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Allen Jackson - When The Cheering Stopped (Part 1)

May 6, 2025 | S25:E129

Allen Jackson - When The Cheering Stopped (Part 1)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - When The Cheering Stopped (Part 1) | May 6, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: it's good to be with you again.
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  • You know, we're walking through a season of some pretty
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  • Unprecedented turmoil.
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  • There are cars burning and car dealerships burning and there
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  • Are judges.
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  • There's just a lot of stuff.
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  • Well, i'm really excited about our offer this month.
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  • In fact, we chose it because i think it will bring you a
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  • Pathway of stability in the midst of all the turmoil driven
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  • By a good friend of mine, rob morgan, "the lord is
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  • My shepherd."
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  • And it seems to me we need to know the tranquility that comes
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  • From a shepherd who is marking a path for us and then standing
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  • Watch over us when we know there's predators about.
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  • We're living in a predatory season, we need to know the lord
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  • Is a shepherd, and i believe this offer can make a real
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  • Difference in your life.
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  • In fact, it's important enough that we'll make it available for
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  • A gift of any amount.
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  • I think it's far more important that you have it in your hand
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  • Than the cost attached to it.
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  • God is moving in the earth and we wanna move with him.
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  • Our shepherd will lead us through.
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  • You'll enjoy the book.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: it's a palm sunday weekend.
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  • The first--amen, that deserves some applause.
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  • I agree.
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  • It's when the church celebrates jesus's
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  • Triumphal entry into jerusalem.
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  • I grew up as a little child, they used
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  • To give us palm branches.
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  • Always made me nervous when my mom had a branch.
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  • There were some very clear implications when i saw that,
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  • And so i was always a little suspicious of palm sunday, but
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  • It's been celebrated by the church for a long time.
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  • The first record, historical record we have is about the
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  • 4th century.
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  • A pilgrim visiting jerusalem from spain reported in a diary
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  • That in jerusalem, they were commemorating jesus's triumphal
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  • Entry into the city.
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  • It's another 500 years or so before it became a widespread
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  • Practice in the western church.
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  • Somewhere in that about the 9th century, but for well over 1000
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  • Years, the church throughout the earth has celebrated that day
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  • When jesus made that one triumphal entry into the city.
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  • All four of the gospel writers give us an account of that.
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  • There are very few things that all four of the gospels pick up,
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  • So it's a point of great significance.
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  • And i wanna continue that discussion.
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  • We began it in the previous session, but there's a block of
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  • Time between jesus's triumphal entry before he begins his
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  • Passion, before his arrest,
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  • His betrayal and his arrest and the suffering that ensues,
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  • There's a handful of days where jesus is ministering in the
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  • Temple in jerusalem.
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  • And his enemies seem to come.
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  • It's like a procession of people trying to ensnare him or those
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  • Who hate him.
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  • And in the midst of those interactions, he's ministering
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  • To the sick.
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  • The scripture reports he heals blind eyes and he heals the lame
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  • And he's coaching his disciples.
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  • In the evenings, he'll slip out of the temple mount and go back
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  • Up the mount of olives to bethany where martha and mary
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  • And lazarus live.
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  • The mount of olives has that label
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  • Because it was an olive grove.
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  • It was a hill covered with olive trees where they collected the
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  • Olives and pressed the oil that they needed in the temple.
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  • So it really was a grove of olive trees.
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  • But it's in that setting that i wanna walk with you.
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  • I wanna walk through those days between the cheers of the crowd
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  • When jesus is coming down the mount of olives with jerusalem
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  • Spread before him.
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  • The roar of the crowd, the enthusiasm of the disciples, and
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  • Before he's betrayed in gethsemane.
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  • I wanna kind of walk through those
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  • Days with you a little bit.
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  • And i pulled some passages from the gospels,
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  • We're gonna look predominantly at luke and matthew, to see if
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  • We can hear what jesus is saying to his friends because he knows
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  • Very well what is coming.
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  • He's very aware of what is immediately before him.
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  • He's been telling his disciples for quite a season now.
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  • But i would submit to you that he's preparing them,
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  • That he is the ultimate trainer,
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  • He's the ultimate coach that he's trying to help his closest
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  • Friends be ready for what is coming.
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  • And they're struggling to process it.
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  • He's preparing disciples.
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  • He's praying for the people of the city.
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  • He's weeping over the city.
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  • His heart's broken.
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  • Jesus is the greatest of all the hebrew prophets.
