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Allen Jackson - Understanding Jesus' Arrival: Matthew

December 17, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - Understanding Jesus' Arrival: Matthew
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Understanding Jesus' Arrival: Matthew | December 17, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: we began allen jackson ministries
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  • To strengthen the church.
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  • Thank you for your partnership.
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  • Together we made an impact in this nation, but we're not done.
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  • In fact, in many ways i believe we're just beginning.
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  • The status quo is not adequate any longer.
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  • We can't sit in our churches and have our polite bible studies
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  • And sing our favorite choruses while we watch
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  • Darkness increasing in the world around us.
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  • We have to have the courage to tell the truth to our culture.
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  • A biblical worldview to engage current events in a way
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  • To make what we believe apart of the fabric of our schools,
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  • Our homes, our communities, our nation, and beyond.
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  • We have invitations now from war-torn countries
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  • In israel and ukraine to strengthen the churches there.
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  • God is moving in the earth.
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  • Allen: i wouldn't pretend to know the exact timeline, but i
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  • Believe just as certainly as jesus came the first time that
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  • He's returning to the earth.
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  • And i believe many of the circumstances that were
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  • Prevalent when he came the first time will be prevalent when he
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  • Comes the second time.
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  • And i think the better we understand the characters in
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  • This narratives that are so familiar to us, the better we
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  • Can be prepared ourselves.
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  • You know, there's a lot of ways to understand and interpret
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  • And comment on what's been happening in our world, but it
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  • Seems to me, in the--at the simplest level, the most direct
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  • Level that a little over two years ago there was a
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  • Tremendous shift in our world.
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  • From one vantage point, i could suggest that there was a group
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  • Of people that recognized an opportunity with a virus that
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  • Apparently escaped from wuhan as a means of asserting
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  • Authority or re-establishing authority over nations, and
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  • Maybe even over multiple nations.
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  • But i would also comment from the vantage point where we stand
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  • Today that god has used this season to pull back the curtains
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  • To bring an awakening to his people, an awareness that we
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  • Lacked a little over two years ago.
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  • We were walking down a pathway, for the most part, unaware and
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  • Unconcerned and uninvolved in some expressions of darkness
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  • And evil and wickedness that were plunging our world in a
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  • Very dangerous direction, and god began to awaken his church.
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  • I see evidence of that week upon week upon week.
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  • In this past year, we have had messages from all 50 states and
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  • Many nations.
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  • We've had visitors on our campus from over 30 states.
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  • And really, it's a rallying call.
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  • It's not about a single ministry because most of those people
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  • I've talked to are part of multiple ministries and
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  • Expressions of faith, but it's an awakening, an awareness that
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  • God is moving and stirring the hearts of his people.
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  • That's really good news.
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  • But that's happening in contrast to some other things that
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  • Are happening.
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  • We're also witnessing the rise of paganism, not a new thing,
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  • Paganism has emerged throughout human history, but we're seeing
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  • The emergence of paganism in a way we have not seen in
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  • Our lifetimes.
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  • You know, there's a growing intolerance.
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  • Almost a complete intolerance for a biblical worldview.
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  • Now, corresponding to that is the deterioration in
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  • Human character.
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  • Values which have shaped western culture for hundreds of years
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  • Are being discarded.
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  • And there's labels that are attached to them that cause them
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  • To be thrown into the trash bin, we're told.
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  • Labels like it's out of date, it's patriarchal, it's racist,
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  • It's xenophobic, transphobic, homophobic.
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  • It's phobic of something.
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  • It's repressive, capitalistic, uninformed, anachronistic,
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  • Fundamentalist, christian nationalist, and the list goes
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  • On and on.
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  • It's a--there's a labeling taking place and you all
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  • Understand it because most of us are tempted to mute our voices
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  • Or certainly select our audiences because we don't want
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  • To be labeled, or de-platformed, or canceled, or suffer the
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  • Economic consequences of impacting our business because
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  • We identified too broadly or boldly with jesus.
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  • Or becoming the targets of attorneys and legal action
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  • Because we invited somebody to do something as radical as pray.
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  • You understand it.
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  • We don't think about it perhaps too frequently, and we don't
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  • Talk about it as often as we might.
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  • But the results of this pathway become more clear with each day.
