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Allen Jackson - The Return of the King (Part 2)

May 7, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - The Return of the King (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - The Return of the King (Part 2) | May 7, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: one of my heroes in the bible is saul of tarsus.
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  • He becomes the apostle paul.
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  • I know you know his story.
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  • He's written two-thirds of our new testament by title, and one
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  • Of the most remarkable characters we meet in all of
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  • The scripture.
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  • He was a pharisee with a remarkable education, brilliant
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  • Mind, and he hated jesus and jesus's followers, until he met
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  • Jesus one day.
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  • He's on the road to damascus and jesus interrupts his life and he
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  • Becomes the apostle paul, one of the most powerful voices for
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  • Jesus that history has ever known.
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  • We put together a 90-day devotional.
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  • It's "lessons from paul."
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  • I'm still learning from paul, and i just wanted to share it
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  • With you.
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  • There's a little--there's a scripture verse, there's a bit
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  • Of a devotional, there's a place for some journaling.
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  • It's really intended to provide some direction so that you and i
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  • Become overcomers, overcomers of our past, overcomers of the
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  • Opposition in the present.
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  • Doesn't matter what the adversary is, the power of god
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  • That delivered paul, he'll deliver you and me.
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  • I believe you'll enjoy "lessons from paul."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: i keep inviting you and people and whoever will listen
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  • Away from this segmented compartmentalized life where,
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  • You know, you visit church and you kind of pull that together
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  • For a few minutes and you get your godly face on and then you
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  • Walk out of there and, "you know, i'm glad to have that out
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  • Of the way."
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  • It's like, you know, the best part of going to the gym is
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  • Leaving, right?
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  • I always walk out of the gym with more energy than i walk in.
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  • And if they had a camera on me going into the gym and, you
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  • Know, however early in the morning, i'm like, "yeah,
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  • I'm here.
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  • Is god not good?"
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  • But when i leave, i mean, i may be wobbly and trembly, but i'm
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  • Like, i got some hope.
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  • Done with that for 24 hours.
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  • Well, i wish i had cameras when we come to church 'cause we tend
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  • To come in late.
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  • I mean, we come in hot, right?
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  • But we leave on purpose.
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  • And there's always a segment of the group that anticipates the
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  • Ending, and you're gonna be ahead.
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  • Like when i say, "let's pray," you're moving.
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  • I've been here for the majority.
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  • Let's go.
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  • Beat the baptist to shoney's.
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  • Come on.
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  • And i wanna learn to reconcile that my whole life is lived
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  • Before the lord and be happy about that.
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  • Now, that's a learned thing.
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  • That's not intuitive or automatic.
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  • I put one passage from 1 corinthians 3, i thought it
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  • Was helpful.
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  • "no one can lay any foundation," paul's writing this to a church,
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  • "then the foundation that is already laid, which is jesus."
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  • That's our access to the kingdom of god, that's our status in the
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  • Kingdom of god, that's our passport into the kingdom
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  • Of god.
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  • None of us are gonna add to that.
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  • But once you've received that gift, the remainder of your life
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  • Is an expression of the value you attach to that gift.
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  • And he describes it, "if any man builds on this foundation using
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  • Gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw," they're
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  • Two very different categories.
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  • One has great, great value, even if it's a relatively small
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  • Amount physically.
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  • The other can have great value, but it takes
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  • Enormous quantities.
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  • You know, a handful of precious stones, you could buy a barn
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  • Full of hay.
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  • "his work will be shown for what it is, because the day," it's
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  • Describing the day of judgment, "will bring it to light.
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  • It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the
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  • Quality of each man's work.
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  • If what he's built survives, he will receive his reward.
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  • If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be
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  • Saved, but only as one escaping through the flames."
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  • You know, a lot of back and forth, a lot of debate, a lot of
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  • Books written, a lot of theological posturing about your
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  • Salvation and whether it's unassailable, i think what's
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  • More helpful to live with is you can lose your rewards.
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  • I don't want you to live with fear that you're gonna forfeit
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  • Your salvation if you have a wrong thought or you say the
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  • Wrong word, but i do want us to live with the awareness that we
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  • Could make choices in such a way that we would cause our lives to
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  • Be inconsequential.
