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Allen Jackson - The Response Team (Part 1)

April 16, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - The Response Team (Part 1)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - The Response Team (Part 1) | April 16, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: hey, would you like to make an impact for the
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  • Kingdom of god in this generation?
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  • I have an idea and, oh, by the way, it's biblical.
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  • Let's practice hospitality.
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  • I know it doesn't sound very complicated, but imagine your
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  • Kitchen table as an expression of the hope and the love of god.
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  • We've all got the ability to do this.
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  • You don't have to be martha stewart.
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  • You don't have to be a gourmet chef.
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  • Let's just invite--open our home, invite people to our
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  • Kitchen table, and then watch what god will do as we live out
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  • The assignment of being ambassadors for his kingdom.
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  • God's moving in the earth. let's go with him.
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  • Kitchen table is one of the easiest ways to share life and
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  • Your faith.
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  • Favorite family recipes, and a short booklet with
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen jackson: i wanna continue the theme we picked up for the
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  • Last couple of sessions, talking about leading with faith.
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  • It's a very important principle.
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  • All of you are leaders in a variety of arenas.
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  • Some of you have great significance and great
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  • Accomplishment and great confidence in those arenas.
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  • Sometimes it's your professional arena.
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  • Sometimes it's a hobby or a skill that you have, a passion
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  • You've cultivated.
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  • You have great expertise and great understanding and there
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  • Are people who highly value your opinion.
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  • Some of you can look at a pile of wood and know how to
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  • Restructure that into a home or something that's very useful.
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  • To me, it just looks like kindling.
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  • I mean, you--some of you have amazing technological abilities.
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  • I mean, an enormous set of skills and that same group of
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  • People with all that confidence and all the ability.
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  • So often when we talk about leading with our faith, we turn
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  • Into quivering bowls of jello.
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  • "well, you know, pastor, i don't, i don't, i don't--i
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  • Don't feel comfortable doing that.
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  • I don't--i'm not just--i'm, no, i don't."
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  • Can't you do that?
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  • Can't you help?
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  • Won't you do something?
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  • Can't you pray?
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  • And i want us to grow in this.
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  • This is so important.
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  • This is more than a passing thing.
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  • We're gonna have to learn to lead with our faith.
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  • Everybody that imagines themselves to be a christ
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  • Follower, i would pray would have the boldness, the courage,
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  • And the ability to help somebody else become a christ follower,
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  • To be able to make a case why reading your bible matters and
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  • The value it brings to a human life to understand spiritual
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  • Forces of freedom and bondage and how to help people find the
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  • Blessings of god and be delivered from the curses
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  • Of evil.
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  • Those are not skill sets for the fanatical fringe.
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  • They're the assignments of what it means for you and me to grow
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  • Up in our faith.
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  • We've got to learn to lead with our faith.
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  • There are some expressions of this that are beyond bizarre.
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  • I mean, we--we're just addled a little bit.
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  • All this debate around books and illicit material and evil,
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  • Wicked information that we want to subject our children to,
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  • Folks, this isn't--this doesn't require months and months
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  • Of debate.
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  • If you're in favor of those books in the school system, just
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  • Raise your hand.
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  • We wanna know who you are.
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  • I mean, stop with the conversations about banning
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  • Books and "you're gonna take the bible out and [grumbling]."
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  • Just tell the truth.
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  • "i want to groom children."
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  • We're gonna have to have the courage to lead with our faith.
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  • I hear what comes out of us that, you know, "well, we're
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  • Called to bring unity."
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  • What bible do you read?
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  • Jesus said, "i came to bring division."
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  • I have no intention of being unified with people that deny
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  • The authority of scripture.
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  • I don't--that's not my goal.
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  • I don't wanna be unified with people who deny the uniqueness
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  • Of jesus.
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  • I have compassion upon them.
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  • I'll treat them with respect and dignity.
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  • But my goal is not unity with wickedness and i would submit
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  • Neither should yours be.
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  • We gotta learn to lead with our faith.
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  • I'm not sure what's happened to us, but we've lost our balance
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  • A bit.
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  • This session, i wanna talk about becoming the response team.
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  • I don't like my titles very often, but i like this one.
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  • And that we're in a season of at least imagined.
