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Allen Jackson - Tale of Two People

May 24, 2025 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Tale of Two People
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 People | May 24, 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: so, i'll pose a question to you that's really
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  • The theme of all we're going to talk about in this session, is
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  • Would you be willing to receive a new anointing?
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  • Would you be willing to walk with the lord under a different
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  • Kind of an awareness?
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  • Now, be careful, because if we say yes to the lord, he's very
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  • Likely to respond, and with gifts come expectations.
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  • But if you're willing, i believe god is moving in such a way that
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  • He's preparing his people for a new season, a different kind of
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  • A response.
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  • We've had so much, so much abundance and so much liberty
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  • And so much freedom that we could afford to relegate god to
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  • A secondary or even a tertiary place in our lives.
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  • You know, we wanted him back there in case we needed a, you
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  • Know, in case of emergency, break glass and grab your bible,
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  • But we're living in a season of so much disruption that we've
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  • Gotta bring that message front and center.
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  • It's the beginning point for who we are and what we do and how we
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  • Imagine our world.
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  • If not, we're already at a tremendous deficit.
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  • So, i'll start with this premise that it's about our choice and
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  • Our faith and our reward.
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  • I want you to understand you have a choice to make.
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  • Like, you have a series of choices to make that are far
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  • Beyond just conversion or the new birth or salvation.
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  • I believe in that, that ultimate initiation into the kingdom
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  • Of god.
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  • You don't work your way to heaven, it's not based on
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  • Genetics, it's not the family system you're born into or the--
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  • Your-- the language that you're born speaking, it's not about
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  • The geography where you entered this world or you stepped
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  • Into time.
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  • Your participation in the kingdom of god is related to a
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  • Person, his name is jesus of nazareth.
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  • The scripture is very clear, there aren't many ways to god.
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  • Buddha, and mohammed and new ageism and will not land you at
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  • The same place that jesus will.
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  • I understand that's not politically correct, but okay.
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  • I want to give you look at a series of interactions in
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  • Scripture that provide us a contrast, kinda the polar
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  • Opposites of these choices.
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  • Some of them were very familiar stories or characters to you,
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  • Perhaps some less familiar.
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  • I'm not gonna read all the text you have, but you have it if
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  • You want.
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  • If you're not familiar with them, you could read it in more
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  • Detail later.
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  • We'll start in luke 18, it's a parable that jesus is teaching.
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  • It's a story he's telling to illustrate a point.
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  • So, he's not really speaking about two specific individuals
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  • That you would have seen, but he's speaking about two
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  • Individuals that his audience would've known very well,
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  • Characters that were prominent.
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  • One's a pharisee, very public religious leader, a professional
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  • Religious person, and the other is a tax collector.
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  • Now, the tax collectors was an idea that the romans really
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  • Elevated to new heights.
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  • When rome occupied you, they would exact taxes from the
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  • Occupied country.
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  • We understand that premise, but they discovered that the most
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  • Effective way to raise taxes was to identify a local citizen that
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  • Was willing to betray the people around him, because the locals
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  • Know who have the resources.
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  • And so, they would recruit some local citizen who understood the
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  • Local community, and they would appoint them to be the tax
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  • Collector, and then they would give them roman soldiers that
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  • They could use their authority to exact the taxes.
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  • And the trade off in the process was the tax collector could
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  • Raise more money than rome demanded, he could extort from
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  • His fellow citizens extra resources to make themselves
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  • More affluent.
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  • Can you imagine how the people felt about tax collectors?
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  • They were the most hated folks in the community.
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  • Turncoats, traitors, betrayers, they're hiding behind the
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  • Shields of the roman soldiers while they're extorting money
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  • From their fellow citizens.
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  • You can imagine they weren't invited to be the guest of honor
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  • At very many local banquets.
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  • Well, jesus tells a parable, says, "to some who were
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  • Confident of their own righteousness and looked down on
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  • Everybody else, jesus told this parable: 'two men went to the
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  • Temple to pray, a pharisee and a tax collector.'"
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  • Well, the crowd here is --well, the tax
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  • Collector's just goin' to see who's putting in big gifts in
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  • The temple coffers so they'll know who's got more money that
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  • They can steal.
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  • And the pharisee, we're used to hearing them pray, and then
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  • Jesus describes the prayers of the two people.
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  • Said, "the pharisee stood and prayed, said, 'god, i thank you
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  • That i'm not like other men.
