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Allen Jackson - What Are You Afraid Of? (Part 2)

March 17, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - What Are You Afraid Of? (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - What Are You Afraid Of? (Part 2) | March 17, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: you know, around the world,
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  • Allen jackson: i would submit to you that we learn to fear god.
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  • It's a learned behavior.
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  • In the same way, you learn some physical skill by repetition and
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  • Training muscle memory or you learn something academically.
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  • It's a learned response.
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  • It begins with truth.
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  • The fear of the lord emerges from truth and fundamentally
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  • The truth about ourselves.
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  • There's many ways i could illustrate that from scripture.
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  • I'll give you a simple one.
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  • In revelation chapter 3, many of you know the book of revelation
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  • Begins with letters to seven churches.
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  • In order to get the message of revelation,
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  • You had to be involved in a church.
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  • Just saying.
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  • That's true.
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  • But to every one of those churches, the message begins
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  • The same way.
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  • There's seven unique messages.
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  • They're different to the circumstances of each church.
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  • Every community faith was somewhat different in
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  • The challenges they faced and the pressures they endured.
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  • But to each one of them, the lord said, "i know your deeds."
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  • Wow!
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  • And then he would give them an evaluation, a diagnosis
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  • Along with a resolution.
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  • "and to the church in laodicea," it's the one i put
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  • In your notes.
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  • It's revelation 3:17.
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  • He says, "you say," this is their self evaluation.
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  • They turned this in before they had their evaluation.
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  • We're rich.
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  • We've acquired wealth.
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  • We don't need a thing.
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  • Wow!
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  • A little bit of swagger there.
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  • We got it all.
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  • Don't eat anything.
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  • We're good.
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  • Nothing else to see here.
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  • Let's move along.
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  • And this was god's evaluation of them.
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  • "you don't realize that you're wretched, pitiful, poor,
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  • Blind and naked."
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  • Well, there's a little discrepancy between
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  • Their self-evaluation and god's evaluation.
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  • So here's a prayer we can pray.
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  • God, help me to see myself as you see me.
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  • Holy spirit, help me.
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  • I don't wanna lead my whole life spiritually blind.
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  • I don't wanna show up for my interview, my evaluation having
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  • Spent my entire life every day of opportunity under the sun,
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  • Completely ignorant, or refusing to look at the condition
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  • I had before you.
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  • Help me to see myself.
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  • Takes a little courage to pray that, but it's a whole lot
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  • Better to be aware.
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  • Wouldn't you agree?
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  • God has made provisions so that we can be free or forgiven
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  • Or delivered.
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  • He's the god of redemption and restoration.
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  • But if you're not aware, you might not even know
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  • You need forgiveness.
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  • So you wouldn't even repent.
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  • We might be so blinded by our own carnal earthly self,
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  • Our own whatever.
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  • So we're just motor along completely clueless.
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  • It happened to the church.
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  • It happened to the church, a church that made the book.
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  • This wasn't the pagans in laodicea.
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  • It wasn't the immoral or the godless or the wicked or
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  • Somebody, it was god's people.
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  • He said you say you don't need anything.
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  • And i'm telling you, you wretched, pitiful,
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  • Poor blind and naked.
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  • Truthfully, you gotta be pretty messed up to be blind and naked
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  • And not know, right.
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  • I mean, i've been confused.
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  • I've been lost.
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  • I've been turned around.
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  • I mean, i've been some things, but i can't ever say i just
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  • Found myself blind and naked and didn't know.
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  • Everybody's looking, i'm not gonna even look.
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  • I'm just right here.
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  • I'm not going anywhere, i'm not--they're
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  • In a desperate place.
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  • In fact, the word that god used is it's wretched, pitiful.
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  • I don't want god in his evaluation of me
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  • Writing down wretched and pitiful.
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  • Serious stuff.
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  • So the fear of god begins with this sense of truth about who
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  • We are and that truth then will establish a response and this is
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  • What's been buried a little bit.
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  • We know that sinners need to repent.
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  • We know the ungodly need to repent.
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  • A lot of us have been coached on altar calls and i believe
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  • In those.
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  • Again, there's a legitimacy in that.
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  • I'm not saying there's not, but the needs gathered
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  • Amongst god's people are great.
