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Allen Jackson - Two Tables That Shape Our Faith (Part 2)

March 10, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Two Tables That Shape Our Faith (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Two Tables That Shape Our Faith (Part 2) | March 10, 2026
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  • Allen: i'm gonna warn you before we read this passage, there is a
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  • Lot of activity at this table.
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  • I mean, i know it's the last supper and it's, you know, it's
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  • A holy event.
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  • And you can hear the flutter of the angel's wings, but i'm
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  • Telling you, this is a rowdy table.
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  • I mean, it's a passover meal, so it's grounded in over 1000 years
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  • Of remembering and faith and god stories, and jesus is gonna
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  • Introduce the elements of communion.
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  • He's also going to announce that he'll be--he's about to be
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  • Betrayed by somebody at the table.
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  • You know, it could have been discouraging to jesus.
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  • Three years.
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  • This is the team that's going to carry the message to the far
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  • Corners of the globe.
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  • He's about done, his betrayal is at hand, his suffering is about
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  • To begin.
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  • He's gonna step out of time.
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  • And this group of people are going to be tasked with the
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  • Message of his kingdom and what he's done for them.
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  • And they can't hold it together for a last meal.
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  • And jesus said to them, verse 25: "the kings of the gentiles
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  • Lord it over them; and those who exercise authority over them
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  • Call them benefactors.
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  • But you're not to be like that.
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  • Instead, the greatest among you should be like the youngest, and
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  • The one who rules like the one who serves.
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  • For who's greater, the one at the table or the one who serves?
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  • Is it not the one who's at the table?
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  • But i'm as--among you as one who serves."
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  • He's already washed their feet.
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  • "you are those who have stood by me in my trials.
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  • And i confer on you a kingdom, just as my father conferred one
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  • On me, so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom
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  • And sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of israel."
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  • The invitation is to be seated at his table in his kingdom.
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  • It's an expression of authority.
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  • It's used that way throughout scripture.
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  • The authority over your life, one way of understanding it in
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  • Scripture is knowing which table you sit at.
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  • We're told that there were over 800 prophets that sat at jezebel
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  • And ahab's table.
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  • They were not under the spirit of almighty god.
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  • When david wanted to establish jonathan's surviving son
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  • Mephibosheth as having protected status in his kingdom, that his
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  • Life wasn't in peril, he brought him to sit at his table.
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  • Your table establishes the spiritual authority of
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  • Your home.
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  • It gives expression to it.
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  • Verse 31: "simon, satan has asked to sift you as wheat.
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  • But i have prayed for you, simon, that your faith may
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  • Not fail.
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  • And when you've turned back, strengthen your brothers."
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  • You know, part of that prayer is encouraging to me.
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  • "simon, i've prayed for you.
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  • Satan has asked to sift you.
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  • I have prayed for you."
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  • That part's a comforting prayer to me, to know that jesus is
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  • Our intercessor.
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  • It's also a learning prayer for me, and i, to be honest, i don't
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  • Really love the lesson.
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  • He says, "when you turn back, strengthen your brothers."
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  • See, i would have rather jesus say, "i banished satan from
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  • Your future.
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  • I put a hedge of protection around you so satan had no
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  • Access to you.
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  • I rebuked him on your behalf.
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  • He wanted to mess you over tonight, but i stood up
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  • For you."
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  • What he gave simon was an awareness of an impending
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  • Battle, of a grave threat of an advancing enemy, and an
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  • Awareness that jesus himself stood as an intercessor.
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  • And he gave him the hope that he would turn back.
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  • He may turn away, but he will turn back.
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  • And when you turn back, there's an assignment for you.
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  • See, i think we wrestle oftentimes, i interact with
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  • Christians on a regular basis and we get sidetracked, we get
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  • Sidelined, we check ourselves out, we tap out because we don't
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  • Like the difficulty or the intrusion or the threat or the
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  • Diagnosis or the challenge or the circumstance in our family,
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  • And we think, "well, if i was honoring the lord, if i'm at the
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  • Table with jesus, if i walked on the water, if i was there on the
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  • Mount of transfiguration, if i'm the one that made the
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  • Announcement, 'you're the christ,' how could i have a
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  • Target painted on my life?
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  • How could the pressure become so intense that in my circle there
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  • Would be betrayal?"
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  • I think it's a lesson for all of us, and i want to invite you, if
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  • You're mad at god, i've been.
