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Allen Jackson - Response To God's Discipline (Part 2)

July 7, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Response To God's Discipline (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Response To God's Discipline (Part 2) | July 7, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: we have a new resource for you.
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  • I'm really excited about this.
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  • It's a book. it's a booklet.
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  • It's a small book called "your identity in christ."
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  • It was derived from years of teaching and leading in the
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  • Context of the church.
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  • We're walking through a season, folks, when there's so much
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  • Confusion about our identity.
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  • We put this together to help you understand who you are in
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  • Christ, not just about your salvation, but so that you can
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  • Lead a triumphant, victorious, overcoming life.
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  • We built it for an individual read.
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  • It's great for a small group.
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  • It's a great resource for your kitchen table time as a family
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  • With children or grandchildren.
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  • If you know who you are in christ, it changes everything
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  • About the landscape of your life.
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  • I'm righteous in the sight of god.
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  • I can stand before god without fear, guilt, or condemnation.
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  • Those are such important foundational principles to get
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  • Secure in your heart, around your table with the people you
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  • Care about, in your small groups, with your friends.
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  • Your identity in christ, it's a game changer.
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  • I believe it will add momentum to your spiritual growth in
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  • This season.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: you need to learn to recognize the voice of the lord.
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  • You need to be familiar enough with the character of god that
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  • You understand something that's outside of his character.
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  • When you hear somebody say, "well, you know, the god of the
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  • Old testament," i'm like, no, there's no god of the old
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  • Testament and god of the new testament.
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  • You say, "well, in the old testament, god is so harsh."
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  • Have you read the new testament?
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  • Jesus died on a cross.
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  • In revelation he's coming back as a conquering king.
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  • Let your prayers be informed by scripture.
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  • When you read a scripture where you see god giving you direction
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  • Or insight, begin to pray that for yourself.
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  • And remember, the goal here is to learn to pray, to grow up in
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  • Our prayers.
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  • Look at luke chapter 11: "jesus was praying one day in a certain
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  • Place and when he finished, one of his disciples came to him and
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  • Said, 'lord, teach us to pray, as john taught his disciples.'"
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  • And jesus said, "that's the dumbest thing i've ever heard."
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  • The disciples asked jesus to teach them to pray.
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  • He didn't rebuke them.
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  • He did rebuke them in some other circumstances.
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  • Sometimes he looked at them and said, "are you really
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  • That dull?"
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  • He didn't say that this day.
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  • He said, "all right, if you want to learn to pray, i can help
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  • With that.
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  • When you pray--" and then he introduces them to what we know
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  • As the lord's prayer.
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  • He gave them a prayer.
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  • He said we pray to our heavenly father, "our father who art
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  • In heaven."
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  • That's an important note to--when you pray, who are
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  • You addressing?
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  • We address almighty god.
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  • I don't think you have to say it the same way, it doesn't have
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  • To be formulaic, but i pray to my heavenly father,
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  • To almighty god.
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  • I understand who i'm addressing my prayer to.
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  • Now, i'm not praying to just a higher power or some
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  • Benevolent force.
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  • It's not some shapeless, nameless place.
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  • I pray to my heavenly father and now the authority on which i
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  • Pray, what gives me access to god himself, the creator of
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  • Heaven and earth, is jesus's name.
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  • Jesus gathered his friends and he said, "you know, before this,
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  • You've never asked for anything in my name, but i'm about to
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  • Leave and from now on you can ask in my name."
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  • We come in the authority of jesus's name, because whatever
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  • Standing we have before the creator of heaven and earth, we
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  • Have because of our affiliation with jesus of nazareth.
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  • It's in him that we've been made the righteousness of god in
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  • Christ, the scripture says.
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  • So when you begin to pray and the devil accuses you and
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  • Reminds you of your failures and your shortcomings and your
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  • Inconsistencies, and all the things, and he's a master at
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  • That, you say, "well, you know, all of those things are true
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  • Of me.
