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Allen Jackson - Reformation Emerging (Part 2)

February 3, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Reformation Emerging (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Reformation Emerging (Part 2) | February 3, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: you know, around the world people are searching
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  • Allen: now, i don't wanna belabor the point, but i wanna
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  • Be sure i tag it because again, there's so much messaging that
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  • I believe is not helpful, that is so prevalent within the
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  • Christian community.
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  • 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.
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  • 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
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  • Thought they were prepared and were not, and they were
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  • Left outside.
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  • He also told parables about servants who were entrusted with
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  • Resources or talents, and when they didn't respond
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  • Appropriately, they were cast into outer darkness.
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  • 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 keep
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  • Looking but i don't wanna be a professional prodigal.
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  • There are some behaviors that will disqualify you from the
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  • Kingdom of god, not my opinion.
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  • Romans 8, verse 13 says, "if you live according to the sinful
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  • Nature, you will die.
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  • But if by the spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body,
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  • You will live."
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  • Romans 8 is one of the most triumphant chapters in the
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  • Entire bible.
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  • It's in romans 8 where it says, "nothing can separate us from
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  • The love of god."
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  • Powerful verse, quoted it often.
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  • But it also says in that same chapter, "if you live according
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  • To sinful nature, you'll die."
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  • So we better pay attention to what nature is driving our
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  • Behaviors, it matters.
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  • Galatians 5, "the acts of the sinful nature are obvious."
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  • Obvious, he says, you know this is not right and it's not an
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  • Inclusive list, it's a little sample set, "sexual immorality,
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  • Impurity, debauchery--debauchery just means excess, idolatry,
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  • Witchcraft, hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish
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  • Ambition, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and
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  • The like.
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  • I warn you, as i did before, that those who live like
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  • This will not inherit the kingdom of god."
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  • He's writing that to a church, to believers and he says,
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  • "listen, you know," he said, "it's obvious to you.
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  • You understand the acts of the sinful nature, and i warn you,
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  • I've warned you many times," he says.
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  • You cannot practice these things and be a part of the kingdom
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  • Of god.
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  • Now you can struggle with sin.
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  • We can be tempted by sin, but you can't give yourself to sin.
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  • You can't say, i just think i'm gonna live sinfully and i'll be
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  • Okay after all, god's merciful.
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  • I've had crazy meetings with people.
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  • It's unbelievable what people that have great tenure in
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  • Christian will say.
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  • I sat with a couple once and they were engaged in
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  • An adulterous affair, planning to dissolve relationships, start
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  • A new marriage, and they said, "you know, when we get
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  • Everything done and we get married, we're gonna repent."
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  • That's mocking god and i give you many other versions.
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  • I'm telling you, and there's tremendous support when we talk
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  • About grace.
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  • I believe in grace.
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  • You look up grace, you can find my picture.
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  • Grace is the unearned, undeserved, merit, favor,
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  • Blessing, goodness of god.
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  • I'm not telling you we earn our way into the kingdom.
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  • I'm telling you we've promoted sloppiness and we've acted like
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  • God was a deaf, dumb, blind judge.
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  • What did peter say?
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  • It wasn't peter, it was paul.
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  • We read it in colossians, "live a life worthy of the lord.
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  • Please him in every way."
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  • Peter said, "live your lives as strangers here in
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  • Reverent fear."
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  • We--we've lost that respect, the awe of god.
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  • So what do you do?
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  • We need a revolution on the inside of us.
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  • I think we all agree change needs to happen.
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  • Too much fraud, too much ungodliness.
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  • We get it we're aware.
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  • It's not that we're unaware.
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  • We'd rather not talk about it, but we're aware.
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  • Well, i wanna submit to you, we can be the incubators of change.
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  • We can become the change agents by letting the change comes
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  • To us.
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  • So i wanna take the minutes we have left and just do
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  • A practicum with you.
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  • I'm gonna walk you through some steps to transformation.
