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Allen Jackson- The Tipping Point (Part 1)

June 24, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson- The Tipping Point (Part 1)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson- The Tipping Point (Part 1) | June 24, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: we have a new resource for you.
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  • I'm really excited about this.
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  • It's a book. it's a booklet.
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  • It's a small book called "your identity in christ."
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  • It was derived from years of teaching and leading in the
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  • Context of the church.
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  • We're walking through a season, folks, when there's so much
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  • Confusion about our identity.
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  • We put this together to help you understand who you are in
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  • Christ, not just about your salvation, but so that you can
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  • Lead a triumphant, victorious, overcoming life.
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  • We built it for an individual read.
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  • It's great for a small group.
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  • It's a great resource for your kitchen table time as a family
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  • With children or grandchildren.
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  • If you know who you are in christ, it changes everything
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  • About the landscape of your life.
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  • I'm righteous in the sight of god.
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  • I can stand before god without fear, guilt, or condemnation.
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  • Those are such important foundational principles to get
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  • Secure in your heart, around your table with the people you
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  • Care about, in your small groups, with your friends.
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  • Your identity in christ, it's a game changer.
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  • I believe it will add momentum to your spiritual growth in
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  • This season.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen jackson: we began this in the previous session, and we'll
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  • Continue for at least one more.
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  • So don't get too stressed about the outline.
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  • What i don't do, we will get to.
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  • That's probably a pretty good survival tip around here on most
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  • Weekends, so.
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  • But we are watching a conflict, a spiritual conflict.
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  • I don't believe it's primarily political or ideological or
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  • About nation states.
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  • I believe there are two worldviews, two spiritual
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  • Kingdoms that we see colliding in the earth.
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  • I'm not suggesting that they have equal power, but i'm
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  • Suggesting that there is enough.
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  • That there is a conflict that's visible, and you don't need a
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  • Great deal of discernment to know that.
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  • I'm of the opinion we've approached a tipping point.
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  • I do not believe the status quo is sustainable.
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  • I don't believe the things that have shaped our lives in
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  • Previous years are going to extend into the future in the
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  • Same way.
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  • I believe there is tremendous change afoot, and i don't mean
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  • From the previous, this most recent election cycle.
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  • This has been taking place for a while, so i'll bring you back to
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  • The little paradigm that we've been talking about here for a
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  • Season now to watch and to listen, to think and to act.
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  • You have to pay attention.
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  • I don't think it's wise or prudent or helpful to spend
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  • Hours a day consuming the news.
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  • Typically it's about a ten minute information cycle that's
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  • Repeated ad nauseam, so take ten or 15 minutes a day from
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  • Whichever source you prefer and kind of take a look at what's
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  • Happening in the world.
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  • Listen to what's being said.
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  • See if it makes sense, if the logic of it holds together.
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  • Try to understand the perspectives that are
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  • Being presented.
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  • Think about it.
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  • You know, there's a great temptation.
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  • I meet people all the time, so i just don't watch the
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  • News anymore.
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  • Well, tell me how it feels to have your head buried in
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  • The sand.
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  • I don't always enjoy the news.
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  • I don't always enjoy the information.
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  • I don't always agree with the presentations, but it helps us
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  • To be aware of what's happening.
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  • Think about it, and then be prepared to do something
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  • With it.
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  • Not out of anger or belligerence.
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  • I'm not talking about that, but it needs to inform your response
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  • To our world, not just what you wish the world would be or how
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  • You wish the world would be.
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  • The church of jesus christ, as i understand it, is the most
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  • Powerful force for change of the human being that's ever been
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  • Released in the history of humanity.
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  • And it's not because of us, it's because of the redemptive work
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  • Of our lord and savior.
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  • Jesus orchestrated something on that roman cross outside the
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  • City of jerusalem two millennia ago that changed the destiny of
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  • Every human being, and that's the message we have for
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  • Our generation.
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  • Every generation has to make a choice.
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  • So when kingdoms collide and the tipping point, see, i think we
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  • Are very much in the midst of a great upheaval and
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  • A realignment.
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  • I don't imagine that i understand the outcome yet.
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  • I don't think it's clear.
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  • I think the determining factor will be the people of god and
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  • The choices we make.
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  • There's a great deal of biblical precedent for that.
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  • I'm not avoiding declarations.
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  • I have preferences.
