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Allen Jackson - The Response Team (Part 2)

April 17, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - The Response Team (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - The Response Team (Part 2) | April 17, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: you know, around the world,
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  • People are searching for truth, and together we're doing our
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  • Have heard the gospel otherwise.
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  • Together, we can stand firm in our faith and make god's truth
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  • Known right here at home and around the earth, wherever
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  • God opens a door.
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  • Let's keep gathering his people and building his church until
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  • The day our king returns.
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  • Allen jackson: i believe god is a healer.
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  • He can do it with medicine.
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  • Sometimes he does it without, i'm most grateful for both.
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  • This is not just some old testament thing.
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  • In matthew 8, and verse 16, "when evening came, many who
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  • Were demon-possessed were brought to jesus, and he drove
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  • Out the spirits and gave out" tylenol.
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  • "he drove out the spirits with a word and he healed all the sick.
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  • This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet
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  • Isaiah: 'he took up our infirmities and carried
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  • Our diseases.'"
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  • Jesus was a healer.
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  • He believed god could heal.
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  • He's my lord.
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  • He said the things he did, we could do.
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  • He said the authority with which he ministered, the authority
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  • With which he lived would be imputed to us, that we could use
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  • His name and the authority that was included with that.
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  • In luke chapter 9, "jesus called the twelve together, and he gave
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  • Them power and authority to drive out all demons and to cure
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  • Diseases, and he sent them out to preach the kingdom of god and
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  • To heal the sick."
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  • Now, there's some clever person with a lot of initials at the
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  • End of their lanes.
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  • Will say, "well, pastor, that was the dispensation of
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  • Authority that was given to the disc--the apostles."
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  • Thank you, obi-wan.
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  • A couple of chapters later, jesus gave the very similar
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  • Commissioning to 72.
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  • And then we're told in the book of acts that, "god is no
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  • Respecter of persons," and what he'll do for one, he'll do
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  • For another.
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  • There's no withdrawal of the supernatural.
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  • You really have to go through some theological gymnastics to
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  • Arrive at that conclusion.
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  • To me, it would be the cruelest of all hoaxes to give us an
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  • Operator's manual that talks to us from the opening book to the
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  • Concluding book about the power of god and how it interacts with
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  • The lives of human beings.
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  • And then to say to us, "that's not for you."
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  • Do you ever buy a piece of electronics or sometimes with an
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  • Automobile and you get the instructions out and it's a
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  • Generic instruction manual from the base model all the way
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  • Through the deluxe model.
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  • Did you ever get one of those?
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  • You know, you get your car and there's places for buttons that
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  • You don't have and they just got blanks.
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  • I hate that.
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  • It's like your car's going, "nah."
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  • Well, that's what it would feel like to be if we had this book
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  • And then god said, "oh, but i'm not doing that anymore."
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  • Now, my bible says, "jesus christ is the same yesterday,
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  • Today, and forever."
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  • Now, i've belabored the point for a moment because as you
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  • Gather over these next few weeks with friends and family members,
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  • Many of whom it's kind of an annual interaction, one of the
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  • Things you do if you're past a certain age is the primary
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  • Conversation point becomes your health and who didn't make it
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  • Till this holiday.
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  • If you haven't had that many birthdays yet, just listen to
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  • The old people you're sitting with, it's a holiday.
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  • There's a tremendous opportunity in there just to say a prayer.
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  • I don't know how god will choose to intervene.
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  • Maybe with a diagnosis that will bring clarity and a treatment
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  • Protocol that will bring new freedom.
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  • Maybe he'll intervene supernaturally.
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  • Maybe he'll dispel the fear that's kept someone from going
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  • To the doctor and they'll be able to get better.
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  • Maybe he'll give us a moment of enough personal clarity that we
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  • Can engage in behaviors that would stop the destruction that
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  • We have been inviting into our lives.
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  • There's many, many ways god can respond to those prayers.
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  • We're not dictating how he does that.
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  • But what we wanna do is be guilty of giving him
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  • An invitation.
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  • That's the idea behind the whole, "let's pray" initiative,
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  • Is you and i want to be instigators, we wanna be
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  • Spiritual instigators.
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  • We wanna be guilty of an almost every setting where we go with a
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  • Desire to lead with our faith when we recognize the spiritual
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  • Need that we will say, "let's pray."
