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Allen Jackson - The Overthrow of the Antichrist (Part 2)

December 5, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - The Overthrow of the Antichrist (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - The Overthrow of the Antichrist (Part 2) | December 5, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen jackson: god is moving in the earth.
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  • We established allen jackson ministries to
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  • Strengthen the church.
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  • Jesus said he would build his church
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  • And hell wouldn't stop it.
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  • We intend to be part of that in this nation and beyond.
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  • With your help, we have done a lot of things
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  • In the media with television and radio.
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  • We have created small group curriculum, we've hosted a
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  • Culture and christianity conference.
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  • We have criss-crossed this nation in more than two dozen
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  • Cities doing pastor's conferences
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  • With pastors and church leaders.
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  • Now we have strategic partners in israel and the ukraine
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  • Asking for that same kind of help and resources as we
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  • Look at the year ahead.
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  • I wanna ask you to prayerfully consider making an investment
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  • In this ministry as we look towards this new year.
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  • We intend to strengthen the church in this nation and beyond
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  • As never before.
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  • God is moving, we want to be a part of that.
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  • I thank you for your partnership, for your
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  • Generosity, and for your faithfulness
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  • In standing with us.
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  • Together, we'll make a difference
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  • For the kingdom of god.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: revelation 19 gives us a pretty graphic presentation of
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  • The defeat of antichrist.
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  • Verse 11: "i saw heaven standing open and there before me was a
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  • White horse, whose rider is called faithful and true.
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  • With justice he judges and makes war."
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  • Do you have room for jesus in that role?
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  • It's very fashionable to say jesus is all about love and
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  • Unity and peace, and those things are true.
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  • He is about love and he is about unity and he is about peace, but
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  • That's not the whole story.
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  • When he comes back to the earth, it says in the plainest of
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  • Language that "with justice he will judge and make war.
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  • His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns.
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  • He has a name written on him that no one knows but
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  • He himself.
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  • He's dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the word
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  • Of god.
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  • And the armies of heaven were following him, riding on white
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  • Horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean.
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  • And out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike
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  • Down the nations.
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  • 'he will rule them with an iron scepter.'
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  • And he treads the wine press of the fury of the wrath of
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  • God almighty.
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  • And on his robe and on his thigh he has his name--this name
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  • Written: king of kings and lord of lords."
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  • Now i believe there's some life lessons for us in what we know
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  • Of jesus in the book of revelation, and i'm gonna give
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  • You the overview just for the sake of time.
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  • We don't win ultimately the victory by violence, or by
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  • Hatred or by being tough and rugged.
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  • I understand in this particular scenario, it's as if the book of
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  • Revelation is a--it's a presentation.
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  • It's like they've taped polaroids into a book, and you
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  • See these scenes.
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  • But it isn't written or presented to us as this one
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  • Continuous unfolding narrative.
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  • And there's another scene that we've seen before we see jesus
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  • On the white horse.
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  • We see this--the scene is of the throne room of god.
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  • And john is weeping because there's a scroll that contains
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  • The end of the story which john is sharing with us by 9--
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  • Revelation 19.
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  • But the message is there's no one worthy to open the scroll
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  • And john begins to weep.
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  • And one of the elders says, "don't weep.
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  • The lion of the tribe of judah has triumphed.
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  • He is worthy to open the scroll."
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  • And john turns to look at the throne, to see the lion of the
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  • Tribe of judah.
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  • Remember what it says?
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  • He saw a lamb looking as if it had been slain.
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  • So i believe the message for you and me, the life lesson for you
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  • And me, is we win by laying our life down as jesus did.
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  • Not by being tough.
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  • See, i don't think you and i are going to overcome the spirit of
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  • Antichrist with our rugged individualism, because we
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  • Embrace the spirit of american manifest destiny.
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  • They probably don't even teach that anymore, but they used to.
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  • You know, it's not our fierce determination to armor up, and i
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  • Believe in doing that, but the victory will come to us by
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  • Laying down our lives.
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  • And it's a change in me because there was a big season of my
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  • Life where i imagined the laying down my life was a description
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  • Of saying no to sinful behavior.
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  • I'll say no to sin and yes to god.
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  • I'm going to lay down my carnal nature.
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  • I understand that differently.
