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Allen Jackson - Two Tables That Change The World (Part 2)

March 8, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Two Tables That Change The World (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Two Tables That Change The World (Part 2) | March 8, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: you know, around the world people are searching
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  • For truth, and together we're doing our very best to help them
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  • Find it.
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  • Audiences, and to take the hope of jesus to people who may never
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  • Have heard the gospel otherwise.
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  • Together, we can stand firm in our faith and make god's truth
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  • Known right here at home and around the earth, wherever god
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  • Opens the door.
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  • Let's keep gathering his people and building his church until
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  • The day our king returns.
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  • You can find more about becoming a ministry partner
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  • At allenjackson.com/partner.
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  • Allen: we're a nation of immigrants.
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  • We've been here about 250 years.
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  • But we're far more bound together by values than we
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  • Are ethnicity.
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  • We're the great melting pot.
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  • And the jewish people maintained their identity by their
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  • Obedience to what god gave them.
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  • He said, "don't forget what i did for you."
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  • And it was centered in their table.
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  • How do you separate a people from their values?
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  • How do you separate children from the values of
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  • Their grandparents?
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  • You stop reminding them of them.
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  • You put other voices of authority in their lives.
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  • You let them be subject to authorities other than the
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  • Authority of their parents.
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  • There are no perfect families, folks.
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  • If you're looking for a perfect family, if you find one, don't
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  • Talk to them.
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  • You'll mess it up.
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  • The only families that are perfect are the ones you don't
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  • Know well enough.
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  • 'cause we're all a bunch of cracked pots.
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  • I'm not saying that to excuse sloppiness or ungodliness or
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  • Certainly not abuse, but the reality is we're all very much
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  • In process.
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  • But we need to understand what's necessary for us to maintain the
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  • Momentum for godliness to form in our character, in our lives,
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  • In our relationships.
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  • And what i'm suggesting to you, i understand, is not the
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  • Predominant message of our culture right now, but it
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  • Doesn't mean it's less true.
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  • I'm inviting you to order your lives with some regularity
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  • Around a gathering where you acknowledge god and his place in
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  • Your home either as a family or as an expression of hospitality
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  • With the people with whom you gather.
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  • If the people who are closest to you do not expect you to have a
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  • Conversation around your faith, why?
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  • If your expressions of hospitality are gathered around
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  • Things that do not include an expression of faith, what are
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  • We thinking?
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  • I mean, i'm happy to get together with friends who do any
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  • Number of things, whether they hunt or it's athletics or
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  • What--whatever our interest in.
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  • I don't think that's wrong or evil or wicked.
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  • But if you gather with those people and your faith isn't
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  • Welcome, change your friends.
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  • But far more importantly, change your heart.
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  • There have been seasons in my life where my friends had very
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  • Little idea i was a person of any faith whatsoever.
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  • It wasn't my friend's fault, it was mine.
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  • There were times in my life where i didn't enjoy christians,
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  • And the reason was there was so little jesus in me.
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  • If you're more uncomfortable with ungodly people than you are
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  • With godly people, it's not because godly people
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  • Are hypocrites.
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  • We are.
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  • People say to me, "i don't wanna go to church.
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  • There are so many hypocrites."
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  • I always say the same thing.
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  • "well, come on. we'll squeeze one more in."
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  • Don't miss the blessings of god because of some
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  • Other knucklehead.
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  • That's not a good proposition.
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  • God established these people.
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  • He brought the--this tremendous freedom to them that all the
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  • Other expressions of his power had not been able to accomplish,
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  • And death rolls through egypt, and the delivering point is the
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  • Obedience in each household to cooperate with the instructions
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  • They were given.
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  • We tend to be torqued up about pastor or church or denomination
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  • Or government or parties or something.
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  • Let's begin to practice simple obedience to fundamental truths
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  • In each of our homes and watch the expressions of the power
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  • Of god.
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  • Same chapter in exodus, verse 31, "during the night pharaoh
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  • Summoned moses and aaron, and he said, 'leave my people, you and
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  • The israelites.'"
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  • When they realize what's happening, they don't even wait
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  • For sun up.
