Allen Jackson - What's Next (Part 2)

March 26, 2026 | 27:29

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Allen jackson: you know, around the world,
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Allen: but we get to acts chapter 1, which is luke's
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Message as well.
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In jesus's last words, these are the last words he speaks to his
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Disciples before his ascension back to heaven.
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Now he's not done with them, because a few chapters later
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He's back on the road to damascus with some words for one
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Saul of tarsus.
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It's a mistake to think that jesus is not engaged with his
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Church in the earth.
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He recruits saul of tarsus on the road to damascus.
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In the book of revelation in the first chapter, john, the closest
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Of the apostles to him, it says, "on the lord's day he was in the
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Spirit and he heard a voice behind him."
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It's an emotional passage.
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John's an old man, his friends are gone, most of them have been
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Martyred, he's been arrested, he's imprisoned on an island,
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He's in exile doing hard labor and it says he's in the spirit
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On the lord's day and he hears a voice and he describes it in
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This beautiful poetic language.
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But when he turns around, it's jesus.
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Jesus came to see his friend.
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Look, i don't know what you're living for.
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I understand a little bit of the temptation.
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I know we look at our friends that are leading lives that--
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But it, you know, it seems like they have gotten hold of the
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Brass ring and we wanna do that too.
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And there's not a lot of messaging that really encourages
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You to give the lord your best and to sacrifice for the kingdom
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Of god and to put your heart and soul into it, but i want our
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Congregation to be a place where that voice is repeated, where
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The children and the young people are encouraged to give
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Their very best to the lord, where we encourage one another
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To honor god with our daily choices.
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And we know the difference between right and wrong, to
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Choose right with your whole heart.
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When you have an opportunity to use your voice to affirm someone
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In the kingdom, that you're willing to use your voice no
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Matter what the consequences may be.
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Well, jesus's last words before his ascension, he says to his
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Friends, "'you'll receive power when the holy spirit comes on
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You; and you will be my witnesses in jerusalem, and in
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Judea and samaria, and to the ends of the earth.'
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And after he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes,
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And a cloud hid him from their sight."
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Now, if you're reading that along and you're not thinking
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And you're not paying any attention, if you're just
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Checking your box because you got 15 minutes of reading to do
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Today and you gotta get it through so you can check the box
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And feel better about yourself, which we have all done,
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Myself included.
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You might forget that not many days before this, jesus had said
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To the disciples, "they're gonna arrest me and they'll condemn me
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To death and they'll torture me and you're all gonna scatter."
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And they all spoke up and said, "not us.
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We're in this.
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We will never leave you."
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And of course they all did and they've been restored and
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They've had this extens-- they had 40 days with
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Jesus post-resurrection.
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And now jesus says to them, "you're gonna receive power when
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The holy spirit comes on me-- on you.
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And you'll be witnesses for me in jerusalem, in judea."
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Judea is the region right around jerusalem.
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It's expanding concentric circles.
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"you'll be witnesses for me in jerusalem and ultimately to the
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Whole earth."
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And this time--in my imagination, i can see them
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Looking at one another.
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He has shown us mercy.
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We have hidden, we have denied the lord.
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We've been quiet in the face of evil.
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We've negotiated, we've built bridges.
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We weren't confused, we understood right and wrong.
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It was just inconvenient to acknowledge it.
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And now the lord has shown us mercy.
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Some of you know the rest of this story.
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I didn't put it in your notes, i knew i wouldn't have time and it
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Would have discouraged you.
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But within 2 chapters, they begin--they're being arrested.
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And the same powerful people in jerusalem that orchestrated
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Jesus's death says to them, "you stop talking about him.
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If you mention his name again, you'll get the same treatment we
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Gave him."
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And this time, you know what they said?
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"you do what you need to do, but we will not stop.
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And it says that they leave the sanhedrin, after they have been
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Mistreated, they leave rejoicing that they've been counted worthy
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To suffer for the name of jesus.
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I don't know what the future holds other than an opportunity,
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But i suspect that if we decide to represent for the kingdom of
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God with a greater enthusiasm and a greater determination that
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It won't always receive applause.
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Let's go anyway, let's go anyway.
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See, the question in my heart, and i will pose it to you
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Because i think we all have to answer it, is do we as
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Christ-followers have the courage and determination to do
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The difficult things that are necessary for our nation to
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Regain its strength?
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We've wanted to pretend like it was a political problem, that
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Elections hadn't been conducted in the way they should be
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Conducted or whatever.
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And the awkward truth is it really isn't a political
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Problem, it's been a spiritual problem.
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Do we as christ-followers have the courage and the
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Determination to do the difficult things necessary for
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Our nation to regain the strength that comes
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From godliness?
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Are we willing to have the conversations that we understand
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Around marriage, human sexuality, morality and
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Immorality, debt, being financially responsible?
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There's two places that i'm convict--two places that i know
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Are essential and there are two places where i--candidly, for
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Many years of my life, i didn't pay any attention.
