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Allen Jackson - Stormproof Foundations (Part 1)

May 30, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Stormproof Foundations (Part 1)
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 - Stormproof Foundations (Part 1) | May 30, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: hey, i've encouraged you for a long time
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  • To lead with your faith.
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  • Take you faith outside the church building
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  • Into all the places that your life takes you,
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  • Where you have influence, where you have a voice.
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  • We've created some pieces to help you do that:
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  • A tote bag, a blanket.
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  • Maybe you're going to a ball game or the park or the beach,
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  • Wherever that may be.
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  • You take these along, they are a celebration of our nation's
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  • 250th anniversary.
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  • Somebody will want to know where you got it, what it's about.
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  • It gives you an opportunity to share your faith.
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  • You know, i've had the privilege of living in some places outside
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  • The united states.
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  • Things like a grocery store or fast food or food delivery,
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  • Those things weren't possible in the places i lived.
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  • When i come home, just walking through a grocery store reminds
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  • Me of the goodness and the faithfulness of god,
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  • His blessings on our nation.
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  • Use your voice to say god has blessed america.
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  • Something as simple as a tote bag can open a door
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  • For your god story.
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  • Together, we're gonna lift up the name of jesus in this
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  • Generation and see god bless america again.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: it's not a new thing to invite you to read
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  • Through the bible with us.
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  • We've been doing that for many years now and it has--there are
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  • All so--there are stories all over the building about the
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  • Changes and the benefits and the transformations that have come
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  • With that.
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  • This year's a little different for me.
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  • I certainly want to give you that invitation.
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  • All the normal tools are there on the apps and the websites,
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  • And it will read it to you and i think there's an enormous
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  • Benefit in that.
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  • But i had a--something changed inside of me.
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  • I was with a gathering of 20,000 or so people the weekend before
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  • Christmas and they were talking about changes in our country
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  • And--a lot of enthusiasm around that.
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  • And i came away from that and i was grateful for what they were
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  • Celebrating, but it seemed incomplete to me and i
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  • Just--quietly in my heart i was saying to the lord, "what
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  • Can--what do we do 'cause we have to have
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  • A spiritual change?"
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  • And it--i didn't have a angelic visit and there wasn't a donkey
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  • That spoke to me on four legs.
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  • Oh, i did not call you a name.
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  • But i really did feel like i had an understanding that there was
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  • Something that was very accessible to us and i made
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  • A commitment to see how broadly we could share it.
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  • And so i have made some phone calls and certainly with any
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  • Place that my voice is heard or accepted i want to extend the
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  • Invitation a little differently.
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  • If reading the bible from the table of contents to the maps
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  • Seems like a bridge too far for you, then start.
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  • In about 60 days we can read through the gospels in their
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  • Entirety, which means really if you'll get started this week by
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  • The end of february or so you'll be done.
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  • They've even put together some tools to help you get
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  • Through it.
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  • It's about a 60-day deal.
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  • If you're willing to add another 30 days onto that, by easter we
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  • Can have read through the whole new testament.
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  • And at that point if you'd say, you know, "there's absolutely no
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  • Benefit in it.
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  • It's been an enormous burden to me.
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  • I don't want to do it anymore," i'm good.
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  • But if you're willing at that point, we'll pick up the books
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  • Of moses.
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  • It's the first five books of the old testament.
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  • And let's just see if we can find our way through.
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  • Now, you--i've invited you to read the bible forever.
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  • If you haven't started yet, i'm kind of over that.
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  • I love you.
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  • You've heard the invitation.
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  • If you've taken a pass, it's good.
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  • Those of you that have read the bible, here's what's different.
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  • I want to ask you to invite somebody to join you in that.
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  • Recruit somebody.
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  • It could be somebody in your small group.
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  • It could be some people sit around you at church.
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  • It could be somebody that you work with.
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  • It could be somebody that your kids are playing ball with.
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  • You choose, but don't do this just by yourself, all right?
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  • It's a 60-day--if you take the easiest entry threshold, it's
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  • A 60-day thing, about 10, 15 minutes a day.
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  • We're going to read the gospels.
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  • The gospels are not divisive.
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  • They're an introduction to jesus.
