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Allen Jackson - A Price?!

August 16, 2025 | S25 E231 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - A Price?!
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 - A Price?! | August 16, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen jackson: hey, i sat down recently with my father to do
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  • A podcast for my "culture & christianity" podcast, and it
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  • Was so valuable to me.
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  • I mean we it was stories that obviously i'm familiar with, but
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  • As i heard him recount his faith, it ignited something in
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  • Me about the faithfulness of god across generations.
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  • Well, i encouraged my dad to put together a book about his
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  • Experiences with the holy spirit.
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  • It changed his life, my parents' life, ultimately my
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  • Family's life.
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  • I believe the book will be a real encouragement to you.
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  • I want to make it available to you right along with "unleashing
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  • The power of the holy spirit."
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  • It's something i put together a while back that's been one of
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  • The most effective tools we've ever had in the ministry.
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  • Together they'll open the doorway for you to not just have
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  • Language around the holy spirit, but to have something to
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  • Actually do to invite him into your life on a regular basis, to
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  • Give you the wisdom you need, to help you unlock the problems
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  • That we face.
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  • The spirit of god within us, to help us, guide us,
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  • And direct us.
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  • That's invaluable, and these books will help you understand.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: you see, we've exchanged celebrity for significance.
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  • We've imagined that being an influencer means you're a person
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  • Of substance and those can be very--there's a great difference
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  • Between being a person of character and being a character.
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  • I think we have enough characters, but we need some
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  • More people with character.
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  • And character is formed, it's built, it's a compilation
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  • Of choices.
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  • If we borrow more current language, it's a series of habit
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  • Stacking if you choose the right habits.
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  • And there's a price to be paid.
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  • Look at luke 14, this is jesus speaking.
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  • He says, "suppose one of you wants to build a tower.
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  • Will he not first sit down and estimate the cost to see if he
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  • Has enough money to complete it?
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  • For he lays the foundation, he's not able to finish it, everyone
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  • Who sees it will ridicule him, so this fellow began to build
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  • But he wasn't able to finish."
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  • And then he underscores the point.
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  • He said, "or suppose king is about to go to war against
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  • Another king.
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  • Will he not first sit down and consider whether he's able
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  • With ten thousand men to oppose the one coming against him
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  • With twenty thousand?
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  • If he's not able, he will send a delegation while the other is
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  • Still a long way off and will ask for terms of peace."
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  • Here's the punch line, "in the same way, any of you who doesn't
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  • Give up everything he has cannot be my disciple."
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  • Boom, drop the mic.
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  • That's not an idea we have focused on in
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  • Contemporary christianity.
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  • We talk a lot about what god's going to do for us, but jesus
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  • Seems to be suggesting to us that there's some sort of
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  • A yielding to him.
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  • There's a bit of a price involved in this bargain.
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  • Now it's very one sided and the benefits far exceed whatever the
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  • Investment that we're asked to make is, but there's a cost.
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  • It's not that we earn our way into the kingdom,
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  • That's nonsense.
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  • It's bad theology, but it's equally bad theology that we
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  • Serve a god of cheap grace and there's no requirement.
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  • Look at luke 9, jesus is speaking, first about himself.
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  • In fact in luke's presentation, they've just made the public
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  • Acknowledgement amongst the disciples that jesus is
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  • The messiah.
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  • I remember the jewish people have been looking for a messiah
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  • For centuries, and he's going to be, by this point in their
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  • History, they imagine him to be a political leader, someone who
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  • Would remove the romans and restore autonomy to the jewish
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  • People in the land that god promised to abraham and
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  • His descendants.
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  • And when the announcement is made through peter by the
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  • Direction of the spirit of god that, "you're the messiah," and
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  • The whole group agrees.
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  • "we believe that's you, we've seen enough, you check
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  • The boxes."
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  • Then jesus immediately says to them, "the son of man must
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  • Suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, and
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  • The chief priests and the teachers of the law."
