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Allen Jackson - Prayer and Judgment (Part 1)

July 15, 2026 | 27:30

Allen Jackson - Prayer and Judgment (Part 1)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Prayer and Judgment (Part 1) | July 15, 2026
  • ...
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  • Allen jackson: we have a new resource for you.
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  • I'm really excited about this.
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  • It's a book. it's a booklet.
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  • It's a small book called "your identity in christ."
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  • It was derived from years of teaching and leading in the
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  • Context of the church.
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  • We're walking through a season, folks, when there's so much
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  • Confusion about our identity.
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  • We put this together to help you understand who you are
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  • In christ.
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  • Not just about your salvation, but so that you can lead a
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  • Triumphant, victorious, overcoming life.
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  • We built it for an individual read, it's great for a
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  • Small group.
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  • It's a great resource for your kitchen table time as a family
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  • With children or grandchildren.
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  • If you know who you are in christ, it changes everything
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  • About the landscape of your life.
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  • I'm righteous in the sight of god.
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  • I can stand before god without fear, guilt, or condemnation.
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  • Those are such important foundational principles to get
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  • Secure in your heart, around your table with the people you
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  • Care about, in your small groups, with your friends.
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  • "your identity in christ," it's a game changer.
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  • I believe it will add momentum to your spiritual growth in
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  • This season.
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  • Allen: we took a little bit of a break for father's day weekend,
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  • But we've been walking through a study on prayer.
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  • And kind of centered around our baseline of 'let's pray,' that
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  • One-sentence prayer.
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  • I hope you all use that in your life on a very regular basis.
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  • You know how to do 'let's pray,' right?
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  • You listen to people.
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  • And if you listen with just a little bit of interest, they
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  • Will give you a window into their lives.
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  • You know, "how are you doing?"
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  • "well, the kids are sick," or "my husband lost his job," or
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  • "it's been too dry and my garden dried up."
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  • They'll give you some little window into what's happening.
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  • And if you're willing, they--in that--as you listen, they've
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  • Opened an opportunity for you.
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  • And if you--if you have the willingness to do that, you can
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  • Say, "let's pray."
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  • And when you say, "let's pray," you just close your eyes.
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  • Don't wait for them to do something.
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  • Don't ask them, "would it be all right with you if i prayed for
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  • Your children who are sick?"
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  • 'cause if you ask, they can say no.
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  • And i'm not trying to--i don't--you know, they don't
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  • Know me.
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  • Sometimes, you know, it's a complete stranger.
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  • They've just said to you, you know, "oh, i'm not having a
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  • Good day.
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  • I've got a flat tire on my car."
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  • "oh, would it be all right--i believe god heals tires.
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  • May i pray for yours?"
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  • You're probably gonna get a pass on that.
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  • But when they--when you hear that need, if you've listened,
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  • If you just say, "let's pray," and you close your eyes and you
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  • Say, "father, i pray for those children, that you give them
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  • Strength today.
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  • In jesus's name, amen."
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  • Just a sentence, don't quote six verses.
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  • Don't give them a link to your three favorite sermons that i've
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  • Done in the last two decades.
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  • You know, just a one-sentence prayer and say amen.
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  • And then when you say amen, just go on like it's normal.
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  • "sure is humid in tennessee in summertime."
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  • "i like sweet tea," whatever.
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  • Just go on.
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  • Don't do that creepy christian thing.
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  • You know what i mean?
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  • Where you want people to affirm that you've been spiritual, but
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  • You don't really want to say to them, "would you please affirm
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  • My spirituality now that i've prayed for you in the
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  • Gas station?"
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  • So after your sentence prayer, rather than just say what's in
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  • Your heart, you kind of give them that creepy look,
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  • You know...
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  • Because, you know, we kind of have some unwritten
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  • Rules already.
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  • If somebody prays for you, you go, "oh, thank you.
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  • That meant so much to me."
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  • "you know, i've had a hard day and you prayed for me and now i
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  • Think i'll make it."
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  • And we kind of understand the ground rules in the building and
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  • So we kind of do that thing.
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  • You know what i'm talking about?
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  • But if you're praying for somebody out there, they don't
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  • Know that thing and you're trying--don't do that.
