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Allen Jackson - The Voice of the King (Part 2)

June 14, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - The Voice of the King (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - The Voice of the King (Part 2) | June 14, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: you know, around the world, people are searching
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  • Together we can stand firm in our faith and make god's
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  • Truth known.
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  • Opens the door, let's keep gathering his people and
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  • Building his church until the day our king returns.
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  • Allen: 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 will--that they deliver that only to the
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  • Degree they've 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 of
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  • A few.
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  • And then the most perverse of those have been the ones who
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  • Promised 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
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  • Handful--in 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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  • And if you think, "well, that's the old testament," in psalm 2,
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  • In acts chapter 4, the believers pick
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  • That up as a part of their prayer.
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  • They're facing opposition.
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  • Jesus went back to heaven in acts chapter 1.
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  • The spirit of god is moving in jerusalem, the
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  • Day of pentecost, and there have been public healings, and
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  • There's momentum growing, and now the pressure's growing
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  • Because there's jealousy.
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  • Gee, that sounds familiar.
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  • And the believers get together, and they're praying, "you spoke
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  • By the holy spirit through the mouth of your servant, our
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  • Father david: 'why do the nations rage
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  • And the peoples plot in vain?'"
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  • They're praying psalm 2.
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  • "'the kings of the earth take their stand
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  • And the rulers gather together against the lord and
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  • Against his anointed one.'"
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  • That's a thousand years after king david.
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  • That's a thousand years later, and they're saying the same
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  • Spiritual principles that david wrote about, we see happening
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  • Under roman rule in jerusalem.
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  • So i don't think we're inappropriate to say, in the
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  • 21st century, there's still rulers in the earth that take
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  • Their stand against the anointed one.
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  • And when i see expressions that are advocating for the
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  • Principles of god, to let the ten commandments be posted in
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  • Our schools again, it's wonderful.
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  • But they would have never taken them out of our schools if we
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  • Hadn't taken them out of our homes first.
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  • I mean, i know we want to point at the schools, but the reason
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  • Our schools are struggling is our homes are struggling.
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  • You still having a meal a week at your kitchen table with the
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  • People who live under your roof?
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  • Are you still practicing hospitality at that
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  • Kitchen table?
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  • Are you doing spiritual wellness checks with your friends and
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  • Your family on a regular basis?
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  • I know it's inconvenient, it's like work.
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  • It's called ministry.
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  • We're busy, i know.
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  • Differing realms of authority in opposition to one another
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  • Because they have different purposes and objectives.
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  • We are to be different from the world, not principally because
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  • Of our wardrobe and our vocabulary, we have different
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  • Life objectives.
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  • We have different purposes for how we invest our strength, our
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  • Resources, our gifts, for what our ambitions are.
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  • We don't live just like everybody else and then
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  • Occasionally step into a religious building and worship.
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  • We offer our lives as a living sacrifice to almighty god.
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  • It makes every aspect of our life different.
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  • It's not "my time" and "my calendar" and "my stuff."
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  • "lord, how may i serve you?"
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  • I awaken tomorrow at the pleasure of the king.
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  • I serve at his pleasure.
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  • It's the greatest delight of my life, most of the time.
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  • Sometimes i complain bitterly with my teeth gritted.
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  • And then i try to repent.
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  • Different realms of authority.
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  • I'm asking you to live with greater awareness of these
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  • Different realms of authority.
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  • The united states of america has a realm of authority over your
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  • Life, whether you like it or not.
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  • They exact taxes, they set boundaries, they enact laws.
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  • Sometimes we get caught up in going, "well, it's the law."
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  • Well, not every law is a godly law.
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  • If the law says it's okay to mutilate our teenagers without
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  • Parental consent, that's a wicked, immoral law.
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  • Now, i'm grateful that much of it's changing, but the
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  • Underlying mentality beneath it hasn't been dramatically
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  • Transformed yet.
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  • We saw that with abortion.