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  • But please make the effort.
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  • Here's the idea behind it all.
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  • We need god's help as a people, and there's something i can tell
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  • You that i know god would bless and that's if you will make the
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  • Investment of time to read his word.
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  • So just what if.
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  • You pick the number, 1,000, 10,000, 100,000 people, however
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  • Many would take the--start their year by reading through the
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  • Gospels together.
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  • I believe it would bring the blessing of god, and then we can
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  • Make a decision about next if we want to live with god's blessing
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  • Or not.
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  • You say, "well, you can't earn god's blessing."
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  • Duh, i got that.
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  • I also know that if you don't behave in obedience you forfeit
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  • His blessing.
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  • So i'm just curious.
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  • I know it's church, but--they won't turn the cameras around
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  • On you, i promise.
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  • I'm just curious.
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  • How many of you would be willing to help recruit
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  • Somebody to read with you or at least ask?
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  • Look at y'all.
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  • Now, here--just kind of a spoiler alert, everybody you ask
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  • Will not be excited and say yes.
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  • So don't take it personally.
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  • I won't ask for show of hands of how many people have never done
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  • This with me, and i've been asking for a long time.
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  • Not sure i could take it.
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  • I could, but i believe--i'm sharing it on--every place that
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  • I have an opportunity to invite somebody, i'm doing that for
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  • Several days.
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  • So you'll be tired of it before i hush, i'm pretty sure.
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  • But begin to ask the lord.
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  • He'll put more than one person in your path.
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  • You may have a dozen people reading with you.
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  • It may not be anything more than a text you send out once a week
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  • Or, you know, "how--what do you think about matthew this week?"
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  • Or--but let's give the lord a doorway where he could bring
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  • A new blessing to us.
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  • Wouldn't that be good?
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  • That's available to us.
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  • We can do this.
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  • I want to begin a new study.
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  • I don't know how many sessions we'll do.
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  • I've sketched out a few under the general theme of
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  • "stormproof foundations."
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  • Jesus talked to us about the ability to organize our lives in
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  • Such a way that when the storms of life come we would be able to
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  • Withstand them.
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  • Now, he was honest enough and had enough integrity to tell us
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  • That you can order--orchestrate your life in such a way that
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  • When the storms come you'll be totally devastated.
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  • The one given jesus gave us in the parable was that storms
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  • Are coming.
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  • Nobody escapes them.
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  • I'm not a pessimist.
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  • I very much believe the glass is half-full, but the reality is
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  • That life is more difficult than we would like it to be.
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  • But there are choices you can make that will enable you to
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  • Withstand the storms.
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  • You can build stormproof foundations.
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  • Now, i love that idea because we are living through a time where
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  • I anticipate some pretty significant chaos and i want to
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  • Know how to stand.
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  • You don't have to be particularly prophetic or
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  • Culturally aware to know we are living in a tumultuous season,
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  • And i woke--was awakened on new year's day to in the--kathy
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  • Already had the television on and the announcement of the
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  • Attack in new orleans, and the first formal response i heard
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  • Was from an fbi agent saying that this was not a terrorist
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  • Attack and my blood pressure went up about 50 points.
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  • I mean, i'm certainly not an expert on national security, but
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  • I hadn't by that time enough of the grasp of the
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  • Fundamental facts.
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  • Someone drove a pickup truck at high speed into a very crowded
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  • Street and attached to the truck was an isis flag.
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  • You don't--you're not attaching blame to any group of people,
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  • But that meets most of the markers for a terrorist event.
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  • If someone had driven a truck like that into a crowd of people
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  • Wearing a white hood with kkk painted on the back, we would
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  • Understand with clarity appropriately so it was
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  • A racist event.
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  • We're living in a season where the truth is still not
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  • Celebrated, and you watch a report like that and you think,
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  • "do they really just think we're that stupid?
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  • It's offensive."
  • 00:09:04.693 --> 00:09:06.861
  • Now, in all fairness it was withdrawn.
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  • They brought in somebody else to help bring updates, and the
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  • Message is continuing to evolve.
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  • Something--it's not new.
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  • It was christmas.
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  • Was it four years ago?
