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Allen Jackson - Sovereignty of God and Gender (Part 2)

May 28, 2025 | S25:E151

Allen Jackson - Sovereignty of God and Gender (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Sovereignty of God and Gender (Part 2) | May 28, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: god is moving in the earth in the most
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  • Remarkable ways.
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  • It truly is extraordinary what we see god doing.
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  • We have people coming to our campus in middle tennessee from
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  • All over the nation, from nations of the world.
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  • We're seeing more people baptized, more people engaging
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  • In ministry.
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  • It's truly a remarkable time to see god raising up voices
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  • Of truth.
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  • The one thing we hear consistently that is valued from
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  • The ministry is our willingness to speak the truth into the
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  • Current set of circumstances and people often ask, "is there
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  • Anything we can do to help?"
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  • And in reality there is.
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  • I wanna invite you to consider becoming a monthly
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  • Ministry partner.
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  • For your gift of $25 a month, you enable us to imagine a
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  • Future that expands the platforms of the ministry.
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  • That's our baseline for how we plan and what we look
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  • Forward to.
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  • If you haven't yet taken that step, please prayerfully
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  • Consider doing so.
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  • We'll share some extra content with you and some unique
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  • Opportunities with you, and together we'll take a message of
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  • Truth to this generation.
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  • God is moving and we wanna move with him.
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  • Allen: but there's three fundamental roles that i think
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  • Every man should understand are a part of our assignment in
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  • Our families.
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  • They're biblically grounded.
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  • They're not complicated.
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  • We could make this far more extravagant, but i wanna do
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  • It briefly.
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  • The first, i believe, is we have an assignment as a priest.
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  • Don't get caught up in the imagery of that.
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  • It's not about fancy clothes or new kinds of hats or shoes.
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  • It's about spiritual leadership.
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  • Biblically, priest represents someone to god.
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  • That's the whole idea of the priesthood that god implemented.
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  • We're in genesis, but we're gonna be in the rest of these
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  • Books in just a short bit, and you'll see god begin to
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  • Implement a priesthood, and he's gonna recruit a group of people
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  • To represent the rest of the people to him.
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  • They'll offer sacrifices.
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  • They'll do spiritual interventions.
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  • And men, we have an assignment to provide leadership, certainly
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  • In our homes and our families but equally in our communities.
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  • In our nation, this is our assignment.
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  • We're alive and well, you understand this.
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  • We've been mobilized for war, whether we've been drafted or we
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  • Volunteered, we live in the volunteer state for pete's sake.
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  • We understand these concepts on some level.
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  • We've just chosen conveniently to look away.
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  • Adolescence is more fun.
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  • We'd rather be involved in athletics.
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  • We'd rather look away.
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  • Responsibility is the stuff that goes with adulting and we turn
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  • That into a verb now as if it's optional.
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  • We have an assignment to be priests, to be spiritual
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  • Leaders, to be a man of character, more than you want to
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  • Be a character.
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  • So you can go viral if you can figure out how to be
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  • A character.
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  • There's really not much attention paid if you're just a
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  • Person of character.
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  • I would submit to you it's much more rewarding, very much so
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  • Over the long term and particularly into eternity, if
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  • You'll allow the spirit of god to see to the formation of
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  • Your character.
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  • It may not be celebrated and get you to the front of a parade in
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  • The moment.
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  • But it will bear tremendous fruit for the people that look
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  • To you.
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  • Show the people who depend upon you what it looks like to lead a
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  • Life of faithfulness to god.
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  • Be different.
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  • Demonstrate love and respect for your wife so your children can
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  • See it, sacrificially.
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  • I'm gonna get to the women's side, i promise, okay?
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  • We got mother's day coming, there's lots of options.
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  • I'm not gonna warn you, you'd stay home, but we're gonna work
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  • On it.
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  • But there's some simple things you can do, fellas.
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  • I don't wanna add to your to-do list in some burdensome
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  • Obtuse way.
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  • This really isn't that complicated.
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  • There's some things you can do.
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  • Let me--simple ideas like bring your family to church.
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  • "now, pastor, you're just trying to grow the church."
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  • You caught me.
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  • I mean, get really weird with it and, like, bring your
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  • Kids' friends.
