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Allen Jackson - Seasons of Great Change (Part 2)

June 15, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Seasons of Great Change (Part 2)
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 Great Change (Part 2) | June 15, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: you know, around the world people are searching
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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: one of the things i would like to invite you to do is be a
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  • Consistent inquirer of the lord.
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  • Have the courage to say to the 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,
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  • And i read my bible, and i'm not committing gross moral
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  • Sins...often."
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  • I wanna 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.
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  • 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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  • But i think when you encounter god--one of the things in my
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  • Life is i'm very aware of my inadequacy.
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  • In fact, i'm not comfortable with people.
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  • I don't trust people in ministry.
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  • They present themselves as overly adequate.
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  • I think an awareness of our inadequacy is an essential
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  • Component for leadership in the body of christ.
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  • It's christ in us.
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  • On my best day, i can't heal a gnat's wing, and, oh, by the
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  • Way, neither can you.
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  • I can't change your heart.
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  • I can't do any of those things.
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  • In fact, when i coach people in ministry, whatever level that
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  • May be, i always tell 'em that we sell a product that we
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  • Can't deliver.
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  • That's a very humbling thing--
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  • That if god doesn't show up and do what god said he will do when
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  • You honor him, we are gonna look like the village idiots.
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  • But here's the good news, i've been doing this a while.
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  • He's always shown up.
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  • So, moses starts this little interaction now.
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  • He's still a goat herder on the backside of the desert, a
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  • Fugitive, a failure, a murderer.
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  • He's all the things.
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  • I mean, he comes from a torn family.
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  • Moses's parents put him in the river in a basket when he was
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  • A baby.
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  • That's called rejection.
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  • And he's raised in pharaoh's palace as one of the princes of
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  • Egypt, while his people are slaves.
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  • That's a dysfunctional beginning.
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  • He has an anger issue.
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  • He's a murderer.
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  • And he's a fugitive.
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  • And now god's calling him and moses starts out as most of us
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  • Do, "yeah, here i am, what you need?
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  • I got this.
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  • How can i help?"
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  • Remember when i was born, i thought, you know, god--when i
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  • Decided to serve the lord, i thought there must have been a
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  • Sigh of relief in heaven.
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  • "well, now we got some serious talent."
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  • It wasn't very long before i realized there was a groan
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  • In heaven.
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  • "now we got a serious liability.
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  • You're gonna let that knucklehead on this team?"
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  • Who am i? who am i?
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  • But it's not done.
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  • In exodus 3, moses said to god, "suppose i go to the israelites
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  • And say to them."
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  • Just suppose i were to buy in to this crazy scheme.
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  • And i roll up and i tell the slaves over there, "'the god of
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  • Your fathers has sent me,' and they ask me, 'what is his name?'
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  • Then what am i gonna tell them?"
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  • I'm not prepared for this assignment.
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  • I hear you with all of your lofty language, but i'm not
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  • Prepared for--listen to me, i'm not prepared.
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  • Exodus 3:19 is really not a part of god's invitation, but i
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  • Thought it was so insightful.
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  • I left it in your outlines.
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  • This is a part of god's response.
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  • He said, "i know the king of egypt.
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  • I don't just know your name, mo, i know the king of egypt.
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  • I know him better than you do.
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  • But i know he's not gonna let you go unless a mighty hand
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  • Compels him."
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  • In the midst of this recruitment dialogue--and it's gonna go on
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  • Through several chapters--god acknowledges to moses his
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  • Understanding of pharaoh.
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  • Pharaoh's character is no mystery to god.
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  • Moses's understanding of pharaoh's palace does not
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  • Exceed god's.
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  • You and i wanna reject god's invitations because we think we
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  • Know more about our current circumstances than god does.
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  • "god, i'm not gonna do--you don't understand."
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  • I mean, we may not say it out loud, but we're thinking it.
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  • I'm not about to say it, it's a harebrained idea.
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  • You don't understand how difficult that would be.
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  • I think god does know.
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  • Exodus 3:21, god said, "i'll make the egyptians favorably
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  • Disposed towards these people, so that when you leave you won't
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  • Go empty-handed.