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  • I believe they'll be of benefit to us, but i think of even
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  • Greater benefit is that you'll have them to take and you can
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  • Share them in other places.
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  • Say, "well, pastor i couldn't do that i've only been a christian
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  • 12 years."
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  • Oh!
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  • Well, where is that threshold where you become an advocate?
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  • 15 years?
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  • 25 years?
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  • Well, i mean, i don't know the bible well.
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  • Oh, i see, it's a test you have to take.
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  • You know enough.
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  • The disciples jesus recruited on more than one occasion, he said,
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  • "are you really that dull?"
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  • And the answer was, "yeah," and he entrusted them to the message
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  • Of the kingdom.
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  • So i wanna give you some simple steps.
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  • They're really grounded in four words.
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  • They're not new.
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  • We've talked about them before, but we're gonna walk through
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  • All four of these, and we're gonna do it pretty quickly.
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  • We're gonna have to move.
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  • One is repentance.
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  • That's the beginning point.
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  • We repent and believe.
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  • That's our access into the kingdom of god.
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  • That's how you change kingdoms.
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  • It's not joining a church.
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  • It's not being more religious.
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  • It's not adopting a new moral code.
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  • That will come, but it begins by giving jesus first place in your
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  • Life, calling him lord that begins with repentance.
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  • Without repentance, there's no forgiveness of sins.
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  • If you change your behavior from the outside in, you don't get
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  • The benefit of repentance, repentance and believe, the
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  • Bible says.
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  • And then we're going to talk about renouncing.
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  • Renunciation, separating yourselves from your past.
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  • Not celebrating it, not highlighting it, with a wink and
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  • A nod, going, "yeah, that was really ungodly, it was awful."
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  • Fast cars, yeah, it's bad.
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  • And then we're gonna release.
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  • Some of us have taken hostages and captives.
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  • You think you're holding them and they're actually
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  • Keeping you.
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  • And then we're gonna be certain that we have the resolve to
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  • Go forward.
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  • So we're gonna do those four things, two verses of
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  • Scripture, you have them.
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  • Mark 1:15, this was jesus at the beginning of his ministry.
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  • He said, '"the time has come.
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  • The kingdom of god is near.
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  • Repent and believe the good news!'"
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  • I'm telling you, the kingdom of god is near today.
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  • We're approaching the end of the age and the kingdom of god and
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  • Its entrance back into time, it's revelation in time is near.
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  • It's not about joining the right church or reading the right
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  • Translation of the bible.
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  • It's a decision you make with regard to the person of jesus of
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  • Nazareth, and it's not just what you believe about him that he's
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  • A historical figure, that maybe he truly did live and he was a
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  • Miracle worker and a healer, and he really did all those things.
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  • The decision that it's transformational is you choose
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  • Him as lord of your life, which means he gets to set
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  • The priorities.
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  • If jesus is not establishing the priorities of your life, he's
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  • Not your lord, you're not a christian.
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  • Now that is an emerging process.
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  • The conversion, i believe, happens at a point in time, but
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  • Learning to live under the authority of jesus will follow
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  • You on your whole journey through time.
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  • I'm still learning.
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  • But the fallacy is thinking you can say some magic words and you
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  • Get your entrance into the kingdom, but you don't really
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  • Have to live under the authority of jesus.
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  • It begins with repentance and believing.
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  • I have come to understand that repentance is the great catalyst
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  • To believing.
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  • Repentance carries with it two meanings, you change your
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  • Thinking and you change your behavior.
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  • If you won't repent, it's really hard to believe.
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  • Your faith remains stunted.
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  • If you will become a world-class repenter, and that's not just at
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  • Your initiation into the kingdom of god, that's all along
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  • The journey.
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  • Oh, i've been thinking wrong about that.
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  • I haven't been acting right on that point.
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  • God, i'm sorry i wanna change.
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  • You begin to catalyze your ability to believe.
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  • You'll grow in faith and you'll grow in obedience.
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  • So please don't think of repentance is just what the
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  • Pagans need.
