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Allen Jackson - Reformation Emerging (Part 1)

February 2, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Reformation Emerging (Part 1)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Reformation Emerging (Part 1) | February 2, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: you know, around the world,
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  • Allen: we began a new study with the general theme of
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  • Reformation; in this session, i wanna talk to you about the
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  • Reformation that's emerging in our world.
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  • I believe that's true.
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  • I put a quote at the top of your notes.
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  • It's from a history book.
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  • I know, i'm sure you read many of them.
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  • So if you're familiar with the quote, i apologize, but.
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  • It says, "a reform is a correction of abuses.
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  • A revolution is a transfer of power.
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  • What starts as reforming often ends in a
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  • Revolutionary movement."
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  • Now, that's true throughout history.
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  • Across many nations and multiple ideologies, i think it's helpful
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  • For us because i would submit to you that in our nation, we
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  • Need reform.
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  • You don't have to be particularly aware to know that.
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  • How many hundreds of billions of dollars do we have to see
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  • Fraudulently stolen before we will go, "no"?
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  • Don't tell us to pay our fair share until you stop
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  • The leaking.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • I mean, it seems preposterous to me that we wanted to hire tens
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  • Of thousands of new irs agents, but we didn't wanna hire agents
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  • To enforce our border while we're fraudulently giving money
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  • Away by the billions of dollars to people who are
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  • Here illegally.
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  • That's a messed up system.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • So i think we could agree, wherever you stand on an
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  • Ideological spectrum, that there are many ways in our nation
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  • Where we need reform.
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  • What i would submit to you is that in our hearts, we need
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  • A revolution.
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  • In the hearts of the people of faith, we need a real transfer
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  • Of power.
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  • In the hearts of the citizens of our nation, we need a transfer
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  • Of power from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom
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  • Of light.
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  • The only thing that will bring lasting change and meaningful
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  • Reform to our nation is an extension of the influence of
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  • Jesus of nazareth and people who are yielded to him.
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  • If we force that through political systems, through
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  • Ideological revolutions, through academia, and we don't do it
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  • With a fundamental heart change that comes through the person of
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  • Jesus, whatever reforms are initiated will not last any
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  • Longer than an executive order.
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  • They can be reversed by the stroke of someone else's pen.
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  • We have to have a hard change.
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  • It's why the church is essential.
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  • Liberty and freedoms come from god, not from governments.
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  • Governments exercise authority.
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  • God brings freedom.
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  • So when i talk about a reformation, i want you to
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  • Understand that there have been times throughout history when
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  • God brings revolutionary change to the hearts of people.
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  • We typically, when we think of the reformation, we think of the
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  • Reformation that luther kind of launched.
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  • He at least gets credit for it,
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  • With his 95 theses when he put them on the door of a church.
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  • It's not primarily about roman catholic versus protestant.
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  • I would submit to you, at that point in the unfolding narrative
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  • Of the people of faith, the structure, the infrastructure,
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  • Of church had become too corrupt.
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  • It was too far from a concern to help the people be transformed
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  • By the power of god.
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  • It was systemically corrupt.
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  • And it had to be reformed.
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  • It needed deep reform, and we received a reformation.
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  • God raised up a voice from within that system that said the
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  • Just will live by faith, not by the blessings of the
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  • Professional christians.
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  • Luther was clearly flawed.
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  • You don't have to do a lot of work on his history to know he
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  • Was as normal as us.
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  • Isn't that awkward that god uses crackpots for his purposes?
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  • I mean, it's really awkward when you--if you ever seen god do
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  • Something through somebody else, you go, "i can't believe that
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  • Happened through them," right?
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  • "i know them.
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  • Can you believe god would do that through them?"
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  • The only awkward part about that realization is there's somebody
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  • Looking at you thinking the same thing.
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  • But god used luther and those around him to ignite great
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  • Change within the church.
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  • Now the reason i believe that's relevant to us is the scripture
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  • Tells us, we read it last week in matthew 24, that this gospel
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  • Of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world before the
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  • End comes; before the messiah returns, the gospel of the
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  • Kingdom will be preached in the whole world.
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  • Which means the culmination of the age means we're gonna have
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  • The most remarkable, vibrant expression of the church.
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  • So i think it's a logical conclusion that there's a
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  • Reformation that will precede the end.
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  • A radical transformation of the hearts of god's people that will
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  • Put us on mission, on task in a way that we've never
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  • Been before.
