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Allen Jackson - Preparing A People (Part 1)

December 31, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - Preparing A People (Part 1)
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 - Preparing A People (Part 1) | December 31, 2025
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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, but we're not done.
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  • In fact, in many ways, i believe we're just beginning.
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  • The status quo is not adequate any longer.
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  • We can't sit in our churches and have our polite bible studies
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  • And sing our favorite choruses while we watch 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: advent is the season in the christian calendar, the
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  • First season of the christian calendar.
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  • It begins our year.
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  • And it's celebrated the four sundays that precede
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  • Christmas day.
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  • So we're in the 2nd week of advent, which is traditionally
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  • Celebrated, a focus upon peace and preparation.
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  • If you're lighting an advent wreath, oftentimes the 2nd week
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  • Is the bethlehem candle.
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  • It's signifying the journey that mary and joseph made
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  • To bethlehem.
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  • And i want to continue that theme as a part of our larger
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  • Discussion about when god moves.
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  • I've told you repeatedly, i'm of the opinion, and i don't think
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  • It's just abstract or emotional, that god is moving in the earth
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  • In the most remarkable of ways, that it's a time of
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  • Discontinuity, that we're moving towards a future that will be
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  • Different than our past,
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  • That god is establishing some new things.
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  • He's shaking the earth and he's been doing it for a bit now.
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  • It didn't just start in the last week or two.
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  • And in this session, i wanna talk specifically about god
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  • Preparing a people.
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  • This feels a bit more personal to me, and
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  • It's--i've been doing some reading and it came out of that.
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  • So i'm gonna do my best to share it with you in that way.
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  • I'm excited.
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  • God, i truly believe, is preparing a people for his
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  • Purposes in the earth.
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  • That isn't unique to our generation.
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  • I understand that to be god's initiative from the opening
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  • Chapters of genesis.
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  • It was a part of his call to abraham.
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  • It was a call--part of his assignment to moses.
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  • It was, i mean, it just--that theme follows right through
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  • The scripture.
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  • I gave you two passages at the beginning of your notes.
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  • Luke 1:17 is a part of the description that they're given
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  • About john the baptist and what his life mission will be.
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  • "he'll go before the lord, in the spirit and power of elijah,
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  • To turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and
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  • The disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous--to make ready a
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  • People prepared for the lord."
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  • John's assignment was to make ready a people prepared.
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  • And i'm not overly complicated.
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  • I think god is preparing a people right now for what is
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  • Coming to the earth.
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  • And i think he's doing it across all the generations.
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  • I don't think our ability to cooperate with the lord has
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  • Very--i think it has very little to do with our
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  • Chronological age and it has a great deal to do with our heart.
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  • I see god stirring the hearts of young people.
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  • And i watch that and i think, "well, god, i want to
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  • Be included.
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  • If you're moving, i wanna go with you.
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  • We'll do whatever we can."
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  • And then ephesians chapter 4 and verse 12, it says that the
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  • Reason god put the ministry gifts in the church was "to
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  • Prepare god's people for works of service, so that the body of
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  • Christ may be built up."
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  • Again, this idea that god prepares people for himself.
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  • That's--this is a bridge beyond just the notion of i've been
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  • Converted or born again or saved.
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  • I'm an advocate for that. i encourage that.
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  • If that hasn't been a part of your journey, it needs to be
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  • Addressed--tonight, preferably.
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  • But beyond that, we have an assignment for our lives, an
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  • Agenda for our lives, and god is preparing people in the earth
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  • For that.
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  • And i hope your heart is open to that, that you are willing
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  • To participate.
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  • You know, i talk to a lot of christians in our community and
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  • Beyond, and there's kind of a common theme.
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  • We're wishing for leaders who have hearts open to god.
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  • We grumble about ungodly leaders or wicked leaders or, you know,
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  • If god would just give us leaders who could discern the
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  • Season in which we live, and i agree, i don't think that would
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  • Be a bad thing, but i would submit to you: even better is i
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  • Think we need the people of god to have a new kind of
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  • Discernment, to be awakened to the purposes of god in a
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  • Different way.
