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Allen Jackson - Tale of Two Kingdoms

May 31, 2025 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Tale of Two Kingdoms
Pastor Allen Jackson's mission is to help people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Tale of Two Kingdoms | May 31, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: god is moving in the earth in the most
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  • Remarkable ways.
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  • It truly is extraordinary what we see god doing.
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  • We have people coming to our campus in middle tennessee from
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  • All over the nation, from nations of the world.
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  • We're seeing more people baptized, more people engaging
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  • In ministry.
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  • It's truly a remarkable time to see god raising up voices
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  • Of truth.
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  • The one thing we hear consistently that is valued from
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  • The ministry is our willingness to speak the truth into the
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  • Current set of circumstances.
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  • And people often ask, "is there anything we can do to help?"
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  • And in reality there is.
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  • I wanna invite you to consider becoming a monthly
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  • Ministry partner.
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  • For your gift of $25 a month, you enable us to imagine a
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  • Future that expands the platforms of the ministry.
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  • That's our baseline for how we plan and what we look
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  • Forward to.
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  • If you haven't yet taken that step, please prayerfully
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  • Consider doing so.
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  • We'll share some extra content with you and some unique
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  • Opportunities with you, and together, we'll take a message
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  • Of truth to this generation.
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  • God is moving and we wanna move with him.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen jackson: it's good to be with you again.
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  • Our topic is, a tale of two kingdoms.
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  • There is a lot going on in our world these days.
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  • We've got wars on the international front.
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  • We've got turmoil in our nation, just a lot of stuff happening.
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  • And one way of interpreting all that's transpiring is
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  • Understanding there's a conflict between two kingdoms, not
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  • Between nation states that you can find on a map,
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  • But between two spiritual kingdoms, the kingdom of
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  • Our lord and a kingdom of darkness.
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  • They're as real as the united states of america is real.
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  • And there are authorities and lines of authority that govern
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  • Them just as certainly as the constitution
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  • Is intended to govern our nation.
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  • The more we understand that, the better we'll be able
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  • To navigate what's happening in our world.
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  • We can't separate our spiritual lives
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  • From the physical world we live in.
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  • Please don't imagine that sitting in church for a few
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  • Minutes on the weekend is your spiritual life.
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  • We are spiritual beings 24/7 and understanding
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  • These two conflicts help you understand
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  • What's happening in the news every day.
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  • Grab your bible and a notepad.
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  • But most of all, open your heart.
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  • Allen: the kingdom of god and the
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  • Kingdom of darkness, they both exist.
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  • They're real, they affect your life.
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  • You don't have to believe in them for it to impact your life.
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  • Christians live with this kind of--or people live with this
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  • Kind of mistaken notion that if you say you don't believe in
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  • Something, that it won't affect you.
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  • To evaluate the success of that thinking, just imagine
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  • You took that approach to covid, not believing in
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  • It wouldn't protect you from the virus.
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  • And not believing in god or not believing in the devil or not
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  • Believing in the kingdom of god or not believing in the kingdom
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  • Of darkness really isn't adequate protection.
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  • But they're two very different kingdoms.
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  • They have two very different agendas.
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  • They occupy two very different places in the unfolding story of
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  • Adam and his descendants and how you respond to them will
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  • Determine a great deal about your journey through time.
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  • And it will determine everything about your journey in eternity.
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  • So, it's a topic that you want to be well versed in.
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  • You don't want to accept my word for it.
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  • I'm gonna give you some passages, but each of these
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  • Passages is really a doorway into a much broader study.
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  • So, i would encourage you to take some
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  • Time if you haven't considered it.
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  • Just some general observations before we get
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  • To your outline, the two kingdoms are distinct
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  • In that one is temporary and one is eternal.
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  • The kingdom of darkness will not exist forever.
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  • Now, it's a powerful set of influences in your life right
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  • Now, and it will have bearing on your eternity.
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  • But it will come to a conclusion because of the victory that we
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  • Celebrate in jesus's redemptive work, the easter story.
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  • He gained the authority to have the name above every name so
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  • That at the name of jesus, every knee will bow in
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  • Heaven on earth and under the earth.
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  • So, the difference between
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  • Temporary and eternal is significant.
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  • It would be more prudent to make your
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  • Investment in something that has no end.
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  • I'm just thinking.