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  • "wait, wait, wait a minute that's not what we want the
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  • Messiah to do," "and he must be killed and on the third day be
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  • Raised to life."
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  • Now those are plain words.
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  • There's nothing hidden.
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  • You don't need greek language.
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  • You don't need to parse a verb.
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  • Jesus gives them a very clear presentation of what his
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  • Future holds.
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  • Let me ask you a question.
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  • Most of you have some general awareness of the new testament.
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  • Did they believe him?
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  • Could they absorb that?
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  • Not even remotely.
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  • Because they had a hope, an imagination, an expectation, and
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  • Their expectation trumped what the messiah was saying to them.
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  • We're going to talk in the weeks ahead about what i believe the
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  • Kind of changes would be necessary for our faith to
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  • Emerge as an influence to help our children and grandchildren.
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  • And to do that, we're going to have to reshape
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  • Some expectations.
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  • But i'm going to warn you from this point forward, this is not
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  • Easy stuff.
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  • This is the best of the best.
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  • Jesus recruited them and they are struggling.
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  • "you're the messiah," and he said, "i'm going to have to
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  • Suffer many things.
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  • And i'm going to be rejected by the very people that you hope
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  • Desperately will accept me."
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  • But then he makes it far more personal.
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  • Look at verse 23, "he said to them all, he said to them all,"
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  • You should circle that little word "all."
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  • "and then he said, 'if anyone,'" really all three of those words,
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  • Because if it's all and anyone, no one's excluded.
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  • "if anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up
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  • His cross daily and follow me.
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  • For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever
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  • Loses his life for me will save it."
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  • So what's it mean to follow jesus?
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  • Please note, if we've given this to the 21st century evangelical
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  • Interpretation, we would say, "if anybody walks the aisle of
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  • This certain church and says the sinner's prayer," again,
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  • I believe in that.
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  • If anyone is baptized in water, i believe in that it's biblical.
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  • But jesus gave us an entirely different idea.
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  • It's a different presentation.
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  • It's a totally different way to use or imagine your life.
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  • He said, "if anyone would come after me, he must deny himself
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  • And take up his cross daily and follow me."
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  • You got to daily follow jesus.
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  • That, "if you want to save your life in eternity in my kingdom,
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  • You're going to have to yield it, lay it down, lose it in your
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  • Journey through time."
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  • So this really is not about my dream, my desire, my time and
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  • My stuff.
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  • I'm a citizen of the kingdom and the king makes the call.
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  • We serve at his pleasure.
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  • What an honor!
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  • Amen is the word you're searching for.
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  • I can help you.
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  • We can do both sides of this.
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  • It's all right, i've warmed up already.
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  • I can give you example after example.
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  • I brought you a couple.
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  • Abraham, all the way back in genesis chapter 12, kind of sets
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  • The tone.
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  • "the lord said to abram, "leave your country, your people and
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  • Your father's house and go to the land i'll show you."
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  • Can you imagine the only way you could follow god is to leave
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  • Everybody and everything?
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  • Wow, i mean, we think we've made a sacrifice if we just take our
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  • Name off a party list.
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  • Change one music artist, "well, i guess i probably shouldn't
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  • Listen to that anymore, much."
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  • But god said to abram, "you need to leave where you live, the
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  • People you're living with, and all, you will pack it up
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  • And move."
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  • And we read that like, "oh, how quaint."
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  • Look, i believe this relationship with the lord is
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  • Intended to bring dramatic, remarkable, significant changes
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  • To who we are, how we behave, how we talk, what we do, who we
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  • Engage with.
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  • And we're afraid of being canceled, so we hide our faith.
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  • "well, they told me not to say jesus."
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  • Every time they tell me that, you know what i do?
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  • Speaker 1: jesus! [congregation applauding]
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  • Allen: that's pretty close, except mine's got a little more
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  • Bass in it, but yeah, it sounds a lot like that so.
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  • Because you know, if i'm going to be excluded and rejected, and
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  • Folks that comes with your journey through time.
