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Allen Jackson - Resist or Receive (Part 2)

February 5, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Resist or Receive (Part 2)
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 - Resist or Receive (Part 2) | February 5, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: you know, around the world,
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  • Allen: when namon came to the prophet, and said, "i, you
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  • Know, i have leprosy.
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  • I want to be cured," and namon said, oh, go dip yourself in the
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  • Jordan river, and he did and he was made clean, or in exodus 15,
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  • When god said through moses, "if you'll obey me and do everything
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  • I command you, i'll put none of the diseases on you that i
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  • Have put on the egyptians."
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  • I mean, the list goes on and on.
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  • Elijah, elisha, hezekiah was sick and gonna die, and hezekiah
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  • Prayed and he sent isaiah the prophet to say, no, you're
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  • Gonna live.
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  • So the people of god were familiar with these expressions.
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  • They were in their portfolio.
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  • They were in their family albums.
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  • They believed in that, but they had lost the imagination of it
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  • In that generation.
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  • Gee, could that be familiar?
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  • We'll talk about biblical miracles or what jesus did or
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  • What the prophets did or what somebody did, but when we roll
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  • It into the 21st century, you go, well, now.
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  • Now we have healthcare.
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  • They'd lost that imagination,
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  • And i do think-- i've alluded to it.
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  • It's worth noting that this wasn't even personal ministry
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  • From jesus, it was just proximity to him, and the people
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  • Were being healed.
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  • So this is a dramatic miracle.
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  • And here come the pharisees and the religious experts from
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  • Jerusalem, from the power center.
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  • They're observing all of this.
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  • What would be your normal expectation?
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  • Well, i'm thinking the sick people are happy.
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  • I'm thinking all the people that have been bringing the sick
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  • People, which is what it said was happening, were probably
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  • Somewhat pleased.
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  • Their friends, their family members are being healed.
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  • There's a resolution that wasn't available to them before it, and
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  • Here come the religious leaders.
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  • The expectation is they would be happy.
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  • I think it's reasonable.
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  • They would go, "oh, this is a part of what we've forgotten.
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  • This is who we've been," but their answer is, "why do your
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  • Disciples break the tradition of the elders?
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  • They don't wash their hands right."
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  • Now, if i use my modern jesus, jesus would go, "well, sit down
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  • With me for a minute.
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  • Let me read to you, 'cause you've forgotten," but jesus
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  • Said, "well, why do you break the command of god for the sake
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  • Of your tradition?"
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  • His response is not conciliatory.
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  • It's harsh.
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  • Is that fair?
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  • Said, just exactly what are you doing with your made-up rules?
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  • And it's broken in your notes, but it's the very next verse.
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  • Jesus continues, says, "'god said, "honor your father and
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  • Mother," and, "anyone who curses his father or mother must be put
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  • To death."'"
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  • Jesus adds a punishment that's not in that original list.
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  • "'but you say that if a man says to his father or mother,
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  • "whatever help you might otherwise have received from me
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  • Is a gift devoted to god,"'" so he doesn't have to honor his
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  • Father with it.
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  • "'you nullify the word of god for the sake of your tradition,
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  • You hypocrites!'"
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  • Jesus is not having a polite bible study.
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  • You bunch of hypocrites!
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  • He doesn't leave it theoretical.
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  • He gives them a specific example of how they've manipulated
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  • Godliness in order to line their own pockets, and then in front
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  • Of everybody--these people that have been healed, they're
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  • Sitting here celebrating, rejoicing, looking at jesus with
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  • Wide eyes, and he's looking at their leaders going, "you're a
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  • Bunch of hypocrites."
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  • "'isaiah was right when he prophesied about you: "these
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  • People honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far
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  • From me.
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  • They worship me in vain."'"
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  • To worship god in vain, you know what that means?
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  • Your worship is useless.
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  • Your worship is of no benefit.
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  • That's a harsh evaluation.
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  • And then he called the crowd to him.
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  • "'listen and understand.
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  • What goes into a man's mouth doesn't make him "unclean," but
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  • What comes out of his mouth,
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  • That's what makes him "unclean."'"