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  • I've stood in the fields at night and shaken my fist at
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  • The stars.
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  • I've said to the lord, "if this is how you treat your friends,
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  • I'm really gonna pray for your enemies."
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  • Because life's been more difficult than i have wanted it
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  • To be in seasons.
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  • It's felt unfair and unjust.
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  • But i can also tell you at this point in my journey, god
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  • Is faithful.
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  • And you can trust him.
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  • And if you're unhappy about the season you're in, it isn't
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  • Comfortable or pleasant, it isn't fulfilling the dream that
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  • You'd held, god's not far from you.
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  • God will lead you through.
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  • He's gonna lead peter through this evening.
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  • He'll direct him through.
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  • In fact, jesus himself will reinstate peter, give him
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  • An assignment.
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  • Peter becomes the--almost all the new testament scholars agree
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  • It was the strength of peter's character in those opening
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  • Chapters of acts that enabled the church to survive that
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  • Intense pressure in those early months and years.
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  • Fashioned in peter because he failed to measure up once before
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  • When he and john stood before the sanhedrin and they said, "if
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  • You ever mention the name of jesus again, we will do to you
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  • What we did to your boss."
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  • Remember what they said?
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  • It's remarkable from a couple of illiterate fishermen.
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  • Uneducated fishermen is the way it's presented.
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  • They said, "you do what you need to do.
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  • But we will not stop speaking about him."
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  • Do you know where i think that was fashioned?
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  • Do you know where i think that response came from?
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  • Later on this evening after this table gathering when peter
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  • Denies that he knows the lord multiple times with profanity,
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  • And he's left with the guilt and the shame of that and jesus
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  • Restores him post resurrection, don't you know he and john have
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  • Had some conversations around the table.
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  • There'll be pressure again.
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  • We'll be better prepared for it this time.
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  • I can imagine them looking at one another.
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  • Standing in the dock in front of the sanhedrin.
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  • Wicked, evil people that orchestrated great destruction,
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  • Wrapped in religious rules, in the pretense of faith.
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  • Jesus called them awful things, whitewashed tombs, a brood of
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  • Snakes, blind guides.
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  • I mean, not kind words.
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  • And they're standing in the dock and for they know they not only
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  • Have the ability, they have the will, to bring destruction.
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  • I can see them looking at one another.
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  • They're about to deliver their decree: "you can't mention this
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  • Name in this city again."
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  • I can see peter looking at john and john back, not this time.
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  • Not this time.
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  • Folks, we gotta start to build some of that into us.
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  • We gotta build it into our children.
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  • When they leave your home, when your grandchildren leave your
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  • Home, leave your influence, i promise you they're gonna bump
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  • Into a spirit, a secular spirit, that mocks the name of jesus and
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  • The authority of the word of god, and it will sometimes be
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  • Delivered to them in christian settings, christian churches,
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  • Christian schools, christian universities, theology schools.
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  • They'll have faculty members and professors stand in front of
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  • Them and say, "i'm going to deconstruct the faith that you
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  • Learned in your church, or that your parents taught you.
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  • They lacked sophistication, they lacked the intellectual
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  • Awareness to teach you the truth that i'm about to teach you."
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  • I've been in those settings.
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  • Don't you tolerate those voices in your schools.
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  • Peter and john said, "not this time."
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  • I'm telling you, this is a rowdy table.
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  • "'when you've turned back, strengthen your brothers.'
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  • But he replied, 'lord, i'm ready to go with you to prison and
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  • To death.'
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  • And jesus answered, 'peter, i tell you, before the rooster
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  • Crows, you'll deny three times that you even know me.'"
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  • Peter didn't have a great deal of self-awareness.
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  • He did not fully understand.
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  • Neither do we. neither do we.
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  • We need a little humility on this, folks.
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  • I know you've got a chart.
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  • You know, you're--some of you translate the names, the
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  • Numerical value of every new figure that steps onto the
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  • International stage.
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  • Could this be him?
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  • I mean, i get it, that's okay with me, but i assure you, for
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  • All that we know and all that we do to seek the lord, we're not
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  • Fully aware of what god's doing.
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  • The best answer i have in my heart is to say, "lord, i want
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  • To follow you.
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  • Holy spirit, i'm listening.
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  • I know there are battles and attacks and challenges
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  • And threats.
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  • I wanna follow you.
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  • I don't intend to back up."
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  • We need one another.
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  • You need a community of faith.