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  • It isn't--we don't have any evidence yet, but we're in a
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  • Season where there's a lot of discussion about
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  • Sweeping changes.
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  • You have to understand there are unimaginable forces moving to
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  • Maintain the status quo.
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  • Only god will initiate change, not the bluster of
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  • Elected officials.
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  • What they're pushing against is an immovable force without the
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  • Help of almighty god.
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  • I assure you that.
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  • Lives have been lost, bodies buried, wars fought to keep
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  • Change from happening.
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  • And if there is any significant changes that is to occur, it
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  • Will occur because the spirit of god opens the doors.
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  • But in the midst of all of that change, i think we have this new
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  • Imaginations, even expectations perhaps, of government leaders,
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  • Things that we haven't seen before.
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  • We're imagining we might see outcomes we haven't experienced,
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  • That we're hoping to become a part of our reality.
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  • Well, i would submit to you that those things will only follow
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  • New imaginations of the people of god.
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  • That we can't imagine we could just keep doing the same things
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  • The way we've always done them and behaving in the same pattern
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  • And then god will bring sweeping amazing changes.
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  • That's illogical.
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  • It's irrational.
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  • It's certainly not biblically informed.
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  • We're gonna have to choose responses we haven't made before
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  • And outcomes that we haven't experienced.
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  • We're watching it happen all around us.
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  • All these people that are being nominated and chosen that are
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  • Being debated and their lives are being exposed to scathing
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  • Lights and evaluations and high levels of criticism.
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  • They had busy lives before those calls came.
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  • They had menus of responsibility that i assure you were
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  • Overflowing before they got tapped with a new assignment.
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  • So the question to those of us that are people of faith, are we
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  • Willing to allow our schedules to be impacted?
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  • It's an important question.
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  • I've been asking it to you in this way for a couple of
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  • Sessions now.
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  • Would you be willing to accept a role in a significant
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  • Change initiative?
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  • When you say, "well, you know, if it was one of
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  • Great prestige."
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  • Well, oftentimes the most important roles aren't the ones
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  • That get celebrated.
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  • I promise you that.
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  • You know, it's highly unlikely that i'm gonna be nominated by
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  • President-elect trump for anything, or you.
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  • But let me tell you who has chosen us.
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  • The creator of all things, the king of all kings, the lord of
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  • Heaven and earth.
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  • He's chosen you and me and he's given us an assignment and
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  • That's better than anything that could be issued from
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  • Washington, d.c.
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  • There's nothing i would rather do than use my life to make an
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  • Impact for the eternal kingdom of almighty god.
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  • There's no award that could be garnered, no resource that could
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  • Be accumulated, no prize that could be distributed that
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  • Matters to me nearly as much as making an impact for the kingdom
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  • Of almighty god.
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  • But that won't come with a modest effort, with a
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  • Half-hearted attention.
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  • I've been looking at some types and patterns with you, some
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  • Examples of this.
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  • I wanna introduce a new one.
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  • It's in 2 samuel 23.
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  • This is david, still a fugitive, hasn't secured the throne, still
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  • Has very much an adversary who happens to be the king.
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  • So he is standing in a position where there's a tremendous
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  • Power inequity.
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  • There are some people that have migrated to his side, but
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  • They're the people who really weren't welcomed in the halls of
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  • Power anywhere else.
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  • 2 samuel 23 and verse 15, it says: "david longed for water.
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  • 'oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well
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  • Near the gate of bethlehem!'"
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  • It's where he'd grown up.
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  • "so the three mighty men broke through the philistine lines and
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  • Drew water from the well near the gate of bethlehem, and they
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  • Carried it back to david.
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  • But he refused to drink it; instead, he poured it out before
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  • The lord."
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  • It's a familiar behavior for an offering.
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  • He's gonna offer the sacrifice that those men made before
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  • The lord.
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  • "'far be it from me, o lord, to do this!'
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  • He said.
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  • 'is it not the blood of men who were--went at the risk of
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  • Their lives?'
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  • And david wouldn't drink it.
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  • Such were the exploits of the three mighty men."
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  • A couple of observations just really quickly because i wanna
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  • Move through this outline.
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  • I wanna get to the last section of it.
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  • But we--i think we have to know, we've got to register the
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  • Reality that there is opposition to the purposes of god.
