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Allen Jackson - Spiritual Authority

November 25, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - Spiritual Authority
Pastor Allen Jackson's mission is to help people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Spiritual Authority | November 25, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: god is moving in the earth.
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  • We established allen jackson ministries to strengthen
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  • The church.
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  • Jesus said he would build his church and hell wouldn't
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  • Stop it.
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  • We intend to be a part of that in this nation and beyond.
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  • With your help, we have done a lot of things in the media with
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  • Television and radio.
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  • We have created small group curriculum.
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  • We've hosted a culture and christianity conference.
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  • We have crisscrossed this nation in more than two dozen cities
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  • Doing pastor's conferences with pastors and church leaders.
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  • Now we have strategic partners in israel and the ukraine asking
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  • For that same kind of help and resources.
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  • As we look at the year ahead, i want to ask you to prayerfully
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  • Consider making an investment in this ministry as we look towards
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  • This new year.
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  • We intend to strengthen the church in this nation and beyond
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  • As never before.
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  • God is moving.
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  • We want to be a part of that.
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  • I thank you for your partnership, for your
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  • Generosity, and for your faithfulness in standing
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  • With us.
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  • Together, we'll make a difference
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  • For the kingdom of god.
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  • Allen: we began a new series a couple sessions ago, talking
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  • About a new destiny.
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  • I believe god would give you a new destiny.
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  • You know, we make our life plans, we build our schedules
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  • And have our dreams, and i don't think those are wrong, but i
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  • Believe god has a plan that's better than mine.
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  • And i would invite you to have the courage to say to the lord,
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  • I would prefer your destiny for my life, rather than demanding
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  • That god meet our expectations.
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  • What if we had the courage to say to him, "i would like--what
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  • Do you have for me?"
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  • Because i believe god will multiply whatever imagination
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  • You had was a good thing for your life.
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  • So in this session we're gonna talk a bit about
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  • Spiritual authority.
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  • It seemed appropriate.
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  • I--the bones of this i put together a day or two ago, but
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  • Given the events of this week, it seemed appropriate.
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  • We had elections again.
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  • You know, i've given you my perspective on elections
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  • Multiple times.
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  • I think elections are kind of analogous to--they're a point
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  • Of evaluation.
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  • They don't make us healthier or less healthy.
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  • I believe elections are a reflection of our spiritual
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  • Health and vitality.
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  • You know, in the same way that if you're going to the doctor
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  • For a physical, they'll draw your blood and do a blood
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  • Screen, and they'll tell you your cholesterol is too high or
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  • Too low or they'll check your blood pressure, or your glucose
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  • Is too high.
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  • They'll--they can evaluate your general health by some very
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  • Simple test.
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  • And it isn't--the blood work doesn't make you healthy or
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  • Less so.
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  • It reveals the nature of your physical condition.
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  • And i believe that's what an election does.
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  • It gives us a little window into how our spiritual health
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  • Is going.
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  • And we have the mistaken notion if we just elect the right
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  • People, we can go sit on our own good intentions.
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  • Remember the--the la-z-boy recliner in my house robe?
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  • You know, we thought, well, we had an election where we kind of
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  • Got a biblical worldview in there, so we can go sit down.
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  • And so now the largest city in america has elected a 34 year
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  • Old muslim socialist.
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  • And that's--it's a free country.
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  • We have the right to do that.
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  • But if you want to know about our spiritual health and
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  • Vitality, it wouldn't seem--i would have much preferred we
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  • Elected a 34-year-old pentecostal christian.
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  • And you say, "well, that's unrealistic," and then if that's
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  • True, we have really lost sight of what our objectives are.
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  • Why would we be more reluctant to elect someone who is a
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  • Zealous christ follower than someone who's a zealous
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  • Muslim socialist?
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  • One is celebrated and we suggest the other, the
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  • Christian's cringe.
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  • So i would submit to you, we still have some work to do.
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  • The good news is jesus is still on the throne.
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  • The creator of heaven and earth is still watching over us.
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  • But to be completely candid with you, if you ask, and this is
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  • Kind of off--i didn't write this out.
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  • Usually if i'm going to do this, i have to write it down, but--.
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  • I'll give you my most honest assessment.
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  • If there isn't a response, and soon, of greater magnitude than
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  • We've ever seen in our lifetime, i believe we'll experience the
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  • Judgment of god.