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  • And moses answered, 'what if they don't believe me or listen
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  • To me?'
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  • What if they say, "the lord didn't appear to you"?'"
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  • These all seem like pretty logical complaints to me.
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  • I'm just gonna roll up and say, "i'm here to lead you out.
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  • Pack your bags."
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  • And god's not impressed by all of moses's arguments.
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  • So, now he gets down to the--kind of the baseline.
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  • Exodus 4:10, "moses said to the lord, 'i have never been
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  • Eloquent, neither in the past nor since you've spoken to
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  • Your servant.
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  • I'm slow with speech and tongue.'"
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  • "look, god, i appreciate the invitation, but i'm not talented
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  • Enough for this project.
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  • I'm not that good.
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  • Pick somebody that's better."
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  • I remember when god invited me into the ministry, i hated
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  • Public speaking.
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  • It was awful.
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  • I could read what was on a sheet of paper, but if it wasn't on
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  • The sheet of paper, i was stuck.
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  • My brain would freeze.
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  • It was awful.
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  • I thought you have got to be kidding me.
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  • Except he didn't laugh.
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  • So, when i read this, "and moses said, 'you know, i'm not very
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  • Eloquent and i don't talk that well,'" and god goes, "yeah,
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  • I know.
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  • It's not about you, shut up."
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  • In exodus 4, moses really gets right down to the--kind of the
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  • Grassroots of this.
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  • Moses said, "lord, please send somebody else."
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  • No thank you. no thank you.
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  • May i ask you a question?
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  • How many times in your life have you said, "no, thank you," to
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  • The lord?
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  • See, god doesn't roll up most of the time in a burning bush.
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  • God rolls up with an opportunity.
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  • You have some sense that you could use your mouth, or your
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  • Voice, or your talent, or your time, or your resources, or
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  • Something, and you can make an impact, and go, "no, no thank
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  • You, i'm busy.
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  • It's inconvenient."
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  • This is inconvenient for moses.
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  • His life is never gonna be the same again.
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  • He's had his last peaceful day.
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  • No thank you.
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  • How many times have we said, "no thank you," to the lord?
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  • I'm born again.
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  • I'm baptized.
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  • I'm filled with the spirit.
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  • I'm a bible reader, prophesying, demon-chasing, praying for the
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  • Sick, triumphant christ follower.
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  • No thank you.
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  • It's my calendar, and my schedule, and my life.
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  • We're watching the most precipitous decline in
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  • Christianity in the history of the church in this nation.
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  • Now what's our answer?
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  • "no thank you.
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  • I don't want to get involved in public discussions.
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  • I don't wanna engage culture that's politics."
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  • It's not politics, folks.
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  • It's being salt and light.
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  • We've gotta engage the world in which we live.
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  • Do you really think, if you're sitting on the bench ,doing
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  • Nothing, waiting for the horn to blow so you get airlifted out of
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  • Here, you're gonna be received with enthusiasm?
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  • There's all sorts of parables about that attitude.
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  • In exodus 6, moses isn't done.
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  • "moses reported to the israelites, but they didn't
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  • Listen to him because of their discouragement, their bondage.
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  • The lord said to moses, 'go, tell pharaoh.
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  • So, you talked to the israelites; now, go tell
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  • Pharaoh to let the israelites go out of this country.'"
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  • That's--"go tell pharaoh, 'let 'em go.'"
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  • That's the assignment.
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  • God didn't say, "what do you think about this?
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  • Let's get together.
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  • Somebody get on a whiteboard.
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  • Let's chart some options."
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  • God said, "you go tell pharaoh to let these people go."
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  • Then moses has a response.
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  • "moses said to the lord, 'if the israelites won't listen to me,
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  • Why would pharaoh listen to me?
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  • I don't speak well.'"
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  • What's moses saying?
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  • I don't have enough influence to talk to pharaoh.
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  • Who am i? i'm the fugitive.
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  • I mean, we may have played together when we were kids.
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  • We were on the same soccer team.
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  • But he's not gonna listen to me.