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  • So when you--when you--when you say amen, you know, "ah, it's
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  • Gonna rain again today, but we'll be all right.
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  • God bless you," and you're gone.
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  • You don't need--you're not--it's not their affirmation
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  • You're after.
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  • You've done two things.
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  • You've invited god into the midst of a circumstance where a
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  • Moment before there had not been an invitation.
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  • And you have identified yourself in the life of another person as
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  • Someone who would pray.
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  • And both of those outcomes are incredibly significant.
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  • And you have the power to do 'let's pray' almost anywhere.
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  • You're not drawing attention to yourself, you're not making it
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  • About you.
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  • You're not suggesting you're the solution.
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  • You're not bringing your great spiritual wisdom to bear.
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  • You're just inviting god into the circumstance.
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  • Now, inevitably somebody comes to me, "well, pastor, you know,
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  • I like to pray more than a sentence."
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  • Okay, i didn't say the only prayer you could pray was
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  • A sentence.
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  • I just suggested that if you're in some public place with
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  • Somebody you don't know well or hardly know or you just met, a
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  • 35-minute prayer that includes the theological high points of
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  • Leviticus is probably not going to be received very well.
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  • But you can extend an invitation to god.
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  • So 'let's pray' has kind of become a baseline for us in
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  • Incorporating prayer into our lives and our families and our
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  • Communities and our neighborhoods, but it's by no
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  • Means the only expression of prayer.
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  • And so in this session, i want to add a little bit to that.
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  • We're gonna talk about prayer and god's judgment.
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  • Because god's judgment is a part of life.
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  • God's judgment isn't just something that waits to the end
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  • Of your life when you're out of time and then you gotta worry
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  • About god's judgment.
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  • God's judgment is woven through our lives, discipline.
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  • I know we could use some other words for it, but that's the
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  • Reality of it.
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  • And i think knowing how to pray when you recognize that is a
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  • Very important part of your prayer toolkit.
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  • And so we're gonna at least open the conversation in
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  • This session.
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  • Matthew 24 is a part of jesus's most lengthy
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  • Prophetic discourse.
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  • Mark, luke 21, matthew 24, it's in--they're the same--it's the
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  • Same discourse from slightly different perspectives, but i
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  • Brought you just a sampling from matthew 24.
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  • We're not going to read the whole thing.
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  • "you'll be--you'll be hearing of wars and rumors of wars.
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  • See that you're not frightened, for those things must take
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  • Place, but that is not yet the end."
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  • I really wanna frame this passage with that verse.
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  • Jesus said, "you're gonna hear about some frightening things."
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  • But then he says something that seems a little out of place,
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  • "see that you're not frightened."
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  • When you hear frightening things, jesus said, "don't
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  • Be frightened."
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  • So he's trying to reorient our attention, things that would
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  • Frighten people who don't know me, you don't have to be
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  • Afraid of.
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  • Now that doesn't mean in leading a life of faith or obedience to
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  • Jesus means you're in the clueless line, it means you have
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  • An informed situational awareness.
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  • But some of us respond with fear.
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  • And so we don't like to hear the news or we don't like to pay
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  • Attention to what's happening, or we would just rather talk
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  • About what happened in the 1st century or talk about moses
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  • Because there's some comfort in those because we know the ending
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  • Of the story.
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  • You know, if i'm gonna watch a movie, which i don't do
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  • Very--but i'm gonna watch one, i like to watch one where i know
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  • The good guys are gonna win and the bad guys are gonna lose.
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  • I don't want like a realistic movie.
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  • I live in the real world.
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  • If i'm gonna take an hour or so to rest my brain, i want the
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  • Good guys to win.
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  • And sometimes i think we hide--we hide from the reality
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  • Of the world we live in, and we go read the stories of our
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  • Heroes because we know they're gonna win.
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  • And we just recycle.
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  • But i think the point of scripture is to help us engage
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  • Our world with truth.
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  • And jesus said, "see that you're not frightened, those things
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  • Have to take place, but that's not the end."
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  • And then he lists a whole series of things, "nation will rise
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  • Against nation, kingdom against kingdom."
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  • The word translated there is 'ethnos' from which we
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  • Get ethnic.
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  • He said there's gonna be ethnic conflict in the earth.
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  • Gee, we see a bit of that.
