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Allen Jackson - Prepared For You (Part 2)

December 30, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - Prepared For You (Part 2)
Pastor Allen Jackson's mission is to help people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Prepared For You (Part 2) | December 30, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen jackson: we began allen jackson ministries to strengthen
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  • The church.
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  • Thank you for your partnership.
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  • Together, we made an impact in this nation.
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  • But we're not done, in fact, in many ways, i believe we're
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  • Just beginning.
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  • The status quo is not adequate any longer.
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  • We can't sit in our churches and have our polite bible studies
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  • And sing our favorite choruses while we watch darkness
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  • Increasing in the world around us.
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  • We have to have the courage to tell the truth to our culture, a
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  • Biblical worldview to engage current events in a way to make
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  • What we believe a part of the fabric of our schools, our
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  • Homes, our communities, our nation, and beyond.
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  • We have invitations now from war-torn countries, in israel
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  • And ukraine, to strengthen the churches there.
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  • I want to ask you to make an investment with us in allen
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  • Jackson ministries to make 2026 the most fruitful year we've
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  • Ever had together.
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  • God is moving in the earth.
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  • We want to keep pace.
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  • We want to take new steps to make a new impact.
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  • Your help makes that possible.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: jeremiah 29:11, remember, god has planned well for us.
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  • Listen to this, "i know the plans i have for you," declares
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  • The lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to
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  • Give you hope and a future."
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  • Do you know who said that?
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  • You just read jeremiah, if you're doing the bible reading
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  • With us.
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  • You know who jeremiah was?
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  • The prophet that said to the people of jerusalem and judah,
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  • "the babylonians are coming for you and there's nothing you can
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  • Do about it.
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  • Your children are going to be slaughtered in the streets, and
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  • You're going to be slaves in a foreign land.
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  • Your women will be abused."
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  • That's jeremiah's message day after day, they hate him for it.
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  • They imprisoned him, they intend to kill him.
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  • They try on multiple occasions.
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  • And god says to jeremiah, "this is a part of your message.
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  • 'i know the plans i have for you, plans to prosper you.'"
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  • But the blessings of god don't come apart from obedience
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  • To god.
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  • You can't craft your own gospel and then stamp your feet and
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  • Demand the blessings of god like petulant children.
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  • God's plan will be completed.
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  • It's worth noting.
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  • 2 peter 3, peter writes this near the end of his life.
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  • He's recruited as a young man, he's a fisherman, very limited
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  • Exposure in the world.
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  • By the time we meet him, he's been to rome, he's traveled the
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  • Mediterranean world.
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  • His experiences have been multiplied exponentially.
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  • He's--he says, "first of all, you must understand that in the
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  • Last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own
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  • Evil desires."
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  • Gee, that doesn't sound familiar.
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  • "they will say, 'where is this 'coming' he promised?
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  • Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has
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  • Since the beginning of the creation.'"
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  • Nothing's gonna change.
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  • There's no god in heaven.
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  • We're the captains of our fate.
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  • We're the masters of our world.
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  • That's not a new argument, folks.
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  • "but they deliberately forget that long ago by god's word the
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  • Heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and
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  • By water.
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  • By that same word the present heavens and earth are reserved
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  • For fire, being kept for the day of judgment."
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  • Folks, god's plan will be completed.
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  • The best indicator of god's faithfulness in the future is
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  • God's faithfulness in the past.
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  • You see, he's trustworthy.
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  • The more important question is, are we?
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  • He is faithful, are we?
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  • We often imagine god is unfair.
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  • How about us?
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  • God's plan will be completed.
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  • Now i wanna take just a moment with some things god has
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  • Prepared for us.
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  • I think this is a really important part of this
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  • Discussion on preparation.
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  • God has a plan and it includes you, specifically you.
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  • Not the corporate us, the you us.
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  • Not the we we, the me we.
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  • I had to go to school to learn to use language like that.
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  • Ephesians 2:8, "it is by grace that you have been saved,
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  • Through faith--and it's not from yourselves, it's the gift of
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  • God--not by works, that no one can boast.
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  • For we are god's workmanship, created in christ jesus to do
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  • Good works, which god prepared in advance for us to do."