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  • The law changed, but the abortion rates didn't because
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  • Our hearts didn't change.
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  • So there's a level of authority at the governmental level, but
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  • There's a whole different kind of authority that comes from the
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  • Kingdom you belong to with the kingdom of god.
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  • Completely different kind of authority.
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  • That's what jesus's ministry was about.
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  • He spoke to the wind and the waves and to demons and he
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  • Healed people who were sick and opened blind eyes and raised
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  • The dead.
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  • The disciples, "we've never seen anything like this."
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  • They kept all the religious festivals, they kept kosher,
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  • They gave of their time, they made the pilgrimage feast.
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  • They were doing all the religious things they knew to
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  • Do, but their awareness of the kingdom of god was very small.
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  • We want to grow in our awareness of the kingdom of god.
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  • Go to ephesians 2, "as for you," paul is writing to the
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  • Ephesians, a group of believers in ephesus, gentiles, "you were
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  • Dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live
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  • When you followed the ways of this world and the ruler of the
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  • Kingdom of the air, the spirit who's now at work and those who
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  • Are disobedient."
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  • We're talking about kings and kingdoms, differing realms of
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  • Authority, and paul says to the ephesian believers that "you
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  • Used to follow the ruler of the kingdom of the air."
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  • And it's not some historical statement, he said it's a spirit
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  • That's now at work.
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  • So he's asking us to grapple with the reality that there are
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  • Spiritual forces at work impacting your life and my life
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  • Just as certainly as the us government does.
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  • And the us government affects your life.
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  • How fast you drive, they have something to do with what you
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  • Pay in taxes and how your children are educated.
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  • They impact our lives in many, many ways, but the spiritual
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  • Forces that impact your life are far greater and their impact far
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  • More lasting than anything the us government can do to or
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  • For you.
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  • "the ruler of the kingdom of the air."
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  • I don't have time to unpack it.
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  • Remember the verse where paul said, "i knew a man who was
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  • Caught up into the third heaven."
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  • By reason of logic, if there's a third heaven, there has to
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  • Be a first and a second.
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  • You can't have a third of anything if there's not a first
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  • And a second.
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  • Can't get to third base if there's not first and second.
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  • If there's only one base, you just got on base.
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  • So if there's a third heaven, there's a first and a second.
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  • In my opinion--i don't have time to walk you through the
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  • Scriptures--that third heaven is the place of god's dwelling.
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  • Second, midheaven is the seat of satan's authority.
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  • And the first heaven is the heavens that surround the earth.
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  • I don't think of those as a layer cake, it's not like the
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  • Place of god's dwelling is just further up.
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  • I understand it as a dimension.
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  • Three different dimensions, three different realms of
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  • Authority that interplay.
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  • Paul said there's spirits at work now, expressed as the
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  • Ruler of the kingdom of the air, and he isn't talking about the
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  • Kingdom of god.
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  • And yet at the same time, the spirit of god is at work in
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  • The earth, he's at work in the ephesian church.
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  • They've had riots in the city.
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  • So all three of those dimensions are interacting, they're at
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  • Play, and we need to be aware of the principles of those
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  • Different kingdoms, the objectives of those
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  • Different kingdoms.
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  • There are some physical principles in this world that
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  • You can't ignore.
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  • Gravity is a reality.
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  • You can say you don't believe in it, but it believes in you.
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  • The devil's a reality, and you could say you don't
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  • Believe in him, but he believes in you.
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  • In the book of james, remember it says, "you believe in
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  • God, good for you," james says.
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  • "the demons believe, and they shudder."
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  • For the most part, the demons are more informed about the
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  • Kingdom of god than those of us that say we're christ followers.
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  • It's not new to us, that's not an indictment.
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  • In the first century when jesus came, the demonized people
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  • Recognize jesus before anybody else.
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  • Mark chapter 1, in the synagogue, a demonized man, the
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  • Demon cries out of a man in the synagogue, "i know who you are."
