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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - The Tipping Point (Part 2) | June 25, 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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- Allen: matthew is describing an event in jesus's
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- Life and ministry, but he's gonna quote isaiah 53, which is
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- The great messianic 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.
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- He 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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- That does not remove us from the vagaries of aging, folks.
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- Stop it.
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- But it does mean there's a power available to help us.
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- When god created adam and eve in the garden, he said they were
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- Very good.
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- I'm pretty sure they didn't put contacts in like i did
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- This morning.
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- God's intent is that we be well.
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- He designs your body to heal.
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- You really don't need much information beyond that.
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- The design engineer fixed you to heal.
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- If you cut your finger, you don't lose your mind, i hope.
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- You know, you put a little band-aid around it, hopefully
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- With like flintstones on it or you get your mommy to kiss it.
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- And you know with just a little bit of time passes, it
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- Will heal.
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- You understand how you can break a bone.
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- And if you give it just the slightest opportunity to do so,
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- It will mend itself.
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- The screen on your phone won't do that.
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- God built us to heal.
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- So, when we pray for someone to be well and we asked them--now
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- You have to cooperate.
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- You can't purposely destroy the temple.
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- You have a fiduciary responsibility to what god has
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- Entrusted to you and a part of that is your physical body.
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- You know, we get way heated up in church about our
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- Favorite sins.
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- I can choose some that we don't talk about much of, you know.
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- Used to be we preached some fiery sermons about smoking.
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- No pun intended.
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- You know, we don't do that so much anymore, so there's not
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- Much conversation around that.
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- But you know the bible says far more about gluttony than it
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- Does drunkenness.
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- Yeah, i know it's a man who talks about oreos and m&ms.
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- But we do far more damage with our forks than about
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- Anything else.
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- There's a multi-billion dollar industry on how to lose weight
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- As if there's a secret.
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- Come on now.
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- I think we all have some general idea that cheese doodles might
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- Not be vitamin enriched.
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- And that if we would move more and consume less, we might
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- Be healthier.
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- So, you can't purposely destroy your temple and then look at the
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- Lord and say, "help me."
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- That's like not studying for a test and then asking for wisdom.
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- Having said that, the invitation to god in our lives is intended
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- To be a demonstration of his power that will make the
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- Unbelieving world jealous.
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- Whether we're complying with his truth and we're not
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- Committing gluttony.
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- We're not purposely destroying the temple he's given us, or
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- We're inviting his power into our lives to bring freedom and
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- Deliverance, spirit, soul, and body so that their
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- Transformation is distinctive enough that the unbelievers will
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- Be jealous.
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- "tell us what's happening with you.
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- We would be interested in some of that as well."
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- We've preferred to engage in some subtle debate about
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- Theological nuance over which translation of the bible
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- Is best.
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- Look at 1 peter chapter 2, "when they hurled their insults at
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- Him," at jesus, "he didn't retaliate: when he suffered, he
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- Made no threats."
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- He didn't need to make any threats.
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- He looked at peter.
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- Remember in the garden when they came to arrest him and peter
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- Got all heated up and drew his sword and jesus said,
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- "you can put it away, peter."
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- He said, "if i needed to, i could call legions of angels.
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- I need to do this tonight."
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- See, we can live with that calm assurance.
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- There may be loud voices from our adversaries.
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- There may very--be very well some significant threats, not
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- Idle threats, significant legitimate threats.
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- We need to be close enough to the lord in a time of turmoil
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- Like we are walking through, to understand that god's abiding
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- Presence is with us.
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- That's more than just a sunday church faith or a saturday
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- Church faith or an occasional glance at the bible kind of
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- A faith.
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- That's a life yielded to the lord.
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- We're gonna have to walk more towards that.
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- "he made no threats.
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- Instead, he entrusted himself to the one who judges justly.
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- He himself," here's the punch line, "he himself."
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- There's an emphasis in that.
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- "jesus himself bore our sins and his body on the tree," do you
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- Believe that?
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- Me too.
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- "so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness;" by
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- That same sacrifice, "by his wounds we are healed."
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- So, why do i pray for the sick?
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- Well, the same way if someone comes to me and says, "pastor,
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- I'd like to be a christian."
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- I have complete confidence in saying to them, "well, if you'll
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- Ask the lord to forgive your sins and invite jesus into your
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- Life, he will do both of those things."
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- Do you believe that?
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- Me too.
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- I saw about six hands.