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  • We won't stop and say, "would it be okay with you if i prayed?"
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  • "may i have your permission to say a prayer?"
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  • "would it be all right with you if i entreated the mercies of
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  • The most high god on your behalf?"
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  • Somebody says that to me, i'm probably saying, "no."
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  • I mean, they've already made it so much about themselves, i
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  • Don't think much good is gonna come out of that.
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  • But if you'll just say, "let's pray," and close your eyes, and
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  • Now you've got a moment.
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  • People are curious at that point.
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  • And you've got a moment.
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  • You don't have 30 minutes but you have a moment and you can
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  • Slip a couple of sentences right into that little space that are
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  • An invitation to almighty god.
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  • I gave you an example of a prayer you could pray.
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  • When you hear a physical need, let's pray, "almighty god, thank
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  • You for doctors and health care which is available.
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  • You are our healer, we ask for your intervention...bring
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  • Health, and life, and freedom from pain...open a way for
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  • Health and wholeness, in jesus's name, amen."
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  • And when you say, "amen," don't wait for a follow up.
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  • "how do you feel?
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  • Did you feel anything?
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  • Something electric?
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  • Do you hear a buzzing?
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  • Are you lightheaded?
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  • Did anybody else feel anything?
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  • Sit down here, tell me exactly what you heard while i
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  • Was praying."
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  • I heard that you're a crackpot and i'm leaving.
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  • It's not about us, but what you have done is invited god into
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  • The midst of that circumstance.
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  • And you've opened an opportunity in someone else's imagination
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  • That there is a god and he might be involved in their lives.
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  • And even if they're not particularly receptive to the
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  • Prayer in that moment, i promise you they won't forget.
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  • And i'm amazed at the frequency with which those people will
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  • Return and say, "could you pray with me," or, "would you pray
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  • With me?"
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  • God is recruiting moses and moses doesn't wanna go.
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  • Just like you with some of your holiday gatherings.
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  • He said, "it's gonna be difficult.
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  • They're not gonna wanna talk to me when i get there and i've
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  • Been there and they didn't treat me well."
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  • Doesn't that sound familiar?
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  • And god said, "i need you to go.
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  • It's important for you to go.
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  • It's essential for you to go.
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  • And you're gonna need to know that i can do a miracle or i can
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  • Heal a body."
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  • Moses isn't done, he's still complaining.
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  • Same chapter, chapter 4, the lord said, "if they
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  • Don't--" this is moses.
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  • "lord, if they don't believe you or pay attention to the first
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  • Miracle or miraculous sign, maybe they'll believe
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  • The second.
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  • If they don't like the thing with the staff and the snake
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  • And--show 'em the leper's hand trick.
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  • And if they don't like that one either," he said, "then take
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  • Some water from the nile and pour it on the ground.
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  • And the water you take from the river will become blood."
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  • Wow.
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  • The most valuable resource in the middle east today, it's not
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  • Oil, it's water.
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  • If you can control the water, you can control the middle east.
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  • And god said, "moses, you show them that you've got authority
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  • Over the water."
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  • And moses says to the lord, "i've never been eloquent,
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  • Neither in the past nor since you've spoken to your servant.
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  • I am slow of speech and tongue."
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  • This is forrest gump.
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  • "i am not a clever man," right?
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  • And the lord said to him, "who gave man his mouth?
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  • Who makes him deaf or mute?
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  • Who gives him sight or makes him blind?
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  • Isn't it i, the lord?
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  • Now go; i will help you speak and i'll teach you what to say."
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  • See, moses is overwhelmed with personal concerns.
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  • He understands something of the magnitude of the opposition.
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  • And he's just like, "i can't engage.
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  • I can't do this."
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  • He's aware of the challenges, of his weakness, of his
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  • Previous failures.
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  • And god is saying, "i got all of that.
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  • I know that better than you do.
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  • Now, go."
  • 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:08.790
  • And to moses's credit, he went.
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  • After this encounter, his backup button seems to be ripped off
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  • The dash.
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  • He faces challenge after challenge and difficulty
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  • After difficulty.
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  • And the people he's called to lead grumble their way all the
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  • Way to the borders of the promised land and say, "we won't
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  • Go in."
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  • And moses continues to--he spends 40 years with them in the
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  • Wilderness, living out the curse they invited on themselves.