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  • Repentance needs to be a very familiar habit for those of us
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  • Who imagine ourselves to be christ's followers.
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  • Romans 10:9, most of you know it says, "if you confess with your
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  • Mouth, 'jesus is lord,' and believe in your heart that god
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  • Raised him from the dead, you'll be saved."
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  • That's the beginning point.
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  • I wanna start there with you.
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  • I wanna ask you to say a little prayer with me.
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  • If you've never said it and really meant it, today's
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  • A good day.
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  • If you've said it a thousand times, one more won't hurt you.
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  • It's far more important than just you.
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  • I want you to know how to help somebody else.
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  • I want you to know how to take this message.
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  • So for a moment, just forget the people around you.
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  • They're not overly relevant at the moment.
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  • When you stand before the lord, you won't have them.
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  • Your fancy little laminated woc service card will not be
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  • Of help.
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  • Your id number with which you check in your children will not
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  • Get you through the pearly gates.
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  • Bummer, but this prayer is a first step.
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  • Just forget that maybe we just close our eyes for a moment.
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  • If you wanna pray this prayer, pray it with me: almighty god, i
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  • Am sinner and i need a savior.
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  • I believe jesus is your son.
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  • That he died on a cross for my sin and that you raised him to
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  • Life again.
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  • That i might be justified.
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  • Forgive me of my sins.
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  • I forgive all those who've sinned against me.
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  • Jesus be lord of my life.
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  • Lord of all that i have.
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  • All that i'll ever be.
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  • I wanna live to honor you and i thank you now, that i'm a part
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  • Of the family of god in jesus's name, amen.
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  • Wow!
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  • Amazing.
  • 00:11:57.800 --> 00:12:02.171
  • So only the power of god can do that, for the greatest miracle
  • 00:12:02.171 --> 00:12:05.074
  • That will ever touch the life of a human being is conversion and
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  • It begins at that point and we enter the world much like new
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  • Babies do.
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  • We just know how to make noise and a mess and we have to grow
  • 00:12:14.650 --> 00:12:17.753
  • Up in the lord.
  • 00:12:17.753 --> 00:12:19.855
  • We're very vulnerable at that point.
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  • Remember the par--one parable is the--remember of the parable of
  • 00:12:21.257 --> 00:12:23.859
  • The farmer sowing the seed?
  • 00:12:23.859 --> 00:12:26.629
  • There's a lot of vulnerability at conversion and new birth,
  • 00:12:26.629 --> 00:12:29.098
  • We need one another.
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  • That's why community matters so much.
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  • Allen jackson: welcome to 2026, happy new year.
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  • It's a really simple idea.
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  • We'll have a brief conversation with the spiritual principle to
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  • Start our day, a scripture verse, a prayer, and then when
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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 and then just see
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  • What he will do.
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  • Allen: but beyond your new birth now, how do we walk in the
  • 00:13:39.802 --> 00:13:42.238
  • Freedom that's ours in christ?
  • 00:13:42.238 --> 00:13:44.473
  • How do we gain spiritual strength?
  • 00:13:44.473 --> 00:13:47.343
  • Well, i believe there's a component that will add momentum
  • 00:13:47.343 --> 00:13:50.045
  • To your spiritual life.
  • 00:13:50.045 --> 00:13:52.014
  • The word i use for it is to renounce, but it's really to
  • 00:13:52.014 --> 00:13:54.216
  • Separate yourself from your past.
  • 00:13:54.216 --> 00:13:57.186
  • So you can be forgiven by god, but there's like residue the way
  • 00:13:57.186 --> 00:14:01.290
  • That barnacles attach themselves to a boat that's in the water.
  • 00:14:01.290 --> 00:14:05.261
  • As you travel through life, you get residue.
