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Allen Jackson - Thoughts, Words, and Reality (Part 2)

September 8, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - Thoughts, Words, and Reality (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Thoughts, Words, and Reality (Part 2) | September 8, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen jackson: you know, as a pastor, my job is to
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  • Help people get to know the lord.
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  • That's really the goal of what i engage in most days.
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  • Well, i've got a concept i wanna suggest to you.
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  • Begin to think about jesus as your friend.
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  • I don't mean that in an overly casual way, in a presumptive
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  • Way, but in my life, most of my best memories, most of the
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  • Highlights in my life involve friends,
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  • People i enjoy being with.
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  • They make places and opportunities and seasons and
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  • Holidays a lot more pleasant, something you look forward to.
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  • Well, rather than think about our faith in terms of something
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  • That's austere and judgmental and rules based and critical,
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  • What if we imagined jesus is our friend?
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  • I wanna be his friend.
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  • I wanna do the things that please him.
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  • I want to engage in activities that he cares about.
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  • I wanna stay out of the things that he's warned me against.
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  • I wanna live my life as his friend.
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  • That was his designation, not mine.
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  • Well, i've written a book to help you imagine that.
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  • It'll change your faith.
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  • It'll bring a new joy to your faith.
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  • I think it'll be a blessing.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: praise will silence the enemy, which is a very, very,
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  • Very powerful tool.
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  • If you can silence your enemy.
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  • You know how powerful that is, to shut down the opposition?
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  • Psalm 8 and verse 2 says, "from the lips of children and
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  • Infants, you have ordained praise because of your enemies,
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  • To silence the foe and the avenger."
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  • Wow, we have underestimated this.
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  • In revelation 12, it says, "the accuser of our brothers, who
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  • Accuses them before our god
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  • Day and night, has been hurled down."
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  • There's a--it's a scene in revelation of the
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  • Throne of god and satan is portrayed, presented to us.
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  • One of the titles given to him is the accuser of the brethren.
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  • In the book of job, you get a little snapshot of that.
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  • Satan presents himself with the angels of light, critical of
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  • Job, attacking job, diminishing job.
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  • You know that battle.
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  • Forget how satan got to heaven with the--you know,
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  • I'm--sometimes i'm fascinated at how we process this stuff.
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  • I've been in multiple bible studies where we spend the whole
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  • Time discussing how satan managed to appear with the
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  • Angels of light, and does he have access to the throne
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  • Of god?
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  • I mean, i'm okay with the questions, but here's
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  • The reality.
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  • Satan puts all kinds of thoughts in your head on a very regular
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  • Basis, and i would submit to you, it's far more important to
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  • Know what to do with the ungodly thoughts that will cripple our
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  • Momentum and our growth than it is to answer every theological
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  • Nuance and subtlety that you can find with the persistent study
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  • Of scripture, and i'm an advocate for the persistent
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  • Study of scripture.
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  • You know, i told you the funny story.
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  • I read the article about a doctor that's explained why
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  • David could kill goliath because he had a rare endocrine disease,
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  • And one of the symptoms was a bony protuberance on his
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  • Forehead where his cranium would have been thinner and therefore
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  • More vulnerable to a stone slung from a sling, and i
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  • Thought, wow.
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  • You know the miracle in that to me?
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  • That the little shepherd kid several miles away on the other
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  • Side of the valley could see this guy and recognized he had a
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  • Pituitary problem and a high degree of probability that there
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  • Was a bony protuberance, which would make him more vulnerable
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  • To a stone slung from his sling, 'cause i'm thinking for a 15
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  • Year old, that's a lot of deductive reasoning.
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  • None of the soldiers of the israelite camp got it--sometimes
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  • We read our bibles with this academic, stoic perspective, and
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  • I like to learn, but i'm far more interested in how we can
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  • Give application to this.
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  • How do we silence the enemy?
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  • There's another scene of heaven in the book
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  • Of revelation in the 5th chapter.
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  • I gave it to you.
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  • John says, "i looked and i heard the voice of many angels,
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  • Numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand
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  • Times ten thousand."
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  • It's 100 million.
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  • That's a lot.
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  • Ten million, it's a lot.
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  • "they encircled the throne and the living creatures and the
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  • Elders, and in a loud voice, in a loud voice they sang, 'worthy
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  • Is the lamb, who was slain, to receive power and wealth and
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  • Wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!'"
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  • But it's not done.
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  • "then i heard every creature in heaven and on the earth and
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  • Under the earth," every creature, "on the sea, and all
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  • That's in them singing."
