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Allen Jackson - From Rejection to Acceptance (Part 1)

September 2, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - From Rejection to Acceptance (Part 1)
Pastor Allen Jackson's mission is to help people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - From Rejection to Acceptance (Part 1) | September 2, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: i sat down recently with my father to do
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  • A podcast for my "culture and christianity" podcast, and it
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  • Was so valuable to me.
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  • I mean, we--it was stories that obviously i'm familiar with, but
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  • As i heard him recount his faith, it ignited something in
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  • Me about the faithfulness of god across generations.
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  • Well, i encouraged my dad to put together a book about his
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  • Experiences with the holy spirit.
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  • It changed his life, my parents' life, ultimately my
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  • Family's life.
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  • I believe the book will be a real encouragement to you.
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  • I wanna make it available to you right along with "unleashing the
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  • Power of the holy spirit."
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  • It's something i put together a while back that's been one of
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  • The most effective tools we've ever had in the ministry.
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  • Together, they'll open the doorway for you to not just have
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  • Language around the holy spirit, but to have something to
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  • Actually do to invite him into your life on a regular basis,
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  • To give you the wisdom you need to help you unlock the problems
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  • That we face.
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  • The spirit of god within us, to help us, guide us, and direct
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  • Us, that's invaluable, and these books will help you understand.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: i want to begin a study, it's gonna take two or
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  • Three sessions.
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  • Not because i can't finish this outline, it's just gonna take
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  • Two or three sessions.
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  • Under the same theme, we may break it apart a bit, but under
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  • The general theme of, "from rejection to acceptance."
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  • You know, i find one of the most consistent, persistent needs for
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  • Pastoral ministry has to do around this issue of rejection.
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  • And it's not frequently discussed, it's often something
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  • We're not aware of.
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  • You know, i've read in a variety of places that high blood
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  • Pressure is a silent killer.
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  • Well, i believe rejection is a-- really, a silent adversary to
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  • God's best in your life.
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  • And most of us live with a lack of awareness of either of its
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  • Existence or its influence within us, or if there is a
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  • Pathway to be relieved of that.
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  • And with god's help, and the help of his spirit, i want to
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  • Walk through that with you in the next two or three sessions,
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  • But we'll start on this one with the idea we're gonna move from
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  • Rejection to acceptance, and i'll start with the most obvious
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  • That you matter to god, you really do.
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  • That's not just hyperbole, it's not just the message of somebody
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  • That wants to be a happy, clappy preacher.
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  • I mean, there are some of those, and i'm not opposed to happy,
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  • But i usually prefer the truth.
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  • Sometimes it makes you happy, and sometimes it makes you
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  • Focus, but the truth always leads you to freedom.
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  • But i brought you a collection of scriptures just in case you
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  • Think god made a mistake with you, or somebody told you that
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  • He made a mistake with you.
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  • Have you ever had somebody with influence or authority over your
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  • Life say something demeaning, belittling?
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  • Sure, you have, everybody has!
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  • They had a coach that said something to you that wasn't
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  • Encouraging, or a teacher, or a parent, or a pastor, or a boss,
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  • Or somebody.
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  • Well, the counterbalance to that is what god said about me.
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  • So i brought you a sample in psalm 139, verse 13, it says,
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  • "you created my inmost being: you knit me together in my
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  • Mother's womb.
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  • I praise you because i'm fearfully and wonderfully made."
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  • That's a pretty remarkable thing.
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  • You may not like the way i look, but god said i'm okay.
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  • You should adjust.
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  • In ephesians 1:6, says, "...to the praise of the glory of his
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  • Grace, by which he made us accepted in the beloved."
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  • That's an amazing phrase, that we've been accepted into the
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  • People of god.
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  • Peter said it a little differently in 1 peter, he said,
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  • "once you were not a people, but now you are the people of god."
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  • You know, so we strive to be identified, to find our tribe,
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  • To find the group to which we belong, because we imagine
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  • There's strength in that, and there is, to a degree.
