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Allen Jackson - Powerful Gifts To Overcome An Adversary (Part 2)

March 31, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Powerful Gifts To Overcome An Adversary (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Powerful Gifts To Overcome An Adversary (Part 2) | March 31, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: you know, around the world people are searching
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  • Allen: so on the evening of the first day of the week, this is
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  • Resurrection day, disciples had a rough patch.
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  • You know, they have the last supper and judas is identified.
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  • They've been living with a traitor.
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  • Jesus washes their feet while they're arguing about who's
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  • Gonna be the greatest.
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  • I mean, it's been a little rough patch.
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  • They go to gethsemane and jesus says, "pray with me," and
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  • They sleep.
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  • He wakes them up and says, "really?"
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  • And they go back to sleep.
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  • Those of you that are just tuning in about now, welcome.
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  • They come to arrest him and the disciples scatter.
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  • And they're not advocates for jesus while he goes through his
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  • Trials and his suffering, and they watch him suffocate on a
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  • Cross, which is unimaginable to them.
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  • I don't--they're terrified 'cause if they can kill jesus,
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  • They know they're vulnerable.
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  • And now it's resurrection day and they're hiding in a room,
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  • They're--to say they're disillusioned is inadequate.
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  • That they--their hope has been just crushed, it's eliminated.
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  • And that's where john takes us.
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  • He says, "when the disciples were together, with the doors
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  • Locked for fear of the jews, jesus came and stood among them
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  • And he said, 'peace be with you!'"
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  • What do you suppose the emotion was?
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  • I don't think it's a simple answer.
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  • "'peace be with you,' jesus said.
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  • And after he said them, he showed them his hands and
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  • His side."
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  • Why'd he do that?
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  • Because i'm sure they thought it was a ghost, an apparition,
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  • An imagination.
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  • "no, no, it--it's really me.
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  • Look, i--i've got the marks."
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  • And then maybe one of the greatest understatements in all
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  • Of scripture, "the disciples were overjoyed when they saw
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  • The lord."
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  • They lost their minds.
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  • Is that fair?
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  • "and jesus said, 'peace be with you!
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  • As the father has sent me, i'm sending you.'
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  • And with that he breathed on them and said, 'receive the
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  • Holy spirit.'"
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  • "receive the holy spirit."
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  • I think it's more than noteworthy that jesus's first
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  • Interaction resurrection--post resurrection with the disciples,
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  • He breathes on them.
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  • He talked to them a lot about the holy spirit, particularly in
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  • John's gospel.
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  • He said, "i've asked the father to send you another comforter."
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  • I gave you a passage there, john 14.
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  • "all this i've spoken while still with you, but the
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  • Counselor, the holy spirit, whom the father will send in my name,
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  • He'll teach you all things."
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  • He'll teach you all things.
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  • He will teach you all things.
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  • There's a gift that will teach me what i need to know about the
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  • Lord?
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  • Where?
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  • "he will teach you all things and remind you," bring to your
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  • Memory, "everything i've said to you.
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  • Peace i leave with you; my peace i give to you.
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  • Not as the world gives.
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  • Don't let your hearts be troubled and don't be afraid."
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  • Don't be afraid.
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  • I've asked the father to send you another counselor.
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  • I've been your counselor. i've been your go to.
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  • When you thought you were gonna drown on the lake, you woke me
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  • Up and we talked to the wind and the waves.
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  • When people came and presented with ministry issues and you
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  • Couldn't resolve them, you brought them to me and i
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  • Resolved them.
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  • When it was time to pay taxes and we didn't have tax money, i
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  • Told you to go fishing and catch the fish with the money in
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  • His mouth.
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  • Time and time again we have walked through these places
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  • Together, but i've asked the father and he's gonna send you
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  • Another counselor.
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  • I want you to imagine that a relationship with the holy
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  • Spirit is essential to fulfill your assignment.
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  • It's a gift god has provided.
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  • Again, we have a lot of language and then we start to get a
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  • Little twitchy, you know, i--what--i don't know.
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  • There's many ways to understand it, and my time is limited, but
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  • In acts chapter 1, this is post-resurrection too, "on one
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  • Occasion, while jesus was eating with them," the preceding verses
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  • Have said that jesus just spent 40 days between the resurrection
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  • And his ascension.