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  • We had a bomb blast in downtown nashville and i heard the mayor
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  • Of nashville say, "oh, there's just a few windows broken."
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  • And we saw a whole block devastated.
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  • They're just now completing the restoration and renovation of
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  • All of that.
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  • And within 24 hours of that event, it was all wrapped up
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  • With a bow around it.
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  • "nothing to see here.
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  • Look away."
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  • I don't know the details.
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  • They're not important to me at this point other than to say
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  • That the places that we look to to--for trust and confidence
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  • Have disintegrated.
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  • Now, i believe they can re--be rebuild, whether it's the fbi or
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  • The justice department or the center for disease control
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  • Or churches.
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  • I believe we can rebuild trust, big tech in censorship.
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  • Trust is about the character of the people,
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  • Not the institutions.
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  • That's true.
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  • But trust has to be earned.
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  • The principles that my parents taught me when i was a kid i
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  • Think they're still in play.
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  • When you make a mistake, acknowledge the mistake.
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  • You can't just live past it and act like it didn't happen.
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  • Then we can move forward.
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  • I believe in front of us we're going to have to endure, walk
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  • Through, overcome a season of confusion and chaos and
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  • Disruption because the people that have initiated it don't
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  • Want to see the momentum of destruction disrupted.
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  • In the plainest possible language, the diminishment of
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  • A judeo-christian worldview and the dismantling of america has
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  • Been very intentional if you're just casually watching.
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  • They don't want our worldview in the public square, in the
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  • Public schools.
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  • They don't want it in the corridors of the hospitals.
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  • They threaten people that bring it.
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  • "don't you dare pray with someone."
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  • And we've been silent through all of that.
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  • You'd be more than naive to think an election alone was
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  • Going to cause evil to relent.
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  • We're going to have to learn new responses, how to live the
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  • Authority of our faith out; how we're going to give expression
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  • To that not in anger, not in belligerence, with a new trust
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  • In god.
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  • And i honestly see--i believe that's emerging.
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  • You know, people say to me, "i don't know what to do.
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  • I'm only one person.
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  • I really--i just--" there's almost a sense of despair.
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  • "i just don't know what to do."
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  • Well, i have an answer.
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  • I don't have a simple answer or a complete answer or a holistic
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  • Answer, but i do have a beginning point.
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  • What if we decide to honor god with a new intentionality and
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  • Say, "god, this isn't about someone else and what they're
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  • Not, or what they haven't done, or what they have done.
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  • I'm going to honor you more intentionally in my life than
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  • I've ever done it before."
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  • I'm just naive enough to believe that almighty god will engage
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  • With that.
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  • So we're going to talk about some of these things about how
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  • To storm-proof our foundations.
  • 00:12:15.517 --> 00:12:18.186
  • And since i was already inviting you to the bible reading, we
  • 00:12:18.186 --> 00:12:20.555
  • Might as well start with, "i intend to read my bible daily."
  • 00:12:20.555 --> 00:12:24.292
  • We're walking through the gospel of matthew right now.
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  • If you've joined us, we're not--you're not very far behind
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  • If you haven't.
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  • And if you haven't, i give you a pass.
  • 00:12:30.198 --> 00:12:31.866
  • Just jump in.
  • 00:12:31.866 --> 00:12:33.668
  • But i thought for this session and perhaps another, i want
  • 00:12:33.668 --> 00:12:37.472
  • To--we would just take a chapter from matthew's gospel.
  • 00:12:37.472 --> 00:12:40.942
  • People say to me, "pastor, i don't read my bible.
  • 00:12:40.942 --> 00:12:42.944
  • It's confusing.
  • 00:12:42.944 --> 00:12:44.312
  • I don't know the names.
  • 00:12:44.312 --> 00:12:46.214
  • You know, i don't know how to pronounce them.
  • 00:12:46.214 --> 00:12:47.582
  • I don't know where the places are.
  • 00:12:47.582 --> 00:12:49.017
  • I'm afraid i'll get it wrong."
  • 00:12:49.017 --> 00:12:53.388
  • I think that's a misguided approach.