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  • Somebody will exclude you and somebody will reject you.
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  • You have to decide who it is by what you decide to be
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  • Affiliated with.
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  • That's the truth.
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  • If you decide to be affiliated with a secular culture that
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  • Wants to diminish god in the public square, then you'll be
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  • Rejected by god.
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  • I prefer to be identified with god, and if rejections come from
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  • That, we'll work through it.
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  • There's a price.
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  • Abram had to leave everything.
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  • The apostle paul in 2 timothy, he's very near.
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  • Paul's very near the end of his life.
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  • He's writing to a young man that he's mentored.
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  • I don't want to read the whole thing, but he said, "i'm already
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  • Being poured out like a drink offering."
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  • That's pretty lost on us, but under the mosaic covenant, you
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  • Take your offerings to the priest.
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  • And if you took a drink offering, wine, something that
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  • Was costly, valuable to you--you didn't take offerings that
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  • Weren't costly.
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  • You took animals from the flock, that in an agricultural society,
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  • You were taking things that were of value to you.
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  • They had to be perfect, without blemish, the most valuable
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  • You had.
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  • And you took the drink offering, when you gave it to the priest,
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  • They would pour it out on the ground.
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  • It wasn't to be consumed.
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  • It was an expression of honor to god.
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  • I'll give you the best i have.
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  • And paul's borrowing that analogy and he said, "my life is
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  • Being poured out like a drink offering, and the time has come
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  • For my departure."
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  • His plane isn't leaving, he's anticipating his execution.
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  • He says, "i fought the good fight, i finished the race, i've
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  • Kept the faith.
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  • There's in store for me a crown of righteousness."
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  • It's worth noting, it's not a position of despair or fear
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  • Or terror.
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  • It's one of anticipation.
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  • He said, "now do your best," this is the part that's
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  • So personal.
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  • This is the apostle paul near the end of his life, arguably
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  • The greatest advocate for jesus of nazareth in the history of
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  • The church.
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  • He's still changing lives two millennia after he died,
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  • That's strong.
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  • But i want you to know his circumstances.
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  • Because i'll tell you before i read them, by every measure that
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  • We would have, we would say he's an abject failure.
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  • He's in a prison.
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  • He's been abandoned by most of the people who were close
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  • To him.
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  • He's toxic, he's been canceled.
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  • Nobody even wants to identify that they know him.
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  • He's cold, he's lonely.
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  • Listen to what he says, "do your best to come to me quickly, for
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  • Demas, because he loved this world," has gone to tennessee
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  • And started restaurants.
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  • That's just too good to resist.
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  • I couldn't, "because he loved the world, has deserted me.
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  • Crescens has gone to galatia, titus to dalmatia.
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  • Only luke is with me.
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  • Get mark and bring him, he's helpful to me.
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  • When you come, bring the cloak that i left with carpus at
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  • Troas, and my scrolls, especially the parchments.
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  • Alexander did me a great deal of harm.
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  • The lord will repay him for what he's done.
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  • You should be on your guard against him, he strongly opposed
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  • Our message."
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  • Opposition to jesus is not new.
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  • We got to get over ourselves a little bit, folks.
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  • This is just our time in the arena.
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  • Well, you know, "i don't know if i should be for jesus.
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  • Not everybody," that's not new.
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  • Who are you going to be for?
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  • Mao?
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  • "at my first defense, no one came to my support, everyone
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  • Deserted me.
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  • May it not be held against them.
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  • The lord stood at my side and he gave me strength, so that
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  • Through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the
  • 00:12:07.510 --> 00:12:10.513
  • Gentiles might but hear it.
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  • I was delivered from the lion's mouth."
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  • I've been in this court before and i escaped.
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  • "the lord will rescue me from every evil attack and bring me
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  • Safely to his heavenly kingdom."
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  • That's the punch line.
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  • We're in transition, folks.
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  • We got a few days under the sun and then we're going to see
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  • A kingdom that will define our future for all eternity.
