom families, a simple, those first
  • 00:16:11.253 --> 00:16:15.424
  • Three i think came from the jackson side.
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  • George and betty, a simple prayer can change everything.
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  • Our family was changed by a simple prayer from a person who
  • 00:16:22.398 --> 00:16:24.700
  • Wasn't a believer.
  • 00:16:24.700 --> 00:16:27.669
  • "if there is a god, let me know the truth before i die."
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  • That's not a faith filled prayer.
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  • That's not even a healing prayer.
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  • That's a cry of desperation.
  • 00:16:34.009 --> 00:16:36.745
  • So you don't have to know how to pray always.
  • 00:16:36.745 --> 00:16:39.548
  • Now that's not an excuse to be lazy, learn to pray.
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  • But god will answer prayers way beyond our level of
  • 00:16:42.951 --> 00:16:45.687
  • Understanding and insight.
  • 00:16:45.687 --> 00:16:47.656
  • A simple prayer can change it.
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  • What if somebody comes into my home when they need something
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  • I don't know how to pray for?
  • 00:16:50.559 --> 00:16:51.927
  • Well, just ask god to help.
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  • There's this thing called let's pray.
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  • Remember one sentence.
  • 00:16:55.831 --> 00:16:57.166
  • It's hard to get in too much trouble in one sentence.
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  • And you don't have to appear spiritual.
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  • Stop with that.
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  • Like if somebody asks you to pray for something, you don't
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  • Know how to pray, i'll suggest a prayer.
  • 00:17:06.442 --> 00:17:09.745
  • "god, i don't know how to pray.
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  • Help in jesus's name."
  • 00:17:11.914 --> 00:17:19.021
  • Was that the best you got?
  • 00:17:19.021 --> 00:17:20.389
  • Well, what have you got?
  • 00:17:20.389 --> 00:17:22.791
  • Pretense?
  • 00:17:22.791 --> 00:17:24.793
  • Big words?
  • 00:17:24.793 --> 00:17:28.764
  • A simple prayer can change everything.
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  • It changed my life.
  • 00:17:30.732 --> 00:17:33.268
  • It changed the whole trajectory of my life.
  • 00:17:33.268 --> 00:17:35.337
  • The second thing that's out there, is opening our homes and
  • 00:17:35.337 --> 00:17:38.207
  • Our hearts leads to powerful transformations.
  • 00:17:38.207 --> 00:17:42.144
  • How many of you have been--your life's been changed by the power
  • 00:17:42.144 --> 00:17:44.446
  • Of the gospel?
  • 00:17:44.446 --> 00:17:46.548
  • That's a seed that came out of hospitality.
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  • Look at how many lives have been multiplied.
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  • Maybe if we keep practicing.
  • 00:17:54.823 --> 00:17:57.526
  • The third one, give your best to god and he'll take care of
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  • The rest.
  • 00:17:59.928 --> 00:18:01.964
  • People say to me frequently, "did you imagine what god was
  • 00:18:01.964 --> 00:18:04.800
  • Gonna do?"
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  • No.
  • 00:18:06.135 --> 00:18:10.973
  • My faith was pretty close to maxed out and we put a tent up
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  • On the edge of a cotton field.
  • 00:18:13.709 --> 00:18:16.478
  • I thought, wow!
  • 00:18:16.478 --> 00:18:19.114
  • Look what the lord did.
  • 00:18:19.114 --> 00:18:24.153
  • And i put in the middle of that list of seven, number four, is
  • 00:18:24.153 --> 00:18:26.955
  • Really kind of my insertion to both of these family stories
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  • About hospitality.
  • 00:18:30.659 --> 00:18:32.127
  • It's in the messiness of life, that they lived out their faith.
  • 00:18:32.127 --> 00:18:38.433
  • 'cause you read the stories and it all seems so pristine and
  • 00:18:38.433 --> 00:18:41.003
  • Clear because to put it in a book or put it in a film or in a
  • 00:18:41.003 --> 00:18:43.472
  • Play, you got crunch it into a few minutes and you take out all
  • 00:18:43.472 --> 00:18:46.909
  • The messy parts.
  • 00:18:46.909 --> 00:18:49.178
  • Well, on the half of that story, i lived in the messy part.
