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Allen Jackson - Seasons of Great Change (Part 1)

June 15, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Seasons of Great Change (Part 1)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Seasons of Great Change (Part 1) | June 15, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: hey, i've encouraged you for a long time
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  • To lead with your faith.
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  • Take your faith outside the church building into all the
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  • Places that your life takes you, where you have influence, where
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  • You have a voice.
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  • We've created some pieces to help you do that: a tote bag, a
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  • Blanket, maybe you're going to a ball game or the park or the
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  • Beach, wherever that may be.
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  • You take these along, they are a celebration of our nation's
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  • 250th anniversary.
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  • Somebody will wanna know where you got it, what it's about.
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  • It gives you an opportunity to share your faith.
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  • You know, i've had the privilege of living in some places outside
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  • The united states, things like a grocery store, or fast food, or
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  • Food delivery, those things weren't possible in the places
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  • I lived.
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  • But i come home, just walking through a grocery store reminds
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  • Me of the goodness and the faithfulness of god, his
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  • Blessings on our nation.
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  • Use your voice to say "god has blessed america."
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  • Something as simple as a tote bag can open a door for your
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  • God story.
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  • Together we're gonna lift up the name of jesus in this generation
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  • And see god bless america again.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: the title for the lesson is "seasons of great change."
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  • I'm of the opinion--personal opinion that we're walking
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  • Through one of those seasons.
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  • I suspect, a decade from now, our lives and our world will be
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  • Dramatically different than it is today.
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  • Those periods come occasionally in the unfolding stories of
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  • Lives, and nations, and our world.
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  • You know, god said in the book of genesis, as long as the earth
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  • Exists, we would have seed time and harvest.
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  • That the seasons would change.
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  • So we're familiar with this concept.
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  • We're kind of transitioning from spring to summer in tennessee,
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  • And it's a time of tremendous change, tremendous growth.
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  • We've had a historic drought, so there hadn't been a lot of
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  • Growth lately, but we've had a few days of rain, you could
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  • Almost hear things growing.
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  • I mean, it's like whole new life, things that were dormant
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  • And--are all of a sudden just vibrant, and vital, and the
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  • Insects are back, and the mosquitoes are circling, and
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  • Here we go!
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  • And in a few months, we'll transition from summer to fall,
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  • And it'll look like the world is dying.
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  • If you've never seen fall again, it would cause you to panic.
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  • The leaves fall off the trees, the vegetation stops growing.
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  • You would think it was the end of the world.
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  • Seasons have changed.
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  • Well, we're in a season of change far beyond just a
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  • Seasonal transformation from summer to spring or fall.
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  • Our world is shifting.
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  • And what really prompted this for me was our bible reading.
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  • I hope you do the bible reading with us.
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  • As a congregation, for several years now, we read through our
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  • Bible every year.
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  • It's a 10-15 minute commitment a day.
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  • We read it from the table of contents to the maps.
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  • I don't know of any single thing that is more significant in
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  • Helping you maintain a grounded space in your faith than that
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  • Consistent reading of the bible.
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  • I'm ashamed to tell you how many years i led in this place and
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  • Was a part of leadership here, but we didn't make that at the
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  • Forefront of what we do.
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  • But biblical illiteracy is a huge problem in our nation.
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  • And it's not difficult to solve, we have to read our bibles.
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  • You won't know how to pronounce every name.
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  • You won't know where every city is.
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  • You won't understand every verse you read, i don't, but
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  • I'm learning.
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  • And you know, i'm always a bit amused.
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  • I meet christians who go, "well, you know, i've done that."
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  • I've said, "done what?"
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  • "i've read my bible."
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  • Oh, it's like saying you've watched a ballgame.
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  • Most of you who like ballgames, you watch more than one.
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  • And i would submit to you that, if you love the lord, you'll
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  • Read your bible more than once. [congregation applauding]
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  • But i try from time to time to step into the narrative, because
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  • Some of the parts of the bible are more exciting than others.
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  • And we just began the old testaments.
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  • We're reading through the books of moses, and we're in exodus,
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  • Which still has a good bit of drama to it, but we're about to
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  • Plunge into leviticus.
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  • So i thought a little context might help.
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  • Those first five books of our bible, the--typically, the
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  • Books of moses, i don't think moses sat down under a tree and
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  • Pinned them on a series of legal pads, but they relate the
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  • Narrative to us from moses's perspective.