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  • That is normal.
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  • That's the expected response.
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  • It isn't unusual.
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  • So if you raise your hand and say, "i wanna serve the lord, i
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  • Wanna make a difference for the kingdom of god.
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  • I wanna take my place," you should understand that, as you
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  • Do that, you have an adversary.
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  • When you're birthed into the kingdom of god, you inherit
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  • An adversary.
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  • The second observation i would give you is there were many who
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  • Heard david's lament, his expression of the sweetness of
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  • The water from that well that he was so familiar with, but only
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  • Three men said, "let's go."
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  • Folks, we gotta have--we gotta decide what we're gonna do, what
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  • We're gonna become.
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  • I am weary with christians that give me their spiritual resume
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  • And tell me they've been born again, 47 years ago.
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  • And since then i've been on a self-absorbed journey.
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  • That's not a report you really wanna give.
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  • The mighty men, i didn't put it all in here, the verses that
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  • Follow that.
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  • At this point, we don't even know their names.
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  • There's three mighty men and a whole camp filled with not so
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  • Mighty men, the average guys.
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  • I don't mean average in iq or average in physical stature.
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  • It has more to do with the motor than it does the--one of these
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  • Three mighty men's name was benaiah.
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  • It explains it in a few verses.
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  • It gives a couple of their exploits, some of the things
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  • They did that caused them to gain this title of the
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  • Mighty men.
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  • They served david in a very unique way.
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  • One of 'em, it says, on a snowy day saw a lion in a pit and he
  • 00:11:23.465 --> 00:11:28.903
  • Went down in the pit to get the lion.
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  • Now, i like snowy days and i have seen some pits and i've
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  • Even been places in the world where i've seen lions.
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  • At one time, we did a pastors' conference in east africa and we
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  • Had a day before we had to leave.
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  • So we made our way out into the serengeti and we were in a range
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  • Rover with lions.
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  • And i kept saying to kathy, "if you'd get out of here and go
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  • Stand next to that lion, i'll take your picture."
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  • But it never occurred to me to go after the lion.
  • 00:12:05.073 --> 00:12:11.212
  • I was far more aware that lion might come after me.
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  • And this guy climbed down in the pit.
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  • I would like a little bit of that attitude for the kingdom of
  • 00:12:21.322 --> 00:12:23.691
  • God, which means i have to change how i think a little bit.
  • 00:12:23.691 --> 00:12:32.400
  • I gotta re-le--i have to re-message that internal
  • 00:12:32.400 --> 00:12:36.171
  • Programming when you recognize an opportunity where you could
  • 00:12:36.171 --> 00:12:39.374
  • Pray and your internal trigger goes, "oh, don't do that."
  • 00:12:39.374 --> 00:12:43.311
  • You might pray, and nothing would happen.
  • 00:12:43.311 --> 00:12:46.347
  • It would be far more intimidating if you prayed and
  • 00:12:46.347 --> 00:12:48.183
  • Something did.
  • 00:12:48.183 --> 00:12:51.519
  • Oh, when you hear somebody talking about something that's
  • 00:12:51.519 --> 00:12:53.888
  • Ungodly and you get a little message go, "you could
  • 00:12:53.888 --> 00:12:56.124
  • Speak up."
  • 00:12:56.124 --> 00:12:57.492
  • "oh, don't do that."
  • 00:12:57.492 --> 00:13:01.296
  • We gotta reimagine what it means to follow the lord.
  • 00:13:01.296 --> 00:13:05.333
  • We've been so smug and so arrogant and so self-righteous,
  • 00:13:05.333 --> 00:13:09.737
  • We point at our credentials or an experience at some point in
  • 00:13:09.737 --> 00:13:12.907
  • The past and fail to acknowledge that we are totally inert, no
  • 00:13:12.907 --> 00:13:20.014
  • Spiritual life whatsoever in the moment when it's needed.
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  • I don't wanna be there.
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  • Allen: i have a childhood memory i wanna share with you.
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  • It was our kitchen table.
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  • I've got two younger brothers.
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  • I've gathered around the table, and my parents were
  • 00:13:39.601 --> 00:13:41.870
  • Consistently, persistently inviting guests to dinner.
