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Allen Jackson - Roaring Lions (Part 2)

October 6, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - Roaring Lions (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Roaring Lions (Part 2) | October 6, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: you know, we're witnessing something of a crisis
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  • In our nation, something i never thought i would see: expressions
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  • Of antisemitism, hatred for the jewish people, coming from
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  • America, coming from the christian community, the
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  • Conservative side of the ideological spectrum, to a
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  • Degree and scope i've never seen before.
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  • Well, it was important enough that i stopped and put together
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  • A book.
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  • The title of it is "supporting israel: how far is too far?"
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  • It's an important concept. it isn't political.
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  • It's grounded in a biblical worldview.
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  • I think we need to understand our responsibilities to the
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  • Jewish people, to the modern state of israel, not from an
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  • Ideological perspective, not from the perspective of nation
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  • States, but as people of god.
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  • It's important.
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  • It's an important season.
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  • A lot of voices, and i know there's some fatigue with the
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  • Conflict in the middle east, but we can't afford to be fatigued
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  • With our assignments to honor god and the responsibilities
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  • That come with that.
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  • I believe the book will be a help to you.
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  • I believe it'll help you navigate the conversation with
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  • Your family and your friends.
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  • Enjoy the read.
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  • Allen: i'm concerned that we've lived our lives as christ
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  • Followers with too much hubris.
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  • We've imagined that we have secured our conversion and that
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  • There's really very little left for us to understand.
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  • I mean, we may quibble over how you spell nebuchadnezzar.
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  • But as far as imagining the purposes of god in our
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  • Generation or for our children or our grandchildren, we have
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  • Carried very little.
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  • At least, that's been my observation.
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  • And john is weeping because something that is beyond him may
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  • Not be available to him, and he begins to weep and the message
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  • Is given to him that there's someone present.
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  • Don't weep, there's someone present that can open the book.
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  • And it says: "see, the lion of the tribe of judah, the root of
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  • David, has triumphed.
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  • He's able to open the scroll and its seven seals."
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  • Jesus is identified as the lion of the tribe of judah.
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  • For those of you that are still struggling with whether or not
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  • The new testament eliminates the jewish people from the purposes
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  • Of god, the clear language in the book of romans has said
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  • That's not the case.
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  • God forbid, paul says, but in the last book of the new
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  • Testament jesus is identified as the lion of the tribe of judah.
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  • Judah is one of the 12 tribes.
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  • It's from the tribe of judah we get the word "jew."
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  • So jesus has not separated or distanced himself in any way
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  • From his alignment with the jewish people at the culmination
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  • Of the age.
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  • And the response to the lion of the tribe of judah is very
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  • Different than the counsel we were given in 1 peter.
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  • The throne room of heaven--when the lion of judah steps forward
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  • To open the scroll, all of those gathered fall down and begin to
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  • Worship him.
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  • So i'll ask you another question.
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  • Are you confident and consistent with your alignment?
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  • And i wouldn't base that upon simply on a profession of faith.
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  • I believe in conversion and salvation, the new birth, being
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  • Born again, all of those descriptions of our entrance
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  • Into the kingdom of god.
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  • But i believe, having taken that step, we have an assignment to
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  • Lead righteous lives.
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  • Not to earn our way to heaven, but to reflect the value we
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  • Attach to that great gift that is extended to us.
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  • The language of this week and the discussions of this week
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  • Have caused me to think it out in some different ways.
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  • There's a phenomena that i would say is far too frequent amongst
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  • American evangelicalism, or the american christian community,
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  • Whichever label is most accurate.
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  • I think there is a flourishing generation of trans-christians.
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  • And i don't mean transsexual.
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  • You know, a transgender person, that's a very significant part
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  • Of public discourse these days, is an individual who asserts
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  • That their identity is fluid,
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  • That they could identify as a woman or a man, irrespective of
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  • Their biology.
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  • And this isn't some radical idea that lives on the periphery of
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  • Our culture.
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  • This is a part of academia.
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  • It's unfortunately become a part of our medical community, the
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  • Notion that you simply, when you awaken in the morning, you can
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  • Choose how--whether you identify as male or female.
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  • You imagine that the choice is-- that your choice in that is the
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  • Determining factor.
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  • I would submit to you that that is so fundamentally rebellious
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  • Before god that not even biology will bring a yielding to us.
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  • In fact, we're often encouraged by the voices of authority and
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  • Influence around them.
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  • And the awkward part of this is the most vulnerable amongst us
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  • Are targeted.