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  • In advance of what?
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  • In advance of the creation of the world.
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  • God's prepared for you.
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  • He's given you gifts and abilities and opportunities.
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  • He chose the circumstances that describe your birth, the
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  • Location of that, some good, some challenging, but god gave
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  • You the gifts and he gave you everything you need to make an
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  • Impact for his kingdom, uniquely prepared for you.
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  • And what does the enemy do?
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  • What does the adversary do?
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  • What does god's opponent do?
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  • The same thing to you and me that he did in the garden or
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  • That he did with jesus and his temptation in the wilderness.
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  • Jesus is hungry and satan came and said, "if you are the son
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  • Of god."
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  • He knew very well he was the son of god, he'd seen him in heaven.
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  • He'd seen jesus in all of his glory.
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  • He knew exactly who he was, and he said, "if you are the son
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  • Of god."
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  • Now jesus has the frailty of the human body and hunger and
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  • Weariness, "if you are the son of god."
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  • What did satan say in the garden, "did god really say?"
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  • What's he say to you and me?
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  • "you didn't get the right gifts."
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  • "you didn't get treated fairly."
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  • "your circumstances put you at a disadvantage."
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  • See, if you'll believe those lies, you'll forfeit your
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  • Kingdom future.
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  • There's a time in my life i thought i should have been 6'5,"
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  • About 225 pounds of lean muscle.
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  • I'm not any of the above.
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  • And i'm sure god's--in god's wisdom, he didn't give me those
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  • Gifts because i probably couldn't have handled them.
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  • He gave us--each one, he has prepared for us things to do
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  • For him.
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  • How concerned are we about that?
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  • We're very concerned that god do what we want him to do.
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  • We are very concerned about that.
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  • There's books about it, sermons about it, discussions about it.
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  • We want to know how do we get god to answer our prayers, to do
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  • What i want.
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  • God is not answering in the way i want him to answer, he's not
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  • Paying attention to my timeline.
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  • God has a plan for your good.
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  • It's very important to get this.
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  • I think one of the reasons we're so reluctant to cooperate with
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  • God and consider the fact that he might have something for our
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  • Time or for our treasure, for our money, he might have
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  • Something for our own engagement is we think that god will
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  • Diminish us, that he will somehow take something away from
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  • Us, limit us.
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  • Folks, do you think ungodliness and wickedness is more
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  • Profitable than godliness?
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  • Do you really think that?
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  • Do you understand how perverted that is?
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  • Do you understand how much we've been influenced when we think
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  • That being immoral, being greedy, being gluttonous, being
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  • Whatever--whatever expression of ungodliness is the temptation
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  • For you, and we all have them.
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  • Do you understand, to imagine that that will bring better
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  • Things to you than honoring the creator, that there's something
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  • Perverse in that equation?
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  • And yet we have this internal thing that will push us towards
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  • Those things, and then we can find people aligned in that way,
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  • Go, "well, they're doing it and it doesn't look like anything
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  • Bad's coming to them."
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  • And so we press further away from god.
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  • God has prepared something good for us.
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  • Something good for us.
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  • Would david's life have been better if he had rejected god's
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  • Invitation and hidden from goliath?
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  • Would saul of tarsus's life been better if he'd said no to the
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  • Invitation on the damascus road and said, "i have--i am on the
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  • Fast track with the pharisees, i'm gonna pursue my
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  • Professional life"?
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  • If peter had declined the invitation to follow jesus, and
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  • Said, "listen, i've got a thriving fishing business
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  • Going here.
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  • I can't afford to follow some unknown rabbi into i don't
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  • Know what.
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  • Wait till i get my business established and the profits up,
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  • I'll be a generous supporter of you, rabbi."
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  • God has prepared something for us that's good, he has a plan
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  • For your good.
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  • We don't believe this.
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  • We don't live this way.
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  • Well, i mean, how often do you want me to go to church for
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  • Heaven's sakes?
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  • I'm born again, i'm baptized.
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  • What the--i mean, i can watch it on a stream.
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  • What do you mean?
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  • I know, i understand.