  • 00:14:05.261 --> 00:14:08.497
  • You have feelings and emotions and experiences, and there's
  • 00:14:08.497 --> 00:14:11.500
  • Spiritual components to some of that, every expression of your
  • 00:14:11.500 --> 00:14:14.470
  • Carnal nature has a corresponding expression from an
  • 00:14:14.470 --> 00:14:18.874
  • Ungodly spirit and those influences impact how you think
  • 00:14:18.874 --> 00:14:24.213
  • And how you react and they shape your emotional responses and the
  • 00:14:24.213 --> 00:14:28.550
  • Power of god is present to bring freedom to us and liberty, but
  • 00:14:28.550 --> 00:14:32.488
  • We have to understand it's not a power encounter,
  • 00:14:32.488 --> 00:14:34.857
  • It's a truth encounter.
  • 00:14:34.857 --> 00:14:37.159
  • Through the cross, jesus gained a total complete irreversible
  • 00:14:37.159 --> 00:14:41.130
  • Eternal victory over satan.
  • 00:14:41.130 --> 00:14:44.233
  • But that doesn't mean it automatically transforms
  • 00:14:44.233 --> 00:14:46.235
  • Your life.
  • 00:14:46.235 --> 00:14:47.770
  • What jesus has done is complete.
  • 00:14:47.770 --> 00:14:49.438
  • It can't be changed, but if you don't believe in your heart and
  • 00:14:49.438 --> 00:14:52.141
  • Confess with your mouth, you'll miss the kingdom of god.
  • 00:14:52.141 --> 00:14:55.844
  • And there are freedoms that are yours that if you don't
  • 00:14:55.844 --> 00:14:58.647
  • Appropriate the blood of jesus, you will miss the freedom.
  • 00:14:58.647 --> 00:15:02.584
  • We have the mistaken notion that we can just live, we can live
  • 00:15:02.584 --> 00:15:05.988
  • Through sin, we can just move on.
  • 00:15:05.988 --> 00:15:08.524
  • I just don't like to think about it anymore.
  • 00:15:08.524 --> 00:15:10.125
  • It was a bad chapter in my life.
  • 00:15:10.125 --> 00:15:11.660
  • I didn't do great, the people around me didn't do great, but
  • 00:15:11.660 --> 00:15:14.363
  • I'm kinda past it.
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  • I just don't wanna deal with it anymore.
  • 00:15:15.731 --> 00:15:18.600
  • Well, that's about as clever as knowing you have an aggressive
  • 00:15:18.600 --> 00:15:21.270
  • Disease and think, well, if i just don't go to the doctor i'll
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  • Be okay.
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  • No, the doctor's not the problem.
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  • It's what's happening in you and ignoring expressions of evil
  • 00:15:29.611 --> 00:15:35.084
  • That have touched your life is not the healthiest way
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  • To proceed.
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  • We can be free.
  • 00:15:39.455 --> 00:15:43.592
  • So renunciation is separating yourself from your past.
  • 00:15:43.592 --> 00:15:47.496
  • Acknowledging that we had some involvement and saying, god,
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  • I don't ever intend to walk that way again.
  • 00:15:54.803 --> 00:15:57.706
  • So i brought you a prayer.
  • 00:15:57.706 --> 00:15:59.074
  • I put it in your notes.
  • 00:15:59.074 --> 00:16:00.409
  • I didn't put it in the notes in the previous session, there was
  • 00:16:00.409 --> 00:16:02.778
  • Great angst.
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  • So i--i'm gonna lead you through it.
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  • You can just repeat it after me.
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  • You--if you'd rather read it, whichever is simpler for you,
  • 00:16:10.619 --> 00:16:12.921
  • I may not--i'll read it so i don't mess you up.
  • 00:16:12.921 --> 00:16:18.694
  • But you--we need this freedom.
  • 00:16:18.694 --> 00:16:21.964
  • We've ignored our past, we thought, "oh, you know, i'm
  • 00:16:21.964 --> 00:16:24.533
  • A christian now."
  • 00:16:24.533 --> 00:16:28.537
  • Well, i'm not diminishing the reality of the new birth but i
  • 00:16:28.537 --> 00:16:32.908
  • Don't wanna ignore the reality of the world we live in.
