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Allen Jackson - Transforming Faith... Let's Grow (Part 1)

November 30, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - Transforming Faith... Let's Grow (Part 1)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Transforming Faith... Let's Grow (Part 1) | November 30, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen jackson: god is moving in the earth.
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  • We established allen jackson ministries to
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  • Strengthen the church.
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  • Jesus said he would build his church
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  • And hell wouldn't stop it.
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  • We intend to be part of that in this nation and beyond.
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  • With your help, we have done a lot of things
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  • In the media with television and radio.
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  • We have created small group curriculum, we've hosted a
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  • Culture and christianity conference.
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  • We have criss-crossed this nation in more than two dozen
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  • Cities doing pastor's conferences
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  • With pastors and church leaders.
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  • Now we have strategic partners in israel and the ukraine
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  • Asking for that same kind of help and resources as we
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  • Look at the year ahead.
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  • I wanna ask you to prayerfully consider making an investment
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  • In this ministry as we look towards this new year.
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  • We intend to strengthen the church in this nation and beyond
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  • As never before.
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  • God is moving, we want to be a part of that.
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  • I thank you for your partnership, for your
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  • Generosity, and for your faithfulness
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  • In standing with us.
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  • Together, we'll make a difference
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  • For the kingdom of god.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: gonna pick up a new topic for two or three sessions
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  • Talking about transforming faith with the goal of acknowledging
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  • Our desire to grow.
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  • I wanna know the lord better.
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  • I tell you, it is so real inside of me.
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  • I don't imagine that i have accomplished or achieved or
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  • Become or--i have such as--an awareness that i need to grow in
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  • The way i know the lord, in the way i understand him, into the
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  • Way i respond to him, in the way i hear his voice.
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  • You know, i have a little bit of experience and i've walked a
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  • Ways, but i am a beginner.
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  • And i would invite you to that.
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  • Let's lay down the pretentiousness of
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  • Our experience.
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  • We serve an infinite god.
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  • If we learn something new about god every day for a thousand
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  • Years, we'll still--there'll be more to learn than what we
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  • Have learned.
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  • I wanna grow.
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  • And our faith is intended to be transformational.
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  • Not just to get our way but to transform us from the
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  • Inside out.
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  • I guess i'll take just a minute before i get into that with you.
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  • I wanna borrow a paradigm from our own physical maturing
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  • Growing up, but that we had election--it was election week
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  • Again and that always seems to bring some discomfort or some
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  • Anxiety or something.
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  • I've said it over and over and over again and i'll repeat it.
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  • To me an election is a health check.
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  • And if you go to the doctor for the physical, usually before he
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  • Begins a physical evaluation they'll draw blood, and they'll
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  • Look at your blood panel and they'll make some deductions
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  • About your general behavior.
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  • You're eating too much sugar.
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  • Your cholesterol is too high, more vegetables.
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  • You know, they give you a screening about how
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  • You're doing.
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  • And the blood work doesn't make you healthier or less healthy,
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  • It's just a insight into how you've been behaving.
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  • Well, that's the way i understand elections.
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  • Elections don't make us healthier or less healthy.
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  • They are revelation of how we've been behaving.
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  • Isn't that awkward?
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  • And they don't fix our problems, they help us make
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  • Course adjustments.
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  • A doctor's visit won't make you healthier unless you adjust your
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  • Behavior based on the counsel you're given.
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  • And i think this week was very insightful.
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  • We have a 34-year-old muslim socialist as mayor of the
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  • Largest city in america.
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  • About a tenth of our economy represented by that.
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  • We have every right to do that and the freedom to do that, but
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  • That's a pretty strong statement around our spiritual health.
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  • Imagine if we'd elected a 34-year-old
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  • Pentecostal christian.
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  • Imagine the discomfort that would be rippling across
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  • The country.
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  • I would submit to you just watching from a distance, and i
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  • Didn't watch the campaign closely, there's too much to do.
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  • I'm much more interested in the power of our faith than the
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  • Outcome of politics.
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  • But we can't ignore the political arena and the promises
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  • That were made for things and that was attractive to some
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  • Segment of the population, a large segment of the population.
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  • If you ask for my most candid evaluation, and you didn't, but
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  • I'll give it, the book of revelation describes a global
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  • Leader that will emerge, that will promise to fix all of
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  • Our problems.
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  • He'll have solutions for the greatest problems that humanity
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  • Has ever faced, who purport to have resolutions for all of
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  • Them, and so we will surrender authority.