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  • Not because of the failure of his leadership, not because
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  • He stumbled.
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  • Which generation will we be?
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  • "even the water," god said, "is under your control."
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  • He parts the red sea in exodus 15.
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  • Parts the red sea.
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  • The momentum for that event started back there at that
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  • Burning bush with a staff, and a hand, and some water poured out
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  • On the ground,
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  • To the parting of the red sea.
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  • Authority over the water.
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  • In john chapter 7, i think it's an interesting parallel.
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  • "on the last and greatest day of the feast, jesus stood and said
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  • In a loud voice, 'if anyone is thirsty--'" everybody in
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  • Jerusalem is thirsty.
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  • If you go to jerusalem with me, we'll tell you a thousand
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  • Times, "drink water.
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  • Drink more water than you think.
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  • Don't ever get thirsty.
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  • If you get thirsty, it's too late.
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  • You're dehydrated.
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  • Are you drinking enough water?"
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  • And jesus stands up and said, "if anybody's thirsty--" it's an
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  • Ef hutton moment, everybody leans forward.
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  • "let him come to me and drink.
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  • Whoever believes in me, as the scripture has said, streams of
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  • Litter wa--living water will flow from within him.
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  • By this he meant the spirit, whom those who believed in him
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  • Were to later receive.
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  • Up to that time the spirit had not been given."
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  • Living water.
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  • God's still teaching his people that they have authority over
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  • The water.
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  • You have the opportunity to extend living water to the
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  • People around you.
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  • The people you work with, the people who live near you, your
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  • Family member.
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  • You have to be willing to lead with your faith.
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  • If they're leading ungodly lives, you gotta have the
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  • Courage to say, "if you stay on that path, it will destroy you.
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  • I love you.
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  • It will destroy you."
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  • How about some living water?
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  • It's not for perfect people or they wouldn't have given me any.
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  • Doesn't remove you from the arena of challenges, and
  • 00:12:40.141 --> 00:12:42.677
  • Difficulties, and temptations.
  • 00:12:42.677 --> 00:12:44.279
  • We all face those.
  • 00:12:44.279 --> 00:12:45.680
  • Have you had any living water?
  • 00:12:45.680 --> 00:12:50.218
  • Do you understand the authority that's invested in you?
  • 00:12:50.218 --> 00:12:52.687
  • Do you understand what's forfeited if we remain silent
  • 00:12:52.687 --> 00:12:55.223
  • Because we're intimidated or bullied by the expressions of
  • 00:12:55.223 --> 00:12:58.293
  • Wickedness or we're concerned about their responses to us?
  • 00:12:58.293 --> 00:13:04.599
  • It's our burning bush.
  • 00:13:04.599 --> 00:13:06.401
  • It's us hearing david say, "oh, i'd love to have a drink from
  • 00:13:06.401 --> 00:13:08.970
  • That well."
  • 00:13:08.970 --> 00:13:10.305
  • Three men got up and said, "we're going.
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  • Let's go, come on.
  • 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:13.775
  • We're burning daylight."
  • 00:13:13.775 --> 00:13:17.812
  • God's response team.
  • 00:13:17.812 --> 00:13:22.150
  • He's recruiting.
  • 00:13:22.150 --> 00:13:25.353
  • I wanna go, most of the time.
  • 00:13:25.353 --> 00:13:31.259
  • I got a couple of minutes.
  • 00:13:31.259 --> 00:13:33.228
  • Well, i gave you a prayer for that one too.
  • 00:13:33.228 --> 00:13:36.030
  • It's really about god's provision, his authority over
  • 00:13:36.030 --> 00:13:38.533
  • All things.
  • 00:13:38.533 --> 00:13:39.901
  • You'll hear over the holidays, expressions of great need, of
  • 00:13:39.901 --> 00:13:42.036
  • Despair, of hopelessness, of, "i don't know what to do.
  • 00:13:42.036 --> 00:13:46.341
  • I've done everything i know to do and there's no solution."
  • 00:13:46.341 --> 00:13:50.111
  • Well, you need a prayer that's an invitation to god to be god
  • 00:13:50.111 --> 00:13:52.981
  • Over those circumstances.
  • 00:13:52.981 --> 00:13:54.315
  • I gave you one.