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  • But have i introduced you to my lord jesus of nazareth?"
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  • And i'm coming in his name.
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  • I'm wrapped in his righteousness.
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  • My status in the throne room is all because of jesus.
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  • That's why i'm so grateful and willing to be an ambassador
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  • For him.
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  • It's why i intend to take him everywhere i go.
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  • That's why i won't go anyplace that he's not welcome.
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  • Because i have no hope apart from him.
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  • All the things that have come to my life that are positive and
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  • Good and transformational have come through the person
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  • Of jesus.
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  • Not because of the congregation where i sit or the translation
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  • I read.
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  • All those things have a place and a value.
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  • You need a community of people, you won't make it by yourself.
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  • You won't.
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  • The church was god's idea, not ours.
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  • Pastors didn't dream it up.
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  • They've dreamt up some other stuff, but they didn't dream
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  • That up.
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  • Jesus is the head of the church.
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  • We need one another.
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  • In fact, you ought to look at the person on your right
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  • And say, "truthfully, i need you to grow up in the lord."
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  • You don't look very convinced.
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  • Now look at the person on your left.
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  • "i'm not sure about you, but the person on the right,
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  • I needed them."
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  • We need one another.
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  • Jesus said the lord's prayer was a response to teach us to pray,
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  • And we've learned to read that prayer as a singular prayer and
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  • I don't think that's wrong.
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  • I don't think it's inappropriate.
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  • I don't wanna be misunderstood, but i would submit to you
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  • There's an alternative way of understanding it.
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  • I put the lord's prayer as we usually would say it or recite
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  • It in your notes: "our father who art in heaven, hallowed be
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  • Your name.
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  • Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as
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  • It is in heaven.
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  • Give us this day our daily bread.
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  • Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass
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  • Against us.
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  • Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.
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  • For yours is the kingdom and the glory forever and ever,"
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  • You ever heard that prayer?
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  • You ever said that prayer?
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  • Me too.
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  • I wanna make a suggestion.
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  • What if other than just a single prayer to be repeated, if jesus
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  • Was giving us a whole portfolio of prayers?
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  • Of things that are appropriate to pray?
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  • I'm not saying it's the only way to understand it, but i believe
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  • It is an appropriate way of understanding it.
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  • When he said, "our father who art in heaven, hallowed be your
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  • Name," that's an expression of worship or praise.
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  • Your name is holy and worthy of honor.
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  • Isn't that what worship is?
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  • I think jesus gave us permission to use our voice to give glory
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  • To the lord.
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  • And then he made a statement: "your kingdom come and your will
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  • Be done on earth as it is in heaven."
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  • I believe that is an expression of what i understand
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  • Intercession to be.
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  • Lord, let your will be done in the earth.
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  • Let your will be done in our home, let your will be done in
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  • Our neighborhood, let your will be done in our family, let your
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  • Will be done in our community, let your will be done in our
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  • Nation, let your will be done amongst the nations.
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  • That's a part of our prayer.
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  • "well, i don't know."
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  • No, jesus said he's teaching us to pray.
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  • Then he said, "give us this day our daily bread."
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  • It's okay to pray for provision.
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  • Please note what he prayed, that's not the prayer
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  • I wanna pray.
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  • I do not want to pray for daily bread, just i'm real honest
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  • With you.
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  • What i would like to pray is for all the bread i'm ever going to
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  • Need for all of my days, in one warehouse and i'd like the key.
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  • Because a couple of times a week, i'd like to go walk
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  • Through the warehouse and go look at all of my bread, right?
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  • But jesus said to pray this way: "give me today what i need to
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  • Sustain me."
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  • That's the model through the book of numbers.
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  • They got all the manna they needed for every day.
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  • And on the eve of shabbat, of the sabbath, they got enough for
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  • Two days because he didn't want them to go to work for food
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  • On sabbath.
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  • He gave them everything they needed.
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  • Their clothes didn't wear out.
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  • There were no sick people amongst them.