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  • And i would invite you away from that.
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  • This judgment scene is a very different scene than the great
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  • White throne.
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  • We'll look at that in another place.
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  • Another thing that we face between here and the return of
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  • The king is the emergence of the antichrist and his defeat.
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  • You can't defeat him unless he's emerged into a very
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  • Powerful position.
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  • You wouldn't defeat somebody that was already in the shadows
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  • And weak.
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  • So it kind of presupposes one or the other.
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  • And there's some confusion around it because the bible
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  • Talks about antichrist in a variety of ways.
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  • In 1 john, we kind of get probably the clearest
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  • Succinct view.
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  • It talks about the spirit of antichrist being in the earth.
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  • Antichrist carries with it two meanings.
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  • It means, in opposition to, anti is opposed to something, but it
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  • Can also mean in place of.
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  • You see, the heart of the spirit of antichrist, satan's
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  • Objective is to be worshiped as christ is intended to
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  • Be worshiped.
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  • That's what cost him his place in heaven initially.
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  • So the spirit of antichrist opposes the purposes of jesus in
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  • The earth, but it also tries to attract the worship and the
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  • Adulation and the priorities that jesus deserves.
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  • So you shouldn't always think of the antichrist in terms of
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  • Something beastly, sometimes it's something that's very
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  • Attractive and it'll capture your heart.
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  • And then the bible talks about many antichrists.
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  • These are the historical figures that have been reflections of
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  • That spirit and an embodiment.
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  • There's a number of false messiahs in jewish history.
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  • There's whole books and collections in jewish
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  • Scholarship of false messiahs.
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  • Most of it was 70 ad when the romans destroyed jerusalem.
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  • But they didn't really annihilate the city.
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  • The temple was destroyed, but it was 130, another 60 years later,
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  • There was a jew by the name of bar kokhba that claimed he was
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  • The messiah, and he led the group of the people in
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  • Another rebellion.
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  • And this time the romans were so exasperated with jewish
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  • Rebellions that they wanted to separate the jewish people from
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  • The land of israel.
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  • That's how we ended up--they wanted to rename it.
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  • They did rename jerusalem and they renamed the region, trying
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  • To separate it from its jewish history.
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  • And the philistines lived on the shore nearby, so they took
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  • Philistine and it became corrupted into palestine.
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  • But there have been many of these antichrist characters
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  • Through history.
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  • Jesus said, "many will come in my name."
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  • If we take modern history, i think we see the spirit of
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  • Antichrist in some of the dictators that we've seen in
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  • The world.
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  • Lenin and stalin, brutal, beastly human beings,
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  • Responsible for the murder of millions and millions of people.
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  • It's difficult to explain such inhuman behavior apart from
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  • Spiritual forces of wickedness.
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  • But then the bible describes the antichrist.
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  • This one individual that will accept that bargain that jesus
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  • Declined at his temptation.
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  • And satan will invest in him the authority he has over all the
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  • Kingdoms of the world.
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  • Initially, he'll appear as the great savior.
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  • He'll be able to solve the unsolvable problems and mediate
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  • The impossible challenges that we face.
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  • And for a very brief period of three and a half years, he'll be
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  • The most brutal dictator our world has ever known.
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  • God will permit it.
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  • The way i understand scripture, again, it's my opinion, we could
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  • Disagree, but he's given us a choice.
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  • And the attitude as i understand it is you've rejected me, you've
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  • Rejected my son, and you can have what you've asked for.
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  • If you don't wanna serve a righteous god in a righteous
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  • Way, then i will give you the privilege of serving someone who
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  • Is ungodly.
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  • That's the nature of that.
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  • You see, i think we misconstrue sin.
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  • It's the reason we dally with it.
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  • We think that somehow it will bring greater pleasure or
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  • Greater joy or greater fulfillment or
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  • Greater opportunity.
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  • Ungodliness will destroy you.
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  • Every time left unchecked, it will destroy you.
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  • Jesus told us that.
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  • And the antichrist will be the political expression of that, a
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  • Global expression of that.
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  • We can choose to serve the true christ in righteousness and
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  • Holiness and share in his kingdom, or we can serve the
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  • False christ.
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  • Allen: you know, around the world,
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  • People are searching for truth, and together we're doing our
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  • Very best to help them find it.