  • 00:13:54.315 --> 00:13:55.683
  • Let's pray, "heavenly father, you're the provider of
  • 00:13:55.683 --> 00:13:57.318
  • All things.
  • 00:13:57.318 --> 00:13:58.686
  • We ask now for your provision in our lives.
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  • We put our trust in you and we lay aside worry and anxiety, in
  • 00:14:00.321 --> 00:14:03.758
  • Jesus's name, amen."
  • 00:14:03.758 --> 00:14:06.794
  • And just move right on.
  • 00:14:06.794 --> 00:14:09.931
  • "i didn't know you pray."
  • 00:14:09.931 --> 00:14:11.432
  • "yeah, i know.
  • 00:14:11.432 --> 00:14:13.801
  • I'm sorry for that, i do."
  • 00:14:13.801 --> 00:14:16.771
  • "wanna pray about something else."
  • 00:14:16.771 --> 00:14:18.873
  • "no, i'm good.
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  • Thank you."
  • 00:14:20.241 --> 00:14:23.912
  • 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.
  • 00:14:31.286 --> 00:14:32.921
  • I've gathered around the table, and my parents were
  • 00:14:32.921 --> 00:14:35.189
  • Consistently, persistently inviting guests to dinner.
  • 00:14:35.189 --> 00:14:38.927
  • You know, practicing that notion of hospitality, my brothers and
  • 00:14:38.927 --> 00:14:41.963
  • I weren't always excited about it, but i realized that we had a
  • 00:14:41.963 --> 00:14:45.166
  • Front row seat for expressions of the kingdom of god.
  • 00:14:45.166 --> 00:14:48.636
  • We can still do the same.
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  • Imagine your kitchen table as an expression of god's love in
  • 00:14:50.004 --> 00:14:53.541
  • This generation.
  • 00:14:53.541 --> 00:14:54.876
  • God's moving in the earth.
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  • Let's join him.
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  • Announcer: hospitality doesn't have to be complicated.
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  • Sometimes it begins with inviting someone to your
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  • Kitchen table.
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  • Allen: so, how do we lead with our faith through the holidays?
  • 00:15:30.311 --> 00:15:33.948
  • This is really intended to be a very practical assignment.
  • 00:15:33.948 --> 00:15:36.517
  • I'm not gonna belabor it.
  • 00:15:36.517 --> 00:15:37.885
  • We've looked at it in some earlier sessions but i wanted to
  • 00:15:37.885 --> 00:15:39.821
  • Revisit it really quickly, if you haven't been apart.
  • 00:15:39.821 --> 00:15:42.790
  • The first piece--and it's a bit tongue in cheek but i think it
  • 00:15:42.790 --> 00:15:46.427
  • Is biblical and i think it's very much appropriate.
  • 00:15:46.427 --> 00:15:48.463
  • You've got to get your holiday outfit ready.
  • 00:15:48.463 --> 00:15:51.232
  • Some of you, i suspect actually choose clothing for your
  • 00:15:51.232 --> 00:15:55.403
  • Holiday events.
  • 00:15:55.403 --> 00:15:57.839
  • I just choose clothing.
  • 00:15:57.839 --> 00:16:01.242
  • But some of you would choose clothing for holiday events.
  • 00:16:01.242 --> 00:16:03.845
  • You have christmas sweaters, they light up.
  • 00:16:03.845 --> 00:16:07.915
  • You have jewelry with batteries in it and--i mean, i know,
  • 00:16:07.915 --> 00:16:12.687
  • I see.
  • 00:16:12.687 --> 00:16:14.856
  • I don't have much jewelry with batteries in it.
  • 00:16:14.856 --> 00:16:17.525
  • Don't want any.
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  • But if you'll do all that planning for your appearance and
  • 00:16:20.261 --> 00:16:22.930
  • I'm not saying it's wrong, i'm not suggesting that at all.
  • 00:16:22.930 --> 00:16:26.134
  • I am suggesting that you want to be every bit as intentional in
  • 00:16:26.134 --> 00:16:29.637
  • Your spiritual preparation.
  • 00:16:29.637 --> 00:16:32.707
  • Not just my idea.
  • 00:16:32.707 --> 00:16:34.042
  • Look in colossians 3, "therefore, as god's chosen
  • 00:16:34.042 --> 00:16:36.244
  • People, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with
  • 00:16:36.244 --> 00:16:41.716
  • Compassion, and kindness, and humility, and gentleness,
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  • And patience.