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  • "these things are merely the beginning of birth pains.
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  • Then they're gonna deliver you to tribulation."
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  • Tribulation means--in the--the word in greek that's translated
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  • Tribulation means big trouble, "they're gonna deliver you into
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  • Big trouble."
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  • Ah, don't you wish jesus said they're gonna deliver to your
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  • House cotton candy?
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  • I mean, or ice cream, bluebell, three times a week.
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  • "and they'll kill you, and you'll be hated by all nations
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  • Because of my name."
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  • It seems to me that, in my lifetime at least, there's been
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  • A primary objective amongst the people of faith to do everything
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  • In our power not to be rejected.
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  • We just don't want to be rejected because of the gospel.
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  • So we'll try to find a way to say it that's acceptable to
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  • People that don't want to hear it.
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  • And i think we need to listen to jesus.
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  • He said there--there'll be times and seasons when there'll be an
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  • Intolerance for the gospel.
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  • Not a rejection of religion, but they're not gonna wanna hear
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  • About the gospel.
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  • In verse 10, "at that time many will fall away and betray one
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  • Another and they'll hate one another.
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  • Many false prophets will arise and mislead many.
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  • And lawlessness will increase, and people's love will
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  • Grow cold."
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  • There's multiple greek words for love.
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  • The one that's used there is 'agape.'
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  • It's the word for god's love, so it's the--it's the love in the
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  • Hearts of god's people that will grow cold because of
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  • The violence.
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  • "but the one who endures to the end will be saved."
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  • We're gonna have to endure some things.
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  • "this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world
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  • As a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come."
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  • So in spite of all the stuff, the hatred, the opposition, the
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  • War, all the stuff, what's gonna happen in the midst of all
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  • Of that?
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  • "the gospel of the kingdom is gonna be preached in the
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  • Whole world."
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  • "well, pastor, i think it would be better if the gospel could be
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  • Preached like as a part of a big parade, with ticker tape
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  • And lemonade."
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  • Well, i--i'm not disagreeing with you, but jesus has given us
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  • Some insight.
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  • And i think we need that to inform our prayers.
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  • What are we praying?
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  • Well, we can certainly pray for our own preservation and our
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  • Protection and the things that we need to guide us on the
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  • Journey, but i think we also have a primary assignment to
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  • Pray that this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the
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  • Whole world.
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  • We can't pull our punches.
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  • We can't say, "you don't really need a savior because, you know,
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  • Sin's not so bad."
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  • The whole jesus story, the whole redemptive story is essential,
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  • Is at the heart of our faith because we need a savior because
  • 00:11:24.365 --> 00:11:27.635
  • Sin will destroy you and separate you from god.
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  • And to be reconciled to god, somebody has to take the
  • 00:11:31.406 --> 00:11:34.275
  • Punishment for our sin.
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  • So a message of faith that doesn't acknowledge sin and our
  • 00:11:37.345 --> 00:11:40.515
  • Need for a redeemer is a false gospel.
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  • But in the midst of all the stuff, the gospel of the
  • 00:11:45.653 --> 00:11:48.857
  • Kingdom's gonna be preached in the whole world.
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  • That's amazing to me.
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  • How do you identify, male, female, southerner,
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  • Educated, housewife?
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  • How do you identify?
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  • Well, i wanna suggest knowing your identity in christ is the
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  • Allen: so i--i'm gonna suggest we want to expand our portfolio
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  • Of prayer to be able to pray triumphantly, hopefully,
  • 00:13:32.427 --> 00:13:37.732
  • Joyfully even, in the midst of those kind of stresses.
  • 00:13:37.732 --> 00:13:44.539
  • Because a part of what jesus is describing is god's judgment on
  • 00:13:44.539 --> 00:13:47.275
  • This present age.
  • 00:13:47.275 --> 00:13:50.345
  • The book of daniel.
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  • Many of you are familiar with daniel, one of our--one of the
  • 00:13:51.713 --> 00:13:53.514
  • Heroes of our bible.
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  • Daniel has a unique affirmation in scripture.
  • 00:13:55.583 --> 00:14:00.088
  • On multiple occasions, an archangel shows up and says to
  • 00:14:00.088 --> 00:14:03.291
  • Daniel, "you are highly favored by god," wow!