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  • A turning of our lives to the lord.
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  • A sensitivity to where we have been less than
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  • What we might have been.
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  • So we have this brazenness that goes with my salvation
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  • Is secure.
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  • Therefore, everything else is extraneous secondary,
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  • Not particularly meaningful.
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  • It's a very disrespectful way to live.
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  • It's a very disrespectful way to live and it will create
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  • The opposite of the fear and respect of god.
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  • So there's a response that's established amongst us
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  • And there's a little window in john's gospel that i think
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  • Is helpful.
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  • Jesus has gone to a wedding with mary and some of his newly
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  • Recruited disciples.
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  • It's at the very beginning of his ministry.
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  • There's been no public miracles yet.
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  • So there's really no one that knows the uniqueness of jesus
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  • Beyond just a very closed circle of people.
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  • Mary knows.
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  • Elizabeth knows.
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  • Zechariah perhaps knows, joseph.
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  • "they go to cana in galilee and jesus' mother was there,"
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  • John tells us.
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  • "and jesus and his disciples have been invited and the wine
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  • Was gone.
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  • And jesus's mother said to him, "they have no more wine."
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  • And jesus said, "that's not my problem, mom."
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  • That's what he said.
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  • I mean, i just, and his mother said to the servants,
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  • "just do whatever he tells you."
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  • Well, that's weird.
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  • Just do whatever he tells you.
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  • You know, there's a lot we don't know about jesus's life.
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  • We know the circumstances of his birth and we get a little window
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  • Into jesus, a very brief peek through a small window when he's
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  • 12 at the temple in jerusalem talking to the leaders and then
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  • We don't see him again until he's 30.
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  • So mary has had this 30 year odyssey of parenting
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  • The son of god, the messiah.
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  • How many of you think there could be some stories in there?
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  • I mean, there's some literature around an antiquity that hints
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  • At it, but it's not included in the scripture.
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  • So it's just left to us.
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  • So we don't know what mary knows.
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  • We don't know what she's processed.
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  • We simply know that her friends are about to be humiliated
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  • At a wedding.
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  • She says to jesus, you know, you could help them.
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  • Well, has he been making merlot at home?
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  • I mean, how does she know?
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  • I don't know and i don't mean that disrespectfully,
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  • But obviously, mary is aware of something that is not included
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  • For us as backstory.
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  • And so, she simply says to the servants, you do whatever
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  • He tells you to do.
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  • And she has enough authority in that setting that the servants
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  • Will take instructions from her and they have to draw a lot
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  • Of water and carry a lot of water and fill multiple
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  • Stone jars with it.
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  • And then jesus says, take some of that water you drew out
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  • Of the well and take it up to the master of ceremonies.
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  • And that's weird.
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  • And you know, the outcome, the miracle.
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  • What intrigues me is that the response in mary's heart.
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  • He can do whatever he wants to do, cooperate with him.
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  • That's what i wanna build into my heart with the lord.
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  • I'm not looking for the minimal daily requirement.
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  • You know, when it's time to take your vitamins, how much
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  • Vitamin d do i have to have?
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  • Well, this is your minimum.
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  • You have to eat.
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  • How much broccoli do i have to eat to get that much?
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  • 'cause i don't wanna eat any extra broccoli.
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  • I don't want any brussels sprouts that i don't have
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  • To have.
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  • Don't you wish you could get your vitamins from pop tarts
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  • With chocolate sauce?
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  • All right, so i don't want any extra, but that's kind of
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  • The way we treat the lord.
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  • You know, okay, how much righteousness do i have to have?
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  • How often do i have to go to church?
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  • Okay, i have to give something, but how much?
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  • And nobody can tell me how much.
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  • And that volunteer.
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  • I'm not a volunteer.
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  • I don't like kids.
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  • I'm not a social person.
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  • We got our whole menu built out.
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  • Oh, i love jesus.
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  • I just don't like his people, right?
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  • You see, as we learn to fear god, it will change
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  • The responses of our lives.
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  • We'll behave differently.
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  • We'll invest time and energy and effort and thought and resources
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  • In the things of god with greater enthusiasm
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  • Than we did before.