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  • They want these people gone.
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  • "go, worship the lord as you have requested.
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  • Take your flocks and your herds, as you said, and go.
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  • And bless me."
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  • Every one of egypt's gods has been humiliated by the plagues
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  • And now death has come even to the palace, and pharaoh was
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  • Saying to--you know, there's a rivalry between pharaoh
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  • And moses.
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  • As young people, they occupied the same space.
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  • And moses kills an egyptian and grows to maturity in the desert,
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  • And pharaoh consolidates his power.
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  • And moses rolls back in and says, "let the slaves go."
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  • And pharaoh says, "fat chance."
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  • And now after the nation has been devastated and now death
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  • Has come, pharaoh says, "would you bless me before you go?"
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  • "the egyptians urged the people to hurry and leave the country."
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  • I bet they did.
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  • "'for otherwise,' they said, 'we'll all die!'
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  • So the people took their dough before the yeast was added."
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  • Passover is celebrated with unleavened bread like crackers,
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  • Matzah because they didn't have time for the yeast to cause the
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  • Bread to rise.
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  • You know, we take communion you--if you have handy-dandy,
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  • Church-prepared communion, it's with unleavened bread taken from
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  • These places.
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  • It's not some new idea.
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  • We're gonna look at that in the next session.
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  • "the israelites did as moses instructed and asked the
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  • Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and for clothing.
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  • The lord made the egyptians favorably disposed towards
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  • The people."
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  • Yeah, i bet.
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  • "and they gave them what they asked for, so they plundered
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  • The egyptians."
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  • They got their wages.
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  • All the things they needed--you know, the golden calf that they
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  • Built on the--at the base of mount sinai when moses was gone
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  • Was the gold they'd plundered from the egyptians.
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  • The gold and the silver and all the finery that was necessary
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  • For the tabernacle and the furnishings of the tabernacle,
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  • They plundered from egypt.
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  • It's remarkable what god did, but it was god's presence that
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  • Made the difference.
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  • In exodus 19, "moses went up to god, and the lord called him
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  • From the mountain and he said, 'this is what you're to say to
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  • The house of jacob and what you're to tell the people of
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  • Israel: 'you yourselves have seen what i did to egypt, and
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  • How i carried you on eagles' wings and i brought you
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  • To myself.
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  • Now if you'll obey me fully and keep my covenant, out of all the
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  • Nations you'll be my treasured possession.
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  • Although the whole earth is mine, you'll be for me a kingdom
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  • Of priests and a holy nation.'
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  • These are the words you're to speak to the israelites."'
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  • God's beginning this process of shaping this disparate group
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  • Of people.
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  • They're far more familiar with the gods of egypt than they
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  • Are the god of abraham, isaac, and jacob.
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  • They know how the egyptians worship.
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  • They've never worshiped god as a unified group of people.
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  • They've never really had anybody instructing them on social or
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  • Cultural norms, and god is fashioning them into a nation.
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  • What fascinates me in that passage is the description that
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  • God gives of the exodus.
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  • He said, "i carried you on eagles' wings and brought you
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  • To myself."
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  • It seems to me that god's perspective wasn't primarily
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  • About deliverance from egypt but rather that, "i brought you
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  • To myself.
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  • We could have gotten you out of egypt any day we needed to, but
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  • It began a season of me bringing you to myself."
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  • I wanna introduce an idea, the reason i think the table is so
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  • Important and i think the reason we need to re-center a bit, and
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  • This is not just about families with small children.
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  • If you're single, you have a table.
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  • If you're empty nesters, you have a table.
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  • If you're widows or widowers, you have a table.
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  • It does--it's not about your life circumstance.
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  • We all have friends and relationships, so there's a
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  • Spiritual authority over our lives.
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  • But god is our protector.
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  • He's our deliverer.
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  • He's our strong tower.
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  • He's our fortress.
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  • We haven't had to think in these ways.
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  • We've lived in the--for the--for several decades in a place and
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  • In a culture where we thought our security really wasn't
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  • Dependent upon god.
