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Allen Jackson - Pecan Pie and More (Part 2)

December 17, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - Pecan Pie and More (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Pecan Pie and More (Part 2) | December 17, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen jackson: we began allen jackson ministries
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  • To strengthen the church.
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  • Thank you for your partnership.
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  • Together we made an impact in this nation, but we're not done.
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  • In fact, in many ways i believe we're just beginning.
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  • The status quo is not adequate any longer.
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  • We can't sit in our churches and have our polite bible studies
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  • And sing our favorite choruses while we watch
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  • Darkness increasing in the world around us.
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  • We have to have the courage to tell the truth to our culture.
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  • A biblical worldview to engage current events in a way
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  • To make what we believe apart of the fabric of our schools,
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  • Our homes, our communities, our nation, and beyond.
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  • We have invitations now from war-torn countries
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  • In israel and ukraine to strengthen the churches there.
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  • I want to ask you to make an investment with us
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  • In allen jackson ministries
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  • To make 2026 the most fruitful year we've ever had together.
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  • God is moving in the earth.
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  • We want to keep the pace.
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  • We want to take new steps to make a new impact.
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  • Your help makes that possible.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: we're gonna begin day one by being thankful to god.
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  • That there's a god, that we're not alone, we're not a cosmic
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  • Accident, we're not some random collision of molecules.
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  • We're not nameless blobs of protoplasm hurtling
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  • Through space.
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  • There's a god, an intelligent designer, and he wants to be
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  • Known by us.
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  • That's amazing.
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  • I don't know who the mo--your greatest hero is, who you think
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  • Is the smartest, or the most successful, or the most
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  • Powerful, but whoever that is-- or the most gifted athlete, but
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  • I suspect they're probably--you don't think they're probably
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  • Waiting for your phone call.
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  • But the creator of heaven and earth knows your name.
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  • He pays attention.
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  • Now, that's an upside and a downside, but he pays attention.
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  • Be thankful there's a god, and i gave you a proclamation.
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  • I--and i recommended it three times a day, not just to be
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  • Honorary, i took it from daniel.
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  • Daniel was a slave in babylon.
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  • Lived his whole life as a slave, one of the greatest
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  • Heroes in the bible.
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  • It says he was highly esteemed by god and there was no
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  • Expression of the power of god to deliver him from slavery.
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  • You--you'll have to walk around with that a little bit because
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  • We've believed that you couldn't find god's greatest purpose for
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  • Your life or great significance if your life didn't meet your
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  • Highest expectations.
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  • That's a lie. it's a lie.
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  • But daniel, his adversaries, were jealous of him.
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  • And they got a law passed that said if you prayed to anybody
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  • Other than the king, that you would be murdered.
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  • And when the law was passed, daniel went home, as was his
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  • Habit, and opened his windows and prayed three times a day.
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  • Daniel did not believe in the separation of church and state.
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  • And so i brought you a--just a proclamation that you could
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  • Make, it's from psalm 103.
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  • I gave you the reference.
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  • It's a wonderful declaration over your life.
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  • I would encourage you to take a day and do it morning, noon,
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  • And evening.
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  • Just make it a proclamation over your life.
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  • And then on day two, i'm gonna expand your
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  • Category a little bit.
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  • We're gonna begin to be thankful for the blessings of god in our
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  • Lives because we have some.
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  • You probably don't have all the blessings you'd like, you
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  • Probably got a list.
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  • But we have been blessed by god.
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  • If nothing else, we live in a nation where we have more
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  • Abundance and more freedom and more liberty than most people on
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  • The planet could ever imagine.
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  • It's not perfect, but we have so much.
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  • One of my favorite places to visit is a grocery store.
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  • I've lived in places where i didn't have those.
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  • So, i just--i still--i don't mind going to the grocery store,
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  • It just makes me smile.
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  • In fact, you need good directions when--if you're sent
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  • To the grocery store, which i sometimes i am,
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  • You need good directions or you'll mess up.
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  • If you weren't really listening and all you heard them say was,
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  • "go to the grocery store and get lettuce,"
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  • You better have your camera out 'cause you're gonna be taking
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  • Some pictures and sending them home and going, "help
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  • Me, please.
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  • There's so many kinds.
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  • Do you want it in a bag or do you want it naked?
