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Allen Jackson - What Are You Afraid Of? (Part 1)

March 16, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - What Are You Afraid Of? (Part 1)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - What Are You Afraid Of? (Part 1) | March 16, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: the title for this session is
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  • "what are you afraid of?"
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  • And most of us would say nothing, but the honest answer
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  • I think is many things.
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  • It seems to me that fear is stalking the streets.
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  • It was introduced in a new way a few years ago when we heard
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  • About that virus from wuhan, but it's continued to grow.
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  • The virus receded, but the fear hasn't seemed to.
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  • And there's more anxiety and more concern and in many
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  • Respects, more fear than we've been accustomed to.
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  • Some of its founded, i think on perhaps reasonable premises and
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  • Others are irrational.
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  • You know, it's just an introduction to this topic.
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  • I think we've got to acknowledge the degree to which the church
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  • Has stepped back and people of faith have been willing to
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  • Recede into the shadows.
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  • When my friend jesus is prohibited from the public
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  • Square, these days it's called tolerance.
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  • When we speak of his principles and boundaries, it is frequently
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  • Discussed as hate speech.
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  • I would humbly submit we had better wake up.
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  • You may not think that's coming to your door, but if we allow
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  • Those tendencies to continue, it very much will.
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  • I assure you god's not intimidated by our problems.
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  • I double checked.
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  • He's still the prince of peace.
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  • He has resolutions for all the ills that are before us if we
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  • Will cooperate with him.
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  • The choices are not that complicated.
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  • We will either yield to the spirit of christ or i assure you
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  • We will serve the spirit of antichrist.
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  • You will serve one or the other.
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  • There's no gray area.
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  • There's not a third option.
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  • When we reject god, when we reject god individually, when we
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  • Reject him as families, when we reject him as communities of
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  • Faith, if we reject him as a nation, tremendous
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  • Suffering results.
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  • There's some examples of that you can see pretty easily with a
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  • Glance at our world, tremendous suffering in ukraine these days.
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  • The conflict that's difficult to articulate, difficult to
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  • Understand with a lot of high profile personalities and
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  • Celebrities attached to it with more than a million casualties.
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  • There have been very few calls if any for humanitarian
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  • Cease fire.
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  • All the calls i hear most consistently are for escalation,
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  • More armaments, missiles that can reach further.
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  • It's unimaginable.
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  • I've been on multiple calls with people on the front lines in
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  • Those places, pastors, leaders in the christian communities,
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  • Cities devastated, families destroyed.
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  • It's evil and there's tremendous suffering.
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  • We don't have to go to ukraine.
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  • We have an open border in our nation and there's so much
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  • Confusion around that topic.
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  • It has brought tremendous suffering.
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  • The trafficking of children in unprecedented numbers.
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  • Never in our nation's history have children been sold at
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  • The rate they're being sold on our border.
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  • More than 400,000 children off the grid.
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  • We don't even know where they are.
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  • They're just completely lost.
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  • We've eliminated simple boundaries like dna testing.
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  • If a 10 or 11-year-old girl arrives at the border with some
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  • Man and she looks frightened, there's no longer dna testing.
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  • If he says he's her uncle, they're given a date to appear
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  • Two or three years from now and released into the country.
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  • It's inhumane, it's cruel.
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  • There's tremendous pressure in towns and cities across our
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  • America because of that policy.
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  • There are terrorists amongst us.
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  • I have talked with multiple people, former heads of border
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  • Security, people who led homeland security.
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  • They tell me repeatedly separately that they are more
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  • Terrorist amongst us in unprecedented numbers than at
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  • Any point in our history.
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  • They also all seem to agree that when their activity begins and
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  • The destruction begins that it'll all be blamed on somebody
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  • Other than those who have been responsible for the policy of
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  • The border being open.
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  • Folks, when we reject god tremendous suffering results,
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  • Which leads us to the place that we don't wanna be amongst
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  • The people who reject god.
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  • We have trouble deciding if even going to church is necessary
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  • These days.
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  • Well, i have to go to church to be a christian.
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  • Okay, duh.
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  • But you have to have some interaction with the people
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  • Of god.
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  • If you're gonna grow up, that is the biblical prescription.
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  • There is no maturity by yourself.