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  • There's increasing violence.
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  • We see justice being applied inconsistently, to gain or
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  • Maintain power in too many cases.
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  • There's widespread censorship, things that we haven't seen in
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  • Our culture.
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  • There's state sponsored deception, rapidly rising
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  • Authoritarianism in our own nation and around the globe,
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  • Diminished rights for the minority, immorality, families
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  • No longer imagined to be the fundamental training point
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  • For children.
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  • Disrespect for authority, greed, envy, unbridled pursuit
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  • Of pleasure.
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  • Children to a startling degree have become prey for demonic
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  • Ideas and activity.
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  • Many current circumstances remind me of the 1st century,
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  • That time period into which jesus emerged, the time when he
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  • Was born.
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  • I believe there will be many parallels between that season
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  • And the season when jesus returns to the earth.
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  • His first entry into time and his second entry into planet
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  • Earth, we're told, will have many parallels.
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  • So, i think that the birth narratives are very, very
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  • Relevant, they're not just a holiday acknowledgement.
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  • And what i'd like to do with you in this session is look at
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  • Matthew's gospel.
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  • I'm just gonna read with you through the narrative.
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  • I'll stop with some comments.
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  • I'm banking on the scripture being familiar to you for
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  • Two purposes.
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  • Sometimes familiarity causes us to read through it rather
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  • Casually, and then being familiar with the characters
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  • Will make it easier to have a commentary.
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  • I'm gonna submit to you that matthew's presentation combines
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  • Two things, divine direction, that god is very intentionally
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  • And purposefully providing direction to his people.
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  • You know, he does that.
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  • And it couples that with the fulfillment of scripture.
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  • That if you didn't believe in divine intervention or divine
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  • Direction, or you didn't believe in the authority of scripture,
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  • Matthew's presentation would remain totally a mystery.
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  • If you discount those two things, it becomes
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  • Completely fictional.
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  • So, part of what i'm asking you to do is to consider the way
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  • You imagine god's engagement in your life.
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  • Do you believe he still provides direction to human beings?
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  • And have you settled the issue on the authority of scripture?
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  • Or do you still stand apart from it as the judge?
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  • There are parts of it i don't understand, but i'm determined
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  • To treat it as if it's authoritative in my life.
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  • Maybe the most important questions of the entire session
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  • Have to do with how you understand god's direction in
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  • Your life and the role that you attached to scripture.
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  • To say that you hold a high view of scripture and not read your
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  • Bible is incredibly inconsistent.
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  • So, i'm not trying to add something to your to-do list of
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  • Christmas week.
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  • But matthew gives us this account with a mix of that
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  • Divine direction and scriptural fulfillment.
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  • So, let's start chapter 1 in verse 18, "this is how the birth
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  • Of jesus christ came about: his mother mary was pledged to be
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  • Married to joseph, but before they came together, she was
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  • Found to be with child through the holy spirit.
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  • Because joseph her husband was a righteous man and he didn't want
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  • To expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to
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  • Divorce her quietly."
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  • I think we have to begin with the acknowledgment here--and in
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  • Matthew's gospel, it's a bit understated, certainly more so
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  • Than it would--will be in luke's.
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  • But that the jesus story begins with the supernatural.
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  • Matthew says in a rather quiet way, she was found to be with
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  • Child through the holy spirit as if that explains everything.
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  • What it does is it makes clear to us that it wasn't the
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  • Result of something that had happened with mary and joseph.
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  • The jesus story in the earth cannot be separated from
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  • The supernatural.
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  • It couldn't be then and it cannot be now.
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  • That's important because as we approach jesus's re-entry into
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  • Time, we will become increasingly dependent upon the
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  • Supernatural presence of god.
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  • There would have been no jesus story in the 1st century
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  • Without god's supernatural involvement.
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  • There'll be no reentry of jesus into the earth without god's
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  • Supernatural involvement.
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  • So, we're gonna have to open our hearts to that a little more
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  • Fully, a little more completely.
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  • Open our minds and our imaginations.
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  • We've done our best.
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  • I've spent my life in church and religious systems and
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  • Academic settings, and we've worked really, really hard to
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  • Push the miraculous engagement of god to the periphery.
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  • To point at all of our advancements, or technology, or
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  • Whatever and suggest we have replaced it.
