Allen Jackson - The Voice of the King (Part 1)

June 13, 2026 | 27:29

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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - The Voice of the King (Part 1) | June 13, 2026

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Allen jackson: hey, i've encouraged you for a long time
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To lead with your faith.
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Take your faith outside the church building into all the
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Places that your life takes you, where you have influence, where
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You have a voice.
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We've created some pieces to help you do that, a tote bag,
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A blanket.
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Maybe you're going to a ball game or the park or the beach,
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Wherever that may be.
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You take these along.
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They are a celebration of our nation's 250th anniversary.
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Somebody will wanna know where you got it, what it's about.
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It gives you an opportunity to share your faith.
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You know, i've had the privilege of living in some places outside
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The united states.
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Things like a grocery store or fast food or food delivery,
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Those things weren't possible in the places i lived.
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When i come home, just walking through a grocery store reminds
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Me of the goodness and the faithfulness of god, his
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Blessings on our nation.
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Use your voice to say god has blessed america.
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Something as simple as a tote bag can open a door for your
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God story.
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Together we're gonna lift up the name of jesus in this generation
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And see god bless america again.
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♪♪♪
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Allen: i really want to continue the series i was doing a couple
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Of weeks ago.
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So, i don't really expect you to remember the last verse we
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Read together.
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But it is linked to an idea that is settled inside of me and i'm
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Gonna continue, whether it's in a series or some other ways, i
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Think it's important.
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For the moment, it'll get a new title, but for the moment, it's
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Lessons in listening.
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One of the most consistent characteristics of the people of
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God in the bible, from genesis to revelation, is that they
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Listen to god.
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And that has many expressions and can mean many things, but i
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Can tell you for certain if you have no intention of listening,
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It's very unlikely you'll hear.
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It requires some intentionality and in this session we're going
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To talk about the voice of the king.
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But i've had a couple of days off and that's always
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A little dangerous.
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So, i'm not gonna promise other than i'll quit when i'm supposed
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To quit.
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You know, i'm--we talk a lot about god moving in the earth,
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And i answer a lot of questions around that topic because it's
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Almost always challenged when i say it, if i say it beyond
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This congregation.
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And i'm very conscious the season that we're walking
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Through, and life comes in seasons.
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The earth, god--you know, there are times when it says that--
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The bible says that the voice of the lord was heard small.
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And there were other times when it says, you know, it's the day
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Of the lord's favor, and there's a--god raises up a voice,
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Or a person, or a season, or there's a call.
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We were reading, if you're doing the bible reading with us,
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We're reading exodus.
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I don't think you'd say the voice of the lord was heard
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Small then.
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It's like god was shouting.
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And i think we're in a season when god is moving, but it's
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A season that's characterized by both remarkable demonstrations
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Of the power of god and the most remarkable expressions of evil.
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And you got to be able to hold that contrast.
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It's very biblical, the wheat and the tares.
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I don't--i think it's very grounded in that, but it
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Requires of us to maintain an awareness and to maintain
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A focus on what god is doing.
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I think or we'll be overwhelmed by the darkness.
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And it requires us to grow.
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And christians, the church people, religious people, that's
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Not always our best thing.
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For a whole lot of reasons, and i don't really want to excavate
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That tonight, we'll do it in some other ways.
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But i wanna invite you to keep saying yes to the lord.
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And to keep growing in the lord and not imagine that you have
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Achieved, or retained, or become, or that you've--
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I'm so conscious that i'm a beginner.
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I mean, i have a few years' experience and i've read my
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Bible a time or two and i know some things about the lord, but
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I very much am determined to know him better.
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I want the season ahead of me to be the most fruitful of my life.
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I'm not trying to find the slow lane or the--you know, i'm not
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Trying to celebrate the past.
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I'm happy to reiterate what god has done and tell the stories of
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That only as a means of navigating what's ahead of us.
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And i would invite you to have that hunger in your heart.
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There's too many roadblocks.