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  • Some point everything's gonna sing, and here's the chorus.
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  • "'to him who sits on the throne and to the lamb be praise and
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  • Honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!'"
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  • So if you're walking through a tough patch, if your garden
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  • Doesn't look like it's gonna have very--it's not gonna be
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  • Very fruitful, you don't have to be any more sophisticated than
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  • To take those words and make 'em your own.
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  • "'worthy is the lamb, who was slain, to receive power and
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  • Wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and
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  • Praise,'" and, "'to him who sits on the throne and to the lamb be
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  • Praise and honor and glory and power, for ever.'"
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  • I've taken those phrases and said them repetitively for some
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  • Long periods of time, until i could have enough emotional
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  • Healing or enough emotional revitalization that it would
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  • Change the spirit within me.
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  • I'm not talking about the spirit that resides within me.
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  • I'm--but i'm talking about the attitude that seemed to be
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  • Prevailing within me.
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  • So i'm in a difficult place or my circumstances are bad or
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  • I've been mistreated or i have--i get it.
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  • Most of you have enough maturity that you don't make bad
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  • Emotional responses without some significant triggers, and you
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  • Could be legitimate, you can justify your responses, but it
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  • Isn't helpful.
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  • It isn't helpful.
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  • We have to have a change of thought and a change of the
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  • Words that come from that change of thought in order to get to a
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  • Different future.
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  • And i really think all of this grows out of this
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  • Fundamental idea of guarding your heart.
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  • Again, not new to us.
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  • We've talked about this a great deal.
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  • Proverbs 4:23 is a foundational verse.
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  • "above all else, guard your heart, it's the wellspring
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  • Of life."
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  • Before you guard anything else, before you worry about the
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  • Security for your children, think about the security for
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  • Your heart, 'cause if your heart's not secured, you won't
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  • Be able to protect your kids.
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  • Before you think about your financial security or your home
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  • Or your car or whatever, your digital security, lifelock,
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  • Guard your heart.
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  • And i'm not even sure we'd be comfortable with the topic.
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  • Well, how do you--what would you--how would you--what do you,
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  • What do you mean?
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  • And i don't mean your pump in the center of your being.
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  • It's the wellspring of your life.
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  • It's the center of your person.
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  • It's so important.
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  • There's some simple things you can do, and it really--the part
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  • I love about this discussion is it's so available to us.
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  • You don't have to know greek or hebrew.
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  • You don't have to be a biblical scholar.
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  • You don't have to have 40 years of tenure.
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  • You could start wherever you are chronologically in your journey
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  • Through time or chronologically in your spiritual maturity, and
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  • A significant component of this is stop grumbling
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  • And complaining.
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  • I mean, be determined.
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  • When you hear yourself complain, "i won't do that.
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  • [mumbling]."
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  • "what'd you say?" "nothing."
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  • You can't afford the luxury of that kind of activity.
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  • When you choose to grumble and complain, understand you are
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  • Intentionally accumulating baggage and trying to run.
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  • In hebrews it says that we want to throw off everything that
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  • So easily entangles us.
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  • When we choose to grumble and complain, we are purposefully
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  • Stacking baggage.
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  • The choice will lead us to thinking patterns which will
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  • Take us on destructive detours in our lives.
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  • "well, i have a right to complain.
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  • I have a right to grumble."
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  • Well, you may have circumstances that give you some license or
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  • Some content or some talking points, but to say you have
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  • A right.
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  • You have the privilege of choosing that, god's given you
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  • That, but i'm telling you, if you open that door, you're
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  • Forfeiting something or you're taking a detour that is going to
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  • Require more.
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  • I've paid all the stupid tax i really care to.
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  • Allen: hey, i've written a new book.
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  • It's called "my friend jesus."
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  • You know, i'm a pastor, a lot of ritual, tradition, a lot of
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  • Formality in the way we know god.
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  • It's not bad, there's some good things in that, but when i'm in
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  • Real trouble or i have something i wanna celebrate, i call
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  • A friend.
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  • Well, i wanna live my life with jesus of nazareth as my friend.
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  • It changes everything, in both celebration and when there's
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  • A problem.
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  • I wrote the book to help.
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  • I think it'll open your life to god in a more personal,
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  • Transformational way than ever before.
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  • Enjoy the book.
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  • Female announcer: in his book, "my friend jesus," pastor allen
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  • Shares how friendship with jesus brings clarity, strength, and
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  • Peace in every part of life.
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  • This isn't about following a religion or religious rules.