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  • So rather than wait, let's go.
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  • I'm like raising my hand saying, "lord, what do i need to do?
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  • What change do i need to initiate?"
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  • That's the point of this little series.
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  • I'm gonna start out just with the obvious, the remarkable
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  • Gift, the magnificent gift we receive in jesus.
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  • You know, mistakenly, christianity is so often
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  • Portrayed as something that's gonna diminish you, take
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  • Something from you.
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  • They want your money, they want your time.
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  • They're gonna diminish your joy and your pleasure.
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  • Oh, stop.
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  • Ungodliness is not satisfying long term.
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  • I mean, there may be a buzz to send in the short run, but it
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  • Will destroy you every time.
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  • I'm old enough.
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  • I sat with enough people.
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  • This isn't a mystery.
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  • Look at 1 peter chapter 1, verse 17.
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  • This is the fisherman that jesus recruited.
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  • He said, "since you call on a father who judges each man's
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  • Work impartially."
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  • You know, you're not gonna get special treatment from god by
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  • Reminding you of your resume,
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  • By cutting your eyes at him,
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  • Because you have a cute southern accent or you don't.
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  • You know, all those ways that we learn to turn a conversation or
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  • An opportunity in our favor won't work on god.
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  • He's impartial.
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  • He's seen it all 'cause he created us.
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  • "live your lives as strangers here in reverent fear.
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  • For you know that it was not with perishable things such as
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  • Silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of
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  • Life handed down to you from your forefathers."
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  • To be redeemed is to be bought back, to be purchased out
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  • Of something.
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  • You can't redeem yourself.
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  • God did something for us.
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  • He redeemed us from an empty way of life, peter says.
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  • And it wasn't with silver or gold, but verse 19, "but with
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  • The precious blood of jesus, a lamb without blemish or defect."
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  • What did it cost god to give us a new future?
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  • The sacrifice of his son.
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  • It wasn't cheap.
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  • People say to me, "well i don't, you know, i just don't feel like
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  • God loves me."
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  • Then your feelings are wrong.
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  • You know, i'm grateful for feelings, they enrich our lives.
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  • God created us with the capacity for emotions.
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  • They're just really lousy guides 'cause they're fickle.
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  • You know, yesterday morning when i walked out of the house, it
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  • Was 60 degrees.
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  • Walked out this morning about 5:30, it wasn't.
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  • And i thought, "oh, this doesn't feel good.
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  • I'd rather stay home, have a blankie."
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  • But at least this morning i didn't give in to my feelings.
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  • And i said, hush, and i hear people saying, "you know, i just
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  • Don't feel like god loves me."
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  • I said, i'm relevant.
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  • I mean, yeah, it's better if you feel it.
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  • But he's demonstrated his love for us.
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  • He sent his son, and he allowed him to be tortured to death in
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  • Public, humiliated, so that you and i could be a part of his
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  • Eternal kingdom.
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  • That's amazing.
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  • I will gladly serve him the rest of my life because he's given me
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  • The awareness of that fact.
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  • The greatest honor of my life is to be an advocate for jesus.
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  • Why?
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  • 'cause he's done so much for me.
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  • Hadn't always been easy, hadn't always gone the way i wanted.
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  • My reality doesn't look like the life i drew up when i was 15.
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  • But i have to say, in most ways, it exceeded any expectation
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  • I've had.
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  • God's faithful.
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  • Allen: welcome to 2026. happy new year.
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  • We've created a new book to help you.
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  • It's called "turn up the light."
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  • It's a devotional for the whole year.
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  • It's a really simple idea.
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  • I can join you for a cup of coffee in the morning.
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  • We'll have a brief conversation with a spiritual principle
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  • To start our day, a scripture verse, a prayer.
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  • And then when you're tired of me,
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  • You can close the book.
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  • It's perfect.
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  • In all seriousness, we do wanna turn up the light.
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  • Let's not rage against the darkness.
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  • Let's invite god into the midst of this year
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  • And then just see what he will do.
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  • Female announcer: pastor allen's new devotional,
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  • "turn up the light," is designed to equip you every single day
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  • Inside, you'll find 365 short devotionals,
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  • Each with a scripture, teaching, and a prayer.
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  • As you begin this new year, don't rage against the darkness.
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  • Instead, choose to turn up the light.