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  • He had a 40-day seminar with his closest friends on the kingdom
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  • Of god.
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  • Can you imagine sitting in on that one with a resurrected
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  • Lord, a discussion of the kingdom of god, you think you'd
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  • Been listening?
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  • I think you'd have--you'd pay better attention if your
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  • Teacher, you'd watched him die on a cross and then he came back
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  • And convened class.
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  • Yeah, me too.
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  • But on one occasion, he's having a meal with them, it's that
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  • Table thing again.
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  • And he gives them a command, "don't leave jerusalem, but wait
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  • For the gift my father promised, which you've heard me
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  • Speak about.
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  • John baptized with water, but in a few days you'll be baptized
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  • With the holy spirit."
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  • He said, "don't even begin your assignment."
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  • We--in john 20 he said, "now, as the father sent me, i'm
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  • Sending you.
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  • You gotta go."
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  • And he breathes on them and receives the holy spirit.
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  • It's resurrection day.
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  • But some weeks later he gathers with them and he said, "now,
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  • Don't begin your assignment.
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  • Don't even leave town until you're baptized in the spirit."
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  • So there's a relationship with the spirit of god
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  • That's essential.
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  • Not for our entrance into the kingdom of god, but fulfilling
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  • The purposes of god on the earth.
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  • We can't do it in our strength or our power or our intellect or
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  • Our ability.
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  • We're inadequate because our adversary is spiritual and we're
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  • Not gonna overcome him with all of our physical tools.
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  • We need help.
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  • We have the spirit of god to teach us whatever we need
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  • To know.
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  • There are things that we don't even know are possible, things
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  • That we can't even imagine.
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  • So there is all through our bible--and i understand some of
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  • You--depending on the spectrum of the church where you come
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  • From, we all have vantage points on this conversation.
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  • And i--i'm very aware that i--i'm leaving--i'm not
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  • Providing full discussion on everything today, but i want to
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  • Establish firmly a desire to cooperate with the spirit
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  • Of god.
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  • In the same way i can't imagine saying to jesus, "no, no," and
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  • Thinking it wouldn't bring some pretty significant consequence.
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  • I don't want to say to the spirit of god, no.
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  • I want to learn to say yes.
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  • I want to cooperate with him.
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  • We usually talk about gifts.
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  • We talk about spiritual things.
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  • It's not overly--1 corinthians 12 and verse 1 says, "about
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  • Spiritual gifts, i don't want you to be ignorant."
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  • If you have an older translation, the word gifts will
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  • Be in italics.
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  • It's not to add emphasis, it used to be the way they would
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  • Indicate it was a word added by the editor, by the translators.
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  • The greek word is spirituals.
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  • We don't have the equivalent of that in english, so they needed
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  • Something there to be modified.
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  • They needed a noun and the choice was gifts.
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  • I don't think it's wicked or evil, i think it's misleading
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  • Because a gift that's given to me is mine.
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  • The gift of salvation, it's my gift.
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  • It changes my life.
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  • I can do with that gift as i would like.
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  • I can treasure it, i can value it, i can allow it to transform
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  • My life, or i can minimize it, true?
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  • So in that context, i think the word gift here is a little
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  • Misleading because the expressions of the spirit of god
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  • Are not mine to control.
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  • We'll see that.
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  • They're not under my authority.
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  • I'm under the authority of the king, and the spirit is the one
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  • Who teaches and guides and leads me.
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  • I'm the pupil.
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  • We don't control god, nonsense.
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  • We're led by the holy spirit.
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  • He provides what's needed to complete our assignments, to the
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  • Extent that we're willing to accept our assignments.
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  • You see, you don't get help if you don't accept the assignment.
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  • You don't get equipment for tasks which you decline,
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  • Make sense?
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  • We have to be willing to engage.
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  • And if we're not willing to engage, if we're not willing to
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  • Raise our hands and say, "i'm in, i want to be a
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  • Difference maker."
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  • We're not called to be principally students or gather
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  • In places of like-minded people and affirm one another, "aren't
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  • We swell?"
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  • We're intended to be in the world, to be light and salt.
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  • "the harvest fields," jesus said, "are white.
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  • Ask the lord of the harvest to raise up harvesters."
