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Allen Jackson - Weapons At Our Disposal (Part 1)

April 10, 2025 | S25:E103

Allen Jackson - Weapons At Our Disposal (Part 1)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Weapons At Our Disposal (Part 1) | April 10, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: it's good to be with you again, we're continuing
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  • Our study on "angels, demons and you," trying to understand those
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  • Spiritual forces that have such a profound impact on our lives.
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  • Folks, they're more significant than the coronavirus.
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  • And so often we just act as if we're a bit too sophisticated to
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  • Believe in those things.
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  • Well, jesus believed in them, so maybe we should too.
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  • In this session, we're gonna look at the weapons that have
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  • Been given to us, the weapons that are at our disposal.
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  • We're not left just to out-think evil or out-organize evil or
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  • Out-work evil, there are spiritual weapons that have been
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  • Entrusted to us that are empowered with the resources
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  • Of heaven.
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  • That is an amazing thing and an important part of our journey
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  • Through time.
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  • Grab your bible, get a notepad, most of all open your heart, i
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  • Believe god has a plan and a purpose for our time
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  • Together today.
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  • Allen jackson: we've been working through a little study
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  • On "angels, demons and you."
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  • The "and you" part's the most important.
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  • You know, those of us in the christian church realm are
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  • Famous for doing studies.
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  • And we do them in a kinda theoretical sense, a distant
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  • Sense, we remove ourselves from the discussion as if it may or
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  • May not have impact for us.
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  • I want to talk in this session about how spiritual forces
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  • Influence history, because i believe they do.
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  • I earned a degree in history and so i have an appreciation for
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  • History, i think it's enormously valuable, but at this point in
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  • My life i have reached the conclusion that spiritual forces
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  • Are probably the greatest single determining factor in the
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  • Outcome of history.
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  • More than technological innovations or economic booms, i
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  • Think spiritual forces are important.
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  • I would submit to you, the bible tells us that, i just think we
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  • Read past it.
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  • The book of revelation is the story of the conclusion of this
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  • Age, the judgment of god upon this present world order; the
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  • Systems of this world, not this planet, because jesus is gonna
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  • Rule and reign on this planet; but it's a story of spiritual
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  • Forces impacting what's happening on planet earth.
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  • And it's not a new story, that starts in the opening chapters
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  • Of genesis, and it fills the pages of your bible from genesis
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  • To the book of revelation, but somehow we read past that.
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  • I would submit to you that jesus's birth was a
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  • Supernatural event.
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  • Can we agree on that?
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  • That without supernatural interaction, jesus's birth would
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  • Not have occurred?
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  • Well, i think it's safe to say that that historical event has
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  • Changed the unfolding story of humanity.
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  • So the spiritual world introduced that change.
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  • The gospel, when it came to the city of ephesus, made such a
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  • Dramatic change in the economy that riots broke out.
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  • The preaching of the gospel, the good news of the gospel, the
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  • Spiritual change in the hearts of people disrupted the economic
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  • Patterns of the city of ephesus to the point that riots
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  • Broke out.
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  • Wouldn't it be interesting to see such significant spiritual
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  • Change, transformation in the hearts of men and women, that we
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  • Changed our patterns of living enough that the economic
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  • Repercussions caught the attention of the ungodly?
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  • That's not a boycott as a matter of punishment, it's a change
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  • Of living.
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  • Spiritual forces influence history.
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  • And it seems to me that those of us in the church, veteran,
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  • Tenured church people, christ followers, often dismiss or
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  • Underestimate the magnitude of spiritual influences.
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  • We talk about being born again as if we understand that'll
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  • Maybe help you not go to hell.
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  • And that's a good thing and we don't want anybody to do that so
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  • We kinda focus on that little nugget, but beyond that we don't
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  • Often think about spiritual things.
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  • And again, it's at the heart of the story.
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  • In matthew 26, as jesus is about to begin his passion, he's in
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  • Gethsemane and they come to get him and peter is writing to
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  • Defend him in a rather clumsy way, nevertheless ready, and
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  • Jesus stops him.
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  • It's matthew 26:53, he said, "do you think i can call on my
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  • Father and he'll at once put at my disposal more than 12 legions
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  • Of angels?"
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  • Peter, you and your sword are a little goofy; bad aim, not
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  • Overly effective.
