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Allen Jackson - Synaguogues and Pharisees (Part 1)

February 17, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Synaguogues and Pharisees (Part 1)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Synaguogues and Pharisees (Part 1) | February 17, 2026
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  • Allen: how many of you have read the gospel of luke with us in
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  • These last few days?
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  • Good, i think.
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  • I've asked you to invest a little time beyond your normal
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  • Bible reading patterns to read the gospel of luke.
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  • We've spent several sessions now walking through it.
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  • In that repetitive reading there's--it changes entirely
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  • The way you engage with scripture.
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  • It really does and if you've never had that habit or you've
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  • Never had that opportunity, i would encourage you to, even if
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  • You haven't begun yet.
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  • Come on, you can--there's only 24 chapters in luke.
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  • You can read it in a single sitting in less time than it
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  • Takes to watch a ball game.
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  • Maybe you can read it once a day if your schedule permits.
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  • If that's beyond what your current calendar would provide
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  • For, maybe you can read it a couple of times a week, whatever
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  • That would look like.
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  • I understand it's a sacrifice, but it's an investment in the
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  • Word of god and i've never done that without having god respond
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  • To me and so i would invite you towards it.
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  • I've been going back and forth through luke now for a few weeks
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  • And i'm amazed at what it has unlocked in my own heart.
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  • In this session, i wanna talk to you about synagogues
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  • And pharisees.
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  • In fact, we're gonna go to dinner with some pharisees.
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  • We're gonna slip in with jesus as if we were invited.
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  • Luke gives us multiple instances--we'll go to at least
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  • Three pharisees's homes, good lord willing, for dinner
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  • With jesus.
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  • And it's quite an enlightening-- it's one of the habits that luke
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  • Has of repetition.
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  • Jesus's message wasn't unique everywhere he went, he often
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  • Said things that were very similar.
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  • The miracles that were performed, the ministry that was
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  • Extended, are often very similar city to city or location
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  • To location.
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  • I don't believe it's an accident.
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  • I believe luke is telling us something, he's presenting to us
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  • A narrative of opportunity, expressions of mercy in the
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  • Power of god.
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  • As i've walked back and forth through these chapters, it's
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  • Also become pretty clear to me that there's something of
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  • A tragedy in what luke is presenting.
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  • There's the triumph of the arrival of messiah and there's
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  • Certainly the victory of the resurrection over death.
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  • I wouldn't diminish those or distract from that, but there's
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  • Also a story of the rejection of god's invitation too often by a
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  • Majority of the people to whom it's presented.
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  • In reality, if you read the gospel and you're paying much
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  • Attention, it's a relatively small percentage of the people
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  • Who engage the message and engage with transformation.
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  • It's the larger crowds and the louder voices that are either
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  • Ambivalent, indifferent, or they are aggressive in
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  • Rejecting jesus.
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  • We've read several examples.
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  • If you were paying attention, when they crossed the lake to
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  • The gentile side of the sea of galilee, there was a man there
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  • Who'd been demonized and tormented.
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  • He lived in a graveyard naked.
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  • He met jesus and the disciples and he was delivered and set
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  • Free, restored to his right mind.
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  • The people from the community wanted jesus to leave.
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  • I assure you he wasn't the only troubled man in the community.
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  • He was just the worst of the worst.
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  • That pattern is repeated over and over in luke.
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  • And i'm not gonna take the time to present it in this session,
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  • But jesus the prophet walks through the gospel of luke.
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  • And by the time we get to the concluding verses, there are
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  • Some things that have been said to that generation.
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  • The gospel of luke encompasses about a 35 year window of time
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  • If we begin with the announcement to zechariah and we
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  • Follow it all the way through jesus's crucifixion, plus or
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  • Minus just a bit.
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  • So it's a really relatively small period of time and the
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  • Majority of the gospel falls into about a three year window,
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  • When the greatest of the hebrew prophets has something to say to
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  • A generation of people.
