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Allen Jackson - Synagogues and Pharisees (Part 2)

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Allen: isn't that what we hear all around us?
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We're offended by the truth of god's word.
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We're told not to talk about it, it's a cultural conversation and
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We shouldn't have it.
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Baloney, it's biblical.
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And if you're not having it, we're abandoning the field,
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And there's consequences.
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But jesus doesn't stop there, and if you look this up in your
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Bible, it says they're the six woes.
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Not like whoa to a horse, like, stop, it's the woe, w-o-e,
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Meaning i'm about to come upside your head.
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I mean, that's not really the definition.
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But, so jesus goes right on: "woe to you pharisees, you give
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A tenth of your mint and all other kinds of garden herbs, but
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You neglect justice and the love of god.
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You should have practiced the latter without leaving the
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Former undone."
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He said, you are so pretentious that you give a tithe.
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You know, people say to me that tithing is an old testament
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Concept, well, jesus believed in it, and last time i checked,
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He's kind of the pivot point of the new testament story.
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But jesus said, you'll even tithe of the mint that you get
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At the market, but, he said, you should have loved god.
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Now, he said you shouldn't have ignored the other.
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The tithing was okay, but you should have been focused on
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Loving god.
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But he doesn't stop there, "woe to you pharisees, you love the
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Most important seats in the synagogues and the greetings in
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The marketplace.
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Woe to you, because you're like unmarked graves, which men walk
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Over without knowing it."
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In judaism, if you--to step on a grave makes you unclean.
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Think of going to a strip club, does that make you unclean?
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How many of you think that would not be a good idea?
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About six of you.
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That was under reported, that is not a good idea.
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Well, it was a similar--and jesus is pulling up, he said,
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You know, but you allow the people to be unclean, woe to
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You, he said.
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I mean, he's at dinner, he's not asking for recipes.
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He's not commenting on the decorations in the synagogue.
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He's not offering commentary on the people that have gathered
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And the leadership being provided by the phari--well, he
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Is actually providing some commentary, but it's not what
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You'd--this is not a comfortable conversation.
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How many of you think if you were jesus's associate,
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You're squirming?
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Say, well, if i get out of this dinner, i'm not going back to
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Dinner with him, awkward!
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So luke slips it, "and one of the experts in the law answered
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Him," verse 45, "teacher, when you say these things, you insult
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Us also."
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As if jesus were so socially inept, he didn't understand that
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Woe is you, woe is you, woe is you, might be
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A little off-putting.
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"teacher, you insult us too."
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So at this point, you would think, well, maybe jesus will
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Dial it back a little bit, tap the brakes, build the bridge,
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Establish a little community, right?
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Find some commonality, what's the scripture portion for
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Next sabbath?
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Your scroll was beautifully cared for.
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Well, luke gives us jesus's response: "jesus replied, 'and
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You experts in the law, woe to you, because you load people
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Down with burdens they can hardly carry, and you yourselves
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Don't lift a finger to help them."'
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Well, that's not conciliatory, you're lousy leaders.
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"woe to you, because you build tombs for the prophets, and it
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Was your forefathers who killed them.
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So you testify that you approve of what your forefathers did;
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And they killed the prophets, and you build their tombs."
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Look at verse 50: "therefore this generation will be
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Held responsible."
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Remember where we started, disruption of patterns, annual
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--it wasn't in your notes, sorry, but their annual
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Schedules will be disrupted, the generational--anticipation of
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Generational success is gone.
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It's the message in the gospel of luke.
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You can't ignore the opportunities that god puts
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Before you and imagine the blessings of god will continue
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To insulate your future.
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Now, jesus is at dinner with the pharisee and this is what he
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Says to the pharisee and to the experts in the law who have
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Joined him, "this generation will be held responsible for all
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The blood of the prophets that's been shed since the beginning of
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The world, from the blood of abel to the blood of zechariah,
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Who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary.
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I tell you, this generation will be held responsible for it all."
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Do you ever--remember, jesus said that was a wicked
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Generation, do you ever think about
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Generational responsibility?
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You know, the focus of the gospel that we've heard has been
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So often upon personal salvation, and i believe in
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Conversion and salvation, but we have very little thought, very
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Little invested in the sense that--of community and
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Generational responses to god.
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"to whom much is given," the scripture says, "there is much
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Required," there is a great deal of accountability.