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We need the people of god to say yes to the lord.
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Somebody made a comment to me today, and it's been rattling
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Around on the inside.
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There'd been an event, christian event, and they said it was
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A little unusual, they turned it into a worship service.
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And i said, "well, tell me about it."
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And my real response was knowing they just sang songs.
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You know, worship is not about music.
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Or we call a thing like this a worship service.
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Not necessarily.
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'cause really worship is about you.
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We can have musicians and vocalists that spend a lot of
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Time and energy in preparing and present music, but you choose
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To worship.
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It's worship when we read the word of god.
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But if it's not a passage you like, you'll just sit there
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Sullenly and think, "oh, i don't like that topic."
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See, the--you and i bring worship to the lord.
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We bring worship to a place like this.
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It's not incumbent upon the platform people, or the
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Greeters, or the ushers.
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People say to me, "you know, i visited your church and nobody
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Spoke to me."
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I always want to understand, "well, how many people did you
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Speak to?"
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I mean you gotta be really grumpy to get in and out of this
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Building without somebody smiling at you.
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You gotta be radiating, "don't talk to me."
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'cause y'all are like--
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But worship is about an attitude in us.
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Does that make sense?
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And the--you know, we get in such weird places like they
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Didn't play the--it wasn't the right song, or it wasn't the
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Style, or it wasn't a topic that i wanted to explore.
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So, i withheld myself.
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If we're leading lives where we worship the lord throughout our
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Lives, and our days.
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And so, we come into this place and the people that are inviting
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You towards those things should have to keep up with what's
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Already radiating from you.
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I know that's different.
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But we have to be more honest than we've been.
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We're gonna have--because we need different outcomes than
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We've ever had.
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We've got to become men and women who make an impact in the
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World in which we live, in the generation where we
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Find ourselves.
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We've gotta be gideons, and moses, and joshuas, and esthers,
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And marys.
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And we gotta be those people that shock the principalities
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And powers that intended to destroy generations.
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And to do that, we've got to change.
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We want the politicians to change, and the parties to
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Change, and the universities professors to change.
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We have to change. we have to change.
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And some of it's just simple things.
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It's just the how we adjust our attitudes.
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If you're an adult, i got a message today.
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Somebody wanted to know, you know, about somebody's
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Spiritual growth.
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And he was an adult in a church.
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If you're a 20, 30, or 40-year-old adult, nobody's
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Responsible for your spiritual growth but you.
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I love you.
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That's like saying the doctor's responsible for my health.
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I went to the doctor and he said i was fat so i'm
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Changing doctors.
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I wanna find a doctor that says he thinks i'm healthy.
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The doctor didn't say that to me, but.
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But you understand the attitude we got?
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Now you need to be in a church that tells the truth and will
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Feed you and--but we have to say, "i'm responsible to worship
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The lord.
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I'm responsible to grow in the lord."
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[congregation applauding]
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"well, i want a mentor."
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He's called the holy spirit.
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"well, i don't know much about him."
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Good place to start.
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Have i offended everybody yet?
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The night's young.
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I mean, i'll get there, don't feel left out.
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But it's so important.
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I think there's so much that god would do in our generation.
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And it isn't somebody else that i'm fully convinced that the
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People of god will change our hearts.
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God will move in such remarkable ways.
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So, this lesson is really, i've--for myself, i've been
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Trying to get back to the basics as carefully as i know how.
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That's why the worship thing has been in my head.
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Because my life, my adult life, really, has corresponded with
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Kind of the contemporary christian music thing.
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And while that's been a remarkable movement, i'd have to
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Say it coincides with one of the most precipitous declines of
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Christian influence in the history of the church.
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So, i'm here to--it's not a style thing and it isn't
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About music.
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I like music, and i like christian music, and i like
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Worship music.
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But what are the fundamentals?
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Well, you know what is so essential?
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And the one thing i can tell you that if you want to attract the
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Attention and the involvement of the holy spirit that you can do
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Is that if you will exalt jesus.