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  • The two kingdoms have a different focus, different
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  • Objectives, different agendas, and they're pretty evident.
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  • You know, jesus said you'll tell--you can determine the
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  • Faith of somebody's life by the fruit of their life far more
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  • Than their words or their location.
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  • And your life gives evidence by the fruit of your behaviors and
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  • Your choices to the kingdom authority that you're under.
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  • You should also know that the two kingdoms are
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  • In conflict and that conflict is played out.
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  • You don't have to choose that. you don't have to sign up.
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  • You can't declare yourself as a conscientious objector.
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  • If you're a us citizen today, there are places in the world
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  • Where you're considered to be an adversary, not
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  • Because of a choice you made, simply because of
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  • The citizenship you have in this nation.
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  • And when you become a citizen of the kingdom
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  • Of god, you inherit an adversary.
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  • Say, "i don't like," duly noted,
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  • But it doesn't change the reality.
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  • "well, i think i'll ignore it."
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  • You'll do that at your own peril.
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  • So, it's important to understand
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  • Something of the nature of that conflict.
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  • And then fourth and maybe, perhaps the most significant of
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  • The characteristics is your choices are the determining
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  • Factor on which kingdom you'll be a participant in.
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  • God would welcome you into his kingdom, that's amazing.
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  • Did you ever get left off of something
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  • You wanted to be included in?
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  • Weren't selected for a team?
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  • You didn't get an invitation to a party?
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  • You didn't get to go to the school you wanted?
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  • Someplace where you didn't receive
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  • The invitation you wanted?
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  • Well, the creator of heaven and earth
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  • Has invited you into his kingdom.
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  • Now, that's amazing.
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  • It's free in that you don't purchase it, you don't earn it,
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  • It's not merit based, you can't qualify for it,
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  • It has nothing to do with the circumstances of your birth
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  • Or your genetics or your height or your race or your sex.
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  • It has to do with the choice that you make.
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  • Now, while it comes at no cost, it's not cheap.
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  • In order to participate in the kingdom,
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  • You'll have to acknowledge your need for a king,
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  • And you'll have to choose him as lord of your life.
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  • If you don't want jesus to be lord of your
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  • Life, you won't enjoy his kingdom.
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  • So, we're gonna see if we can unpack those
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  • Simple ideas in a little more detail.
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  • And i'll start with the one that, perhaps, that receives the
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  • Least discussion and that's the two kingdoms are in conflict.
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  • Don't need to be afraid of that.
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  • I don't think most of you woke up this morning
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  • Frightened because there are nations in the world
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  • That are opposed to what you represent.
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  • It's just the reality of existence.
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  • In colossians chapter 1 and verse 13 it says, "he's rescued
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  • Us from the dominion of darkness," speaking of god.
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  • He's rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought
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  • Us into the kingdom of the son he loves, in whom we have
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  • Redemption, the forgiveness of sins."
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  • God launched a rescue mission with jesus.
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  • That's the jesus story, to rescue all humanity for time and
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  • Eternity from the kingdom of darkness that no person
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  • Would have to stay under the authority of kingdom
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  • Of darkness, unless they chose to do so.
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  • Now, that's good news.
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  • Evil may have touched your life in some horrific
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  • Ways maybe because of a family system,
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  • Maybe because of life circumstances.
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  • Lots of things contribute to that, but those external things
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  • Do not have the power to make you--to keep you as a
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  • Participant in the kingdom of darkness.
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  • God himself has rescued us.
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  • In ephesians 2 and verse 1 it says, "you were dead in your
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  • Transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you
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  • Followed the ways of this world and the ruler
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  • Of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is
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  • Now at work in those who are disobedient."
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  • The scripture refers to satan as
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  • The ruler of the kingdom of the air.
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  • Satan is a ruler of a kingdom.
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  • I know it's not fashionable to
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  • Believe in the devil, i get that.
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  • It's probably not a conversation you want
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  • To have around the coffeepot at work.
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  • I get that completely.
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  • We're a little reluctant, a little reticent.
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  • The level of unbelief is so high that the christians are
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  • Increasingly being driven undercover because you don't
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  • Want the ridicule or the forfeiture of opportunity that
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  • Comes with identifying as a christ follower.
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  • We're gonna have to overcome that.