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  • It's an amazing thing.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: joseph, the biblical character becomes the prime
  • 00:13:45.174 --> 00:13:48.344
  • Minister of egypt.
  • 00:13:48.344 --> 00:13:50.379
  • In the most improbable of circumstances, has to overcome
  • 00:13:50.379 --> 00:13:53.616
  • The hate of his brother, the murderous hate of his brothers,
  • 00:13:53.616 --> 00:13:56.652
  • And the lustful revenge of potiphar's wife.
  • 00:13:56.652 --> 00:14:00.155
  • Moses has to face pharaoh.
  • 00:14:00.155 --> 00:14:03.292
  • And then when he gets out of egypt with this crew, it's
  • 00:14:03.292 --> 00:14:06.996
  • Filled with complainers and rebels and grumblers.
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  • You and i wouldn't even know who david was if it weren't
  • 00:14:12.334 --> 00:14:15.104
  • For goliath.
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  • David had to have goliath.
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  • That was his pathway to the king.
  • 00:14:21.577 --> 00:14:25.648
  • And after he overcame goliath, he had to overcome saul, and
  • 00:14:25.648 --> 00:14:29.985
  • That took more than a decade.
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  • Daniel, a slave in a foreign country, physically mutilated,
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  • Forced into the service of the king.
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  • Unimaginable, and after overcoming all of that, he had
  • 00:14:46.168 --> 00:14:51.106
  • To overcome the jealousy of his peers who worked diligently to
  • 00:14:51.106 --> 00:14:56.679
  • Have him murdered or the pagan decrees of a foreign king.
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  • I mean, it was relentless.
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  • Shadrach, meshach, and abednego, his friends had to overcome
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  • Nebuchadnezzar and his arrogance, and the fiery furnish
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  • That he prepared on their behalf.
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  • Esther, the jewish woman who became the queen of persia.
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  • Persians have been hating the jews for a long time.
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  • She had to overcome the law of the medes and the persians, and
  • 00:15:20.803 --> 00:15:23.238
  • Said her people would be eliminated in the hatred
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  • Of haman.
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  • Elijah, one of the most remarkable of the prophets, was
  • 00:15:27.743 --> 00:15:31.647
  • Called to stand in opposition to the most wicked king and queen
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  • In the history of israel.
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  • Heroes have antagonists.
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  • Look at 2 corinthians 11, this is paul.
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  • The church in corinth is arguing.
  • 00:15:44.193 --> 00:15:47.396
  • Imagine that, a church that argues.
  • 00:15:47.396 --> 00:15:50.699
  • That's just, it's hard to believe.
  • 00:15:50.699 --> 00:15:52.334
  • I know, you've never been in one of those.
  • 00:15:52.334 --> 00:15:55.371
  • But they're arguing about who's the greatest, paul, or peter,
  • 00:15:55.371 --> 00:15:58.707
  • Or apollos.
  • 00:15:58.707 --> 00:16:00.275
  • They're debating over who baptized him.
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  • They're a broadly immoral group.
  • 00:16:01.944 --> 00:16:04.513
  • They get drunk when they get together.
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  • They practice sexual immorality.
  • 00:16:06.115 --> 00:16:08.217
  • And in the midst of all of that, they will argue about whose
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  • Authority they will accept.
  • 00:16:10.686 --> 00:16:12.054
  • Can you say broken?
  • 00:16:12.054 --> 00:16:16.025
  • And so paul is trying to establish his credibility.
  • 00:16:16.025 --> 00:16:21.630
  • And he said, "i've worked much harder, i've been in prison more
  • 00:16:21.630 --> 00:16:23.966
  • Frequently, i've been flogged more severely, i've been exposed
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  • To death again and again.
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  • Five times i received from the jews forty lashes minus one.
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  • Three times i was beaten with rods, once i was stoned."
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  • I think you get the idea, nobody wants to travel with paul.
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  • The dude has an issue.
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  • Maybe you should consider a career choice.
