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Allen Jackson - Something Better For Us (Part 1)

December 11, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - Something Better For Us (Part 1)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Something Better For Us (Part 1) | December 11, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: you know, allen jackson ministries was launched
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  • To strengthen the church.
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  • I've spent my life in the church and we began allen jackson
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  • Ministries to try to be a voice beyond just the local
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  • Congregation where i serve.
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  • It has grown each year in our imagination and the vision that
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  • God has put in our heart.
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  • It's a living thing.
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  • We began with broadcasting messages with radio
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  • And television.
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  • We added publishing with print and books.
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  • We've added small group curriculum which now spreads
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  • Across our nation and around the world.
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  • We're doing conferences.
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  • We visited more than 20 cities, doing leaders and pastors
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  • Conferences, and now we have on-the-ground
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  • Partners internationally.
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  • God has opened a unique door in israel to work with some
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  • Emerging congregations there in the upcoming year.
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  • We have some very real connections in ukraine, that
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  • War-torn country, to stand with the church there.
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  • Thank you for your partnership.
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  • It's changing what we're doing around the world.
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  • A very generous partner of the ministry has agreed to match
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  • Your gift this week, so every dollar counts twice.
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  • Thank you for making an investment in allen
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  • Jackson ministries.
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  • Together, around the earth, we're strengthening the church.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: kathy and i spent the weekend in dallas with a group
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  • Of 400 state legislators who were gathered.
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  • They're working on pro-family policies in 35 states across
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  • The country.
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  • And we were invited to speak to them on saturday evening.
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  • And they were very receptive.
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  • It was an encouraging time.
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  • I took notes for 2 days.
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  • It was hopeful, but--so some of this is a little bit of overflow
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  • From that, perhaps, but the topic is "all things new," with
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  • The notion that god has something better for us.
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  • We're living in a season where i believe god is shaking
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  • The earth.
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  • I don't believe the devil is shaking the earth or the demons
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  • Are shaking the earth or forces of darkness are shaking
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  • The earth.
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  • The book of hebrews, quoting one of the hebrew prophets, says,
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  • "once again, god will shake the earth."
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  • He's done it before.
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  • It's not the only time.
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  • I don't think it's necessarily an indicator that it's the end
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  • Of time.
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  • It could be, but i'm not saying that's not the indicator.
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  • God is shaking the earth, and he said he's doing it to do two
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  • Things to--so that those things which can be shaken will be
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  • Presented as unstable.
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  • And as those things are presented and become apparent as
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  • Being unstable, then it reveals the unshakeable kingdom of god.
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  • And i would have to say, since covid, especially, it seems to
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  • Me that institution after institution and place after
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  • Place and thing after thing has been proven less stable than i
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  • Would have liked it to have been.
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  • But what i'm searching for is to have clarity on the expressions
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  • Of the kingdom of god.
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  • Because that's where there's confidence and hope and
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  • A future.
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  • Hebrews 11 and verse 39 is in your notes.
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  • It says: "these were all--" hebrews 11, most of you will
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  • Remember is kind of the hall of fame of faith in the bible.
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  • It lists these remarkable men and women and their
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  • Accomplishments and their expressions of faith, and that
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  • Chapter is concluding, and it says: "these were all commended
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  • For their faith, yet none of them," i mean, this is moses
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  • And abraham.
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  • I mean, it's the whole list.
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  • It's the heroes.
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  • "none of them received what had been promised.
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  • God had planned something better for us so that only together
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  • With us would they be made perfect."
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  • I want to use that little phrase, "something better
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  • For us."
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  • Because when i read their stories, i think they did okay.
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  • They parted the red sea.
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  • They brought water out of a rock, they conquered the
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  • Promised land.
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  • I mean, they did some pretty remarkable things.
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  • They, you know, they had babies when they were collecting
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  • Social security.
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  • I mean, there's some remarkable stories in hebrews 11.
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  • And yet the author of hebrew says god has something better
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  • For us.
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  • So i want to plant a seed.
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  • I know there's darkness in the world and expressions of evil
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  • And violence in our cities, and i want you to hear that.
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  • It needs to resonate within you.
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  • It's more than a motivational ploy.
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  • I believe it's biblical truth.
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  • God said, you know, we can rehearse the stories of those
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  • Who have preceded us, but he has something better for us.
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  • We need an expectation of god's presence, his assistance, his
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  • Provision, his care.