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  • Let your kids feel not only the sense of responsibility you
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  • Have, but the enthusiasm you have for it.
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  • If you're driving to knoxville for a ballgame, the journey's as
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  • Much fun as the ballgame.
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  • You look forward to it all week.
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  • You talk about it, you make plans, you circle it on the
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  • Calendar, you start talking trash about who the adversary is
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  • Gonna be.
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  • You understand, i'm not saying it's wrong.
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  • I'm just telling you the training invested in the things
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  • That we value compared to the training typically invested to
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  • Our faith is dramatically different.
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  • You're capable of understanding this if we'll--if we're willing
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  • To invest our heart in it.
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  • Let your kids see you read your bible, like, when nobody's
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  • Watching, not like when you're in church in the lobby: "look, i
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  • Came early.
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  • I'm gonna read my bible."
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  • Well that's okay with me.
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  • I bring a bible to church myself, but it's more important
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  • That you read it when nobody's watching, that you give time to
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  • It, that they understand it's valuable to you.
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  • Because they're really clever little rascals.
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  • They're gonna learn a whole lot on my board than what--
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  • From what you do, than what you say.
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  • Pray.
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  • Now i know men especially will say to me, "pastor, that praying
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  • Out loud thing, you know, i don't--i'm--" so, let me give
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  • You a little progression.
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  • When you pull in the driveway at the end of the day, before you
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  • Go in the house, busy day, difficult day, a lot of
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  • Problems, you're tired physically and emotionally.
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  • You walk into the house, the kids are jacked up.
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  • The wife's been feeding them sugar, knowing you're coming
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  • Home, she's gonna hand them off.
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  • She does it on purpose.
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  • Just pause for a minute before you walk in the house and say,
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  • "god, i thank you for my family.
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  • In jesus's name, amen."
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  • Just do that for a week, every day when you get home.
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  • Don't tell anybody, don't announce it, don't post it.
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  • Don't take a selfie in your car: "just got home, praying for
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  • My family."
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  • Stop.
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  • If you can make it through a week of praying for your family
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  • Before you walk in the house, week 2 before you leave in the
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  • Morning, put your hand on your wife.
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  • Put your hand on her shoulder, very calm.
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  • "god, i thank you for my wife, amen."
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  • Just quit while you're ahead, all right?
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  • Don't break out your favorite verse of scripture.
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  • Don't swell up, start to act spiritual.
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  • She saw you kick the dog last night.
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  • She's not gonna be impressed.
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  • You know, when we talk about let's pray and i talk about that
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  • Creepy look you give where you want somebody to affirm how
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  • Spiritual you are, don't do that to your wife.
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  • She knows you're not spiritual.
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  • Just, "god, i thank you for her."
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  • Have a great day, out you go.
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  • It'll be noon before she can get her head right.
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  • That's so--that messes with her.
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  • If you can do that for a week, by week 3 maybe you pray for
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  • Your kids.
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  • Maybe you do it at the dinner table when you're gonna bless
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  • The food.
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  • "god, i thank you for my children, they're a gift in
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  • My life, amen."
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  • That's enough.
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  • If you'll just start to develop that muscle a little bit.
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  • Just bring a voice for god into your home.
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  • You bring a voice for a lot of things into your home.
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  • Making money, getting ahead, vacation, planning a spring
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  • Break or a fall break or a midterm break or a summer break
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  • Or a christmas break or an easter break.
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  • Bring a voice for god into your home.
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  • You can't imagine the difference it'll make.
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  • We've got an assignment, we're gonna be held accountable
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  • For it.
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  • We will give an account for it.
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  • Now here's the good news.
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  • I talk to men a lot who say, "pastor, my kids are grown,
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  • They're out of my home."
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  • And with a brokenness, they say, "i didn't do that when they
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  • Were there.
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  • I was busy.
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  • I was chasing the next opportunity."
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  • I can't tell you how many people i've sat with in that condition.
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  • And i've come to understand something because i've watched
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  • God honor this.
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  • The bible says that a day with the lord is like 1000 years and
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  • 1000 years like a day, opportunities that you and i
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  • Failed on for decades, god can redeem in a moment.
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  • But it requires of us.
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  • It requires of us to change.
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  • That's what repentance means.