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  • Now i'll come back to the other phrase, a trans-christian.
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  • I'll tell you i understand that.
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  • Those are people who only identify as christians in
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  • Certain settings.
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  • They're happy to pick up a bible and come to a place like this
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  • And willingly identify as christians.
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  • But trans-christians choose behaviors clearly prohibited by
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  • Scripture and choose to affiliate with a church or with
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  • Other people who imagine themselves to be christians and
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  • Think they can fit in both places.
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  • Trans-christians think they can practice adultery, and sit in a
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  • Sanctuary and be at peace with god.
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  • Trans-christians imagine that they can be filled with hate and
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  • Unforgiveness and sit in a sanctuary and have peace
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  • With god.
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  • It's as much a delusion as the whole discussion over
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  • Transgender sexuality.
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  • The bible is very clear.
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  • We can't give ourselves to the practice of ungodliness and
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  • Imagine we're the people of god.
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  • And yet we find ourselves in this place.
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  • So how do we respond?
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  • Well, acts chapter 5, as i've walked through this week i have
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  • Read it over and over again.
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  • It's when there is a force that is resisting the irresistible.
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  • And i would submit to you that we're witnesses to that.
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  • I'm of the opinion, and it's my opinion--
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  • You could disagree with me and we could both go to heaven--that
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  • The events of this week and charlie's assassination is
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  • Another tremor.
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  • Back in 2020 when we heard about a virus in china, it very
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  • Quickly felt to me as if god were shaking the earth and it
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  • Was uncomfortable and frightening and unsettling, and
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  • For a few weeks it was very unclear and uncertain.
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  • But it didn't take too long that, out of that shaking,
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  • Things began to become clear.
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  • Now, the lord was very gracious to us.
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  • The devastation was not nearly what they said it might be.
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  • But there were things that were exposed.
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  • The places that we had trusted with authority to give us the
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  • Truth were incapable of doing that in the moment when it was
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  • Most needed.
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  • And we could point this ever--it extended into the
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  • Educational arenas.
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  • Those that had authority over our children and their education
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  • Weren't making decisions based on what was best for
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  • The children.
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  • There were other agendas.
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  • We had another tremor, in my opinion, on october the 7th a
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  • Couple of years ago, when the terrorists from hamas
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  • Invaded israel.
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  • I didn't anticipate that day either.
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  • I understood the horror of that and i had some sense of how the
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  • Israeli population would feel about a modern-day holocaust on
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  • Their own soil, but i did not anticipate the antisemitism that
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  • Would boil up in the most remarkable ways within our own
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  • Nation and beyond.
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  • From celebrated academic centers, from influential
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  • People, and i was not prepared for its durability.
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  • Well, i believe the events of this week are yet
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  • Another tremor.
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  • And what i've learned from the previous two or the most
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  • Immediate last two, were there-- with the things that come into
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  • The light, there are expressions of evil that become more clear.
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  • And i fully anticipate, in the days and the weeks and the
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  • Months ahead, that we'll see that same dichotomy.
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  • I--there's no doubt we'll see god move in remarkable ways.
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  • But i also think that we will see expressions of hate and evil
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  • And ungodliness presented in ways that will be uncomfortable
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  • And shocking.
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  • I would strongly encourage you not to
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  • Practice trans-christianity.
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  • Bring alignment to your life, align yourself intentionally
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  • With one of those two lions.
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  • Don't imagine you can do both.
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  • You cannot.
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  • Now the good news is, it's simple.
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  • If your alignment has been inappropriate or inconsistent,
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  • It begins with repentance.
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  • Repentance carries with it two components: a change of thought
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  • And a change of behavior.
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  • Repentance says i've been thinking the wrong way.
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  • I thought i could do this and there'd be no consequence, and i
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  • Recognize that i've been thinking incorrectly.
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  • And out of the change of thought comes a change of behavior.
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  • Because i've changed how i think about that, i'm gonna change how
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  • I behave in response to that.
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  • And repentance is available to everyone, the point of communion
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  • Which we celebrated together, is that through the blood of jesus
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  • We can not only be forgiven, we can be delivered out of the hand
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  • Of the enemy.
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  • The cross of jesus cancels all of satan's claims over our life.
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  • The goal is not to confuse those who are observing or to
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  • Try to fool those who are observing.
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  • The goal is to bring our lives into the--as complete of
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  • Alignment with the lord as we know how.
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  • I don't wanna tolerate ungodliness.
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  • I don't wanna tolerate wickedness.
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  • And i would encourage you not to do so either.