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  • If you imagine you've been a christ follower for 30 years
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  • And you're still excited about things away from god more than
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  • You are about things with god, you need to begin to talk
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  • To the lord a little bit.
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  • Lord, i'm a lot happier when i'm not thinking about you, but
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  • I got this little fuzzy ringing at the periphery of my awareness
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  • That that might not be good.
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  • Could you help me understand?
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  • ♪♪♪
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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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  • Influence of our lives, faith first in the marketplace, in our
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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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  • Neighborhoods, our churches, maybe even our nation.
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  • Announcer: choosing to lead with faith starts with a simple
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  • Decision: to be intentional right where you are.
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  • In his new book "lead with faith," pastor allen shares
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  • Biblical insight and practical tools to help you live out your
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  • Faith in meaningful ways every day.
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  • This book will encourage you to stand for truth with wisdom,
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  • Allen: the fear of god.
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  • How do we arrive at a place we've sacrificed millions
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  • Of children.
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  • We've redefined marriage.
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  • Our schools libraries are filled with obscene vile material and
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  • We really don't care that much.
  • 00:12:45.114 --> 00:12:47.449
  • How do we arrive at a place like that?
  • 00:12:47.449 --> 00:12:49.285
  • We've lost our fear of god.
  • 00:12:49.285 --> 00:12:53.322
  • So our choice has become really important.
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  • Choices around things that we all understand.
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  • Things that god would bless.
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  • Things that god created us with the ability to either enjoy
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  • Or gather to marshal to use for his purposes.
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  • Money is one of those.
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  • We're not taking up another offering.
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  • There's no pledge cards taped to your chair, but we're given
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  • Some instructions about how we interact with material
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  • Possessions 'cause they're a big part of our journey
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  • Through time.
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  • In hebrews 13, it says, "keep your lives free from the love of
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  • Money and be content with what you have because god has said,
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  • 'never will i leave you; never will.
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  • I forsake you.'"
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  • See, if you have a great respect for god, the fact that god's
  • 00:13:31.760 --> 00:13:34.363
  • Presence is abiding presence is a part of your journey
  • 00:13:34.363 --> 00:13:38.200
  • Through time would provide tremendous comfort.
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  • If you don't have much respect for god, if you don't have
  • 00:13:40.336 --> 00:13:42.171
  • A great reverence for him, you'd rather be sure you can take care
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  • Of your journey through time.
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  • Again, i'm not opposed to things.
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  • It isn't evil.
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  • Money isn't evil.
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  • Money isn't the root of all evil.
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  • The bible says, "the love of money is the root of all evil."
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  • So letting inviting god into your life, your work.
  • 00:13:56.919 --> 00:14:02.591
  • Work is an expression of worship every bit as much as singing
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  • With a band when they're playing your favorite chorus or singing
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  • Your favorite hymn.
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  • How you work is an expression of your character.
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  • Well, i'm meddling now.
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  • Sex, god's idea.
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  • We live in a culture where we are so far away from biblical
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  • Values regarding human sexuality that now we've arrived
  • 00:14:28.717 --> 00:14:32.655
  • At a place that we say it's just confusing, that the basic
  • 00:14:32.655 --> 00:14:36.025
  • Biology of our lives is so confusing.
  • 00:14:36.025 --> 00:14:39.895
  • We're not sure whether we're male or female anymore.
  • 00:14:39.895 --> 00:14:42.064
  • You understand, that's very close to the description
  • 00:14:42.064 --> 00:14:45.334
  • Of the laodecian church.
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  • We don't need anything and god says, you are wretched.
  • 00:14:46.669 --> 00:14:50.506
  • You are blind.
  • 00:14:50.506 --> 00:14:52.808
  • We have arrived at a place where we're spiritually blind
  • 00:14:52.808 --> 00:14:55.311
  • And the church seems addled to speak to it.
  • 00:14:55.311 --> 00:14:59.148
  • We've lost our battles, we'll be canceled.
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  • People will be mad at us.
  • 00:15:02.184 --> 00:15:06.488
  • Well, i'm not saying that there aren't people that struggle that
  • 00:15:06.488 --> 00:15:08.590
  • There aren't individuals that are confused, but being confused
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  • About something that foundational about your life is
  • 00:15:11.193 --> 00:15:13.262
  • A desperate place, not something to be encouraged and trained
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  • To talk to our children.
