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Allen Jackson - One Nation, Under God

August 9, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - One Nation, Under God
Pastor Allen Jackson's mission is to help people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - One Nation, Under God | August 9, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen jackson: i sat down recently with my father to do
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  • A podcast for my "culture and christianity" podcast.
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  • And it was so valuable to me.
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  • I mean, it was stories that obviously i'm familiar with, but
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  • As i heard him recount his faith, it ignited something in
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  • Me about the faithfulness of god across generations.
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  • Well, i encouraged my dad to put together a book about his
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  • Experiences with the holy spirit.
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  • It changed his life, my parents's life, ultimately my
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  • Family's life.
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  • I believe the book will be a real encouragement to you.
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  • I wanna make it available to you right along with "unleashing the
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  • Power of the holy spirit."
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  • It's something i put together a while back that's been one of
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  • The most effective tools we've ever had in the ministry.
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  • Together they'll open the doorway for you to not just have
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  • Language around the holy spirit but to have something to
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  • Actually do to invite him into your life on a regular basis to
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  • Give you the wisdom you need to help you unlock the problems
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  • That we face, the spirit of god within us to help us guide us
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  • And direct us, that's invaluable and these books will help
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  • You understand.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: we have recently celebrated independence day, the
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  • Fourth of july, and it gives me an opportunity to talk a little
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  • Bit about god and country.
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  • I don't need much of an opportunity.
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  • You know, there are some schools of thought, and unfortunately
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  • Some of them reside in the church and many of them reside
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  • In academia, that if you talk about faith in our nation that
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  • There's something inappropriate, and they start looking
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  • For labels.
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  • And one of the most favorite labels they would have fixed to
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  • You these days is a christian nationalist.
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  • It has many meanings.
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  • I'm not gonna spend my time with that, but i'm unapologetically
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  • Grateful to god for the nation in which i was born.
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  • I believe it's brought to us liberties and freedoms that are
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  • Unique in the world.
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  • We have a history that i don't think can be understood apart
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  • From the blessings of god.
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  • Not to say we're perfect, we're far from that, but there is
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  • No perfect nation.
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  • I've studied enough history.
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  • I assure you, they don't tell us the whole story about very
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  • Many places.
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  • You know, there are other people, there are other segments
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  • Within the church and beyond that if you're an advocate for
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  • The jewish people living in the land of israel, you're a
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  • Christian zionist, and that's hateful, so i'm collecting
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  • Labels that are apparently not good so--
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  • If you don't pray regularly for our nation and the leaders that
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  • Have authority over us, you're ignoring a biblical directive.
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  • And that's not just when the party you choose is in power, so
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  • I hope that is your habit.
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  • I wanna take this session and the next and talk a bit about
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  • One nation under god.
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  • That's our goal.
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  • Not to have a theocracy.
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  • We don't want politicians dictating what should be said in
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  • The church or not said in the church.
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  • We've tolerated that too long since johnson was in the
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  • White house.
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  • We've allowed the federal government to dictate what's
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  • Said in the churches.
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  • I happen to still think the first amendment should be
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  • In play.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • But i do believe that the blessings of god are better for
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  • Any people.
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  • And so that would be our target, to understand that i think i'll
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  • Start with a portion of the declaration of independence.
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  • You have it.
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  • "we hold these truths to be self-evident.
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  • Obvious, that all men are created equal, that they are
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  • Endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.
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  • That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit
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  • Of happiness.
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  • And for the support of this declaration with a firm reliance
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  • On the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge
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  • To each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor."
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  • Wow.
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  • What would happen if those of us in the 21st century made
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  • A commitment like that?
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  • How is it we've come to the point that we think the
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  • Government exists to serve us?
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  • No organization will flourish as long as the people who benefit
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  • From that organization imagine it exists to serve them.
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  • The church will not survive that imagination.
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  • Neither will our nation.
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  • It was john kennedy, whether you like his politics or not, he
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  • Said, let's not ask what our nation can do for us, but what
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  • We can do for our nation.
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  • We have come a long way from that seemingly
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  • Antiquated statement.
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  • But it would help us to move back towards it again.
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  • Our founding fathers, if you were never taught, were willing
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  • To take a stand.
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  • Only about 25% of the colonists were in favor of the american
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  • Revolution, maybe a third.