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  • Allen: now, how should we respond to the nation of israel
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  • And the jewish people?
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  • It's a complex question in today's world.
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  • Well, i've written a book, "supporting israel: how far is
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  • Too far?"
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  • To help us establish a biblical perspective on what has become a
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  • Complex question in contemporary culture.
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  • We don't wanna follow the guidance and the counsel of some
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  • Of the elite universities in this nation.
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  • We wanna form a perspective that's built from god's word.
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  • If we'll do that, it'll bring his blessings to our lives.
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  • Enjoy the book.
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  • Female announcer: from the pages of scripture to the front lines
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  • Of today's news, israel stands at the center of god's purposes.
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  • Pastor allen's new booklet, "supporting israel: how far is
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  • Too far?"
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  • Offers a quick way to gain a biblical perspective on israel,
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  • Why israel matters to god and why it should matter to us.
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  • Request your copy with your gift of any amount today at
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  • Allenjackson.com or by calling...
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  • Allen: jesus left in acts chapter 1, he went back
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  • To heaven.
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  • Acts chapter 2 is the day of pentecost.
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  • Acts chapter 3, there is a beggar with significant
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  • Disabilities that is healed supernaturally, in the name
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  • Of jesus.
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  • And peter and john, on the heels of that event, tell the jesus
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  • Story on the temple mount and wherever the audience is
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  • Presented in jerusalem, and there's a tremendous response.
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  • Thousands of people begin to accept jesus of nazareth
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  • As messiah.
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  • And the city of jerusalem is shaken in a way it's never been
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  • Shaken to the name of jesus in a way beyond anything that
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  • Happened during jesus's life.
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  • And the apostles are--peter and john are arrested.
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  • And they're called before the same group of people that
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  • Orchestrated jesus's execution.
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  • That would be a very, very intimidating setting.
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  • If you'd walked with jesus and seen him raise the dead and walk
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  • On the water and still a storm and you're standing before a
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  • Group of people that orchestrated his execution, it
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  • Would give you pause.
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  • And that's where we step into the narrative.
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  • Peter and john--"peter and the other apostles replied: 'we must
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  • Obey god rather than men!
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  • The god of our fathers raised jesus from the dead--whom you
  • 00:12:38.573 --> 00:12:41.309
  • Had killed by hanging him on a tree.
  • 00:12:41.309 --> 00:12:45.313
  • God exalted him to his own right hand as the prince and savior
  • 00:12:45.313 --> 00:12:48.149
  • That he might give repentance and forgiveness of sins
  • 00:12:48.149 --> 00:12:50.318
  • To israel.
  • 00:12:50.318 --> 00:12:51.886
  • We are witnesses of these things.
  • 00:12:51.886 --> 00:12:53.822
  • So is the holy spirit, whom god has given to those who
  • 00:12:53.822 --> 00:12:56.491
  • Obey him.'"
  • 00:12:56.491 --> 00:12:58.326
  • Obedience is a part of the message of the gospel.
  • 00:12:58.326 --> 00:13:01.396
  • I would submit to you that is not conciliatory language.
  • 00:13:01.396 --> 00:13:05.633
  • They're standing before the group that had rigged the court.
  • 00:13:05.633 --> 00:13:09.103
  • They paid people to give false testimony.
  • 00:13:09.103 --> 00:13:12.140
  • They lied to the roman governor.
  • 00:13:12.140 --> 00:13:15.009
  • And peter is standing before them with the others.
  • 00:13:15.009 --> 00:13:18.646
  • And he said, "you killed the messiah."
  • 00:13:18.646 --> 00:13:23.284
  • Little harsh?
  • 00:13:23.284 --> 00:13:25.887
  • "when they heard this," verse 33, "they were furious and they
  • 00:13:25.887 --> 00:13:30.525
  • Wanted to put them to death."
  • 00:13:30.525 --> 00:13:32.227
  • And they have demonstrated their ability to follow through
  • 00:13:32.227 --> 00:13:35.430
  • On that.
  • 00:13:35.430 --> 00:13:38.366
  • "but a pharisee named gamaliel, a teacher of the law, who was
  • 00:13:38.366 --> 00:13:42.637
  • Honored by all the people, stood up in the sanhedrin and he
  • 00:13:42.637 --> 00:13:45.473
  • Ordered that the men be put outside for a little while."
  • 00:13:45.473 --> 00:13:49.110
  • I think he had them put out because he was concerned about
  • 00:13:49.110 --> 00:13:51.012
  • What peter would say if they gave him another half a chance.