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We are more blessed, we have more affluence, more freedom,
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More liberty, more access to the gospel, more access to the word
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Of god, more leisure time to engage with it than any group of
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People in the history of civilization.
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I don't say that to bring guilt and shame, i say that it should
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Stir within us an awareness of the opportunity with which we've
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Been presented.
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Verse 52: "woe to you experts in the law, you've taken away
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The key to knowledge.
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And you yourselves haven't entered, but you've hindered
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Those who are entering."
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Look at verse 53, luke's giving us a commentary.
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He said, "when jesus left, when he left dinner, the pharisees
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And the teachers of the law began to oppose him fiercely and
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To besiege him with questions, waiting to catch him in
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Something he might say."
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Nobody said, you know, he had a point.
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I mean, he's opened blind eyes and raised the dead.
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We heard he made merlot in cana, maybe we should listen.
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None of that.
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We're gonna shut him down, we won't tolerate it.
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Folks, it sounds eerily like the attitude we have around
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Conversations about a biblical worldview and what's happening
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In our culture, we don't talk about that, it's inappropriate,
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You shouldn't do that.
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Well, i believe we should.
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I believe we have to.
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Luke's gonna take us to another pharisee's house, chapter 14:
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"one sabbath, when jesus went to eat in the house of a prominent
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Pharisee, he was being watched carefully."
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Now, by now, we kind of know the drama.
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"in front of him was a man suffering from dropsy.
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And jesus asked the pharisees and the experts in the law, 'is
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It lawful to heal on the sabbath?'
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They didn't say anything.
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So he took hold of the man, and he healed him and
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He sent him away."
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You know, at that point--again, if we kinda used our
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Contemporary models, you'd just move on.
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Maybe you've been invited to somebody's house and they don't
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Believe in miracles, they don't pray for the sick, but there's
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Somebody there that's sick and so you kind of quietly pray for
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The sick person, right?
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And then you go back to going, "your green beans are awesome.
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Best chicken i've had in a long time."
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But that isn't jesus's pattern, it's not his habit.
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It's not what luke is reporting to us.
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After he sent the man away, he says, "he said to them," his
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Host, "if one of you has a son or an ox that falls into a well
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On the sabbath, wouldn't you pull him out?"
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Look at their stubbornness, "they had nothing to say."
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We're not gonna talk to you about this, we're not
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Conceding anything.
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We're not gonna be grateful that the man was healed.
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He's one of our constituents.
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He's a part of our community.
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He was delivered from sickness and disease.
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We're not gonna be happy for him, we don't like you!
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Jesus goes on, he gets up into their business.
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"when he noticed how the guests picked the places of honor at
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The table, he told them a parable."
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He just exposes their hearts, verse 11: "everyone who exalts
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Himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will
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Be exalted."
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Verse 12: "then jesus said to his host," i mean, he's not
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Gonna leave well enough alone!
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I doubt we would go to the third pharisee's house with jesus,
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We'd be too raw after the first two visits.
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It makes you nervous when you just read it.
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"when you give a luncheon or dinner, do you not invite your
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Friends or your brothers or your relatives or your
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Rich neighbors?
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If you do, they may invite you back and you'll be repaid.
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But when you give a banquet, invite the people that can't
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Invite you back."
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I mean, he's up in his business.
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And then he tells them this parable and they're wise enough,
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They're astute enough, they're educated and culturally
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Sophisticated and scripturally aware, they understand jesus is
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Pointing this parable at them.
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It's about someone who holds a feast, in the kingdom of god,
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Jesus said, and he invites people, and the people he
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Invites, don't wanna come to the feast.
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So the instruction is given in verse 22.
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Verse 21: "the servant came back and said, the owner of the house
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Became angry and he ordered, 'go out quickly into the streets and
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Alleys and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind and
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The lame.'
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The master said, 'go out into the roads and the country lanes
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And make them come in, so that my house may be full.
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I tell you, not one of those men who were invited will get a
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Taste of my banquet.'"
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I assure you, the pharisee and his friends knew whom jesus was
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Speaking about.
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So what's luke telling us?
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It's not like a--it's not a single instance, it's not like
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A grumpy pharisee.
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In multiple places, in multiple communities, after ministering
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In synagogues where the people are celebrating healings and
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Miracles and the authority with which jesus teaches and
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Demonized people being set free, he's having meals with the
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Leaders in the synagogue.
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Jesus is doing his part to engage, to try to bring change,
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Because if the pharisee changes, the synagogue changes, the
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Community changes.