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  • You know, practicing that notion of hospitality, my brothers and
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  • I weren't always excited about it, but i realized that we had a
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  • Front row seat for expressions of the kingdom of god.
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  • We can still do the same.
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  • Imagine your kitchen table as an expression of god's love in
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  • This generation.
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  • Allen: isaiah 6, we looked at this in a previous session.
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  • Isaiah is a young man.
  • 00:14:39.460 --> 00:14:42.397
  • He's not a prophet at this point, maybe in god's
  • 00:14:42.397 --> 00:14:45.366
  • Understanding but not on the understanding of the people
  • 00:14:45.366 --> 00:14:47.435
  • Around him.
  • 00:14:47.435 --> 00:14:48.770
  • He's just a young man and he has a vision of the lord and the
  • 00:14:48.770 --> 00:14:50.772
  • Majesty of his throne room and he recognizes the great
  • 00:14:50.772 --> 00:14:54.542
  • Disparity between his own condition and the majesty of the
  • 00:14:54.542 --> 00:14:57.345
  • Throne room of god.
  • 00:14:57.345 --> 00:14:58.713
  • And he answers and he says, "woe is me!
  • 00:14:58.713 --> 00:15:00.248
  • I'm a man of unclean lips, and i live in the midst of a people of
  • 00:15:00.248 --> 00:15:04.886
  • Unclean lips."
  • 00:15:04.886 --> 00:15:06.354
  • God intervenes.
  • 00:15:06.354 --> 00:15:07.689
  • Supernaturally, god intervenes on isaiah's behalf.
  • 00:15:07.689 --> 00:15:09.791
  • And the question is posed in the throne room of god: "we need
  • 00:15:09.791 --> 00:15:12.860
  • Somebody, we need a representative, we--who will
  • 00:15:12.860 --> 00:15:15.330
  • Speak for us?"
  • 00:15:15.330 --> 00:15:18.166
  • And isaiah speaks up and said, "here i am.
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  • Send me!"
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  • Just like those three men.
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  • "you need somebody to go?
  • 00:15:26.708 --> 00:15:28.042
  • I'm in. let's go."
  • 00:15:28.042 --> 00:15:31.512
  • We've looked at the passage in exodus 3.
  • 00:15:31.512 --> 00:15:33.114
  • It's moses's recruitment.
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  • Moses is not a teenager.
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  • He's not a young man.
  • 00:15:36.851 --> 00:15:38.853
  • Moses is an old man.
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  • He's got gray hair and calluses.
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  • His strength is already diminished some.
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  • He's failed mightily, publicly, hugely.
  • 00:15:46.227 --> 00:15:50.031
  • He's a fugitive.
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  • He's a sheep herder, the bible says, euphemistically, on the
  • 00:15:52.333 --> 00:15:56.704
  • Backside of the desert.
  • 00:15:56.704 --> 00:15:58.039
  • I think that's pretty close to murfreesboro.
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  • I mean, i'm honored to be here, but this would be
  • 00:16:01.776 --> 00:16:05.413
  • Flyover country.
  • 00:16:05.413 --> 00:16:09.117
  • And god recruits him.
  • 00:16:09.117 --> 00:16:10.485
  • He says, "i have a job for you," and moses is most reluctant.
  • 00:16:10.485 --> 00:16:16.491
  • God said, "there's a huge need, a tremendous need, an
  • 00:16:16.491 --> 00:16:19.093
  • Overwhelming need.
  • 00:16:19.093 --> 00:16:20.461
  • My people are suffering, and they need--they need help, they
  • 00:16:20.461 --> 00:16:23.531
  • Need leadership, they need someone to confront pharaoh.
  • 00:16:23.531 --> 00:16:26.534
  • They deserve something better and i have come down to help
  • 00:16:26.534 --> 00:16:29.470
  • Them," and moses is going, "yes!"
  • 00:16:29.470 --> 00:16:33.441
  • And then god says, "and i'm sending you," and moses
  • 00:16:33.441 --> 00:16:35.843
  • Goes, "whoa, hang on now, let's pray about this."
  • 00:16:35.843 --> 00:16:40.848
  • And then god begins to present to moses the tools he will need,
  • 00:16:40.848 --> 00:16:46.120
  • Everything he will need to be effective in this assignment.