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  • Oh, i know we read it for the highlights that go along with
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  • The jesus story, the circumstances of his birth and
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  • The remarkable nature of that, the ministry and some of the
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  • Parables he talks and perhaps the miracles and then his
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  • Betrayal and his crucifixion and his resurrection.
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  • I understand the highlight reel, but there's much, much, much
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  • More in the gospel of luke.
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  • Jesus has much to say.
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  • He tells the people that, because of their choices,
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  • Because of their inability or unwillingness to embrace the
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  • Purposes of god, that there'll be an interruption of their
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  • Life patterns.
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  • Sobering stuff.
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  • He says your annual plans will no longer be annual, your habits
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  • Are going to change, your opportunities are going to
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  • Be different.
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  • The generational progress that you presume upon that the next
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  • Generation will be better than this one and it'll be much
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  • Better than the one that was before that and it'll just
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  • Continue to get better, he said that generational progress is
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  • Over, it's done.
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  • Jesus said those things.
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  • He said there are chaotic forces that'll be focused on your
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  • Disruption and your diminishment.
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  • Jesus did.
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  • He said there will be a forfeiture of your stability and
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  • Your security.
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  • You'll face lawlessness and deception, tremendous financial
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  • Loss and even displacement.
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  • He said you'll be driven from your homes.
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  • All of that's in the gospel of luke from jesus.
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  • And as i've lived with it and walked with it and thought about
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  • It, it seems inescapable to me that, in some very similar ways,
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  • We too are at a crossroads.
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  • I don't know the outcomes, i wouldn't presume to.
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  • But i do know the character of god.
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  • And i know that if the people of god will come in humility and
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  • Repentance, those are powerful factors in eliciting
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  • God's engagement.
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  • I know it to be equally true that if we stand in our pride,
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  • In our indifference, in our stubborn unbelief, in our
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  • Self-righteousness, that we will attract the judgment of god.
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  • So all of those prophetic messages that jesus was
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  • Delivering to the audience in luke's gospel i believe are
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  • Relevant to the church in the 21st century in our nation.
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  • I believe if we stubbornly refuse to change, to embrace the
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  • Message that is before us and choose the truth, that we will
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  • Face the interruption of our life patterns and the removal of
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  • Our annual plans, the generational progress will stop,
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  • That there'll be chaotic forces unleashed with the intent of
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  • Bringing great disruption and diminishment, that we will
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  • Forfeit stability and security, that lawlessness will increase,
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  • Deception will multiply, that there'll be great financial loss
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  • And even displacement.
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  • I'm not telling you i think that has to be, i'm telling you the
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  • Status quo is not sustainable.
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  • That we will either seek the lord and change and know him
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  • Better and be transformed more completely, and through that
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  • Awakening there will come a new season of opportunity and
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  • Stability for the generations following us or we will face
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  • The consequence of forfeiting the opportunity.
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  • Luke 11:23 is as close to a key verse as i've identified in
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  • The gospel.
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  • Jesus is speaking.
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  • It's in your notes.
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  • There's hope, i'm back to your page.
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  • Jesus said, "he who is not with me is against me, and he who
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  • Doesn't gather with me, scatters."
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  • See, in contemporary america, we create all these other
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  • Categories and i don't find them to be prevalent in scripture.
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  • Jesus said, "you're either with me or you're against me.
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  • You're either gathering with me or you're scattering."
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  • There's no gray area, there's no third rail, there's
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  • No alternative.
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  • So i'll leave that with you for a bit of meditation this week.
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  • Is there ample evidence to suggest that you are with jesus
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  • To the people that you spend your discretionary time with?
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  • Think of you first and foremost as a person who's with jesus.
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  • You're a ut fan, i promise you they know you're with ut.
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  • Not opposed to that, i'm not saying it's wrong, but you don't
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  • Want to identify with something more than you identify with
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  • Jesus or i would submit there's significant question whether
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  • You're with him.
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  • He said, "you're either gathering with me or
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  • You're scattering."