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  • Ephesians chapter 3, same book, so the
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  • Language and the vocabulary is the same.
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  • "his intent, god's intent was that now through the church,"
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  • Not through a congregation or a denomination.
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  • The new testament, when it talks about church, it's referring to
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  • Every person that's acknowledged jesus of nazareth
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  • As lord and christ, the first global initiative.
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  • "god's intent was that, through the church, the manifold
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  • Wisdom of god should be made known to the rulers and
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  • Authorities in the heavenly realms."
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  • God's gonna demonstrate to the spiritual forces of wickedness
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  • In the heavenly places his wisdom through his church.
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  • In 1 corinthians chapter 1 it says god chose the weak and the
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  • Broken and the things that weren't noble to
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  • Demonstrate his power through so that the whole world
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  • Will look and go, "that has to be god."
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  • That's how we get recruited, not because of our great iq or our
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  • Great intellect or god needed our resources or the degrees
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  • We've earned, but through our weakness and frailty.
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  • The people that really know us will
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  • Go, "now, that has to be god.
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  • I went to school with him.
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  • Only god can bring that outcome out of that.
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  • Nobody thought that was gonna happen."
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  • The likelihood of god turning our lives into something that
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  • Becomes a display of his glory is about as probable as you
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  • Having a tournament bracket this morning that's perfect.
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  • If you have one, you filled your first one out with pencil.
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  • It's most improbable and because of that,
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  • God gets the glory and the honor.
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  • Colossians 2 says, "having disarmed powers
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  • And authorities, he made a public spectacle
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  • Of them, triumphing over them by the cross."
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  • This spiritual conflict has an enormous impact upon our lives,
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  • Doesn't mean that every discouraging thing that happens
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  • To you or every thing that happens to you that isn't good,
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  • The devil is the immediate cause of.
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  • But it means that that spiritual conflict
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  • Is being played out in the world.
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  • You don't have to have a great deal of discernment to see it.
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  • Now, the good news is, i've already
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  • Said, is you have a choice.
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  • You can choose the kingdom of god.
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  • That's my invitation to you, not to play church, not to
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  • Sit in church, not to pretend to be a christian,
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  • But to do everything in your power to align
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  • Yourself with the authority of the kingdom of god.
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  • Now, that may begin with a new birth, but just as a physical
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  • Birth gives you the genetic tools you need to grow
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  • Up to be an adult, you have to grow up.
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  • It's a diminished life if there's never any development or
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  • Growth beyond that state of being an infant.
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  • And if you are birthed into the kingdom of god and there's no
  • 00:10:59.307 --> 00:11:01.576
  • Maturing beyond that stage of infancy, much is forfeited.
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  • So, the choice to grow up is ours.
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  • It takes a steady diet of the word of god.
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  • We have to learn about god's character and nature.
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  • Sermons is not enough.
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  • They're, at the very best, little sample sets hopefully
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  • Opening doors to help you to give you a desire
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  • To spend some time in the word of god.
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  • You'll have to get to know the character of god.
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  • And don't wait until you're desperate.
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  • It's too difficult to learn to recognize the
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  • Voice of god when you're in a desperate place.
  • 00:11:30.805 --> 00:11:33.308
  • Sometimes god, in his mercy, will intervene in those
  • 00:11:33.308 --> 00:11:35.276
  • Desperate places, but it's not a pathway
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  • That you want to learn to depend upon.
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  • Luke chapter 4 and verse 43, jesus is speaking, he said, "i
  • 00:11:41.249 --> 00:11:44.919
  • Must preach the good news of the kingdom of god to the other
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  • Towns also, that's why i was sent."
  • 00:11:47.489 --> 00:11:49.691
  • Jesus said, "i came to deliver the
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  • Good news about the kingdom of god."
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  • There's a kingdom beyond rome.
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  • There's a kingdom beyond the powers that
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  • You can see influencing your life.
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  • That's important to know today. we live in a confusing time.
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  • The leadership of our nation is intensely concerned
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  • About the borders of ukraine and have little
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  • Concern about the borders of our own nation.
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  • That's a confusing proposition to try to process.
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  • If we thought our future was determined by
  • 00:12:15.817 --> 00:12:17.786
  • The leadership of our nation--i'm not talking
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  • About politicians or political parties.
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  • I'm talking about people void of a god perspective.