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  • I know what i would like to happen, but i, i don't yet know
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  • What we will do as a people.
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  • And i don't simply mean our congregation by any means.
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  • I believe the greatest changes are still before us.
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  • I think what we've seen to this point is just a small, small
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  • Sample of what we will see in the years ahead of us.
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  • Again, it didn't begin with this election cycle.
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  • It's been percolating for quite a while.
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  • What i can tell you is the principles which have brought us
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  • Security and security to our lives and our routines and our
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  • Habits, they have succumbed to decay.
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  • It's been caused by our neglect.
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  • No need in pointing fingers at previous generations.
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  • There's too much of that.
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  • We want to be angry at people who lived 150 years ago.
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  • We better deal with the reality of our world.
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  • Institutions that we've relied upon for foundational security
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  • Have faltered.
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  • If you're willing to look, it's abundantly clear that they have
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  • Not been upholding the truth.
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  • They have been formulating lies to manipulate and control and we
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  • See the outcomes on a daily basis.
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  • And those few who stepped forward into the public square
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  • To challenge the status quo and suggest that the emperor truly
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  • Has no clothes, we've all witnessed them to be subjected
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  • To withering assaults.
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  • To those who are watching from the shadows or the sidelines are
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  • Just a bit disoriented, the message becomes pretty clear,
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  • Don't challenge the narrative or you may forfeit your place at
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  • The trough of ill-gotten opportunity.
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  • I believe the church has an assignment, and i don't really
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  • Believe it's all that confusing.
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  • I think our ignorance is either willful or feigned.
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  • I think we have to recognize the conflict, return to the values
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  • Of our bibles, have the courage to choose the truth, to be
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  • Advocates for jesus of nazareth, reject the invitations to
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  • Accommodate evil.
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  • They are many.
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  • And to give yourself to serving the lord.
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  • If we will do that, i believe our children may know freedom.
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  • I'm encouraged, greatly encouraged.
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  • It's a more hopeful season that i have seen in a long time.
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  • There's an emerging church.
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  • Slightly different forms, the voices are coming from
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  • Unexpected places, but they're filled with the power of god,
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  • Standing on the truth of god's word, empowered by his spirit
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  • With a boldness that is birthed from gratitude in what god has
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  • Done for us.
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  • I wanna be a part of that.
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  • If god is moving in the earth, i wanna move with him.
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  • I don't wanna stand on the sidelines.
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  • I wanna start in matthew 13 with the verse of scripture.
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  • Jesus is speaking, and he's talking about the value we
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  • Attach to the things in our lives.
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  • It's the evaluation of assets.
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  • We've just had a pretty high profile court trial about
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  • Valuation of assets.
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  • Jesus said, "the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden
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  • In a field.
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  • When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went
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  • And sold all he had and bought that field.
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  • Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for
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  • Fine pearls.
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  • And when he found one of great value, he went away, sold
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  • Everything he had and he bought it."
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  • It's a very direct message, it isn't complicated.
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  • Jesus is simply saying there's an unparalleled value in the
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  • Kingdom of heaven and the truth that extends from that.
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  • There's nothing that can be compared to the value of that.
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  • And no matter what you have or achieved, what talent you
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  • Possess, what awards or accolades you may have received,
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  • They should all be secondary.
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  • They should all be yielded to the opportunity to secure your
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  • Position, place, and opportunity in the kingdom of heaven.
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  • Nothing is more significant than your standing in the kingdom
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  • Of heaven.
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  • I wanna say it again.
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  • I don't want you to miss it.
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  • It's not just rhetoric for--i know we're in church, and it's a
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  • Weekend and you're supposed to go to church on the weekend, so.
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  • Jesus, that's the answer for everything, right?
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  • And sometimes we get kind of locked into those, those narrow
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  • Lanes, but i'm talking about in where you really live the rest
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  • Of the time when you're not in a worship service or watching one.
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  • And you think about how you value yourself and your
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  • Circumstance, there is nothing, there is nothing in our lives
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  • More significant than our standing in the kingdom of god.
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  • There's no opportunity, there's no resource, there's no reward.
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  • There is nothing that you would want to trade for your status in
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  • The kingdom of god.
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  • Not the approval of anyone.
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  • In fact, i would risk the disapproval of anyone in order
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  • To have the honor of being identified with jesus
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  • Of nazareth.
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  • And i think in the church we put so many things in front of that.