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  • And once he has secured authority over the nations, the
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  • Scripture says he'll become the most beastly leader the world
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  • Has ever known.
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  • I'm not suggesting that the current mayor of new york is the
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  • Antichrist, by any stretch of the imagination.
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  • What i am suggesting is that the shadow of the spirit of
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  • Antichrist fell more deeply over our nation because we had
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  • Someone promising to solve all of our problems with
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  • No sacrifices.
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  • That there would be no cost.
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  • There would be no--"somebody else would have to sacrifice,
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  • But you won't sacrifice.
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  • We'll just fix your problems for you."
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  • That sounds very much like what's described in the book
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  • Of revelation.
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  • It will grow more intense, more prevalent, more frequent.
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  • Islam is not peaceful.
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  • Any place in the world where it's the primary authority it's
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  • Not peaceful, and it's pretty universally dedicated to the
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  • Destruction of this nation.
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  • And we invite that spirit into the largest city in our nation.
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  • So what's the response to that?
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  • What do we--how do we think about that?
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  • What do we do about that?
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  • Well, the book of revelation the other half of that narrative is
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  • The spirit of god moving in the earth in such a way that in the
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  • Face of this great conflict between the lamb and the beast
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  • That our lord himself will come back on behalf of his church.
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  • So between where we are and there, the assignment is to
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  • Preach the gospel in the whole world.
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  • Let's go.
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  • The quickest way to the return of the king is not to focus on
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  • The evil, and the expressions of darkness, and the expressions of
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  • Perversion, and ungodliness.
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  • The shortest distance between here and there is to commit
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  • Ourselves to the proclamation of the gospel in the whole world.
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  • 'cause jesus said in matthew 24, when we've completed that
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  • Assignment, then the end will come.
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  • It's not dependent upon the wicked, it's dependent upon the
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  • Church and our vibrancy and our vitality and our commitment to
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  • The assignment.
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  • So yeah, it's a sobering analysis that we were given.
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  • The blood work that came back wasn't great.
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  • On the other hand, we know the assignment.
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  • So let's go.
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  • We're gonna talk about transforming faith and how
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  • We grow.
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  • I'm gonna use the analogy of our children and how we help them
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  • Grow 'cause i think the pattern of that is so familiar to us,
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  • Whether you're currently parenting through that or you're
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  • A grandparent and you're trying to disrupt the hard work of
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  • The parents.
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  • We're all familiar with that.
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  • I started in 1 samuel 17.
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  • David is the greatest of all of the hebrew kings, kings of
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  • Israel, but he first steps onto the stage of significance and
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  • Prominence on the battlefield.
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  • David's a warrior.
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  • More than any of those kings of israel, david was a
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  • Warrior king.
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  • Solomon wasn't.
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  • Solomon was born in the palace.
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  • Solomon was born to the purple.
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  • He was anything but a warrior.
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  • David on the other hand is a warrior.
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  • And in 1 samuel 17 it's the challenge with goliath.
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  • He said, "the philistine, with his shield bearer in front of
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  • Him, kept coming closer to david.
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  • And he looked david over and saw that he was only a boy.
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  • He was ruddy and handsome, and he despised him.
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  • And he said, 'am i a dog that you come at me with sticks?'
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  • And he cursed david by his philistine gods."
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  • Goliath was deeply offended that they sent a boy to face him on
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  • The battlefield.
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  • God specializes in choosing the unlikely, the unprepared.
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  • He's the one who gets the glory.
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  • So when we talk about this desire to grow, it's not because
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  • We meet all the pedigrees of a blue blood christ follower.
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  • It isn't because we come from the right place or we've
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  • Accomplished all the things that should be accomplished.
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  • God's purposes are accomplished through our lives in spite
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  • Of us.
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  • Now, that's not an excuse for sloppiness because it requires
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  • Our willingness to serve the lord.
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  • Allen: god is moving in the earth.
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  • A few years ago we understood god inviting us beyond
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  • Just the local congregation that i serve, and we began
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  • Allen jackson ministries so we could serve the church
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  • Across our nation and beyond.
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  • With pastor's conferences, with print material, with small group
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  • Curriculum, god has opened remarkable doors
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  • In radio and television.
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  • Your partnership, your generosity, your
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  • Faithfulness has made that possible.
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  • Now we have strategic partners asking for help in israel
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  • And the ukraine, those wartorn countries.