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  • The book of genesis is the book of beginnings, it tells us--it
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  • Really orients the whole rest of the bible.
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  • It opens with, "in the beginning, god created the
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  • Heavens and the earth."
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  • If you'll accept that premise, the rest of the bible will begin
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  • To unfold before--if you reject it, the rest of it's nonsense.
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  • And then we get to the book of exodus.
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  • The book of genesis concludes with joseph, sold by his
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  • Brothers into slavery, becoming the prime minister of egypt, and
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  • His whole family come because of joseph's blessings in that
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  • Nation, and the book closes with his extended family moving
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  • To egypt.
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  • And the second book is the book of exodus, and it--when it
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  • Opens, it says a pharaoh arose who didn't know who joseph was.
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  • And we're hundreds of years later, and joseph's descendants,
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  • Now multiplied exponentially, have been enslaved for hundreds
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  • Of years, 400 years of slavery.
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  • Our nation's celebrating a 250 year anniversary.
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  • Imagine almost double that period of time, nothing
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  • But slavery.
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  • No memory of freedom.
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  • They've never been an independent nation.
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  • There's never been autonomy.
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  • They were an extended family when they came to egypt, and now
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  • They're a "mixed multitude," the bible says.
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  • And god says he's gonna deliver them from slavery.
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  • That's the story of the book of exodus.
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  • They're leaving egypt, headed to their promised land,
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  • Their inheritance.
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  • And there's a tremendous challenge that comes with that.
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  • How do you take a group of people that, for 400 years, have
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  • Had no autonomy, no self-determination,
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  • No independence?
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  • No memory of that, no institutional knowledge, nothing
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  • To draw upon.
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  • How do you take that group of people, a million or so strong,
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  • And fashion them into a cohesive unit of people, the people of
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  • God, the covenant people of god.
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  • How do you do that?
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  • Not easy, only god would undertake such a thing.
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  • Well, the book of leviticus, one of the--there's 12 tribes in
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  • The--from the former slaves of egypt.
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  • One of them is the tribe of levi, who were recruited to be
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  • The priestly tribe.
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  • So we get the book of leviticus, which is the responsibilities
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  • That come with that priestly group of people.
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  • The tabernacle is built.
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  • They didn't know how to worship.
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  • They knew how to worship egyptian gods, they knew
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  • Egyptian holidays, they knew egyptian practices, egyptian
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  • Idolatry, but they didn't really have a format or a routinized
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  • Way to worship the god of abraham, isaac, and jacob.
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  • It has to be put in place.
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  • So, through moses, god gives them the pattern for a
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  • Tabernacle, this portable place to worship, because they're not
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  • Yet into their promised land, their inheritance.
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  • They have to be able to move their place of worship, so it's
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  • Something that can be broken down and moved.
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  • It's the tabernacle.
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  • It predates the temple by hundreds of years.
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  • And the levites are responsible for the care of the tabernacle,
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  • All the things that go with its construction, all of it's
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  • Presentation, it's care, when it has to be moved, they're told
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  • How to move it.
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  • And the numbers in deuteronomy are the other things that the
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  • Community needs to live together in order to understand how to
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  • Have a relationship with the holy god.
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  • So it's in those books of moses where we get the ten
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  • Commandments, it's where we can start to get the
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  • Community rules.
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  • What's it mean to be a "holy people?"
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  • Not egyptian religions, the god of abraham, isaac, and jacob.
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  • And we see this tremendous struggle in the midst of the
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  • Covenant people of god to honor god, to worship god.
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  • They're incredibly inconsistent.
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  • In fact, the biblical language is they are "stiff-necked."
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  • It's not a compliment.
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  • It's not that they woke up with a crick in their neck.
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  • They're uncooperative, they're stubborn.
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  • There's multiple lessons in here.
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  • This isn't something we stand apart from and go, "oh, gee,
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  • They seem weird."
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  • It's a mirror for us.
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  • The covenant people of god, god's supernaturally committed
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  • To their flourishing, if you'll allow me a loose parallel to the
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  • Community of faith today.
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  • But the fact that we're identified as the covenant
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  • People of god doesn't mean we're through growing, changing,
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  • Learning, becoming, and it doesn't mean we're always
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  • Willing, or cooperative, or anxious, or enthusiastic.
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  • I think it could be said of contemporary christian and we
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  • Could be stiff-necked.