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  • Gee, that sounds like the kind of things that go through
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  • My head.
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  • Why would i say anything?
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  • Nobody's gonna listen to me.
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  • Exodus 33, "moses said to the lord, 'you've been telling me,
  • 00:11:10.586 --> 00:11:17.793
  • "lead these people," but you've not let me know whom you'll send
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  • With me.
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  • You've said, "i know you by name and you found favor with me."
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  • Well, if you're pleased with me, teach me your way so i can know
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  • You and continue to find favor with you.
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  • Remember that this nation is your people.'"
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  • Look, i'm leading your people.
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  • But i still feel like i'm on the outside of this thing.
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  • I'm not even sure who you're gonna send with me.
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  • And, oh, by the way, in the context, if you're reading it,
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  • They're already long past egypt.
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  • I don't have the appropriate resources here, lord.
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  • I got all these people, and all this stuff, and i feel like i'm
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  • On an island.
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  • I'm the only christian where i work.
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  • I'm in a school that's hostile to my faith.
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  • Have you seen my family?
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  • I don't have appropriate resources, lord.
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  • Same chapter verse 15, "then moses said, 'if your presence
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  • Doesn't go with us, don't send us up from here.
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  • How will anyone know that you're pleased with me and with your
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  • People unless you go with us?
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  • What else will distinguish me and your people from all the
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  • Other people on the face of the earth?'"
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  • God, i could use a little validation here.
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  • I can use some more encouragement.
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  • How are these people gonna know, like, we're working on
  • 00:12:52.154 --> 00:12:54.089
  • This together?
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  • I don't know about you, but i'm reading these stories and i'm
  • 00:12:59.028 --> 00:13:00.663
  • Thinking, "oh, yeah, i'm with moses, lord."
  • 00:13:00.663 --> 00:13:09.738
  • Chapter 34, "lord, if i've found favor in your eyes, let the lord
  • 00:13:09.738 --> 00:13:15.811
  • Go with us.
  • 00:13:15.811 --> 00:13:17.346
  • 'cause this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our wickedness
  • 00:13:17.346 --> 00:13:22.518
  • And our sin, take us as your inheritance."
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  • God, i guess you know this, but you gave me an uncooperative,
  • 00:13:25.654 --> 00:13:30.926
  • Difficult group of people.
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  • Just in case you hadn't noticed lately, god, this is not an easy
  • 00:13:36.432 --> 00:13:40.202
  • Crowd you hooked me up with.
  • 00:13:40.202 --> 00:13:45.774
  • I mean, if you take a step back, moses is struggling.
  • 00:13:45.774 --> 00:13:48.811
  • I don't feel qualified.
  • 00:13:48.811 --> 00:13:50.145
  • I'm not prepared.
  • 00:13:50.145 --> 00:13:51.580
  • I don't have enough authority.
  • 00:13:51.580 --> 00:13:52.915
  • I don't have enough influence.
  • 00:13:52.915 --> 00:13:54.283
  • I don't have the appropriate resources.
  • 00:13:54.283 --> 00:13:55.651
  • I could use a little bit more encouragement.
  • 00:13:55.651 --> 00:13:57.419
  • I'm in the deep end of the pool and nobody knows you're
  • 00:13:57.419 --> 00:13:59.555
  • Helping me.
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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.
  • 00:14:17.973 --> 00:14:20.910
  • People say to me, "well, our whole history is not good."
  • 00:14:20.910 --> 00:14:23.379
  • Well, folks, you know, my history is not great, your
  • 00:14:23.379 --> 00:14:25.814
  • Family history is not perfect, but you love your family, you
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  • Love your children, in spite of our weaknesses.
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  • Well, our nation hasn't been perfect--but through that whole
  • 00:14:31.887 --> 00:14:34.556
  • Story, the goodness of god is evident.
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  • It still is.
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  • I believe he will.
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  • Allen: i remember years ago, i was still trying to figure out
  • 00:15:11.927 --> 00:15:15.464
  • Church and my spiritual formation didn't take place in
  • 00:15:15.464 --> 00:15:17.232
  • A church.