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  • He's greater than isaiah or jeremiah or amos or jonah,
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  • Whoever you would choose, and he knows what is the impending
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  • Disaster that's coming to that city.
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  • And he's very clear it's not because of a rebellion of the
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  • Jewish armies, it's not because of imperial rome and
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  • Their arrogance.
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  • The suffering that's coming to the city is because of a
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  • Spiritual choice they made.
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  • What would happen in our nation if the church could be awakened
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  • To the reality that the choices of god's people determine the
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  • Course of history?
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  • Somehow we have believed falsely that it's about elections or
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  • Political parties or economic cycles.
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  • We hear some political pundits say it's the economy, stupid,
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  • And we're just like sheep.
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  • And not the good kind.
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  • And we say, "well, it's got to be about the economy."
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  • No, it's about the condition of the hearts of god's people.
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  • Jerusalem was destroyed because of the hearts of the people of
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  • God, not because of the babylonians the first time or
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  • The assyrians before that, and certainly not because of the
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  • Roman legions.
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  • It's a warning to us.
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  • It's an invitation to us to be people of faith.
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  • We can change the destiny of nations.
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  • See, we've avoided that.
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  • We say, "well, pastor, i'm saved,
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  • What do you want from me?"
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  • I want you to live like a christ's follower.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • Allen: "well, there you go. you're always raising the bar."
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  • That's what i thought about my parents.
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  • You know, first they wanted me to wash behind my ears and i
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  • Learned to do that.
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  • They want me to brush my teeth and i learned to do that.
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  • And then they wanted me to learn to make my bed.
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  • I thought, "are you kidding me?
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  • I wash behind my ears and i brush my teeth."
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  • "make your bed."
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  • Then they want me to clean my room.
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  • I thought that's why god gave me parents.
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  • You clean my room.
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  • That did not go over well.
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  • Well, i got old enough to drive, to qualify for a license, to
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  • Be legal.
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  • They thought i should pay for gas.
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  • What an abusive environment i lived in.
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  • I'm grateful that you can sympathize with me.
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  • We come to the cross of jesus where god sent his son in an
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  • Earth suit to die for us.
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  • And we tortured him to death so that we could be forgiven.
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  • And then god calls us out of darkness.
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  • In his mercy and grace, when we're rebellious and
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  • Ungodly and immoral and all the junk, he calls us out and
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  • Says that we can be a part of his kingdom.
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  • And we say, "yeah, we think we probably deserve that."
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  • But do you know, to be cooperative, we'll confess jesus
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  • Is lord of our lives, okay.
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  • So what do i have to do?
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  • Be baptized in water, in public, in front of people?
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  • Couldn't i have a private ceremony?
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  • And then we're greatly offended that god says, "now you have to
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  • Grow up."
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  • No, no, i'm born again.
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  • "clean your own room."
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  • Well, i would submit to you that jesus is trying to prepare
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  • His friends.
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  • And you're gonna meet three very distinct
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  • Groups of people in this scenario.
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  • You're gonna meet the disciples, the people who've raised their
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  • Hands and said, "we'll follow you."
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  • They're confused.
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  • They're kind of like keystone cops.
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  • They're bumbling.
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  • They're having a hard time, but they're in.
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  • In fact, they're gonna suffer greatly because they're in.
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  • Then there's the crowds, this large, nameless, faceless group
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  • Of people that they go where the best options are.
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  • While jesus is healing, they're all in for jesus.
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  • When he's feeding people with a little bit of food and there's
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  • No cost to it, they're in for that too, but when the jewish
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  • Leaders need somebody to shout their mantra and they're willing
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  • To hire protesters, gee, that's not a new thing.
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  • It's really not.
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  • That same amorphous faceless crowd is willing to take the
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  • Bribe and shout in the streets of jerusalem, "crucify."
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  • But wait a minute, weren't you coming for healing yesterday?
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  • Yeah, today the prophets on the crucify side.
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  • And then there's a group that's just as
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  • Staunch as the disciples.
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  • They're just on the other end of the spectrum.
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  • They're the antagonists.
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  • Now, you don't recognize them as antagonists.
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  • They don't have horns.
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  • They don't wear black hats.
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  • There's not dark music playing when they step onto the stage.
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  • In fact, they're dressed like religious leaders.
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  • They're scriptural experts.
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  • We better be taking note, folks.
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  • The most determined antagonists to jesus were not people
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  • Standing outside the umbrella, they were people under the tent.
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  • And somebody had to have the discernment to recognize the
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  • Difference, to believe what you see.