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  • There is no replacement for the supernatural power of god in
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  • Our lives.
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  • Verse 20.
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  • Back to joseph, "but after he'd considered this, an angel of the
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  • Lord appeared to him in a dream and said,
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  • 'joseph son of david.'"
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  • Do you think the angels know your name?
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  • It'd be awkward if an angel showed up at your house to talk
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  • To you and had the wrong name.
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  • See, your faith will get a whole lot more personal if you imagine
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  • That the angels know you by name.
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  • They're not looking at some faceless, shapeless, amorphous
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  • Mass of humanity that's just teeming around on the earth like
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  • You and i look at an ant hill, you know, yeah, there's
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  • Something alive down there and there's a lot of movement, but
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  • It's indifferent.
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  • It's certainly not specific.
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  • I believe the angels know our names.
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  • I believe they're aware of our circumstances.
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  • The bible says they're ministering spirits sent forth
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  • On our behalf.
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  • And joseph has a dream and an angel intrudes and said,
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  • "'joseph son of david, don't be afraid to take mary home as your
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  • Wife, what's conceived in her is from the holy spirit.
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  • She'll give birth to a son, and you're to give him the name
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  • Jesus, because he'll save his people from their sins.'
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  • And all this took place to fulfill what the lord had said
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  • Through the prophet: 'the virgin will be with child and will give
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  • Birth to a son, and they will call him immanuel'--which means,
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  • 'god with us.'"
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  • Immanuel is just the transliteration of the hebrew
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  • Word which--who's--which meaning is god with us.
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  • "when joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the lord had
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  • Commanded him and took mary home as his wife.
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  • You know, we read that 24th verse as if it makes perfect
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  • Sense to us.
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  • Folks, if you had a dream and you saw an angel that told you
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  • To do something as bizarre as that angel was asking joseph
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  • To believe?
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  • Yes, your fiancée's pregnant, but it's the holy spirit.
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  • I bet you'd check your diet before you check the box
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  • On obedience.
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  • I bet i would too.
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  • I want to point out that there's something happening in the
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  • Hearts of these young people because joseph and mary at this
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  • Point are not grizzled veterans.
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  • They're kids.
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  • Teenagers, more than likely, certainly the most young adults.
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  • But they're beginning a journey and it says, "when he woke up,
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  • He did what the angel lord had told him to do.
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  • But he had no union with her until she gave birth to a son.
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  • And he gave him the name jesus."
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  • Self-control written all over that in many, many ways.
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  • You know, self-control is one of the fruit of the spirit.
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  • You can't really argue you're a spiritual person if you don't
  • 00:12:51.963 --> 00:12:54.599
  • Demonstrate self control.
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  • We've gotten so sloppy with our obedience to the lord.
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  • We really have.
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  • It's the reason i believe god has begun this awakening because
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  • He's preparing a people for his purposes as we approach the
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  • Culmination of the age, and it's going to require of us a
  • 00:13:08.746 --> 00:13:11.883
  • Self-control we haven't had to demonstrate for a long time.
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  • That's good news.
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  • Matthew informs the reader, if you've never heard the story and
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  • You've never seen it before, that joseph had
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  • Angelic direction.
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  • He just didn't make a decision about mary based on his
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  • Own whim.
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  • The angel said, "she's trustworthy.
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  • And you not only should trust her, you should walk with her."
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  • It's an interesting way that matthew tells the story in verse
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  • 21, he concludes the angel's message.
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  • In verse 21, the angel says to joseph, "she'll give birth to a
  • 00:13:44.015 --> 00:13:47.085
  • Son, and you're to give him the name jesus because he'll save
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  • His people from their sins."
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  • There's quotations that close there.
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  • And then in verse 22, matthew does something.
  • 00:13:55.026 --> 00:13:58.463
  • He uses a little author's license.
  • 00:13:58.463 --> 00:14:00.698
  • He inserts a prophecy from isaiah 7.
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  • He says, "all this took place to fulfill what the lord had said
  • 00:14:04.802 --> 00:14:07.305
  • Through the prophet:
  • 00:14:07.305 --> 00:14:08.640
  • 'the virgin will be with child and give birth to a son, and
  • 00:14:08.640 --> 00:14:11.175
  • They will call him immanuel'-- which means 'god with us.'"
