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Allen Jackson - Stormproof Foundations (Part 2)

May 31, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Stormproof Foundations (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Stormproof Foundations (Part 2) | May 31, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: you know, around the world,
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  • Allen jackson: the things matthew tells us the devil knows
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  • Are intriguing to me.
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  • He knows jesus is the son of god.
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  • He knows the words of scripture.
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  • The devil knows that the angels will follow god's commands.
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  • We got all of that from reading those three or four
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  • Little verses.
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  • The devil acknowledges that god has angels who will follow
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  • His directions.
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  • And we're told in other places in scripture that they're
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  • Almost an innumerable number of angels; in one scene, more than
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  • 100 million.
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  • What do we have a population these days?
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  • About 300 million people?
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  • Imagine being able to see a third of all the population of
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  • The united states in one scene.
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  • We've got a scene like that of angels worshiping the lord.
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  • And they're messengers.
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  • The scripture says: "sent forth into the world to do god's
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  • Bidding on our behalf."
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  • And the devil knows it. no wonder he's angry.
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  • No wonder he doesn't play fair. he can't play fair.
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  • He's got no chance if he plays fair.
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  • Verse 12: "when jesus heard that john had been put in prison, he
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  • Returned to galilee."
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  • Now, i'm gonna take a little license at this point.
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  • In english, the translation that i typically would use here is
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  • The new international version, the niv.
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  • And that phrase there in the niv simply says that when john
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  • Heard--when jesus heard that john had been in prison, jesus
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  • Returned to galilee.
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  • But my--one of my habits is i'll try to read a passage if
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  • Time permits in more than one translation or i'll change
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  • Translations from one year to the next so that sometimes i
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  • Will remember it differently than the translation i'm reading
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  • And then i'll check, and in this case, the niv's translation is
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  • Softer than the greek words.
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  • In the niv it says jesus returned to galilee.
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  • I put the same verse in the new american standard in your notes.
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  • It says: "when jesus heard that john had been taken into
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  • Custody, he withdrew into galilee."
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  • To me, there's a pretty significant difference.
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  • In the niv it says, you know, when jesus heard about john
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  • Being arrested, he went home.
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  • But the greek actually says that when he heard that john had been
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  • Arrested, jesus withdrew.
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  • That's a very different response.
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  • Different translations will offer different insights
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  • Sometimes, not every day.
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  • So if you've done this more than once, maybe you wanna change the
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  • Translation you're reading this year.
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  • Say, "well, i like this."
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  • I got it. you don't have to.
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  • The best translation to read is the one you will read.
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  • People get really--"pastor, pastor, i have a question."
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  • They get really serious on this one.
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  • "do you read the king james?"
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  • Yeah, i do, actually.
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  • In fact, i started as a child reading the king james.
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  • I still sometimes think in thous and thees.
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  • I don't know what they mean, but i think in them.
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  • But the question, you know, "which translation is the best?"
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  • They get really serious on this one and my answer is--you know
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  • My answer.
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  • But if they don't know me, i'm gonna pull them in.
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  • "oh, i have a word from the lord on that.
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  • I know definitively the absolute best translation."
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  • And now i got them.
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  • I mean, they're like, "really?"
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  • "yeah, the best translation is the one you'll read."
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  • There's no perfect translation; they're translations.
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  • Well, why does it make a difference?
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  • Well, occasionally--it doesn't always make a difference and
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  • Don't build your theology around a word or a comma.
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  • See, translation requires opinion, so reading a different
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  • Translation gives you a perspective from a
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  • Different opinion.
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  • It's not about good or evil.
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  • You wanna get to know the character of god from the
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  • Broader story.
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  • The effort of language and communication is important.
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  • It's why the manipulation of language which we are watching
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  • These days in unprecedented levels.
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  • They're making new translations of the bible that are leaving
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  • Almost completely much of what's very apparent in the languages
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  • From which they're translating to make it more
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  • Politically correct.
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  • But we've got to begin to read our bibles.
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  • I put matthew 12 because the same word is used there and in
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  • This case, even in the niv, they used, i think, a better word.
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  • It says: "the pharisees went out and plotted how they might
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  • Kill jesus."