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  • When you become a ministry partner with allen jackson
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  • Ministries, you're joining a growing community of believers
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  • Who are committed to strengthening the church and
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  • Sharing god's word through every available channel--
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  • Television, radio, podcast, books, bible studies,
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  • Digital resources, conferences.
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  • Your monthly partnership helps us equip believers to reach new
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  • Audiences, to take the hope of jesus to people who may never
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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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  • You can find more about becoming a ministry partner
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  • At allenjackson.com/partner.
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  • Allen: you know, god doesn't teach us theoretical truth.
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  • I don't like theoretical faith.
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  • I don't like theoretical bible studies.
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  • When we have a revelation of god's truth, he gives us an
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  • Opportunity to live through it.
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  • And if we choose to do that, we gain trust, confidence in the
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  • Faithfulness of god.
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  • We learn to depend upon his character and his power to
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  • Sustain us.
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  • Through all the challenges life brings with it, it brings
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  • Challenges to all of us.
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  • But we have to learn to say no to our carnal, earthly self,
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  • 'cause we're hardwired.
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  • There's something in us that doesn't wanna yield to god.
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  • It doesn't wanna submit to god, it doesn't wanna invest
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  • Ourselves in god, and we can justify and self-justify, and
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  • We're good at it.
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  • We are world class at it in the church.
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  • But we have to say no to that carnal, earthly self and say yes
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  • To godliness.
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  • Truth be told, this is not an easy class we enrolled in.
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  • It's free.
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  • Everybody's welcome.
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  • But the formation of christ in us is not easy, and
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  • All humanity.
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  • The book of revelation is the story of god's judgment upon the
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  • Gentile nations.
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  • We love to, especially right now, we like to talk about god's
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  • Judgment on the jewish people that they rejected jesus and
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  • They faced his judgment.
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  • Folks, the book of revelation is what god does to the gentile
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  • People after thousands of years of refusing to submit to the
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  • Righteous government of his son.
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  • All humanity will receive the most terrible lesson ever
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  • Demonstrated on the earth.
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  • You know the story, pontius pilate gave the jewish people
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  • A choice.
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  • The roman governor of judea gave the jewish people a choice.
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  • He stood jesus up and barabbas up.
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  • Barabbas led an insurrection.
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  • He was a violent rebel, and he said, "choose, i'm gonna release
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  • One to you."
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  • And the people said, "give us barabbas."
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  • In fact, they went further.
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  • "they said we have no king but caesar.
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  • Give us barabbas."
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  • And in a casual glance through history, you can conclude that
  • 00:12:21.956 --> 00:12:25.593
  • For 19 centuries, the jewish people have been ruled by
  • 00:12:25.593 --> 00:12:28.296
  • Caesar's and the barabbases have been turned loose on them.
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  • In recent history they have.
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  • I've watched the videos of october 7th.
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  • It was inhumane what was unleashed on the jewish people.
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  • God has given all of humanity this choice, accept the messiah
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  • And his kingdom or serve the antichrist, serve the spirit,
  • 00:12:48.016 --> 00:12:52.453
  • Serve an individual who embodies it, or ultimately serve
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  • The antichrist.
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  • The consequence of rejecting god's truth, it'll be horrific,
  • 00:12:56.658 --> 00:13:00.228
  • But it isn't god's fault.
  • 00:13:00.228 --> 00:13:02.897
  • You see, in our rebellion in our self-absorption, we blame god
  • 00:13:02.897 --> 00:13:06.467
  • For our choices.
  • 00:13:06.467 --> 00:13:08.636
  • You hear variations on this argument.
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  • "well, if god is such a loving god, i just can't believe he
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  • Would ever discipline me, judge me."
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  • The only aspect of god's character that we wanna bring
  • 00:13:20.281 --> 00:13:22.617
  • Into focus is his love.
  • 00:13:22.617 --> 00:13:24.118
  • We don't bring into focus that god is also a just god.
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  • If god was not a just god, we wouldn't have needed the cross,
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  • We wouldn't have needed a savior.
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  • He would have just said, "oh, bother, group hug."
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  • He's the god of justice.