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  • Bear with each other, forgive whatever grievances you may have
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  • Against one another."
  • 00:16:49.190 --> 00:16:51.292
  • Wow.
  • 00:16:51.292 --> 00:16:53.261
  • There's a holiday assignment.
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  • Before you gather with any of these folks--
  • 00:16:54.862 --> 00:16:56.631
  • Co-workers, neighbors, homeowners association,
  • 00:16:56.631 --> 00:17:04.205
  • Family, church people,
  • 00:17:04.205 --> 00:17:10.745
  • Brothers and sisters in the lord--
  • 00:17:10.745 --> 00:17:17.385
  • "forgive whatever grievances you have."
  • 00:17:17.385 --> 00:17:20.655
  • Doesn't say, "forgive those who come and apologize."
  • 00:17:20.655 --> 00:17:24.592
  • Doesn't say, "forgive those who come and say, 'you know, i was
  • 00:17:24.592 --> 00:17:27.095
  • So wrong.
  • 00:17:27.095 --> 00:17:29.464
  • I can't believe i treated you so poorly.
  • 00:17:29.464 --> 00:17:34.302
  • I really misbehaved.'"
  • 00:17:34.302 --> 00:17:38.339
  • No, it just says, "forgive them.
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  • Bear with one another."
  • 00:17:41.509 --> 00:17:43.044
  • I have kind of a version of that.
  • 00:17:43.044 --> 00:17:44.579
  • Sometimes i say to the lord, "i can't bear these
  • 00:17:44.579 --> 00:17:46.514
  • People anymore."
  • 00:17:46.514 --> 00:17:49.917
  • But that's not really what he said to me.
  • 00:17:49.917 --> 00:17:51.719
  • He said, "you have to bear with one another, forgive them, and
  • 00:17:51.719 --> 00:17:55.690
  • You've got to clothe yourself, you gotta purposefully choose
  • 00:17:55.690 --> 00:17:59.293
  • These attitudes, these responses of compassion, and kindness, and
  • 00:17:59.293 --> 00:18:03.631
  • Humility, and gentleness, and patience."
  • 00:18:03.631 --> 00:18:07.001
  • I pray for you to get those things.
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  • Don't bring jealousy, and anger, and resentment, and hatred to
  • 00:18:12.874 --> 00:18:15.943
  • The gathering.
  • 00:18:15.943 --> 00:18:17.278
  • Don't do it.
  • 00:18:17.278 --> 00:18:19.046
  • Do not do it.
  • 00:18:19.046 --> 00:18:21.582
  • "but i feel completely justified."
  • 00:18:21.582 --> 00:18:23.851
  • I'm not questioning that.
  • 00:18:23.851 --> 00:18:25.520
  • The assignment is to forgive.
  • 00:18:25.520 --> 00:18:29.090
  • I'm not telling you you have to get in line for
  • 00:18:29.090 --> 00:18:30.858
  • More mistreatment.
  • 00:18:30.858 --> 00:18:33.761
  • I'm telling you you can't afford the luxury of hatred and
  • 00:18:33.761 --> 00:18:36.030
  • Resentment or jealousy.
  • 00:18:36.030 --> 00:18:39.700
  • "well, i should have what they have."
  • 00:18:39.700 --> 00:18:41.035
  • Stop.
  • 00:18:41.035 --> 00:18:43.738
  • You're robbing the blessings of god from yourself.
  • 00:18:43.738 --> 00:18:48.309
  • Get your holiday outfit ready.
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  • If you have the courage, ask the holy spirit to help you pick
  • 00:18:50.244 --> 00:18:52.480
  • It out.
  • 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:58.686
  • The second suggestion has--is linked to that.
  • 00:18:58.686 --> 00:19:01.589
  • It's your peripheral preparation.
  • 00:19:01.589 --> 00:19:03.958
  • The holiday seasons are about preparation.
  • 00:19:03.958 --> 00:19:05.960
  • Some of you put up your christmas trees, like,
  • 00:19:05.960 --> 00:19:07.828
  • In september.
  • 00:19:07.828 --> 00:19:10.097
  • Some of you have them in every room of the house.
  • 00:19:10.097 --> 00:19:13.234
  • You have a holiday theme for every room.