  • 00:13:51.012 --> 00:13:56.117
  • "then he addressed the sanhedrin: 'men of israel,
  • 00:13:56.117 --> 00:13:59.354
  • Consider carefully what you intend to do to these men.
  • 00:13:59.354 --> 00:14:03.057
  • Some time ago, somebody appeared, claiming to be
  • 00:14:03.057 --> 00:14:06.895
  • Somebody, and about four hundred men rallied to him.
  • 00:14:06.895 --> 00:14:10.298
  • He was killed, and all of his followers were dispersed, and it
  • 00:14:10.298 --> 00:14:13.701
  • All came to nothing.
  • 00:14:13.701 --> 00:14:15.570
  • After him, judas the galilean appeared in the days of the
  • 00:14:15.570 --> 00:14:18.306
  • Census and led a band of people in revolt.
  • 00:14:18.306 --> 00:14:21.643
  • He too was killed, and all of his followers were scattered.'"
  • 00:14:21.643 --> 00:14:26.214
  • They're following with him.
  • 00:14:26.214 --> 00:14:27.582
  • "if we just kill these guys, we'll shut this down."
  • 00:14:27.582 --> 00:14:32.020
  • "'therefore, in the present case i advise you: leave these
  • 00:14:32.020 --> 00:14:36.958
  • Men alone!
  • 00:14:36.958 --> 00:14:38.826
  • Let them go!
  • 00:14:38.826 --> 00:14:40.695
  • For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it
  • 00:14:40.695 --> 00:14:44.065
  • Will fail.
  • 00:14:44.065 --> 00:14:45.733
  • But if it is from god, you'll not be able to stop these men;
  • 00:14:45.733 --> 00:14:50.638
  • You'll only find yourselves fighting against god.'"
  • 00:14:50.638 --> 00:14:59.013
  • I am beyond confident that the message that charlie kirk
  • 00:14:59.013 --> 00:15:02.784
  • Advocated for will continue to go forward in our earth.
  • 00:15:02.784 --> 00:15:11.859
  • I wouldn't presume to know how that will take shape or what
  • 00:15:11.859 --> 00:15:14.562
  • That will look like in the weeks or the months or the years
  • 00:15:14.562 --> 00:15:17.065
  • Immediately before us, but i'm very confident that the spirit
  • 00:15:17.065 --> 00:15:20.635
  • Of god is alive and well and at work in the earth, and it wasn't
  • 00:15:20.635 --> 00:15:24.305
  • Dependent upon charlie kirk any more than it's dependent upon me
  • 00:15:24.305 --> 00:15:27.075
  • Or any other person.
  • 00:15:27.075 --> 00:15:28.943
  • The purposes of god will go forward in the earth.
  • 00:15:28.943 --> 00:15:32.313
  • The most important conversation is the one that gamaliel was
  • 00:15:32.313 --> 00:15:36.451
  • Putting before these people in the sanhedrin: "with what will
  • 00:15:36.451 --> 00:15:39.654
  • You align yourselves?
  • 00:15:39.654 --> 00:15:42.824
  • Will you oppose god?
  • 00:15:42.824 --> 00:15:45.393
  • Or will you participate with him?"
  • 00:15:45.393 --> 00:15:47.962
  • It's a very relevant question for every one of us.
  • 00:15:47.962 --> 00:15:55.636
  • Look at the next phrase.
  • 00:15:55.636 --> 00:15:56.971
  • "his speech persuaded them.
  • 00:15:56.971 --> 00:15:59.040
  • And they called the apostles in and had them flogged."
  • 00:15:59.040 --> 00:16:02.310
  • It's a fancy word.
  • 00:16:02.310 --> 00:16:03.644
  • They had them beaten.
  • 00:16:03.644 --> 00:16:06.814
  • "then they ordered them not to speak in the name of jesus, and
  • 00:16:06.814 --> 00:16:11.686
  • They let them go."
  • 00:16:11.686 --> 00:16:13.121
  • You understand cancel culture didn't start in the
  • 00:16:13.121 --> 00:16:15.056
  • 21st century,
  • 00:16:15.056 --> 00:16:17.992
  • That there's worse things than being unfriended, left off a
  • 00:16:17.992 --> 00:16:23.631
  • List of a party, being shunned by some social circle, by having
  • 00:16:23.631 --> 00:16:29.404
  • Professional credentials threatened.
  • 00:16:29.404 --> 00:16:34.075
  • Align yourself with the truth.