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  • Another third were standing firmly with britain, and then
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  • There was that fuzzy third in the middle.
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  • So those that took the stand knew if it didn't go their way,
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  • They would lose everything, many of them their lives.
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  • They were willing to be on record publicly for what they
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  • Felt was important.
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  • And 200 almost 50 years later, i respect their courage and their
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  • Willingness to risk everything to gain liberty.
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  • They were not perfect.
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  • And if you've been around academia at all in the recent
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  • Decades, you know it's been fashionable for quite some time
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  • Now to search for the flaws of the founders of our nation, to
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  • Highlight their weaknesses and to suggest that they were men
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  • With no faith, only tremendous greed.
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  • Well, i would remind you in passing at least that all humans
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  • Are flawed.
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  • I don't say that to excuse their behavior.
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  • But they do have to be understood against the context
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  • In which they lived, you and me included.
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  • However, history has spoken clearly on the efforts of those
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  • Who signed our declaration of independence.
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  • This nation dedicated the proposition that all men are
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  • Created, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable
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  • Rights has endured now for almost 250 years.
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  • America is the oldest constitutional republic
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  • On earth.
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  • And we have recently celebrated another birthday.
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  • Americans will hoist their flags and march in parades and set
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  • Off fireworks.
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  • I hope we get to do it again next year.
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  • It's thrilling to me every time i hear the cannons blast.
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  • That rousing finality to the 1812 overture.
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  • If you don't get a lump in your throat when you sing, "america,
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  • God shed his grace on thee," i don't think you're
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  • Paying attention.
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  • I'm very appreciative of the men and women who have stepped
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  • Forward through the decades and made great sacrifices so that
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  • Our freedom and liberty might be extended.
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  • It has not come cheaply or for free.
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  • We live in an age where we're told that faith is
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  • A private matter.
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  • It's not uncommon at all these days.
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  • There's someone who lives in the public square, say, "i have
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  • A personal faith, but i don't want it to influence my
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  • Public responsibilities."
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  • Then get out of the public square, in my opinion.
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  • Or perhaps we hear a statement like, "well, personally i'm
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  • Appalled, but i feel i must be supportive publicly.
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  • There are many ways that we have been coached to separate our
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  • Beliefs from our behaviors.
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  • I don't believe it's a wise pathway.
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  • In fact, to be blunt, i believe it's cowardice.
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  • The new testament refers to our relationship with god in terms
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  • Of a marriage commitment.
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  • Not my imagination, that's one of the images of the new
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  • Testament presents to us.
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  • Imagine, if you will, just turn on your imagination for
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  • A moment, if i told kathy that privately i was devoted to
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  • Our marriage.
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  • Do not get ahead of me.
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  • That whenever we were alone, i would honor those vows.
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  • However, publicly, i didn't think it was prudent to be
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  • Burdened with the limits of a fanatical commitment to
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  • A single person.
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  • That we should display a more inclusive worldview.
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  • I want to model diversity.
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  • I'm afraid some persons might be offended by my refusal to value
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  • Them as highly as i value kathy.
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  • Therefore, when i'm in public, every woman should be received
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  • With an equal expression of appreciation.
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  • Y'all should pray for me because just saying that in public puts
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  • My future in jeopardy. [congregation applauding]
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  • Obviously the notion is foolish.
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  • But no more so than when we abandon our faith and our
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  • Principles because of fear or threat, and we blame it on the
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  • Public square.
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  • We are standard bearers of this generation.
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  • Our choices will determine much of the future for our children
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  • And our grandchildren.
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  • I believe many of you are men and women of character.
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  • You have hearts filled with courage and are committed to
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  • Such things as honor, duty, and faith in a living god.
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  • To borrow robert bork's phrase from a few years ago, "i will
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  • Not willingly slouch towards gomorrah."
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  • We've got to have the courage to stand up on the values and
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  • Principles we believe in, whether they're celebrated or
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  • Applauded or not.
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  • Hebrews 11, chapter 32.
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  • If you don't remember, hebrews 11 is this hall of fame of men
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  • And women of faith.
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  • And at the conclusion they run out of time.
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  • He said, the author says that, he said, i've got more stories,
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  • We gotta hurry through the museum.
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  • He said, "i could go on and on, but i've run out of time.