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- The rest of you should consider it.
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- It's true.
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- But that same sacrifice has given me the opportunity to
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- Invite god's health into our bodies.
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- I don't always live in the health that jesus provided, but
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- I don't always live in the righteousness he
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- Provided either.
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- And neither do you.
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- Wonder what pastor's doing.
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- Stop.
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- By his wounds you were healed.
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- One more verse, i gave it to you from john.
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- Jesus is preparing his disciples for his exit, and he said,
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- "i tell you the truth," and you know by now when you see that
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- Phrase, he's about to drop a truth bomb that nobody's
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- Gonna believe.
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- "i tell you the truth," he said, "anyone who has faith in me will
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- Do what i've been doing.
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- He'll do even greater things than these, because i'm going to
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- The father."
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- A lot of implications of that that i'm not gonna unpack right
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- Now, but clearly jesus is giving us permission.
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- He commissioned his disciples, and then he commissioned
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- 72 more.
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- I understand there's a whole group of theology supported by
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- All theological schools that say all the miracles stopped with
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- The last of the apostles.
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- There's a greek word that's the best answer i know to that
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- Theory, "baloney."
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- It means i disagree.
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- It'd be the cruelest of all hoaxes to give us a narrative
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- Filled with the supernatural involvement of god and then tell
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- Us it no longer exists.
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- It's illogical, it's irrational to me.
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- It's inconsistent with the beliefs of the church through
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- Most of the history of the church.
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- So, here's my invitation to you.
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- I wanna suggest that you take that let's pray idea.
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- As you listen to people and you engage in your day and your
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- Spheres of influence, people, particularly in the south, we
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- Just talk.
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- "how are you doing?"
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- And people tell you.
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- Usually recognize those people.
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- They're not from here.
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- They don't know we don't care.
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- In the south it's a form of greeting.
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- But if you listen, people tell you a great deal and i've
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- Encouraged you to say, "well let's pray."
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- Don't ask for permission.
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- You know, don't say, "you know, i'm a servant of the most high
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- God and my pastors challenged me to pray for the pagans.
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- And the spirit of god has given me discernment to recognize that
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- You were such.
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- Might i lay my hands on you and pray for you, o pagan one."
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- Please don't do that.
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- I would run from you.
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- Don't ask for permission.
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- When you do that, you forfeit all of the initiative that you
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- Have because you're not really asking them to pray, you're just
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- Telling them you're going to.
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- They can receive it, they can reject it, they have a part in
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- This, but you're going to offer a prayer on their behalf.
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- That's a tremendous gift.
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- It's better than saying, "i will pray for you" because you may
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- Walk off and forget.
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- Just say, "let's pray," and when you say that, you close your
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- Eyes, they'll be staring at you pretty certain.
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- Just close your eyes.
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- I'll usually bow my head just a bit and then just one sentence,
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- "lord help my friend in jesus's name.
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- Lord, the kids have been sick, restore their health in
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- Jesus's name.
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- Lord, you know they need a breakthrough.
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- I don't know what it is, help them in jesus's name.
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- God, we need your wisdom in jesus's name.
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- Lord, we need a breakthrough," just a sentence.
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- And when you say amen, and this is it, folks.
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- Right here, this is the key.
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- When you say amen, just keep moving.
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- Some of us grew up in traditions where you want
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- Some gratification.
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- So, when you say amen you want some affirmation that they've
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- Experienced something.
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- And so, you give them sometimes not so subtle messages, amen.
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- I'm telling you you're creepy.
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- You are.
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- You're not godly, you're creepy.
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- You're carnal.
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- "did you feel it?"
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- "oh, i felt it."
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- I'm telling you i don't want anything to do with you.
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- Amen.
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- Who do you think the titans are gonna draft?
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- And will it make any difference?
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- Just move on.
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- Now you've done two things at that point.
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- You've extended an invitation to god into the life of someone
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- Which is powerful.
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- And you have identified yourself as someone who believes in
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- Prayer and that there's a high degree of probability that
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- Person will return or send someone else.
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- I can testify to this.
- 00:13:29.625 --> 00:13:31.660
- But now, i'm--this is where the addition comes.
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- I want you to be prepared to pray for people that
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- Need healing.
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- You may have people in your sphere of influence that are
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- Battling some real serious things.
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- Don't just pray once.
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- Every time you have a chance, if you're with that person.
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- Say, "lord, i thank you for my friend.