  • 00:12:53.388 --> 00:12:58.159
  • I approach reading my bible with the expectation that god's
  • 00:12:58.159 --> 00:13:01.296
  • Attitude towards that is the--an attitude very similar to a
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  • Parent watching their toddler learn to walk or begin to learn
  • 00:13:04.232 --> 00:13:08.436
  • To talk.
  • 00:13:08.436 --> 00:13:10.104
  • They don't watch that toddler start to learn how to pull up on
  • 00:13:10.104 --> 00:13:12.774
  • Furniture and stand there and wobble and think, "that's the
  • 00:13:12.774 --> 00:13:15.009
  • Clumsiest child ever."
  • 00:13:15.009 --> 00:13:17.946
  • They're taking videos going, "look, they're running."
  • 00:13:17.946 --> 00:13:21.249
  • No, they're wobbling.
  • 00:13:21.249 --> 00:13:23.785
  • Then they begin to make sounds and the parents and grandparents
  • 00:13:23.785 --> 00:13:26.688
  • Think they're using complex sentences.
  • 00:13:26.688 --> 00:13:30.058
  • The rest of us just think they're making guttural noises.
  • 00:13:30.058 --> 00:13:33.895
  • Well, i come to my bible with that same imagination that when
  • 00:13:33.895 --> 00:13:37.298
  • I'll take the time to open it that god is so pleased, so
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  • Delighted that i'm interested, that i want to know, that i
  • 00:13:40.568 --> 00:13:43.004
  • Would like to learn, that there's a meeting place that's
  • 00:13:43.004 --> 00:13:46.107
  • Been opened there.
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  • In the days when it doesn't feel particularly fruitful to me,
  • 00:13:48.443 --> 00:13:51.446
  • I'll take it by faith that god will bring a fruitfulness to it
  • 00:13:51.446 --> 00:13:54.148
  • At another time in another way; that it wasn't a lost moment, it
  • 00:13:54.148 --> 00:13:56.951
  • Wasn't a wasted bit of time.
  • 00:13:56.951 --> 00:14:01.122
  • So i would like to relieve you of the burden of every day being
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  • A spiritual experience.
  • 00:14:03.925 --> 00:14:05.293
  • Those people wear me out.
  • 00:14:05.293 --> 00:14:07.662
  • Do you have a friend like that?
  • 00:14:07.662 --> 00:14:09.030
  • Every time you see them, they have a fresh revelation.
  • 00:14:09.030 --> 00:14:12.267
  • I'm like, "oh, could i just read matthew 4?"
  • 00:14:12.267 --> 00:14:21.676
  • And i'm--it may be reality.
  • 00:14:21.676 --> 00:14:23.411
  • It may be the world they live in.
  • 00:14:23.411 --> 00:14:24.946
  • They're so in tuned and so dialed in and--but some days
  • 00:14:24.946 --> 00:14:29.384
  • I read my bible and it's the bible.
  • 00:14:29.384 --> 00:14:33.254
  • At this point i have done it once or twice or ten times or
  • 00:14:33.254 --> 00:14:37.292
  • More and that brings some advantage.
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  • I recognize that.
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  • I'll never forget i was with a friend.
  • 00:14:43.364 --> 00:14:44.732
  • I was doing chores.
  • 00:14:44.732 --> 00:14:46.067
  • I'd volunteered to take a couple of days to help some friends
  • 00:14:46.067 --> 00:14:47.702
  • With chores really in repayment for some things they had done at
  • 00:14:47.702 --> 00:14:50.638
  • The church, and that day my job was cleaning the kitchen,
  • 00:14:50.638 --> 00:14:54.676
  • Washing the dishes and just whatever they needed done.
  • 00:14:54.676 --> 00:14:57.612
  • I was supposed to keep the kitchen clean.
  • 00:14:57.612 --> 00:14:58.947
  • They were serving a lot of food.
  • 00:14:58.947 --> 00:15:01.015
  • The guy that was in charge is a really good cook, and i said,
  • 00:15:01.015 --> 00:15:03.117
  • "you're an amazing chef."
  • 00:15:03.117 --> 00:15:05.420
  • And he looked at me and he shook his head
  • 00:15:05.420 --> 00:15:06.754
  • And he said, "no, allen.