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  • So when you're reading through exodus, and leviticus, and
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  • Numbers, don't think of it as busy work.
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  • Say, "god, help me to learn.
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  • Help me to understand."
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  • I wanna unpack just a bit of this.
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  • We'll do some more as we go through it.
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  • The books of moses.
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  • Moses is this pivotal character.
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  • Until we get to jesus, moses is the picture of the epitome of
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  • A leader in all of scripture.
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  • Allen: hey, we're celebrating this year the 250th anniversary
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  • Of the signing of the declaration of independence.
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  • What a wonderful privilege we have.
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  • You know, god has blessed our nation so many good things.
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  • People say to me, well, our whole history is not good.
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  • Well, folks, you know, my history is not great, your
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  • Family history is not perfect, but you love your family, you
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  • Love your children.
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  • In spite of our weaknesses, well, our nation hadn't been
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  • Perfect, but through that whole story, the goodness of god
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  • Is evident.
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  • It still is.
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  • Let's ask god to bless america again.
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  • I believe he will.
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  • Allen: in the new testament, when jesus is on the mount of
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  • Transfiguration with peter, james, and john, and he's
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  • Transformed, who comes to speak with him?
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  • One of the people is old mo.
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  • I mean, there is no greater leader in the bible until we get
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  • To jesus.
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  • In the book of hebrews, it says that moses was faithful in all
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  • Of god's house.
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  • Can you imagine that being said of you?
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  • That you were faithful over all god's assignments to you.
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  • Wow, he's a remarkable man.
  • 00:11:22.797 --> 00:11:26.568
  • In fact, i think we could say, if you'll allow me, moses was
  • 00:11:26.568 --> 00:11:29.304
  • The goat.
  • 00:11:29.304 --> 00:11:31.673
  • Do you know the acronym, the "greatest of all time?"
  • 00:11:31.673 --> 00:11:34.909
  • I think it's probably really a better acronym to say he was the
  • 00:11:34.909 --> 00:11:37.178
  • Greatest of his time.
  • 00:11:37.178 --> 00:11:39.547
  • Because as soon as you move beyond the generation when you
  • 00:11:39.547 --> 00:11:41.483
  • Declare somebody a goat, there's another generation that comes
  • 00:11:41.483 --> 00:11:43.952
  • Along and goes, "no, we've got a generational talent that's
  • 00:11:43.952 --> 00:11:45.954
  • Better than your generational talent," and then we start to
  • 00:11:45.954 --> 00:11:47.922
  • Have the argument.
  • 00:11:47.922 --> 00:11:50.158
  • But moses is celebrated until this day as one of the greatest
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  • Leaders of all time.
  • 00:11:55.263 --> 00:11:57.065
  • What enabled moses to be so valuable to god?
  • 00:11:57.065 --> 00:12:00.735
  • You've ever seen the movie "the ten commandments"?
  • 00:12:00.735 --> 00:12:02.504
  • Cecil b. demille, charlton heston.
  • 00:12:02.504 --> 00:12:05.673
  • I mean, moses, charlton heston.
  • 00:12:05.673 --> 00:12:09.944
  • I think moses was more like me.
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  • [congregation laughing]
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  • A little bit of an accent, somebody has to remind him to
  • 00:12:21.389 --> 00:12:25.193
  • Stand up straight, more of a keg than a six pack.
  • 00:12:25.193 --> 00:12:35.003
  • What made moses so remarkable?
  • 00:12:36.304 --> 00:12:38.973
  • It's a fair question.
  • 00:12:38.973 --> 00:12:40.341
  • It's an important question.
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  • You should think about it.
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  • Was it his charisma?
  • 00:12:43.845 --> 00:12:45.180
  • Was it his crazy intellect?
  • 00:12:45.180 --> 00:12:47.749
  • Was he a remarkably gifted person?
  • 00:12:47.749 --> 00:12:51.820
  • What made moses so valuable in god's unfolding purpose?
  • 00:12:51.820 --> 00:12:55.824
  • Did he have tremendous wealth?
  • 00:12:55.824 --> 00:12:57.692
  • I'm not opposed to any of those things, like, i'd be happy to
  • 00:12:57.692 --> 00:13:00.195
  • Have all of those things.
  • 00:13:00.195 --> 00:13:05.633
  • But in numbers chapter 12, i think we're given the key.