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  • If i wanted real help, 12 legions of angels.
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  • That's a lot of angels, legion could be as many as 6,000.
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  • 70,000-plus angels in jesus's personal security detail, that's
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  • A pretty significant spiritual force.
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  • In revelation 5, in verse 11, we have a little snapshot into
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  • Heaven, we can see into heaven through john's vision.
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  • And he said, "i looked and heard the voice of many angels,
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  • Numbering thousands upon thousands, 10,000 times 10,000.
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  • They encircled the throne and the living creatures and
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  • The elders."
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  • Now we've already reached some, at least modest, if brief,
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  • Agreement that the supernatural was engaged in jesus's birth and
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  • His mission, angels are essential characters in the
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  • Story of revelation, that jesus can call upon 70,000 or more if
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  • He needed them.
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  • Satan knew that when he tempted him, he said, "if you throw
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  • Yourself off of this place the angels are gonna watch
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  • Over you."
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  • John shows us a window into heaven and there's as many as
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  • 100 million angels in one scene.
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  • Jesus said, "the children have angels assigned to them that
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  • Have the father's attention."
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  • It's safe to say that in the kingdom of god there are
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  • Spiritual beings in significant number, and they're
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  • Ministering spirits, the bible says, sent forth to help us.
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  • They're messengers, they fill the pages of scripture, and yet
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  • We tend to kind of imagine as if it's peripheral, secondary, that
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  • You can be a christ follower and not really be engaged or have to
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  • Imagine spiritual forces.
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  • We believe in organization.
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  • Well, so do i, i like a good plan and i like an organization
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  • That is run well, but i don't want to--it's not an
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  • Either/or equation, and i certainly don't want to exchange
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  • The power of god and the spiritual help that he's made
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  • Available to us for the imagination that we
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  • Can out-organize evil.
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  • But i'd like to take the macro view with you.
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  • If you do the bible reading with us, we were reading today in 1
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  • Kings, and it was a story about the prophet elijah.
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  • And as i read it, it was difficult for me to just to put
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  • It down again, i've gone through it several times just
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  • Today again.
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  • Elijah had the privilege of being a prophet, someone with
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  • God's perspective around the nation of israel, in the season
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  • When israel had their most wicked king in history.
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  • The king's name was ahab, his wife is jezebel, she's
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  • Phoenician, she's not even an israelite.
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  • And ahab and jezebel, in the scripture, are the epitome,
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  • They're the gold standard for wicked.
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  • I would submit to you, that's not the way you want to make
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  • The book.
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  • And elijah the prophet has the privilege of speaking into
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  • That world.
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  • So 1 kings 18, verse 12, says, "'if i go and tell ahab and he
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  • Doesn't find you, he'll kill me.
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  • Yet i your servant have worshiped
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  • The lord since my youth.
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  • Haven't you heard, my lord, what i did while jezebel was killing
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  • The prophets of the lord?
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  • I hid 100 of the lord's prophets in two caves, 50 in each, and
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  • Supplied them with food and water.
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  • And now you tell me to go to my master and say, "elijah
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  • Is here."
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  • He'll kill me!'
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  • And elijah said, 'as the lord almighty lives, whom i serve, i
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  • Will surely present myself to ahab today.'"
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  • There's a conflict in israel, and if you'll look at it on one
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  • Level it's a conflict between a prophet and the king and the
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  • Queen, and the power structure that they represent.
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  • And that's one way of understanding it, but it's
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  • Incomplete, it's inadequate.
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  • In fact, if that's all you know of the story, you're missing the
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  • Most powerful parts of the story, because that scene, when
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  • Elijah meets with ahab, leads to a confrontation on mount carmel
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  • With the prophets of baal, one of the canaanite fertility gods.
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  • And the outcome of that is a change in the direction of the
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  • Nation of israel.
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  • The people have followed ahab's lead into worshiping this pagan
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  • God, and they have done it in unprecedented numbers, and there
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  • Has been physical persecution amongst those who chose to
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  • Worship god, the prophets, those who speak from
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  • God's perspective.
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  • Biblical prophets are not principally future-tellers,
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  • Biblical prophecy is about delivering god's perspective on
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  • Current events.
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  • Did you know god cares about current events?
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  • If you study your bible absent current events, what exactly are
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  • You doing?