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If you'll do whatever you know to do that will lift up jesus,
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The holy spirit will come into that space.
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You can do it where you work.
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In whatever way is available to you, you find a way to start to
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Exalt, let jesus be honored there.
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You don't have to be weird, or bizarre, or strange, or over
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The top.
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You do what's appropriate within the boundaries of where you are
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To start to honor jesus.
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Do that in your classrooms, in your neighborhoods, in your
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Families, in your holiday gatherings, begin to
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Exalt jesus.
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Because the holy spirit will come into that space, and where
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Jesus is lifted up and the holy spirit is present, things
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Begin to change.
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Because there's a power present there.
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And i've been living with this, and i read psalm 138 that god
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Said, "i'll exalt my word and my name above everything else."
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And i've been thinking what's that look like?
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What does that mean to me?
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So, i've been thinking a lot about jesus and how do we
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Celebrate jesus?
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Now, i don't want all the trite.
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You know, one of the things that comes with birthdays is--
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So, i wanna spend a few minutes with you.
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Seeing if we can lift up the name of jesus.
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And one of the roles that jesus plays, one of the offices that
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He occupies is as king.
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And i don't know how you know jesus as king.
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We've been having protests lately for no kings.
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I think it'd be so fun to have, "oh, we got a king" rallies.
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Allen: hey, we're celebrating this year the 250th anniversary
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Of the signing of the declaration of independence.
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What a wonderful privilege we have.
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You know, god has blessed our nation so many good things.
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People say to me, "well, our whole history is not good."
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Well, folks, you know, my history is not great.
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Your family history is not perfect, but you love
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Your family.
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You love your children.
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In spite of our weaknesses, well, our nation hadn't been
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Perfect, but through that whole story, the goodness of god
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Is evident.
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It still is.
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Let's ask god to bless america again.
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I believe he will.
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Allen: and so, i'm just gonna walk with you through some
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Scriptures because if the lesson is about listening, it's
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Understanding the voice of a king.
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We're very removed from that, some of you.
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I've never been particularly engaged with the british
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Royalty, but for some people it's a big deal.
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But i'm very interested in knowing my king.
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And so, i just--some simple scriptures i put them together
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Because it's--to me it's a fundamental issue.
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You know, in sports, they tell you that practice and repetition
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Is essential to train your muscles, so you get muscle
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Memory so that in points of stress, you can perform better.
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In the military, it's about training.
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You train and train and train so that when you're under great
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Stress, you don't have to think about what to do, you've been
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Trained to react in the right way.
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In business, you know, it's about keeping the main thing the
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Main thing.
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And in christianity, i think we have a--we're--it's
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Just confused.
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I mean the whole thing about worship, i don't think it's
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About music, or style, or passage, or whether the
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Presentation is verse by verse or expository, or--i think it's
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About the attitude that we bring.
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And so jesus is king to me is a fundamental component.
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If you know jesus of nazareth as king, that's positional, you
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Understand the place he occupies in creation.
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If you know him as messiah, as christ the messiah, you
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Understand where he fits in god's economy.
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Because to have a messiah, you have to acknowledge the need of
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A savior.
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There's no need for a messiah if you don't need a savior.
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But you could believe jesus is king and you could believe jesus
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Is messiah and still go to hell.
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Because the third leg of that stool is he is king, he's
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Messiah, and he's lord.
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Lord is what makes it personal.
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And so, this is one of those components, jesus as king in
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John 18.
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Pilate, we get to listen in as the roman governor of judea is
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Interviewing jesus of nazareth.
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And it's a fascinating invitation.
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We get to be a fly on the wall.
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Pilate went back inside the palace.
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He summoned jesus and he said, "are you the king of the jews?"
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And jesus said, "is that your idea or did others talk to you
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About me?"
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And pilate's annoyed.
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It's almost a snarky answer.