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  • Allen: colossians chapter 1, verse 10, "we pray this in order
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  • That you may live a life worthy of the lord and may please him
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  • In every way."
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  • May i ask you a question?
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  • And i know you're in church or you're a part of church, and we
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  • All know the right answer is, yes, in jesus.
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  • But in the honest place of your life when nobody, just on the
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  • Quiet place inside of you, to what degree are we cooperating
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  • With what paul said, "to live a life worthy of the lord and
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  • Please him in every way"?
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  • Or is it more like, "well, i want to please him in every way
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  • That i really have to.
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  • I mean, i wanna please him, like, you know, what do i
  • 00:11:52.595 --> 00:11:54.363
  • Absolutely have to do?"
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  • I kind of think of like pleasing the lord like i think about
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  • Eating clean.
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  • I mean, i wanna eat healthy... some of the time, right?
  • 00:12:02.538 --> 00:12:09.078
  • And then there's a piece of pecan pie and vanilla ice cream.
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  • I mean that's milk and nuts, wheat flour.
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  • All seems healthy to me, it's just been arranged in a
  • 00:12:22.424 --> 00:12:24.794
  • Different pattern.
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  • And i feel like god would want me to have that more than that
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  • Bowl of brussels sprouts.
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  • So i say, "yes, lord."
  • 00:12:35.204 --> 00:12:39.608
  • And i think you're probably, we all, you know, we want to please
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  • The lord...kinda.
  • 00:12:42.545 --> 00:12:47.817
  • I mean, i don't wanna be like, i don't wanna get involved in
  • 00:12:47.817 --> 00:12:50.219
  • Gross immorality or blatant wickedness.
  • 00:12:50.219 --> 00:12:54.523
  • But i mean, isn't pretty good good enough?
  • 00:12:54.523 --> 00:12:59.595
  • Well, it's not if you wanna be healthy.
  • 00:12:59.595 --> 00:13:03.132
  • And it's not if you wanna be spiritually healthy.
  • 00:13:03.132 --> 00:13:07.002
  • So the bible says these radical things like say no
  • 00:13:07.002 --> 00:13:09.572
  • To ungodliness, agh.
  • 00:13:09.572 --> 00:13:12.308
  • We say maybe.
  • 00:13:12.308 --> 00:13:14.343
  • "it's an inconvenient time.
  • 00:13:14.343 --> 00:13:15.678
  • Pastor's watching."
  • 00:13:15.678 --> 00:13:18.848
  • So paul puts it up, it's just right there in front of him,
  • 00:13:18.848 --> 00:13:21.016
  • He's writing to a church, "live a life worthy of the lord and
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  • Please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work,
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  • Growing in the knowledge of god, being strengthened with all
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  • Power according to his glorious might so that you may have great
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  • Endurance and patience," oh.
  • 00:13:36.332 --> 00:13:41.270
  • I'd rather you have great endurance and patience.
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  • We're gonna face things that demand of us endurance.
  • 00:13:45.341 --> 00:13:49.345
  • Discipline requires endurance.
  • 00:13:49.345 --> 00:13:52.748
  • And god said he disciplines everyone he loves.
  • 00:13:52.748 --> 00:13:56.385
  • So if he loves you, there'll be seasons when he asks you to
  • 00:13:56.385 --> 00:13:59.255
  • Endure and be patient.
  • 00:13:59.255 --> 00:14:01.323
  • He hasn't abandoned you. he hasn't forgotten you.
  • 00:14:01.323 --> 00:14:03.158
  • His word isn't null or void. you weren't misled.
  • 00:14:03.158 --> 00:14:07.062
  • It's a part of the discipline it takes to serve the lord.
  • 00:14:07.062 --> 00:14:10.065
  • "joyfully giving thanks to the father, who's qualified you to
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  • Share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light."
  • 00:14:13.168 --> 00:14:17.239
  • Are you kidding me?
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  • God qualified.
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  • I didn't qualify myself.
  • 00:14:21.076 --> 00:14:23.679
  • You know, to make the olympic team, you gotta be a freak
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  • Of nature.
  • 00:14:25.948 --> 00:14:28.050
  • You gotta be able to run faster and jump higher or have bizarre
  • 00:14:28.050 --> 00:14:31.253
  • Balance or incredible strength, and then you got to train your
  • 00:14:31.253 --> 00:14:34.256
  • Life away and eat lots of brussels sprouts.
