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Allen Jackson - Understanding and Revelations (Part 1)

May 24, 2025 | 27:29

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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Understanding and Revelations (Part 1) | May 24, 2025

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Allen jackson: god is moving in the earth in the most
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Remarkable ways.
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It truly is extraordinary what we see god doing.
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We have people coming to our campus in middle tennessee from
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All over the nation, from nations of the world.
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We're seeing more people baptized, more people engaging
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In ministry.
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It's truly a remarkable time to see god raising up voices
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Of truth.
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The one thing we hear consistently that is valued from
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The ministry is our willingness to speak the truth into the
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Current set of circumstances.
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And people often ask, "is there anything we can do to help?"
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And in reality there is.
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I wanna invite you to consider becoming a monthly
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Ministry partner.
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For your gift of $25 a month, you enable us to imagine a
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Future that expands the platforms of the ministry.
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That's our baseline for how we plan and what we look
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Forward to.
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If you haven't yet taken that step, please prayerfully
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Consider doing so.
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We'll share some extra content with you and some unique
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Opportunities with you, and together, we'll take a message
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Of truth to this generation.
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God is moving and we wanna move with him.
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Allen: i wanna pick up a topic for, i don't know, two or three
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Sessions anyway.
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Title is the hardest part of this whole thing for me.
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But i called it "ideas, understanding, and revelations."
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And i'll tell you what it means to me is from time to time, and
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People that have worked with me and my poor wife, you know, i'll
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Say, "i have an idea," and everybody cringes.
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Which, when i have an idea, it means it hadn't been tested by
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Experience, you know, i don't have a lot of facts to back
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It up.
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I've just got a thought.
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And that's not always a blessing.
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Understanding is something different.
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Understanding are those ideas that have been backed up
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By experience.
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Where you've had an idea and you implemented enough that there's
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Actually some life experience to go with it and from that you
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Gain some understanding.
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Sometimes good and sometimes bad.
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You know, we all--one of the things i think that comes with
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The internet and social media and all those things is we all
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Have a lot of opinions about things we don't have a lot of
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Experience with.
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You know, we're all bold typing on a keyboard in the dark.
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But, you know, i always, for me, the difference is people say
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They love horses, and i say, "oh, really?
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Have you ever been locked in a 10 by 10 stall with a 1000 pound
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Animal that's mad?"
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Until you've had that experience, don't tell me how
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Sweet they are.
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And i like horses, but they're intimidating.
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And then revelations.
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Those are those places where god provides an awareness.
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It's not the result of a study.
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It's not something that you worked out through diligence
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And hard work and commitment.
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God simply brings an awareness to you.
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What i have come to realize, at least in my life and with the
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People that i've made the journey with so far, i think my
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Comment on those revelations is that when they're given or
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Provided that they're directed towards an assignment.
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It's not some theoretical insight so you can boast about
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What you know.
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When god gives you understanding or insight, sometimes you read
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A passage of scripture that you've read 1000 times and all
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Of a sudden it's like, oh.
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Well, when the insight comes, when that revelation comes, it's
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Because there's an assignment that goes with it.
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You know, paul had a revelation of jesus on the road to damascus
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And it changed the entire direction of his life.
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When jesus walked along the shores of galilee and said to
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Select few, "follow me, i'll make you fishers of men," their
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Lives were stretched in a way and they never returned to their
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Former shape.
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Jesus is still doing that.
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He's still doing that.
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So what i wanna do is just walk through a handful of things that
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In our journey together, i would put in that kind of made this
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Progression from ideas to understanding.
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Sometimes they're revelations, not always and see if we can
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Kind of build a foundation of things that could become a part
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Of our own spiritual portfolios.
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And some of them will seem very simple and very familiar and
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Some perhaps less so, some more engaged in the culture.
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There's this spiritual battle taking place and a big portion
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Of that if it's confusing to you, if you take a step back,
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Oftentimes you can understand that there's an attempts to
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Displace the fundamental principles of scripture and the
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Ideas that are introduced to us there.
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And there's tremendous cultural pressure to support that.
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And we have to be familiar enough with what god is doing to
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Understand what we can hold and what we can negotiate.
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So i wanna start with the first one, with the inexhaustible
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Resource that god has made available to us.
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Fancy word, but the reality of it it's the scripture.
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You know, one of the big surprises of my life is the
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Transformation that comes when we read our bible.
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I grew up for the most part in a christian home.
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I've been a christ follower in my adult life.
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I have read my bible consistently for more than
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A bit.