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  • Our security comes from other things: by the strength of the
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  • Dollar, or the--how formidable the us military may be, or the
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  • Oceans that protect us, or the united nations, or whatever
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  • We've imagined, but we certainly didn't have to imagine that we
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  • Were dependent upon god as our spiritual protection.
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  • We just didn't.
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  • This isn't even the way we've heard the gospel presented.
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  • We didn't wanna go to hell, so we thought, "well, maybe i
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  • Should be saved."
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  • And we wanna be good people.
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  • We don't wanna be bad people.
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  • So what are the general boundaries around good people
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  • That--we really didn't process it in terms necessarily of
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  • Obedience to god or we wouldn't have given ourselves
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  • The latitude.
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  • But how many people do you think in egypt that last night said,
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  • "well, i don't really wanna put blood on the top of the door and
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  • Both sides.
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  • I'm just gonna go with the right side."
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  • I'm sure there was somebody.
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  • Aren't you?
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  • Or, "i don't like lamb, i like veal."
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  • And i feel like we've lived that way because we thought, "well,
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  • It's gonna--everything's gonna go on like it's always gone on.
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  • It's not gonna be that different."
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  • "we've been here for hundreds of years.
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  • Moses has rolled up in here with other things, flies and frogs
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  • And stuff, and we're still here and we'll be here tomorrow."
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  • I think we live like that.
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  • I mean, we're christian and, you know, we go to church if it's
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  • Convenient and the parking's okay and the pastor engages us
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  • Enough or somebody speaks to us or the music satisfies us, but
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  • We don't really try to order our lives in an expression of
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  • Obedience to god.
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  • I mean, we got things to do, degrees to be earned, families
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  • To get started, achievements to make, grandkids to visit.
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  • "it's retirement. it's my time."
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  • We got something.
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  • I don't think it's evil any more than that extra 5 pounds or 10
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  • Or--it's just like mission creep.
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  • "well, it's my season of life.
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  • My metabolism used to be more robust," or, "i was in a season
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  • Where i needed to be more dependent upon the lord,"
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  • Or something.
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  • But the bible tells us that god, when he carries us on eagles'
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  • Wings, it's to bring us to himself.
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  • Do--are we even interested or are we just trying to get a
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  • Ticket punch so in the case of the end of the run there's a god
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  • We wanna go the right direction?
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  • Allen: yeah, i have a suggestion.
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  • Allen: i wanna suggest that you have an honest conversation with
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  • The lord, not a church conversation, not an appointment
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  • With the pastor, not a recitation of your handful of
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  • Favorite verses that make you feel secure.
  • 00:13:12.540 --> 00:13:15.844
  • Have an honest conversation with the lord.
  • 00:13:15.844 --> 00:13:17.712
  • And there have been times and seasons in my life if i'd had
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  • That i would have--if i were honest, it would have been a
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  • Whole lot more like, "god, i'm really interested in you
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  • Serving me.
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  • I have a plan.
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  • I have dreams and aspirations and things that i wanna
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  • Accomplish and things that are important to me and i wish you'd
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  • Get busy with it.
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  • You know, i'll do my part.
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  • I'll do what i can, but i'm looking for outcomes i
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  • Can't do."
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  • So i'm like, "if you're for real, could you get busy?"
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  • And somewhere along the journey--and i can't identify a
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  • Day or a week.
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  • I don't know.
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  • But my perspective on that has changed 180 degrees.
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  • I understand now that the objective of me having breath
  • 00:14:01.122 --> 00:14:04.225
  • Today is to serve the lord.
  • 00:14:04.225 --> 00:14:07.862
  • Now, that doesn't mean i don't have aspirations and dreams and
  • 00:14:07.862 --> 00:14:10.498
  • Objectives, and i still enjoy life and all that it brings and
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  • I don't think it's just because i'm old.
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  • That's what younger people will say, you know.
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  • "you've already lived your life.
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  • It's easy for you to say."
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  • I'll let you in on a little clue.
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  • That ambition that's pushing you when you're younger, it'll be
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  • Pushing you when you're older.
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  • Promise.
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  • You'll be no less selfish.
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  • If you're a dirty young man, you'll be a dirty old one.