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  • What kind of lettuce do you want?"
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  • Or if you were told you need crackers, and you're in a store
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  • You've never been to before and you finally find the
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  • Right aisle,
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  • There's still no relief because there's 75 kinds of crackers.
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  • Who needs 80 choices of crackers?
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  • I mean, we're goofy blessed.
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  • Thank you for the four of you that agreed with me.
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  • We have blessings we can be grateful with.
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  • So, i gave you an assignment there, a little application for
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  • Day two.
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  • Make a list of seven blessings that god has
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  • Brought to your life.
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  • They can be spiritual, he's forgiven your sins.
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  • They can be physical, he's given you a place to live.
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  • Doesn't matter to me.
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  • But add to that another list of seven people that are a blessing
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  • In your life and communicate that to them.
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  • Send them a text or whatever in a simple way, not an
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  • Intrusive way.
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  • Don't go knock on their door early in the morning.
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  • "pastor told me to be--" no, he did not.
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  • Don't be obnoxious and drag me into it.
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  • Come to my house, you'll meet my friends, smith and wesson.
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  • I'm kidding, i'm kidding.
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  • I'm kidding.
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  • I'm kidding.
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  • I repent.
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  • Do not send me a note, okay?
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  • Bad choice.
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  • My bride is here.
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  • I'm--that was not good.
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  • Day three.
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  • This is appropriate, repent.
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  • For all the blessings of god, we are one of the most ungrateful,
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  • Unthankful, intolerant.
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  • We're having harder and harder times being in public together.
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  • I was on a flight recently.
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  • It was delayed an hour and a half.
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  • We'd already been delayed, four, six--we're already--11
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  • Hours delayed.
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  • We've had to empty the plane.
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  • We waited several hours.
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  • We've reloaded the plane, and now we have an hour and a half
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  • Delay because two people are having a fight.
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  • Captain has to come out of the cockpit.
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  • We have a hard time just traveling in public together.
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  • Don't like our seats.
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  • Don't like something.
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  • We have lost our ability to be grateful.
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  • We've lost several things, but gratitude is such an important
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  • Thing and it's--tragically, it's equally true amongst people
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  • Of faith.
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  • We're ungrateful, we're demanding, we're discontent,
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  • We're entitled.
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  • So, i brought you a prayer for day three, and it's really a
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  • Prayer of repentance.
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  • Maybe we could read this one together.
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  • Could we do that?
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  • Have you found that it's on day three and you're outlining that
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  • Teeny tiny little print?
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  • Okay, let's read it together.
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  • "almighty god, forgive me for complaining and grumbling.
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  • I have experienced your blessings and hardened my heart
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  • In selfishness.
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  • I'll give thanks to god of heaven.
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  • I will acknowledge your great mercy and kindness.
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  • I will tell of your wonderful works.
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  • I will lift my voice in praise, i lift my hands as an expression
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  • Of humility and i lift my heart to you--"
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  • Congregation: "as an expression of gratitude."
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  • Allen: "your lovingkindness has sustained me, amen."
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  • Hallelujah. that's day three.
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  • You're building some momentum.
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  • Day four is a determination, a decision.
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  • It's an internal choice to be thankful in spite of.
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  • In spite of the undone things.
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  • In spite of the disappointments that have come, in spite of
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  • The losses.
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  • Folks, if you have enough birthdays, those things
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  • Are coming.
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  • And we're not thankful because it's all going our way.
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  • We're thankful because of god and his great mercy and his
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  • Blessings in our life.
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  • We're thankful even if it's a sacrifice for us emotionally.
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  • We will be grateful.
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  • We will be grateful.
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  • One of the thanksgiving that is most memorable to me, i was--my
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  • Brother and i studied at hebrew university in jerusalem and they
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  • Didn't stop classes to celebrate american holidays or
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  • Christian holidays.
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  • And in thanksgiving, we weren't at home and we didn't have all
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  • The traditional foods, but there was a dozen or so students that
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  • We knew that were homesick enough that we got together, and
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  • With our very limited tools and accessories, we did our best to
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  • Cobble together a thanksgiving meal.
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  • And it was remarkable.
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  • We got to tell one another what we were thankful for.
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  • We told stories from our families at home and what
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  • Thanksgiving would have been like when we were there, and we
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  • Weren't there, but we thanked god for his goodness in
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  • Our lives.