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One is education.
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What we teach our children matters, it matters.
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I watch results come in and they said the group of people that
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Were--as a block of people that were most consistent, standing
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In a place that to me seemed apart from a biblical worldview,
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Were college-educated.
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And i thought, "that's a horrible indictment of how
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We educate."
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Yes, it's not an indictment of those people.
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They've been trained.
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They've been told that if you wanna climb the ladder and you
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Wanna get ahead, this is how you should think, this is how you
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Should see the world, this is what you should understand.
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And i thought of my own journey, because i'm an advocate
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For education.
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I like to learn.
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I could have been a professional nerd.
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God spared me.
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And i have to tell you the truth, if it hadn't been god's
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Mercy and some really strong voices in my life--it's awful
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What they put into those systems.
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They mock the bible.
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I have been in seminary setting, graduate level,
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Highly-celebrated, academic settings, where they mocked the
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Notion of being saved.
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So that if you wanna be chic and celebrated and fast-tracked to
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Promotions and you want the graduate assistance
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Opportunities in the--you will adopt the thought processes.
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And we've been doing that for decades.
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Dei and crt are not significant important points to be
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Indoctrinating our children with.
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And we're gonna have to have the courage to say we will not
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Abandon our children.
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We've been silent while they've taken our faith out of the
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Institutions of learning.
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We bought the lie that our worldview might cause someone to
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Be uncomfortable.
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And so we were gonna have a value-neutral learning system.
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We don't, we have one that indoctrinates in ungodliness and
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Immorality, and it's because we surrendered the field.
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No more.
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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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Allen: well, i'll tell you another component that i think
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We're gonna have to address has to do with the media.
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And again, this was--i just didn't pay any attention.
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Who pays attention?
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I mean, i remember sitting--i wrote a paper, a graduate paper,
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That said jesus was a socialist.
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I didn't believe it.
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I knew the passages they wanted me to use.
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I knew the language they wanted me to regurgitate in order to
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Get the degree or the grade to get the degree, and so i
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Participated in the system.
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I wasn't--i was too absorbed in what i wanted to do to stop to
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Think about how damaging it would be to allow that system to
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Stay in place.
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And we have accepted the broadcast, the sharing of
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Information that we know to be wrong.
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We call it "legacy media" now and we're waiting for them to
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Tell the truth, like maybe we'll wake up tomorrow and they'll
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Be different.
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Well, it's gonna be more work and more effort to understand
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What's true.
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It'll take time and energy.
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You'll have to build relationships.
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You'll have to become familiar enough with the truth to
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Understand it for yourself when you see it and when you hear it.
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I believe if we will make the effort and in invest the energy,
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God will give us ways of communicating what is
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Truly true.
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Again, the question that i think is on the table is the one
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That's real for me, today at least, is, "are we as
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Christ-followers gonna have the courage and the determination to
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Do what's necessary for our nation to regain strength or
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Will we stay self-absorbed on what we want?"
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And i think until god presents us with the opportunities and
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Puts the things in front of us, it's not a decision we have to
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Make tonight.
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What we begin to say to the lord is just, "thank you."
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Thank you for the mercy you've shown us.
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We're not unique, people.
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We're not special.
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We're not the first generation of people that have wandered
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Into the weeds and seen the judgment of god as imminent.
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Our bible is filled with that narrative.
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And god, throughout the story, time and again, responds with
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Grace and mercy.
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And when his people choose him, they receive
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Remarkable blessings.
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How am i doing?
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I'm about out of time.
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Told you that outline wasn't too short.
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You remember the exile?
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587 bc, the babylonians came, the jews lost their homes,
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Temples destroyed?
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Everything about their lives was turned upside down.
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Their holidays, their whole form of worship was centered on the
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Sacrificial system.
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The daily sacrifices at the temple, the holiday sacrifices
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At the temple, that was how they worshiped god.
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When the temple was destroyed, they couldn't offer
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Sacrifices anymore.
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They could not worship in the way they knew how to worship.
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I'm not suggesting it's the same, but there's a rough
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Analogy when they shut all of the churches across our country
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And said you can't go there to worship anymore.
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They had to learn a new way to worship.
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Now they're in a foreign land, they're slaves.
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Seventy years, they're exiles, and they get to come back.
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And they don't all come, they don't load up three thousand
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Buses and have a caravan.
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They come back in groups, and in a halting way nehemiah rebuilds
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The wall around the city so they'll be safe.
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But that's not an easy project.
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And zerubbabel rebuilds the temple, but it's so humble.
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It's so modest compared to the one that solomon built that the
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Old people that could remember solomon's temple wept when they
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Saw the new one, and not out of joy but out of--and then ezra
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The priest comes back to read from the word of god to the
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People to begin to reinstitute how to worship the lord and to
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Restore what had made them strong as a people.
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And he comes back and the people have broken god's covenant
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Around marriage.
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They've ignored his rules.
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And when ezra realizes that-- you remember the story?
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He began to pull out his beard and tear his clothes.