  • 00:16:46.120 --> 00:16:49.891
  • It's totally unexpected.
  • 00:16:49.891 --> 00:16:51.225
  • Moses hasn't been praying for it.
  • 00:16:51.225 --> 00:16:52.593
  • He hasn't been pursuing it.
  • 00:16:52.593 --> 00:16:55.363
  • One of the questions i would pose you, are you--are you
  • 00:16:55.363 --> 00:16:57.298
  • Willing to allow god to write a future for you that doesn't look
  • 00:16:57.298 --> 00:17:00.601
  • Like the one you've been asking him for?
  • 00:17:00.601 --> 00:17:03.571
  • See, we know what we want god to do.
  • 00:17:03.571 --> 00:17:05.273
  • We pray and fast for god to do what we want god to do.
  • 00:17:05.273 --> 00:17:08.543
  • And i'm not saying that's wrong.
  • 00:17:08.543 --> 00:17:09.877
  • I think seeking the lord has benefit.
  • 00:17:09.877 --> 00:17:11.646
  • I can tell you that my life experience is the more i've
  • 00:17:11.646 --> 00:17:14.182
  • Sought the lord, the more god walks me into pathways i didn't
  • 00:17:14.182 --> 00:17:17.552
  • Even imagine i was supposed to walk in.
  • 00:17:17.552 --> 00:17:24.225
  • And that's where moses is at.
  • 00:17:24.225 --> 00:17:25.593
  • He goes, "i wasn't planning on this."
  • 00:17:25.593 --> 00:17:26.994
  • But god provides moses in this recruitment episode with an
  • 00:17:26.994 --> 00:17:31.365
  • Introduction to all the tools that he's going to need.
  • 00:17:31.365 --> 00:17:37.071
  • And moses is doing his best to say, "no, i don't wanna do that.
  • 00:17:37.071 --> 00:17:39.974
  • I don't intend to do that. i'm not gonna do that.
  • 00:17:39.974 --> 00:17:41.876
  • You can't make me do that."
  • 00:17:41.876 --> 00:17:43.211
  • There's an old episode from andy griffith where barney's doing
  • 00:17:43.211 --> 00:17:45.346
  • That and barney does that.
  • 00:17:45.346 --> 00:17:50.852
  • You know, moses said, "what are--i'm gonna get back there
  • 00:17:50.852 --> 00:17:53.221
  • And they're gonna say, 'who sent you?'
  • 00:17:53.221 --> 00:17:54.689
  • And i'm gonna go, 'you know, i was at a bush.'"
  • 00:17:54.689 --> 00:17:59.193
  • And god said, "well, what's in your hand?"
  • 00:17:59.193 --> 00:18:00.995
  • And he throws down his staff and it becomes a snake.
  • 00:18:00.995 --> 00:18:03.297
  • It's an introduction to the miraculous power of god.
  • 00:18:03.297 --> 00:18:05.933
  • Moses is gonna need that.
  • 00:18:05.933 --> 00:18:09.370
  • It's an introduction for him, but he's gonna become dependent
  • 00:18:09.370 --> 00:18:12.240
  • Upon the miraculous power of god.
  • 00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:14.509
  • You see, we'll--when we stop having seminars and discussions
  • 00:18:14.509 --> 00:18:18.513
  • About whether god still does miracles and arguing for
  • 00:18:18.513 --> 00:18:21.282
  • Cessationism and understand that we are absolutely and totally
  • 00:18:21.282 --> 00:18:26.154
  • Dependent upon the supernatural power of god, or we will lose
  • 00:18:26.154 --> 00:18:29.690
  • Our freedom, our liberty, and our ability to
  • 00:18:29.690 --> 00:18:31.826
  • Support ourselves.
  • 00:18:31.826 --> 00:18:34.228
  • Then we'll begin to change our responses to the cultures
  • 00:18:34.228 --> 00:18:36.731
  • Around us.
  • 00:18:36.731 --> 00:18:39.300
  • It's an introduction to the miraculous power of god, but the
  • 00:18:39.300 --> 00:18:41.636
  • Recruitment doesn't stop there.
  • 00:18:41.636 --> 00:18:44.372
  • Same chapter, same recruitment episode.