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  • The congregation we prefer, the denomination we prefer, the
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  • Translation we prefer, the way we look, the accent with which
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  • We speak, the nation from which we come, all sorts of stuff.
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  • Who cares, folks?
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  • None of those things will stand the test of time.
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  • They will slip into the past and be forgotten.
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  • Your status in the kingdom is what matters.
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  • Now, i wanna take a minute because of the turmoil and the
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  • Confusion and the conflicting messaging and the polarization
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  • And all the stuff.
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  • And if you're not aware it's happening, set the alarm 'cause
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  • I promise you it's happening.
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  • And then the shadows have gotten filled.
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  • They're crowded now.
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  • People standing in the shadows 'cause they're afraid of the
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  • Light and they don't wanna stand out there in the arena floor.
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  • And there's all sorts of competences almost like, you
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  • Know, it's prophetic, it's the end of the age and the world is
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  • Coming to an end and jesus is coming back.
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  • So, go hide under a rock and when you hear the trumpet,
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  • You'll be golden.
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  • On the way i read the story is when the lord comes back, he
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  • Wants to find you busy about his business.
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  • I'm not against preparation, but i don't think the prophetic
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  • Approach to this, as far as how you invest energy and time is
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  • The best idea.
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  • I think we want to engage.
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  • I think we need to understand that there have been, there has
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  • Been pressure upon the kingdom message from the time it began.
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  • And we just happen to be the 21st century edition.
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  • And i don't know that we can match the courage and the
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  • Faithfulness and the boldness of those who have preceded us, but
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  • I know we can get caught trying.
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  • And so i wanna invite you to imagining this differently.
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  • Your faith should not be defined by the frequency with which you
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  • Attend the church or having checked the boxes on a prayer of
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  • Salvation and a baptism experience and six
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  • Times volunteering.
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  • Now, i believe all of those things have merit and value.
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  • I've helped lots of people check boxes.
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  • But the purpose is to serve the lord.
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  • And that has not very often been a popular position.
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  • Some of us have lived lives where there was some celebration
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  • Of that.
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  • Allen: hey, i wanna ask you a question.
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  • How do you identify: male, female, southerner,
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  • Educated, housewife?
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  • How do you identify?
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  • Well, i wanna suggest knowing your identity in christ is the
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  • Most significant component of your person for both
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  • Time and eternity.
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  • Allen: so i wanna go back to the book of acts.
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  • Acts is the story of jesus' best friends after he went back
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  • To heaven.
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  • Some will remember in acts chapter 1, jesus ascended.
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  • He went back to heaven.
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  • Acts chapter 2 was the promise fulfilled the day of pentecost.
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  • The holy spirit poured out.
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  • Acts chapter 3, there's a miracle in jerusalem.
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  • A man is healed and the whole city is stirred.
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  • And the disciples now are pushed back into the arena.
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  • By acts chapter 4, the pressure is building and we're gonna
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  • Start with acts chapter 5, it says, "the apostles performed
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  • Many miraculous signs and wonders among the people."
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  • Now you need to know before we read any further at this point
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  • The apostles are already suspects.
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  • Their leader has been crucified, tortured to death in public as a
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  • Criminal of rome and hated by the religious aristocracy in
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  • Jerusalem, and the mob from the city of jerusalem shouted at the
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  • Top of their lungs, "crucify him."
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  • It is not a cool time to be a jesus kind of person.
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  • So the apostles when we step into this narrative, they're
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  • Already fugitives.
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  • They're already suspect.
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  • People step away from them.
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  • They're no longer invited to the cool parties.
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  • It's not chic to hang with them.
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  • They perform many miraculous signs and wonders among
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  • The people.
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  • And all the believers used to meet together in
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  • Solomon's colonnade.
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  • It's dangerous stuff to go into a public place.
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  • Solomon's colonnade is a part of the public temple.
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  • "no one else dared join them, even though they were highly
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  • Regarded by the people.
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  • Nevertheless, more and more men and women believed in the lord
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  • And were added to their number."
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  • You know, the church should grow under the stress of resistance.
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  • I think there's a direct correlation to the enthusiasm
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  • The believers have to the expansion of the message.
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  • We're gonna have to get over protecting our notion of
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  • Personal salvation and become advocates for jesus again.
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  • Verse 15, "as a result, people brought the sick into the
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  • Streets and laid them on beds and mats so that at least
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  • Peter's shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by."