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  • I mean, he's not letting this go.
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  • He's doubling down.
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  • Next verse, "the disciples came to him.
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  • 'do you know that the pharisees were offended?'"
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  • I'm 2,000 years removed, i know that the pharisees
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  • Were offended.
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  • They would have had to have been deaf, dumb, and blind not to
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  • Have been offended.
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  • He called them hypocrites.
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  • He gave examples.
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  • He said your worship is useless.
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  • Do you know they were offended?
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  • What's the issue here?
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  • The disciples are really uncomfortable.
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  • We're not accustomed to conversations like this.
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  • We're used to one rabbi having an opinion and another rabbi
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  • Having an opinion, and we follow the rabbi whose opinion we like.
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  • You see, what's driving this conversation is the sick were
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  • Being made well.
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  • There's the power being displayed.
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  • This is more than a theoretical example or some theoretical
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  • Theology conversation.
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  • People's lives and bodies are being transformed, and from that
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  • Platform jesus is caught responding to--'cause they came
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  • To criticize him.
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  • All they would have had to have said to have missed that
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  • Was wow.
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  • They could have just said, wow, we've never seen that.
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  • They could have just said, thank you for helping the people.
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  • But we have a hard time with this because it challenges
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  • Our traditions.
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  • We could just say thank you for closing the border, but we have
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  • A really hard time with that.
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  • We're not very different.
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  • Did you know they were offended when they heard this?
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  • Every--and jesus said, "'every plant that my heavenly father
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  • Has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.'"
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  • That's not a threat, that's a promise.
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  • Look at the next phrase.
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  • "'leave them; they are blind guides.'"
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  • Who's he talking about?
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  • The pharisees and the teachers of the law.
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  • Leave them.
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  • Now, if we gave that a contemporary translation, we
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  • Would say, go back and reason with them.
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  • You've been affiliated with them for decades.
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  • They've been your teachers all of your life.
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  • Go back and be respectful.
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  • Sound right?
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  • And what did jesus say?
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  • "leave them."
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  • But he didn't stop with that.
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  • He adds an insult.
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  • Jesus, he said they're blind, but they want to be guides.
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  • That's a bad combination, agreed?
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  • They could be blind and ask for a guide, but they're blind and
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  • They're determined to be the guide, and just in case you
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  • Didn't pick that up, he explains it.
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  • He does.
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  • If a blind man leads a blind man, you're both gonna fall in
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  • A pit.
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  • I mean,
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  • Jesus isn't just pushing back on the pharisees, he's
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  • Pushing back on his disciples.
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  • Verse 17, 'cause the disciples brought this on when they came
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  • And said, did you know they were offended?
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  • So jesus looks at 'em, now this is to the disciples, "don't
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  • You see?"
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  • And what's the answer?
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  • Imagine you came to ask me a question after service.
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  • You know, "pastor, i heard what you said," and i looked at you,
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  • Said, "don't you see?"
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  • Wow.
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  • I have somebody i wanna introduce you to after church.
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  • Don't let me forget.
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  • Excuse me, we had a little business we need to take
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  • Care of.
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  • But we've gotta make a course correction, 'cause we've had
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  • This notion that jesus is like, oh, come on, kumbaya, come on.
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  • Don't you see, and the answer is no, we don't, and then he's
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  • Gonna give them--and this is not really deep.
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  • This is kind of like god made us male and female.
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  • Do you understand the church has been going, "well, it's a
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  • Complicated issue"?
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  • "we wanna be respectful."
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  • Of what, the demonic torment of human beings?
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  • "'don't you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the
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  • Stomach and then out of the body?'"
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  • I mean, we all understand that principle, right?
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  • "'but the things that come out of the mouth,'" they, "'come
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  • From the heart.'"
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  • That makes you unclean.
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  • "'for out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery,
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  • Sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
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  • These are what make a man "unclean"; but eating with
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  • Unwashed hands,'" not so much.
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  • What started this little response?
  • 00:11:49.224 --> 00:11:50.592
  • "your disciples do not wash their hands properly.
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  • Never mind the miracles.
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  • Do not show me the healings.