  • 00:18:44.372 --> 00:18:46.541
  • It's in your notes.
  • 00:18:46.541 --> 00:18:47.909
  • Now, exodus 4 and verse 6: "the lord said to moses, 'put your
  • 00:18:47.909 --> 00:18:50.478
  • Hand inside your cloak.'
  • 00:18:50.478 --> 00:18:51.846
  • And so moses puts his hand into his cloak, and when he took it
  • 00:18:51.846 --> 00:18:54.515
  • Out, it was leprous.
  • 00:18:54.515 --> 00:18:57.251
  • 'now put it back into your cloak,' and moses did and he put
  • 00:18:57.251 --> 00:19:00.254
  • His hand back and when he took it out, it was restored, like
  • 00:19:00.254 --> 00:19:03.124
  • The rest of his flesh."
  • 00:19:03.124 --> 00:19:05.193
  • He's getting a little micro lesson in a supernatural god who
  • 00:19:05.193 --> 00:19:09.096
  • Can heal your body or make it very sick.
  • 00:19:09.096 --> 00:19:15.469
  • God did both of those things.
  • 00:19:15.469 --> 00:19:16.837
  • You gotta read the whole story.
  • 00:19:16.837 --> 00:19:18.606
  • He made it leprous and he made it whole.
  • 00:19:18.606 --> 00:19:21.742
  • So i have a question.
  • 00:19:21.742 --> 00:19:23.077
  • It's important for you and me.
  • 00:19:23.077 --> 00:19:24.412
  • Do we imagine that god still heals?
  • 00:19:24.412 --> 00:19:26.747
  • Moses is going to need this lesson.
  • 00:19:26.747 --> 00:19:28.716
  • He's going to lead a collection of hundreds of thousands of
  • 00:19:28.716 --> 00:19:32.353
  • People who have been enslaved for hundreds of years.
  • 00:19:32.353 --> 00:19:36.691
  • And he's leading them into a wilderness where the health care
  • 00:19:36.691 --> 00:19:39.026
  • System is not particularly adequate and he's gonna need to
  • 00:19:39.026 --> 00:19:44.999
  • Know that god heals or it's an impossible assignment.
  • 00:19:44.999 --> 00:19:49.237
  • They're all gonna die on the journey and god is introducing
  • 00:19:49.237 --> 00:19:53.374
  • Him to what he's going to need.
  • 00:19:53.374 --> 00:19:54.742
  • And i believe it's--it is a type, it's a preview.
  • 00:19:54.742 --> 00:19:57.645
  • It's a pulling back of the curtain of what you and i need
  • 00:19:57.645 --> 00:20:00.615
  • To understand.
  • 00:20:00.615 --> 00:20:01.949
  • We're not going to accomplish the assignment in ourselves.
  • 00:20:01.949 --> 00:20:06.487
  • We're going to need supernatural help and strength and insight
  • 00:20:06.487 --> 00:20:10.291
  • And power and authority and opportunities that when you see
  • 00:20:10.291 --> 00:20:13.694
  • Them, you'll think, "well, only god could have done that."
  • 00:20:13.694 --> 00:20:21.402
  • There's a--there's a fun comment on that exodus
  • 00:20:21.402 --> 00:20:23.671
  • Generation that affirms what god said to moses at the
  • 00:20:23.671 --> 00:20:26.307
  • Burning bush.
  • 00:20:26.307 --> 00:20:27.675
  • It's repeated several places in scripture, but i put one in
  • 00:20:27.675 --> 00:20:29.644
  • Your notes.
  • 00:20:29.644 --> 00:20:31.012
  • It's deuteronomy 8.
  • 00:20:31.012 --> 00:20:32.747
  • This is the report of that exodus generation.
  • 00:20:32.747 --> 00:20:34.515
  • "it says your clothes didn't wear out and your feet didn't
  • 00:20:34.515 --> 00:20:38.953
  • Swell during those 40 years."
  • 00:20:38.953 --> 00:20:40.755
  • How healthy were they?
  • 00:20:40.755 --> 00:20:43.057
  • Even their feet didn't swell.
  • 00:20:43.057 --> 00:20:46.027
  • Folks, i dare to say the vast majority of us couldn't get to
  • 00:20:46.027 --> 00:20:49.130
  • Israel right now without your feet swelling.