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  • Wow!
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  • Too much change was happening.
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  • Can't get an appointment with peter anymore.
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  • Told them i wanted prayer and they said well just stand in the
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  • Street, maybe he'll walk past.
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  • Think anybody got offended?
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  • I promise.
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  • "crowds gathered also from the towns around jerusalem, bringing
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  • Their sick and those tormented by evil spirits, and all of them
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  • Were healed."
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  • Something's happening.
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  • "then the high priest and all his associates," and this is the
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  • Group that orchestrated jesus' arrest.
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  • They delivered him over to the roman governor asking for
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  • An execution.
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  • "who were members of the party of the sadducees, they were
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  • Filled with jealousy."
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  • Now remember what's happening.
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  • People are being healed, people who are tormented by unclean
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  • Spirits are being set free.
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  • And the people in charge of the religious convocations are
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  • Offended by this.
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  • It doesn't seem right.
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  • We wouldn't have anybody in a national cathedral be offended.
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  • I'm sorry, that's.
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  • They're filled with jealousy, "so they arrested the apostles
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  • And put them in the public jail.
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  • But during the night an angel of the lord opened the doors of the
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  • Jail and brought them out.
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  • 'go stand in the temple courts,' he said, 'and tell the people
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  • The full message of this new life.'"
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  • Now just so you get that, i mean, it's easy to read, but
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  • They're arrested because of their message and put in jail.
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  • And when their boss was arrested not too long ago, he ended up on
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  • A cross, and now they've been arrested and put in a jail.
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  • Same people orchestrating all of this.
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  • They were there when they came to get jesus in the garden
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  • Of gethsemane.
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  • It's a trigger point.
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  • And an angel comes and opens the cell doors and says, "go finish
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  • Your sermon."
  • 00:16:48.223 --> 00:16:51.860
  • Now, in case you missed the application, the angels want me
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  • To finish my sermons.
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  • That's the lesson of the day if you don't hear anything else.
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  • I'm kidding, no messages, please.
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  • Go for it, you know, you could be a little intimidated and
  • 00:17:07.076 --> 00:17:09.211
  • Think, "well, you know, maybe we were just a little too strong.
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  • Maybe we should talk more about the history of our story."
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  • So they go back to the temple, back to a public place to pick
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  • Up the message.
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  • "at daybreak, they entered the temple courts, and as they had
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  • Been told, and began to teach the people.
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  • When the high priest and associates arrived, they called
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  • Together the sanhedrin, the full assembly of the elders, and sent
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  • To the jail for the apostles."
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  • And there's gonna be quite the confusion 'cause there's nobody
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  • In the jail.
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  • But i wanna pause here just a moment.
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  • Because i read that it seems very different from the
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  • Experience i have had.
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  • I spent my adult life in and around the church.
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  • I'm grateful for that.
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  • I'm thankful for the church.
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  • I was given an invitation from the lord, and it's been the
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  • Greatest delight of my life.
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  • But the church that i have been a part of and i don't mean this
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  • Congregation, i mean the the season of the church in which i
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  • Have lived is very different than that.
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  • The expressions of church that most of us have known has become
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  • So timid, so withdrawn that there is very little present
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  • That would cause the unbelievers to be jealous of us.
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  • I mean, it says that what caused them to be arrested was the
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  • Jealousy of their peers.
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  • So i would submit to you that our faith is intended to be so
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  • Living, so vital, so robust, that it causes people to
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  • Be jealous.
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  • That our goal is not to be so bland, so innocuous, so passive
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  • That we stir no emotion.
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  • We have--that seems to be have been the objective.
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  • Don't live too large, don't be too bold.
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  • Somebody might say something.
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  • There's been no real demonstrations of power or
  • 00:19:04.726 --> 00:19:06.995
  • Authority, little courageous leadership.
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  • In fact, if you just ask for an analysis, my most honest answer
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  • Was i think we've been afraid of any kind of success.
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  • What would others say?
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  • So we've remained firmly entrenched in mediocrity,
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  • Pleased with it.
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  • We don't wanna build soaring cathedrals any longer.
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  • Those remind us of another time.
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  • It's not a good use of resources.
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  • We have all sorts of language and excuses.
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  • Bland and colorless, inert, ineffective, careful, because
  • 00:19:39.728 --> 00:19:45.067
  • Jesus said when the salt loses its saltiness, there's only one
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  • Legitimate destination, and that's the trash heap.