  • 00:15:06.754 --> 00:15:08.957
  • I'm no chef."
  • 00:15:08.957 --> 00:15:10.892
  • He said, "i know how to cook food that tastes good to me."
  • 00:15:10.892 --> 00:15:15.129
  • And he said, "that's really all i know how to do."
  • 00:15:15.129 --> 00:15:17.765
  • He said, "a chef knows how to build layers of flavor and
  • 00:15:17.765 --> 00:15:21.169
  • Imagine possibilities with about anything they can see."
  • 00:15:21.169 --> 00:15:23.604
  • And he said, "i'm no chef."
  • 00:15:23.604 --> 00:15:26.007
  • When it comes to the bible, i feel a bit like that.
  • 00:15:26.007 --> 00:15:28.576
  • Folks, i'm no expert, but i--it blesses me and i want to share
  • 00:15:28.576 --> 00:15:34.916
  • That with you.
  • 00:15:34.916 --> 00:15:36.250
  • And so just as an expression of an invitation into the gospel of
  • 00:15:36.250 --> 00:15:38.753
  • Matthew, i want to take a chapter and read it with you and
  • 00:15:38.753 --> 00:15:42.657
  • I'm going to offer kind of a running dialogue.
  • 00:15:42.657 --> 00:15:45.326
  • It's not the only set of answers, it's not the only way
  • 00:15:45.326 --> 00:15:47.428
  • To understand it, but your bible will change your life if you'll
  • 00:15:47.428 --> 00:15:51.165
  • Read it.
  • 00:15:51.165 --> 00:15:53.534
  • It will transform you from the inside out.
  • 00:15:53.534 --> 00:15:57.972
  • You say, "i don't believe that."
  • 00:15:57.972 --> 00:15:59.340
  • Don't just--try me, see what god will do.
  • 00:15:59.340 --> 00:16:05.646
  • Allen: hey, we're celebrating this year the 250th anniversary
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  • Of the signing of the declaration of independence.
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  • What a wonderful privilege we have.
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  • You know, god has blessed our nation so many good things.
  • 00:16:18.359 --> 00:16:21.295
  • People say to me, "well, our whole history is not good."
  • 00:16:21.295 --> 00:16:23.798
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  • Your family history is not perfect.
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  • In spite of our weaknesses-- well, our nation hadn't been
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  • Perfect, but through that whole story, the goodness of god
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  • Is evident.
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  • Allen: matthew 4:1, it says, "jesus was led by the spirit
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  • Into the desert to be tempted by the devil."
  • 00:17:15.850 --> 00:17:19.754
  • And i know this will be disheartening, but i need to
  • 00:17:19.754 --> 00:17:21.622
  • Stop right there for just a moment.
  • 00:17:21.622 --> 00:17:25.259
  • That's not what i would expect in the bible.
  • 00:17:25.259 --> 00:17:28.963
  • If any of you remember the verses immediately preceding
  • 00:17:28.963 --> 00:17:31.599
  • This, jesus is baptized by john, the holy spirit descends upon
  • 00:17:31.599 --> 00:17:36.637
  • Him, god says, "that's my boy, and i'm really happy with him."
  • 00:17:36.637 --> 00:17:42.543
  • And the next sentence is jesus was led by the spirit of god,
  • 00:17:42.543 --> 00:17:48.182
  • It's a capital s, into the desert to be tempted by
  • 00:17:48.182 --> 00:17:52.120
  • The devil.
  • 00:17:52.120 --> 00:17:54.989
  • Now, that's a theological challenge.
  • 00:17:54.989 --> 00:17:57.792
  • That's a personal discipleship challenge.
  • 00:17:57.792 --> 00:18:00.394
  • The spirit of god leading jesus with whom god is pleased.
  • 00:18:00.394 --> 00:18:05.633
  • He hasn't been carousing.
  • 00:18:05.633 --> 00:18:07.135
  • He didn't misbehave on new year's eve.
  • 00:18:07.135 --> 00:18:11.038
  • God is pleased with him, and he leads him into the wilderness
  • 00:18:11.038 --> 00:18:15.143
  • Where he's going to face temptation.