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  • They had enough gold and silver and enough finery to build the
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  • Entire tabernacle.
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  • In fact, they had so much they plundered from egypt that they
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  • Brought their gifts and they had no means of replenishing them.
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  • They weren't gainfully employed.
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  • They brought what they had and gave it for the construction of
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  • The tabernacle, and they brought it with such generosity, god
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  • Said--moses said to them, "don't bring any more, we've got
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  • More than we need."
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  • "give me today my daily bread."
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  • I meet a lot of people who are anxious about the economic
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  • Cycles and the systems and all the things.
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  • Folks, the world is unstable.
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  • We're $39 trillion in debt, and that's only the part they will
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  • Admit, acknowledge.
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  • It's far worse than that.
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  • We're so upside down, we can't remember which way up is.
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  • And we still spend money like drunken sailors.
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  • The reason there's so widespread looting and stealing and fraud
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  • Is there's--everybody's got their snout in the trough and
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  • They think somebody else is gonna print more.
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  • It's a mess.
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  • "give us this day our daily bread."
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  • Learn to trust the lord.
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  • It's a prayer: lord, teach me to trust you.
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  • I've trusted me.
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  • I thought if i worked hard and i was frugal and i was intentional
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  • And i was wise, and i'm for all of those things, but at the end
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  • Of the day only god can secure our future.
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  • "give us this day our daily bread."
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  • It's appropriate to pray for god's provision.
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  • People go, "are you one of those prosperity people?"
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  • What are you, one of those poverty people?
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  • I believe god will give us what we need today.
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  • Well, i'd have to trust him for tomorrow.
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  • He's not done.
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  • It's a wonderful course on prayer.
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  • "forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass
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  • Against us."
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  • Prayers on repentance and forgiving.
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  • Ah, you'll need those on your journey.
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  • "lead us not into temptation."
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  • That's a prayer for direction.
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  • God, direct my feet.
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  • Don't lead me into places that'll just prove to be
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  • Tempting to me.
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  • Do you ask god to lead your life?
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  • Have you ever considered it isn't your life?
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  • I mean, i know you have dreams and aspirations and goals, and i
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  • Don't think that's wicked or evil, but have you ever had the
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  • Courage to say to the lord, "what do you have for my life?
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  • What would you do with me?"
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  • I think many times i--there was a season in my life,
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  • I was terrified.
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  • I wouldn't pray that prayer because i thought god would make
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  • Me be like a missionary in a dugout canoe and go down the
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  • Amazon and eat bugs and wear leaves.
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  • Well, i'm not praying that prayer.
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  • I don't like bugs.
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  • I like chocolate and electricity.
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  • I mean, i had such a messed up notion of god that i thought he
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  • Would derive glee from putting me in the most miserable place i
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  • Could consider or think of.
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  • Folks, that's not god.
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  • Do you have the courage to say, "what do you have for me?"
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  • "lead me not into temptation, deliver us from evil," that's
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  • A deliverance prayer.
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  • We better learn how to pray to be delivered from evil.
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  • Evil is amongst us.
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  • Evil harasses us.
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  • Evil harassed jesus.
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  • Evil harassed jesus's friends.
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  • I wanna be included with jesus's friends.
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  • I need to know how to be delivered from evil.
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  • And so do you.
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  • "for yours is the kingdom and the glory forever and
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  • Ever, amen."
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  • That's a yielding prayer.
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  • Oh, that's hard.
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  • Let your kingdom come, your will be done, for it's your glory,
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  • And for your kingdom.
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  • It's not my glory and my kingdom.
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  • I'll give my strength and energy and effort and whatever
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  • Abilities you give me to see your kingdom extended and your
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  • Purposes expanded and your name exalted.
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  • I'm all in on that, but i'm really clear, it's your kingdom
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  • And your glory.
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  • Moses spent himself seeing the purposes of god emerge.