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  • Then jesus turned to them, he's gonna change, it's another, he
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  • Says--"he turns to 'em, said, 'when i sent you without a
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  • Purse, a bag, or sandals, did you lack anything?'
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  • 'nothing,' they said.
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  • And he said to them, 'well, now if you have a purse, take it,
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  • And also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your coat and
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  • Buy one.'"
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  • Well, that's awkward.
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  • He's commissioning disciples.
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  • Talk to 'em about the second amendment.
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  • Yeah, i'm gonna get mail.
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  • "'and it's written: "and he was numbered with the
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  • Transgressors"; and i tell you that this must be fulfilled
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  • In me.
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  • Yes, what is written about me is reaching its fulfillment.'
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  • And the disciples said, 'lord, here's two swords.'
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  • And he said, 'that's enough.'"
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  • He didn't overstate it.
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  • Some of you got a whole lot more than two swords.
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  • You'd be better served knowing the spiritual authority that
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  • You have.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: yeah, i have a suggestion.
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  • Let's stop waiting for somebody else to be a better leader.
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  • Let's determine this year to lead with faith.
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  • I've written a book to help.
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  • It's a practical collection of tools that you and i can use the
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  • Influence of our lives, faith first in the marketplace, in our
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  • Homes, with our friends.
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  • Folks, it's time for us to stop waiting for somebody else to
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  • Step forward.
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  • Let's determine to lead with faith.
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  • We can do that, then i believe we can change our homes, our
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  • Neighborhoods, our churches, maybe even our nation.
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  • Allen: we've got to make some fundamental changes.
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  • Let's not just be hearers of the word.
  • 00:13:03.465 --> 00:13:05.000
  • We can't afford to build our homes on sand, and if you did,
  • 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:07.403
  • God can restore what you didn't do.
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  • This is not about guilt and shame, and this is not about
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  • Some season of your life, people of my age say, "well, you know,
  • 00:13:12.775 --> 00:13:14.910
  • I don't have little people at my table."
  • 00:13:14.910 --> 00:13:16.579
  • Why not?
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  • There's young families that would benefit from your table.
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  • There's grandparents that would benefit from your courage if you
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  • Would share with them how you tell the truth.
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  • Your primary goal in life should not be to spoil the generations
  • 00:13:28.591 --> 00:13:31.227
  • Younger than you, it should be to establish their faith.
  • 00:13:31.227 --> 00:13:35.865
  • Have i offended everybody yet?
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  • I'm trying.
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  • I wanna get everybody.
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  • 1 corinthians 11.
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  • Paul is going to give us a recitation of what he said was
  • 00:13:44.406 --> 00:13:48.577
  • Revealed to him about that scenario that we just looked at.
  • 00:13:48.577 --> 00:13:52.381
  • It's made its way into the praxis of the church.
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  • "what i received from the lord, i also passed on to you: that
  • 00:13:56.118 --> 00:13:58.687
  • The lord jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, and
  • 00:13:58.687 --> 00:14:01.790
  • When he'd given thanks, he broke it and said, 'this is my body,
  • 00:14:01.790 --> 00:14:04.693
  • Which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.'
  • 00:14:04.693 --> 00:14:07.796
  • And in the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying,
  • 00:14:07.796 --> 00:14:10.266
  • 'this cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you
  • 00:14:10.266 --> 00:14:13.636
  • Drink it, in remembrance of me.'
  • 00:14:13.636 --> 00:14:16.105
  • For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim
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  • The lord's death until he comes."
  • 00:14:18.841 --> 00:14:22.645
  • Our communion table cannot be understood apart from the
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  • Passover table.
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  • The elements of communion, the purpose of communion cannot be
  • 00:14:28.350 --> 00:14:31.887
  • Understood apart from the almighty god who delivered the
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  • Former slaves of egypt from hundreds of years of bondage.
  • 00:14:35.491 --> 00:14:39.295
  • When he bore them on eagles' wings, he said to bring them
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  • To himself.
  • 00:14:41.764 --> 00:14:43.766
  • The plagues didn't accomplish that alone.
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  • It took death passing through egypt that last night.
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  • It took the remarkable distinction of the passover in
  • 00:14:51.006 --> 00:14:53.742
  • The houses of all the former slaves.
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  • When we come to the communion table, we come because the power
  • 00:14:58.814 --> 00:15:01.583
  • Of almighty god watches over us.
