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Allen Jackson - Seasons of Change (Part 1)

April 23, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Seasons of Change (Part 1)
Pastor Allen Jackson's mission is to help people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Seasons of Change (Part 1) | April 23, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: hey, would you like to make an impact for the
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  • Kingdom of god in this generation?
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  • I have an idea and, oh, by the way, it's biblical.
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  • Let's practice hospitality.
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  • I know it doesn't sound very complicated, but imagine your
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  • Kitchen table as an expression of the hope and the love of god.
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  • We've all got the ability to do this.
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  • You don't have to be martha stewart.
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  • You don't have to be a gourmet chef.
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  • Let's just invite--open our home, invite people to our
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  • Kitchen table, and then watch what god will do as we live out
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  • The assignment of being ambassadors for his kingdom.
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  • God's moving in the earth. let's go with him.
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  • Female announcer: welcoming people to a meal around the
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  • Kitchen table is one of the easiest ways to share life and
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  • Your faith.
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  • Our tools for hospitality set will help you get started.
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  • It includes a custom kitchen towel, three of pastor allen's
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  • Favorite family recipes, and a short booklet with
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  • Practical encouragement.
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  • Request the tools for hospitality set with your gift
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  • Of $25 or more at allenjackson.com or call...
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen jackson: we've been working through kind of
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  • A continuation of a theme we've had for a while now,
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  • Leading with our faith.
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  • You are remarkable leaders in a whole variety of ways; business,
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  • Technology, in the hobbies of your choice, in families.
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  • In all those ways, you have so much confidence and ability and
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  • You impact our community in so many great ways, but frequently
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  • People with really strong skills and confidence in some of those
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  • Arenas, when it comes to our faith, all that seems
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  • To evaporate.
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  • "yeah, you know, i don't pray," or "i don't know how to talk
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  • About my faith," or "i'm not a bible scholar," or--
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  • The litany begins.
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  • And i wanna encourage you to begin to gently say to the lord,
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  • "teach me to lead with my faith."
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  • We're in the midst of a transition season in our nation.
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  • We've just completed an election cycle, we're awaiting an
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  • Inauguration, so there's a whole new leadership team being put in
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  • Place, and every day the news cycle is populated by all these
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  • New names and faces and people are voting up or down or
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  • Complaining or celebrating or cheering or mourning.
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  • You hear all of that.
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  • Tremendous change, there's a whole new cabinet, a whole new
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  • Administration being assembled.
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  • I've been watching with some interest.
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  • It's always interesting to me when there's a change on who's
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  • Selected and what the process is, if there is a process.
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  • I made a list, because i make lists, of the criteria that seem
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  • To be necessary to be included in the cabinet, and i have no
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  • Inside information from mar-a-lago.
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  • This is just a hillbilly's observation on the building of
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  • A new cabinet.
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  • I chose seven criteria because seven is a good biblical number,
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  • And if i had 48 reasons, you wouldn't want to listen
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  • That long.
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  • But it seems to me that loyalty is a high priority.
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  • They want people to serve alongside them and lead, that
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  • Will be loyal to the agenda.
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  • It requires availability.
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  • You have to be willing to almost totally reorganize your lives.
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  • I'm acquainted with a couple of people that have been tagged and
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  • I can assure you it's bringing tremendous change to their lives
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  • And the people that were involved in their lives.
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  • It requires a realignment, the acceptability of
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  • A new assignment.
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  • You've gotta be willing to go step into arenas where you don't
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  • Have as much experience probably as where you've been standing.
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  • You may have some qualifications that will enable you to be
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  • Nominated or imagined to be selected, but you probably
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  • Haven't led at the level you're being invited to lead.
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  • Fourthly, the people who accept the assignments have to
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  • Be invested.
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  • I don't mean financially, but you can't lead at those levels
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  • Of significance if it's a hobby, if it's a whim.
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  • You think, "that'd be kinda cool.
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  • I'll do that for a few weeks."
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  • That's not adequate, you've gotta be fully invested.