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  • There are so many more--gideon, and barak, and samson, and
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  • Jephthah, and david, and samuel, and the prophets--through acts
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  • Of faith, they've toppled kingdoms, they've made
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  • Justice work.
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  • They took the promises for themselves."
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  • That's an assertive response.
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  • They took the promises for themselves.
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  • We celebrate our freedom, we celebrate those people who
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  • Spilled their blood to break the bondage of slavery
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  • In our nation.
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  • We celebrate those who waded the shores on the beaches of france
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  • So that we didn't live under tyranny.
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  • Are we gonna take the promises of god?
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  • Are we gonna take the blessings and act like we didn't know we
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  • Were capitulating our values for the momentary prophet?
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  • In ephesians 3, in verse 20, it's the message, but i like the
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  • Translation, says, "god can do anything, you know--far more
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  • Than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your
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  • Wildest dreams!
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  • He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us,
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  • His spirit deeply and gently within us."
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  • The message i've been offering for some season now is that
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  • I believe god would bring change to us.
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  • That we can have a more powerful faith, a more transformative
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  • Faith, a more personal faith, a more spirit directed faith.
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  • We know how to play church.
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  • We know when to sit and stand.
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  • We know the vocabularies to words to use and the beverages
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  • That are appropriated in public, but are we willing to be a
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  • People transformed by the power of god?
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  • I have no interest in playing church, none.
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  • But i have a tremendous enthusiasm to be in the midst of
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  • A group of people who are yielded daily to the authority
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  • Of jesus of nazareth.
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  • Allen: hey, i sat down with my father recently, did a podcast.
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  • He told the story of how he came to faith, how god transformed
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  • Our family.
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  • They started a home bible study.
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  • All the way up to the beginning of this church that i've served
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  • Now for decades.
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  • As i listened, the heart of it was the work of the holy spirit
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  • In his life and through his life.
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  • I asked him to do a book around the topic, and we have it, so
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  • That you can invite the spirit of god to be the dynamic
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  • Allen: galatians 6:9 says, "let us not become weary in
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  • Doing good."
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  • The bible would not tell you not to grow weary in doing good if
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  • You never got weary in doing good.
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  • Don't raise your hand.
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  • How many of you ever get weary with doing good?
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  • Did you ever play "monopoly"?
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  • Remember it's chance.
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  • You get the cards, and you get a get out of jail free card.
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  • I always thought it would be kind of fun if at church once a
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  • Month, you got a i don't have to be a christian today card.
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  • Not to be immoral.
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  • It's just if somebody pulls out in front of you, you can
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  • Hit 'em. [congregation laughing]
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  • And then you can go knock on their window.
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  • And go, hey, it's my day.
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  • Here's my card.
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  • But you're in the grocery store and you're in a hurry, you know,
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  • And you're in the express line.
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  • You got two items, you're trying to get out the door with a cup
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  • Of yogurt and something and the person in front of you has
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  • 32 items.
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  • And you wanna reach around him and take the celery stock and
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  • Beat them about the head and shoulders.
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  • Not causing any real damage, just the humiliation of celery
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  • Juice dripping over their head.
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  • Then you can hand him your card.
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  • Sorry, it's my day.
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  • But the bible says, ugh, that bible, it will mess with
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  • Your business.
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  • Somebody told me years ago, somebody said to me, "once you
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  • Become a christian, you can't even throw a fit and feel good
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  • About it anymore."
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  • You know better than to act that way, you know better.
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  • Let us not become weary in doing good.
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  • Don't give in to the weariness.
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  • It's not that you don't get tired.
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  • Don't give the weariness permission to direct
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  • Your emotions.
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  • Don't use the weariness as an excuse for your poor behavior.
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  • Let's not get weary in doing good.
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  • Well, they should appreciate appreciate it more.
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  • For at the proper time, we will reap a harvest.
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  • You need to circle that little preposition.
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  • It's the next word "if".
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  • For at the proper time you'll reap a harvest if we don't
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  • Give up.
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  • See, when you give in to your weariness, you annihilate
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  • The reward.
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  • It's not worth it, folks.
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  • It's not worth the license to let your emotions run.
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  • It's not worth the freedom to let your words roll.
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  • It's not worth the license you give yourself to be carnal.
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  • "i deserve", no, you don't.
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  • Any time you start a sentence with i deserve, there needs to
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  • Be a warning light flashing because none of us want what
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  • We deserve.