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  • It's impossible to achieve.
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  • Isaiah chapter 12 and verse 2 is in your notes.
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  • There's hope.
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  • It says, "surely god is my salvation, i will trust and not
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  • Be afraid."
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  • You see, we have to orchestrate a trust transfer.
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  • We put our trust in all kinds of things, governments,
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  • The strength of the dollar, political parties, elections.
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  • How many elections do we have to have while we continue to
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  • Plummet down into this chasm of ungodliness before the church
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  • Will wake up and say we have to be different?
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  • There's a trust transfer that is needed.
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  • Isaiah said, "the lord is my strength and my song: he has
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  • Become my salvation."
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  • See, to the degree that we believe that we can lead lives
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  • With less and less encroachment of fear.
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  • To the degree that you relegate your faith to a few moments on
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  • The weekend or an occasional visit to a church or a promise
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  • From the promise box or a digital devotional, fear will
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  • Dominate the way you respond to the world around you.
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  • How you parent, how you make financial decisions.
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  • We don't wanna live that way.
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  • Fear impacts how much, how we see the world.
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  • It impacts our reactions to life, our relationships with
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  • Others, even our responses to god.
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  • It's a highly documented area.
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  • Did you know there are more than 500 identified fears that
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  • Plague humans?
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  • Five hundred plus, folks, that's a lot of fear.
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  • And, you know, the ones that aren't real to you don't feel
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  • Real, but the ones that are feel very personal.
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  • The list is in intriguing to me.
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  • Thermophobia, that's the fear of heat.
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  • Those are the people that live in the northern part of
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  • The nation.
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  • This one seems to be contagious.
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  • Phronemophobia, it's the fear of thinking.
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  • This one's a little less frequent, but i could see it
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  • Could be troubling.
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  • Cometaphobia, the fear of comets.
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  • It's a thing.
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  • Ablutophobia, fear of bathing.
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  • I pray the people near you do not have that.
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  • Euphobia, the fear of hearing good news.
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  • Many of them work in the media.
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  • Ecclesiophobia, you should know this one.
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  • Fear of attending church.
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  • It's an epidemic.
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  • This one is clearly demonic.
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  • Hamolophobia, it's the fear of sermons.
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  • Again, if they're not things that challenge you, they're kind
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  • Of humorous, but fear is real and to say we're never afraid or
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  • Nothing frightens us or we're not afraid of anyone or
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  • Anything, then all of our bluster is dishonest.
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  • Well, i wanna take the time in this session and talk to you
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  • About a primary fear, an essential fear if you'll
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  • Allow me.
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  • In fact, without it, i have little hope that you will even
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  • Be able to participate in the kingdom of god and i'm quite
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  • Confident that in its absence, you won't be able to mature or
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  • Grow up as a christ follower.
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  • In scripture it's presented as the fear of god.
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  • Not a terror or a dread.
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  • It's a respect, a reverence.
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  • We'll look at a definition in a moment, but look at exodus 18
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  • Verse 21.
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  • They're selecting people for leadership for significant roles
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  • In the midst of the people of god.
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  • They've exited egypt.
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  • It's time now to put together a social structure to let
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  • The people of god flourish.
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  • And these are part of the instructions, "select capable
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  • Men from all the people--men who fear god, trustworthy men who
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  • Hate dishonest gain--and appoint them as officials over
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  • Thousands, and hundreds, and fifties and tens."
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  • Men who fear god.
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  • Folks, if there's something that's missing in the midst of
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  • Our culture, it's men and women who fear god and that has to
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  • Begin in the church.
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  • It has to begin in the midst of the people of god.
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  • This isn't a secular problem.
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  • This is a problem amongst people of faith.
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  • The alternative, the other end of the spectrum is
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  • Ecclesiastes 8 and verse 13, "because the wicked
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  • Do not fear god, it will not go well with them,
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  • And their days will not lengthen like a shadow."
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  • The connection, the parallel between the wicked and the
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  • Absence of the fear of god should be a warning to all
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  • Of us.
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  • I don't wanna be included amongst the wicked.
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  • So i am very interested in understanding what the fear of
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  • God is and what would be necessary to let it grow,
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  • Flourish, multiply in my heart.
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  • I want more of it.