  • 00:14:03.291 --> 00:14:10.064
  • I mean, if that happens at your house, you're gonna try to get
  • 00:14:10.064 --> 00:14:11.900
  • A video.
  • 00:14:11.900 --> 00:14:15.236
  • Looking for your phone, "could you say that again?"
  • 00:14:15.236 --> 00:14:19.274
  • Highly favored by god, and yet daniel's entire life is lived as
  • 00:14:19.274 --> 00:14:23.144
  • A slave in babylon, where he suffers physically as a part of
  • 00:14:23.144 --> 00:14:28.750
  • God's judgment upon his people.
  • 00:14:28.750 --> 00:14:31.419
  • So in the midst of god's judgment, god watches over
  • 00:14:31.419 --> 00:14:34.989
  • Daniel's life and uses him in the most profound ways, even
  • 00:14:34.989 --> 00:14:39.027
  • Giving daniel insight and revelation to what would happen
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  • At the end of the age that is informing our lives until now.
  • 00:14:41.329 --> 00:14:46.434
  • So in the midst of difficulty and challenge and even the
  • 00:14:46.434 --> 00:14:49.137
  • Judgment of god, the purposes of god can come forward in your
  • 00:14:49.137 --> 00:14:52.740
  • Life, the insight, the revelation, the protection,
  • 00:14:52.740 --> 00:14:55.009
  • The provision.
  • 00:14:55.009 --> 00:14:57.879
  • Matthew 24 that we read, jesus is pronouncing a message of
  • 00:14:57.879 --> 00:15:02.383
  • Judgment on the city of jerusalem, that jerusalem's
  • 00:15:02.383 --> 00:15:05.286
  • Gonna be surrounded by the--by armies.
  • 00:15:05.286 --> 00:15:09.624
  • In fact, all the letters of the new testament are written under
  • 00:15:09.624 --> 00:15:12.560
  • The shadow of jesus's prophetic message about the destruction
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  • Of jerusalem.
  • 00:15:17.865 --> 00:15:20.768
  • But they didn't stop, they were very busy seeing that the gospel
  • 00:15:20.768 --> 00:15:24.706
  • Of the kingdom was preached in the whole world.
  • 00:15:24.706 --> 00:15:28.676
  • In spite of threats, in spite of hatred, in spite of some
  • 00:15:28.676 --> 00:15:31.846
  • Physical suffering, in spite of all the things.
  • 00:15:31.846 --> 00:15:34.949
  • So what i would like to establish as the beginning point
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  • Is even though we see some things in our world that are
  • 00:15:38.086 --> 00:15:40.822
  • Trending in a way that probably isn't going to bring applause
  • 00:15:40.822 --> 00:15:43.958
  • From heaven, it doesn't diminish the opportunity for the message
  • 00:15:43.958 --> 00:15:48.896
  • Of the gospel of the kingdom to be shared.
  • 00:15:48.896 --> 00:15:51.833
  • That's really good news.
  • 00:15:51.833 --> 00:15:54.135
  • And if there are people that are agitated by it or unhappy with
  • 00:15:54.135 --> 00:15:56.971
  • It or aren't applauding and aren't cheering, don't
  • 00:15:56.971 --> 00:16:00.375
  • Be deterred.
  • 00:16:00.375 --> 00:16:02.910
  • Let's pray, let's pray.
  • 00:16:02.910 --> 00:16:05.580
  • Look at acts 13.
  • 00:16:05.580 --> 00:16:08.016
  • It's a--it's a--it's an intriguing window for me into
  • 00:16:08.016 --> 00:16:11.652
  • Prayer and discernment and judgment, they're all kind of
  • 00:16:11.652 --> 00:16:14.722
  • Wrapped into here.
  • 00:16:14.722 --> 00:16:16.557
  • They--this is paul and his crew, "they traveled through the whole
  • 00:16:16.557 --> 00:16:19.794
  • Island until they came to paphos.
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  • And there they met a jewish sorcerer and a false prophet
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  • Named bar-jesus, he was an attendant of the proconsul,"
  • 00:16:27.301 --> 00:16:30.805
  • Like the local governor.
  • 00:16:30.805 --> 00:16:33.708
  • "the proconsul was an intelligent man.