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  • But all those characteristics that we strive to identify, a
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  • School from which we graduate, a profession to which we belong,
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  • Our racial identity, whatever it may be, they pale in
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  • Significance to the privilege of being included amongst the
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  • People of god.
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  • They do, folks, because the benefits that come from all of
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  • Those other allegiances are short-term, and the kingdom of
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  • God is eternal, and to be included in that is the greatest
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  • Honor of your life.
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  • It needs to be the leading qualifier, the
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  • Leading indicator.
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  • Before you know anything else about me, i hope you understand
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  • I'm a part of the eternal kingdom of god.
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  • Everything else, it's not just secondary, it's way down
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  • The list.
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  • In luke 1 and verse 28, the angel, gabriel, that came to see
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  • Mary with a rather awkward announcement, said, "you are
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  • Highly favored, the lord is with you; blessed are you
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  • Among women!"
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  • I don't do a lot of word studies with you, but this one
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  • Is helpful.
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  • The word that's translated in ephesians 1:6, "to be accepted
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  • In the beloved," is the exact same word that's translated in
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  • Luke 1:28, "highly favored."
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  • So what god is saying to us in ephesians is he's made us
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  • Highly favored.
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  • God has brought favor to your life.
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  • He's not mad at you.
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  • I got a note for you, if god's really mad at you, you'll know!
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  • I've read the book, i mean, the earth opens up, you get the
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  • Botch, the itch, and the scab.
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  • Lions and bears chase you, i mean, stuff happens!
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  • That's not an excuse for sloppy living.
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  • But if you're doing your best to honor the lord, you've been
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  • Favored by him.
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  • To be accepted by god is to be highly favored.
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  • And one more, in matthew 16, this verse changed my life.
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  • Jesus said, "i'll build the church, and the gates of hades
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  • Will not be able to withstand it."
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  • When jesus said he would build a church, the church is people who
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  • Were called by god.
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  • It's not about buildings, or denominations, or schools of
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  • Thought, or theological perspectives, jesus is
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  • Building people.
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  • That's so important to know, he's the head of the church!
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  • He's our leader, we follow him.
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  • We use our bibles to understand his character and his nature,
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  • To learn his will, but the goal of our lives is to walk pleasing
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  • Before him, uprightly before him.
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  • He's the creator of all things.
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  • We have received his favor.
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  • He said we are "fearfully and wonderfully made."
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  • So from the inside out, god has said, "you are very good."
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  • Come on, that is the most amazing thing!
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  • And yet, all of us have these tapes that play that remind us
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  • Of what we're not, we're too short, or we're too tall, we're
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  • Too thin, or we're not.
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  • We talk with an accent, or we don't, our iq is limited, our
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  • Physical abilities, our age.
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  • I mean, there's this never-ending tape, and it keeps
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  • Shifting, and it always tries to tell you what you're not.
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  • I didn't come to deliver a motivational lecture, but i did
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  • Come to pull the curtain back on what the word of god says
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  • About you.
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  • It's why your identity in christ has to lead.
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  • If you're not identified in christ, you can erase what
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  • I just said.
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  • You're an object of god's wrath.
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  • Your future is not hopeful.
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  • You're on borrowed time.
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  • There is a distinction between the people of god and those
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  • Who aren't.
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  • But if you're amongst god's people, the enemy of god's
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  • Kingdom has an agenda.
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  • If he can destroy you, he will.
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  • Absent that, if he can keep you from the kingdom of god,
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  • He will.
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  • Absent that, if he can hinder your effectiveness, he will.
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  • He hates the purposes of god.
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  • And i meet people, well-educated people, sophisticated people,
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  • "you know, i'm just not sure i believe in the devil."
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  • Well, a couple of things.
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  • Number one, i would remind you that jesus did.
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  • And there's multiple ways, it's a whole study, but he said,
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  • "i saw him fall from heaven."
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  • Jesus addressed demons and unclean spirits as a regular
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  • Part of his ministry.