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  • And i think the christmas narrative gives us a wonderful
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  • Backdrop for that discussion because in the familiar
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  • Christmas story, there's an awareness of god.
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  • He's preparing people for his emerging purposes.
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  • He's recruiting mary and joseph and zechariah and elizabeth and
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  • Shepherd and wise men, and other people are being invited and
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  • They're neglecting, they're rejecting the invitations.
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  • Lives are being redirected, events are being aligned, all of
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  • It unfolding, leading toward an expression of god's intent in
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  • The earth.
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  • And while all that is happening, in stark contrast, there are
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  • Some who perceive all of that as a threat.
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  • They're intimidated by it, they're uncomfortable with it.
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  • They perceive the threat to their affluence or to their
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  • Position or to their power, while others are recognizing an
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  • Opportunity and they invest their time and even their money
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  • And making journeys and participating with god.
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  • Well, i don't believe it's a stretch or takes much
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  • Imagination for me to submit to you that god is moving just as
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  • Certainly in this season.
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  • We're preparing for the return of our king.
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  • I believe he's prepared for this point in history.
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  • His unfolding purposes are all around us.
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  • Lives are being redirected in the same kind of ways.
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  • Events are being aligned and unfolding, leading toward yet
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  • Another expression of god's intent for his people in
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  • The earth.
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  • It's really--it's a phenomenal season that we've been chosen to
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  • Be a part of.
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  • And as, just as in the gospel narratives about jesus's
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  • Arrival, to some in this season, it's a threat.
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  • They perceive a challenge to their preferences, to their
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  • Personal kingdom of self, and so they reject the invitations of
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  • The truth of god.
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  • Others recognize an opportunity to invest themselves in
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  • Participating with god.
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  • So i have a question for you as we begin this tonight: with whom
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  • Are you aligning yourself?
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  • The secular culture?
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  • Or the purposes of god?
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  • I don't believe you can do both.
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  • I truly don't believe any longer you can stand with a foot in
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  • Either camp.
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  • And i want to explore just a bit with you the possibility
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  • Of faith.
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  • I wanna use abraham and his journey.
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  • It's been so real to me of late.
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  • I pray that you can hear it in a similar way.
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  • John 8, verse 56 says: "your father abraham--" this
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  • Was jesus.
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  • "your father abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he
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  • Saw it and he was glad."
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  • Jesus said that abraham saw his day.
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  • Abraham lived hundreds of years before jesus.
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  • It wasn't like abraham's grandfather and jesus's
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  • Grandfather twice removed were neighbors.
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  • Their lives are separated by great distance, very
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  • Different circumstances.
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  • Abraham wandered through the land, the promised land, before
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  • It was ever imagined as israel.
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  • And yet jesus saw that abraham saw his day and rejoiced at the
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  • Thought of it.
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  • In hebrews 11, there's a similar phrase.
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  • Hebrews 11 is the kind of hall of fame of our faith, and it
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  • Says: "these people were still living by faith when they died.
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  • They didn't receive the things promised; they only saw them and
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  • Welcomed them from a distance.
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  • And they admitted they were aliens and strangers on
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  • The earth."
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  • This notion of a perception of what god is doing is an idea
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  • That i want to walk around with you for a moment.
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  • Because i wanna invite you towards a little
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  • Different imagination.
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  • I think we have arrived at a place where we have too small of
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  • An understanding of god.
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  • And there's a lot of things that have contributed to that, and i
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  • Don't mean it as a criticism.
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  • I just think that god would cooperate.
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  • I think he would welcome us if we would open our hearts to him
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  • In a bit of a different perspective.
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  • Abraham's vision, his insight, his understanding, whichever
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  • Language you prefer, describes something that he could see
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  • With--beyond his eyes.
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  • You know, you have different levels of sight or perception
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  • Or understanding.
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  • You see with your eyes, you see with your spirit, you can see
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  • With your heart.
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  • And each of those are equally legitimate, but
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  • They're different.
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  • In acts chapter 7 is an excerpt from stephen's speech.
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  • Do you remember stephen, the first of the martyrs?
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  • Stephen's been talked about a great deal in recent weeks in
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  • The light of charlie kirk's martyrdom.
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  • There have been some parallels drawn.