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  • It's months and months before the disciples get to the place
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  • Where they say, "we know you're the messiah."
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  • The demon knew it in mark 1, and i think it's safe to say in the
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  • 21st century, with a little prompt from james, that some of
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  • The principalities and powers and spiritual forces of darkness
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  • Are far more aware of the principles of the kingdom of god
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  • Than those of us who are citizens.
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  • We would like to change that.
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  • There's another component of this that intrigues me, it's a
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  • Point of celebration, and that's in revelation 15.
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  • The angels are singing a song in heaven, "they sang the song of
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  • Moses the servant of god and the song of the lamb: 'great and
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  • Marvelous are your deeds, lord god almighty.'"
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  • You know, sometimes words lose their meaning.
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  • He's god almighty.
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  • He has all might.
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  • There's nothing or no one, there's no power or force more
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  • Mighty than the god we worship.
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  • That's just refreshing to me.
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  • Doesn't mean i always get my way or get what i want or i
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  • Don't have to walk through the shadowed valley.
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  • It doesn't mean those things.
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  • But the god we worship is almighty, and heaven is
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  • Reverberating with this.
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  • It's worship.
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  • "'just and true are your ways, king of the ages.
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  • Who will not fear you, o lord, and bring glory to your name?
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  • For you alone are holy.
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  • All nations will come and worship before you.'"
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  • The title that's given is that you are the "king of the ages."
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  • In the scripture, one, we're told that the kingdom of our god
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  • Is an eternal kingdom, which means it's beyond time.
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  • Empires come and go.
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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, your
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  • Family history is not perfect, but you love your family, you
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  • Love your children in spite of our weaknesses.
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  • Well, our nation hadn't been perfect, but through that whole
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  • Story, the goodness of god 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: i earned a degree in history once upon a time.
  • 00:13:22.550 --> 00:13:26.387
  • And so much of that, you learn about rulers and the dates when
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  • They reigned and the empires that they built or they presided
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  • Over the decline of, and it's one way of learning our story
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  • Of civilizations.
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  • But the kingdom of our god is an eternal kingdom.
  • 00:13:38.800 --> 00:13:42.804
  • No beginning, no end.
  • 00:13:42.804 --> 00:13:44.906
  • So the privilege of being a part of that kingdom is different
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  • Than any other invitation you'll ever be given.
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  • And to flourish in the kingdom of god is a different kind of an
  • 00:13:52.881 --> 00:13:58.052
  • Opportunity than to flourish in any other kingdom that you have
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  • Access to.
  • 00:14:01.956 --> 00:14:03.725
  • You could be the wealthiest american citizen, the most
  • 00:14:03.725 --> 00:14:06.561
  • Decorated american citizen, the most accomplished, the most--
  • 00:14:06.561 --> 00:14:10.932
  • All wonderful things.
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  • I will celebrate, i will acknowledge the
  • 00:14:12.267 --> 00:14:14.068
  • Effort to bring-- the whole thing.
  • 00:14:14.068 --> 00:14:15.403
  • It's a good thing. but there's an end to that.
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  • There's a terminal point because that kingdom will end
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  • When you step out of time.
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  • And you will.
  • 00:14:24.445 --> 00:14:27.982
  • But the kingdom of god and what you invest in the kingdom of
  • 00:14:27.982 --> 00:14:31.486
  • God, what you learn of the kingdom of god, what you give
  • 00:14:31.486 --> 00:14:35.957
  • Yourself to in the kingdom of god is an eternal kingdom.
  • 00:14:35.957 --> 00:14:42.230
  • You need the holy spirit to help you with that because it will
  • 00:14:42.230 --> 00:14:45.400
  • Completely change your priorities.
  • 00:14:45.400 --> 00:14:48.736
  • It will realign your life, it'll realign your to do list, it'll
  • 00:14:48.736 --> 00:14:52.340
  • Realign ambitions, it'll realign your dreams.