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  • And those of us who choose jesus will be under his government,
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  • Those who reject jesus will be under the government of
  • 00:13:44.606 --> 00:13:46.708
  • The antichrist.
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  • It's why you don't have to be afraid.
  • 00:13:48.076 --> 00:13:53.948
  • The bible very clearly tells us the antichrist will be
  • 00:13:53.948 --> 00:13:56.818
  • Defeated, but he'll only be defeated by the return of the
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  • True christ.
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  • Jesus isn't coming back to kind of welcome us into a fun time.
  • 00:14:01.856 --> 00:14:10.899
  • He's coming back because if he remained absent, we would
  • 00:14:10.899 --> 00:14:15.103
  • Be overwhelmed.
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  • We will need him.
  • 00:14:19.340 --> 00:14:23.811
  • In revelation chapter 19, john has this amazing insight.
  • 00:14:23.811 --> 00:14:29.484
  • He said, "i saw heaven standing open and there before me was a
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  • White horse, whose rider is called faithful and true.
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  • And with justice he judges and makes war."
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  • Jesus comes back as an expression of the justice
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  • Of god.
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  • "his eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns.
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  • He has a name written on him that no one knows but
  • 00:14:50.238 --> 00:14:52.240
  • He himself.
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  • He's dressed in a robe dripped-- dipped in blood, and his name is
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  • The word of god.
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  • The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white
  • 00:14:58.079 --> 00:15:01.516
  • Horses and dressed in fine linen, and white and clean.
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  • Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down
  • 00:15:04.652 --> 00:15:07.288
  • The nations.
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  • And he will rule them with an iron scepter, and he treads the
  • 00:15:08.690 --> 00:15:11.359
  • Wine press of the fury of the wrath of god almighty.
  • 00:15:11.359 --> 00:15:15.563
  • And on his robe and on his thigh he has the name written: king of
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  • Kings and lord of lords."
  • 00:15:18.366 --> 00:15:22.737
  • Now, that's a very different scene than a stable
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  • In bethlehem.
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  • That's not a vulnerable baby.
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  • That's not the heavenly host rejoicing, "glory to god in the
  • 00:15:29.077 --> 00:15:33.181
  • Highest and on earth peace to men, goodwill on whom god's
  • 00:15:33.181 --> 00:15:36.818
  • Favor rests."
  • 00:15:36.818 --> 00:15:39.020
  • That's the armies of heaven coming with jesus.
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  • There's a lesson for us in that passage, i think, and in the
  • 00:15:45.493 --> 00:15:48.196
  • Book of revelation in a larger way, we aren't victorious by
  • 00:15:48.196 --> 00:15:52.333
  • Violence, by hatred, or being tough and rugged.
  • 00:15:52.333 --> 00:15:55.703
  • It's not a rugged individualism that they used to teach was a
  • 00:15:55.703 --> 00:15:59.607
  • Part of the american ethos.
  • 00:15:59.607 --> 00:16:01.476
  • I don't think they teach it anymore.
  • 00:16:01.476 --> 00:16:04.245
  • What the book of revelation teaches us is that we are
  • 00:16:04.245 --> 00:16:06.414
  • Victorious by laying down our life.
  • 00:16:06.414 --> 00:16:12.020
  • When john is weeping 'cause there's no one who can open the
  • 00:16:12.020 --> 00:16:14.055
  • Scroll that tells the story of the end of the age, one of the
  • 00:16:14.055 --> 00:16:17.125
  • Elders steps forward and says, "don't weep, the lion of the
  • 00:16:17.125 --> 00:16:19.560
  • Tribe of judah is worthy to open the scroll."
  • 00:16:19.560 --> 00:16:22.764
  • And it's john said, "i turned to see the lion of the tribe of
  • 00:16:22.764 --> 00:16:25.466
  • Judah, i turned to look at the throne, and i saw a lamb looking
  • 00:16:25.466 --> 00:16:29.937
  • As if it had been slain."
  • 00:16:29.937 --> 00:16:33.207
  • Jesus laid down his life.
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  • No one took his life from him.
  • 00:16:34.675 --> 00:16:38.346
  • Pilate, he may have issued an order for jesus's crucifixion,
  • 00:16:38.346 --> 00:16:43.384
  • But jesus went to that cross willingly.