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  • We're not thankful because everything's the way we want it
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  • And the turkey looks like norman rockwell painted it.
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  • Nobody's turkey looks like that.
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  • Look at philippians 4 and verse 4.
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  • Paul wrote, he said: "rejoice in the lord always.
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  • I'll say it again: rejoice!
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  • Let your gentleness be evident to all.
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  • The lord is near.
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  • Don't be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and
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  • Petition, with thanksgiving, present your request to god.
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  • And the peace of god which transcends all understanding,
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  • Will guard your hearts and your minds in christ jesus."
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  • And if you read that and you don't know the rest of the
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  • Story, you think that was a part of paul's sermon.
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  • It's just another weekend and he wrote a little prayer and he put
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  • It in the notes and he reminded the church of it.
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  • But paul wrote that from prison, and he's been imprisoned again,
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  • Not because he's a thief, not because he's transgressing some
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  • Great moral law.
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  • He's in prison because of his advocacy for jesus.
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  • And he said, "rejoice in the lord always.
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  • I'll say it again: you rejoice."
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  • In fact, in the broader letter, he said, "don't feel sorry
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  • For me.
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  • My circumstances have proven to advance the gospel."
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  • Wow.
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  • "i think it would be really easy to pin the letter about the
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  • Injustice i'm enduring and do everything you can to see that
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  • The rights are wronged--or the wrongs are righted, something,
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  • Get me out of here."
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  • But that's not the tone of the letter at all.
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  • He said, "don't be anxious about anything, but in everything by
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  • Prayer and petition with thanksgiving."
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  • There's a different assignment for the week.
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  • Don't be anxious about the week, what's not, or what i would have
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  • Preferred, or how it isn't.
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  • God, thank you.
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  • I'll be thankful to you in spite of, not just because of.
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  • Anybody can be thankful when they win the lottery, pagans,
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  • Godless, dark-hearted people.
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  • People who aren't standing in the light, when they're getting
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  • Everything they want,
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  • To give expression to gratitude when it's a challenging season.
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  • Jesus stood outside lazarus's tomb, his friend who died and
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  • Now there's a lot of drama around it, and the family's mad
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  • At him because he missed the pastoral call.
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  • "lord, if you'd have been here, our brother would have lived."
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  • Yeah, no, that's not a warm greeting.
  • 00:12:03.338 --> 00:12:09.110
  • I got my calendar messed up one time and i missed a funeral.
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  • When you see the family, it's not like a huggable moment.
  • 00:12:15.216 --> 00:12:19.988
  • So, when that--jesus walked up and the sister said, "lord, if
  • 00:12:19.988 --> 00:12:22.323
  • You would have been here, our brother would have lived,"
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  • I'm going, oh geez.
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  • And he says, "well, take me to the cemetery.
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  • Now, open the tomb."
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  • And they said, "no, no, lord.
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  • He stinketh."
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  • In the king james.
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  • Remember what jesus said?
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  • "father, i thank you that you hear my prayers."
  • 00:12:40.441 --> 00:12:46.114
  • See, a part of our gratitude comes even when we have a--when
  • 00:12:50.285 --> 00:12:54.422
  • There's disappointment in the air.
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  • God, i thank you that you're greater than my circumstance.
  • 00:12:57.892 --> 00:13:03.765
  • Well, you're greater than the prevailing emotion that's
  • 00:13:03.765 --> 00:13:06.201
  • Around me.
  • 00:13:06.201 --> 00:13:08.970
  • There wasn't an attitude of great belief around jesus at
  • 00:13:08.970 --> 00:13:11.506
  • That point.
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  • Nobody imagined the future that was about to unfold for them.
  • 00:13:13.641 --> 00:13:18.179
  • See, we want to be thankful because everybody that gathers
  • 00:13:18.179 --> 00:13:20.048
  • With us, shares our worldview, and our faith perspective, and
  • 00:13:20.048 --> 00:13:22.984
  • Our momentum.
  • 00:13:22.984 --> 00:13:24.385
  • And well, i can't be thankful, i'm gather--that--there's
  • 00:13:24.385 --> 00:13:27.188
  • Problems and inconsisten--no.
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  • That's when we can be thankful.