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  • I'm not a robber or an evildoer or an adulterer or even like
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  • This tax collector.'"
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  • Now, you read that and you're thinking, oh, what a pompous--
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  • But we have to guard our hearts, 'cause it's really easy for us
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  • To file into church and look through the windows and go, god,
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  • I'm glad we're not like those people out there.
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  • They didn't even come to church today.
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  • We parked 11 blocks away, walked uphill all the way in, and we'll
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  • Walk uphill all the way back to our car.
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  • Temperature was subzero, sermon is interminable.
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  • We have to guard our own hearts.
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  • We can't afford to look through the windows of the church and
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  • Be angry.
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  • Folks, our problems are not because of the wickedness in the
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  • Hearts of the ungodly.
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  • The problems we face are because of what's in the hearts of
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  • God's people.
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  • I want to look at another pair.
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  • This time it's a young scholar, young jewish scholar, very
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  • Successful, affluent, comes from the right family, studied at the
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  • Right schools, worships in the right place.
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  • Everybody understands him to be one of the most outstanding
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  • Young people in the community.
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  • Everything about his life screams success.
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  • He's got the right pedigree, the right education, he's got the
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  • Right friends, and he's made good choices.
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  • And he comes to jesus and says, "good teacher, what do i have to
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  • Do to inherit eternal life?"
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  • The passage you have is from luke, in mark's gospel, mark
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  • Adds that when jesus looked at the young man, he loved him.
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  • Imagine that, a young person who has a lot of momentum in their
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  • Life towards god, and when he meets jesus, jesus said, i
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  • Love you.
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  • He said, "what do you think?"
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  • And he said, "well," the young man answers, "well," he says,
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  • "keep the commandments."
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  • And jesus said, "you've answered-- he said, "well, i've
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  • Done all of that since i was a boy."
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  • Can you imagine telling jesus you'd kept all the rules?
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  • I mean, you might, you could use that line on me and probably be
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  • Okay, 'cause i'm not that clever.
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  • We have relatively brief encounters, but jesus knows the
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  • Thoughts of his heart and the things he's done in private, and
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  • He looked jesus in the eye and said, "oh, i've done all
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  • Of that."
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  • Jesus didn't snicker, he didn't say, you have got to be
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  • Kidding me.
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  • He simply said, "well, there's just one thing you lack then.
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  • Go and liquidate your assets and come follow me."
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  • Now, jesus didn't require everybody to do that, but he had
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  • The wisdom and the insight to understand what was at the
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  • Center of this young person's confidence, and he understood
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  • That until he could transfer his confidence into the kingdom of
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  • God, he was very fragile, frail.
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  • He didn't have the strength he would need to sustain what would
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  • Be required of a disciple.
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  • You see, if jesus isn't lord of all, you won't make it through
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  • Times of stress, because you're trusting things that can't take
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  • The stress.
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  • The systems of our world and all the things that are temporary in
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  • Our world can't bear the weight of a real, spiritual struggle.
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  • If we trusted our physical strength or our intellect, our
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  • Financial resources or our our connections, and all of those
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  • Things will ultimately crumble if there's enough stress.
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  • Jesus said, if you'll liquidate, you can come follow me.
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  • And the young man didn't even respond.
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  • It says, he just hung his head and left.
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  • Cost was too high.
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  • He couldn't imagine it.
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  • He didn't attach enough value to jesus.
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  • Now, this is important, he didn't attach enough value to
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  • Jesus to make a substantial life change.
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  • If he could've incorporated one more rule, if he could have
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  • Been-- he would attended some services, he would've listened
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  • To some presentations, there were all sorts of options that i
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  • Think he would have considered acceptable, but a significant
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  • Reorientation of his life was just too much.
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  • He didn't attach that much value to jesus, so one of the
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  • Questions that we're processing with our choices and our faith
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  • And the rewards we imagine is do we believe it's worthwhile?
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  • Do we attach enough value to jesus and his kingdom to
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  • Significantly reorder our lives?
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  • Or are we trying to assimilate him into the periphery because
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  • We want him in the constellation?
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  • We we want to be described as amongst his people, but we
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  • Really don't intend for him to be disruptive.
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  • It caused really a crisis of sorts amongst jesus's followers,
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  • His disciples.
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  • 'cause standing there and listening are peter and andrew,
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  • James and john.