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  • It's a change of how we think and a change of how we behave,
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  • And we have to be willing to say, "god, i'm sorry."
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  • For whatever reason, i'm not saying there weren't
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  • Real pressures.
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  • I'm not saying that you weren't having to overcome a great deal.
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  • I'm not saying circumstances were ideal.
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  • I'm just simply saying you're acknowledging the reality of
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  • Your circumstance, that observable truth again.
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  • And saying, "god, i'm sorry if-- i wanna be different."
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  • Maybe you just write a one-sentence prayer and send
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  • Them to your adult kids.
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  • "i woke up this morning and i wanted you to know how grateful
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  • I am for your life.
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  • God bless you."
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  • Don't--then don't facetime them and ask them if they got
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  • The message.
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  • The second assignment, and it's equally important is as
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  • A protector.
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  • Men, you have an assignment to be guardians.
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  • This is sacrificial.
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  • As long as we've been civilized, as long as people have been
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  • Around, men have accepted this role.
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  • It's gotten muddied and confused.
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  • And the voices are doing it not to make us more vulnerable.
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  • They're doing it to disrupt our families, to break down the
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  • Strength of our families, and in doing so to weaken our society
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  • And our culture.
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  • And the quality of our life is deteriorating and we're
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  • Cooperating because they're feeding our selfish
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  • Carnal tendencies.
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  • We're called to be protectors.
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  • Allen: so many of you send us messages, letters, emails, notes
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  • In a variety of formats saying thank you for the ministry for
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  • Willingness to speak the truth into culture in this rather
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  • Tumultuous season.
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  • Well, i hear your feedback and it's very valuable.
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  • The question i'm so often asked is, "i feel like we should
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  • Do more.
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  • What can we do?
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  • How do we do something?"
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  • Clearly, god is moving in the earth.
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  • He's raising up voices of truth.
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  • We're certainly not unique or alone in that, but there is
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  • Something you could do that would help us.
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  • Join us as a monthly ministry partner.
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  • Our baseline for how we build our plans for next comes from
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  • Those monthly partners.
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  • Your gift of $25 or more enables us to imagine
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  • A different future.
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  • So if god has blessed you through the ministry, i would
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  • Ask you to make that simple investment in what's next, and
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  • Together we will join god in helping to spread the message of
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  • A biblical worldview and its significance for our families,
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  • Our communities, our nation, and for the body of christ
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  • Throughout the earth.
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  • Join us in that partnership.
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  • We'll share some unique learning opportunities with you, and
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  • Together we'll move with what god is doing in
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  • The earth right now.
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  • Allen: dei.
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  • Institutionalizing racist behavior where we make decisions
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  • Based upon how people look or sexist behavior based on their
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  • Biology is evil.
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  • It is not a biblical construct.
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  • And please don't imagine because some president signs a few
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  • Executive orders, that's been weeded out or rooted out.
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  • There are entire departments in our most celebrated universities
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  • And our most powerful institutions, in corporate
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  • Settings and government settings, that are fully
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  • Intended to bring those principles back out as soon as
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  • They have the opportunity.
  • 00:11:55.563 --> 00:11:56.898
  • They're morphing the language now.
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  • Rather than talk about equity, they just talk about belonging.
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  • We want everyone to belong.
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  • But the values behind it are the same, because we
  • 00:12:04.706 --> 00:12:06.975
  • Haven't repented.
  • 00:12:06.975 --> 00:12:08.343
  • We haven't said--as the church, we haven't been willing to say,
  • 00:12:08.343 --> 00:12:10.445
  • "oh, that was really ungodly stuff that we've
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  • Been supporting."
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  • We're protectors.
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  • As christians, we're protectors of family and children and it's
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  • Not just our own.
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  • The fact that you put your kids in a private school or in a
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  • Christian school doesn't mean we won't be held accountable for
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  • The children.
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  • God put us here.
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  • I don't believe we should accommodate new definitions
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  • Of family.
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  • It's confusing.
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  • It's absurd.
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  • We were told for so long that they just wanted equal
  • 00:12:46.714 --> 00:12:49.017
  • Opportunities to insurance and all sorts of things, but it
  • 00:12:49.017 --> 00:12:52.654
  • Wasn't very--we moved very quickly from that until same-sex
  • 00:12:52.654 --> 00:12:56.157
  • Couples wanna be surrogate parents and they wanna rent the
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  • Body parts of other people.