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  • See, i'm a little weary, i'm more than a little weary
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  • Honestly with the way we've been coached to have a conversion
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  • Experience which i believe in.
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  • It is essential.
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  • But we've been coached towards this idea that having reached
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  • That threshold, you're pretty much golden.
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  • And i believe that entry into the kingdom of god is to allow
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  • Us to enable us to grow in a respect and a reverence for god.
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  • That if you've known him one day, ten days later, you should
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  • Have greater reverence from him than you did on day one.
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  • And i'm not sure that we've been cultivating that desire as fully
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  • As we might.
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  • I gave you a definition.
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  • The fear of the lord is an attitude of reverence and awe
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  • Towards god precipitated by an understanding of the holiness,
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  • The justice, the grace and the love of god.
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  • Should we talk so much about the love of god?
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  • And i believe in that, but it's not the presentation of the full
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  • Character of god.
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  • He's also a god of justice.
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  • He's not just your buddy, he's your heavenly father.
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  • I have an earthly father and he loves me and he will beat the
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  • Stew out of me in a god honoring jesus loving sort of way.
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  • I'm not suggesting that he would physically damage my person,
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  • But he believes in discipline.
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  • And if you don't have the imagination that god believes
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  • In discipline, you have an incomplete gospel.
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  • And that's the role, that's a significant part of what this
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  • Reverence, this fear, respect for god will bring to your life.
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  • See, there's a struggle persist that persists within us in spite
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  • Of our conversion, in spite of our baptism, in spite of
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  • The presence of the spirit of god within us.
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  • We still live in an earth suit.
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  • We still have that adamic earthly carnal nature.
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  • We are hardwired towards ungodliness.
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  • I don't need coaching in that.
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  • We don't have to have classes on how to lie more efficiently.
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  • We don't have to get groups together on selfishness.
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  • We're just too selfless.
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  • It makes us incredibly vulnerable.
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  • So we've started a whole new movement on how to be more
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  • Selfish for jesus.
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  • That hasn't been necessary because we're hardwired for
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  • Those things.
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  • And this struggle persists within us.
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  • We have very little room in our hearts or our lives
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  • For authority.
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  • We don't like it.
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  • Our casual culture encourages irreverent attitudes.
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  • It does.
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  • I'm not suggesting that all the things that have come with
  • 00:13:15.110 --> 00:13:17.179
  • A more casual culture are bad, but some of the things with
  • 00:13:17.179 --> 00:13:20.482
  • Respect to our faith have been disruptive.
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  • We show less and less respect.
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  • We do.
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  • Well, you can't judge my spirituality by...
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  • You're right.
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  • It's not an external thing, but we communicate many things about
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  • What we prioritize, what we value, where we spend our time
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  • And our money.
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  • Those things can be perceived by outward observation.
  • 00:13:43.539 --> 00:13:47.776
  • There are at least indicators.
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  • We have lost a general loss of boundaries throughout our lives.
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  • Allen: hey, i have a suggestion.
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  • Let's stop waiting for somebody else to be a better leader.
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  • Let's determine this year to lead with faith.
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  • I've written a book to help.
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  • It's a practical collection of tools that you and i can use the
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  • Homes, with our friends.
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  • Folks, it's time for us to stop waiting for somebody else to
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  • Step forward.
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  • Let's determine to lead with faith.
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  • We can do that and i believe we can change our homes, our
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  • Allen: i'd like to take a moment with this whole issue of
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  • Accountability because accountability really is
  • 00:15:02.551 --> 00:15:05.154
  • An authority issue.
  • 00:15:05.154 --> 00:15:07.256
  • And the idea that i wanna plant, the seed i wanna plant is a bit
  • 00:15:07.256 --> 00:15:10.392
  • Of self-reflection.
  • 00:15:10.392 --> 00:15:11.760
  • I want you to think a bit beyond our little time together about
  • 00:15:11.760 --> 00:15:15.931
  • The accountability and the authority structures
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  • Of your life.
  • 00:15:18.567 --> 00:15:20.002
  • Look at 2 corinthians chapter 5 and verse 10.
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  • It says, "we must all appear before the judgment seat of
  • 00:15:22.338 --> 00:15:25.374
  • Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the
  • 00:15:25.374 --> 00:15:28.777
  • Things done while in the body, whether good or bad."