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  • That would be much like going to the doctor, who says, "well, you
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  • Know, i really haven't read a medical journal in 20 or
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  • 25 years."
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  • I'm going someplace else.
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  • And the point of the truth of scripture is to help us
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  • Understand the world we're in today, and elijah is speaking to
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  • The challenge of his day.
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  • "you are an adulterous generation," he said, "you're
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  • Gonna have to choose today whom you're gonna serve, either the
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  • God of abraham, isaac and jacob, or baal.
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  • You choose, but today, when we leave this mountain, you will
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  • Have made a choice."
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  • Most of you know the story, you learned it, i hope, years ago in
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  • Sunday school, we're certainly teaching it to the children now.
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  • The prophets of baal build an altar, the agreement is the god
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  • Who is real will send fire from heaven; they don't have
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  • Much success.
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  • Elijah could've played in the southeastern conference based on
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  • The way he talked trash, 'cause he taunted them all day long, he
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  • Wasn't kind, he just mocked them, and when his turn comes,
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  • He makes it as difficult as possible.
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  • Some of you know, i hope you read the story today, and when
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  • He's done he murders those prophets, executes them.
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  • I'm not in inciting violence or suggesting that you should, i'm
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  • Suggesting we have misunderstood what it means to stand for
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  • The truth.
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  • It's not always kind or comfortable or convenient
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  • Or easy.
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  • Elijah is sent into the desert, he's running for his life, his
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  • Life is under threat.
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  • The queen says, "i'll have his life by tomorrow," and elijah's
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  • Response, it's a stunning response but i'm thinking if you
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  • Could call fire out of heaven you'd say, "well, just bring it
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  • On, sister."
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  • I mean, he's been talking trash all day long, right?
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  • I mean, like, just, "what you got?
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  • Call me 'smokey.'"
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  • But he runs for his life, he runs for his life.
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  • He runs until he's exhausted and god sends an angel to him, wakes
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  • Him up, feeds him, and said, "elijah, you need strength, the
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  • Journey's too much for you," feeds him two meals.
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  • God sends a messenger to help him, and before he comes out of
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  • That desert god says to him, "i want you to anoint your
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  • Successor, i want you to anoint the king's successor, and i want
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  • You to anoint the foreign king that's gonna displace this one."
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  • Now again, god's engagement in history: i'm asking you to
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  • Imagine that spiritual forces impact the world we live in, not
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  • Just in terms of personal conversion but in the course
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  • Of nations.
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  • Say, "i don't believe that."
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  • I got that, i'm asking you to think about the bible and your
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  • Choices around it.
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  • Spiritual forces impacting the course of nations, but they
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  • Don't do it without the engagement of people.
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  • See, most of us think we can do it from our prayer closet, and
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  • I'm an advocate for the prayer closet, but i've told you
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  • Before, your prayer closet is not sufficient to cause a garden
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  • To grow.
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  • You need a way to till the soil, you're gonna need some seed,
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  • You're gonna need some water, you're gonna have a hoe, you're
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  • Gonna pull some weeds.
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  • You can't pray your way to summer vegetables in tennessee,
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  • You've got to do, there's a little sweat equity involved.
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  • Now, we've been so spiritually-minded, we've been
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  • So inauthentic in our faith that our impact in our culture has
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  • Been minimized because we thought we could have the
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  • Conversation and be polite and that it would happen around us
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  • Or apart from us.
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  • It's not the biblical pattern.
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  • Allen: i believe god is moving in the earth
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  • In an unprecedented way, and at the heart of that
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  • Is an awakening, it's a shaking.
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  • And in that shaking, there's a shifting.
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  • There are people falling through the cracks, and there are people
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  • Becoming more alert and aware of what god is doing.
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  • At the heart of that is the acknowledgement,
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  • The realization that spiritual forces shape our lives.
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  • Folks, this isn't for the lunatic fringe.
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  • This isn't for the hyper-spiritual people.
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  • This is the stuff of the bible, and it better be the stuff of
  • 00:13:45.139 --> 00:13:47.575
  • Our lives or we are in a tremendous deficit position.
  • 00:13:47.575 --> 00:13:52.146
  • Well, i've written a book, "angels, demons, & you,"
  • 00:13:52.146 --> 00:13:54.716
  • Simply a biblical review of those spiritual forces that are
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  • Impacting us today.