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  • We've been called to be harvesters, not just
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  • Professional christians.
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  • We're agents of transformation.
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  • If you're asking the question, should i take my faith with me
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  • To work or to my friends groups, or to my social networks?
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  • The answer is yes, or your faith is illegitimate.
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  • It's not real.
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  • It's just nonsensical as saying, "i'm only married when i'm home.
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  • At home i'm a wonderful spouse, but when i leave home..."
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  • Well, that's the same kind of nonsense, well, i'm a really
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  • Good--i go--"how do you know you're a christian?"
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  • "well, i go to the church.
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  • I sit with those people.
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  • I think they're a little weird, but i sit with them."
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  • "yeah, i mean, i'm not one of those crazy ones of them.
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  • You know, there's some of them.
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  • They take mugs and they, like, give money.
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  • I mean, they're like weird.
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  • I'm not one of them.
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  • Well, i mean, i go over there once in a while.
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  • It's like i don't wanna be left off the list.
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  • Might be something to it."
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  • But when you leave the church, it's like mine.
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  • My car and my home and my life and my calendar and my plan and
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  • My family and my wants and my agenda.
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  • That's not faith, folks.
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  • We're servants of the king.
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  • We're servants of the king, and if we'll cooperate with him, and
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  • Then we grow in that, we mature in that.
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  • We don't understand that.
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  • We're like little toddlers.
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  • One of the first things they learn to say is "mine," then
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  • They chase it with "me do it."
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  • It doesn't matter what it is.
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  • They want to drive the car or the tractor or play with the
  • 00:11:52.393 --> 00:11:54.829
  • Scissors, "me do it."
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  • They want to feed themselves.
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  • They get applesauce in their ears and their nose and they
  • 00:12:00.235 --> 00:12:05.573
  • Spit it out at you.
  • 00:12:05.573 --> 00:12:07.942
  • They can't even cooperate enough to swallow.
  • 00:12:07.942 --> 00:12:10.011
  • You fill their mouth and they spit it back.
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  • We do that with the lord.
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  • We grow up in our faith, but we have to want to grow up.
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  • You don't wanna go--you don't want to enter the pearly gates
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  • Wearing pampers with a pacifier that's been looped around your
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  • Neck 'cause you keep throwing it on the floor.
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  • We have to decide.
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  • It's so important.
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  • If you don't choose the assignment, you don't get
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  • The equipment.
  • 00:12:38.473 --> 00:12:42.110
  • Same chapter, corinthians 12, "to each one the manifestation
  • 00:12:42.110 --> 00:12:46.014
  • Of the spirit is given for the common good."
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  • I think that's a more helpful word.
  • 00:12:47.749 --> 00:12:49.350
  • For something to be manifest, it's made apparent, it's
  • 00:12:49.350 --> 00:12:51.452
  • Made visible.
  • 00:12:51.452 --> 00:12:53.121
  • It says, "to each one of us the spirit of god is made apparent
  • 00:12:53.121 --> 00:12:57.926
  • For the good of everybody."
  • 00:12:57.926 --> 00:13:00.495
  • That's different than a gift.
  • 00:13:00.495 --> 00:13:02.597
  • The spirit of god is made evident in your life.
  • 00:13:02.597 --> 00:13:04.966
  • See, and then there's a list here of nine things that are
  • 00:13:04.966 --> 00:13:07.335
  • Given, a word of wisdom, a word of knowledge, gifts of healing,
  • 00:13:07.335 --> 00:13:09.704
  • Gifts of miracles, gifts of tongues, and interpretation of
  • 00:13:09.704 --> 00:13:12.607
  • Tongues, gift of faith, some remarkable things.
  • 00:13:12.607 --> 00:13:16.211
  • And i spent a good bit of my life in the segments of the
  • 00:13:16.211 --> 00:13:18.646
  • Church that celebrated those things, but we talked about them
  • 00:13:18.646 --> 00:13:21.115
  • Principally in the context of worship and christian community.
  • 00:13:21.115 --> 00:13:25.587
  • We used to give gift tests, which ones have you got, right?
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  • I--it's okay with me.