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  • God, i thank you for my family.
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  • I thank you for my friends.
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  • I thank you for this season.
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  • God, thank you.
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  • In spite of, god, i thank you.
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  • Allen: god is moving in the earth
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  • And at allen jack ministries we're doing everything we can
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  • To strengthen the church in our nation
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  • We don't intend to maintain the status quo
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  • Or to gather at our churches for polite bible studies.
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  • And give you the tools to do so.
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  • A church that's vibrant and vital.
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  • Allen: i gave you a prayer.
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  • It's taken from psalm 107.
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  • It's not original at all.
  • 00:14:57.378 --> 00:14:58.746
  • I just put it in a bit more readable english.
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  • Maybe we could pray this prayer together.
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  • It's kind of practice for day four.
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  • Can you pray one more?
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  • That'd be two prayers at church in the same week.
  • 00:15:08.156 --> 00:15:09.490
  • That doesn't mean you can skip a week, okay?
  • 00:15:09.490 --> 00:15:13.061
  • Might be another book.
  • 00:15:13.061 --> 00:15:15.496
  • Let's read it together.
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  • "i will give thanks to the lord, his love endures forever.
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  • The lord has redeemed me from the hand of the enemy.
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  • I will give thanks to the lord for his unfailing love and his
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  • Wonderful deeds in the earth.
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  • God has satisfied my thirst and filled my life with
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  • Good things."
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  • Amen.
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  • And finally day five, we're gonna actually give some
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  • Expressions to thanksgiving, more than just saying
  • 00:15:40.088 --> 00:15:42.490
  • "god, thanks."
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  • You can do that in your heart, you can do it in a song, there's
  • 00:15:43.825 --> 00:15:45.927
  • A lot of ways.
  • 00:15:45.927 --> 00:15:47.261
  • But some physical expressions, and this is one of the most, to
  • 00:15:47.261 --> 00:15:49.564
  • Me, overlooked parts of our faith: how do we give living
  • 00:15:49.564 --> 00:15:52.667
  • Expression to what we say we believe?
  • 00:15:52.667 --> 00:15:55.503
  • And when it comes to thanksgiving, i believe there's
  • 00:15:55.503 --> 00:15:57.205
  • Some tangible expressions of being grateful.
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  • One is generosity with your time, with your treasure, with
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  • Your talent.
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  • Live generously, and particularly on a week
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  • Like this.
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  • Secondly, serve.
  • 00:16:10.051 --> 00:16:12.153
  • Service is an expression born from gratitude, not obligation.
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  • I served the lord with joy because i'm so grateful for what
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  • He's done for me.
  • 00:16:21.829 --> 00:16:24.665
  • He has been good to me, and i will serve him most of the
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  • Time, joyfully.
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  • And third, the cultivation of humility.
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  • Humility is a choice.
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  • There are very few things in scripture that hold greater
  • 00:16:38.212 --> 00:16:40.214
  • Blessing than the practice of humility.
  • 00:16:40.214 --> 00:16:42.583
  • I brought some scriptures to support that generosity.
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  • Proverbs 11: "a generous man will prosper," well, that's--
  • 00:16:44.685 --> 00:16:49.524
  • You probably stopped right there.
  • 00:16:49.524 --> 00:16:50.858
  • I mean, the verse goes on, "he refreshes other will
  • 00:16:50.858 --> 00:16:52.593
  • Himself be refreshed."
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  • But how many of you would like to know that god was gonna help
  • 00:16:53.928 --> 00:16:55.797
  • You prosper?
  • 00:16:55.797 --> 00:16:57.131
  • Now, somebody's gonna say, "pastor, are you one of
  • 00:16:57.131 --> 00:16:58.466
  • Those prosperity--"
  • 00:16:58.466 --> 00:17:00.735
  • Well, what are you, one of those poverty people?
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  • I mean, i don't think you can evaluate your spirituality by
  • 00:17:05.073 --> 00:17:07.575
  • Your bank balance, but i'm amazed at people that fight just
  • 00:17:07.575 --> 00:17:11.079
  • To be poor.
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  • I mean, chri--i mean, i know you go to the other extreme of that
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  • And get in trouble.
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  • I--i'm not--we do enough life together.
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  • But generosity, it's a learned behavior.
