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Allen Jackson - The Rest of the Story (Part 2)

April 29, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - The Rest of the Story (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - The Rest of the Story (Part 2) | April 29, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: hey, would you like to make an impact for
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  • The kingdom of god in this generation?
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  • I have an idea.
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  • 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.
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  • Let's go with him.
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  • Female announcer: welcoming people to a meal around the
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  • Kitchen table is one of the easiest ways to share life
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  • And your faith.
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  • It includes a custom kitchen towel, three of pastor allen's
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  • Favorite family recipes, and a short booklet with
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  • Practical encouragement.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: see, there's a whole host of sabbath rules.
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  • The ten commandments says keep the sabbath holy.
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  • That's all it says.
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  • So, the rabbis posed the question, the people posed the
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  • Question, what does it mean to keep the sabbath holy?
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  • And from that question has grown, by the time jesus
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  • Arrived, a whole body of rules about what it is to keep the
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  • Sabbath holy, according to the rabbis.
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  • And one of the most consistent conflicts that jesus finds he
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  • Bumps into are sabbath rules.
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  • And he--you know, we find him saying that, you know, you've
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  • Made rules to protect your idea of the sabbath, but they have
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  • Very little to do with god.
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  • But it's a very much a living corpus.
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  • It's a very much a living body of regulations to the point that
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  • This man is indignant.
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  • A woman who is a part of his synagogue that he's known for
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  • However long he's been there to be infirmed and she's healed,
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  • And he's not celebrating, he's indignant.
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  • That's a very different response than the roman centurion.
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  • The roman centurion says, "listen, i understand authority.
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  • I've got some authority, but i don't have the same kind of
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  • Authority you've got.
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  • You've got an authority i don't even understand, but if you will
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  • Use your authority, it'll bring great benefit to my life.
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  • Would you please do that?
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  • I don't deserve to have you come in my home.
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  • I'm not worthy of having you under my roof.
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  • I'm clearly an interloper.
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  • I'm an outsider.
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  • Would you please?"
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  • And now we find a synagogue ruler who's indignant because
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  • Someone he's charged with serving, benefits from god.
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  • See, our words matter.
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  • We write our futures with what we choose to believe.
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  • Now, i know you can take that and do some goofy things
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  • With it.
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  • I--but i wanna finish it, "indignant because jesus healed.
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  • And the synagogue ruler said to the people, 'there are six days
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  • For work.
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  • You come and be healed on those days.'"
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  • What a happy, happy man.
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  • It's a really sharp contrast with this roman centurion, this
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  • Pagan, this godless man that we don't know that he knows
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  • Anything about the decalogue or the books of moses or--i
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  • Mean, we don't know, he just knows that jesus has authority.
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  • And this man, with all the things that shape his life and
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  • His belief system, he's indeed--he said, "listen, you
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  • Got six days, you can't get better."
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  • She's been sick for 18 years, knucklehead.
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  • And the lord answers him, this is intriguing to me.
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  • Jesus answers this man, for all of you who say, you know, "jesus
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  • Is all about love.
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  • Group hug."
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  • Jesus says to this man, and it seems to me from the context
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  • He's in the synagogue, "you hypocrite!
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  • Don't each of you on the sabbath untie your ox or your donkey
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  • From the stall and lead it to give it water?"
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  • The answer would be, yes, they take care of their livestock.
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  • It's like managing your investments in an
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  • Agricultural environment.
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  • Your livestock is your investment.
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  • "then shouldn't this woman, a daughter of abraham, whom satan
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  • Has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free on the
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  • Sabbath from what bound her?"
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  • His opponents are humiliated.
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  • But the people were delighted.
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  • It doesn't say his opponents were repentant.
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  • So we have a roman centurion, a pagan occupying soldier.
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  • Hated by the broad majority of the people.
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  • With greater insight and understanding into the person
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  • And authority of jesus than the synagogue ruler.
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  • You need that idea tucked away in your heart.
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  • Because as we walk towards the end of the age, when we say god
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  • Is moving in the earth, he's going to move in ways that are
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  • Not going to arrive from the delivery systems that we would
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  • Have imagined.
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  • Church history supports that.
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  • Typically revivals, awakenings, i don't like most of that
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  • Language because they come with so many preconceptions, but when
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  • God initiates change, it often happens on the periphery.