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  • I'm not saying that's wrong.
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  • I think that's incomplete.
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  • At this season of my life, i understand laying down my life
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  • Is yielding my choices to the purposes of god's kingdom, as
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  • Opposed to choosing to serve my own self-gratification.
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  • That's very different,
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  • Because i can't describe every expression of just selfish
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  • Desires for gratification as being wicked or overtly sinful.
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  • But they often won't bring me to the full purposes of god.
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  • And i have to say, "lord, i'll follow you."
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  • Suppose david, when he heard goliath bellow his challenge, he
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  • Thought, "ah," and just thought to himself, "i think i'll
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  • Have lunch.
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  • It's safer.
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  • After all, i've never killed a giant.
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  • My brothers will not appreciate my attitude."
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  • I mean, he had every reasons to have not paid attention.
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  • And he had a whole list of reasons why it wasn't prudent to
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  • Say, "i can do this."
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  • And i find that same tension in my own life, not to be david and
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  • Face goliath, but in saying yes to the purposes of god.
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  • There's usually a multitude of reasons why i could find
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  • Justification for being quiet.
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  • And i can find typically a rather lengthy litany of reasons
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  • Why there seems to be vulnerability that comes with
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  • Saying, "i'm for jesus."
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  • But i want to be on record as being for jesus.
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  • And i would invite you to that.
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  • Lay down your life for the lord.
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  • I'm not talking about your conversion.
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  • I'm not talking--if you're engaged in overt immorality and
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  • Ungodliness, it will destroy you.
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  • Repent, and choose a new way.
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  • But beyond that, if you're living in the land of
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  • Ambivalence, neutrality, you're a negotiator, you're a kingdom
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  • Mediator, i would invite you to lay down the comfort of that
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  • Space and say, "lord, i want to push all my chips into the
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  • Middle of the table."
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  • I would remind you that jesus is still the lion of the tribe
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  • Of judah.
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  • That my lord and king jesus of nazareth today is a jewish man.
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  • He's identified with the tribe of judah for all of time and all
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  • Of eternity.
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  • And when you hate the jews, you are hating the brothers and
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  • Sisters of jesus.
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  • And if you'll allow me, i would tread very lightly there.
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  • That's not a social political statement.
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  • That has to do with how you treat the jewish people.
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  • Revelation 19, in verse 19, john said, "then i saw the beast and
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  • The kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make
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  • War against the rider on the horse and his army.
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  • But the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who'd
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  • Performed the miraculous signs on his behalf.
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  • And with these signs he deluded those who had received the mark
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  • Of the beast and worshiped his image.
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  • The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery
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  • Lake of burning sulfur.
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  • And the rest of them were killed with the sword that came out of
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  • The mouth of the rider on the horse, and the birds gorged
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  • Themselves on their flesh."
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  • You know, i meet people who say they don't like to read the new
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  • Testament--the old testament because it's so harsh.
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  • And i'm like, "wow, have you-- have you read the whole
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  • New testament?
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  • There's some kind of awkward moments there.
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  • There's two characters presented in this chapter, and they're in
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  • Opposition to one another.
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  • The lamb, and that reference occurs more than 28 times in
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  • Revelation, and the beast, that occurs more than 30 times as a
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  • Reference to the antichrist.
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  • The end-time conflict that's described in our bibles is
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  • Between the lamb and the beast.
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  • With which are you aligned?
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  • Revelation 13 describes this mark of the beast that you have
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  • Come under willingly, purposefully, intentionally
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  • Under the authority of the beast.
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  • Chapter 13 and verse 16, he said: "he forced everyone, small
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  • And great."
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  • Forced is an interesting word.
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  • We need to take note of what we've been given.
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  • It's going to be a difficult decision.
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  • There'll be enormous pressure.
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  • That means we've lived through some seasons lately when there
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  • Was enormous pressure to make decisions, and i'm not drawing
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  • Any parallels between those events and the antichrist, but
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  • I--there's been pressure to take a vaccine, pressure to not
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  • Pray in the name of jesus, pressure to not talk about
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  • Current events.
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  • Well, i think all of those are just shadows of a much, much,
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  • Much, much greater pressure that's in our future.
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  • And we need to begin to cultivate, develop, exercise our
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  • Muscles of saying yes to godliness and no to ungodliness.