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  • We have had more.
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  • More freedom, more liberty, more abundance, more opportunity than
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  • Any people in history.
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  • We've had more opportunity with the gospel, more prevalence of
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  • The gospel.
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  • We can watch it on television, listen to it on the radio.
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  • We have churches that are not difficult to find.
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  • We have an abundance.
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  • And we are--.
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  • I think we're standing on the precipice.
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  • I think we're at a very clear point of demarcation.
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  • And i don't know what the outcome will be.
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  • But i believe we should do everything in our power to
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  • Acknowledge jesus as lord, and to declare those
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  • Biblical principles.
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  • And to bring our lives into the fullest possible alignment with
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  • The spirit of god that we know how.
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  • And perhaps, perhaps, god will look upon us with mercy.
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  • You know, there are some demonic expressions amongst us.
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  • They're not new.
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  • I've tagged them before, but they persist and there
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  • Aren't--they're not discussed as frequently as i would like from
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  • The churches.
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  • But i think, you'll know, i don't like the language we use
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  • Around revival.
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  • They take a picture of a couple hundred college students being
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  • Baptized and they say it's a revival.
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  • I'm grateful, but i call that the normal life of the church.
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  • If you have a campus with tens of thousands of college
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  • Students, there should be dozens and dozens and dozens of college
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  • Students being baptized every week, in the normal life of a
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  • Healthy, vibrant community of christians.
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  • We have to recalibrate.
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  • Again, i'm not demeaning that.
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  • I'm very grateful for that, i'm thankful for that, but we need a
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  • Different imagination.
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  • And there's some things amongst us that i don't think can be
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  • Understood as anything other than demonic.
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  • The continued ongoing mutilation and murder of our children.
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  • More than 60 million sacrificed to abortion.
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  • It wasn't a legal issue because when the laws were changed, the
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  • Abortion rates really haven't diminished.
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  • They're almost as prevalent amongst the christians as they
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  • Are amongst the secular culture.
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  • The mutilation of our children.
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  • And while the current administration has put some
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  • Prohibitions in place around things like dei and the
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  • Transgender confusion, it's still being widely practiced,
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  • It's just being relabeled.
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  • I read an article today that princeton university does
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  • Separate graduations for varying gender perspectives.
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  • In flagrant violation of federal law, violating all sorts of
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  • Federal laws.
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  • It's very prevalent amongst us.
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  • It's demonic.
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  • It's demonic that our healthcare professionals would mutilate our
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  • Children for profit.
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  • It's demonic that the licensing bodies for those professional
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  • Organizations sanction those things.
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  • It's junk science.
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  • And i don't think it can be understood apart from spiritual
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  • Forces, but we shouldn't pick on the healthcare community.
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  • The churches aren't using their voices to stand up against it.
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  • There's a second demonic trend that's very prevalent today.
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  • It's become chic.
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  • It should make us uncomfortable when demonic things become chic.
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  • It should.
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  • It should drive us to our knees.
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  • And this one is the diminishment of the jewish people in the
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  • Nation of israel.
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  • It's fashionable.
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  • And the third one--again, none of these are new, we've talked
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  • About them to some significant extent--is lawlessness.
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  • It's startling to me that we would elect somebody to new york
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  • Mayor that's in favor of defunding the police.
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  • It's happening across our nation.
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  • Major american cities ignoring federal laws and demanding
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  • Federal funding.
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  • That is absurd.
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  • Being protected, oftentimes, by the governors in their states.
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  • That's a very short step from complete secession.
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  • "we will not cooperate with federal law.
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  • We demand all the rights and privileges of being a part of
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  • This republic."
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  • We had a civil war around those kind of ideas.
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  • I'm not suggesting civil war.
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  • I'm telling you we are teetering on the brink.
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  • We've seen a political response.
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  • Someone that's--the current administration that has brought
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  • Something of a biblical worldview, at least in part,
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  • More so than we have seen in a while.
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  • But whatever gains are being advanced will be short-lived
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  • Without a true fundamental spiritual change in the hearts
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  • Of god's people, not the pagans.
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  • We don't require a majority.
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  • God does not require a majority.
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  • God and his truth alone rule.
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  • What god requires is a committed people.