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  • Together we're strengthening the church
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  • In this nation and beyond.
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  • Thank you for your generosity.
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  • Allen: i was in israel a few days ago--a few couple weeks ago
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  • And we went to the elah valley where this battle took place.
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  • I first visited that valley when i was in the 6th grade.
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  • The stream still runs through that valley.
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  • There's the two ridges, mountain hill--hilly ridges where the
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  • Philistine and the israelite armies were camped and there's a
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  • Valley between them and the brook that runs through it from
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  • Which david took the stones with which he took down goliath.
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  • I was there as a 6th grader, which is been--don't be rude.
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  • Then we picked up rocks out of that creek when i was in the
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  • 6th grade.
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  • We were there a couple weeks ago and we're still picking rocks.
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  • So they have to haul rocks into that creek.
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  • I don't have another explanation.
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  • But god is still recruiting young people who are willing to
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  • Serve him.
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  • It's so important.
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  • It's the story of scripture that god recruits the unlikely.
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  • The disciples when jesus recruited them, they display a
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  • Remarkable change from the time they're recruited until they're
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  • Deployed on the front lines with the assignment.
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  • When jesus recruits them along the shores of galilee, they are
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  • Unaware, they're unfamiliar, and they're uninvolved.
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  • They're not overly engaged with the purposes of god.
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  • I mean, they have the label of judaism and they know where the
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  • Synagogue is, but they're not engaged with what god is doing.
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  • Sounds very familiar to me.
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  • But they become over their interaction with jesus.
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  • By the time we get to the opening chapters of the book of
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  • Acts, they're determined, they're on assignment, they're
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  • Resilient, they won't be stopped.
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  • They're dramatically different characters than they were when
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  • We meet them and jesus said, "follow me."
  • 00:11:58.276 --> 00:12:00.678
  • See, i have an objective.
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  • I wanna become a dramatically different character because of
  • 00:12:02.046 --> 00:12:04.516
  • My engagement with jesus.
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  • I want the orientation of my life to be different, the
  • 00:12:06.885 --> 00:12:09.387
  • Passions of my life to be different, the things i think
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  • About, the things i talk about, the things i'm striving for,
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  • What i seek to become, my ambitions.
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  • I intend all of those to be transformed because of my
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  • Affiliation with jesus.
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  • Now, that's not automatic, at least it isn't automatic in my
  • 00:12:22.700 --> 00:12:25.470
  • Life, and it's not automatic with some season of life.
  • 00:12:25.470 --> 00:12:28.206
  • That won't get easier when you're older.
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  • If you're listening to this and you think, well, you know, if
  • 00:12:29.841 --> 00:12:31.810
  • You get old enough it's all you've got left, huh-uh.
  • 00:12:31.810 --> 00:12:35.780
  • If you don't like the fuse on that when you're young, your
  • 00:12:35.780 --> 00:12:38.449
  • Powder will be too wet to get it lit when you're later in life.
  • 00:12:38.449 --> 00:12:43.822
  • There's no season where that gets easier.
  • 00:12:43.822 --> 00:12:47.158
  • We have to say, "lord, i will give you my best.
  • 00:12:47.158 --> 00:12:49.294
  • I wanna know you."
  • 00:12:49.294 --> 00:12:50.762
  • It starts internally with an intent, a desire.
  • 00:12:50.762 --> 00:12:54.933
  • The disciples are transformed.
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  • That's the invitation i'm gonna give to you all through
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  • This weekend.
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  • Let's grow.
  • 00:13:00.138 --> 00:13:02.006
  • Let's grow in the lord.
  • 00:13:02.006 --> 00:13:03.374
  • Stop reciting your curriculum vitae spiritually and say to the
  • 00:13:03.374 --> 00:13:09.714
  • Lord, "i wanna take the posture of a beginner.
  • 00:13:09.714 --> 00:13:13.218
  • I wanna grow."
  • 00:13:13.218 --> 00:13:14.586
  • 1 corinthians 13:11, paul said, "when i was a child, i talked
  • 00:13:14.586 --> 00:13:17.822
  • Like a child, i thought like a child, i reasoned like a child.
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  • When i became a man, i put childish ways behind me."
  • 00:13:21.359 --> 00:13:24.229
  • Folks, it's time to put childish ways behind us.
  • 00:13:24.229 --> 00:13:27.498
  • There's way too much childishness around our faith.