  • 00:16:34.075 --> 00:16:38.479
  • There is a cost to being a christ follower.
  • 00:16:38.479 --> 00:16:42.984
  • And we've had so much freedom and so much liberty and so much
  • 00:16:42.984 --> 00:16:46.954
  • Abundance that it seems foreign to us that it may have been an
  • 00:16:46.954 --> 00:16:50.391
  • Issue other places in the world.
  • 00:16:50.391 --> 00:16:51.726
  • So, i had multiple calls.
  • 00:16:51.726 --> 00:16:53.094
  • I had a call this week from angus's family.
  • 00:16:53.094 --> 00:16:57.799
  • He has a whole bucket full of grandsons now that
  • 00:16:57.799 --> 00:17:00.334
  • Are teenagers.
  • 00:17:00.334 --> 00:17:02.637
  • And they watched charlie on a regular basis and they called
  • 00:17:02.637 --> 00:17:05.873
  • And they said, "we can't believe it."
  • 00:17:05.873 --> 00:17:10.011
  • They said, "we can't believe that charlie kirk could be
  • 00:17:10.011 --> 00:17:12.647
  • Assassinated in america."
  • 00:17:12.647 --> 00:17:17.285
  • Folks, we're not immune.
  • 00:17:17.285 --> 00:17:19.821
  • A part of the tremor that i'm suggesting to you is to cause us
  • 00:17:19.821 --> 00:17:24.125
  • To look at our circumstances, to pay attention.
  • 00:17:24.125 --> 00:17:33.534
  • "his speech persuaded them, and they called the apostles in,
  • 00:17:33.534 --> 00:17:36.204
  • They beat them, they said, 'don't speak about it again,'
  • 00:17:36.204 --> 00:17:38.473
  • And they let them go.
  • 00:17:38.473 --> 00:17:39.807
  • The apostles left the sanhedrin, rejoicing because they had been
  • 00:17:39.807 --> 00:17:43.911
  • Counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the name.
  • 00:17:43.911 --> 00:17:48.216
  • Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house,
  • 00:17:48.216 --> 00:17:51.819
  • They never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that
  • 00:17:51.819 --> 00:17:56.891
  • Jesus is the christ."
  • 00:17:56.891 --> 00:17:59.494
  • [congregation applauding]
  • 00:17:59.494 --> 00:18:02.463
  • What's our best response?
  • 00:18:02.463 --> 00:18:05.032
  • Let's be present.
  • 00:18:05.032 --> 00:18:06.567
  • Again, not because we need to hear another sermon.
  • 00:18:06.567 --> 00:18:08.669
  • You've heard so many sermons you can finish my sentences.
  • 00:18:08.669 --> 00:18:13.074
  • I get that, but the effort of being together, the message that
  • 00:18:13.074 --> 00:18:16.811
  • We are together, we are going forward, we are living forward
  • 00:18:16.811 --> 00:18:20.281
  • For our faith, wherever you're hearing this, you gather with
  • 00:18:20.281 --> 00:18:23.484
  • The believers.
  • 00:18:23.484 --> 00:18:27.655
  • It's important.
  • 00:18:27.655 --> 00:18:28.990
  • This is acts chapter 5, by acts chapter 7, they murder stephen
  • 00:18:28.990 --> 00:18:32.693
  • In the streets of that city.
  • 00:18:32.693 --> 00:18:35.930
  • It's not in your notes, but it is in the book.
  • 00:18:35.930 --> 00:18:38.166
  • You can check me. it's acts chapter 7.
  • 00:18:38.166 --> 00:18:40.935
  • In acts chapter 12, herod arrests james
  • 00:18:40.935 --> 00:18:44.305
  • And cuts off his head and his poll numbers go up, so he
  • 00:18:44.305 --> 00:18:47.241
  • Arrests peter.
  • 00:18:47.241 --> 00:18:49.443
  • And by the end of acts chapter 12, god has taken herod out.
  • 00:18:49.443 --> 00:18:54.615
  • But peter has gone to where they've gathered for an
  • 00:18:54.615 --> 00:18:56.784
  • All-night prayer meeting that he won't be executed, and he said,
  • 00:18:56.784 --> 00:18:59.854
  • "tell the brothers i'm leaving town for a while."
  • 00:18:59.854 --> 00:19:03.925
  • In spite of supernatural intervention, it's requiring a
  • 00:19:03.925 --> 00:19:07.161
  • Different response from the leadership.