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  • We're not by nature generous.
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  • And generosity isn't connected to how much you have.
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  • If you have, if you--or if you have twice as much as you have
  • 00:17:33.634 --> 00:17:36.270
  • Now, you won't be more generous.
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  • Oftentimes, i find the most generous people are the people
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  • With the least.
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  • They tend to be far more faithful in tithing.
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  • The more we get them, we think, "well, that's too much."
  • 00:17:46.214 --> 00:17:48.416
  • Or you know, whatever, i don't know but it's just
  • 00:17:48.416 --> 00:17:50.952
  • An observation.
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  • It's not uniform or universal, but practice generosity.
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  • Second service, revelation 1:1, this fascinates me.
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  • It's the introductory verse to that amazing book that concludes
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  • Your new testament.
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  • There's a message and in heaven, the announcement is, i've got a,
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  • A message that i wanna give about the conclusion of
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  • This age and how are we gonna communicate it, to whom will we
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  • Communicate it.
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  • That's the opening of this book.
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  • And the answer is given in this first verse, says: "the
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  • Revelation of jesus christ, which god gave him to show his
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  • Servants," who's gonna get the revelation?
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  • Those that are serving the lord.
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  • I'm gonna go get in that line.
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  • I promise you, god has things to be revealed in the 21st century.
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  • To whom is he going to give them?
  • 00:18:37.365 --> 00:18:38.733
  • Well, there's some biblical suggestion that he'll make the
  • 00:18:38.733 --> 00:18:40.735
  • Revelation, the insight, the understanding to his servants.
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  • I want to be one of them.
  • 00:18:45.239 --> 00:18:48.576
  • But it's not done, "which he will revealed to show to his
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  • Servants what must soon take place, and he made it known by
  • 00:18:52.013 --> 00:18:55.249
  • Sending his angel," not to his friend, john.
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  • John was his friend.
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  • Not to one of the apostles, john was.
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  • Not to the one who cared for his mother, john did.
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  • But "to my servant john."
  • 00:19:09.263 --> 00:19:12.366
  • So, if you want to engage in a behavior that will attract not
  • 00:19:12.366 --> 00:19:16.737
  • Only the attention of god but the response of god, you bake
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  • Into your life the practice of serving.
  • 00:19:21.042 --> 00:19:25.980
  • Wow, serving means you engage in a behavior for someone or
  • 00:19:25.980 --> 00:19:29.317
  • Something where there's not an expectation of reciprocation,
  • 00:19:29.317 --> 00:19:32.019
  • They're not gonna do something back for you.
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  • Service.
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  • You do it in a remarkable way in this place, you serve one
  • 00:19:39.594 --> 00:19:42.797
  • Another, you serve our community.
  • 00:19:42.797 --> 00:19:45.132
  • We put up an ice rink and dozens and dozens and dozens
  • 00:19:45.132 --> 00:19:48.135
  • Of you volunteered to come serve children and families through
  • 00:19:48.135 --> 00:19:50.471
  • The holiday season when you could have said you were gonna
  • 00:19:50.471 --> 00:19:53.107
  • Be focused on yourself.
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  • You bring toys with enthusiasm.
  • 00:19:55.643 --> 00:19:58.646
  • You bring food to share with others, but they are expressions
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  • Of your faith that give me hope for transformation in your life
  • 00:20:01.882 --> 00:20:06.254
  • And in your families and in our congregation and in
  • 00:20:06.254 --> 00:20:08.489
  • Our community.
  • 00:20:08.489 --> 00:20:10.725
  • They're important behaviors.
  • 00:20:10.725 --> 00:20:13.394
  • And then the third expression of thanksgiving is humility.
  • 00:20:13.394 --> 00:20:17.365
  • Proverbs 22: "humility and the fear of the lord bring something
  • 00:20:17.365 --> 00:20:20.701
  • To your life," this fascinates me.
  • 00:20:20.701 --> 00:20:23.070
  • The cultivation of humility and a respect for god will bring
  • 00:20:23.070 --> 00:20:26.707
  • Something to you with greater certainty than amazon.
  • 00:20:26.707 --> 00:20:31.412
  • What will it bring?
  • 00:20:31.412 --> 00:20:33.180
  • Wealth and honor and life.