  • 00:16:32.908 --> 00:16:35.110
  • We meet peter when jesus recruited me, he said, "follow
  • 00:16:35.110 --> 00:16:37.312
  • Me and i'll make you a fisher of men."
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  • There was a lot of learning, a lot of freedom peter had
  • 00:16:39.048 --> 00:16:41.083
  • To find.
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  • Paul; allen.
  • 00:16:44.186 --> 00:16:48.757
  • So together let's say this prayer: heavenly father, i
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  • Renounce my involvement in each and every expression of
  • 00:16:52.561 --> 00:16:57.833
  • Ungodliness and you can see in your prayer--i'm gonna interrupt
  • 00:16:57.833 --> 00:17:03.205
  • It for a moment, i'm sorry.
  • 00:17:03.205 --> 00:17:04.540
  • I gave you a kind of a sample set like paul did in galatians.
  • 00:17:04.540 --> 00:17:08.310
  • Things that we get involved in the occult.
  • 00:17:08.310 --> 00:17:11.447
  • Your involvement in the occult will limit your
  • 00:17:11.447 --> 00:17:14.316
  • Spiritual awareness.
  • 00:17:14.316 --> 00:17:16.118
  • I've helped hundreds of people.
  • 00:17:16.118 --> 00:17:18.787
  • It reduces your ability to hear spiritually or to see
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  • Or understand.
  • 00:17:21.924 --> 00:17:23.292
  • You have to repent of it because when you open your life and your
  • 00:17:23.292 --> 00:17:26.995
  • Heart to get counsel, direction, engagement from something other
  • 00:17:26.995 --> 00:17:30.966
  • Than the holy spirit, something will respond to you.
  • 00:17:30.966 --> 00:17:35.771
  • Say, "i don't believe that."
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  • Okay, doesn't change the reality.
  • 00:17:37.106 --> 00:17:42.044
  • I've helped too many people and if you'll say, "god, i'm sorry,"
  • 00:17:42.044 --> 00:17:46.381
  • People, we say, well, i didn't mean anything, but it was just
  • 00:17:46.381 --> 00:17:48.417
  • A ouija board, just reading my fortune.
  • 00:17:48.417 --> 00:17:50.352
  • I went to a fortune teller.
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  • It was at a carnival.
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  • The church had one.
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  • I went one at the church.
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  • Well, you don't have to have intent in order to be damaged.
  • 00:17:55.824 --> 00:18:01.096
  • Most of us have suffered some pretty egregious
  • 00:18:01.096 --> 00:18:03.365
  • Spiritual accidents.
  • 00:18:03.365 --> 00:18:06.201
  • Because we didn't have the maturity or the wisdom or mature
  • 00:18:06.201 --> 00:18:09.338
  • People around us to help protect us, so we went careening through
  • 00:18:09.338 --> 00:18:13.041
  • Life and we've had some pretty horrific spiritual accidents and
  • 00:18:13.041 --> 00:18:18.714
  • They leave us impaired, and this practice of renunciation will
  • 00:18:18.714 --> 00:18:23.085
  • Bring freedom to you.
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  • It may have been the occult, it may be sexual immorality.
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  • Say, "we just lived together."
  • 00:18:28.590 --> 00:18:30.159
  • You opened your life to spiritual influences and direct
  • 00:18:30.159 --> 00:18:32.895
  • Disobedience to scripture.
  • 00:18:32.895 --> 00:18:34.630
  • You can't do that without consequences.
  • 00:18:34.630 --> 00:18:37.733
  • "well, we got married."
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  • Okay, i'm grateful for that.
  • 00:18:39.368 --> 00:18:43.572
  • I'm not condemning you.
  • 00:18:43.572 --> 00:18:44.907
  • I'm just--i'm telling you, we open our lives and we haven't
  • 00:18:44.907 --> 00:18:47.409
  • Known, so we just thought we'd live past it, we'll live through
  • 00:18:47.409 --> 00:18:49.611
  • It, we'll--we're like, "well, i'm smarter, i'm better now.