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  • I would submit to you that we should reflect the authority
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  • Of god.
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  • So i wanna take a moment and i'm gonna try not to get stuck here,
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  • But i may, and if i do, we'll do the rest of this, i promise.
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  • I believe we have to have a heart to take the--to be a
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  • Christ follower means that you have decided, i suppose
  • 00:20:08.123 --> 00:20:12.394
  • Initially that jesus is the son of god.
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  • Which means you have to accept the biblical narrative that he
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  • Was born of a virgin.
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  • That he grew to adulthood.
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  • That he died on a roman cross.
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  • That he was raised to life again bodily, and that you believe
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  • That he took the punishment that was due, all of my ungodliness
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  • And rebellion and yours too so that we might have all of the
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  • Blessings that were due his perfect obedience.
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  • That's the essence of the transaction that makes it
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  • Possible for you and i to enter the kingdom of god.
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  • So we acknowledge that we're a sinner.
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  • That we can't work our way into the kingdom, we can't earn it,
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  • We can't be good enough.
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  • None of us are good enough folks.
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  • We clean up for church for a few minutes, but it takes
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  • Such effort.
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  • There are very few weekends we can all get out of the parking
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  • Lot without some real leaking.
  • 00:21:02.444 --> 00:21:06.748
  • And if you do, your kids are over there in the preschool area
  • 00:21:06.748 --> 00:21:09.584
  • Telling on you right now.
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  • But we receive--jesus is lord of our lives and the forgiveness
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  • That is attached to that and we're given this entree into the
  • 00:21:20.962 --> 00:21:23.899
  • Kingdom of god.
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  • There's no way to describe the mira--that's the greatest
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  • Miracle that will ever touch a human being.
  • 00:21:28.236 --> 00:21:29.971
  • You change kingdoms, your eternal destiny changes.
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  • You're an eternal being.
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  • Your body wears out, i promise, but your spirit is eternal.
  • 00:21:35.444 --> 00:21:40.349
  • And because of that redemptive work of jesus, you become a part
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  • Of his eternal kingdom and when he comes back to the earth, you
  • 00:21:44.219 --> 00:21:47.089
  • Get a new body, 2.0 and it's a significant upgrade.
  • 00:21:47.089 --> 00:21:54.196
  • It's already been beta tested.
  • 00:21:54.196 --> 00:22:00.268
  • And the church has given this assignment throughout scripture.
  • 00:22:00.268 --> 00:22:04.473
  • We're gonna do a session on the disruption of obedience, but
  • 00:22:04.473 --> 00:22:08.076
  • We've been given this assignment to take that message into the
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  • World because there are desperate people with no
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  • Awareness, no inkling of what i just described to you, trying to
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  • Figure out how to make this work and how to survive and overcome
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  • The expressions of evil.
  • 00:22:24.159 --> 00:22:25.560
  • They don't understand there's kingdoms in conflict.
  • 00:22:25.560 --> 00:22:29.564
  • It's maddening, frustrating, crushing.
  • 00:22:29.564 --> 00:22:34.336
  • And we can't afford to be quiet.
  • 00:22:34.336 --> 00:22:37.806
  • So we've talked a long time around here around this little
  • 00:22:37.806 --> 00:22:39.941
  • Notion about let's pray.
  • 00:22:39.941 --> 00:22:41.643
  • How many of you had a let's pray moment?
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  • With somebody else, i mean i--
  • 00:22:44.012 --> 00:22:46.915
  • Now i wanna take that just a little bit further.
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  • I've invited you to a very simple one sentence prayer that
  • 00:22:49.084 --> 00:22:52.287
  • You can and make a part of almost any daily activity
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  • Or conversation.
  • 00:22:55.724 --> 00:22:57.092
  • You can take it to work or to the ball fields, but i wanna
  • 00:22:57.092 --> 00:22:59.728
  • Suggest we have to begin to invite god's power into the
  • 00:22:59.728 --> 00:23:02.564
  • Midst of the arenas where we live.
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  • Then let's decide we will not yield to the excuses.
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  • I don't know enough, i don't feel confident, i don't feel
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  • Particularly powerful.
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  • What if they ask me a question i can't answer?
  • 00:23:14.876 --> 00:23:16.711
  • What if i pray and nothing happens?