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  • The next one i would list, it seems to me you gotta be
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  • Pretty durable.
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  • You gotta be like an old timex watch.
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  • You gotta be able to take a licking and keep on ticking,
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  • Because everybody's not gonna cheer and all your decisions
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  • Aren't gonna work out well.
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  • And if you're gonna lead at one of those higher level roles,
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  • You're gonna have to be willing to cultivate the perseverance
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  • And the willingness to endure.
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  • Durability is just a necessity, it seems to me.
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  • Sixth, experience seems to help.
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  • They wouldn't put you in some position, hopefully, where you
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  • Have zero experience.
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  • I mean, there's enough voice to say they don't have enough
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  • Experience to lead at this level and that will be proven to be
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  • Right or wrong.
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  • But you can't-- you shouldn't imagine that you'd be trusted to
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  • Lead in someplace where you haven't cared enough to develop
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  • Any expertise.
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  • And finally, it seems to me that, if you're gonna lead at
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  • That level, you better have some situational awareness.
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  • Naiveté is not a helpful characteristic.
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  • A lack of awareness of the world in which you're living and the
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  • People that you're leading and the circumstances in the global
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  • Community, if you're not aware and connected and observant,
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  • You're in a deficit that you won't overcome.
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  • Now my list could have gone on, but those seven seemed adequate
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  • For me.
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  • I've been thinking about them quite a bit in the context of
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  • The church because i would submit to you that god's putting
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  • Together his own leadership team, that the lord is
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  • Assembling a leadership team for his initiative.
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  • I promise you god's not passive.
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  • He's the most creative, engaged, focused, powerful force that's
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  • Present on planet earth today.
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  • He's not assembling a cabinet, he's not assembling a team.
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  • What do we call the initiative that god's committed himself to?
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  • It's the church.
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  • Say, "aww, pastor, i thought you had something exciting."
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  • I think being a part of the church is exciting.
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  • I think the greatest force for the transformation of humanity
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  • Available on planet earth today is the church of jesus christ.
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  • My lord is the head of the church.
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  • He is the king of all kings and the lord of all lords.
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  • The earth and everything in it belongs to him.
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  • Ultimately, every earthly ruler will bend their knee to my lord
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  • And king.
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  • One of the great challenges we have is we're so familiar with
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  • The idea of church, with the principle of church, that we
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  • Really attach very little significance to it any longer.
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  • It's simply a sermon station or a place where our children get
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  • Some character-building ideas or it's an expression
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  • Of benevolence.
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  • It's kind of a civic club with a little bit more of a moral bent.
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  • And so we don't imagine the church to be an initiative of
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  • Great significance.
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  • The only thing that stands between humanity being totally
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  • Dominated by evil is the church.
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  • That's biblical.
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  • So i wanna invite you to a little different imagination.
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  • I wanna invite you to imagine that the privilege of leading
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  • With your faith is the greatest invitation of your life.
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  • It's been some years ago, but i remember reading chuck colson.
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  • If you're not familiar with him, i highly recommend his books.
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  • He was an attorney, he's a marine, he was an attorney,
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  • He was white house counsel for richard nixon and got caught up
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  • In the scandal that came with watergate and became a believer
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  • In the aftermath of all of that.
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  • But he wrote and he said he saw many people of faith come to
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  • Washington dc into the white house, imagining that they were
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  • Going to change the white house or washington dc.
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  • And he said, almost without exception, they were changed and
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  • The white house remained the same.
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  • I think we misunderstand.
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  • The greatest invitation of our life is not to serve in
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  • A political administration, not to be a corporate something.
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  • The greatest opportunity ever presented to a human being is to
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  • Become a part of the church of jesus christ.
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  • I believe that and i would invite you towards that.
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  • Each generation is required to make a decision about service,
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  • Lordship, priorities.
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  • Every generation-- what your grandparents believed or your
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  • Great grandparents believed is valuable.
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  • You certainly stand on their shoulders, but it will not bring
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  • You the qualifications necessary.