  • 00:15:01.583 --> 00:15:03.986
  • He is our protector, he is our deliverer.
  • 00:15:03.986 --> 00:15:07.222
  • He is our strong tower, he is our redeemer.
  • 00:15:07.222 --> 00:15:11.460
  • If we separate it from the passover narrative, we lose the
  • 00:15:11.460 --> 00:15:14.997
  • Power of it, and we think it's just about entrance into
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  • A kingdom.
  • 00:15:17.633 --> 00:15:20.736
  • There were many decisions to be made by the slaves in egypt
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  • Before they stepped into the promised land.
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  • In fact, truth be told, the adults that ate that meal didn't
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  • Make it into the promised land.
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  • They got tired.
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  • They said, "it's too difficult.
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  • We don't want to do that."
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  • Their children made it.
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  • It seems to me it's a warning to all of us.
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  • It's at least a somber note to all of us.
  • 00:15:47.529 --> 00:15:51.200
  • The passover was household specific, one lamb for each
  • 00:15:51.200 --> 00:15:54.503
  • Household, blood on the doorpost of each home.
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  • I think the role of the communion table in your home is
  • 00:15:57.172 --> 00:16:00.376
  • Spiritually significant.
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  • As you begin to regather around your kitchen table, i would
  • 00:16:04.947 --> 00:16:08.183
  • Invite you from time to time to share communion at your
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  • Kitchen table.
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  • You don't have to have church-prepared kits.
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  • You can take a cup of juice and some crackers.
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  • They used unleavened bread.
  • 00:16:21.930 --> 00:16:23.265
  • There wasn't time for the yeast to let the bread rise, so
  • 00:16:23.265 --> 00:16:25.267
  • Unleavened bread became a staple, a part of the menu, at
  • 00:16:25.267 --> 00:16:28.604
  • That annual celebration.
  • 00:16:28.604 --> 00:16:30.439
  • It's made its way into communion.
  • 00:16:30.439 --> 00:16:36.445
  • You can have communion as a family, you don't need a
  • 00:16:36.445 --> 00:16:38.280
  • Professional christian to preside over communion.
  • 00:16:38.280 --> 00:16:40.983
  • Isn't that good?
  • 00:16:40.983 --> 00:16:43.952
  • You have a high priest.
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  • His name is jesus of nazareth.
  • 00:16:45.287 --> 00:16:52.694
  • And don't use communion as some parlor trick, but as an
  • 00:16:52.694 --> 00:16:56.932
  • Invitation into the presence of the lord, and to the recognition
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  • That we need the power of god, the protection of god, the
  • 00:16:59.802 --> 00:17:02.237
  • Deliverance of god in our lives.
  • 00:17:02.237 --> 00:17:05.407
  • That has to be established in our homes.
  • 00:17:05.407 --> 00:17:09.978
  • We'll become stronger as individuals, as families.
  • 00:17:09.978 --> 00:17:13.415
  • We'll become stronger as communities of faith.
  • 00:17:13.415 --> 00:17:16.852
  • So when someone says we're nonessential, we can just smile
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  • And think, "you don't know our boss."
  • 00:17:20.756 --> 00:17:24.960
  • I brought you a collection of verses.
  • 00:17:24.960 --> 00:17:27.763
  • I found them to be tremendously encouraging to me, and i just
  • 00:17:27.763 --> 00:17:30.432
  • Wanted to share them with you.
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  • You know, when the hebrews in egypt needed released, they
  • 00:17:31.800 --> 00:17:36.371
  • Don't have the things that we're accustomed to.
  • 00:17:36.371 --> 00:17:38.474
  • I don't think we think about spiritual protection in
  • 00:17:38.474 --> 00:17:40.375
  • Our lives.
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  • We think that some other people should protect us.
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  • We dial 911, somebody should bring a bus to our house filled
  • 00:17:43.045 --> 00:17:45.547
  • With healthcare equipment.
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  • If we're threatened by a neighbor, we think we can dial a
  • 00:17:48.050 --> 00:17:50.119
  • Number and somebody will come deal with our neighbor.
  • 00:17:50.119 --> 00:17:53.889
  • If our kids aren't learning in the way we think they should be
  • 00:17:53.889 --> 00:17:56.725
  • Learning, it couldn't be our fault.
  • 00:17:56.725 --> 00:17:58.627
  • It's gotta be the systems.
