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Allen Jackson - The Power of Repentance

June 5, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - The Power of Repentance
Pastor Allen Jackson's mission is to help people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - The Power of Repentance | June 5, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: hey, i've encouraged you for a long time
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  • To lead with your faith.
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  • Take your faith outside the church building into all the
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  • Places that your life takes you, where you have influence, where
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  • You have a voice.
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  • We've created some pieces to help you do that, a tote bag,
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  • A blanket.
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  • Maybe you're going to a ball game or the park or the beach,
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  • Wherever that may be.
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  • You take these along.
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  • They are a celebration of our nation's 250th anniversary.
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  • Somebody will wanna know where you got it, what it's about.
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  • It gives you an opportunity to share your faith.
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  • You know, i've had the privilege of living in some places outside
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  • The united states.
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  • Things like a grocery store or fast food or food delivery,
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  • Those things weren't possible in the places i lived.
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  • When i come home, just walking through a grocery store reminds
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  • Me of the goodness and the faithfulness of god, his
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  • Blessings on our nation.
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  • Use your voice to say god has blessed america.
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  • Something as simple as a tote bag can open a door for your
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  • God story.
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  • Together we're gonna lift up the name of jesus in this generation
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  • And see god bless america again.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: so my invitation, i've been sharing with you for
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  • A while, we're reading the gospels.
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  • But we're not just reading them for ourselves.
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  • Most of you, i pray, have already are in the habit of
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  • Reading your bible.
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  • We're inviting somebody to read them with us about 10-15 minutes
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  • A day.
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  • It's a 60-day commitment, matthew, mark, luke, and john.
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  • You're gonna know most of the characters, or you at least have
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  • Heard of them.
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  • You know the disciples's names, most of them.
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  • You're gonna know most of the cities.
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  • You've heard of jerusalem or bethlehem.
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  • If you've--yeah, i hope.
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  • So there's a familiarity to it that makes it much, much easier
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  • To read than some portions.
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  • So, invite somebody.
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  • Invite more than one body.
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  • Invite as many people as you can enlist.
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  • One, it's a biblical notion.
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  • Two, it will open their lives to the purposes of god.
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  • And three, it will bring the blessings of god to them and us.
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  • What if we got thousands of people reading through the
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  • Gospels together?
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  • I've already told you on the front end, as soon as we finish,
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  • We get to the end of february, i'm gonna ask you to read the
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  • Rest of the new testament because i'm ornery that way,
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  • All right?
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  • But let's start with the gospels.
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  • If you do it, and you go, "there was no value in that.
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  • I don't want"--okay.
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  • I'm good with that. i'll leave it.
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  • We'll plant that seed and see what the lord will do next.
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  • But there'll be a significant percentage of people go, "yeah,
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  • I'll be happy to do that.
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  • We'll be done before memorial day."
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  • Let's pray that it catches.
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  • It'd be fun if the lord made that viral, not for our sake.
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  • I don't care who gets--doesn't matter to me where the
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  • Label hangs.
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  • We would just love to see multiplied thousands of people
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  • Reading through the gospels in our nation at the beginning of
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  • The year. [congregation applauding]
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  • All right, i hope you received an outline when you came in.
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  • I want to continue a theme we've been working on called
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  • "stormproof foundations."
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  • It's really taken from the parable that jesus taught,
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  • Telling us that there were storms coming.
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  • "storms," he said, "were coming to everybody."
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  • The difference, the differentiating factor was the
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  • Foundation of the home or the life to which the storms came.
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  • If the foundation is inappropriate, everything will
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  • Be lost.
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  • If the foundation is built appropriately, we will withstand
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  • The storms.
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  • Well, when we have been warned by our lord and our king that
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  • Storms are a part of this present journey, it seems to me
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  • Only prudent to be very busy establishing a foundation that
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  • Will withstand the storms.
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  • And he said, "it was the one who hears his word and puts it
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  • Into practice."
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  • So we've been, we're looking at some things that will give us a
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  • Foundation that will enable our lives to be stormproof.
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  • In this session, we're going to look at the power of repentance.