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  • I'm--i think we're all kind of curious about that stuff, but i
  • 00:13:30.792 --> 00:13:34.028
  • Don't think we really imagine--the place we need the
  • 00:13:34.028 --> 00:13:36.831
  • Manifestations of the spirit of god isn't principally when we
  • 00:13:36.831 --> 00:13:39.801
  • Get together with like-minded folks to affirm our journey.
  • 00:13:39.801 --> 00:13:44.205
  • We need the manifestations of the spirit of god out there.
  • 00:13:44.205 --> 00:13:49.010
  • We need them in corporate america and academic america,
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  • In the hospitals, in the courtrooms and the job sites,
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  • And the factory floors, in our schools.
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  • But somehow we haven't--we didn't--
  • 00:14:00.154 --> 00:14:01.489
  • We haven't picked up the gifts.
  • 00:14:01.489 --> 00:14:02.824
  • We haven't said, "lord, i want what you've got for me."
  • 00:14:02.824 --> 00:14:04.926
  • God's given you gifts, amazing gifts.
  • 00:14:04.926 --> 00:14:08.329
  • Some of you see color in a way that the rest of us don't.
  • 00:14:08.329 --> 00:14:11.132
  • Some of you can make anything with your hands and some of us
  • 00:14:11.132 --> 00:14:13.234
  • Just can't, we break stuff.
  • 00:14:13.234 --> 00:14:15.403
  • Some of you see numbers and they talk to you.
  • 00:14:15.403 --> 00:14:18.339
  • Some of you see numbers and they say go to sleep.
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  • They're all gifts from the lord.
  • 00:14:22.143 --> 00:14:25.680
  • The list they're giving us in scripture, they're
  • 00:14:25.680 --> 00:14:27.715
  • Incomplete, they're inadequate.
  • 00:14:27.715 --> 00:14:29.050
  • They're intended to invite us towards what jesus said, "he'll
  • 00:14:29.050 --> 00:14:33.388
  • Teach you whatever you need to know."
  • 00:14:33.388 --> 00:14:36.124
  • I've experienced that.
  • 00:14:36.124 --> 00:14:37.492
  • I feel i've been on this amazing learning journey the whole time
  • 00:14:37.492 --> 00:14:39.928
  • I've served the lord.
  • 00:14:39.928 --> 00:14:42.196
  • When i first began to say yes to the lord,
  • 00:14:42.196 --> 00:14:43.598
  • I hated public speaking.
  • 00:14:43.598 --> 00:14:46.034
  • I was awful.
  • 00:14:46.034 --> 00:14:48.002
  • It was awful.
  • 00:14:48.002 --> 00:14:50.104
  • I didn't like christians.
  • 00:14:50.104 --> 00:14:53.107
  • That's a problem if you're being invited to ministry.
  • 00:14:53.107 --> 00:14:56.844
  • My spiritual formation didn't take place in the church, so i
  • 00:14:56.844 --> 00:15:01.382
  • Didn't value church.
  • 00:15:01.382 --> 00:15:02.784
  • I was born again in a kitchen.
  • 00:15:02.784 --> 00:15:04.118
  • I was baptized in the atlantic ocean.
  • 00:15:04.118 --> 00:15:06.955
  • Most of the bible study that i had that was meaningful as a
  • 00:15:06.955 --> 00:15:09.424
  • Young person took place in ballrooms of hotels or public
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  • Meeting spaces.
  • 00:15:12.393 --> 00:15:14.495
  • Church was not an incubator for my faith, it was more of an
  • 00:15:14.495 --> 00:15:17.966
  • Obstacle to be overcome.
  • 00:15:17.966 --> 00:15:19.334
  • So when i--the lord began to--i thought, why would i do that?
  • 00:15:19.334 --> 00:15:23.137
  • I had to learn what it even meant for me.
  • 00:15:23.137 --> 00:15:27.375
  • But i've been on this amazing journey with the lord continuing
  • 00:15:27.375 --> 00:15:30.511
  • To bring learning and growth about him and the world i'm in
  • 00:15:30.511 --> 00:15:35.416
  • And how we engage.
  • 00:15:35.416 --> 00:15:40.121
  • Are you willing to grow?