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  • I'm not trying to do that with you tonight, but this was
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  • Stephen's speech.
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  • He was a remarkable young man, and he's describing in the
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  • Little excerpt we're going to read, abraham.
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  • And it says: "he replied, 'brothers and fathers, listen
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  • To me!
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  • The god of glory appeared to our father abraham while he was
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  • Still in mesopotamia, before he ever left and lived in haran.
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  • "leave your country and your people," god said, "and go to
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  • The land i'll show you."
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  • So he left the land of the chaldeans and he settled
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  • In haran.
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  • And after the death of his father, god sent him to this
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  • Land where you're now living.
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  • He gave him no inheritance here, not even a foot of ground.
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  • But god promised him that he and his descendants after him would
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  • Possess the land, even though at that time abraham had no child.
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  • God spoke to him in this way: "your descendants will be
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  • Strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved
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  • And mistreated four hundred years."'"
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  • What country is he talking about?
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  • Egypt.
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  • "'"but i will punish the nation they serve as slaves," god said,
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  • "and afterward they will come out of that country and worship
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  • Me in this place."
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  • Then he gave abraham the covenant of circumcision.
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  • And abraham became the father of isaac and circumcised him eight
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  • Days after his birth.
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  • And later, isaac became the father of jacob, and jacob
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  • Became the father of the twelve patriarchs.'"
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  • Stephen is explaining to us something that's truly
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  • Remarkable: that abraham saw the whole panorama of redemption.
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  • I want you to think about that a moment.
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  • He didn't have the bible.
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  • Scripture had not been yet pulled together.
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  • Abraham had a revelation of the god of heaven, the creator of
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  • Heaven and earth, and he responded to an invitation
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  • From god.
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  • There were not synagogues.
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  • There certainly weren't churches.
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  • There was no official religious structure to reinforce what
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  • Abraham chose to believe.
  • 00:11:27.403 --> 00:11:30.239
  • He had a revelation of god and completely reoriented his life
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  • Around an invitation that god put before him that abraham
  • 00:11:34.076 --> 00:11:36.879
  • Somehow understood and stephen is telling us that abraham
  • 00:11:36.879 --> 00:11:42.685
  • Understood the whole panorama of redemption.
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  • I--don't we all wish that the typical christian believer today
  • 00:11:47.757 --> 00:11:53.529
  • In the earth had the same understanding?
  • 00:11:53.529 --> 00:11:57.433
  • And we have bibles and hundreds of years of history and
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  • Narratives and all sorts of resources that weren't available
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  • To abraham.
  • 00:12:04.540 --> 00:12:05.875
  • Beginning at the point at which he stood, he saw all the way
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  • Through until the heavenly jerusalem comes down out of
  • 00:12:08.878 --> 00:12:11.480
  • Heaven, wow.
  • 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:18.053
  • He saw it first in the way a family was born to him when he
  • 00:12:18.053 --> 00:12:22.324
  • Was childless.
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  • He believed god would keep his promise, and when he was well
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  • Beyond the age where it was biologically reasonable that he
  • 00:12:27.363 --> 00:12:30.032
  • Would father a child, he believed he would be the father
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  • Of a child.
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  • He saw it in the patriarchs.
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  • He understood that his lineage would be carried forward as a
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  • Fulfillment of god's promise to him.
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  • He saw it by faith in a nation that would be created, born in
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  • Great suffering in egypt.
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  • He understood from the humble beginnings of his son, god was
  • 00:12:50.786 --> 00:12:54.256
  • Gonna bring forth a nation and that that group of people would
  • 00:12:54.256 --> 00:12:56.725
  • Suffer greatly.
  • 00:12:56.725 --> 00:12:58.360
  • Abraham had that understanding.
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  • He saw it in the coming of a messiah through that nation
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  • Of people.
  • 00:13:03.332 --> 00:13:05.868
  • That from the invitation he accepted, that god was going to
  • 00:13:05.868 --> 00:13:08.938
  • Bring a messiah into the world.
  • 00:13:08.938 --> 00:13:10.506
  • He saw it in the gospel going out to the nations through the
  • 00:13:10.506 --> 00:13:13.642
  • Jew and then the gentile so that men of every kindred and race
  • 00:13:13.642 --> 00:13:18.380
  • Would become a part of the family of god, the household
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  • Of faith.