  • 00:15:17.232 --> 00:15:18.567
  • I accepted the lord in my parents' kitchen.
  • 00:15:18.567 --> 00:15:19.935
  • I was baptized in the atlantic ocean in fort lauderdale in
  • 00:15:19.935 --> 00:15:22.338
  • Front of the sheraton.
  • 00:15:22.338 --> 00:15:25.240
  • At least in the formative years of my life, my spiritual
  • 00:15:25.240 --> 00:15:27.876
  • Formation was separate from church.
  • 00:15:27.876 --> 00:15:29.645
  • I didn't understand church.
  • 00:15:29.645 --> 00:15:30.980
  • I didn't value church.
  • 00:15:30.980 --> 00:15:32.348
  • And so, when i understood the lord asking me to be a part of
  • 00:15:32.348 --> 00:15:35.050
  • Church, and i realized that jesus said that he would build
  • 00:15:35.050 --> 00:15:37.386
  • His church, and i said, "oh, i'm in on that."
  • 00:15:37.386 --> 00:15:40.255
  • And i did everything i could to find people that understood more
  • 00:15:40.255 --> 00:15:43.158
  • About church than i did.
  • 00:15:43.158 --> 00:15:44.493
  • I remember i was in california.
  • 00:15:44.493 --> 00:15:45.861
  • I'd driven out there for a man that had one of the most--at the
  • 00:15:45.861 --> 00:15:48.030
  • Time, one of the most flourishing churches in
  • 00:15:48.030 --> 00:15:49.431
  • The country.
  • 00:15:49.431 --> 00:15:50.766
  • And he said, when he got ready to plant the church, he got out
  • 00:15:50.766 --> 00:15:54.636
  • A map of the united states of america and looked for the
  • 00:15:54.636 --> 00:15:57.539
  • Places of highest population growth.
  • 00:15:57.539 --> 00:16:03.545
  • And he said, "i planted a church in the county with the most
  • 00:16:03.545 --> 00:16:06.348
  • Rapid population growth in the nation."
  • 00:16:06.348 --> 00:16:11.320
  • And i'm sitting there, thinking, "i'm an idiot.
  • 00:16:11.320 --> 00:16:18.060
  • I'm a part of a church in murfreesboro, tennessee."
  • 00:16:18.060 --> 00:16:23.399
  • Well, no, no.
  • 00:16:23.399 --> 00:16:27.936
  • This was 30 years ago.
  • 00:16:27.936 --> 00:16:29.271
  • It was a different place.
  • 00:16:29.271 --> 00:16:32.307
  • And it never occurred to me to be intentional.
  • 00:16:32.307 --> 00:16:36.645
  • I just was trying to say yes to the lord the best way i knew and
  • 00:16:36.645 --> 00:16:39.314
  • The place he put me.
  • 00:16:39.314 --> 00:16:41.650
  • There was nothing strategic about what i was doing other
  • 00:16:41.650 --> 00:16:43.886
  • Than trying to strategically follow the lord,
  • 00:16:43.886 --> 00:16:46.955
  • Which i would tell you today is a really good plan, but at the
  • 00:16:46.955 --> 00:16:49.992
  • Time, in the light of all that information, i was going, "i was
  • 00:16:49.992 --> 00:16:53.729
  • On the slow part of the crew."
  • 00:16:53.729 --> 00:16:57.466
  • I didn't know god would make the place he planted me one of the
  • 00:16:57.466 --> 00:17:00.803
  • Fastest growing places in the nation.
  • 00:17:00.803 --> 00:17:03.305
  • I got no credit for that. who am i?
  • 00:17:03.305 --> 00:17:09.011
  • The lord will give you invitations, and if your answer
  • 00:17:09.011 --> 00:17:11.180
  • Is, no--see, god doesn't need us to be big, or famous, or
  • 00:17:11.180 --> 00:17:16.852
  • Influential, or to go viral.
  • 00:17:16.852 --> 00:17:18.654
  • He needs us to humble ourselves and be obedient.
  • 00:17:18.654 --> 00:17:23.559
  • My circumstances when i got planted in this place where the
  • 00:17:23.559 --> 00:17:26.895
  • Boats had been burned, i had very few other options.