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  • It's in your notes.
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  • "aware of this, jesus withdrew from that place.
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  • And many followed him, and he healed their sick, warning them
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  • Not to tell who he was."
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  • Now if all that it had said in matthew 12 was, "jesus went
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  • Home," you would again have missed the point.
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  • But here you get this sense, it's very similar to the verse
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  • In matthew 4 and verse 12.
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  • Now in matthew 12, it says that "they're plotting how they can
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  • Kill jesus.
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  • And aware that they're doing it," jesus knows what
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  • They're doing.
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  • "so he withdrew from that place.
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  • And when many people followed him, he kept ministering.
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  • He healed many people, but he warned them not to draw
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  • Attention to himself."
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  • Now that's a pretty important piece to understand about jesus.
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  • On more than one occasion when he was faced with very real
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  • Threats, very determined adversaries, he withdrew.
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  • He wasn't reckless.
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  • I have to think about that a bit, cause that's probably not
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  • My intuitive response.
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  • Somebody pushes you, you push them harder.
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  • They're bigger than you, get an equalizer.
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  • But from time to time, jesus, led by the spirit,
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  • Would withdraw.
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  • You see, when we're led by the spirit of god, we know when to
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  • Be bold and defiant because on multiple occasions, jesus is
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  • Very bold and very defiant of those in power.
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  • He is frequently not a peacemaker.
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  • But it's equally clear that there were times he knew when to
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  • Be measured.
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  • "well, how do you know?"
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  • Well, i suppose we'd have to learn to listen to the spirit.
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  • "oh, couldn't i have a formula?"
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  • Yes, listen to the spirit.
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  • That's the formula.
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  • Verse 13.
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  • Now remember verse 12, "when jesus heard that john had been
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  • Put in prison, he withdrew into galilee."
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  • In verse 13: "leaving nazareth, he went and lived in capernaum."
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  • Well, he kind of withdrew.
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  • Nazareth is tucked in the hills of galilee.
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  • It's a sleepy little village, 1200, 1500 people.
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  • There's no major roads there.
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  • There's not a water source, barely could sustain the people
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  • Who live there, so there's no reason for people to come there,
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  • But he moves to capernaum, which is on the largest water source
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  • In the entire region, not just israel.
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  • And capernaum is located on a major roman road.
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  • It's still there until today with the roman mile markers,
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  • Just like we have mile markers on our interstates.
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  • So jesus left, he withdrew to galilee, but he left nazareth
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  • And he moved to a city on a busy road, "which was by the lake in
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  • The area of zebulun and naphtali--to fulfill what was
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  • Said through the prophet: 'zebulun and naphtali, the way
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  • To the sea, along the jordan, galilee of the gentiles--the
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  • People living in darkness have seen a great light; on those
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  • Living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned.'
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  • And from that time on jesus began to preach."
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  • Up until this time, jesus hasn't been preaching.
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  • When he left nazareth, after withdrawing to galilee because
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  • Of the anxiety that was building, the hatred that was
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  • Building around john and his message of repentance.
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  • Now the time has come and jesus begins to preach.
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  • "repent for the kingdom of god is near."
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  • Jesus began his public ministry by leaving the comfort and
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  • Familiarity of nazareth, the town where he'd grown up.
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  • Leaving behind is a part of following.
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  • It's not always about maintaining the status quo.
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  • Jesus's preaching, his public ministry.
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  • It all began after the water baptism, the descent of the
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  • Spirit, the temptation in the wilderness, john's imprisonment.
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  • That's not a string of events that you would normally look to
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  • To build momentum in your life.
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  • I think if there's a conclusion, it's that ministry involves
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  • Obedience, the help of the holy spirit, and the presence
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  • Of opposition.
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  • You can't be reading matthew's gospel even in chapter 4 without
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  • Understanding that the purposes of god are going to be resisted.
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  • That isn't political.
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  • Oh, the resistance may be given expression through political
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  • Vehicles or delivery systems, but below that there's a
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  • Spiritual force.
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  • I mean, john's words got him arrested.
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  • But the authority with which his words were delivered were
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  • Derived from scripture.