  • 00:14:52.340 --> 00:14:56.511
  • You see, we've been living so much like the ungodly people,
  • 00:14:56.511 --> 00:15:00.348
  • And just once in a while, we'll go, "jesus!"
  • 00:15:00.348 --> 00:15:05.053
  • Or it's the--we think it's the music we listen to or the place
  • 00:15:05.053 --> 00:15:07.889
  • We sit on wednesday night.
  • 00:15:07.889 --> 00:15:09.223
  • And i'm grateful you come to church.
  • 00:15:09.223 --> 00:15:11.092
  • Bring a friend, we have room.
  • 00:15:11.092 --> 00:15:16.264
  • And if we don't, we'll make room.
  • 00:15:16.264 --> 00:15:20.301
  • But it's an eternal kingdom.
  • 00:15:20.301 --> 00:15:21.936
  • This is a fascinating--i just gave you a sample, and age is a
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  • Measure of time.
  • 00:15:27.642 --> 00:15:29.310
  • The bible talks about this present age, but then it talks
  • 00:15:29.310 --> 00:15:32.747
  • About ages that are made up of ages.
  • 00:15:32.747 --> 00:15:36.317
  • It's beyond our imagination.
  • 00:15:36.317 --> 00:15:38.653
  • We're so limited.
  • 00:15:38.653 --> 00:15:40.021
  • We think in terms of 60 or 70 or 80 years, or a brief span, and
  • 00:15:40.021 --> 00:15:44.792
  • It's--daniel chapter 7, daniel said, "in my vision at night i
  • 00:15:44.792 --> 00:15:50.231
  • Looked, and there before me was one like a son of man, coming
  • 00:15:50.231 --> 00:15:53.634
  • With the clouds of heaven."
  • 00:15:53.634 --> 00:15:55.036
  • I'm fascinated that a slave in babylon, a slave in babylon, a
  • 00:15:55.036 --> 00:16:01.342
  • Part of the covenant people of god, under the judgment of god,
  • 00:16:01.342 --> 00:16:05.246
  • Removed from the land that god promised them because of the
  • 00:16:05.246 --> 00:16:07.982
  • Hardness of their hearts, disadvantaged in about every way
  • 00:16:07.982 --> 00:16:13.254
  • You can imagine, becomes a man of such significance in the
  • 00:16:13.254 --> 00:16:17.325
  • Kingdom of god that god reveals to him the future.
  • 00:16:17.325 --> 00:16:21.562
  • Your circumstances do not remove you from a place of significance
  • 00:16:21.562 --> 00:16:24.966
  • In god's kingdom.
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  • Whatever disadvantages you may bring, whatever disadvantages
  • 00:16:27.769 --> 00:16:30.505
  • You may have had to overcome, whether they've been
  • 00:16:30.505 --> 00:16:33.541
  • Disadvantages of a little or disadvantages of a lot 'cause
  • 00:16:33.541 --> 00:16:36.110
  • Both can present disadvantages, they will not keep you from
  • 00:16:36.110 --> 00:16:39.881
  • Becoming what god has called you to
  • 00:16:39.881 --> 00:16:41.249
  • Be if you will choose the lord.
  • 00:16:41.249 --> 00:16:42.583
  • "he approached the ancient of days and was led into
  • 00:16:42.583 --> 00:16:44.986
  • His presence.
  • 00:16:44.986 --> 00:16:46.320
  • He was given authority, and glory, and sovereign power; all
  • 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:48.423
  • Peoples, nations and men of every language worshiped him."
  • 00:16:48.423 --> 00:16:51.993
  • Listen to the insight daniel has about the lord: "his dominion is
  • 00:16:51.993 --> 00:16:55.797
  • An everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his
  • 00:16:55.797 --> 00:16:59.634
  • Kingdom is one that will never be destroyed."