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  • We've allowed for far too long the notion to flourish in the
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  • Midst of our churches that god did miracles in the times of the
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  • Bible or the first century or some other season, but now we
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  • Have higher education and hospitals and science, and i'm
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  • Grateful for all those things.
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  • I've benefited from all of them, but they are all a very weak
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  • Imitation of the power and the wisdom of god.
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  • And i believe we have to have a change of heart to know that god
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  • Would express his presence on our behalf.
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  • The past is remarkable.
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  • I love to recount those stories.
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  • In fact, i brought a prop.
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  • What's that look like?
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  • Male: stone, black.
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  • Allen: it's a rock.
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  • Smart people sit on the front row.
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  • A few weeks ago, i was in israel.
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  • No, i mean, i have had the privilege of being there
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  • Many times.
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  • The first time i went, i was a 6th grader.
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  • And i remember the group i was with, they drove us through the
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  • Elah valley.
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  • And there was a stream that still runs through the
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  • Elah valley.
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  • We were there a few weeks ago and we had been in gaza in the
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  • Southern part of israel and we were on our way back to
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  • Jerusalem and we came through the elah valley and i asked the
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  • Bus driver to stop.
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  • Some of you will remember, that's the valley where the
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  • Philistines were on one side and the israelites were on the
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  • Other, and there was a battle in the valley.
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  • And a teenager named david went to a brook, a stream in the elah
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  • Valley, and chose five stones.
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  • When i was a 6th grader, we went to that brook, and we all
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  • Got rocks.
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  • And i don't know how many times, we don't go there every time i'm
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  • In israel, but i've been there from time to time since i was 6,
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  • And that's been 15, 20 years at least.
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  • In fact, i've been there with hundreds and hundreds of people
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  • And everybody takes rocks.
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  • And there's still rocks there.
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  • I don't know if they truck them in.
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  • This may have "made in china" stamped on it someplace, and i
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  • Haven't seen it yet, but when i was there a couple of weeks ago,
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  • I picked up a couple of rocks again.
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  • And i've left them where i would see them every day.
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  • I've moved them a time or two from where i get ready in the
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  • Morning or on my desk, but i wanted the reminder, because it
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  • Was out of that brook that god used a shepherd boy who was
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  • Disdained by his family and ignored by--the only reason he
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  • Had a platform that day was there was so much fear and
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  • Terror that nobody else was willing to face the adversary,
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  • Except this one scrawny kid that seemed to have an idea.
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  • And so they said, "you go."
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  • And out of that brook, he picked up some common stones and god
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  • Turned them into something that changed not only his destiny,
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  • But the destiny of a nation.
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  • And so i've been picking these rocks up on a regular basis,
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  • Carried it in my pocket some because we're in a place again
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  • Where we need god if we're gonna change our destiny.
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  • I don't believe we're going to outwork evil or outthink evil or
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  • Out plan evil.
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  • We're not gonna make a greater effort than evil.
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  • I mean, and i believe in working and planning and making effort,
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  • But there's more at stake.
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  • And i needed the tangible reminder that god's still doing
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  • What he did with that little shepherd kid.
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  • And that the enemy can bellow and be filled with bluster, and
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  • They can intimidate and they can seem to have superior numbers.
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  • Folks, we don't have to have a majority.
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  • But i know we live in a representative republic and we
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  • Elect our leaders, but we don't have to have a majority.
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  • God has changed the destiny of nation after nation after nation
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  • Through many periods of history with a handful of people who
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  • Would trust him.
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  • I mean, i would love to have a majority of people who are
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  • Legitimate christ followers and would recognize that when
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  • They're in the voting booth or when they're making
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  • Life decisions.
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  • But absent that, we can still believe god.
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  • When you read the book of acts, our friends in the book of acts
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  • Overcame the roman empire, not because of a majority.
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  • Because of the power of god.
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  • God still has stones.
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  • He's still giving the tools that are needed for his people to
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  • Accomplish his purposes and to defeat his adversaries.
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  • I believe that.
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  • But i don't believe he sent me back with a sling.
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  • I got one when i was in the 6th grade.
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  • And that's more difficult than it looks.
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  • If my parents had let my brothers and i keep playing with
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  • Those, none of us would have survived.
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  • But god has the tools and the equipment we need.
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  • He will do something new.
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  • In fact, there's something on the inside of me that's not on
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  • Your outlines, so just bear with me for a moment.