  • 00:20:33.180 --> 00:20:34.682
  • Well, i think those are three good things to have in
  • 00:20:34.682 --> 00:20:36.484
  • My future.
  • 00:20:36.484 --> 00:20:38.419
  • So, i'm gonna cultivate humility and a respect for god.
  • 00:20:38.419 --> 00:20:42.657
  • If it's fashionable or not, if it's celebrated or not, if it'll
  • 00:20:42.657 --> 00:20:46.927
  • Cause me to be viral or not, i'm going to cultivate humility and
  • 00:20:46.927 --> 00:20:51.232
  • The respect for god.
  • 00:20:51.232 --> 00:20:53.701
  • Humility doesn't mean there's no i have no value.
  • 00:20:53.701 --> 00:20:55.936
  • I have no intrinsic worth.
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  • I'm a weak worm of the dust.
  • 00:20:57.338 --> 00:20:59.740
  • Humility is having a a right understanding of yourself.
  • 00:20:59.740 --> 00:21:03.744
  • There are gifts you have and there are gifts you don't.
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  • Be content.
  • 00:21:07.915 --> 00:21:10.651
  • Humility is understanding there's a god and it's not me.
  • 00:21:10.651 --> 00:21:15.456
  • Humility is integrating who you are across all the segments of
  • 00:21:15.456 --> 00:21:19.960
  • Your life.
  • 00:21:19.960 --> 00:21:21.829
  • So that you don't have a face for church and a face for
  • 00:21:21.829 --> 00:21:24.298
  • Business and a face for recreation, that
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  • You're integrated.
  • 00:21:26.734 --> 00:21:29.437
  • "why would you do that?"
  • 00:21:29.437 --> 00:21:30.771
  • Because it will bring some really good things to you.
  • 00:21:30.771 --> 00:21:35.276
  • Look at james 4, "humble yourself before the lord."
  • 00:21:35.276 --> 00:21:38.813
  • Why would you do that?
  • 00:21:38.813 --> 00:21:40.514
  • Because the creator of all the earth said he would promote you.
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  • I wanna get in that line.
  • 00:21:44.885 --> 00:21:47.388
  • Well, i tried it for two days and he didn't promote me.
  • 00:21:47.388 --> 00:21:52.493
  • It's like going to the gym and having a really good workout and
  • 00:21:52.493 --> 00:21:55.930
  • Then going looking in the mirror.
  • 00:21:55.930 --> 00:21:59.066
  • It's disappointing, isn't it?
  • 00:21:59.066 --> 00:22:01.369
  • It'll be worse two days from now because then you'll be sore
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  • And unchanged.
  • 00:22:03.904 --> 00:22:07.775
  • Expressions of thanksgiving, generosity, service,
  • 00:22:11.812 --> 00:22:14.849
  • And humility.
  • 00:22:14.849 --> 00:22:16.183
  • So, the day five application is left to you, but write out a
  • 00:22:16.183 --> 00:22:19.887
  • Plan for how you're going to give expression to those things
  • 00:22:19.887 --> 00:22:23.391
  • In your life this month.
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  • I mean, tangibly put them down.
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  • This is how i'm gonna be generous with my money, with my
  • 00:22:28.462 --> 00:22:31.966
  • Time, with my attention, what am i going to do?
  • 00:22:31.966 --> 00:22:35.669
  • Stop being unthankful because somebody's not being generous
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  • Enough to you.
  • 00:22:38.439 --> 00:22:41.509
  • And second, service.
  • 00:22:41.509 --> 00:22:42.843
  • How am i gonna serve? what's that look like?
  • 00:22:42.843 --> 00:22:46.580
  • And finally, what am i doing to let humility flourish in
  • 00:22:46.580 --> 00:22:49.517
  • My life?
  • 00:22:49.517 --> 00:22:50.851
  • When you get your plan built, share it with somebody.
  • 00:22:50.851 --> 00:22:53.821
  • Don't share it with everybody, don't post it.
  • 00:22:53.821 --> 00:22:57.024
  • This is not competitive spiritual disciplines.
  • 00:22:57.024 --> 00:23:01.929
  • But it changes when you're willing to share it
  • 00:23:01.929 --> 00:23:04.131
  • With somebody.