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  • I've been inviting you for months and months now, years as
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  • A matter of fact, to watch and listen and think.
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  • They're going, "i don't have to do that.
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  • I'm born again."
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  • You better.
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  • We gotta go.
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  • Luke 20.
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  • The authority of jesus is gonna be questioned.
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  • It's repeated in multiple gospels.
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  • I gave you luke's account.
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  • It's intriguing to me.
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  • "one day as he was teaching the people in the temple courts and
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  • Preaching the gospel."
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  • Now, this is between the triumphal entry
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  • And his betrayal in gethsemane.
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  • There's just a handful of days.
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  • It's under a week.
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  • He's teaching in the temple courts and he's preaching the
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  • Gospel "and the chief priest and the teachers of the law,
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  • Together with the elders, came up to him."
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  • Now remember, he's had a public ministry for three years.
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  • "tell us by whose authority you're doing these things."
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  • Who gave you this authority?
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  • Well, you mean to heal blind eyes?
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  • To help the lame walk?
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  • Raising the dead.
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  • "and jesus replied, 'well, let me ask you a question.
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  • Tell me, john's baptism, was it from heaven or from men?'
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  • Well, they discussed it amongst themselves and they said, 'if we
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  • Say, "from heaven," he'll ask why didn't you believe him?
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  • But if we say, "it's from men," all the people will stone us,
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  • Because they are persuaded that john was a prophet.'
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  • So they answered, 'we don't know where it was from.'"
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  • Was that true?
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  • No, they're lying through their teeth.
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  • Look back at the group of people, you gotta connect this.
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  • It's the chief priest and the teachers of the law.
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  • Jesus asked them a question.
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  • They know the answer.
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  • But they're not about to tell the truth.
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  • "so jesus said, 'then i'll not tell you by what authority i'm
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  • Doing these things.'"
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  • I'm not obligated to deal with liars.
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  • I'm not obligated to deal with deceivers.
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  • It's brilliant.
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  • You see, what's being implied in the question is, you don't have
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  • The authority to do these things.
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  • Now, i suspect the point that caused the most angst was he
  • 00:11:35.553 --> 00:11:38.189
  • Just recently overturned the tables of the money changers.
  • 00:11:38.189 --> 00:11:42.627
  • They are stealing from the people.
  • 00:11:42.627 --> 00:11:45.363
  • They have their snouts in the trough, if i could use a more
  • 00:11:45.363 --> 00:11:48.199
  • Current expression.
  • 00:11:48.199 --> 00:11:50.935
  • They are practicing fraudulent, deceptive, manipulative tactics
  • 00:11:50.935 --> 00:11:56.741
  • To fleece the sheep, the people.
  • 00:11:56.741 --> 00:12:01.279
  • They're required by law, by religious rule, to offer animal
  • 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:05.183
  • Sacrifices, and they need the priest to offer the sacrifices.
  • 00:12:05.183 --> 00:12:10.555
  • You can't offer the sacrifice on your own.
  • 00:12:10.555 --> 00:12:12.724
  • You need the priestly blessing to say that the animal is
  • 00:12:12.724 --> 00:12:15.627
  • Kosher, that it's acceptable for the sacrifice.
  • 00:12:15.627 --> 00:12:20.198
  • So human nature being what it is, what do you imagine the
  • 00:12:20.198 --> 00:12:22.367
  • Priest could begin to do?
  • 00:12:22.367 --> 00:12:25.003
  • They say, "well, we have only priestly approved animals."
  • 00:12:25.003 --> 00:12:28.640
  • Then you'll have to buy your animal from us.
  • 00:12:28.640 --> 00:12:31.442
  • And then one of them figured out if you control the whole supply
  • 00:12:31.442 --> 00:12:33.912
  • Chain, there's even more money.
  • 00:12:33.912 --> 00:12:37.649
  • So they raised their own sheep in the shepherd's fields out
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  • By bethlehem.
  • 00:12:39.984 --> 00:12:41.319
  • That happened to be the place where, 33 years earlier, god
  • 00:12:41.319 --> 00:12:43.121
  • Sent the angels with a little bit of an announcement.
  • 00:12:43.121 --> 00:12:46.558
  • He was already tweaking the supply chain.
  • 00:12:46.558 --> 00:12:50.762
  • So jesus comes into the temple mount and said, "you have turned
  • 00:12:50.762 --> 00:12:53.531
  • My father's house into a den of thieves, you bunch of crooks."