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  • Because the institutional expressions of faith are so
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  • Buttoned down with their own agendas, there's not room for
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  • The breath of the spirit of god.
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  • We don't wanna do that.
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  • We don't want to do that.
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  • And the third centurion we looked at is in acts chapter 10.
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  • This is the--of the three, this one, we're given his name.
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  • It's because i believe he's included in the kingdom of god.
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  • That's my opinion.
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  • The holy spirit is going to be poured out on cornelius's
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  • Household in an identical or very similar way to what
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  • Happened on the day of pentecost in jerusalem.
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  • And he and his household are gonna come to faith, so we're
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  • Given cornelius his name.
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  • He's not just a roman centurion but he is a roman centurion, and
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  • He's in one of the, if not the most pagan city, certainly one
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  • Of the most pagan cities in all of israel.
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  • Caesarea was named after caesar.
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  • In the middle of caesarea in the first century, it was a temple
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  • To a roman idol, a roman god, it's a demonic place.
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  • We have no record that jesus ever visited caesarea.
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  • "in caesarea there's a man named cornelius, a centurion in what
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  • Was known as the italian regiment.
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  • And he and his family were devout and god-fearing; he gave
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  • Generously to those in need and he prayed to god regularly."
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  • So, he's not your typical run-of-the-mill roman centurion.
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  • I mean, he fears god, he's generous, he's a man of prayer.
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  • "and then one day at three in the afternoon he has a vision."
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  • It says, "he distinctly saw an angel of god, and the angel
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  • Knows and calls him by name, 'cornelius!'"
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  • I love it.
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  • Did you know god knows your name?
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  • You know, we read all these verses, he knows how many hairs
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  • We have on our head, and he knows when we come in or go
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  • Out or when we sit or when we stand.
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  • That's not a threat, folks.
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  • You know, it's not like god's got an apple tracker on you and
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  • He's watching.
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  • He's interested enough to be engaged with us.
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  • He knows your name.
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  • "cornelius, i need you to do something.
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  • You need to send somebody to jaffa.
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  • It's a several day walk.
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  • There's a house by the sea, guy's got a beachfront property,
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  • His name's simon.
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  • If you can find simon the tanner's house with that
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  • Beachfront view, he's got a guest.
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  • One simon peter.
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  • And you need to talk to simon peter, send somebody to go
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  • Get him."
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  • It's fascinating.
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  • Think of all the ways it could have been undone otherwise.
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  • God could have said to simon peter, in caesarea, "there's a
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  • Roman centurion by the name of cornelius, go knock on
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  • His door."
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  • But cornelius now has to choose.
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  • What's he gonna do with this?
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  • I mean, his reputation is at stake.
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  • He saw an angel distinctly.
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  • What do you think people that know you would say if you said,
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  • "i saw an angel distinctly."
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  • So, he calls in one of the soldiers that is under his
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  • Authority and he tells them everything that happened to him.
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  • And calls in another attendant and he said, i want you to go to
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  • Jaffa, to this--go look for simon in the tanner's house and
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  • See if there's somebody there named simon peter and he brings
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  • Him back.
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  • You know the--you know the narrative.
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  • It intrigues me.
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  • And when he gets there, i don't know who's more surprised,
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  • Cornelius and his household or simon peter and the jews who are
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  • With him because there's shock all the way around because
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  • There's no way the jews believe that god will do for the
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  • Non-jews what he's been doing for the jews.
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  • And it really required the force of peter's character and his
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  • Status in the church in jerusalem in order to initiate
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  • Because it's in caesarea at cornelius's house where the
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  • Jesus story starts its global march.
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  • It's going to go from that port city around the roman world.
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  • Through the saul of--one saul of tarsus who becomes the apostle
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  • Paul, but it really starts with this because peter's gonna go
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  • Back to jerusalem with the message.
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  • In fact, that the, the word is gonna get back to jerusalem
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  • Before peter does, that he's gone to the house of gentiles
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  • And eaten with them.
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  • So, he's broken the rules.
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  • He's broken more rules.
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  • Jesus broke rules.
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  • Now peter's breaking rules.
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  • You're a bunch of rule breakers.
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  • It's a problem.
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  • God is moving.