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- I thank you that you're gonna complete that healing in jesus's
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- Name, amen," and just keep moving.
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- Don't do that creepy stuff.
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- "i'm standing with you, brother.
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- I'm standing.
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- I'm hanging in there."
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- Just stop.
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- We're inviting god in.
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- But you see, we've been--we haven't extended enough
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- Invitations to god to make anyone jealous.
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- We've used the--we've said, you know, "i'm open to anything that
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- God wants.
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- Well, you know, pastor, i'm just not sure how i feel about all
- 00:14:25.781 --> 00:14:29.051
- Those invitations.
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- So, i'm just open."
- 00:14:31.921 --> 00:14:35.658
- No, you're not.
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- Jesus said if you're hungry and thirsty, you'll be filled.
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- When i'm hungry, i'm not just open.
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- I'm gonna open something, isn't that right?
- 00:14:46.001 --> 00:14:50.806
- You get hungry enough, you lose your sense of decorum.
- 00:14:50.806 --> 00:14:53.809
- You know, you will go to hell with that passive attitude.
- 00:14:56.912 --> 00:15:00.482
- I'm open to anything god has for--you will miss the kingdom
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- Of god because unless you believe in your heart and
- 00:15:02.851 --> 00:15:04.954
- Confess with your mouth that jesus is lord, you will miss it.
- 00:15:04.954 --> 00:15:07.056
- It's not about what god's gonna do, it's about our response.
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- So, would you be willing to take a let's pray and just bump it a
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- Bit and begin to pray for people that need a miracle?
- 00:15:16.398 --> 00:15:20.869
- They need a healing, they need deliverance, they need a door to
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- Open, that need a breakthrough.
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- Would you be willing to take that a bit more assertively into
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- Our world?
- 00:15:28.077 --> 00:15:29.478
- It's biblical.
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- We've been given permission.
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- It's not because of our holiness or our goodness or
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- Our righteousness.
- 00:15:35.684 --> 00:15:37.019
- It's not because of my biblical scholarship or because i'm an
- 00:15:37.019 --> 00:15:40.189
- Extrovert or not.
- 00:15:40.189 --> 00:15:41.724
- It's because of who jesus is and what he's done for us.
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- When i tell someone they can be saved or born again or
- 00:15:44.893 --> 00:15:47.396
- Converted, it's not because i'm godly or holy or righteous.
- 00:15:47.396 --> 00:15:50.599
- God can accomplish his purposes through a donkey.
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- That's how i got on the team.
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- ♪♪♪
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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
- 00:16:11.020 --> 00:16:14.056
- Most significant component of your person for both
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- Time and eternity.
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- We put together a resource. it's a new booklet.
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- It'll help you understand who you are in christ, your identity
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- In the kingdom of god, and what the implications of that are for
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- Your life today.
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- It's a game changer.
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- I believe it'll be a blessing to you and to your family.
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- Female announcer: every day the world tries to define who we
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- Are, what we should believe, and whether we're enough, but god's
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- Word tells a different story.
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- In pastor allen's new book, "your identity in christ: 12
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- Truths about who you are," he shares biblical truths that will
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- Help you recognize who you are in christ.
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- Allen: i'll tell you, i've done it with a little bit of
- 00:17:34.570 --> 00:17:37.106
- Laughter, but it's not funny.
- 00:17:37.106 --> 00:17:42.744
- And i'm happy to laugh because i don't wanna take ourselves too
- 00:17:42.744 --> 00:17:45.948
- Seriously, but i do want to take the assignment very seriously.
- 00:17:45.948 --> 00:17:49.918
- The disciples are imprisoned.
- 00:17:49.918 --> 00:17:52.488
- And before the end of this narrative in acts chapter 5,
- 00:17:52.488 --> 00:17:55.624
- They're going to receive their first flogging.
- 00:17:55.624 --> 00:17:59.161
- They're gonna be beaten because of their advocacy for jesus.
- 00:17:59.161 --> 00:18:03.298
- They've been imprisoned and released in the same
- 00:18:03.298 --> 00:18:05.267
- Little scenario.
- 00:18:05.267 --> 00:18:06.768
- And when they are rearrested as they're preaching again, this
- 00:18:06.768 --> 00:18:12.007
- Time there's enough anger directed at them that some
- 00:18:12.007 --> 00:18:14.276
- Execute them and there's an intervention that's done and so
- 00:18:14.276 --> 00:18:17.713
- They decide just to settle for beating them severely.