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  • And we watch all of this in silence because we want to
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  • Be kind.
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  • Can you imagine the destructive things that invites into the
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  • Lives of children and their hearts?
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  • Biological sex is not confusing.
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  • It's about the sovereignty of god.
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  • In luke 19, i did put it in your notes.
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  • Jesus coming into jerusalem weeps over the city.
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  • The son of god, the incarnate son of god, the water-walking,
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  • Winemaking, blind-eye-opening, dead-raising, incarnate son of
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  • God weeping over jerusalem and he says to them, "your spiritual
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  • Failure is going to bring physical destruction, and even
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  • My presence in this city will not stop it."
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  • You see those same leaders he spoke to that said the
  • 00:13:54.148 --> 00:13:57.118
  • Fatherhood over your lives is the devil himself, and your
  • 00:13:57.118 --> 00:14:01.656
  • Character is giving expression to demonic behaviors, and now
  • 00:14:01.656 --> 00:14:04.993
  • He's weeping over that city and he said, because of those
  • 00:14:04.993 --> 00:14:07.862
  • Choices destruction is coming.
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  • You see, this notion about men and husbands and fathers is not
  • 00:14:09.931 --> 00:14:13.268
  • Some superficial theoretical theological subtlety or nuance.
  • 00:14:13.268 --> 00:14:18.606
  • It will shape the well-being of our families when we're gone.
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  • Jesus said destruction is coming and the children are gonna
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  • Suffer because you didn't get the fatherhood thing right.
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  • And there's a third assignment we have.
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  • We're providers.
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  • We're priests, we're protectors, and we're providers.
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  • Not the government.
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  • Too much squishy christianity on this.
  • 00:14:43.364 --> 00:14:47.068
  • And again, language is being manipulated, ideas are
  • 00:14:47.068 --> 00:14:49.404
  • Being manipulated.
  • 00:14:49.404 --> 00:14:50.772
  • I'm not gonna finish your outline.
  • 00:14:50.772 --> 00:14:52.106
  • If you haven't figured that out, i'm sorry.
  • 00:14:52.106 --> 00:14:54.142
  • I will finish it.
  • 00:14:54.142 --> 00:14:55.476
  • We'll reconnect on wednesday and i will try again, but as
  • 00:14:55.476 --> 00:14:59.514
  • A provider, this is a biblical concept.
  • 00:14:59.514 --> 00:15:04.652
  • Look at 1 timothy 5 and verse 8. it says: "if anyone doesn't
  • 00:15:04.652 --> 00:15:07.388
  • Provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate
  • 00:15:07.388 --> 00:15:09.924
  • Family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an
  • 00:15:09.924 --> 00:15:12.360
  • Unbeliever," wow.
  • 00:15:12.360 --> 00:15:16.664
  • Worse than an unbeliever, worse than a pagan.
  • 00:15:16.664 --> 00:15:21.869
  • Now, we've got all sorts of messages that we pull in around
  • 00:15:21.869 --> 00:15:24.072
  • That to kind of excuse us and say why we don't, and we
  • 00:15:24.072 --> 00:15:27.575
  • Couldn't find a job we wanted or we couldn't find meaningful work
  • 00:15:27.575 --> 00:15:30.311
  • Or it was too hard or something was unfair.
  • 00:15:30.311 --> 00:15:34.315
  • We introduce all this language with a enormous body of
  • 00:15:34.315 --> 00:15:37.051
  • Literature now around work-life balance, and i believe in that.
  • 00:15:37.051 --> 00:15:40.054
  • I think we should be--have some balance in our lives.
  • 00:15:40.054 --> 00:15:43.224
  • Moderation is generally a pretty good theme.
  • 00:15:43.224 --> 00:15:47.562
  • But i would submit to you that we're skewed probably quite
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  • A bit away from the work side of the balance equation.
  • 00:15:50.665 --> 00:15:55.903
  • I mean, just the way we educate our kids with the breaks that
  • 00:15:55.903 --> 00:15:58.206
  • Are available.