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  • You and i have to make decisions.
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  • Matthew 16:18 is a verse that changed my life.
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  • My spiritual formation didn't take place in church.
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  • I was born again in my parents's kitchen, i was baptized in
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  • The atlantic ocean in fort lauderdale.
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  • Probably explains a lot about me.
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  • I had to come to understand the value of church.
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  • I did not see church as an incubator of
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  • Spiritual formation.
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  • But in matthew 16:18 jesus said, "i will build my church, and the
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  • Gates of hades will not overcome it."
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  • Jesus is on record in public as being engaged, invested in,
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  • Establishing, and strengthening his church.
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  • In ephesians chapter 1 in verse 22 it says "god's placed all
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  • Things under his feet," speaking of jesus, "and appointed him to
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  • Be head over everything for the church, which is his body, the
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  • Fullness of him who fills everything in every way."
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  • Jesus is the head of the church, not pastor, not the
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  • Denominational execs, not the seminary professors, not the
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  • Supreme court.
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  • Jesus is the head of the church.
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  • We're his body.
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  • I have to guard my heart on this one.
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  • One of the reasons i didn't wanna be a part of the church, i
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  • Didn't like it, i wasn't comfortable there, i didn't like
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  • The people that were there.
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  • I didn't, christians got on my nerves.
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  • I thought church was a place for leftovers.
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  • Leftover time, leftover clothes, leftover appliances,
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  • Leftover money.
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  • I didn't think of church-- i had no imagination of excellence
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  • Being connected with church.
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  • In fact, from my vantage point, if you did something well at
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  • Church, we were suspicious.
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  • And i was so wrong.
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  • The reason i didn't like the people of the church is there
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  • Was so little jesus in me.
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  • I had to change.
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  • I was far more comfortable with ungodly people than i was
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  • Godly people.
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  • Godly people made me nervous because i had so little jesus
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  • In me.
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  • I had to change.
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  • The more that i've allowed the presence of god to grow in my
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  • Life, the greater the value, the appreciation i have for
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  • The people of faith.
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  • We're gathered from every nation, race, language,
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  • And tribe.
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  • We're gifted very broadly with a diverse set of gifts
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  • And abilities.
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  • But we are the people of god and jesus is the head of
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  • The initiative that we have given ourselves to.
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  • It is the primary assignment of our lives.
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  • Allen jackson: you know, around the world,
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  • People are searching for truth, and together we're doing our
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  • Very best to help them find it.
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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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  • Allen: the impact of the church varies generation to generation.
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  • If you read your bible with us, and we just completed the
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  • Historical books and the record of the kings, it's not
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  • Dissimilar in the-- if you charted the history of
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  • The church, there were godly kings and ungodly kings and
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  • The nation's fortunes rose and fell depending on the godliness
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  • That was available to the people.
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  • There are seasons when the church has been effective and
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  • The church has been ineffective, where the church has been
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  • Yielded more completely to the authority of jesus and
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  • The authority of his word, and there are times when we rebelled
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  • Against it.
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  • The history of the church is not an even chart any more than
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  • The history of the monarchs of israel is.
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  • In psalm 84 in verse 10, david said, "better is one day in your
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  • Courts than a thousand elsewhere; i would rather be
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  • A doorkeeper in the house of my god than dwell in the tents of
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  • The wicked."
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  • I mean, i know it's in the bible and we're in church and we're
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  • Listening to a church service and so we're gonna go
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  • "amen," really?
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  • And maybe skip church because you got a really cool invitation
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  • To some wicked tent.
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  • Well, they were good seats, it was a unique opportunity, i go
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  • To church anytime.
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  • I believe what david said was the attitude that shaped his
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  • Life and caused him to be one of the most remarkable characters
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  • In all of scripture.
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  • He said, "listen, i'll do whatever i need to do to be
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  • Included with the people of god."
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  • He said, "that's more valuable to me than any other invitation
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  • In my life."
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  • I believe you have to cultivate that.
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  • I don't believe it's intuitive, i don't think it's automatic.