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  • Thank you for that enthusiastic response.
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  • We'll start in hebrews chapter 5.
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  • In the original manuscripts, there were no chapters
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  • And verses.
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  • Those were added later to help us reference the text so we
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  • Could find the same passage.
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  • If there were no chapters and verses, it would be hard to find
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  • The sentence we wanted in the book of hebrews.
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  • So sometimes the chapters come at inconvenient times, and i
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  • Happen to think in this case, there's a chapter break, but
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  • There's not a break in thought.
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  • Says, "we have much to say about this, but it's hard to explain
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  • Because you're slow to learn.
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  • In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need
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  • Someone to teach you the elementary truths of god's word
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  • All over again."
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  • You've heard them once, but you haven't learned them.
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  • "you need milk, not solid food!
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  • Anyone who lives on milks, being still an infant, isn't
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  • Acquainted with the teaching about righteousness.
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  • But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have
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  • Trained themselves to distinguish good from evil."
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  • Maturity has some characteristics attached to it
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  • There, constant use of what you've been taught and
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  • A training of yourself.
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  • Training is engaging in a behavior on a regular basis that
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  • Will enable you to accomplish something in the future that you
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  • Couldn't accomplish today, no matter how diligently you tried.
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  • We train for athletic competition.
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  • We train, we train for almost anything where skill sets are
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  • Required, that require more than an interest or more
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  • Than sincerity.
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  • Christians often make the mistake of thinking if they're
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  • Sincere, that's enough.
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  • If i'm getting in the car and you're driving, i don't want it
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  • To be your first time behind the wheel.
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  • And i'm grateful that you love jesus, and you're going to
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  • Sincerely do your best.
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  • I will walk.
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  • Thank you.
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  • And christians have been very sloppy.
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  • We thought, "well, you know, i know i haven't prayed much, but
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  • I had a real need and i was sincere."
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  • Well, you can be sincere and ignorant at the same time, and
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  • That's what the author of hebrews is saying.
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  • You've heard the messages, but you haven't put it to
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  • Consistent use.
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  • You haven't been in training, and you still need milk.
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  • Verse chapter 6, "therefore, because of that, let's leave the
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  • Elementary teachings about our messiah and go on to maturity,
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  • Not laying again," and he's gonna list the foundational
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  • Principles that he said are the elementary principles of
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  • Our faith.
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  • He lists half a dozen: "not laying again the foundation of
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  • Repentance from acts that lead to death, and of faith in god,
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  • Instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the
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  • Resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.
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  • And god permitting, we will do so."
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  • Those six things the author of hebrews says are
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  • Elementary concepts.
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  • Now in this session, and i'm not--we're not going to do all
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  • Six of them, i don't believe, at this time as a part of this
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  • Study, but i wanna begin with this first one.
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  • We're gonna explore a bit this notion of repentance and the
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  • Power it has in our lives.
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  • But i would take that passage to remind you that it's really, you
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  • Don't love god any more than you love his word, hard stop.
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  • So i meet people who say, "you know, oh, i love god.
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  • He's really important to me.
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  • Well, i've never read my bible.
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  • I mean, the names are hard to pronounce."
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  • Oh.
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  • You really can't make an argument that you love god more
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  • Than you love his word.
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  • You don't obey god more than you obey his word.
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  • Obedience to god is obedience to his word.
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  • You can, if you just pick and choose the places you're
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  • Obedient, you shouldn't imagine that you're truly obedient to
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  • The lord.
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  • We want to build a foundation in two ways.
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  • We want to build a personal foundation that has to do with
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  • Your personal choices towards the lord and his word.
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  • You also want to build a doctrinal foundation.
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  • I know that's not a popular word.
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  • Most of us don't even wanna think about it.
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  • But the doctrinal foundation of the christian faith will protect
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  • You in a season of increasing confusion, deception, apostasy.
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  • Significant percentages of churches with--mainline
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  • Churches, established churches, churches with long histories of
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  • Good things have renounced the authority of scripture.
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  • They reject biblical definitions of marriage, biblical
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  • Definitions of human sexuality.