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  • I've spent my life in the church, my professional life in
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  • The church, so i don't know everything, but i'm entitled to
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  • An opinion.
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  • And i earned a degree in church history, so i know a little bit
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  • About more than just my lifetime.
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  • And we have a tendency to want god to do in the season where we
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  • Are, what we've seen him do in the past.
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  • Like, we would all, i think, be, most of us, would be pleased if
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  • We saw a revival or a renewal or an awakening, whichever label
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  • You prefer for that, moving of the spirit of god and change
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  • Of hearts.
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  • I think we would all be thrilled with that.
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  • I think there's a tremendous need for that.
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  • And i think our imagination typically says, well, we know
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  • What that looks like.
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  • We've seen pictures or we remember it from another season
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  • In our life or some of us may have been in a stadium that was
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  • Filled with people and billy graham preached a sermon and
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  • George beverly shea sang a song, and we all went forward while
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  • The buses waited, and the people who came with us we'll wait,
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  • Please come forward.
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  • A wonderful season in our history.
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  • God used it in a mighty, mighty way.
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  • I think we have the imagination that we're going to see god do
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  • That again, which is--i'm okay with that.
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  • But what i know of scripture and what i know of the history of
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  • The church, i would say that's improbable.
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  • I think god tends to do things that we describe as new: new
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  • Wine in new wine skins.
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  • He didn't say to us at the end of hebrews 11, "i'm going to do
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  • That same set of things with you."
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  • He said, "no, god's got something better for us."
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  • We're like, "no, i'm really good with that.
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  • I'd be happy just to part the ocean."
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  • And i think, you know, if i take the book of acts, the disciples
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  • Had 3 years with jesus, personal one-on-one coaching, the best
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  • Leadership training i think that you could imagine.
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  • And then they kind of stumbled through his suffering and
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  • Crucifixion and he regathers them on resurrection day.
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  • And for 40 days, they have a seminar with the
  • 00:11:33.309 --> 00:11:36.112
  • Resurrected messiah.
  • 00:11:36.112 --> 00:11:38.681
  • So i think you'd be a better listener if you have 40 days and
  • 00:11:38.681 --> 00:11:42.818
  • Your teacher, your leader, you had seen him crucified, dead and
  • 00:11:42.818 --> 00:11:47.957
  • Buried and back to life, i think you'd take better notes.
  • 00:11:47.957 --> 00:11:51.026
  • Is that fair?
  • 00:11:51.026 --> 00:11:53.462
  • So they had this 40-day seminar and the--and jesus's last words
  • 00:11:53.462 --> 00:11:57.333
  • To them that are recorded for us in acts 1, and they're not in
  • 00:11:57.333 --> 00:12:00.236
  • Your notes, i apologize, but jesus's last words to them were,
  • 00:12:00.236 --> 00:12:04.206
  • "don't leave jerusalem until you are--until you receive the holy
  • 00:12:04.206 --> 00:12:11.413
  • Spirit, till you're baptized in the holy spirit.
  • 00:12:11.413 --> 00:12:13.516
  • You'll be empowered," he said, "to be witnesses for me in
  • 00:12:13.516 --> 00:12:16.685
  • Jerusalem and judea and samaria."
  • 00:12:16.685 --> 00:12:18.888
  • Well, now, wait, they had 3 years with jesus.
  • 00:12:18.888 --> 00:12:20.756
  • Peter walked on the water.
  • 00:12:20.756 --> 00:12:22.124
  • They picked up basketfuls of bread.
  • 00:12:22.124 --> 00:12:23.759
  • They saw lazarus come out of the tomb.
  • 00:12:23.759 --> 00:12:25.961
  • They were in the room on resurrection evening when jesus
  • 00:12:25.961 --> 00:12:28.497
  • Stepped into the room and said, "it's me, i'm back."
  • 00:12:28.497 --> 00:12:30.800
  • I mean, if we could put those things on our resume, we would
  • 00:12:30.800 --> 00:12:33.435
  • Think "i'm golden," right?
  • 00:12:33.435 --> 00:12:36.372
  • We expect to lead the sunday school class or pastor the
  • 00:12:36.372 --> 00:12:38.774
  • Congregation or teach in the seminary.
  • 00:12:38.774 --> 00:12:40.643
  • I mean, who's got a better resume?
  • 00:12:40.643 --> 00:12:42.678
  • My curriculum vita is unchallenged.