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  • Let's talk about hand washing."
  • 00:12:03.171 --> 00:12:07.408
  • To which jesus responds, "you bunch of hypocrites!
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  • Your worship is useless,"
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  • And the disciples go, "master, we're a little uncomfortable
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  • With your tone,"
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  • And jesus says, "are you really that dull?
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  • Can you not see that what goes in your mouth does not make
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  • You unclean?"
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  • Now, please understand, they have dozens and dozens and
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  • Dozens of rules about what they can eat and how they prepare it.
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  • This isn't some sidebar.
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  • One of the reasons they imagine they are godly is because of
  • 00:12:57.859 --> 00:13:00.395
  • What they put on their fork.
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  • When we visit jerusalem today, the hotels where we will stay
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  • Have--are kosher, which means they follow the kosher rules.
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  • The rabbis still inspect their kitchens and inspect their
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  • Menus, and you don't get dairy and meat at the same meal.
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  • They can't even prepare them in the same pots or serve them on
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  • The same dishes.
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  • So what you eat was a very significant part of how they
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  • Understood the lord.
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  • Allen: we have partnered with our friends tim and david barton
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  • And it focuses on the part of american history that's been
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  • It's god's engagement with this nation and how he brought the
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  • Allen: so all weekend long i gave you a little set of tools
  • 00:14:42.830 --> 00:14:46.668
  • For change, and i'm not going to walk you back through them, but
  • 00:14:46.668 --> 00:14:50.872
  • I'm going to remind you of them, and if you missed saturday's or
  • 00:14:50.872 --> 00:14:53.308
  • Sunday's, either of the previous two sessions, you can go back
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  • And get them.
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  • The prayers are there completely on the outline from the
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  • Previous session.
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  • Jesus said--there's a couple of things that i think are helpful
  • 00:15:06.654 --> 00:15:09.891
  • In mark's gospel when he's beginning his ministry.
  • 00:15:09.891 --> 00:15:12.560
  • He said, "the time has come, the kingdom of god is near.
  • 00:15:12.560 --> 00:15:14.595
  • Repent and believe," and significant change is catalyzed
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  • In our lives spiritually when we are willing to repent.
  • 00:15:19.167 --> 00:15:22.937
  • Repentance carries with it two meanings.
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  • One comes from the greek word for repentance, and one from the
  • 00:15:25.406 --> 00:15:27.875
  • Hebrew word.
  • 00:15:27.875 --> 00:15:29.243
  • The hebrew word means to physically turn around, change
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  • Your behavior, and there's a part of repentance means that i
  • 00:15:33.614 --> 00:15:37.885
  • Have been walking this way, i've been acting this way, but i'm
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  • Not going to walk this way and act this way anymore.
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  • I'm going to choose a new way.
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  • If you truly repent, you will--it will be reflected in
  • 00:15:46.494 --> 00:15:49.063
  • Your behavior.
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  • John the baptist said that.
  • 00:15:50.398 --> 00:15:51.733
  • "produce fruit in keeping with repentance."
  • 00:15:51.733 --> 00:15:54.035
  • The greek word for repentance means to change your mind.
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  • We could have a debate about what you have to change first,
  • 00:15:58.806 --> 00:16:00.942
  • Your mind or your behavior, but they both have to change, that's
  • 00:16:00.942 --> 00:16:03.211
  • Repentance, and part of that means i have--you have to be
  • 00:16:03.211 --> 00:16:06.247
  • Willing to say, "i have been thinking wrongly about this and
  • 00:16:06.247 --> 00:16:11.185
  • I have changed my thinking to bring it in alignment with god."
  • 00:16:11.185 --> 00:16:16.624
  • See, that the church can't--has not been particularly effective
  • 00:16:16.624 --> 00:16:19.494
  • At confronting a secular culture because we weren't willing to
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  • Acknowledge that we thought differently.
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  • We want to be accepted by the secular culture so we
  • 00:16:24.232 --> 00:16:27.468
  • Stay silent.
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  • If we rewrote the scenario in a contemporary setting, jesus
  • 00:16:30.972 --> 00:16:35.276
  • Would have continued to minister to the sick and have ignored the
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  • Pharisees and the teachers of the law.