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And i am still amazed at the transformation that comes when
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A person will take time on a regular basis to engage with the
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Word of god.
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You know, i've read the statistics and there's
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Measurable outcomes that are associated with that.
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I'm not gonna quote you a lot of statistics.
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What i would like to do is just kind of walk--i think just
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The awareness.
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And i'll tell you where i started with this is imagine how
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Different our lives would be if we didn't have a bible.
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Imagine the deficit that that would present in our lives.
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The word of god changes everything.
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You know, it's through the scripture that we learned that
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God created the heavens and the earth.
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It's an introduction to our creator.
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If we didn't have the bible, we'd just be left for everybody
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Had an opinion.
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To know that there's a creator and that he values humanity,
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That he established us as the authority over all of creation,
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That we're the image bearers of almighty god, we could not know
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That apart from scripture.
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I mean, god can be revealed in his creation, you can understand
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There's a creator, but there's something that comes with that.
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We learned that humanity holds a unique place in god's economy.
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That we're his image bearers.
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It's from scripture we learn that god heals.
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You know, we take this stuff, you know, we have debates and
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Seminars and, you know, whether god healed or he still heals,
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But if we didn't have the word of god, we'd be just left
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Without any perspective.
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It's frightening to me.
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It's through scripture that we learn about angels and demons.
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We wouldn't have a way with the understanding and insight we
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Have about the spiritual forces that both assist us and resist
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Us comes to us from scripture.
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Think how different like your life would be if you didn't have
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Any of that information.
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You know, we're told to follow the science and i'm very happy
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To do that.
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I have no problem with the science.
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Science is really a method, it's not a thing, it's not
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A conclusion.
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But imagine if we didn't have any spiritual guidance.
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It would be a devastating, we would be so much, it would be a
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Tremendous deficit.
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It's about in scripture that we learn about seed time
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And harvest.
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Those are spiritual principles that are manifest in our
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Physical world.
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Certainly as we know that with the springtime and the longer
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Days and the sunshine that life is going to return and growth is
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Coming back.
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Those principles of spiritual growth, of seed time and
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Harvest, our spiritual lives aren't on a single continuum.
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There's an ebb and a flow, there's a time for growth and
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A time for pruning.
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There's a time of dormancy.
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Doesn't mean you backslide or you retreat.
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We learn those things from scripture.
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We learn how to have a relationship with almighty god.
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If we're interested in that, the scripture shows us how we might
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Do that.
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We learn the value of work in scripture.
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Apart from scripture, we wouldn't understand it.
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We learn about god's provision for our lives.
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We learn about how to flourish in our journey through time.
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Simple stuff.
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Imagine if you didn't have the coaching of scripture.
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Says, "for this reason, a man will leave his father
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And mother."
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It's a biblical idea.
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Think of the deficit in your life.
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If you had no knowledge of scripture, no access to it, i
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Remember you--a woman my parents helped years ago.
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Our whole family got involved, but my parents initiated it.
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She was vietnamese and she'd come to this nation.
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She'd married an american military officer and when they
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Got back to the states, the whole family rejected her and
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She was left alone.
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So she didn't have a christian background.
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She didn't have a christian heritage, she hadn't gone to
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Church, she never read a bible.
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And our family got a bit involved with her.
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But i remember she had all kinds of questions, you know, why does
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Jesus say adultery is wrong?
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It's like a new idea to her.
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'cause in vietnam with the american military there, there
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Was a set of opportunities that came with that.
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And i think our lives are so different because we've had
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Access to the word of god, the privilege of reading it.
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We learn about boundaries to protect us from evil and
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Self-destructive behaviors from scripture.
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Look at hebrews 4: "the word of god is living and active.
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Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to the
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Dividing of soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the
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Thoughts and attitudes of the heart."
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It's hard to know your heart.
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We're selfish.
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A lot of factors filter into that and the word of god while
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You read it, it reads you.
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What a gift.
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What an amazing, amazing gift.
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In luke 16, jesus said, "it is easier for heaven and earth to
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Disappear than for the least stroke of a pen to drop out of
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The law."
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You know, we get so heated up, "god, i don't wanna read the
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Old testament.
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I like the new testament.
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God's so chill in the new testament."
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Oh really?
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He said none of it's going away.
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He's gonna fulfill it all.
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1 peter 1, i enjoy, i like the epistles, 1 and 2 peter, the
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Fisherman that you meet in the gospels that's brash and kind of
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Uncurried and his mouth always seems to engage a few seconds
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Before his brain.