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  • It would be frightening to trust your future to that.
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  • But there is a kingdom with a greater authority than any
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  • Authority that a nation state holds.
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  • And you want to do everything in your power to align yourself as
  • 00:12:35.537 --> 00:12:38.239
  • Completely as possible with the kingdom of almighty god and
  • 00:12:38.239 --> 00:12:44.412
  • Sitting in church is really not adequate demonstration of that.
  • 00:12:44.412 --> 00:12:50.351
  • That sounds strange to somebody who spends his life inviting
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  • People towards church, but the reality of our faith is
  • 00:12:52.520 --> 00:12:56.057
  • Demonstrated far more beyond the walls of this building than they
  • 00:12:56.057 --> 00:12:58.760
  • Are ever when we're on this campus.
  • 00:12:58.760 --> 00:13:02.797
  • Luke chapter 9, and verse 2, jesus sending out his disciples.
  • 00:13:02.797 --> 00:13:06.267
  • "he sent them out to preach the kingdom
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  • Of god and to heal the sick."
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  • You see, the kingdom of god is a demonstration of power.
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  • It's not primarily a theological discussion
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  • Or an intellectual argument.
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  • It's a demonstration of the power of god.
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  • Jesus came to show us the nature of god.
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  • He spoke to storms, he opened blind eyes, he raised the dead.
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  • He delivered people who were tormented by unclean spirits.
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  • He showed us that there was an authority greater than the
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  • Authority of the prevailing jewish culture or the roman
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  • Authority that was overlaid on top of that.
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  • It was a demonstration.
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  • And after jesus left in acts chapter 1,
  • 00:13:40.568 --> 00:13:42.670
  • He empowered his friends.
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  • He said, "now you go and you tell this same story
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  • And demonstrate this same power."
  • 00:13:47.709 --> 00:13:49.077
  • He said, "you'll do greater things than you've seen me do."
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  • So, the message that we have to take is not a message of
  • 00:13:53.882 --> 00:13:56.017
  • Condemnation or a message of criticism or
  • 00:13:56.017 --> 00:13:58.653
  • A message of you just need to be different,
  • 00:13:58.653 --> 00:14:00.488
  • You're thinking the wrong thoughts.
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  • It's a message that there's a kingdom that has
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  • The power to bring a freedom to your life.
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  • It won't eliminate you from the realm of human suffering.
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  • Jesus suffered, his disciples suffered,
  • 00:14:10.231 --> 00:14:13.001
  • The heroes in our bible suffered.
  • 00:14:13.001 --> 00:14:14.802
  • Jesus said in john 16, "in this world, you'll have trouble.
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  • But be of good cheer, i've overcome the world."
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  • So, to participate, to align yourself with the kingdom of god
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  • Will not remove you from the realm of human suffering.
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  • Don't believe that. that's the wrong objective.
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  • The objective is to understand there's an authority within us,
  • 00:14:30.184 --> 00:14:32.687
  • A power available to us, to help us lead the life of an
  • 00:14:32.687 --> 00:14:35.590
  • Overcomer, that we'll not be overcome by evil,
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  • But we will overcome evil with good, that's our goal.
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  • And there are moments in your journey
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  • Where you'll find yourself and you'll feel and
  • 00:14:45.233 --> 00:14:47.435
  • You'll be at a deficit position to evil.
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  • The diagnosis won't be good.
  • 00:14:51.239 --> 00:14:52.640
  • The circumstances will not be good.
  • 00:14:52.640 --> 00:14:57.178
  • And you all can fill in the blanks on that.
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  • We've lived this out.
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  • It doesn't mean your faith is absent or god has abandoned us,
  • 00:15:00.248 --> 00:15:05.053
  • But we have a message that no one has to live under the
  • 00:15:05.053 --> 00:15:08.089
  • Authority of darkness filled with despair and hopelessness.
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  • Allen: so many of you send us messages: letters, emails, notes
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  • In a variety of formats saying thank you for the ministry for
  • 00:15:21.803 --> 00:15:24.839
  • Willing to speak the truth into culture in this rather
  • 00:15:24.839 --> 00:15:28.443
  • Tumultuous season.
  • 00:15:28.443 --> 00:15:30.211
  • Well, i hear your feedback and it's very valuable.