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  • In fact, it was probably more celebrated than his
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  • Healing ministry.
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  • The devil exists, and you're either aligned with the kingdom
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  • Of god, or you're aligned with the kingdom of darkness.
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  • And if you're aligned with the kingdom of god, it's in your
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  • Best interest to spend time thinking about what god has said
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  • About you, it will change your life.
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  • Now, having said that, our journey through time, no matter
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  • What generation we're born to, no matter what nationality, no
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  • Matter of all of those things, our journey through time is
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  • Filled with rejection.
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  • I'm gonna take a moment with it.
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  • I chose some characters if you're doing your bible reading
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  • With us, and i hope you are.
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  • We've been reading through 1 and 2 samuel the last few days,
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  • So i thought i would start there, with samuel.
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  • Samuel is the last of the judges, he's a leader of all the
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  • Tribes of israel, a man of a remarkable story from his
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  • Childhood, literally, from the point of his conception through
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  • The end of his life, samuel honors the lord.
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  • There's none of those real bad stories told about samuel.
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  • When he gives his farewell speech, he said, "i didn't take
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  • Anything from you, inappropriately."
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  • But the tribal leaders come to samuel, and they said, "'give us
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  • A king to lead us,' and it displeased samuel, so he prayed
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  • To the lord and the lord said to him, 'listen to all that the
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  • People are saying to you; it's not you they've rejected, but
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  • They rejected me as their king.'"
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  • Why did god have to say to samuel, "it's not you
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  • They've rejected?"
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  • Because it felt a whole lot like it was him they were rejecting!
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  • He was the one that was leading them.
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  • He'd spent his life making a circuit through the tribes,
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  • Helping resolve problems, provide a god-perspective,
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  • Seeking god on behalf of the people, and now, the most
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  • Powerful people in the--amongst the tribes have come to samuel,
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  • And they say, "we don't want you anymore.
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  • We want a king."
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  • And samuel goes to see the lord and the lord said, "it's not you
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  • They've rejected, samuel, it's me."
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  • And that adjustment that god gives to samuel to offload
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  • Rejection enables the next season of his life to be the
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  • Most significant of his entire life.
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  • He annoys saul as king, and then he anoints david as king.
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  • I think we could all agree that the years after he was rejected
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  • By the people--you see, if rejection--if he had embraced
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  • It, if it had defined his personality, if it has shaped
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  • His character, he'd have never anointed saul.
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  • "you don't want me to lead you?
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  • Find your own help."
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  • And when i read that narrative, i think, "why is
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  • Samuel helping?"
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  • Because god brought deliverance to him.
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  • Allen: i sat that when my father, recently, did a podcast,
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  • He told the story of how he came to faith, how god transformed
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  • Our family.
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  • They started a home bible study, all the way up to the beginning
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  • Of this church that i've served now for decades.
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  • As i listened, the heart of it was the work of the holy spirit
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  • In his life and through his life.
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  • I asked him to do a book around the topic, and we have it so
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  • That you can invite the spirit of god to be the dynamic
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  • Presence of the power of god to bring change in life and hope,
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  • No matter what the circumstances, you'll enjoy
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  • The book.
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  • Allen: david, the most remarkable of all the israelite
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  • Kings, until jesus rules and reigns.
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  • In 1 samuel 16, it says, "samuel took the horn of oil and
  • 00:13:39.067 --> 00:13:41.836
  • Anointed david in the presence of his brothers, and from that
  • 00:13:41.836 --> 00:13:44.239
  • Day on the spirit of the lord came upon david in power.
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  • Samuel went on his way."
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  • And you know that little window, god anointed david to be king.
  • 00:13:50.979 --> 00:13:53.882
  • You think, "well, if god sends the judge, the prophet, to
  • 00:13:53.882 --> 00:13:57.118
  • Anoint you to be king, things are gonna be good.
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  • Weeds will quit growing in my garden!"
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  • But that's not david's story at all.