  • 00:16:43.585 --> 00:16:45.587
  • Your body is not going to hold up, son.
  • 00:16:45.587 --> 00:16:48.657
  • And in reality he was physically marked permanently with the
  • 00:16:48.657 --> 00:16:51.760
  • Scar tissue.
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  • You could not take 39 lashes, 40 lashes were intended to kill
  • 00:16:53.095 --> 00:16:56.265
  • A man.
  • 00:16:56.265 --> 00:16:57.633
  • Thirty-nine lashes would be one lash short.
  • 00:16:57.633 --> 00:17:00.402
  • He said, "they did that to me five times."
  • 00:17:00.402 --> 00:17:02.037
  • You understand, if you had your back torn open to the bone
  • 00:17:02.037 --> 00:17:05.274
  • Multiple times, the scar tissue would begin to reshape you.
  • 00:17:05.274 --> 00:17:12.081
  • There's a cost to following jesus.
  • 00:17:12.081 --> 00:17:15.417
  • I'm not suggesting we have to be martyrs.
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  • But i'm suggesting we're going to have to have a little
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  • Bit of courage.
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  • There's some things our adversaries will accomplish.
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  • They'll prepare us for useful service.
  • 00:17:23.592 --> 00:17:25.527
  • Joseph would have been content as a shepherd if it hadn't been
  • 00:17:25.527 --> 00:17:28.397
  • For the hate of his brothers.
  • 00:17:28.397 --> 00:17:31.567
  • The hateful rejection of his brothers launched him on a
  • 00:17:31.567 --> 00:17:34.269
  • Pathway that took him to the top of egypt.
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  • Adversaries expose our fears.
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  • Those fears live within all of us, but until we have that
  • 00:17:39.675 --> 00:17:42.044
  • Antagonist that makes us grapple with it, that fear holds a
  • 00:17:42.044 --> 00:17:45.547
  • Dominant position in us.
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  • When we can name the challenge and we name that antagonist, it
  • 00:17:47.516 --> 00:17:51.954
  • Gives us the opportunity of going to the lord and say,
  • 00:17:51.954 --> 00:17:54.022
  • "lord, with your help i will face this."
  • 00:17:54.022 --> 00:17:58.327
  • Moses had to face the power of egypt and the anger of pharaoh.
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  • He knew about it.
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  • He grew up in the palace.
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  • He did not want to go.
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  • But through him god brought a great victory.
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  • And we'll get to see the fruit of moses's faithfulness when we
  • 00:18:10.405 --> 00:18:13.575
  • See him.
  • 00:18:13.575 --> 00:18:15.511
  • Adversaries elevate us to a new level of trust and faith.
  • 00:18:15.511 --> 00:18:19.815
  • Esther was the queen.
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  • Life was good, until the order was signed that all the jews in
  • 00:18:22.985 --> 00:18:27.689
  • The empire would be killed, and esther had hidden her ethnicity,
  • 00:18:27.689 --> 00:18:31.960
  • She didn't want to get canceled.
  • 00:18:31.960 --> 00:18:35.197
  • With some prompting, she decided that she would intervene, she
  • 00:18:35.197 --> 00:18:38.433
  • Would intercede.
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  • And to do so without an invitation from the king meant
  • 00:18:40.903 --> 00:18:43.539
  • If he rejected your proposal, you too would be executed.
  • 00:18:43.539 --> 00:18:49.444
  • And esther had to learn to trust god in a new way.
  • 00:18:49.444 --> 00:18:53.215
  • Many of us say, you know, "i'm really good where i am.
  • 00:18:53.215 --> 00:18:54.917
  • Am i going to go to heaven?
  • 00:18:54.917 --> 00:18:56.285
  • Then i'm good."
  • 00:18:56.285 --> 00:18:59.121
  • That's a coward's position.
  • 00:18:59.121 --> 00:19:03.325
  • And if you'll allow me, i think we've held the coward's position
  • 00:19:03.325 --> 00:19:05.994
  • Long enough.