  • 00:16:33.708 --> 00:16:35.343
  • He sent for barnabas and saul because he wanted to hear the
  • 00:16:35.343 --> 00:16:38.346
  • Word of god.
  • 00:16:38.346 --> 00:16:40.214
  • But the sorcerer opposed them, and he tried to turn the
  • 00:16:40.214 --> 00:16:43.751
  • Proconsul from the faith.
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  • And saul, who's called paul, was filled with the holy spirit.
  • 00:16:46.254 --> 00:16:49.123
  • He looked straight at the sorcerer and he said, 'you're a
  • 00:16:49.123 --> 00:16:52.293
  • Child of the devil and an enemy of everything that is right!"'
  • 00:16:52.293 --> 00:16:56.531
  • Just in case you're tracking here, those are not
  • 00:16:56.531 --> 00:16:59.434
  • Flattering words.
  • 00:16:59.434 --> 00:17:02.837
  • For those that have imagined every spirit-led message is one
  • 00:17:02.837 --> 00:17:06.441
  • Of affirmation, you need to read more fully your bible.
  • 00:17:06.441 --> 00:17:11.879
  • "paul said to him, 'you're a child of the devil and an enemy
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  • Of everything that is right!
  • 00:17:14.415 --> 00:17:15.783
  • You're full of all kinds of deceit and trickery.
  • 00:17:15.783 --> 00:17:18.052
  • Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the lord?
  • 00:17:18.052 --> 00:17:21.355
  • Now the hand of the lord is against you.
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  • And you're gonna be blind for a time, you'll be unable to see
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  • The light of day.'
  • 00:17:25.393 --> 00:17:27.295
  • And immediately mist and darkness came over him, and he
  • 00:17:27.295 --> 00:17:29.564
  • Groped about, seeking someone to lead him by the hand.
  • 00:17:29.564 --> 00:17:33.234
  • And when the governor saw what had happened, he believed,"
  • 00:17:33.234 --> 00:17:38.573
  • Clever man, "for he was amazed at the teaching about the lord."
  • 00:17:38.573 --> 00:17:44.445
  • Now, i'm suggesting that acts 13 is the beginning point
  • 00:17:44.445 --> 00:17:47.915
  • Of prayer.
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  • If you haven't been willing to say, "let's pray," with someone
  • 00:17:50.251 --> 00:17:52.653
  • That you don't know very well yet, you probably want to
  • 00:17:52.653 --> 00:17:55.156
  • Start there.
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  • But i don't want you to stay there.
  • 00:17:56.824 --> 00:17:59.093
  • I don't wanna stay there.
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  • I want to continue to grow in the way i know the lord, in the
  • 00:18:01.095 --> 00:18:03.731
  • Way i can cooperate with the holy spirit, in the way i
  • 00:18:03.731 --> 00:18:06.134
  • Will pray.
  • 00:18:06.134 --> 00:18:08.035
  • And i think this is a window at least into one aspect of prayer,
  • 00:18:08.035 --> 00:18:13.274
  • There's a discernment.
  • 00:18:13.274 --> 00:18:14.642
  • We have to be able to distinguish between the holy
  • 00:18:14.642 --> 00:18:15.977
  • Spirit and the unholy.
  • 00:18:15.977 --> 00:18:17.812
  • To see past packaging.
  • 00:18:17.812 --> 00:18:21.115
  • To see past even expressions of power.
  • 00:18:21.115 --> 00:18:24.652
  • The antichrist and the false prophet will be very
  • 00:18:24.652 --> 00:18:27.088
  • Supernatural characters.
  • 00:18:27.088 --> 00:18:30.358
  • Their lives and their ministries and their power will be filled
  • 00:18:30.358 --> 00:18:36.130
  • With expressions of the supernatural.
  • 00:18:36.130 --> 00:18:38.966
  • So if your only criteria for discernment is--are expressions
  • 00:18:38.966 --> 00:18:42.970
  • Of the miraculous or the supernatural, you can be
  • 00:18:42.970 --> 00:18:45.673
  • Easily deceived.