  • 00:12:42.678 --> 00:12:44.880
  • And jesus said to them, "you can't even start yet."
  • 00:12:44.880 --> 00:12:50.419
  • And i think, huh.
  • 00:12:50.419 --> 00:12:52.154
  • And acts chapter 2 is the day of pentecost and the holy spirit's
  • 00:12:52.154 --> 00:12:56.058
  • Poured out and peter stands up.
  • 00:12:56.058 --> 00:12:57.493
  • I don't know how he got the short straw, but he stands up to
  • 00:12:57.493 --> 00:12:59.929
  • Explain what's happening.
  • 00:12:59.929 --> 00:13:01.664
  • And if you've been reading through the gospels and you've
  • 00:13:01.664 --> 00:13:03.532
  • Never read acts chapter 2, you think this isn't gonna be good
  • 00:13:03.532 --> 00:13:05.801
  • Because peter can't get his brain to engage before his mouth
  • 00:13:05.801 --> 00:13:09.038
  • Goes off.
  • 00:13:09.038 --> 00:13:10.973
  • I mean, he's said dumb thing after dumb thing, and you're
  • 00:13:10.973 --> 00:13:13.409
  • Thinking, "this probably is not gonna end well."
  • 00:13:13.409 --> 00:13:15.644
  • And peter stands up with this brilliant presentation of jesus
  • 00:13:15.644 --> 00:13:18.547
  • And who he was.
  • 00:13:18.547 --> 00:13:20.349
  • But then he looks at the crowd in jerusalem, where a few days
  • 00:13:20.349 --> 00:13:23.118
  • Earlier, they had shouted, "crucify him" when they'd been
  • 00:13:23.118 --> 00:13:26.055
  • Given the choice, and he said, "you killed the messiah."
  • 00:13:26.055 --> 00:13:31.260
  • For all the people that think our message should only be kind
  • 00:13:31.260 --> 00:13:33.529
  • And embracing, "you killed the messiah."
  • 00:13:33.529 --> 00:13:39.435
  • And it says the people were cut to the heart and said, "what can
  • 00:13:39.435 --> 00:13:42.104
  • We do?"
  • 00:13:42.104 --> 00:13:43.472
  • And he said, "well, you should repent," and thousands of them
  • 00:13:43.472 --> 00:13:46.642
  • That day asked to be baptized because they accepted jesus of
  • 00:13:46.642 --> 00:13:51.780
  • Nazareth as their lord and savior in the city where they
  • 00:13:51.780 --> 00:13:55.784
  • Had shouted, "crucify him."
  • 00:13:55.784 --> 00:13:58.387
  • They'd never seen that before.
  • 00:13:58.387 --> 00:14:01.523
  • That was totally new ground for them.
  • 00:14:01.523 --> 00:14:05.527
  • They'd never seen a response like that.
  • 00:14:05.527 --> 00:14:07.329
  • The city had never--jesus never had a response like that in
  • 00:14:07.329 --> 00:14:10.532
  • That city.
  • 00:14:10.532 --> 00:14:12.635
  • The next chapter, there's a lame man and they're on their way to
  • 00:14:12.635 --> 00:14:14.904
  • The temple at the hour to pray and the lame man is healed.
  • 00:14:14.904 --> 00:14:17.473
  • You know the story.
  • 00:14:17.473 --> 00:14:18.908
  • And he walked, he went on to the temple mount, leaping and
  • 00:14:18.908 --> 00:14:21.310
  • Praising god and the whole city is stirred.
  • 00:14:21.310 --> 00:14:25.581
  • And a large crowd gathers, and they explain to them how this
  • 00:14:25.581 --> 00:14:29.118
  • Man was healed.
  • 00:14:29.118 --> 00:14:30.452
  • It was in the name of jesus, whom you crucified.
  • 00:14:30.452 --> 00:14:32.588
  • Such harsh language.
  • 00:14:32.588 --> 00:14:34.123
  • And now it comes to the attention of the religious
  • 00:14:38.193 --> 00:14:40.195
  • Leaders and they bring them in and say, "listen, you got to
  • 00:14:40.195 --> 00:14:42.064
  • Shut up.
  • 00:14:42.064 --> 00:14:43.432
  • We've dealt with your boss.
  • 00:14:43.432 --> 00:14:44.767
  • You got to stop talking about him or we're gonna do the same
  • 00:14:44.767 --> 00:14:46.535
  • Thing to you."