  • 00:13:20.883 --> 00:13:23.519
  • It seems to me that abraham even saw the church as something so
  • 00:13:23.519 --> 00:13:27.756
  • Special for god, so unbelievably important, he saw it in a new
  • 00:13:27.756 --> 00:13:30.826
  • Jerusalem coming down out of heaven.
  • 00:13:30.826 --> 00:13:35.865
  • It's all contained.
  • 00:13:35.865 --> 00:13:37.233
  • Abraham had the beginning of this vision, the beginning of a
  • 00:13:37.233 --> 00:13:41.470
  • People that god would use for his redemptive purposes in all
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  • The earth.
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  • A bedouin, a traveler,
  • 00:13:46.308 --> 00:13:51.247
  • Didn't even have a nation to call his own.
  • 00:13:51.247 --> 00:13:54.383
  • He didn't have a community around him to support him.
  • 00:13:54.383 --> 00:13:57.820
  • But god gave him an insight, understanding.
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  • Allen: it seems to me that there are multiplied thousands
  • 00:15:09.591 --> 00:15:11.627
  • Of born again believers today that have very little idea about
  • 00:15:11.627 --> 00:15:15.397
  • This kind of heavenly vision.
  • 00:15:15.397 --> 00:15:18.634
  • I'm not even sure our hearts are open.
  • 00:15:18.634 --> 00:15:21.637
  • We have been given a different version of faith.
  • 00:15:21.637 --> 00:15:23.872
  • We read our bibles and we say our polite prayers and we meet
  • 00:15:23.872 --> 00:15:27.676
  • Together and what we have is a routine.
  • 00:15:27.676 --> 00:15:31.480
  • And i believe in routine.
  • 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:32.848
  • There's some very good things about the stabilization that a
  • 00:15:32.848 --> 00:15:35.117
  • Routine brings; habits are good things and good habits are
  • 00:15:35.117 --> 00:15:38.420
  • Very good things.
  • 00:15:38.420 --> 00:15:40.289
  • But we also need to open our hearts and our imagination that
  • 00:15:40.289 --> 00:15:42.891
  • The god we worship will give us insight and understanding into
  • 00:15:42.891 --> 00:15:45.694
  • What he's doing in the earth, not beyond the boundaries
  • 00:15:45.694 --> 00:15:48.964
  • Of scripture.
  • 00:15:48.964 --> 00:15:50.299
  • I'm not talking about something weird.
  • 00:15:50.299 --> 00:15:52.334
  • But i'm telling you we have acted as if we were gonna study
  • 00:15:52.334 --> 00:15:54.803
  • Our way to a complete revelation, and while i'm a
  • 00:15:54.803 --> 00:15:58.374
  • Wholehearted advocate for study and learning, i've given my life
  • 00:15:58.374 --> 00:16:01.176
  • To studying the scripture, i have also given my life to
  • 00:16:01.176 --> 00:16:05.247
  • Listening and understanding the character and the nature and the
  • 00:16:05.247 --> 00:16:07.816
  • Purposes of god.
  • 00:16:07.816 --> 00:16:09.885
  • God is moving in the earth.
  • 00:16:09.885 --> 00:16:12.521
  • And he's not just going to reinvent something we've
  • 00:16:12.521 --> 00:16:14.423
  • Seen before.
  • 00:16:14.423 --> 00:16:17.092
  • I think abraham would be a stranger to this pattern and
  • 00:16:17.092 --> 00:16:19.528
  • Routine that we have cultivated.
  • 00:16:19.528 --> 00:16:21.964
  • He had a vision of god which changed his life.
  • 00:16:21.964 --> 00:16:24.099
  • He was delivered from an empty life.
  • 00:16:24.099 --> 00:16:26.535
  • He was led to a life of remarkable fulfillment.
  • 00:16:26.535 --> 00:16:30.572
  • He became the father of all who believed,
  • 00:16:30.572 --> 00:16:32.374
  • Both the jew and gentile.
