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Allen Jackson - Realms of Authority (Part 2)

July 9, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Realms of Authority (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Realms of Authority (Part 2) | July 9, 2026
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  • Female announcer: everywhere we turn, someone is telling us who
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  • We should be, how we should look, and what we
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  • Should believe.
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  • It's no wonder so many of us feel isolated, uncertain,
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  • Confused, and like we're not enough, but god has a
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  • Different message.
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  • You are chosen, loved, accepted, and redeemed, and as you more
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  • Fully understand how god sees you, it will change how you see
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  • Yourself, how you see god, and how you live your life.
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  • In "your identity in christ: 12 truths about who you are,"
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  • Pastor allen jackson shares the unchanging truth of god's word
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  • From isolation to belonging, from doubt to confidence.
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  • Discover your identity in him.
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  • You or someone you know needs the encouragement, truth, and
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  • Freedom found in this book.
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  • Request yours today when you donate any amount at
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  • Allenjackson.com or call...
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  • [music]
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  • Allen jackson: when jesus taught his disciples to pray,
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  • Remember what he--some of the things he taught us to pray?
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  • "lead me not into temptation, but deliver me from evil."
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  • We better understand how to address temptation with
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  • Our prayers.
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  • And we better understand how to overcome evil.
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  • Because we are going to face temptations, and we will face
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  • Confrontations with evil.
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  • And they won't come wrapped, shrink-wrapped, in labels that
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  • Go "evil."
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  • The great temptations don't announce themselves that way.
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  • They'll question all sorts of things.
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  • And we have another adversary, and this one isn't external,
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  • This one's internal.
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  • In galatians 5, "the sinful nature desires what is contrary
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  • To the spirit."
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  • It's capital s, the spirit of god.
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  • You and i are born as descendants of adam with an
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  • Adamic nature, the bible says, an earthly nature, a
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  • Carnal nature.
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  • And its desires are in opposition to the things of the
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  • Kingdom of god.
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  • The new birth gives us a spiritual birth.
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  • We've become a totally new creation.
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  • But we still have an earth suit, and we still have that
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  • Carnal nature.
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  • And there is a tension between them.
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  • It's all through the scripture.
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  • Paul said, "the things that i don't wanna do, i do, and the
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  • Things that i wanna do, i don't do.
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  • What a wretched man i am."
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  • And i would love to say, "well, you know, paul had a problem,
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  • But i don't understand."
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  • But that wouldn't be true.
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  • We all understand, and paul's talking to the galatian church
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  • About it.
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  • They're a group of christ followers who have been
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  • Completely disrupted by legalism.
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  • They have lost their way.
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  • You know, legalism can be an expression of carnality.
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  • That's another day's discussion.
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  • "the sinful nature desires what's contrary to the spirit,
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  • And the spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature.
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  • They're in conflict with each other, so that you don't do what
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  • You want.
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  • But if you're led by the spirit, you're not under the law."
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  • Jesus said he was the end of the law as a means of righteousness.
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  • It wasn't the end of the law.
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  • It wasn't like god said after jesus arrived, "well, adultery
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  • Is okay.
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  • Steal away."
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  • No, those godly principles are still in place.
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  • It's just that we don't achieve righteousness by maintaining
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  • The rules.
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  • Those boundaries help us understand the character of god
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  • And the nature of holiness and what it means to lead a
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  • Righteous life, but our righteousness in the sight of
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  • God is a gift received by faith in jesus of nazareth, the son
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  • Of god.
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  • Because if you're gonna keep the rules to be righteous, you've
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  • Got to keep all of the rules flawlessly.
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  • And if you err on any rule, you're completely disqualified
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  • On all points.
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  • So receiving jesus as lord is a better deal
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  • Than self-righteousness.
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  • Imagine if you would forfeit your driver's license if you
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  • Transgressed any rule of the road.
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  • We'd all be walking, right?
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  • We've all rolled through a stop sign, hit a traffic light
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  • At yellow.