  • 00:15:28.777 --> 00:15:33.649
  • See, there's two judgments.
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  • They're different.
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  • There'll be a judgment for those who are not christ followers.
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  • It's a judgment of destiny.
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  • It's a judgment that will determine whether you spend
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  • Eternity in the kingdom of god or separate from that.
  • 00:15:48.831 --> 00:15:52.801
  • But there's a judgment that awaits every christ follower.
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  • Paul's writing this to a group of christians.
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  • And he said, "we must all appear before the judgment seat
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  • Of christ."
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  • We'll come back and do a fuller study on this at some point in
  • 00:16:03.212 --> 00:16:05.681
  • The future, but for the moment, let's just determine that
  • 00:16:05.681 --> 00:16:08.517
  • Biblically, every one of us has an appointment for which we will
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  • Give an account for what we have done in the body.
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  • You have an existence beyond your body, but god is going to
  • 00:16:15.724 --> 00:16:22.598
  • Evaluate you based on his kingdom principles for what you
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  • And i do with our time in our earth suit.
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  • Whether it was good or bad, not in my opinion.
  • 00:16:32.241 --> 00:16:35.344
  • And you and i will never be able to make a case that's
  • 00:16:35.344 --> 00:16:37.446
  • So convincing.
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  • We'll never be able to bring enough emotion to bear that we
  • 00:16:38.814 --> 00:16:41.683
  • Will get god to agree with us in our ungodliness.
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  • We won't be able to justify our unforgiveness, our anger, our
  • 00:16:45.421 --> 00:16:48.090
  • Resentment, our bitterness, our hatred, our immorality.
  • 00:16:48.090 --> 00:16:50.893
  • God will not say, "oh, i understand."
  • 00:16:50.893 --> 00:16:56.899
  • Galatians 6 and verse 7 says, "do not be deceived: god cannot
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  • Be mocked.
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  • A man reaps what he sows."
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  • That isn't a threat.
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  • It's a promise.
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  • Sow good things.
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  • I love summer vegetables, but if you want green beans and new
  • 00:17:07.643 --> 00:17:11.480
  • Potatoes in your garden, you gotta plant some green beans and
  • 00:17:11.480 --> 00:17:14.316
  • New potatoes.
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  • If you don't put the seeds in the ground, you're not gonna get
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  • That harvest.
  • 00:17:19.521 --> 00:17:21.824
  • And there's, if you want the blessings of god and the favor
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  • Of god, if you wanna live in the peace of god and the provision
  • 00:17:24.827 --> 00:17:28.697
  • Of god, there's some things you have to do.
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  • The majority of god's promises are provisional.
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  • We have to meet the qualifications.
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  • You know that fundamentally, it's the nature of your
  • 00:17:39.108 --> 00:17:41.343
  • Relationship with god.
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  • The bible says, if you can believe in your heart and
  • 00:17:42.678 --> 00:17:44.880
  • Confess with your mouth that jesus is lord, you can be saved.
  • 00:17:44.880 --> 00:17:49.218
  • Well, god has done everything he's going to do for the
  • 00:17:49.218 --> 00:17:52.354
  • The redemption of humanity.
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  • He sent his son, the incarnation.
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  • Jesus came, he put on an earth suit.
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  • He lived amongst us.
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  • He offered himself as a sacrifice that no human being
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  • Should have to spend eternity apart from almighty god,
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  • The creator of heaven and earth.
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  • Anyone who does that chooses to do that.
  • 00:18:10.339 --> 00:18:15.010
  • But in order to receive the benefit of the redemptive work
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  • Of jesus, you have to believe in your heart and confess with
  • 00:18:17.579 --> 00:18:20.516
  • Your mouth.
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  • So that principle shaped your entrance into the kingdom
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  • Of god.
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  • You shouldn't be surprised or offended that that principle
  • 00:18:26.488 --> 00:18:28.824
  • Will shape your maturing in the kingdom of god.
  • 00:18:28.824 --> 00:18:36.031
  • Verse 8, "the one who sows to please the sinful nature, from
  • 00:18:36.031 --> 00:18:38.934
  • That nature will reap destruction; the one who sows
  • 00:18:38.934 --> 00:18:42.771
  • To please the spirit, from the spirit will reap eternal life."