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  • That's not church, not in the biblical sense.
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  • They can put whatever they want to on a sign.
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  • I can wear a t-shirt that says i'm an elephant, but it wouldn't
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  • Make it so.
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  • And these six doctrines that are presented in hebrews 6 take us
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  • From the starting point of the christian faith to its ultimate
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  • Fulfillment in eternity.
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  • They lead us from repentance of works that lead to death all the
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  • Way to eternal judgment.
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  • You see, the christian faith does not terminate in time.
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  • The objective of our faith reaches beyond time.
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  • We will make choices in time that may be perceived as
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  • Detrimental by people who don't have a hope for eternity because
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  • We understand that our faith reaches beyond the realm
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  • Of time.
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  • It's very important.
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  • And in that third verse, the author of hebrews says, "god
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  • Permitting, we will do so."
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  • That's an interesting phrase to me.
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  • Why would god not permit us to do so?
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  • I mean, surely he wants us all to go on to maturity.
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  • Well, i've had the opportunity through the years to help be
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  • A part of a number of construction projects.
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  • And in order to build the building, you have to obtain
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  • Necessary permits, and you have to submit to an ongoing stream
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  • Of inspections.
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  • And that begins with the moving of the dirt and the very
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  • Fundamental foundations.
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  • If the foundation isn't adequate, you're not going to be
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  • Allowed to continue the process.
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  • You can't just build the building if the inspection says
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  • The foundation is inadequate, because even in a simple
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  • Construction project, we know that spells disaster.
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  • Well, i believe god is saying he's not going to allow us to go
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  • On to maturity, to continue to grow and to develop, to add
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  • Layers to the narrative if we ignore the
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  • Appropriate foundation.
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  • So why do we have so much immature christianity?
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  • Because we haven't given attention to the foundation.
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  • God will permit us to mature and to grow and to move on to more
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  • Places of significance and greater roles if we will give
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  • Attention to building the foundation.
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  • But we've grabbed the first stone and said, "well, i've
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  • Dealt with repentance.
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  • I've made a profession of faith.
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  • I'm finished."
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  • Repentance from dead works may be stated in another way,
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  • Repentance from works that lead to death.
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  • Dead works is anything done which isn't in faith, not
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  • Anything that's not done in church.
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  • But we learn to turn away from everything that's not done
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  • In faith.
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  • It's not necessarily a sinful life.
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  • We have had the, i think, the wrong often set of criteria.
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  • We thought, "well, you know, i'm not doing anything that is
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  • Blatantly sinful.
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  • I'm not transgressing any of the ten commandments.
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  • I'm not committing some form of immorality.
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  • I don't practice stealing.
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  • Therefore, you know, i'm fulfilling god's purpose for
  • 00:12:29.240 --> 00:12:32.811
  • My life."
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  • I think you have misunderstood.
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  • God is asking us to do something more than simply avoid a
  • 00:12:37.515 --> 00:12:40.418
  • Sinful life.
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  • He's asking us to lead a life by faith.
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  • He said, "without faith, it's impossible to please the lord."
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  • So when we talk about repentance, i'm gonna submit to
  • 00:12:48.593 --> 00:12:51.563
  • You that you'll need to be willing to be repentant in the
  • 00:12:51.563 --> 00:12:55.667
  • Places where god showed you, not just of gross commissions of
  • 00:12:55.667 --> 00:13:00.171
  • Sin, but in places where you've been leading your life apart
  • 00:13:00.171 --> 00:13:05.210
  • From faith in god.
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  • Allen: you see, repentance is not an emotion.
  • 00:14:15.747 --> 00:14:18.683
  • Repentance is a decision which emerges from our will.
  • 00:14:18.683 --> 00:14:23.254
  • It doesn't originate in our emotions.
  • 00:14:23.254 --> 00:14:27.392
  • You know, usually when we've done something wrong, we're not
  • 00:14:27.392 --> 00:14:30.128
  • Sorry until we're caught.
  • 00:14:30.128 --> 00:14:34.399
  • That's another sermon.