  • 00:23:04.131 --> 00:23:05.766
  • How many times have you made some private commitment to
  • 00:23:05.766 --> 00:23:07.535
  • Exercise more, eat less, or go to church more frequently, but
  • 00:23:07.535 --> 00:23:11.105
  • If it remains a private commitment, it's pretty
  • 00:23:11.105 --> 00:23:13.040
  • Easily ignored.
  • 00:23:13.040 --> 00:23:15.443
  • So, when i tell somebody else, this is what i intend to do, it
  • 00:23:15.443 --> 00:23:17.812
  • Changes the accountability.
  • 00:23:17.812 --> 00:23:20.214
  • Five days of thanksgiving, five ways to approach gratitude in
  • 00:23:20.214 --> 00:23:23.651
  • Your life.
  • 00:23:23.651 --> 00:23:24.985
  • You can bake them into this week.
  • 00:23:24.985 --> 00:23:26.353
  • You can make it a part of a month for the upcoming year.
  • 00:23:26.353 --> 00:23:29.156
  • We can change the practice of our faith and the outcomes of
  • 00:23:29.156 --> 00:23:33.561
  • God in our life.
  • 00:23:33.561 --> 00:23:34.929
  • It's thanksgiving week, but let's make it about something
  • 00:23:34.929 --> 00:23:37.498
  • More than pecan pie.
  • 00:23:37.498 --> 00:23:40.034
  • I'm not diminishing pecan pie.
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  • If you don't want yours, bring it to me.
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  • No, don't, please.
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  • Please don't.
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  • I want us to pray.
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  • Stand with me, if you will.
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  • We are blessed.
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  • Turn to the person on your right and say, "you're a blessing in
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  • My life."
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  • Now, turn to the person on your left and say, "who are you?"
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  • [congregation laughing]
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  • "you're in my seat."
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  • Let's pray.
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  • Father, thank you.
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  • I thank you that we have the great privilege of pausing this
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  • Week to acknowledge you, that you have blessed our lives.
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  • Father, you have been good to us.
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  • You've called us out of darkness into the kingdom of your son.
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  • You have made possible our redemption,
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  • The forgiveness of our sins that we might be included in your
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  • Eternal kingdom, and we thank you for that today.
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  • Lord, you have put circumstances around us that have brought many
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  • Good things: food and shelter and transportation.
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  • Or there are people in our lives, we're not isolated
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  • And alone.
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  • We can gather in public to worship you and to call on the
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  • Name of jesus.
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  • Father, the list is long and you are the author of all those good
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  • Gifts, and we thank you for them today.
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  • We pray for the days ahead of us that, as we walk through them,
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  • That by your spirit, you'll bring a joy to us that will
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  • Transcend the disappointments.
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  • Use our words this week and our actions, our attitude, lord, to
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  • Bring a sense of gratitude to all those with whom we gather.
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  • We praise you for it.
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  • And lord, we offer to you those things that are
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  • Still unresolved.
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  • We lift them before you and we thank you that you are
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  • Well able to bring about conclusions that will bring joy
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  • To our lives and your best to those involved.
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  • We praise you for it, we thank you for it.
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  • Holy spirit, help us to practice our faith.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • God bless you.
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  • Happy thanksgiving.
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  • Allen: allen jackson ministries was created to strengthen
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  • The church.
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  • With your help, we've been able to take some steps in that
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  • Direction, but we're more determined than ever to make an
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  • Impact in our world.
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  • We have some invitations internationally to step into
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  • Some war-torn countries, into israel and ukraine, to help
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  • Strengthen the church there.
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  • We plan to respond to that.
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  • But as importantly in this nation, folks, business as usual
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  • Isn't gonna get this done.
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  • We can't be timid and sit in our churches, and have polite bible
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  • Studies and sing our favorite choruses.
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  • We've got to take the truth into the public square, a biblical
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  • Worldview back into the midst of our culture.
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  • We're creating tools to help you do that in your home, in your
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  • Church, in your community,
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  • Bible studies, publishing books, content that we can share
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  • With you.
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  • It's time for the church to be the church.
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  • We have an advocacy for jesus of nazareth that has to be heard in
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  • This season or our children and grandchildren will pay
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  • The price.
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  • Will you make an investment in this ministry to make 2026 the
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  • Most fruitful year we've ever had together?
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  • Thank you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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