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  • These young men that jesus had given the same invitation to,
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  • Except they really weren't rising stars, they weren't well
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  • Educated, they weren't affluent.
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  • They were fishermen.
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  • They were hardworking people, blue collar, peripheral, and
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  • They had accepted jesus's bargain, and now this young man
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  • Comes up, and they see that, i'm sure it gave them great hope.
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  • Now there are people of substance, people of status,
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  • People who know people, they're gonna help us, and we'll move
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  • This ball down the field.
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  • And the young man walks away.
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  • Jesus said, "it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a
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  • Needle than a rich man enter the kingdom of god."
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  • Not the eye of a sewing needle, but a narrow place in a path to
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  • Get the camel through which you'd have to take off all the
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  • Packs, you have to unload all the baggage, get the camel down
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  • On his knees, which they will do, and you work them through a
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  • Very narrow place, and then you have to reload, a lot a lot of
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  • Effort, great deal of effort.
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  • Jesus said, it's not easy.
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  • The more you have, the harder it is.
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  • And that should give us pause, 'cause we're the wealthiest
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  • Group of people on the planet.
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  • You say, well, i don't have much.
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  • You have much compared to most people.
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  • The majority of the world doesn't have shoes.
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  • Much of the world's never slept on a sheet.
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  • We are blessed.
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  • I don't say that to make you feel guilty, i just say that so
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  • We have a bit of awareness.
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  • But then peter said, "lord, we have left all we had to
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  • Follow you."
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  • You can hear the tension in him, "lord."
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  • And jesus said, "i tell you the truth," and by now you know when
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  • You see that phrase, you better buckle up, about to be
  • 00:12:26.996 --> 00:12:30.466
  • Some turbulence.
  • 00:12:30.466 --> 00:12:31.801
  • "jesus said to them, 'no one who has left home or wife or
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  • Brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom will
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  • Fail to receive many times as much in this age and, in the age
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  • To come, eternal life.'"
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  • Jesus is pushing the boundaries.
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  • He says, don't just think about your life in time, think about
  • 00:12:45.948 --> 00:12:48.350
  • Your life beyond time.
  • 00:12:48.350 --> 00:12:50.519
  • Again, the question, which group or you're more likely to
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  • Identify with?
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  • The capable, competent, successful, celebrated,
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  • Recognized as having momentum in your life, or just a hardworking
  • 00:12:58.027 --> 00:13:06.235
  • Person that everybody, for the most part, overlooks?
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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
  • 00:13:18.581 --> 00:13:21.617
  • Willing to speak the truth into culture in this rather
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  • Tumultuous season.
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  • Well, i hear your feedback and it's very valuable.
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  • The question i'm so often asked
  • 00:13:29.391 --> 00:13:30.793
  • 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: now, i want to spend a couple of minutes, if i can.
  • 00:14:54.243 --> 00:14:56.679
  • See if we can identify something of god's recruiting pattern.
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  • I think it might help you.
  • 00:14:59.281 --> 00:15:00.649
  • It helps me.
  • 00:15:00.649 --> 00:15:02.151
  • The people god recruits to serve him, they're not the people i
  • 00:15:02.217 --> 00:15:04.486
  • Would expect.
  • 00:15:04.486 --> 00:15:05.821
  • The selection criteria are not the ones i would have imagined.
  • 00:15:05.821 --> 00:15:09.158
  • But god's the creator of all things.
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  • He knows us when we're being knit together in our mother's
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  • Womb, that is when life begins.
  • 00:15:14.396 --> 00:15:16.899
  • He knows us before anybody else knows us, so he understands whom
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  • He recruits.
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  • The person in the bible that is held out to us is the father of
  • 00:15:23.706 --> 00:15:26.909
  • Our faith, abram.
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  • He becomes abraham.
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  • You ever thought about abraham's great achievements?
  • 00:15:31.780 --> 00:15:34.216
  • Well, he was the father of isaac, but he was also the
  • 00:15:35.884 --> 00:15:39.388
  • Father of ishmael, and that wasn't the best part of
  • 00:15:39.388 --> 00:15:41.857
  • The story.
  • 00:15:41.857 --> 00:15:44.393
  • I mean, abraham's great contribution was he was patient.
  • 00:15:44.393 --> 00:15:51.400
  • I mean, i wouldn't volunteer to be the pinnacle of patience if i
  • 00:15:51.400 --> 00:15:54.570
  • Were you, but it wasn't his great achievements.