- 00:18:17.713 --> 00:18:22.784
- Now i'm asking you to take a different posture towards your
- 00:18:22.784 --> 00:18:25.187
- Faith, folks.
- 00:18:25.187 --> 00:18:26.889
- We've been kind of these happy passive people.
- 00:18:26.889 --> 00:18:29.858
- You're--we're reluctant to pray for one another at church.
- 00:18:29.858 --> 00:18:35.164
- Well, what will they think?
- 00:18:35.164 --> 00:18:36.498
- If they're at church, i don't care.
- 00:18:36.498 --> 00:18:38.333
- If you're in church and i pray for you and that offends you,
- 00:18:38.333 --> 00:18:43.739
- I mean, we can talk about it and i may need to change my attitude
- 00:18:43.739 --> 00:18:47.075
- A bit or i don't know, but we'll work through that.
- 00:18:47.075 --> 00:18:48.911
- We're gonna pray for people.
- 00:18:48.911 --> 00:18:50.913
- But we gotta pray for people in the marketplace.
- 00:18:50.913 --> 00:18:54.550
- Well, they may not like that.
- 00:18:54.550 --> 00:18:57.152
- Yeah, i know.
- 00:18:57.152 --> 00:18:59.321
- The people who went before us were imprisoned and they bore
- 00:18:59.321 --> 00:19:03.358
- Scars on their body because of their advocacy for jesus.
- 00:19:03.358 --> 00:19:10.732
- We think if we get canceled in the social media or we
- 00:19:10.732 --> 00:19:15.003
- Get unfriended.
- 00:19:15.003 --> 00:19:16.371
- Ooh.
- 00:19:17.806 --> 00:19:24.513
- I was reminded of something this week and i'm gonna share a
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- Portion because it's a contrast with what's happened.
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- We just recently had a presentation in our national
- 00:19:30.719 --> 00:19:33.121
- Cathedral by a bishop of a very celebrated expression of.
- 00:19:33.121 --> 00:19:41.663
- Evangelicalism endorsing a very ungodly worldview.
- 00:19:41.663 --> 00:19:51.473
- Without embarrassment or shame, it has been widely celebrated,
- 00:19:51.473 --> 00:19:55.410
- Got to make the talk show circuit.
- 00:19:55.410 --> 00:19:57.946
- Hail the hero.
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- I don't agree.
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- No matter what your education or the status from which you are
- 00:20:04.953 --> 00:20:07.990
- Ministering, if you deny the truth of scripture in a biblical
- 00:20:07.990 --> 00:20:12.461
- Worldview, i don't believe that should be celebrated.
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- [congregation applauding]
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- Allen: but as i was thinking of that and praying about that,
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- I was reminded of another presentation in washington.
- 00:20:25.240 --> 00:20:30.078
- It's been a while.
- 00:20:30.078 --> 00:20:31.413
- It was february the 5 in 1994.
- 00:20:31.413 --> 00:20:33.315
- In fact, i put the quote in your notes.
- 00:20:33.315 --> 00:20:34.950
- I thought it was valuable enough.
- 00:20:34.950 --> 00:20:36.285
- It was at the national prayer breakfast in washington, d.c.
- 00:20:36.285 --> 00:20:40.055
- And mother teresa was there.
- 00:20:40.055 --> 00:20:42.491
- If you don't know her story, a few minutes on the internet is
- 00:20:42.491 --> 00:20:44.760
- Worth the investment.
- 00:20:44.760 --> 00:20:46.128
- A very diminutive nun that worked with the poorest of the
- 00:20:46.128 --> 00:20:49.398
- Poor in calcutta in india.
- 00:20:49.398 --> 00:20:54.536
- And at that prayer breakfast, our president at the time was
- 00:20:54.536 --> 00:20:58.507
- Bill clinton, and president clinton and his wife were there
- 00:20:58.507 --> 00:21:01.310
- And so was vice president al gore and his wife, 4000 others
- 00:21:01.310 --> 00:21:04.913
- In attendance.
- 00:21:04.913 --> 00:21:06.248
- And at that time in the unfolding story of our nation,
- 00:21:06.248 --> 00:21:08.950
- There had been multiple attempts to pass a ban on partial
- 00:21:08.950 --> 00:21:13.188
- Birth abortion.
- 00:21:13.188 --> 00:21:15.324
- It's a very heinous act.