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  • We have all exceeded the speed limit once.
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  • So our righteousness, our ability to stand in god's
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  • Presence without fear, guilt, or shame, comes through faith in
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  • Jesus of nazareth.
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  • But it doesn't mean that god's commitment to righteousness and
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  • Holiness and purity is in any way diminished.
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  • Verse 19, "the acts of the sinful nature," paul says,
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  • "well, they're obvious: sexual immorality, impurity,
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  • Debauchery," it's excess, "idolatry, witchcraft, hatred,
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  • Discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions,
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  • Factions, envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like.
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  • I warn you, as i did before, if you live like this, you will not
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  • Inherit the kingdom of god."
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  • Well, if as christians we weren't tempted with that, you
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  • Wouldn't need to write that to a christian church.
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  • Those things are a sample set of the battles that we have.
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  • Now, there's good news.
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  • Most of us don't face temptations across that
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  • Entire menu.
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  • Hallelujah!
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  • But there's a handful of points in there where all--every one
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  • Of us has some vulnerability.
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  • And you know, the favorite sins we have to preach about are the
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  • Ones that we don't struggle with.
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  • I can preach a mean sermon on poaching elephants, because it's
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  • Been years since i've been tempted to poach an elephant.
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  • I mean, i'm just telling you, that just doesn't bother me.
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  • Don't ever remember that.
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  • On the other hand, all of us know those places where we have
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  • Vulnerabilities, and i'll tell you the real truth, if you give
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  • License to your carnal nature, if you excuse it, if you indulge
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  • It, if you allow yourself the luxury of giving expression to
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  • Carnality and you choose that behavior, you will get the
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  • Support of an unclean spirit in that endeavor.
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  • And what begins as an expression of luxury for you, emotional
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  • Luxury or spiritual luxury, and a sense of indulgence, will
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  • Become something that you don't control.
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  • I'll explain that more in a moment.
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  • You see, the fundamental distinction between the holy
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  • Spirit and an unholy spirit is not the miraculous or
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  • The supernatural.
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  • The antichrist and the false prophet who will associate with
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  • Him will be very supernatural characters with all sorts of
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  • Miraculous affirmation of their position and authority.
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  • The principalities and powers and spiritual forces of
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  • Wickedness in the heavenly realms, they're not without
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  • Expressions of supernatural power.
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  • So the distinguishing characteristic between the holy
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  • And the unholy is not the miraculous.
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  • Don't ever follow someone, don't ever imagine spiritual
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  • Leadership should--is vested in the supernatural.
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  • That will help you a great deal.
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  • The expression of spiritual maturity is not the
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  • Supernatural, it's the fruit of the spirit.
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  • I'll give you an example that i learned long ago and it's held
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  • True in my life.
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  • You know, if you see a beautiful christmas tree, beautifully
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  • Decorated, beautifully illuminated, and beneath it is
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  • An amazing array of gifts, you don't see that scene and go,
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  • "that is the healthiest tree i have ever seen."
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  • You know that some force other than the tree is responsible for
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  • The ornamentation and the gifts.
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  • On the other hand, if you see a fruit tree, and it's heavily
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  • Laden with healthy fruit, you understand that's a
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  • Healthy tree.
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  • So if you're looking for expressions of spiritual
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  • Maturity, i would encourage you to look more for expressions of
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  • The fruit of the spirit than the supernatural.
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  • Now, i'm not saying the supernatural is not important.
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  • We won't overcome expressions of evil without the supernatural
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  • Help of god.
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  • But if you're going to choose, if you're trying to discern
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  • What's happening, you will look for the character of god.
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  • [music]
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  • Allen: hey, i wanna ask you a question.
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  • How do you identify, male, female, southerner,
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  • Educated, housewife?
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  • How do you identify?
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  • Well, i wanna suggest knowing your identity in christ
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  • Is the most significant component of your person
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  • For both time and eternity.
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  • We put together a resource. it's a new booklet.