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  • Every day, you and i are planting crops.
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  • Every day, every interaction.
  • 00:18:48.577 --> 00:18:53.649
  • "let us not become weary in doing good."
  • 00:18:53.649 --> 00:18:56.518
  • I assure you that encouragement, note of encouragement would not
  • 00:18:56.518 --> 00:18:59.655
  • Be there if we never got weary in doing good.
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  • Some days i get tired of it.
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  • Oh, it's true.
  • 00:19:07.095 --> 00:19:09.665
  • Well, i bet you do too.
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  • Don't you ever get tired of being christ like?
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  • Oh, come on.
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  • I'm not suggesting you wanna plunge into some
  • 00:19:19.641 --> 00:19:21.877
  • Gross immorality.
  • 00:19:21.877 --> 00:19:23.245
  • You just get tired of being kind, right?
  • 00:19:23.245 --> 00:19:29.318
  • Somebody cut you off in traffic.
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  • I think i'll just hit him.
  • 00:19:32.921 --> 00:19:40.095
  • Did you ever play monopoly?
  • 00:19:40.095 --> 00:19:42.397
  • Community checks, get those little cars, get out of
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  • Jail free.
  • 00:19:44.199 --> 00:19:45.867
  • I have this fantasy.
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  • We print those.
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  • It's just this is my day where i don't have to behave like
  • 00:19:49.104 --> 00:19:51.306
  • A christ follower.
  • 00:19:51.306 --> 00:19:52.641
  • Again, not gross immorality.
  • 00:19:52.641 --> 00:19:54.009
  • This is just my, i'm not kind day.
  • 00:19:54.009 --> 00:19:56.878
  • You cut me off, i hit you.
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  • Here's my card.
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  • Tomorrow, i'll wave you and today you pull out there.
  • 00:20:03.785 --> 00:20:05.854
  • I got you, boom.
  • 00:20:05.854 --> 00:20:08.590
  • In fact, i may back up and hit you again.
  • 00:20:08.590 --> 00:20:09.958
  • Just feels good, cathartic.
  • 00:20:09.958 --> 00:20:15.631
  • Don't grow weary in doing good.
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  • I find we don't say that i don't say out loud i'm tired
  • 00:20:18.767 --> 00:20:21.870
  • Of doing good.
  • 00:20:21.870 --> 00:20:23.238
  • I just act like i didn't notice there was an opportunity.
  • 00:20:23.238 --> 00:20:26.908
  • I put my ear buds in or whatever the equivalent is.
  • 00:20:26.908 --> 00:20:32.147
  • Act like i didn't notice.
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  • I don't pay attention to that.
  • 00:20:34.149 --> 00:20:35.517
  • I don't watch the news.
  • 00:20:35.517 --> 00:20:36.985
  • I don't know what's going on in the schools whatever.
  • 00:20:36.985 --> 00:20:39.655
  • So we kind of feign ignorance.
  • 00:20:39.655 --> 00:20:42.324
  • In reality, we've stepped back from the arena of the conflict
  • 00:20:42.324 --> 00:20:46.094
  • Because we've grown weary in doing good.
  • 00:20:46.094 --> 00:20:49.865
  • "so that at the proper time, we'll reap a harvest if," it's
  • 00:20:49.865 --> 00:20:53.535
  • An awful little word right there.
  • 00:20:53.535 --> 00:20:55.671
  • You ought to circle it.
  • 00:20:55.671 --> 00:20:57.005
  • It's just two letters, a little preposition, "at the proper time
  • 00:20:57.005 --> 00:20:59.408
  • You'll reap a harvest," woo hoo, "if we don't give up."
  • 00:20:59.408 --> 00:21:06.448
  • If you give up, your harvest will go someplace else.
  • 00:21:06.448 --> 00:21:10.852
  • I feel like giving up sometimes, but we're not going to.
  • 00:21:10.852 --> 00:21:16.925
  • We will not stop.
  • 00:21:16.925 --> 00:21:23.365
  • But on that point, we need one another.
  • 00:21:23.365 --> 00:21:25.033
  • We need the encouragement, the affirmation.
  • 00:21:25.033 --> 00:21:27.536
  • We need to hear the gods stories.