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  • The best example i know of that is the tiny nation of israel.
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  • There's about seven million jewish citizens in the modern
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  • State of israel, surrounded by hundreds of millions of people
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  • Who are sworn to their annihilation.
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  • And for the most part, the israelis's adversaries have
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  • Global support.
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  • And yet tiny israel has not only survived, they flourish, much to
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  • The consternation of their adversaries.
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  • If we could use that model, we don't have to have the majority,
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  • But we have to have the courage to say, we belong in the public
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  • Square, we belong in the schools, we belong in
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  • The universities.
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  • Our viewpoint is legitimate, we have the freedom to express it,
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  • And we will not back down.
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  • We have compromised for so long, afraid that we would forfeit an
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  • Opportunity or a deal, or there would be some reprisal, and
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  • There may very well be.
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  • But we have to persevere.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: god is moving in the earth.
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  • A few years ago we understood god inviting us beyond just the
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  • Local congregation that i serve.
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  • We began allen jackson ministries so we could serve the
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  • Church across our nation and beyond.
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  • With pastor's conferences, with print material, with small group
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  • Curriculum, god has opened remarkable doors in radio
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  • And television.
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  • Your partnership, your generosity, your faithfulness
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  • Has made that possible.
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  • Now we have strategic partners asking for help in israel and
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  • The ukraine, those war-torn countries.
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  • Together we're strengthening the church in this nation
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  • And beyond.
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  • Thank you for your generosity.
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  • Allen: so the topic is this new destiny.
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  • And in this session, spiritual authority.
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  • And i'm gonna back up and touch a couple of things we looked at.
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  • The beginning point of this is a commitment on your part and mine
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  • To seek the lord.
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  • It's not the way our faith is typically presented, nor has
  • 00:12:29.298 --> 00:12:32.735
  • Been for quite some season now.
  • 00:12:32.735 --> 00:12:34.904
  • We tend to make our presentation of our faith around a personal
  • 00:12:34.904 --> 00:12:39.275
  • Experience, a personal salvation, and i believe
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  • In that.
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  • I don't want to diminish that.
  • 00:12:42.578 --> 00:12:43.913
  • But having experienced the new birth, conversion, salvation,
  • 00:12:43.913 --> 00:12:46.782
  • Whichever label you are most familiar with, the assignment is
  • 00:12:46.782 --> 00:12:50.986
  • Then to seek the lord, turn your face towards the lord, to orient
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  • Your life towards god and say, day by day, week by week, month
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  • By month, i intend to increasingly align my life with
  • 00:12:59.161 --> 00:13:03.999
  • The values and perspectives and desires of almighty god.
  • 00:13:03.999 --> 00:13:09.171
  • That's different than walking an aisle and then inviting the
  • 00:13:09.171 --> 00:13:11.907
  • Blessings of god on your agenda.
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  • And rather than be agitated or frustrated with people who are
  • 00:13:15.077 --> 00:13:18.047
  • Ungodly or have--the assignment, as i understand it, is to say
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  • For myself, for me and my household, "we will seek
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  • The lord."
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  • So it's an invitation i'm giving you.
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  • Let's determine, as this year is headed quickly towards a
  • 00:13:29.825 --> 00:13:32.795
  • Conclusion, to seek the lord in our lives and in our homes, as
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  • Never before.
  • 00:13:37.833 --> 00:13:39.735
  • Matthew 6:33, jesus is speaking.
  • 00:13:39.735 --> 00:13:42.037
  • He said, "seek first his kingdom and his righteousness."
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  • Some of you know the context.
  • 00:13:46.342 --> 00:13:47.676
  • It's the expanded sermon on the mount.
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  • And jesus is saying, you know, don't worry about what you'll
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  • Eat or what you'll wear or where you live.
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  • He said, god knows you need all of those things.
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  • He said the pagans run after all of those things.
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  • Don't act like a pagan, he said.
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  • Do you understand if those are your primary priorities, you
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  • Have identified.
  • 00:14:07.963 --> 00:14:11.567
  • Jesus said, "but seek first the kingdom of god and his
  • 00:14:11.567 --> 00:14:16.605
  • Righteousness, and all of these things will be given to you."
  • 00:14:16.605 --> 00:14:19.742
  • They're just like, they're a part of the deal.
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  • "don't worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry
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  • About itself.