  • 00:13:05.633 --> 00:13:08.136
  • It says, "moses was a very humble man, more humble than
  • 00:13:08.136 --> 00:13:12.040
  • Anyone else on the face of the earth."
  • 00:13:12.040 --> 00:13:14.943
  • In god's economy, what did god say moses was--made him
  • 00:13:14.943 --> 00:13:18.146
  • The goat?
  • 00:13:18.146 --> 00:13:20.381
  • He was the most humble man.
  • 00:13:20.381 --> 00:13:21.749
  • "well, i don't know, that's not such a big deal."
  • 00:13:21.749 --> 00:13:24.285
  • It was in god's economy.
  • 00:13:24.285 --> 00:13:27.188
  • He trusted moses with an assignment that nobody else
  • 00:13:27.188 --> 00:13:29.557
  • Would accept.
  • 00:13:29.557 --> 00:13:31.693
  • I'll take just a moment with it because it's more subtle in the
  • 00:13:31.693 --> 00:13:35.797
  • Way it's presented, but i think it's such a powerful principle,
  • 00:13:35.797 --> 00:13:39.100
  • The tremendous power of humility in our lives.
  • 00:13:39.100 --> 00:13:42.203
  • As we do this lesson, i want you--i'm not trying to unpack
  • 00:13:42.203 --> 00:13:44.539
  • Some historical biblical study.
  • 00:13:44.539 --> 00:13:46.507
  • I have very little interest in that.
  • 00:13:46.507 --> 00:13:48.576
  • I read my bible to understand how i can change.
  • 00:13:48.576 --> 00:13:51.913
  • How i can live it out in the 21st century.
  • 00:13:51.913 --> 00:13:55.216
  • I don't wanna be a biblical scholar, i wanna be a faithful
  • 00:13:55.216 --> 00:13:57.685
  • Disciple of jesus in the 21st century.
  • 00:13:57.685 --> 00:14:02.223
  • I wanna see the transforming power of god brought to bear in
  • 00:14:02.223 --> 00:14:05.493
  • My life, and through my life, and in the lives of the people
  • 00:14:05.493 --> 00:14:07.896
  • That i'm doing life with.
  • 00:14:07.896 --> 00:14:09.797
  • Do you understand the difference?
  • 00:14:09.797 --> 00:14:12.133
  • So when i'm reading this, i'm fascinated.
  • 00:14:12.133 --> 00:14:14.335
  • If moses was the most humble man on the face of the earth, and
  • 00:14:14.335 --> 00:14:17.505
  • That qualified him to be the greatest leader until we get to
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  • Jesus, i need to understand something else about humility,
  • 00:14:20.975 --> 00:14:25.813
  • Because humility is not highly valued in our culture.
  • 00:14:25.813 --> 00:14:29.050
  • Is not highly valued in the world we live in.
  • 00:14:29.050 --> 00:14:32.020
  • It's almost seen as a weakness.
  • 00:14:32.020 --> 00:14:34.822
  • It's like you don't have enough confidence to be assertive.
  • 00:14:34.822 --> 00:14:38.426
  • And that's not the way i understand it at all.
  • 00:14:38.426 --> 00:14:40.395
  • Look in philippians chapter 2.
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  • It's speaking of jesus, he said,
  • 00:14:41.729 --> 00:14:43.798
  • "being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and he
  • 00:14:43.798 --> 00:14:47.936
  • Became obedient to death-- even death on a cross!"
  • 00:14:47.936 --> 00:14:51.205
  • See, as i understand scripture, we have two choices.
  • 00:14:51.205 --> 00:14:53.308
  • We can humble ourselves before almighty god, it's a choice we
  • 00:14:53.308 --> 00:14:57.779
  • Make to humble ourselves.
  • 00:14:57.779 --> 00:14:59.914
  • If we refuse that, then we can be humiliated.
  • 00:14:59.914 --> 00:15:05.253
  • Because in comparison with almighty god, the creator of
  • 00:15:05.253 --> 00:15:07.622
  • Heaven and earth, we should humble ourselves.
  • 00:15:07.622 --> 00:15:12.160
  • Jesus chose to humble himself, we're told in philippians 2, and
  • 00:15:12.160 --> 00:15:15.930
  • The expression of that, the visible expression of that was
  • 00:15:15.930 --> 00:15:18.566
  • He became obedient.
  • 00:15:18.566 --> 00:15:19.901
  • Humility is expressed in obedience.