  • 00:15:40.121 --> 00:15:42.991
  • Or, you see, you don't need manifestations of the spirit of
  • 00:15:42.991 --> 00:15:46.027
  • God when you're picking lottery tickets, when you're trying to
  • 00:15:46.027 --> 00:15:50.598
  • Figure out how to be ungodly.
  • 00:15:50.598 --> 00:15:53.334
  • You gotta walk up to that edge where you're like, oh, this is
  • 00:15:53.334 --> 00:15:56.037
  • Bigger than i don't know what to do here, i don't know how, no,
  • 00:15:56.037 --> 00:15:59.574
  • Or do you--are you just trying desperately not to notice?
  • 00:15:59.574 --> 00:16:03.845
  • I don't notice the people that work with me that are ungodly
  • 00:16:03.845 --> 00:16:06.147
  • 'cause if i notice them, i might need to say that i believe
  • 00:16:06.147 --> 00:16:08.516
  • There's a god.
  • 00:16:08.516 --> 00:16:12.754
  • So i keep that at church.
  • 00:16:12.754 --> 00:16:14.088
  • I go to church.
  • 00:16:14.088 --> 00:16:15.423
  • When i go to church, i'm a christian.
  • 00:16:15.423 --> 00:16:16.791
  • When i go home, i'm married.
  • 00:16:16.791 --> 00:16:23.064
  • Gifts from the spirit of god, folks, powerful gifts to change
  • 00:16:23.064 --> 00:16:26.968
  • Our world.
  • 00:16:26.968 --> 00:16:28.936
  • I'm tired of watching the absurd.
  • 00:16:28.936 --> 00:16:32.340
  • I'm tired of watching people that tell me they have
  • 00:16:32.340 --> 00:16:34.675
  • Sophisticated, elite educations, and there's dozens of genders to
  • 00:16:34.675 --> 00:16:40.048
  • Choose from, nonsense.
  • 00:16:40.048 --> 00:16:46.054
  • And then we cower in the shadows and go, "well, you know, i don't
  • 00:16:46.054 --> 00:16:49.357
  • Know if i'm gonna say anything or not, that
  • 00:16:49.357 --> 00:16:51.059
  • God created us male and female.
  • 00:16:51.059 --> 00:16:52.393
  • They might laugh at me."
  • 00:16:52.393 --> 00:16:56.964
  • Let's just risk it.
  • 00:16:56.964 --> 00:16:59.434
  • Let's go be people of faith.
  • 00:16:59.434 --> 00:17:04.372
  • Allen: hey, i have a suggestion.
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  • Let's stop waiting for somebody else to be a better leader,
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  • Homes, with our friends.
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  • We can do that, and i believe we can change our homes, our
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  • Neighborhoods, our churches, maybe even our nation.
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  • Allen: the manifestations of the spirit are
  • 00:18:09.604 --> 00:18:11.572
  • Needed in the arena of life.
  • 00:18:11.572 --> 00:18:12.907
  • You need them in the marketplace and in your schools.
  • 00:18:12.907 --> 00:18:16.144
  • Well, they've said it's not welcome, no kidding!
  • 00:18:16.144 --> 00:18:18.045
  • If i were in charge of evil, i would say, "listen, no talking
  • 00:18:18.045 --> 00:18:20.915
  • About jesus in this place."
  • 00:18:20.915 --> 00:18:23.718
  • I'm like, you gotta be kidding me.
  • 00:18:23.718 --> 00:18:26.921
  • I'm bringing some jesus!
  • 00:18:26.921 --> 00:18:29.757
  • I don't know. you don't have to be obnoxious.
  • 00:18:29.757 --> 00:18:31.192
  • You don't have to jump up on your desk and preach a sermon.
  • 00:18:31.192 --> 00:18:34.295
  • You can let it be known you believe in jesus.
  • 00:18:34.295 --> 00:18:36.230
  • You can have a quiet prayer over your food.
  • 00:18:36.230 --> 00:18:38.566
  • You can come early and have a quiet prayer for your classroom
  • 00:18:38.566 --> 00:18:41.202
  • Before they arrive.
  • 00:18:41.202 --> 00:18:43.004
  • You can stay late and have a prayer for them after the day is
  • 00:18:43.004 --> 00:18:45.406
  • Gone with all the things you've collected through the day, where
  • 00:18:45.406 --> 00:18:47.608
  • You recognize there's a need for god to be involved.