  • 00:16:59.634 --> 00:17:04.038
  • Daniel, a mutilated slave in babylon, god gives him insight
  • 00:17:04.038 --> 00:17:12.513
  • Into his kingdom.
  • 00:17:12.513 --> 00:17:13.881
  • It's a dominion that is everlasting, a dominion that
  • 00:17:13.881 --> 00:17:16.784
  • Will not pass away, a kingdom that will never be destroyed.
  • 00:17:16.784 --> 00:17:22.657
  • Think of the efforts to destroy the kingdom of god.
  • 00:17:22.657 --> 00:17:25.960
  • Think of the political rulers, think of the ideologies that men
  • 00:17:25.960 --> 00:17:32.133
  • And women have put together to overcome the church.
  • 00:17:32.133 --> 00:17:34.435
  • The churches that have been closed, the christian leaders
  • 00:17:34.435 --> 00:17:37.004
  • That have been martyred.
  • 00:17:37.004 --> 00:17:39.307
  • The attempts to deflect, divert, to diminish, to separate the
  • 00:17:39.307 --> 00:17:42.643
  • Church from the state.
  • 00:17:42.643 --> 00:17:43.978
  • What a nonsensical idea.
  • 00:17:43.978 --> 00:17:46.280
  • We don't want a state church, but you will--you do not want
  • 00:17:46.280 --> 00:17:48.583
  • To live under a state that is not influenced by a
  • 00:17:48.583 --> 00:17:50.751
  • Biblical worldview.
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  • [congregation applauding]
  • 00:17:52.753 --> 00:17:56.891
  • You know, we're in an election cycle, i suspect you've noticed,
  • 00:18:01.095 --> 00:18:05.333
  • And there will be hundreds of millions of dollars raised.
  • 00:18:05.333 --> 00:18:08.102
  • It's not wrong, it's a part of our system, but political
  • 00:18:08.102 --> 00:18:10.371
  • Candidates collect these significant amounts of money
  • 00:18:10.371 --> 00:18:12.874
  • From persons, and then the reason the money changes hands
  • 00:18:12.874 --> 00:18:15.743
  • Isn't just so somebody gets elected, but there's a desire
  • 00:18:15.743 --> 00:18:18.646
  • For favorable policies and treatments from that office.
  • 00:18:18.646 --> 00:18:22.717
  • It's a quid pro quo, it's the nature of the system.
  • 00:18:22.717 --> 00:18:27.588
  • Well, imagine if you changed your orientation a little bit,
  • 00:18:27.588 --> 00:18:30.191
  • And you made your life goal to please a king whose kingdom will
  • 00:18:30.191 --> 00:18:34.829
  • Never end.
  • 00:18:34.829 --> 00:18:42.303
  • That just seems like a lot wiser investment of time and effort
  • 00:18:42.303 --> 00:18:45.106
  • To me.
  • 00:18:45.106 --> 00:18:46.874
  • You could be friends with the governor
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  • Or friends with a senator.
  • 00:18:49.177 --> 00:18:50.511
  • Not bad things, there's some godly senators and governors
  • 00:18:50.511 --> 00:18:53.514
  • That it'd be a privilege to be a friend to.
  • 00:18:53.514 --> 00:18:57.051
  • But there's some things that go with that.
  • 00:18:57.051 --> 00:18:58.386
  • It requires time and energy and effort and probably some
  • 00:18:58.386 --> 00:19:00.955
  • Resources to--it will.
  • 00:19:00.955 --> 00:19:03.925
  • Or, you could be a friend of a king for an eternal kingdom.
  • 00:19:03.925 --> 00:19:10.631
  • Now, but wait, that's such a different orientation.
  • 00:19:10.631 --> 00:19:13.868
  • "well, pastor, how often do i have to come to church?
  • 00:19:13.868 --> 00:19:22.677
  • And how much of the bible do i have to read?
  • 00:19:22.677 --> 00:19:28.416
  • Do i have to volunteer?