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  • Well, i believe we learn to worship the lord, to serve the
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  • Lord, to engage with the lord in the same way we learn any other
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  • Aspect of discipline in our lives.
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  • We do it haltingly, it's a bit uncomfortable at first.
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  • It makes you sore, it feels awkward.
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  • It's unfamiliar, a little bit intimidating, maybe even
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  • A little frightening.
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  • We're tempted, if it's something you don't understand, you know,
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  • Kind of the default response is, "well, that's stupid," until
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  • Something captures your attention and gains a bit of
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  • Your heart.
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  • You know, if you don't like to hunt, you can't imagine why
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  • People would get up early in the morning to go sit in the woods.
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  • If you love to hunt, you can't imagine why everybody doesn't.
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  • If you love to cook, you probably watch the food network.
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  • If you don't like to cook, you pray you never have to.
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  • I have discovered that i have to have the intent to make room in
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  • My heart for god, that i have to wanna grow with him.
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  • I have to begin to develop-- i have to spend time with people
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  • That wanna know the lord better.
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  • If most of my discretionary time is spent with people who don't
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  • Value the lord, my interest in the lord diminishes, and i get
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  • Paid to be a christian.
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  • Doesn't mean you love the lord, you have to choose that
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  • For yourself.
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  • And the challenge is this inconsistency is a part of
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  • The people of god.
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  • And one of the things we're told is that, as we approach the end
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  • Of the age, it will grow more intense.
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  • I give you lots of examples, it's not new to our generation.
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  • In 1 samuel, one of the-- kind of the poster children for
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  • Losing your way was the first king of israel.
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  • His name was saul.
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  • God recruited him.
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  • God sent the prophet to anoint him and he said, "i've
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  • Chosen you."
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  • God sent samuel to saul to say, "i have chosen you to be king."
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  • Saul felt more ill-equipped than anybody who's been tapped for
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  • The current cabinet, i promise you.
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  • He was kind of bumbling, but very quickly he got acclimated.
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  • In your notes it's 1 samuel 15.
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  • "samuel comes back to saul with a message and he said, 'let me
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  • Tell you what the lord said to me last night,' and saul said,
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  • 'well, tell me,' and samuel said, 'you were once small in
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  • Your own eyes, did you not become the head of the tribes
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  • Of israel?
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  • The lord anointed you king over israel.
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  • And he sent you on a mission.
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  • Why did you not obey the lord?'
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  • Samuel goes on to say, 'god's gonna take the kingdom
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  • Away from you.'"
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  • You were chosen, you were anointed, you were given
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  • The role.
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  • It was a very significant change.
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  • For hundreds of years, the covenant people of god have
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  • Lived in the promised land without a central authority.
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  • Twelve tribes loosely affiliated.
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  • When there was a need for a corporate response,
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  • God would raise up a leader.
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  • That is the book of judges.
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  • Gideon or deborah or samson.
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  • No monarchy.
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  • The tribal leaders come to samuel, the last of the judges,
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  • And say, "we want a king.
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  • We wanna be like all the other nations."
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  • Samuel warns them about the pain and suffering it will bring.
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  • They ignore his warning and they say, "we want a king," and god
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  • Chooses saul.
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  • And saul loses his balance and stops being obedient.
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  • Church, we cannot afford disobedience and think we
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  • Will flourish.
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  • And we tend to be a little-- we have clarity on that when it's
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  • Someone else's disobedience.
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  • You'd have quite a bit of clarity if it was my life.
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  • But it gets fuzzier the closer it gets to home, because around
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  • Home you've got all the rest of the story and we tend to morph
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  • Into a rather disobedient lot of people.
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  • Or we think it's just about me in my house and we forfeit our
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  • Assignment to be salt and light in the world.
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  • Saul wasn't called simply to be a private disciple, he was
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  • Called to be an influence in the nation, so his personal choices
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  • Of disobedience influenced lots of people.
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  • Your choices of disobedience influence lots of people.
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  • Matthew 21, it's not just an old testament issue.