  • 00:15:54.570 --> 00:15:58.173
  • He's a bedouin, he's an animal herder.
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  • He's an animal herder who lives in tents, and yet he's held out
  • 00:16:02.878 --> 00:16:06.148
  • In this book from the the opening book to the concluding
  • 00:16:06.148 --> 00:16:08.851
  • Book as the epitome of a person of faith.
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  • God recruited him.
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  • Now, he was one tough bedouin.
  • 00:16:15.290 --> 00:16:17.526
  • They took lot.
  • 00:16:18.961 --> 00:16:21.296
  • Some kings who were scavenging, and abraham gathered the people
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  • Under his authority, and he traveled several days to the
  • 00:16:25.768 --> 00:16:28.804
  • North and invaded the city at night and took his nephew back.
  • 00:16:28.804 --> 00:16:33.008
  • I wouldn't poke that bear very often.
  • 00:16:34.109 --> 00:16:36.278
  • But it's not easy to see what-- he wasn't a great scholar,
  • 00:16:38.047 --> 00:16:41.683
  • There's no tremendous physical attributes or intellect.
  • 00:16:41.750 --> 00:16:45.087
  • He was willing to follow the lord.
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  • If you will be, with determination, willing to follow
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  • The lord, god will cause your life both in time and for all
  • 00:16:52.194 --> 00:16:55.597
  • Eternity to have great value.
  • 00:16:55.597 --> 00:16:57.933
  • Doesn't matter who overlooks you, who knows your name, who
  • 00:16:58.000 --> 00:17:00.102
  • Didn't recruit you, who neglected you, who rejected you.
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  • If you will follow the lord, he'll bring value to your life.
  • 00:17:03.005 --> 00:17:06.041
  • David, many of you know david, you know david's pedigree?
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  • He has older brothers and in that culture that was not the
  • 00:17:11.880 --> 00:17:15.150
  • Pathway to greatness.
  • 00:17:15.150 --> 00:17:17.386
  • The eldest would have inherited, because in an agricultural
  • 00:17:17.453 --> 00:17:20.289
  • Society, you can't afford for the farmland to be broken up
  • 00:17:20.289 --> 00:17:22.958
  • Amongst 10 or 12 or 14 kids.
  • 00:17:22.958 --> 00:17:25.194
  • So, the eldest would inherit, and david's way down the list
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  • In that.
  • 00:17:29.698 --> 00:17:31.033
  • They don't even invite him to the party when the prophet's
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  • Coming to the house.
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  • He's out taking care of the sheep.
  • 00:17:34.303 --> 00:17:36.438
  • So, we know him principally as a sheep herder.
  • 00:17:37.406 --> 00:17:40.309
  • I mean, jesse's his father, but he's a shepherd.
  • 00:17:40.309 --> 00:17:43.212
  • Now, he does tend to be a bit aggressive.
  • 00:17:43.212 --> 00:17:45.514
  • I mean, his brothers will tell ya, don't poke david.
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  • He will bite you.
  • 00:17:53.655 --> 00:17:55.023
  • I mean, his big break, it came in the form of having to
  • 00:17:57.059 --> 00:18:01.230
  • Confront a murderous giant.
  • 00:18:01.230 --> 00:18:03.031
  • Isn't there like a, just, a course i could enroll in?
  • 00:18:04.366 --> 00:18:07.402
  • Couldn't i watch some youtube videos on how to be godly?
  • 00:18:07.469 --> 00:18:11.373
  • Really, a murderous giant in front of the whole army, that's
  • 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:14.443
  • My opportunity?
  • 00:18:14.443 --> 00:18:17.112
  • Look at 1 samuel 17, "david said to the king, 'your servant's
  • 00:18:17.179 --> 00:18:19.948
  • Been keeping his father's sheep.'"
  • 00:18:19.948 --> 00:18:22.718
  • He's a shepherd, i told you that, "'and when a lion or a
  • 00:18:22.784 --> 00:18:25.053
  • Bear came and carried off a sheep, i went after it, i struck
  • 00:18:25.053 --> 00:18:28.290
  • It, and rescued the sheep from its mouth.
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  • When it turned on me, i seized it by its hair.'"
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  • Now, you read that like that's normal.
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  • I was out in the pasture the other day, and a couple of deer
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  • Went by, and there was a new fawn.