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  • Don't grow weary in doing good because at the proper time we'll
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  • Reap a harvest if we don't give up.
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  • It's not that we always want to do the right thing, but we wanna
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  • Increasingly choose to do the best that we know.
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  • And finally, heroes have heroic lives.
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  • They're not like normal people.
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  • I read an article this week about a celebrity, really
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  • Lifelong celebrity.
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  • His father was famous and he's been famous.
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  • Sounded kind of arrogant to me.
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  • He said he wanted to know what real people, how real
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  • People lived.
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  • So he went to a makeup artist and had prosthetics put on his
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  • Face so he could go out in public and be anonymous.
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  • And after a half a day in the mall, he said, i hated it.
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  • You had to stand in line.
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  • Bless his heart.
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  • I got all weepy and emotional for him, but--heroes,
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  • No i didn't.
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  • Heroes have heroic lives.
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  • Psalm 34:19, you know, we aspire to the wrong things.
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  • It's true.
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  • We've made heroes out of the wrong things.
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  • Folks, you don't wanna be a celebrity nearly as much as you
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  • Want to please god.
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  • You don't want a vacation in all the chic places nearly as much
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  • As you want to please god.
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  • You don't want to stack cash or awards or recognition, none of
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  • That, and forfeit your soul.
  • 00:18:47.108 --> 00:18:52.480
  • Psalm 34:19, "a righteous man may have many troubles, but the
  • 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:56.851
  • Lord delivers him from them all."
  • 00:18:56.851 --> 00:18:59.253
  • Even righteous people have troubles.
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  • And you look at people that you think have a great life.
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  • And i've had the privilege of being around a diverse set
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  • Of people.
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  • Different nations, different places, and i have one
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  • Observation, that everybody's life has all the stress they
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  • Can take.
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  • There are seasons that are sometimes less stressful.
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  • But every life comes with a full plate.
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  • If you can't see it, it doesn't mean it isn't there.
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  • There would be no suicides or addiction amongst wealthy
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  • Powerful people if there weren't pressure and pain there.
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  • More will not make you happy.
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  • I mean neither will last.
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  • I mean poverty is a curse and blessings are a gift from god.
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  • I'm not advocating for poverty, but don't live with the fantasy
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  • That if you had more, your life would be better.
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  • Heroes, i'm gonna wrap this up.
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  • I really will.
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  • Heroes really are larger than life, larger than life in the
  • 00:20:02.583 --> 00:20:04.719
  • Sense that they don't allow life to overcome them.
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  • That they have a different agenda.
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  • They're overcomers.
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  • They face the hardships, the challenges, the difficulties,
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  • The problems, and with faith in god they triumph.
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  • And they provide light for others who are struggling to
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  • Make it through the challenges that they face.
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  • Now those aren't the heroes that typically movies are made about.
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  • They're not often celebrated.
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  • But they will be by god.
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  • Revelation 21 and verse 6.
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  • If you don't know, that's very near the end of the book.
  • 00:20:33.547 --> 00:20:37.385
  • And it's a triumphant statement from our lord.
  • 00:20:37.385 --> 00:20:39.387
  • "he said to me: 'it is done.
  • 00:20:39.387 --> 00:20:42.056
  • I'm the alpha and the omega,'" the first and last letters of
  • 00:20:42.056 --> 00:20:44.692
  • The greek alphabet, the a to the z, "'the beginning and the end.
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  • To him who is thirsty i will give to drink without cost from
  • 00:20:47.828 --> 00:20:51.565
  • The spring of the water of life.
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  • And he who overcomes will inherit all of this, and i will
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  • Be his god and he will be my son.'"
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  • The promises of the book of revelation, the triumphant
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  • Conclusion of this age, when our lord will take his throne.
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  • Those that will benefit from him ascending that place are those
  • 00:21:10.284 --> 00:21:15.756
  • Who overcome.
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  • "i don't want to overcome."
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  • Duly noted, now let's go do it.
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  • "well, i don't know why."
  • 00:21:23.964 --> 00:21:25.333
  • I know, i don't either, but let's go.
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  • "well, it doesn't seem fair."
  • 00:21:28.269 --> 00:21:29.603
  • Okay, let's go anyway.
  • 00:21:29.603 --> 00:21:32.206
  • "well it might be difficult."