  • 00:14:34.256 --> 00:14:37.026
  • You gotta do the whole thing.
  • 00:14:37.026 --> 00:14:40.062
  • And then you got to get it all to work right on the exact day
  • 00:14:40.062 --> 00:14:42.865
  • When you need to achieve better than all the other freaks of
  • 00:14:42.865 --> 00:14:47.736
  • Nature that have gathered to try to make the olympic team.
  • 00:14:47.736 --> 00:14:51.340
  • It's a unicorn contest.
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  • But when it comes to the kingdom of god, the presentation
  • 00:14:54.944 --> 00:14:57.346
  • Is different.
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  • Did you catch it?
  • 00:14:58.681 --> 00:15:00.049
  • Says god has qualified us to share in the inheritance of
  • 00:15:00.049 --> 00:15:04.320
  • The saints.
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  • I got counted amongst the saints.
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  • I mean, me, a cracked pot.
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  • Not good enough.
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  • Not smart enough.
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  • Not holy enough.
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  • God qualified me.
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  • Yeah, i'll serve him.
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  • Oh yeah, i'll do my best.
  • 00:15:28.644 --> 00:15:32.681
  • What did paul say?
  • 00:15:32.681 --> 00:15:34.049
  • "live a life worthy of the lord."
  • 00:15:34.049 --> 00:15:35.384
  • I wanna do that.
  • 00:15:35.384 --> 00:15:37.419
  • I wanna do my best to honor the lord.
  • 00:15:37.419 --> 00:15:38.988
  • Do i always get it right?
  • 00:15:38.988 --> 00:15:40.356
  • No.
  • 00:15:40.356 --> 00:15:41.690
  • You cut me off in traffic.
  • 00:15:41.690 --> 00:15:43.625
  • You may get a prayer, but it may not be a blessing.
  • 00:15:43.625 --> 00:15:50.032
  • I'm not telling, but i am very aware of god's intervention
  • 00:15:50.032 --> 00:15:54.870
  • On my behalf.
  • 00:15:54.870 --> 00:15:56.705
  • And i don't intend to take it for granted.
  • 00:15:56.705 --> 00:15:59.908
  • And i don't want you to either.
  • 00:15:59.908 --> 00:16:02.177
  • Look at verse 13.
  • 00:16:02.177 --> 00:16:03.545
  • "he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness."
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  • Do you understand you were in--a slave to darkness,
  • 00:16:08.884 --> 00:16:12.054
  • That your future was destruction,
  • 00:16:12.054 --> 00:16:15.424
  • That there was no way of escaping it?
  • 00:16:15.424 --> 00:16:16.959
  • You might have looked good and had a lot of talent and a great
  • 00:16:16.959 --> 00:16:21.163
  • Deal of momentum, but the prince of darkness would have snatched
  • 00:16:21.163 --> 00:16:24.700
  • It from you.
  • 00:16:24.700 --> 00:16:27.536
  • "and god delivered us from the dominion of darkness and brought
  • 00:16:27.536 --> 00:16:31.573
  • Us into the kingdom of the son he loves, in whom we have
  • 00:16:31.573 --> 00:16:36.178
  • Redemption, the forgiveness of sins."
  • 00:16:36.178 --> 00:16:40.282
  • Wow!
  • 00:16:40.282 --> 00:16:43.652
  • And we're reluctant to tell people about jesus.
  • 00:16:43.652 --> 00:16:47.890
  • They're on a path of destruction, slaves
  • 00:16:47.890 --> 00:16:50.392
  • To ungodliness.
  • 00:16:50.392 --> 00:16:52.528
  • We think, "well, what if they don't like my invitation?"
  • 00:16:52.528 --> 00:16:56.698
  • What if they do?
  • 00:16:56.698 --> 00:16:59.601
  • Why would we not tell 'em?
  • 00:16:59.601 --> 00:17:01.737
  • Because we don't believe it's that big a deal.
  • 00:17:01.737 --> 00:17:05.040
  • The only ultimate solution to human suffering is the
  • 00:17:05.040 --> 00:17:08.811
  • Advancement of the gospel of the kingdom.
  • 00:17:08.811 --> 00:17:11.447
  • And the delivery system is the church of jesus christ.
  • 00:17:11.447 --> 00:17:16.485
  • Folks, it is so important.