  • 00:13:27.498 --> 00:13:32.470
  • I don't have to go very far into that.
  • 00:13:32.470 --> 00:13:33.938
  • It doesn't take very long for us to understand it.
  • 00:13:33.938 --> 00:13:36.841
  • Too selfish, too carnal, we want our way.
  • 00:13:36.841 --> 00:13:40.712
  • I mean, we laugh a bit about the simple expressions of that
  • 00:13:40.712 --> 00:13:43.348
  • Around church.
  • 00:13:43.348 --> 00:13:44.682
  • We wanna sit where we wanna sit and park where we wanna park and
  • 00:13:44.682 --> 00:13:46.551
  • Come when we wanna attend.
  • 00:13:46.551 --> 00:13:48.386
  • We get really sideways if we can't and, "why can't i bring
  • 00:13:48.386 --> 00:13:51.923
  • Coffee into this room?"
  • 00:13:51.923 --> 00:13:53.358
  • Stop.
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  • It's the house of the lord.
  • 00:13:55.927 --> 00:14:02.000
  • 1 peter 2 and verse 2, "like newborn babies, crave pure
  • 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:05.303
  • Spiritual milk, so that by you may grow up in your salvation,
  • 00:14:05.303 --> 00:14:09.207
  • Now that you've tasted that the lord is good."
  • 00:14:09.207 --> 00:14:12.176
  • Crave, that's a strong word.
  • 00:14:12.176 --> 00:14:15.046
  • Crave pure spiritual milk.
  • 00:14:15.046 --> 00:14:19.183
  • I don't know that we have a craving for the things of god,
  • 00:14:19.183 --> 00:14:23.321
  • The word of god.
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  • We have a tolerance for it.
  • 00:14:25.390 --> 00:14:26.824
  • It's okay with us.
  • 00:14:26.824 --> 00:14:28.159
  • I mean, can you fit it into the timeline?
  • 00:14:28.159 --> 00:14:31.729
  • But crave it.
  • 00:14:31.729 --> 00:14:33.097
  • And he said so that we can grow up.
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  • We gotta grow up in the lord, folks.
  • 00:14:35.466 --> 00:14:38.469
  • We--the language that we use is troubling to me.
  • 00:14:38.469 --> 00:14:40.672
  • We go, "well, you know, that's just not how my people are or
  • 00:14:40.672 --> 00:14:46.110
  • The church i went to, you know, we didn't talk about that."
  • 00:14:46.110 --> 00:14:49.714
  • You got a bible.
  • 00:14:49.714 --> 00:14:52.550
  • Get it out.
  • 00:14:52.550 --> 00:14:54.953
  • If you're sitting in a church that's denying the bible, you
  • 00:14:54.953 --> 00:14:57.622
  • Need a new one.
  • 00:14:57.622 --> 00:15:00.458
  • You see, i don't believe that's gonna be inadequate.
  • 00:15:00.458 --> 00:15:02.694
  • When we see the lord and he said, "well, you know, i wrote
  • 00:15:02.694 --> 00:15:04.929
  • An assignment for you.
  • 00:15:04.929 --> 00:15:06.297
  • I had something for you to do."
  • 00:15:06.297 --> 00:15:07.632
  • And we'll say, "oh, well, the church i went to, we didn't read
  • 00:15:07.632 --> 00:15:12.070
  • That part."
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  • You think the lord's gonna say, "well, in that case, come
  • 00:15:13.638 --> 00:15:16.040
  • Right in?"
  • 00:15:16.040 --> 00:15:20.545
  • We have to grow up in the lord.
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  • Say, "well, i've grown a lot."
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  • I know.
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  • Me, i'm still working on it.
  • 00:15:26.150 --> 00:15:27.785
  • Ephesians 4, verse 14, "they'll no longer be infants, tossed
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  • Back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every
  • 00:15:30.788 --> 00:15:33.825
  • Wind of teaching and the cunning and craftiness of men and their
  • 00:15:33.825 --> 00:15:36.327
  • Deceitful scheming."
  • 00:15:36.327 --> 00:15:39.063
  • You know, deceitful scheming is a part of being the people
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  • Of faith.
  • 00:15:41.199 --> 00:15:42.533
  • The enemy schemes against you.
