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Allen Jackson - Spiritual Authority and Our Well-being (Part 1)

May 29, 2025 | 27:29

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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Spiritual Authority and Our Well-being (Part 1) | May 29, 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.
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And people often ask, "is there 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
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Of truth to this generation.
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God is moving and we wanna move with him.
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Allen: everywhere you go, you find men and women with a heart
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For the kingdom of god.
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And we have different stories and different backgrounds and
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Different on ramps, but what joins us together is that
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Passion for the kingdom of god and the recognition that jesus
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Has changed our lives and we wanna share that with
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Another person.
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It's not about joining a denomination or getting your
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Systematic theology just absolutely dialed in.
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I'm not opposed to those things, but it's the passion we carry
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For the person of jesus of nazareth.
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And when you meet somebody that has that, you want to spend time
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With them.
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Because it not only sharpens your own character, it reminds
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You that there are people with great enthusiasm.
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I'm tired of seeing people more excited for the--for evil than
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The people that call themselves christ followers are for jesus.
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But that's not my topic.
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I want to continue what we worked on in the previous couple
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Of sessions, under this kind of broad heading of ideas,
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Understanding, and revelations, and it's really a little
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Personal paradigm.
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I told you i have this habit if i get an idea, and the people
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That work with me kind of flinch.
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My poor bride--'cause, you know, we'll be in a movie and
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I'll say, "i've got an idea.
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Do you have something i could write on?"
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Because i learned if i don't write them down i'll lose them.
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Or i mean, i'd be on a roller coaster and say, "i got
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An idea."
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And then she just rolls her eyes at this point, "yeah, here's a
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Piece of paper, so."
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But if you go beyond the idea, understanding is when you put
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Experience around an idea, you actually do something with it.
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And sometimes the ideas turn into something that's helpful
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And sometimes not so much, but you gain some understanding when
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You put some effort around an idea.
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Don't just be an idea person, be a person who does something.
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You know, i read once that thomas jefferson, not thomas
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Jefferson, thomas edison.
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He developed the light bulb or was credited with it, and he'd
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Failed over 900 times and a reporter asked him after he'd
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Finally succeeded, how--did he get discouraged?
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And he said, "i didn't get discouraged."
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He said, "there's just 900 steps in developing a light bulb."
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And as christ followers, sometimes we get some really
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Weird ideas in our heads, you know, "i tried it and it
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Didn't work."
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What do you mean?
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If you'd had that attitude about walking, you'd still
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Be crawling.
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And so an idea that's wedded to experience and some perseverance
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Can lead to some really transformational things.
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And then there's another category altogether and it's
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Those revelations.
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It's those places when god gives you insider understanding, not
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The result of sitting down at the desk and working your way
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Through the facts and doing the research.
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There's times that god gives you insight and if you're--if
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You're in the habit of reading your bible, and i pray you are,
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You know what i'm talking about because there's times you'll
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Read a passage that you've read 100 times before and there'll be
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A verse in there as if it's illuminated that day when you
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Read it.
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And it won't be a historical thing.
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It'll have some implication for who you are and where you are
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And what you're doing.
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And in the world we're in today there is more messaging than any
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Time in human history.
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There's more messaging washing over us because of those little
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Handheld computers that we keep our noses buried in and the
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Connectivity that they bring and the ability to have a phone that
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Will follow you wherever you go and listen to everything you say
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And repeat it.
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The messaging that cascades over us, in my imagination it's like
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You're standing under niagara falls.
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And that messaging is just cascading over us and the
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Overwhelming majority of it is not based on a
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Biblical worldview.
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And whether you're conscious of it or not, that torrent of
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Messaging is pushing you away from that biblical worldview,
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The essential person of jesus and what it means to yield
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To him.
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And you say, "well, i'm not affected by the med--
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I don't watch the news.
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I don't read newspapers.
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I don't pay any attention."
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In my imagination if you use-- if you'll allow me to stay with
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The waterfall, it's like you're standing under niagara falls
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Going, "i'm not getting wet."
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It's impossible because even if you manage to not get wet or
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You're not listening to the news or reading the news or whatever,
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The people that you interact with are and they're repeating
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To you the messaging and the worldview shifts that they're
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Having and so we see things being redefined.