  • 00:19:13.234 --> 00:19:17.104
  • I'm amazed, i'm not really criticizing.
  • 00:19:17.104 --> 00:19:19.407
  • I'm just telling you, you're way prepared.
  • 00:19:19.407 --> 00:19:21.943
  • I was in a local business today and they had 40 boxes of
  • 00:19:21.943 --> 00:19:24.645
  • Christmas decorations in the reception area.
  • 00:19:24.645 --> 00:19:28.182
  • I thought maybe everybody that came in was gonna get a box of
  • 00:19:28.182 --> 00:19:30.251
  • Christmas decorations.
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  • You do all sorts of preparation for the holiday.
  • 00:19:33.221 --> 00:19:35.590
  • You prepare food, you'll prepare for your travel, you'll prepare
  • 00:19:35.590 --> 00:19:39.727
  • For your days off work, you'll prepare all sorts of things.
  • 00:19:39.727 --> 00:19:43.931
  • Suppose we put in some spiritual preparation.
  • 00:19:43.931 --> 00:19:48.736
  • So, here's a suggestion, let your first encounters in the
  • 00:19:48.736 --> 00:19:52.740
  • Gathering be with whomever you know would be more closely
  • 00:19:52.740 --> 00:19:55.743
  • An ally.
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  • Think about them before the gathering.
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  • Begin to pray for them.
  • 00:20:01.349 --> 00:20:03.985
  • And when you see them, say, "it's so good to see you."
  • 00:20:03.985 --> 00:20:08.489
  • You can say to them, "i've been praying for you.
  • 00:20:08.489 --> 00:20:10.891
  • I look forward to being with you.
  • 00:20:10.891 --> 00:20:14.562
  • I want you to know that your faith makes such a difference in
  • 00:20:14.562 --> 00:20:17.031
  • My life.
  • 00:20:17.031 --> 00:20:18.366
  • You're a bright spot in the gathering, i can't tell you how
  • 00:20:18.366 --> 00:20:20.801
  • Much difference it makes that you--we could be together."
  • 00:20:20.801 --> 00:20:25.806
  • So, get more excited about the people that you know, share a
  • 00:20:25.806 --> 00:20:28.309
  • Worldview with you, that share a perspective of faith, that are
  • 00:20:28.309 --> 00:20:31.779
  • Doing their own way, they're striving to honor the lord.
  • 00:20:31.779 --> 00:20:35.549
  • Be more aware of them than the knuckleheads.
  • 00:20:35.549 --> 00:20:44.558
  • "i'm doing a better job than you are preach--saying amen.
  • 00:20:44.558 --> 00:20:47.862
  • But it's okay."
  • 00:20:47.862 --> 00:20:49.397
  • Then the next one is your adversaries, the people that
  • 00:20:49.397 --> 00:20:51.632
  • Don't--aren't gonna agree.
  • 00:20:51.632 --> 00:20:52.967
  • That they're gonna make other choices that would stand apart
  • 00:20:52.967 --> 00:20:55.936
  • From you.
  • 00:20:55.936 --> 00:20:57.271
  • And then in those cases, you still wanna lead with dignity,
  • 00:20:57.271 --> 00:20:59.740
  • With respect, with strength.
  • 00:20:59.740 --> 00:21:02.476
  • You're not coming just to capitulate.
  • 00:21:02.476 --> 00:21:04.712
  • You're an ambassador for the most high god.
  • 00:21:04.712 --> 00:21:10.584
  • You got sent as an ambassador to the middle east to one of
  • 00:21:10.584 --> 00:21:12.887
  • Those nations.
  • 00:21:12.887 --> 00:21:14.221
  • Not all the nations in the middle east would respect what
  • 00:21:14.221 --> 00:21:15.690
  • You are, but you still would go into those settings with the
  • 00:21:15.690 --> 00:21:18.526
  • Dignity and the respect for them and expect them to return that
  • 00:21:18.526 --> 00:21:21.295
  • To you.
  • 00:21:21.295 --> 00:21:23.230
  • I'll show you kindness, i'll show you tolerance.
  • 00:21:23.230 --> 00:21:25.666
  • I expect you to show respect for my worldview.
  • 00:21:25.666 --> 00:21:29.904
  • I didn't come to demean, or belittle, or attack,
  • 00:21:29.904 --> 00:21:32.340
  • Or criticize.