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  • Are you actively, purposefully, focused, intentionally engaged
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  • In gathering for the kingdom of god?
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  • And in the same chapter, chapter 11 of luke in verse 29, jesus
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  • Again, "as the crowds increased, he said, 'this is a
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  • Wicked generation.
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  • It asked for a miraculous sign, but none will be given it except
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  • The sign of jonah.'"
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  • Jonah was in the belly of a fish for three days and nights and
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  • Jesus would step out of time for those three days before
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  • His resurrection.
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  • What intrigued me was his description of the generation he
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  • Came to minister to.
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  • He said, "it's a wicked generation."
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  • Those are jesus's words, jesus's words.
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  • The bible tells us that some generations seek the lord and
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  • Some generations are wicked.
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  • Some are cooperative and some are ungodly.
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  • What will be written of this generation?
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  • They were technologically advanced?
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  • We presided over a communications explosion?
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  • I don't know that the answer is complete on that yet, but i tell
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  • You this to the degree that i have a voice and i have any
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  • Influence and i would encourage you to use yours.
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  • Let's not be a wicked generation, let's be
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  • A godly generation.
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  • Let's be a generation that strives for righteousness and
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  • Holiness and purity, that repudiates ungodliness and
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  • Immorality, that will stand for our children, that will honor
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  • The rights of the jewish people to be in the land that god
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  • Promised them, they will embrace our heritage of the christian
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  • Faith in the united states.
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  • What will be said of this generation?
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  • You've got to decide.
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  • You have a voice.
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  • You say, "well, my voice is small."
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  • Small voices together are loud.
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  • It's cowardice to hide in the shadows and say
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  • I'm insignificant.
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  • Allen: we have partnered with our friends tim and david barton
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  • To make available to you a two-volume set on
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  • American history.
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  • It's "the american story."
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  • And it focuses on the part of american history that's been
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  • Lost in much of our public education these days.
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  • It's god's engagement with this nation and how he brought the
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  • American story forward.
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  • Our nation is more than politics or republicans and democrats.
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  • It's god working in the lives of people to shape a nation that
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  • Had brought forth his purposes in the world.
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  • I believe it's an important part of our faith journey this year,
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  • And i believe the books will be a blessing to you.
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  • Announcer: the 250th anniversary of our nation is an important
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  • Allen: the synagogue in the first century was the place of
  • 00:13:14.343 --> 00:13:17.880
  • Worship in each of the communities.
  • 00:13:17.880 --> 00:13:21.717
  • Roughly synonymous to a church.
  • 00:13:21.717 --> 00:13:24.854
  • Maybe the church in our--the part of the world where we live
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  • As you would have seen it 50 years ago.
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  • All the small communities that would have dotted the
  • 00:13:28.891 --> 00:13:30.693
  • Countryside in the south had their local church.
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  • If there were enough people, more than one.
  • 00:13:32.862 --> 00:13:37.466
  • Well, in all the jewish communities, capernaum and
  • 00:13:37.466 --> 00:13:39.568
  • Nazareth and bethsaida and korazim, there was a synagogue
  • 00:13:39.568 --> 00:13:44.573
  • And the person that presided over the synagogue were
  • 00:13:44.573 --> 00:13:46.742
  • The pharisees.
  • 00:13:46.742 --> 00:13:49.478
  • Now beyond that was the temple, the temple was in jerusalem.
  • 00:13:49.478 --> 00:13:51.947
  • There was only one temple.
  • 00:13:51.947 --> 00:13:53.649
  • It was the center, the establishment of the religious
  • 00:13:53.649 --> 00:13:56.719
  • Life of the whole nation.
  • 00:13:56.719 --> 00:13:58.053
  • Three times a year, all the people were commanded to go to
  • 00:13:58.053 --> 00:14:01.290
  • Jerusalem to the temple.
  • 00:14:01.290 --> 00:14:03.559
  • But the weekly worship, the weekly gathering of the people
  • 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:06.629
  • Of god to to read scripture portions and to discuss them
  • 00:14:06.629 --> 00:14:10.499
  • Took place in those synagogues.