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  • It's about cultivating a cherished relationship that will
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  • Help your faith become more personal, more joyful, and more
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  • Powerful each day.
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  • Today at allenjackson.com or by calling...
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  • Allen: establish the habit in your life of giving thanks.
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  • If a group just the size of our little community of faith
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  • In--that gathers in this place would do that, we would unleash
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  • A force of thankfulness that would change not only our
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  • Personal hearts and our homes, it would impact our community.
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  • It is a powerful spiritual force.
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  • It begins with your thoughts and grappling with this reality that
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  • I'm just not going to accept every thought.
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  • I'm not gonna give license to it.
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  • "well, it's generated by my experience.
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  • It's generated by my family system.
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  • It's generated by the things that have happened to me.
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  • I can tell you why i think this way."
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  • That doesn't make it good.
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  • Doesn't mean it's most helpful.
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  • We've got to have a--we're gonna have to take the discipline and
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  • The determination to allow what god has said and the pathways
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  • That he's put in front of us, but to begin to help us
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  • Recalibrate how we think, and thus what we say, and
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  • Ultimately, what we're becoming.
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  • The influence of ideas is significant.
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  • 2 corinthians 10, verse 3, "for though we live in the world, we
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  • Don't wage war as the world does."
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  • That's interesting.
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  • We live in a world that's defined by conflict, right?
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  • Put your your finger about any place on the map.
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  • If it's not a military conflict, there's certainly an
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  • Ideological conflict tearing apart our nation.
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  • I've heard some of the most horrendous things said about
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  • Those families that have lost their children in texas.
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  • I cannot believe civilized human beings will say those things in
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  • Front of a camera.
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  • And yet i choose to thank the lord.
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  • I mean, there is a conflict, and it's not unique here, it's all
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  • Over the earth.
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  • Says we live in the world but we don't
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  • Wage war as the world does.
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  • If you're fighting like your secular friends, if your
  • 00:12:34.636 --> 00:12:37.705
  • Responses to your life and your life circumstances in the world
  • 00:12:37.705 --> 00:12:40.441
  • In which you find yourself, or if you're taking your coaching
  • 00:12:40.441 --> 00:12:43.645
  • From secular people, the bible says you're foolish because it
  • 00:12:43.645 --> 00:12:49.951
  • Says the beginning, the beginning of wisdom is the fear
  • 00:12:49.951 --> 00:12:52.220
  • Of the lord.
  • 00:12:52.220 --> 00:12:53.588
  • Why would you take life coaching from people who don't fear or
  • 00:12:53.588 --> 00:12:55.924
  • Respect god?
  • 00:12:55.924 --> 00:12:57.959
  • That makes no sense.
  • 00:12:57.959 --> 00:13:01.129
  • It's like hiring a fool to write you a life plan.
  • 00:13:01.129 --> 00:13:05.567
  • And they may be celebrated by many secular systems, but if in
  • 00:13:05.567 --> 00:13:09.470
  • God's economy, if in god's evaluation, they say someone is
  • 00:13:09.470 --> 00:13:13.174
  • Foolish, i tend to go with the lord.
  • 00:13:13.174 --> 00:13:20.882
  • We don't wage war as the world does.
  • 00:13:20.882 --> 00:13:22.684
  • We're in a different economy, a different set of boundaries.
  • 00:13:22.684 --> 00:13:26.588
  • "the weapons we fight with aren't the weapons of the world.
  • 00:13:26.588 --> 00:13:28.857
  • On the contrary, they have divine power to
  • 00:13:28.857 --> 00:13:31.893
  • Demolish strongholds."
  • 00:13:31.893 --> 00:13:34.429
  • I want to know how to demolish spiritual strongholds.
  • 00:13:34.429 --> 00:13:39.667
  • It says, "we demolish arguments and every pretension."
  • 00:13:39.667 --> 00:13:44.305
  • Pretense is an assertion of an idea, "that sets itself up
  • 00:13:44.305 --> 00:13:49.077
  • Against the knowledge of god, and we take captive every
  • 00:13:49.077 --> 00:13:52.847
  • Thought to make it obedient to christ."
  • 00:13:52.847 --> 00:13:57.318
  • That's easy to read, it's not even that difficult to commit to
  • 00:13:57.318 --> 00:14:00.088
  • Memory, but i'm here to tell you, to live that out takes some
  • 00:14:00.088 --> 00:14:02.523
  • Real focus.
  • 00:14:02.523 --> 00:14:06.995
  • It takes some real determination.