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I mean, he's just--
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When you get to 1 and 2 peter, he's tempered by years of
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Experience and he's led through the church and led through
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The oppression.
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He's been arrested and he's, i mean, he bears the physical
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Scars of his faith.
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And his counsel is so prudent, he said, "you've been born
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Again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable."
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He said there's something in you that's alive that isn't subject
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To time.
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"through the living and enduring word of god."
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He said, "all men are like grass."
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There's a sharp distinction there between the enduring
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Eternal word of god and our lives that are like the grass.
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You know, if it's raining and the sun's out, we flourish.
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If the temperature's too cold or there's not enough
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Precipitation, we don't do well.
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But the word of god in us.
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I don't know what your relationship is with
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The scripture.
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I don't know the time you make for that.
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I know it's different.
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Some of us like to read.
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Some of us don't like to read.
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A lot of different factors, but i wanna encourage you to on
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A regular systematic basis to spend time reading your bible.
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You can listen to it.
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The apps will read it to you if you're following our bible
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Reading plan.
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You know, i understand that when i tell you for ten minutes
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A day, you can read through your bible in a year.
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For most of us apparently it takes more than ten minutes.
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I repent.
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But a twenty-minute investment in your bible a day is not an
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Inordinate amount of time.
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It's transformational.
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You'll come to understand the character of god, the purposes
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Of god.
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You'll begin to imagine possibilities of god in
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Your life.
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You see, we've done something that's tragic.
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I don't think it's helpful at all.
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As much as i value church and community and life and learning
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Together and all of those things, there's something that's
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Crept into american christendom and it's that we imagine god, we
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Equate god to our worships or what we believe comes from the
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Group of people with whom we sit.
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That's tragic.
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What we know of god and what we believe about god should begin
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With his word.
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And then it should be amplified and illustrated and highlighted
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By the spirit of god within us and then we watch for it to be
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Lived out in the community of people where we are.
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I talked to a man this morning.
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He's from another city.
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So you don't have to figure it out.
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I didn't know him.
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He came up to me and we were talking a bit and he works for
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A pro-life organization, advocating on behalf
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Of unborn children.
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And he said, "you know, i go to a church and they just won't say
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Anything about it."
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He said, "they won't talk about it."
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And i said, "leave." [congregation applauding]
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To which he responded, "well, they do a lot of good things."
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I said, "they can't do enough good things to compensate for
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The fact that they won't stand up on behalf of the 3000
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Children that'll be murdered today, leave."
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You see, we can fall into this mindset where, "well, you know,
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That's just how we believe.
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That's the group i belong to.
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That's us.
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You know, we don't believe like that."
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I'm okay. i understand that.
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You know, i get the notion of we like home cooking and we like
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Routine and familiarity.
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That's not evil, but you need the word of god to set the
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Boundaries for your life.
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To open your heart and your mind, it will change everything.
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The people of god in the earth are intended to be different,
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To have a perspective and a set of values and a set of hopes and
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A set of passions and a set of dreams.
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To give expression to a power and authority that's not
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Available to people who are not included in the kingdom of god.
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But you won't know those things if you've never read your bible,
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If you just think you're churched, or you're kind, or
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You're good, or you're moral, or you're generous, there will be
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Kind, good moral, generous people, not in the kingdom
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Of god.
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And i'm grateful for all of those attributes.
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They're noteworthy, but we want to understand the nature of god
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And that begins with his word.
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It's such a gift.
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Whatever challenge you have in your life, whatever deficits you
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Recognize today, it can be a family systemist you, it can be
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An issue of evil that's touched you, it can be
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A physical deficit.
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It can be an emotional scar, it could be a financial need.
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There is a provision for it in the word of god.
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You say, "well, show it to me."
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That's not how it works.
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You have to care enough.
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You have to invest a bit.
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It's like trying to hire somebody to exercise for you.
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Wouldn't that be wonderful?
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You know, i would love to lose about 10 pounds.
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So i'm looking for somebody that will do cardio for me.
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And in fact, if you'll do cardio for me, i'm looking for somebody
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Else that would eat healthy on my behalf.
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Me, i like cake and ice cream, but if you'd be willing to eat
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Broccoli and seeds for me.
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'cause the doctor told me i needed like to be a little
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Healthier and so i've found somebody to do cardio for me and
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Somebody to eat healthy for me.
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We laugh, we have a little bit of that attitude towards
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Our faith.
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Well, i don't read my bible, that's what you're for.