  • 00:19:05.994 --> 00:19:08.597
  • It's going to take courage to impact our culture with
  • 00:19:08.597 --> 00:19:11.200
  • Our faith.
  • 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:12.768
  • Adversaries in many respects define our progress.
  • 00:19:12.768 --> 00:19:16.805
  • David just didn't win a battle with the philistines and the
  • 00:19:16.805 --> 00:19:19.641
  • Armies of israel.
  • 00:19:19.641 --> 00:19:21.410
  • David defeated goliath.
  • 00:19:21.410 --> 00:19:24.213
  • He was the one that terrified the entire army, including king
  • 00:19:24.213 --> 00:19:27.849
  • Saul, who stood head and shoulders above everybody else.
  • 00:19:27.849 --> 00:19:31.453
  • Nobody wanted any part of that battle.
  • 00:19:31.453 --> 00:19:36.058
  • And david, the little shepherd kid said, "i got this.
  • 00:19:36.058 --> 00:19:40.996
  • Give me a shot."
  • 00:19:40.996 --> 00:19:43.398
  • And the brave soldiers in the land hid in their tents while
  • 00:19:43.398 --> 00:19:47.569
  • They pushed the shepherd boy into the arena.
  • 00:19:47.569 --> 00:19:52.174
  • Goliath defines david's courage.
  • 00:19:52.174 --> 00:19:55.877
  • You see the benefit of adversity, is realized in
  • 00:19:55.877 --> 00:19:59.448
  • The victory.
  • 00:19:59.448 --> 00:20:01.850
  • The goal of enduring is not endurance.
  • 00:20:01.850 --> 00:20:07.990
  • You know, yeah, i go to the gym to work out.
  • 00:20:07.990 --> 00:20:17.132
  • The goal is not the workout, the goal is the improved health that
  • 00:20:17.132 --> 00:20:21.036
  • Comes later because you were willing to put up with the
  • 00:20:21.036 --> 00:20:24.539
  • Discomfort of the workout.
  • 00:20:24.539 --> 00:20:27.276
  • And somehow we've accepted a faith that has no discomfort
  • 00:20:27.276 --> 00:20:30.846
  • With it.
  • 00:20:30.846 --> 00:20:32.214
  • The great discomfort, if the sermon's long, if the parking
  • 00:20:32.214 --> 00:20:35.450
  • Spot is too far away.
  • 00:20:35.450 --> 00:20:39.354
  • "if my kids didn't get the teacher they wanted in their
  • 00:20:39.354 --> 00:20:41.390
  • Class, if i didn't like the worship selections."
  • 00:20:41.390 --> 00:20:45.394
  • We've imagined that was the discomfort of our faith.
  • 00:20:45.394 --> 00:20:48.997
  • Is it any wonder our faith has had minimal impact?
  • 00:20:48.997 --> 00:20:53.769
  • I'm not saying that those things can't be annoying.
  • 00:20:53.769 --> 00:20:55.704
  • I'm suggesting you don't want those to be the measure of the
  • 00:20:55.704 --> 00:20:58.173
  • Depth of the maturity of your faith.
  • 00:20:58.173 --> 00:21:01.243
  • The goal of enduring is not endurance, it's triumph.
  • 00:21:01.243 --> 00:21:04.079
  • Revelation 3 says, "to him who overcomes, i'll make a pillar in
  • 00:21:04.079 --> 00:21:07.482
  • The temple of my god."
  • 00:21:07.482 --> 00:21:08.984
  • 1 corinthians 15 says, "my brothers, stand firm, let
  • 00:21:08.984 --> 00:21:12.521
  • Nothing move you.
  • 00:21:12.521 --> 00:21:15.223
  • Let nothing move you."
  • 00:21:15.223 --> 00:21:16.591
  • No threat, no bully, no intimidation, no turmoil, "let
  • 00:21:16.591 --> 00:21:20.796
  • Nothing move you.