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  • It'll help you understand who you are in christ, your identity
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  • In the kingdom of god and what the implications of that are for
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  • Your life today.
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  • It's a game changer.
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  • I believe it'll be a blessing to you and to your family.
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  • Announcer: every day the world tries to define who we are, what
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  • We should believe, and whether we're enough, but god's word
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  • Tells a different story.
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  • In pastor allen's new book, "your identity in christ: 12
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  • Truths about who you are," he shares biblical truths that will
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  • Help you recognize who you are in christ.
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  • Request your book and free companion card today with your
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  • Gift of any amount at allenjackson.com or call...
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  • Allen: so let me give you a couple of simple indicators if
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  • You want to recognize the holy spirit and an unholy spirit.
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  • One has to do with control.
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  • God gave you a free will.
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  • You can choose life or death.
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  • In the book of revelation, he said, "if you wanna be wicked,
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  • Be more wicked.
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  • If you wanna be filthy, be more filthy.
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  • But if you wanna be righteous, be more righteous."
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  • You can choose.
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  • An unclean spirit, an unholy spirit, will diminish your
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  • Choice and will dominate.
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  • In all my years in ministry, i've yet to meet someone who
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  • Says, "pastor, i cannot stop myself.
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  • Every day i'm holier than i was the day before.
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  • I am overwhelmed with purity, and i can't stop.
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  • I don't know what to do."
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  • Never had that conversation.
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  • But i have sat with hundreds of people who have described for me
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  • Behaviors that they are--they are conscious of, are bringing
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  • Destruction to their physical well-being, to their
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  • Relationships, to their future, and they will look and say, "i
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  • Feel powerless in the face of this."
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  • So one of the characteristics that will help you distinguish
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  • Between the holy and the unholy has to do with control.
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  • The other one is honor.
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  • The holy spirit will always honor jesus.
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  • In fact, if you wanna cultivate some prayers that will engage
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  • The holy spirit more fully in your life, you start to say
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  • Things that bring honor to jesus.
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  • I recently built a few pages of scriptures that give honor to
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  • Who jesus is and what the scripture says about him,
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  • Because i wanted them to fill my heart and my mind more fully.
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  • On the other hand, an unclean spirit, an unholy spirit, will
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  • Direct honor someplace else.
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  • Any place but jesus.
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  • Any place but jesus.
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  • There are some simple things you can build into your character
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  • And your discernment index that will help you a great deal.
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  • I wanna continue on this passage, because it's helpful.
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  • Verse 22, we got--we've got the indicators of the old carnal
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  • Fleshly nature.
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  • Now in verse 22, paul says, "but the fruit of the spirit is love,
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  • Joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
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  • Gentleness, and self-control," nine things that are indicators
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  • Of cooperation with the spirit of god.
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  • You have to take your old carnal nature and purposely yield to
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  • The spirit of god for those things to flourish in your life.
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  • They're not intuitive or automatic.
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  • They're evidence of a life being yielded to the spirit of god,
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  • And he says, "against those things there is no law."
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  • There's nothing that will triumph over those.
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  • They are triumphant.
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  • "those who belong to christ jesus," here we go, "have
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  • Crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires."
  • 00:13:29.123 --> 00:13:34.696
  • So how do you overcome that old adamic sinful nature?
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  • You have to execute it.
  • 00:13:40.602 --> 00:13:44.005
  • Again, it's an example i learned years ago,
  • 00:13:44.005 --> 00:13:46.241
  • But it's still as good as--
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  • If you have a puppy, a cute little puppy and a lion, and
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  • You're gonna release them both into the same room, what do you
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  • Do so that the puppy can survive the presence of the lion?
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  • This isn't rocket science.
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  • You could figure this out.
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  • You feed the puppy, and you starve the lion.
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  • So what do you do to overcome your old carnal, earthly
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  • Adamic nature?
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  • Don't do the things that feed it.
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  • You do the things that feed the spirit of god within you.