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  • When those soldiers beat him and said, "if you're the son of god,
  • 00:16:47.321 --> 00:16:49.924
  • Tell us who hit you," he was capable.
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  • He volunteered for that.
  • 00:16:54.195 --> 00:16:55.830
  • When he told peter to put away his sword in gethsemane,
  • 00:16:55.830 --> 00:16:58.032
  • Remember what he said, "put your sword away.
  • 00:16:58.032 --> 00:16:59.634
  • If i wanted to, i could call legions of angels."
  • 00:16:59.634 --> 00:17:02.637
  • But we have to do this to fulfill our righteousness.
  • 00:17:02.637 --> 00:17:06.808
  • Jesus went to that cross on purpose intentionally, and you
  • 00:17:06.808 --> 00:17:11.813
  • And i bring forth the victory of god by yielding our lives to the
  • 00:17:11.813 --> 00:17:16.017
  • Lordship of jesus.
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  • Now, that doesn't mean we always turn the other cheek.
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  • There are times when we will yield, but there are times we
  • 00:17:23.224 --> 00:17:28.062
  • Are called to stand.
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  • Jesus is not passive.
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  • Please do not understand him that way.
  • 00:17:34.569 --> 00:17:36.437
  • That passage in revelation 19 is not a passive passage.
  • 00:17:36.437 --> 00:17:41.776
  • Jesus allowing roman soldiers to torture him to death is
  • 00:17:41.776 --> 00:17:46.280
  • Not passive.
  • 00:17:46.280 --> 00:17:49.150
  • He is allowing the purposes of god to come forth.
  • 00:17:49.150 --> 00:17:51.319
  • There are times we will take a disadvantaged position or give
  • 00:17:51.319 --> 00:17:55.256
  • Expression to a humility
  • 00:17:55.256 --> 00:17:58.459
  • When it allows the purposes of god to be worked in us, and
  • 00:17:58.459 --> 00:18:01.062
  • There are other times when god will ask us to stand.
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  • Elijah on mount carmel was not yielding.
  • 00:18:05.900 --> 00:18:10.738
  • Is that fair?
  • 00:18:10.738 --> 00:18:13.708
  • I mean, i can walk you through our biblical heroes that are
  • 00:18:13.708 --> 00:18:16.677
  • Recounted--recount--recalled to us in the new testament, as well
  • 00:18:16.677 --> 00:18:21.182
  • As that when peter and john stand before the sanhedrin and
  • 00:18:21.182 --> 00:18:24.352
  • They said, you know, "we're tired of you.
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  • You're convincing everybody in this city that we're guilty of
  • 00:18:26.654 --> 00:18:29.490
  • This man's blood, and if you don't stop, we'll do to you what
  • 00:18:29.490 --> 00:18:32.293
  • We did to him," living bible.
  • 00:18:32.293 --> 00:18:35.396
  • Remember what peter and john said?
  • 00:18:35.396 --> 00:18:38.032
  • "you do what you need to do, but we will never stop."
  • 00:18:38.032 --> 00:18:47.542
  • Now if they were passive, their answer would have
  • 00:18:47.542 --> 00:18:49.343
  • Been different.
  • 00:18:49.343 --> 00:18:50.678
  • It would have been, "oh, excuse us.
  • 00:18:50.678 --> 00:18:54.215
  • We clearly got overemotional.
  • 00:18:54.215 --> 00:18:56.250
  • We misspoke.
  • 00:18:56.250 --> 00:18:58.786
  • Maybe we misremembered."
  • 00:18:58.786 --> 00:19:06.827
  • So, i don't want you to imagine that jesus is passive, it's
  • 00:19:06.827 --> 00:19:12.533
  • True, he has an amazing love for his people.
  • 00:19:12.533 --> 00:19:14.702
  • He gave his life for us.
  • 00:19:14.702 --> 00:19:17.538
  • But there are times he will ask you to stand in the midst of
  • 00:19:17.538 --> 00:19:19.807
  • A storm.
  • 00:19:19.807 --> 00:19:23.411
  • He is still the lion of the tribe of judah.
  • 00:19:23.411 --> 00:19:27.815
  • And i would in passing at least note that he's still a jew.