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  • There's a battle in the earth, and it's not between armies
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  • Wearing the labels of nations or terrorist groups.
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  • It's a spiritual battle.
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  • If you don't understand, if you don't understand the equipment
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  • And the authority you've been given, you are at a tremendous
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  • Position of forfeiture.
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  • Don't live that way.
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  • "angels, demons, & you," you need the solution.
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  • Female announcer: loneliness, depression, despair,
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  • They all have a spiritual origin.
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  • We're in a spiritual battle, and the forces of evil
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  • Stand against us.
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  • But we don't need to be afraid. we need to prepare.
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  • Allen: jesus said the children have angels assigned to them
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  • That have the father's attention.
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  • It's safe to say that in the kingdom of god, there are
  • 00:14:36.491 --> 00:14:39.360
  • Spiritual beings in significant number.
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  • And they're ministering spirits, the bible says,
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  • Sent forth to help us.
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  • They're messengers.
  • 00:14:48.803 --> 00:14:50.138
  • They fill the pages of scripture, and yet we tend to
  • 00:14:50.138 --> 00:14:52.373
  • Kind of imagine as if it's peripheral, secondary, that you
  • 00:14:52.373 --> 00:14:56.110
  • Could be a christ follower, not really be engaged or have to
  • 00:14:56.110 --> 00:14:58.646
  • Imagine spiritual forces.
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  • "we believe in organization."
  • 00:15:00.882 --> 00:15:03.651
  • Well, so do i.
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  • I like a good plan and i like an organization that is run
  • 00:15:05.553 --> 00:15:08.389
  • Well, but i don't want to--it's not an either/or equation and i
  • 00:15:08.389 --> 00:15:12.026
  • Certainly don't want to exchange the power of god and the
  • 00:15:12.026 --> 00:15:15.964
  • Spiritual help that he's made available to us for the
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  • Imagination that we can out-organize evil.
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  • Battle around you so you can live without fear and stand firm
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  • In your faith.
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  • Allen: this is our season in time to be a difference maker
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  • For the kingdom of god, and that's a spiritual assignment.
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  • Allen jackson: i'm not finished yet, i hope we can form
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  • An opinion.
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  • Judges chapter 6, the book of judges is a period in israelite
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  • History when there is no central government, there's no capital
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  • City, there's no central.
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  • There's 12 loosely associated tribes bound together by their
  • 00:16:29.804 --> 00:16:33.574
  • Worship of the god of abraham, isaac, and jacob.
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  • They have their own territory, they worship at a common
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  • Location, mostly the tabernacle, it's a tent structure, it's a
  • 00:16:39.781 --> 00:16:46.120
  • Bit worn by this point in their history; and this period of
  • 00:16:46.120 --> 00:16:48.489
  • History lasts for 400 years.
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  • When there's a threat that threatens something more than a
  • 00:16:50.425 --> 00:16:52.493
  • Tribal level, god will raise up a leader, it's what judge means,
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  • It's a leader.
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  • It's not somebody in long black robes, it's a leader for the
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  • Tribe, somebody that can marshal the cooperation of all or some
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  • Portion of the tribes because there's an external threat and
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  • They need to work together.
  • 00:17:06.107 --> 00:17:08.376
  • It's a theocracy, god is actually the king of the people.
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  • Well, gideon is one of these judges, i know many of you know
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  • The story.
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  • It says, "the angel of the lord came down and sat under the oak
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  • Tree and watched oprah."
  • 00:17:20.488 --> 00:17:22.857
  • [congregation laughing]
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  • Well, kinda.
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  • "that belong to joash,
  • 00:17:30.164 --> 00:17:32.467
  • Where his son gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress
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  • To keep it from the midianites."
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  • To thresh the wheat, you throw it up in the air so the wind
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  • Will blow the chaff away and leave the wheat, you need to do
  • 00:17:39.907 --> 00:17:42.210
  • That in an exposed area but gideon's afraid so he's doing it
  • 00:17:42.210 --> 00:17:44.846
  • Behind the walls of a winepress; for good reason, there's
  • 00:17:44.846 --> 00:17:48.716
  • An enemy.
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  • "when the angel of the lord appeared to him, he said, 'the
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  • Lord is with you, mighty warrior.'
