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Allen Jackson - Something Better For Us (Part 2)

December 12, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - Something Better For Us (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Something Better For Us (Part 2) | December 12, 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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  • Wartorn 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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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: so i have a question for you.
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  • 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
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  • On, are the only expectations we can hold, that god would meet
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  • Our expectations of what we know revival, awakening,
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  • Renewal has looked like?
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  • If it's going to be legitimate, it's gotta look like that.
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  • I would submit to you that you don't hold those ideas about
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  • Very many things in your life.
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  • We went through a museum while we were gone.
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  • And it was--it was entertaining to be reminded of how we have
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  • Lived with a black rotary dial phone.
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  • I think you would have a hard time competing in the current
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  • Marketplace if your primary means of communication was a
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  • Rotary dial, corded telephone.
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  • I remember in the church when our primary means of welcoming
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  • People or letting them know we were here was the yellow pages.
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  • The biggest single expression of "we're the church here" was the
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  • Yellow pages.
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  • How many of you have a copy of the yellow pages at home today?
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  • Why?
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  • Do you really use it?
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  • How many ever got in a car and unfolded a paper map?
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  • And lost the love of jesus trying to refold it?
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  • They don't go back together.
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  • There's a demon assigned to them that keeps them from ever being
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  • Folded again.
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  • I can't--i've been in many cities in the last year or 18
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  • Months, and all i do now is get out my phone and type in an
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  • Address or speak an address, and i go wherever they tell me.
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  • I went to oklahoma city a few weeks ago to speak to a group
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  • Of pastors.
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  • And siri took me to a holiday inn and siri took me to the
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  • Convention center and she took me back to the airport.
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  • I got to the airport and somebody asked me where i'd
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  • Been, and i said, "to the holiday inn and to the
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  • Convention center.
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  • I don't know."
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  • I just went where the voice told me to go.
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  • And i like maps.
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  • I mean, our lives have changed.
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  • We kind of cling desperately to this notion that god should do
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  • What he did.
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  • And i don't think that solution is what we need.
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  • The israelites in the elah valley had never seen a little
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  • Scrawny shepherd kid take down a warrior the size of goliath or
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  • They would have gone long before david.
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  • They had no imagination of that.
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  • They thought it was a contest of strength, of preparation, of
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  • Physical stature, and that contest had nothing to do
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  • With that.
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  • Goliath cursed him by his gods and david said, "you've come
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  • Against the armies of the living god.
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  • Not the armies of saul or the armies of israel.
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  • You have challenged god.
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  • And god will deliver you into my hand," and goliath laughed
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  • At him.
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  • Because he had very little spiritual awareness and little
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  • Experience with the god of abraham, isaac, and jacob.
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  • But fortunately, david did.
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  • You see, we need men and women with some awareness of the god
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  • Of abraham, isaac, and jacob.
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  • I believe god's gonna do some new things.
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  • I don't believe they'll be beyond the boundaries of
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  • Scripture in the sense they're not gonna violate the principles
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  • Of scripture.
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  • But i don't want to keep force feeding.
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  • I'm grateful for the college students that are choosing
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  • The lord.
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  • We hear consistent reports of that.
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  • And i'm very grateful for that.
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  • But i'm not really willing yet to say that is revival.
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  • If you have a college campus with 30,000 college students on
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  • It and 300 or 400 students are being baptized, i would call
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  • That business as usual for the church.
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  • We should have higher expectations.
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  • I believe when college students leave home and go to college and
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  • If god's really stirring that campus, there ought to be more
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  • Kids being born again, being baptized in water, dramatic
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  • Changes of life, than being involved in pledge week.
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  • No, i'm grateful.
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  • Please don't misunderstand me.
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  • I'm grateful for every student, for every campus, for every
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  • Expression of faith, for the growing of--yes, but i believe
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  • We're going to see god do something far beyond that.
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  • I've brought you an outline, i promise.
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  • Revelation 21 kind of goes along with this.
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  • It says: "he who sits on the throne said, 'behold, i'm making
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  • All things new.'
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  • And he said, 'write these words for they're faithful and true.'
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  • And he said to me, 'it's done.