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Marriage is being redefined.
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Marriage is god's idea, folks.
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It's not up to us to define it.
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I mean, as i've said many times, that's not a political
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Discussion, that's a biblical discussion.
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The family is not just under assault, it's
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Been deconstructed.
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Our birth rates are at historic lows, single parent families are
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At historic highs.
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We've lost--the reason we've arrived at place where hospitals
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Are doing mutilating our teenagers and calling it health
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Care, and segments of the health care industry are supporting
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It--the reason we could be that confused, biology, biological
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Sex is not a confusing topic.
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I'm not a sophisticated person.
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My father was a veterinarian.
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I figured that out in the barnyard.
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But the reason we got to this place is the church hasn't had
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The courage to talk about gender roles biblically and so that
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Biblical worldview has been pushed so far to the periphery
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Of our culture that we've lost our bearings on the most
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Fundamental things of our lives.
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God chooses our biological sect.
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We don't.
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When we rebel against that, we're rebelling against the
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Sovereignty of god.
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It's not about lesser or greater.
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We're messed up on this.
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It's not that men are better and women are lesser.
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Wrong conversation.
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Marriage is not a competition.
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We're made in one flesh, it's a covenant to become
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Something together.
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It's been so perverted because that messaging has cascaded over
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Us and it has deeply infiltrated the church and there's
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Tragically not enough courage to talk about it.
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So i picked up a bucket full of these ideas and understandings
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And revelations that are foundational to us.
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We started in on them in the previous sessions, and i
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Wanna continue.
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They're not all for the--i'm not really trying to exhaust
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The topics.
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I'm just kind of re-establishing them in your thoughts and
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Your imaginations.
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So we're gonna look at a couple of things in this session that
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Aren't necessarily directly related.
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I think they support one another.
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But they're ideas and understandings and if you'll
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Allow the spirit of god, i believe he'll even bring
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Revelation to you on the topics that are essential for us to
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Being salt and light in this generation.
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We need a more courageous church than we're accustomed to
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Watching over these last few years.
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Not an angry church, not a belligerent church, certainly
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Not a violent church, but we're gonna have to have a different
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Kind of determination.
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When they say to me, you know, "jesus isn't welcome here," i'm
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Going, "well, not in your opinion.
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But i'm here and if i'm here he's welcome here.
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So he and i are coming in."
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Nah, i don't wanna go there.
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I don't wanna spend my time there.
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So i want to start with this idea that our god is a god
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That's interested in your wellness, your well-being.
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Yes, he wants you to go to heaven.
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I mean, absolutely.
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Jesus died on the cross, took the--he exhausted the curse of
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Sin so that we could be reconciled to god.
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That has consequences for all eternity.
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But it doesn't make sense to me to trust god for your eternity
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If you're not trusting him with today.
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If you don't imagine god is trustworthy enough today to
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Serve him today and tomorrow, why would you trust him
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For eternity?
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So you want to learn to trust him today and tomorrow with your
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Best interest at heart each day, so that that trust transfer is
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Increased every day incrementally.
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You want to trust him more tomorrow than you did today and
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The next day to an even greater degree, it's incremental.
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But as you learn, trust is something that is built,
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It's established.
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You don't just give it away, that's reckless.
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And you want to establish more trust in god every day.
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And we've been too divided, too subdivided, in the body of
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Christ over things, you know, i don't believe that.
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That's--i don't think that's a helpful answer.
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The question is, "well, what's biblical?
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What's the scripture say?"
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You know, we'll say, "well, the church i go to, we don't
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Believe that."
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Well, no single church has got it all right.
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We're a bunch of cracked pots.
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Barry mentioned that a while ago.
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Well, he said we were pots. i told you we were cracked.
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It's the rest of the passage.
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Paul said jesus--god didn't recruit from the nobility or the
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Crazy smart people.
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He chose the weak and the foolish and the cracked pots to
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Make something extraordinary with us.
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So i wanna take a minute and talk about this idea, why it is
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That we believe god wants us well.
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Christians, we get some goofy ideas on this.
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Most of you know my own spiritual journey started when
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God miraculously got involved in my family's health and he
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Restored my mom's health and, you know, the doctor said she
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Had 6 months to live and they missed it a little bit.