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  • He's the youngest in his family.
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  • In a time in history when primogeniture ruled, which means
  • 00:14:12.267 --> 00:14:15.670
  • The eldest would have inherited all the land, it's an
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  • Agricultural society, and you can't break the farm apart into
  • 00:14:17.906 --> 00:14:21.576
  • A dozen pieces every generation or you'll starve.
  • 00:14:21.576 --> 00:14:25.613
  • So if you're the youngest son in that list, your future is not
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  • The brightest.
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  • Now, that's not enough, david's not really celebrated--samuel
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  • Is coming to town to offer a sacrifice in bethlehem, and he's
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  • Invited jesse, david's father, to bring the family, and he
  • 00:14:37.458 --> 00:14:40.795
  • Brings all the boys, except david.
  • 00:14:40.795 --> 00:14:46.301
  • He left david with the sheep.
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  • And samuel says, "i'm here to anoint one of your sons."
  • 00:14:49.037 --> 00:14:52.307
  • And so the boys all stand up one after the other, and he said,
  • 00:14:52.307 --> 00:14:55.076
  • "no, it's none of these," and samuel has to say, "are there
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  • Any others?"
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  • You may be in a little healthier system, they go, "well, there's
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  • One that's not here.
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  • Wait, let us go--" "no, no, no, samuel," they say, "wait,
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  • Something's missing."
  • 00:15:06.521 --> 00:15:08.990
  • I mean, david's not living, it seems, in the most
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  • Supportive environment.
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  • When his brothers go to see the goliath spectacle, david stays
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  • Home, but his dad sends him with lunch for them.
  • 00:15:18.733 --> 00:15:24.806
  • And david sees goliath, and he hears the challenge, and he
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  • Says, "i can do this."
  • 00:15:27.108 --> 00:15:28.443
  • You know who said shut up, his brothers.
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  • He has a victory over goliath, and then the king hates him.
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  • Saul hunts him like an animal.
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  • David's forced to live like a fugitive.
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  • After saul was killed, several of the israelite tribes go to
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  • War with him.
  • 00:15:47.595 --> 00:15:49.597
  • Later in his life, absalom, his son, whom he has restored after
  • 00:15:49.597 --> 00:15:54.602
  • Some abysmal behavior, absalom leads a rebellion against him.
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  • It's safe to say david's life is filled, season after season,
  • 00:15:59.674 --> 00:16:04.712
  • With expressions of rejection.
  • 00:16:04.712 --> 00:16:11.319
  • We can step back a bit in the narrative, joseph, at the time,
  • 00:16:11.319 --> 00:16:16.657
  • The youngest in his family.
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  • His brothers are jealous of him because he's his
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  • Father's favorite.
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  • He comes from a torqued family.
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  • His father has many sons, but he prefers joseph.
  • 00:16:26.367 --> 00:16:31.039
  • So a failure on a parent brings great pain into the life of
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  • Joseph, but all of the family.
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  • There are no perfect families, folks.
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  • Our families are what put the "fun" in "dysfunctional."
  • 00:16:41.416 --> 00:16:46.788
  • And joseph's brothers are so put-out by him, they hate him.
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  • They don't just dislike him, they don't just think he's
  • 00:16:52.760 --> 00:16:55.463
  • A hassle, he's not just a pain, they hate him to the point that
  • 00:16:55.463 --> 00:17:01.436
  • They sell him to slave traders.
  • 00:17:01.436 --> 00:17:04.772
  • Now, i have brothers.
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  • You know, and we all lived at home, we didn't always get
  • 00:17:10.945 --> 00:17:13.147
  • Along, we fought.
  • 00:17:13.147 --> 00:17:15.883
  • You know, my mom had a rule, we couldn't fight--we couldn't
  • 00:17:15.883 --> 00:17:19.053
  • Wrestle in the house.
  • 00:17:19.053 --> 00:17:21.722
  • You know, my mom was about this tall, which was completely
  • 00:17:21.722 --> 00:17:24.158
  • Irrelevant, had nothing to do with power.