  • 00:12:53.531 --> 00:13:00.405
  • Scroll forward 2000 years and we get--you can't sell a t-shirt at
  • 00:13:00.405 --> 00:13:04.242
  • Church because jesus turned over the tables of the
  • 00:13:04.242 --> 00:13:07.212
  • Money changers.
  • 00:13:07.212 --> 00:13:09.514
  • Which bible do you read?
  • 00:13:09.514 --> 00:13:14.419
  • He said you're stealing from the people.
  • 00:13:14.419 --> 00:13:18.356
  • He didn't say they shouldn't have sacrifices.
  • 00:13:18.356 --> 00:13:21.025
  • He didn't say they shouldn't pay the temple tax.
  • 00:13:21.025 --> 00:13:23.895
  • He didn't say they shouldn't pay taxes to rome.
  • 00:13:23.895 --> 00:13:26.831
  • He's not opposed to financial exchanges.
  • 00:13:26.831 --> 00:13:31.302
  • We gotta stop with our pettiness, folks.
  • 00:13:31.302 --> 00:13:33.071
  • It's time to grow up a bit.
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  • Allen: hey, the question i'm asked most often is, "how do i
  • 00:13:41.846 --> 00:13:44.082
  • Know what god wants me to do?
  • 00:13:44.082 --> 00:13:45.583
  • If i just knew what god wanted me to do, i would do it,
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  • Whatever it is."
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  • Well, our offer this month i think will help.
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  • It's by a good friend of mine, rob morgan, "the lord is my
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  • Shepherd."
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  • He's gonna unpack the scripture that tells us how to follow the
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  • Comfort.
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  • It'll help you chart a course and know the path that god has
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  • Pastor robert morgan's book "the lord is my shepherd" reflects on
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  • The specific ways psalm 23 speaks to our lives today.
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  • It will help you find rest for your soul and discover the joy,
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  • Inspiration, power, and peace found in psalm 23.
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  • In today's culture, it's essential to know god is leading
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  • Us, charting our path, and watching over us.
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  • Allen: we're gonna build through these little vignettes--and i
  • 00:14:41.539 --> 00:14:44.075
  • Don't have time in one session to unpack all of them, but i
  • 00:14:44.075 --> 00:14:47.078
  • Want you--jesus makes this triumphal entry, and then day by
  • 00:14:47.078 --> 00:14:50.448
  • Day, half a day by half a day, one encounter by another, jesus
  • 00:14:50.448 --> 00:14:54.218
  • Keeps pushing.
  • 00:14:54.218 --> 00:14:57.388
  • He understands what's there.
  • 00:14:57.388 --> 00:14:59.023
  • This is not a conciliatory week.
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  • If you won't tell me the truth about john the baptist, i'm not
  • 00:15:02.226 --> 00:15:06.130
  • Talking to you.
  • 00:15:06.130 --> 00:15:08.333
  • Jesus didn't have to overturn those tables.
  • 00:15:08.333 --> 00:15:11.602
  • He's been to jerusalem many times.
  • 00:15:11.602 --> 00:15:14.639
  • He's been to passover many times, and there's no record
  • 00:15:14.639 --> 00:15:16.774
  • Prior to this visit that he ever overturned the tables.
  • 00:15:16.774 --> 00:15:22.180
  • There's a very clear escalation and intentionality about it.
  • 00:15:22.180 --> 00:15:26.584
  • He's determined that there be clarity for the people.
  • 00:15:26.584 --> 00:15:32.790
  • You see, he loves us enough to give us a clear choice.
  • 00:15:32.790 --> 00:15:36.828
  • Please don't treat the invitations that god puts before
  • 00:15:36.828 --> 00:15:39.364
  • You shabbily or incidentally or casually.
  • 00:15:39.364 --> 00:15:43.368
  • They're precious.
  • 00:15:43.368 --> 00:15:44.702
  • There's a great price paid for them.
  • 00:15:44.702 --> 00:15:46.404
  • Matthew 21.
  • 00:15:46.404 --> 00:15:49.640
  • Jesus is talking.
  • 00:15:49.640 --> 00:15:50.975
  • He says, "what do you think?
  • 00:15:50.975 --> 00:15:52.343
  • There was a man who had two sons and he went to the first and he
  • 00:15:52.343 --> 00:15:55.113
  • Said, 'son, go and work today in the vineyard.'
  • 00:15:55.113 --> 00:15:57.415
  • And he answered, 'i will not,' but later he changed his mind
  • 00:15:57.415 --> 00:16:02.954
  • And he went.