  • 00:14:10.499 --> 00:14:13.168
  • So the pharisees were the leaders in the synagogues.
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  • The temple in jerusalem was overseen by the sadducees.
  • 00:14:15.838 --> 00:14:20.009
  • That was the grandest of all the buildings in the nation.
  • 00:14:20.009 --> 00:14:23.078
  • It was the center of their national pride.
  • 00:14:23.078 --> 00:14:25.281
  • It was their national bank.
  • 00:14:25.281 --> 00:14:28.250
  • Jesus ministered in both.
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  • The conclusion of his ministry took place significantly in the
  • 00:14:31.253 --> 00:14:33.856
  • Temple area in jerusalem.
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  • But particularly in the northern part of the country he traveled
  • 00:14:36.759 --> 00:14:39.428
  • And spoke in the synagogues.
  • 00:14:39.428 --> 00:14:42.231
  • In luke chapter 4 in verse 14, it says, "jesus," this is after
  • 00:14:42.231 --> 00:14:44.967
  • His baptism, "he returned to galilee in the power of the
  • 00:14:44.967 --> 00:14:47.202
  • Spirit, and the news about him spread throughout the
  • 00:14:47.202 --> 00:14:49.471
  • Whole countryside.
  • 00:14:49.471 --> 00:14:50.839
  • And he taught in their synagogues, and everyone
  • 00:14:50.839 --> 00:14:52.908
  • Praised him."
  • 00:14:52.908 --> 00:14:54.243
  • That was his pattern.
  • 00:14:54.243 --> 00:14:56.645
  • He would go to the synagogue in the community and address
  • 00:14:56.645 --> 00:14:59.148
  • The people.
  • 00:14:59.148 --> 00:15:00.516
  • So the people that would gather in the synagogue would be
  • 00:15:00.516 --> 00:15:02.017
  • The people who had a heart more interested in learning of
  • 00:15:02.017 --> 00:15:04.353
  • The lord.
  • 00:15:04.353 --> 00:15:05.721
  • There were people in the communities that didn't go to
  • 00:15:05.721 --> 00:15:07.056
  • Synagogue, in the same way we have people who don't go
  • 00:15:07.056 --> 00:15:09.458
  • To churches.
  • 00:15:09.458 --> 00:15:12.928
  • I hear people saying, "i don't have to go to church to
  • 00:15:12.928 --> 00:15:14.630
  • Be a christian."
  • 00:15:14.630 --> 00:15:15.965
  • Oh, you're right.
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  • You don't have to go home to be married either, but it'll
  • 00:15:17.800 --> 00:15:23.472
  • Work better.
  • 00:15:23.472 --> 00:15:27.009
  • So jesus is going to the synagogues.
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  • Same chapter, luke 4, he says, "'i must preach the good news of
  • 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:34.717
  • The kingdom of god to the other towns also, because that is why
  • 00:15:34.717 --> 00:15:37.319
  • I was sent.'
  • 00:15:37.319 --> 00:15:38.687
  • And he kept on preaching in the synagogues of judea."
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  • Judea is the southern part of israel.
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  • So in galilee in the north, and in judea in the south, jesus had
  • 00:15:42.891 --> 00:15:46.729
  • A habit and a pattern of going to the synagogues and teaching
  • 00:15:46.729 --> 00:15:50.566
  • The people.
  • 00:15:50.566 --> 00:15:53.235
  • That's why so many of the miracle stories take place in
  • 00:15:53.235 --> 00:15:55.704
  • Synagogues on the sabbath.
  • 00:15:55.704 --> 00:15:58.407
  • That was jesus's pattern.
  • 00:15:58.407 --> 00:16:00.642
  • Now, luke records for us that, on more than one occasion, jesus
  • 00:16:00.642 --> 00:16:04.146
  • Went home with a pharisee to have a meal.
  • 00:16:04.146 --> 00:16:08.917
  • And we're not gonna-- some of these are familiar.