  • 00:17:24.158 --> 00:17:30.765
  • So if that started, you could-- you know, you'd hear the house
  • 00:17:30.765 --> 00:17:32.900
  • Shift on its foundations, and the next thing you hear is my
  • 00:17:32.900 --> 00:17:36.170
  • Mother saying, "not in this house!"
  • 00:17:36.170 --> 00:17:40.208
  • But it never occurred to me i could sell them!
  • 00:17:40.208 --> 00:17:46.347
  • I mean, i got mad at them, i was annoyed by them, but i mean,
  • 00:17:46.347 --> 00:17:51.519
  • It's a whole another level.
  • 00:17:51.519 --> 00:17:52.854
  • They hated joseph, they sold him as a slave.
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  • Then he finds himself in another country, he's a servant, a slave
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  • In a household.
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  • There's a lie told about him, and the man he has served
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  • Faithfully has him put in prison.
  • 00:18:05.266 --> 00:18:06.868
  • He doesn't listen to him, he doesn't believe him, he's
  • 00:18:06.868 --> 00:18:10.471
  • Rejected again.
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  • In prison, he gains some opportunity because of his
  • 00:18:11.806 --> 00:18:15.543
  • Faithfulness in serving in the prison.
  • 00:18:15.543 --> 00:18:18.079
  • He interprets dreams, and the men for whom he interprets
  • 00:18:18.079 --> 00:18:20.681
  • Dreams break their word to him, and he's left in prison.
  • 00:18:20.681 --> 00:18:25.386
  • I mean, it's not a one-time event.
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  • It's not like some momentary-- his life is filled with these
  • 00:18:27.388 --> 00:18:31.058
  • Seasons, and yet, joseph becomes the prime minister of the land
  • 00:18:31.058 --> 00:18:35.029
  • Of egypt as a foreigner and a slave.
  • 00:18:35.029 --> 00:18:37.865
  • Next to the pharaoh, the most powerful person in the
  • 00:18:37.865 --> 00:18:40.568
  • Entire empire.
  • 00:18:40.568 --> 00:18:42.937
  • And his brothers come to see him when he's an older man, and
  • 00:18:42.937 --> 00:18:45.573
  • They're mature.
  • 00:18:45.573 --> 00:18:46.908
  • I put it in your notes, it's genesis 45, "joseph said to his
  • 00:18:46.908 --> 00:18:49.544
  • Brothers, 'come close to me.'
  • 00:18:49.544 --> 00:18:51.312
  • And when they had done so, he said, 'i'm your
  • 00:18:51.312 --> 00:18:52.914
  • Brother, joseph.'"
  • 00:18:52.914 --> 00:18:54.882
  • He looks like an egyptian, he smells like an egyptian, he
  • 00:18:54.882 --> 00:18:57.418
  • Talks like an egyptian, his brothers don't know him.
  • 00:18:57.418 --> 00:19:02.456
  • "i'm your brother, the one you sold into egypt!"
  • 00:19:02.456 --> 00:19:08.729
  • Now if the most--if the second-most powerful man in the
  • 00:19:08.729 --> 00:19:11.666
  • Nation, you sold into slavery?
  • 00:19:11.666 --> 00:19:15.469
  • This is an awkward moment.
  • 00:19:15.469 --> 00:19:19.473
  • "and now, do not be distressed and don't be angry with
  • 00:19:19.473 --> 00:19:22.310
  • Yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives
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  • That god sent me ahead of you."
  • 00:19:26.380 --> 00:19:30.284
  • Now we're gonna unpack this in a good bit more detail, but i want
  • 00:19:30.284 --> 00:19:32.987
  • You to have some examples, because they fill the scripture
  • 00:19:32.987 --> 00:19:36.290
  • Of men and women who have to endure the most horrific
  • 00:19:36.290 --> 00:19:39.560
  • Expressions of rejection, evil, and yet, it doesn't become the
  • 00:19:39.560 --> 00:19:45.499
  • Defining characteristic of their life.