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Well, i didn't learn to pray.
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That's why you're here.
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And in reality, god has invited every one of us.
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Isn't that amazing?
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Allen: so many of you send us messages: letters, emails, notes
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In a variety of formats saying thank you for the ministry for
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Willing to speak the truth into culture in this rather
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Tumultuous season.
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Well, i hear your feedback and it's very valuable.
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The question i'm so often asked
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Is, "i feel like we should do more.
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What can we do? how do we do something?"
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Clearly god is moving in the earth.
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He's raising up voices of truth.
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We're certainly not unique or alone in that, but there is
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Something you could do that would help us.
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Join us as a monthly ministry partner.
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Our baseline for how we build our plans for next comes from
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Those monthly partners.
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Your gift of $25 or more enables us to imagine a
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Different future.
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So if god has blessed you through the ministry, i would
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Ask you to make that simple investment in what's next, and
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Together, we will join god in helping to spread the message of
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A biblical worldview and its significance for our families,
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Our communities, our nation, and for the body of christ
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Throughout the earth.
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Join us in that partnership, we'll share some unique learning
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Opportunities with you, and together, we'll move with what
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God is doing in the earth right now.
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Allen: now i wanna pick up another idea that if you'll
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Combine it with what the scripture says can become
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Understanding and it's a part of the cultural battle that's in
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Play in our world.
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I wanna take the balance of our time and walk through the
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Biblical perspective on this notion of men and husbands
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And fathers.
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And for the clarity's sake this isn't just for men.
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We're in desperate need within the body of christ for women to
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Support biblical perspectives and to help cultivate them in
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Our families.
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We have allowed a secular culture for far too long to
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Speak into what a family should be and what our roles in
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Families should be until we've arrived at a place that is
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So absurd.
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That it really is bizarre.
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And we wonder how we've arrived here and my answer is really
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Pretty simple and i don't think it's an oversimplification.
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I think it reflects a tremendous failure on the part of the
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People of god.
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How we arrived at a place where gender dysphoria is considered
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Acceptable in the midst of our culture.
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A district judge not long ago ruled that the military has to
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Accept people with gender dysphoria and provide
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Transitionary care for them.
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And the logic behind that was they said, well, if you care for
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People in the military who have ptsd, i read a portion of
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The ruling.
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If you care for people in the military who have ptsd, you
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Should care for people who have gender dysphoria.
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Well, you don't come into the military with ptsd.
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That's an outcome of what you were exposed to so there's some
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Sense of responsibility that comes with that.
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Gender dysphoria is very different.
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We've arrived at a place in our culture we have people on our
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Supreme court that are unwilling to define what a woman is.
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We have people who present themselves as intellectuals and
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They lead in some of our most celebrated academic institutions
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And powerful positions in the legal community and the medical
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Community and they'll say things foolishly like a man can nurse
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A child.
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How did we arrive at a place that's just bizarre?
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Well, i think fundamentally it's because the church has been
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Unwilling and that we've avoided the discussions about gender and
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Biology from scripture.
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And the way one of the tools that's been used to push us in
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This direction has been a manipulation of language.
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You know, language is very, very important.
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I didn't appreciate that.
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English was not my favorite subject in school.
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It just seemed like a necessary evil.
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In fact, i never really learned english until i had to learn
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Another language.
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In order to learn another language, you need to know
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English and so i was really behind the curve.
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I didn't know what a participle was, let alone they could dangle
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Until i had to learn another language.
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But language is being manipulated these days.
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For instance, redefining marriage.
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We act as if that's a thing.
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If you expand the definition or we change the definition of
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Racism or, you know, definitions are being manipulated and if
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You're not paying careful attention, it's confusing it's
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Addling 'cause words it's like, you know, they show you a
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Picture of an elephant and they say it can fly and build a nest.
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And you go, wow, i've never seen one of those big gray things do
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That except in "dumbo."
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Well, technically, and i understand language has changed,
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But before this push of recent years, gender was a
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Linguistic term.
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Gender referred in language to a nouns that were masculine or
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Feminine or neuter.
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So when we talked about gender, we really were talking about
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A linguistic concept.
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Sex was about biology.
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And the reason that had to be muddied and definitions have had
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To be muddied and it's had to be confused, is biology is really
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Not confusing.
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It's observable.
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That's the nature of science.
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It's observable, it can be repeated.
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And so to arrive at a place where we institutionalize this
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And we try to push it into a culture to the point that we
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Want to teach our youngest children about it in
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Public education.