  • 00:17:16.485 --> 00:17:20.556
  • We need to be more aware of the authority of our king.
  • 00:17:20.556 --> 00:17:24.293
  • You know, i honestly--i realized the degree to which i become
  • 00:17:24.293 --> 00:17:29.765
  • Numb, the messaging that washes over us is so constant.
  • 00:17:29.765 --> 00:17:35.170
  • And it comes at such a magnitude, even if you don't
  • 00:17:35.170 --> 00:17:37.806
  • Intend to, even if you think you've withdrawn from all the--
  • 00:17:37.806 --> 00:17:42.978
  • It's so--i had forgotten what it looks like to see authority
  • 00:17:42.978 --> 00:17:46.648
  • Expressed on the global stage.
  • 00:17:46.648 --> 00:17:49.518
  • For decades we've been told to capitulate,
  • 00:17:49.518 --> 00:17:53.155
  • That the expression of american values was inappropriate.
  • 00:17:53.155 --> 00:17:57.359
  • I mean, it's percolated all the way through academics.
  • 00:17:57.359 --> 00:17:59.461
  • I mean, it was in the higher levels of academics decades ago,
  • 00:17:59.461 --> 00:18:02.931
  • But it's made its way down into the elementary schools now.
  • 00:18:02.931 --> 00:18:05.134
  • We teach our children this drivel.
  • 00:18:05.134 --> 00:18:08.303
  • And to see our nation stand up for what's right, it's a
  • 00:18:08.303 --> 00:18:12.841
  • Little uncomfortable.
  • 00:18:12.841 --> 00:18:14.576
  • I felt that way in my own self.
  • 00:18:14.576 --> 00:18:15.944
  • I thought, should we be in venezuela?
  • 00:18:15.944 --> 00:18:20.048
  • When a pastor shows up on a phone in front of me with tears
  • 00:18:20.048 --> 00:18:22.384
  • Running down his face, saying, "please tell all the people
  • 00:18:22.384 --> 00:18:24.853
  • Thank you."
  • 00:18:24.853 --> 00:18:26.522
  • I thought, "well, lord, that wasn't my discernment, but okay.
  • 00:18:26.522 --> 00:18:31.994
  • And i think we've lost sight of the authority of god.
  • 00:18:31.994 --> 00:18:36.565
  • We're reluctant to tell people the truth.
  • 00:18:36.565 --> 00:18:38.333
  • Folks, there is an ultimate evaluation coming and there
  • 00:18:38.333 --> 00:18:42.905
  • Won't be a do-over.
  • 00:18:42.905 --> 00:18:44.273
  • You don't get to hit reset on the game.
  • 00:18:44.273 --> 00:18:49.011
  • I mean, there's a lot of powerful voices, a lot of
  • 00:18:49.011 --> 00:18:51.046
  • Influential voices under the general umbrella of what we call
  • 00:18:51.046 --> 00:18:54.183
  • The church.
  • 00:18:54.183 --> 00:18:55.517
  • I don't believe it's the true church.
  • 00:18:55.517 --> 00:18:56.885
  • There are false prophets, but there's a lot of voices under
  • 00:18:56.885 --> 00:18:58.353
  • That umbrella telling you that god's gonna grade on a curve,
  • 00:18:58.353 --> 00:19:03.759
  • That jesus really isn't that unique,
  • 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:05.294
  • He's not that essential,
  • 00:19:05.294 --> 00:19:07.162
  • Biblical morality is a little antiquated, out of date,
  • 00:19:07.162 --> 00:19:09.665
  • It's not a helpful message.
  • 00:19:09.665 --> 00:19:12.868
  • Look at john 5. these were--jesus's words.
  • 00:19:12.868 --> 00:19:17.039
  • Abraham referred to god as the judge of all the earth.
  • 00:19:17.039 --> 00:19:19.474
  • I didn't put it in your notes, but you can check me, he did.
  • 00:19:19.474 --> 00:19:23.045
  • Abraham understood god, creator of heaven and earth, to be the
  • 00:19:23.045 --> 00:19:26.315
  • Judge of all the earth, not just the creator, the evaluator.
  • 00:19:26.315 --> 00:19:30.118
  • You know that.
  • 00:19:30.118 --> 00:19:31.486
  • It's intuitive if you've read the first two chapters
  • 00:19:31.486 --> 00:19:33.188
  • Of genesis ever.