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  • You and i submit to god's authority and accept
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  • His direction.
  • 00:15:24.205 --> 00:15:25.540
  • That is the demonstration of humility.
  • 00:15:25.540 --> 00:15:31.746
  • Humility is acquired indirectly.
  • 00:15:31.746 --> 00:15:33.581
  • You can't order it from amazon.
  • 00:15:33.581 --> 00:15:34.949
  • It's one of the few things you cannot have delivered, even if
  • 00:15:34.949 --> 00:15:38.419
  • You're a prime member.
  • 00:15:38.419 --> 00:15:41.122
  • Humility comes to us as we learn to yield to god, as we serve
  • 00:15:41.122 --> 00:15:45.326
  • God's people, as we're obedient to his principles.
  • 00:15:45.326 --> 00:15:48.196
  • All of those things are incubators for humility.
  • 00:15:48.196 --> 00:15:52.700
  • It comes to us indirectly.
  • 00:15:52.700 --> 00:15:56.971
  • You know, you can be quiet, shy, soft spoken, yielding, and still
  • 00:15:56.971 --> 00:16:03.211
  • Be filled with pride.
  • 00:16:03.211 --> 00:16:05.947
  • Those things don't make you humble.
  • 00:16:05.947 --> 00:16:09.717
  • I think we've misunderstood.
  • 00:16:09.717 --> 00:16:11.953
  • I've often thought about the tension when i think of the
  • 00:16:11.953 --> 00:16:14.555
  • Character of moses.
  • 00:16:14.555 --> 00:16:15.890
  • Imagine standing in front of a million people and say, "follow
  • 00:16:15.890 --> 00:16:18.659
  • Me," and being the most humble man on the planet.
  • 00:16:18.659 --> 00:16:28.169
  • I don't think we've imagined putting those--because it takes
  • 00:16:28.169 --> 00:16:30.905
  • A certain amount of self-confidence to say,
  • 00:16:30.905 --> 00:16:33.207
  • "follow me."
  • 00:16:33.207 --> 00:16:34.776
  • So it's not an absence of confidence, it's not a lack of
  • 00:16:34.776 --> 00:16:41.416
  • Awareness of purpose, i think the simplest definition for
  • 00:16:41.416 --> 00:16:45.753
  • Humility is a right understanding of who we are,
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  • Of understanding our purpose and our position.
  • 00:16:50.458 --> 00:16:53.861
  • Matthew 18:4 says, "whoever humbles himself like a child--"
  • 00:16:53.861 --> 00:16:57.498
  • This is jesus, "is the greatest in the kingdom
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  • Of heaven."
  • 00:16:59.867 --> 00:17:01.402
  • Well, i don't know about you, but i wanna do really well on
  • 00:17:01.402 --> 00:17:04.739
  • The scale of significance in heaven, don't you?
  • 00:17:04.739 --> 00:17:08.342
  • You know, sometimes, christians, we're goofy.
  • 00:17:08.342 --> 00:17:10.945
  • "well, pastor allen, you know, i just--it doesn't matter.
  • 00:17:10.945 --> 00:17:14.282
  • I don't wanna be great in heaven.
  • 00:17:14.282 --> 00:17:15.616
  • I just wanna get to heaven."
  • 00:17:15.616 --> 00:17:19.520
  • Well, that sounds like the attitude i had in school.
  • 00:17:19.520 --> 00:17:23.658
  • I don't really wanna be good at school, i just wanna get out
  • 00:17:23.658 --> 00:17:25.993
  • Of school.
  • 00:17:25.993 --> 00:17:28.029
  • And then i hear the bartons and i think, "oh, i should have
  • 00:17:28.029 --> 00:17:30.331
  • Paid attention."
  • 00:17:30.331 --> 00:17:32.500
  • There was something there that i wasn't listening to.
  • 00:17:32.500 --> 00:17:36.337
  • And if you intend to be significant in the kingdom of
  • 00:17:36.337 --> 00:17:38.606
  • Heaven, you will have to humble yourself, there's no plan b.
  • 00:17:38.606 --> 00:17:44.045
  • All of a sudden, this is something i'm interested in it's
  • 00:17:44.045 --> 00:17:46.414
  • Something i wanna cultivate.
  • 00:17:46.414 --> 00:17:47.815
  • It's more important than low cholesterol numbers.