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  • "well, i don't know why i have to read my bible.
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  • I read my bible once already.
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  • I read it from the table of contents all the way to
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  • The maps."
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  • Because i need the spiritual strength that comes from time in
  • 00:14:35.924 --> 00:14:38.459
  • The presence of god through his word.
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  • And i can't maintain my equilibrium without it.
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  • I can't.
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  • It's not about facts and details.
  • 00:14:46.868 --> 00:14:50.171
  • I've spent years and years memorizing facts and details.
  • 00:14:50.171 --> 00:14:53.908
  • I need time in the presence of god.
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  • I try to practice increasingly a life of prayer, because i need
  • 00:14:58.146 --> 00:15:02.517
  • The awareness of the spirit of god in all the circumstances
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  • That describe my journey through a day.
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  • A lot of them may look like meetings or business or
  • 00:15:09.424 --> 00:15:11.459
  • Transactions or whatever, but i'm conscious of that.
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  • I intend to put to death that old carnal nature.
  • 00:15:15.697 --> 00:15:19.801
  • And you have to acknowledge it is passionate.
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  • It's not fleeting.
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  • It doesn't yield easily.
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  • It doesn't just go, "well, if you feel that way."
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  • In my life it's been very demanding.
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  • Look at romans 13, same author.
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  • This is paul, "let us behave properly in the day--as in the
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  • Day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual
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  • Promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy."
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  • Gee, are there any spirits loosed in our current culture
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  • That promote those things?
  • 00:15:51.933 --> 00:15:55.203
  • You can't have a civil discourse any longer.
  • 00:15:55.203 --> 00:15:57.505
  • There's so much strife and jealousy, we shout about and
  • 00:15:57.505 --> 00:16:00.475
  • Argue about the most fundamental things.
  • 00:16:00.475 --> 00:16:04.278
  • But what we're coached to do is "put on the lord jesus christ,
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  • And make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts."
  • 00:16:08.783 --> 00:16:14.122
  • The language there isn't confusing.
  • 00:16:14.122 --> 00:16:15.490
  • What do you do?
  • 00:16:15.490 --> 00:16:16.858
  • "put on the lord jesus christ."
  • 00:16:16.858 --> 00:16:18.192
  • Wherever you go, put jesus on.
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  • If you go to work, put jesus on.
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  • If you're going to recreate with your friends, put jesus on.
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  • If you're gonna go watch a movie, put jesus on.
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  • If you're going to a concert, put jesus on.
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  • If you're going to the ballgame, put jesus on.
  • 00:16:30.571 --> 00:16:34.475
  • Where are you going that you don't wanna put jesus on?
  • 00:16:34.475 --> 00:16:37.145
  • "well, we have to separate the church and state."
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  • No, we don't.
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  • I've got no interest in being political, but i very much
  • 00:16:41.149 --> 00:16:43.484
  • Intend to see a biblical worldview given evidence through
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  • The authorities that are over our lives.
  • 00:16:46.721 --> 00:16:49.857
  • We're salt and light.
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  • That'll bring more freedom and liberty to people who want
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  • Nothing to do with jesus.
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  • That's our assignment.
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  • Ask the good citizens of china about freedom and liberty, they
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  • Don't know.
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  • You've been reading the comments of the people who are visiting
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  • Our nation because of the world cup?
  • 00:17:06.774 --> 00:17:09.477
  • They are overwhelmed.
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  • I'm hearing them with their accents standing in front of
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  • Walmart going, "walmart is an experience."
  • 00:17:15.083 --> 00:17:18.986
  • I read--i forget which nationality, some group of
  • 00:17:23.024 --> 00:17:25.226
  • People were completely overwhelmed with buc-ee's.
  • 00:17:25.226 --> 00:17:27.662
  • Who knew a brisket sandwich and a big bathroom, but i mean.
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  • We are so blessed.
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  • We are so blessed.
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  • Put on, clothe yourselves, with jesus.