  • 00:21:27.536 --> 00:21:29.938
  • We need to hear your victories reported or the struggles you're
  • 00:21:29.938 --> 00:21:32.874
  • In 'cause it helps me process wherever i am in my journey,
  • 00:21:32.874 --> 00:21:36.144
  • Somewhere between mountain tops or in the midst of a valley
  • 00:21:36.144 --> 00:21:38.814
  • Or whatever that feels like.
  • 00:21:38.814 --> 00:21:41.650
  • Giving up is not a good option.
  • 00:21:41.650 --> 00:21:44.119
  • Lots of messaging around that.
  • 00:21:44.119 --> 00:21:45.454
  • And most of the important things in life require discipline,
  • 00:21:45.454 --> 00:21:49.224
  • A willingness to do the right thing that you know to do at
  • 00:21:49.224 --> 00:21:52.527
  • The right time.
  • 00:21:52.527 --> 00:21:53.862
  • Every time you have the opportunity to do it.
  • 00:21:53.862 --> 00:21:57.332
  • That really is what discipline is about.
  • 00:21:57.332 --> 00:21:59.201
  • If you just do it once in a while or occasionally or when
  • 00:21:59.201 --> 00:22:01.536
  • You feel like it, that's not discipline.
  • 00:22:01.536 --> 00:22:04.906
  • That's something altogether different and the outcomes are
  • 00:22:04.906 --> 00:22:07.776
  • Very disparate.
  • 00:22:07.776 --> 00:22:09.811
  • Look at matthew 16, this is jesus, "the son of man is going
  • 00:22:09.811 --> 00:22:12.881
  • To come in his father's glory with his angels, and then he
  • 00:22:12.881 --> 00:22:15.917
  • Will reward each person according to what he has done."
  • 00:22:15.917 --> 00:22:19.788
  • Did you hear that?
  • 00:22:19.788 --> 00:22:21.123
  • Jesus is coming back to the earth and he's going to reward
  • 00:22:21.123 --> 00:22:23.692
  • Everyone the same?
  • 00:22:23.692 --> 00:22:31.566
  • No, actually it's that he's gonna reward us according to
  • 00:22:31.566 --> 00:22:35.137
  • What we have done.
  • 00:22:35.137 --> 00:22:37.439
  • Do you understand that fundamentally that is the exact
  • 00:22:37.439 --> 00:22:40.242
  • Opposite of equity?
  • 00:22:40.242 --> 00:22:47.182
  • We will be rewarded for our choices, not our appearance.
  • 00:22:47.182 --> 00:22:52.354
  • You can sit in church every week and have a heart far from god.
  • 00:22:52.354 --> 00:22:58.059
  • You can.
  • 00:22:58.059 --> 00:22:59.728
  • Most of us have worn that uniform once in a while.
  • 00:22:59.728 --> 00:23:05.133
  • You see a casual faith rejects this accountability.
  • 00:23:05.133 --> 00:23:09.604
  • Now, for fairness, the other extreme of this is legalism.
  • 00:23:09.604 --> 00:23:15.110
  • Legalism gives birth to self righteousness and the fruit of
  • 00:23:15.110 --> 00:23:19.448
  • Legalism and self-righteousness almost inevitably is witchcraft
  • 00:23:19.448 --> 00:23:23.318
  • Which is about control.
  • 00:23:23.318 --> 00:23:24.686
  • Not people with long pointed black hats, but biblically
  • 00:23:24.686 --> 00:23:28.256
  • Speaking, it's about control, manipulation, and domination.
  • 00:23:28.256 --> 00:23:33.361
  • So we say jesus is gonna reward us for what we've done with our
  • 00:23:33.361 --> 00:23:37.199
  • Time in the body.
  • 00:23:37.199 --> 00:23:38.567
  • It's not that we're gonna earn our way to heaven, but that if
  • 00:23:38.567 --> 00:23:41.903
  • We choose to lead our lives with the objective of pleasing the
  • 00:23:41.903 --> 00:23:45.240
  • Lord out of a reverence for him, a respect for him,
  • 00:23:45.240 --> 00:23:49.077
  • A fear for him.
  • 00:23:49.077 --> 00:23:51.480
  • We're not trying to bring god down to our level.