  • 00:14:46.535 --> 00:14:48.871
  • And they said, "well, you do what you need to do, but we--
  • 00:14:48.871 --> 00:14:50.973
  • We're not gonna stop."
  • 00:14:50.973 --> 00:14:54.777
  • So now there's already pressure and opposition and resistance
  • 00:14:54.777 --> 00:14:58.247
  • And if you just walk through the book of acts day after day,
  • 00:14:58.247 --> 00:15:01.383
  • Event after event is something they've never seen before.
  • 00:15:01.383 --> 00:15:06.088
  • The lame man that was healed.
  • 00:15:06.088 --> 00:15:08.791
  • They'd seen some of the opposition, but they
  • 00:15:08.791 --> 00:15:12.461
  • Weren't prepared.
  • 00:15:12.461 --> 00:15:13.796
  • They went back to the house where they were gathering and
  • 00:15:13.796 --> 00:15:15.264
  • They prayed and the house they were in was shaken, it says.
  • 00:15:15.264 --> 00:15:20.035
  • Then jesus recruits their chief adversary, saul of tarsus, to
  • 00:15:20.035 --> 00:15:24.707
  • Become one of them, wow.
  • 00:15:24.707 --> 00:15:29.411
  • Philip is directed to go into the desert and he's waiting and
  • 00:15:29.411 --> 00:15:34.316
  • The spirit of god says, "you need to tell that man about me."
  • 00:15:34.316 --> 00:15:36.986
  • So he climbs up on the chariot of an ethiopian and tells him
  • 00:15:36.986 --> 00:15:40.389
  • About the lord and interprets isaiah for him, and the man
  • 00:15:40.389 --> 00:15:43.726
  • Wants to be baptized.
  • 00:15:43.726 --> 00:15:45.094
  • So philip's baptizing him and he's taken out of the pool and
  • 00:15:45.094 --> 00:15:48.597
  • Finds himself in another city.
  • 00:15:48.597 --> 00:15:50.466
  • He had not done that before.
  • 00:15:50.466 --> 00:15:52.368
  • Peter is sent to cornelius's house.
  • 00:15:56.171 --> 00:15:59.775
  • Jews don't go to the homes of gentiles, and they certainly
  • 00:15:59.775 --> 00:16:03.412
  • Don't go to the homes of roman soldiers, and they especially
  • 00:16:03.412 --> 00:16:07.349
  • Don't go to the homes of a gentile soldier in caesarea.
  • 00:16:07.349 --> 00:16:11.120
  • It's a pagan city and in the center of the city is a temple
  • 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:14.256
  • To a roman god.
  • 00:16:14.256 --> 00:16:17.826
  • But he had a vision that said, "don't call unclean what i call
  • 00:16:17.826 --> 00:16:20.863
  • Clean and you need to go with these men."
  • 00:16:20.863 --> 00:16:23.866
  • And when he went, he goes back to the home base in jerusalem,
  • 00:16:23.866 --> 00:16:26.902
  • They're mad at him.
  • 00:16:26.902 --> 00:16:28.270
  • "you went to eat with the gentiles."
  • 00:16:28.270 --> 00:16:29.805
  • "well, the lord told me to go."
  • 00:16:29.805 --> 00:16:33.208
  • Chapter after chapter after chapter, they've never
  • 00:16:33.208 --> 00:16:38.013
  • Seen before.
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  • Allen: so i have a question for you.
  • 00:17:46.849 --> 00:17:49.852
  • Do we--are we ready for god to do something we haven't seen?
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  • Or are we demanding--is the-- are the only glasses we can put
  • 00:17:55.023 --> 00:17:59.161
  • On, are the only expectations we can hold that god would meet our
  • 00:17:59.161 --> 00:18:02.865
  • Expectations of what we know-- revival, awakening, renewal--
  • 00:18:02.865 --> 00:18:06.635
  • Has looked like.
  • 00:18:06.635 --> 00:18:08.370
  • If it's gonna be legitimate, it's gotta look like that.
  • 00:18:08.370 --> 00:18:13.075
  • I would submit to you that you don't hold those ideas about
  • 00:18:13.075 --> 00:18:15.978
  • Very many things in your life.
  • 00:18:15.978 --> 00:18:17.913
  • We went through a museum while we were gone.
  • 00:18:21.884 --> 00:18:24.620
  • And it was--it was entertaining to be reminded of how we
  • 00:18:24.620 --> 00:18:32.094
  • Have lived.