  • 00:14:34.399 --> 00:14:37.669
  • But true conversion, when the spirit of god convicts us and we
  • 00:14:37.669 --> 00:14:41.372
  • Come to that point of fundamental repentance, true
  • 00:14:41.372 --> 00:14:45.076
  • Conversion reaches our will.
  • 00:14:45.076 --> 00:14:49.147
  • It isn't an emotional response.
  • 00:14:49.147 --> 00:14:51.649
  • It's not that we're overwhelmed with emotion.
  • 00:14:51.649 --> 00:14:54.319
  • It touches our will, and we say, "i recognize the need to
  • 00:14:54.319 --> 00:14:58.423
  • Be different."
  • 00:14:58.423 --> 00:15:01.125
  • Let me give you a definition of repentance.
  • 00:15:01.125 --> 00:15:02.727
  • I think it'll help.
  • 00:15:02.727 --> 00:15:04.696
  • The old testament is written predominantly in the hebrew
  • 00:15:04.696 --> 00:15:07.098
  • Language, the new testament predominantly in the
  • 00:15:07.098 --> 00:15:09.200
  • Greek language.
  • 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:10.802
  • So there's a different word for repentance, obviously in hebrew
  • 00:15:10.802 --> 00:15:14.539
  • Than in greek, and they have slightly different meanings.
  • 00:15:14.539 --> 00:15:19.043
  • In the greek language, the word for repentance means to change
  • 00:15:19.043 --> 00:15:22.747
  • The way i think.
  • 00:15:22.747 --> 00:15:25.650
  • So the first perspective on repentance is to change your
  • 00:15:25.650 --> 00:15:30.154
  • Mind, to change your will.
  • 00:15:30.154 --> 00:15:34.192
  • "i thought this was okay.
  • 00:15:34.192 --> 00:15:36.461
  • I thought i was all right.
  • 00:15:36.461 --> 00:15:38.863
  • I believed that this behavior was appropriate, that i could
  • 00:15:38.863 --> 00:15:41.933
  • Pursue it."
  • 00:15:41.933 --> 00:15:43.301
  • Again, for the christ follower, oftentimes, it's not about some
  • 00:15:43.301 --> 00:15:46.237
  • Gross expression of sin.
  • 00:15:46.237 --> 00:15:47.905
  • It may just have been the wholesale pursuit of your carnal
  • 00:15:47.905 --> 00:15:51.576
  • Nature, that earthly, adamic, selfish nature that says, "i
  • 00:15:51.576 --> 00:15:57.015
  • Want, i think, i feel," and you pursue that with
  • 00:15:57.015 --> 00:16:00.785
  • Great enthusiasm.
  • 00:16:00.785 --> 00:16:04.188
  • And perhaps the spirit of god begins to convict you, to make
  • 00:16:04.188 --> 00:16:06.691
  • You uncomfortable with that.
  • 00:16:06.691 --> 00:16:10.561
  • And so the one portion of repentance is to say, "i have to
  • 00:16:10.561 --> 00:16:16.768
  • Change the way i think.
  • 00:16:16.768 --> 00:16:19.537
  • I don't think that's okay.
  • 00:16:19.537 --> 00:16:25.143
  • I'm going to stop saying that's all right, because the lord has
  • 00:16:25.143 --> 00:16:29.313
  • Shown me that for me, that's not alright."
  • 00:16:29.313 --> 00:16:34.318
  • See, legalism is a problem.
  • 00:16:34.318 --> 00:16:36.921
  • Every group of religious people, every group, whichever group you
  • 00:16:36.921 --> 00:16:40.591
  • Put me in, you can include it, we make the sets of rules that
  • 00:16:40.591 --> 00:16:43.995
  • Matter to us.
  • 00:16:43.995 --> 00:16:46.364
  • And i'll tell you what i've learned about religious rules:
  • 00:16:46.364 --> 00:16:48.733
  • Mine makes sense, and yours are stupid, right?
  • 00:16:48.733 --> 00:16:53.538
  • Because you've arrived at some set of rules that define the
  • 00:16:53.538 --> 00:16:55.907
  • Boundaries that you think are normative for what it would be
  • 00:16:55.907 --> 00:16:59.077
  • To be a god-honoring person, and somebody else has a different
  • 00:16:59.077 --> 00:17:02.580
  • Set of rules, and yours makes sense and theirs just don't.