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  • Uh-huh, let's move.
  • 00:21:33.574 --> 00:21:35.876
  • "well, everybody doesn't want to."
  • 00:21:35.876 --> 00:21:37.278
  • All right, i'm going.
  • 00:21:37.278 --> 00:21:42.717
  • There's a broad path and a narrow path.
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  • Which one are you gonna choose?
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  • You're gonna complain your way along the broad path?
  • 00:21:47.555 --> 00:21:51.192
  • You're gonna compare yourselves with the joneses?
  • 00:21:51.192 --> 00:21:54.562
  • You gonna compare yourself with the person across the street.
  • 00:21:54.562 --> 00:21:56.530
  • I went to the hospital one time.
  • 00:21:56.530 --> 00:21:57.898
  • It was late at night.
  • 00:21:57.898 --> 00:21:59.233
  • The man was having dramatic surgery the next day.
  • 00:21:59.233 --> 00:22:02.636
  • He didn't know the lord.
  • 00:22:02.636 --> 00:22:05.506
  • And i said i wouldn't want anybody to face the surgery
  • 00:22:05.506 --> 00:22:07.575
  • You're gonna face in the morning unless i knew you were prepared
  • 00:22:07.575 --> 00:22:10.845
  • To step into the presence of god.
  • 00:22:10.845 --> 00:22:14.815
  • And he looked at me, he said, "allen, i'm so much better than
  • 00:22:14.815 --> 00:22:17.651
  • The man that lives across the street from me."
  • 00:22:17.651 --> 00:22:20.988
  • And he was as earnest as he could be.
  • 00:22:20.988 --> 00:22:24.458
  • And i said, well that's a great answer if when you step into
  • 00:22:24.458 --> 00:22:26.794
  • Eternity the person across the street is sitting on the throne.
  • 00:22:26.794 --> 00:22:31.732
  • But if it's almighty god, that comparison won't help a bit.
  • 00:22:31.732 --> 00:22:38.539
  • And i think it's easy for us to look around us and think, "oh,
  • 00:22:38.539 --> 00:22:40.775
  • I'm better than them.
  • 00:22:40.775 --> 00:22:43.043
  • I mean know, i'm not perfect."
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  • Oh, if you know you are living in sin, stop it, it will
  • 00:22:45.746 --> 00:22:48.682
  • Destroy you.
  • 00:22:48.682 --> 00:22:51.552
  • It will destroy you.
  • 00:22:51.552 --> 00:22:54.388
  • I mean granted none of us are perfect, but there's
  • 00:22:54.388 --> 00:22:56.624
  • A difference in acknowledging our flaws and our struggle to
  • 00:22:56.624 --> 00:22:59.393
  • Honor the lord and intentionally practicing ungodliness.
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  • Please don't do that.
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  • Be an overcomer.
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  • 1 john 4:4, "the one who was in you is greater than the one
  • 00:23:07.935 --> 00:23:10.704
  • Who's in the world."
  • 00:23:10.704 --> 00:23:15.142
  • So how do we live out our faith?
  • 00:23:15.142 --> 00:23:17.578
  • In the next session.
  • 00:23:17.578 --> 00:23:20.347
  • But i brought you a prayer.
  • 00:23:20.347 --> 00:23:25.519
  • I love that part of church.
  • 00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:28.789
  • Then when i go visit, when they invite me someplace, and i go
  • 00:23:28.789 --> 00:23:30.958
  • Someplace and speak, and they say you have 19 minutes.
  • 00:23:30.958 --> 00:23:35.362
  • Well, i'm thinking wow.
  • 00:23:35.362 --> 00:23:38.699
  • Whatever i'm gonna, was ever gonna be said it's gotta be
  • 00:23:38.699 --> 00:23:40.768
  • Wrapped up at church.
  • 00:23:40.768 --> 00:23:42.570
  • We start again in the morning.
  • 00:23:42.570 --> 00:23:46.373
  • Ah, what a privilege. [congregation applauding]
  • 00:23:46.373 --> 00:23:51.212
  • It's an honor to do life together.
  • 00:23:51.212 --> 00:23:54.415
  • Keep going till morning.
  • 00:23:54.415 --> 00:23:57.418
  • Not even my mom would say that.
  • 00:23:57.418 --> 00:23:59.220
  • So why don't you stand with me, huh?