  • 00:17:26.895 --> 00:17:29.765
  • I was just gonna do this and if something nice came out of it,
  • 00:17:29.765 --> 00:17:32.301
  • So be it.
  • 00:17:32.301 --> 00:17:35.404
  • Who am i? i made a list of my responses.
  • 00:17:35.404 --> 00:17:39.141
  • I don't feel prepared.
  • 00:17:39.141 --> 00:17:40.509
  • I lack credibility.
  • 00:17:40.509 --> 00:17:41.844
  • It's not my gift.
  • 00:17:41.844 --> 00:17:43.679
  • I don't really have the skills that are needed for that.
  • 00:17:43.679 --> 00:17:45.881
  • They're not intuitive to me.
  • 00:17:45.881 --> 00:17:47.216
  • I don't want to.
  • 00:17:47.216 --> 00:17:48.584
  • I don't wanna do that.
  • 00:17:48.584 --> 00:17:49.918
  • I didn't like preachers.
  • 00:17:49.918 --> 00:17:52.221
  • Folks, when i was a kid and went to church, preachers wore long
  • 00:17:52.221 --> 00:17:54.490
  • Black robes and vestments.
  • 00:17:54.490 --> 00:17:57.426
  • And they stood behind these enormous pulpits.
  • 00:17:57.426 --> 00:17:59.228
  • I don't ever remember seeing a pastor in a church smile.
  • 00:17:59.228 --> 00:18:04.500
  • And i remember thinking, "if i got that job, i'd get fired in
  • 00:18:04.500 --> 00:18:09.605
  • 72 hours.
  • 00:18:09.605 --> 00:18:13.408
  • 'cause on my good days i'm a smart aleck."
  • 00:18:13.408 --> 00:18:18.313
  • I lack influence.
  • 00:18:18.313 --> 00:18:19.681
  • Nobody really cared what i thought.
  • 00:18:19.681 --> 00:18:21.316
  • I felt alone.
  • 00:18:21.316 --> 00:18:22.684
  • There wasn't adequate support.
  • 00:18:22.684 --> 00:18:24.019
  • I didn't have enough encouragement, the difficult
  • 00:18:24.019 --> 00:18:25.721
  • People--all the things that moses said, it felt like
  • 00:18:25.721 --> 00:18:28.524
  • My life.
  • 00:18:28.524 --> 00:18:31.760
  • And i suspect it feels like yours.
  • 00:18:31.760 --> 00:18:34.163
  • God doesn't need us to be significant, he needs us to
  • 00:18:34.163 --> 00:18:36.031
  • Humble ourselves and be obedient.
  • 00:18:36.031 --> 00:18:38.834
  • He'll bring the significance, remember?
  • 00:18:38.834 --> 00:18:40.736
  • He'll exalt you if you'll humble yourself.
  • 00:18:40.736 --> 00:18:44.039
  • So, i just wanna remind you as we close what god says about his
  • 00:18:44.039 --> 00:18:47.809
  • Provision for us.
  • 00:18:47.809 --> 00:18:49.144
  • I gave you some verses. you can meditate on these.
  • 00:18:49.144 --> 00:18:50.779
  • They will encourage you and strengthen you.
  • 00:18:50.779 --> 00:18:52.414
  • Give some time.
  • 00:18:52.414 --> 00:18:53.749
  • Maybe even memorize one or two of them.
  • 00:18:53.749 --> 00:18:55.083
  • 1 peter, i'm sorry, 2 peter 1, "his divine power"--god's
  • 00:18:55.083 --> 00:18:58.720
  • Divine power.
  • 00:18:58.720 --> 00:19:00.088
  • This is the fisherman, remember?
  • 00:19:00.088 --> 00:19:01.957
  • He's a fisherman.
  • 00:19:01.957 --> 00:19:04.259
  • He's not a rabbi, he's not a theologian, he's a
  • 00:19:04.259 --> 00:19:06.962
  • Fisherman--not the highest rung on the social scale.