  • 00:21:32.340 --> 00:21:33.674
  • Neither did i come to be demeaned, or belittled,
  • 00:21:33.674 --> 00:21:36.243
  • Or attacked.
  • 00:21:36.243 --> 00:21:40.147
  • "it's good to see you.
  • 00:21:40.147 --> 00:21:42.183
  • How are you?"
  • 00:21:42.183 --> 00:21:43.884
  • Genuine compassion.
  • 00:21:43.884 --> 00:21:47.321
  • Peace, biblical peace is not the absence of conflict.
  • 00:21:47.321 --> 00:21:51.425
  • Biblical peace is the calm assurance of god's abiding
  • 00:21:51.425 --> 00:21:54.061
  • Presence in the midst of your enemies.
  • 00:21:54.061 --> 00:21:59.567
  • My bible says, "god prepares a table for me in the presence of
  • 00:21:59.567 --> 00:22:03.938
  • All my best friends."
  • 00:22:03.938 --> 00:22:07.074
  • That's allen's translation.
  • 00:22:07.074 --> 00:22:08.442
  • The real one says, "he prepares a table for me in the midst of
  • 00:22:08.442 --> 00:22:10.911
  • My enemies."
  • 00:22:10.911 --> 00:22:13.247
  • So, we have the false objectives of--that we always have to
  • 00:22:13.247 --> 00:22:16.450
  • Be kind.
  • 00:22:16.450 --> 00:22:17.818
  • No, sometimes we have to say, "no, i don't appreciate
  • 00:22:17.818 --> 00:22:21.055
  • That comment.
  • 00:22:21.055 --> 00:22:22.957
  • I respect your opinion, but i don't appreciate what you said."
  • 00:22:22.957 --> 00:22:27.194
  • My goal isn't unity in all cases.
  • 00:22:27.194 --> 00:22:30.831
  • I would have to respectfully disagree with you on that point.
  • 00:22:30.831 --> 00:22:35.669
  • You're entitled to that opinion but it's not the one i hold.
  • 00:22:35.669 --> 00:22:40.207
  • Is there any more pecan pie?
  • 00:22:40.207 --> 00:22:44.011
  • You don't have to draw a line and throw mashed potatoes.
  • 00:22:44.011 --> 00:22:49.116
  • Have realistic objectives.
  • 00:22:49.116 --> 00:22:51.852
  • Don't start out thinking all the ungodly people in the pile, at
  • 00:22:51.852 --> 00:22:54.855
  • Work, or in your neighborhood, or the most cantankerous person
  • 00:22:54.855 --> 00:22:57.725
  • On the hoa is gonna come hug you and give you a christmas gift
  • 00:22:57.725 --> 00:23:01.762
  • You've always wanted.
  • 00:23:01.762 --> 00:23:03.431
  • Maybe the objective is just a peaceful day, a respectful
  • 00:23:03.431 --> 00:23:06.367
  • Interaction, a god-honoring day.
  • 00:23:06.367 --> 00:23:10.805
  • And then finally, i'd go prepared for some practical
  • 00:23:10.805 --> 00:23:14.141
  • Expressions of my faith.
  • 00:23:14.141 --> 00:23:16.110
  • If it's your home, if it's your table, if you're the authority,
  • 00:23:16.110 --> 00:23:18.612
  • I'd bless the food.
  • 00:23:18.612 --> 00:23:20.614
  • Don't pray for every missionary, you know.
  • 00:23:20.614 --> 00:23:25.686
  • Don't try to impress them with your spiritual substance.
  • 00:23:25.686 --> 00:23:29.423
  • Bless the food.
  • 00:23:29.423 --> 00:23:30.758
  • Invite god into the day.
  • 00:23:30.758 --> 00:23:32.126
  • "god, thank you for the privilege of being together for
  • 00:23:32.126 --> 00:23:34.895
  • Your abundance in our lives.
  • 00:23:34.895 --> 00:23:36.630
  • We are thankful, amen."
  • 00:23:36.630 --> 00:23:42.403
  • "but i know so much more."
  • 00:23:42.403 --> 00:23:46.507
  • And they don't care.
  • 00:23:46.507 --> 00:23:49.210
  • Bless the food, express your faith.