  • 00:18:32.094 --> 00:18:33.729
  • With a black rotary dial phone.
  • 00:18:33.729 --> 00:18:37.733
  • I think you would have a hard time competing in the current
  • 00:18:37.733 --> 00:18:40.068
  • Marketplace if your primary means of communication was a
  • 00:18:40.068 --> 00:18:43.739
  • Rotary dial, corded telephone.
  • 00:18:43.739 --> 00:18:45.941
  • I remember in the church, when our primary means of welcoming
  • 00:18:49.311 --> 00:18:55.617
  • People or letting them know we were here was the yellow pages.
  • 00:18:55.617 --> 00:19:01.323
  • The biggest single expression of "we're the church here" was the
  • 00:19:01.323 --> 00:19:05.627
  • Yellow pages.
  • 00:19:05.627 --> 00:19:07.896
  • How many of you have a copy of the yellow pages at home today?
  • 00:19:07.896 --> 00:19:12.401
  • Why?
  • 00:19:12.401 --> 00:19:13.769
  • Do you really use it?
  • 00:19:17.206 --> 00:19:18.540
  • How many ever got in a car and unfolded a paper map?
  • 00:19:18.540 --> 00:19:25.480
  • And lost the love of jesus trying to refold it?
  • 00:19:25.480 --> 00:19:30.485
  • They don't go back together.
  • 00:19:30.485 --> 00:19:32.754
  • There's a demon assigned to them that keeps them from ever being
  • 00:19:32.754 --> 00:19:35.557
  • Folded again.
  • 00:19:35.557 --> 00:19:38.460
  • I can't--i've been in many cities in the last year or 18
  • 00:19:38.460 --> 00:19:41.496
  • Months, and all i do now is get out my phone and type in an
  • 00:19:41.496 --> 00:19:45.100
  • Address or speak an address, and i go wherever they tell me.
  • 00:19:45.100 --> 00:19:49.605
  • I went to oklahoma city a few weeks ago to speak to a group
  • 00:19:49.605 --> 00:19:52.474
  • Of pastors.
  • 00:19:52.474 --> 00:19:54.243
  • And siri took me to a holiday inn and siri took me to the
  • 00:19:54.243 --> 00:19:57.946
  • Convention center and she took me back to the airport.
  • 00:19:57.946 --> 00:20:00.048
  • I got to the airport and somebody asked me where i'd
  • 00:20:00.048 --> 00:20:01.850
  • Been, and i said, "to the holiday inn and to the
  • 00:20:01.850 --> 00:20:04.987
  • Convention center.
  • 00:20:04.987 --> 00:20:06.355
  • I don't know."
  • 00:20:06.355 --> 00:20:07.956
  • I just went where the voice told me to go.
  • 00:20:07.956 --> 00:20:12.461
  • And i like maps.
  • 00:20:12.461 --> 00:20:15.097
  • I mean, our lives have changed.
  • 00:20:15.097 --> 00:20:16.732
  • We kind of cling desperately to this notion that god should do
  • 00:20:16.732 --> 00:20:20.469
  • What he did.
  • 00:20:20.469 --> 00:20:22.738
  • And i don't think that solution is what we need.
  • 00:20:22.738 --> 00:20:27.075
  • The israelites in the elah valley had never seen a little
  • 00:20:27.075 --> 00:20:29.378
  • Scrawny shepherd kid take down a warrior the size of goliath or
  • 00:20:29.378 --> 00:20:33.448
  • They would have gone long before david.
  • 00:20:33.448 --> 00:20:36.952
  • They had no imagination of that.
  • 00:20:36.952 --> 00:20:38.287
  • They thought it was a contest of strength, of preparation, of
  • 00:20:38.287 --> 00:20:43.825
  • Physical stature, and that contest had nothing to do
  • 00:20:43.825 --> 00:20:46.595
  • With that.
  • 00:20:46.595 --> 00:20:49.564
  • Goliath cursed him by his gods and david said, "you've come
  • 00:20:49.564 --> 00:20:53.902
  • Against the armies of the living god, not the armies of saul or
  • 00:20:53.902 --> 00:20:58.907
  • The armies of israel.
  • 00:20:58.907 --> 00:21:00.275
  • You have challenged god.
  • 00:21:00.275 --> 00:21:03.879
  • And god will deliver you into my hand," and goliath laughed
  • 00:21:03.879 --> 00:21:07.115
  • At him.