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  • I'm the alpha and the omega,'" the a to z, the first and last
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  • Letter of the alphabet, "'the beginning and the end.
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  • I'll give to the one who thirsts from the spring of water of life
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  • Without cost.
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  • And he who overcomes will inherit these things.
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  • I'll be his god and he'll be my son.'"
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  • Revelation 21 is very near, not only the end of your bible, it's
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  • Very near the end of this age.
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  • It's very near a point of conclusion.
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  • And i think it's worth at least taking note that at that point,
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  • Very near the end of this age, we're a long way away from
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  • Genesis 1, "in the beginnings, god created the heavens and
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  • The earth."
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  • We're a long way in pages, we're a long way in years, we're a
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  • Long way in human history, and yet at the end of this age,
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  • There are still creative expressions of god still
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  • To come.
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  • He said, "i'm gonna make all things new."
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  • God's creativity has barely been expressed to humanity.
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  • Barely been expressed.
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  • 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."
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  • And the disciples come privately and say, "did you know you
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  • 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.
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  • But the purposes of god will prevail in the earth
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  • 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,
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  • Whether the church is healthy or it's failing.
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  • That same passage, it says that god will give to the one
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  • Who thirsts.
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  • It's in that 6th verse.
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  • "i will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the
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  • Water of life without cost."
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  • The implication is there is a tremendous benefit to seeking.
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  • And if you ask me for an evaluation of contemporary
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  • American christendom, we're pretty complacent.
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  • Those of us that go to midweek services know we're born again,
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  • The majority of us.
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  • And by implication, it means we've done all of our
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  • Important business.
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  • There may be things that we don't know, but
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  • They're peripheral.
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  • We got the big rock items already addressed.
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  • And i'm not--i believe in conversion or the new birth
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  • Or salvation.
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  • But folks, it's the beginning point.
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  • It'd be like going to the hospital nursery with new
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  • Parents and they show--they point through the nursery window
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  • At that new infant, kind of wrinkled and red, with their
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  • Vital statistics on the side of that little plastic basin and
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  • They say, "we parented."
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  • No, you got a new life, but parenting is just cranking up.
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  • And the new birth, yes, you've got a legal right to the kingdom
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  • Of god, but what it means to be a christ follower and an
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  • Ambassador for the kingdom and to say no to ungodliness and yes
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  • To godliness and to overcome your carnal nature, those things
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  • Are still all in front of us.
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  • And we've been sitting in churches with our diapers on and
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  • Our bibs on and our pacifier in our mouth going, "we got
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  • It all."
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  • Allen: allen jackson ministries exists to strengthen the church,
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  • To strengthen the people of god across our nation.
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  • Thank you for your partnership with us these last few years.
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  • We have touched literally millions of people across our
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  • Nation and around the world.
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  • As we look to the new year, i don't believe there's ever been
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  • A more important time for the church to have a voice.
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  • I want to ask you to prayerfully consider making a generous
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  • Investment in allen jackson ministries, partner with us in
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  • Strengthening the church in our nation and around the earth.
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  • God is moving.
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  • We want to move with him.
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  • Female announcer: god continues to open doors for allen jackson
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  • Allen: i've been going through my bible.
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  • I'll share it with you when i'm a little further along with it.
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  • But following some of the people that sought the lord after they
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  • Knew him well.
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  • Daniel is one where i keep going back.
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  • Clearly, daniel knows the lord.
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  • He can interpret dreams and visions and under some
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  • Tremendous pressure managed to hear the voice of the lord.
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  • And it says, as you're approaching the end of the book
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  • Of daniel, it says that he determined to seek the lord.
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  • And for weeks he sought the lord in fasting and prayer,
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  • Sacrificially leaning in, pressing in on knowing the lord.
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  • Well, he's not a beginner.
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  • He doesn't, it's not a response--it's a response to
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  • Some grave threat of his life or the--a lion's den.
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  • He's just--he determined to seek the lord.
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  • I think, "lord, i want to seek you."
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  • And then he has a revelation from the lord.
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  • God gives him a window to see what is ahead.
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  • And daniel's response is, "i was so overwhelmed."