  • 00:16:08.917 --> 00:16:10.519
  • We've looked at one of these already.
  • 00:16:10.519 --> 00:16:12.221
  • I'm not gonna read you everything that's in your
  • 00:16:12.221 --> 00:16:14.056
  • Outlines, but i wanted you to have the larger context, but i
  • 00:16:14.056 --> 00:16:16.859
  • Do want you to walk with me through luke into these three
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  • Separate meals.
  • 00:16:20.596 --> 00:16:23.032
  • These are the people who are shepherding the people of god
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  • And jesus is interested enough that he's ministered in the
  • 00:16:26.135 --> 00:16:28.771
  • Synagogue and now he's going into their home to have a meal.
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  • I'm gonna ask you to think about it in the terms of all the
  • 00:16:33.509 --> 00:16:35.677
  • Messaging that you know about jesus.
  • 00:16:35.677 --> 00:16:39.481
  • The one that's this unrelenting drumbeat that jesus was all
  • 00:16:39.481 --> 00:16:42.518
  • About love, and we've imagined that all he said was happy.
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  • We've heard that in almost in an unending loop for as long as i
  • 00:16:50.025 --> 00:16:54.496
  • Can remember.
  • 00:16:54.496 --> 00:16:57.399
  • So we're gonna go to dinner.
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  • Would you like to--how many of you would like to go be a fly
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  • On the wall while jesus has dinner with a pharisee?
  • 00:17:00.736 --> 00:17:03.338
  • Cool, luke's gonna let us--we get to go three times.
  • 00:17:03.338 --> 00:17:06.909
  • Luke chapter 7, "now one of the pharisees invited jesus to have
  • 00:17:06.909 --> 00:17:09.945
  • Dinner with him, so he went to the pharisee's house and
  • 00:17:09.945 --> 00:17:13.115
  • Reclined at the table.
  • 00:17:13.115 --> 00:17:15.517
  • And a woman who lived a sinful life in town learned that jesus
  • 00:17:15.517 --> 00:17:18.554
  • Was eating in his house."
  • 00:17:18.554 --> 00:17:20.856
  • Oh, we've already looked at this, a woman with
  • 00:17:20.856 --> 00:17:22.758
  • A sinful life.
  • 00:17:22.758 --> 00:17:24.993
  • Warning, will rogers, warning.
  • 00:17:24.993 --> 00:17:28.997
  • Luke doesn't tell us what the sinful life was.
  • 00:17:28.997 --> 00:17:31.433
  • We've kind of assumed that it was some sort of
  • 00:17:31.433 --> 00:17:34.169
  • Sexual immorality.
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  • She just may have been a cat burglar.
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  • I don't know, but she was recognized across the community
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  • As not being godly, sinful.
  • 00:17:47.716 --> 00:17:51.386
  • And she approaches jesus at this meal and begins to weep over his
  • 00:17:51.386 --> 00:17:54.990
  • Feet and wipe his feet with her hair and then anoint his feet
  • 00:17:54.990 --> 00:18:00.262
  • With an expensive perfume, and the pharisee is very offended.
  • 00:18:00.262 --> 00:18:06.869
  • Not so much at the woman's behavior, he's offended at jesus
  • 00:18:06.869 --> 00:18:09.371
  • Because jesus would tolerate.
  • 00:18:09.371 --> 00:18:11.640
  • He's imagining that if jesus were truly a man of god, he
  • 00:18:11.640 --> 00:18:14.776
  • Would know the character of the woman and would have nothing to
  • 00:18:14.776 --> 00:18:17.579
  • Do with her.
  • 00:18:17.579 --> 00:18:20.849
  • And that's the nature-- and jesus engages.
  • 00:18:20.849 --> 00:18:26.889
  • Verse 39: "when the pharisee who had invited him saw this, he
  • 00:18:26.889 --> 00:18:29.525
  • Said, 'if this man were a prophet, he would know who's
  • 00:18:29.525 --> 00:18:31.460
  • Touching him and what kind of woman she is--that she's
  • 00:18:31.460 --> 00:18:35.898
  • A sinner.'