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  • Oh, come on.
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  • Somebody tell the truth.
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  • We have to purposefully change the ambition of our hearts and
  • 00:14:51.639 --> 00:14:56.244
  • Begin to say, "lord, i would like to be obedient to you.
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  • I'm not even sure what that means."
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  • Just talk to the lord in a candid way.
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  • "god, i've tried it my way.
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  • I mean, i didn't deny you.
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  • I didn't wanna--i don't wanna burn my card.
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  • I didn't wanna separate.
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  • I didn't wanna be buddhist or muslim, but--you know, what i
  • 00:15:13.394 --> 00:15:16.898
  • Really wanted was like a vaccination 'cause i didn't
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  • Wanna get overcome with godliness 'cause i've known some
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  • Of those people and they were weird and i didn't wanna be one
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  • Of those people.
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  • I just wanted enough.
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  • But i would really like to know you."
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  • Folks, if there is a god, and i believe there is, and if he
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  • Created the heaven and the earth, and i believe he did, and
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  • If he can be known by you and by me, and i believe he can, why
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  • Would we not?
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  • And i don't know of a more significant step to do that by
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  • Saying, "i'm gonna welcome you into my home.
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  • I will sit at this table and be an ambassador for you with my
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  • Family, with my friends, with whomever you bring."
  • 00:16:05.046 --> 00:16:08.950
  • In hebrews it says don't forget to entertain strangers.
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  • If it tells you not to forget to do that, it's because we've
  • 00:16:12.520 --> 00:16:17.225
  • Forgotten to do that.
  • 00:16:17.225 --> 00:16:19.160
  • Said welcome people to your table that you might not welcome
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  • Because in so doing, it says, you--some have
  • 00:16:21.429 --> 00:16:23.531
  • Entertained angels.
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  • I'd like to entertain an angel.
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  • Wouldn't it be fun to get to heaven to meet an angel and he
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  • Said, "you are a lousy cook, but you were one hospitable person?"
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  • Talk to the lord.
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  • Stop the pretense.
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  • It's not about pleasing me or anybody else.
  • 00:16:43.918 --> 00:16:48.523
  • You can know god.
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  • It's the most remarkable invitation of our lives.
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  • And if you recognize that god will carry you on eagles' wings,
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  • That he's your protector, if you--if we can just--if we could
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  • Awaken to the idea that we need spiritual protection.
  • 00:17:11.612 --> 00:17:17.251
  • We protect our cars and our homes and our kids and our
  • 00:17:17.251 --> 00:17:19.887
  • Assets, but we don't think about needing spiritual protection.
  • 00:17:19.887 --> 00:17:24.525
  • We hardly believe spiritual forces are significant enough.
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  • We'll have seminars about whether miracles happen or
  • 00:17:28.963 --> 00:17:31.599
  • Healings happens or whatever happens, but we don't really
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  • Give credibility to spiritual forces.
  • 00:17:34.368 --> 00:17:36.737
  • I'll do a longer study, but i brought you a summary piece
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  • On that.
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  • See, the hebrew slaves that god delivered from egypt, they did
  • 00:17:43.945 --> 00:17:47.615
  • Not have a carrier group to send off the coast of egypt.
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  • They didn't have a whole group of b-2 stealth bombers to send
  • 00:17:51.652 --> 00:17:57.191
  • To bomb out pharaoh's key military positions.
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  • They didn't even have the ability to levy tariffs
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  • On pharaoh.
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  • They were powerless.
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  • All that they had was the assistance of almighty god, and
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  • That was enough.
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  • What would happen if god's people came back to the place
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  • That we thought the blessing of almighty god would enable us to
  • 00:18:18.846 --> 00:18:23.484
  • Overcome whatever, that if we needed those other things--it's
  • 00:18:23.484 --> 00:18:27.788
  • Not an exclusive conversation.
  • 00:18:27.788 --> 00:18:29.824
  • I'm not opposed to that one set of things, but i do not intend
  • 00:18:29.824 --> 00:18:32.860
  • To leave god out of the equation.