  • 00:12:23.925 --> 00:12:29.063
  • Doesn't mean it was easy or fun every day, where everybody said,
  • 00:12:29.063 --> 00:12:33.168
  • "oh thank you, kind sir."
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  • I would submit to you in the lord's prayer there's
  • 00:12:35.236 --> 00:12:37.539
  • A portfolio of at least seven or more prayers, types of prayers,
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  • That we can play--pray, prayers of praise and worship,
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  • Intercession, provision, repentance, direction,
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  • Deliverance, yielding.
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  • So every time you say the lord's prayer, maybe you let the spirit
  • 00:12:54.022 --> 00:12:56.257
  • Of god quicken one of those lines and you take a day or so
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  • And you let that fill your prayer life, just
  • 00:12:59.661 --> 00:13:02.964
  • Sentence prayers.
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  • Remember "let's pray," just a sentence.
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  • Almost, i'm not opposed to you praying in more than a sentence,
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  • But most of the prayers where you would need to pray to the
  • 00:13:11.472 --> 00:13:13.608
  • Lord, you can address in a sentence.
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  • When jesus got to lazarus's tomb, when he needed to pray
  • 00:13:15.877 --> 00:13:19.814
  • A resurrection prayer.
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  • If that were me, i'm thinking, "this is a big prayer."
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  • Jesus said, "lazarus, come out."
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  • That's it.
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  • That's all he said.
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  • I mean, i'd have been going, "hey god, this is jesus.
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  • I'm the big j-man, you remember me, bethlehem, gabriel,
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  • Mary, joseph."
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  • I mean, i'd have been reading the curriculum vitae.
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  • "lazarus, come here."
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  • Peter and john on the way to the temple, the man--the lame man
  • 00:13:47.175 --> 00:13:49.644
  • That was begging, "we don't-- we're not giving you any money
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  • Today, but in jesus's name, walk."
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  • Boom, whole city will shake.
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  • One sentence, you can do so much.
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  • "god, i trust you today."
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  • "god, forgive me."
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  • "god, i pray for the people i work with, be merciful in
  • 00:14:05.894 --> 00:14:08.396
  • Jesus's name."
  • 00:14:08.396 --> 00:14:09.764
  • One sentence, it'll change everything.
  • 00:14:09.764 --> 00:14:13.268
  • You don't have to be a prayer expert.
  • 00:14:13.268 --> 00:14:15.403
  • Be a prayer practitioner.
  • 00:14:15.403 --> 00:14:19.507
  • Allen: hey, i wanna ask you a question.
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  • How do you identify: male, female, southerner,
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  • Educated, housewife?
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  • How do you identify?
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  • Well, i wanna suggest knowing your identity in christ is the
  • 00:14:31.519 --> 00:14:34.522
  • Most significant component of your person for both time
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  • And eternity.
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  • We put together a resource.
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  • It's a new booklet.
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  • It'll help you understand who you are in christ, your identity
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  • In the kingdom of god, and what the implications of that are for
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  • Your life today.
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  • It's a game changer.
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  • Female announcer: every day, the world tries to define who we
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  • Are, what we should believe, and whether we're enough, but god's
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  • In pastor allen's new book, "your identity in christ: 12
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  • Truths about who you are," he shares biblical truths that will
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  • Help you recognize who you are in christ.
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  • Allen: i brought you some verses.
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  • I can't read them all.
  • 00:15:26.074 --> 00:15:27.408
  • They all came from john's gospel.
  • 00:15:27.408 --> 00:15:28.776
  • Same author, same theme, same message, same presentation of
  • 00:15:28.776 --> 00:15:31.779
  • Jesus, but there's a theme that emerges that i think is at least
  • 00:15:31.779 --> 00:15:34.415
  • Worth tagging.
  • 00:15:34.415 --> 00:15:35.783
  • I'll come back, we'll look at it more.
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  • John 5, this is jesus: "by myself i can do nothing; i judge
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  • Only as i hear.
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  • My judgment is just, for i seek not to please myself but him who
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  • Sent me."