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  • That was not part of the angel's message.
  • 00:14:14.445 --> 00:14:18.182
  • That's part of matthew's commentary on the story he's
  • 00:14:18.182 --> 00:14:21.753
  • Telling you.
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  • Joseph didn't get the quote from the angel.
  • 00:14:23.955 --> 00:14:27.125
  • Matthew's trying to help you and i as readers understand a bit of
  • 00:14:27.125 --> 00:14:31.029
  • The background of what's happening.
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  • By the time we get to verse 24, the reader is back in real time.
  • 00:14:34.966 --> 00:14:38.503
  • "when joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the lord had
  • 00:14:38.503 --> 00:14:40.638
  • Commanded him, and he took mary home with his wife."
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  • I wanna ask you a question now, and it's a question i'm gonna
  • 00:14:44.442 --> 00:14:47.245
  • Repeat through this session.
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  • Do you think joseph knew the prophecy?
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  • Oh, i'd go easy on the of courses.
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  • I think it's a possibility.
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  • How well do you know the prophecies concerning the end of
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  • The age and how they might relate to you?
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  • Do you know them well enough they could be personal?
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  • That where trust was broken and faithfulness seems to be
  • 00:15:15.940 --> 00:15:18.810
  • Completely broken, you could climb over that because you
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  • Would respond to something the lord said to you?
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  • It isn't that clear to me.
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  • Allen: chapter 2, "after jesus was born in bethlehem in judea,"
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  • Judea is a region. bethlehem is a city.
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  • "during the time of king herod, magi from the east came to
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  • Jerusalem and asked, 'where is the one who's been born king of
  • 00:16:47.098 --> 00:16:50.301
  • The jews?
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  • We saw his star in the east and we've come to worship him.'
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  • When king herod heard this, he was disturbed, and all jerusalem
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  • With him.
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  • When he called together all the people's chief priests and the
  • 00:16:59.710 --> 00:17:02.246
  • Teachers of the law, and he asked them where is the christ
  • 00:17:02.246 --> 00:17:05.283
  • Or the messiah to be born.
  • 00:17:05.283 --> 00:17:08.753
  • And they said, 'in bethlehem in judea, for this is what this
  • 00:17:08.753 --> 00:17:12.356
  • Prophet has written: "you, bethlehem, in the land of judah,
  • 00:17:12.356 --> 00:17:15.093
  • Are by no means least among the rulers of judah; for out of you
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  • Will come a ruler who will be the shepherd of my
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  • People israel."'"
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  • I think we have to start in that section by acknowledging that
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  • The imagination of jesus's arrival, the the arrival of the
  • 00:17:28.139 --> 00:17:31.509
  • Messiah is described in matthew's gospel as causing
  • 00:17:31.509 --> 00:17:34.879
  • Herod to be disturbed and all of jerusalem with him.
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  • Not excited, not anticipatory, not filled with joy, not
  • 00:17:40.051 --> 00:17:46.924
  • Hopeful--disturbed.
  • 00:17:46.924 --> 00:17:49.093
  • Words have meaning.
  • 00:17:49.093 --> 00:17:51.662
  • And the most accurate description of what happened in
  • 00:17:51.662 --> 00:17:53.731
  • The palace, and it says in all of jerusalem was that they
  • 00:17:53.731 --> 00:17:57.168
  • Were disturbed.
  • 00:17:57.168 --> 00:18:01.472
  • The bible is pretty clear on this.
  • 00:18:01.472 --> 00:18:03.307
  • Jesus is disruptive.
  • 00:18:03.307 --> 00:18:06.144
  • I mean, he'll go on in his public ministry when we get to
  • 00:18:06.144 --> 00:18:08.212
  • That point later in the narrative, and he said, i didn't
  • 00:18:08.212 --> 00:18:10.414
  • Come to bring peace on the earth.
  • 00:18:10.414 --> 00:18:12.950
  • I came to bring division.
  • 00:18:12.950 --> 00:18:15.720
  • It's something we've got to grapple with because we're in a
  • 00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:17.955
  • World now where we would like everybody to love us because we
  • 00:18:17.955 --> 00:18:20.525
  • Say we love jesus.