  • 00:19:27.815 --> 00:19:30.785
  • He identified with the tribe of judah for time and eternity.
  • 00:19:30.785 --> 00:19:35.723
  • It's very fashionable right now to be angry at israel and the
  • 00:19:35.723 --> 00:19:38.593
  • Jewish people, but when you hate the jews, you hate the brothers
  • 00:19:38.593 --> 00:19:41.596
  • And sisters of jesus.
  • 00:19:41.596 --> 00:19:44.031
  • If you would accept just a suggestion, tread lightly.
  • 00:19:44.031 --> 00:19:51.772
  • I don't think you should slavishly endorse everything
  • 00:19:51.772 --> 00:19:53.975
  • That the state of israel does.
  • 00:19:53.975 --> 00:19:57.278
  • But i put my hand over my mouth before i started on the
  • 00:19:57.278 --> 00:19:59.580
  • Jewish people.
  • 00:19:59.580 --> 00:20:04.252
  • Oh, yeah, there's a fourth session.
  • 00:20:04.252 --> 00:20:08.789
  • I told you on the front end, it's okay.
  • 00:20:08.789 --> 00:20:11.525
  • It's not bad time management.
  • 00:20:11.525 --> 00:20:13.728
  • It's bad outline management.
  • 00:20:13.728 --> 00:20:15.596
  • Revelation 19, we'll read one more passage.
  • 00:20:15.596 --> 00:20:17.665
  • "i saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies
  • 00:20:17.665 --> 00:20:19.767
  • Gathered together to make war against the rider on the horse
  • 00:20:19.767 --> 00:20:22.003
  • And his army.
  • 00:20:22.003 --> 00:20:23.804
  • But the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who'd
  • 00:20:23.804 --> 00:20:26.374
  • Performed the miraculous signs on his behalf."
  • 00:20:26.374 --> 00:20:28.643
  • The antichrist will be a very religious character.
  • 00:20:28.643 --> 00:20:32.013
  • Very supernatural character, lots of miracles.
  • 00:20:32.013 --> 00:20:37.685
  • "with these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark
  • 00:20:37.685 --> 00:20:40.621
  • Of the beast and worshiped his image.
  • 00:20:40.621 --> 00:20:42.089
  • And the two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of
  • 00:20:42.089 --> 00:20:44.392
  • Burning sulfur.
  • 00:20:44.392 --> 00:20:45.726
  • And the rest of them were killed with the sword that came out of
  • 00:20:45.726 --> 00:20:47.695
  • The mouth of the rider on the horse, and the birds gorge
  • 00:20:47.695 --> 00:20:51.032
  • Themselves on their flesh."
  • 00:20:51.032 --> 00:20:52.967
  • The book of revelation presents to us these two characters in
  • 00:20:52.967 --> 00:20:55.903
  • Opposition to one another.
  • 00:20:55.903 --> 00:20:58.306
  • The lamb occurs 28 times in the book of revelation.
  • 00:20:58.306 --> 00:21:00.908
  • The beast occurs 33 times.
  • 00:21:00.908 --> 00:21:04.145
  • The end of the conflict at the end of the age is a conflict
  • 00:21:04.145 --> 00:21:07.148
  • Between the beast and the lamb.
  • 00:21:07.148 --> 00:21:10.384
  • The bible introduces us and history introduces us to many
  • 00:21:10.384 --> 00:21:13.988
  • Characters who have been unquestionably evil, wicked,
  • 00:21:13.988 --> 00:21:18.826
  • Murderous, violent.
  • 00:21:18.826 --> 00:21:21.529
  • But this individual that steps onto the stage of human history
  • 00:21:21.529 --> 00:21:23.864
  • At the culmination of the age is reserved this special label, he
  • 00:21:23.864 --> 00:21:27.468
  • Is a beast.
  • 00:21:27.468 --> 00:21:29.737
  • I believe we should pay attention.
  • 00:21:29.737 --> 00:21:33.207
  • I believe we should understand, it's why we want to align
  • 00:21:33.207 --> 00:21:36.310
  • Ourselves as fully as possible with the lord.
  • 00:21:36.310 --> 00:21:40.047
  • There's conflict coming to the earth.