  • 00:18:35.898 --> 00:18:38.367
  • So jesus said, 'simon, i have something to tell you.'"
  • 00:18:38.367 --> 00:18:43.238
  • Now, i've been to dinner in lots of people's homes.
  • 00:18:43.238 --> 00:18:47.142
  • I'm not sure i have found the same kind of courage that jesus
  • 00:18:47.142 --> 00:18:49.845
  • Is gonna show us through his dinner engagements.
  • 00:18:49.845 --> 00:18:54.516
  • And he said, "'well, tell me, teacher.'
  • 00:18:54.516 --> 00:18:58.287
  • So jesus turned toward the woman and he said to simon," he's
  • 00:18:58.287 --> 00:19:00.989
  • Looking at the woman but he's speaking to simon, "'do you
  • 00:19:00.989 --> 00:19:03.325
  • See her?
  • 00:19:03.325 --> 00:19:04.760
  • I came into your house and you didn't even give me water for my
  • 00:19:04.760 --> 00:19:07.529
  • Feet,'" which was the custom.
  • 00:19:07.529 --> 00:19:09.164
  • You didn't show me the customary kindness that would have been
  • 00:19:09.164 --> 00:19:12.301
  • Due a guest.
  • 00:19:12.301 --> 00:19:14.336
  • You made your resentment obvious in the way you treated me.
  • 00:19:14.336 --> 00:19:20.375
  • You tolerated me in your home, but you didn't welcome me.
  • 00:19:20.375 --> 00:19:24.646
  • You didn't roll out the the mat of friendship, you didn't
  • 00:19:24.646 --> 00:19:27.649
  • Embrace me as if you were grateful for me being here.
  • 00:19:27.649 --> 00:19:31.553
  • You brought me in with the eye of a skeptic to see if there was
  • 00:19:31.553 --> 00:19:35.057
  • Any inconsistency that you could identify and exploit to diminish
  • 00:19:35.057 --> 00:19:39.895
  • What i'm doing.
  • 00:19:39.895 --> 00:19:42.164
  • That's the living bible interpretation.
  • 00:19:42.164 --> 00:19:52.341
  • Let's go on.
  • 00:19:55.711 --> 00:19:57.045
  • Luke's gonna take us to another dinner.
  • 00:19:57.045 --> 00:19:58.981
  • Luke chapter 11: "when jesus had finished speaking, a pharisee
  • 00:19:58.981 --> 00:20:03.552
  • Invited him to eat with him; so he went in and reclined at
  • 00:20:03.552 --> 00:20:07.923
  • The table.
  • 00:20:07.923 --> 00:20:09.858
  • But the pharisee, noticing that jesus didn't first wash before
  • 00:20:09.858 --> 00:20:12.961
  • The meal, was surprised."
  • 00:20:12.961 --> 00:20:16.398
  • Okay, the pharisee didn't like jesus's observance of
  • 00:20:16.398 --> 00:20:20.168
  • Ritual ritual.
  • 00:20:20.168 --> 00:20:23.138
  • So he's listened to him teach the scripture, he has no comment
  • 00:20:23.138 --> 00:20:25.173
  • And luke doesn't say that the pharisee said, "you ministered
  • 00:20:25.173 --> 00:20:28.944
  • To me.
  • 00:20:28.944 --> 00:20:30.312
  • It blessed my heart.
  • 00:20:30.312 --> 00:20:31.647
  • Would you come back on the next sabbath?"
  • 00:20:31.647 --> 00:20:34.916
  • There were places where they begged jesus not to leave.
  • 00:20:34.916 --> 00:20:38.954
  • But again, the keeper of the local community of faith invites
  • 00:20:38.954 --> 00:20:43.058
  • Jesus into his home and the tone of this interaction is not one
  • 00:20:43.058 --> 00:20:47.162
  • Of affirmation, we're looking for weaknesses.