  • 00:19:45.499 --> 00:19:48.903
  • There's a wonderful promise in that, look at moses.
  • 00:19:48.903 --> 00:19:52.240
  • I mean, moses's parents put him in a basket in the nile river,
  • 00:19:52.240 --> 00:19:56.644
  • And set him loose as an infant.
  • 00:19:56.644 --> 00:19:59.714
  • Now, you may say that was heroic, but if you knew of
  • 00:19:59.714 --> 00:20:02.083
  • A parent doing that, you wouldn't call it heroic!
  • 00:20:02.083 --> 00:20:06.053
  • And i promise you, to the child, it's an expression of rejection.
  • 00:20:06.053 --> 00:20:11.259
  • Rejection isn't something you just process intellectually,
  • 00:20:11.259 --> 00:20:14.829
  • It's not something you process because you have the emotional
  • 00:20:14.829 --> 00:20:17.465
  • Or physical maturity to go, "i think i have been rejected."
  • 00:20:17.465 --> 00:20:22.737
  • Rejection touches you at a far deeper level.
  • 00:20:22.737 --> 00:20:25.339
  • You can experience rejection as an infant in the womb.
  • 00:20:25.339 --> 00:20:29.610
  • And i assure you, moses's parents setting him adrift in
  • 00:20:29.610 --> 00:20:32.580
  • A basket in the nile river is rejection.
  • 00:20:32.580 --> 00:20:36.717
  • He grows up in the palace, as a hebrew, when the hebrew people
  • 00:20:36.717 --> 00:20:42.023
  • Are being enslaved by the egyptians.
  • 00:20:42.023 --> 00:20:44.425
  • That will torque your character.
  • 00:20:44.425 --> 00:20:47.895
  • Moses had an anger problem because, as a young man, he sees
  • 00:20:47.895 --> 00:20:52.033
  • An egyptian abusing a hebrew slave, and he killed
  • 00:20:52.033 --> 00:20:54.335
  • The egyptian.
  • 00:20:54.335 --> 00:20:57.772
  • He had many options, he had access to pharaoh, he had access
  • 00:20:57.772 --> 00:21:01.208
  • To a great deal of power, there were many things he could have
  • 00:21:01.208 --> 00:21:03.978
  • Done with that egyptian taskmaster.
  • 00:21:03.978 --> 00:21:06.580
  • Murder was more an expression of his character than it was the
  • 00:21:06.580 --> 00:21:09.417
  • Problem at hand.
  • 00:21:09.417 --> 00:21:14.088
  • Exodus 2:13 is the next day.
  • 00:21:14.088 --> 00:21:15.756
  • Says, "the next day he went out and he saw two hebrews fighting.
  • 00:21:15.756 --> 00:21:19.160
  • And he asked the one in the wrong, 'why are you hitting your
  • 00:21:19.160 --> 00:21:21.262
  • Fellow hebrew?'
  • 00:21:21.262 --> 00:21:22.596
  • And the man said, 'who made you ruler and judge?
  • 00:21:22.596 --> 00:21:25.733
  • Are you thinking of killing me, too?'"
  • 00:21:25.733 --> 00:21:30.071
  • Even his own people don't want to listen to him.
  • 00:21:30.071 --> 00:21:34.075
  • "i put everything at risk to help you, who do you think
  • 00:21:34.075 --> 00:21:37.778
  • You are?"
  • 00:21:37.778 --> 00:21:40.681
  • So moses flees egypt, and years later, on the backside of the
  • 00:21:40.681 --> 00:21:44.418
  • Desert, god's recruiting him, and moses is reluctant, as you
  • 00:21:44.418 --> 00:21:47.154
  • Can imagine, and moses says something that's
  • 00:21:47.154 --> 00:21:49.623
  • Very insightful.
