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Allen Jackson - When God Chooses You (Part 1)

December 9, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - When God Chooses You (Part 1)
Pastor Allen Jackson's mission is to help people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - When God Chooses You (Part 1) | December 9, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: you know, allen jackson ministries was
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  • Launched to strengthen the church.
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  • I spent my life in the church, and we began allen jackson
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  • Ministries to try to be a voice beyond just the local
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  • Congregation where i serve.
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  • It has grown each year in our imagination,
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  • And the vision that god has put in our heart--
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  • It's a living thing.
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  • We began with broadcasting messages
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  • With radio and television.
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  • We added publishing with print and books.
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  • We've added small-group curriculum,
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  • Which now spreads across our nation and around the world.
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  • We're doing conferences.
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  • We visited more than 20 cities,
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  • Doing leaders and pastors conferences.
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  • And now we have on-the-ground partners internationally.
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  • God has opened a unique door in israel to work with some
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  • Emerging congregations there in the upcoming year.
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  • We have some very real connections in ukraine--
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  • That war-torn country--to stand with the church there.
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  • Allen: back during covid, when we were walking through all of
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  • That and all that it brought with it, we introduced a little
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  • Paradigm that was very helpful, and i wanna bring it back
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  • To you.
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  • We're gonna talk about it some for these next few weeks, in
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  • Various settings because i think it's a very helpful tool.
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  • I encourage you to develop the practice of watching, listening,
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  • Thinking, and then acting.
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  • Not simply accepting everything that was fed to us.
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  • Not simply believing that everything that was communicated
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  • Because it came from an official agency or from a legacy news
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  • Outlet should be treated as if it was the complete truth.
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  • The greatest, most consistent warning that jesus gave us about
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  • The end of the age was a warning about deception.
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  • More than he warned us about evil or immorality or violence,
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  • He warned us about deception.
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  • And those four words, if you'll cultivate the habit of watching,
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  • Listening, thinking, and then acting, you've got to act.
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  • If you just sit in the bleachers and think you can keep up and
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  • Navigate by watching and listening and being inert,
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  • You're deceived.
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  • But if you'll take those four things, i believe it'll help us
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  • Avoid deception and fulfill god's purposes with the season
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  • In front of us.
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  • I think most of us on some level feel like there's a need for
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  • Change, and we hope somebody else will do it.
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  • And the reality is we have to be a part of the change and to do
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  • That we'll have to avoid deception.
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  • I'll give you an example and i'll try to bring you some from
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  • Time to time.
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  • I had the radio on, i was in the car this week, and i had the
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  • Radio on and i'm listening to-- i didn't hear the individual
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  • Introduced, but they were being treated with great deference, a
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  • Very well-educated, very articulate, some sort of an
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  • Economic expert, talking about markets and what was happening
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  • In the world and the idea that they kept repeating, i mean, i
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  • Suppose in the few minutes i was listening, they must have said
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  • It more than a dozen times.
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  • He said from an economic standpoint there's absolutely no
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  • Difference between legal immigration and an
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  • Illegal immigrant.
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  • Don't heckle.
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  • And if he said it once, i'd have probably missed it.
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  • But by about the 10th time, i'd actually listen.
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  • From an economic standpoint, there's no difference.
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  • And you know, as i listened, i began talking back to my radio,
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  • Which is not a really clever response.
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  • You know, i'm pretty sure google's listening and we all
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  • Know siri's listening and i'm quite sure there's a lot of
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  • Other people listening into our devices, but i don't think my
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  • Radio can hear me, but it didn't stop me from talking back.
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  • I said, "well, if i accepted your premise, i could say, you
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  • Know, from a purchasing opportunity, there's really no
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  • Difference in the money i earn and the money i steal from
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  • The bank.
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  • The end user would just see me as a qualified purchaser."
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  • But legal and illegal really make a difference.
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  • And if we're gonna look at compassion with people who want
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  • To come to our country, we need to help them do it in a
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  • Legal way.
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  • My point isn't really the immigration challenge, and
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  • There's a challenge there.
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  • It's to recognize the degree to which deceptive, dishonest,
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  • Manipulative messaging cascades over us day after day after day.
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  • And you cannot afford to be unaware.
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  • You've got to watch and listen, think, and then be prepared
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  • To act.