  • 00:16:32.374 --> 00:16:35.411
  • Like, i would submit to you, if you'll allow me, that your
  • 00:16:35.411 --> 00:16:37.846
  • Birthright is to know the mysteries of god.
  • 00:16:37.846 --> 00:16:40.749
  • The mystery of the indwelling lord jesus christ, the mystery
  • 00:16:40.749 --> 00:16:43.752
  • Of the spirit of god, the same spirit that brought jesus out of
  • 00:16:43.752 --> 00:16:47.056
  • The tomb that dwells in you.
  • 00:16:47.056 --> 00:16:49.758
  • We're not powerless, folks.
  • 00:16:49.758 --> 00:16:53.228
  • We're not just saved for some distant--some future
  • 00:16:53.228 --> 00:16:56.331
  • Presentation of the power of god.
  • 00:16:56.331 --> 00:16:59.134
  • The mystery of the church, his body, the mystery of israel in
  • 00:16:59.134 --> 00:17:01.937
  • The earth.
  • 00:17:01.937 --> 00:17:03.939
  • I gave you a sampling in your notes.
  • 00:17:03.939 --> 00:17:05.674
  • Time will limit us, but i think it's worth just a moment.
  • 00:17:05.674 --> 00:17:09.211
  • In 1 corinthians 15, it says: "listen, i tell you a mystery:
  • 00:17:09.211 --> 00:17:12.915
  • We will not all sleep, but we will be changed--in a flash, in
  • 00:17:12.915 --> 00:17:16.285
  • The twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.
  • 00:17:16.285 --> 00:17:19.021
  • For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised
  • 00:17:19.021 --> 00:17:21.323
  • Imperishable, and we'll be changed."
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  • I talk about earth suit 2.0.
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  • That's what's being described.
  • 00:17:27.830 --> 00:17:30.099
  • Well, how does that happen?
  • 00:17:30.099 --> 00:17:31.467
  • The bible says it's a mystery.
  • 00:17:31.467 --> 00:17:33.802
  • I don't believe we have the capacity to fully understand how
  • 00:17:33.802 --> 00:17:37.806
  • God can bring about a transformation to our physical
  • 00:17:37.806 --> 00:17:41.477
  • Body that will cause it to be imperishable.
  • 00:17:41.477 --> 00:17:45.280
  • The versions we have are very perishable.
  • 00:17:45.280 --> 00:17:49.251
  • Seems to me we don't last much longer than the bananas we buy
  • 00:17:49.251 --> 00:17:52.054
  • In the grocery stores.
  • 00:17:52.054 --> 00:17:55.224
  • But that's a part of our future.
  • 00:17:55.224 --> 00:17:56.658
  • People say, "well, why would you be a christ follower?"
  • 00:17:56.658 --> 00:17:58.660
  • Why wouldn't you be?
  • 00:17:58.660 --> 00:18:02.164
  • See, we don't spend enough time thinking about what's been
  • 00:18:02.164 --> 00:18:05.300
  • Presented to us about our future, an opportunity to spend
  • 00:18:05.300 --> 00:18:08.570
  • Eternity with almighty god, delivered from the vagaries of a
  • 00:18:08.570 --> 00:18:13.775
  • Deteriorating earth suit.
  • 00:18:13.775 --> 00:18:16.445
  • In revelation, it says there'll be no more tears or crying or
  • 00:18:16.445 --> 00:18:19.648
  • Pain because the old order of things will have passed away.
  • 00:18:19.648 --> 00:18:24.153
  • There's an upgrade coming.
  • 00:18:24.153 --> 00:18:27.122
  • You know, we grieve, so, you know, we get so caught up in
  • 00:18:27.122 --> 00:18:30.292
  • What we imagine to be progress that we lament the fact that we
  • 00:18:30.292 --> 00:18:33.629
  • Won't see something or experience something.
  • 00:18:33.629 --> 00:18:35.864
  • We're gonna experience something better than anything that can be
  • 00:18:35.864 --> 00:18:38.600
  • Presented in this present world order.
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  • There's a hope we have.