  • 00:17:02.580 --> 00:17:07.251
  • But legalism will always lead you into places that
  • 00:17:07.251 --> 00:17:11.489
  • Aren't good.
  • 00:17:11.489 --> 00:17:13.925
  • So when the holy spirit begins to convict you, it isn't always
  • 00:17:13.925 --> 00:17:17.361
  • About some overt rule.
  • 00:17:17.361 --> 00:17:21.332
  • "don't drink that," or, "your hymn can't be that short," or,
  • 00:17:21.332 --> 00:17:25.703
  • "you can't wear makeup or jewelry," or some of you came
  • 00:17:25.703 --> 00:17:28.372
  • From some pretty legalistic backgrounds, or, "you can't read
  • 00:17:28.372 --> 00:17:31.843
  • A translation other than this one," or, "you have to be in
  • 00:17:31.843 --> 00:17:34.112
  • Church three times a week, or you're not really saved," or,
  • 00:17:34.112 --> 00:17:37.315
  • "you have to be baptized in our pool," or i don't know.
  • 00:17:37.315 --> 00:17:40.251
  • The lists are endless.
  • 00:17:40.251 --> 00:17:43.187
  • But the first, when the holy spirit convicts you,
  • 00:17:43.187 --> 00:17:47.525
  • You say, "oh, i haven't thought about that appropriately.
  • 00:17:47.525 --> 00:17:52.697
  • I'm gonna change the way i think."
  • 00:17:52.697 --> 00:17:54.832
  • Doesn't mean it's a rule for everybody.
  • 00:17:54.832 --> 00:17:56.167
  • The holy spirit's dealing with you.
  • 00:17:56.167 --> 00:17:59.604
  • Does that make sense?
  • 00:17:59.604 --> 00:18:01.372
  • When you see an olympic athlete, they've accepted discipline, and
  • 00:18:01.372 --> 00:18:05.243
  • They've engaged in training that you and i probably haven't.
  • 00:18:05.243 --> 00:18:08.513
  • I know i haven't.
  • 00:18:08.513 --> 00:18:11.449
  • Everything that goes on their fork they think about.
  • 00:18:11.449 --> 00:18:14.585
  • They think about their health and their well-being and their
  • 00:18:14.585 --> 00:18:16.554
  • Physical training every day.
  • 00:18:16.554 --> 00:18:20.091
  • I think about mine on the way to the donut shop.
  • 00:18:20.091 --> 00:18:24.595
  • Maybe one dozen is enough.
  • 00:18:24.595 --> 00:18:31.102
  • In your life, when the holy spirit, if he begins to
  • 00:18:31.102 --> 00:18:33.704
  • Convict you and you have that invitation to repentance,
  • 00:18:33.704 --> 00:18:37.175
  • Understand he's preparing you for something.
  • 00:18:37.175 --> 00:18:41.045
  • Don't say, "well, i know ten people that do that, and i'm
  • 00:18:41.045 --> 00:18:43.814
  • Better than them."
  • 00:18:43.814 --> 00:18:46.984
  • You will forfeit what god is inviting you to.
  • 00:18:46.984 --> 00:18:52.223
  • And we've had this backwards idea of saying, "well, i know
  • 00:18:52.223 --> 00:18:54.525
  • I'm born again.
  • 00:18:54.525 --> 00:18:55.960
  • Why would i do that?"
  • 00:18:55.960 --> 00:18:57.929
  • Because you want to please the lord, because we want to go on
  • 00:18:57.929 --> 00:19:04.802
  • To maturity.
  • 00:19:04.802 --> 00:19:06.170
  • And god permitting, he won't permit us to go on because he
  • 00:19:06.170 --> 00:19:10.141
  • Can't let us build a ten-story building on a sloppy foundation.
  • 00:19:10.141 --> 00:19:17.582
  • The hebrew word for repentance is different.