  • 00:19:33.188 --> 00:19:34.690
  • At the end of each day of creation, god had an evaluation
  • 00:19:34.690 --> 00:19:37.926
  • Of what he had done.
  • 00:19:37.926 --> 00:19:40.362
  • He didn't say it was good enough.
  • 00:19:40.362 --> 00:19:43.131
  • They didn't say, oops, he said, "that was good."
  • 00:19:43.131 --> 00:19:46.268
  • And he will evaluate ultimately everything that happens on
  • 00:19:46.268 --> 00:19:49.371
  • Planet earth.
  • 00:19:49.371 --> 00:19:50.706
  • We're introduced to god in that way.
  • 00:19:50.706 --> 00:19:52.107
  • You can't accept him as creator and not accept him as judge.
  • 00:19:52.107 --> 00:19:56.211
  • But in the new testament, there's a very
  • 00:19:56.211 --> 00:19:58.447
  • Interesting shift.
  • 00:19:58.447 --> 00:19:59.815
  • Jesus makes the statement in john 5:22.
  • 00:19:59.815 --> 00:20:02.017
  • He says, "the father judges no one, but he has entrusted all
  • 00:20:02.017 --> 00:20:06.088
  • Judgment to the son.
  • 00:20:06.088 --> 00:20:08.991
  • Jesus will sit in judgment.
  • 00:20:08.991 --> 00:20:12.594
  • Now, judgment can be for you or against you.
  • 00:20:12.594 --> 00:20:14.963
  • Judgment isn't always bad.
  • 00:20:14.963 --> 00:20:16.765
  • I learned this, being a brilliant scholar, by watching
  • 00:20:16.765 --> 00:20:21.803
  • "the people's court."
  • 00:20:21.803 --> 00:20:25.474
  • I mean, there's been many variations since then, but it
  • 00:20:25.474 --> 00:20:27.542
  • All started with judge wapner.
  • 00:20:27.542 --> 00:20:30.646
  • Yeah, you old people remember.
  • 00:20:30.646 --> 00:20:33.482
  • The rest of you go ask rabbi google.
  • 00:20:33.482 --> 00:20:36.184
  • And at the end of every hearing, the judge would render judgment
  • 00:20:36.184 --> 00:20:40.589
  • In favor of someone,
  • 00:20:40.589 --> 00:20:43.558
  • Either the plaintiff or the defendant.
  • 00:20:43.558 --> 00:20:45.160
  • He never rendered judgment against anybody.
  • 00:20:45.160 --> 00:20:47.062
  • He was for something.
  • 00:20:47.062 --> 00:20:48.864
  • Judgment can be in your favor.
  • 00:20:48.864 --> 00:20:52.334
  • So you don't have to be afraid of the judge, you just want to
  • 00:20:52.334 --> 00:20:54.202
  • Be on the right side of the judgment.
  • 00:20:54.202 --> 00:20:59.274
  • You can be a scholar too.
  • 00:20:59.274 --> 00:21:03.578
  • Jesus said he's the judge.
  • 00:21:03.578 --> 00:21:04.913
  • God has entrusted all judgment to him.
  • 00:21:04.913 --> 00:21:07.182
  • I pulled two passages from revelation.
  • 00:21:07.182 --> 00:21:08.817
  • It's the end of the age.
  • 00:21:08.817 --> 00:21:10.385
  • They give us a pretty graphic picture of this.
  • 00:21:10.385 --> 00:21:13.188
  • In revelation 1, john is being reintroduced to his best friend.
  • 00:21:13.188 --> 00:21:18.026
  • Jesus comes to see john.
  • 00:21:18.026 --> 00:21:19.394
  • I can't imagine that.
  • 00:21:19.394 --> 00:21:22.030
  • I truly can't.
  • 00:21:22.030 --> 00:21:25.133
  • It's been decades since john saw jesus.
  • 00:21:25.133 --> 00:21:28.937
  • And he's an old man, and his peers, his friends, his closest
  • 00:21:28.937 --> 00:21:31.940
  • Friends have all been executed, martyred.
  • 00:21:31.940 --> 00:21:36.278
  • And john's left alone and now he's a prisoner for the gospel,
  • 00:21:36.278 --> 00:21:41.283
  • Exiled on an island, and on the on the lord's day, he said he
  • 00:21:41.283 --> 00:21:45.253
  • Was in the spirit, and he hears a voice, it's verse 12, you've
  • 00:21:45.253 --> 00:21:47.756
  • Got it.