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  • "he forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and
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  • Slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead,
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  • So that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is
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  • The name of the beast or the number of his name."
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  • You can't buy--you're gonna be shut out.
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  • You'll be cut out of the global economy.
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  • There's a lot of lines i hear these days: "well, pastor, you
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  • Know, if i stood up, that'll have consequences for my
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  • Business partners," or "it'll have an impact on my children or
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  • My grandchildren" or--you, oftentimes you're very astute,
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  • Your analysis is correct.
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  • I would just submit to you, it's a worthwhile bargain because
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  • Those pressures will intensify.
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  • The characteristics being described are of a global
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  • Economy, a centralized money system, of universal control.
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  • You know, there was a time in my life when i was younger and i
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  • Would hear ministers or people talk about that or teach from
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  • These verses, and that seemed so fanciful that when they tried to
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  • Describe it, you know, you had to believe in the jetsons.
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  • I mean, it really wasn't--i remember the first time i went
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  • To a grocery store that used a barcode scanner.
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  • I was in college.
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  • There were still dinosaurs in middle tennessee.
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  • It wasn't here, but you know what, my friends in college and
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  • We called the place, we called the grocery store the beast.
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  • We were clever enough to understand that there was at
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  • Least some foreshadowing of far greater control and awareness
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  • And connectivity because they, you know, they'd say this, we
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  • Can manage our whole inventory, by what we scan when you're
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  • Checking out.
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  • Some of you are old enough to remember when you bought
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  • Groceries, there used to be somebody at a register that
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  • Punched in the amount of every item you picked up.
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  • It was slower than traffic in murfreesboro.
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  • But we actually did that.
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  • But those things described now in that book are--they seem
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  • Very close at hand: the ability to track everyone.
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  • And they don't have to put anything under your skin.
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  • You'll volunteer to carry that thing around.
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  • In fact, if you separate yourself from it, you lose
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  • All peace.
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  • "well, what if somebody was trying to get in touch with me?"
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  • There was a time when you had to be at home to take a call.
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  • I know, long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away.
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  • But now, at any moment, there could be a call from the white
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  • House, from elon.
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  • We need to--i mean, if our--if we just lose connectivity, we
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  • Get anxious.
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  • Folks, they're not going to force the ability to track--
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  • You'll volunteer.
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  • They'll incentivize it.
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  • There'll be a discount.
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  • Amazon will deliver more quickly.
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  • Revelation presumes a global economy.
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  • That used to seem bizarre, nationalism was transcendent.
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  • Not anymore.
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  • Our most powerful corporate entities betray our national
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  • Interest on a daily basis.
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  • And we invest in them.
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  • A centralized monetary system.
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  • How many places do you go now they don't even want cash?
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  • They won't take it.
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  • It's like, is that all you've got?
  • 00:14:03.191 --> 00:14:05.193
  • "no, i've got some live chickens in the trunk of my car."
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  • Revelation assumes the ability to monitor communication or
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  • Closed markets.
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  • Used to seem impossible.
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  • Now we accept it as a part of our life.
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  • We follow some little voice that says, "go to the next stop sign
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  • And turn right."
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  • And you tell me you're not sure you believe in the voice of the
  • 00:14:33.288 --> 00:14:36.124
  • Spirit of god, but you'll follow siri over a cliff.
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  • Allen: god is moving in the earth.
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  • Allen: i've got a couple of minutes.
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  • I'll give you one more--what i did was built an outline of
  • 00:15:53.568 --> 00:15:56.237
  • Several components that are characteristic of the end of
  • 00:15:56.237 --> 00:15:59.273
  • The age.
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  • I didn't arrange them in an order or a sequence of unfolding
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  • Because i don't know.
  • 00:16:03.745 --> 00:16:06.314
  • I have some opinions, but they are opinions.
  • 00:16:06.314 --> 00:16:08.549
  • I don't think there is a--
  • 00:16:08.549 --> 00:16:13.121
  • An unchallengeable sequential presentation.
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  • I don't have a chart.
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  • I'm not opposed to them.
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  • I'm bemused by some.
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  • But there's another component that is in the future, and
  • 00:16:22.230 --> 00:16:24.565
  • That's israel coming back into the center of history.