  • 00:15:44.859 --> 00:15:47.095
  • John 6: "i've come down from heaven not to do my will but to
  • 00:15:47.095 --> 00:15:49.831
  • Do the will of him who sent me."
  • 00:15:49.831 --> 00:15:52.667
  • John 8, jesus said: "when you lift up the son of man, then
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  • You'll know that i am he.
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  • I do nothing of my own initiative."
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  • What's at the heart of what jesus is saying, because he says
  • 00:16:00.775 --> 00:16:02.744
  • It repetitively and john presents that to us.
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  • Jesus, it seems to me, is saying very clearly: "this is more than
  • 00:16:07.248 --> 00:16:09.684
  • My own initiative.
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  • I'm engaged in this, i'm involved in this, but this isn't
  • 00:16:12.854 --> 00:16:16.391
  • Just my agenda."
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  • That's what i have come to understand about serving
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  • The lord.
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  • Yeah, i'm engaged, i'm involved, absolutely.
  • 00:16:21.496 --> 00:16:24.165
  • I'm a participant, but this isn't really about just
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  • My initiative.
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  • This isn't just my agenda.
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  • Do you have the courage to invite god into your life
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  • That way?
  • 00:16:32.707 --> 00:16:34.108
  • So i think most of us learn to pray by saying, "god, this is
  • 00:16:34.108 --> 00:16:36.244
  • My initiative.
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  • And i would like your help.
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  • I understand you got some serious juice.
  • 00:16:40.281 --> 00:16:44.118
  • And i'm asking for some help.
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  • I mean, i've been told that you know the ending at the
  • 00:16:46.587 --> 00:16:48.890
  • Beginning, so i'm looking for some insight on this, because
  • 00:16:48.890 --> 00:16:52.693
  • I've got an agenda and i'd like to get on down the road
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  • With it."
  • 00:16:54.829 --> 00:16:57.098
  • And i think probably most of us learn to pray that way.
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  • But i think as we learn to follow the lord and we get to
  • 00:17:01.736 --> 00:17:04.205
  • Know the character of the lord and we have our own character
  • 00:17:04.205 --> 00:17:06.674
  • Begin to be transformed, i think we begin to say with jesus,
  • 00:17:06.674 --> 00:17:09.877
  • "listen, i'm not really here on my own.
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  • I mean, i'm here, i'm all in.
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  • I'm not trying to separate myself from what's happening,
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  • But i'm telling you: i'm here on behalf of someone else."
  • 00:17:17.885 --> 00:17:23.691
  • Do you have the courage to say that to the lord?
  • 00:17:23.691 --> 00:17:26.861
  • We're gonna close today with communion.
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  • And i wanna give an application to what we've been talking
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  • About, the different kinds of prayer and i wanna invite you.
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  • I think we all understand probably the fundamentals
  • 00:17:36.204 --> 00:17:38.339
  • Of communion.
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  • If you're at home now, this is when you go grab your saltine or
  • 00:17:39.707 --> 00:17:41.843
  • Your--you've got a heartbeat here.
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  • If you're in one of our worship spaces on campus and you missed
  • 00:17:44.946 --> 00:17:47.315
  • The elements when you came in, there's ushers.
  • 00:17:47.315 --> 00:17:50.084
  • They'll share with you.
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  • I want to invite you to--we're gonna receive the bread and the
  • 00:17:53.821 --> 00:17:57.291
  • Cup, but the purpose--me dropping the wafer.
  • 00:17:57.291 --> 00:18:05.633
  • So don't you wish you could work with a camera on you?
  • 00:18:05.633 --> 00:18:15.610
  • Communion is about jesus, his shed blood and his broken body
  • 00:18:15.610 --> 00:18:19.614
  • On our behalf.
  • 00:18:19.614 --> 00:18:21.682
  • The sacrifice that was made for you and me.
  • 00:18:21.682 --> 00:18:26.187
  • And i wanna ask you, as we come to the communion table today,
  • 00:18:26.187 --> 00:18:29.223
  • If you'd be willing to pray a prayer of release.