  • 00:20:47.162 --> 00:20:53.068
  • So jesus is gonna respond to him.
  • 00:20:53.068 --> 00:20:59.241
  • He was surprised that jesus didn't wash before the meal.
  • 00:20:59.241 --> 00:21:02.444
  • "and the lord said to him, 'now, then,'" i'm already
  • 00:21:02.444 --> 00:21:05.781
  • Thinking, whoa.
  • 00:21:05.781 --> 00:21:08.450
  • "'now then, you pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the
  • 00:21:08.450 --> 00:21:12.921
  • Dish, but inside you're full of wickedness and greed.
  • 00:21:12.921 --> 00:21:19.194
  • You foolish people!
  • 00:21:19.194 --> 00:21:23.198
  • Didn't the one who made the outside make the inside also?
  • 00:21:23.198 --> 00:21:25.901
  • But give what is inside the dish to the poor, and everything will
  • 00:21:25.901 --> 00:21:28.270
  • Be clean for you.'"
  • 00:21:28.270 --> 00:21:29.638
  • Can we safely say jesus is being rather direct?
  • 00:21:29.638 --> 00:21:35.277
  • I mean, they haven't even gotten the meal and jesus said,
  • 00:21:35.277 --> 00:21:37.946
  • "'you foolish people!
  • 00:21:37.946 --> 00:21:41.416
  • You wash your hands but inside you need cleaned up.'"
  • 00:21:41.416 --> 00:21:49.157
  • Well, you can hear the response, "who are you to say what i need
  • 00:21:49.157 --> 00:21:52.728
  • On the inside?"
  • 00:21:52.728 --> 00:21:57.699
  • Isn't that what we hear all around us?
  • 00:21:57.699 --> 00:22:01.503
  • We're offended by the truth of god's word.
  • 00:22:01.503 --> 00:22:07.876
  • And if you look this up in your bible, it says they're the
  • 00:22:07.876 --> 00:22:10.345
  • Six woes.
  • 00:22:10.345 --> 00:22:12.614
  • Not like whoa to a horse, like stop.
  • 00:22:12.614 --> 00:22:16.051
  • It's the woe, w-o-e, meaning i'm about to come upside
  • 00:22:16.051 --> 00:22:18.887
  • Your head.
  • 00:22:18.887 --> 00:22:21.089
  • I mean, that's not really the definition, but--so jesus goes
  • 00:22:21.089 --> 00:22:25.927
  • Right on, "'woe to you pharisees, you give a tenth of
  • 00:22:25.927 --> 00:22:28.930
  • Your mint, and all other kinds of garden herbs, but you neglect
  • 00:22:28.930 --> 00:22:34.302
  • Justice and the love of god.
  • 00:22:34.302 --> 00:22:36.772
  • You should have practiced the latter without leaving
  • 00:22:36.772 --> 00:22:39.708
  • The former undone.'"
  • 00:22:39.708 --> 00:22:41.076
  • He said, "you are so pretentious that you give a tithe."
  • 00:22:41.076 --> 00:22:46.348
  • You know, people say to me that tithing is an old
  • 00:22:46.348 --> 00:22:50.118
  • Testament concept.
  • 00:22:50.118 --> 00:22:51.453
  • Well, jesus believed in it.
  • 00:22:51.453 --> 00:22:53.688
  • And last time i checked, he's kind of the pivot point of the
  • 00:22:53.688 --> 00:22:56.224
  • New testament story.
  • 00:22:56.224 --> 00:22:59.161
  • But jesus said, "you'll leave a tithe of the mint that you get
  • 00:22:59.161 --> 00:23:03.498
  • At the market.
  • 00:23:03.498 --> 00:23:06.802
  • But," he said, "you should have loved god."
  • 00:23:06.802 --> 00:23:11.106
  • And he said, "you shouldn't have ignored the other.