  • 00:23:51.480 --> 00:23:53.548
  • He's not like us, folks.
  • 00:23:53.548 --> 00:23:56.685
  • He made the earth and everything that's in it.
  • 00:23:56.685 --> 00:23:59.120
  • You can't do that.
  • 00:23:59.120 --> 00:24:02.023
  • There is a god.
  • 00:24:02.023 --> 00:24:04.826
  • The wonder of the word of god is that he can be known and that he
  • 00:24:04.826 --> 00:24:08.730
  • Would welcome us into a relationship with himself.
  • 00:24:08.730 --> 00:24:13.168
  • And the opportunity we've been given is to live every day with
  • 00:24:13.168 --> 00:24:16.605
  • The objective of pleasing him.
  • 00:24:16.605 --> 00:24:19.541
  • That really is the foundation of the fear of god.
  • 00:24:19.541 --> 00:24:22.010
  • We believe spiritual things are real.
  • 00:24:22.010 --> 00:24:24.279
  • So we'll give thought and time and attention and energy into
  • 00:24:24.279 --> 00:24:27.249
  • Being spiritually clean.
  • 00:24:27.249 --> 00:24:29.985
  • We'll try to understand the biblical principles that enable
  • 00:24:29.985 --> 00:24:32.587
  • Us to lead lives of spiritual freedom free of unforgiveness
  • 00:24:32.587 --> 00:24:37.592
  • And hatred and bitterness.
  • 00:24:37.592 --> 00:24:39.327
  • Do you understand there are powerful, powerful repetitive
  • 00:24:39.327 --> 00:24:42.597
  • Voices coaching us towards unforgiveness and hatred every
  • 00:24:42.597 --> 00:24:46.601
  • Day and we often blindly follow along?
  • 00:24:46.601 --> 00:24:53.275
  • We're agitated and frustrated and filled with ungodly things.
  • 00:24:53.275 --> 00:24:57.445
  • They bring destruction.
  • 00:24:57.445 --> 00:25:00.849
  • We desperately need the voice of the people of faith informed by
  • 00:25:00.849 --> 00:25:06.087
  • The scripture, speaking to our children in our schools and our
  • 00:25:06.087 --> 00:25:09.791
  • College campuses.
  • 00:25:09.791 --> 00:25:11.159
  • Not just preaching sermons.
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  • Teaching us how to be in this world.
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  • A respect for one another, a respect for the dignity
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  • Of human life.
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  • A respect for holiness and godliness and purity
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  • And righteousness, words that seem so quaint
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  • When you just say them out loud these days.
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  • Allen: the practice of sin will destroy us.
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  • The struggle with sin is universal and we need to know
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  • The difference.
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  • We cannot afford the luxury of indulging in practicing sin.
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  • We have to come to the lord and repent and choose a new path.
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  • The struggle with sin we all know, but it's the blood of
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  • Jesus christ on the cross that promises us freedom.
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  • I wanna pray with you.
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  • You've got the courage, ask the holy spirit to show you any
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  • Place where you need god's forgiveness.
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  • Father, i thank you that through the blood of jesus, we have been
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  • Redeemed out of the hand of the enemy that every claim against
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  • Us has been canceled.
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  • It's been marked paid in full through jesus redemptive work.
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  • We thank you for our freedom.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • Allen: i suspect we've all heard the line that leadership is
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  • About influence.
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  • Well, i have a question for you.
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  • What do you lead with?
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  • What is the basis of your influence?
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  • Is it your appearance, your education, your professional
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  • Expertise, your professional accomplishments, your athletic
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  • Ability, your family?
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  • What is the point of influence that you use most frequently?
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  • Well, i've written a book.
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  • The title is gonna give away where i'm headed.
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  • It's "lead with faith."
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  • I think it's time that all of us begin to use our faith as an
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  • Influence in the world where we find ourselves.
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  • We're reluctant to do that.
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  • We typically have more confidence in our education or
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  • Our family system or our life experience, we feel a little
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  • Uncertain to lead with faith.
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  • The point of this book is to give you the tools to take your
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  • Faith out of a church setting and bring it into
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  • The marketplace.
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  • If we will lead with faith, i believe god will help us make an
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  • Impact in this generation.
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  • Go to allenjackson.com and get your copy today.
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