  • 00:18:45.673 --> 00:18:48.109
  • You and i will need to be familiar enough with the holy
  • 00:18:48.109 --> 00:18:50.845
  • Spirit to know the difference between the holy spirit and an
  • 00:18:50.845 --> 00:18:53.848
  • Unholy spirit.
  • 00:18:53.848 --> 00:18:56.417
  • Because the sorcerer in this story is a supernatural
  • 00:18:56.417 --> 00:18:59.387
  • Character, enough supernatural that the secular governing
  • 00:18:59.387 --> 00:19:04.091
  • Authority is impressed with the power he brings because it helps
  • 00:19:04.091 --> 00:19:08.396
  • To manipulate people.
  • 00:19:08.396 --> 00:19:09.797
  • And then when paul encounters him, he responds with a boldness
  • 00:19:13.267 --> 00:19:18.005
  • That it's a little uncomfortable just to read it.
  • 00:19:18.005 --> 00:19:20.308
  • I can't imagine having been a part of paul's entourage.
  • 00:19:20.308 --> 00:19:23.644
  • Can't you imagine--when he turns to the sorcerer and says,
  • 00:19:23.644 --> 00:19:25.980
  • "you're a child of the devil," can't you imagine like paul's
  • 00:19:25.980 --> 00:19:28.883
  • Companions are going, "oh, he's doing it again.
  • 00:19:28.883 --> 00:19:33.354
  • We're gonna see the inside of another jail."
  • 00:19:33.354 --> 00:19:37.658
  • "i--didn't somebody talk to him last time?
  • 00:19:37.658 --> 00:19:41.395
  • Didn't you give him like that course on how to win friends and
  • 00:19:41.395 --> 00:19:44.799
  • Influence people?"
  • 00:19:44.799 --> 00:19:47.368
  • "could somebody not teach him to be just a little more chill?
  • 00:19:47.368 --> 00:19:51.973
  • Feed him breakfast, he's hungry, something!"
  • 00:19:51.973 --> 00:19:54.508
  • Paul had--paul has this boldness to speak right into
  • 00:19:57.812 --> 00:20:00.915
  • The circumstance.
  • 00:20:00.915 --> 00:20:04.585
  • And when luke is recording it for us, he goes out of his way
  • 00:20:04.585 --> 00:20:09.156
  • For us to know that it wasn't paul being carnal.
  • 00:20:09.156 --> 00:20:11.459
  • He said, "saul, who was called paul, filled with the
  • 00:20:11.459 --> 00:20:14.562
  • Holy spirit."
  • 00:20:14.562 --> 00:20:17.465
  • Not just because he was sleepy or tired or grumpy or hungry,
  • 00:20:17.465 --> 00:20:22.036
  • "filled with the holy spirit," he said this.
  • 00:20:22.036 --> 00:20:24.672
  • The language there is very old testament-like in severity.
  • 00:20:24.672 --> 00:20:29.610
  • When people say, "you know, in the old testament, god is so
  • 00:20:29.610 --> 00:20:31.312
  • Harsh, but in the new testament," in the new
  • 00:20:31.312 --> 00:20:32.813
  • Testament, he's still god!
  • 00:20:32.813 --> 00:20:34.215
  • But the outcome of the encounter is the proconsul, the governor,
  • 00:20:37.318 --> 00:20:42.723
  • Becomes a believer.
  • 00:20:42.723 --> 00:20:45.426
  • Sounds like the book of daniel.
  • 00:20:45.426 --> 00:20:48.896
  • When people are jealous of daniel and they manipulate the
  • 00:20:48.896 --> 00:20:51.332
  • Legal system and result in daniel being arrested and
  • 00:20:51.332 --> 00:20:54.502
  • Condemned to death, and the sultan is reluctant because he
  • 00:20:54.502 --> 00:20:59.173
  • Trusts daniel.
  • 00:20:59.173 --> 00:21:00.508
  • And so daniel's thrown into the lions' den and it just happens
  • 00:21:00.508 --> 00:21:03.110
  • To be a day when the lions aren't hungry.
  • 00:21:03.110 --> 00:21:06.614
  • But the sultan, the sultan issues a decree that everybody
  • 00:21:06.614 --> 00:21:10.418
  • Is gonna have to recognize the god of daniel.
  • 00:21:10.418 --> 00:21:13.187
  • There--there's a kingdom breakthrough that comes from the
  • 00:21:13.187 --> 00:21:16.991
  • Challenge to daniel.