  • 00:19:06.962 --> 00:19:09.965
  • Jesus recruited peter, and by the time he's writing these
  • 00:19:09.965 --> 00:19:14.036
  • Lessons, he has traveled the roman empire.
  • 00:19:14.036 --> 00:19:18.273
  • God used him to bring stability to the emerging church
  • 00:19:18.273 --> 00:19:20.842
  • In jerusalem.
  • 00:19:20.842 --> 00:19:22.544
  • Peter stood with john in front of the sanhedrin, the group that
  • 00:19:22.544 --> 00:19:25.280
  • Ordered jesus's execution, and says, "you do whatever you need
  • 00:19:25.280 --> 00:19:28.584
  • To, we will not stop telling the jesus story."
  • 00:19:28.584 --> 00:19:33.388
  • He's a transformed human being.
  • 00:19:33.388 --> 00:19:36.291
  • It's not a part of the new testament, but church tradition
  • 00:19:36.291 --> 00:19:38.527
  • Says peter was crucified upside down at his request.
  • 00:19:38.527 --> 00:19:42.331
  • He said he didn't deserve to die in the same way that his
  • 00:19:42.331 --> 00:19:44.533
  • Lord had.
  • 00:19:44.533 --> 00:19:49.271
  • 2 peter, "his divine power has given us everything we need
  • 00:19:49.271 --> 00:19:53.542
  • For life and godliness."
  • 00:19:53.542 --> 00:19:56.411
  • God, by his power, has given you everything you need for life and
  • 00:19:56.411 --> 00:20:00.382
  • For godliness.
  • 00:20:00.382 --> 00:20:02.851
  • Moses came from a dysfunctional family.
  • 00:20:02.851 --> 00:20:05.187
  • He's a murderer.
  • 00:20:05.187 --> 00:20:07.456
  • He's on the backside of the desert, chasing goats.
  • 00:20:07.456 --> 00:20:11.159
  • And god makes him into one of the most influential leaders in
  • 00:20:11.159 --> 00:20:13.795
  • The history of humanity.
  • 00:20:13.795 --> 00:20:16.498
  • And that same god has given you everything you need for life
  • 00:20:16.498 --> 00:20:19.334
  • And godliness.
  • 00:20:19.334 --> 00:20:21.303
  • Humble yourself and say, "god, i wanna serve you.
  • 00:20:21.303 --> 00:20:24.673
  • I wanna serve you."
  • 00:20:24.673 --> 00:20:29.878
  • Ephesians 2, "god raised us up with christ and seated us with
  • 00:20:29.878 --> 00:20:35.817
  • Him in the heavenly realms in christ jesus."
  • 00:20:35.817 --> 00:20:38.487
  • I mean, i know you know me as a tennessee and a hillbilly
  • 00:20:38.487 --> 00:20:40.656
  • Country kid.
  • 00:20:40.656 --> 00:20:42.491
  • What you may not know is i've been seated with jesus in
  • 00:20:42.491 --> 00:20:47.829
  • The heavens.
  • 00:20:47.829 --> 00:20:50.899
  • God knows your name.
  • 00:20:50.899 --> 00:20:53.835
  • He's not ashamed to call you his own.
  • 00:20:53.835 --> 00:20:56.672
  • Are you ashamed to tell people you belong to him?
  • 00:20:56.672 --> 00:21:00.275
  • Humble yourself.
  • 00:21:00.275 --> 00:21:02.744
  • Hebrews 12, "consider him who endured such opposition from
  • 00:21:02.744 --> 00:21:05.781
  • Sinful men so that you won't grow weary."
  • 00:21:05.781 --> 00:21:10.452
  • 'cause if you grow weary, you'll lose heart.
  • 00:21:10.452 --> 00:21:13.422
  • You'll abandon the assignment.
  • 00:21:13.422 --> 00:21:16.558
  • Consider jesus, wasn't easy for him.
  • 00:21:16.558 --> 00:21:19.528
  • He humbled himself, and he became obedient, obedient even
  • 00:21:19.528 --> 00:21:24.032
  • To death, even a humiliating death on a cross.