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  • Jesus is speaking.
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  • He said, "i tell you that the kingdom of god will be taken
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  • Away from you and given to a people who will produce
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  • Its fruit.
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  • He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on
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  • Whom it falls will be crushed."
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  • That's a first century audience, he's talking to the religious
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  • Leaders in jerusalem.
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  • Folks, we're not the first generation to drift into
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  • Rebellion and i assure you we will not escape the consequences
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  • If we don't correct our own courses.
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  • Jesus had a great deal to say.
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  • Matthew 15, "he called the crowd to him.
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  • He said, 'listen and understand.
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  • What goes into a man's mouth doesn't make him 'unclean,' what
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  • Comes out of his mouth, that's what makes him 'unclean.'"
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  • That's a radical statement.
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  • He's talking to a group of people who keep kosher rules and
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  • They believe because they eat the right foods they're better
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  • Than people who don't.
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  • All religious people have rules.
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  • You know, the principle of religious rules: my rules make
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  • Sense and your rules are stupid.
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  • We all think that because we've kind of baked in the under--
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  • Exploitation for the rules that we hold.
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  • The example i've used before but it is as clear as any, i took
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  • A-- years ago, i went with a mission team to india.
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  • Long way to fly, and we got off the plane.
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  • Before we got off the plane, everybody kind of spruced up
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  • And cleaned up.
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  • You know, the women put on their lipstick and freshened their
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  • Whatever and off the plane we went.
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  • And our host saw us and they didn't seem pleased.
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  • And a conversation ensued and they informed us that in
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  • The portion of the people that we were going to be with,
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  • Godly women didn't wear jewelry or makeup.
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  • And they asked if when we showed up for the meeting the next day,
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  • If we could be absent jewelry and makeup.
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  • Well, it wasn't a big deal to me but to some of those traveling
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  • With us, it was a big deal.
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  • Much consternation, great angst.
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  • And after a great deal of persuasion, i-- we gained some
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  • Kind of detente that we could probably attend one worship
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  • Service without the nature of our marital status being
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  • Assaulted too severely, absent a ring, until we showed up at
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  • The meeting.
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  • And some of our hosts showed up in their traditional garb and
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  • You could see a portion of their stomach.
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  • Well, we lost our collective minds.
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  • My wedding ring made me ungodly and there stands that hussy,
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  • Because my rule makes sense and your rule is stupid.
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  • Religious rules are problematic and jesus took a religious rule
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  • That was at the center of so much of their life it built
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  • Their menu.
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  • And he said, "what goes into your mouth does not make you
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  • Unclean, what comes out of your mouth does."
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  • Mic drop.
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  • And the disciples come to jesus.
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  • In verse 12, "the disciples came to him and said, 'do you know
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  • That the pharisees were offended?'"
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  • You have to coach jesus a little bit.
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  • Sometimes he's not very clued in.
  • 00:21:31.473 --> 00:21:34.710
  • "every plant," this is jesus, "every plant that my heavenly
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  • Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.
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  • Leave them; they are blind guides."
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  • It's really common these days.
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  • You hear people say, "you know, jesus was all about love.
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  • Group hug, come on, let's hug it out."
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  • Well, i agree a portion of jesus's message was about love,
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  • But it was also about delivering the truth.
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  • When he looks at the spiritual leaders and the people that are
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  • Around them and he said, "leave them, they're blind guides,"
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  • That is not a compliment.
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  • That's not affirming, that's not encouraging, that is very harsh.
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  • So i'll give you the 21st century interpretation of that
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  • From my vantage point.
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  • Don't choose tradition over truth.
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  • Don't prefer the familiar over faithfulness.
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  • Don't trade your future for momentary comfort.
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  • Never lose sight of the fact that we are the church and we
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  • Are under the authority of the king.
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  • What i think, what i want, what i feel are not the
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  • Primary leads.
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  • I am submitted to the authority of the king.