  • 00:17:41.042 --> 00:17:46.380
  • "make no provision for the flesh."
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  • Don't make provision for it.
  • 00:17:48.850 --> 00:17:52.053
  • I gave you another translation, same verse.
  • 00:17:52.053 --> 00:17:55.556
  • But the translation, i thought they were complementary.
  • 00:17:55.556 --> 00:17:59.393
  • It says, "clothe yourselves with the lord jesus christ, and don't
  • 00:17:59.393 --> 00:18:02.463
  • Think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature."
  • 00:18:02.463 --> 00:18:05.433
  • Don't think about that.
  • 00:18:05.433 --> 00:18:08.136
  • Don't think about that.
  • 00:18:08.202 --> 00:18:11.172
  • "well, it keeps coming to mind."
  • 00:18:11.172 --> 00:18:12.773
  • Don't think about that.
  • 00:18:12.773 --> 00:18:16.744
  • That's not easy.
  • 00:18:16.744 --> 00:18:20.515
  • Before you have any victory in your experiences, you win the
  • 00:18:20.515 --> 00:18:23.751
  • Battle in your mind.
  • 00:18:23.751 --> 00:18:27.088
  • And see, we've got all this theology that insulates us from
  • 00:18:27.088 --> 00:18:29.423
  • This, so we don't have to deal with it.
  • 00:18:29.423 --> 00:18:30.791
  • "well, pastor, i'm born again.
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  • I'm a new creation in christ."
  • 00:18:36.197 --> 00:18:38.733
  • Well, i'm happy for you.
  • 00:18:38.733 --> 00:18:41.068
  • But it hasn't removed you from the conflict.
  • 00:18:41.068 --> 00:18:43.204
  • "well, i believe in the baptism in the holy spirit."
  • 00:18:46.407 --> 00:18:48.309
  • Okay, you can speak in tongues and be a very carnal christian.
  • 00:18:48.309 --> 00:18:52.780
  • "well, i'm a student of scripture.
  • 00:18:56.584 --> 00:18:58.920
  • I can spell all the names of the tribes of israel and write them
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  • In hebrew."
  • 00:19:03.157 --> 00:19:05.660
  • Good, you're a very educated carnal christian.
  • 00:19:05.660 --> 00:19:10.064
  • And again, i'm not opposed to any of those things.
  • 00:19:10.064 --> 00:19:12.300
  • They're transformational.
  • 00:19:12.300 --> 00:19:14.835
  • But at the end of the day, we have to clothe ourselves with
  • 00:19:14.835 --> 00:19:18.039
  • Christ and make no provision for that earthly carnal nature.
  • 00:19:18.039 --> 00:19:25.846
  • Now that's not a one-time event.
  • 00:19:25.846 --> 00:19:28.216
  • That's not a singular prayer, that's not a singular
  • 00:19:28.216 --> 00:19:30.885
  • Life stage.
  • 00:19:30.885 --> 00:19:32.720
  • My experience so far is that every season of my life, i have
  • 00:19:32.720 --> 00:19:36.290
  • To address what it looks like to be carnal in this season.
  • 00:19:36.290 --> 00:19:40.928
  • Because there are permissions that come with every season.
  • 00:19:40.928 --> 00:19:45.533
  • I hear families say to young people, "oh, you're only
  • 00:19:45.533 --> 00:19:47.501
  • Young once.
  • 00:19:47.501 --> 00:19:49.537
  • Sow your wild oats."
  • 00:19:49.537 --> 00:19:51.872
  • Now you're only young once.
  • 00:19:51.872 --> 00:19:53.207
  • You only get to honor jesus as a teenager one time.
  • 00:19:53.207 --> 00:19:56.043
  • Go all in.
  • 00:19:56.043 --> 00:19:57.745
  • Encourage your teenagers to do that.
  • 00:19:57.745 --> 00:20:01.382
  • Encourage them to be closer to jesus than their favorite hobby.