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  • He would have not engaged in that.
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  • And i believe he's given us that model.
  • 00:16:47.955 --> 00:16:49.557
  • So it begins with repentance, and then romans 10 describes for
  • 00:16:49.557 --> 00:16:53.428
  • Us the first--the transformation that is essential to all
  • 00:16:53.428 --> 00:16:56.631
  • The transformations.
  • 00:16:56.631 --> 00:16:58.332
  • Says if you confess with your mouth and believe in your heart
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  • That jesus is lord, you can be saved.
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  • You have to change kingdoms.
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  • You can't overcome evil by force of your will.
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  • You're no match for it.
  • 00:17:09.744 --> 00:17:12.080
  • You can't out-think evil.
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  • You need a transformation.
  • 00:17:13.448 --> 00:17:15.183
  • When you change kingdoms, then you gain a legal status that
  • 00:17:15.183 --> 00:17:18.820
  • Brings the power of god to be a resource in your life, and now
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  • You have help to overcome, to put to death that carnal nature.
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  • If you're trying to do it by the sheer force of your will, it's
  • 00:17:29.063 --> 00:17:31.499
  • Like holding a ball under the water.
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  • You can do it.
  • 00:17:34.168 --> 00:17:35.503
  • An inflated ball, trying to hold it un--you can do it, but it
  • 00:17:35.503 --> 00:17:38.206
  • Takes a great exertion of energy and focus, and the minute you
  • 00:17:38.206 --> 00:17:42.677
  • Stop exerting the energy and you lose your focus, that ball pops
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  • Up, and if you're trying to take your carnal behaviors, those
  • 00:17:45.813 --> 00:17:51.519
  • Expressions of ungodliness, and you're just trying to hold them
  • 00:17:51.519 --> 00:17:54.055
  • Under the water so your church friends don't see them, you
  • 00:17:54.055 --> 00:17:56.557
  • Might be able to pull that off for 60 minute blocks, but the
  • 00:17:56.557 --> 00:18:00.495
  • People that live with you and the people that live near you,
  • 00:18:00.495 --> 00:18:02.396
  • They know the truth.
  • 00:18:02.396 --> 00:18:06.033
  • We need an authority to help us change, and that authority comes
  • 00:18:06.033 --> 00:18:10.505
  • From jesus's redemptive work.
  • 00:18:10.505 --> 00:18:13.474
  • So i gave you four directional prayers.
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  • One is repentance, that's the beginning point.
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  • To acknowledge jesus as lord of your life, that gives you status
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  • And standing in the kingdom.
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  • It cancels satan's claims against you.
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  • It doesn't remove you from the arena where he has access
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  • To you.
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  • We're not removed from the arena of evil.
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  • Read your bibles, all of our heroes, buffeted by expressions
  • 00:18:33.961 --> 00:18:38.466
  • Of evil, but then we have to renounce, and at this point we
  • 00:18:38.466 --> 00:18:44.005
  • Tend to often begin to seem to lose focus.
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  • You have to be willing to separate yourself from the past,
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  • And i don't mean primarily physically.
  • 00:18:49.977 --> 00:18:52.813
  • There may be a part of that, but we've had the attitude that we
  • 00:18:52.813 --> 00:18:58.553
  • Could live through our sin, that time would heal all wounds, that
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  • It's forgotten, that it's in the past, and that's just
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  • Not accurate.
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  • There are spiritual consequences to ungodliness, and we've got to
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  • Be willing to come back and say, "i want to separate myself from
  • 00:19:12.900 --> 00:19:16.537
  • Those choices i made.
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  • I know i've been forgiven, but now i want to lead a different
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  • Kind of life," and i gave you a prayer where you acknowledge
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  • That you've been involved in things that you shouldn't be
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  • Involved in.
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  • I--the simple example, i mean, things that have shaped our
  • 00:19:29.717 --> 00:19:31.786
  • Culture now for decades.