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  • If he can't convince you to deny your faith and to participate in
  • 00:15:44.802 --> 00:15:48.806
  • Ungodliness, he'll just do his best to deceive you, to
  • 00:15:48.806 --> 00:15:51.943
  • Manipulate you, to limit you, to hinder you, to impede you, to
  • 00:15:51.943 --> 00:15:56.547
  • Discourage you, to disrupt you.
  • 00:15:56.547 --> 00:15:58.850
  • Don't welcome discouragement.
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  • Don't tolerate it.
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  • "so i have reasons to be discouraged."
  • 00:16:01.986 --> 00:16:03.354
  • You may, but don't accept them.
  • 00:16:03.354 --> 00:16:06.491
  • "i have reasons to be tired."
  • 00:16:06.491 --> 00:16:07.859
  • Okay, but we also have a resource to help renew us and
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  • Refresh us.
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  • Don't yield to that.
  • 00:16:14.232 --> 00:16:16.868
  • There's a battle raging in the earth.
  • 00:16:16.868 --> 00:16:20.038
  • There is a battle raging.
  • 00:16:20.038 --> 00:16:21.372
  • We've got to decide, "instead, speaking the truth in love, we
  • 00:16:21.372 --> 00:16:24.275
  • Will in all things grow up into him who's the head, that
  • 00:16:24.275 --> 00:16:27.378
  • Is, christ."
  • 00:16:27.378 --> 00:16:28.946
  • In every aspect of our life we gotta grow up in him.
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  • How we use our time, how we use our treasure, how we--what we
  • 00:16:33.251 --> 00:16:36.154
  • Think about, what we imagine for recreate--in every way we have
  • 00:16:36.154 --> 00:16:39.490
  • To grow up.
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  • What part of your life are you reluctant to invite the
  • 00:16:41.559 --> 00:16:43.828
  • Lord into?
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  • And i don't mean you've banned him from it, but you don't
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  • Really wanna--you don't wanna really consider a godly response
  • 00:16:48.699 --> 00:16:52.303
  • 'cause it's what you wanna do.
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  • "i'm born again.
  • 00:16:55.440 --> 00:16:56.974
  • I'm not committing gross sins.
  • 00:16:56.974 --> 00:17:00.745
  • I just wanna do this."
  • 00:17:00.745 --> 00:17:03.581
  • Well, i don't think it's evil, but i think it can limit god's
  • 00:17:03.581 --> 00:17:06.818
  • Call on your life.
  • 00:17:06.818 --> 00:17:09.353
  • You will forfeit.
  • 00:17:09.353 --> 00:17:11.789
  • And i would ask you not to do that.
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  • In all things, let's grow up in him.
  • 00:17:14.158 --> 00:17:17.395
  • I think we have to acknowledge that age, chronological age does
  • 00:17:17.395 --> 00:17:20.298
  • Not equal spiritual maturity. i think the real criteria for that is the willingness to
  • 00:17:20.298 --> 00:17:23.668
  • Accept responsibility in spiritual things.
  • 00:17:26.170 --> 00:17:30.808
  • I found that the spirit of god will give you an opportunity to
  • 00:17:30.808 --> 00:17:34.178
  • Mature and give you mature assignments if you'll
  • 00:17:34.178 --> 00:17:36.380
  • Accept responsibility.
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  • That requires two things in my thinking: intent, the
  • 00:17:38.082 --> 00:17:41.252
  • Willingness, the intentionality around it; and the sacrifice.
  • 00:17:41.252 --> 00:17:46.290
  • If you're willing to do that, god will give you mature
  • 00:17:46.290 --> 00:17:48.226
  • Assignments that aren't connected to your age.
  • 00:17:48.226 --> 00:17:51.095
  • See king david.
  • 00:17:51.095 --> 00:17:53.397
  • See king josiah.
  • 00:17:53.397 --> 00:17:56.167
  • See the disciples, that you know, that jesus recruited, they
  • 00:17:56.167 --> 00:17:58.970
  • Were teenagers.
  • 00:17:58.970 --> 00:18:00.805
  • See mary and joseph.
  • 00:18:00.805 --> 00:18:02.173
  • I mean, the list goes on and on and on.
  • 00:18:02.173 --> 00:18:03.508
  • In fact, it's highly improbable that there's go--there's an
  • 00:18:03.508 --> 00:18:06.177
  • Assignment coming later in your life if you haven't sought the
  • 00:18:06.177 --> 00:18:08.579
  • Lord when you were younger.
  • 00:18:08.579 --> 00:18:10.815
  • I didn't say you couldn't be a part of the purposes of god.