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  • Each day has enough trouble."
  • 00:14:28.517 --> 00:14:29.885
  • That's a good spot for an amen.
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  • You don't need to wring your hands about who's mayor of
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  • New york.
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  • Jesus is still on the throne.
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  • But you should pay attention, because we just got our lab work
  • 00:14:38.294 --> 00:14:40.796
  • Back and it wasn't great, right?
  • 00:14:40.796 --> 00:14:44.500
  • You can spin it any way you want to, but that's the truth.
  • 00:14:44.500 --> 00:14:48.971
  • You know, i saw banners in israel about president trump,
  • 00:14:48.971 --> 00:14:51.974
  • That he was king cyrus.
  • 00:14:51.974 --> 00:14:53.309
  • No, he's not.
  • 00:14:53.309 --> 00:14:55.377
  • King cyrus was an ancient near eastern monarch, which meant he
  • 00:14:55.377 --> 00:14:58.147
  • Had absolute authority.
  • 00:14:58.147 --> 00:15:00.382
  • He could do what he wanted when he wanted, and there was no
  • 00:15:00.382 --> 00:15:03.052
  • Court of appeals.
  • 00:15:03.052 --> 00:15:05.087
  • That's not the system we live in.
  • 00:15:05.087 --> 00:15:09.158
  • For whatever reason, i believe we have a current administration
  • 00:15:09.158 --> 00:15:11.660
  • That has chosen for the most part to give expression to
  • 00:15:11.660 --> 00:15:14.697
  • Biblical worldview.
  • 00:15:14.697 --> 00:15:16.966
  • And that's a gift, but it's only sustainable if the citizens
  • 00:15:16.966 --> 00:15:20.369
  • Embrace that.
  • 00:15:20.369 --> 00:15:23.305
  • We have to seek the lord.
  • 00:15:23.305 --> 00:15:24.673
  • Look at psalm 34.
  • 00:15:24.673 --> 00:15:26.008
  • "i sought the lord, and he answered me."
  • 00:15:26.008 --> 00:15:29.445
  • There's no response from god unless we seek him!
  • 00:15:29.445 --> 00:15:34.183
  • So, you know, "pastor, god doesn't have much to say to me."
  • 00:15:34.183 --> 00:15:36.118
  • Well, how much effort and energy and time and self-discipline are
  • 00:15:36.118 --> 00:15:38.854
  • You expressing in seeking the lord?
  • 00:15:38.854 --> 00:15:42.825
  • We have a hard time reading our bibles!
  • 00:15:42.825 --> 00:15:45.894
  • I mean, you're in church in the middle of the week.
  • 00:15:45.894 --> 00:15:47.663
  • I know i'm preaching to the choir.
  • 00:15:47.663 --> 00:15:50.399
  • But in general, across, it's not like it's common practice.
  • 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:56.171
  • It's not like all of our associates and all of our peer
  • 00:15:56.171 --> 00:15:58.774
  • Group and everybody we know, we have a hard time in christian
  • 00:15:58.774 --> 00:16:02.211
  • Schools and universities getting them to maintain a
  • 00:16:02.211 --> 00:16:04.413
  • Biblical worldview.
  • 00:16:04.413 --> 00:16:07.616
  • It's been decades since we trained pastors to respect the
  • 00:16:07.616 --> 00:16:11.387
  • Authority of scripture.
  • 00:16:11.387 --> 00:16:13.522
  • Now i know there's outliers to that and there are exceptions,
  • 00:16:13.522 --> 00:16:15.858
  • But our most celebrated training institutions have been apostate
  • 00:16:15.858 --> 00:16:21.063
  • For decades.
  • 00:16:21.063 --> 00:16:22.431
  • We've got to at least--it's not a negative declaration
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  • Of anything.
  • 00:16:29.004 --> 00:16:30.372
  • You can't get healthier until you face the reality of where
  • 00:16:30.372 --> 00:16:33.108
  • You are.
  • 00:16:33.108 --> 00:16:35.944
  • Seek the lord.
  • 00:16:35.944 --> 00:16:37.312
  • He "said, i sought the lord, and he answered me; he delivered me
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  • From all of my fears.
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  • Those who look to him are radiant; their faces are never
  • 00:16:42.951 --> 00:16:45.354
  • Covered with shame.