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  • So in one way, i--while i'm surprised at the depth and how
  • 00:16:29.904 --> 00:16:33.474
  • Rapidly anti-semitism is growing across a much broader
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  • Ideological spectrum, from a biblical perspective i have to
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  • Say i should have anticipated it because israel gaining a larger
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  • Role in the awareness of the nations isn't most likely going
  • 00:16:45.753 --> 00:16:51.526
  • To be with applause.
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  • At the center of scripture, israel returned to the center of
  • 00:16:57.698 --> 00:17:01.969
  • History for the climax of the age.
  • 00:17:01.969 --> 00:17:05.206
  • So i think those discussions will grow.
  • 00:17:05.206 --> 00:17:07.008
  • You'll have to decide.
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  • I continue to have conversations with my friends across a pretty
  • 00:17:08.943 --> 00:17:12.747
  • Broad spectrum to not make a decision on--about is the
  • 00:17:12.747 --> 00:17:15.416
  • Nation of israel based on social or political concerns that begin
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  • Your decision-making with a biblical understanding on the
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  • Role and the purpose of the jewish people and our
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  • Relationship with them.
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  • In romans 11--and just a reminder, the book of romans was
  • 00:17:30.698 --> 00:17:35.103
  • Written to gentile believers, non-jewish believers.
  • 00:17:35.103 --> 00:17:38.406
  • "i don't want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, that
  • 00:17:38.406 --> 00:17:41.609
  • You may not be conceited."
  • 00:17:41.609 --> 00:17:44.178
  • You know what conceit is?
  • 00:17:44.178 --> 00:17:46.280
  • Inordinate pride, self-importance.
  • 00:17:46.280 --> 00:17:50.685
  • So he's writing to a group of non-jews and he says, "i don't
  • 00:17:50.685 --> 00:17:53.354
  • Want you to have an inappropriate sense of
  • 00:17:53.354 --> 00:17:57.225
  • Self-importance: israel has experienced a hardening in part
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  • Until the full number of the gentiles has come in.
  • 00:18:02.230 --> 00:18:05.833
  • And so all israel will be saved, as it is written: 'the deliverer
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  • Will come from zion; he will turn godlessness away
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  • From jacob.
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  • This is my covenant with them when i take away their sins.'"
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  • Just a couple of observations.
  • 00:18:16.944 --> 00:18:18.312
  • It says there'll be a hardening in part "until."
  • 00:18:18.312 --> 00:18:22.049
  • It's a timing word.
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  • It's not forever.
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  • God will institute a change in the hearts of the jewish people.
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  • It describes a great harvest ahead when millions of people
  • 00:18:32.660 --> 00:18:35.796
  • Will come into the kingdom of god.
  • 00:18:35.796 --> 00:18:38.933
  • The phrase is there that causes some confusion that all israel
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  • Will be saved.
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  • I don't believe that means that every israeli that's alive will
  • 00:18:43.070 --> 00:18:46.040
  • Be saved.
  • 00:18:46.040 --> 00:18:48.109
  • Look at romans 9:27: "isaiah cries out concerning israel:
  • 00:18:48.109 --> 00:18:51.579
  • 'through the--though the number of israelites be like the sand
  • 00:18:51.579 --> 00:18:53.814
  • By the sea, only the remnant will be saved.
  • 00:18:53.814 --> 00:18:56.751
  • For the lord will carry out his sentence on the earth with speed
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  • And finality.'"
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  • The remnant are those who god has known and chosen
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  • For himself.
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  • That is all israel.
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  • I believe i could--we could--i don't have the time to do it in
  • 00:19:08.329 --> 00:19:11.065
  • More detail.
  • 00:19:11.065 --> 00:19:12.433
  • We can another time.
  • 00:19:12.433 --> 00:19:14.535
  • So when you see the hatred for the jewish people escalating,
  • 00:19:14.535 --> 00:19:19.407
  • And calls to denounce them, and people saying, "i don't wanna--
  • 00:19:19.407 --> 00:19:22.643
  • I don't ever want to mention the name of israel again," and you
  • 00:19:22.643 --> 00:19:26.814
  • See the divide it's bringing, what do you imagine the spirit
  • 00:19:26.814 --> 00:19:29.951
  • Behind that might be?