  • 00:21:16.991 --> 00:21:19.960
  • And in the midst of the antagonism and the deception and
  • 00:21:19.960 --> 00:21:24.198
  • The false prophet, the purposes of god come forward.
  • 00:21:24.198 --> 00:21:28.536
  • Do you have a big enough imagination?
  • 00:21:28.536 --> 00:21:29.870
  • But see, i struggle with that because i don't like that stuff.
  • 00:21:29.870 --> 00:21:34.075
  • I would rather have like an evangelism service when
  • 00:21:34.075 --> 00:21:37.211
  • Every--you feel the presence of god and there's a unity in the
  • 00:21:37.211 --> 00:21:40.081
  • Midst and the worship is so sweet.
  • 00:21:40.081 --> 00:21:44.885
  • All we said was jesus, and people began to weep and cry
  • 00:21:44.885 --> 00:21:50.024
  • Out, "can't we be baptized now?"
  • 00:21:50.024 --> 00:21:54.061
  • I mean...
  • 00:21:54.061 --> 00:21:56.430
  • But biblically, sometimes it means you have to like hang out
  • 00:21:56.430 --> 00:21:59.567
  • With the lions or you have to say in a public place, "you're
  • 00:21:59.567 --> 00:22:04.872
  • Full of the devil!"
  • 00:22:04.872 --> 00:22:06.273
  • I don't even think we wanna think about that.
  • 00:22:09.677 --> 00:22:12.413
  • I'm not even sure we wanna pray about that.
  • 00:22:12.413 --> 00:22:16.817
  • But i think god is inviting us to a different place.
  • 00:22:16.817 --> 00:22:19.053
  • You see, i don't believe we're gonna see the kingdom of god
  • 00:22:19.053 --> 00:22:21.589
  • Advanced if we're trying to avoid the issues of our day.
  • 00:22:21.589 --> 00:22:26.060
  • We don't have to be angry, we don't have to be belligerent.
  • 00:22:26.060 --> 00:22:28.829
  • But i don't believe we can hide, it's tempting.
  • 00:22:28.829 --> 00:22:35.636
  • In 2 chronicles, we get to see prayers in the midst of
  • 00:22:35.636 --> 00:22:41.075
  • God's judgment.
  • 00:22:41.075 --> 00:22:42.443
  • This is fascinating to me.
  • 00:22:42.443 --> 00:22:43.778
  • "the spirit of god came upon azariah," he's the son
  • 00:22:43.778 --> 00:22:47.581
  • Of somebody.
  • 00:22:47.581 --> 00:22:50.518
  • "and he went out to meet asa, the king, and he said to him,
  • 00:22:50.518 --> 00:22:52.686
  • 'listen to me, asa and all judah and benjamin.'"
  • 00:22:52.686 --> 00:22:55.322
  • This is the southern kingdom of israel.
  • 00:22:55.322 --> 00:22:58.092
  • "the lord is with you when you are with him.
  • 00:22:58.092 --> 00:23:01.695
  • If you seek him, he'll be found by you, but if you forsake him,
  • 00:23:01.695 --> 00:23:06.233
  • He'll forsake you.
  • 00:23:06.233 --> 00:23:09.937
  • For a long time israel was without the true god, without a
  • 00:23:09.937 --> 00:23:13.874
  • Priest to teach and without the law.
  • 00:23:13.874 --> 00:23:16.644
  • But in their distress, they turned to the lord, the god of
  • 00:23:16.644 --> 00:23:19.280
  • Israel, and they sought him, and he was found by them.
  • 00:23:19.280 --> 00:23:23.818
  • In those days it was not safe to travel about, for all the
  • 00:23:23.818 --> 00:23:26.654
  • Inhabitants of the lands were in great turmoil.
  • 00:23:26.654 --> 00:23:29.924
  • One nation was being crushed by another and one city by another,
  • 00:23:29.924 --> 00:23:34.328
  • Because god was troubling them with every kind of distress.
  • 00:23:34.328 --> 00:23:38.399
  • But as for you, be strong and do not give up, for your work will
  • 00:23:38.399 --> 00:23:43.637
  • Be rewarded."