  • 00:19:17.582 --> 00:19:21.118
  • Hebrew is an ancient language.
  • 00:19:21.118 --> 00:19:22.653
  • It's a lot more simplistic.
  • 00:19:22.653 --> 00:19:24.956
  • It's earthier.
  • 00:19:24.956 --> 00:19:26.324
  • The hebrew word for repentance means to turn around, physically
  • 00:19:26.324 --> 00:19:28.960
  • To change directions.
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  • "i'm going this way, and i go this way."
  • 00:19:30.328 --> 00:19:34.031
  • So the hebrew word suggests that you've been facing one way, and
  • 00:19:34.031 --> 00:19:38.769
  • You make a 180-degree turn and you take a new path.
  • 00:19:38.769 --> 00:19:41.606
  • There's a physical change.
  • 00:19:41.606 --> 00:19:43.941
  • So you put both words together, you get a pretty full picture
  • 00:19:43.941 --> 00:19:46.911
  • Of repentance.
  • 00:19:46.911 --> 00:19:48.246
  • "i've been thinking the wrong way, and because of that, i've
  • 00:19:48.246 --> 00:19:51.115
  • Been acting the wrong way, and i'm gonna change.
  • 00:19:51.115 --> 00:19:55.453
  • I'm gonna change how i think.
  • 00:19:55.453 --> 00:19:57.388
  • I'm gonna stop saying, 'that was right.'
  • 00:19:57.388 --> 00:19:59.824
  • And i'm gonna change how i've been behaving, and i'm gonna
  • 00:19:59.824 --> 00:20:02.760
  • Behave in a new way."
  • 00:20:02.760 --> 00:20:05.563
  • Now here's the punchline.
  • 00:20:05.563 --> 00:20:07.865
  • Biblically, faith emerges only after repentance.
  • 00:20:07.865 --> 00:20:13.904
  • If you want to grow in faith, and most people i know that are
  • 00:20:13.904 --> 00:20:18.109
  • Sincere christ followers would like to have greater faith.
  • 00:20:18.109 --> 00:20:23.714
  • And we know the verse, "faith comes by hearing, and hearing
  • 00:20:23.714 --> 00:20:25.983
  • From the word of god."
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  • I'm not trying to annul that.
  • 00:20:27.318 --> 00:20:28.819
  • It's not the whole picture.
  • 00:20:28.819 --> 00:20:31.522
  • Look with me.
  • 00:20:31.522 --> 00:20:34.191
  • You see, the challenge, i think it's a major problem with
  • 00:20:34.191 --> 00:20:37.061
  • Christians wrestle with is the result of the lack
  • 00:20:37.061 --> 00:20:39.130
  • Of repentance.
  • 00:20:39.130 --> 00:20:40.765
  • We've never really changed our minds.
  • 00:20:40.765 --> 00:20:44.235
  • We just think, "well, you know, it's what god wants."
  • 00:20:44.235 --> 00:20:48.239
  • We never came to the place where they're like, "i don't want
  • 00:20:48.239 --> 00:20:50.474
  • Anything to do with that.
  • 00:20:50.474 --> 00:20:52.810
  • I used to think it, but i'm not okay with that anymore."
  • 00:20:52.810 --> 00:20:55.646
  • And we're double-minded, and we're truly reluctant to fully
  • 00:20:55.646 --> 00:20:59.817
  • Submit to the authority of jesus and god's word.
  • 00:20:59.817 --> 00:21:02.687
  • "i better keep one foot outside because i might have to take
  • 00:21:02.687 --> 00:21:06.424
  • Care of myself.
  • 00:21:06.424 --> 00:21:07.758
  • I might have to be the provider.
  • 00:21:07.758 --> 00:21:09.360
  • I might have to trust in me more than god," and
  • 00:21:09.360 --> 00:21:14.365
  • We're double-minded.
  • 00:21:14.365 --> 00:21:15.733
  • Biblically, there's a very clear statement about this.
  • 00:21:15.733 --> 00:21:18.035
  • Look at james 1, verse 6.