  • 00:18:49.611 --> 00:18:52.314
  • I'm doing okay."
  • 00:18:52.314 --> 00:18:54.449
  • But you can be free.
  • 00:18:54.449 --> 00:18:56.351
  • It could be greed, i get jealousy, lust,
  • 00:18:56.351 --> 00:18:59.688
  • Perversion, murder.
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  • I would encourage you to take this prayer and be really
  • 00:19:01.056 --> 00:19:02.925
  • Specific when you have some moments.
  • 00:19:02.925 --> 00:19:05.394
  • Tell the lord the truth, he knows.
  • 00:19:05.394 --> 00:19:09.097
  • More importantly, tell the devil that you want to cancel every
  • 00:19:09.097 --> 00:19:14.736
  • Affiliation that you established with him.
  • 00:19:14.736 --> 00:19:19.007
  • You're not--
  • 00:19:19.007 --> 00:19:20.342
  • "well, i'm living a life worthy of the lord now.
  • 00:19:20.342 --> 00:19:22.544
  • I lived a life to satisfy my old carnal nature, but now i wanna
  • 00:19:22.544 --> 00:19:26.114
  • Live a life worthy of the lord, so i'm making some changes."
  • 00:19:26.114 --> 00:19:33.422
  • Where were we? the second sentence?
  • 00:19:33.422 --> 00:19:36.458
  • Let's just go back to the beginning.
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  • I'm gonna skip the parenthesis this time.
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  • Heavenly father, i renounce my involvement in each and every
  • 00:19:41.063 --> 00:19:47.936
  • Expression of ungodliness.
  • 00:19:47.936 --> 00:19:52.441
  • Through the blood of jesus, i'm delivered out of the hand of
  • 00:19:52.441 --> 00:19:56.445
  • The enemy.
  • 00:19:56.445 --> 00:19:59.014
  • My body is a temple of the holy spirit.
  • 00:19:59.014 --> 00:20:03.552
  • Redeemed and cleansed by the blood of jesus.
  • 00:20:03.552 --> 00:20:08.690
  • Through the blood of jesus, all of satan's claims against me or
  • 00:20:08.690 --> 00:20:15.764
  • Canceled in jesus's name.
  • 00:20:15.764 --> 00:20:20.535
  • Hallelujah! hallelujah!
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  • Repent, renounce, release.
  • 00:20:27.109 --> 00:20:30.512
  • This one takes a decision of our will.
  • 00:20:30.512 --> 00:20:32.047
  • We have to turn loose anyone and anything.
  • 00:20:32.047 --> 00:20:35.417
  • These are all the grievances.
  • 00:20:35.417 --> 00:20:38.453
  • The wounds, the unfair treatment, the injustice.
  • 00:20:38.453 --> 00:20:42.190
  • One of the most destructive forms of leadership, and it has
  • 00:20:42.190 --> 00:20:44.593
  • Enormous influence in our nation these days is to separate us by
  • 00:20:44.593 --> 00:20:48.497
  • Our grievances.
  • 00:20:48.497 --> 00:20:51.333
  • It fosters hate and resentment and bitterness, and it keeps us
  • 00:20:51.333 --> 00:20:56.204
  • Anchored in places that are very destructive.
  • 00:20:56.204 --> 00:21:00.042
  • Folks, when evil touches your life and you forgive, evil
  • 00:21:00.042 --> 00:21:03.478
  • Doesn't get away with it.
  • 00:21:03.478 --> 00:21:05.147
  • We've surrendered them to the just judgment of god.
  • 00:21:05.147 --> 00:21:09.484
  • I trust him.
  • 00:21:09.484 --> 00:21:11.720
  • When you hold anger and resentment and bitterness and
  • 00:21:11.720 --> 00:21:14.723
  • Hatred, when you take those hostages--i'm not going to
  • 00:21:14.723 --> 00:21:18.393
  • Release them.