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I mean, jesus understands he's on trial for his life, and the
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Governor asked him a question and he kind of turns it back
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On him.
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And pilate said, "am i a jew?
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It was your people and your chief priest who handed you over
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To me.
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What is it you've done?"
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And jesus's next sentence is very helpful.
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He said, "my kingdom is not of this world."
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He said, "i have a kingdom.
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If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by
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The jews."
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He's already given attestation to that when they came to arrest
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Him in gethsemane, he told peter to put his sword away.
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He said, "if i needed to, i could call legions of angels.
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And these clowns with clubs would be no challenge."
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And he says to pilate, "my kingdom is not of this world.
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If it were, they'd be fighting for me.
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But now my kingdom is from another place."
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"now" is the timing word.
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There's a point in time when jesus's kingdom will be
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Implemented in this realm.
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"'now my kingdom is from another place.'
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Then pilate said, 'you are a king then!'
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And jesus said, 'you're right in saying i'm a king.'"
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Now, i think you, most of you understand the one thing for
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Which we're for certain you could be crucified, executed in
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The roman empire was to challenge caesar.
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So, jesus understood very well when he said, "i'm a king" that
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He signed his own death warrant.
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He didn't hide from it.
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"in fact, for this reason i was born, and for this i came into
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The world, to testify to the truth.
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Everyone on the side of the truth listens to me."
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So, jesus identifies himself as a king with a kingdom.
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The recognition of that, the awareness of that, the realms of
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Authority, different kings, different kingdoms, different
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Realms of authority.
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The better we understand the nature of our king, and the
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Kingdom over which he presides, the more effective we will be in
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Seeing his purposes expressed in our lives.
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What did he teach us to pray?
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Your kingdom come and your will be done on earth as it is
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In heaven.
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And we can talk about different expressions of that, and
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Christians will argue ad nauseam about eschatologies, and the
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Layering of that, and the staging of that, but jesus
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Taught us that the cry of our hearts should be "your kingdom
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Come and your will be done on the earth as it is in heaven."
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I think we can say safely that the will of god is not fully
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Executed in all of the earth for all the people.
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So, there's some things we can learn about a king and
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A kingdom.
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John 19, same author, next chapter, "pilate had a notice
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Prepared and fastened to the cross.
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It read: jesus of nazareth, the king of the jews."
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The roman governor.
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Remember, it's a roman centurion when jesus dies that says,
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"truly this man was the son of god."
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And it's the roman governor that posts a sign that says, "he's
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The king of the jews."
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"many of the jews read the sign for the place where jesus was
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Crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in," three
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Languages of the day, "aramaic, latin, and greek.
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The chief priest and the jews protested to pilate, 'don't
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Write 'the king of the jews,' but that this man claimed to be
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The king of the jews.'
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And pilate said, 'i wrote it.'"
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Living bible, deal with it.
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So, jesus of nazareth.
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I would submit to you that you want to approach him as a king.
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We've worked really hard for decades to make christianity
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More casual.
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And i'm not really opposed to that.
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Our whole culture is more casual.
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It isn't just christianity or church.
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And so, i don't know that that's necessarily wrong, but i'm not
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Overly enthusiastic about the attempts to try to bring god
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Down to our level.
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He's not like us, folks.
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We are the creation and he's the creator.
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I don't want you to live in dread of the god, but i do want
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You to have a healthy, i wanna have a healthy fear, respect, or
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Reverence for god.
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And i--we lose that sometimes in our language, and the
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Casualness, and the words we use.
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He's a king.
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A king.
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It's so far removed from us in the context of an ancient near
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Eastern monarch, there was no balance of power.
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There were no checks and balances.
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The monarch was the absolute expression of authority.
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That's why when david wanted bathsheba, he didn't have to
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Submit a request in triplicate.
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He took another man's wife.
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And when his immorality was exposed, he had the
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Husband killed.
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It took enormous courage for a prophet to come say to the king,
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"i know your sin."