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  • That there's a law that supersedes the laws of men.
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  • There's a divine law, god's law, that we are bound to, whether it
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  • Makes us popular or not.
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  • And jesus begins his ministry and begins to preach from
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  • That platform.
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  • Verse 18: "as jesus was walking beside the lake, the sea of
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  • Galilee, he saw two brothers, simon called peter and his
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  • Brother andrew, and they were casting a net into the lake, for
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  • They were fishermen.
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  • And jesus said, 'come, follow me, and i'll make you fishers
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  • Of men.'
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  • And at once they left their nets and they followed him.
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  • Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, james the son of
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  • Zebedee and his brother john.
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  • They were in a boat with their father zebedee, preparing their
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  • Nets, and jesus called them, and immediately left the boat and
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  • Their father and they followed him."
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  • Now i'm reading through that, there's something in there that,
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  • To me, is pretty unusual.
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  • It borders on bizarre.
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  • In two separate instances, two different families, they're not
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  • All united, it wasn't just one message.
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  • On two separate occasions, jesus extends an invitation, "come,
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  • Follow me."
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  • 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.
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  • People say to me, "well, our whole history is not good."
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  • Well, folks, you know, my history is not great.
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  • Your family history is not perfect.
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  • But you love your family, you love your children.
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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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  • It still is.
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  • Let's ask god to bless america again.
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  • Allen: and then this last segment of this chapter, i think
  • 00:13:12.574 --> 00:13:16.845
  • It's really a synopsis of jesus's ministry.
  • 00:13:16.845 --> 00:13:19.848
  • I mean, it fits into context here.
  • 00:13:19.848 --> 00:13:21.583
  • It fits into a sequential place.
  • 00:13:21.583 --> 00:13:24.853
  • It's an unfolding story, but if i had to find two or three
  • 00:13:24.853 --> 00:13:27.522
  • Verses to give you a summary of jesus's ministry, this is it.
  • 00:13:27.522 --> 00:13:30.725
  • "jesus went throughout galilee, teaching in their synagogues,
  • 00:13:30.725 --> 00:13:34.229
  • Preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every
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  • Disease and sickness among the people.
  • 00:13:36.464 --> 00:13:39.000
  • News about him spread all over syria," beyond israel, all
  • 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:43.238
  • Over syria.
  • 00:13:43.238 --> 00:13:44.839
  • "and people brought to him all who were ill with various
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  • Diseases, those suffering severe pain, the demon-possessed, those
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  • Having seizures, the paralyzed, and he healed them.
  • 00:13:52.680 --> 00:13:57.018
  • Large crowds from galilee, the decapolis, jerusalem, judea and
  • 00:13:57.018 --> 00:14:00.188
  • The region across the jordan followed him."
  • 00:14:00.188 --> 00:14:04.492
  • It's a pretty remarkable story.
  • 00:14:04.492 --> 00:14:05.960
  • Jesus has had opposition from the devil himself.
  • 00:14:05.960 --> 00:14:08.663
  • In this chapter, we've only looked at one chapter, jesus had
  • 00:14:08.663 --> 00:14:13.768
  • Opposition from the devil himself.
  • 00:14:13.768 --> 00:14:15.870
  • His friend john has been imprisoned.
  • 00:14:15.870 --> 00:14:19.340
  • So there's a public declaration that there's a very low
  • 00:14:19.340 --> 00:14:21.542
  • Tolerance for challenging the status quo.
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  • You better cooperate.
  • 00:14:23.978 --> 00:14:26.848
  • John said, "i think not," and he's in prison.
  • 00:14:26.848 --> 00:14:32.487
  • The beginning of jesus's ministry, the establishment has
  • 00:14:32.487 --> 00:14:35.256
  • A bias against him.
  • 00:14:35.256 --> 00:14:38.026
  • His cousin's already been arrested.
  • 00:14:38.026 --> 00:14:40.762
  • Jesus is obedient, fulfilling his assignment.
  • 00:14:40.762 --> 00:14:44.766
  • There's two separate initiatives moving forward in time
  • 00:14:44.766 --> 00:14:47.502
  • And space.