  • 00:14:06.995 --> 00:14:08.563
  • I will not give my thoughts to that.
  • 00:14:08.563 --> 00:14:11.766
  • I'm not running that scenario through my head on an
  • 00:14:11.766 --> 00:14:14.035
  • Endless loop.
  • 00:14:14.035 --> 00:14:16.204
  • And if i can't--sometimes it's hard to
  • 00:14:16.204 --> 00:14:18.439
  • Discipline your thoughts.
  • 00:14:18.439 --> 00:14:19.774
  • I'll have to use my words to override my thoughts.
  • 00:14:19.774 --> 00:14:23.611
  • If i can't get my thoughts to be quiet, i'll just start saying,
  • 00:14:23.611 --> 00:14:25.647
  • "lord, i wanna thank you that you're faithful."
  • 00:14:25.647 --> 00:14:29.784
  • And i will give--i can't do anything else, i'll go get some
  • 00:14:29.784 --> 00:14:31.853
  • Of those, like the passage i read you from revelation 5.
  • 00:14:31.853 --> 00:14:34.255
  • I'll go get it out and start to read it, and i will put that--i
  • 00:14:34.255 --> 00:14:38.192
  • Won't let it come out of my mouth until i can shut down the
  • 00:14:38.192 --> 00:14:40.862
  • Narrative that's roaring through my head.
  • 00:14:40.862 --> 00:14:44.465
  • It's not simple, but it's worthwhile.
  • 00:14:44.465 --> 00:14:47.635
  • Your thoughts and your words and what you're becoming
  • 00:14:47.635 --> 00:14:51.072
  • Are connected.
  • 00:14:51.072 --> 00:14:53.041
  • Be intentional with what you give energy and thought to.
  • 00:14:53.041 --> 00:14:56.244
  • Philippians 4, "don't be anxious about anything," oh sure, no
  • 00:14:56.244 --> 00:14:59.847
  • Problem, "but in everything, by prayer and petition, with
  • 00:14:59.847 --> 00:15:08.256
  • Thanksgiving, present your request to god."
  • 00:15:08.256 --> 00:15:11.459
  • We can nag god endlessly, but are we willing to be thankful?
  • 00:15:11.459 --> 00:15:18.900
  • And then there's this crazy promise, the peace of god which
  • 00:15:18.900 --> 00:15:21.602
  • Transcends all understanding.
  • 00:15:21.602 --> 00:15:23.171
  • There's a peace that can't be explained.
  • 00:15:23.171 --> 00:15:24.706
  • There's a peace that isn't logical.
  • 00:15:24.706 --> 00:15:26.441
  • How can you be at peace? this isn't peaceful.
  • 00:15:26.441 --> 00:15:29.510
  • Well, i've arrived at a place where if god doesn't help me,
  • 00:15:29.510 --> 00:15:31.913
  • There's no hope.
  • 00:15:31.913 --> 00:15:37.185
  • Several years ago, it's been a--it's been a while now, so
  • 00:15:37.185 --> 00:15:40.822
  • Our offices were still at leadership park.
  • 00:15:40.822 --> 00:15:42.357
  • We were planning an expansion of the church, and i had a meeting
  • 00:15:42.357 --> 00:15:45.526
  • With accountants and people, and they were sharing every possible
  • 00:15:45.526 --> 00:15:50.932
  • Thing that could go wrong.
  • 00:15:50.932 --> 00:15:52.266
  • We had big sheets of poster board paper slapped all--i mean,
  • 00:15:52.266 --> 00:15:55.236
  • It was a--and my phone rang, i don't know, and i picked it up
  • 00:15:55.236 --> 00:15:59.207
  • It was a friend of mine, and he said, "what are you doing?"
  • 00:15:59.207 --> 00:16:00.942
  • I said, "well, i'm in a room with a group of people trying to
  • 00:16:00.942 --> 00:16:02.910
  • Convince me why we shouldn't do anything.
  • 00:16:02.910 --> 00:16:07.015
  • What do you think?"
  • 00:16:07.015 --> 00:16:09.117
  • And he asked me, he said, "well, are you gonna keep working?"
  • 00:16:09.117 --> 00:16:12.754
  • And i said, "well, i guess."
  • 00:16:12.754 --> 00:16:14.122
  • He said, "i mean, are you really gonna keep working?
  • 00:16:14.122 --> 00:16:16.824
  • Are you gonna try to find a way to quit?"
  • 00:16:16.824 --> 00:16:18.493
  • This was a few years ago.