  • 00:21:24.032 --> 00:21:27.269
  • But then it says, "god exalted him and gave him the name that's
  • 00:21:27.269 --> 00:21:29.504
  • Above every name, that in the name of jesus, every knee will
  • 00:21:29.504 --> 00:21:32.107
  • Bow in heaven, on earth, and under the earth."
  • 00:21:32.107 --> 00:21:35.877
  • And then jesus called you. who am i?
  • 00:21:35.877 --> 00:21:40.282
  • Well, i don't know, but i'm somebody called by the king.
  • 00:21:40.282 --> 00:21:45.220
  • In galatians 6, "let us not become weary in doing good, for
  • 00:21:45.220 --> 00:21:48.924
  • At the proper time we'll reap a harvest if we don't give up."
  • 00:21:48.924 --> 00:21:53.495
  • Sometimes prepositions--little bitty words--those two little
  • 00:21:53.495 --> 00:21:55.664
  • Letters, i-f: "let's not grow weary for doing good for at the
  • 00:21:55.664 --> 00:22:01.603
  • Proper time we'll reap a harvest."
  • 00:22:01.603 --> 00:22:02.971
  • If you could just put a period right there, we're golden.
  • 00:22:02.971 --> 00:22:06.441
  • But then it says, "if, if, if you don't give up."
  • 00:22:06.441 --> 00:22:13.115
  • If you give up, no harvest.
  • 00:22:13.115 --> 00:22:20.255
  • But i wanna give up, i know, but i'm not going to.
  • 00:22:20.255 --> 00:22:23.258
  • But i feel like giving up, i know, but i'm not going to.
  • 00:22:23.258 --> 00:22:26.628
  • That's why the bible says we're supposed to encourage one
  • 00:22:26.628 --> 00:22:28.797
  • Another daily.
  • 00:22:28.797 --> 00:22:30.165
  • Don't give up.
  • 00:22:30.165 --> 00:22:32.167
  • But i'm tired, i know, but come on.
  • 00:22:32.167 --> 00:22:35.537
  • We're gonna finish.
  • 00:22:35.537 --> 00:22:38.974
  • We're not good at that.
  • 00:22:38.974 --> 00:22:40.308
  • We patrol the battlefields looking for the wounded and then
  • 00:22:40.308 --> 00:22:43.545
  • We execute 'em.
  • 00:22:43.545 --> 00:22:46.415
  • It's called gossip.
  • 00:22:46.415 --> 00:22:50.652
  • God, forgive us.
  • 00:22:50.652 --> 00:22:52.454
  • Don't give up.
  • 00:22:52.454 --> 00:22:53.822
  • Come on, we're gonna finish.
  • 00:22:53.822 --> 00:22:55.991
  • God will bring us through.
  • 00:22:55.991 --> 00:22:57.359
  • He'll help us.
  • 00:22:57.359 --> 00:22:58.727
  • He'll lead you.
  • 00:22:58.727 --> 00:23:00.061
  • I know, but i've been standing in this place.
  • 00:23:00.061 --> 00:23:01.430
  • I understand.
  • 00:23:01.430 --> 00:23:02.764
  • These weren't the circumstances i expected.
  • 00:23:02.764 --> 00:23:04.332
  • I got it.
  • 00:23:04.332 --> 00:23:05.667
  • I don't like the diagnosis.
  • 00:23:05.667 --> 00:23:07.035
  • I hear you.
  • 00:23:07.035 --> 00:23:08.370
  • But let's not give up.
  • 00:23:08.370 --> 00:23:12.407
  • God's still recruiting people, folks.
  • 00:23:12.407 --> 00:23:15.010
  • We're not reading our bible so we can check a box and say,
  • 00:23:15.010 --> 00:23:17.546
  • "aren't we good christians?
  • 00:23:17.546 --> 00:23:19.314
  • I've read my bible now for the fourth time."
  • 00:23:19.314 --> 00:23:22.884
  • I'm reading it 'cause i wanna be different.
  • 00:23:22.884 --> 00:23:25.787
  • And i've been reading through this book of acts--i've been
  • 00:23:25.787 --> 00:23:28.690
  • Back and forth through it several times lately.