  • 00:20:49.130 --> 00:20:53.534
  • You take an 11-hour plane flight.
  • 00:20:53.534 --> 00:20:58.639
  • "well, not me."
  • 00:20:58.639 --> 00:20:59.974
  • Well, good.
  • 00:20:59.974 --> 00:21:02.310
  • Help the person next to you.
  • 00:21:02.310 --> 00:21:04.378
  • Even their feet--and it makes me smile, the detail that's
  • 00:21:04.378 --> 00:21:07.615
  • Included in scripture.
  • 00:21:07.615 --> 00:21:09.750
  • "how'd that group do?"
  • 00:21:09.750 --> 00:21:11.085
  • "they did pretty well; they didn't have swollen feet."
  • 00:21:11.085 --> 00:21:15.323
  • In exodus 15, same group of people.
  • 00:21:15.323 --> 00:21:17.925
  • Exodus 15 takes place 3 days after the red sea.
  • 00:21:17.925 --> 00:21:22.930
  • They still have dirt from the mud from the red sea on the
  • 00:21:22.930 --> 00:21:26.334
  • Bottoms of their sandals.
  • 00:21:26.334 --> 00:21:28.235
  • And 3 days later they get to a place and the water is such that
  • 00:21:28.235 --> 00:21:31.672
  • They can't drink it and they grumble.
  • 00:21:31.672 --> 00:21:34.608
  • This is what god says to them.
  • 00:21:34.608 --> 00:21:35.943
  • It's verse 26: "if you listen carefully to the voice of the
  • 00:21:35.943 --> 00:21:38.546
  • Lord your god and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay
  • 00:21:38.546 --> 00:21:41.282
  • Attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, i'll not
  • 00:21:41.282 --> 00:21:43.884
  • Bring on you any of the diseases i brought on the egyptians, for
  • 00:21:43.884 --> 00:21:47.822
  • I'm the lord, who heals you."
  • 00:21:47.822 --> 00:21:50.191
  • That last phrase, it's the modern-day--it's the modern
  • 00:21:50.191 --> 00:21:52.326
  • Hebrew word today for a physician.
  • 00:21:52.326 --> 00:21:55.129
  • God said, "i'll be your doctor.
  • 00:21:55.129 --> 00:21:58.666
  • I'll do such a good job, your feet even won't swell.
  • 00:21:58.666 --> 00:22:03.204
  • If you'll listen to me," he said.
  • 00:22:03.204 --> 00:22:06.006
  • So i have a question.
  • 00:22:06.006 --> 00:22:07.341
  • Do you imagine that god is a healer?
  • 00:22:07.341 --> 00:22:10.711
  • I do.
  • 00:22:10.711 --> 00:22:12.480
  • I know it to be absolutely true.
  • 00:22:12.480 --> 00:22:14.248
  • Then christians, we start--we get really weird at this point.
  • 00:22:14.248 --> 00:22:17.318
  • It's like we lose our balance completely.
  • 00:22:17.318 --> 00:22:19.120
  • "well, are you saying we shouldn't go to the doctor?"
  • 00:22:19.120 --> 00:22:20.788
  • I didn't say that.
  • 00:22:20.788 --> 00:22:22.823
  • I said, "i believe god was a healer."
  • 00:22:22.823 --> 00:22:26.193
  • "well, i don't know what i should do."
  • 00:22:26.193 --> 00:22:27.528
  • "yes, you do.
  • 00:22:27.528 --> 00:22:28.863
  • You'd rather not go to the doctor.
  • 00:22:28.863 --> 00:22:30.231
  • It's cheaper to pray."
  • 00:22:30.231 --> 00:22:34.535
  • I mean, my god's a miracle worker too.
  • 00:22:34.535 --> 00:22:36.504
  • He can do anything.
  • 00:22:36.504 --> 00:22:38.739
  • He can do anything.
  • 00:22:38.806 --> 00:22:40.141
  • I know he can.
  • 00:22:40.141 --> 00:22:41.475
  • But when i'm out of gas in my car, i don't sit in the driveway
  • 00:22:41.475 --> 00:22:44.111
  • And pray until the tank's full.