  • 00:16:18.493 --> 00:16:20.628
  • I said, "no, i guess i'm gonna keep working."
  • 00:16:20.628 --> 00:16:23.231
  • He said, "well, do you think, god's still helping you?"
  • 00:16:23.231 --> 00:16:26.334
  • And i said, "well, yeah, i guess so."
  • 00:16:26.334 --> 00:16:27.802
  • And he said, "well then, shut up and do it."
  • 00:16:27.802 --> 00:16:33.908
  • He said, "it's so far beyond you anyway, you know you
  • 00:16:33.908 --> 00:16:36.511
  • Can't do it unless god helps.
  • 00:16:36.511 --> 00:16:37.845
  • And if you're gonna do your part and god's still helping, shut up
  • 00:16:37.845 --> 00:16:40.448
  • And do it."
  • 00:16:40.448 --> 00:16:42.683
  • So i hung up the phone and said, "take the pos--take the paper
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  • Off the walls, we've got an assignment."
  • 00:16:45.086 --> 00:16:50.324
  • "don't be anxious about anything."
  • 00:16:50.324 --> 00:16:52.593
  • "and the peace of god, which transcends all understanding,
  • 00:16:52.593 --> 00:16:55.396
  • Will guard your hearts and your minds in christ jesus."
  • 00:16:55.396 --> 00:16:57.832
  • And don't be foolish.
  • 00:16:57.832 --> 00:17:00.735
  • I've lived long enough and i've been around spirit-filled
  • 00:17:00.735 --> 00:17:03.337
  • Christians long enough, you know, when you're foolish and
  • 00:17:03.337 --> 00:17:06.074
  • You don't have a plan and you don't do your part, and then you
  • 00:17:06.074 --> 00:17:09.677
  • Drag god into it, that's not faith.
  • 00:17:09.677 --> 00:17:14.148
  • You know, do you believe in medicine or prayer?
  • 00:17:14.148 --> 00:17:17.185
  • Yes.
  • 00:17:17.185 --> 00:17:20.755
  • Yes, i'm grateful god's made health care available to us, but
  • 00:17:20.755 --> 00:17:25.226
  • I can't imagine going to the doctor and not praying.
  • 00:17:25.226 --> 00:17:29.764
  • And i don't mean i go into them.
  • 00:17:29.764 --> 00:17:31.432
  • You know, again, we get so weird.
  • 00:17:31.432 --> 00:17:32.834
  • Don't be weird.
  • 00:17:32.834 --> 00:17:35.103
  • You're not spiritual, you're weird.
  • 00:17:35.103 --> 00:17:40.208
  • You know, people say, "i went to the doctor and they didn't pray
  • 00:17:40.208 --> 00:17:42.076
  • For me."
  • 00:17:42.076 --> 00:17:43.678
  • No kidding!
  • 00:17:43.678 --> 00:17:46.814
  • I mean, it's really odd that they go to the doctor and go,
  • 00:17:46.814 --> 00:17:49.984
  • "oh, you know, i'm a believer.
  • 00:17:49.984 --> 00:17:56.290
  • Would it be all right if i prayed?"
  • 00:17:56.290 --> 00:17:59.927
  • How about pray before you get to visit that poor physician?
  • 00:17:59.927 --> 00:18:08.269
  • If they're a christ follower and the spirit of god is in--they
  • 00:18:08.269 --> 00:18:11.506
  • Will recognize the spirit of god in you, and if they're not, you
  • 00:18:11.506 --> 00:18:16.210
  • Being weird is not gonna win them to the lord.
  • 00:18:16.210 --> 00:18:24.285
  • Come on!
  • 00:18:24.285 --> 00:18:26.254
  • We don't need this pseudo spirituality, this hyper
  • 00:18:26.254 --> 00:18:30.358
  • Whatever, baloney stuff.
  • 00:18:30.358 --> 00:18:33.561
  • I'm over it.
  • 00:18:33.561 --> 00:18:35.363
  • There's a real battle going on, and the outcomes are gonna
  • 00:18:35.363 --> 00:18:39.300
  • Determine destinies of generations of what our children
  • 00:18:39.300 --> 00:18:42.103
  • And grandchildren are going to inherit, and we're either gonna
  • 00:18:42.103 --> 00:18:44.539
  • Be fruitful and bear fruit as christ followers, or have empty
  • 00:18:44.539 --> 00:18:48.009
  • Language, or some pseudo hyper-spirituality that doesn't
  • 00:18:48.009 --> 00:18:52.213
  • Produce anything, or we're gonna be really fruitful for the
  • 00:18:52.213 --> 00:18:54.982
  • Kingdom of god, and to do that we're gonna have to change how
  • 00:18:54.982 --> 00:18:59.320
  • We think and what we're willing to give our voice to, and that
  • 00:18:59.320 --> 00:19:03.291
  • Will write us an entirely different future.