  • 00:17:51.919 --> 00:17:54.889
  • 'but sir,' gideon replied, 'if the lord is with us, why has all
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  • This happened to us?'"
  • 00:17:57.158 --> 00:17:58.960
  • Good question. you ever feel like that?
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  • I do.
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  • Well, if the lord is so good to me, why am i in this fine
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  • Mess, ollie?
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  • I've been to church three weeks in a row.
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  • Don't attend church thinking you're stacking up markers.
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  • Gideon asked a question we've all asked, "'where are all the
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  • Wonders that our fathers told us about?
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  • "didn't the lord bring us up out of egypt?"
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  • But now the lord has abandoned us and put us into the hand
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  • Of midian.'
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  • And the lord turned to him," this is the lord's message to
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  • Gideon, "go in the strength you have and save israel out of
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  • Midian's hand."
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  • I'm sending you.
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  • That's not the message i want, i want god to say, "i've come down
  • 00:18:38.733 --> 00:18:43.938
  • To get them, watch what i'm gonna do to them."
  • 00:18:43.938 --> 00:18:48.276
  • 'cause there are some stories in the bible like that, when the
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  • Angel of the lord kills 180 assyrians, 180,000 assyrians in
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  • One evening.
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  • Those are the kinds of deliverances i usually pray for.
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  • God, let me sit in the recliner and you smite my enemies.
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  • Right?
  • 00:19:04.659 --> 00:19:06.060
  • If i get to choose, i don't want any of these messages saying,
  • 00:19:06.060 --> 00:19:10.298
  • "i'm sending you."
  • 00:19:10.298 --> 00:19:12.700
  • It's like moses at the burning bush in exodus 3.
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  • God said, "i've heard the cries of my people," and you can see
  • 00:19:14.735 --> 00:19:17.538
  • Moses kinda leaning forward, "yeah," "i've seen their
  • 00:19:17.538 --> 00:19:20.841
  • Suffering," and moe's going, "absolutely."
  • 00:19:20.841 --> 00:19:22.543
  • And then god says, "i've come down to deliver them," he's
  • 00:19:22.543 --> 00:19:24.445
  • Going, "yes," and then god says to moses, "i'm sending
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  • You," "whoa."
  • 00:19:28.416 --> 00:19:31.285
  • I think that's a little bit how we feel, we want god to
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  • Do something.
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  • God, there's darkness and ungodliness and immorality, and
  • 00:19:35.156 --> 00:19:39.060
  • People have drifted.
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  • God, won't you do something?
  • 00:19:40.428 --> 00:19:42.029
  • And he says to gideon, ah, "go in the strength you have," dude
  • 00:19:42.029 --> 00:19:47.602
  • Is hiding, "and save israel out of midian's hand."
  • 00:19:47.602 --> 00:19:56.477
  • And gideon, he just speaks right up, god bless his heart.
  • 00:19:56.477 --> 00:20:00.014
  • He said, "how can i save israel?
  • 00:20:00.014 --> 00:20:01.349
  • My clan is the weakest
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  • And i'm the least in my family."
  • 00:20:02.717 --> 00:20:05.886
  • I was born on the wrong side of the tracks and the street i'm on
  • 00:20:05.886 --> 00:20:07.888
  • Is the worst street on this side of the tracks.
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  • And the lord said, "i'll be with you."
  • 00:20:11.425 --> 00:20:17.665
  • "i'll be with you, and you'll strike down all the
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  • Midianites together."
  • 00:20:20.134 --> 00:20:22.036
  • So gideon says, "okay."
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  • But the assignment doesn't begin with the midianites, it doesn't
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  • Begin with the invading army, it doesn't begin with the
  • 00:20:28.075 --> 00:20:30.278
  • Foreigners, it begins with the hearts of god's people, and it
  • 00:20:30.278 --> 00:20:35.449
  • Begins in gideon's household.
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  • I believe that's our pathway, it's not about being angry at
  • 00:20:39.387 --> 00:20:42.690
  • Somebody else, it's not about being angry at the political
  • 00:20:42.690 --> 00:20:46.460
  • Party that you're not, it's not about being angry at somebody
  • 00:20:46.460 --> 00:20:50.898
  • That you didn't vote for, it's about recognizing the condition
  • 00:20:50.898 --> 00:20:54.935
  • Of my heart and those closest to me.