  • 00:18:29.223 --> 00:18:31.225
  • I wanna read you a verse of scripture.
  • 00:18:31.225 --> 00:18:33.161
  • It's in your outlines.
  • 00:18:33.161 --> 00:18:34.495
  • It's mark 11.
  • 00:18:34.495 --> 00:18:36.264
  • Jesus again is speaking, he said, "when you stand praying--
  • 00:18:36.264 --> 00:18:39.967
  • When you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone,
  • 00:18:39.967 --> 00:18:44.205
  • Forgive them."
  • 00:18:44.205 --> 00:18:46.574
  • He didn't say, "when you're having a 72-hour time
  • 00:18:46.574 --> 00:18:48.709
  • Of intercession."
  • 00:18:48.709 --> 00:18:50.645
  • He said, "when you stand there praying, in the moment, if you
  • 00:18:50.645 --> 00:18:55.750
  • Think of anything against anyone, forgive them."
  • 00:18:55.750 --> 00:19:00.254
  • Forgiveness is a decision of the will.
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  • It's not an emotion.
  • 00:19:01.822 --> 00:19:03.958
  • We don't forgive because we feel like it.
  • 00:19:03.958 --> 00:19:05.693
  • If you wait for your emotion, you'll never forgive.
  • 00:19:05.693 --> 00:19:08.629
  • Your emotions will follow a decision of your will.
  • 00:19:08.629 --> 00:19:15.570
  • I want to give you an invitation today.
  • 00:19:15.570 --> 00:19:17.772
  • If there's any place where you have tolerated unforgiveness,
  • 00:19:17.772 --> 00:19:21.842
  • There's a cohort of things that go with that: bitterness, anger,
  • 00:19:21.842 --> 00:19:24.512
  • Resentment, hatred.
  • 00:19:24.512 --> 00:19:26.714
  • There's a sense that you're owed something.
  • 00:19:26.714 --> 00:19:30.051
  • See, forgiveness is necessitated typically because there's some
  • 00:19:30.051 --> 00:19:32.753
  • Sort of an injury, an offense.
  • 00:19:32.753 --> 00:19:35.856
  • And the result of the offense is there's a debt incurred.
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  • I'm owed something.
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  • I'm owed an apology.
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  • I'm owed restitution.
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  • I'm owed restoration.
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  • Something has to be done here.
  • 00:19:44.165 --> 00:19:46.734
  • What happened was inappropriate.
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  • And we have a marker.
  • 00:19:49.070 --> 00:19:51.372
  • It may be an emotional marker.
  • 00:19:51.372 --> 00:19:52.707
  • We got a marker, and i'm not-- well, forgiveness says i'm gonna
  • 00:19:52.707 --> 00:19:58.446
  • Tear up my marker.
  • 00:19:58.446 --> 00:20:01.482
  • Now forgiveness doesn't mean you get back in line for more abuse.
  • 00:20:01.482 --> 00:20:05.353
  • Forgiveness doesn't mean that you're excusing it and saying
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  • You think it was good.
  • 00:20:07.822 --> 00:20:10.591
  • Forgiveness doesn't mean that you're validating what happened
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  • As being fair.
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  • Forgiveness says, is i'm releasing you.
  • 00:20:14.662 --> 00:20:18.332
  • Because here's the reality: when you hold unforgiveness and
  • 00:20:18.332 --> 00:20:20.568
  • Resentment, you are tethered to that point.
  • 00:20:20.568 --> 00:20:26.507
  • I can give you an example, and i know we got to go, but have you
  • 00:20:26.507 --> 00:20:29.744
  • Ever gotten mad at somebody and you decided you would
  • 00:20:29.744 --> 00:20:32.146
  • Ignore them?
  • 00:20:32.146 --> 00:20:34.915
  • And they didn't notice.
  • 00:20:34.915 --> 00:20:40.121
  • So then you have to ignore them more loudly.