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  • He's breaking the rules.
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  • It couldn't be god or he wouldn't be breaking the rules.
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  • We don't know what's going on.
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  • But the events from pentecost are duplicated in caesarea.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: you know, around the world people are searching
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  • For truth.
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  • And together, we're doing our very best to help them find it.
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  • Known right here at home and around the earth wherever god
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  • Opens the 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: now, this third centurion i suggested to you, was about
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  • The power to change because he's having a complete
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  • Life realignment.
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  • You see, you have to swear allegiance to caesar.
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  • And now he's gonna choose jesus as lord.
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  • That's why they killed jesus 'cause he said he was a king.
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  • So, this centurion puts everything on the line and he
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  • Doesn't do it in private.
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  • He doesn't have some quiet personal faith and then have
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  • A public life where he has to make other decisions.
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  • I'm so sick of that drivel.
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  • When you hear that, i hope the hypocrisy button starts to
  • 00:12:11.546 --> 00:12:14.149
  • Resonate inside of your head.
  • 00:12:14.149 --> 00:12:17.385
  • I hear people with authority say, "well, you know,
  • 00:12:17.385 --> 00:12:19.187
  • Personally, i'm a christ follower, but professionally--"
  • 00:12:19.187 --> 00:12:21.055
  • That's like me saying, you know, when i'm at
  • 00:12:21.055 --> 00:12:25.493
  • Home i'm married to kathy.
  • 00:12:25.493 --> 00:12:29.230
  • But publicly, i wouldn't survive day one, right?
  • 00:12:29.230 --> 00:12:35.236
  • You know, i mean, it's comical and you understand it, but we
  • 00:12:35.236 --> 00:12:38.740
  • Listen to that kind of drivel from people when cornelius
  • 00:12:38.740 --> 00:12:41.676
  • Accepts jesus as lord.
  • 00:12:41.676 --> 00:12:44.779
  • His world changes. his world changes.
  • 00:12:44.779 --> 00:12:52.520
  • But it isn't just pagans that need to make those kind
  • 00:12:52.520 --> 00:12:55.156
  • Of changes.
  • 00:12:55.156 --> 00:12:56.524
  • I--on--this was sunday.
  • 00:12:56.524 --> 00:12:57.959
  • On sunday, we looked at john 21 when jesus came to see peter
  • 00:12:57.959 --> 00:13:00.829
  • After the resurrection and reinstates him after
  • 00:13:00.829 --> 00:13:03.731
  • Peter's denial.
  • 00:13:03.731 --> 00:13:05.066
  • Peter wasn't the only one that failed to stand up with jesus.
  • 00:13:05.066 --> 00:13:07.902
  • Peter was the most high profile.
  • 00:13:07.902 --> 00:13:09.470
  • He was the one most visible.
  • 00:13:09.470 --> 00:13:11.272
  • He was the one that used profanity.
  • 00:13:11.272 --> 00:13:15.109
  • Gee, that's not happening in the 21st century.
  • 00:13:15.109 --> 00:13:21.382
  • And so after the resurrection, jesus comes and finds peter,
  • 00:13:21.382 --> 00:13:25.186
  • Comes and finds all of them, but he reinstates peter.
  • 00:13:25.186 --> 00:13:28.456
  • One of my favorite places in israel today, it's a little
  • 00:13:28.456 --> 00:13:31.526
  • Basalt black stone church right on the shore of galilee.
  • 00:13:31.526 --> 00:13:34.529
  • You can visit--the church isn't overwhelming, but you
  • 00:13:34.529 --> 00:13:36.497
  • Can--there's a beautiful little place there you can wade into
  • 00:13:36.497 --> 00:13:39.500
  • The lake for just a minute if you want to, but it's the place
  • 00:13:39.500 --> 00:13:42.103
  • Where peter's reinstated.
  • 00:13:42.103 --> 00:13:44.906
  • His life changes.
  • 00:13:44.906 --> 00:13:46.241
  • "peter, do you love me?"
  • 00:13:46.241 --> 00:13:47.575
  • "you know i love you, lord."
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  • "then take care of my sheep."
  • 00:13:48.943 --> 00:13:52.714
  • Well, i brought you two things, and i've got just a couple of
  • 00:13:52.714 --> 00:13:54.983
  • Minutes, but i think they're worthwhile.