  • 00:23:59.220 --> 00:24:06.594
  • God's moving in the earth.
  • 00:24:06.594 --> 00:24:08.896
  • Don't you want to be a part?
  • 00:24:08.896 --> 00:24:11.065
  • Can you imagine having the spirit of god as your
  • 00:24:11.065 --> 00:24:13.133
  • Personal trainer?
  • 00:24:13.133 --> 00:24:16.637
  • I'm thinking you're gonna get the fatigue.
  • 00:24:16.637 --> 00:24:20.007
  • Because that's the only place strength is.
  • 00:24:20.007 --> 00:24:23.577
  • You can't gain any strength until you exercise to the point
  • 00:24:23.577 --> 00:24:26.013
  • Of fatigue.
  • 00:24:26.013 --> 00:24:27.381
  • You can't do it physically.
  • 00:24:27.381 --> 00:24:28.716
  • You won't do it emotionally.
  • 00:24:28.716 --> 00:24:30.084
  • You can't do it spiritually.
  • 00:24:30.084 --> 00:24:34.321
  • And the only way to continue to gain strength is continuing to
  • 00:24:34.321 --> 00:24:38.292
  • Push through those places.
  • 00:24:38.292 --> 00:24:40.427
  • Which means it's often uncomfortable.
  • 00:24:40.427 --> 00:24:44.465
  • It's not always fun, you know, i meet people and they say, you
  • 00:24:44.465 --> 00:24:46.634
  • Know, i just get a runner's high.
  • 00:24:46.634 --> 00:24:51.171
  • I don't trust those people.
  • 00:24:51.171 --> 00:24:54.942
  • Because i think they get high, and then they go run, and they
  • 00:24:54.942 --> 00:24:57.244
  • Get confused.
  • 00:24:57.244 --> 00:25:02.816
  • Because when i run, all i get is runner's sweat and exhaustion.
  • 00:25:02.816 --> 00:25:07.821
  • Right?
  • 00:25:07.821 --> 00:25:09.323
  • I mean a little bit into my legs going, what has happened to
  • 00:25:09.323 --> 00:25:12.059
  • Your mind?
  • 00:25:12.059 --> 00:25:15.029
  • And sometimes you'll do that with the lord, you'll make
  • 00:25:15.029 --> 00:25:16.931
  • A commitment.
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  • I'm gonna read my bible every day.
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  • I'm gonna do that bible reading thing.
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  • I'm gonna pray every day.
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  • I'm gonna take a let's pray to work.
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  • I'm not gonna go to work one day this week
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  • Without a let's pray moment.
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  • And you have one that it doesn't go well, you think, what was
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  • I thinking?
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  • Did you find your prayer?
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  • Heavenly father, show us your way that we may walk uprightly
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  • Before you.
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  • Deliver us from deception and give us a love for the truth.
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  • Awaken us from our slumber, that we may worship you.
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  • Do not let us fall prey to our enemies.
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  • In your grace and mercy look upon us and bring deliverance.
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  • Once again, may the name of jesus be exalted in our hearts,
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  • Our homes, and our land.
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  • You are our hope and our redeemer.
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  • In you we put our trust.
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  • Amen.
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  • God bless you.
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  • Allen: hey i got a question.
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  • What's the eternal breath of life?
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  • Well, the answer is a new book my dad just wrote.
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  • But i sat down to do a podcast with him, and i was listening to
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  • His story about how god had moved in his life and my
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  • Family's life all the way up to the beginning of the church that
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  • I've served now for several decades.
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  • I was so reminded of the purpose and the power of the spirit
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  • Of god in our lives.
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  • I asked him to put it in a book.
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  • That's what we're sharing with you.
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  • We all need god's help.
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  • We all face challenges.
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  • Life's not easy no matter who you are, but the spirit of god
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  • Is present within us to bring the power and purposes of god
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  • To bear in our lives.
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  • I believe the book will be a blessing with, for you if you'll
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  • Pair it with "unleashing the power of the holy spirit", it's
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  • One of the most effective tools we have.
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  • It'll give you a pathway that i believe will bring god's best
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  • Into your family.
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  • You may not plant a church, but you have been given the
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  • Assignment as an ambassador for the kingdom of god, and we need
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  • The help of the holy spirit.
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  • Enjoy the book.
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  • ♪♪♪
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