  • 00:19:29.951 --> 00:19:33.187
  • The spirit of antichrist.
  • 00:19:33.187 --> 00:19:36.057
  • You know, when we read our bibles systematically and
  • 00:19:36.057 --> 00:19:38.659
  • Consistently, it's not just an expression of discipline so we
  • 00:19:38.659 --> 00:19:42.230
  • Can check a box and feel morally superior.
  • 00:19:42.230 --> 00:19:46.000
  • The purpose is to become increasingly aware of god's
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  • Character, his intent, and his purposes.
  • 00:19:49.136 --> 00:19:52.873
  • And that is absolutely necessary to interpret what's happening in
  • 00:19:52.873 --> 00:19:56.544
  • Our world.
  • 00:19:56.544 --> 00:19:59.046
  • The pressures will increase.
  • 00:19:59.046 --> 00:20:02.383
  • The resistance to the purposes of god will increase.
  • 00:20:02.383 --> 00:20:06.354
  • The darkness will become more brazen and more bold.
  • 00:20:06.354 --> 00:20:10.858
  • And for those who are willing to see them, the expressions of god
  • 00:20:10.858 --> 00:20:14.795
  • Moving in the earth will become more dramatic.
  • 00:20:14.795 --> 00:20:18.799
  • And we'll have to decide where we will focus our attention and
  • 00:20:18.799 --> 00:20:21.936
  • Our effort and our time, how we will train our children.
  • 00:20:21.936 --> 00:20:25.840
  • Do we want them to become increasingly godly?
  • 00:20:25.840 --> 00:20:28.676
  • Are we going to put them in the camouflage of a secular culture
  • 00:20:28.676 --> 00:20:31.946
  • And hope they can blend in?
  • 00:20:31.946 --> 00:20:36.250
  • It's an exciting time.
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  • It's not a time void of drama.
  • 00:20:42.890 --> 00:20:48.095
  • We're not in one of those seasons where god's not up
  • 00:20:48.095 --> 00:20:50.298
  • To anything.
  • 00:20:50.298 --> 00:20:53.167
  • And we have to guard our hearts because i think there's a
  • 00:20:53.167 --> 00:20:55.336
  • Significant tendency just to desperately wish that things
  • 00:20:55.336 --> 00:20:59.173
  • Wouldn't change.
  • 00:20:59.173 --> 00:21:00.541
  • We've kind of liked it.
  • 00:21:00.541 --> 00:21:03.210
  • And god is bringing realignment.
  • 00:21:03.210 --> 00:21:06.380
  • He is shaking the earth.
  • 00:21:06.380 --> 00:21:11.218
  • He is.
  • 00:21:11.218 --> 00:21:12.553
  • So i want to close with communion.
  • 00:21:12.553 --> 00:21:16.524
  • Jesus had communion with his disciples just a matter of
  • 00:21:16.524 --> 00:21:22.330
  • Minutes or short hours before he would betray--be betrayed and
  • 00:21:22.330 --> 00:21:28.035
  • Begin his passion.
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  • If you didn't get the communion elements when you came in, raise
  • 00:21:29.603 --> 00:21:31.639
  • A hand, the ushers will share.
  • 00:21:31.639 --> 00:21:34.008
  • If you're at home, this is your cue.
  • 00:21:34.008 --> 00:21:35.343
  • Go get your glass of water and a saltine.
  • 00:21:35.343 --> 00:21:38.646
  • But jesus put communion in place just before the disciples were
  • 00:21:38.646 --> 00:21:42.249
  • Going to have one of the most terrifying nights of their
  • 00:21:42.249 --> 00:21:44.552
  • Entire lives.
  • 00:21:44.552 --> 00:21:46.654
  • Remember?
  • 00:21:46.654 --> 00:21:48.289
  • They're going to go from the upper room to gethsemane, where
  • 00:21:48.289 --> 00:21:50.691
  • He'll be arrested.
  • 00:21:50.691 --> 00:21:52.960
  • And peter's gonna, in a mistaken attempt to defend jesus, cut off
  • 00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:56.330
  • An ear.
  • 00:21:56.330 --> 00:21:58.733
  • But before they leave gethsemane, the disciples are
  • 00:21:58.733 --> 00:22:00.801
  • All going to flee.