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  • The marriage rate has plummeted, 'cause the numbers of people who
  • 00:19:33.154 --> 00:19:38.759
  • Live together, and if they have some christian background, it's
  • 00:19:38.759 --> 00:19:43.431
  • Normal now at some point they decide to stop that and
  • 00:19:43.431 --> 00:19:45.833
  • Get married.
  • 00:19:45.833 --> 00:19:47.902
  • Good, that's a good decision, but you can't just ignore the
  • 00:19:47.902 --> 00:19:52.106
  • Fact that you knew better than you did and you ignored
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  • God's boundaries.
  • 00:19:55.042 --> 00:19:58.512
  • You can't do that without consequence.
  • 00:19:58.512 --> 00:20:02.650
  • And so we've had the idea, "well, i just--you know, i'm not
  • 00:20:02.650 --> 00:20:04.385
  • Doing that now.
  • 00:20:04.385 --> 00:20:05.753
  • I used to steal all the time, but i don't steal anymore."
  • 00:20:05.753 --> 00:20:08.055
  • It'd be like all the--you know, wherever those, what, $10
  • 00:20:08.055 --> 00:20:11.292
  • Billion went.
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  • If they said, "okay, we're actually gonna bring some kids
  • 00:20:12.893 --> 00:20:14.729
  • To the daycares, okay.
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  • No harm, no foul, we're actually gonna bring some kids in
  • 00:20:19.900 --> 00:20:22.336
  • Next week.
  • 00:20:22.336 --> 00:20:23.904
  • Let's just forgive and forget, group hug.
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  • Come on, we're not doing that anymore.
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  • I mean, we were doing that, but we're not doing that anymore.
  • 00:20:29.277 --> 00:20:31.579
  • Look at all these kids."
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  • I mean, a few folks have been trying that.
  • 00:20:34.015 --> 00:20:36.951
  • They've repainted the signs.
  • 00:20:36.951 --> 00:20:42.957
  • Well, it's funny, 'cause it's not our circumstance, but we've
  • 00:20:42.957 --> 00:20:45.326
  • Done that.
  • 00:20:45.326 --> 00:20:46.694
  • So we've had those behaviors in our families, and we said,
  • 00:20:46.694 --> 00:20:50.331
  • "well, you know, we know it's not right, but i know they know
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  • The lord, 'cause i took 'em to sunday school.
  • 00:20:52.933 --> 00:20:58.339
  • I mean, i know they're christian.
  • 00:20:58.339 --> 00:21:00.675
  • I mean, i know they know better and they should do better, but,
  • 00:21:00.675 --> 00:21:05.880
  • You know, it's just too awkward."
  • 00:21:05.880 --> 00:21:11.319
  • We've lost sight of jesus.
  • 00:21:11.319 --> 00:21:17.224
  • So a prayer of renunciation is when we come back and say,
  • 00:21:17.224 --> 00:21:20.695
  • "lord, i am sorry and i renounce my involvement," and you have to
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  • Be--you can be just as specific as the spirit of god reminds
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  • You of.
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  • I'm sorry for that,
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  • Any way that i involved myself in that.
  • 00:21:37.345 --> 00:21:41.048
  • If i was silent as a watchman on the walls, "god, i'm sorry.
  • 00:21:41.048 --> 00:21:47.188
  • I didn't want to make anybody uncomfortable, so i just didn't
  • 00:21:47.188 --> 00:21:49.423
  • Say anything.
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  • I'm sorry.
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  • And through the blood of jesus, i'm delivered.
  • 00:21:55.229 --> 00:21:59.767
  • My body's a temple of the holy spirit, redeemed and cleansed
  • 00:21:59.767 --> 00:22:04.038
  • And sanctified."
  • 00:22:04.038 --> 00:22:06.507
  • You'll get a spiritual freedom.
  • 00:22:06.507 --> 00:22:07.875
  • It will change the momentum of your life.
  • 00:22:07.875 --> 00:22:12.480
  • A prayer of repentance, a prayer of renunciation, a prayer
  • 00:22:12.480 --> 00:22:15.583
  • Of release.
  • 00:22:15.583 --> 00:22:17.651
  • The first one was more in-facing, the things that have
  • 00:22:17.651 --> 00:22:19.887
  • Affected you, the choices you've made.