  • 00:17:58.627 --> 00:18:02.331
  • I mean, we've lost this notion that we live with an assignment
  • 00:18:02.331 --> 00:18:06.535
  • To know god in a way that his protection shapes our lives and
  • 00:18:06.535 --> 00:18:09.738
  • Our futures.
  • 00:18:09.738 --> 00:18:15.043
  • There's a family in the church from venezuela and they've been
  • 00:18:15.043 --> 00:18:17.813
  • Coming to see me almost weekly since maduro got removed.
  • 00:18:17.813 --> 00:18:21.583
  • They brought me a hat last night.
  • 00:18:21.583 --> 00:18:23.819
  • It was red.
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  • On the top of it, it said, "make venezuela great again."
  • 00:18:27.389 --> 00:18:36.198
  • The man has been so--his heart is so tender, he said, "would
  • 00:18:36.198 --> 00:18:39.968
  • You pray for my pastor at home?
  • 00:18:39.968 --> 00:18:41.403
  • I have a pastor at home."
  • 00:18:41.403 --> 00:18:44.106
  • And he said, "he listens to what you do online," and he said,
  • 00:18:44.106 --> 00:18:46.808
  • "he--can we pray for him?"
  • 00:18:46.808 --> 00:18:48.477
  • And he wept while we prayed.
  • 00:18:48.477 --> 00:18:51.513
  • We have so much that we don't even think about god as
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  • Our protector.
  • 00:18:55.150 --> 00:18:57.653
  • Those slaves in egypt, you know, they couldn't deploy a carrier
  • 00:18:57.653 --> 00:19:01.223
  • Group and have it park just offshore egypt, threatening them
  • 00:19:01.223 --> 00:19:06.395
  • With tomahawk missiles, like we do.
  • 00:19:06.395 --> 00:19:11.433
  • They didn't have b-2 stealth bombers with bunker busters to
  • 00:19:11.433 --> 00:19:15.571
  • Take down the pyramids and cause pharaoh to back up.
  • 00:19:15.571 --> 00:19:20.809
  • They couldn't even levy tariffs.
  • 00:19:20.809 --> 00:19:23.812
  • What they did have was the assistance of almighty god, and
  • 00:19:27.950 --> 00:19:31.687
  • What we should all take note of is it was sufficient.
  • 00:19:31.687 --> 00:19:36.892
  • We need to know god that way, people.
  • 00:19:36.892 --> 00:19:41.296
  • I don't wanna go to another--to another seminar and talk about
  • 00:19:41.296 --> 00:19:43.932
  • Whether god still does miracles.
  • 00:19:43.932 --> 00:19:47.736
  • So i brought you a list.
  • 00:19:47.736 --> 00:19:49.071
  • You can reflect on them at your own--i'm not gonna take time
  • 00:19:49.071 --> 00:19:51.006
  • With them or much.
  • 00:19:51.006 --> 00:19:52.808
  • Psalm 46: "the lord almighty--" literally, it's the lord of
  • 00:19:52.808 --> 00:19:56.678
  • The armies.
  • 00:19:56.678 --> 00:19:58.247
  • It's the modern hebrew word for army.
  • 00:19:58.247 --> 00:20:01.016
  • The lord of the armies, the lord of the angel armies.
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  • You think of god that way?
  • 00:20:04.987 --> 00:20:07.022
  • "he is with us; the god of jacob is our fortress."
  • 00:20:07.022 --> 00:20:10.592
  • Psalm 9: "the lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold
  • 00:20:10.592 --> 00:20:13.962
  • In times of trouble."
  • 00:20:13.962 --> 00:20:16.131
  • "my strength," psalm 59, "i watch for you."
  • 00:20:16.131 --> 00:20:20.269
  • Psalm 62: "he's my rock and my salvation; he's my fortress, i
  • 00:20:20.269 --> 00:20:24.473
  • Will never be shaken."
  • 00:20:24.473 --> 00:20:25.807
  • We are unshakable if we understand what comes to us at
  • 00:20:25.807 --> 00:20:28.877
  • That table.
  • 00:20:28.877 --> 00:20:31.713
  • We've been more proud of the groups we belong to and the
  • 00:20:31.713 --> 00:20:34.082
  • Worship style that we prefer, or the translation we read--we
  • 00:20:34.082 --> 00:20:38.720
  • Haven't been centered at that table--than what jesus extended
  • 00:20:38.720 --> 00:20:42.591
  • To us.