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  • Do you understand the messaging that cascades over us, pushing
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  • Us away from god towards mediocrity?
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  • 1 corinthians 2:9, "just as it's written, the 'things which the
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  • Eye has not seen and the ears not heard.
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  • They haven't entered the heart of man, all that god has
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  • Prepared for those who love him.'"
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  • We don't even have an imagination that can hold what
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  • It means to be god's family.
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  • If we could, if we could see it in its fullness, in its glory,
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  • We'd be leaning into it.
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  • "well, why didn't he show it?"
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  • Then it wouldn't take any faith.
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  • "well, i don't like the system," duly noted.
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  • It's been made clear to you, you have a choice.
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  • I like john 1, jesus is recruiting.
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  • "when he saw nathaniel approaching, he said to him,
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  • 'here's a true israelite, in whom there's nothing false.'
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  • Nathaniel said, 'how do you know me?'"
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  • That's a pretty contemporary line, "how do you know me?"
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  • "makes you think you know me?
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  • You don't know who i am, you haven't walked in my shoes.
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  • You can't appropriate my culture."
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  • "'how do you know me?'
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  • And jesus answered, 'i saw you while you were still under the
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  • Fig tree before philip called you.'"
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  • I don't believe that means jesus walked past him, i believe jesus
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  • Means i saw you.
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  • I wasn't standing there, i saw you.
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  • Seems to be the way that nathaniel took it because,
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  • "nathaniel declared, 'rabbi, you are the son of god.'"
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  • If it meant jesus just walked past the tree where he was an
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  • Hour earlier, nathaniel wouldn't have responded that way.
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  • Nathaniel understood that jesus hadn't been physically present,
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  • But he had seen him and his location.
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  • Do you live with the imagination that god's aware?
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  • I try to let that grow in me.
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  • There's nothing hidden from him.
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  • Not my thoughts, not my words, not my attitudes.
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  • Most of us have made peace with the fact that somebody's
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  • Listening to us all the time.
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  • Very high degree of probability they're watching us more than we
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  • Want them to, awkward.
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  • Why do we reject the notion that god knows?
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  • You know, we have some silly things we say about god, "well,
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  • I don't want to bother him with my prayers."
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  • Do you know how many stupid things you ask google, right?
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  • How old is nick saban?
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  • Just type that in there.
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  • I mean, how many conversations have you had with somebody
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  • Lately and you ask a question and they start typing.
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  • And then i meet christians all the time, they go, "oh, i don't
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  • Wanna bother god with my person," oh, like god is less
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  • Capable than the cloud.
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  • Come on people, we have this diminished view of god like he's
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  • Caught off guard.
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  • God's shocked by the 21st century.
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  • I'm pretty sure he's not.
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  • He's planned something really good for us.
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  • "'nathaniel, i saw you while you were under the fig tree.'
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  • And nathaniel said, 'you are the son of god; the king of israel.'
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  • And jesus said, 'you believe because i told you i saw you
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  • Under the fig tree.
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  • You'll see greater things than that.'
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  • And then he added, 'i tell you the truth,'" and you know by now
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  • When you see that phrase, buckle up because what's coming next
  • 00:12:48.918 --> 00:12:52.288
  • Is gonna.
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  • "i tell you the truth, you'll see heaven open, and the angels
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  • Of god ascending and descending on the son of man."
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  • "you thought a fig tree was showing off, i will show you
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  • Angels coming and going from heaven."
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  • I'm in, and nathaniel was.
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  • We need a little bit more of that attitude.
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  • We want to stop quoting our resume to god and start saying
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  • Yes to him with our time and our--all the things we--we've
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  • Gotta start.
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  • We gotta change this.
  • 00:13:24.186 --> 00:13:25.521
  • It's a very personal thing.
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  • God has a plan for your good, not just his good or the
  • 00:13:26.889 --> 00:13:31.660
  • Corporate good.
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  • To the degree you will cooperate with him, it will bring
  • 00:13:32.995 --> 00:13:35.364
  • Good to you.
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  • I have very few appointments with people that go, "pastor, i
  • 00:13:40.302 --> 00:13:42.471
  • Just came to see you to tell you my life is so blessed, god is so
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  • Good to me.