  • 00:18:42.004 --> 00:18:45.207
  • We should live that way, or abraham completely reoriented
  • 00:18:45.207 --> 00:18:48.710
  • His life, turned away from all of the familiar things, and by
  • 00:18:48.710 --> 00:18:53.448
  • Jewish tradition, tremendous wealth he turned away from to--
  • 00:18:53.448 --> 00:18:57.319
  • In pursuit of this invitation from god.
  • 00:18:57.319 --> 00:19:00.489
  • Surely we can have the boldness to lead our lives with a heart
  • 00:19:00.489 --> 00:19:04.826
  • For the best that god has for us.
  • 00:19:04.826 --> 00:19:08.130
  • I think sometimes the invitations of this present age
  • 00:19:08.130 --> 00:19:11.300
  • We hear with more clarity than we hear the invitations of god,
  • 00:19:11.300 --> 00:19:14.136
  • And that's unfortunate.
  • 00:19:14.136 --> 00:19:18.207
  • And the bible talks about the mystery of the church in
  • 00:19:18.207 --> 00:19:20.209
  • Ephesians 5: "this is a profound mystery--i'm talking about
  • 00:19:20.209 --> 00:19:24.046
  • Christ and the church," about the messiah and the church.
  • 00:19:24.046 --> 00:19:29.551
  • The bible presents it as a mystery.
  • 00:19:29.551 --> 00:19:31.820
  • We think of the church as an organization, an institution,
  • 00:19:31.820 --> 00:19:35.023
  • Something recognized by the irs.
  • 00:19:35.023 --> 00:19:37.025
  • I assure you the church is far more than that.
  • 00:19:37.025 --> 00:19:40.862
  • Look in ephesians 1:22: "god placed all things under jesus's
  • 00:19:40.862 --> 00:19:44.433
  • Feet and appointed him to be the head over everything for
  • 00:19:44.433 --> 00:19:48.203
  • The church."
  • 00:19:48.203 --> 00:19:49.871
  • Jesus is the head of the church.
  • 00:19:49.871 --> 00:19:52.307
  • The resurrected jesus is the head of the church, the one who
  • 00:19:52.307 --> 00:19:56.144
  • Has a name above every name, that at the name of jesus every
  • 00:19:56.144 --> 00:19:59.147
  • Knee will bow on heaven and earth and under the earth.
  • 00:19:59.147 --> 00:20:02.150
  • That jesus of nazareth, the conquering king, is the head of
  • 00:20:02.150 --> 00:20:04.920
  • The church.
  • 00:20:04.920 --> 00:20:06.255
  • If you imagine yourself to be a part of the church, you serve at
  • 00:20:06.255 --> 00:20:09.224
  • His pleasure.
  • 00:20:09.224 --> 00:20:11.126
  • It's his initiative.
  • 00:20:11.126 --> 00:20:13.362
  • It isn't ours.
  • 00:20:13.362 --> 00:20:14.696
  • We get way torqued up about how we like church and god gave us
  • 00:20:14.696 --> 00:20:19.601
  • Preferences and emotions, and i don't think that's wrong or
  • 00:20:19.601 --> 00:20:22.170
  • Wicked until we elevate them above the purposes of the head
  • 00:20:22.170 --> 00:20:25.474
  • Of the church.
  • 00:20:25.474 --> 00:20:27.809
  • Church is not about my pleasure or my comfort or my convenience
  • 00:20:27.809 --> 00:20:30.612
  • Or my ease.
  • 00:20:30.612 --> 00:20:33.115
  • It just isn't.
  • 00:20:33.115 --> 00:20:35.684
  • It isn't our initiative.
  • 00:20:35.684 --> 00:20:37.019
  • We serve at his pleasure.
  • 00:20:37.019 --> 00:20:39.221
  • If i'm allowed another breath, it's at his pleasure.
  • 00:20:39.221 --> 00:20:44.793
  • And we've got to recalibrate, folks.
  • 00:20:44.793 --> 00:20:48.597
  • We've been--we've kind of been herded like sheeple.
  • 00:20:48.597 --> 00:20:55.737
  • I asked dr. carson when i was with him one time about some of
  • 00:20:55.737 --> 00:21:00.442
  • The responses during covid and why we were doing some things
  • 00:21:00.442 --> 00:21:04.046
  • And he said, "oh, allen, they're sheeple."