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  • Romans chapter 1 gives a lengthy explanation of it.
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  • We don't have time to go into that in detail.
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  • I put a portion of it in your notes.
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  • It says, "the wrath of god is being revealed from heaven."
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  • As much as he's a god of love, he's a god of wrath.
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  • "against godlessness and the wickedness of men who suppress
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  • The truth by their wickedness."
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  • You should understand that the suppression of the truth of god
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  • Is wickedness.
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  • It's not tolerance, it's not inclusivity, it's wickedness.
  • 00:15:47.162 --> 00:15:53.235
  • And we have been arbiters of this, the church, the church.
  • 00:15:53.235 --> 00:15:58.340
  • I've been trained in this stuff in some of the finest
  • 00:15:58.340 --> 00:16:01.176
  • Theological academic settings available.
  • 00:16:01.176 --> 00:16:04.947
  • It proliferates amongst the people of god.
  • 00:16:04.947 --> 00:16:09.151
  • "since what may be known about god is plain because god
  • 00:16:09.151 --> 00:16:12.821
  • Has made it plain to them.
  • 00:16:12.821 --> 00:16:14.156
  • For since the creation of the world god's invisible
  • 00:16:14.156 --> 00:16:16.325
  • Qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly
  • 00:16:16.325 --> 00:16:19.595
  • Seen, being understood by what has been made, so that men are
  • 00:16:19.595 --> 00:16:22.431
  • Without excuse."
  • 00:16:22.431 --> 00:16:24.299
  • The bible teaches this principle that we're accountable based on
  • 00:16:24.299 --> 00:16:27.336
  • The revelation that's made available to us.
  • 00:16:27.336 --> 00:16:29.471
  • We're not gonna be accountable in the same way.
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  • God said he's revealed himself to every human being and he will
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  • Judge them in fairness, justly based up what's been presented
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  • To them.
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  • You and i have had the opportunity that very few people
  • 00:16:42.985 --> 00:16:45.754
  • That have ever lived on this planet have had.
  • 00:16:45.754 --> 00:16:48.490
  • If you wanna be a serious student of scripture these days,
  • 00:16:48.490 --> 00:16:51.193
  • It requires you to learn the english language to get to
  • 00:16:51.193 --> 00:16:55.097
  • The material that's available.
  • 00:16:55.097 --> 00:16:57.199
  • That could change very quickly and certainly technology is
  • 00:16:57.199 --> 00:16:59.601
  • Making those thresholds much simpler 'cause languages are not
  • 00:16:59.601 --> 00:17:02.938
  • The barrier they were just a few short years ago.
  • 00:17:02.938 --> 00:17:06.075
  • But you should recognize the great privileges we've had.
  • 00:17:06.075 --> 00:17:09.945
  • We have so many translations of the bible available to us.
  • 00:17:09.945 --> 00:17:12.381
  • We argue around which one we should be reading.
  • 00:17:12.381 --> 00:17:15.584
  • We break fellowship over translations of the bible.
  • 00:17:15.584 --> 00:17:18.587
  • That's clever.
  • 00:17:18.587 --> 00:17:23.025
  • We have christian television, christian radio, comment--
  • 00:17:23.025 --> 00:17:27.496
  • We have an abundance of information available to us
  • 00:17:27.496 --> 00:17:30.866
  • So much that we like, stop.
  • 00:17:30.866 --> 00:17:32.234
  • I don't know.
  • 00:17:32.234 --> 00:17:35.003
  • God said it's been-- we made plain to us.
  • 00:17:35.003 --> 00:17:38.107
  • So our accountability level is different.
  • 00:17:38.107 --> 00:17:41.343
  • To whom much is given much is required.
  • 00:17:41.343 --> 00:17:47.082
  • Then he goes on in verse 21, "for although they knew god,
  • 00:17:47.082 --> 00:17:49.618
  • They neither glorified him as god nor gave thanks to him."
  • 00:17:49.618 --> 00:17:54.456
  • You see giving thanks to god is really not an option.