  • 00:18:46.642 --> 00:18:48.744
  • And i stood there a minute, and not far behind it was a coyote.
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  • And i thought, oh mama, i hope you're paying attention.
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  • Let me tell you what i didn't do.
  • 00:18:58.153 --> 00:18:59.688
  • I didn't put on grease paint and go sneaking through the weeds to
  • 00:19:02.991 --> 00:19:05.661
  • Get that coyote by the hair.
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  • And if i decided to do it harm, i would've done it
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  • Long distance.
  • 00:19:11.767 --> 00:19:13.168
  • Not david.
  • 00:19:14.469 --> 00:19:15.837
  • That's not normal.
  • 00:19:18.140 --> 00:19:19.508
  • He was just a touch aggressive.
  • 00:19:19.508 --> 00:19:23.345
  • And god said, "follow me."
  • 00:19:25.747 --> 00:19:28.317
  • 'cause when david heard goliath bellow his challenge, remember
  • 00:19:29.518 --> 00:19:31.954
  • What he said?
  • 00:19:31.954 --> 00:19:33.322
  • "he has defied the armies of the living god, and god helped me in
  • 00:19:33.322 --> 00:19:37.292
  • Those other places, he'll help me in this one."
  • 00:19:37.292 --> 00:19:39.094
  • Don't despise where you are.
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  • You maybe have a job that nobody wants.
  • 00:19:41.830 --> 00:19:43.832
  • Shepherds were the lowest wrong on the social
  • 00:19:43.899 --> 00:19:45.667
  • Establishment ladder.
  • 00:19:45.667 --> 00:19:47.069
  • God recruits in the most unlikely places.
  • 00:19:49.504 --> 00:19:51.807
  • He recruited moses.
  • 00:19:52.341 --> 00:19:54.710
  • You know something of moses's story, cecil b. demille
  • 00:19:54.776 --> 00:19:57.045
  • Helped us.
  • 00:19:57.045 --> 00:19:58.380
  • He's an abandoned child.
  • 00:19:58.380 --> 00:20:00.415
  • I mean, you can talk about his parents hid him, but ultimately
  • 00:20:00.482 --> 00:20:02.651
  • They put him in a basket and set him free in the nile river.
  • 00:20:02.651 --> 00:20:05.821
  • Talk to me about their circumstances.
  • 00:20:07.889 --> 00:20:09.458
  • It's bad parenting.
  • 00:20:09.458 --> 00:20:10.826
  • Well, they had a lot at risk, yes, they did, that's
  • 00:20:12.494 --> 00:20:14.663
  • Called parenting.
  • 00:20:14.663 --> 00:20:16.465
  • We're not gonna find comforting voices because we've sacrificed
  • 00:20:16.531 --> 00:20:19.668
  • Our children.
  • 00:20:19.668 --> 00:20:21.403
  • And i'm not talking just about abortion, we won't stand up and
  • 00:20:21.470 --> 00:20:23.805
  • Protect them from the ungodliness and the immorality
  • 00:20:23.805 --> 00:20:26.174
  • And the wickedness and the lies that are being directed towards
  • 00:20:26.174 --> 00:20:28.810
  • Them, that's on us.
  • 00:20:28.810 --> 00:20:30.746
  • It's not just our children, it's the children.
  • 00:20:30.812 --> 00:20:33.015
  • But in spite of that parenting system and the brokenness and
  • 00:20:35.484 --> 00:20:38.487
  • The rejection that comes from that, moses is an abandoned
  • 00:20:38.487 --> 00:20:41.056
  • Child, and on top of that he has a tendency toward some
  • 00:20:41.056 --> 00:20:43.492
  • Real violence.
  • 00:20:43.492 --> 00:20:44.893
  • I mean, he got mad, just flat out killed somebody.
  • 00:20:46.028 --> 00:20:48.196
  • So, maybe moses is a little torqued, and god recruits him in
  • 00:20:50.632 --> 00:20:56.838
  • A burning bush.
  • 00:20:56.838 --> 00:20:58.173
  • "moses, i need your help."
  • 00:20:58.173 --> 00:20:59.541
  • "i don't want to help."
  • 00:20:59.541 --> 00:21:01.176
  • "you didn't understand moses, i have an assignment for you."
  • 00:21:01.243 --> 00:21:03.378
  • "i don't want an assignment."
  • 00:21:03.378 --> 00:21:04.746
  • "moses, put your hand in your robe."