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  • [sighing loudly]
  • 00:20:45.126 --> 00:20:48.462
  • Inevitably the question comes, "is something wrong?"
  • 00:20:48.462 --> 00:20:53.768
  • To which you respond, "no, why would you ask?"
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  • It's not the most mature of our responses.
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  • Forgiveness says, "i cancel the debt."
  • 00:21:08.716 --> 00:21:12.553
  • Now here's the principle.
  • 00:21:12.553 --> 00:21:14.622
  • Jesus said for us to be forgiven, we have to forgive.
  • 00:21:14.622 --> 00:21:21.796
  • And we all need forgiving.
  • 00:21:21.796 --> 00:21:24.932
  • So here's my invitation to you today.
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  • We're gonna come to the communion table to receive the
  • 00:21:26.534 --> 00:21:31.672
  • Body and the blood of our lord because we need his forgiveness.
  • 00:21:31.672 --> 00:21:37.278
  • And to prepare ourselves to receive that, how about if we're
  • 00:21:37.278 --> 00:21:41.315
  • Willing to forgive?
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  • It can be a person, it can be an organization, it can be
  • 00:21:43.651 --> 00:21:45.920
  • An institution.
  • 00:21:45.920 --> 00:21:47.688
  • It can be a team, a group, a family, it can be many,
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  • Many things.
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  • There are so many voices coaching us these days towards
  • 00:21:53.627 --> 00:21:56.564
  • Hatred and resentment and bitterness.
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  • Folks, we have to be a people who forgive.
  • 00:22:01.102 --> 00:22:05.539
  • So we're going to pray a prayer of release today.
  • 00:22:05.539 --> 00:22:08.909
  • We're going to receive the elements of communion, because
  • 00:22:08.909 --> 00:22:12.113
  • At the end of the day it's the power of god.
  • 00:22:12.113 --> 00:22:15.149
  • But by a decision of our will, we're going to release those
  • 00:22:15.149 --> 00:22:18.619
  • People that we've been holding markers against.
  • 00:22:18.619 --> 00:22:22.656
  • You willing to do that?
  • 00:22:22.656 --> 00:22:26.160
  • You'll know.
  • 00:22:26.160 --> 00:22:27.528
  • There's a name that you remember and you still get
  • 00:22:27.528 --> 00:22:28.929
  • A knot in your stomach.
  • 00:22:28.929 --> 00:22:31.832
  • Or there's a scene you can see, and all the emotions come
  • 00:22:31.832 --> 00:22:34.735
  • Flooding back again.
  • 00:22:34.735 --> 00:22:36.103
  • I'm not saying that what happened was right or correct,
  • 00:22:36.103 --> 00:22:38.139
  • I'm not whitewashing it.
  • 00:22:38.139 --> 00:22:39.740
  • I'm telling you, you can't afford to hold the bitterness.
  • 00:22:39.740 --> 00:22:43.778
  • It is robbing you of your future.
  • 00:22:43.778 --> 00:22:51.786
  • I want you to stand with me, we're gonna receive communion.
  • 00:22:51.786 --> 00:22:55.689
  • I think we ought to stand in the presence of the lord for this.
  • 00:22:55.689 --> 00:22:58.459
  • Jesus himself put this in place.
  • 00:22:58.459 --> 00:23:00.594
  • He gathered with his disciples.
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  • They're gonna leave the--they're having the
  • 00:23:04.598 --> 00:23:06.167
  • Passover meal.
  • 00:23:06.167 --> 00:23:07.501
  • They're gonna leave the passover meal, they're gonna go to
  • 00:23:07.501 --> 00:23:08.869
  • The garden of gethsemane and jesus will be arrested.
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  • It's the beginning of his passion, his great suffering.
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  • Remember what he says from the cross: "father, forgive them."
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  • And he gathers his disciples at the end of that meal, and he
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  • Took bread and broke it and said, "this bread is my body
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  • Broken for you.