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  • In 2 timothy chapter 4 in verse 2, it says, "preach the word; be
  • 00:22:43.779 --> 00:22:46.681
  • Prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and
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  • Encourage-with great patience and careful instruction.
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  • For the time will come when men will not put up with
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  • Sound doctrine.
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  • Instead, to suit their own desires, they'll gather around
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  • Them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears
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  • Want to hear."
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  • The new testament gives us very clearly a portrayal of the
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  • Church as we approach the end of the age.
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  • And it's not a pleasant picture, it's a picture of deterioration.
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  • That we'll be intolerant of the truth, that we will cast off the
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  • Restraint of the authority of scripture.
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  • That will we will lead lives filled with rebellion while we
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  • Use language filled with religious words.
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  • In 2 timothy 3, it's not in your notes, but it is in the book.
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  • You can check me.
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  • The first five verses, paul said, "in the last days there'll
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  • Be terrible times," and then he lists 18 aspects of human
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  • Character that will deteriorate, centered around three things.
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  • He said, "people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,
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  • And lovers of pleasure, more than lovers of god."
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  • But then he says something that's really unsettling.
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  • He says they'll have a form of godliness but deny the power of
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  • It, have nothing to do with him.
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  • He sounds a lot like jesus at that point.
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  • I read those verses as a younger person, even as a person in
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  • Ministry for many years, and they didn't seem overly relevant
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  • To the world we live in.
  • 00:24:05.660 --> 00:24:08.497
  • In those seasons, if you looked across the landscape of american
  • 00:24:08.497 --> 00:24:11.199
  • Christianity, orthodoxy still held sway.
  • 00:24:11.199 --> 00:24:15.570
  • The majority of churches still embraced the authority of
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  • Scripture, the uniqueness of jesus, the redemptive work of
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  • Jesus, and it wasn't being taught in our leading
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  • Theological institutions, but that hadn't made its way into
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  • The churches themselves, yet.
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  • Folks, we've arrived at a place that's very unsettling.
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  • Orthodoxy is no longer orthodox.
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  • It's not common.
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  • Oh, our buildings still look ecclesiastical in their
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  • Architecture and the signs say churches, but the language and
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  • The authority structure in those places is not yielded to the
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  • Word of god.
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  • It's an unsettling place, it's awkward.
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  • I'm not talking about the kind of pettiness that comes with
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  • Sectarian attitudes amongst believers, where we argue about
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  • The cover on the bible that we read or the color of the grape
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  • Juice with which we take communion or the frequency of
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  • Which we take it.
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  • I'm not talking about that kind of pettiness, folks.
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  • If we can disagree on a point and still both go to heaven, i
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  • Will extend to you a hand of fellowship.
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  • If there's an idea that, wrongly embraced, would disqualify me
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  • For the kingdom, i cannot call you brother or sister.
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  • I have no intention of being united with ungodliness.
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  • I can care about you, i'll treat you with respect and dignity,
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  • But i won't deny the fact that there is a breach.
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  • We have to lead with our faith.
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  • Allen: the scripture says that some of us have entertained
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  • Angels and we didn't know it.
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  • I wanna pray with you before we go that we'll have the
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  • Discernment to recognize what god is doing in the earth.
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  • We don't wanna be overwhelmed with the darkness and the bad
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  • News, we wanna be aware of the moving of god.
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  • Let's pray.
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  • Father, give us understanding hearts and the discernment to
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  • See and recognize what you're doing in the earth that we might
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  • Take our places.
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  • I thank you for your faithfulness and your
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  • Great provision.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • Allen: you know, i've often said that what happens in the white
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  • House is not more important than what happens in your house.
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  • I have an assignment, if you'll accept it.
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  • Imagine your kitchen table as an expression of the love of god to
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  • Our generation.
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  • Let's start to practice hospitality from the inside out,
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  • From our kitchen table to our neighbors, our friends.
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  • God will meet us in that place as we take those simple steps of
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  • Obedience, honor him at our kitchen table, and we can join
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  • With what god is doing in the earth.
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  • Now, that is an opportunity.
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