  • 00:15:58.206 --> 00:15:59.540
  • Going to school 5 consecutive days is now more the exception
  • 00:15:59.540 --> 00:16:01.843
  • Than it is the rule.
  • 00:16:01.843 --> 00:16:06.414
  • I mean we're a little out of it.
  • 00:16:06.414 --> 00:16:07.949
  • I can pick on my profession because i've--it's the one
  • 00:16:07.949 --> 00:16:11.219
  • That's most--i'm closest to.
  • 00:16:11.219 --> 00:16:12.820
  • I know the literature, the professional literature, that
  • 00:16:12.820 --> 00:16:15.223
  • Comes to professional christians like myself.
  • 00:16:15.223 --> 00:16:18.860
  • And it usually begins with some kind of description about how
  • 00:16:18.860 --> 00:16:21.329
  • Difficult our jobs are.
  • 00:16:21.329 --> 00:16:24.399
  • How much pressure there is.
  • 00:16:24.399 --> 00:16:26.667
  • The great burdens that come with ministry.
  • 00:16:26.667 --> 00:16:29.871
  • It's exhausting.
  • 00:16:29.871 --> 00:16:33.508
  • In fact, many of the people that write the literature and invite
  • 00:16:33.508 --> 00:16:35.610
  • Us to the seminars and write the books and provide the
  • 00:16:35.610 --> 00:16:38.012
  • Commentary, they're not quite sure how we make it.
  • 00:16:38.012 --> 00:16:45.286
  • And i've been invited to speak at quite a few pastors'
  • 00:16:45.286 --> 00:16:47.288
  • Conference lately, and i usually engage with them using the
  • 00:16:47.288 --> 00:16:50.625
  • Language that comes from our literature and i get all these
  • 00:16:50.625 --> 00:16:52.460
  • Rousing amens.
  • 00:16:52.460 --> 00:16:53.795
  • I say, in fact, i think it's probably better if we had a 6-
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  • Or 8-week sabbatical every summer.
  • 00:16:57.532 --> 00:17:01.002
  • Usually there's kind of a core, yeah, i'm gaining momentum.
  • 00:17:01.002 --> 00:17:05.706
  • So you know me better than they do.
  • 00:17:05.706 --> 00:17:11.179
  • And i say, "look, here's the reality.
  • 00:17:11.179 --> 00:17:12.680
  • Most days if i choose to, i could wear a white shirt to work
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  • And when i go home it'll still be white.
  • 00:17:15.083 --> 00:17:19.120
  • I'm not a coal miner.
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  • I don't run towards gunfire.
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  • The training for my profession does not threaten my
  • 00:17:25.393 --> 00:17:29.397
  • Physical well-being.
  • 00:17:29.397 --> 00:17:32.166
  • A hard day means i thought.
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  • And a heavy lift is i talked."
  • 00:17:36.537 --> 00:17:41.542
  • Now i agree it can be stressful doing life with people,
  • 00:17:41.542 --> 00:17:44.946
  • Engaged in solving.
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  • I get that.
  • 00:17:46.314 --> 00:17:47.648
  • I'm not minimizing that, but the language we use and the reality
  • 00:17:47.648 --> 00:17:49.951
  • Of our behavior is not the same, so i tell my pastors when we're
  • 00:17:49.951 --> 00:17:52.587
  • Gathered together if they've bought into that system to grab
  • 00:17:52.587 --> 00:17:55.556
  • Their verse and exit the podium.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • It's a short list for my second invitation, but it's okay.
  • 00:18:06.200 --> 00:18:10.905
  • But i would suggest that the voices that speak to us have
  • 00:18:10.905 --> 00:18:13.441
  • Done that in many of our professions, whether
  • 00:18:13.441 --> 00:18:15.409
  • We're teachers.
  • 00:18:15.409 --> 00:18:20.815
  • You choose--you choose the occupation.
  • 00:18:20.815 --> 00:18:25.019
  • We're told we're put upon, we're mistreated, we deserve some
  • 00:18:25.019 --> 00:18:30.024
  • Different idea and in doing that what they're separating us
  • 00:18:30.024 --> 00:18:32.460
  • Further and further away from is our assignment, the notion that
  • 00:18:32.460 --> 00:18:35.696
  • We have an assignment to be providers.