  • 00:18:15.143 --> 00:18:19.814
  • Now, jesus taught us a prayer.
  • 00:18:19.814 --> 00:18:22.216
  • Anybody remember that?
  • 00:18:22.216 --> 00:18:23.551
  • What do we call that prayer that jesus taught us?
  • 00:18:23.551 --> 00:18:26.220
  • The our father--the lord's prayer.
  • 00:18:26.220 --> 00:18:28.756
  • Yeah, there's a line in that.
  • 00:18:28.756 --> 00:18:30.224
  • Do you remember jesus taught us to pray this way?
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  • I put it in your notes.
  • 00:18:32.627 --> 00:18:33.995
  • It's matthew's gospel, if anybody's interested.
  • 00:18:33.995 --> 00:18:36.130
  • "lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the
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  • Evil one."
  • 00:18:41.035 --> 00:18:44.539
  • So when jesus gave us that prayer, it wasn't some
  • 00:18:44.539 --> 00:18:46.574
  • Theoretical prayer, it wasn't some random arbitrary.
  • 00:18:46.574 --> 00:18:49.544
  • Well, it'd probably be a good thing.
  • 00:18:49.544 --> 00:18:51.312
  • Jesus has been in position to be tempted by satan and it was
  • 00:18:51.312 --> 00:18:55.550
  • Difficult, and he said, "listen, when you pray, pray this way:
  • 00:18:55.550 --> 00:19:01.189
  • 'lead me not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one."'
  • 00:19:01.189 --> 00:19:06.827
  • Now, before we've gotten through the first verse of this chapter,
  • 00:19:06.827 --> 00:19:09.864
  • There's a couple of things that should be on your radar if
  • 00:19:09.864 --> 00:19:11.866
  • You're reading this.
  • 00:19:11.866 --> 00:19:13.234
  • If you don't have me helping, if i'm not along for the journey,
  • 00:19:13.234 --> 00:19:16.404
  • Very clearly jesus and the devil both exist.
  • 00:19:16.404 --> 00:19:21.509
  • See, we're so sophisticated, so educated, so enlightened, so
  • 00:19:21.509 --> 00:19:26.547
  • Arrogant, so spiritually inert that we want to have
  • 00:19:26.547 --> 00:19:33.221
  • A conversation like there is no expression of evil in the world
  • 00:19:33.221 --> 00:19:39.026
  • And very clearly in scripture both jesus and the devil exist.
  • 00:19:39.026 --> 00:19:43.064
  • We need to accept that reality and plan accordingly.
  • 00:19:43.064 --> 00:19:46.200
  • If you have a plan for how to cooperate with jesus, you better
  • 00:19:46.200 --> 00:19:49.537
  • Have an equally-effective plan on how to resist the devil.
  • 00:19:49.537 --> 00:19:55.276
  • You better be prepared, i mean, unless you're already just
  • 00:19:55.276 --> 00:19:59.313
  • Serving him.
  • 00:19:59.313 --> 00:20:01.082
  • The biblical assignment is to follow jesus and resist the
  • 00:20:01.082 --> 00:20:03.918
  • Devil, and you better be intentional on both sides of
  • 00:20:03.918 --> 00:20:06.587
  • That equation because he's effective.
  • 00:20:06.587 --> 00:20:13.127
  • James chapter 4 and verse 7. i put it in your notes.
  • 00:20:13.127 --> 00:20:15.162
  • I know it's not in matthew, but it is to the point.
  • 00:20:15.162 --> 00:20:18.366
  • James said, "submit yourselves, then, to god.
  • 00:20:18.366 --> 00:20:20.434
  • Resist the devil, and he will flee from you."
  • 00:20:20.434 --> 00:20:23.070
  • I love the book of james.
  • 00:20:23.070 --> 00:20:24.405
  • He's so plainspoken.
  • 00:20:24.405 --> 00:20:26.140
  • Submit yourself to god and resist the devil.
  • 00:20:26.140 --> 00:20:30.478
  • Now, i believe in this case sequence matters.
  • 00:20:30.478 --> 00:20:32.647
  • The first step in resisting the devil is submitting yourself
  • 00:20:32.647 --> 00:20:35.116
  • To god.