  • 00:16:02.954 --> 00:16:04.322
  • And the father went to the other son and he said the same thing.
  • 00:16:04.322 --> 00:16:07.325
  • And he answered, 'i will.'
  • 00:16:07.325 --> 00:16:10.094
  • But he didn't go.
  • 00:16:10.094 --> 00:16:12.030
  • Which of the two did what the father wanted?
  • 00:16:12.030 --> 00:16:15.199
  • And their answer was the first.
  • 00:16:15.199 --> 00:16:17.435
  • And jesus said to them, 'i tell you the truth.'"
  • 00:16:17.435 --> 00:16:19.537
  • Now, when you see that phrase, you know he's about to drop a
  • 00:16:19.537 --> 00:16:21.639
  • Truth bomb on 'em, right?
  • 00:16:21.639 --> 00:16:23.808
  • Remember, he's just asked 'em the question about john
  • 00:16:23.808 --> 00:16:25.777
  • The baptist.
  • 00:16:25.777 --> 00:16:28.846
  • "i tell you the truth, the tax collectors and the prostitutes
  • 00:16:28.846 --> 00:16:31.549
  • Are entering the kingdom of god ahead of you."
  • 00:16:31.549 --> 00:16:34.318
  • You understand how offensive that is?
  • 00:16:34.318 --> 00:16:37.388
  • He's talking to religious leaders and he said, "the
  • 00:16:37.388 --> 00:16:39.924
  • Hookers are holier than you are."
  • 00:16:39.924 --> 00:16:47.832
  • Well, i thought jesus was always about love.
  • 00:16:47.832 --> 00:16:52.203
  • And if at this point i said he loved the prostitutes, you'd
  • 00:16:52.203 --> 00:16:54.472
  • Misinterpret that, so.
  • 00:16:54.472 --> 00:16:58.676
  • The prostitutes and the tax collectors are entering the
  • 00:16:58.676 --> 00:17:01.446
  • Kingdom of god ahead of you.
  • 00:17:01.446 --> 00:17:04.715
  • "for john came to show you the way of righteousness, and you
  • 00:17:04.715 --> 00:17:08.352
  • Didn't believe him, but the tax collectors and the
  • 00:17:08.352 --> 00:17:12.256
  • Prostitutes did.
  • 00:17:12.256 --> 00:17:14.492
  • And even after you saw this, you would not repent and
  • 00:17:14.492 --> 00:17:21.732
  • Believe him."
  • 00:17:21.732 --> 00:17:23.234
  • So which category is this group?
  • 00:17:23.234 --> 00:17:26.270
  • Can we safely call him the antagonist?
  • 00:17:26.270 --> 00:17:29.040
  • See it's not a lack of awareness.
  • 00:17:29.040 --> 00:17:30.641
  • They don't have an information shortage.
  • 00:17:30.641 --> 00:17:33.010
  • It's not that the evidence is scant.
  • 00:17:33.010 --> 00:17:36.380
  • There are blind eyes being opened and the deaf are hearing
  • 00:17:36.380 --> 00:17:38.816
  • And the lame are walking and the dead are being raised and there
  • 00:17:38.816 --> 00:17:41.786
  • Are crowds of people going to repent.
  • 00:17:41.786 --> 00:17:43.721
  • This isn't new.
  • 00:17:43.721 --> 00:17:45.123
  • John the baptist's ministry preceded jesus, so there have
  • 00:17:45.123 --> 00:17:47.925
  • Been years of presentations of the truth, years.
  • 00:17:47.925 --> 00:17:53.431
  • And they're still standing in their stubborn, recalcitrant,
  • 00:17:53.431 --> 00:17:57.201
  • Unyielding unbelief.
  • 00:17:57.201 --> 00:17:58.936
  • They want to do what they wanna do.
  • 00:17:58.936 --> 00:18:03.374
  • Same chapter, matthew 21, there's a couple more parables
  • 00:18:03.374 --> 00:18:06.677
  • Jesus told them, but each one is just an escalation of
  • 00:18:06.677 --> 00:18:09.113
  • That point.
  • 00:18:09.113 --> 00:18:11.249
  • I mean, he really, if i use the sports analogy, it's the
  • 00:18:11.249 --> 00:18:13.918
  • Killer instinct.
  • 00:18:13.918 --> 00:18:16.754
  • He intends to shut down his adversaries.