  • 00:17:54.456 --> 00:17:56.492
  • If you're gonna cultivate a respect for god or a reverence,
  • 00:17:56.492 --> 00:17:58.861
  • You say thank you.
  • 00:17:58.861 --> 00:18:02.397
  • I watch parents, the effort they invest in teaching
  • 00:18:02.397 --> 00:18:05.834
  • Their children to say things like thank you, please.
  • 00:18:05.834 --> 00:18:10.072
  • Expressions of respect.
  • 00:18:10.072 --> 00:18:12.441
  • Trying to conquer that hard wiring in us towards rebellion.
  • 00:18:12.441 --> 00:18:17.980
  • The parents just have to say one time to their children,
  • 00:18:17.980 --> 00:18:20.516
  • You should say thank you.
  • 00:18:20.516 --> 00:18:22.784
  • And after that, they're always thankful, only at my house.
  • 00:18:22.784 --> 00:18:32.127
  • No, that's a difficult battle to win.
  • 00:18:32.127 --> 00:18:35.364
  • It has to be reinforced.
  • 00:18:35.364 --> 00:18:36.698
  • It takes authority in a child's life to teach them that and
  • 00:18:36.698 --> 00:18:42.304
  • It takes authority in your life and my life to teach us to be
  • 00:18:42.304 --> 00:18:45.307
  • Thankful to the lord.
  • 00:18:45.307 --> 00:18:46.675
  • Otherwise we'll think we're self made.
  • 00:18:46.675 --> 00:18:49.478
  • We'll think the blessings we have and the privileges we have
  • 00:18:49.478 --> 00:18:52.147
  • And the opportunities we have are the result of our hard work,
  • 00:18:52.147 --> 00:18:54.616
  • Our discipline, our right thinking, our correct doing.
  • 00:18:54.616 --> 00:19:00.055
  • Folks, we don't want what we deserve.
  • 00:19:00.055 --> 00:19:04.893
  • We need the grace and mercy of god, but we don't wanna to live
  • 00:19:04.893 --> 00:19:07.763
  • Presumptively upon it.
  • 00:19:07.763 --> 00:19:10.966
  • We wanna be conscious that every day we're planting our future,
  • 00:19:10.966 --> 00:19:13.802
  • We're writing a future for ourselves and we want to do
  • 00:19:13.802 --> 00:19:17.339
  • The best we can with that.
  • 00:19:17.339 --> 00:19:21.977
  • It's a sobering passage.
  • 00:19:21.977 --> 00:19:24.046
  • "their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were
  • 00:19:24.046 --> 00:19:26.281
  • Darkened and they claimed to be wise, but they became fools and
  • 00:19:26.281 --> 00:19:30.352
  • They exchanged the glory of the immortal god for images made
  • 00:19:30.352 --> 00:19:33.121
  • To look like mortal men and birds and animals and reptiles."
  • 00:19:33.121 --> 00:19:36.058
  • You can worship the planet these days and be celebrated.
  • 00:19:36.058 --> 00:19:41.029
  • It's courageous forward thinking.
  • 00:19:41.029 --> 00:19:44.566
  • We protect the turtle nests on the beach with greater tenacity
  • 00:19:44.566 --> 00:19:48.704
  • Than we protect our own unborn children.
  • 00:19:48.704 --> 00:19:51.240
  • That's fundamentally wrong.
  • 00:19:51.240 --> 00:19:54.276
  • And i'm not opposed to protecting the turtles,
  • 00:19:57.346 --> 00:20:01.016
  • But it says in verse 24, "therefore," therefore is
  • 00:20:01.016 --> 00:20:03.285
  • A concluding word.
  • 00:20:03.285 --> 00:20:05.420
  • God says because of that trend, because of that downward
  • 00:20:05.420 --> 00:20:08.590
  • Progression, "god gave them over in the sinful desires
  • 00:20:08.590 --> 00:20:12.194
  • Of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading
  • 00:20:12.194 --> 00:20:15.631
  • Of their bodies with one another."
  • 00:20:15.631 --> 00:20:17.799
  • And he goes on to describe in significant detail that
  • 00:20:17.799 --> 00:20:22.104
  • Degradation, that collapse of human character,
  • 00:20:22.104 --> 00:20:25.874
  • That plunge into increasingly immoral behavior.