  • 00:21:40.047 --> 00:21:41.482
  • Between here and the return of the king, there's a conflict.
  • 00:21:41.482 --> 00:21:45.319
  • Establish the lordship of your life over the breadth of
  • 00:21:45.319 --> 00:21:50.291
  • Your life.
  • 00:21:50.291 --> 00:21:51.625
  • No segmentation, no compartmentalization, and you
  • 00:21:51.625 --> 00:21:54.128
  • Don't have to be afraid.
  • 00:21:54.128 --> 00:21:56.764
  • You don't have to be afraid.
  • 00:21:56.764 --> 00:22:01.235
  • We'll work on the rest of this in the next session.
  • 00:22:01.235 --> 00:22:04.405
  • Let's offload a little fear.
  • 00:22:04.405 --> 00:22:05.773
  • How can we do that?
  • 00:22:05.773 --> 00:22:07.108
  • Why don't you stand with me.
  • 00:22:07.108 --> 00:22:09.043
  • I like to think of fear as a person without a body.
  • 00:22:09.043 --> 00:22:15.282
  • You know, there are times when people say, "you can't do that."
  • 00:22:15.282 --> 00:22:19.987
  • We're doing construction.
  • 00:22:19.987 --> 00:22:21.355
  • Construction is a dance.
  • 00:22:21.355 --> 00:22:22.723
  • It's like playing "mother may i" for adults.
  • 00:22:22.723 --> 00:22:26.927
  • "we would like to build a building."
  • 00:22:26.927 --> 00:22:28.262
  • "you can't do that."
  • 00:22:28.262 --> 00:22:30.564
  • "well, can we move the dirt?"
  • 00:22:30.564 --> 00:22:33.300
  • "you may."
  • 00:22:33.300 --> 00:22:35.770
  • So we moved some dirt.
  • 00:22:35.770 --> 00:22:37.905
  • "may we have permission to put in a foundation?"
  • 00:22:37.905 --> 00:22:39.607
  • "you may."
  • 00:22:39.607 --> 00:22:41.041
  • "wonderful."
  • 00:22:41.041 --> 00:22:43.210
  • "may we have permission to attach to the sewer?"
  • 00:22:43.210 --> 00:22:45.679
  • "you may not."
  • 00:22:45.679 --> 00:22:48.849
  • I mean, it really is, it's like playing "mother may i"
  • 00:22:48.849 --> 00:22:51.051
  • With adults.
  • 00:22:51.051 --> 00:22:55.356
  • But it's the nature, it's the nature of the thing.
  • 00:22:55.356 --> 00:23:00.094
  • And you understand that and you learn--it doesn't--as i've
  • 00:23:00.094 --> 00:23:05.433
  • Matured, it doesn't make me nearly as agitated
  • 00:23:05.433 --> 00:23:07.902
  • Or frightened.
  • 00:23:07.902 --> 00:23:09.270
  • I'm like, "this is what we have to do."
  • 00:23:09.270 --> 00:23:11.105
  • If you left church tonight and somebody was sitting on the hood
  • 00:23:11.105 --> 00:23:12.907
  • Of your vehicle and said that they used, they said, "this is
  • 00:23:12.907 --> 00:23:14.975
  • Mine," i suspect you'd go, "no."
  • 00:23:14.975 --> 00:23:19.814
  • And if they were bigger than you, you'd get an
  • 00:23:19.814 --> 00:23:21.182
  • Equalizer, right?
  • 00:23:21.182 --> 00:23:25.019
  • Either somebody or something to kind of level that field out so
  • 00:23:25.019 --> 00:23:28.456
  • You could negotiate.
  • 00:23:28.456 --> 00:23:30.858
  • "you're not taking my vehicle."
  • 00:23:30.858 --> 00:23:33.327
  • Well, i think of fear that way.
  • 00:23:33.327 --> 00:23:35.229
  • Fear comes to paralyze us, to make us retreat, to make
  • 00:23:35.229 --> 00:23:38.699
  • Us immobile.