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  • It doesn't feel joyful to me.
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  • He said it was so unsettling that "for two days i couldn't
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  • Get out of bed."
  • 00:14:05.294 --> 00:14:09.398
  • So i think we imagine seeking the lord and he gives us the
  • 00:14:09.398 --> 00:14:11.834
  • Winning lottery numbers.
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  • Or our rebellious kids repent of their rebellion and come home
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  • And mow the yard and do the dishes.
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  • I mean, you know, we seek the lord and we get a breakthrough.
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  • Daniel sought the lord and god showed him a window into the
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  • Future that was so overwhelming, it was physically devastating.
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  • I want to know the lord. i want to know the lord.
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  • I'm determined to get hungrier and thirstier.
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  • I want to know the lord.
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  • "to the one who thirsts," he said.
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  • There's a benefit to seeking.
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  • And then he said, "to he who overcomes."
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  • Look at that.
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  • It's the last--it's verse 7, "he who overcomes will inherit
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  • These things, and i will be his god and he will be my son."
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  • In order to qualify for the family of god, what's listed
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  • There isn't conversion.
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  • Again, i'm not diminishing that, but he said for--to be in the
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  • Family, you have to overcome.
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  • Well, i don't like that.
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  • I don't.
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  • I'd rather he said, "the one who eats dessert gets to be in
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  • The family.
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  • The one with the biggest sweet tooth."
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  • I'd be going to the head of the line.
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  • To him who overcomes.
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  • David found the purposes of god in his life to have expression,
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  • Not so much when samuel came to the house and anointed him
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  • With oil.
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  • That was certainly a part of the narrative and that was
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  • The beginning.
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  • But the real steps that pushed him from the shadows into a
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  • Place where it began to become a discussion was he had to
  • 00:15:44.560 --> 00:15:46.929
  • Overcome goliath.
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  • But he had the courage to do that because he said, "well,
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  • When i was just minding my own business, tending my father's
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  • Sheep, doing my day job, if a lion or a bear tried to take one
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  • Of the sheep, i went after them and the lord delivered them into
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  • My hand, and i suppose he could deliver this big ugly galoot
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  • Into my hand."
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  • Living bible.
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  • David had to overcome.
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  • Folks, we're gonna have to overcome.
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  • What will we have to overcome?
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  • Evil.
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  • Isn't that what the book of romans says?
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  • We have to overcome evil with?
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  • With good.
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  • It didn't say kindness.
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  • It didn't say being polite.
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  • What will triumph over evil?
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  • Good will.
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  • That's good as defined by scripture, good defined from a
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  • Biblical worldview.
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  • That's like light overcoming darkness.
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  • Darkness doesn't overwhelm light.
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  • Light is diminished and darkness grows more intense.
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  • But when you turn up the light, the darkness is chased away.
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  • When you determine to live out the goodness of god, evil
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  • Is diminished.
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  • We have bargained with evil for too long.
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  • We've tried to build bridges of understanding.
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  • We've tried to accommodate in the church.
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  • "we don't want anybody to feel uncomfortable."
  • 00:17:12.247 --> 00:17:14.349
  • If you're practicing sin, if you know right and wrong and you're
  • 00:17:14.349 --> 00:17:18.253
  • Choosing wrong, you should be uncomfortable around the people
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  • Of god.
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  • Now, you shouldn't necessarily-- i think we have to show people
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  • How to find repentance and forgiveness, but we can't--we
  • 00:17:30.532 --> 00:17:36.105
  • Can't negotiate with evil and call that overcoming.
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  • "to the one who overcomes--to the one who overcomes, you will
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  • Inherit these things."
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  • I got five minutes. you can have one more passage.
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  • I told you i wasn't gonna finish.
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  • Aren't you thrilled?
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  • Some of you are looking at that outline, thinking, "dear god,
  • 00:18:01.463 --> 00:18:02.931
  • We'll be here for breakfast."
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  • Male: amen!
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  • Allen: he could--yeah, amen.
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  • I've been fasting. i'm going home and eat, folks.
  • 00:18:07.970 --> 00:18:09.671
  • It's like--2 peter chapter 3.