  • 00:20:01.382 --> 00:20:04.885
  • They only get one shot at that.
  • 00:20:04.885 --> 00:20:08.589
  • Young adults, your families are young, lots of demands on your
  • 00:20:08.589 --> 00:20:12.793
  • Time and your calendar and your resources.
  • 00:20:12.793 --> 00:20:14.929
  • I got it, stressful season.
  • 00:20:14.929 --> 00:20:16.931
  • So there's a temptation to be very indulgent and so you, so,
  • 00:20:16.931 --> 00:20:19.367
  • You know, you're, "it's my family."
  • 00:20:19.367 --> 00:20:21.102
  • Yeah, i got it.
  • 00:20:21.102 --> 00:20:23.437
  • But when you're old and your kids are grown and you've got
  • 00:20:23.437 --> 00:20:25.439
  • Grandkids, "this is my time."
  • 00:20:25.439 --> 00:20:28.709
  • Well, i thought it was your time when you were in your twenties?
  • 00:20:28.709 --> 00:20:31.879
  • "well, it was, but now it's really my time."
  • 00:20:31.879 --> 00:20:34.148
  • Every season of life comes with a reason to be carnal
  • 00:20:34.148 --> 00:20:36.884
  • And selfish.
  • 00:20:36.884 --> 00:20:39.253
  • And you may have been triumphant in that earlier season, but
  • 00:20:39.253 --> 00:20:42.056
  • You've got to decide to honor god now.
  • 00:20:42.056 --> 00:20:45.559
  • And you gotta be careful or you'll give generational license
  • 00:20:49.730 --> 00:20:53.301
  • To people.
  • 00:20:53.301 --> 00:20:57.204
  • Grandparents, you're not the spoiler in chief.
  • 00:20:57.204 --> 00:21:00.841
  • If your influence is not the greatest influence for godliness
  • 00:21:00.841 --> 00:21:04.378
  • In your family system, you are forfeiting a
  • 00:21:04.378 --> 00:21:06.247
  • Tremendous opportunity.
  • 00:21:06.247 --> 00:21:08.316
  • Have i annoyed everybody yet?
  • 00:21:10.851 --> 00:21:12.186
  • I'm working on it.
  • 00:21:12.186 --> 00:21:14.822
  • It's a special gift.
  • 00:21:14.822 --> 00:21:18.025
  • Oh, my time is so gone, and we've got communion.
  • 00:21:18.025 --> 00:21:23.564
  • So we're gonna close.
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  • If you're at home, this is when you need your saltine.
  • 00:21:25.566 --> 00:21:27.968
  • We're gonna clothe ourselves with jesus.
  • 00:21:31.872 --> 00:21:36.010
  • We're going to tell the lord that we don't want to make any
  • 00:21:36.010 --> 00:21:37.778
  • Provision for our old nature, and we're going to ask him for
  • 00:21:37.778 --> 00:21:43.284
  • Forgiveness when we have been too absorbed with our own
  • 00:21:43.284 --> 00:21:48.456
  • Comfort and convenience.
  • 00:21:48.456 --> 00:21:50.691
  • And i'm not opposed to either of those.
  • 00:21:50.691 --> 00:21:54.428
  • You know, i have had a little experience on that whole, you
  • 00:21:54.428 --> 00:21:57.998
  • Know, paul said, "i've known what it is to have a little and
  • 00:21:57.998 --> 00:22:00.234
  • Be in want, and i've known what it is to have a lot."
  • 00:22:00.234 --> 00:22:02.937
  • Most of us can say that in some respect.
  • 00:22:02.937 --> 00:22:07.208
  • And you know, if i can choose, i'd rather be comfortable and
  • 00:22:07.208 --> 00:22:09.810
  • Enjoy convenience.
  • 00:22:09.810 --> 00:22:12.046
  • But i'm not going to forfeit a kingdom assignment for them.
  • 00:22:12.046 --> 00:22:14.281
  • I will do things that seem difficult if i think they'll
  • 00:22:17.618 --> 00:22:21.255
  • Honor jesus.