  • 00:18:10.815 --> 00:18:13.017
  • Zechariah and elizabeth, god met them in a seasoned--senior
  • 00:18:13.017 --> 00:18:16.888
  • Season of their life, but he was responding to prayers they had
  • 00:18:16.888 --> 00:18:19.157
  • Been praying for decades.
  • 00:18:19.157 --> 00:18:23.294
  • There were parts of the promise god made to abraham that weren't
  • 00:18:23.294 --> 00:18:26.063
  • Fulfilled until he was an old man, but abraham responded to
  • 00:18:26.063 --> 00:18:28.966
  • God when he was a young man.
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  • Whatever responses to god you've made early in your life, get
  • 00:18:31.369 --> 00:18:34.872
  • Those back out, build upon those, revisit them, recapture
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  • The zeal of that.
  • 00:18:39.544 --> 00:18:41.979
  • If you were a young person and you've got an awareness of god,
  • 00:18:41.979 --> 00:18:44.549
  • Thank him for that.
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  • I understand there's temptations.
  • 00:18:47.952 --> 00:18:50.955
  • There's a learning curve that comes with maturing.
  • 00:18:50.955 --> 00:18:53.858
  • Whether it's physically, whether it's in academics, whether it's
  • 00:18:53.858 --> 00:18:56.494
  • Spiritually, there's a learning curve.
  • 00:18:56.494 --> 00:18:59.463
  • And i'm gonna borrow the one that we watch most often.
  • 00:18:59.463 --> 00:19:03.701
  • When i watch parents with their children, it seems like there's
  • 00:19:03.701 --> 00:19:05.503
  • An enormous amount of energy that begins in helping their
  • 00:19:05.503 --> 00:19:07.572
  • Kids be polite 'cause when you take them out in public, you
  • 00:19:07.572 --> 00:19:10.174
  • Don't want little hellions.
  • 00:19:10.174 --> 00:19:13.878
  • You know, i interact with the kids at church quite a bit and
  • 00:19:13.878 --> 00:19:17.648
  • Sometimes i feel badly for it 'cause i'll get down on the knee
  • 00:19:17.648 --> 00:19:20.384
  • And say, "hi, you know, i'm pastor allen.
  • 00:19:20.384 --> 00:19:22.753
  • What's your name?"
  • 00:19:22.753 --> 00:19:24.088
  • And the kids freeze, nine outta ten.
  • 00:19:24.088 --> 00:19:27.658
  • I understand some of them go hide behind their parents.
  • 00:19:27.658 --> 00:19:30.628
  • And then their parents start rehearsing what they've been
  • 00:19:30.628 --> 00:19:32.630
  • Coaching them on.
  • 00:19:32.630 --> 00:19:34.899
  • You know, if it's a little fellow and he's old enough, you
  • 00:19:34.899 --> 00:19:36.767
  • Know, and i shake his hand, "look him in the eye, you know,
  • 00:19:36.767 --> 00:19:40.705
  • And tell him your name."
  • 00:19:40.705 --> 00:19:42.039
  • And i'm there, "oh, jeez, i put the poor child on, like."
  • 00:19:42.039 --> 00:19:45.042
  • You know, it's like the bright, hot lights have been turned on
  • 00:19:45.042 --> 00:19:48.279
  • Them and kinda they recite what mom and dad have been drilling
  • 00:19:48.279 --> 00:19:50.848
  • Into them.
  • 00:19:50.848 --> 00:19:53.117
  • Or you give them something, say, "thank you."
  • 00:19:53.117 --> 00:19:57.855
  • Or this notion of being polite.
  • 00:19:57.855 --> 00:20:01.993
  • You know, what i hear the parents coach on the most--what
  • 00:20:01.993 --> 00:20:04.829
  • I remember the most is please and thank you.
  • 00:20:04.829 --> 00:20:08.733
  • "okay, i want a drink of water."
  • 00:20:08.733 --> 00:20:10.735
  • "well, how do you say that?"
  • 00:20:10.735 --> 00:20:13.070
  • "i want a drink of water."
  • 00:20:13.070 --> 00:20:17.108
  • I wasn't the brightest bulb in the box.
  • 00:20:17.108 --> 00:20:20.578
  • "can you not say please?"
  • 00:20:20.578 --> 00:20:22.046
  • "well, apparently not."