  • 00:14:47.502 --> 00:14:48.870
  • The proclamation that the kingdom of god is at hand and
  • 00:14:48.870 --> 00:14:51.339
  • The opposition to it, they are both emerging.
  • 00:14:51.339 --> 00:14:53.741
  • That is a very biblical principle.
  • 00:14:53.741 --> 00:14:57.412
  • See, i used to imagine that revivals would take place, they
  • 00:14:57.412 --> 00:14:59.580
  • Would be so universal, so sweeping, so broad in scope that
  • 00:14:59.580 --> 00:15:04.452
  • Everybody you know would be raising their hand, going, "oh,
  • 00:15:04.452 --> 00:15:06.421
  • I'm in on that."
  • 00:15:06.421 --> 00:15:07.755
  • That really isn't biblical.
  • 00:15:07.755 --> 00:15:09.991
  • There's a couple of exceptions: nineveh, we get this report of
  • 00:15:09.991 --> 00:15:13.962
  • Widespread--but it's a very unusual circumstance.
  • 00:15:13.962 --> 00:15:18.633
  • Typically, you see all the forces at work and the collision
  • 00:15:18.633 --> 00:15:22.603
  • Coming between the perspectives.
  • 00:15:22.603 --> 00:15:25.740
  • Jesus is teaching and preaching regarding the kingdom of god in
  • 00:15:25.740 --> 00:15:28.443
  • Their synagogues, matthew tells us.
  • 00:15:28.443 --> 00:15:31.913
  • Now, i promise you something about the 1st century in israel.
  • 00:15:31.913 --> 00:15:35.183
  • It's very similar to the 21st century in tennessee.
  • 00:15:35.183 --> 00:15:37.986
  • Not everybody went to synagogue.
  • 00:15:37.986 --> 00:15:42.790
  • I've visited synagogues that have been excavated in many of
  • 00:15:42.790 --> 00:15:45.827
  • Those smaller communities, and they would hold a few
  • 00:15:45.827 --> 00:15:48.296
  • Dozen people.
  • 00:15:48.296 --> 00:15:49.664
  • Not everybody in the community went to synagogue.
  • 00:15:49.664 --> 00:15:52.800
  • But jesus went to deliver his message in the synagogue.
  • 00:15:52.800 --> 00:15:55.403
  • If you wanted to get the jesus message, you had to go to
  • 00:15:55.403 --> 00:15:57.705
  • The synagogue.
  • 00:15:57.705 --> 00:15:59.907
  • Now i know he spoke to broader crowds and he gave a sermon on
  • 00:15:59.907 --> 00:16:02.477
  • The mount, but the direct report is that he traveled around the
  • 00:16:02.477 --> 00:16:06.848
  • Region, speaking in the synagogues.
  • 00:16:06.848 --> 00:16:10.651
  • You had to be in the synagogue to hear jesus.
  • 00:16:10.651 --> 00:16:18.226
  • Then it says that he was healing every disease and sickness.
  • 00:16:18.226 --> 00:16:20.695
  • Jesus is a healer.
  • 00:16:20.695 --> 00:16:22.563
  • He still is.
  • 00:16:22.563 --> 00:16:23.898
  • Don't debate that.
  • 00:16:23.898 --> 00:16:26.167
  • I'm amazed at christians.
  • 00:16:26.167 --> 00:16:27.502
  • I mean, i got--i hear--i read the stuff.
  • 00:16:27.502 --> 00:16:29.370
  • They publish whole studies, seminars, video tapes.
  • 00:16:29.370 --> 00:16:33.074
  • "does jesus heal?"
  • 00:16:33.074 --> 00:16:34.442
  • I'm like, "which bible did you read?
  • 00:16:34.442 --> 00:16:41.716
  • I mean, how could you arrive at that conclusion?"
  • 00:16:41.716 --> 00:16:46.821
  • Jesus is healing every sickness and disease.
  • 00:16:46.821 --> 00:16:49.090
  • News about him spread over a very wide area.
  • 00:16:49.090 --> 00:16:53.194
  • You could miss this if you don't know the geography a little bit.
  • 00:16:53.194 --> 00:16:56.330
  • Jesus's reputation is growing very rapidly.