  • 00:19:07.161 --> 00:19:11.232
  • We're living in a significant time in the unfolding purposes
  • 00:19:11.232 --> 00:19:13.868
  • Of god.
  • 00:19:13.868 --> 00:19:15.203
  • It's an exciting time.
  • 00:19:15.203 --> 00:19:17.305
  • We don't need to be afraid or threatened or anxious.
  • 00:19:17.305 --> 00:19:20.775
  • We cast all of our anxiety on him, he cares for us.
  • 00:19:20.775 --> 00:19:24.579
  • We serve at his pleasure.
  • 00:19:24.579 --> 00:19:25.913
  • We want to bring more alignment to our lives with him than we've
  • 00:19:25.913 --> 00:19:28.482
  • Ever had before.
  • 00:19:28.482 --> 00:19:30.184
  • The purposes of god are going forth in the earth.
  • 00:19:30.184 --> 00:19:32.653
  • The question is, will we go with him?
  • 00:19:32.653 --> 00:19:36.123
  • Are we gonna look back and say we've done our god business and
  • 00:19:36.123 --> 00:19:38.960
  • It's not relevant.
  • 00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:40.294
  • I'm not recruiting you for another ministry.
  • 00:19:40.294 --> 00:19:42.463
  • I'm inviting you to take your place in the unfolding purposes
  • 00:19:42.463 --> 00:19:45.466
  • Of god.
  • 00:19:45.466 --> 00:19:51.305
  • I'll give you just the introduction to that
  • 00:19:51.305 --> 00:19:52.740
  • Next section.
  • 00:19:52.740 --> 00:19:54.075
  • I'm done.
  • 00:19:54.075 --> 00:19:55.443
  • I know the outline's not done.
  • 00:19:55.443 --> 00:19:56.811
  • You're not shocked.
  • 00:19:56.811 --> 00:19:58.145
  • We'll do that--we're gonna pick this up in the morning.
  • 00:19:58.145 --> 00:19:59.614
  • I got more material. jesus's current initiative.
  • 00:19:59.614 --> 00:20:04.819
  • You wanna know what he's doing? i can tell you.
  • 00:20:04.819 --> 00:20:07.255
  • Not because i'm a prophet. i've read the book.
  • 00:20:07.255 --> 00:20:08.923
  • You know, daniel read the book and he said to his fellow slaves
  • 00:20:08.923 --> 00:20:12.293
  • In babylon: "it's about time to go home, we're going back.
  • 00:20:12.293 --> 00:20:16.631
  • We're going back."
  • 00:20:16.631 --> 00:20:17.965
  • And he began to seek the lord.
  • 00:20:17.965 --> 00:20:19.433
  • He didn't get on a banquet circuit and eat a lot of chicken
  • 00:20:19.433 --> 00:20:22.103
  • And broccoli.
  • 00:20:22.103 --> 00:20:24.772
  • He didn't write a new book and say, "i know what's next."
  • 00:20:24.772 --> 00:20:30.544
  • He began to seek the lord, to fast and pray, and as a result
  • 00:20:30.544 --> 00:20:34.682
  • Of that, god dispatched an archangel with a message
  • 00:20:34.682 --> 00:20:38.586
  • For daniel.
  • 00:20:38.586 --> 00:20:40.254
  • And we learn about what is ahead of us because daniel sought the
  • 00:20:40.254 --> 00:20:44.458
  • Lord because of what he understood from scripture.
  • 00:20:44.458 --> 00:20:47.061
  • I can give you enough insight into what jesus is doing that if
  • 00:20:47.061 --> 00:20:50.197
  • You will choose to seek the lord, i believe you could be a
  • 00:20:50.197 --> 00:20:53.534
  • Pivotal figure in the unfolding purposes of god.
  • 00:20:53.534 --> 00:20:58.139
  • It's not a mystery.
  • 00:20:58.139 --> 00:21:00.374
  • It's matthew 16:18: "jesus said, 'i will build my church.'"
  • 00:21:00.374 --> 00:21:06.447
  • And the living version is, "hell won't stop it."
  • 00:21:06.447 --> 00:21:09.917
  • Now, he wouldn't have had to-- he wouldn't have had to say,
  • 00:21:09.917 --> 00:21:13.754
  • "and the gates of hell won't withstand it," if there wouldn't
  • 00:21:13.754 --> 00:21:16.490
  • Be resistance.
  • 00:21:16.490 --> 00:21:18.492
  • I don't believe he used words lightly.
  • 00:21:18.492 --> 00:21:20.961
  • Jesus is in the building--in the business of establishing
  • 00:21:20.961 --> 00:21:24.598
  • His church.