  • 00:16:45.354 --> 00:16:47.056
  • The poor man called, and the lord heard him."
  • 00:16:47.056 --> 00:16:50.793
  • So it's not about your economic status.
  • 00:16:50.793 --> 00:16:54.430
  • "he saved him out of all of his troubles."
  • 00:16:54.430 --> 00:16:56.665
  • "the angel of the lord encamps around those who fear him, and
  • 00:16:56.665 --> 00:17:00.135
  • He delivers them."
  • 00:17:00.135 --> 00:17:01.804
  • You know why it would matter if the angel of the lord encamps
  • 00:17:01.804 --> 00:17:04.139
  • Around you?
  • 00:17:04.139 --> 00:17:05.474
  • Because your adversaries seem to encircle you.
  • 00:17:05.474 --> 00:17:07.810
  • And you've got to know, as the prophet did, that there's more
  • 00:17:07.810 --> 00:17:10.179
  • With us than there are with them.
  • 00:17:10.179 --> 00:17:13.115
  • "taste and see that the lord is good; blessed is the man who
  • 00:17:13.115 --> 00:17:16.885
  • Takes refuge in him."
  • 00:17:16.885 --> 00:17:18.687
  • Refuge means there's something adversarial.
  • 00:17:18.687 --> 00:17:21.290
  • There's a reason you need refuge.
  • 00:17:21.290 --> 00:17:25.494
  • You don't need refuge from an awards ceremony.
  • 00:17:25.494 --> 00:17:30.532
  • "fear the lord, you his saints, for those who fear him
  • 00:17:30.532 --> 00:17:33.869
  • Lack nothing.
  • 00:17:33.869 --> 00:17:35.604
  • The lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the
  • 00:17:35.604 --> 00:17:38.540
  • Lord lack no good thing."
  • 00:17:38.540 --> 00:17:43.178
  • Here's the reality.
  • 00:17:43.178 --> 00:17:44.546
  • We seek the lord because we need his answer.
  • 00:17:44.546 --> 00:17:46.782
  • I sought the lord and he answered me.
  • 00:17:46.782 --> 00:17:50.319
  • We seek answers in so many places.
  • 00:17:50.319 --> 00:17:53.555
  • Let's orient our lives towards the lord first.
  • 00:17:53.555 --> 00:17:56.992
  • May i ask a question?
  • 00:17:56.992 --> 00:17:58.360
  • Do you imagine that you need an answer from the lord?
  • 00:17:58.360 --> 00:18:01.630
  • I can tell you there is a plethora of things on my heart
  • 00:18:01.630 --> 00:18:05.067
  • And in my life that i'm saying to the lord, "lord, only an
  • 00:18:05.067 --> 00:18:07.436
  • Answer from you is adequate."
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  • Hebrews 11:6.
  • 00:18:12.574 --> 00:18:14.877
  • "without faith, it's impossible to please god."
  • 00:18:14.877 --> 00:18:19.148
  • That's a staggering statement.
  • 00:18:19.148 --> 00:18:21.116
  • You can't please god without faith, because anyone who comes
  • 00:18:21.116 --> 00:18:23.952
  • To him must believe that he exists.
  • 00:18:23.952 --> 00:18:25.521
  • There's two requirements when you come to god.
  • 00:18:25.521 --> 00:18:27.656
  • You have to believe that he exists and secondly, that he
  • 00:18:27.656 --> 00:18:30.425
  • Rewards those who earnestly seek him.
  • 00:18:30.425 --> 00:18:34.263
  • I mean, people consistently that say that they think god's a
  • 00:18:34.263 --> 00:18:37.099
  • Socialist, that we're all just gonna get the same thing.
  • 00:18:37.099 --> 00:18:40.736
  • We're all going to get to heaven and get standard issue.
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  • Same outfit?
  • 00:18:45.741 --> 00:18:47.976
  • It'll be like tract housing.
  • 00:18:47.976 --> 00:18:51.513
  • Everybody's gonna get the same thing.
  • 00:18:51.513 --> 00:18:53.982
  • And they're deeply offended when i say, "well, that's not
  • 00:18:53.982 --> 00:18:55.851
  • Really biblical."
  • 00:18:55.851 --> 00:18:57.186
  • "well, i don't know about--it's just what i believe."