  • 00:19:28.416 --> 00:19:32.286
  • And all you talk about's money," and all the things, and
  • 00:19:32.286 --> 00:19:36.157
  • It's like, "okay, what i want is the maximum benefit for the
  • 00:19:36.157 --> 00:19:39.026
  • Minimum investment."
  • 00:19:39.026 --> 00:19:42.763
  • And the attitude is not helpful.
  • 00:19:42.763 --> 00:19:47.034
  • I wanna be as fully invested with my king.
  • 00:19:47.034 --> 00:19:54.342
  • If he doesn't do anything other than welcome you into his
  • 00:19:54.342 --> 00:19:57.144
  • Kingdom, it's slam dunk, greatest invitation of
  • 00:19:57.144 --> 00:19:59.947
  • Your life.
  • 00:19:59.947 --> 00:20:03.284
  • So, "i prayed, and he didn't answer my prayer."
  • 00:20:03.284 --> 00:20:05.453
  • Oh, bother!
  • 00:20:05.453 --> 00:20:09.056
  • I'm still learning.
  • 00:20:09.056 --> 00:20:11.192
  • Do you understand?
  • 00:20:11.192 --> 00:20:12.526
  • That's like a child that says, you know, "i asked for oreos
  • 00:20:12.526 --> 00:20:14.929
  • Before supper and my parents didn't give them to me, so they
  • 00:20:14.929 --> 00:20:16.964
  • Don't love me."
  • 00:20:16.964 --> 00:20:18.532
  • [trills lips]
  • 00:20:18.532 --> 00:20:21.936
  • I mean, our faith gets stuck in some of these places.
  • 00:20:21.936 --> 00:20:26.307
  • We have a king and a kingdom, an eternal kingdom, and my time
  • 00:20:26.307 --> 00:20:31.812
  • Is gone.
  • 00:20:31.812 --> 00:20:36.784
  • Luke 18, jesus is talking.
  • 00:20:36.784 --> 00:20:38.486
  • "'and i tell you the truth--'" and you know he's about to drop
  • 00:20:38.486 --> 00:20:40.288
  • A truth bomb--"'i tell you the truth, no one who has left home
  • 00:20:40.288 --> 00:20:42.623
  • Or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the
  • 00:20:42.623 --> 00:20:44.992
  • Kingdom of god will fail to receive many times as much in
  • 00:20:44.992 --> 00:20:49.163
  • This age and in the age to come, eternal life.'"
  • 00:20:49.163 --> 00:20:53.901
  • Folks, there's a leaving in serving the king.
  • 00:20:53.901 --> 00:20:57.605
  • You can't serve every realm of authority equally.
  • 00:20:57.605 --> 00:21:01.776
  • You can't.
  • 00:21:01.776 --> 00:21:03.110
  • And in serving the king, it's going to bring some changes in
  • 00:21:03.110 --> 00:21:05.746
  • Relationships and your attitudes towards homes
  • 00:21:05.746 --> 00:21:08.883
  • And family.
  • 00:21:08.883 --> 00:21:12.653
  • We've got some messed up ideas going around about this.
  • 00:21:12.653 --> 00:21:18.826
  • I was with a man that--i don't have time for that tonight,
  • 00:21:18.826 --> 00:21:21.195
  • We'll do it another time.
  • 00:21:21.195 --> 00:21:24.498
  • But jesus said: i tell you the truth, there's no chance that
  • 00:21:24.498 --> 00:21:28.636
  • You'll fail to receive an exponential return for whatever
  • 00:21:28.636 --> 00:21:33.708
  • You reflect into my kingdom.
  • 00:21:33.708 --> 00:21:37.011
  • Simply begin to say to the lord, "i would like to know you
  • 00:21:37.011 --> 00:21:39.413
  • As king."
  • 00:21:39.413 --> 00:21:41.048
  • Look at the last verse you have.
  • 00:21:41.048 --> 00:21:43.017
  • It's titus 2:11.