  • 00:20:42.591 --> 00:20:44.626
  • But we're changing.
  • 00:20:44.626 --> 00:20:48.597
  • Proverbs 18: "the name of the lord is a strong tower; the
  • 00:20:48.597 --> 00:20:51.433
  • Righteous run to it and are safe."
  • 00:20:51.433 --> 00:20:54.202
  • Psalm 140: "o sovereign lord, my strong deliverer, who shields my
  • 00:20:54.202 --> 00:20:57.873
  • Head in the days of battle."
  • 00:20:57.873 --> 00:20:59.608
  • He's our strength, our strong tower, our deliverer.
  • 00:20:59.608 --> 00:21:02.177
  • He makes us unshakable.
  • 00:21:02.177 --> 00:21:04.413
  • Because of our standing in christ, because of the one who
  • 00:21:04.413 --> 00:21:06.815
  • Watches over us, god almighty, we are impregnable, unbeatable,
  • 00:21:06.815 --> 00:21:10.419
  • Invincible, invulnerable, fortified,
  • 00:21:10.419 --> 00:21:13.188
  • Indestructible, immovable.
  • 00:21:13.188 --> 00:21:14.856
  • That's not bad.
  • 00:21:14.856 --> 00:21:16.325
  • Our problems are not political, they're not cultural.
  • 00:21:20.395 --> 00:21:22.998
  • It's we've stepped too far away from god.
  • 00:21:22.998 --> 00:21:25.167
  • We lost the lesson of the table.
  • 00:21:25.167 --> 00:21:29.504
  • We've been waiting for pastors to be more anointed or somebody
  • 00:21:29.504 --> 00:21:32.140
  • To be bolder, and we've got all the essential tools we need in
  • 00:21:32.140 --> 00:21:36.178
  • Our homes.
  • 00:21:36.178 --> 00:21:37.512
  • Start at your kitchen table.
  • 00:21:37.512 --> 00:21:41.750
  • It's the hardest place in the world to be a christ follower
  • 00:21:41.750 --> 00:21:44.686
  • Because the people at your table know you the best.
  • 00:21:44.686 --> 00:21:47.956
  • And they've seen you when you were not perhaps your most
  • 00:21:47.956 --> 00:21:50.225
  • Godly, a bit like peter denying the lord.
  • 00:21:50.225 --> 00:21:57.332
  • Sitting with judas, they spent 3 years with judas and they
  • 00:21:57.332 --> 00:21:59.501
  • Didn't know.
  • 00:21:59.501 --> 00:22:01.937
  • That would cause you to question your discernment.
  • 00:22:01.937 --> 00:22:06.575
  • Well, this morning we're gonna come to the communion table.
  • 00:22:06.575 --> 00:22:10.645
  • Not an original invention.
  • 00:22:10.645 --> 00:22:15.684
  • We're just gonna follow jesus's instructions.
  • 00:22:15.684 --> 00:22:18.487
  • But we're gonna remember the point of communion is that we
  • 00:22:18.487 --> 00:22:23.225
  • Have protection over our lives.
  • 00:22:23.225 --> 00:22:27.462
  • Protection over our lives.
  • 00:22:27.462 --> 00:22:29.498
  • Because jesus offered himself as a sacrifice.
  • 00:22:29.498 --> 00:22:33.535
  • And through the cross, through his redemptive work, he gained
  • 00:22:33.535 --> 00:22:36.938
  • An eternal, irreversible victory over satan and all of
  • 00:22:36.938 --> 00:22:40.208
  • His dominion.
  • 00:22:40.208 --> 00:22:42.811
  • That you and i are the declaration of that triumph.
  • 00:22:42.811 --> 00:22:45.981
  • We're the triumphal procession of the victory that jesus won.
  • 00:22:45.981 --> 00:22:50.852
  • Just like the disciples were a reflection of his mentorship,
  • 00:22:50.852 --> 00:22:54.523
  • While they bickered about who was the greatest, got prepared
  • 00:22:54.523 --> 00:22:58.727
  • For what was next.
  • 00:22:58.727 --> 00:23:00.095
  • It's not our perfection, it's not our brilliance or our
  • 00:23:00.095 --> 00:23:02.798
  • Genius, it's our willingness to submit ourselves to the
  • 00:23:02.798 --> 00:23:05.133
  • Authority of the king.