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She lived over more than 50 years after that, so.
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I'm grateful for that, but the bigger picture is really helpful
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To me and when i--when this broke through in my heart, it
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Really was a revelation to me.
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God designed all of creation to heal.
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You know, where kathy and i-- our house, there's some really
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Old trees, and they're there probably because the soil was so
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Rocky it couldn't be plowed.
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So decades ago when most of this was still farmland around here
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They couldn't plow where these trees were, there was so
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Much rock.
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But there's these enormous trees and i've spent a lot of time
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Looking at them and walking around them.
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They fascinate me.
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I mean, they're--but all of them have great wounds on them.
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I don't know what happened.
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But you can tell that they've been severely wounded but the
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Bark's grown over it or it's, i mean, god created everything in
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The earth to heal.
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If we cut our finger, we don't, "oh, i'm gonna lose that one."
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Well, you know, if you get your mom to kiss it, that'll make it
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Better, but if that won't work, you know, you put a flintstone's
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Band-aid on it, now you're golden.
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And i mean, two band-aids is better, but i mean you just, you
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Have that expectation and we look at that and we go, "oh."
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No, that's a really big deal.
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You drop your iphone and the screen breaks, you don't go put
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It in the dark for 3 days and expect it to heal.
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And it's the thumbprint of god on his creation.
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Even if we do things incredibly destructive to a body of water
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Or a river or these, you know, we've seen some
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Ecological disasters.
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And if we will just stop the destruction, god designed a
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System that will revitalize and restore and renew.
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So when you and i talk about inviting god into our lives,
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Into our homes, or to our physical bodies, to ask him to
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Bring healing, we're doing something that is completely
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Consistent with the character of god as it's been made known
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To us.
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It doesn't make you the lunatic fringe or the bizarre edge or--
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And then we start saying, "well, you know, i prayed for somebody
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And they didn't get well."
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You've tried cooking meals that turned out awful.
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But you didn't quit eating.
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We get some really goofy notions.
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Folks, we don't manipulate god.
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He's not at your beck and call.
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In his grace and mercy, he responds to us, he answers
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Prayers, he'll reveal himself to us, but the bible says that we
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Have to seek him.
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Says that he's the rewarder of those that diligently seek him.
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In the sermon on the mount jesus said if you hunger and thirst,
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You'll be filled.
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Well, two of the most powerful drives in your person are hunger
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And thirst.
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And we're pretty casual with god,
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Particularly when we have real needs.
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You think, "well, i prayed twice and nothing happened," or "i
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Prayed for somebody.
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I didn't get the outcome i wanted."
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The sovereignty of god over our lives.
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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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Willing 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
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Is, "i feel like we should do more.
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What can we do? 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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Allen: but i wanna just introduce you to some
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Scriptures, and we're gonna pray in just a minute, but i'm not
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Gonna--i may not even unpack all these scriptures that i gave
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You, but psalm 103.
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I read this the other day and it just, i felt like it was
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Shouting at me.
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Said, "praise the lord, o my soul, and forget not all
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His benefits."
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Sometimes i do.
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You know, you have a bad day or a series of grumpy people or
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Problems that aren't easy to solve and you have to guard your
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Heart, you gotta be careful what you think about, what you give
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Your mind to.
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There'll be some little voices show up and say, you know, god
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Will never answer your prayers, or he'll never give you the
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Easy way.
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Oh, and you get--you start down that, it gains momentum.
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Don't entertain that. guard your thoughts.
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In proverbs it says: "above all else, guard your heart."
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More than you guard your inheritance, your retirement,
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Your car, your home, your kids, guard your heart.
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Because if you keep your heart in the right place, your kids
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And your home and your inheritance will all work out.
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If you get your heart in the wrong place, you'll lose all
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The above.
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Above all else, guard your heart.
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"praise the lord, o my soul, and forget not all his benefits--
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Who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who
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Redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and
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Compassion, who satisfies you with desires and good things so
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That your youth is renewed like the eagle's."
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There's three things there, presented in couplets.
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Hebrew poetry is typically arranged in a couplet, and to
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Get the full meaning of what is being presented, you need both
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Sides of the equation.
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And then those three couplets are helpful.
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It says he forgives all your sins and he heals all
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Your diseases.