  • 00:18:57.186 --> 00:19:00.422
  • But the bible clearly talks about rewards.
  • 00:19:00.422 --> 00:19:05.294
  • So, you know, "pastor, i'd just be happy to--just to be there."
  • 00:19:05.294 --> 00:19:10.232
  • Well, i appreciate that, but i would really like to do my best.
  • 00:19:10.232 --> 00:19:14.670
  • I can't earn it.
  • 00:19:14.670 --> 00:19:16.638
  • I certainly don't deserve it.
  • 00:19:16.638 --> 00:19:18.807
  • But i don't intend to slide in with no effort.
  • 00:19:18.807 --> 00:19:24.079
  • God is a rewarder of those who earnestly seek him.
  • 00:19:24.079 --> 00:19:28.217
  • So the question again, how are you doing with orienting your
  • 00:19:28.217 --> 00:19:31.386
  • Life to the lord in new ways?
  • 00:19:31.386 --> 00:19:32.921
  • I know you've known the lord.
  • 00:19:32.921 --> 00:19:36.024
  • But if i ask in this season, with what we're facing in the
  • 00:19:36.024 --> 00:19:40.229
  • World today, in your current life stage, in your family's
  • 00:19:40.229 --> 00:19:44.166
  • Life stage, how are you seeking the lord?
  • 00:19:44.166 --> 00:19:49.571
  • What's fresh?
  • 00:19:49.571 --> 00:19:51.773
  • What are you crying out to god for?
  • 00:19:51.773 --> 00:19:54.610
  • What are you trusting him for?
  • 00:19:54.610 --> 00:19:57.746
  • He did something in my heart this week.
  • 00:19:57.746 --> 00:19:59.481
  • The scale and scope of what i've been asking him for was
  • 00:19:59.481 --> 00:20:04.519
  • Completely wrong.
  • 00:20:04.519 --> 00:20:07.956
  • I haven't had an experience like this in many, many years.
  • 00:20:07.956 --> 00:20:13.362
  • Several years ago when the church was much different, much
  • 00:20:13.362 --> 00:20:15.998
  • Smaller, we had agreed together as a congregation that by easter
  • 00:20:15.998 --> 00:20:21.770
  • Of 2000, we would have two thousand people come to
  • 00:20:21.770 --> 00:20:24.473
  • Easter service.
  • 00:20:24.473 --> 00:20:27.342
  • And when we made that commitment, there was about two
  • 00:20:27.342 --> 00:20:30.646
  • Hundred of us.
  • 00:20:30.646 --> 00:20:32.748
  • And i didn't--to be completely--i didn't think two
  • 00:20:32.748 --> 00:20:34.483
  • Thousands people would come to easter service if we gave away
  • 00:20:34.483 --> 00:20:37.319
  • $100 bills and the hooters girls took up the offerings.
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  • [laughter]
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  • Forgive me.
  • 00:20:48.563 --> 00:20:51.833
  • But if you announced all of that, it would draw a crowd.
  • 00:20:51.833 --> 00:20:54.336
  • So, but i just couldn't imagine.
  • 00:20:54.336 --> 00:20:58.140
  • I couldn't, because i--.
  • 00:20:58.140 --> 00:21:01.910
  • But i developed the habit of praying.
  • 00:21:01.910 --> 00:21:05.113
  • We did some work, we did some research and we found that at
  • 00:21:05.113 --> 00:21:07.849
  • The time, there were about 100,000 people in our county
  • 00:21:07.849 --> 00:21:11.787
  • That weren't churched.
  • 00:21:11.787 --> 00:21:14.690
  • And i began to pray for them on a very regular basis.
  • 00:21:14.690 --> 00:21:19.227
  • And i was coming across town one day, and i remember where i was,
  • 00:21:19.227 --> 00:21:21.797
  • I was parked at a traffic light.
  • 00:21:21.797 --> 00:21:24.366
  • And i was praying for those two thousand people and i heard the
  • 00:21:24.366 --> 00:21:27.602
  • Lord, i mean in an audible way.
  • 00:21:27.602 --> 00:21:31.239
  • And he said, "why so few?"
  • 00:21:31.239 --> 00:21:33.442
  • And honestly, i thought my brother was playing some kind of
  • 00:21:37.012 --> 00:21:39.748
  • Joke on me.