  • 00:18:49.178 --> 00:18:53.315
  • And it didn't always feel godly.
  • 00:18:53.315 --> 00:18:56.251
  • It didn't always feel fun or peaceful or enthusiastic and it
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  • Didn't feel like a miracle.
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  • It just, it was figuring out what to do next.
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  • I have a hole in the floor.
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  • Nobody else has volunteered to open their homes, so don't fall
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  • In the hole, just--and in your own life, hospitality isn't
  • 00:19:14.903 --> 00:19:23.478
  • Because everything is just right.
  • 00:19:23.478 --> 00:19:28.183
  • And we can get better at it and we can learn and we
  • 00:19:28.183 --> 00:19:30.419
  • Can practice.
  • 00:19:30.419 --> 00:19:31.753
  • It's not an excuse to be grumpy and cranky.
  • 00:19:31.753 --> 00:19:34.256
  • Number five, and this next three came from the ten booms.
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  • God can use you wherever you are.
  • 00:19:36.692 --> 00:19:40.929
  • I think we would all agree that the ten boom family was not in
  • 00:19:40.929 --> 00:19:43.432
  • An optimal place to start a global ministry.
  • 00:19:43.432 --> 00:19:47.703
  • Dutch watchmaker of modest resources occupied by
  • 00:19:47.703 --> 00:19:52.574
  • Nazi germany.
  • 00:19:52.574 --> 00:19:54.843
  • The ten booms have a compassion on the jewish people and the
  • 00:19:54.843 --> 00:19:57.946
  • Nazis don't.
  • 00:19:57.946 --> 00:20:00.082
  • You would think, well, now there's a formula to launch
  • 00:20:00.082 --> 00:20:02.117
  • Something that will impact the world.
  • 00:20:02.117 --> 00:20:04.720
  • Quite the opposite's true.
  • 00:20:04.720 --> 00:20:06.488
  • God can use you wherever you are.
  • 00:20:06.488 --> 00:20:09.091
  • I mean, a part of corrie's story and nan's videos that she'll
  • 00:20:09.091 --> 00:20:11.893
  • Share with you is even in prison, the barracks they were
  • 00:20:11.893 --> 00:20:15.564
  • Put in was flea-infested.
  • 00:20:15.564 --> 00:20:16.999
  • It was so bad that the guards wouldn't come in the--and corrie
  • 00:20:16.999 --> 00:20:20.669
  • Was so mad at the lord.
  • 00:20:20.669 --> 00:20:22.037
  • "why would you put me in such a filthy, infested place?"
  • 00:20:22.037 --> 00:20:28.410
  • And she said after a few days she understood because of the
  • 00:20:28.410 --> 00:20:30.912
  • Fleas, the guards wouldn't come in, and they held bible studies
  • 00:20:30.912 --> 00:20:35.384
  • Every night.
  • 00:20:35.384 --> 00:20:39.788
  • That makes the hole in my floor seem pretty simple.
  • 00:20:39.788 --> 00:20:43.258
  • Number six, our daily habits and decisions impact generations.
  • 00:20:43.258 --> 00:20:47.929
  • I believe that.
  • 00:20:47.929 --> 00:20:49.364
  • It's not the doing grand things that nominates us
  • 00:20:49.364 --> 00:20:53.502
  • For significance.
  • 00:20:53.502 --> 00:20:54.870
  • Daniel got thrown in the lions' den 'cause he prayed three times
  • 00:20:54.870 --> 00:20:57.072
  • A day.
  • 00:20:57.072 --> 00:20:58.840
  • And he was really good at the assignments he had.
  • 00:20:58.840 --> 00:21:02.277
  • The routines he was entrusted with, he did so well that his
  • 00:21:02.277 --> 00:21:05.881
  • Enemies couldn't find fault with his work product.
  • 00:21:05.881 --> 00:21:09.751
  • The only thing they could find fault with was he was so
  • 00:21:09.751 --> 00:21:12.287
  • Committed to praying.
  • 00:21:12.287 --> 00:21:15.390
  • And when they passed a law that said he couldn't pray, he went
  • 00:21:15.390 --> 00:21:17.459
  • Home and prayed anyway, and he opened the window so they
  • 00:21:17.459 --> 00:21:19.361
  • Wouldn't miss it.