  • 00:18:35.696 --> 00:18:39.967
  • That it doesn't have much to do with how i feel and then we've
  • 00:18:39.967 --> 00:18:43.371
  • Added to that misaligned mislabeling of our work
  • 00:18:43.371 --> 00:18:45.907
  • Unrealistic expectations of work and there's a whole body of
  • 00:18:45.907 --> 00:18:48.309
  • Literature around this, that your job should fulfill you,
  • 00:18:48.309 --> 00:18:51.345
  • That when the alarm goes off in the morning and your eyes open,
  • 00:18:51.345 --> 00:18:56.384
  • The first thought that should hit your brain is, "i can't wait
  • 00:18:56.384 --> 00:18:58.686
  • To get to work today."
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  • That you want a job that completes you, that gives you
  • 00:19:01.989 --> 00:19:04.125
  • Full expression of all the creative abilities with which
  • 00:19:04.125 --> 00:19:06.661
  • God has entrusted you.
  • 00:19:06.661 --> 00:19:09.096
  • Find something you love to do and you'll never work another
  • 00:19:09.096 --> 00:19:11.199
  • Day in your life.
  • 00:19:11.199 --> 00:19:14.835
  • All kinds of seminars, motivational stuff, and i'm not
  • 00:19:14.835 --> 00:19:17.138
  • A--i hope you enjoy what you get to do.
  • 00:19:17.138 --> 00:19:19.240
  • I enjoy some of what i do.
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  • I know how you enjoy.
  • 00:19:32.386 --> 00:19:33.721
  • I watch you come into church.
  • 00:19:33.721 --> 00:19:38.392
  • And then i watch you leave.
  • 00:19:38.392 --> 00:19:42.396
  • Body language is completely different.
  • 00:19:42.396 --> 00:19:48.169
  • I'm--i got it.
  • 00:19:48.169 --> 00:19:50.805
  • Look, it--work is difficult.
  • 00:19:50.805 --> 00:19:54.308
  • Office, at times, it isn't fun.
  • 00:19:54.308 --> 00:19:58.045
  • Many times in the moment it doesn't feel rewarding.
  • 00:19:58.045 --> 00:20:00.348
  • Occasionally i like to go do just manual.
  • 00:20:00.348 --> 00:20:01.916
  • I like to mow grass because when i get done mowing the grass, i
  • 00:20:01.916 --> 00:20:03.851
  • Can see it.
  • 00:20:03.851 --> 00:20:06.053
  • I cut that grass, that grass is shorter, that grass is taller,
  • 00:20:06.053 --> 00:20:08.923
  • And i'm coming for that tall grass in a minute.
  • 00:20:08.923 --> 00:20:12.460
  • Because the job i have, you can't always see that you
  • 00:20:12.460 --> 00:20:14.395
  • Did something.
  • 00:20:14.395 --> 00:20:16.964
  • I read this little thing about three generations of my family
  • 00:20:16.964 --> 00:20:19.634
  • Were funeral directors and i met a minister.
  • 00:20:19.634 --> 00:20:21.702
  • He stopped the ministry and he became a funeral director.
  • 00:20:21.702 --> 00:20:25.740
  • You see, now i have a job when i straighten people out they
  • 00:20:25.740 --> 00:20:27.875
  • Stay straight.
  • 00:20:27.875 --> 00:20:34.148
  • It's a bad joke.
  • 00:20:34.148 --> 00:20:35.516
  • Don't send me a note.
  • 00:20:35.516 --> 00:20:38.486
  • But the truth is work is difficult.
  • 00:20:38.486 --> 00:20:41.922
  • And oftentimes it's unpleasant, but it's necessary.
  • 00:20:41.922 --> 00:20:46.727
  • And we have to be taught to work.
  • 00:20:46.727 --> 00:20:48.462
  • We have to teach our children the value of work.
  • 00:20:48.462 --> 00:20:51.766
  • We have to be willing for them to suffer the difficulties that
  • 00:20:51.766 --> 00:20:55.136
  • Come with work.
  • 00:20:55.136 --> 00:20:56.504
  • It's not always fair.
  • 00:20:56.504 --> 00:20:57.838
  • It isn't always just in the moment.