  • 00:21:18.035 --> 00:21:20.571
  • He says, "but when a man asks," he said,
  • 00:21:20.571 --> 00:21:22.773
  • "he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is
  • 00:21:22.773 --> 00:21:25.242
  • Like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.
  • 00:21:25.242 --> 00:21:28.212
  • That man shouldn't think he will receive anything from the lord;
  • 00:21:28.212 --> 00:21:30.448
  • He's a double-minded man, unstable in all he does."
  • 00:21:30.448 --> 00:21:35.853
  • To be double-minded, we treat it kind of casually.
  • 00:21:35.853 --> 00:21:39.457
  • "oh, it's not that big a deal."
  • 00:21:39.457 --> 00:21:40.791
  • No, it will nullify your faith.
  • 00:21:40.791 --> 00:21:43.094
  • It will completely disrupt your spiritual life.
  • 00:21:43.094 --> 00:21:47.064
  • It will leave you developmentally impaired.
  • 00:21:47.064 --> 00:21:53.704
  • Same book, james 4, verse 8, "come near to god, he'll come
  • 00:21:53.704 --> 00:21:56.340
  • Near to you.
  • 00:21:56.340 --> 00:21:57.708
  • Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts,
  • 00:21:57.708 --> 00:22:01.112
  • You double-minded."
  • 00:22:01.112 --> 00:22:02.480
  • It's as if there's, as if he's talking to two buckets of
  • 00:22:02.480 --> 00:22:04.782
  • People, people who are overtly, covert, overtly committing
  • 00:22:04.782 --> 00:22:09.387
  • Sin, disobedience.
  • 00:22:09.387 --> 00:22:13.290
  • He said, "you need to wash your hands," but some of you
  • 00:22:13.290 --> 00:22:15.793
  • Are double-minded.
  • 00:22:15.793 --> 00:22:18.529
  • Your hearts are impure because your thoughts aren't fully
  • 00:22:18.529 --> 00:22:22.666
  • Focused on the lord, and neither is your behavior.
  • 00:22:22.666 --> 00:22:25.169
  • You're double-minded.
  • 00:22:25.169 --> 00:22:26.504
  • "grieve mourn and wail.
  • 00:22:26.504 --> 00:22:27.972
  • Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.
  • 00:22:27.972 --> 00:22:30.908
  • Humble yourselves before the lord, and he will lift you up."
  • 00:22:30.908 --> 00:22:37.915
  • Humility is necessary for us to overcome being double-minded.
  • 00:22:37.915 --> 00:22:44.121
  • Humility is not saying, "i have no value."
  • 00:22:44.121 --> 00:22:47.892
  • Humility is not saying, "i'm just a weak worm of the dust,
  • 00:22:47.892 --> 00:22:50.795
  • And there's nothing in me that has any merit."
  • 00:22:50.795 --> 00:22:53.998
  • Humility is a right evaluation of who god made you to be.
  • 00:22:53.998 --> 00:22:58.936
  • It's a recognition that you have some strengths, and you have
  • 00:22:58.936 --> 00:23:01.939
  • Some areas that are not so strong.
  • 00:23:01.939 --> 00:23:06.410
  • Oftentimes, we're mad at god because we wanted to have
  • 00:23:06.410 --> 00:23:08.479
  • Strengths in areas where we don't, and we don't have the
  • 00:23:08.479 --> 00:23:11.248
  • Humility to accept ourselves the way god created us.
  • 00:23:11.248 --> 00:23:14.952
  • So we spend our whole lives angry at god, filled with pride
  • 00:23:14.952 --> 00:23:17.922
  • And selfish ambition and carnality.
  • 00:23:17.922 --> 00:23:20.791
  • I'm not saying you're not a christian.
  • 00:23:20.791 --> 00:23:22.126
  • I'm saying you forfeit your future of significance in the
  • 00:23:22.126 --> 00:23:24.395
  • Kingdom of god.
  • 00:23:24.395 --> 00:23:26.497
  • You spend your whole life with a pacifier and a rattle.
  • 00:23:26.497 --> 00:23:31.202
  • We should humble ourselves.
  • 00:23:31.202 --> 00:23:33.404
  • "but i wanted to."