  • 00:13:54.983 --> 00:13:57.118
  • The centurions at caesarea, there's more than one.
  • 00:13:57.118 --> 00:14:00.255
  • It's a major military base.
  • 00:14:00.255 --> 00:14:01.623
  • It's a major port.
  • 00:14:01.623 --> 00:14:03.524
  • So, order and roman authority is on full display.
  • 00:14:03.524 --> 00:14:07.095
  • You'd expect there to be more than one centurion.
  • 00:14:07.095 --> 00:14:09.264
  • I don't know--we don't--the links aren't all made for us, so
  • 00:14:09.264 --> 00:14:12.700
  • They may not know one another at all.
  • 00:14:12.700 --> 00:14:14.035
  • There may be no connections, but it's not that big of a city, and
  • 00:14:14.035 --> 00:14:17.238
  • A roman centurion that acknowledges jesus in the way
  • 00:14:17.238 --> 00:14:19.607
  • Cornelius did, i'm pretty comfortable imagining that that
  • 00:14:19.607 --> 00:14:22.877
  • Message spread through the ranks.
  • 00:14:22.877 --> 00:14:28.249
  • If one of them is all in with jesus, i'm thinking the others,
  • 00:14:28.249 --> 00:14:31.352
  • Even the ones who aren't will know, those who are filled with
  • 00:14:31.352 --> 00:14:34.355
  • Selfish ambition will try to use it as leverage against him.
  • 00:14:34.355 --> 00:14:37.625
  • Those who are curious, he will tell his story to.
  • 00:14:37.625 --> 00:14:40.094
  • His whole household is involved.
  • 00:14:40.094 --> 00:14:42.630
  • Does that seem reasonable?
  • 00:14:42.630 --> 00:14:44.499
  • Well, there's other centurions at caesarea in acts 24.
  • 00:14:44.499 --> 00:14:49.237
  • Paul goes through a series of hearings and trials before he
  • 00:14:49.237 --> 00:14:53.308
  • Makes his appeal to caesar and before he gets his boat ride
  • 00:14:53.308 --> 00:14:56.244
  • To rome.
  • 00:14:56.244 --> 00:14:57.745
  • Then in acts 24, the--it says he was--"the centurion is ordered
  • 00:14:57.745 --> 00:15:01.215
  • To keep paul under guard but to give him freedom and permit his
  • 00:15:01.215 --> 00:15:04.619
  • Friends to take care of his needs."
  • 00:15:04.619 --> 00:15:05.954
  • So there's a centurion who's being friendly to paul.
  • 00:15:05.954 --> 00:15:09.324
  • Kind to paul.
  • 00:15:09.324 --> 00:15:10.892
  • Not abusive to paul.
  • 00:15:10.892 --> 00:15:13.494
  • I don't know if he knew cornelius or not.
  • 00:15:13.494 --> 00:15:17.131
  • I mean, there's some time that has unfolded between acts 10 and
  • 00:15:17.131 --> 00:15:19.934
  • Acts 24.
  • 00:15:19.934 --> 00:15:21.269
  • It's not like it happens the next day or the next week.
  • 00:15:21.269 --> 00:15:23.071
  • I'm not trying to create a link that's not there, but i think
  • 00:15:23.071 --> 00:15:26.074
  • It's reasonable that in caesarea, the story amongst the
  • 00:15:26.074 --> 00:15:29.177
  • Occupying soldiers of cornelius becomes a part of the lore.
  • 00:15:29.177 --> 00:15:34.215
  • And in acts 27, now paul is on his way to jerusalem and, "when
  • 00:15:34.215 --> 00:15:37.085
  • It was decided that we would sail for italy, paul and some of
  • 00:15:37.085 --> 00:15:39.354
  • The other prisoners were handed over to a centurion."
  • 00:15:39.354 --> 00:15:43.057
  • We know this one's names.
  • 00:15:43.057 --> 00:15:44.392
  • It's curious to me if we know his name.
  • 00:15:44.392 --> 00:15:47.962
  • This is my supposition, there's no biblical evidence that julius
  • 00:15:47.962 --> 00:15:53.267
  • Comes to know the lord, but the only other centurion whose name
  • 00:15:53.267 --> 00:15:55.903
  • We know, we know became a believer.