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  • I'll tell you something that's scarier.
  • 00:23:20.715 --> 00:23:22.083
  • What if you pray and something does happen?
  • 00:23:22.083 --> 00:23:25.153
  • That'll really make you anxious.
  • 00:23:25.153 --> 00:23:28.657
  • You see, if you'll wonder, if you'll think of prayer as an
  • 00:23:28.657 --> 00:23:30.725
  • Invitation to the lord.
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  • God, we need your help.
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  • I don't--you can help however.
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  • If you wanna help by an adjustment of my diet, if you
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  • Wanna help by a doctor with compassion, if you wanna help
  • 00:23:41.937 --> 00:23:45.106
  • Supernaturally, god, we need your help.
  • 00:23:45.106 --> 00:23:50.145
  • It's not a repudiation of science.
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  • Look, science is not god.
  • 00:23:53.181 --> 00:23:55.984
  • Science is a method.
  • 00:23:55.984 --> 00:23:59.087
  • It's a way to learn, to observe our world, to catalog what we
  • 00:23:59.087 --> 00:24:04.626
  • Learn, and then to build upon it.
  • 00:24:04.626 --> 00:24:08.396
  • If the lord tarries, 100 years from now the 3rd graders will
  • 00:24:08.396 --> 00:24:11.500
  • Laugh at our most brilliant scientist.
  • 00:24:11.500 --> 00:24:14.936
  • I promise.
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  • Science is a lousy god.
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  • I brought you some passages.
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  • Matthew 8:16.
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  • Matthew is describing an event in jesus' life and ministry, but
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  • He's gonna quote isaiah 53, which is the great messianic
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  • Chapter in the prophet isaiah.
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  • Hundreds of years before jesus was born, isaiah wrote about the
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  • Messiah and what he would do.
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  • Jesus didn't fit the expectations of that first
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  • Century audience.
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  • It's why they killed him.
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  • But matthew had understood by this point.
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  • He said, "when evening came, many who were demon possessed
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  • Were brought to jesus and he drove out the spirits with a
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  • Word and he healed all the sick.
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  • This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet
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  • Isaiah; 'he took up our infirmities and he carried
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  • Our diseases.'"
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  • Why do we pray for the sick?
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  • Is it just because god does miracles?
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  • Well, he does, but that's not really the permission, the
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  • Invitation we've been given.
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  • You see, the redemptive work of jesus, what he accomplished on
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  • The cross, included more than just the forgiveness of our sins
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  • And salvation so that we could go to heaven.
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  • It's a far more multifaceted provision than that describes.
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  • He's provided.
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  • He said he gave us peace, he gave us strength.
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  • Matthew is quoting when he says, jesus healed all the sick, he
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  • Said he's fulfilling what the prophet isaiah said, that he
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  • Carried our sicknesses and our diseases that on the cross god
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  • Placed on jesus our sickness and disease.
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  • So when we ask god for him to bring health and healing to our
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  • Bodies, we're asking in the same way we ask for forgiveness of
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  • Our sins.
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  • It was the same price paid for both.
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  • Allen: i want to pray.
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  • Father, i thank you that we have bibles and churches and
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  • Fellowship and community, but we need your help to be men and
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  • Women of strength and courage.
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  • Holy spirit, we ask you let a boldness for god grow in us in
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  • Jesus' name, amen.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: hey, i'm really excited about our newest publication.
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  • It's called "your identity in christ."
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  • It's a booklet, small book intended to help you understand
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  • Who you are in christ, straightforward, grounded in
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  • Scripture, but i help people take steps towards
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  • Spiritual freedom.
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  • The most essential component is helping them understand who they
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  • Are in christ.
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  • You know, we're walking through a season where there's
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  • Tremendous cultural confusion, so much dialogue about how
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  • We identify.
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  • Folks, understanding who you are in christ, the price that was
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  • Paid to give you status in the kingdom of god, it will write a
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  • Future for you that is not dependent upon your family of
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  • Origin, your life circumstance, the expressions of evil that
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  • You've had to overcome.
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  • In christ jesus we are triumphant, both in
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  • Time and for all eternity.
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  • We put this little booklet together.
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  • It'll help you. you can read it.
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  • You can do it as a small group.
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  • It's easy to share the message with children or grandchildren.
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  • Make this a part of this season in your life and in your home
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  • And with your friends.
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  • It's a game changer.
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