- 00:21:15.324 --> 00:21:17.659
- The child is at full-term.
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- He's brought to the point of delivery, and when the head
- 00:21:19.061 --> 00:21:21.730
- Crowns, they would puncture a hole, vacuum out what was needed
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- To collapse the skull and make delivery easier.
- 00:21:26.768 --> 00:21:31.973
- And a bill had been put on the president's desk multiple times
- 00:21:31.973 --> 00:21:34.676
- Which he had vetoed.
- 00:21:34.676 --> 00:21:36.078
- Our track record on the sanctity of human life is abhorrent and
- 00:21:39.748 --> 00:21:45.487
- It remains so until today.
- 00:21:45.487 --> 00:21:49.491
- You know, abortion has touched every one of us directly
- 00:21:49.491 --> 00:21:51.660
- Or indirectly.
- 00:21:51.660 --> 00:21:53.462
- I'm not throwing stones.
- 00:21:53.462 --> 00:21:55.530
- We can be forgiven and set free.
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- I'm very grateful for that.
- 00:21:58.266 --> 00:21:59.601
- This isn't about shame but we cannot continue the practice.
- 00:21:59.601 --> 00:22:04.272
- Well, on that day in washington, d.c., with that expression of
- 00:22:04.272 --> 00:22:09.478
- Tremendous power, this diminutive nun from calcutta
- 00:22:09.478 --> 00:22:14.383
- Took the floor.
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- And i gave you just a portion of what she said.
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- She said, "by abortion, the mother does not learn to love,
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- But kills even her own child to solve her problems.
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- And by abortion that father is told that he does not have to
- 00:22:26.728 --> 00:22:29.431
- Take any responsibility at all for the child that he's brought
- 00:22:29.431 --> 00:22:32.067
- Into the world.
- 00:22:32.067 --> 00:22:34.002
- The father is likely to put other women into the
- 00:22:34.002 --> 00:22:36.204
- Same trouble.
- 00:22:36.204 --> 00:22:37.806
- So, abortion just leads to more abortion.
- 00:22:37.806 --> 00:22:40.709
- Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its
- 00:22:40.709 --> 00:22:43.011
- People to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.
- 00:22:43.011 --> 00:22:47.649
- This is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace
- 00:22:47.649 --> 00:22:50.218
- Is abortion."
- 00:22:50.218 --> 00:22:52.053
- She concluded her speech with words of hope and a reminder
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- That we are called to use freedom for higher purposes
- 00:22:54.856 --> 00:22:58.360
- Than murder.
- 00:22:58.360 --> 00:22:59.694
- She went on to say, "if we remember that god loves us and
- 00:22:59.694 --> 00:23:02.697
- That we can love others as he loves us, then america can
- 00:23:02.697 --> 00:23:05.967
- Become a sign of peace for the world.
- 00:23:05.967 --> 00:23:09.271
- From here a sign of care for the weakest of the weak, the unborn
- 00:23:09.271 --> 00:23:12.374
- Child, must go out to the world.
- 00:23:12.374 --> 00:23:16.077
- If you become a burning light of justice and peace in the world,
- 00:23:16.077 --> 00:23:20.282
- Then really you will be true to what the founders of this
- 00:23:20.282 --> 00:23:22.551
- Country stood for.
- 00:23:22.551 --> 00:23:24.186
- God bless you."
- 00:23:24.186 --> 00:23:28.690
- You know, we're told that if we will embrace many expressions of
- 00:23:32.928 --> 00:23:39.634
- Ungodliness and immorality that the bible clearly prohibits for
- 00:23:39.634 --> 00:23:44.272
- Christ followers, that we're expressing love.
- 00:23:44.272 --> 00:23:47.509
- No, we're not.
- 00:23:47.509 --> 00:23:49.611
- We're abandoning our assignment to the truth.
- 00:23:49.611 --> 00:23:54.082
- And the church is gonna have to be awakened.
- 00:23:54.082 --> 00:23:56.518
- There's no change that a politician can initiate that is
- 00:23:56.518 --> 00:23:59.754
- Sustainable unless the church rises to be the support for the
- 00:23:59.754 --> 00:24:04.526
- Godliness that's being legislated.
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- [congregation applauding]
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- Allen: i'm concerned for us.
- 00:24:12.133 --> 00:24:14.135
- That we've been co-opted by a political process and we think
- 00:24:14.135 --> 00:24:16.872
- We can hire people to go make moral changes that we're not
- 00:24:16.872 --> 00:24:20.475
- Willing to advocate for.