  • 00:16:56.330 --> 00:16:58.466
  • It says that people were brought to him who were ill.
  • 00:16:58.466 --> 00:17:01.269
  • There's no easy ministry.
  • 00:17:01.269 --> 00:17:05.006
  • I smile, we raise our hands and go, "i would like to lead
  • 00:17:05.006 --> 00:17:06.941
  • A group.
  • 00:17:06.941 --> 00:17:08.509
  • I'll host a small group."
  • 00:17:08.509 --> 00:17:09.877
  • Then you call in a few weeks to go, "i want a different group.
  • 00:17:09.877 --> 00:17:14.348
  • The people in my group are difficult."
  • 00:17:14.348 --> 00:17:18.319
  • I saw it years ago.
  • 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:19.687
  • I saw an advertisement.
  • 00:17:19.687 --> 00:17:21.022
  • It was--i'm sure it was manufactured.
  • 00:17:21.022 --> 00:17:22.356
  • This was before ai.
  • 00:17:22.356 --> 00:17:24.459
  • But it said: "lion tamer wants tamer lion."
  • 00:17:24.459 --> 00:17:28.629
  • I feel that way about ministry most times.
  • 00:17:28.629 --> 00:17:30.398
  • "god, isn't there an easier problem?
  • 00:17:30.398 --> 00:17:34.068
  • Don't you have somebody that like had the sniffles?
  • 00:17:34.068 --> 00:17:35.870
  • I don't want to pray with somebody with a
  • 00:17:35.870 --> 00:17:37.205
  • Life-threatening problem.
  • 00:17:37.205 --> 00:17:40.007
  • Is there anybody who didn't come from a torqued family?"
  • 00:17:40.007 --> 00:17:42.343
  • No, not many.
  • 00:17:42.343 --> 00:17:45.379
  • Ministry is challenging.
  • 00:17:45.379 --> 00:17:47.582
  • It's sacrifice.
  • 00:17:47.582 --> 00:17:49.750
  • You have to think about somebody else in front of you, you have
  • 00:17:49.750 --> 00:17:52.019
  • To clean your house.
  • 00:17:52.019 --> 00:17:54.555
  • Ah, what a hassle.
  • 00:17:54.555 --> 00:17:59.427
  • Well, i mean, i know there's eternity in the balance and
  • 00:17:59.427 --> 00:18:01.629
  • There's rewards to be gained, but i'd have to vacuum.
  • 00:18:01.629 --> 00:18:09.170
  • I mean, it's very clear, we just--we haven't read
  • 00:18:09.170 --> 00:18:11.239
  • A chapter.
  • 00:18:11.239 --> 00:18:12.573
  • Well, we have read a chapter.
  • 00:18:12.573 --> 00:18:15.143
  • They're bringing only sick people to jesus.
  • 00:18:15.143 --> 00:18:17.011
  • They weren't bringing all the people to say, "you're the man."
  • 00:18:17.011 --> 00:18:21.315
  • They're putting difficult cases in front of him and going, "what
  • 00:18:21.315 --> 00:18:23.584
  • Are you gonna do now?
  • 00:18:23.584 --> 00:18:25.486
  • What are you gonna do with this one?"
  • 00:18:25.486 --> 00:18:26.854
  • We know it's true because you're gonna read in matthew where they
  • 00:18:26.854 --> 00:18:29.991
  • Bring cases to his disciples and his disciples can't help them
  • 00:18:29.991 --> 00:18:33.060
  • And they go find jesus, say, "we brought him to your disciples
  • 00:18:33.060 --> 00:18:35.530
  • And they couldn't do anything."
  • 00:18:35.530 --> 00:18:38.599
  • It's like a test every day.
  • 00:18:38.599 --> 00:18:43.704
  • Couldn't we just have a polite bible study and not talk about
  • 00:18:43.704 --> 00:18:46.174
  • Praying for people?
  • 00:18:46.174 --> 00:18:50.511
  • You could, but there'll be no life there.
  • 00:18:50.511 --> 00:18:54.415
  • There'll be no vitality there.