  • 00:21:07.115 --> 00:21:08.583
  • Because he had very little spiritual awareness and little
  • 00:21:08.583 --> 00:21:11.353
  • Experience with the god of abraham, isaac, and jacob.
  • 00:21:11.353 --> 00:21:14.389
  • But fortunately david did.
  • 00:21:14.389 --> 00:21:15.724
  • You see, we need men and women with some awareness of the god
  • 00:21:15.724 --> 00:21:18.794
  • Of abraham, isaac, and jacob.
  • 00:21:18.794 --> 00:21:22.597
  • I believe god's gonna do some new things.
  • 00:21:22.597 --> 00:21:25.600
  • I don't believe they'll be beyond the boundaries of
  • 00:21:25.600 --> 00:21:27.569
  • Scripture in the sense they're not going to violate the
  • 00:21:27.569 --> 00:21:29.404
  • Principles of scripture.
  • 00:21:29.404 --> 00:21:33.642
  • But i don't want to keep force feeding.
  • 00:21:33.642 --> 00:21:35.711
  • I'm grateful for the college students that are choosing
  • 00:21:35.711 --> 00:21:37.779
  • The lord.
  • 00:21:37.779 --> 00:21:39.414
  • We hear consistent reports of that.
  • 00:21:39.414 --> 00:21:41.917
  • And i'm very grateful for that.
  • 00:21:41.917 --> 00:21:44.252
  • But i'm not really willing yet to say that is revival.
  • 00:21:44.252 --> 00:21:47.389
  • If you have a college campus with 30,000 college students on
  • 00:21:47.389 --> 00:21:50.192
  • It and 300 or 400 students are being baptized, i would call
  • 00:21:50.192 --> 00:21:53.428
  • That business as usual for the church.
  • 00:21:53.428 --> 00:21:55.163
  • We should have higher expectations.
  • 00:21:58.166 --> 00:22:01.803
  • I believe when college students leave home and go to college and
  • 00:22:01.803 --> 00:22:05.073
  • If god's really stirring that campus, there ought to be more
  • 00:22:05.073 --> 00:22:07.342
  • Kids being born again, being baptized in water, dramatic
  • 00:22:07.342 --> 00:22:10.145
  • Changes of life, than being involved in pledge week.
  • 00:22:10.145 --> 00:22:13.382
  • Now, i'm grateful.
  • 00:22:16.852 --> 00:22:18.186
  • Please don't misunderstand me.
  • 00:22:18.186 --> 00:22:19.554
  • I'm grateful for every student, for every campus, for every
  • 00:22:19.554 --> 00:22:21.490
  • Expression of faith, for the growing of--yes, but i believe
  • 00:22:21.490 --> 00:22:25.127
  • We're going to see god do something far beyond that.
  • 00:22:25.127 --> 00:22:29.731
  • I've brought you an outline, i promise.
  • 00:22:33.602 --> 00:22:36.605
  • Revelation 21 kind of goes along with this.
  • 00:22:36.605 --> 00:22:38.907
  • It says: "he who sits on the throne said, 'behold, i'm making
  • 00:22:38.907 --> 00:22:42.144
  • All things new.'
  • 00:22:42.144 --> 00:22:44.146
  • And he said, 'write these words, for they're faithful and true.'
  • 00:22:44.146 --> 00:22:46.648
  • And he said to me, it's done.
  • 00:22:46.648 --> 00:22:47.983
  • I'm the alpha and the omega,'" the a to z, the first and last
  • 00:22:47.983 --> 00:22:51.920
  • Letter of the alphabet, "'the beginning and the end.
  • 00:22:51.920 --> 00:22:54.656
  • I'll give to the one who thirsts from the spring of water of life
  • 00:22:54.656 --> 00:22:57.159
  • Without cost.
  • 00:22:57.159 --> 00:22:58.493
  • And he who overcomes will inherit these things.
  • 00:22:58.493 --> 00:23:00.395
  • I'll be his god and he'll be my son.'"
  • 00:23:00.395 --> 00:23:03.432
  • Revelation 21 is very near, not only the end of your bible, it's
  • 00:23:03.432 --> 00:23:06.935
  • Very near the end of this age.
  • 00:23:06.935 --> 00:23:10.005
  • It's very near a point of conclusion.