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When luke says, jesus said, "you're a wicked generation,"
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It's not some theoretical observance from a
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Great distance.
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It's not 1,000-foot view, he's been in their homes having meals
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With them and they do not wanna listen, and so destruction
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Is coming.
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Jesus weeps over jerusalem in luke's gospel.
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Allen: we're gonna go to one more meal with jesus.
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It's not a pharisee this time, it's worse, it's the biggest
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Thief in town.
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He's not a religious leader, folks.
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He's not convening services, he's not reading scripture
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Portions, he's a thief.
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Everybody knows he's a thief.
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The biggest--the most hated people in town were the
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Tax collectors.
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The roman habit was to choose a local citizen because after all,
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They tended to know where the money was.
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And they would appoint them as a tax collector and then they
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Would give them roman soldiers to be the enforcers.
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So that the tax collector, while he was local, had the muscle of
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The roman soldiers to collect the taxes.
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And human nature being what it is, most frequently, the tax
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Collector would not only collect what rome was asking for,
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He would line his own pockets.
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So you can imagine how the local people felt about the tax
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Collectors, right?
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Well, jesus is on his way to jerusalem and he comes through
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Jericho, and the tax collector there is zacchaeus.
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And apparently, he was a man of slight stature and he wanted to
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See jesus when he comes through town, he's heard about him, so
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He climbs the tree to see over the crowd.
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And when jesus is coming through town, there's no doubt the
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Women's bazaar has fixed lunch for jesus.
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They have tomatoes and tuna fish and some gelatin something.
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And jesus stops under the tree where zacchaeus is, it's in your
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Notes, it's luke 19.
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"when jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said, 'zacchaeus,
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Come down.
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I must stay at your house today.'"
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Now, this is luke 19.
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We've been to three pharisees homes by now with luke, we know
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What's coming.
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Dear me, if he said that to the pharisee, can you imagine what
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He's gonna say to the tax collector?
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He's about to get flayed!
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"zacchaeus, i must stay at your house today," and all the women
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Are a huff, what's gonna happen to our tuna?
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That's in the living bible.
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That's not really in luke, okay?
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So jesus--"so zacchaeus came down at once and welcomed
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Him gladly."
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Well, that's weird.
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The synagogue leaders don't welcome him gladly, they welcome
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Him skeptically.
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They're looking for a reason to accuse him, they don't have any
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Intention of cooperating with him.
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"and all the people saw this and they began to mutter, 'jesus has
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Gone to be the guest of a sinner.'"
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There's the spirit we're looking for, see!
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"but zacchaeus stood up and said to the lord, 'here and now i
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Give half of my possessions to the poor, and if i have cheated
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Anybody out of anything,'" can you see the crowd?
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Can you see the eye rolls, if you've cheated anybody?
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"'if i have cheated anybody out of anything, i'll pay back four
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Times the amount.'
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And jesus said to him, 'today salvation has come to this
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House, because this man, too, is the son of abraham.
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For the son of man came to seek and to save what was lost.'"
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Folks, we don't wanna stand in our self-righteousness.
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We don't want to be oblivious to the needs that are around us.
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We're gonna close with communion.
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When you came in, i think you received those elements.
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If you're joining us online, you got a minute, you go grab
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A saltine and a cup of water.
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I meet people pretty regularly now that join us on livestream
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And they tell me they keep communion handy because we don't
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Give them enough time to get ready.
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Sorry about that.
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But if you'll allow me, i wanna suggest that we come tonight in
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Humility and say to the lord, we're a people in need
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Of healing.
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We have an abundance of churches, easy access to the
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Bibles, we have christian broadcasting, and it's more
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Frequent to hear us say, "i don't like that style" or "i
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Don't like that translation," or "that doesn't minister to me."
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We're far more ready to say those things than we are to
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Engage the sin that is bringing disintegration to our culture.
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The sacrifice of our babies, offering our children up
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To predators.
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Hundreds of thousands of children have come into our
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Country through an open border, that there is no accounting for.
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I was given the report yesterday, hundreds of thousands
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Of children unaccounted for.
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They don't know where they are.
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The presumption is a significant percentage of them
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Have been trafficked.
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An open border is not compassion, it's a tool
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For evil.
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And it's easy to come into our churches and sing our choruses.
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I've read multiple reports about the church in the 30s in
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Germany, that we were reminded of earlier.
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And the trains would come past, loaded with jews headed to the
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Death camps.
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They would be crying, screaming for help.