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  • As often as you eat this, do this in remembrance of me."
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  • Let's receive the bread.
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  • And he took a cup.
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  • He said, "this cup is a new covenant contract, sealed with
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  • My own blood.
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  • As often as you drink it, you proclaim my death until you see
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  • Me again."
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  • Let's drink together.
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  • Now let's pray.
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  • Father, thank you.
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  • I thank you for your great love and your mercy for us.
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  • That you have provided forgiveness and cleansing, that
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  • We could be set free, and we thank you for that.
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  • But lord, in obedience to your word, we pause today.
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  • Learn to make a decision by the choice of our will to forgive
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  • Those who have wronged us.
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  • Lord, every person, every event, every name, every instance,
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  • Where nothing's hidden from you.
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  • We come in the name of jesus to say we forgive.
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  • We cancel the marker.
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  • Lord, we put it in the trash, we walk away from it, we turn
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  • Our back.
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  • Lord, we set them free that we might be set free.
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  • And lord, as we forgive, i thank you now that you forgive us of
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  • Every transgression, of every sin, of every attitude, of
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  • Every, every behavior, lord, all of those places.
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  • I thank you that through the blood of jesus, we have been
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  • Redeemed from the hand of the enemy.
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  • That through the blood of jesus we have been sanctified, set
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  • Apart to god, that through the blood of jesus we have been
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  • Justified, made holy, just as if we've never sinned.
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  • I thank you that every claim against us has been canceled by
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  • The blood of jesus.
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  • And i thank you now for the freedom that will come to our
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  • Lives, for the freedom to our soul and the freedom to
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  • Our spirit.
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  • Let the joy of the lord come where there has been hurt and
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  • Anger, where we've been isolated and withdrawn.
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  • Let there be a new freedom come in the name of jesus today,
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  • We thank you for it.
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  • We praise you for it, that through the blood of jesus, our
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  • Lives are being changed, that we're being transformed.
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  • We give you the glory and the honor and the praise, for it's
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  • In jesus's name we come, amen.
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  • You do one more thing, you take a big deep breath.
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  • Just let it go.
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  • Oh, don't carry that away anymore.
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  • June the 14th, i forgave, i'm free, hallelujah.
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  • God bless you.
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  • Allen: hey, i'm really excited about our newest publication,
  • 00:26:13.587 --> 00:26:16.190
  • "your identity in christ."
  • 00:26:16.190 --> 00:26:17.958
  • Far too often in christendom, we major on the minors, we get way
  • 00:26:17.958 --> 00:26:21.295
  • Heated up about which church we attend, which denomination we
  • 00:26:21.295 --> 00:26:23.831
  • Belong to, which translation of the bible we read.
  • 00:26:23.831 --> 00:26:26.367
  • Folks, those things are all okay, but knowing who you are in
  • 00:26:26.367 --> 00:26:29.503
  • Christ, it will mean freedom or it will put you in a place
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  • Of bondage.
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  • When i help people through the steps of spiritual freedom, the
  • 00:26:34.241 --> 00:26:36.644
  • Foundation of that is understanding who we are
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  • In christ.
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  • We put together this little booklet as a tool.
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  • It'll help you individually, you can do it as a small group.
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  • It's a great resource to share with your children or your
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  • Grandchildren at your kitchen table time.
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  • It'll make a difference in your life knowing who you are in
  • 00:26:50.124 --> 00:26:52.993
  • Christ, first and foremost, as a part of your
  • 00:26:52.993 --> 00:26:55.596
  • Spiritual formation.
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  • In fact, i wanna pray with you before we go that god will bring
  • 00:26:56.930 --> 00:26:59.433
  • New freedom to you in this season.
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  • Father, thank you for--you have established, you have paid the
  • 00:27:01.802 --> 00:27:05.172
  • Price that we can participate in your kingdom.
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  • By your spirit, awaken us to who we are in christ, first and
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  • Foremost, in jesus's name, amen.
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  • ♪♪♪
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