  • 00:18:16.754 --> 00:18:19.657
  • And then at the end of this chapter in verse 45, it says,
  • 00:18:19.657 --> 00:18:21.926
  • "when the chief priest and the pharisees heard jesus's
  • 00:18:21.926 --> 00:18:23.995
  • Parables, they knew he was talking about them."
  • 00:18:23.995 --> 00:18:28.799
  • Again, there's no confusion.
  • 00:18:28.799 --> 00:18:31.836
  • They understand exactly what is happening.
  • 00:18:31.836 --> 00:18:35.439
  • And their response, "they looked for a way to arrest him, but
  • 00:18:35.439 --> 00:18:39.410
  • They were afraid of the crowd because the people held that he
  • 00:18:39.410 --> 00:18:41.679
  • Was a prophet."
  • 00:18:41.679 --> 00:18:43.181
  • Please understand, if we pull it forward to millennia, when the
  • 00:18:43.181 --> 00:18:46.951
  • Truth is told and it breaks into the public square, some will
  • 00:18:46.951 --> 00:18:49.854
  • Cheer and some will oppose it.
  • 00:18:49.854 --> 00:18:52.290
  • That's not political, that's spiritual.
  • 00:18:52.290 --> 00:18:55.993
  • Become a person of the truth, become a person of integrity.
  • 00:18:55.993 --> 00:19:00.064
  • Become a person that does what's right.
  • 00:19:00.064 --> 00:19:02.400
  • In most cases it's not ambiguous or unclear.
  • 00:19:02.400 --> 00:19:06.604
  • We prefer confusion and a muddying of the discussion so we
  • 00:19:06.604 --> 00:19:11.642
  • Can avoid the awkwardness of our choices.
  • 00:19:11.642 --> 00:19:14.378
  • It's not a new thing.
  • 00:19:14.378 --> 00:19:16.681
  • Now in matthew 24, jesus pivots,
  • 00:19:16.681 --> 00:19:19.817
  • Meaning he takes a new direction.
  • 00:19:19.817 --> 00:19:21.152
  • It's like he plants a foot in the ground and he goes
  • 00:19:21.152 --> 00:19:23.321
  • Another way.
  • 00:19:23.321 --> 00:19:24.689
  • The instructions are going to change.
  • 00:19:24.689 --> 00:19:27.658
  • Remember there's two or three days of this very up close and
  • 00:19:27.658 --> 00:19:30.561
  • Personal and intense training that he's giving to those who
  • 00:19:30.561 --> 00:19:33.464
  • Will listen to him.
  • 00:19:33.464 --> 00:19:34.799
  • And he's been trying to expose the hypocrisy of the leaders in
  • 00:19:34.799 --> 00:19:37.435
  • Jerusalem so the people will have the courage not to be swept
  • 00:19:37.435 --> 00:19:40.104
  • Along by them.
  • 00:19:40.104 --> 00:19:41.906
  • But now there's a pivot that takes place.
  • 00:19:41.906 --> 00:19:45.109
  • And he's gonna begin to give us some instruction on preparations
  • 00:19:45.109 --> 00:19:48.679
  • For the "parousia."
  • 00:19:48.679 --> 00:19:50.014
  • It's a fancy religious word.
  • 00:19:50.014 --> 00:19:51.382
  • It means the second coming.
  • 00:19:51.382 --> 00:19:53.951
  • He's gonna begin to talk to the people that are listening about
  • 00:19:53.951 --> 00:19:57.255
  • His return.
  • 00:19:57.255 --> 00:20:00.925
  • It seems a little inconsistent with the messaging until you see
  • 00:20:00.925 --> 00:20:04.128
  • The bigger picture.
  • 00:20:04.128 --> 00:20:05.963
  • Jesus understands that he's within a few days of leaving and
  • 00:20:05.963 --> 00:20:10.067
  • He's going to begin to try to prepare his best friends for
  • 00:20:10.067 --> 00:20:12.670
  • What next will look like.
  • 00:20:12.670 --> 00:20:14.839
  • What an amazing friend we have.
  • 00:20:14.839 --> 00:20:17.908
  • It's matthew 24:36.
  • 00:20:17.908 --> 00:20:19.910
  • "no one knows about that day or hour."
  • 00:20:19.910 --> 00:20:23.681
  • He's talking about when his return will be.
  • 00:20:23.681 --> 00:20:25.750
  • And he said, "no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor
  • 00:20:25.750 --> 00:20:28.552
  • The son, but only the father."