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  • I'm overwhelmed with the revelation, the insight, the
  • 00:13:47.643 --> 00:13:50.179
  • Understanding, the mercy, the kindness, the goodness.
  • 00:13:50.179 --> 00:13:53.215
  • The more i lean in, the better god is."
  • 00:13:53.215 --> 00:13:54.783
  • I don't have very many of those conversations.
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  • Most of the people that get on the schedule are on the opposite
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  • End of that.
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  • "well, you know, i didn't really do what i need to do.
  • 00:14:02.625 --> 00:14:04.260
  • I kind of--it is--and now this is blown apart and that's over
  • 00:14:04.260 --> 00:14:06.896
  • Here, and i don't know, what am i supposed to--how do i
  • 00:14:06.896 --> 00:14:08.931
  • Get back?"
  • 00:14:08.931 --> 00:14:15.838
  • Or i meet the, you know, "i got mad."
  • 00:14:15.838 --> 00:14:19.074
  • "there wasn't enough parking in the place i wanted to park," or
  • 00:14:19.074 --> 00:14:21.944
  • "my child didn't get to sing in the play," or "somebody sat in
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  • My seat."
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  • "you were too political, too political."
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  • Folks, when i get political, it's like on the ballot.
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  • That--that's what that looks like, talking about our culture
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  • In which we live.
  • 00:14:41.730 --> 00:14:44.833
  • And i have those meetings and there're people, their lives
  • 00:14:44.833 --> 00:14:46.902
  • Have come apart and they've lost their momentum and they're
  • 00:14:46.902 --> 00:14:50.472
  • Grieving what's happening in their family.
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  • God has planned something good for you.
  • 00:14:53.142 --> 00:14:56.345
  • Good for you.
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  • Allen: and i'll close with this one.
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  • God's purposes for you will be completed.
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  • "well, i don't see how.
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  • I don't see how.
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  • I don't know how god's gonna do that.
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  • I just--i don't know."
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  • That's why we call him god, not you.
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  • If you could see how god could accomplish his purposes in you,
  • 00:16:59.301 --> 00:17:02.738
  • You wouldn't need god.
  • 00:17:02.738 --> 00:17:05.374
  • You would have a plan.
  • 00:17:05.374 --> 00:17:08.077
  • And then here's the challenge, most of us have had a plan.
  • 00:17:08.077 --> 00:17:10.546
  • And i'm not opposed to--i'm a planner, i like a plan.
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  • I like to be intentional.
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  • I promise, i don't do much random stuff.
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  • But i am--the most exciting thing about my life is following
  • 00:17:20.823 --> 00:17:24.393
  • The lord on a plan that's different from mine.
  • 00:17:24.393 --> 00:17:29.131
  • Because every time, god's plan has exceeded mine.
  • 00:17:29.131 --> 00:17:33.535
  • And some of you are still mad at god because he hadn't read
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  • Your plan.
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  • "you know, by the time i was 42, i had a plan.
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  • And these were the six things i wanted to have happened, and
  • 00:17:40.342 --> 00:17:42.111
  • I've only got two of the six.
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  • And i've been a faithful person, i've come to church and taught
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  • Sunday school.
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  • I'm not sure god is faithful."
  • 00:17:47.649 --> 00:17:51.186
  • Well, i'm sorry.
  • 00:17:51.186 --> 00:17:52.588
  • Abraham had that problem.
  • 00:17:55.657 --> 00:17:58.260
  • Zechariah had that problem and he got shut down for a while.
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  • God's plan will be completed.
  • 00:18:04.733 --> 00:18:06.668
  • Look at hebrews 12:2, "let us fix our eyes on jesus, the
  • 00:18:06.668 --> 00:18:12.207
  • Author and the perfecter of our faith."
  • 00:18:12.207 --> 00:18:16.678
  • Some translations say, "he's the author and the completer of our
  • 00:18:16.678 --> 00:18:19.214
  • Faith," either way works.
  • 00:18:19.214 --> 00:18:21.283
  • He's the initiator, our journey began in his imagination before
  • 00:18:21.283 --> 00:18:25.420
  • It began in ours.