  • 00:21:19.361 --> 00:21:22.331
  • But it resulted in an edict over the entire persian empire,
  • 00:21:22.331 --> 00:21:26.001
  • Honoring the god of daniel.
  • 00:21:26.001 --> 00:21:29.171
  • But it came because of simple things he did, daily habits and
  • 00:21:29.171 --> 00:21:33.308
  • Decisions that impact generations.
  • 00:21:33.308 --> 00:21:35.911
  • See, part of what i'm asking you to do is to take your daily
  • 00:21:35.911 --> 00:21:38.814
  • Schedules and routines and evaluate them with a god
  • 00:21:38.814 --> 00:21:41.383
  • Perspective and not just a cultural perspective, not just
  • 00:21:41.383 --> 00:21:43.652
  • What your friends do, and what your children's friends do, and
  • 00:21:43.652 --> 00:21:46.655
  • What the secular culture says you should do, and what you can
  • 00:21:46.655 --> 00:21:50.892
  • Find some way to justify, to bring greater alignment between
  • 00:21:50.892 --> 00:21:54.096
  • Your life, and your pattern, and your habits, in the simple
  • 00:21:54.096 --> 00:21:57.232
  • Council of scripture.
  • 00:21:57.232 --> 00:21:59.668
  • It will give your children the best possible future they
  • 00:21:59.668 --> 00:22:02.838
  • Can have.
  • 00:22:02.838 --> 00:22:04.740
  • And finally, strength is found in scripture.
  • 00:22:04.740 --> 00:22:08.343
  • Don't just read your bible privately, let your kids know
  • 00:22:08.343 --> 00:22:10.379
  • You read your bible, read it with them.
  • 00:22:10.379 --> 00:22:13.148
  • You don't have to do it every day, but we do it enough that
  • 00:22:13.148 --> 00:22:15.250
  • They understand it's a real part of who you are.
  • 00:22:15.250 --> 00:22:18.453
  • One of the most profound things in my life.
  • 00:22:18.453 --> 00:22:21.390
  • I'm quite certain one of the things that contribute as much
  • 00:22:21.390 --> 00:22:23.525
  • As any other physical thing that i'm conscious of to me serving
  • 00:22:23.525 --> 00:22:27.062
  • The lord in my life today at this season is when i was a boy
  • 00:22:27.062 --> 00:22:29.664
  • At home.
  • 00:22:29.664 --> 00:22:31.299
  • When everybody was gone and it was just my family in the house
  • 00:22:31.299 --> 00:22:33.969
  • And we were busy but we had a small business and it took all
  • 00:22:33.969 --> 00:22:37.906
  • Of us and there wasn't a lot of downtime, when my parents had
  • 00:22:37.906 --> 00:22:40.375
  • Down time they would sit and read their bibles.
  • 00:22:40.375 --> 00:22:44.579
  • And i was alert enough.
  • 00:22:44.579 --> 00:22:45.914
  • I had friends that had parents and i was in their homes and
  • 00:22:45.914 --> 00:22:48.717
  • Most of them didn't sit and read their bibles.
  • 00:22:48.717 --> 00:22:52.320
  • And i thought, what is wrong with them?
  • 00:22:52.320 --> 00:22:56.091
  • And it was time--you know, i lived under their authority
  • 00:22:56.091 --> 00:22:58.193
  • Under their roof.
  • 00:22:58.193 --> 00:22:59.528
  • I thought out of respect for them, you know, i'll give some
  • 00:22:59.528 --> 00:23:01.396
  • Credence to this it was time for me to leave.
  • 00:23:01.396 --> 00:23:05.000
  • I said to the lord, "i need to know if you're real, i'll honor
  • 00:23:05.000 --> 00:23:07.369
  • You, but if you're not real, i'm gonna set me free."
  • 00:23:07.369 --> 00:23:13.308
  • And i set off on a journey to try to decide, so i started
  • 00:23:13.308 --> 00:23:15.844
  • Trying to honor the lord and figure that out because i
  • 00:23:15.844 --> 00:23:17.579
  • Thought if it's real, i'll get in, but if it's not, i don't
  • 00:23:17.579 --> 00:23:19.815
  • Wanna be bothered with it.