  • 00:21:39.748 --> 00:21:41.116
  • He'd put a--so i turned around to see if there was a speaker or
  • 00:21:41.116 --> 00:21:43.285
  • Something in the backseat.
  • 00:21:43.285 --> 00:21:46.421
  • What i understood that day was that god had an imagination that
  • 00:21:46.421 --> 00:21:49.524
  • Was much, much different than my own.
  • 00:21:49.524 --> 00:21:52.260
  • And it changed me.
  • 00:21:52.260 --> 00:21:54.296
  • I understood that it wasn't about me setting those kind of
  • 00:21:54.296 --> 00:21:57.366
  • Goals, but it was me being faithful to what the lord put in
  • 00:21:57.366 --> 00:22:00.469
  • Front of me and that he would bring outcomes.
  • 00:22:00.469 --> 00:22:03.972
  • Well, in the last few days, he's inside of me.
  • 00:22:03.972 --> 00:22:07.642
  • I didn't hear a voice this time, but i had just as great a
  • 00:22:07.642 --> 00:22:10.645
  • Clarity that the scope of what he's asked us to do, my
  • 00:22:10.645 --> 00:22:14.683
  • Imagination wasn't adequate.
  • 00:22:14.683 --> 00:22:18.587
  • There's a tremendous need for the truth to be told, and there
  • 00:22:18.587 --> 00:22:24.159
  • Are people that are hungry to hear it.
  • 00:22:24.159 --> 00:22:27.195
  • So why would we not believe god would use us?
  • 00:22:27.195 --> 00:22:29.698
  • Well, other people wouldn't like it.
  • 00:22:33.168 --> 00:22:34.836
  • No, duh!
  • 00:22:34.836 --> 00:22:38.173
  • Let's seek the lord.
  • 00:22:38.173 --> 00:22:40.442
  • I don't know what he will do with your life or your family,
  • 00:22:40.442 --> 00:22:42.944
  • But i'm telling you, if the agenda and goals and objectives
  • 00:22:42.944 --> 00:22:47.015
  • Are indistinguishable from your secular friends, you've leaned
  • 00:22:47.015 --> 00:22:50.385
  • The ladder against the wrong wall.
  • 00:22:50.385 --> 00:22:54.923
  • You know, you can't live like a pagan and every once in a while
  • 00:22:54.923 --> 00:22:58.059
  • Say "jesus" and imagine that you're seeking the lord.
  • 00:22:58.059 --> 00:23:03.265
  • I want to orient my life towards the lord.
  • 00:23:03.265 --> 00:23:06.168
  • There's fundamentals to that.
  • 00:23:09.838 --> 00:23:11.206
  • You need to be in community.
  • 00:23:11.206 --> 00:23:12.541
  • I know you know that.
  • 00:23:12.541 --> 00:23:15.410
  • There's just--there's not a replacement for that.
  • 00:23:15.410 --> 00:23:18.313
  • If you live someplace and there's not a church that tells
  • 00:23:18.313 --> 00:23:20.315
  • The truth, you still need a community of believers on
  • 00:23:20.315 --> 00:23:23.452
  • Sunday morning.
  • 00:23:23.452 --> 00:23:24.786
  • Livestream the service and invite two or three couples to
  • 00:23:24.786 --> 00:23:26.288
  • Join you.
  • 00:23:26.288 --> 00:23:27.622
  • You've got a little instant pop-up church.
  • 00:23:27.622 --> 00:23:29.024
  • And i know it isn't simple, but we can't sit places where the
  • 00:23:32.027 --> 00:23:35.096
  • Word of god is dismissed.
  • 00:23:35.096 --> 00:23:39.534
  • We can't stay in places where the--where jesus is diminished.
  • 00:23:39.534 --> 00:23:45.073
  • We need the strength that comes from one another.
  • 00:23:45.073 --> 00:23:46.775
  • We have to read our bibles.
  • 00:23:46.775 --> 00:23:48.143
  • We've got to learn to pray.
  • 00:23:48.143 --> 00:23:50.045
  • We've got to give.
  • 00:23:50.045 --> 00:23:52.280
  • We got to break the stranglehold of muchness and envy and
  • 00:23:52.280 --> 00:23:56.218
  • Covetousness, and the best way i know to do that is to learn
  • 00:23:56.218 --> 00:23:58.453
  • To give.