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We have a truncated gospel presentation.
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We think when we present the gospel, as important as it is
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To help people find their way into the kingdom, we need to
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Understand god wants to help you today as well.
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We're not just heavenly minded.
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He forgives all my sins and he heals all my diseases.
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Doesn't mean--doesn't mean we don't face health challenges.
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But the god we worship is a god who restores and renews.
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Says: "he redeems your life from the pit.
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And he crowns your--with love and compassion."
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He doesn't just lift you out of the pit so you can go back on
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Your own pathway.
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He lifts you out of the pit to put your feet on a new path that
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Will lead you to a crown.
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You see, some of us want out of the pit, but we don't want to do
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Anything different.
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We wanna go back to what we were doing.
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This time we think we can avoid the pit.
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But the power of god is to get us out of the pit and then help
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Us to put our feet on a different kind of a path so we
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Get a crown.
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It's a marvelous--and you understand how much in the dark
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We would be without the word of god?
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You wouldn't know the character of god.
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You wouldn't know he would forgive your sins and heal
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Your diseases.
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I meet people who say, "i don't read my bible."
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What do you mean?
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How do you not read your bible?
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Just get a t-shirt that said, "i'm ignorant."
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And then on the back, it needs to say: "and proud of it."
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Then it says: "he'll satisfy your desires with good things."
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That's not just selfish.
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You know, he's not just trying to feed your carnal nature,
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He'll satisfy your life with good things.
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The things god calls good will bring satisfaction to you.
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See, people reject god, resist god.
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People that sit in churches and do all the--they resist god
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Because they're not--they don't think they'll be satisfied
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With godliness.
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They think they'll be more satisfied with ungodliness.
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And the evidence of the spirit of god at work in you or in me
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Is that we're actually satisfied.
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We find contentment with godliness.
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The bible says godliness with contentment is great gain.
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There's too many of us in the church that wear the label of
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Jesus and we're chasing all the wrong things, because we're not
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Really satisfied with godliness.
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It's an amazing--isaiah 53, it's a--it's the great
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Messianic chapter in isaiah.
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Isaiah, of all the prophets in the hebrew, the--you know, the
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Prophets are different.
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Different in the sense that the--the role of the prophet
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Was to tell the truth to the people.
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They weren't primarily future tellers, they were to deliver
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God's perspective to the people, which is making the truth known
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To the people of their generation.
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And they're all engaged in the cultures in which they lived.
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All the messages of the prophets is speaking into the culture.
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If you labeled them with today's discussions in the contemporary
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American church, you--we would say they were all political.
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All of them, but isaiah is a court prophet.
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Amos was a farmer.
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Isaiah is a court prophet.
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Isaiah's at home in the palace.
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And his language is majestic.
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He speaks to the destiny of nations.
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And he's given a revelation of the messiah when he comes.
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The character of the messiah, the role of the messiah, the
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Behavior of the messiah.
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Oh, it angers the segment of the jewish community that doesn't
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Want to accept jesus.
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They say it's a corruption of the text, that the christians
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Wrote isaiah 53 long after the prophet died and slipped it in.
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That's common in academia.
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It's kind of a fun aside, i guess.
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The oldest copy we had of the hebrew bible, the old testament,
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Is handwritten and it came from about 1000 ad.
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Well, so christianity by the 4th century, christianity is the
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Religion of the roman empire, so that left more than 5 centuries
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For the christians to corrupt the text.
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So all the scholars said the christians had inserted
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Isaiah 53.
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Well, in 1948, a little shepherd boy, bedouin shepherd down on
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The shores of the dead sea, found a scroll.
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And i'll give you the short version.
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You've heard of the dead sea scrolls.
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Well, the one book they found in its entirety was the book
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Of isaiah.
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And it was 1000 years older than the oldest copy of the hebrew
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Bible we had.
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So it goes back to a point in history when the christians were
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Not the thing.
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And guess what?
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It was letter for letter with the copy that was 1000 years
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Older, including isaiah 53.
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Just every once in a while god smiles at us and goes,
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Watch this.
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But in isaiah 53, listen to what the prophet said: "surely he
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Took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we
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Considered him stricken by god, smitten by him, and afflicted."
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You see, the reason that in the book of corinthians, it tells us
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That a messiah who was crucified is a stumbling block for
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The jews.