  • 00:21:05.814 --> 00:21:07.849
  • He pulls it out, and it has a terminal disease.
  • 00:21:07.849 --> 00:21:10.152
  • Whoa, puts it back, and it's whole again.
  • 00:21:10.152 --> 00:21:14.156
  • "nice trick, i'm busy."
  • 00:21:14.156 --> 00:21:15.657
  • "throw your staff down, moses."
  • 00:21:17.926 --> 00:21:19.328
  • It becomes a snake, smart moses runs.
  • 00:21:19.328 --> 00:21:21.863
  • "go back and get your staff."
  • 00:21:23.498 --> 00:21:25.067
  • Oh, now moses is beginning to bend.
  • 00:21:25.133 --> 00:21:28.704
  • He goes back and picks up the snake and it becomes a
  • 00:21:28.770 --> 00:21:31.907
  • Staff again.
  • 00:21:31.907 --> 00:21:33.275
  • "moses, that job."
  • 00:21:34.176 --> 00:21:36.078
  • "i don't want to go."
  • 00:21:36.144 --> 00:21:37.546
  • "moses, my patience is wearing thin."
  • 00:21:39.047 --> 00:21:41.216
  • "i don't talk plain, god."
  • 00:21:42.017 --> 00:21:43.919
  • Really?
  • 00:21:45.420 --> 00:21:46.822
  • The god who gave you the ability to speak that could strike you
  • 00:21:46.822 --> 00:21:49.491
  • Mute like he did john the baptist's father, you're gonna
  • 00:21:49.491 --> 00:21:54.196
  • Try to tell him you don't like public speaking?
  • 00:21:54.196 --> 00:21:57.199
  • I hated public speaking, this one's personal.
  • 00:21:57.265 --> 00:21:59.468
  • When i stood in front of people, my brain froze.
  • 00:22:01.436 --> 00:22:03.939
  • I tried to explain that to the lord, "i'm better in
  • 00:22:05.140 --> 00:22:07.008
  • A laboratory."
  • 00:22:07.008 --> 00:22:08.377
  • He didn't seem impressed.
  • 00:22:09.378 --> 00:22:10.779
  • God finally got angry with moses.
  • 00:22:14.182 --> 00:22:16.084
  • "i will give you a helper."
  • 00:22:16.151 --> 00:22:17.519
  • God recruited an angry murdererous, disinterested.
  • 00:22:19.554 --> 00:22:25.060
  • He's the greatest example of leadership in the bible until we
  • 00:22:26.862 --> 00:22:29.498
  • Meet jesus.
  • 00:22:29.498 --> 00:22:31.133
  • Nobody to compare with him.
  • 00:22:31.199 --> 00:22:32.567
  • In the book of hebrews in the new testament, the author has to
  • 00:22:33.802 --> 00:22:35.804
  • Go way out of his way to convince his readers that jesus
  • 00:22:35.804 --> 00:22:38.373
  • Actually was better than moses, 'cause moses is so revered.
  • 00:22:38.373 --> 00:22:41.576
  • God can make some great things out of the broken pieces of
  • 00:22:44.212 --> 00:22:46.681
  • Our lives.
  • 00:22:46.681 --> 00:22:48.049
  • His family story wasn't good, his narrative of the childhood
  • 00:22:48.049 --> 00:22:51.553
  • Wasn't good, he was trained in all of the ungodly things
  • 00:22:51.553 --> 00:22:55.424
  • Of egypt.
  • 00:22:55.424 --> 00:22:56.792
  • I mean, everything about his life, your checking the boxes,
  • 00:22:56.792 --> 00:22:58.827
  • Going, whoo, not this one.
  • 00:22:58.827 --> 00:23:00.228
  • And god said, "watch this."
  • 00:23:01.329 --> 00:23:02.731
  • Saul of tarsus, he recruited him, he's the first formal
  • 00:23:04.065 --> 00:23:07.035
  • Theologian he's recruited, and he had to come back.
  • 00:23:07.035 --> 00:23:10.672
  • Acts 1, he goes back to heaven, he comes back to get saul.
  • 00:23:10.672 --> 00:23:13.175
  • Saul's important enough, jesus comes back to time.
  • 00:23:13.175 --> 00:23:15.911
  • He steps in on the damascus road, puts his face in the dust,
  • 00:23:15.911 --> 00:23:20.015
  • And said, "just what do you think you're doing?"