  • 00:20:35.116 --> 00:20:37.251
  • The devil will not flee if you're not submitted to god.
  • 00:20:37.251 --> 00:20:41.789
  • If you're on the throne, if you're in charge, if you're in
  • 00:20:41.789 --> 00:20:44.458
  • Control, if you haven't yielded your will or your emotions, if
  • 00:20:44.458 --> 00:20:48.296
  • You fill yourself with ungodly stuff and then you resist the
  • 00:20:48.296 --> 00:20:51.432
  • Devil, you're wasting your breath.
  • 00:20:51.432 --> 00:20:57.905
  • We have the instructions.
  • 00:20:57.905 --> 00:20:59.240
  • Submit yourselves to god, resist the devil, and he'll flee
  • 00:20:59.240 --> 00:21:02.710
  • From you.
  • 00:21:02.710 --> 00:21:04.045
  • It's not a power struggle, it's about authority.
  • 00:21:04.045 --> 00:21:06.013
  • "you've got no right to be here.
  • 00:21:06.013 --> 00:21:08.482
  • Through the blood of jesus, you go."
  • 00:21:08.482 --> 00:21:11.585
  • But that authority is founded upon having submitted ourselves
  • 00:21:11.585 --> 00:21:16.724
  • To god.
  • 00:21:16.724 --> 00:21:18.092
  • That's why we are christ followers.
  • 00:21:18.092 --> 00:21:21.595
  • Submit yourself to god.
  • 00:21:21.595 --> 00:21:23.164
  • We have this mistaken notion that submitting to god is
  • 00:21:23.164 --> 00:21:25.700
  • Burdensome, loathsome, intrusive, diminishing.
  • 00:21:25.700 --> 00:21:29.136
  • It's a lie.
  • 00:21:29.136 --> 00:21:32.173
  • When we submit to the lord, we get all the benefits of
  • 00:21:32.173 --> 00:21:34.308
  • The kingdom.
  • 00:21:34.308 --> 00:21:35.643
  • That's the best possible way you can make a journey through time.
  • 00:21:35.643 --> 00:21:38.546
  • There's no better way to live.
  • 00:21:38.546 --> 00:21:39.914
  • There's no better life to pursue.
  • 00:21:39.914 --> 00:21:42.683
  • If you're pursuing your will, your way, your timeline, your
  • 00:21:42.683 --> 00:21:46.153
  • Resources, what i want, when i want it, how i want it, there's
  • 00:21:46.153 --> 00:21:51.425
  • A crash at the end of that.
  • 00:21:51.425 --> 00:21:56.664
  • Verse 2, "after fasting forty days and forty nights, jesus
  • 00:21:56.664 --> 00:22:02.436
  • Was hungry.
  • 00:22:02.436 --> 00:22:03.804
  • And the tempter came to him and said, 'if you're the son of god,
  • 00:22:03.804 --> 00:22:06.407
  • Tell these stones to become bread.'
  • 00:22:06.407 --> 00:22:07.742
  • And jesus answered, 'it's written: 'man doesn't live on
  • 00:22:07.742 --> 00:22:11.212
  • Bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth
  • 00:22:11.212 --> 00:22:13.581
  • Of god.''
  • 00:22:13.581 --> 00:22:15.116
  • And the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on
  • 00:22:15.116 --> 00:22:17.685
  • The highest point of the temple.
  • 00:22:17.685 --> 00:22:20.087
  • 'if you're the son of god,' he said, 'throw yourself down.
  • 00:22:20.087 --> 00:22:22.523
  • For it's written: 'he'll command his angels concerning you, and
  • 00:22:22.523 --> 00:22:25.226
  • They'll lift you up in their hands, so that you'll not strike
  • 00:22:25.226 --> 00:22:27.528
  • Your foot against the stone.''
  • 00:22:27.528 --> 00:22:30.998
  • Jesus answered, 'it's also written: 'do not put the lord
  • 00:22:30.998 --> 00:22:36.670
  • Your god to the test.''
  • 00:22:36.670 --> 00:22:39.140
  • And, again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and he
  • 00:22:39.140 --> 00:22:41.375
  • Showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor.