  • 00:22:00.801 --> 00:22:03.003
  • And they're going to stand in the shadows until they're
  • 00:22:03.003 --> 00:22:05.172
  • Questioned, and those that are questioned will deny any
  • 00:22:05.172 --> 00:22:08.776
  • Affiliation with jesus while they watch him be accused,
  • 00:22:08.776 --> 00:22:16.016
  • Condemned, tortured, crucified.
  • 00:22:16.016 --> 00:22:21.722
  • The women seem more bold than the men.
  • 00:22:21.722 --> 00:22:23.457
  • They seem to be standing closer to the cross.
  • 00:22:23.457 --> 00:22:25.226
  • John was there with the women, but wasn't like the whole
  • 00:22:25.226 --> 00:22:28.095
  • Crew was.
  • 00:22:28.095 --> 00:22:30.064
  • And what jesus gave them immediately prior to that
  • 00:22:30.064 --> 00:22:33.200
  • Pressure was, "this is my body, broken for you."
  • 00:22:33.200 --> 00:22:39.106
  • I believe we need to understand the redemptive work of jesus for
  • 00:22:39.106 --> 00:22:42.209
  • Us to flourish in the season that's ahead of us.
  • 00:22:42.209 --> 00:22:45.713
  • So communion is not some empty ritual in the church.
  • 00:22:45.713 --> 00:22:49.550
  • We need to know what happened on the cross, and what the outcomes
  • 00:22:49.550 --> 00:22:53.120
  • Of that are for our lives.
  • 00:22:53.120 --> 00:22:55.756
  • And how to receive by faith the provision jesus has made for us.
  • 00:22:55.756 --> 00:23:01.462
  • We've quibbled for too long around god's activity in our
  • 00:23:01.462 --> 00:23:05.599
  • Lives as if we had the luxury of debating those things.
  • 00:23:05.599 --> 00:23:08.736
  • We will want to know, we will need to know, how to cooperate
  • 00:23:08.736 --> 00:23:11.605
  • As fully as possible with everything that jesus has made
  • 00:23:11.605 --> 00:23:15.075
  • Available to us.
  • 00:23:15.075 --> 00:23:18.479
  • This is a good night to take a step.
  • 00:23:18.479 --> 00:23:21.182
  • So we come as disciples to receive the bread and the cup, a
  • 00:23:21.182 --> 00:23:27.788
  • Reminder of what jesus has done for us, that he exhausted the
  • 00:23:27.788 --> 00:23:32.760
  • Curse of sin, ours, so that we might receive the fullness of
  • 00:23:32.760 --> 00:23:39.133
  • His blessing.
  • 00:23:39.133 --> 00:23:41.335
  • Now, it's not about ease and comfort.
  • 00:23:41.335 --> 00:23:44.205
  • That's about the strength and the power and the discernment of
  • 00:23:44.205 --> 00:23:46.674
  • God to lead triumphant lives in the face of evil.
  • 00:23:46.674 --> 00:23:51.812
  • Understand the difference?
  • 00:23:51.812 --> 00:23:56.417
  • So jesus himself took bread and said, "this bread is my body,
  • 00:23:56.417 --> 00:23:59.987
  • Broken for you.
  • 00:23:59.987 --> 00:24:01.355
  • As often as you eat this, do this in remembrance of me."
  • 00:24:01.355 --> 00:24:03.657
  • Let's receive together.
  • 00:24:03.657 --> 00:24:07.761
  • Then he took a cup, and he said, "this cup is a new covenant,
  • 00:24:07.761 --> 00:24:11.365
  • Sealed with my own blood.
  • 00:24:11.365 --> 00:24:12.700
  • As often as you drink it, you proclaim my death until you see
  • 00:24:12.700 --> 00:24:15.436
  • Me again."
  • 00:24:15.436 --> 00:24:16.837
  • Let's receive.
  • 00:24:16.837 --> 00:24:20.241
  • You stand with me for a prayer?
  • 00:24:23.911 --> 00:24:29.383
  • I'd like to join hands.
  • 00:24:29.383 --> 00:24:30.718
  • We don't need a circle, i'd just prefer you not be alone.
  • 00:24:30.718 --> 00:24:34.955
  • You know, this christianity thing is a team sport.
  • 00:24:34.955 --> 00:24:39.693
  • It is.