  • 00:21:49.623 --> 00:21:50.991
  • He said, "what if they don't believe me or listen to me and
  • 00:21:50.991 --> 00:21:53.194
  • They say, 'the lord didn't appear to you?'"
  • 00:21:53.194 --> 00:21:56.297
  • What's moses saying?
  • 00:21:56.297 --> 00:21:57.631
  • He said, "look, i've been there and tried that.
  • 00:21:57.631 --> 00:22:00.534
  • They don't want my leadership."
  • 00:22:00.534 --> 00:22:03.738
  • And a big part of that recruitment narrative is god
  • 00:22:03.738 --> 00:22:06.774
  • Preparing moses to lead his people in spite of what he
  • 00:22:06.774 --> 00:22:10.077
  • Has endured.
  • 00:22:10.077 --> 00:22:12.580
  • The greatest leader in all of scripture until you get
  • 00:22:12.580 --> 00:22:14.815
  • To jesus.
  • 00:22:14.815 --> 00:22:16.784
  • A man who was rejected from the time of his birth.
  • 00:22:16.784 --> 00:22:20.688
  • We can excuse his parents' favor, sometimes rejection comes
  • 00:22:20.688 --> 00:22:23.157
  • Not because our family systems are evil, or our parents are
  • 00:22:23.157 --> 00:22:25.893
  • Evil, there's tremendous pressure.
  • 00:22:25.893 --> 00:22:28.696
  • Great problems, enormous stress, and the presentation of another
  • 00:22:28.696 --> 00:22:33.334
  • Child is a--it's just a--it's a bridge too far, it's more than
  • 00:22:33.334 --> 00:22:37.037
  • The system can handle.
  • 00:22:37.037 --> 00:22:40.374
  • Rejection doesn't always come because the point of initiation
  • 00:22:40.374 --> 00:22:44.078
  • Is sparked by evil, sometimes it is.
  • 00:22:44.078 --> 00:22:46.714
  • Jesus was rejected, in isaiah 53, there's a prophecy about our
  • 00:22:46.714 --> 00:22:51.085
  • Messiah, and it says, "he was despised and rejected by men,
  • 00:22:51.085 --> 00:22:54.588
  • A man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.
  • 00:22:54.588 --> 00:22:56.957
  • Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and
  • 00:22:56.957 --> 00:23:00.561
  • We esteemed him not."
  • 00:23:00.561 --> 00:23:01.896
  • That's our lord!
  • 00:23:01.896 --> 00:23:04.865
  • See, we're so mistaken, we think when we identify with jesus,
  • 00:23:04.865 --> 00:23:07.935
  • Everybody's gonna cheer!
  • 00:23:07.935 --> 00:23:11.572
  • He was rejected and despised.
  • 00:23:11.572 --> 00:23:13.541
  • Okay, if you choose to be an ambassador for his eternal
  • 00:23:13.541 --> 00:23:16.143
  • Kingdom, there's a high degree of probability you're gonna bump
  • 00:23:16.143 --> 00:23:19.280
  • Into people that don't like that.
  • 00:23:19.280 --> 00:23:22.783
  • So this isn't just a ministry skill, or an invitation to the
  • 00:23:22.783 --> 00:23:27.521
  • Holy spirit for those poor, unfortunate people who didn't
  • 00:23:27.521 --> 00:23:29.990
  • Have the best family systems.
  • 00:23:29.990 --> 00:23:31.725
  • If you're gonna be a servant in the purposes of god and the
  • 00:23:31.725 --> 00:23:34.161
  • Earth, you're gonna have to know how to process rejection.
  • 00:23:34.161 --> 00:23:40.501
  • It got far more blatant in jesus's life, it's not just some
  • 00:23:40.501 --> 00:23:43.003
  • Prophetic thing.
  • 00:23:43.003 --> 00:23:44.371
  • In luke 23, he's been arrested, they've had a sham trial,
  • 00:23:44.371 --> 00:23:47.341
  • They've hired people to tell lies about him.