  • 00:23:10.005 --> 00:23:14.109
  • And i think it's worth at least taking note that at that point,
  • 00:23:14.109 --> 00:23:17.479
  • Very near the end of this age, we're a long way away from
  • 00:23:17.479 --> 00:23:19.748
  • Genesis 1, "in the beginning god created the heavens and
  • 00:23:19.748 --> 00:23:21.917
  • The earth."
  • 00:23:21.917 --> 00:23:23.685
  • We're a long way in pages, we're a long way in years, we're a
  • 00:23:23.685 --> 00:23:27.522
  • Long way in human history, and yet at the end of this age,
  • 00:23:27.522 --> 00:23:30.659
  • There are still creative expressions of god still
  • 00:23:30.659 --> 00:23:33.128
  • To come.
  • 00:23:33.128 --> 00:23:34.496
  • He said, "i'm gonna make all things new."
  • 00:23:34.496 --> 00:23:36.898
  • God's creativity has barely been expressed to humanity.
  • 00:23:36.898 --> 00:23:43.405
  • Barely been expressed.
  • 00:23:43.405 --> 00:23:45.907
  • And we're so desperate for him to repeat what we've seen
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  • Because we're familiar with it.
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  • We're comfortable with it.
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  • It doesn't make us anxious.
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  • Jesus consistently made the disciples anxious.
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  • "you feed this group of people."
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  • "lord, we've only got one boy's happy meal."
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  • Or he looks at the group and he said, you know, "you're a bunch
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  • Of snakes," and the disciples come privately and say, "did you
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  • Know you offended them?"
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  • Or they come to arrest jesus in the garden and they all scatter.
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  • When he needs a friend, he can't find one amongst his
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  • Closest friends.
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  • See, god is constantly inviting us, i believe, towards his
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  • Creative resolutions to the challenges in our world, and
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  • We're desperately looking through the files of what he's
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  • Done in the past.
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  • God is the most creative being that a human will
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  • Ever encounter.
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  • And i promise you he has new things for us.
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  • In that passage in revelation, he said, "i'm making all
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  • Things new."
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  • The implication of that, and i could give you verses that say
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  • It implicitly, is that this present world order is
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  • Passing away.
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  • And we get way too invested.
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  • God, we want you to redeem this.
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  • You know, god--god's choice, i was born in this nation.
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  • I love this nation.
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  • It has brought the blessings of god to me, the opportunity to be
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  • A christ follower, to serve his people, to travel the world as
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  • An ambassador for jesus.
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  • I'm grateful for that, but the purposes of god will prevail in
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  • The earth irrespective of the united states of america.
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  • Now, i will pray for this nation.
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  • I will stand up and use my voice for a biblical worldview, but i
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  • Promise you, my hope is anchored in something more secure than
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  • The founding documents of this nation, as remarkable as i think
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  • They are.
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  • God said he'll make all things new.
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  • This present world order is passing away.
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  • Now for children and grandchildren, i have
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  • Some opinions.
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  • I think it would be better if they could persist.
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  • But i think the future of this nation is far more dependent
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  • Upon the health and vitality of the church than it is our
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  • Political parties.
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  • And i'm not opposed to political parties and politicians, but
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  • Their job gets much more simple or it becomes impossible whether
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  • The church is healthy or it's failing.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: you know, i've often said allen jackson ministries was
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  • Created to strengthen the church, not a local
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  • Congregation, not to build buildings, but to strengthen
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  • God's people across our nation and around the earth.
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  • It's amazing how god has been faithful in opening new doors
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  • Each year as we have walked together through this journey.
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  • We're broadcasting in radio and television.
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  • We're doing publishing, creating small group curriculum that's
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  • Used in all 50 states and more than a dozen nations.
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  • Now god's opening doors internationally in new ways.
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  • Pastors in israel have asked us to partner with them in the
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  • New year.
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  • Pastors in ukraine, that war-torn country,
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  • Are asking for help.
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  • We've been given an opportunity to broadcast across the
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  • Continent of africa.
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  • We're gonna strengthen the church globally and not just
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  • In america.
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  • I wanna ask you to pray with me.
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  • I wanna ask you to consider making a generous investment in
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  • Allen jackson ministries.
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  • I don't believe there's ever been a greater time when the
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  • Need for the church to be strong and have a voice than right now.
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  • Let's pray.
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  • Father, give us your wisdom.
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  • Give us your heart on how to make an investment.
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  • May our effort be pleasing to you.
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  • May you bring a fruitfulness, in jesus's name, amen.
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  • God bless you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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