  • 00:23:33.404 --> 00:23:34.738
  • Okay, i got it.
  • 00:23:34.738 --> 00:23:36.106
  • I heard.
  • 00:23:36.106 --> 00:23:37.475
  • But there's a creator, and he made me.
  • 00:23:37.475 --> 00:23:41.512
  • There was a time in my life i thought it would have been
  • 00:23:41.512 --> 00:23:43.314
  • Wonderful to have been 6'6", had layers of lean muscle, and then
  • 00:23:43.314 --> 00:23:53.357
  • God made me.
  • 00:23:53.924 --> 00:23:57.294
  • In luke 15, we have a biblical picture of repentance.
  • 00:23:57.294 --> 00:24:00.898
  • It's the prodigal story.
  • 00:24:00.898 --> 00:24:03.267
  • The young man who asked for his inheritance, and he left home,
  • 00:24:03.267 --> 00:24:05.769
  • And went far away from home, and lived a very rebellious life,
  • 00:24:05.769 --> 00:24:12.109
  • And finds himself destitute.
  • 00:24:12.109 --> 00:24:13.711
  • And jesus gives us kind of the, his end place.
  • 00:24:13.711 --> 00:24:17.815
  • He said, "when he came to his senses, he said, 'how many of my
  • 00:24:17.815 --> 00:24:20.818
  • Father's hired men have food to spare, and here i am starving
  • 00:24:20.818 --> 00:24:24.522
  • To death!
  • 00:24:24.522 --> 00:24:26.090
  • I'll set out and go back to my father and i'll say to him:
  • 00:24:26.090 --> 00:24:28.626
  • "i've sinned against heaven and against you.
  • 00:24:28.626 --> 00:24:31.028
  • I'm no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like
  • 00:24:31.028 --> 00:24:35.232
  • One of your hired men."
  • 00:24:35.232 --> 00:24:37.134
  • So he got up and he went to his father.'"
  • 00:24:37.134 --> 00:24:39.336
  • You know the end of the story, most of you, i suspect.
  • 00:24:39.336 --> 00:24:42.573
  • But it's his attitude that i wanna call your attention to.
  • 00:24:42.573 --> 00:24:46.176
  • He had to change the way he was thinking.
  • 00:24:46.176 --> 00:24:49.013
  • Up until this point, he thought the best life was away from the
  • 00:24:49.013 --> 00:24:52.983
  • Authority of his father.
  • 00:24:52.983 --> 00:24:55.486
  • He wanted to be independent.
  • 00:24:55.486 --> 00:24:57.788
  • He thought he could make a better life for himself than the
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  • Constraints that would have come with the authority of
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  • His father.
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  • He thought his problem was a resource issue.
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  • So he got what he believed to be unlimited resources, and he
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  • Escaped the authority that had been over his life.
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  • And he drove himself to the point of almost complete
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  • Destruction, and he found a place of repentance.
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  • He said, "i have been thinking wrongly.
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  • I will go home.
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  • I would rather be under my father's authority and be
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  • Destitute, be a servant, than stay where i am," and then he
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  • Changed his behavior.
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  • He said, "i'll not only think it.
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  • I'll go back and say that."
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  • Now that would take some humility, wouldn't it?
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  • Allen: there's a lot of fear in the church these days because we
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  • Recognize intuitively, if we haven't recognized it
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  • Consciously, that the world has changed.
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  • The way we practiced our faith two or three years ago isn't
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  • Sufficient for what's before us right now.
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  • Don't be frightened by that.
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  • Ask the lord to give you an understanding heart.
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  • We've gotta learn to see in some new ways so we can respond with
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  • Boldness and courage.
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  • Let's pray.
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  • Father, i pray you'll give us new courage, new eyes to see,
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  • New understanding hearts, that we may respond with great faith
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  • To what you're doing in the earth.
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  • I thank you for it in jesus's name.
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  • Amen.
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  • Allen: you know, around the world people are searching for
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  • Truth, and together we're doing our very best to help them
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  • Find it.
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  • Known right here at home and around the earth, wherever god
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