  • 00:20:22.046 --> 00:20:23.381
  • Which was the wrong answer, but it's--and then after--you know,
  • 00:20:23.381 --> 00:20:26.951
  • After the--you've gotten your glass, "what do you say?"
  • 00:20:26.951 --> 00:20:30.788
  • "i don't want any more water?
  • 00:20:30.788 --> 00:20:32.156
  • I don't know."
  • 00:20:32.156 --> 00:20:34.091
  • I mean, it was just wasn't intuitive to me you say
  • 00:20:34.091 --> 00:20:36.427
  • Thank you.
  • 00:20:36.427 --> 00:20:37.995
  • All right, anybody here coach anybody on saying--anybody over
  • 00:20:37.995 --> 00:20:40.298
  • Here get coached up on saying please and thank you?
  • 00:20:40.298 --> 00:20:44.135
  • Well, i did a little work on that 'cause i have such
  • 00:20:44.135 --> 00:20:47.938
  • Memories, i have marks around all of that.
  • 00:20:47.938 --> 00:20:52.843
  • The word please in the usage we're talking about is an adverb
  • 00:20:52.843 --> 00:20:57.148
  • And the dictionary says it's a function word used to
  • 00:20:57.148 --> 00:21:00.051
  • Express politeness.
  • 00:21:00.051 --> 00:21:03.387
  • And i thought wow.
  • 00:21:03.387 --> 00:21:06.090
  • It seemed more important than that in my life.
  • 00:21:06.090 --> 00:21:09.593
  • Then i lived with it a bit and i thought, you know, being polite
  • 00:21:09.593 --> 00:21:13.798
  • Has really emerged into something that is
  • 00:21:13.798 --> 00:21:16.634
  • Almost ridiculed.
  • 00:21:16.634 --> 00:21:19.503
  • It seems to me, and maybe it's my perception, but that to make
  • 00:21:19.503 --> 00:21:22.440
  • An effort in being polite is expressed almost like an
  • 00:21:22.440 --> 00:21:25.509
  • Expression of weakness.
  • 00:21:25.509 --> 00:21:29.213
  • And i don't accept that.
  • 00:21:29.213 --> 00:21:32.016
  • So i worked on it a little more.
  • 00:21:32.016 --> 00:21:33.818
  • I don't think being polite is highly valued any longer.
  • 00:21:33.818 --> 00:21:37.922
  • Or we're told it's insincere.
  • 00:21:37.922 --> 00:21:41.058
  • Well then change your attitude.
  • 00:21:41.058 --> 00:21:45.496
  • But i would submit to you that politeness is important.
  • 00:21:45.496 --> 00:21:47.932
  • It builds trust, it strengthens relationships, it improves
  • 00:21:47.932 --> 00:21:50.868
  • Communication personally and professionally, it fosters a
  • 00:21:50.868 --> 00:21:55.973
  • Positive environment, it reduces conflict, it
  • 00:21:55.973 --> 00:21:58.876
  • Enhances self-confidence.
  • 00:21:58.876 --> 00:22:01.779
  • There's a lot of things.
  • 00:22:01.779 --> 00:22:03.981
  • I found some insights were pretty interesting.
  • 00:22:03.981 --> 00:22:06.584
  • There are personal and social benefits to being polite.
  • 00:22:06.584 --> 00:22:09.420
  • It builds better relationships by showing respect and
  • 00:22:09.420 --> 00:22:14.125
  • Consideration for others.
  • 00:22:14.125 --> 00:22:15.459
  • Gee, wouldn't that be nice?
  • 00:22:15.459 --> 00:22:17.495
  • I was on a flight recently.
  • 00:22:17.495 --> 00:22:18.829
  • It was delayed more than an hour after we had already been
  • 00:22:18.829 --> 00:22:22.066
  • Delayed about 14 hours.
  • 00:22:22.066 --> 00:22:25.336
  • And we reboard the plane, it's time to take off, and we wait
  • 00:22:25.336 --> 00:22:28.839
  • More than an hour because two people are fighting.
  • 00:22:28.839 --> 00:22:33.411
  • The captain has to come from the cockpit.
  • 00:22:33.411 --> 00:22:35.846
  • We have become so coarse we can barely travel in public together
  • 00:22:35.846 --> 00:22:40.418
  • Any longer.
  • 00:22:40.418 --> 00:22:44.188
  • Politeness enhances your self-image.
  • 00:22:44.188 --> 00:22:47.625
  • Just practicing good manners can boost your self-confidence and
  • 00:22:47.625 --> 00:22:50.628
  • Help you grow.