  • 00:18:47.608 --> 00:18:50.244
  • This isn't about you declaring that you're something special.
  • 00:18:50.244 --> 00:18:53.714
  • It's about you engaging with the spirit of god to make a
  • 00:18:53.714 --> 00:18:56.517
  • Difference in our world.
  • 00:18:56.517 --> 00:19:01.422
  • Most of us have a sense of right and wrong.
  • 00:19:01.422 --> 00:19:03.591
  • Do what you know to be right.
  • 00:19:03.591 --> 00:19:06.661
  • If you'll begin to do what you know to be right, god will
  • 00:19:06.661 --> 00:19:09.130
  • Expand your understanding, he will.
  • 00:19:09.130 --> 00:19:17.872
  • Hebrews 2, "this salvation, which was first announced by the
  • 00:19:17.872 --> 00:19:22.243
  • Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him.
  • 00:19:22.243 --> 00:19:25.112
  • God testified to it."
  • 00:19:25.112 --> 00:19:27.215
  • With classes and seminars.
  • 00:19:27.215 --> 00:19:32.553
  • "with signs and wonders and various miracles, and gifts of
  • 00:19:32.553 --> 00:19:36.691
  • The spirit distributed according to his will."
  • 00:19:36.691 --> 00:19:41.229
  • See, we get sideways with god because we know where we think
  • 00:19:41.229 --> 00:19:43.564
  • His power should be directed.
  • 00:19:43.564 --> 00:19:44.899
  • God, i know somebody that you should do something for.
  • 00:19:44.899 --> 00:19:47.935
  • Here they are. here's their address.
  • 00:19:47.935 --> 00:19:50.671
  • In fact, i have their business card right here, them.
  • 00:19:50.671 --> 00:19:54.242
  • And he doesn't do it the way we wanted him to.
  • 00:19:54.242 --> 00:19:55.710
  • See, i knew there wasn't anything to it.
  • 00:19:55.710 --> 00:19:58.446
  • Folks, we don't direct god, we learn to cooperate with him.
  • 00:19:58.446 --> 00:20:02.883
  • We learned what he is doing and then we ask is there any way i
  • 00:20:02.883 --> 00:20:06.254
  • Could be a part of that?
  • 00:20:06.254 --> 00:20:07.588
  • What matters to you?
  • 00:20:07.588 --> 00:20:08.923
  • I'll--it will begin to matter to me more.
  • 00:20:08.923 --> 00:20:11.125
  • I'll give energy.
  • 00:20:11.125 --> 00:20:12.460
  • I got involved in this whole church initiative because that
  • 00:20:12.460 --> 00:20:14.195
  • Verse became very real to me, where jesus said, "i'll build
  • 00:20:14.195 --> 00:20:16.797
  • My church."
  • 00:20:16.797 --> 00:20:18.432
  • I thought, well, if jesus is in the church building business,
  • 00:20:18.432 --> 00:20:20.601
  • Maybe i could help.
  • 00:20:20.601 --> 00:20:22.703
  • Well, i never liked it much, but if jesus likes it, i
  • 00:20:22.703 --> 00:20:24.772
  • Could learn.
  • 00:20:24.772 --> 00:20:26.374
  • I changed, i changed.
  • 00:20:26.374 --> 00:20:30.945
  • But i'm still changing.
  • 00:20:30.945 --> 00:20:32.947
  • I would invite you to that.
  • 00:20:32.947 --> 00:20:36.284
  • I want to know the power of god, that's what
  • 00:20:36.284 --> 00:20:39.920
  • Paul said in philippians 3.
  • 00:20:39.920 --> 00:20:41.255
  • Way into his journey, way into his ministry,
  • 00:20:41.255 --> 00:20:43.090
  • He said, "i wanna know god and the power of his resurrection."
  • 00:20:43.090 --> 00:20:47.194
  • Ah, me too.
  • 00:20:47.194 --> 00:20:49.263
  • I wanna know that power that could bring somebody dead out of
  • 00:20:49.263 --> 00:20:51.065
  • The grave.
  • 00:20:51.065 --> 00:20:52.733
  • "and i want to know him in the fellowship of sharing in his
  • 00:20:52.733 --> 00:20:55.236
  • Sufferings," and i'm like, mm, okay.