  • 00:18:32.860 --> 00:18:35.062
  • 2 samuel 22, david is celebrating.
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  • It's really a summary of many, many statements that david
  • 00:18:42.637 --> 00:18:45.339
  • Has made.
  • 00:18:45.339 --> 00:18:46.941
  • I'll share them with you in another context, but he makes
  • 00:18:46.941 --> 00:18:49.644
  • Seven observations about god.
  • 00:18:49.644 --> 00:18:51.212
  • "the lord is my rock, my fortress, my deliverer, my god
  • 00:18:51.212 --> 00:18:55.316
  • Is my rock, in whom i take refuge, my shield, the horn of
  • 00:18:55.316 --> 00:18:59.220
  • My salvation."
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  • That's kind of a hebraic phrase.
  • 00:19:00.621 --> 00:19:01.956
  • It means he's my strength.
  • 00:19:01.956 --> 00:19:03.658
  • "he's my stronghold, my refuge, and my savior.
  • 00:19:03.658 --> 00:19:06.594
  • From violent men you save me.
  • 00:19:06.594 --> 00:19:07.995
  • I call to the lord, who's worthy of praise, and i'm saved from
  • 00:19:07.995 --> 00:19:10.765
  • My enemies."
  • 00:19:10.765 --> 00:19:13.968
  • I mean, if you lump that set of things together, he said, "in
  • 00:19:13.968 --> 00:19:16.404
  • God, you know, i stand in a place that's impregnable.
  • 00:19:16.404 --> 00:19:19.574
  • It's unbeatable, invincible, invulnerable,
  • 00:19:19.574 --> 00:19:21.943
  • Fortiti--fortified, indestructible.
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  • It's immovable, protected by god."
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  • Folks, we need his protection in the most remarkable of ways.
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  • And what we are familiar with or more familiar with probably far
  • 00:19:36.224 --> 00:19:39.093
  • More so than passover is the communion table, but the
  • 00:19:39.093 --> 00:19:44.432
  • Discussion of communion that jesus implemented for us began
  • 00:19:44.432 --> 00:19:47.835
  • At the passover table.
  • 00:19:47.835 --> 00:19:51.339
  • Wasn't made out of new cloth.
  • 00:19:51.339 --> 00:19:55.042
  • Water baptism that we imagine to be a part of our discipleship
  • 00:19:55.042 --> 00:19:58.112
  • Journey emerges right out of the practice that the jewish people
  • 00:19:58.112 --> 00:20:02.984
  • Had in their mikvahs of dipping themselves in water to be--as an
  • 00:20:02.984 --> 00:20:07.321
  • Expression of cleanliness.
  • 00:20:07.321 --> 00:20:09.557
  • John the baptist was baptizing people in the jordan river prior
  • 00:20:09.557 --> 00:20:14.462
  • To jesus's death.
  • 00:20:14.462 --> 00:20:16.597
  • It was an observation within judaism of repentance from sins.
  • 00:20:16.597 --> 00:20:22.436
  • We're not separate from.
  • 00:20:22.436 --> 00:20:26.841
  • Well, i wanna close our service with communion.
  • 00:20:26.841 --> 00:20:28.843
  • When you came in today, there were ushers at the entries with
  • 00:20:28.843 --> 00:20:31.879
  • The communion elements.
  • 00:20:31.879 --> 00:20:33.214
  • If somehow you missed that and you would like them, there are
  • 00:20:33.214 --> 00:20:35.916
  • Ushers in the aisles.
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  • They'll share with you.
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  • If you're at home, this is your shot.
  • 00:20:38.619 --> 00:20:40.054
  • Go grab a glass of milk and an oreo.
  • 00:20:40.054 --> 00:20:44.458
  • I don't mean to be disrespectful, but you don't
  • 00:20:44.458 --> 00:20:46.227
  • Have to have one of our handy-dandy little kits.
  • 00:20:46.227 --> 00:20:49.530
  • But communion is not just some religious ritual or tradition.
  • 00:20:49.530 --> 00:20:53.267
  • In fact, i wanna give you permission to have communion,
  • 00:20:53.267 --> 00:20:56.003
  • You ready, at your table, at your table.