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  • And we have the imagination that if you're a jesus advocate, that
  • 00:18:22.560 --> 00:18:25.630
  • Will bring peace and contentment and healing into
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  • Every circumstance where you would make that announcement.
  • 00:18:29.333 --> 00:18:33.971
  • We have that idea, but i would submit to you, it really isn't
  • 00:18:33.971 --> 00:18:36.307
  • Biblical, that jesus is a rock, a stumbling rock, a point
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  • Of offense.
  • 00:18:43.181 --> 00:18:44.515
  • He has been since his arrival.
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  • He's continued to be so through history.
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  • That doesn't mean you should be obnoxious or i should
  • 00:18:48.452 --> 00:18:50.855
  • Be obnoxious.
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  • We don't want to be the stumbling point.
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  • We don't want to be the cause of division.
  • 00:18:55.760 --> 00:18:58.729
  • It's not about us, it's about the one we call lord.
  • 00:18:58.729 --> 00:19:02.266
  • If it's about us, we need to go back and put our face on the
  • 00:19:02.266 --> 00:19:04.635
  • Carpet until we get that worked out.
  • 00:19:04.635 --> 00:19:09.040
  • But i think this section, to me, begins with the disruption that
  • 00:19:09.040 --> 00:19:11.976
  • Jesus brings, and then matthew again, he inserts a message from
  • 00:19:11.976 --> 00:19:15.746
  • The prophet.
  • 00:19:15.746 --> 00:19:17.081
  • This time it's from the prophet micah.
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  • He quotes micah 5 about the bethlehem being the point of
  • 00:19:20.418 --> 00:19:24.422
  • Messiah's birth, and the chief priest and the teachers of the
  • 00:19:24.422 --> 00:19:28.025
  • Law knew the prophecy.
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  • I wanna ask the question again.
  • 00:19:32.430 --> 00:19:34.699
  • Do you think mary and joseph knew the prophecy?
  • 00:19:34.699 --> 00:19:39.704
  • It isn't stated, it's not implied.
  • 00:19:39.704 --> 00:19:45.343
  • There seem to be a lot of questions that they have as they
  • 00:19:45.343 --> 00:19:47.712
  • Walk this out.
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  • I would submit to you it's an enormously difficult leap from
  • 00:19:50.715 --> 00:19:54.385
  • Having a single verse in micah and imagine that it has your
  • 00:19:54.385 --> 00:19:57.989
  • Name written on it.
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  • I don't think it would have been any easier for them to do that
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  • Than it would be for you or me to read a verse from someplace
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  • In our bible and imagine it had so--it became so personal that
  • 00:20:07.832 --> 00:20:11.602
  • It had your name written on it.
  • 00:20:11.602 --> 00:20:14.939
  • Not saying it's impossible.
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  • I'm saying that's not an easy step of faith.
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  • But it's important enough that matthew keeps pushing this
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  • Little paradigm back to us.
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  • Look at verse 7: "then herod called the magi secretly and
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  • Found out from them the exact time that the star had appeared.
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  • And he sent them to bethlehem and said, 'go and make a careful
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  • Search for the child.
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  • And as soon as you find him, report to me, so that i too may
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  • Go and worship him.'"
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  • Let's pause there again, just a second.
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  • Herod said, "he's in bethlehem.
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  • You go find him and come back and tell--
  • 00:20:46.904 --> 00:20:48.406
  • I want to worship him too."
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  • Did herod want to worship him?
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  • No--you do know the story.
  • 00:20:52.043 --> 00:20:54.412
  • Not even a little.
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  • How shocked are we when we find people in authority over us or
  • 00:20:56.881 --> 00:21:00.117
  • People with power over us who are less than forthright.
  • 00:21:00.117 --> 00:21:06.257
  • "well, well, well, well, blah."
  • 00:21:06.257 --> 00:21:11.862
  • And the church, tragically, too quickly defaults to the position
  • 00:21:11.862 --> 00:21:15.966
  • That god's purposes couldn't break forth if there is some
  • 00:21:15.966 --> 00:21:19.103
  • Deceptive, wicked, ungodly voice with authority over us.
  • 00:21:19.103 --> 00:21:24.442
  • Look, i've been saying for a long time now, the solutions we
  • 00:21:24.442 --> 00:21:26.911
  • Need aren't political.