  • 00:19:03.291 --> 00:19:05.159
  • It says that we don't have to be anxious about anything, but in
  • 00:19:05.159 --> 00:19:08.229
  • Everything with praise and thanksgiving make our request
  • 00:19:08.229 --> 00:19:10.565
  • Known to god, and the peace of god will guard your hearts and
  • 00:19:10.565 --> 00:19:19.840
  • Your minds.
  • 00:19:19.840 --> 00:19:22.977
  • Wow.
  • 00:19:22.977 --> 00:19:24.946
  • Is it safe to say some of us have taken our guards down?
  • 00:19:24.946 --> 00:19:30.885
  • And then he gives us some very practical--it's so practical.
  • 00:19:30.885 --> 00:19:33.254
  • "whatever is true, and whatever is noble, and whatever is right,
  • 00:19:33.254 --> 00:19:36.724
  • And whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, admirable, excellent,
  • 00:19:36.724 --> 00:19:39.894
  • Praiseworthy, think about these things."
  • 00:19:39.894 --> 00:19:42.363
  • You know how much that would change your dialogue?
  • 00:19:42.363 --> 00:19:45.333
  • Don't say anything about anybody until you've gone through
  • 00:19:45.333 --> 00:19:47.501
  • The checklist.
  • 00:19:47.501 --> 00:19:49.770
  • Noble, right, pure, lovely.
  • 00:19:49.770 --> 00:19:55.409
  • "well, you know, i know they're a nice person, but."
  • 00:19:55.409 --> 00:19:59.614
  • We jump out of the checklist.
  • 00:19:59.614 --> 00:20:05.820
  • What you think has so much significance on what
  • 00:20:05.820 --> 00:20:08.990
  • We're becoming.
  • 00:20:08.990 --> 00:20:10.324
  • 2 thessalonians 1, "we ought always to thank god for you,
  • 00:20:10.324 --> 00:20:13.427
  • Brothers, and rightly so, because your faith is growing
  • 00:20:13.427 --> 00:20:17.131
  • More and more, and the love every one of you has for each
  • 00:20:17.131 --> 00:20:20.468
  • Other is increasing."
  • 00:20:20.468 --> 00:20:22.303
  • How many of you think everybody in the church in thessaloniki
  • 00:20:22.303 --> 00:20:25.640
  • Was growing in the lord?
  • 00:20:25.640 --> 00:20:29.810
  • No, because that's not how people work.
  • 00:20:29.810 --> 00:20:36.083
  • But paul says, "we ought to always thank god for you.
  • 00:20:36.083 --> 00:20:38.819
  • We know the right thing to do is to be thankful for you because
  • 00:20:38.819 --> 00:20:42.723
  • Your faith is growing and the love you have for one another
  • 00:20:42.723 --> 00:20:45.192
  • Is increasing.
  • 00:20:45.192 --> 00:20:47.194
  • In fact, we boast about you.
  • 00:20:47.194 --> 00:20:50.164
  • We tell stories of your perseverance and your faith in
  • 00:20:50.164 --> 00:20:53.634
  • The midst of the persecutions and trials."
  • 00:20:53.634 --> 00:20:56.237
  • Wait a minute.
  • 00:20:56.237 --> 00:20:57.571
  • I thought they were growing, and they're being persecuted and
  • 00:20:57.571 --> 00:21:02.209
  • Weeded out.
  • 00:21:02.209 --> 00:21:08.082
  • It fascinates me what paul is determined to
  • 00:21:08.082 --> 00:21:10.785
  • Believe about a church.
  • 00:21:10.785 --> 00:21:12.119
  • It'd been so easy to write that, "i know you're under
  • 00:21:12.119 --> 00:21:13.921
  • Tremendous pressure.
  • 00:21:13.921 --> 00:21:16.857
  • I know you're discouraged and disheartened.
  • 00:21:16.857 --> 00:21:19.160
  • I don't know how you're making it, but i'm grateful you're
  • 00:21:19.160 --> 00:21:23.998
  • Born again.
  • 00:21:23.998 --> 00:21:26.033
  • I was just looking at your baptism pictures the other day.
  • 00:21:26.033 --> 00:21:30.271
  • That was such a wonderful season."