  • 00:15:55.903 --> 00:15:58.006
  • So when we have julius's name, i'm going to give to him the
  • 00:15:58.006 --> 00:16:02.677
  • Benefit of the doubt.
  • 00:16:02.677 --> 00:16:05.113
  • "the other prisoners were handed over to a centurion named
  • 00:16:05.113 --> 00:16:07.582
  • Julius, who belonged to the imperial regiment.
  • 00:16:07.582 --> 00:16:10.785
  • We boarded a ship from somewhere about to sail for ports along
  • 00:16:10.785 --> 00:16:15.623
  • The coast of the province of asia, and we put out to sea.
  • 00:16:15.623 --> 00:16:17.992
  • The next day we landed at sidon; and julius, in kindness to paul,
  • 00:16:17.992 --> 00:16:24.265
  • Allowed him to go to his friends so that they might provide for
  • 00:16:24.265 --> 00:16:27.135
  • His needs."
  • 00:16:27.135 --> 00:16:31.005
  • I'm more familiar with the idea of a roman centurion who's an
  • 00:16:31.005 --> 00:16:34.175
  • Executioner than a roman centurion who's kind to
  • 00:16:34.175 --> 00:16:37.378
  • A jewish prisoner.
  • 00:16:37.378 --> 00:16:40.181
  • That's why i think the fact that his name is given to us, to me,
  • 00:16:40.181 --> 00:16:44.152
  • It carries some weight.
  • 00:16:44.152 --> 00:16:45.586
  • Same narrative, same story, same scenario, same julius, the ship
  • 00:16:45.586 --> 00:16:49.824
  • Has run aground.
  • 00:16:49.824 --> 00:16:51.592
  • If the prisoners escape, the soldiers will be murdered.
  • 00:16:51.592 --> 00:16:55.563
  • Now, paul has told the crew and told everybody on board the ship
  • 00:16:55.563 --> 00:17:01.102
  • That they'll be spared, but they're gonna run aground.
  • 00:17:01.102 --> 00:17:06.808
  • And julius at least believes paul, "the soldier's plan to
  • 00:17:06.808 --> 00:17:09.877
  • Kill the prisoners."
  • 00:17:09.877 --> 00:17:11.245
  • It's verse 42, to prevent any of them from swimming away
  • 00:17:11.245 --> 00:17:14.048
  • And escaping.
  • 00:17:14.048 --> 00:17:15.683
  • But the centurion," this is julius, "wanted to spare paul's
  • 00:17:15.683 --> 00:17:19.921
  • Life and he kept them from carrying out their plan."
  • 00:17:19.921 --> 00:17:23.424
  • He ordered those who could swim to jump overboard and to get
  • 00:17:23.424 --> 00:17:26.928
  • The land.
  • 00:17:26.928 --> 00:17:29.063
  • Seems to me that centurion's had a change of heart.
  • 00:17:29.063 --> 00:17:32.700
  • He's watching over a jewish prisoner.
  • 00:17:32.700 --> 00:17:36.037
  • A renegade that's hated by his own people.
  • 00:17:36.037 --> 00:17:39.474
  • I don't know if that has anything to do with cornelius or
  • 00:17:39.474 --> 00:17:42.343
  • Not, but i'm intrigued at what god is doing in the hearts of
  • 00:17:42.343 --> 00:17:46.314
  • The people who aren't supposed to be receptive to him.
  • 00:17:46.314 --> 00:17:51.152
  • I don't wanna play a role.
  • 00:17:51.152 --> 00:17:53.955
  • I have very little interest in presenting as religious.
  • 00:17:53.955 --> 00:18:00.561
  • I have a great desire to know the person of jesus and to honor
  • 00:18:00.561 --> 00:18:05.299
  • Him with my life.
  • 00:18:05.299 --> 00:18:07.635
  • I wanna get to know him.
  • 00:18:07.635 --> 00:18:13.741
  • There's risk involved with that because jesus--there's a radical
  • 00:18:13.741 --> 00:18:19.213
  • Component to jesus.
  • 00:18:19.213 --> 00:18:22.483
  • Jesus is disruptive and he'll bring disruption to your life.