  • 00:22:19.887 --> 00:22:21.789
  • The prayer of release is out-facing.
  • 00:22:21.789 --> 00:22:23.324
  • It's the people that have been a part of this, the organizations,
  • 00:22:23.324 --> 00:22:27.695
  • The institutions.
  • 00:22:27.695 --> 00:22:31.165
  • When we're mistreated, when evil touches us, when things that are
  • 00:22:31.165 --> 00:22:34.001
  • Unjust happen to us, it's very normal, very typical to kind of
  • 00:22:34.001 --> 00:22:38.072
  • Take hostages, collect markers.
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  • I won't trust.
  • 00:22:42.543 --> 00:22:44.578
  • I won't believe.
  • 00:22:44.578 --> 00:22:46.814
  • I won't get my hopes up.
  • 00:22:46.814 --> 00:22:48.883
  • I'm not going back, and i'm--and you take all these, and we have
  • 00:22:48.883 --> 00:22:53.654
  • To release those people.
  • 00:22:53.654 --> 00:22:55.022
  • We have to forgive.
  • 00:22:55.022 --> 00:22:56.357
  • Forgiveness is a decision of the will.
  • 00:22:56.357 --> 00:22:59.493
  • That doesn't mean you have to get back in line for more abuse,
  • 00:22:59.493 --> 00:23:03.864
  • But you can't keep hostages.
  • 00:23:03.864 --> 00:23:09.069
  • I mean, the one we all know, you know, "i'm not going to church.
  • 00:23:09.069 --> 00:23:11.005
  • I knew somebody said they were a christian and they cheated me,"
  • 00:23:11.005 --> 00:23:14.442
  • And i'm sorry about that, but if you'd like to visit, we'll
  • 00:23:14.442 --> 00:23:18.312
  • Squeeze in and make room for one more hypocrite.
  • 00:23:18.312 --> 00:23:20.181
  • Come on.
  • 00:23:20.181 --> 00:23:24.051
  • And then the last one is a--we don't talk about enough, i
  • 00:23:24.051 --> 00:23:27.888
  • Don't believe.
  • 00:23:27.888 --> 00:23:29.256
  • It's a resolve.
  • 00:23:29.256 --> 00:23:30.591
  • It's a resolution to honor the lord in your life, and this is
  • 00:23:30.591 --> 00:23:33.527
  • Really centered in intent.
  • 00:23:33.527 --> 00:23:35.496
  • You have to intend to honor the lord.
  • 00:23:35.496 --> 00:23:39.233
  • It's not accidental.
  • 00:23:39.233 --> 00:23:41.335
  • It's not--you're not gonna accidentally brush your teeth
  • 00:23:41.335 --> 00:23:43.404
  • Before you go to bed.
  • 00:23:43.404 --> 00:23:45.906
  • Well, you know, i bought toothpaste and three new
  • 00:23:45.906 --> 00:23:47.741
  • Toothbrushes, and we've had the house plumbed, and we built this
  • 00:23:47.741 --> 00:23:53.681
  • Special room where you can go and practice hygiene.
  • 00:23:53.681 --> 00:23:57.785
  • There's a mirror, and i'm just thinking, if i go in that room
  • 00:23:57.785 --> 00:24:02.656
  • And i stand there, god will do something.
  • 00:24:02.656 --> 00:24:06.694
  • Yeah, he will.
  • 00:24:06.694 --> 00:24:08.062
  • He'll leave you alone until you brush your teeth, 'cause
  • 00:24:08.062 --> 00:24:09.396
  • You stink.
  • 00:24:09.396 --> 00:24:12.700
  • Well, we've treated our faith like that.
  • 00:24:12.700 --> 00:24:14.335
  • You know, if god wants me to heal, he'll do it.
  • 00:24:14.335 --> 00:24:16.003
  • No, he won't.
  • 00:24:16.003 --> 00:24:19.773
  • And we have to have the intent to honor god, which means we
  • 00:24:19.773 --> 00:24:22.710
  • Start our day saying, "god, i'm gonna honor you today."