  • 00:17:47.815 --> 00:17:52.086
  • It's more important than the returns on your investments
  • 00:17:52.086 --> 00:17:54.689
  • Because there's no investment that's more significant than
  • 00:17:54.689 --> 00:17:57.792
  • Significance in the kingdom of heaven.
  • 00:17:57.792 --> 00:18:00.828
  • Look at matthew 23:12.
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  • Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, but whoever humbles
  • 00:18:02.230 --> 00:18:05.867
  • Himself will be exalted.
  • 00:18:05.867 --> 00:18:08.002
  • Well, i'd like to get in the line of people that god said
  • 00:18:08.002 --> 00:18:10.104
  • He's going to promote.
  • 00:18:10.104 --> 00:18:12.773
  • I mean, if i get to choose, that's the line i want to be in.
  • 00:18:12.773 --> 00:18:15.977
  • So how do you qualify for that line?
  • 00:18:15.977 --> 00:18:18.779
  • Humble yourself.
  • 00:18:18.779 --> 00:18:21.449
  • Well, how do you humble yourself?
  • 00:18:21.449 --> 00:18:24.018
  • Well, you become obedient.
  • 00:18:24.018 --> 00:18:26.287
  • You yield to god.
  • 00:18:26.287 --> 00:18:29.624
  • You serve god.
  • 00:18:29.624 --> 00:18:30.958
  • You can't serve god without serving god's people.
  • 00:18:30.958 --> 00:18:33.828
  • You have to welcome god into all those compartmentalized sections
  • 00:18:33.828 --> 00:18:36.697
  • Of your life, your time, your talents, your treasure.
  • 00:18:36.697 --> 00:18:40.067
  • God gets to come into all of those things.
  • 00:18:40.067 --> 00:18:44.639
  • We serve at the pleasure of the king, but if you will humble
  • 00:18:44.639 --> 00:18:47.775
  • Yourself, god will promote you.
  • 00:18:47.775 --> 00:18:53.648
  • It'll freak out the people who don't like him.
  • 00:18:53.648 --> 00:18:57.018
  • Well, i just don't know how that happened.
  • 00:18:57.018 --> 00:18:58.452
  • I know god did it.
  • 00:18:58.452 --> 00:19:01.022
  • It wasn't because of me.
  • 00:19:01.022 --> 00:19:04.625
  • Proverbs 22:4, "humility and the fear of the lord bring something
  • 00:19:04.625 --> 00:19:08.362
  • To your life."
  • 00:19:08.362 --> 00:19:10.364
  • This is fascinating.
  • 00:19:10.364 --> 00:19:12.266
  • Humility and a reverence and respect for god will bring to
  • 00:19:12.266 --> 00:19:15.736
  • You wealth, and honor, and life.
  • 00:19:15.736 --> 00:19:17.872
  • How many of you would like more wealth, more honor, and
  • 00:19:17.872 --> 00:19:19.774
  • Longer life?
  • 00:19:19.774 --> 00:19:21.676
  • What do the rest of you want?
  • 00:19:21.676 --> 00:19:24.712
  • Poverty and shorter days?
  • 00:19:24.712 --> 00:19:27.882
  • Well, it's not mystical, we're told how you can achieve that.
  • 00:19:27.882 --> 00:19:31.586
  • Humility and the fear of the lord will bring--you don't have
  • 00:19:31.586 --> 00:19:33.754
  • To chase those things.
  • 00:19:33.754 --> 00:19:35.289
  • If you'll cultivate humility and the fear of the lord, it will
  • 00:19:35.289 --> 00:19:38.426
  • Bring those things to you.
  • 00:19:38.426 --> 00:19:39.760
  • "well, i'm not sure i believe that."
  • 00:19:39.760 --> 00:19:41.095
  • I know, it's why i'm reading it to you!
  • 00:19:41.095 --> 00:19:44.865
  • See, we read our bibles, but we don't act like it's true.
  • 00:19:44.865 --> 00:19:48.970
  • So we act like the secularist, the pagans, the ungodly people,
  • 00:19:48.970 --> 00:19:53.741
  • And we compromise, and we accommodate in disobedience, and
  • 00:19:53.741 --> 00:19:57.411
  • Immorality, and all this stuff.
  • 00:19:57.411 --> 00:19:59.914
  • And then we say, "oh, god, bless me."
  • 00:19:59.914 --> 00:20:01.382
  • He's not going to.
  • 00:20:01.382 --> 00:20:04.652
  • It's not a designer faith.