  • 00:21:20.796 --> 00:21:22.164
  • Always give yourselves fully to the work of the lord, because
  • 00:21:22.164 --> 00:21:25.367
  • You know that your labor in the lord is not in vain."
  • 00:21:25.367 --> 00:21:30.439
  • If you're not laboring in the lord, i got a news flash, your
  • 00:21:30.439 --> 00:21:33.241
  • Life is vain, it's empty.
  • 00:21:33.241 --> 00:21:36.378
  • It's a chasing of the wind.
  • 00:21:36.378 --> 00:21:38.146
  • Where in the expression of your time, your talent, your energy,
  • 00:21:38.146 --> 00:21:41.483
  • Your creativity, your resources, the best that you are, are you
  • 00:21:41.483 --> 00:21:46.121
  • Engaging those on behalf of the kingdom of god?
  • 00:21:46.121 --> 00:21:48.957
  • I'm not recruiting for anything today other than a life lived to
  • 00:21:48.957 --> 00:21:52.861
  • Honor god.
  • 00:21:52.861 --> 00:21:55.130
  • Whether you're a butcher, a baker, or a candlestick maker,
  • 00:21:55.130 --> 00:21:57.566
  • We go do it in the name of the lord.
  • 00:21:57.566 --> 00:22:00.969
  • Heroes in the kingdom.
  • 00:22:00.969 --> 00:22:04.673
  • We don't wear spandex.
  • 00:22:04.673 --> 00:22:07.743
  • We don't fly.
  • 00:22:07.743 --> 00:22:10.078
  • Our kids may not always be super.
  • 00:22:10.078 --> 00:22:14.015
  • But the one who created in heaven and earth is watching
  • 00:22:14.015 --> 00:22:16.084
  • Over us.
  • 00:22:16.084 --> 00:22:17.886
  • It's a worthwhile investment of yourself.
  • 00:22:17.886 --> 00:22:21.323
  • I want to close a little different way.
  • 00:22:21.323 --> 00:22:22.657
  • I brought you a proclamation.
  • 00:22:22.657 --> 00:22:24.025
  • Somebody asked me before church if i was going to
  • 00:22:24.025 --> 00:22:25.360
  • Bring a prayer.
  • 00:22:25.360 --> 00:22:26.928
  • Well, kind of.
  • 00:22:26.928 --> 00:22:29.364
  • The proclamation is when you use your voice to say what god's
  • 00:22:29.364 --> 00:22:32.367
  • Word has said about you.
  • 00:22:32.367 --> 00:22:34.836
  • And i'm going to borrow a little pattern from the scripture.
  • 00:22:34.836 --> 00:22:37.272
  • At one point they took the tribes of israel and put them on
  • 00:22:37.272 --> 00:22:39.474
  • Two mountains.
  • 00:22:39.474 --> 00:22:40.842
  • And they made proclamations about the blessings of honoring
  • 00:22:40.842 --> 00:22:43.044
  • God and the curses of dishonoring god.
  • 00:22:43.044 --> 00:22:44.746
  • I don't want to do that, but i want to ask you to speak a
  • 00:22:44.746 --> 00:22:47.749
  • Blessing over one another.
  • 00:22:47.749 --> 00:22:52.053
  • That's how we get out of here today, so we can be on time if
  • 00:22:52.053 --> 00:22:54.389
  • You cooperate.
  • 00:22:54.389 --> 00:22:57.426
  • If we need to have a debate or a vote, you're going to be late
  • 00:22:57.426 --> 00:22:59.795
  • And the baptists will get to the restaurant ahead of you and you
  • 00:22:59.795 --> 00:23:01.963
  • Know, i just--going to unravel, okay?
  • 00:23:01.963 --> 00:23:06.501
  • The proclamation is in your notes.
  • 00:23:06.501 --> 00:23:09.037
  • Here's the idea.
  • 00:23:09.037 --> 00:23:10.372
  • I'm going to take half of us and let us say this proclamation
  • 00:23:10.372 --> 00:23:12.774
  • Over the other half.