  • 00:21:18.393 --> 00:21:19.761
  • I'm owed something, an apology, restitution, i suffered because
  • 00:21:19.761 --> 00:21:23.065
  • Of that person, or that organization, or that--we've all
  • 00:21:23.065 --> 00:21:26.535
  • Got our lists.
  • 00:21:26.535 --> 00:21:31.006
  • You are the ones that are captured.
  • 00:21:31.006 --> 00:21:34.843
  • So what i'm suggesting is we can't hold hostages, we can't
  • 00:21:34.843 --> 00:21:37.379
  • Hold grudges, we can't hold back.
  • 00:21:37.379 --> 00:21:40.782
  • Some of us are mad at god.
  • 00:21:40.782 --> 00:21:42.150
  • We haven't forgiven him.
  • 00:21:42.150 --> 00:21:43.485
  • We don't like his track record.
  • 00:21:43.485 --> 00:21:44.853
  • We don't think he did us right.
  • 00:21:44.853 --> 00:21:46.188
  • He wasn't fair to us.
  • 00:21:46.188 --> 00:21:49.191
  • I've had great disappointments or great injustices or i've had
  • 00:21:49.191 --> 00:21:52.327
  • Great losses and we're mad at god.
  • 00:21:52.327 --> 00:21:55.630
  • He can withstand our rage about his poor job performance, but it
  • 00:21:55.630 --> 00:21:59.167
  • Limits us.
  • 00:21:59.167 --> 00:22:02.671
  • So what i wanna suggest is a little prayer.
  • 00:22:02.671 --> 00:22:05.874
  • Forgiveness begins as a decision of your will, your emotions will
  • 00:22:05.874 --> 00:22:08.944
  • Catch up.
  • 00:22:08.944 --> 00:22:11.246
  • I'm not telling you you have to get back in line for more abuse.
  • 00:22:11.246 --> 00:22:14.916
  • I'm telling you, you can't hold the hostages.
  • 00:22:14.916 --> 00:22:18.420
  • I'll put the prayer in your notes.
  • 00:22:18.420 --> 00:22:19.755
  • Let's say it together.
  • 00:22:19.755 --> 00:22:21.490
  • In obedience to scripture and my lord, i release all those who
  • 00:22:21.490 --> 00:22:26.928
  • Have harmed me.
  • 00:22:26.928 --> 00:22:28.530
  • I forgive and i set free every person, organization, or group
  • 00:22:28.530 --> 00:22:33.869
  • Of people who have caused me pain or suffering.
  • 00:22:33.869 --> 00:22:37.873
  • I relinquish them into god's care.
  • 00:22:37.873 --> 00:22:40.809
  • I bless them that i might be blessed.
  • 00:22:40.809 --> 00:22:44.279
  • You may have to say that last bit a few times.
  • 00:22:44.279 --> 00:22:47.516
  • You may have to live with it for a little while.
  • 00:22:47.516 --> 00:22:50.285
  • Say, god i want your best for them 'cause i want your best
  • 00:22:50.285 --> 00:22:53.388
  • For me.
  • 00:22:53.388 --> 00:22:58.193
  • And then finally we repent, we renounce, we release, and then
  • 00:22:58.193 --> 00:23:03.665
  • We want a declaration of intent.
  • 00:23:03.665 --> 00:23:06.368
  • Resolve is simply saying my intent.
  • 00:23:06.368 --> 00:23:08.370
  • You see, if you lack the intent, it's highly improbable you'll
  • 00:23:08.370 --> 00:23:11.206
  • Ever achieve it.
  • 00:23:11.206 --> 00:23:13.308
  • Most of us would like to lose 5 pounds, but if you don't
  • 00:23:13.308 --> 00:23:15.210
  • Intend to change your intake and your exercise, it's not gonna
  • 00:23:15.210 --> 00:23:19.548
  • Happen, and we have to have the intent to honor the lord.
  • 00:23:19.548 --> 00:23:23.785
  • We have to have the intent to walk uprightly before the lord
  • 00:23:23.785 --> 00:23:28.256
  • And that's really about this resolve.