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He said, "what have we done?"
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He understood they'd go back to babylon.
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He said, "we have to make this right."
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We have to make this right.
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I tell you that i don't wanna bring a sense of threat, we've
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Seen the mercy of god.
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I want you to understand we're not special.
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We're not the first generation that's wandered off the path.
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The question is, will we say, "lord, thank you for your mercy.
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Now we wanna walk a new way.
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We'll use our voices in a new way.
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We'll stand for our children in a new way.
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We'll become people who tell the truth in a new way.
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You've called us out of darkness.
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You recruited us out of the despicable pile.
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We're the cracked pots you chose.
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It's an exciting time.
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Lord, thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Thank you for all those men and women."
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You know, when isaiah--not isaiah, elijah.
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They're both in the book.
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After elijah called fire from having the whole--remember
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The story?
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National challenge, the people are in the weeds again and
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Again, we're not the first group.
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They were worshiping the false gods and elijah says, "okay,
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It's enough.
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We'll have a confrontation on mount carmel."
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And the people gather and all the priests all gather.
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And elijah says to the people, "you decide today whom you're
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Gonna serve, either the god of israel or the gods--these
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Other gods."
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And the people don't say anything.
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You know the story.
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He builds the altar, he calls fire from heaven, he slaughters
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The priest of baal.
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I'm not suggesting violence.
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And then he runs for his life because jezebel said, "by
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Tomorrow, i'll have your head."
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It's always bugged me that he had to run for his life.
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If i've been writing this story, he'd have swaggered into her
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Palace, right?
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He'd say, "i called fire from heaven yesterday.
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How do you feel, sparky?"
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But that's not the way it's written, is it?
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He's exhausted emotionally and physically and he runs for his
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Life and god feeds him.
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And finally god speaks to him in a gentle voice and says, "what
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Are you doing?"
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And elijah's having a bad time.
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He said, "i'm the only one left."
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Wah.
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And you remember god said to him?
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"oh, bother.
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There's 7000 more."
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And i have that feeling.
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Lord, we're not alone.
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We may not be standing in the bright lights someplace, but you
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Have your people.
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Thank you for your people.
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Thank you for people that will say there's right and wrong,
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There's good and evil, that everything's not fluid, it's
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Not evolving.
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We're not changing our imagination of what's moral
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And immoral.
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We're not gonna redefine perversion so that we can blend
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In with a different group of people and have better something
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Or others.
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I thank you for your people.
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We're not angry, we're not belligerent, but we will tell
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About our lord.
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He has sent us into this world with power and authority to be
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Lights and ambassadors, to look at the children and say, "god
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Has a promise for your life, and until you have the maturity
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Emotionally and physically and spiritually to stand for
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Yourself, we will stand.
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We will not surrender you."
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I believe when god shows you mercy, he gives with it
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An opportunity.
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In all the years that i have served people, i've seen god--
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I've watched him do supernatural things in the lives of untold
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Numbers of people.
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I've seen him heal people that were pagans, i've watched
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Diagnosis be broken and families be restored, but with those
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Expressions of grace, there comes an opportunity to honor
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The lord and i can tell you our responses are pretty mixed.
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And i wanna be certain that if we--that i believe you do, i
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Believe you're more than willing to say, "god showed us mercy."
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He showed us mercy.
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But what i don't want us to do is to gobble it up and march
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Down and say, "what else are you gonna do for me?"
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I want us to quietly say to the lord, "here am i.
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Let me go.
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Let me go back to where i work in the name of jesus.
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Let me go back into my neighborhood in the name
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Of jesus.
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Thank you, lord."
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He's been good to us.
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It's not a place to swagger or boast or be overcome
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With arrogance.
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God himself has shown us grace and it will require of us
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Greater strength and greater courage than we have ever had to
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Attach to our faith before.
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Let's go, let's go.
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Would you stand with me.
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I didn't finish the outline.
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Lord, thank you.
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Thank you, thank you for your grace, thank you for your mercy.
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I thank you that you're a god who forgives and restores and
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Renews and redeems.
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Lord, we are a people in need of healing and we have cried out to
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You, and i believe you have placed before us an opportunity.
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May we choose you with our whole hearts.
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May we honor you as never before.
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Forgive us for when we've been silent.
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Give us boldness and courage.
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May we say yes to you, may we receive your grace, may it not
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Be in vain.
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I thank you for it.
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We praise you tonight, for you're a great god, a merciful
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God, an almighty god.
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You confound those who oppose you.
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You lead those who will follow you.
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Lord, you have called us.
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We are a most unlikely lot and you have fashioned us into a
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People, and we praise you for it tonight.
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May you be pleased with us, and we make choices so that it would
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Please you to pour out your blessings upon us again.
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In jesus's name, amen.
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Hallelujah, god bless you.
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Give the lord a hand, he deserves it.
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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.
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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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♪♪♪
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Allen Jackson - What's Next (Part 2)

March 26, 2026 | 27:29

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