  • 00:20:25.874 --> 00:20:30.679
  • You don't have to have much discernment to see the degree
  • 00:20:30.679 --> 00:20:33.215
  • To which it's taken root amongst us.
  • 00:20:33.215 --> 00:20:35.183
  • The headlines are filled with it from jeffrey epstein to diddy.
  • 00:20:35.183 --> 00:20:39.454
  • It's ingrained in our culture.
  • 00:20:39.454 --> 00:20:43.925
  • There's been very little sad about it.
  • 00:20:43.925 --> 00:20:45.627
  • We kind of stepped back.
  • 00:20:45.627 --> 00:20:46.995
  • In my opinion, it's because it's so widespread.
  • 00:20:46.995 --> 00:20:51.533
  • We just kind of shrug our shoulders and go, yeah.
  • 00:20:51.533 --> 00:20:55.804
  • It's very visible in our behaviors towards our children.
  • 00:20:55.804 --> 00:20:59.708
  • Children are always the targets of evil.
  • 00:20:59.708 --> 00:21:02.844
  • They always suffer disproportionately.
  • 00:21:02.844 --> 00:21:06.615
  • We've said little about abortion because the lives of
  • 00:21:06.615 --> 00:21:09.184
  • Our children are cheap.
  • 00:21:09.184 --> 00:21:11.653
  • We've said little about trafficking because children
  • 00:21:11.653 --> 00:21:13.955
  • Are perceived as something for pleasure.
  • 00:21:13.955 --> 00:21:16.858
  • If you haven't sexualized them in that way, they fulfill
  • 00:21:16.858 --> 00:21:19.027
  • Your life.
  • 00:21:19.027 --> 00:21:20.395
  • You can't be happy unless you've met the quota
  • 00:21:20.395 --> 00:21:22.331
  • That you've determined you should have.
  • 00:21:22.331 --> 00:21:25.267
  • We've made children into something of pleasure.
  • 00:21:25.267 --> 00:21:28.603
  • We've separated children from parental authority.
  • 00:21:28.603 --> 00:21:31.206
  • We have people now that who without any apology or
  • 00:21:31.206 --> 00:21:34.443
  • Any reluctance will blare into a microphone that they have
  • 00:21:34.443 --> 00:21:37.979
  • The right to tell parents what to do with their children.
  • 00:21:37.979 --> 00:21:40.949
  • I object.
  • 00:21:40.949 --> 00:21:43.118
  • Children are subjected to language and coaching
  • 00:21:47.055 --> 00:21:50.792
  • In immersion and gender confusion and alteration.
  • 00:21:50.792 --> 00:21:53.462
  • We're told because there's profit in it.
  • 00:21:53.462 --> 00:21:57.699
  • They're being sexualized when they're very young.
  • 00:21:57.699 --> 00:21:59.968
  • Folks, that is the definition of perversion.
  • 00:21:59.968 --> 00:22:03.105
  • And all of those things are not happening in some distant place.
  • 00:22:03.105 --> 00:22:06.375
  • They are happening amongst us in the culture in which
  • 00:22:06.375 --> 00:22:08.844
  • We currently live, but we're busy with other things.
  • 00:22:08.844 --> 00:22:17.252
  • Money, sex, and the third one is power and i'm done
  • 00:22:17.252 --> 00:22:19.755
  • With this one.
  • 00:22:19.755 --> 00:22:21.123
  • Jeremiah 5, says, "like cages full of birds, their houses are
  • 00:22:21.123 --> 00:22:24.860
  • Full of deceit; they have become rich and powerful and they have
  • 00:22:24.860 --> 00:22:31.199
  • Grown fat and sleek.
  • 00:22:31.199 --> 00:22:33.668
  • Their evil deeds have no limit; they do not plead the case
  • 00:22:33.668 --> 00:22:36.538
  • Of the fatherless to win it, they do not defend the rights
  • 00:22:36.538 --> 00:22:39.274
  • Of the poor."
  • 00:22:39.274 --> 00:22:41.777
  • You see, god has given us the opportunity to benefit from
  • 00:22:41.777 --> 00:22:46.581
  • Wealth, from physical pleasure, and from power.