  • 00:24:22.710 --> 00:24:26.046
  • Look at your to-do list.
  • 00:24:26.046 --> 00:24:27.414
  • How--what would it look like to honor god through this set
  • 00:24:27.414 --> 00:24:29.016
  • Of things?
  • 00:24:29.016 --> 00:24:30.751
  • What would it look like to say no to my carnal nature through
  • 00:24:30.751 --> 00:24:33.420
  • This set of things, and say yes to god?
  • 00:24:33.420 --> 00:24:35.656
  • It's purposeful.
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  • It's intentional.
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  • It's not accidental.
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  • Stop with all the goofy language about following this and
  • 00:24:41.128 --> 00:24:44.465
  • Hearing that.
  • 00:24:44.465 --> 00:24:45.799
  • I can tell if you're saying no to your carnal nature and saying
  • 00:24:45.799 --> 00:24:48.335
  • Yes to the spirit of god.
  • 00:24:48.335 --> 00:24:55.843
  • Repent, renounce, release, and resolve, and i believe we'll see
  • 00:24:55.843 --> 00:25:03.651
  • God bless america again.
  • 00:25:03.651 --> 00:25:07.021
  • The problem isn't the depravity of the wicked, it's the
  • 00:25:07.021 --> 00:25:09.790
  • Indifference of the faithful.
  • 00:25:09.790 --> 00:25:12.359
  • Let's decide to be different.
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  • I'm long.
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  • Stand with me, please.
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  • Father, thank you for your word.
  • 00:25:24.572 --> 00:25:26.240
  • Lord jesus, thank you for coming and showing us the way to
  • 00:25:26.240 --> 00:25:30.210
  • The truth.
  • 00:25:30.210 --> 00:25:32.413
  • Lord, we come in humility.
  • 00:25:32.413 --> 00:25:33.781
  • Holy spirit, we need your help.
  • 00:25:33.781 --> 00:25:36.150
  • Bring to our minds those places where we need to repent.
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  • If there are places, father, where we have taken captives and
  • 00:25:40.421 --> 00:25:43.324
  • We have held on to grudges or held ourselves back or allowed
  • 00:25:43.324 --> 00:25:50.698
  • Hindrances, help us to see them, that we can choose to
  • 00:25:50.698 --> 00:25:53.834
  • Release them.
  • 00:25:53.834 --> 00:25:56.170
  • Our desire is to honor you, to give jesus first place in
  • 00:25:56.170 --> 00:26:00.107
  • Our lives.
  • 00:26:00.107 --> 00:26:01.642
  • In our hearts, with our time, in our homes, with our resources,
  • 00:26:01.642 --> 00:26:07.414
  • We wanna honor you.
  • 00:26:07.414 --> 00:26:10.017
  • Thank you for helping us.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • God bless you.
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  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:26:17.424 --> 00:26:25.165
  • Allen: this is the 250th anniversary of our nation.
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  • It's a big deal.
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  • Now, i know a lot of us don't care a whole lot about history.
  • 00:26:29.269 --> 00:26:31.905
  • We didn't have great experiences in school.
  • 00:26:31.905 --> 00:26:33.674
  • I understand that, but here's the reality.
  • 00:26:33.674 --> 00:26:36.110
  • If they can steal our history, they'll rob us of our future.
  • 00:26:36.110 --> 00:26:39.313
  • So history really does matter.
  • 00:26:39.313 --> 00:26:41.315
  • Well, because of that, we have partnered with some good friends
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  • Of our ministries, wallbuilders david and tim barton.
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  • They have the best of the best on this topic.
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  • It's a two-volume set on "the american story," and it helps us
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  • Learn american history with a faith component, with a god
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  • Perspective--how god has been engaged in the unfolding
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  • Narrative of our american story.
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  • That matters because we need god to be involved in the future of
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  • The american story.
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  • That affects our lives, our families, our communities, and
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  • Ultimately our nation.
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  • The books will be a blessing to you, but more than that, i
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  • Believe they'll open your life to the imagination that god is
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  • Moving in the earth, and we can participate with him in the next
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  • Chapters of american history.
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