  • 00:21:26.911 --> 00:21:29.180
  • They're not about parties and candidates.
  • 00:21:29.180 --> 00:21:31.716
  • We're so idolatrous when the elections don't go the way we
  • 00:21:31.716 --> 00:21:34.318
  • Want, we're discouraged and despondent.
  • 00:21:34.318 --> 00:21:37.488
  • Folks, god didn't abdicate the throne because of elections.
  • 00:21:37.488 --> 00:21:41.625
  • God's purposes will break forth in spite of our systems of
  • 00:21:41.625 --> 00:21:44.995
  • Governments, not because of them.
  • 00:21:44.995 --> 00:21:53.371
  • Deception and evil are exhibited at the very beginning of
  • 00:21:53.371 --> 00:21:56.807
  • Jesus's life.
  • 00:21:56.807 --> 00:21:58.876
  • It's gonna become more clear.
  • 00:21:58.876 --> 00:22:00.211
  • Look in verse 9: "after they heard the king, they," the magi,
  • 00:22:00.211 --> 00:22:03.581
  • "went on their way, and the star they had seen in the east went
  • 00:22:03.581 --> 00:22:06.083
  • Ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the
  • 00:22:06.083 --> 00:22:09.253
  • Child was.
  • 00:22:09.253 --> 00:22:10.955
  • And when they saw the star, they were overjoyed."
  • 00:22:10.955 --> 00:22:15.226
  • That's the niv.
  • 00:22:15.226 --> 00:22:17.328
  • It's a little understated.
  • 00:22:17.328 --> 00:22:19.830
  • The other translations i think are better, the new english
  • 00:22:19.830 --> 00:22:23.200
  • Version says, "they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy."
  • 00:22:23.200 --> 00:22:27.972
  • Let's get a little closer.
  • 00:22:27.972 --> 00:22:30.040
  • You've made a two-year journey following a star for a king, and
  • 00:22:30.040 --> 00:22:34.445
  • You finally get to this place where the stars stopped and
  • 00:22:34.445 --> 00:22:37.348
  • There's a baby there that you believe is the king.
  • 00:22:37.348 --> 00:22:40.985
  • You know, they were kind of happy.
  • 00:22:40.985 --> 00:22:45.689
  • I like the expanded version of that.
  • 00:22:45.689 --> 00:22:47.825
  • It's a little more literal.
  • 00:22:47.825 --> 00:22:49.160
  • "they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy."
  • 00:22:49.160 --> 00:22:52.196
  • Ecstatic, beside themselves, over the top, they could have
  • 00:22:52.196 --> 00:22:55.232
  • Cared less what people thought of their behavior.
  • 00:22:55.232 --> 00:22:59.303
  • They're all in, amazed, blown away, shocked.
  • 00:22:59.303 --> 00:23:03.274
  • It's rocked their world.
  • 00:23:03.274 --> 00:23:09.547
  • And we're still quibbling about, "well, i don't know if i'm
  • 00:23:09.547 --> 00:23:12.850
  • Really gonna be moved to raise my hands in worship.
  • 00:23:12.850 --> 00:23:20.157
  • You know, i'm a bit more of an introvert."
  • 00:23:20.157 --> 00:23:27.097
  • Yeah, me too.
  • 00:23:27.097 --> 00:23:29.333
  • Kinda.
  • 00:23:29.333 --> 00:23:31.335
  • I mean, you can pick whatever it is.
  • 00:23:31.335 --> 00:23:33.304
  • We quibble with the lord around things, and i think it's far
  • 00:23:33.304 --> 00:23:37.808
  • More a reflection of how little the value is we attach to the
  • 00:23:37.808 --> 00:23:40.911
  • Things of the lord.
  • 00:23:40.911 --> 00:23:43.647
  • These people have disrupted their lives, shredded their
  • 00:23:43.647 --> 00:23:45.983
  • Calendars, caused their friends to think they've lost
  • 00:23:45.983 --> 00:23:48.118
  • Their minds.
  • 00:23:48.118 --> 00:23:49.453
  • They've invested enormous amounts of money.
  • 00:23:49.453 --> 00:23:51.589
  • They spent months and months on a pilgrimage with no
  • 00:23:51.589 --> 00:23:54.725
  • Promised satisfaction.