  • 00:23:38.699 --> 00:23:40.701
  • To cause us to stop praying, to cause us to be more cautious in
  • 00:23:40.701 --> 00:23:44.738
  • Our service to the lord or whatever it may be, and i
  • 00:23:44.738 --> 00:23:49.443
  • Continue to learn that you can hide from fear, you can avoid
  • 00:23:49.443 --> 00:23:52.680
  • Fear, you can not watch the news, you can do all the things,
  • 00:23:52.680 --> 00:23:55.115
  • Or you can learn to say, "in jesus's name, you have to go.
  • 00:23:55.115 --> 00:24:00.688
  • You have to go."
  • 00:24:00.688 --> 00:24:04.024
  • Now, my emotions don't always operate at the same speed that
  • 00:24:04.024 --> 00:24:10.130
  • My awareness does.
  • 00:24:10.130 --> 00:24:12.433
  • It's easier to see that with forgiveness.
  • 00:24:12.433 --> 00:24:14.235
  • I've said, "i forgive people," when inside of me, i was just
  • 00:24:14.235 --> 00:24:16.403
  • Kind of hoping that god would give 'em the botch, the itch,
  • 00:24:16.403 --> 00:24:22.109
  • And the scab.
  • 00:24:22.109 --> 00:24:24.345
  • But i knew i had to forgive, so i would say, "i forgive," and
  • 00:24:24.345 --> 00:24:27.414
  • Then your emotions catch up.
  • 00:24:27.414 --> 00:24:29.183
  • Well, fear is a little bit like that.
  • 00:24:29.183 --> 00:24:30.551
  • You can say, you know, in jesus's name, you have to go,
  • 00:24:30.551 --> 00:24:32.953
  • And if you'll hold that spot, if it's a real struggle for you,
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  • You may have to say it, you know, on the hour.
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  • Your emotion will catch up.
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  • We don't have to lead lives dominated by irrational fears.
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  • Hallelujah.
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  • Let's pray.
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  • Father, thank you for your word, for the truth it brings to us
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  • And the hope.
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  • I thank you that you did not leave us without help, that you
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  • Sent your spirit to indwell us, to guide and teach and bring to
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  • Our remembrance.
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  • And, lord, we look with great anticipation on the season
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  • Before us.
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  • May your name be exalted in the earth.
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  • May your purposes break forth.
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  • May your will be done in the earth as it is in heaven.
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  • Come quickly, lord jesus, come quickly.
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  • Give us wisdom beyond ourselves and our training and
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  • Our experience.
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  • Give us discernment that we might understand the times.
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  • Give us boldness that we might take our faith and our awareness
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  • Of you wherever you open doors for our lives to work and with
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  • Our friends and wherever we go.
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  • And we live in such a way that we lay up great treasure
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  • In heaven.
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  • And, lord, i pray you will deliver us from fear.
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  • For those who have great struggles and battles, i pray
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  • We'll be more aware of your abiding presence than the
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  • Threats that the adversary puts before us.
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  • Thank you, lord jesus, that you are with us, that you have won
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  • The victory, that we have triumphed through you, and that
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  • That victory will be made evident in our lives.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • Hallelujah.
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  • God bless you.
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  • We'll get this next wednesday.
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  • Allen: and when i read my bible, i don't read it primarily
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  • For information.
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  • It's not just about facts and figures and dates and how to
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  • Spell nebuchadnezzar and how many tribes they were and where
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  • They fit in the land.
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  • I mean, i like all that stuff, but i read my bible to
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  • Be transformed.
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  • I recognize i need the power of god at work in my life, so the
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  • Characters of the bible become more than shadowy historical
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  • People, they become my friends or my heroes.
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  • We've put together a tool, it's "lessons from paul."
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  • It's a 90-day devotional.
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  • It's really gleaned from some of my favorite writings from the
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  • Apostle paul.
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  • You know, he begins as an angry, murderous man and becomes one of
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  • The most powerful advocates for jesus that our world has
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  • Ever known.
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  • Well, i want that kind of transformation in my life to
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  • Move from the place i am to be more effective for the purposes
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  • Of the kingdom of god.
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  • I think the tool will help you in the midst of whatever your
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  • Circumstances, persecution, triumph.
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  • "lessons from paul," it'll give you a pathway forward to
  • 00:27:16.517 --> 00:27:19.019
  • Cooperate with god and get to a better outcome.
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  • I think you'll enjoy the devotional.
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  • ♪♪♪
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