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Language has been adjusted to fit our current social fashions
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And we need the grounding that comes from the word of god.
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So this notion of men, husbands, and fathers, i'm gonna tell you
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Just are all expressions of your faith.
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As men, understanding how to be a godly man is a primary
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Assignment of your life.
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From that comes the opportunity to be a godly husband and
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Perhaps to be a godly father.
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But they're three of the greatest opportunities presented
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To any man.
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That's not said to the diminishment of women.
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Mother's day is coming, i promise we'll walk through the
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Whole thing.
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We've got this bizarre competition that's been set up.
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So if something said that is encouraging or affirming or
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Presents opportunities to men, there's significant voices
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Within the women's community that says that's wrong.
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We've got to stop.
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It's not competitive.
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But men and moms, we have to understand the necessity of
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Godly men, godly husbands, and godly fathers.
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Most if not all of you know my father was a veterinarian.
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So my brothers and i grew up in that world.
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We all got to help in the practice.
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It was a small business, so we all, whether we wanted to or
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Not, we were in.
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And i carry some memories from that.
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Some of them are good.
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One of the good ones is they used to have a little bulletin
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Board by the door where clients came in and out of the office
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And there was a cartoon that lived on that bulletin board
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For years.
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It was a drawing of a car that was in the backseat of the car
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And the window was down and his head was out of the car and the
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Owners were in the front apparently driving and there's a
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Car that wasn't making the trip--there's a dog wasn't
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Making the trip that was standing beside the car.
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And a little bubble below it the dog in the car is looking at his
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Friend that's not traveling and he's kind of taunting him.
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He said, "ha ha, i'm going to the vet to get tutored."
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[congregation laughing]
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Well, having grown up in a veterinarian's home, i can tell
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You that animals are neutered for two primary reasons.
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One, to try to stop reproduction.
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And secondly, to diminish their aggressiveness.
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And if you'll allow me, if you ask me for a snapshot of the
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Contemporary american church, it would seem we've been tutored.
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And that's not just an opinion.
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If i looked at the spiritual condition of the church, i would
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Have to say our ability to reproduce seems to have been
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Dramatically impeded.
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We have the smallest participation numbers
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In history.
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Our influence on our culture has diminished year over year
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Throughout my lifetime.
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And i'll put that right alongside.
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The other observation is that our aggressiveness, our
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Assertiveness in the context of our faith by multiple measurable
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Variables is tremendously diminished.
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They said, "stop praying in schools" and we did.
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You understand we've said prayers in our schools from the
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Beginning of our nation.
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You understand they used to use the bible as a part of the
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Curriculum, as a part of the books presented to children in
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Public education.
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And now we hear that we go that's reprehensible, the
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Separation of church no, it hasn't always been.
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We lost our will to say, "that's an important part of training of
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The children.
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They don't have to be christians, but they need to
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Be exposed to the authority of scripture and the principles
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Of the word of god."
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We lost our assertiveness.
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We've been tutored.
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They said, "don't bring your faith to work anymore.
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Don't put a christian symbol on your clothing.
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Don't put a bible on your desk."
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And we said, "oh okay, well i wanna do that."
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And then they'll pick up ungodly worldviews and push them right
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Through corporate culture into the heart of america.
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And if you'd have the audacity to raise your hand and say, "i
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Don't agree," you'd be shamed or castigated or terminated.
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What has happened to us church?
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Allen: you know, our team that helps create this content that
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We share with you consistently pray that it enables you to find
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A more steadfast way to navigate the confusing
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World we're living in.
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And you often respond, we hear so many messages back from you
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Thanking us for content, but also asking what you can do.
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Is there a way you can pray?
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Is there a way you can stand with us?
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Well, honestly, there is.
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I want to invite you to prayerfully consider becoming a
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Monthly ministry partner.
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For a gift of $25 or more, you help us make a plan for the
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Future that will include more people.
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We build those plans based on you joining us as monthly
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Ministry partners.
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God's moving in the earth, he's changing my life, i pray he's
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Impacting yours, and we want to continue to extend this message
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To our generation with a clarity and a consistency that creates
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Opportunities for individuals and families.
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In fact, i wanna pray with you and for you.
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God, i thank you that you've let us stand together to learn
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Together, and i pray that you'll multiply this to impact even
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More lives for your glory and your purposes.
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In jesus's name, amen.
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Thanks for your partnership.
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♪♪♪
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Allen Jackson - Understanding and Revelations (Part 1)

May 24, 2025 | 27:29

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