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  • This is the fisherman that jesus recruited.
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  • He's nearing the end of his life now.
  • 00:18:15.611 --> 00:18:17.913
  • His magnificent strength is diminished.
  • 00:18:17.913 --> 00:18:21.917
  • Some of the brashness of the young man that jesus recruited
  • 00:18:21.917 --> 00:18:24.553
  • Is tempered by experience.
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  • He has years of serving god's people, and he says in this
  • 00:18:27.022 --> 00:18:30.325
  • Letter, he said, "i know i'm just about done."
  • 00:18:30.325 --> 00:18:33.128
  • He uses the language of a tent in referencing his body, and he
  • 00:18:33.128 --> 00:18:36.965
  • Said, "i know i'm about to leave this tent."
  • 00:18:36.965 --> 00:18:40.369
  • So peter understands he's nearing the end of his road and
  • 00:18:40.369 --> 00:18:43.739
  • He's giving some wisdom.
  • 00:18:43.739 --> 00:18:46.608
  • He said, "first of all, you must understand."
  • 00:18:46.608 --> 00:18:50.179
  • For peter, this is insistent language.
  • 00:18:50.179 --> 00:18:53.148
  • He said, "you have to understand this."
  • 00:18:53.148 --> 00:18:56.485
  • This is not some casual-- he said, "this is of
  • 00:18:56.485 --> 00:18:58.854
  • Primary importance.
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  • You've got to know this.
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  • In the last days scoffers will come," they're gonna make fun of
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  • You, "scoffing and following their own evil desires."
  • 00:19:07.296 --> 00:19:10.065
  • Why do they make fun of you?
  • 00:19:10.065 --> 00:19:11.400
  • Because they don't intend to cooperate with the lord, so
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  • They're gonna mock you because you do.
  • 00:19:13.168 --> 00:19:15.771
  • Gee, that sounds familiar.
  • 00:19:15.771 --> 00:19:19.908
  • "and they will say, 'where is this "coming" he promised?
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  • Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has
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  • Since the beginning of creation.'"
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  • We're gonna mock you because you believe there's a god to whom
  • 00:19:28.984 --> 00:19:30.986
  • You'll be accountable.
  • 00:19:30.986 --> 00:19:33.422
  • They're saying everybody's always said that.
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  • There'll be no judgment.
  • 00:19:35.424 --> 00:19:38.093
  • "but they deliberately forget that long ago by god's word the
  • 00:19:38.093 --> 00:19:41.430
  • Heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and
  • 00:19:41.430 --> 00:19:44.132
  • By water.
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  • And by these waters the world of that time was deluged
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  • And destroyed."
  • 00:19:49.071 --> 00:19:50.439
  • What's he talking about?
  • 00:19:50.439 --> 00:19:52.140
  • Noah.
  • 00:19:52.140 --> 00:19:54.076
  • He said they forget that god's brought judgment to the
  • 00:19:54.076 --> 00:19:56.245
  • Earth before.
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  • And he will do it again.
  • 00:19:58.247 --> 00:20:00.349
  • "by the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved
  • 00:20:00.349 --> 00:20:03.518
  • For fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of
  • 00:20:03.518 --> 00:20:08.824
  • Ungodly men."
  • 00:20:08.824 --> 00:20:10.592
  • What's the future of ungodliness?
  • 00:20:10.592 --> 00:20:13.362
  • It's not a trick question.
  • 00:20:13.362 --> 00:20:15.197
  • Destruction.
  • 00:20:15.197 --> 00:20:18.600
  • Now, peter reminds us that our scoffing is rooted in our own
  • 00:20:18.600 --> 00:20:22.304
  • Evil or ungodly desire.
  • 00:20:22.304 --> 00:20:23.939
  • So the degree to which you and i are tempted to scoff at people
  • 00:20:23.939 --> 00:20:27.909
  • Who have a meaningful faith, we need to check the condition of
  • 00:20:27.909 --> 00:20:30.479
  • Our heart.
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  • It should sober us.
  • 00:20:33.015 --> 00:20:35.617
  • He also reminds us that time is not without end.
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  • There's a conclusion.