  • 00:22:21.255 --> 00:22:24.058
  • Are you--will you join me in that?
  • 00:22:24.058 --> 00:22:26.927
  • So can we tell the lord we're sorry when we acted like we
  • 00:22:26.927 --> 00:22:30.631
  • Didn't notice he'd put opportunities in front of us
  • 00:22:30.631 --> 00:22:32.833
  • Because they were inconvenient?
  • 00:22:32.833 --> 00:22:34.869
  • We're going to become the best repenters in the world.
  • 00:22:37.671 --> 00:22:41.308
  • Most of the people in the church think the sinners need
  • 00:22:41.308 --> 00:22:43.010
  • To repent.
  • 00:22:43.010 --> 00:22:44.378
  • I think if god's people would learn to have tender hearts and
  • 00:22:44.378 --> 00:22:46.781
  • A greater fear of the lord, we would see god move in the most
  • 00:22:46.781 --> 00:22:50.484
  • Remarkable ways.
  • 00:22:50.484 --> 00:22:53.187
  • So we're going to come to the communion table.
  • 00:22:53.187 --> 00:22:55.055
  • Jesus put this in place.
  • 00:22:55.055 --> 00:22:57.425
  • Before he began his passion, his suffering, he washes the
  • 00:22:57.425 --> 00:23:01.061
  • Disciples' feet.
  • 00:23:01.061 --> 00:23:02.997
  • You know what they're doing at dinner that night?
  • 00:23:02.997 --> 00:23:05.332
  • Arguing about who's the greatest.
  • 00:23:05.332 --> 00:23:07.368
  • And he has to look at 'em and say, "you know, before the sun
  • 00:23:10.504 --> 00:23:12.773
  • Comes up, you're gonna deny you even know me."
  • 00:23:12.773 --> 00:23:17.945
  • He's not washing their feet because they feel they're
  • 00:23:17.945 --> 00:23:20.214
  • So stellar.
  • 00:23:20.214 --> 00:23:22.383
  • Think of the battle in him.
  • 00:23:22.383 --> 00:23:25.986
  • He washes their feet, and at the end of the meal he
  • 00:23:25.986 --> 00:23:28.422
  • Serves communion.
  • 00:23:28.422 --> 00:23:30.458
  • Takes bread and he breaks it and said, "this bread is my body
  • 00:23:30.458 --> 00:23:33.561
  • Broken for you.
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  • As often as you eat this, you'll remember this night."
  • 00:23:34.895 --> 00:23:39.700
  • Let's receive together.
  • 00:23:39.700 --> 00:23:42.803
  • Then he took a cup and he said, "this cup is a new covenant
  • 00:23:42.803 --> 00:23:46.540
  • Sealed with my own blood.
  • 00:23:46.540 --> 00:23:48.309
  • As often as you drink it, you proclaim my death until you see
  • 00:23:48.309 --> 00:23:51.078
  • Me again."
  • 00:23:51.078 --> 00:23:52.913
  • They implemented this in the church.
  • 00:23:52.913 --> 00:23:55.616
  • Let's receive.
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  • You stand with me for a prayer?
  • 00:24:02.490 --> 00:24:10.264
  • Lord, teach us to pray.
  • 00:24:13.801 --> 00:24:16.937
  • Not to be religious.
  • 00:24:16.937 --> 00:24:20.808
  • Lord, teach us to pray.
  • 00:24:20.808 --> 00:24:23.577
  • Show us the places where an invitation to you will be
  • 00:24:23.577 --> 00:24:26.413
  • Transformational in our lives, our families, our places of
  • 00:24:26.413 --> 00:24:30.651
  • Work, our world, our congregation, or wherever it
  • 00:24:30.651 --> 00:24:34.722
  • May be.