  • 00:20:55.236 --> 00:21:00.875
  • That somehow he said, "i might attain to the resurrection of
  • 00:21:00.875 --> 00:21:04.478
  • The dead."
  • 00:21:04.478 --> 00:21:05.980
  • There's no presumption there, there's no arrogance there.
  • 00:21:05.980 --> 00:21:11.552
  • Gifts, we didn't earn them, we don't deserve them, but i want
  • 00:21:11.552 --> 00:21:15.690
  • To serve as a recognition of their enormous value.
  • 00:21:15.690 --> 00:21:20.428
  • I will yield myself to god because the gifts he's given to
  • 00:21:20.428 --> 00:21:23.164
  • Me are indescribable.
  • 00:21:23.164 --> 00:21:26.033
  • And whatever i can achieve or accomplish or accumulate,
  • 00:21:26.033 --> 00:21:29.337
  • They're a very, very pale, insignificant in comparison to
  • 00:21:29.337 --> 00:21:32.740
  • The gifts that god has freely given to us.
  • 00:21:32.740 --> 00:21:36.844
  • So what can we do?
  • 00:21:36.844 --> 00:21:38.713
  • Well, all i can really do is give the lord myself.
  • 00:21:38.713 --> 00:21:42.883
  • That's our response.
  • 00:21:42.883 --> 00:21:44.752
  • Romans 14 says we'll each give an account of ourselves to god.
  • 00:21:44.752 --> 00:21:47.755
  • Did you know that?
  • 00:21:47.755 --> 00:21:49.490
  • That's not a threat, folks.
  • 00:21:49.490 --> 00:21:52.059
  • Imagine saying i got up every morning and i sang that little
  • 00:21:52.059 --> 00:21:55.029
  • Song, "jesus loves me, this i know.
  • 00:21:55.029 --> 00:22:00.468
  • For my bible tells me so.
  • 00:22:00.468 --> 00:22:03.804
  • Little ones to him belong.
  • 00:22:03.804 --> 00:22:08.075
  • I'm so weak, but oh, you're strong."
  • 00:22:08.075 --> 00:22:13.013
  • Jesus, i didn't start a day without thinking about you.
  • 00:22:13.013 --> 00:22:17.485
  • Thank you. you turned the light on for me.
  • 00:22:17.485 --> 00:22:19.019
  • You gave a purpose to me.
  • 00:22:19.019 --> 00:22:20.354
  • You gave--it's not a threat, it's such a wonderful promise.
  • 00:22:20.354 --> 00:22:26.260
  • Just be aware of it.
  • 00:22:26.260 --> 00:22:28.863
  • And if your answer is do i have to go to church again?
  • 00:22:28.863 --> 00:22:32.099
  • Do you know how long he preaches?
  • 00:22:32.099 --> 00:22:34.702
  • Oh, there's--i used to pick churches.
  • 00:22:34.702 --> 00:22:38.439
  • I was in--we had to go to church when i was in college.
  • 00:22:38.439 --> 00:22:40.808
  • I used to pick churches by how long the service was.
  • 00:22:40.808 --> 00:22:44.879
  • Well, you can imagine a campus full of college kids, we
  • 00:22:44.879 --> 00:22:47.114
  • Knew, right?
  • 00:22:47.114 --> 00:22:48.516
  • I knew the 47-minute service.
  • 00:22:48.516 --> 00:22:51.352
  • I knew the two-hour service. god never called me there.
  • 00:22:51.352 --> 00:22:59.193
  • I'm not proud of it, but it's true.
  • 00:22:59.193 --> 00:23:01.862
  • 1 corinthians 15, "therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm.
  • 00:23:01.862 --> 00:23:04.965
  • Let nothing move you.
  • 00:23:04.965 --> 00:23:06.367
  • Always give yourselves fully to the work of the lord."
  • 00:23:06.367 --> 00:23:11.005
  • He's not recruiting professional christians.
  • 00:23:11.005 --> 00:23:14.108
  • Wherever you are and whatever you do, go in the name of
  • 00:23:14.108 --> 00:23:16.477
  • The lord.
  • 00:23:16.477 --> 00:23:18.612
  • If you go on a date, go in the name of the lord.