  • 00:20:37.886 --> 00:20:39.888
  • One of the unique things of the hebrew bible, in our bible, the
  • 00:20:39.888 --> 00:20:42.924
  • Old and new testament, is that time is presented in a
  • 00:20:42.924 --> 00:20:46.595
  • Linear fashion.
  • 00:20:46.595 --> 00:20:48.330
  • What's the first verse in the bible?
  • 00:20:48.330 --> 00:20:51.900
  • "in the beginning." it's not a trick question.
  • 00:20:51.900 --> 00:20:53.468
  • The bible starts with, "in the beginning," and it comes to a
  • 00:20:53.468 --> 00:20:56.872
  • Conclusion that this present age will come to an end.
  • 00:20:56.872 --> 00:21:00.142
  • So it's a linear presentation.
  • 00:21:00.142 --> 00:21:02.711
  • It is not a cycle.
  • 00:21:02.711 --> 00:21:05.981
  • There are some presentations of faith in the world where it
  • 00:21:05.981 --> 00:21:09.184
  • Says if you don't get it right the first time, you can come
  • 00:21:09.184 --> 00:21:11.787
  • Back and try again, grasshopper.
  • 00:21:11.787 --> 00:21:16.058
  • But our bible is linear, that time will come to an end.
  • 00:21:16.058 --> 00:21:20.329
  • There's a conclusion to times.
  • 00:21:20.329 --> 00:21:22.397
  • Time is something god created for our benefit.
  • 00:21:22.397 --> 00:21:24.733
  • He's eternal.
  • 00:21:24.733 --> 00:21:28.437
  • Peter also reminds us that god is the creator of all things.
  • 00:21:28.437 --> 00:21:32.974
  • He also reminds us that god steps into history to affect
  • 00:21:32.974 --> 00:21:37.045
  • His outcomes.
  • 00:21:37.045 --> 00:21:39.648
  • Now when god steps into history, when he begins to shake the
  • 00:21:39.648 --> 00:21:42.384
  • Earth, hebrews, he said, "i'm going to expose those things
  • 00:21:42.384 --> 00:21:47.756
  • That are temporary so that you can have greater visibility of
  • 00:21:47.756 --> 00:21:50.826
  • Those things that can't be shaken."
  • 00:21:50.826 --> 00:21:55.197
  • And then he says, "god is the judge of all things."
  • 00:21:55.197 --> 00:21:57.999
  • Well, if you're gonna run out of time, and at the end of time,
  • 00:21:57.999 --> 00:22:00.569
  • You're gonna have to face the judge of all things, simple
  • 00:22:00.569 --> 00:22:04.272
  • Wisdom would suggest you make peace with the judge.
  • 00:22:04.272 --> 00:22:08.176
  • And that the best use of your time would be to serve the king.
  • 00:22:08.176 --> 00:22:13.248
  • And we've already been given the insight into that.
  • 00:22:13.248 --> 00:22:15.183
  • It requires us to be an overcomer.
  • 00:22:15.183 --> 00:22:18.487
  • And it means that along the journey, we're gonna see god do
  • 00:22:18.487 --> 00:22:20.989
  • Things that we didn't know he could do or would do, we haven't
  • 00:22:20.989 --> 00:22:24.192
  • Seen before.
  • 00:22:24.192 --> 00:22:25.527
  • He's gonna do new things. he's told us that repeatedly.
  • 00:22:25.527 --> 00:22:28.864
  • And we're gonna have a hard time processing them.
  • 00:22:28.864 --> 00:22:31.233
  • How many times did jesus say to his closest friends, his closest
  • 00:22:31.233 --> 00:22:34.336
  • Confidants, the people that he was pouring his life into, how
  • 00:22:34.336 --> 00:22:37.406
  • Many times did he say to them, "i'm gonna go to jerusalem and
  • 00:22:37.406 --> 00:22:40.342
  • I'm going to be betrayed and arrested.
  • 00:22:40.342 --> 00:22:43.078
  • I'm gonna be convicted and crucified"?
  • 00:22:43.078 --> 00:22:47.249
  • I mean, he told them over and over again, right?
  • 00:22:47.249 --> 00:22:51.453
  • And when it happened, what was their response?