  • 00:15:30.211 --> 00:15:32.613
  • The question i'm so often asked
  • 00:15:32.613 --> 00:15:34.015
  • Is, "i feel like we should do more.
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  • What can we do? how do we do something?"
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  • Clearly god is moving in the earth.
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  • He's raising up voices of truth.
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  • We're certainly not unique or alone in that, but there is
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  • Allen: the world is unraveling, the system's falling apart.
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  • How do you live in a world that's falling apart?
  • 00:17:00.601 --> 00:17:02.603
  • I spent a good bit of time, in the last couple of years
  • 00:17:02.603 --> 00:17:06.574
  • Talking to you about possibilities and encouraging
  • 00:17:06.574 --> 00:17:11.179
  • You to choose god with your whole heart,
  • 00:17:11.179 --> 00:17:12.847
  • Warning you of what was possible.
  • 00:17:12.847 --> 00:17:15.483
  • And to be completely honest, inside of me,
  • 00:17:15.483 --> 00:17:18.119
  • It feels like the message has shifted a bit.
  • 00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:21.456
  • It's no longer appropriate or sufficient just to talk about
  • 00:17:21.456 --> 00:17:23.791
  • The possibilities of what could happen
  • 00:17:23.791 --> 00:17:25.393
  • If god's people chose not to respond.
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  • I don't know what the mendoza line is on how many of us are
  • 00:17:27.728 --> 00:17:30.832
  • Needed to respond to change god's engagement on our behalf.
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  • I don't presume to know that.
  • 00:17:36.137 --> 00:17:38.473
  • But i feel like it's urgent these days that we
  • 00:17:38.473 --> 00:17:41.409
  • Prepare for the changing reality of the world we live
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  • In because our world has changed.
  • 00:17:43.945 --> 00:17:48.616
  • The world that existed a couple years ago is no longer present.
  • 00:17:48.616 --> 00:17:52.386
  • I don't know all that the future holds but, folks,
  • 00:17:52.386 --> 00:17:54.155
  • If you think you can hold your breath till we get
  • 00:17:54.155 --> 00:17:55.923
  • Back to there, you're gonna get blue.
  • 00:17:55.923 --> 00:17:59.060
  • The world has changed, and i don't
  • 00:17:59.060 --> 00:18:00.394
  • Mean that in a frightening way.
  • 00:18:00.394 --> 00:18:01.729
  • I think there's some unprecedented
  • 00:18:01.729 --> 00:18:03.064
  • Opportunities in front of us.
  • 00:18:03.064 --> 00:18:05.399
  • I think we have an opportunity to see the moving of the spirit
  • 00:18:05.399 --> 00:18:07.435
  • Of god that will exceed anything that we've ever witnessed in our
  • 00:18:07.435 --> 00:18:10.037
  • Lifetimes, but i'm also equally confident that we're going to
  • 00:18:10.037 --> 00:18:14.142
  • See expressions of evil that will be unlike
  • 00:18:14.142 --> 00:18:15.710
  • Anything we've seen in our lifetimes.
  • 00:18:15.710 --> 00:18:17.345
  • We're watching it now, but we don't talk about it,
  • 00:18:17.345 --> 00:18:19.947
  • And the people that control the messaging
  • 00:18:19.947 --> 00:18:21.282
  • Don't want you to say anything.
  • 00:18:21.282 --> 00:18:22.617
  • And if you object to it, you're likely to get de-platformed.
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  • You want god to be pleased with you,
  • 00:18:28.556 --> 00:18:30.124
  • Not the people that control the platforms.
  • 00:18:30.124 --> 00:18:38.266
  • There's some very simple things the bible tells us will increase
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  • As we move forward towards the culmination of this age.
  • 00:18:40.801 --> 00:18:43.538
  • And again, i don't know the exact timing,
  • 00:18:43.538 --> 00:18:45.406
  • But these things will increase.
  • 00:18:45.406 --> 00:18:47.909
  • The bible makes that clear. lawlessness will increase.
  • 00:18:47.909 --> 00:18:51.078
  • You don't need a phd in social sciences to understand that
  • 00:18:51.078 --> 00:18:53.714
  • Lawlessness is increasing in our nation, violence.
  • 00:18:53.714 --> 00:18:56.884
  • It's not just in our big cities, violence in general.