  • 00:23:49.210 --> 00:23:51.979
  • "lead with your faith."
  • 00:23:51.979 --> 00:23:53.581
  • If it's not your table and it's not your home, that may not be
  • 00:23:53.581 --> 00:23:57.151
  • Appropriate for you.
  • 00:23:57.151 --> 00:23:59.520
  • Maybe with some of the people that are there that you know
  • 00:23:59.520 --> 00:24:01.689
  • Have a living faith of their own.
  • 00:24:01.689 --> 00:24:03.691
  • You can have a quiet, unassuming prayer when nobody's
  • 00:24:03.691 --> 00:24:06.727
  • Washing--maybe you're washing dishes or you're serving in
  • 00:24:06.727 --> 00:24:09.129
  • Some way.
  • 00:24:09.129 --> 00:24:10.464
  • And you step aside and say, "lord, i thank you for this
  • 00:24:10.464 --> 00:24:12.533
  • Family," or "i thank you for these friends," or "i thank you
  • 00:24:12.533 --> 00:24:14.702
  • For the place we work, for the neighborhood where we live."
  • 00:24:14.702 --> 00:24:20.508
  • Go prepared to let your faith be a part of your presence.
  • 00:24:20.508 --> 00:24:26.180
  • It's more important than your green bean casserole.
  • 00:24:26.180 --> 00:24:32.353
  • And when there are obvious needs, and in any gathering of
  • 00:24:32.353 --> 00:24:35.956
  • More than two or three people these days, there seem to be
  • 00:24:35.956 --> 00:24:37.892
  • Obvious needs.
  • 00:24:37.892 --> 00:24:39.260
  • If there's the slightest opportunity, invite
  • 00:24:39.260 --> 00:24:41.529
  • God's assistance.
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  • You're equipped with a handful of let's pray prayers.
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  • Just lead with our faith folks.
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  • You ready?
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  • Let's go.
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  • Let's go.
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  • "yeah, i know there's philistines over there but
  • 00:24:56.710 --> 00:24:58.879
  • There's a well of water.
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  • Let's go."
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  • "yeah, i know pharaoh isn't probably gonna be happy about
  • 00:25:03.584 --> 00:25:06.353
  • The slaves leaving.
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  • But god said it's time for him to go, let's go."
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  • "yeah, i know, god wants us to deliver a message to a
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  • Generation of people who don't want to hear it.
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  • Let's go, god said he would help us.
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  • Let's go."
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  • We've been hiding in the shadows too, praying for a miracle, when
  • 00:25:24.972 --> 00:25:28.175
  • It's been you.
  • 00:25:28.175 --> 00:25:31.478
  • "i don't feel like a miracle, i feel like i need a miracle."
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  • I think moses felt that way.
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  • I'm sure isaiah felt that way.
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  • David was in that position.
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  • So are we, so are we.
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  • I brought you a prayer.
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  • Let's stand together.
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  • Let's read this one together, "heavenly father, our desire is
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  • To boldly serve you.
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  • We invite you into the midst of our holiday activities.
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  • May everyone with whom we interact, everywhere we
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  • Gather--be aware of your abiding presence.
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  • May jesus' name be honored and his authority be visible,
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  • In jesus's name, amen."
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  • Hallelujah, god bless you.
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  • Allen: you know, i've often said that what happens in the white
  • 00:26:25.299 --> 00:26:27.234
  • House is not more important than what happens in your house.
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  • I have an assignment, if you'll accept it.
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  • Imagine your kitchen table as an expression of the love of god to
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  • Our generation.
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  • Let's start to practice hospitality from the inside out,
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  • From our kitchen table to our neighbors, our friends.
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  • God will meet us in that place as we take those simple steps of
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  • Obedience, honor him at our kitchen table, and we can join
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  • With what god is doing in the earth.
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  • Now, that is an opportunity.
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  • Announcer: some of life's most meaningful moments happen around
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  • A kitchen table.
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  • That's where stories are shared and faith is passed from one
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  • Generation to the next.
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  • To help you welcome others for a meal, we've created a tools for
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  • Hospitality set.
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  • It includes a custom kitchen towel, three of pastor allen's
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  • Favorite recipes, and some simple tips you can use to help
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  • Your guests feel at home.
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  • Request your tools for hospitality set with your gift
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  • Of $25 or more at allenjackson.com.
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