  • 00:22:51.453 --> 00:22:54.923
  • "dear god, what is happening?"
  • 00:22:54.923 --> 00:22:58.560
  • In fact, their own testimony on the road to emmaus, they said,
  • 00:22:58.560 --> 00:23:02.264
  • "we had believed he was the messiah.
  • 00:23:02.264 --> 00:23:07.068
  • But they crucified him.
  • 00:23:07.068 --> 00:23:08.437
  • So he couldn't have been."
  • 00:23:11.540 --> 00:23:15.477
  • Well, the prophets told them.
  • 00:23:15.477 --> 00:23:18.079
  • Jesus told them.
  • 00:23:18.079 --> 00:23:20.382
  • So what can we conclude?
  • 00:23:20.382 --> 00:23:23.151
  • It's gonna be a struggle for us to recognize what god is doing.
  • 00:23:23.151 --> 00:23:29.758
  • And if we're not hungering and thirsting, if we aren't
  • 00:23:29.758 --> 00:23:34.496
  • Anxiously awaiting, if we're not doing everything in our power to
  • 00:23:34.496 --> 00:23:38.266
  • Overcome evil with good, jesus told us in matthew 24, the
  • 00:23:38.266 --> 00:23:43.705
  • Majority of the people are going to be deceived.
  • 00:23:43.705 --> 00:23:47.242
  • He said the love of god in the hearts of those who have it, the
  • 00:23:47.242 --> 00:23:50.946
  • Most of them, it will grow cold because of the evil.
  • 00:23:50.946 --> 00:23:55.650
  • Folks, god is doing a new thing.
  • 00:23:55.650 --> 00:23:58.687
  • It's gonna be better than filling stadiums.
  • 00:23:58.687 --> 00:24:02.557
  • Come on, what would be better?
  • 00:24:02.557 --> 00:24:03.925
  • I don't know.
  • 00:24:03.925 --> 00:24:06.127
  • I don't--i do know now we can turn on the camera in a little
  • 00:24:06.127 --> 00:24:08.697
  • Country church in middle tennessee, and they can see you
  • 00:24:08.697 --> 00:24:11.600
  • Anywhere in the world on their little portable wonder stick.
  • 00:24:11.600 --> 00:24:17.038
  • And if they speak another language, they can hit a couple
  • 00:24:17.038 --> 00:24:19.774
  • Of buttons and it'll translate for them.
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  • How does that happen? i don't have a clue.
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  • God is moving in the earth.
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  • I wanna go with him.
  • 00:24:30.785 --> 00:24:32.587
  • I brought you a prayer.
  • 00:24:32.587 --> 00:24:34.155
  • My time's up.
  • 00:24:34.155 --> 00:24:35.724
  • We'll work on this some more.
  • 00:24:35.724 --> 00:24:37.092
  • I wanted to bring everybody a rock, but there was too many for
  • 00:24:40.462 --> 00:24:42.797
  • My carry-on.
  • 00:24:42.797 --> 00:24:44.599
  • In fact, we got plenty of rocks in tennessee.
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  • The rocks in the elah valley aren't special.
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  • It's god that makes them special.
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  • I've gone to israel a hundred-- you know how people go to israel
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  • And carry away rocks?
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  • Lots.
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  • Folks, the rocks in middle tennessee are just as good.
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  • It's god that makes the rocks work.
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  • Come on.
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  • There's one thing we're blessed with in middle tennessee
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  • Is limestone.
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  • God's got lots of weapons around here.
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  • Don't go throw rocks at somebody.
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  • Have you found the prayer?
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  • Let's read it together.
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  • "heavenly father, in our generation, awaken your people
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  • And pour out your spirit upon us.
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  • We thirst for your presence in our midst.
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  • We're not content to rest at a distance.
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  • We want to see jesus lifted up and exalted.
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  • Grant us boldness, discernment, and courage to take our place in
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  • Your purposes.
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  • Strengthen us when we are weary.
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  • Only your great strength can sustain.
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  • Our trust is in you, almighty god, amen," hallelujah.
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  • God bless you.
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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 wartorn country, 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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