  • 00:23:43.637 --> 00:23:46.373
  • Wow, seems relevant to me.
  • 00:23:46.373 --> 00:23:51.212
  • I'll start with verse 6. the statement was, "in those days it
  • 00:23:51.212 --> 00:23:55.983
  • Wasn't safe to travel, all the inhabitants of the land were in
  • 00:23:55.983 --> 00:24:00.120
  • Turmoil...that god is troubling them."
  • 00:24:00.120 --> 00:24:02.823
  • And i'm going to suggest to you that if god is troubling us, the
  • 00:24:02.823 --> 00:24:06.026
  • Only real solution is god.
  • 00:24:06.026 --> 00:24:09.997
  • When i see things happening that are illogical, they're
  • 00:24:09.997 --> 00:24:13.000
  • Irrational, when decisions are being made or policies are being
  • 00:24:13.000 --> 00:24:17.104
  • Made or people of faith are doing things and you're
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  • Thinking, that makes no sense, then i think it isn't a
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  • Logical issue.
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  • I think there's a spiritual motivation behind the logic.
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  • And it seems straightforward to me that if god is the one that
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  • Is initiating trouble or allowing trouble, sometimes we
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  • Will quibble over semantics, then the only solution is god.
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  • The political solutions, policy solutions, economic solutions,
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  • All the things that we put forward, further conversations,
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  • They're not going to bring real solutions.
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  • It's god that's the solution.
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  • Now god may give you a way to resolve that.
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  • God showed moses a piece of wood to throw in the water to make
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  • The water drinkable for the people.
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  • But the solution began with prayer, not with an evaluation
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  • Of all the wood that was available to see which one would
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  • Create a chemical reaction to make the water potable.
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  • It was a response that was initiated by prayer, and god
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  • Directed moses to the tree.
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  • Now, i have no doubt that at some point later, somebody does
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  • A very clever evaluation and they decide there's some tree in
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  • The negev that when thrown into bitter water, it will initiate a
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  • Response that makes the water more drinkable.
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  • Wonderful, i'm okay with that.
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  • What i think is amazing is without a chemistry set, god led
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  • Moses to that solution.
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  • When there's a problem connected to god, the solution will come
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  • From him.
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  • Seek the lord.
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  • I've been saying that a lot lately, but i'm gonna keep
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  • Saying it for a while.
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  • It's on my heart.
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  • Seek the lord, we need his help.
  • 00:25:54.602 --> 00:25:57.304
  • We get so--we get--we get so entrenched in, 'i'm born again.'
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  • And i'm grateful for that, it's a necessity.
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  • I don't want to diminish that.
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  • But it's as if we shut down like, i don't really need to
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  • Learn anymore.
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  • I don't need to know anymore.
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  • I--i'm good, i'm golden.
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  • I--i'm--and we forfeit a lot.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: hey, i'm really excited about our newest publication,
  • 00:26:25.633 --> 00:26:28.202
  • "your identity in christ."
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  • Far too often in christendom, we major on the minors.
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  • We get way heated up about which church we attend, which
  • 00:26:32.940 --> 00:26:35.075
  • Denomination we belong to, which translation of the bible
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  • We read.
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  • Most of those things are all okay, but knowing who you are in
  • 00:26:38.912 --> 00:26:41.548
  • Christ, it will mean freedom or it will put you in a place
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  • Of bondage.
  • 00:26:44.952 --> 00:26:46.286
  • When i help people through the steps of spiritual freedom, the
  • 00:26:46.286 --> 00:26:48.689
  • Foundation of that is understanding who we are
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  • In christ.
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  • We put together this little booklet as a tool.
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  • It'll help you individually, you can do it as a small group.
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  • It's a great resource to share with your children or your
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  • Grandchildren at your kitchen table time.
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  • It'll make a difference in your life knowing who you are in
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  • Christ, first and foremost, as a part of your
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  • Spiritual formation.
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  • In fact, i wanna pray with you before we go, that god will
  • 00:27:08.976 --> 00:27:11.211
  • Bring new freedom to you in this season.
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  • Father, thank you for you have established, you have paid the
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  • Price that we can participate in your kingdom.
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  • By your spirit, awaken us to who we are in christ, first
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  • And foremost.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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