  • 00:21:24.598 --> 00:21:25.933
  • Not a single congregation, not a denomination, not the
  • 00:21:25.933 --> 00:21:29.236
  • Theological group that you prefer.
  • 00:21:29.236 --> 00:21:32.239
  • The church is a broader word to describe those men and women
  • 00:21:32.239 --> 00:21:35.242
  • From every race, nation, language, and tribe who have
  • 00:21:35.242 --> 00:21:38.946
  • Chosen jesus of nazareth as their lord and savior and are
  • 00:21:38.946 --> 00:21:43.284
  • Endeavoring to walk uprightly before him.
  • 00:21:43.284 --> 00:21:45.720
  • That is the church.
  • 00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:47.421
  • And he said, "i will establish those people in the earth."
  • 00:21:47.421 --> 00:21:52.426
  • There's a couple of verses that i think are very encouraging.
  • 00:21:52.426 --> 00:21:55.563
  • Ephesians 1: "god placed all things under his feet," under
  • 00:21:55.563 --> 00:21:59.967
  • Jesus's feet, "and appointed him to be head over everything for
  • 00:21:59.967 --> 00:22:03.537
  • The church," hallelujah!
  • 00:22:03.537 --> 00:22:06.874
  • Who's the head of this initiative we're a part of?
  • 00:22:06.874 --> 00:22:10.010
  • The one who has the name above every name, that at the name of
  • 00:22:10.010 --> 00:22:12.713
  • Jesus every knee will bow and every tongue confess that he
  • 00:22:12.713 --> 00:22:15.816
  • Is lord.
  • 00:22:15.816 --> 00:22:17.785
  • He's the head of the church!
  • 00:22:17.785 --> 00:22:22.723
  • People say to me--i'm amazed at the questions, people ask me
  • 00:22:22.723 --> 00:22:26.160
  • Some weird questions.
  • 00:22:26.160 --> 00:22:28.963
  • I've been asked for as long as i can remember, it continuing
  • 00:22:28.963 --> 00:22:31.399
  • Until today, they'll say to me, "do you have a real job?"
  • 00:22:31.399 --> 00:22:36.871
  • No, i just hang out at the church.
  • 00:22:36.871 --> 00:22:40.074
  • "oh, we thought maybe you did something else."
  • 00:22:40.074 --> 00:22:41.842
  • No, it's keeping me pretty busy right now.
  • 00:22:41.842 --> 00:22:43.611
  • I'm okay, i'm good with that.
  • 00:22:43.611 --> 00:22:46.113
  • But then, another question they asked to me that's equally
  • 00:22:46.113 --> 00:22:48.182
  • Goofy, they'll say, "are you concerned that the church is
  • 00:22:48.182 --> 00:22:50.518
  • Too big?"
  • 00:22:50.518 --> 00:22:52.186
  • Have you looked around lately?
  • 00:22:52.186 --> 00:22:54.588
  • Do you feel like godliness and righteousness has become so
  • 00:22:54.588 --> 00:22:57.324
  • Pervasive and so overwhelming that we could shrink the church
  • 00:22:57.324 --> 00:23:01.829
  • And be good to go?
  • 00:23:01.829 --> 00:23:04.265
  • It doesn't feel like that to me, does it feel like that to you?
  • 00:23:04.265 --> 00:23:08.602
  • I'm ashamed, i'm embarrassed, that the efforts we're making
  • 00:23:08.602 --> 00:23:12.973
  • Haven't produced more fruit.
  • 00:23:12.973 --> 00:23:14.308
  • I'm certain if i can know the lord better or we can learn to
  • 00:23:14.308 --> 00:23:16.677
  • Co-op--whatever it may be, god's desire for people is greater
  • 00:23:16.677 --> 00:23:20.347
  • Than the expressions we see.
  • 00:23:20.347 --> 00:23:23.050
  • He's the head of the church.
  • 00:23:23.050 --> 00:23:25.553
  • Look at colossians 1:18: "he's the head of the body, the
  • 00:23:25.553 --> 00:23:28.289
  • Church; he's the beginning and the firstborn from among the
  • 00:23:28.289 --> 00:23:30.558
  • Dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy."
  • 00:23:30.558 --> 00:23:34.495
  • Jesus is leading this initiative.
  • 00:23:34.495 --> 00:23:37.398
  • We intend not simply to strengthen the church in
  • 00:23:37.398 --> 00:23:39.733
  • Murfreesboro and rutherford county in middle tennessee.