  • 00:21:47.756 --> 00:21:49.124
  • "i turned around to see the voice that was speaking.
  • 00:21:49.124 --> 00:21:50.959
  • And when i turned, i saw seven golden lampstands, and among
  • 00:21:50.959 --> 00:21:54.863
  • The lampstands was someone 'like the son of man,' dressed
  • 00:21:54.863 --> 00:21:57.833
  • In a robe reaching down to his feet with a golden sash
  • 00:21:57.833 --> 00:22:00.369
  • Around his chest.
  • 00:22:00.369 --> 00:22:02.371
  • His head and his hair were white like wool, and his eyes were
  • 00:22:02.371 --> 00:22:05.607
  • Like blazing fire and his feet were like bronze glowing in a
  • 00:22:05.607 --> 00:22:08.343
  • Furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters.
  • 00:22:08.343 --> 00:22:12.347
  • In his right hand he held seven stars, and out of his mouth came
  • 00:22:12.347 --> 00:22:17.486
  • A sharp double-edged sword.
  • 00:22:17.486 --> 00:22:21.156
  • His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance.
  • 00:22:21.156 --> 00:22:23.592
  • And when i saw him, i fell at his feet as though dead.
  • 00:22:23.592 --> 00:22:26.094
  • And he placed his right hand on me and said: 'don't be afraid.
  • 00:22:26.094 --> 00:22:28.597
  • I'm the first and the last.
  • 00:22:28.597 --> 00:22:29.931
  • I'm the living one.
  • 00:22:29.931 --> 00:22:31.299
  • I was dead, and behold, i am alive forever.
  • 00:22:31.299 --> 00:22:33.402
  • I hold the keys of death and hell.'"
  • 00:22:33.402 --> 00:22:37.939
  • I got the keys to hell.
  • 00:22:37.939 --> 00:22:40.509
  • Last time you saw me, i was living through it, but now i got
  • 00:22:40.509 --> 00:22:44.646
  • The keys.
  • 00:22:44.646 --> 00:22:46.882
  • John saw his friend.
  • 00:22:46.882 --> 00:22:49.017
  • And i don't think it's an accident that when he's
  • 00:22:49.017 --> 00:22:51.119
  • Reintroduced, he said that out of his mouth came this sharp
  • 00:22:51.119 --> 00:22:55.357
  • Double-edged sword.
  • 00:22:55.357 --> 00:22:56.725
  • Now, let's scroll forward to nearing the conclusion of this
  • 00:22:56.725 --> 00:22:58.794
  • Revelation at the end of the age
  • 00:22:58.794 --> 00:23:01.997
  • And the expressions of god's judgment on the earth in favor
  • 00:23:01.997 --> 00:23:04.800
  • Of some and against those who have opposed his purposes.
  • 00:23:04.800 --> 00:23:08.603
  • It is not a fruitful investment of your life to live in
  • 00:23:08.603 --> 00:23:12.674
  • Opposition to the stated purposes of god.
  • 00:23:12.674 --> 00:23:17.479
  • Now, you can do that and sit in a church, you can do that and
  • 00:23:17.479 --> 00:23:19.815
  • Rage against the church.
  • 00:23:19.815 --> 00:23:21.516
  • I mean, your location doesn't necessarily qualify your intent.
  • 00:23:21.516 --> 00:23:26.321
  • I'm just telling you, it is not wise to lead your life in
  • 00:23:26.321 --> 00:23:30.592
  • Expression in open opposition to the purposes of god.
  • 00:23:30.592 --> 00:23:36.965
  • Well, in revelation 19, john says, "i saw heaven standing
  • 00:23:36.965 --> 00:23:40.035
  • Open and before me was a white horse, whose rider is called
  • 00:23:40.035 --> 00:23:44.206
  • Faithful and true.
  • 00:23:44.206 --> 00:23:45.540
  • And with justice, he judges and makes war."
  • 00:23:45.540 --> 00:23:49.778
  • This was jesus coming out of heaven, not as an innocent baby
  • 00:23:49.778 --> 00:23:54.983
  • Laid in a manger,
  • 00:23:54.983 --> 00:23:57.652
  • Not as the lamb of god to take away the sin of the world, not
  • 00:23:57.652 --> 00:24:00.388
  • As a suffering servant, as a conquering king.