  • 00:23:28.690 --> 00:23:31.493
  • I'm going, "oh, i whine like moses."
  • 00:23:31.493 --> 00:23:36.431
  • I do.
  • 00:23:36.431 --> 00:23:38.266
  • Yeah, i agree, god, there's like a real problem over there.
  • 00:23:38.266 --> 00:23:41.002
  • Somebody should do something.
  • 00:23:41.002 --> 00:23:44.706
  • I'm with you all.
  • 00:23:44.706 --> 00:23:46.074
  • Yes, i see the problem.
  • 00:23:46.074 --> 00:23:47.742
  • No, no, no, no, i'm quite busy, thank you.
  • 00:23:47.742 --> 00:23:52.214
  • I'm not adequate.
  • 00:23:52.214 --> 00:23:53.582
  • I'm not qualified.
  • 00:23:53.582 --> 00:23:54.916
  • I don't wanna take the grief for that.
  • 00:23:54.916 --> 00:23:56.284
  • You know what they'll say to me?
  • 00:23:56.284 --> 00:24:02.090
  • Humble yourself.
  • 00:24:02.090 --> 00:24:04.292
  • Lord, i'll honor you in my home.
  • 00:24:04.292 --> 00:24:06.962
  • We'll have a meal a week at our kitchen table.
  • 00:24:06.962 --> 00:24:11.199
  • I'll talk to my family about you.
  • 00:24:11.199 --> 00:24:14.236
  • I'll tell 'em the truth.
  • 00:24:14.236 --> 00:24:16.872
  • I'll practice hospitality.
  • 00:24:16.872 --> 00:24:19.574
  • I'll actually open my home to other people.
  • 00:24:19.574 --> 00:24:24.212
  • I will risk all the things that come with that.
  • 00:24:24.212 --> 00:24:27.849
  • See, this isn't beyond us, folks, it's not beyond our
  • 00:24:27.849 --> 00:24:29.918
  • Intellect, it's not beyond our resources, it's not beyond
  • 00:24:29.918 --> 00:24:32.621
  • Our awareness.
  • 00:24:32.621 --> 00:24:34.155
  • We haven't been interested.
  • 00:24:34.155 --> 00:24:35.690
  • I'm born again and i've been baptized in water, and i've been
  • 00:24:35.690 --> 00:24:38.627
  • Baptized in the spirit, and i've got--i've checked all the boxes,
  • 00:24:38.627 --> 00:24:41.396
  • And the--let's humble ourselves.
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  • God's moving in the earth, folks.
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  • I wanna go with him. i wanna go with him.
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  • I brought you a prayer.
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  • Why don't we stand together.
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  • I was gonna give you an invitation, but if you came to
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  • Church on memorial day weekend, i think you've already responded
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  • To the invitation.
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  • We could pray for all the backsliders that are on
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  • The lake.
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  • I'm kidding.
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  • Unless you're watching from the lake and then i'm talking
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  • About you.
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  • Have you got the prayer?
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  • "heavenly father, i rejoice that you called me out of darkness
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  • Into your kingdom of light.
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  • I offer myself today as a living sacrifice.
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  • I ask you to open my heart and my understanding to the kingdom
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  • Opportunities around me.
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  • I want to cooperate with your purposes for my life.
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  • I choose to believe you have provided everything necessary
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  • For me to honor you--in my home, my community, my workplace, my
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  • School, and wherever you direct.
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  • I choose to say yes to god's invitations and to turn away
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  • From selfishness and pride.
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  • My ambition is to be pleasing in your sight, lord jesus.
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  • Amen.
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  • Hallelujah, god bless you.
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  • Allen: hey, i've encouraged you for a long time to lead with
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  • 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,
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  • A blanket.
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  • Maybe you're going to a ball game, or the park, or the beach,
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  • Wherever that may be.
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  • You take these along.
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  • They are a celebration of our nation's 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.
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  • Things like a grocery store, or fast food, or food
  • 00:26:50.558 --> 00:26:54.496
  • Delivery--those things weren't possible in the places i lived.
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  • When 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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