  • 00:23:11.106 --> 00:23:13.141
  • The tithing was okay, but you should have been focused on
  • 00:23:13.141 --> 00:23:15.977
  • Loving god."
  • 00:23:15.977 --> 00:23:17.579
  • But he doesn't stop there.
  • 00:23:17.579 --> 00:23:18.947
  • "'woe to you pharisees, you love the most important seats in the
  • 00:23:18.947 --> 00:23:22.384
  • Synagogues and the greetings in the marketplace.
  • 00:23:22.384 --> 00:23:25.520
  • Woe to you because you're like unmarked graves, which men walk
  • 00:23:25.520 --> 00:23:28.523
  • Over without knowing it.'"
  • 00:23:28.523 --> 00:23:29.858
  • In judaism, if you--to step on a grave makes you unclean.
  • 00:23:29.858 --> 00:23:36.631
  • Think of going to a strip club.
  • 00:23:36.631 --> 00:23:39.034
  • Does that make you unclean?
  • 00:23:39.034 --> 00:23:41.736
  • How many of you think that would not be a good idea?
  • 00:23:41.736 --> 00:23:44.539
  • About six of you.
  • 00:23:44.539 --> 00:23:45.874
  • That was underreported.
  • 00:23:45.874 --> 00:23:47.242
  • That is not a good idea.
  • 00:23:47.242 --> 00:23:53.248
  • Well, it was a similar--and jesus is pulling that--he said,
  • 00:23:53.248 --> 00:23:55.917
  • You know, "but you allow the people to be unclean.
  • 00:23:55.917 --> 00:23:58.987
  • Woe to you!" he said.
  • 00:23:58.987 --> 00:24:01.690
  • I mean, he's at dinner.
  • 00:24:01.690 --> 00:24:05.961
  • He's not asking for recipes, he's not commenting on the
  • 00:24:05.961 --> 00:24:11.700
  • Decorations in the synagogue.
  • 00:24:11.700 --> 00:24:15.604
  • He's not offering commentary on the people that have gathered in
  • 00:24:15.604 --> 00:24:19.441
  • The leadership being provided by the--he is actually
  • 00:24:19.441 --> 00:24:21.877
  • Providing some commentary, but it's not what you--this is not
  • 00:24:21.877 --> 00:24:26.314
  • A comfortable conversation.
  • 00:24:26.314 --> 00:24:27.682
  • How many of you think if you were jesus's associate,
  • 00:24:27.682 --> 00:24:29.017
  • You're squirming.
  • 00:24:29.017 --> 00:24:31.453
  • You say, "well, if i get out of this dinner, i'm not going
  • 00:24:31.453 --> 00:24:33.255
  • Back to dinner with him."
  • 00:24:33.255 --> 00:24:37.058
  • Awkward.
  • 00:24:37.058 --> 00:24:39.794
  • So luke slips in, "one of the experts in the law answered
  • 00:24:39.794 --> 00:24:42.664
  • Him," in verse 45, "'teacher, when you say these things, you
  • 00:24:42.664 --> 00:24:46.701
  • Insult us also.'"
  • 00:24:46.701 --> 00:24:48.303
  • As if jesus were so socially inept, he didn't understand that
  • 00:24:48.303 --> 00:24:51.940
  • "woe is you, woe is you, woe is you" might be a
  • 00:24:51.940 --> 00:24:54.910
  • Little off-putting.
  • 00:24:54.910 --> 00:24:57.479
  • Allen: i wanna pray with you before we go.
  • 00:24:57.546 --> 00:24:59.247
  • Let's ask god to help us see anything that limits us from
  • 00:24:59.247 --> 00:25:02.651
  • Effectiveness in his kingdom.
  • 00:25:02.651 --> 00:25:04.452
  • Father, i thank you for your word, for its truth and power
  • 00:25:04.452 --> 00:25:07.289
  • And authority.
  • 00:25:07.289 --> 00:25:08.657
  • If there is any way we have made a choice that limits what you
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  • Could do through us, help us to see it.
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  • We want to change.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • God bless you.
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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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