  • 00:24:00.388 --> 00:24:04.993
  • Riding a white horse, listen, "his eyes are like blazing
  • 00:24:04.993 --> 00:24:07.863
  • Fire," it sounds a lot like revelation 1, a bit.
  • 00:24:07.863 --> 00:24:10.565
  • "and on his head are many crowns, and he has a name
  • 00:24:10.565 --> 00:24:12.767
  • Written on him that no one knows but he himself.
  • 00:24:12.767 --> 00:24:14.569
  • He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the
  • 00:24:14.569 --> 00:24:16.972
  • Word of god.
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  • And the armies of heaven were following him, riding on white
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  • Horses and dressed in fight linen--fine linen, and out of
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  • His mouth comes a sharp sword
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  • With which to strike down the nations.
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  • He will rule them with an iron scepter.
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  • He treads the wine press of the fury of the wrath of
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  • Almighty god.
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  • On his robe and on his thigh he has the name written: king of
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  • Kings and lord of lords."
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  • It's a presentation of jesus.
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  • The same jesus john met in revelation 1.
  • 00:24:45.433 --> 00:24:49.671
  • Now, i don't wanna belabor the point,
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  • But i wanna be sure i tag it because, again,
  • 00:24:51.373 --> 00:24:53.575
  • There's so much messaging that i believe is not helpful that is
  • 00:24:53.575 --> 00:24:57.546
  • So prevalent within the christian community--
  • 00:24:57.546 --> 00:25:02.250
  • That the grace of god and the mercy of god will cover
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  • Every sin.
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  • We're very familiar with the parable of the prodigal,
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  • Which i'm very grateful for, but one parable does not fit all.
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  • Don't be a professional prodigal.
  • 00:25:18.333 --> 00:25:24.472
  • Jesus also said, "go and sin no more."
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  • He also told parables about the return of the king and those who
  • 00:25:28.443 --> 00:25:31.279
  • Thought they were prepared and were not, and they were
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  • Left outside.
  • 00:25:33.415 --> 00:25:35.817
  • He also told parables about servants who were entrusted with
  • 00:25:35.817 --> 00:25:42.157
  • Resources or talents, and when they didn't respond
  • 00:25:42.157 --> 00:25:46.294
  • Appropriately, they were cast into outer darkness.
  • 00:25:46.294 --> 00:25:48.797
  • I mean, there's multiple parables.
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  • I believe in the prodigal.
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  • You'll probably find my name in that prodigal list if you'll
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  • Keep looking.
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  • But i don't wanna be a professional prodigal.
  • 00:25:57.739 --> 00:26:02.978
  • Allen: hey, this is not just the beginning of another year.
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  • This is the beginning of the 250th anniversary of our nation.
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  • This is a very special year.
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  • It's a god's story.
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  • This isn't about national politics or economics or
  • 00:26:16.658 --> 00:26:20.228
  • Chest thumping.
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  • This is an acknowledgement that god works in the history of
  • 00:26:21.563 --> 00:26:24.165
  • People and nations.
  • 00:26:24.165 --> 00:26:26.067
  • Well, most of us don't care a lot about history, so we
  • 00:26:26.067 --> 00:26:28.036
  • Partnered with some of our good friends, wallbuilders tim and
  • 00:26:28.036 --> 00:26:30.772
  • David barton, they have the best on this topic.
  • 00:26:30.772 --> 00:26:33.074
  • It's a two volume set on the american story.
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  • It'll help us understand god's engagement in american history.
  • 00:26:35.977 --> 00:26:40.515
  • We've lost most of this in our public schools and certainly in
  • 00:26:40.515 --> 00:26:43.184
  • Higher education.
  • 00:26:43.184 --> 00:26:44.519
  • We gotta start back with our families around the kitchen
  • 00:26:44.519 --> 00:26:46.655
  • Table, learning how god has been engaged with us so we can
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  • Imagine a future that includes god.
  • 00:26:49.691 --> 00:26:52.327
  • Let's pray and ask for his help.
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  • Father, i thank you.
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  • I believe you have blessed our nation and caused us to
  • 00:26:55.797 --> 00:26:57.666
  • Flourish, and i pray that this year you would open our hearts
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  • To what you have still ahead of us, that we might invite you
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  • Into our homes, our communities, and into this nation's future.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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