  • 00:22:44.111 --> 00:22:48.516
  • I go to work with some opportunity that the
  • 00:22:48.516 --> 00:22:52.119
  • Lord provides.
  • 00:22:52.119 --> 00:22:53.487
  • And then i trust him to provide a place where somebody will
  • 00:22:53.487 --> 00:22:56.123
  • Exchange the money i've earned with the gasoline, the fuel, i
  • 00:22:56.123 --> 00:23:00.227
  • Need for my vehicle.
  • 00:23:00.227 --> 00:23:02.463
  • And i will gladly say, "god has provided so that i can drive."
  • 00:23:02.463 --> 00:23:08.602
  • So i don't feel like going to the doctor's office is any way a
  • 00:23:08.602 --> 00:23:11.906
  • Denial of my faith or a diminishment of my confidence
  • 00:23:11.906 --> 00:23:14.675
  • In god.
  • 00:23:14.675 --> 00:23:16.043
  • I pray before i go, i'll pray in the waiting room while i'm
  • 00:23:16.043 --> 00:23:18.546
  • Waiting to see the doctor,
  • 00:23:18.546 --> 00:23:19.880
  • And i'll thank god when i leave and i'm very grateful for the
  • 00:23:19.880 --> 00:23:24.452
  • People that have sacrificed and spent years of their lives,
  • 00:23:24.452 --> 00:23:27.288
  • Preparing and training in order to help me be better.
  • 00:23:27.288 --> 00:23:32.426
  • I feel the same way about a plumber that helps me with a hot
  • 00:23:32.426 --> 00:23:35.062
  • Water heater.
  • 00:23:35.062 --> 00:23:37.832
  • Because if you leave that to me, we're probably gonna take cold
  • 00:23:37.832 --> 00:23:40.201
  • Showers for a while.
  • 00:23:40.201 --> 00:23:43.637
  • I'm very grateful.
  • 00:23:43.637 --> 00:23:45.172
  • "well, don't you believe in miracles?
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  • Why would you call a plumber?"
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  • Well, because there are some people that have trained and
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  • Know how to fix a hot water heater.
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  • And i'll call it a miracle when they'll drive to my house with
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  • The tools, fix my hot water heater, and i can take a hot
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  • Shower--hallelujah!
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  • We get weird or then we say things, "well, you know, like, i
  • 00:24:05.759 --> 00:24:11.365
  • Just don't think god heals anymore.
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  • He gave us medicine."
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  • Really?
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  • You haven't taken very much, because sometimes it helps and
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  • Sometimes it doesn't.
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  • What do they--that thing doctors do, what do they
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  • Call that?
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  • Practice.
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  • It's inexact.
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  • "well, it's science."
  • 00:24:38.125 --> 00:24:39.860
  • Hm, you know, 100 years ago, doctors hardly washed their
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  • Hands between patients.
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  • They didn't understand germ theory.
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  • The best trained, the smartest, the most clever, hadn't been
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  • Much longer before that, if you had some conditions, they would
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  • Attach leeches to you, the smart people, the health
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  • Care providers.
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  • If the lord tarries and we wait another 100 years and we
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  • Maintain our freedom and liberty and we have the resources, third
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  • Graders will laugh at what you consider to be science today.
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  • I'm not denying science.
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  • I'm all in favor of it.
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  • I'm telling you, there are limits to it because it reflects
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  • The collective knowledge of humanity.
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  • And god's not limited to that.
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  • Allen: i wanna pray with you before we go.
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  • I'm gonna ask god to give us a new boldness to stand for jesus.
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  • When jesus was on the earth, there was significant opposition
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  • To who he was and to what he did.
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  • And then he told us that that opposition would persist and
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  • Impact our lives.
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  • And yet we're surprised.
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  • That's not helpful.
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  • Jesus told us it was a reality.
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  • We can see his response to it, that he was undeterred in his
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  • Mission and his assignment, and we have to be the same.
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  • Please don't let fear of someone else's opinion keep you from
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  • Being who you should be for jesus.
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  • Heavenly father, give us a boldness to stand for your truth
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  • With courage and clarity wherever you open the door.
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  • I thank you for what you're doing and i trust you in your
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  • Protection, in jesus's name, amen.
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  • ♪♪♪
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