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  • The prophets say that god knew you when you were knit together
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  • In your mother's womb.
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  • That's why those unborn children aren't just a mass of cells,
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  • They have a spirit that god knows.
  • 00:18:36.698 --> 00:18:41.103
  • Remember god told mary and joseph the plan for jesus before
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  • She had conceived.
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  • There's really no biblical way to avoid the reality of that
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  • Life in a womb is a life.
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  • So god is the author of our story.
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  • We're not the author of our story.
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  • God gave us gifts and abilities and opportunities that emerged
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  • From his vision for us.
  • 00:19:04.193 --> 00:19:06.028
  • But the same one who authored our story is the perfecter of
  • 00:19:06.028 --> 00:19:09.231
  • Our story, and we keep running our story into the ditch and
  • 00:19:09.231 --> 00:19:12.534
  • Crashing it into walls and driving it off cliffs.
  • 00:19:12.534 --> 00:19:16.805
  • And god in his omniscience and omnipotence keeps restoring the
  • 00:19:16.805 --> 00:19:21.543
  • Story he wrote for us.
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  • It's the most amazing thing.
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  • And he will bring it to completion if we will just
  • 00:19:26.882 --> 00:19:29.451
  • Cooperate with him.
  • 00:19:29.451 --> 00:19:31.954
  • If we will just yield to him and say, "it's the honor of my life
  • 00:19:31.954 --> 00:19:35.190
  • To serve you, but i've got an idea."
  • 00:19:35.190 --> 00:19:36.792
  • I can see the angels just shaking their heads, "we're
  • 00:19:40.862 --> 00:19:43.065
  • Gonna have to go to work on that one again.
  • 00:19:43.065 --> 00:19:46.201
  • We'll need a tow truck, we're gonna need humpty
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  • Dumpty surgeons."
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  • He's the author and the perfecter of our story.
  • 00:19:54.042 --> 00:19:56.878
  • Look at the rest of it.
  • 00:19:56.878 --> 00:19:58.413
  • Then it says about jesus, "for the joy set before him, he
  • 00:19:58.413 --> 00:20:01.016
  • Endured the cross."
  • 00:20:01.016 --> 00:20:03.118
  • Now he's gonna give us a template.
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  • We have to have a joy that's anchored to something other than
  • 00:20:06.054 --> 00:20:08.457
  • Immediate gratification or jesus would have never gone to
  • 00:20:08.457 --> 00:20:10.726
  • The cross.
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  • He would have never accepted the shame of being publicly
  • 00:20:13.295 --> 00:20:16.131
  • Humiliated, arrested, falsely accused, beaten.
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  • You know jesus could have turned that back on the
  • 00:20:20.035 --> 00:20:22.037
  • Soldiers, right?
  • 00:20:22.037 --> 00:20:23.772
  • When they blindfolded him and hit him over the head and said,
  • 00:20:23.772 --> 00:20:26.441
  • "tell us who hit you," he could have.
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  • "you have a mole behind your left ear.
  • 00:20:31.880 --> 00:20:36.118
  • Yeah, the one that just fell off in your hand."
  • 00:20:36.118 --> 00:20:39.254
  • He could have done all of that.
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  • But he didn't, it's remarkable.
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  • It says, "he endured the cross because of the joy set before
  • 00:20:46.061 --> 00:20:49.998
  • Him, scorning its shame, and he sat down at the right hand of
  • 00:20:49.998 --> 00:20:52.301
  • The throne of god."
  • 00:20:52.301 --> 00:20:53.669
  • And then verse 3 is to you and me.
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  • You should "consider him who endured such opposition from
  • 00:20:55.470 --> 00:20:58.006
  • Sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart."
  • 00:20:58.006 --> 00:21:05.247
  • Oh, but i do get weary and i do lose heart.
  • 00:21:05.247 --> 00:21:10.819
  • That's where you become so important to me.
  • 00:21:10.819 --> 00:21:14.122
  • I cannot tell you how many times.
  • 00:21:14.122 --> 00:21:17.326
  • It's the weekend and i know my assignment and i think, i
  • 00:21:17.326 --> 00:21:21.563
  • Don't--i don't--let them talk amongst themselves.