  • 00:18:22.483 --> 00:18:29.157
  • He'll disrupt the places where you've tolerated darkness.
  • 00:18:29.157 --> 00:18:33.227
  • He'll use your life to disrupt places, principalities and
  • 00:18:33.227 --> 00:18:37.231
  • Powers and spiritual strongholds.
  • 00:18:37.231 --> 00:18:44.839
  • And i'll wrap up with this.
  • 00:18:44.839 --> 00:18:46.174
  • It seemed to me there were some lessons learned just as peter
  • 00:18:46.174 --> 00:18:48.075
  • Got a--jesus reinstates peter.
  • 00:18:48.075 --> 00:18:51.179
  • We leave him there on the shores of galilee and that john's
  • 00:18:51.179 --> 00:18:55.383
  • Portrait of the reinstatement, but in the book of acts, as luke
  • 00:18:55.383 --> 00:18:58.686
  • Is telling the story, we get some windows into peter 2.0.
  • 00:18:58.686 --> 00:19:04.058
  • In acts chapter 2, it's the day of pentecost when the crowd has
  • 00:19:04.058 --> 00:19:06.827
  • Gathered as the spirit of god has been poured out, and peter
  • 00:19:06.827 --> 00:19:10.031
  • Addresses the crowd.
  • 00:19:10.031 --> 00:19:11.365
  • It's his first public sermon that we have record of.
  • 00:19:11.365 --> 00:19:14.502
  • And he's in jerusalem in the same streets where not but a few
  • 00:19:14.502 --> 00:19:18.973
  • Days ago, they were shouting, "crucify jesus!"
  • 00:19:18.973 --> 00:19:21.776
  • Peter stands up in acts 2:36.
  • 00:19:21.776 --> 00:19:23.477
  • He said, "let all israel be assured of this: that god made
  • 00:19:23.477 --> 00:19:26.581
  • This jesus, whom you crucified, both lord and messiah.
  • 00:19:26.581 --> 00:19:31.886
  • When the people heard this, and they were cut to the heart."
  • 00:19:31.886 --> 00:19:36.123
  • I'm not sure if you're reading this for the first time, you're
  • 00:19:36.123 --> 00:19:37.825
  • Not sure whether they were cut to the heart or they want to
  • 00:19:37.825 --> 00:19:39.660
  • Cut peter's heart out.
  • 00:19:39.660 --> 00:19:41.829
  • So there's a little bit of a surprise, they're cut to
  • 00:19:41.829 --> 00:19:43.931
  • The heart."
  • 00:19:43.931 --> 00:19:45.266
  • They weren't cut to the heart by jesus.
  • 00:19:45.266 --> 00:19:48.236
  • "they're cut to the heart, and peter--and said to peter and the
  • 00:19:48.236 --> 00:19:50.938
  • Other apostles, 'what shall we do?'
  • 00:19:50.938 --> 00:19:52.306
  • And peter replied, "repent and be baptized, every one of you,
  • 00:19:52.306 --> 00:19:54.909
  • In the name of jesus.
  • 00:19:54.909 --> 00:19:57.011
  • Jesus the messiah, for the forgiveness of sins."
  • 00:19:57.011 --> 00:20:00.348
  • Do you understand how contrary that is to their behavior?
  • 00:20:00.348 --> 00:20:04.752
  • And peter has just said to them, god made jesus whom
  • 00:20:04.752 --> 00:20:09.323
  • You crucified.
  • 00:20:09.323 --> 00:20:12.393
  • Again, that's not conciliatory language.
  • 00:20:12.393 --> 00:20:14.562
  • Peter is not trying to be passive.
  • 00:20:14.562 --> 00:20:16.998
  • In fact, in my own imagination, peter is doing the reverse of
  • 00:20:16.998 --> 00:20:20.501
  • What he's done when he denied jesus, when he stepped back into
  • 00:20:20.501 --> 00:20:24.605
  • The shadows.
  • 00:20:24.605 --> 00:20:25.973
  • Now he's standing boldly in the streets and saying, "jesus of
  • 00:20:25.973 --> 00:20:28.576
  • Nazareth is the messiah and you crucified him."
  • 00:20:28.576 --> 00:20:36.017
  • I don't--in my mind's eye, i'm looking at the other apostles.