  • 00:21:04.046 --> 00:21:07.983
  • And then i said, "no, dr. carson, it's really
  • 00:21:07.983 --> 00:21:10.952
  • Well-educated, influential, godly people."
  • 00:21:10.952 --> 00:21:13.588
  • And he turned around to me, as harsh as i've ever heard
  • 00:21:13.588 --> 00:21:16.391
  • Dr. carson, he's a little chill.
  • 00:21:16.391 --> 00:21:19.961
  • And he said, "allen, they're sheeple!"
  • 00:21:19.961 --> 00:21:24.132
  • I said, "yes, sir, sheeple it is."
  • 00:21:24.132 --> 00:21:28.070
  • And i think that, unfortunately, in the way we've organized and
  • 00:21:28.070 --> 00:21:33.842
  • Structured ourselves and the imagination that we can join the
  • 00:21:33.842 --> 00:21:36.378
  • Right group or be amongst the right people or sit in the right
  • 00:21:36.378 --> 00:21:39.614
  • Place or read from the right publishing house or read the
  • 00:21:39.614 --> 00:21:42.651
  • Right translation or have the right size--worship or
  • 00:21:42.651 --> 00:21:46.288
  • Whatever we think regulates us to be better than someone else,
  • 00:21:46.288 --> 00:21:51.660
  • You know, at one time, not too long ago, in my lifetime,
  • 00:21:51.660 --> 00:21:54.096
  • Christianity was the predominant cultural influence in our
  • 00:21:54.096 --> 00:21:57.666
  • Culture, particularly in this part of our nation.
  • 00:21:57.666 --> 00:22:00.435
  • If you visit the downtown of any of the smaller southern cities,
  • 00:22:00.435 --> 00:22:04.606
  • Even until today, even though they may have been repurposed,
  • 00:22:04.606 --> 00:22:06.775
  • But you'll probably find a corner downtown where there's
  • 00:22:06.775 --> 00:22:08.844
  • Three or four churches.
  • 00:22:08.844 --> 00:22:11.413
  • Most likely there's a baptist and a methodist or a
  • 00:22:11.413 --> 00:22:13.448
  • Presbyterian and a church of christ, and on sundays, not too
  • 00:22:13.448 --> 00:22:18.019
  • Many decades ago, you could find the people filing into their
  • 00:22:18.019 --> 00:22:20.422
  • Churches on sunday mornings, looking across the street,
  • 00:22:20.422 --> 00:22:22.624
  • Thinking, "i'm better than you.
  • 00:22:22.624 --> 00:22:27.095
  • We do it better than you do it because of the way we take
  • 00:22:27.095 --> 00:22:30.499
  • Communion or the way we sing, or because of something we do."
  • 00:22:30.499 --> 00:22:35.937
  • And in our pride and arrogance, we have forfeited almost all the
  • 00:22:35.937 --> 00:22:39.441
  • Influence that we one time had.
  • 00:22:39.441 --> 00:22:42.677
  • And i think all of that's happened because we had such a
  • 00:22:42.677 --> 00:22:44.679
  • Diminished view of the head of the church.
  • 00:22:44.679 --> 00:22:48.183
  • We forgot who we were serving.
  • 00:22:48.183 --> 00:22:50.619
  • And we imagined it was about our style or our little theological
  • 00:22:50.619 --> 00:22:54.156
  • Bubble or our preference.
  • 00:22:54.156 --> 00:22:56.525
  • And again, i'm not opposed to preferences.
  • 00:22:56.525 --> 00:22:58.593
  • I think they're okay until we elevate them above our desire
  • 00:22:58.593 --> 00:23:01.897
  • And determination to serve the king.
  • 00:23:01.897 --> 00:23:04.266
  • There's a mystery in the church.
  • 00:23:04.266 --> 00:23:05.700
  • How does the church survive?
  • 00:23:05.700 --> 00:23:07.068
  • How did the church overcome the power of mighty rome?
  • 00:23:07.068 --> 00:23:09.971
  • How did rome crumble and the church persevere?
  • 00:23:09.971 --> 00:23:12.774
  • How did the church endure the hatred of the soviet union?