  • 00:20:54.935 --> 00:21:01.776
  • "the lord said to him, 'peace!
  • 00:21:01.776 --> 00:21:03.110
  • Don't be afraid.
  • 00:21:03.110 --> 00:21:04.478
  • You're not going to die.'"
  • 00:21:04.478 --> 00:21:05.813
  • Gideon realizes he sees an angel and he gets a little anxious.
  • 00:21:05.813 --> 00:21:09.216
  • "so gideon built an altar to the lord there and he called it the
  • 00:21:09.216 --> 00:21:11.485
  • Lord is peace."
  • 00:21:11.485 --> 00:21:12.820
  • Do you know the hebrew word for peace?
  • 00:21:12.820 --> 00:21:15.056
  • Shalom, it means a whole lot more than just, "hey."
  • 00:21:15.056 --> 00:21:20.361
  • It's a greeting in modern israel, they the answer their
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  • Phone, a lot of times they'll say, "shalom," they see you on
  • 00:21:22.096 --> 00:21:23.898
  • The street, they'll say, "shalom," when they're leaving,
  • 00:21:23.898 --> 00:21:26.367
  • They'll say, "shalom."
  • 00:21:26.367 --> 00:21:28.803
  • It's more about a state of being with god's presence.
  • 00:21:28.803 --> 00:21:36.410
  • "the lord is peace.
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  • To this day it stands," somewhere.
  • 00:21:37.778 --> 00:21:42.350
  • "in the same night the lord said to him, 'take the second bull
  • 00:21:42.350 --> 00:21:45.052
  • From your father's herd, the one seven years old.
  • 00:21:45.052 --> 00:21:48.189
  • Tear down your father's altar to baal and cut down the asherah
  • 00:21:48.189 --> 00:21:51.058
  • Pole beside it.'"
  • 00:21:51.058 --> 00:21:52.760
  • Again, they're both places where they worship the canaanite
  • 00:21:52.760 --> 00:21:55.162
  • Fertility gods.
  • 00:21:55.162 --> 00:22:01.068
  • "'then build a proper kind of an altar to the lord your god on
  • 00:22:01.068 --> 00:22:03.371
  • The top of this height.
  • 00:22:03.371 --> 00:22:04.705
  • Using the wood of the asherah pole that you cut down, offer
  • 00:22:04.705 --> 00:22:07.341
  • The second bull as a burnt offering.'
  • 00:22:07.341 --> 00:22:10.111
  • So gideon took 10 of his servants as the lord told him.
  • 00:22:10.111 --> 00:22:13.714
  • But because he was afraid of his family and the men of the town,
  • 00:22:13.714 --> 00:22:16.083
  • He did it at night rather than in the daytime."
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  • Did you hear that?
  • 00:22:19.220 --> 00:22:21.222
  • Gideon has an assignment.
  • 00:22:21.222 --> 00:22:23.691
  • God said, "i'm gonna use you to deliver these people from the
  • 00:22:23.691 --> 00:22:26.427
  • Midianites, i want you to go in your strength.
  • 00:22:26.427 --> 00:22:29.230
  • But before you worry about the midianites, gideon, you need to
  • 00:22:29.230 --> 00:22:31.632
  • Clean up your own household."
  • 00:22:31.632 --> 00:22:37.238
  • And he gets a revelation of god, it's the first, it's one of the
  • 00:22:37.238 --> 00:22:39.840
  • Covenant names of god, jehovah shalom, our god is peace.
  • 00:22:39.840 --> 00:22:45.846
  • He gets a revelation of god that's gonna take him through
  • 00:22:45.846 --> 00:22:48.215
  • This season, and you know the story of gideon and his fleeces,
  • 00:22:48.215 --> 00:22:51.585
  • I mean, he's not an easy sell, he wants confirmation and
  • 00:22:51.585 --> 00:22:54.188
  • Reconfirmation and one more time confirmation.
  • 00:22:54.188 --> 00:22:57.691
  • And when it's--still when it's time to go, he's afraid,
  • 00:22:57.691 --> 00:23:02.696
  • So he does it at night,
  • 00:23:02.696 --> 00:23:06.467
  • Less confrontation, but he's not done.