  • 00:20:57.838 --> 00:21:01.008
  • That's the awkward reality.
  • 00:21:01.008 --> 00:21:02.343
  • You don't get a participation trophy.
  • 00:21:02.343 --> 00:21:06.213
  • All of that is what's necessary in helping us develop a
  • 00:21:06.213 --> 00:21:09.750
  • Generation of men, godly men, prepared to be godly husbands,
  • 00:21:09.750 --> 00:21:15.523
  • Who can then be godly fathers.
  • 00:21:15.523 --> 00:21:17.992
  • It doesn't happen by accident.
  • 00:21:17.992 --> 00:21:19.393
  • It's not the government's responsibility or the
  • 00:21:19.393 --> 00:21:21.495
  • University's responsibility.
  • 00:21:21.495 --> 00:21:23.397
  • It's not even the sunday school's responsibility.
  • 00:21:23.397 --> 00:21:27.335
  • It starts in our homes.
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  • I wanna go back to the 1 timothy 5. i'm gonna quit here.
  • 00:21:29.303 --> 00:21:31.405
  • I know my time's up.
  • 00:21:31.405 --> 00:21:34.542
  • "if anyone doesn't provide for his relatives, and especially
  • 00:21:34.542 --> 00:21:36.711
  • For his immediate family, he's denied the faith and is worse
  • 00:21:36.711 --> 00:21:38.913
  • Than an unbeliever."
  • 00:21:38.913 --> 00:21:40.247
  • That's the part some of us know.
  • 00:21:40.247 --> 00:21:41.615
  • Look at the next phrase.
  • 00:21:41.615 --> 00:21:43.317
  • "no widow may be put on the list of widows unless she's over
  • 00:21:43.317 --> 00:21:45.886
  • Sixty, and has been faithful to her husband, and is well known
  • 00:21:45.886 --> 00:21:53.127
  • For good deeds such as bringing up children, and
  • 00:21:53.127 --> 00:21:55.162
  • Showing hospitality."
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  • Skip to the next verse.
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  • James 1:27: "religion that our god accepts as pure and
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  • Faultless is this: to look after widows and orphans in their
  • 00:21:59.934 --> 00:22:03.003
  • Distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by
  • 00:22:03.003 --> 00:22:05.272
  • The world."
  • 00:22:05.272 --> 00:22:06.607
  • Most of you have heard the words from james quoted when somebody
  • 00:22:06.607 --> 00:22:09.110
  • Was trying to ask you to help with widows and orphans.
  • 00:22:09.110 --> 00:22:12.346
  • And i believe we have a biblical assignment to help widows
  • 00:22:12.346 --> 00:22:14.915
  • And orphans.
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  • I do.
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  • Without any question.
  • 00:22:17.718 --> 00:22:19.854
  • But you can't set aside the larger counsel of scripture.
  • 00:22:19.854 --> 00:22:23.057
  • And paul wrote to timothy, who's--he's preparing for
  • 00:22:23.057 --> 00:22:25.726
  • Leadership in the church in paul's absence after his death,
  • 00:22:25.726 --> 00:22:29.330
  • And he said, "listen, you can't put a widow on the widow's list
  • 00:22:29.330 --> 00:22:32.199
  • To qualify for benevolence or help unless she's over 60," in
  • 00:22:32.199 --> 00:22:38.939
  • A point in history when the average life expectancy was less
  • 00:22:38.939 --> 00:22:41.842
  • Than that.
  • 00:22:41.842 --> 00:22:44.545
  • She can't even make the list unless she's a freak of nature.
  • 00:22:44.545 --> 00:22:49.917
  • And then on top of that, she has to have to have demonstrated
  • 00:22:49.917 --> 00:22:52.887
  • Character worthy of your engagement.
  • 00:22:52.887 --> 00:22:56.857
  • She's got to be faithful to her husband and well known for good
  • 00:22:56.857 --> 00:22:59.727
  • Deeds and bringing up children and hospitable and washing the
  • 00:22:59.727 --> 00:23:03.864
  • Feet of the saints and helping those in trouble.
  • 00:23:03.864 --> 00:23:06.000
  • That's a high bar.