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They didn't have congressional hearings.
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And when jesus, when we're told that he's a king, it changes our
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Attitude towards him.
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It changes the positional authority.
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We will celebrate, and clap, and cheer that he's the king of
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Kings and the lord of lords and that every knee will bow and
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Every tongue confess, and through the cross he won
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A complete total irreversible victory over satan and all of
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His kingdom.
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Those things are all true.
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But it should also imply to us that we will bow our knee, and
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We will submit to his authority.
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Revelation 17 describes this great conflict between the lamb
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And the beast and it says, "they will make war against the lamb,
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But the lamb will overcome them because he's the lord of lords
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And the king of kings-and with him will be his called, chosen,
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And faithful followers."
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So, at the culmination of this age, jesus is still identified
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As the lord of all lords and the king of all kings.
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We want to firmly establish him in our heart.
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You see, as the pressures increase as we approach the end
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Of the age, and i believe they will, there'll be great
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Pressure, but there'll be great opportunities.
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But in order to flourish in the midst of the pressure, we have
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To know the fundamentals.
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We have to have them deeply established within us.
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We need the humility to be learners, the postures of those
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That are listening.
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Not the postures of those who know it all and can't wait to
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Tell it.
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So, let's take a minute with kings and realms of authority.
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This is so important.
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You know, if you leave the united states, you need to take
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Your passport with you.
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We almost lost our notion of borders, but they're re-emerging
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A little bit.
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But if you're a citizen, you can't get back in without the
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Little blue passport.
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But it has limited authority in other places.
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In fact, some places, it causes you to be identified as
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A hostile.
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There's a limit to the authority of your citizenship.
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Well, you need to understand what it means to be a citizen of
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The kingdom of god and be under the authority of king jesus.
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And you need to understand who is in conflict with you because
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You belong to that realm.
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Because when you decide to become a part of the kingdom of
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God, you inherit an adversary.
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We're deeply offended by that.
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There's been a great deal of effort spent in recent decades
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To try to eliminate any sense of nationalism, national awareness,
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And to mold us into a global community.
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And that's a part of the future.
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But it doesn't necessarily mean everything it brings is good,
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And i'm not an advocate for most of it.
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I think it's wrong not to teach our young people to be proud of
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The nation where they live.
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I think you rob them of something that's very essential
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To their wellbeing.
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That's being diminished in so many ways, and i need to stay
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On track.
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Kings and realms of authority was the goal.
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Psalm 2 in verse 1 says, "why do the nations conspire and the
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People's plot in vain?
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The kings of the earth take their stand, and the rulers
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Gather together against the lord and against his anointed one."
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So, that the bible acknowledges that there are realms of
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Authority in this present age, kings, and kingdoms, and
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Nations, and rulers.
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And oftentimes the leaders of this world do not cooperate with
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What the purposes of god are.
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That's not unique to the 21st century, and that's not unique
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Only to the end of the age.
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So, when you see governmental rejection of the principles of
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The kingdom of god, it doesn't necessarily mean it should throw
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You into a prophetic apocalyptic moment.
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It's not new, it's been happening for as long as we've
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Had governments of people.
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Governments do not bring freedom and liberty.
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Those things only come from god.
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And when you find a government that brings freedom and liberty,
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You will know, they deliver that only to the degree they've
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Cooperated with the principles of god.
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I can recite lots of history to you where governments limit
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Freedoms and liberties, and accumulate power in the hands
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Of a few.
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And then the most perverse of those have been the ones who
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Promise power to the people, communism and socialism.
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Responsible for the murders and the deaths of millions, hundreds
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Of millions, of people in the previous century.
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And their mantra was "power to the people" when they had the
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Exact opposite objective, to centralize power in the handful
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And the fewest number of people.
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That's not political, that's history.
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But it's a spiritual history.
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Allen: you know, around the world people are searching for
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Allen Jackson - The Voice of the King (Part 1)

June 13, 2026 | 27:29

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