  • 00:18:54.415 --> 00:18:59.320
  • Jesus described it as the blind following the blind, not because
  • 00:18:59.320 --> 00:19:02.056
  • You're blind and you can't read, but you're spiritually unaware.
  • 00:19:02.056 --> 00:19:08.663
  • Large crowds are following jesus.
  • 00:19:08.663 --> 00:19:10.331
  • This is not a house church initiative.
  • 00:19:10.331 --> 00:19:11.799
  • I smile, people say, "you know, the new testament is just about
  • 00:19:11.799 --> 00:19:13.534
  • The house church."
  • 00:19:13.534 --> 00:19:14.869
  • Which new testament?
  • 00:19:14.869 --> 00:19:17.972
  • They're bringing people.
  • 00:19:17.972 --> 00:19:20.208
  • Listen to matthew's description.
  • 00:19:20.208 --> 00:19:21.576
  • It says: "they brought people from all over syria," not just
  • 00:19:21.576 --> 00:19:24.378
  • From israel; syria.
  • 00:19:24.378 --> 00:19:26.347
  • Syria is north of israel, if you don't know your map.
  • 00:19:26.347 --> 00:19:30.151
  • And then he--then he said that they were bringing the people,
  • 00:19:30.151 --> 00:19:36.591
  • Large crowds from galilee, the region where he was, the
  • 00:19:36.591 --> 00:19:39.327
  • Decapolis, that means ten cities in greek.
  • 00:19:39.327 --> 00:19:42.263
  • Eight of the cities are on the other side of the jordan river
  • 00:19:42.263 --> 00:19:44.999
  • In modern-day jordan.
  • 00:19:44.999 --> 00:19:48.202
  • So they're gathering people from modern-day syria, modern-day
  • 00:19:48.202 --> 00:19:52.139
  • Jordan, all over the northern part of israel, from jerusalem
  • 00:19:52.139 --> 00:19:56.077
  • And judea, which is the south of israel.
  • 00:19:56.077 --> 00:19:58.646
  • There are people coming from multiple nations.
  • 00:19:58.646 --> 00:20:05.753
  • Yeah, jesus's reputation is growing.
  • 00:20:05.753 --> 00:20:07.154
  • This is one chapter, folks.
  • 00:20:07.154 --> 00:20:08.489
  • We started the chapter, he's in the wilderness being tempted by
  • 00:20:08.489 --> 00:20:10.291
  • The devil.
  • 00:20:10.291 --> 00:20:16.530
  • God's up to something.
  • 00:20:16.530 --> 00:20:19.767
  • Now i've got 2 minutes, which is perfect because i've got
  • 00:20:19.767 --> 00:20:24.272
  • 2 passages.
  • 00:20:24.272 --> 00:20:28.109
  • And because we're reading matthew together, i want to skip
  • 00:20:28.109 --> 00:20:30.578
  • Ahead and those last verses i read you from matthew 4, see if
  • 00:20:30.578 --> 00:20:34.081
  • They--these seem familiar to you.
  • 00:20:34.081 --> 00:20:35.683
  • These are the applications.
  • 00:20:35.683 --> 00:20:38.619
  • In matthew 24, jesus is saying to his disciples--matthew 24 is
  • 00:20:38.619 --> 00:20:42.857
  • Jesus's largest, longest prophetic message.
  • 00:20:42.857 --> 00:20:46.427
  • He's telling to his friends what's ahead of them.
  • 00:20:46.427 --> 00:20:49.463
  • And not just his first century friends.
  • 00:20:49.463 --> 00:20:52.833
  • He says: "you'll be handed over to be persecuted and put
  • 00:20:52.833 --> 00:20:55.436
  • To death."
  • 00:20:55.436 --> 00:20:56.904
  • Gee, like you and john?
  • 00:20:56.904 --> 00:20:59.707
  • "and you'll be hated by all nations because of me."
  • 00:20:59.707 --> 00:21:04.779
  • I'm amused people say god doesn't care about the nations.
  • 00:21:04.779 --> 00:21:06.981
  • In which bible?
  • 00:21:06.981 --> 00:21:10.451
  • "at that time many will turn away from the faith and will
  • 00:21:10.451 --> 00:21:12.987
  • Betray each other, and many false prophets will appear and
  • 00:21:12.987 --> 00:21:15.489
  • Deceive many people.