  • 00:20:36.017 --> 00:20:41.789
  • You know, and you can feel the tension.
  • 00:20:41.789 --> 00:20:43.724
  • What's gonna happen?
  • 00:20:43.724 --> 00:20:46.594
  • What's gonna unfold?
  • 00:20:46.594 --> 00:20:48.663
  • And they end up arrested, not this day.
  • 00:20:48.663 --> 00:20:51.565
  • This day they baptize thousands, but they create enough of a stir
  • 00:20:51.565 --> 00:20:55.903
  • That they're arrested.
  • 00:20:55.903 --> 00:20:57.238
  • It's acts chapter 4: "and they called them in again and they
  • 00:20:57.238 --> 00:20:58.873
  • Commanded them not to speak or teach it all in the name
  • 00:20:58.873 --> 00:21:01.742
  • Of jesus."
  • 00:21:01.742 --> 00:21:03.077
  • Gee that sounds like the 21st century.
  • 00:21:03.077 --> 00:21:07.248
  • Do you really think we're the first group to get canceled?
  • 00:21:07.248 --> 00:21:13.354
  • We gotta be honest enough to talk about this.
  • 00:21:13.354 --> 00:21:15.289
  • We understand that in academia and in many places in the public
  • 00:21:15.289 --> 00:21:19.160
  • Square or in our public schools and hospitals, doctors are
  • 00:21:19.160 --> 00:21:22.763
  • Afraid to pay with--pray with patients because they'll
  • 00:21:22.763 --> 00:21:24.965
  • Be sued.
  • 00:21:24.965 --> 00:21:28.803
  • Attorneys don't know if they should pray with clients because
  • 00:21:28.803 --> 00:21:31.706
  • What if they don't like it and they're offended.
  • 00:21:31.706 --> 00:21:35.743
  • Church people are afraid to pray with one another.
  • 00:21:35.743 --> 00:21:37.311
  • What if i pray and nothing happens?
  • 00:21:37.311 --> 00:21:39.480
  • We're more motivated by the concern about the consequences
  • 00:21:39.480 --> 00:21:42.316
  • Than the imagination that the one we serve has authority
  • 00:21:42.316 --> 00:21:45.152
  • Over everything.
  • 00:21:45.152 --> 00:21:47.154
  • I wanna be more like that guy in.
  • 00:21:47.154 --> 00:21:49.924
  • Capernaum that says, listen i understand you got something
  • 00:21:49.924 --> 00:21:52.393
  • That i don't understand fully, but you--i'm in.
  • 00:21:52.393 --> 00:21:56.831
  • I want more of that on the inside of me.
  • 00:21:56.831 --> 00:22:01.602
  • So, in acts chapter 4, they command them not to speak or
  • 00:22:01.602 --> 00:22:07.141
  • Teach in the name of jesus, and the people giving these commands
  • 00:22:07.141 --> 00:22:10.578
  • Are the ones that coordinated handing jesus over to the romans
  • 00:22:10.578 --> 00:22:15.816
  • To be tortured to death.
  • 00:22:15.816 --> 00:22:17.184
  • So they're a brutal group of people.
  • 00:22:17.184 --> 00:22:22.089
  • This isn't a pto meeting where you're gonna be censored and not
  • 00:22:22.089 --> 00:22:25.393
  • Allowed to be on the snack committee.
  • 00:22:25.393 --> 00:22:32.166
  • Peter and john replied, "we are so sorry.
  • 00:22:32.166 --> 00:22:37.304
  • We obviously got out over our skis and we didn't understand
  • 00:22:37.304 --> 00:22:40.941
  • How you felt."
  • 00:22:40.941 --> 00:22:46.113
  • "peter and john replied 'you judge for yourselves whether
  • 00:22:46.113 --> 00:22:48.516
  • It's right in god's sight to obey you rather than god.'"
  • 00:22:48.516 --> 00:22:55.489
  • In case english is not your forte, "your wishes are ungodly
  • 00:22:55.489 --> 00:23:04.265
  • And we won't obey you."
  • 00:23:04.265 --> 00:23:08.736
  • "for we cannot help speaking about what we have seen
  • 00:23:08.736 --> 00:23:12.173
  • And heard." [congregation applauding]
  • 00:23:12.173 --> 00:23:17.978
  • You know, they'll start killing apostles before long.