  • 00:20:56.003 --> 00:21:05.112
  • Let your family think that's normal.
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  • Take a cup of grape juice and a handful of saltine crackers and
  • 00:21:10.651 --> 00:21:16.824
  • Break them and dip them into the juice.
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  • It's the body of our lord that was broken for you and the blood
  • 00:21:19.894 --> 00:21:22.697
  • Of our lord that was shed for you.
  • 00:21:22.697 --> 00:21:24.065
  • You can pass that cup around the table and then somebody can
  • 00:21:24.065 --> 00:21:26.901
  • Offer a prayer.
  • 00:21:26.901 --> 00:21:28.235
  • Why not learn to invite god into the midst of our families?
  • 00:21:28.235 --> 00:21:32.573
  • If you have a group of friends over and there's challenges or
  • 00:21:32.573 --> 00:21:35.009
  • Needs or things that are--and our families are filled with
  • 00:21:35.009 --> 00:21:38.145
  • That stuff.
  • 00:21:38.145 --> 00:21:39.513
  • Our lives are filled with that stuff.
  • 00:21:39.513 --> 00:21:40.848
  • Sometimes they're just opportunities, and we need
  • 00:21:40.848 --> 00:21:42.216
  • God's wisdom.
  • 00:21:42.216 --> 00:21:43.851
  • You can have communion at your table.
  • 00:21:43.851 --> 00:21:47.355
  • I understand professional christians have tried to co-opt
  • 00:21:51.492 --> 00:21:54.729
  • Communion and say that, you know, you couldn't do that
  • 00:21:54.729 --> 00:21:57.064
  • Without their blessing.
  • 00:21:57.064 --> 00:21:58.432
  • Wars have been fought over communion.
  • 00:21:58.432 --> 00:22:01.369
  • God forbid.
  • 00:22:01.369 --> 00:22:02.770
  • The spiritual protection of god made available to us through the
  • 00:22:06.974 --> 00:22:09.643
  • Sacrifice of his son should never be reduced or diminished
  • 00:22:09.643 --> 00:22:15.483
  • To a tradition or a religious ritual or imagine that it's the
  • 00:22:15.483 --> 00:22:20.254
  • Property of some cleric.
  • 00:22:20.254 --> 00:22:24.191
  • It's unacceptable to me.
  • 00:22:24.191 --> 00:22:25.926
  • Jesus is our high priest.
  • 00:22:29.530 --> 00:22:32.333
  • We approach him.
  • 00:22:32.333 --> 00:22:34.068
  • He's our intermediary.
  • 00:22:34.068 --> 00:22:35.403
  • He's our intercessor.
  • 00:22:35.403 --> 00:22:37.138
  • If our desire is to please him and to walk uprightly before
  • 00:22:37.138 --> 00:22:40.074
  • Him, we have every reason to imagine that he will help us.
  • 00:22:40.074 --> 00:22:44.412
  • He's our strong tower.
  • 00:22:44.412 --> 00:22:46.447
  • He's our rock that makes us unshakeable.
  • 00:22:46.447 --> 00:22:49.817
  • He secures our future.
  • 00:22:49.817 --> 00:22:51.886
  • He watches over our dreams.
  • 00:22:51.886 --> 00:22:56.157
  • What a wonderful thing to serve the lord.
  • 00:22:56.157 --> 00:22:58.759
  • Your table matters, folks.
  • 00:22:58.759 --> 00:23:00.795
  • Dust it off.
  • 00:23:00.795 --> 00:23:03.297
  • Find some chinet.
  • 00:23:03.297 --> 00:23:07.201
  • But we're gonna come to the lord's table tonight.
  • 00:23:11.272 --> 00:23:14.241
  • I don't know what you brought to this place.
  • 00:23:14.241 --> 00:23:15.576
  • Maybe it's a dream and you're gonna ask the lord for wisdom to
  • 00:23:15.576 --> 00:23:19.480
  • Chase it.
  • 00:23:19.480 --> 00:23:21.282
  • Maybe it's a broken place and you need god's healing.