  • 00:23:28.256 --> 00:23:29.624
  • I think psalm 139 says it best.
  • 00:23:29.624 --> 00:23:31.860
  • "search me, o god, and know my heart;
  • 00:23:31.860 --> 00:23:34.262
  • Test me and know my anxious thoughts.
  • 00:23:34.262 --> 00:23:36.565
  • See if there's any offensive way in me, and lead me in the
  • 00:23:36.565 --> 00:23:39.601
  • Way everlasting."
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  • I'll follow you, you just lead me, lord.
  • 00:23:41.937 --> 00:23:45.507
  • I wanna be identified with you and your people, amen?
  • 00:23:45.507 --> 00:23:50.812
  • Now you got a whole tool kit to write a new story.
  • 00:23:50.812 --> 00:23:55.350
  • The spirit of god will help you.
  • 00:23:55.350 --> 00:23:56.718
  • If he brings an incident to your mind, if you remember some
  • 00:23:56.718 --> 00:23:59.387
  • Chapter from your life, you see a picture and it triggers
  • 00:23:59.387 --> 00:24:02.424
  • A whole set of emotions, get out your tool kit.
  • 00:24:02.424 --> 00:24:06.228
  • Say, "wait, wait, i probably got some work to do there.
  • 00:24:06.228 --> 00:24:09.164
  • I need to repent and renounce and release.
  • 00:24:09.164 --> 00:24:12.434
  • I wanna be sure i've established my intent on this point."
  • 00:24:12.434 --> 00:24:16.605
  • You with me?
  • 00:24:16.605 --> 00:24:18.807
  • One last prayer we'll close with, you're gonna pray your way
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  • Out of this one, aren't you?
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  • Let's stand together for this one.
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  • Full disclosure, it's not mine.
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  • I borrowed it from daniel.
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  • Like daniel in the book not daniel, two rows behind you.
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  • Daniel spent his whole--the majority of his adult life as
  • 00:24:37.859 --> 00:24:40.161
  • A slave, and yet he had such a remarkable heart for god that he
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  • Was trusted with visions of the future that is still ahead
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  • Of us.
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  • Your circumstance don't dictate your usefulness to the lord,
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  • It's the condition of your heart that does that.
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  • You wouldn't be a better christ follower if people treated
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  • You better.
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  • I don't know.
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  • Let's just read this prayer together.
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  • It's a great conclusion.
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  • "o lord, the great and awesome god, who keeps his covenant of
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  • Love with all who love him and obey his commands, we have
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  • Sinned and done wrong.
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  • We have been wicked and have rebelled.
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  • We have turned away from your commands and laws.
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  • We have not listened to your direction.
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  • Now, o lord our god, hear the prayers and petitions of
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  • Your servants.
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  • For your sake, o lord, look with favor on your people.
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  • Give ear and hear; open your eyes and see the desolation of
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  • Our day.
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  • We do not make requests because we are righteous, but because of
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  • Your great mercy.
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  • O lord, listen!
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  • O lord, forgive!
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  • Oh lord, hear and act!
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  • For your sake do not delay because your people bear your
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  • Name, amen."
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  • Hallelujah!
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  • God bless you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • 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
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  • Chest thumping.
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  • This is an acknowledgement that god works in the history of
  • 00:26:26.601 --> 00:26:29.204
  • People and nations.
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  • Well, most of us don't care a lot about history.
  • 00:26:31.106 --> 00:26:32.741
  • So we partnered with some of our good friends, wallbuilders, tim
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  • And david barton.
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  • They have the best on this topic.
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  • 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.
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  • We've lost most of this in our public schools and certainly in
  • 00:26:45.520 --> 00:26:48.189
  • Higher education.
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  • We gotta start back with our families around the kitchen
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  • Table learning how god has been engaged with us so we can
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  • Imagine a future that includes god.
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  • 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
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  • 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 in
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  • Jesus's name, amen.
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  • ♪♪♪
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