  • 00:23:06.467 --> 00:23:09.937
  • "in the morning when the men of the town got up, and there was
  • 00:23:09.937 --> 00:23:12.373
  • Baal's altar, demolished, with the asherah pole beside it cut
  • 00:23:12.373 --> 00:23:15.142
  • Down and the second bull sacrificed on the newly
  • 00:23:15.142 --> 00:23:17.111
  • Built altar!"
  • 00:23:17.111 --> 00:23:18.479
  • 'who did this?'
  • 00:23:18.479 --> 00:23:20.347
  • Gideon did.
  • 00:23:20.347 --> 00:23:22.483
  • "and the men of the town demanded, 'bring your son.
  • 00:23:22.483 --> 00:23:25.186
  • He must die.'"
  • 00:23:25.186 --> 00:23:26.954
  • That's why gideon did it at night.
  • 00:23:26.954 --> 00:23:30.157
  • This wasn't easy, this wasn't comfortable, this wasn't
  • 00:23:30.157 --> 00:23:32.326
  • Convenient, there was not an applause line.
  • 00:23:32.326 --> 00:23:37.798
  • Tremendous risk, he's never going to get to the midianites
  • 00:23:37.798 --> 00:23:40.868
  • If god isn't on his side, he's not gonna get past his family.
  • 00:23:40.868 --> 00:23:46.941
  • Again, god is going to change, for more than a generation, the
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  • Direction of a nation, but it begins with individuals that are
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  • Willing to embrace the truth of god in the midst of the
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  • Resentment or the hostility or the pushback that comes with it.
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  • We've--in the church world, i've spent my life there so i'm not
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  • Throwing stones at others, this is my life as much as it is
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  • Anybody else's, we get angry about somebody in our chair or
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  • Somebody in my parking place or whether or not drums are
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  • Appropriate or not, whether the pastor's shirt is tucked in
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  • Or not.
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  • I mean, it's the stuff of church debate.
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  • Right?
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  • And then we wonder why the influence of christianity has
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  • Precipitously declined in our generation, because we resorted
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  • To conversations and invested our thought and our energy in
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  • Things that are, i don't even think we can call
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  • Them secondary.
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  • And we've looked away while immorality and ungodliness and
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  • Wickedness is proliferated and been pumped into our children
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  • From dozens and dozens of venues, but we found it
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  • Inconvenient to engage in that because it might impact us in an
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  • Economic way or our social circles or somebody would say we
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  • Were aligning ourselves in a political--
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  • It's not politics, it's a biblical worldview.
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  • Gideon is engaged in a spiritual battle, it's initiated by an
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  • Angelic visit, he wasn't recruited by the leaders of the
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  • 12 tribes because he was a brilliant military strategist,
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  • He was recruited by an angel of the lord because i assume that
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  • God thought gideon would be obedient.
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  • God provides the directions.
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  • The point of contention in gideon's household was about the
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  • Focus of worship, what we're going to worship.
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  • And the discussion was intent enough that gideon was afraid to
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  • Say it in the daylight, he made his statement after dark and the
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  • Response at dawn was, "we'll kill him."
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  • We're gonna have to stand for our faith in a new kind of away.
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  • Again, not angry, not belligerent, it begins in our
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  • Hearts and in our homes.
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  • It's not about somebody else, we've got to stop that.
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  • Get off the social media, stop being angry at other people,
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  • They don't have any power unless we've given it to them.
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  • Allen jackson: do you ever feel inadequate for the challenges of
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  • Our day?
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  • I do.
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  • Well, gideon's one of my heroes because when god recruited him,
  • 00:26:27.468 --> 00:26:29.303
  • Gideon gave all the reasons why he wasn't qualified.
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  • If you feel inadequate, i think that is an essential component
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  • For a valuable role in god's economy.
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  • Because the reality is we are inadequate, i don't have the
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  • Strength, the power, the resources, the wisdom,
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  • The connections.
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  • What i do have is a relationship with the creator of all things,
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  • And that's enough.
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  • It says in romans, if god's for us, it doesn't matter who's
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  • Against us.
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  • So i wanna pray for you today, god's got a new, bold response
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  • For your life.
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  • Father, i thank you that, in christ jesus, we are more than
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  • Adequate, that your spirit dwells within us.
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  • Thank you for it, in jesus's name, amen.
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  • ♪♪♪
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