  • 00:23:20.015 --> 00:23:23.118
  • A violent, angry, arrogant, self-righteous, and paul says of
  • 00:23:23.185 --> 00:23:32.727
  • Himself later, it's in your notes, philippians 3, he said,
  • 00:23:32.727 --> 00:23:35.163
  • "if you think you have reasons to put confidence in the flesh,
  • 00:23:35.163 --> 00:23:37.098
  • I have more."
  • 00:23:37.098 --> 00:23:39.067
  • And then he gives his resume his, curriculum vitae.
  • 00:23:39.134 --> 00:23:41.136
  • He says, "my resume is better than yours."
  • 00:23:41.136 --> 00:23:43.405
  • And if you wanna know how arrogant he was, he goes back to
  • 00:23:43.472 --> 00:23:45.674
  • His eighth day.
  • 00:23:45.674 --> 00:23:47.442
  • "when i was eight days old, i was being better than you were."
  • 00:23:48.643 --> 00:23:52.347
  • Well, la dee da, but you need the punchline.
  • 00:23:54.416 --> 00:23:59.955
  • At the end of that little passage, he said, "i consider
  • 00:24:00.021 --> 00:24:02.023
  • All of this as rubbish, that i could gain christ."
  • 00:24:02.023 --> 00:24:07.262
  • What are you trusting in?
  • 00:24:08.630 --> 00:24:09.965
  • What are you so proud of?
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  • Your inheritance?
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  • Your physical strength?
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  • Your intellect?
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  • The degrees you've earned?
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  • The resources you've accumulated?
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  • Do you think god's gonna be impressed with my degrees?
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  • Oh, get the angels together, allen's here.
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  • We can solve the problems now.
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  • No, the resources i can accumulate, oh, thank god, now
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  • We can add the wing on.
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  • No.
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  • I consider them rubbish.
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  • You need the other part of it though, acts 9, when he sends
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  • Ananias to pray for paul that his sight can be restored.
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  • He said, "this man is my chosen instrument to carry my name
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  • Before the gentiles and their kings and before the people
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  • Of israel.
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  • I'll show him what he will suffer for my name."
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  • That's a part of his recruitment.
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  • Folks, we've misunderstood our faith.
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  • We thought it was about our convenience and upgrading the
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  • Labels in our clothing and getting our kids in a better
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  • School or on a better team or better set of opportunities.
  • 00:25:09.391 --> 00:25:13.428
  • The greatest gift we can give to the generations following us is
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  • Whatever training, whatever encouragement we can give them
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  • Regarding the kingdom of god.
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  • I mean, their educations are important, their social skills
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  • Are important, all of those things have value, but they're
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  • Secondary to helping them understand the kingdom of god.
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  • Allen: you know, our team that helps create this content that
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  • We share with you consistently pray that it enables you to find
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  • A more steadfast way to navigate the confusing
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  • World we're living in.
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  • And you often respond, we hear so many messages back from you
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  • Thanking us for content, but also asking what you can do.
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  • Is there a way you can pray?
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  • Is there a way you can stand with us?
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  • Well, honestly, there is.
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  • I want to invite you to prayerfully consider becoming a
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  • Monthly ministry partner.
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  • For a gift of $25 or more, you help us make a plan for the
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  • Future that will include more people.
  • 00:26:02.510 --> 00:26:04.546
  • We build those plans based on you joining us as monthly
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  • Ministry partners.
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  • God's moving in the earth, he's changing my life, i pray he's
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  • Impacting yours, and we want to continue to extend this message
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  • To our generation with a clarity and a consistency that creates
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  • Opportunities for individuals and families.
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  • In fact, i wanna pray with you and for you.
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  • God, i thank you that you've let us stand together to learn
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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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  • Thanks for your partnership.
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  • Announcer: join us every week for another exciting message
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  • From pastor allen jackson.
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  • And until then, visit us online and discover remarkable
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  • Information and resources to help take your christian life to
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  • The next level.
  • 00:26:54.262 --> 00:26:55.764
  • And if you're visiting the nashville area, we'd love to see
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  • You at world outreach church in murfreesboro.
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  • We're easy to find, so look us up when you're traveling
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  • Through, and don't forget to connect with pastor jackson
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  • Every day through social media.
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  • Thanks so much for joining us and being a part of
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  • This ministry.
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  • We'll see you again next time for another encounter with
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  • Pastor allen jackson.
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