  • 00:21:15.489 --> 00:21:17.258
  • Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most
  • 00:21:17.258 --> 00:21:19.327
  • Will grow cold, but he who stands firm to the end will
  • 00:21:19.327 --> 00:21:22.129
  • Be saved.
  • 00:21:22.129 --> 00:21:23.764
  • And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the
  • 00:21:23.764 --> 00:21:26.300
  • Whole world."
  • 00:21:26.300 --> 00:21:28.936
  • Matthew told us in chapter 4 that jesus preached the gospel
  • 00:21:28.936 --> 00:21:31.739
  • Of the kingdom in all the synagogues around galilee.
  • 00:21:31.739 --> 00:21:36.310
  • And when jesus is getting near the end of his life, he looks at
  • 00:21:36.310 --> 00:21:39.146
  • His closest friends and he said, "this gospel of the kingdom that
  • 00:21:39.146 --> 00:21:42.183
  • You've heard me preach dozens and dozens and dozens of times,
  • 00:21:42.183 --> 00:21:45.986
  • It's gonna be preached in the whole world.
  • 00:21:45.986 --> 00:21:49.523
  • And then the end will come."
  • 00:21:49.523 --> 00:21:51.425
  • If you want to find the penultimate, the ultimate sign
  • 00:21:51.425 --> 00:21:55.129
  • Of the end of this age, it's the proclamation of the gospel of
  • 00:21:55.129 --> 00:21:59.166
  • The kingdom in the whole world.
  • 00:21:59.166 --> 00:22:02.470
  • And the church has to be engaged with that.
  • 00:22:02.470 --> 00:22:05.005
  • We're a part of the catalyst for the end of the age.
  • 00:22:05.005 --> 00:22:08.876
  • And then finally last chapter of matthew, similar message: "the
  • 00:22:08.876 --> 00:22:12.346
  • Eleven disciples went to galilee, to the mountain where
  • 00:22:12.346 --> 00:22:14.682
  • Jesus had told them.
  • 00:22:14.682 --> 00:22:16.016
  • When they saw him, they worshiped him; and
  • 00:22:16.016 --> 00:22:17.618
  • Some doubted."
  • 00:22:17.618 --> 00:22:18.986
  • Folks, things haven't changed.
  • 00:22:18.986 --> 00:22:22.390
  • Jesus has been resurrected and some believe and some don't.
  • 00:22:22.390 --> 00:22:26.594
  • "and jesus came to them and said, 'all authority in heaven,
  • 00:22:26.594 --> 00:22:29.130
  • On earth, has been given to me.
  • 00:22:29.130 --> 00:22:31.065
  • Therefore,'" and i put the pronoun in parenthesis.
  • 00:22:31.065 --> 00:22:36.437
  • So i added this, but it is included in the language of
  • 00:22:36.437 --> 00:22:39.607
  • The text.
  • 00:22:39.607 --> 00:22:40.975
  • It's just not normally the way we would speak.
  • 00:22:40.975 --> 00:22:42.710
  • "therefore (you) go and you make disciples of all nations, (you)
  • 00:22:42.710 --> 00:22:46.947
  • Baptize them in the name of the father and the son and the holy
  • 00:22:46.947 --> 00:22:49.784
  • Spirit, and (you) teach them to obey everything i've
  • 00:22:49.784 --> 00:22:52.586
  • Commanded you.
  • 00:22:52.586 --> 00:22:54.688
  • And surely i'm with you always, to the very end of the age."
  • 00:22:54.688 --> 00:23:00.227
  • Jesus said, "you've watched me do it.
  • 00:23:00.227 --> 00:23:03.497
  • You've been a part of that drama.
  • 00:23:03.497 --> 00:23:05.099
  • I've commissioned you and sent you out to do it, and now i'm
  • 00:23:05.099 --> 00:23:08.936
  • Leaving and you preach this message."
  • 00:23:08.936 --> 00:23:12.239
  • Folks, we're the 21st century edition.
  • 00:23:12.239 --> 00:23:15.843
  • We read one chapter.