  • 00:22:50.628 --> 00:22:52.430
  • So who defined good manners?
  • 00:22:52.430 --> 00:22:53.864
  • Well, not you.
  • 00:22:53.864 --> 00:22:57.768
  • Please and thank you did not start with me.
  • 00:22:57.768 --> 00:23:00.204
  • It got imprinted on my little self.
  • 00:23:00.204 --> 00:23:06.377
  • Being polite reduces stress.
  • 00:23:06.377 --> 00:23:07.945
  • It minimizes conflicts and confrontations which contribute
  • 00:23:07.945 --> 00:23:10.948
  • To your well-being.
  • 00:23:10.948 --> 00:23:13.884
  • You don't have to be confrontational all the time.
  • 00:23:13.884 --> 00:23:16.887
  • It makes society better.
  • 00:23:16.887 --> 00:23:18.389
  • We said we're trying to shape culture.
  • 00:23:18.389 --> 00:23:20.191
  • We don't always just shape it by preaching.
  • 00:23:20.191 --> 00:23:22.159
  • Sometimes we shape it by being polite.
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  • Thank you, please.
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  • See, this is within your repertoire, if we intend it.
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  • Etiquette and politeness are essential for
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  • Community wellbeing.
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  • They promote civility.
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  • They build a shared sense of unity and cooperation.
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  • And this isn't just the south.
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  • I know it can be insincere, but doesn't mean you have to be.
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  • We've introduced a whole language around mission
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  • Opportunity with let's pray that really extends from listening to
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  • People with a genuine concern for who they are.
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  • I would submit to you it's a--it's being
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  • Spiritually polite.
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  • You care about the spiritual condition of the people
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  • Around you.
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  • It isn't just you.
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  • It isn't just your family.
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  • Professional benefits from being polite, it fosters cooperation.
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  • It's crucial for teamwork, for building trust, for promoting
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  • Cooperation amongst colleagues.
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  • I'm tired of liars.
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  • I'm tired of deceivers and people with--obsessed with
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  • Selfish motivation.
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  • And then they go, "well, you would."
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  • No.
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  • It improves our communication within one another.
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  • It prevents misunderstandings.
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  • It allows for greater respect and constructive dialogue.
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  • It creates opportunities.
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  • Being polite can make a better first impression, which really
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  • Does matter.
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  • It'll increase your influence.
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  • People are far more likely to listen to your ideas and take
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  • You seriously if you're polite.
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  • So how do you practice this?
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  • It's not complicated.
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  • You show appreciation.
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  • Thank you can have a very significant impact on people.
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  • Use respectful language.
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  • Choose your words and your tone of voice carefully, especially
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  • When you don't agree.
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  • Don't make people feel small.
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  • That's the cheapest possible way to make yourself feel larger.
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  • Be mindful of others.
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  • Politeness really involves being aware of how others feel and
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  • Giving some consideration to their feelings.
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  • Now, doesn't mean you have to yield to everybody else's
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  • Feelings, you're not giving up your own self, but you listen
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  • And you care about others.
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  • Please, this isn't just a word for children.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: god is moving in the earth.
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  • You know, i gave my professional life
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  • To strengthening the local church.
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  • It's been the most remarkable journey.
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  • And then god led us to begin allen jackson ministries
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  • To strengthen the church beyond the local community where
  • 00:26:13.297 --> 00:26:15.899
  • I've served, across our nation and around the earth, and
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  • Your partnership has written a whole new future for what
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  • We see god doing.
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  • We have been able to broadcast messages on television
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  • And radio, we have created print materials, we published books,
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  • Small group curriculum, we're hosting a culture and
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  • Christianty conference for people across the nation.
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  • Now god's giving us strategic partners in israel and ukraine
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  • To help strengthen the church in those wartorn nations.
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  • There's a tremendous opportunity.
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  • You know, all of that is birthed out of what god put in my
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  • Heart decades ago when jesus said, "i'll build my church,
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  • And hell won't be able to stop it."
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  • And then he said, "those who will gather with me."
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  • If you don't gather, you're a scattering.
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  • Well, we wanna join the lord in what he's doing in the earth
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  • In this strategic time.
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  • It's driven my life, and i wanna invite you to be a partner
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  • With allen jackson ministries.
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  • Together, we'll fulfill the purposes of god.
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  • ♪♪♪
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