  • 00:23:05.133 --> 00:23:08.737
  • Folks, we can make a difference in our world if we'll be
  • 00:23:08.737 --> 00:23:11.973
  • Obedient to the simple truths that we know, amen?
  • 00:23:11.973 --> 00:23:18.513
  • So we come as disciples today.
  • 00:23:18.513 --> 00:23:20.949
  • We join that crew that we just read about in luke's gospel.
  • 00:23:20.949 --> 00:23:24.719
  • We have a heritage that goes back thousands of years to an
  • 00:23:24.719 --> 00:23:28.023
  • Almighty god who will bear us on eagles' wings.
  • 00:23:28.023 --> 00:23:32.627
  • We're not left to our strength, or to the most current
  • 00:23:32.627 --> 00:23:35.430
  • Diagnosis, or the current reality of the people who
  • 00:23:35.430 --> 00:23:39.167
  • Gathered at our table.
  • 00:23:39.167 --> 00:23:41.036
  • There's a greater power at work on our behalf.
  • 00:23:41.036 --> 00:23:45.407
  • Jesus at that meal took bread and broke it and said, "this
  • 00:23:45.407 --> 00:23:47.809
  • Bread is my body, broken for you."
  • 00:23:47.809 --> 00:23:50.378
  • As often as we eat this, we do so in remembrance of him.
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  • Let's receive together.
  • 00:23:53.515 --> 00:23:58.386
  • Then he took a cup.
  • 00:23:58.386 --> 00:24:00.322
  • He said, "this cup is a new covenant."
  • 00:24:00.322 --> 00:24:04.526
  • Literally, a new contract, that i'll sign with my own blood.
  • 00:24:04.526 --> 00:24:11.666
  • When we drink it, we do it in remembrance of him.
  • 00:24:11.666 --> 00:24:13.368
  • Let's drink together.
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  • You stand with me for a prayer?
  • 00:24:20.375 --> 00:24:23.845
  • Whatever you came with today, whatever you brought with you to
  • 00:24:23.845 --> 00:24:26.414
  • This place today, whatever you're joining us with, i would
  • 00:24:26.414 --> 00:24:29.985
  • Submit to you the power of god is able to bring resolution.
  • 00:24:29.985 --> 00:24:34.122
  • The timing of that and the pathway he chooses, that's
  • 00:24:34.122 --> 00:24:36.658
  • Beyond me.
  • 00:24:36.658 --> 00:24:38.026
  • But our god is able to deliver and heal and restore and renew
  • 00:24:38.026 --> 00:24:43.098
  • And refresh.
  • 00:24:43.098 --> 00:24:47.536
  • Let's pray.
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  • Father, i thank you.
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  • I thank you for your word and the truth that it brings to us.
  • 00:24:51.673 --> 00:24:55.277
  • And lord jesus, i thank you for your great love for us, that you
  • 00:24:55.277 --> 00:24:58.914
  • Offered yourself as a sacrifice.
  • 00:24:58.914 --> 00:25:01.816
  • And we come today to declare jesus is lord over our lives.
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  • Forgive us of our sins.
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  • Forgive us of our apathy.
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  • Forgive us when we've been silent or distracted or unaware,
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  • When we've failed to respond to you in obedience.
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  • But lord, we stand in your presence today to, to
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  • Begin anew.
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  • To order our homes in a way that establishes you and your
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  • Preeminence in our lives.
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  • To use our tables for the glory of the kingdom of god.
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  • I thank you for it.
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  • Lord, we receive your life today, your forgiveness, your
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  • Health, your hope, your strength, your courage,
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  • Your boldness.
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  • Lord, enable us to live in such a way that the name of jesus is
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  • Exalted and your kingdom is extended in our communities, in
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  • The regions where we live, in the nation where we are, and
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  • Through the--throughout the nations of the earth.
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  • We praise you for it today, for the victory that is ours through
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  • The blood of jesus that we have been delivered out of the hand
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  • Of the enemy.
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  • That all of his claims against us have been canceled and we
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  • Are triumphant.
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  • In jesus's name we pray, amen, hallelujah.
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  • God bless you.
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  • I'll see you tonight.
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  • ♪♪♪
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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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  • 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
  • 00:26:57.298 --> 00:26:59.868
  • Our family system or our life experience.
  • 00:26:59.868 --> 00:27:02.404
  • We feel a little uncertain to lead with faith.
  • 00:27:02.404 --> 00:27:04.973
  • 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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  • ♪♪♪
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