  • 00:23:12.774 --> 00:23:18.113
  • When the churches were shuttered and the pastors were arrested
  • 00:23:18.113 --> 00:23:20.916
  • And sent to the gulags, and the hatred that was vested towards
  • 00:23:20.916 --> 00:23:24.853
  • Those who believed in jesus
  • 00:23:24.853 --> 00:23:27.155
  • And all the wealth and the military power and the secret
  • 00:23:27.155 --> 00:23:30.125
  • Police of the soviet union, and the soviet union collapsed and
  • 00:23:30.125 --> 00:23:33.495
  • The church persevered.
  • 00:23:33.495 --> 00:23:35.363
  • How did the church triumph over the hate of mao?
  • 00:23:35.363 --> 00:23:40.235
  • I mean it's a mystery.
  • 00:23:40.235 --> 00:23:42.871
  • Of all the things that have happened and changed and
  • 00:23:42.871 --> 00:23:45.907
  • Emerged, and the church of jesus christ moves forward.
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  • It's a remarkable story.
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  • It truly is.
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  • In matthew 16 is the verse that changed my life.
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  • "jesus said, 'i'll build my church, and hell itself won't be
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  • Able to prevail against it.'"
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  • And hell will try.
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  • Hell has tried and they're not done trying.
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  • But the church will prevail because who the--because of who
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  • Is the head of the church.
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  • I'm not ashamed for being an advocate for the church of
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  • Jesus christ.
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  • In all of the ways that we fail and we struggle, you know, i
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  • Don't know--how much time do i have?
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  • Not enough.
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  • I had a conversation with tim barton this week.
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  • Do you know tim barton, the history guy?
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  • When we went to class and slept, he paid attention.
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  • But we were talking about the awakenings in america.
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  • And he said the difference between a revival and awakening,
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  • And it was his definition, you can--but he said, you know, a
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  • Revival is when there's a regaining of religious fervor.
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  • It may be exemplified by repentance and baptisms, and he
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  • Said that when it emerges into an awakening, it
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  • Transforms culture.
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  • And he used the first great awakening, which led to the
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  • American revolution.
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  • The moral courage to say to the british, "we will not yield to
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  • Unfair taxation and ungodly principles," came from the
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  • Pulpits of this nation.
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  • And he has the documentation and he referenced a couple of books
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  • For me.
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  • He said that the--almost line by line, the declaration of
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  • Independence were ideas that had been preached from the pulpits
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  • Of this nation--
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  • That when the declaration of independence was put together
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  • And put forward, it wasn't a new idea.
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  • It'd been echoed around the colonies for a great season.
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  • And the same was true: the second great awakening led to
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  • The civil war, when we said we will no longer tolerate the
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  • Abhorrent practice of slavery.
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  • It was more than a revival.
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  • It led to significant cultural change.
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  • And the principles of scripture expressed through the church
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  • Shape culture when we are vibrant and vital and directed
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  • By the spirit of god.
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  • Allen: allen jackson ministries was created to strengthen
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  • The church.
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  • Your partnership has made this possible.
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  • Thank you for your faithfulness and your generosity, but the
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  • Need, it's as significant as it's ever been, not simply in
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  • This nation.
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  • Now we have invitations internationally to war-torn
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  • Countries, into israel and to ukraine, to come help strengthen
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  • The church there, and with god's help and your help, we intend
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  • To respond.
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  • Folks, it's a critical time.
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  • It's not just business as usual.
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  • We can't gather in our churches and sing our hymns and ignore
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  • What's happening in our world.
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  • We have to take the biblical truth, the biblical worldview,
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  • And share it with our culture, clearly, with determination,
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  • With courage.
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  • We're creating tools to help you do that in your church, in your
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  • Home, in your community.
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  • Together, we're gonna make an impact in this new year like
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  • We've never made before.
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  • Will you make an investment in what we're doing?
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  • Together we're gonna join god in seeing the name of jesus
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  • Elevated in the earth.
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  • Will you pray?
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  • Father, i ask for your anointing.
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  • Give us a freedom to give and to serve like never before, in
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  • Jesus's name, amen.
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  • God bless you and thank you.
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