  • 00:23:54.725 --> 00:23:57.194
  • When they finally made it to jerusalem, the king of judea
  • 00:23:57.194 --> 00:24:00.297
  • Lies to them and deceives them and manipulates them, and yet
  • 00:24:00.297 --> 00:24:03.934
  • God still leads them to jesus, and they are beside themselves.
  • 00:24:03.934 --> 00:24:11.008
  • So, i think there's a much more significant message here for the
  • 00:24:11.008 --> 00:24:14.311
  • God story to break through.
  • 00:24:14.311 --> 00:24:15.646
  • This is taking multiple people who are more than just casually
  • 00:24:15.646 --> 00:24:18.883
  • Involved, mary and joseph.
  • 00:24:18.883 --> 00:24:22.052
  • This is not like a--they've signed up for another
  • 00:24:22.052 --> 00:24:23.854
  • Twelve-week course.
  • 00:24:23.854 --> 00:24:26.624
  • And the magi have made a significant investment as well.
  • 00:24:26.624 --> 00:24:31.862
  • Verse 11: "on coming to the house, they saw the child with
  • 00:24:31.862 --> 00:24:34.398
  • His mother mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him."
  • 00:24:34.398 --> 00:24:38.302
  • Imagine powerful, wealthy people in a barn bowing down
  • 00:24:38.302 --> 00:24:46.043
  • To some very modest people.
  • 00:24:46.043 --> 00:24:49.380
  • "they opened their treasures and they presented him with gifts of
  • 00:24:49.380 --> 00:24:52.082
  • Gold and of incense and of myrrh."
  • 00:24:52.082 --> 00:24:55.553
  • They opened their wealth in this circumstance.
  • 00:24:55.553 --> 00:25:00.591
  • There's no affirmation.
  • 00:25:00.591 --> 00:25:01.959
  • This is all based upon their calculations and a star
  • 00:25:01.959 --> 00:25:04.995
  • They've followed.
  • 00:25:04.995 --> 00:25:06.931
  • And this is in spite of the deception of herod.
  • 00:25:06.931 --> 00:25:10.634
  • There's something in their hearts that challenges me.
  • 00:25:10.634 --> 00:25:13.504
  • There's something in their attitude that speaks to me.
  • 00:25:13.504 --> 00:25:15.806
  • I want to cultivate a little bit more of that.
  • 00:25:15.806 --> 00:25:19.643
  • There's a bit of an abandonment in them, not a recklessness.
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  • So, i think if we're gonna see the purposes of god in grander
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  • Ways and more transformational ways, we're gonna have to follow
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  • Him with a little bit more space within us for who he is.
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  • Allen: i wanna pray with you before we go that god will give
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  • Us a revelation of himself beyond church, beyond just
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  • Information, a revelation, something beyond study to help
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  • Us understand who god is and his love for us.
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  • Let's pray.
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  • Father, i pray that you would give us a spirit of wisdom and
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  • Revelation that we might know you better far beyond sermons,
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  • Or church, or bible studies, or small groups.
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  • By the spirit of god, give us an understanding of your majesty
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  • And your power in jesus's name, amen.
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  • God bless you.
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  • Allen: allen jackson ministries was created to strengthen
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  • The church.
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  • With your help, we've been able to take some steps in that
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  • Direction, but we're more determined than ever to make an
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  • Impact in our world.
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  • We have some invitations internationally, to step into
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  • Some war-torn countries, into israel and ukraine to help
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  • Strengthen the church there.
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  • We plan to respond to that.
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  • But as importantly in this nation, folks, business as usual
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  • Isn't gonna get this done.
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  • We can't be timid and sit in our churches and have polite bible
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  • Studies and sing our favorite choruses.
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  • We've got to take the truth into the public square, a biblical
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  • Worldview back into the midst of our culture.
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  • We're creating tools to help you do that in your home, in your
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  • Church, in your community.
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  • Bible studies, publishing books, content that we can share
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  • With you.
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  • It's time for the church to be the church.
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  • We have an advocacy for jesus of nazareth that has to be heard in
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  • This season, or our children and grandchildren will pay
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  • The price.
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  • Will you make an investment in this ministry to make 2026 the
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  • Most fruitful year we've ever had together?
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  • Thank you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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