  • 00:21:21.563 --> 00:21:23.632
  • You know, encourage yourselves today.
  • 00:21:27.469 --> 00:21:31.139
  • Share your testimonies one with another.
  • 00:21:31.139 --> 00:21:34.276
  • But i do my preparation, and i don't feel anointed and i don't
  • 00:21:34.276 --> 00:21:38.180
  • Feel holy and i don't feel joyful, and i begin to--i walk
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  • Downstairs and i stand in the lobbies in your midst, and
  • 00:21:43.518 --> 00:21:47.589
  • I watch.
  • 00:21:47.589 --> 00:21:49.257
  • And we begin to talk and i listen, and i gain strength
  • 00:21:49.257 --> 00:21:52.928
  • From you.
  • 00:21:52.928 --> 00:21:55.464
  • Or i worship with you, and i leave with a joy and a hope and
  • 00:21:55.464 --> 00:22:01.002
  • A confidence that god is exactly who he said he was.
  • 00:22:01.002 --> 00:22:06.074
  • Folks, we need one another.
  • 00:22:06.074 --> 00:22:10.412
  • Everybody can't come to campus, we can't fit everybody into
  • 00:22:10.412 --> 00:22:13.048
  • The buildings.
  • 00:22:13.048 --> 00:22:14.416
  • Everybody that--we're spread too far now god's using our little
  • 00:22:14.416 --> 00:22:16.752
  • Country church beyond the little country where he put our church.
  • 00:22:16.752 --> 00:22:22.090
  • And i'm okay with that.
  • 00:22:22.090 --> 00:22:24.893
  • But we have to know that we can't afford to give in the
  • 00:22:24.893 --> 00:22:28.163
  • Weariness and losing heart.
  • 00:22:28.163 --> 00:22:29.798
  • Discouragement is not a guest you wanna welcome.
  • 00:22:29.798 --> 00:22:33.268
  • We all get discouraged, but don't make a nameplate for them
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  • At the table.
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  • No, no, you're visiting and you're leaving.
  • 00:22:39.808 --> 00:22:41.576
  • I didn't invite you here, you can't stay.
  • 00:22:41.576 --> 00:22:43.211
  • I'm not without courage, i have courage.
  • 00:22:43.211 --> 00:22:45.580
  • God is the author and the completer of my story, and he
  • 00:22:45.580 --> 00:22:48.350
  • Will complete it.
  • 00:22:48.350 --> 00:22:53.688
  • I brought you a prayer.
  • 00:22:53.688 --> 00:22:55.023
  • It's really a declaration.
  • 00:22:55.023 --> 00:22:56.391
  • We used it in a service earlier, but i want to use it again.
  • 00:22:56.391 --> 00:22:58.994
  • When gabriel came to see mary at the end of this amazing
  • 00:22:58.994 --> 00:23:02.564
  • Announcement--maybe one of the most remarkable statements in
  • 00:23:02.564 --> 00:23:04.065
  • All the bible.
  • 00:23:04.065 --> 00:23:05.434
  • Mary was most likely a teenager when gabriel told her she was
  • 00:23:05.434 --> 00:23:07.335
  • Gonna have a child.
  • 00:23:07.335 --> 00:23:08.770
  • And mary said the most remarkable thing.
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  • It's in luke 1:38, i put it in your notes.
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  • She said, "i'm the lord's servant."
  • 00:23:17.112 --> 00:23:19.915
  • That's the context for what's coming, "i'm the
  • 00:23:19.915 --> 00:23:21.817
  • Lord's servant."
  • 00:23:21.817 --> 00:23:23.185
  • If she's not the lord's servant, the rest of this won't matter.
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  • She said, "i'm the lord's servant.
  • 00:23:25.987 --> 00:23:27.656
  • This isn't my life.
  • 00:23:27.656 --> 00:23:29.357
  • It's not my dream.
  • 00:23:29.357 --> 00:23:31.193
  • It's not my engagement.
  • 00:23:31.193 --> 00:23:32.527
  • It's not my life plan."