  • 00:21:30.271 --> 00:21:33.574
  • But that's not what he says to them.
  • 00:21:33.574 --> 00:21:36.444
  • Your faith is growing more and more, and the love you have for
  • 00:21:36.444 --> 00:21:40.381
  • One another is increasing.
  • 00:21:40.381 --> 00:21:42.550
  • In fact, amongst the churches of god, we tell you, we hold you up
  • 00:21:42.550 --> 00:21:46.087
  • As an example.
  • 00:21:46.087 --> 00:21:48.656
  • Oh yeah, i know you're going through a time of real
  • 00:21:48.656 --> 00:21:50.891
  • Persecution, but it's an example.
  • 00:21:50.891 --> 00:21:57.031
  • James 1, "each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire."
  • 00:21:57.031 --> 00:22:01.836
  • I thought the devil did it.
  • 00:22:01.836 --> 00:22:04.138
  • Flip wilson told us that.
  • 00:22:04.138 --> 00:22:08.609
  • Most of you aren't old enough to know who flip wilson even was.
  • 00:22:08.609 --> 00:22:13.080
  • "he's dragged away and enticed, and then after desire has
  • 00:22:13.080 --> 00:22:16.250
  • Conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it's
  • 00:22:16.250 --> 00:22:19.520
  • Full-grown, gives birth to death."
  • 00:22:19.520 --> 00:22:20.888
  • That's an interesting life cycle, that the ungodly activity
  • 00:22:20.888 --> 00:22:27.628
  • Emerges from a thought.
  • 00:22:27.628 --> 00:22:31.732
  • Well, if it's true about ungodly activity, it's equally true of
  • 00:22:31.732 --> 00:22:34.435
  • Godly activity.
  • 00:22:34.435 --> 00:22:35.803
  • It emerges from a thought.
  • 00:22:35.803 --> 00:22:37.972
  • Guard your hearts.
  • 00:22:37.972 --> 00:22:40.975
  • How do you know what's in your heart?
  • 00:22:40.975 --> 00:22:42.343
  • Jesus said, "out of the abundance of the heart,"
  • 00:22:42.343 --> 00:22:44.044
  • What happens?
  • 00:22:44.044 --> 00:22:46.013
  • "your mouth speaks."
  • 00:22:46.013 --> 00:22:48.282
  • Guard your heart.
  • 00:22:48.282 --> 00:22:50.117
  • Pay attention to your thoughts.
  • 00:22:50.117 --> 00:22:52.153
  • When you're struggling with your thoughts, choose your words so
  • 00:22:52.153 --> 00:22:55.356
  • Intentionally that you change the flow in your thoughts.
  • 00:22:55.356 --> 00:23:03.397
  • If you have to be quiet, be quiet until you can change
  • 00:23:03.397 --> 00:23:08.235
  • Your heart.
  • 00:23:08.235 --> 00:23:10.938
  • Folks, god is searching the earth for men and women who want
  • 00:23:10.938 --> 00:23:14.608
  • To be fruitful.
  • 00:23:14.608 --> 00:23:16.343
  • I meet them every week. they amaze me.
  • 00:23:16.343 --> 00:23:19.980
  • It truly is amazing to me, the men and women i meet with an
  • 00:23:19.980 --> 00:23:23.083
  • Enthusiasm for god, and they're telling their stories.
  • 00:23:23.083 --> 00:23:28.322
  • From all over the nation, around the world, there are people
  • 00:23:28.322 --> 00:23:31.325
  • Choosing the lord.
  • 00:23:31.325 --> 00:23:32.693
  • I wanna be in the group--that group.
  • 00:23:32.693 --> 00:23:35.496
  • I truly do.
  • 00:23:35.496 --> 00:23:38.666
  • I want there to be fruitfulness in my life.
  • 00:23:38.666 --> 00:23:41.101
  • In this season in my life, i'm very engaged in every way i know
  • 00:23:41.101 --> 00:23:44.271
  • How, to be a part of an expanding community of faith and
  • 00:23:44.271 --> 00:23:47.441
  • Expanding message of the gospel, to celebrate the goodness of
  • 00:23:47.441 --> 00:23:50.344
  • God, to acknowledge the truth.
  • 00:23:50.344 --> 00:23:52.546
  • It's important.
  • 00:23:52.546 --> 00:23:56.150
  • It's important, and it's important for you.
  • 00:23:56.150 --> 00:23:59.520
  • God is moving.
  • 00:23:59.520 --> 00:24:01.889
  • Let's have some summer fruit.