  • 00:18:56.884 --> 00:18:58.953
  • We have knuckleheaded ideas like defund the police.
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  • Oh, that'll make us more secure.
  • 00:19:02.757 --> 00:19:05.526
  • Well, there's bad police officers, no doubt there are.
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  • It's a large group of people, they're not all perfect.
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  • Imagine if we defunded restaurants because
  • 00:19:11.165 --> 00:19:12.900
  • They--somebody served a bad meal.
  • 00:19:12.900 --> 00:19:16.837
  • Have the good sense to find the good ones.
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  • Lawlessness is our unwillingness to enforce our borders.
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  • We will lose our sovereignty as a nation unless we change that,
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  • And this is not a political thing.
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  • There isn't anybody in the political power
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  • That's doing anything to change it.
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  • This is in our hearts. it's changed.
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  • It has already changed the quality of our lives, the
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  • Quality of education the children who will receive, the
  • 00:19:38.659 --> 00:19:40.695
  • Quality of healthcare that will be available to us.
  • 00:19:40.695 --> 00:19:43.831
  • Tens of thousands of americans are dying on a
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  • Regular basis because the things that are
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  • Being trafficked over an open border.
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  • Lawlessness, now we've been watching
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  • It increase for a long time.
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  • We had sanctuary cities.
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  • We had cities that would reject federal law and demand federal
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  • Funding and nobody said, "that doesn't make sense."
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  • We championed them.
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  • We've been championing lawlessness for a long time
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  • Until now, it's at a crescendo, it will wash us away.
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  • It'll cause us to cry for an authoritarian response.
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  • Somebody restore order so we will continue
  • 00:20:14.762 --> 00:20:16.931
  • To give up our civil liberties and freedoms
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  • Because we don't like the lawlessness.
  • 00:20:18.733 --> 00:20:22.803
  • Jesus said false prophets will increase.
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  • Don't think of that in terms of just religious speech.
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  • Prophets are intended to be truth tellers.
  • 00:20:28.709 --> 00:20:30.444
  • They're from a--theological, from a
  • 00:20:30.444 --> 00:20:32.513
  • Faith perspective, they're to give us god's truth.
  • 00:20:32.513 --> 00:20:35.449
  • But prophets, people expected to speak
  • 00:20:35.449 --> 00:20:37.585
  • Truth to us will speak deceptively.
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  • That seems like an epidemic these days,
  • 00:20:42.123 --> 00:20:43.758
  • Both within the church and without.
  • 00:20:43.758 --> 00:20:47.228
  • Apostasy within the church is being given expression these
  • 00:20:47.228 --> 00:20:52.099
  • Days at a level that is just unthinkable.
  • 00:20:52.099 --> 00:20:55.269
  • Nothing in my lifetime, nothing in the history
  • 00:20:55.269 --> 00:20:57.004
  • Of our nation can compare with it.
  • 00:20:57.004 --> 00:21:00.541
  • We're walking away from the authority of scripture so that
  • 00:21:00.541 --> 00:21:02.510
  • We can have the approval of culture.
  • 00:21:02.510 --> 00:21:10.017
  • Jesus said economic upheaval would increase.
  • 00:21:10.017 --> 00:21:12.687
  • Again, you don't have to be particularly observant.
  • 00:21:12.687 --> 00:21:14.689
  • Inflation, anybody noticed?
  • 00:21:14.689 --> 00:21:17.858
  • I mean, they've told us it's temporary, that it's our
  • 00:21:17.858 --> 00:21:19.627
  • Imagination, that it's somebody else's fault.
  • 00:21:19.627 --> 00:21:21.562
  • Well, it's double digits. it's changing our lives.
  • 00:21:21.562 --> 00:21:25.666
  • We're energy dependent upon our enemies.
  • 00:21:25.666 --> 00:21:27.201
  • Who thinks that's a good idea?
  • 00:21:27.201 --> 00:21:30.104
  • We're spending money recklessly, but we don't
  • 00:21:30.104 --> 00:21:31.639
  • Say much because some of it comes to us.
  • 00:21:31.639 --> 00:21:36.277
  • And if we feel like we have bigger stacks of cash,
  • 00:21:36.277 --> 00:21:38.112
  • We're just not paying much attention that it
  • 00:21:38.112 --> 00:21:39.647
  • Buys less and it's not worth as much.