  • 00:23:19.815 --> 00:23:21.149
  • But, that image of them reading their bibles at night when they
  • 00:23:21.149 --> 00:23:25.153
  • Were tired and they would talk about it and get animated, and
  • 00:23:25.153 --> 00:23:27.689
  • They'd come say to us, listen to what we read and we're like,
  • 00:23:27.689 --> 00:23:30.559
  • "we don't, we're watching tv, don't."--oh please share a verse
  • 00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:36.531
  • From the word of god with us.
  • 00:23:36.531 --> 00:23:39.201
  • No, that was not the response they got.
  • 00:23:39.201 --> 00:23:43.705
  • But it was authentic enough that it changed me.
  • 00:23:43.705 --> 00:23:46.408
  • Is your faith authentic enough to impact the people that live
  • 00:23:46.408 --> 00:23:49.144
  • With you?
  • 00:23:49.144 --> 00:23:52.414
  • Hospitality folks, we can do this.
  • 00:23:52.414 --> 00:23:55.517
  • It's on the wall.
  • 00:23:55.517 --> 00:23:56.852
  • Read the wall.
  • 00:23:56.852 --> 00:24:02.624
  • With just a little creativity, you can figure out what's coming
  • 00:24:02.624 --> 00:24:04.793
  • This weekend.
  • 00:24:04.793 --> 00:24:07.696
  • I'll leave that with you.
  • 00:24:07.696 --> 00:24:09.731
  • I wanna pray, that the spirit of god will give us a spirit
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  • Of hospitality.
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  • Would you be willing to receive it?
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  • It'll mess with your calendar.
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  • You'll make some new friends.
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  • You know, and the biblical encouragement is not just to
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  • Show kindness to people who can be kind back to you.
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  • You know, there are--my parents' bible study was like the "island
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  • Of misfit toys."
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  • They invited the people that had nowhere else to go and my
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  • Brothers and i pointed that out very frequently.
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  • Kids are good at that, did you know?
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  • Or at least we were, you know, they probably had
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  • Deviant children.
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  • They might have amounted to something if it hadn't been
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  • For us, they tried.
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  • You ready to receive?
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  • Palms up, lord, thank you for your word and it's truth, the
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  • Encouragement that you're moving in the earth, lord, you
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  • Shepherded those in jerusalem through the persecution and the
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  • Confusion and the loss and the lonely and all the things, lord,
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  • You brought them through and we're in a place where we need
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  • You to bring us through.
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  • And we stand in your presence tonight to offer ourselves,
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  • Use our lives.
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  • Lord, use the bits of influence you've given us and the
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  • Resources at our disposal, and we'd be willing to be
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  • Inconvenienced for the sake of your kingdom.
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  • And we open our lives to others.
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  • And we have the courage to pray and be willing to share what
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  • You've done in us and through us.
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  • Bring a fruitfulness far beyond what we would even know to
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  • Ask for.
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  • May countless numbers of people be changed.
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  • May they see an expression of jesus that opens their lives to
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  • You in a transformational way.
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  • Lord may you be pleased, may you be glorified, may you
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  • Be honored.
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  • And we offer ourselves and our homes and our lives for your
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  • Purposes in jesus's name, amen.
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  • Hallelujah! god bless you.
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  • Allen: you know, we don't read our bibles just for exercise or
  • 00:26:15.957 --> 00:26:18.793
  • Just to be dutiful christians.
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  • We read our bibles to understand how to navigate a complex world,
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  • How to understand what's unfolding around us.
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  • We're living in a season where there's a lot of emotion
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  • Expressed about the jewish people and the nation of israel.
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  • From some very well-established elite places there are voices
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  • Saying they don't deserve our support.
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  • Well, i wrote a book, "supporting israel: how far is
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  • Too far?"
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  • So that we can have a biblical perspective on our response to
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  • Current events.
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  • At the end of the day, i want to align myself with the purposes
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  • Of god, not the thought leaders at elite ivy league schools or
  • 00:26:48.356 --> 00:26:52.861
  • The talking heads in the media.
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  • I intend to stand with the purposes of god.
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  • This book will help you unpack the current events and
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  • Understand the perspective from the viewpoint of scripture on
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  • How you and i can respond in a way that i believe will bring
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  • The blessings of god to our lives and help us accomplish his
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  • Purposes in our generation.
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  • It's worth the read.
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  • ♪♪♪
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