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  • I'll close with this one.
  • 00:21:44.385 --> 00:21:45.920
  • It says, "'the grace of god that brings salvation has appeared to
  • 00:21:45.920 --> 00:21:48.289
  • All men.'
  • 00:21:48.289 --> 00:21:49.623
  • It teaches us to say 'no' to ungodliness and worldly
  • 00:21:49.623 --> 00:21:52.259
  • Passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and
  • 00:21:52.259 --> 00:21:54.061
  • Godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the blessed
  • 00:21:54.061 --> 00:21:58.432
  • Hope--the appearing of our king."
  • 00:21:58.432 --> 00:22:01.335
  • So while we're waiting for the king, titus says we have an
  • 00:22:01.335 --> 00:22:04.472
  • Assignment, we're on assignment, that the grace of god that has
  • 00:22:04.472 --> 00:22:08.209
  • Brought salvation to us teaches us something, to say no to some
  • 00:22:08.209 --> 00:22:13.013
  • Things, and then he lists them, to say no to ungodliness and
  • 00:22:13.013 --> 00:22:16.384
  • Worldly passions.
  • 00:22:16.384 --> 00:22:18.185
  • Well, that's not fun.
  • 00:22:18.185 --> 00:22:21.288
  • I mean, passions are powerful forces.
  • 00:22:21.288 --> 00:22:26.026
  • And then it says that he teaches us to live
  • 00:22:26.026 --> 00:22:28.195
  • Self-controlled lives.
  • 00:22:28.195 --> 00:22:29.530
  • Well, that's not fun either.
  • 00:22:29.530 --> 00:22:32.366
  • And he tells us to live uprightly.
  • 00:22:32.366 --> 00:22:35.770
  • Well, that's gonna make you weird.
  • 00:22:35.770 --> 00:22:39.473
  • To help us to live godly lives.
  • 00:22:39.473 --> 00:22:42.410
  • So there's the menu, that's the little tool kit.
  • 00:22:42.410 --> 00:22:45.880
  • What's god gonna help us do?
  • 00:22:45.880 --> 00:22:47.214
  • Say no to ungodliness and worldly passions, to live
  • 00:22:47.214 --> 00:22:49.784
  • Self-controlled lives, to live uprightly, to live godly lives.
  • 00:22:49.784 --> 00:22:56.323
  • And we're gonna do all of that while we wait.
  • 00:22:56.323 --> 00:23:01.562
  • Now, i don't know about you, but i'm a lousy waiter.
  • 00:23:01.562 --> 00:23:05.566
  • Microwaves make me impatient, right?
  • 00:23:05.566 --> 00:23:10.504
  • Can't you program it on your phone so you can turn it on
  • 00:23:10.504 --> 00:23:12.473
  • Before you get home, when you get home, it's just ready.
  • 00:23:12.473 --> 00:23:15.276
  • It's a better plan.
  • 00:23:15.276 --> 00:23:18.546
  • You know, i don't wanna start my car
  • 00:23:18.546 --> 00:23:19.880
  • In the winter and wait for it to get warm.
  • 00:23:19.880 --> 00:23:21.215
  • I wanna have a remote start so before i go out to get in my
  • 00:23:21.215 --> 00:23:23.217
  • Car, the car's warm when i get there.
  • 00:23:23.217 --> 00:23:29.590
  • But i don't wanna trade my future for comfort
  • 00:23:29.590 --> 00:23:31.492
  • And convenience.
  • 00:23:31.492 --> 00:23:33.461
  • And there are things in the lord we have to be willing to wait.
  • 00:23:33.461 --> 00:23:39.834
  • Begin to say to the lord, "i wanna know you as king."
  • 00:23:39.834 --> 00:23:45.206
  • I'm not done with this.
  • 00:23:45.206 --> 00:23:46.574
  • I may be done with the little series, but this idea, we're
  • 00:23:46.574 --> 00:23:50.511
  • Gonna work on this, king jesus, because it changes everything.