  • 00:21:39.647 --> 00:21:42.850
  • The world is unraveling.
  • 00:21:42.850 --> 00:21:44.185
  • And you think--that's describing ours, and we're one
  • 00:21:44.185 --> 00:21:46.120
  • Of the most stable places on the planet.
  • 00:21:46.120 --> 00:21:49.123
  • You should visit the nations of the world.
  • 00:21:49.123 --> 00:21:53.127
  • So, what do we do?
  • 00:21:53.127 --> 00:21:54.462
  • We need to align ourselves with the kingdom of god.
  • 00:21:54.462 --> 00:21:56.163
  • Well, how do we do that?
  • 00:21:56.163 --> 00:21:58.199
  • I want to take the time we have left and see
  • 00:21:58.199 --> 00:22:00.601
  • If we can gain a little insight into that.
  • 00:22:00.601 --> 00:22:02.803
  • I would submit to you that from a biblical perspective, aligning
  • 00:22:02.803 --> 00:22:05.373
  • Yourself with the kingdom of god is connected to a word and that
  • 00:22:05.373 --> 00:22:08.776
  • Word is love, but i can tell which kingdom
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  • You're aligned with by what you love.
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  • Now, love is a complex word.
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  • It's a word that is misused so frequently.
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  • I think the word "love" is used more
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  • For destruction than it is for good.
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  • You can use the word to manipulate,
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  • To instill guilt, to initiate ungodliness.
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  • "well, if you loved me, you would."
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  • And what comes after that oftentimes
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  • Is more ungodly than not.
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  • We can use it to extend permissions for wickedness.
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  • We use it to accuse god. it's a powerful word.
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  • It's an important word.
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  • You won't flourish without it, but it's a very complex word.
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  • And if we're not open to god's definitions and god's
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  • Perspective, it'll become a very manipulative tool in your life.
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  • Look at john 3:16, "god so loved the world that he gave his one
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  • And only son, that whoever believes in him
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  • Shall not perish but have eternal life."
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  • Maybe the best known verse in the bible,
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  • Certainly in the new testament.
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  • God so loved the world, not this ball of matter that's
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  • Hurtling through space and in orbit around
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  • The sun, but the people of planet earth.
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  • God loves you, he loves people in our rebellion,
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  • In our ungodliness, in our wickedness, in our
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  • Stubborn refusal to cooperate with us, he loves us.
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  • There's no explanation given in scripture for that.
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  • A third of the angels rebelled, and god did not launch
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  • A rescue mission for the fallen angels.
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  • And yet when humanity rebelled against him
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  • And refused to cooperate with him, god
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  • Envisioned a rescue mission for us.
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  • We just read it, that he rescued us
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  • From the dominion of darkness.
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  • The jesus story is a supernatural, divinely
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  • Initiated from the kingdom of god rescue
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  • Plan for the descendants of adam.
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  • Jesus became one of us, we call that the incarnation.
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  • That's why the virgin birth is necessary.
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  • If the virgin birth isn't a reality,
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  • The jesus story is a hoax.
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  • I mean, christians, they don't believe in miracles.
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  • It's logically inconsistent.
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  • Our faith is centered, found, and made
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  • Possible by the supernatural involvement of god.
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  • God loves you.
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  • Say, "i don't like what he's done."
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  • Well, i remember having that attitude about my parents.
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  • You know, if they loved me, they'd
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  • Have given me oreos before dinner.
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  • I knew it would help my appetite.
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  • How did they know what i was hungry for?
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  • "you'll clean your plate." then let me fill my own plate.
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  • I had all sorts of parenting helps that they weren't open to.
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  • Pray for me.
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  • Most of us think if god would just listen to us,
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  • We could help him make our lives better.
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  • We know what we want to do and what we should be able
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  • To do and how we should fill in the blanks.
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  • And he's just an intrusion. oh, bother.
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  • The bible uses that imagery that he's our heavenly father,
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  • That he disciplines the children he loves.
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  • God loves you. "well, i don't feel like it."
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  • Okay.
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  • Allen: you know, our team that helps create this content that
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  • World we're living in.
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  • Thanking us for content, but also asking what you can do.
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  • Impacting yours, and we want to continue to extend this message
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  • Together, and i pray that you'll multiply this to impact even
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  • More lives for your glory and your purposes.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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