  • 00:20:28.552 --> 00:20:30.454
  • Now with that statement, if you meet somebody that tells you
  • 00:20:30.454 --> 00:20:32.657
  • They know when jesus is returning, what do you know?
  • 00:20:32.657 --> 00:20:36.861
  • That they don't know.
  • 00:20:36.861 --> 00:20:39.096
  • I wouldn't argue, i wouldn't debate.
  • 00:20:39.096 --> 00:20:40.631
  • I'd just smile and go, "oh, bless your heart."
  • 00:20:40.631 --> 00:20:44.835
  • If they're not from around here, they'll think you
  • 00:20:44.835 --> 00:20:46.470
  • Complimented them.
  • 00:20:46.470 --> 00:20:47.838
  • It's okay.
  • 00:20:47.838 --> 00:20:49.340
  • "as it was in the days of noah, so it will be at the coming of
  • 00:20:49.340 --> 00:20:52.743
  • The son of man.
  • 00:20:52.743 --> 00:20:54.078
  • For in the days before the flood, people were eating and
  • 00:20:54.078 --> 00:20:56.847
  • Drinking and marrying and giving in marriage, up till the day
  • 00:20:56.847 --> 00:20:59.984
  • Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would
  • 00:20:59.984 --> 00:21:02.620
  • Happen until the flood came and took them all away.
  • 00:21:02.620 --> 00:21:06.023
  • That is how it will be at the coming of the son of man."
  • 00:21:06.023 --> 00:21:08.392
  • So jesus just gave us a picture of what it will be like before
  • 00:21:08.392 --> 00:21:12.196
  • He comes.
  • 00:21:12.196 --> 00:21:13.698
  • And he lists some behaviors that people will be engaged in.
  • 00:21:13.698 --> 00:21:16.567
  • I would note to you that none of them are ungodly or immoral.
  • 00:21:16.567 --> 00:21:21.339
  • They'll be buying and selling, marrying and giving in marriage.
  • 00:21:21.339 --> 00:21:23.841
  • They'll be doing normal life things.
  • 00:21:23.841 --> 00:21:26.043
  • They'll be living too far into the world system to understand
  • 00:21:26.043 --> 00:21:29.747
  • That god is moving.
  • 00:21:29.747 --> 00:21:33.451
  • He said, "up until the day that noah entered the ark, nobody
  • 00:21:33.451 --> 00:21:36.554
  • Knew what was coming."
  • 00:21:36.554 --> 00:21:37.888
  • You read that and you go, "well, maybe."
  • 00:21:37.888 --> 00:21:42.526
  • Except noah had built this great big boat out in the middle of
  • 00:21:42.526 --> 00:21:48.866
  • The field.
  • 00:21:48.866 --> 00:21:51.936
  • I mean, it wasn't floating on one of the docks at
  • 00:21:51.936 --> 00:21:54.405
  • Percy priest.
  • 00:21:54.405 --> 00:21:56.674
  • He built a great big old boat out in the middle of a field and
  • 00:21:56.674 --> 00:22:01.178
  • Then animals started lining up.
  • 00:22:01.178 --> 00:22:06.250
  • I mean, maybe that's normal.
  • 00:22:06.250 --> 00:22:09.387
  • But i'm thinking that's a little outside of usual, but it wasn't
  • 00:22:09.387 --> 00:22:16.293
  • Unusual enough to keep them from investing or keep them from
  • 00:22:16.293 --> 00:22:21.031
  • Planning the next round of activities for their family.
  • 00:22:21.031 --> 00:22:26.804
  • Certainly wasn't enough to cause them to listen to the message.
  • 00:22:26.804 --> 00:22:32.143
  • Now, here's the punch line.
  • 00:22:32.143 --> 00:22:33.511
  • Jesus said it will be just like that.
  • 00:22:33.511 --> 00:22:38.182
  • There will be things that perhaps should give you pause.
  • 00:22:38.182 --> 00:22:41.519
  • There'll be things somewhat unique, somewhat different.
  • 00:22:41.519 --> 00:22:43.654
  • There'll be something going on that if you had any sensitivity
  • 00:22:43.654 --> 00:22:47.558
  • To the things of god, there will be voices saying repent, but
  • 00:22:47.558 --> 00:22:54.298
  • There won't be very many repenting.
  • 00:22:54.298 --> 00:22:56.300
  • Folks, you should--it should give you concern if you can walk
  • 00:22:56.300 --> 00:23:01.238
  • With your friends who are marginally aware of the things
  • 00:23:01.238 --> 00:23:04.775
  • Of god and there's no distinction with you.