  • 00:23:58.453 --> 00:23:59.821
  • It starts with a tithe, that first tenth belongs to the lord.
  • 00:23:59.821 --> 00:24:02.224
  • Say, "well, that's old testament."
  • 00:24:02.224 --> 00:24:03.558
  • No kidding.
  • 00:24:03.558 --> 00:24:04.893
  • So was "thou shalt not commit adultery," but we're not
  • 00:24:04.893 --> 00:24:06.261
  • Advocating for that.
  • 00:24:06.261 --> 00:24:09.264
  • It didn't all just get swept away.
  • 00:24:09.264 --> 00:24:10.665
  • I'm not a legalist, i'm not telling you you're gonna give
  • 00:24:10.665 --> 00:24:12.734
  • Your way into heaven, but you've got to learn to lead a
  • 00:24:12.734 --> 00:24:15.237
  • Generous life.
  • 00:24:15.237 --> 00:24:16.571
  • It just begins with your money.
  • 00:24:16.571 --> 00:24:17.939
  • It's gonna grow into your time and your talent and
  • 00:24:17.939 --> 00:24:19.307
  • Your abilities.
  • 00:24:19.307 --> 00:24:23.044
  • Seek the lord.
  • 00:24:23.044 --> 00:24:26.848
  • And then i gave you a tangible expression of that.
  • 00:24:26.848 --> 00:24:31.019
  • Fasting and prayer.
  • 00:24:31.019 --> 00:24:33.722
  • In luke chapter 9, jesus is speaking.
  • 00:24:33.722 --> 00:24:35.657
  • "and he said to them all, "if anyone would come after me, he
  • 00:24:35.657 --> 00:24:38.093
  • Must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.""
  • 00:24:38.093 --> 00:24:43.865
  • That's not an overly delivered message.
  • 00:24:43.865 --> 00:24:48.036
  • You hear it occasionally from time to time.
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  • I listen to quite a bit of churches.
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  • But self-denial, for the most part, has been overlooked in our
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  • Pursuit of faith.
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  • Jesus said, "if anyone would come after me, he must
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  • Deny himself."
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  • That old carnal, earthly adamic part of you, you'll recognize
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  • It, because it typically leads with, "i think," "i feel" or
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  • "i want."
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  • And jesus said, we've got to take that part of ourselves and
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  • Say, you will not dominate the conversation.
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  • I'll submit my thoughts to god's thoughts because isaiah 55 says
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  • God's thoughts are as much higher above mine as the heavens
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  • Are above the earth.
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  • I'll submit my feelings to the authority of god, because god
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  • Created me with feelings, i'm grateful for them, but they're
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  • Lousy gods.
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  • "if anyone would come after me, he must deny himself."
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  • Self-denial is an inseparable part of growing up in faith.
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  • It's essential for anyone who wants to follow jesus.
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  • It's not optional.
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  • That's why i would submit to you that self-control is listed as
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  • One of the nine fruit of the spirit.
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  • Because it takes self-control to deny yourself.
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  • Allen: god is moving in the earth, and i gave my
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  • Professional life to strengthening the local church.
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  • It's been the most remarkable journey.
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  • And then god led us to begin allen jackson ministries to
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  • Strengthen the church beyond the local community where i've
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  • Served, across our nation and around the earth.
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  • And your partnership has written a whole new future for what we
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  • See god doing.
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  • We have been able to broadcast messages on television
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  • And radio.
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  • We have created print materials.
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  • We published books, small group curriculum.
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  • We're hosting a culture and christianity conference from
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  • People across the nation.
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  • Now god's giving us strategic partners in israel and ukraine
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  • To help strengthen the church in those war-torn nations.
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  • There's a tremendous opportunity.
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  • You know, all of that is birthed out of what god put in my heart
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  • Decades ago when jesus said, "i'll build my church and hell
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  • Won't be able to stop it."
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  • And then he said, "those who will gather with me, if you
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  • Don't gather, you're scattering."
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  • Well, we want to join the lord in what he's doing in the earth
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  • In this strategic time.
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  • It's driven my life and i wanna invite you to be a partner with
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  • Allen jackson ministries.
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  • Together we'll fulfill the purposes of god.
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  • ♪♪♪
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