  • 00:23:12.774 --> 00:23:16.344
  • All right, our aisles don't work out for like a perfect division
  • 00:23:16.344 --> 00:23:19.181
  • Of the room, so this is not going to be equitable.
  • 00:23:19.181 --> 00:23:26.855
  • And i'm not sorry.
  • 00:23:26.855 --> 00:23:29.991
  • So, we're going to start with this group of people.
  • 00:23:29.991 --> 00:23:32.894
  • I got three sections in the back and two down front, stand with
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  • Me, please.
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  • The rest of you hold your space.
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  • Well, i need one more section.
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  • Why don't y'all get up with us too?
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  • No, these one's down front back there.
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  • I'm sorry, inadequate directions.
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  • Lack of clarity is not kindness, i agree.
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  • Now we're going to take this proclamation and bless these
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  • People with it and everybody listening.
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  • So i know you're in church and you want to be timid, but let's
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  • Use the voice you want them to use.
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  • When you bless them, they bless you in just a moment.
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  • Can we do that?
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  • All right, y'all are going to receive?
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  • Are you just going to sit there and think, "pastor's about a lot
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  • Half crazy."
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  • Okay, let's read this together.
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  • I took it from hebrews 13.
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  • This is not mine.
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  • It's not original.
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  • The only thing i did was mess with the pronoun or two.
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  • Okay, let's say it together.
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  • "may the god of peace, who through the blood of the eternal
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  • Covenant brought back from the dead our lord jesus, that great
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  • Shepherd of the sheep, equip (you) with
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  • Everything good for doing his will and may he work
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  • In (you) what is pleasing
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  • To him, through jesus christ, to whom be glory
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  • Forever and ever, amen."
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  • Hallelujah, now you can be seated.
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  • Now we're going to stand up.
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  • Now as you discovered, that's the timid side of the church.
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  • Okay, this is the bold and brassy people who definitely
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  • Need jesus, but you have a little more volume, because
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  • There's more of you.
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  • But we want to take that same blessing and pronounce it over
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  • Their lives.
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  • Can we do that?
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  • With some enthusiasm and intent?
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  • We can read it together.
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  • "may the god of peace, who through the blood of the eternal
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  • Covenant brought back from the dead our lord jesus, that
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  • Great shepherd of the sheep, equip (you) with
  • 00:25:43.491 --> 00:25:46.194
  • Everything good for doing his will and may he work
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  • In (you) what is pleasing
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  • To him, through jesus christ, to whom be glory
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  • For ever and ever, amen."
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  • Hallelujah and why don't we all stand?
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  • Give the lord a hand, huh? [congregation applauding]
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  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:26:05.080 --> 00:26:11.886
  • Allen: hey, i got a question.
  • 00:26:11.886 --> 00:26:13.254
  • What's the eternal breath of life?
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  • Well, the answer is a new book my dad just wrote.
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  • When i sat down to do a podcast with him, and i was listening to
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  • His story about how god had moved in his life and my
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  • Family's life, all the way up to the beginning of the church that
  • 00:26:24.065 --> 00:26:26.434
  • I've served now for several decades, i was so reminded of
  • 00:26:26.434 --> 00:26:30.038
  • The purpose and the power of the spirit of god in our lives,
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  • I asked him to put it in a book.
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  • That's what we're sharing with you.
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  • We all need god's help.
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  • We all face challenges.
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  • Life's not easy no matter who you are, but the spirit of god
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  • Is present within us to bring the power and purposes of god
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  • To bear in our lives.
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  • I believe the book will be a blessing for you.
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  • You'll pair it with unleashing the power of the holy spirit.
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  • It's one of the most effective tools we have.
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  • It'll give you a pathway that i believe will bring god's best
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  • Into your family.
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  • You may not plant a church, but you have been given the
  • 00:27:00.502 --> 00:27:02.671
  • Assignment as an ambassador for the kingdom of god, and we need
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  • The help of the holy spirit.
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  • Enjoy the book.
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  • ♪♪♪
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