  • 00:20:04.652 --> 00:20:08.289
  • I mean, you may be a beneficiary of his grace and his mercy, but
  • 00:20:08.289 --> 00:20:12.393
  • If you truly wanna stand in the line where god is going to exalt
  • 00:20:12.393 --> 00:20:15.329
  • You, we've got to care enough about him to humble ourselves.
  • 00:20:15.329 --> 00:20:23.004
  • Again, humility is not the absence of self-worth, it's an
  • 00:20:23.004 --> 00:20:27.608
  • Awareness of our limits.
  • 00:20:27.608 --> 00:20:29.210
  • So moses is the most humble, the meekest man on the face of
  • 00:20:29.210 --> 00:20:32.046
  • The earth.
  • 00:20:32.046 --> 00:20:33.414
  • Some translations say "meekness is not weakness."
  • 00:20:33.414 --> 00:20:36.550
  • Please don't misunderstand that.
  • 00:20:36.550 --> 00:20:38.019
  • Jesus humbled himself and became obedient, so god exalted him and
  • 00:20:38.019 --> 00:20:41.489
  • Gave him a name that's above every name.
  • 00:20:41.489 --> 00:20:42.923
  • Philippians 2, the rest of the chapter.
  • 00:20:42.923 --> 00:20:44.859
  • Jesus was not weak.
  • 00:20:44.859 --> 00:20:49.096
  • When they came to arrest him, he said, "if i needed legions of
  • 00:20:49.096 --> 00:20:51.766
  • Angels, we would torch these people, but i'm gonna
  • 00:20:51.766 --> 00:20:56.203
  • Be obedient."
  • 00:20:56.203 --> 00:20:58.406
  • When he stood before the roman governor, the governor says,
  • 00:20:58.406 --> 00:21:00.641
  • "don't you know who i am?
  • 00:21:00.641 --> 00:21:04.211
  • I can have you crucified.
  • 00:21:04.211 --> 00:21:08.316
  • You better talk to me."
  • 00:21:08.316 --> 00:21:11.752
  • And jesus said to him--do you remember?
  • 00:21:11.752 --> 00:21:14.889
  • "well, actually, sir, you would have no authority unless my dad
  • 00:21:14.889 --> 00:21:18.959
  • Gave it to you."
  • 00:21:18.959 --> 00:21:24.799
  • That doesn't sound weak to me.
  • 00:21:24.799 --> 00:21:28.736
  • Spoke to the wind and the waves.
  • 00:21:28.736 --> 00:21:32.973
  • Commanded demons to come out, raised the dead to life.
  • 00:21:32.973 --> 00:21:35.743
  • That doesn't sound like weakness to me.
  • 00:21:35.743 --> 00:21:39.213
  • When you read the book of exodus, and if you're doing the
  • 00:21:39.213 --> 00:21:41.382
  • Bible reading now, you're right in the middle of it.
  • 00:21:41.382 --> 00:21:43.150
  • Moses doesn't seem weak to me.
  • 00:21:43.150 --> 00:21:44.719
  • "you let my people go, pharaoh."
  • 00:21:44.719 --> 00:21:48.723
  • You know, that's the ultimate sibling rivalry, right?
  • 00:21:48.723 --> 00:21:51.792
  • Moses grew up in pharaoh's palace.
  • 00:21:51.792 --> 00:21:59.100
  • "you let my people go."
  • 00:21:59.100 --> 00:22:01.802
  • "i will not."
  • 00:22:01.802 --> 00:22:03.838
  • "you might want to reconsider."
  • 00:22:03.838 --> 00:22:06.540
  • Moses wasn't weak.
  • 00:22:06.540 --> 00:22:08.209
  • See, i'm not asking you to adopt a position of--empty of the
  • 00:22:08.209 --> 00:22:13.481
  • Strength of god.
  • 00:22:13.481 --> 00:22:15.282
  • I'm asking you to consider in a way you've never
  • 00:22:15.282 --> 00:22:17.518
  • Considered before.
  • 00:22:17.518 --> 00:22:18.853
  • I want--i would love to shake you loose from your familiarity
  • 00:22:18.853 --> 00:22:22.323
  • With christianity, and your tenure in the church, and all
  • 00:22:22.323 --> 00:22:24.825
  • The things you've done, and all the things you know, and all the
  • 00:22:24.825 --> 00:22:27.628
  • Confidence we have, and imagine we're at the beginning of a
  • 00:22:27.628 --> 00:22:30.631
  • Season of tremendous change, and god is leading us towards
  • 00:22:30.631 --> 00:22:36.504
  • A new future.