  • 00:23:50.511 --> 00:23:57.084
  • And if we'll get to know him that way, and his
  • 00:23:57.084 --> 00:24:00.521
  • Eternal kingdom.
  • 00:24:00.521 --> 00:24:02.590
  • We have diminished him for too long, folks.
  • 00:24:02.590 --> 00:24:06.327
  • We have. we have.
  • 00:24:06.327 --> 00:24:11.165
  • Want you to stand with me.
  • 00:24:11.165 --> 00:24:12.500
  • I wanna pray that god will give us a revelation.
  • 00:24:12.500 --> 00:24:15.135
  • Something beyond what we learn or we understand.
  • 00:24:15.135 --> 00:24:21.775
  • We're gonna see nations change.
  • 00:24:25.446 --> 00:24:28.916
  • I believe we will.
  • 00:24:28.916 --> 00:24:30.918
  • I believe we will see outpourings of the spirit of god
  • 00:24:30.918 --> 00:24:36.223
  • That exceed anything we've experienced at this point, and i
  • 00:24:36.223 --> 00:24:38.559
  • Think we will see corresponding hatred from the kingdom
  • 00:24:38.559 --> 00:24:42.897
  • Of darkness.
  • 00:24:42.897 --> 00:24:44.765
  • That's very biblical.
  • 00:24:44.765 --> 00:24:48.202
  • We've had a theology that said there's--we're just gonna have
  • 00:24:48.202 --> 00:24:50.204
  • A big revival, everybody's gonna be happy, it's gonna be like a
  • 00:24:50.204 --> 00:24:52.172
  • Big global party,
  • 00:24:52.172 --> 00:24:55.142
  • And we won't have that till the king's back.
  • 00:24:55.142 --> 00:24:59.246
  • In the interim, we got to get to know the king.
  • 00:24:59.246 --> 00:25:04.018
  • Father, thank you for your word, for its truth.
  • 00:25:04.018 --> 00:25:05.986
  • I thank you for these men and women, for
  • 00:25:05.986 --> 00:25:08.122
  • The hunger they have to know you.
  • 00:25:08.122 --> 00:25:09.456
  • Lord, we accept the assignment of the summer to invite you into
  • 00:25:09.456 --> 00:25:11.825
  • All the places you send us, that we will go quietly and in
  • 00:25:11.825 --> 00:25:15.396
  • Humility, to say, lord jesus, may your name be lifted up here
  • 00:25:15.396 --> 00:25:19.233
  • And your spirit be poured out here.
  • 00:25:19.233 --> 00:25:21.702
  • May this city or this community or this county or
  • 00:25:21.702 --> 00:25:23.971
  • This state or this nation have a revelation of jesus in
  • 00:25:23.971 --> 00:25:30.744
  • This generation.
  • 00:25:30.744 --> 00:25:32.880
  • Lord, thank you that you've called us, that you've empowered
  • 00:25:32.880 --> 00:25:35.783
  • Us, that you've sent us.
  • 00:25:35.783 --> 00:25:37.618
  • May your victories be present in our homes, in our hearts, in our
  • 00:25:37.618 --> 00:25:40.654
  • Lives, in our congregation, in our community, and may we take
  • 00:25:40.654 --> 00:25:45.125
  • Our place in what you're doing in the earth.
  • 00:25:45.125 --> 00:25:48.062
  • We thank you for it, lord, we praise you for it tonight, that
  • 00:25:48.062 --> 00:25:51.365
  • You've called us out of darkness and brought us into the kingdom
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  • Of your son, that you're not ashamed to call us your
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  • Children, and then that may we now live with the boldness and
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  • Authority as an ambassador for the eternal kingdom of god.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • Hallelujah. god bless you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: 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.
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  • A tote bag, a blanket, maybe you're going to a ball game or
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  • The park or the beach, wherever that may be, you take these
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  • Along, 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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