  • 00:24:34.722 --> 00:24:37.091
  • We come tonight to declare jesus is lord, lord in our heart, lord
  • 00:24:37.091 --> 00:24:43.831
  • Of our homes, lords of all-- lord of all that we are, lord of
  • 00:24:43.831 --> 00:24:47.868
  • All that we have, lord of our bodies.
  • 00:24:47.868 --> 00:24:53.173
  • Jesus is lord.
  • 00:24:53.173 --> 00:24:55.709
  • And we choose to yield to you tonight, lord jesus.
  • 00:24:55.709 --> 00:24:59.146
  • To yield our will and our way, to cooperate with you.
  • 00:24:59.146 --> 00:25:04.552
  • Forgive us.
  • 00:25:04.552 --> 00:25:06.687
  • Forgive us when we have been stubborn and unresponsive and
  • 00:25:06.687 --> 00:25:14.461
  • Selfish, and we want it our way more than your way.
  • 00:25:14.461 --> 00:25:18.465
  • Forgive us.
  • 00:25:18.465 --> 00:25:21.001
  • Holy spirit, if there are places where we have protected our old
  • 00:25:21.001 --> 00:25:25.539
  • Nature and refused to yield, give us the wisdom to see and
  • 00:25:25.539 --> 00:25:31.078
  • The humility to repent, to cooperate with you.
  • 00:25:31.078 --> 00:25:36.584
  • I thank you that through the blood of jesus we have been
  • 00:25:36.584 --> 00:25:38.919
  • Delivered out of the hand of the enemy, that his power over us
  • 00:25:38.919 --> 00:25:42.623
  • Is broken.
  • 00:25:42.623 --> 00:25:44.158
  • That you have called us to this season to be salt and light in
  • 00:25:44.158 --> 00:25:48.095
  • This world.
  • 00:25:48.095 --> 00:25:51.599
  • And i pray that we will yield to you so that your purposes can
  • 00:25:51.599 --> 00:25:55.703
  • Break forth and jesus's name be exalted, and your kingdom
  • 00:25:55.703 --> 00:26:00.908
  • Extended in jesus's name, amen, hallelujah.
  • 00:26:00.908 --> 00:26:06.347
  • God bless you.
  • 00:26:06.347 --> 00:26:08.349
  • [music]
  • 00:26:08.349 --> 00:26:14.388
  • Allen: hey, i'm really excited about our newest publication.
  • 00:26:15.889 --> 00:26:18.492
  • It's called, "your identity in christ."
  • 00:26:18.492 --> 00:26:20.060
  • It's a booklet, small book, intended to help you understand
  • 00:26:20.060 --> 00:26:23.263
  • Who you are in christ.
  • 00:26:23.263 --> 00:26:24.665
  • Straightforward, grounded in scripture, but i help people
  • 00:26:24.665 --> 00:26:28.002
  • Take steps towards spiritual freedom.
  • 00:26:28.002 --> 00:26:30.170
  • The most essential component is helping them understand who they
  • 00:26:30.170 --> 00:26:33.407
  • Are in christ.
  • 00:26:33.407 --> 00:26:34.842
  • You know, we're walking through a season where there's
  • 00:26:34.842 --> 00:26:36.410
  • Tremendous cultural confusion, so much dialogue about how
  • 00:26:36.410 --> 00:26:40.014
  • We identify.
  • 00:26:40.014 --> 00:26:41.482
  • Folks, understanding who you are in christ, the price that was
  • 00:26:41.482 --> 00:26:44.985
  • Paid to give you status in the kingdom of god, it will write a
  • 00:26:44.985 --> 00:26:49.056
  • Future for you that is not dependent upon your family of
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  • Origin, your life circumstance, the expressions of evil that
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  • You've had to overcome.
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  • In christ jesus we are triumphant both in time and for
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  • All eternity.
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  • We put this little booklet together, it'll help you.
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  • You can read it, you can do it as a small group.
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  • It's easy to share the message with children or grandchildren.
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  • Make this a part of this season in your life and in your home
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  • And with your friends.
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  • It's a game-changer.
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