  • 00:24:39.693 --> 00:24:41.028
  • We need one another.
  • 00:24:41.028 --> 00:24:43.230
  • Maybe you look at the person on your right and say, "i'm gonna
  • 00:24:43.230 --> 00:24:45.165
  • Need your help."
  • 00:24:45.165 --> 00:24:49.169
  • Now look at the person on your left and go,
  • 00:24:49.169 --> 00:24:50.504
  • "you're on your own."
  • 00:24:50.504 --> 00:24:53.974
  • It's not true.
  • 00:24:53.974 --> 00:24:56.143
  • Not true.
  • 00:24:56.143 --> 00:24:58.345
  • Let's pray.
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  • Father, thank you.
  • 00:24:59.713 --> 00:25:01.048
  • Thank you for your word and its truth and its authority and our
  • 00:25:01.048 --> 00:25:03.884
  • Power in our lives.
  • 00:25:03.884 --> 00:25:05.753
  • I thank you that in your great love for us that you sent
  • 00:25:05.753 --> 00:25:09.189
  • Your son.
  • 00:25:09.189 --> 00:25:10.824
  • And lord jesus, we praise you that you offered yourself as a
  • 00:25:10.824 --> 00:25:13.894
  • Living sacrifice.
  • 00:25:13.894 --> 00:25:16.030
  • And as we have received the bread and the cup tonight, we
  • 00:25:16.030 --> 00:25:18.465
  • Receive your life into our lives.
  • 00:25:18.465 --> 00:25:21.702
  • Bring health to our bodies and peace to our minds, forgiveness
  • 00:25:21.702 --> 00:25:24.705
  • To our lives.
  • 00:25:24.705 --> 00:25:26.540
  • We forgive those who have sinned against us.
  • 00:25:26.540 --> 00:25:29.677
  • I praise you that the one who watches over us never slumbers
  • 00:25:29.677 --> 00:25:32.613
  • Nor sleeps, that you are well able to deliver, to restore, to
  • 00:25:32.613 --> 00:25:37.651
  • Renew, to heal.
  • 00:25:37.651 --> 00:25:38.986
  • We praise you for it tonight, that you secure our future, that
  • 00:25:38.986 --> 00:25:42.289
  • You're our hope.
  • 00:25:42.289 --> 00:25:43.824
  • That we have a living hope as a secure anchor for our future.
  • 00:25:43.824 --> 00:25:48.395
  • We praise you for it tonight.
  • 00:25:48.395 --> 00:25:50.631
  • We turn our attention to you, grateful, with hearts
  • 00:25:50.631 --> 00:25:54.168
  • Overflowing with appreciation for your great love for us, in
  • 00:25:54.168 --> 00:25:59.473
  • Jesus's name, amen, hallelujah.
  • 00:25:59.473 --> 00:26:03.043
  • God bless you.
  • 00:26:03.043 --> 00:26:08.916
  • Allen: as a young man, i understood the lord inviting me
  • 00:26:13.020 --> 00:26:15.322
  • To serve his church.
  • 00:26:15.322 --> 00:26:17.024
  • I had no imagination what god would do with the congregation
  • 00:26:17.024 --> 00:26:19.693
  • That he invited me to serve.
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  • It's been a remarkable journey together.
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  • That verse in matthew where jesus said, "i'll build my
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  • Church and hell won't stop it," has become a life verse for me.
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  • And then jesus added to that where he said, "those that are
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  • Gathering with me, join me, or else your scattering."
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  • Well, i wanna be gathering with the lord.
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  • That's the reason we began allen jackson ministries
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  • Several years ago.
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  • I understood god inviting us to build the church beyond this
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  • Local community, not buildings or denominations across the
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  • Nation, but to strengthen the people of god.
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  • We've created curriculum, we've criss-crossed this nation,
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  • Meeting with church leaders and pastors, we began broadcasting
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  • With television and radio.
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  • Your partnership has made all of that possible.
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  • Well, now god has opened doors internationally with strategic
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  • Partners in israel and ukraine to strengthen the war-torn
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  • Church in those nations.
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  • I thank you for your partnership, for your
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  • Generosity, for your faithfulness in prayer.
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  • Together, we are gathering the people of god
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  • And strengthening his church.
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  • ♪♪♪
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