  • 00:23:21.282 --> 00:23:24.718
  • Maybe you're weary and you need refreshed.
  • 00:23:24.718 --> 00:23:27.888
  • The expressions of that will be as diverse as we are, but god
  • 00:23:27.888 --> 00:23:31.892
  • Is able.
  • 00:23:31.892 --> 00:23:34.195
  • God is able.
  • 00:23:34.195 --> 00:23:35.963
  • If he could deliver hundreds of thousands of slaves from the
  • 00:23:35.963 --> 00:23:39.467
  • Power of egypt, he can handle us.
  • 00:23:39.467 --> 00:23:44.004
  • Amen?
  • 00:23:44.004 --> 00:23:45.773
  • So we come as disciples to follow jesus's instructions.
  • 00:23:45.773 --> 00:23:49.076
  • He gathered at that passover table with his closest friends
  • 00:23:49.076 --> 00:23:53.681
  • And he took bread and broke it and said, "this bread is my body
  • 00:23:53.681 --> 00:23:56.550
  • That's broken for you.
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  • As often as you eat this, do this in remembrance of me."
  • 00:23:57.885 --> 00:24:00.588
  • Let's receive together.
  • 00:24:00.588 --> 00:24:04.225
  • Then he took a cup.
  • 00:24:04.225 --> 00:24:06.293
  • He said, "this cup is a new covenant."
  • 00:24:06.293 --> 00:24:09.263
  • Big word.
  • 00:24:09.263 --> 00:24:10.598
  • Most binding word in the bible.
  • 00:24:10.598 --> 00:24:13.067
  • "a new contract sealed with my own blood."
  • 00:24:13.067 --> 00:24:18.239
  • Let's receive together.
  • 00:24:18.239 --> 00:24:21.842
  • If you stand with me, i wanna close with a prayer.
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  • But i also wanna commission you.
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  • You can do this at your table.
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  • "what if i do it wrong?"
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  • Invite the lord to the table and you'll be okay.
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  • It's not about us.
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  • Father, i thank you.
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  • I thank you for your great love for us, for your great power
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  • That has been expressed towards us, that you're a god who
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  • Delivers and redeems and restores and renews.
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  • We praise you for that tonight.
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  • Lord, i thank you that just as you delivered the hebrew slaves
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  • From egypt you are delivering men and women from darkness and
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  • Bondage today, that you bring health to our bodies and peace
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  • To our minds and hope to our souls.
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  • Lord, the desire of our heart is to walk uprightly before you, be
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  • Pleasing in your sight.
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  • Help us.
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  • I pray for those tonight who need healing.
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  • Lord, bring life to our bodies.
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  • Lord, where there's anxiety, bring peace, where there's fear,
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  • Bring trust.
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  • Lord, give us understanding hearts to fulfill what you
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  • Created us for.
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  • Teach us to trust you.
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  • May we know that we stand because of your great
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  • Protection, because you watch over us, because almighty god
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  • Knows us by name and is the author and the completer of
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  • Our stories.
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  • Our trust is in you, in jesus's name.
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  • Amen.
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  • Hallelujah. god bless you.
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  • Allen: i suspect we've all heard the line that leadership is
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  • About influence.
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  • Well, i have a question for you.
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  • What do you lead with?
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  • What is the basis of your influence?
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  • Is it your appearance, your education, your professional
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  • Expertise, your professional accomplishments, your athletic
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  • Ability, your family?
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  • What is the point of influence that you use most frequently?
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  • Well, i've written a book.
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  • The title is gonna give away where i'm headed.
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  • It's "lead with faith."
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  • I think it's time that all of us begin to use our faith as an
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  • Influence in the world where we find ourselves.
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  • We're reluctant to do that.
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  • We typically have more confidence in our education or
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  • Our family system or our life experience, we feel a little
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  • Uncertain to lead with faith.
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  • The point of this book is to give you the tools to take your
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  • Faith out of a church setting and bring it into
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  • The marketplace.
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  • If we will lead with faith, i believe god will help us make an
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  • Impact in this generation.
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  • Go to allenjackson.com and get your copy today.
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