  • 00:23:47.341 --> 00:23:49.243
  • Sounds a lot like the 21st century.
  • 00:23:49.243 --> 00:23:52.680
  • We see this happening on a regular basis before us.
  • 00:23:52.680 --> 00:23:55.716
  • Do you think it might not happen to you?
  • 00:23:55.716 --> 00:24:01.322
  • And finally, pilate knows that jesus is innocent, the roman
  • 00:24:01.322 --> 00:24:04.925
  • Governor, and he wants to release him.
  • 00:24:04.925 --> 00:24:07.261
  • It's a feast--festival time, it's feast time.
  • 00:24:07.261 --> 00:24:10.130
  • And he said, "i have a habit, i release a prisoner."
  • 00:24:10.130 --> 00:24:12.166
  • He thinks he's found a way out because jesus hasn't done
  • 00:24:12.166 --> 00:24:15.369
  • Anything wrong, he hasn't broken any laws, he's not a murderer.
  • 00:24:15.369 --> 00:24:19.607
  • So he thinks, "i'll give the people a choice, and it'll
  • 00:24:19.607 --> 00:24:21.842
  • Relieve me of my responsibility."
  • 00:24:21.842 --> 00:24:23.944
  • So he brings the most heinous criminal he has arrested, a
  • 00:24:23.944 --> 00:24:27.615
  • Murderer, a man who's led rebellions and insurrectionists.
  • 00:24:27.615 --> 00:24:33.087
  • You don't have any allies, or any advocates amongst the
  • 00:24:33.087 --> 00:24:35.823
  • People, and he stands barabbas on one side, and jesus on the
  • 00:24:35.823 --> 00:24:39.126
  • Other, and he said, "so now, who do you want me to release?"
  • 00:24:39.126 --> 00:24:42.096
  • Fully expecting the crowd to roar, "jesus of nazareth!"
  • 00:24:42.096 --> 00:24:45.099
  • He heals the sick, he makes wine out of water!
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  • So you know, just luke 23, "with one voice they cried, 'away with
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  • This man!
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  • And release barabbas to us!'
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  • Wanting to release jesus, pilate appealed to them again.
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  • But they kept shouting, 'crucify him!'"
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  • Can you imagine?
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  • How do you describe that?
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  • Does that qualify as rejection?
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  • Folks, this isn't some subtle theme of scripture.
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  • You see, if you intend to be about the purposes of god,
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  • You're gonna have to know how to navigate this.
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  • It's not accidental.
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  • Now, there's some good news in the midst of it.
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  • We can't eliminate rejection from the journey, it's a part of
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  • Our journey in this present world order, but rejection does
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  • Not have the power to keep you from god's best.
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  • I'm gonna say it again, the rejection that touches your life
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  • Does not have the power to keep you from god's best.
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  • Unless we allow it to, it can be overcome.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: being a christ follower is not as much about
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  • An experience and a completed activity, a prayer, a visit
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  • To an altar, a response to an evangelist.
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  • It's certainly a beginning point of welcoming jesus into your
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  • Heart, but it's a life that we lead, so we continue to grow,
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  • And learn, and gain strength as life presents challenges, we get
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  • To know god in a new way.
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  • Well, i believe this book about the holy spirit is a tool to
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  • Help you gain a new momentum, to grow through the things in your
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  • Life under the direction of the power of the spirit of god.
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  • Folks, we're not gonna outwork evil, or outthink evil, we're
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  • Not gonna out organize evil, the only thing evil will yield to is
  • 00:26:40.314 --> 00:26:43.484
  • A power greater than itself, and that power is the spirit of god,
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  • And you and me manifest in the earth through people of faith.
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  • We're salt and light, we're change agents.
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  • I wanna pray.
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  • Heavenly father, give us a discernment to recognize your
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  • Spirit, how we can welcome him into our lives, and cooperate
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  • With him to bring your breakthroughs into our lives,
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  • Our homes, and our churches.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • ♪♪♪
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