  • 00:23:18.612 --> 00:23:22.416
  • If you're going on a vacation, go in the name of the lord.
  • 00:23:22.416 --> 00:23:26.720
  • Don't make ungodly plans and then come sit in church.
  • 00:23:26.720 --> 00:23:30.758
  • Stop!
  • 00:23:30.758 --> 00:23:34.562
  • Go, whatever you do, go in the name of the lord.
  • 00:23:34.562 --> 00:23:38.999
  • It's all his anyway, folks.
  • 00:23:38.999 --> 00:23:40.367
  • It's all going back to him.
  • 00:23:40.367 --> 00:23:43.137
  • We're just temporary residents.
  • 00:23:43.137 --> 00:23:46.740
  • There's so much freedom in this.
  • 00:23:46.740 --> 00:23:48.108
  • There's so much power available to us.
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  • God has gifts for us.
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  • God, we want all that you have for us.
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  • I wanna cooperate with you, jesus.
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  • Holy spirit, you're welcome in my life.
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  • I'm gonna stop saying stop.
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  • Weird doesn't make you spiritual.
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  • Just a little preemptive and i'm done.
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  • Sometimes, you know, in our desire to please the lord, we
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  • Think, well, if i get really weird.
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  • God's not weird.
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  • Our universe is so ordered, so regulated, it's the way we know
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  • There's a god.
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  • There is an intelligent designer, this is not
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  • An accident.
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  • If the moon was too much closer to the earth, they would bond
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  • Together like two magnets.
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  • I mean, it--there's a precision.
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  • So you don't--being weird does not make you spiritual.
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  • But being logical doesn't always take you to god's best either.
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  • Sometimes you have to say, "lord, i trust you."
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  • It's not easy to grow up.
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  • It's not easy to grow up physically, it's not easy to
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  • Grow up emotionally, it's not easy to grow up spiritually.
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  • It's not supposed to be 'cause the journey's transformational,
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  • If you'll allow it to be.
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  • I brought you a prayer. i gotta hush, i know.
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  • We'll work on this some more.
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  • Gifts, folks, we're not alone, we're not isolated, we're not
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  • Left without resources.
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  • We've gotta be not--stop being ashamed.
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  • Stand with me.
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  • I was--i gave you a prayer, brought you a prayer.
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  • You can pray it with me if you'd like.
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  • You already prayed at home in your pjs.
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  • Together: heavenly father, thank you for your great gifts, your
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  • Indescribable provision for my life.
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  • I choose to yield my life to you, to honor you.
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  • Help me to understand your great love for me, your great power at
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  • Work on my behalf.
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  • My desire is to please you and to see jesus exalted throughout
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  • The earth.
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  • May i have an understanding heart and the boldness to
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  • Fulfill your purposes for me.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • God bless you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: i suspect we've all heard the line that leadership
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  • Is about influence.
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  • Well, i have a question for you, what do you lead with?
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  • What is the basis of your influence?
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  • Is it your appearance, your education, your professional
  • 00:26:29.036 --> 00:26:31.872
  • Expertise, your professional accomplishments, your athletic
  • 00:26:31.872 --> 00:26:34.775
  • Ability, your family?
  • 00:26:34.775 --> 00:26:36.777
  • What is the point of influence that you use most frequently?
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  • Well, i've written a book.
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  • The title is gonna give away where i'm headed.
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  • It's "lead with faith."
  • 00:26:44.151 --> 00:26:45.686
  • I think it's time that all of us begin to use our faith as an
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  • Influence in the world where we find ourselves.
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  • We're reluctant to do that.
  • 00:26:51.892 --> 00:26:53.227
  • We typically have more confidence in our education or
  • 00:26:53.227 --> 00:26:55.796
  • Our family system or our life experience.
  • 00:26:55.796 --> 00:26:58.332
  • We feel a little uncertain to lead with faith.
  • 00:26:58.332 --> 00:27:00.901
  • The point of this book is to give you the tools to take your
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  • Faith out of a church setting and bring it into
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  • The marketplace.
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  • If we will lead with faith, i believe god will help us make an
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  • Impact in this generation.
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  • Go to allenjackson.com and get your copy today.
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  • ♪♪♪
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