  • 00:23:04.775 --> 00:23:09.914
  • There better be some distinctiveness in our lives or
  • 00:23:09.914 --> 00:23:13.083
  • We're like salt that's not salty.
  • 00:23:13.083 --> 00:23:16.687
  • You ever put salt-- that's not very salty.
  • 00:23:16.687 --> 00:23:19.890
  • You start taking the top off the salt shaker.
  • 00:23:19.890 --> 00:23:21.692
  • It must not be working right.
  • 00:23:21.692 --> 00:23:23.027
  • It's the humidity, live in the south, blah, blah, blah.
  • 00:23:23.027 --> 00:23:28.999
  • It'll be just like that, he said.
  • 00:23:28.999 --> 00:23:31.602
  • Verse 40, "two men will be in the field: and
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  • One will be taken and the other left.
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  • Two women will be grinding with a hand mill: and one will be
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  • Taken on the other left."
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  • There's a sense of very unexpectedness, an assumption
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  • That we're all good and the assumption's faulty.
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  • And then he says, "therefore keep watch because you don't
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  • Know on what day your lord will come."
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  • Again, there's an unexpectedness to us.
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  • I'm amused at the determination christians have to try to tell
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  • Everybody we know.
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  • This is the time.
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  • I'm like, did you read what the boss said?
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  • "you do not know, but understand this: if the owner of the house
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  • Had known at what time the night the thief was coming, he would
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  • Have kept watch and would not have let his house be
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  • Broken into."
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  • No duh.
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  • "so you also must be ready, because the son of man will come
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  • In an hour when you don't expect him.
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  • Who then is the faithful and wise servant?"
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  • That's a very important question.
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  • I want jesus to think that i'm a wise and faithful servant,
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  • Don't you?
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  • I don't want him to think i was a good preacher, a good church
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  • Attender, a good organizer.
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  • I don't want to think i was a good planner.
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  • I want the lord to look at me and go, "you are a
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  • Faithful servant."
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  • That's the category where i wanna ring the bell.
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  • So that's the question posed.
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  • He's gonna give us an answer.
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  • "who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master
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  • Has put in charge of the servants in his household to
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  • Give them their food at the proper time?
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  • It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so
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  • When he returns."
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  • What are we supposed to be busy with?
  • 00:25:04.862 --> 00:25:09.133
  • Serving the people and the purposes of god.
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  • He's coming back, he said.
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  • And there's gonna be an unexpected component to it.
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  • And what you wanna be busy with is the assignment he's given us.
  • 00:25:18.742 --> 00:25:23.647
  • "but suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself,
  • 00:25:23.647 --> 00:25:27.251
  • 'nah, he's staying away a long time,' and then he begins to
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  • Beat his fellow servants and eat and drink with the drunkards."
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  • Well, we'll just call that evangelism.
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  • "the master of that servant will come on a day when he doesn't
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  • Expect him and an hour that he's not aware of."
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  • Watch this.
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  • "and he will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the
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  • Hypocrites, where there'll be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
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  • It's a pretty hard pivot jesus makes.
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  • In the paragraphs before, he's talking to the religious leaders
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  • And he's saying, "you know, your hypocrisy is not hidden.
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  • Your duplicity has been exposed.
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  • You're not as clever as you think you are.
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  • You should repent.
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  • Allen: you know, i really dislike the idea of a
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  • Religious lecture.
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  • I believe the point of ministry or opening the word of god is to
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  • Be transformed by it.
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  • So before we go, i wanna give you two invitations.
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  • One's a prayer i'm gonna pray with you, but the other is our
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  • Offer this month.
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  • The book is "the lord is my shepherd" by my friend
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  • Rob morgan.
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  • It's an important word in this season to understand god's
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  • Direction, his abiding presence, his protection.
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  • We all need that.
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  • It'll be a blessing in your life and something i think you wanna
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  • Share with some friends, but i wanna pray with you before we
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  • Go, that we'll know we're not alone.
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  • Heavenly father, i thank you for the resources you give us, for
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  • The voices that you provide in our lives, that in a world of
  • 00:26:54.471 --> 00:26:57.541
  • Turmoil and confusion and, honestly, great fear, that your
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  • Calm assuring voice guides us, and i thank you for it today.
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  • Thank you for your faithfulness.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • Get a copy of "the lord is my shepherd" and you take your
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  • Prayers into your family.
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  • We're a light in this dark world.
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  • God is moving and we wanna move with him.
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  • ♪♪♪
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