  • 00:24:01.889 --> 00:24:03.858
  • It's growing season.
  • 00:24:03.858 --> 00:24:06.494
  • Lord, we've had so much rain.
  • 00:24:06.494 --> 00:24:08.963
  • I met somebody, and i'm done, we're gonna say that prayer, but
  • 00:24:08.963 --> 00:24:11.098
  • I met somebody that moved here from arizona, and i said, "yeah,
  • 00:24:11.098 --> 00:24:16.103
  • That green stuff is grass."
  • 00:24:16.103 --> 00:24:19.406
  • Then they said to me, "yeah, i had to buy a lawn mower."
  • 00:24:19.406 --> 00:24:24.612
  • This was about a month ago.
  • 00:24:24.612 --> 00:24:25.946
  • You know, it was raining every day?
  • 00:24:25.946 --> 00:24:27.648
  • And i said, "oh, for god's sakes, don't fertilize it."
  • 00:24:27.648 --> 00:24:31.752
  • And they said, "too late."
  • 00:24:31.752 --> 00:24:33.120
  • I said, "oh, you're mowing twice a week," and they said, "yes,
  • 00:24:33.120 --> 00:24:34.989
  • I am."
  • 00:24:34.989 --> 00:24:37.424
  • Said, "wait 'til august, there's hope."
  • 00:24:37.424 --> 00:24:41.762
  • But i want our lives to be like that, amen.
  • 00:24:41.762 --> 00:24:46.166
  • Stand with me. i brought you a prayer.
  • 00:24:46.166 --> 00:24:47.501
  • It's a short little prayer, but it's a good one to tuck
  • 00:24:47.501 --> 00:24:50.304
  • In if you're having a battle in your heart.
  • 00:24:50.304 --> 00:24:53.207
  • Listen, i know life isn't fair.
  • 00:24:53.207 --> 00:24:55.776
  • Evil exists.
  • 00:24:55.776 --> 00:24:57.912
  • We watch it on our televisions every day.
  • 00:24:57.912 --> 00:25:01.882
  • Liars flourish, wicked people have success.
  • 00:25:01.882 --> 00:25:05.920
  • David said, you know, "my foot almost slipped when i saw the
  • 00:25:05.920 --> 00:25:09.456
  • Prosperity of the wicked."
  • 00:25:09.456 --> 00:25:12.393
  • "my foot almost slipped," he said, "because i got to look in
  • 00:25:12.393 --> 00:25:16.196
  • At the ungodly and the good things happen to them, and i
  • 00:25:16.196 --> 00:25:18.832
  • Just about lost my balance."
  • 00:25:18.832 --> 00:25:22.503
  • It takes some real discipline to say, "lord, i will give thanks
  • 00:25:22.503 --> 00:25:25.506
  • To you.
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  • I will honor you.
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  • It may be my night in jail, but, god, i'm gonna honor you.
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  • There may be a riot. god, i'm gonna honor you."
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  • I brought you a prayer. let's read it together.
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  • Heavenly father, we rejoice today in your
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  • Great faithfulness.
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  • You have delivered us from death and welcomed us into the kingdom
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  • Of your son.
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  • Your faithfulness and care are a shield in our lives.
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  • In you we find strength and hope.
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  • Your spirit leads and directs our way.
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  • Your word brings light to our path.
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  • In the name of your son, our lord and king, we are free to
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  • Serve the living god, amen.
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  • Hallelujah, god bless you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: thank you for spending a few minutes with us today.
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  • You know, our goal in doing this is to add momentum to your
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  • Spiritual life.
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  • To help open the kingdom of god to you in a more practical way,
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  • That you could engage in a relationship with the lord.
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  • Not be a more faithful church sitter or a bible reader, but a
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  • Person who actually knows a living god.
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  • Well, i've written a new book.
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  • It's called "my friend jesus."
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  • Be candid, it's the, it's the culmination of years of my own
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  • Spiritual journey.
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  • I wanted to peel away all the formality of language and
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  • Routine and ritual, and i really wanted to focus on what it means
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  • To be a friend of the lord, and that book is intended to give
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  • You a pathway to imagine your faith in a way that enables it
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  • To be more personal, more transformational.
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  • When i need help, i call my friends, but when i need real
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  • Help, i call my friend jesus.
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  • He changes everything.
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  • He's done it many times in my life.
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  • He'll do it in your life.
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  • Read the book, open your heart, there'll be a whole new power
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  • Available to help shape your future.
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  • ♪♪♪
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