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Because they were looking for a messiah who was a
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Political leader.
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You understand that?
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They were looking for a messianic figure who would be a
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Political leader, a military leader, king david, somebody
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That could defeat goliath, that could defeat the romans.
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And to tell them that jesus of nazareth was the messiah and he
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Died on a roman cross, that's a stumbling block.
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Because it meant that when the messiah came, he's not going to
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Be a political deliverer in that moment.
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He could have been.
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If the people had embraced him, i believe it would have brought
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Freedom to the nation, but that's a different message.
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So isaiah is describing the messiah.
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"he was--he took up our infirmities and he carried our
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Sorrows, but we considered him stricken by god, smitten by him,
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And afflicted.
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But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed
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For our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace
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Was upon him, and by his wounds we are," what?
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"healed."
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I've told you many times and it's not original with me.
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I learned it as a young man and a boy, that on the cross there
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Was a divinely ordered exchange that took place whereby the
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Sinless, obedient, perfect son of god took upon himself all of
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The punishment that was due by divine justice, my sin and my
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Ungodliness, that in turn i might receive all of the
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Blessings that were due his perfect obedience.
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It's the divine exchange of the cross.
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It's what enables you and i through faith in jesus to have
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Standing in the kingdom of god, to be righteous and justified.
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It's amazing.
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Well, if you look at the language of isaiah, remember,
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Now this is hundreds of years before jesus's birth.
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He said, "he was pierced for our transgressions."
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Please note the pronouns.
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He was pierced because of my transgression.
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He was crushed because of my iniquity.
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And the punishment that brought me peace was upon him.
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And by his wounds i am healed.
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So the same sacrifice that makes provision for the forgiveness of
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My sin, my justification in the sight of god, makes provision
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For wholeness in my person, body, soul, and spirit.
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The bible says god's close to the brokenhearted.
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There's a lot of wounds other than just physical wounds.
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Says he'll never leave us or forsake us.
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We don't have to suffer loneliness.
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That he was rejected so that we could be accepted.
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We don't have to lead lives that are bent over by rejection.
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Well, we all face rejection, broken marriages, family systems
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That spool into destructive places.
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Business, all sorts of places and ways that rejection comes
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To us.
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You don't have to be conscious of it for it to impact you.
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But if we understand that jesus was rejected so that we could be
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Accepted, and if the creator of heaven and earth, if the name
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That's above every name before which every knee will bow, if he
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Has said you're accepted, you'll be okay.
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But it comes back to wanting to be satisfied by the things
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Of god.
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You see, if the longing of our heart is to know that we're in
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Relationship with god, then i will allow other relationships
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To be diminished that that relationship can grow.
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Some of us want the approval of people who are ungodly.
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And we're willing to diminish our godliness thinking we can
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Gain something by the approval of the ungodly.
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Don't make that bargain.
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Don't make that bargain. don't call it evangelism.
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You can show people kindness, you can encourage them.
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You can show them love.
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But don't diminish, don't deny your faith thinking there's
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Something to be gained if you will compromise
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With ungodliness.
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Allen: you know, our team that helps create this content that
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We share with you consistently pray that it enables you to find
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A more steadfast way to navigate the confusing
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World we're living in.
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And you often respond, we hear so many messages back from you
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Thanking us for content, but also asking what you can do.
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Is there a way you can pray?
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Is there a way you can stand with us?
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Well, honestly, there is.
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I want to invite you to prayerfully consider becoming a
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Monthly ministry partner.
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For a gift of $25 or more, you help us make a plan for the
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Future that will include more people.
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We build those plans based on you joining us as monthly
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Ministry partners.
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God's moving in the earth, he's changing my life, i pray he's
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Impacting yours, and we want to continue to extend this message
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To our generation with a clarity and a consistency that creates
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Opportunities for individuals and families.
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In fact, i wanna pray with you and for you.
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God, i thank you that you've let us stand together to learn
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Together, and i pray that you'll multiply this to impact even
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More lives for your glory and your purposes.
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In jesus's name, amen.
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Thanks for your partnership.
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♪♪♪
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Allen Jackson - Spiritual Authority and Our Well-being (Part 1)

May 29, 2025 | 27:29

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