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And when they rolled past the churches, the churches would
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Sing more loudly so they didn't have to hear the cries of
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The people.
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God, be merciful to us.
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Can we come to the communion table tonight and say, lord,
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Have mercy on us, we're a people in need of healing?
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We have tolerated ungodliness and immorality and wickedness,
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We've looked the other way.
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We've wanted to assert our self-righteousness.
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Lord, we need healing, we need forgiveness.
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We'll have changes in leadership and authority when we have
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Changes in the hearts of god's people.
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Can we come to the lord that way?
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Jesus put this in place, not pastors or bishops or
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Presbyteries, jesus did.
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The passover meal was a very familiar part of the jewish
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Religious life, a holiday, and jesus takes it and he repurposes
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A bit and it found its way into cultures far beyond the
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Jewish culture.
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He took bread at the end of the passover meal and said, "this
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Bread is my body broken for you."
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At that point, he hadn't been to the cross yet.
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The meaning of that, the revelation of that, would be to
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Come in the days ahead.
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We come to the communion table because it's through the broken
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Body of jesus that we have access to the kingdom of god,
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Not the church we join or our good works or our generosity.
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Through the broken body and the shed blood of jesus, we can
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Receive the gift of righteousness.
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We don't earn it, we certainly don't deserve it.
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We hold it, we nurture it with the humility to acknowledge we
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Need a savior.
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And because we are willing to call him lord, then we will
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Stand for the values and the principles that he gives to us,
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We don't choose them.
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I'm amazed at what people say they can be christian and then
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Hold worldview issues that are diametrically opposed
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To scripture.
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After what we just read, that seems really awkward to me.
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And if you've been guilty, let's talk to the lord tonight and
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Say, lord, i am sorry, i want to put you first.
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I want to give you first place.
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I'm not looking for a reason to criticize you, i wanna be more
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Like zacchaeus, "you all know i'm a thief and i want to make
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It right," he said.
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So we come to the communion table.
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Jesus said, "this is my body broken for you.
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As often as you eat it, do this in remembrance of me."
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Let's receive together.
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Then he took a cup and said, "this cup is a new covenant
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Sealed with my own blood.
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As often as you drink it, you proclaim my death until you see
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Me again."
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Without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sins.
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We had to have a savior, we needed one.
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We can't save ourselves.
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Let's receive together.
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You stand with me for that prayer?
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Heavenly father, i thank you for your love for us.
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Thank you that we have access to the word of god, that we can
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Gather in churches without fear of reprisal, that we can call on
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The name of jesus in a public place.
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We come tonight to acknowledge jesus as lord of our lives.
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As we've received the bread and the cup, we thank you for your
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Great sacrifice for us, what you endured that we might gain
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Access to your eternal kingdom.
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We praise you for it tonight.
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But apart from you, we are nothing.
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Apart from you, we are weak and frail and fractured.
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But in you, we have been made righteous, we've been justified,
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Sanctified, set apart for the purposes of god.
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And you have called us to this generation and to this unique
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Season, and father, we ask for your mercy.
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We've been indifferent or silent or when we have supported
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Ungodliness and wickedness, forgive us.
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When we've looked for reasons to diminish what you were doing
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Rather than to be ambassadors for you, forgive us.
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Give us boldness now to be people of the truth in our
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Homes, with our families, with our friends.
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May you be pleased with us, look upon us with mercy and bring
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Healing to us once again.
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In jesus name, amen.
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Allen: this is the 250th anniversary of our nation.
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It's a big deal.
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Now, i know a lot of us don't care a whole lot about history.
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We didn't have great experiences in school.
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I understand that, but here's the reality.
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If they can steal our history, they'll rob us of our future.
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So history really does matter.
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Well, because of that, we have partnered with some good friends
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Of our ministries, wallbuilders david and tim barton.
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They have the best of the best on this topic.
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It's a two-volume set on "the american story," and it helps us
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Learn american history with a faith component, with a god
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Perspective--how god has been engaged in the unfolding
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Narrative of our american story.
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That matters because we need god to be involved in the future of
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The american story.
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That affects our lives, our families, our communities, and
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Ultimately our nation.
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The books will be a blessing to you, but more than that, i
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Believe they'll open your life to the imagination that god is
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Moving in the earth, and we can participate with him in the next
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Chapters of american history.
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Allen Jackson - Synagogues and Pharisees (Part 2)

February 18, 2026 | 27:29

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