  • 00:22:46.581 --> 00:22:52.254
  • But in each of those places, he has also given us boundaries
  • 00:22:52.254 --> 00:22:56.358
  • To provide us with the greatest opportunities.
  • 00:22:56.358 --> 00:23:00.629
  • And when we cast off the boundaries, those things become
  • 00:23:00.629 --> 00:23:04.032
  • Pathways to destruction.
  • 00:23:04.032 --> 00:23:07.202
  • And if we don't have a respect for god, if we don't have
  • 00:23:07.202 --> 00:23:09.738
  • A reverence for god, if we don't cultivate the fear of the lord,
  • 00:23:09.738 --> 00:23:12.908
  • We will not accept those boundaries.
  • 00:23:12.908 --> 00:23:16.511
  • We'll say they're antiquated.
  • 00:23:16.511 --> 00:23:17.979
  • They're out of date, they're old-fashioned.
  • 00:23:17.979 --> 00:23:21.016
  • They're a bit too restraining.
  • 00:23:21.016 --> 00:23:23.185
  • We prefer to be more enlightened.
  • 00:23:23.185 --> 00:23:25.921
  • We want more freedom.
  • 00:23:25.921 --> 00:23:28.156
  • And it's a destructive path.
  • 00:23:28.156 --> 00:23:30.992
  • I would submit to you, i wanna go back to the verses
  • 00:23:30.992 --> 00:23:33.195
  • Where we started.
  • 00:23:33.195 --> 00:23:38.099
  • Men who fear god, trustworthy people, people who hate
  • 00:23:38.099 --> 00:23:42.904
  • Dishonest gain.
  • 00:23:42.904 --> 00:23:44.973
  • May they be appointed with authority over us.
  • 00:23:44.973 --> 00:23:49.144
  • Those are the attitudes we want in our homes.
  • 00:23:49.144 --> 00:23:51.980
  • They're the attitudes we wanna bring to our schools.
  • 00:23:51.980 --> 00:23:54.916
  • They're the attitudes we want to flourish on
  • 00:23:54.916 --> 00:23:56.785
  • Our college campuses.
  • 00:23:56.785 --> 00:23:58.453
  • They're the attitudes we need in our churches.
  • 00:23:58.453 --> 00:24:01.890
  • They're the attitudes that have to begin within our heart.
  • 00:24:01.890 --> 00:24:05.227
  • If we don't value them, we won't respect them when we see them.
  • 00:24:05.227 --> 00:24:12.000
  • The respect and the reverence for god will emanate
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  • From his church.
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  • It won't start someplace else.
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  • It's our assignment.
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  • But with that, i believe we can see the blessings of god,
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  • The freedoms that come from god, the joy and fulfillment and
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  • Contentment that comes from god.
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  • It's our best future.
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  • I brought you a prayer.
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  • Why don't we stand together?
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  • It's a prayer you can take with you.
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  • Please don't leave it at church.
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  • Make it yours all week, share it with your friends.
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  • It's a simple prayer.
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  • You know, i'm amazed at how god responds to our invitations
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  • When we open a doorway.
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  • If we say god, "i believe jesus is your son, save me from
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  • My sins," he does.
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  • He changes our destiny.
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  • Imagine the joy it will bring to his heart when we begin to say
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  • To him, god, i wanna walk uprightly before you.
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  • If there's anything hindering that help me to see it.
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  • God, i'd like to please you today or maybe at the end of
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  • The day, god, i'm sorry for all those places i was displeasing
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  • To you.
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  • Imagine.
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  • I brought you pray, let's pray it together.
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  • "almighty god, we submit to your authority and power.
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  • Forgive us for our rebellion and stubbornness.
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  • Grant us now, understanding hearts and open our eyes to see
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  • Your majesty that we might walk uprightly before you.
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  • May the fear of god grow within us, may the fear of men
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  • Diminish--give us a boldness to honor you in all we do and say.
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  • In jesus' name, amen."
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  • Hallelujah, god bless you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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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.
  • 00:26:41.683 --> 00:26:43.018
  • We typically have more confidence in our education or
  • 00:26:43.018 --> 00:26:45.587
  • 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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  • ♪♪♪
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