  • 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:10.004
  • But you see, we've been having some sort of a sloppy
  • 00:23:10.004 --> 00:23:12.540
  • Christianity with kind of a permanent adolescence where
  • 00:23:12.540 --> 00:23:15.543
  • There's no expectations of anyone and we find some verse
  • 00:23:15.543 --> 00:23:18.279
  • Peeled out of context that jesus was all about love and we should
  • 00:23:18.279 --> 00:23:21.816
  • Just have a group hug and let's sing one more verse of kumbaya.
  • 00:23:21.816 --> 00:23:27.054
  • Folks, gender is not confusing.
  • 00:23:27.054 --> 00:23:30.124
  • Biological sex is not confusing.
  • 00:23:30.124 --> 00:23:34.195
  • And we need transformation to come at many levels of our
  • 00:23:34.195 --> 00:23:37.164
  • Culture for us to be able to begin to raise generation of
  • 00:23:37.164 --> 00:23:40.668
  • Godly men so that we can have godly families and our children
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  • Will have an opportunity in the future better than the
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  • Opportunities that we've inherited.
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  • And that begins in the church.
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  • It begins in the church far before--long before it begins
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  • In the halls of congress or the state house or the corridors of
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  • The supreme court.
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  • It's a biblical assignment.
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  • I'm not suggesting to you it's easy.
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  • I'm suggesting to you it's worthwhile, that it's valuable.
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  • I'm also saying to you, i'm not suggesting it, that our culture
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  • Is working very aggressively in opposition to almost all of
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  • These things.
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  • They're manipulating the language.
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  • They're indoctrinating your children.
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  • And if they escape the educational system and they go
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  • To higher education, in those places, for the overwhelming
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  • Majority, tragically even too many of the christian
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  • Institutions are propaganda centers.
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  • You better pay attention.
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  • That's why your faith in your home as something communicated
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  • To your children is the best thing.
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  • They need a healthy spiritual immune system far more than they
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  • Need a physically healthy immune system.
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  • And i believe they need a healthy physically
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  • Immune system.
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  • God is moving.
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  • He will help us.
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  • But it's gonna take a response of courage, fellows.
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  • We're gonna have to care more about our families and the
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  • Principles of god and bringing them into our homes than the
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  • Messaging we get from our culture.
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  • The difference between our friends and our secular friends
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  • Should be marked.
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  • And it should be more than our vocabulary and our
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  • Beverage list.
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  • God is moving.
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  • I wanna close with a blessing.
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  • I don't wanna--i wanna give you a blessing.
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  • If you'll stand with me.
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  • I put it in your notes.
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  • I even gave you the scriptural reference.
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  • I'm not making this up.
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  • It may be the most frequently pronounced blessing in the
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  • History of people of faith, and it seems appropriate to me in
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  • The 21st century.
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  • I don't want us to ever lose sight of the fact that we live
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  • Beneath the blessing of god.
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  • He watches over us.
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  • He cares for us.
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  • His truth is not burdensome or loathsome.
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  • It brings liberty and freedom, amen?
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  • May the lord bless you and keep you.
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  • May "the lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious
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  • To you.
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  • May the lord turn his face towards you and give you
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  • Peace," amen.
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  • God bless you.
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  • Allen: you know, on behalf of the whole team that makes the
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  • Content from allen jackson ministries possible, i wanna say
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  • Thank you.
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  • I'm actually standing in three crosses sanctuary.
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  • This is where we do most of our live services, but from these
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  • Places, this team of people creates all the content you see
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  • So frequently across a variety of platforms.
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  • And you're so gracious.
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  • The messages you send, the notes, the emails, the texts,
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  • The letters you send are an enormous encouragement.
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  • The question we're asked most frequently is how can you pray?
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  • And is there anything you can do to help as we spread the truth,
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  • And candidly, there is.
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  • Join us as a monthly ministry partner.
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  • For your gift of $25 or more on a monthly basis you enable us to
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  • Take these messages and to share them across a variety
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  • Of platforms.
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  • We do our planning based on the strength of participation from
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  • Those monthly ministry partners.
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  • So if you'll join us in that, we can multiply this ministry.
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  • God is moving in the earth.
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  • We are honored to stand with you in lifting up the name of jesus,
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  • And i wanna thank you in advance for your generosity, for
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  • Your faithful prayers and your financial support.
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