  • 00:23:32.527 --> 00:23:35.063
  • "i'm the lord's servant.
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  • May it be to me as you have said."
  • 00:23:38.300 --> 00:23:41.269
  • I can't imagine a young teenage girl with that kind of a
  • 00:23:41.269 --> 00:23:48.176
  • Dynamic faith.
  • 00:23:48.176 --> 00:23:51.880
  • I want to grow towards that.
  • 00:23:51.880 --> 00:23:54.616
  • So i wanna give you that, i wanna suggest we make that our
  • 00:23:54.616 --> 00:23:56.985
  • Declaration of intent this morning.
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  • I'm the lord's servant.
  • 00:23:59.221 --> 00:24:01.256
  • May it be to me as god has said.
  • 00:24:01.256 --> 00:24:04.493
  • I want god's will for my life.
  • 00:24:04.493 --> 00:24:06.962
  • I want god's plan for my life.
  • 00:24:06.962 --> 00:24:09.598
  • I want to yield to him.
  • 00:24:09.598 --> 00:24:11.833
  • I don't want to demand that god do my bidding, i want to do his.
  • 00:24:11.833 --> 00:24:15.804
  • How many of you would like to do that?
  • 00:24:15.804 --> 00:24:17.672
  • Why don't you stand with me?
  • 00:24:17.672 --> 00:24:19.007
  • If you're at home, you stand with us.
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  • We're going to declare this to the four points of the compass.
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  • Now, the room i'm in is pretty much square with the compass.
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  • If yours isn't or you don't know which point is which, don't
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  • Ask google.
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  • We're just gonna turn four separate directions.
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  • Whichever sanctuary you're in on our campus, we're just gonna
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  • Turn, front, side, back, the other side.
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  • Whichever room you're in watching, you're gonna turn.
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  • If you're in the airport, they're gonna look at you, but
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  • Just do it anyway.
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  • All right, just act like you're people watching.
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  • You don't have to shout this declaration at the top of your
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  • Lungs, but you can say it quietly.
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  • They'll think you're singing along with the earbuds you've
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  • Got in.
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  • See, we can be obedient to god anywhere, if we'll choose.
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  • So i put your line in bold in your notes.
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  • Have you found it?
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  • We're going to say it first.
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  • This is north, or it was when i started today.
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  • Okay, together, i am the lord's servant, may it be to me as god
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  • Has said!
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  • To your right is the east.
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  • Well, i really--actually those windows is kind of more
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  • The east.
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  • We only got about a half turn.
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  • I know it's church, you're not supposed to turn around, but
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  • We're breaking all the rules today.
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  • All right, now i understand if you're in one of the other
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  • Sanctuaries, you may have the wrong direction, but we're
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  • Facing the right.
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  • Again, i am the lord's servant, may it be to me as god has said!
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  • And now to the back of the room.
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  • I am the lord's servant, may it be to me as god has said!
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  • And to the other one, i am the lord's servant, may it be to me
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  • As the lord has said, amen.
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  • We're gonna be obedient in every direction on the compass.
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  • God bless you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: allen jackson ministries was created to strengthen
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  • The church.
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  • With your help, we've been able to take some steps in that
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  • Direction, but we're more determined than ever to make an
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  • Impact in our world.
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  • We have some invitations internationally to step into
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  • Some war-torn countries, into israel and ukraine, to help
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  • Strengthen the church there.
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  • We plan to respond to that.
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  • But as importantly, in this nation, folks, business as usual
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  • Isn't gonna get this done.
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  • We can't be timid and sit in our churches and have polite bible
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  • Studies and sing our favorite choruses.
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  • We've got to take the truth into the public square, a biblical
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  • Worldview back into the midst of our culture.
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  • We're creating tools to help you do that in your home, in your
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  • Church, in your community.
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  • Bible studies, publishing books, content that we can share with
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  • You, it's time for the church to be the church.
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  • We have an advocacy for jesus of nazareth that has to be heard in
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  • This season or our children and grandchildren will pay
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  • The price.
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  • Will you make an investment in this ministry to make 2026 the
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  • Most fruitful year we've ever had together?
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  • Thank you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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