  • 00:22:41.375 --> 00:22:44.578
  • 'all this i'll give you if you'll bow down and worship me.'
  • 00:22:44.578 --> 00:22:49.283
  • Jesus said to him, 'away from me, satan.
  • 00:22:49.283 --> 00:22:51.986
  • For it's written: 'worship the lord your god, and serve
  • 00:22:51.986 --> 00:22:53.888
  • Him only.''
  • 00:22:53.888 --> 00:22:55.256
  • And the devil left him, and the angels came and attended him."
  • 00:22:55.256 --> 00:22:58.893
  • We can pause there for a moment.
  • 00:22:58.893 --> 00:23:01.495
  • Again, big picture, high-level view.
  • 00:23:01.495 --> 00:23:03.764
  • It's important to note, just pull down the big rocks.
  • 00:23:03.764 --> 00:23:07.468
  • Both the devil and god's angels are very involved in
  • 00:23:07.468 --> 00:23:12.573
  • Jesus's life.
  • 00:23:12.573 --> 00:23:15.209
  • You can't read that without getting that.
  • 00:23:15.209 --> 00:23:17.011
  • I mean, that's the story.
  • 00:23:17.011 --> 00:23:20.014
  • So don't stand away from the bible and go, you know,
  • 00:23:20.014 --> 00:23:23.117
  • "i'm just not sure i believe in that."
  • 00:23:23.117 --> 00:23:24.885
  • Well, then, do you believe in je--what do you believe in?
  • 00:23:24.885 --> 00:23:28.222
  • If you don't believe what's written there, who are
  • 00:23:28.222 --> 00:23:30.958
  • You exactly?
  • 00:23:30.958 --> 00:23:33.327
  • The arbiter of what?
  • 00:23:33.327 --> 00:23:36.464
  • We need to put you on the bench in new york.
  • 00:23:36.464 --> 00:23:41.535
  • That was tacky, i know.
  • 00:23:41.535 --> 00:23:46.106
  • I confess.
  • 00:23:46.106 --> 00:23:47.942
  • I repent.
  • 00:23:47.942 --> 00:23:51.645
  • But as you're reading through it, just let those big ideas.
  • 00:23:51.645 --> 00:23:55.783
  • Wow.
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  • Both the devil and the angels were very integral to the
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  • Unfolding story of jesus's life, his ministry, what happened to
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  • Him, the challenges he faces.
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  • The things the devil had to say that matthew recorded for us,
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  • "if you're the son of god."
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  • That's his pattern.
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  • From the garden of eden right through the whole narrative in
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  • Eden, god--the devil said, "did god really say?
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  • Did god really say you shouldn't eat of this tree?"
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  • And the same devil's got jesus an opportunity now and he says,
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  • You know, "if you're the son of god."
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  • He knows very well who he is.
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  • He's seen him in all of his glory and his splendor.
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  • It's an attack.
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  • And then he quotes scripture to him.
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  • The devil quotes scripture to jesus.
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  • He said, "he'll command his angels concerning you."
  • 00:24:52.840 --> 00:24:56.210
  • He's trying to use scripture to get jesus to take license.
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  • You know, that's evil.
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  • It's why you need to read your bible to know the character of
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  • God, the larger narrative.
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  • It'll protect you from people that will take scripture and use
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  • It for very self-destructive things.
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  • Matthew tells us that satan showed jesus all the kingdoms of
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  • The world and their splendor and he said, "all this i'll give
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  • To you.
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  • I'll give it to you."
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  • It's a supernatural event.
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  • We're not really given the details, but in a moment before
  • 00:25:28.242 --> 00:25:31.378
  • The internet jesus got a global overview.
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  • "i'll give you all of this without the necessity of
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  • A cross, without the pain of rejection, without the
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  • Physical suffering.
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  • I'll give you all this authority if you just bow down and
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  • Worship me."
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  • Great cry of evil used to cause us to worship it to--worship is
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  • Not about music and choruses and church services and church
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  • Buildings, worship is about priority.
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  • Whatever gets first place is what we worship.
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  • It's what we'll bend our knee to, what we'll give our heart to
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  • And give our money to.
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