  • 00:23:39.733 --> 00:23:42.670
  • We intend to cooperate with strengthening the church across
  • 00:23:42.670 --> 00:23:45.473
  • Our nation
  • 00:23:45.473 --> 00:23:47.675
  • And throughout the earth wherever god gives us
  • 00:23:47.675 --> 00:23:49.910
  • An opportunity.
  • 00:23:49.910 --> 00:23:52.480
  • If jesus is interested in that, i'm interested in that,
  • 00:23:52.480 --> 00:23:55.416
  • Aren't you?
  • 00:23:55.416 --> 00:23:57.117
  • It's not about our building and our campus and how that we--
  • 00:23:57.117 --> 00:24:03.624
  • Folks, in the face of the threats and in the reality of
  • 00:24:03.624 --> 00:24:08.762
  • The fear, because it's real, i wanna tell you the lord is
  • 00:24:08.762 --> 00:24:13.534
  • Watching over his purposes.
  • 00:24:13.534 --> 00:24:16.971
  • God's provision, he said--peter said, "he's given us everything
  • 00:24:16.971 --> 00:24:19.874
  • We need for life and godliness."
  • 00:24:19.874 --> 00:24:22.142
  • You don't have to be afraid.
  • 00:24:22.142 --> 00:24:24.712
  • I'm not saying there aren't fears sometimes.
  • 00:24:24.712 --> 00:24:27.348
  • I'm telling you we don't have to respond with fear.
  • 00:24:27.348 --> 00:24:31.085
  • I want to close with a prayer.
  • 00:24:31.085 --> 00:24:32.419
  • I didn't put it in your notes.
  • 00:24:32.419 --> 00:24:33.787
  • I'm just gonna ask you to repeat it after me.
  • 00:24:33.787 --> 00:24:35.556
  • If you'll stand with me.
  • 00:24:35.556 --> 00:24:38.692
  • We're gonna repent.
  • 00:24:38.692 --> 00:24:41.028
  • No more trans-christianity.
  • 00:24:41.028 --> 00:24:43.731
  • And i'm not talking about sexuality.
  • 00:24:43.731 --> 00:24:46.800
  • No more identifying as a christian in one place and
  • 00:24:46.800 --> 00:24:49.603
  • Identifying as something else in another place.
  • 00:24:49.603 --> 00:24:53.307
  • No more having a vocabulary for one group of people and a
  • 00:24:53.307 --> 00:24:55.910
  • Different vocabulary for another group of people.
  • 00:24:55.910 --> 00:24:59.713
  • No more embracing one set of behaviors in one place and
  • 00:24:59.713 --> 00:25:03.217
  • Embracing a different set of behaviors in another place.
  • 00:25:03.217 --> 00:25:10.658
  • If you're inclined, you can just--it's a simple prayer
  • 00:25:10.658 --> 00:25:12.526
  • Of repentance.
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  • You can repeat this after me.
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  • Heavenly father, forgive me of my sin.
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  • I repent of my indifference, of my disobedience, and in my
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  • Rebellion against you.
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  • Forgive me.
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  • Cleanse me.
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  • And restore to me the joy of my salvation.
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  • Create in me a clean heart, a desire to honor you, to serve
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  • You, and to walk uprightly before you.
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  • Grant me listening ears, and an understanding heart.
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  • Lead me not into temptation.
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  • But deliver me from evil.
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  • And may your will be done on the earth, in jesus's name, amen,
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  • Hallelujah, here we go.
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  • Allen: you know, we don't read our bibles just for exercise or
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  • Just to be dutiful christians.
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  • We read our bibles to understand how to navigate a complex world,
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  • How to understand what's unfolding around us.
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  • We're living in a season where there's a lot of emotion
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  • Expressed about the jewish people and the nation of israel.
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  • From some very well-established elite places, there are voices
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  • Saying they don't deserve our support.
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  • Well, i wrote a book, "supporting israel: how far is
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  • Too far?"
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  • So that we can have a biblical perspective on our response to
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  • Current events.
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  • At the end of the day, i want to align myself with the purposes
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  • Of god, not the thought leaders at elite ivy league schools or
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  • The talking heads in the media.
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  • I intend to stand with the purposes of god.
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  • This book will help you unpack the current events and
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  • Understand the perspective from the viewpoint of scripture on
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  • How you and i can respond in a way that i believe will bring
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  • The blessings of god to our lives and help us accomplish his
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  • Purposes in our generation.
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  • It's worth the read.
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