- 00:24:20.475 --> 00:24:23.445
- Folks, if the church fails to be advocates for the truth and
- 00:24:23.445 --> 00:24:26.915
- Ambassadors for jesus, we will see the judgment of god.
- 00:24:26.915 --> 00:24:32.387
- I'm grateful for the courage that is emerging amongst us in
- 00:24:32.387 --> 00:24:36.558
- So many different ways, but i want the church to be willing to
- 00:24:36.558 --> 00:24:40.862
- Lead in a way that we have been very reluctant to lead for far
- 00:24:40.862 --> 00:24:43.932
- Too long.
- 00:24:43.932 --> 00:24:45.500
- Use your voice.
- 00:24:45.500 --> 00:24:47.269
- Let's pray.
- 00:24:47.269 --> 00:24:49.137
- You can do this.
- 00:24:49.137 --> 00:24:50.505
- Let's decide to be conduits for the power of god and the grace
- 00:24:54.242 --> 00:24:57.612
- Of god and the mercy of god that will cause the unbelievers to be
- 00:24:57.612 --> 00:25:01.082
- Jealous and want to know about our god.
- 00:25:01.082 --> 00:25:04.352
- That will be a good day.
- 00:25:04.352 --> 00:25:05.720
- I brought you a prayer.
- 00:25:05.720 --> 00:25:07.088
- It's very familiar.
- 00:25:07.088 --> 00:25:08.423
- Why don't you stand with me?
- 00:25:08.423 --> 00:25:10.058
- It's not mine.
- 00:25:10.058 --> 00:25:12.594
- The boss actually put this one together.
- 00:25:12.594 --> 00:25:17.165
- But it's just as poignant today as when his disciples first ask
- 00:25:17.165 --> 00:25:20.101
- Him for a prayer.
- 00:25:20.101 --> 00:25:23.805
- Some of you say, "you know, i don't pray much."
- 00:25:23.805 --> 00:25:25.507
- It's a great day to start and this is a good prayer to
- 00:25:25.507 --> 00:25:27.542
- Begin with.
- 00:25:27.542 --> 00:25:29.544
- You can go from this to a sentence prayer.
- 00:25:29.544 --> 00:25:31.413
- I promise you, it's just an honest expression of what's in
- 00:25:31.413 --> 00:25:33.582
- Your heart.
- 00:25:33.582 --> 00:25:35.483
- Let's read it together.
- 00:25:35.483 --> 00:25:37.319
- Our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be your name, your
- 00:25:37.319 --> 00:25:41.923
- Kingdom come, your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.
- 00:25:41.923 --> 00:25:46.861
- Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses,
- 00:25:46.861 --> 00:25:51.900
- As we forgive those who trespass against us.
- 00:25:51.900 --> 00:25:55.637
- Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
- 00:25:55.637 --> 00:25:59.908
- For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever
- 00:25:59.908 --> 00:26:04.179
- And ever, amen.
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- Hallelujah.
- 00:26:06.781 --> 00:26:08.116
- God bless you.
- 00:26:08.116 --> 00:26:09.484
- Go in jesus's name.
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- ♪♪♪
- 00:26:12.387 --> 00:26:19.561
- Allen: hey, i'm really excited about our newest publication.
- 00:26:19.628 --> 00:26:22.230
- It's called "your identity in christ."
- 00:26:22.230 --> 00:26:23.765
- It's a booklet, small book intended to help you understand
- 00:26:23.765 --> 00:26:27.002
- Who you are in christ, straightforward, grounded in
- 00:26:27.002 --> 00:26:29.771
- Scripture, but i help people take steps towards
- 00:26:29.771 --> 00:26:32.674
- Spiritual freedom.
- 00:26:32.674 --> 00:26:34.042
- The most essential component is helping them understand who they
- 00:26:34.042 --> 00:26:37.145
- Are in christ.
- 00:26:37.145 --> 00:26:38.613
- You know, we're walking through a season where there's
- 00:26:38.613 --> 00:26:40.148
- Tremendous cultural confusion, so much dialogue about how
- 00:26:40.148 --> 00:26:43.752
- We identify.
- 00:26:43.752 --> 00:26:45.220
- Folks, understanding who you are in christ, the price that was
- 00:26:45.220 --> 00:26:48.690
- 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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- ♪♪♪
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