  • 00:23:15.843 --> 00:23:18.579
  • We saw the conflict between satan and the unfolding purposes
  • 00:23:18.579 --> 00:23:22.183
  • Of the kingdom of god.
  • 00:23:22.183 --> 00:23:24.552
  • We saw the difficulty of honoring the lord.
  • 00:23:24.552 --> 00:23:26.654
  • John is imprisoned, he'll lose his life.
  • 00:23:26.654 --> 00:23:30.324
  • We saw jesus facing challenges.
  • 00:23:30.324 --> 00:23:32.126
  • Every day people found challenges and brought them
  • 00:23:32.126 --> 00:23:34.261
  • To him.
  • 00:23:34.261 --> 00:23:35.629
  • If you will help people, other people will find troubled people
  • 00:23:35.629 --> 00:23:37.631
  • And bring them to you.
  • 00:23:37.631 --> 00:23:43.938
  • And if your response is, "i don't wanna be bothered with
  • 00:23:43.938 --> 00:23:46.106
  • That," you really need to reflect a little bit.
  • 00:23:46.106 --> 00:23:49.643
  • "it's my time."
  • 00:23:49.643 --> 00:23:51.312
  • Well, i understand you need some me time.
  • 00:23:51.312 --> 00:23:54.415
  • Do you need some kingdom time?
  • 00:23:54.415 --> 00:23:59.687
  • I brought you a prayer and it's really psalm 138.
  • 00:23:59.687 --> 00:24:04.358
  • If you look at the last phrase in verse 2, it's really what
  • 00:24:04.358 --> 00:24:09.730
  • Brought me to this psalm.
  • 00:24:09.730 --> 00:24:11.098
  • It says: "you have exalted above all things your name and
  • 00:24:11.098 --> 00:24:13.667
  • Your word."
  • 00:24:13.667 --> 00:24:16.670
  • Jesus said there wouldn't be one letter, one stroke of a pen in
  • 00:24:16.670 --> 00:24:19.673
  • His word, that god wouldn't give attention to.
  • 00:24:19.673 --> 00:24:23.878
  • One of the ways you and i can exalt the lord is by investing
  • 00:24:23.878 --> 00:24:28.716
  • Time and effort and energy in his word.
  • 00:24:28.716 --> 00:24:32.152
  • So again, the invitation.
  • 00:24:32.152 --> 00:24:34.922
  • But the outcome of doing that is wrapped around that verse in
  • 00:24:34.922 --> 00:24:38.359
  • This psalm and so i think it's an appropriate prayer, a
  • 00:24:38.359 --> 00:24:41.362
  • Conclusion for us, a commitment for us.
  • 00:24:41.362 --> 00:24:43.163
  • If you'll stand with me, we'll read it together.
  • 00:24:43.163 --> 00:24:45.799
  • If you're joining us someplace else, you stand and read it with
  • 00:24:45.799 --> 00:24:47.935
  • Us unless you're driving.
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  • You just sit right there.
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  • Can we read it together?
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  • "i will praise you, o lord, with all my heart; before the 'gods'
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  • I will sing your praise.
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  • I will bow down toward your holy temple and will praise your name
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  • For your love and your faithfulness, for you have
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  • Exalted above all things your name and your word.
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  • When i called, you answered me; you made me bold
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  • And stouthearted.
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  • May all the kings of the earth praise you, o lord, when they
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  • Hear the words of your mouth.
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  • May they sing of the ways of the lord, for the glory of the lord
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  • Is great.
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  • Though the lord is on high--"
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  • Congregation: "he looks upon the lowly,
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  • But the proud he knows from afar.
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  • Though i walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life;
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  • You stretch out your hand against the anger of my foes,
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  • With your right hand you save me."
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  • Allen: "the lord will fulfill his purpose for me;
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  • Your love, o lord, endures forever--do not
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  • Abandon the works of your hand," amen.
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  • God bless you. enjoy your bible.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: 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,
  • 00:26:33.340 --> 00:26:35.943
  • Wherever that may be.
  • 00:26:35.943 --> 00:26:37.277
  • 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
  • 00:26:59.500 --> 00:27:02.036
  • 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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