  • 00:22:36.504 --> 00:22:38.506
  • And rather than cling to maybe what we've been, or where we've
  • 00:22:38.506 --> 00:22:40.908
  • Been, and imagine that it should be reinvented for us again.
  • 00:22:40.908 --> 00:22:47.481
  • We would say to the lord, "i wanna be obedient to you in
  • 00:22:47.481 --> 00:22:50.584
  • This season."
  • 00:22:50.584 --> 00:22:55.523
  • I want to take the majority of our time that's left to us and
  • 00:22:55.523 --> 00:23:00.094
  • Look at some responses--moses's responses to god, there's
  • 00:23:00.094 --> 00:23:03.063
  • A series, when god begins to present to moses the invitation
  • 00:23:03.063 --> 00:23:06.033
  • He has for his life.
  • 00:23:06.033 --> 00:23:08.269
  • Moses is not a young man any longer.
  • 00:23:08.269 --> 00:23:11.472
  • He has quite the story already.
  • 00:23:11.472 --> 00:23:12.807
  • Already has a pretty significant curriculum vitae.
  • 00:23:12.807 --> 00:23:16.844
  • But there's a series of interactions between god and
  • 00:23:16.844 --> 00:23:18.879
  • Moses that are recorded and given to us.
  • 00:23:18.879 --> 00:23:21.015
  • It's a very revealing portrait of a person struggling to
  • 00:23:21.015 --> 00:23:23.717
  • Cooperate with god and his invitation.
  • 00:23:23.717 --> 00:23:28.389
  • You know, we often imagine that god's invitations are just
  • 00:23:28.389 --> 00:23:30.758
  • Joyful promises of blessing and promotion.
  • 00:23:30.758 --> 00:23:35.629
  • And sometimes they are, but often, in my experience, at
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  • Least, they are intimidating windows into possibilities which
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  • Truthfully exceed our abilities.
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  • Most of the times i've been aware of god putting an
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  • Invitation in front of me, i was very conscious that, if god was
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  • Not engaged in the outcome of this equation, i'm gonna be
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  • Look foolish.
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  • And those are not easy decisions.
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  • Oh, i mean, after the fact, when it's all said and done, and the
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  • Blessings of god are there, yeah, it's easy to tell the
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  • Story, but in real time, those are not easy places.
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  • So i wanna walk through some of these--moses's responses to
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  • God, but i wanna do it in the context of your life and mine,
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  • Not separate from it, not just as biblical observers, not just
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  • As analyst of the history of scripture, but the challenges
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  • Moses faced, juxtaposed to the challenges that you and i face.
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  • Moses has a life.
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  • Moses has a family.
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  • Things aren't bad.
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  • He's doing okay.
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  • He's got plans, and dreams, and kids, and people depending on
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  • Him, and momentum, and he's got all the things in place, and
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  • Then god.
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  • And then god.
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  • Most of us know the first one, exodus 3, it's the burning bush.
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  • "the angel of the lord appeared in the flames of fire within
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  • A bush, and moses saw that the bush was on fire, but it
  • 00:24:56.644 --> 00:24:59.179
  • Didn't burn.
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  • So he said, 'i'll go over and see this strange sight--'
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  • Why the bush doesn't burn up."
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  • It's my conclusion, it's not implicitly stated, but the next
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  • Line, "when the lord saw that he'd gone over to look, he
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  • Called to him from within the bush."
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  • In my imagination, at least, it seems that moses may have walked
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  • By some other opportunities, but he didn't go to inquire.
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  • One of the things i would like to invite you to do is be a
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  • Consistent inquirer of the lord, have the courage to say to the
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  • Lord, "what do you have for me?"
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  • What do you have for me?
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  • I don't wanna just say to you, "i'm born again, and i've been
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  • Baptized, and i have the baptism and the holy spirit, and i read
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  • My bible, and i'm not committing gross moral sins often."
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  • I want to invite you to something different.
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  • What do you have for me, lord?
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  • What are you doing in the earth that i could pray for?
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  • What's close to your heart?
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  • I wanna be an inquirer of the lord, i do!
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  • I wanna learn. i wanna grow.
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  • I'm willing to be different.
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