  • 00:23:17.978 --> 00:23:20.948
  • There's a consequence.
  • 00:23:20.948 --> 00:23:23.884
  • So, this isn't some false bravado, but i would submit to
  • 00:23:23.884 --> 00:23:26.821
  • You that what jesus invited peter towards on the shore of
  • 00:23:26.821 --> 00:23:30.224
  • Galilee that day when he said, "peter, if you love me, feed
  • 00:23:30.224 --> 00:23:33.494
  • My sheep."
  • 00:23:33.494 --> 00:23:35.563
  • It sends peter to cornelius's house or he would never go.
  • 00:23:35.563 --> 00:23:43.871
  • And he comes back to jerusalem and he validates that what
  • 00:23:43.871 --> 00:23:46.173
  • Happened in that roman centurion's house was the same
  • 00:23:46.173 --> 00:23:50.211
  • Spirit that they experienced in acts chapter 2 on the day
  • 00:23:50.211 --> 00:23:52.780
  • Of pentecost.
  • 00:23:52.780 --> 00:23:54.682
  • And he does it in a convincing enough way that it brings peace
  • 00:23:54.682 --> 00:23:58.052
  • And affirmation from the leadership in jerusalem, and the
  • 00:23:58.052 --> 00:24:01.121
  • Non-jews are welcomed.
  • 00:24:01.121 --> 00:24:06.193
  • I hope we have the same courage to use our voice for the jewish
  • 00:24:06.193 --> 00:24:08.662
  • People today. [congregation applauding]
  • 00:24:08.662 --> 00:24:16.003
  • Those three roman centurions are the most unlikely of characters,
  • 00:24:16.003 --> 00:24:20.808
  • And yet their experiences with jesus dramatically transformed
  • 00:24:20.808 --> 00:24:24.278
  • Their lives.
  • 00:24:24.278 --> 00:24:25.646
  • Jesus is still transforming lives.
  • 00:24:25.646 --> 00:24:27.515
  • I wanna be one.
  • 00:24:27.515 --> 00:24:28.883
  • I believe you wanna be one.
  • 00:24:28.883 --> 00:24:30.217
  • Let's keep saying yes to him.
  • 00:24:30.217 --> 00:24:32.586
  • Will you stand with me?
  • 00:24:32.586 --> 00:24:38.058
  • It's gonna make you different, unique.
  • 00:24:38.058 --> 00:24:42.897
  • If you want to fit into the crowd, you know, if you wanna be
  • 00:24:42.897 --> 00:24:46.767
  • One of those group photos and you blend in fully, you probably
  • 00:24:46.767 --> 00:24:49.436
  • Don't want jesus.
  • 00:24:49.436 --> 00:24:51.939
  • He's gonna make you--he's gonna put you over here on this path
  • 00:24:51.939 --> 00:24:54.575
  • Towards this narrow gate.
  • 00:24:54.575 --> 00:24:57.177
  • And there'll be a thundering herd over here, and you'll feel
  • 00:24:57.177 --> 00:25:02.550
  • Alone and isolated sometimes, all the things.
  • 00:25:02.550 --> 00:25:07.054
  • It's okay, the lord will help us.
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  • Father, thank you for your word and it's truth and it's
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  • Authority and its power.
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  • Thank you that we can celebrate your resurrection.
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  • I thank you for the every man and woman that chooses jesus of
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  • Nazareth as lord and king.
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  • And we stand before you tonight to say we want to cooperate
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  • With you.
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  • We want to put our faith in you, our trust in you, our hope in
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  • You more fully and more completely than we ever
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  • Have before.
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  • Forgive us for our reluctance.
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  • Forgive us for our ambivalence.
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  • Forgive us when we have denied you.
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  • We've chosen the spirit of this age over the spirit of the
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  • Living god.
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  • Lord, we come tonight in humility to acknowledge you as
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  • Lord and to commit ourselves to follow you with enthusiasm
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  • And determination.
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  • Thank you, that you're the author and the completer of
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  • Our story.
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  • I thank you for the good things ahead.
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  • In jesus's name.
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  • Amen.
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  • God bless you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: you know, i've often said that what happens in the white
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  • 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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  • ♪♪♪
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