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  • It'll change everything.
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  • Now, i began a new series in a previous session.
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  • I want to continue it.
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  • The general theme is the breakthroughs.
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  • I'm of the opinion that in the november election god showed
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  • Us mercy.
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  • It didn't fix our problems, but across the nation, i saw
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  • Multiplied millions of people raise their hand and say, "we
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  • Need a new direction."
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  • I don't imagine that the people that we're sending to office can
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  • Do that.
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  • I don't believe they can do that unless there is a heart change
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  • In the people of this nation.
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  • I don't think they will succeed.
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  • I think no matter how zealous or talented or determined or
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  • Focused, i think without an ongoing heart change in the
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  • People in this nation, we will revert back to our old habits.
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  • That's not just an opinion.
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  • It's informed by a bit of experience.
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  • The current administration was elected previously and it only
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  • Took 6 weeks after they left office for what they had put in
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  • Place to be undone.
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  • And what they will go do is not sustainable unless there's a
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  • Corresponding or even greater heart change by the people in
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  • Our nation.
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  • So that means we have an assignment in this season to be
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  • Instigators of change just as certainly as we would like them
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  • To be.
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  • If the election was disappointing to you, i would
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  • Encourage you, we still need an opportunity for a nation that
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  • Will choose godliness and righteousness and holiness.
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  • And whether you--whether you view the election as a victory
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  • Or a great defeat, as christ followers, we should share that
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  • Objective and find a way forward in that.
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  • So it brought me to this idea of a breakthrough.
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  • I have a friend in another state that i have been--i interact
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  • With from time to time, and we've been processing this
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  • Notion because there was a need for some
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  • Significant breakthroughs.
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  • So i've been living with it for a while, and i want to take a
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  • Few sessions and then pull some characters that we know from
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  • Scripture and highlight the breakthrough that their life
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  • Represents to see if there's some lessons that you and i can
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  • Learn from those places where we need a breakthrough in our
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  • Lives, an intervention from god.
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  • That's the target, okay?
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  • I brought you a scripture.
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  • It's luke chapter 1 and verse 30.
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  • This is the angels visiting mary.
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  • You know this story.
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  • "the angel said to her, 'don't be afraid.
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  • Mary, you have found favor with god and you'll be with child and
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  • Give birth to a son, and you're to give him the name jesus.'"
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  • "and have a nice day."
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  • Now, we read that from the distance of history and we
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  • Think, "oh, isn't that sweet?"
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  • If you were the recipient of the message, "sweet's" probably not
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  • The word you would have used as the descriptor.
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  • It's a breakthrough point.
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  • It's an intervention.
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  • It's initiated by god.
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  • It wasn't initiated by mary.
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  • She didn't raise her head and say, "i have an idea."
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  • An angel arrived with a message.
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  • So when i talk about breakthroughs, i want to talk
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  • About something in that pattern.
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  • Don't imagine it's something that we've initiated.
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  • We're not the causative agent in this.
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  • We didn't light the fuse.
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  • It's god's intervention.
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  • Now, our responses make all the difference.
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  • And i believe there's a great deal we can learn that will
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  • Either catalyze those responses or we will forfeit the
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  • Opportunities, because they typically require a response
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  • From us.
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  • Mary had to say at the end of that announcement, i'm in.
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  • "may it be to me as you have said," was her answer.
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  • And you and i will have to be aware enough to do that.
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  • So breakthroughs can wear many labels.
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  • It can be a point of deliverance, a revelation, an
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  • Insight, perhaps it's understanding that you've needed
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  • Or redirection of a behavior or a trajectory of your life.
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  • It's when god's purposes and plans are initiated on
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  • Our behalf.
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  • Maybe it's when something's brought to completion that we
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  • Couldn't seem to get finished.
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  • Maybe a revelation, an advancement.
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  • It may be an understanding that god gives you.
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  • We all have places in our lives where an intervention from god
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  • Would be very, very beneficial.
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  • Now the ideal breakthrough, the one that i think we fantasize
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  • About is that we acknowledge we have a problem, a need, maybe
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  • It's physical or financial or relational, whatever it is.
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  • There's something that is significant enough that we've
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  • Decided that we're gonna present it to the lord.
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  • We're gonna go outside of ourselves.
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  • We don't think we can fix this.
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  • And the ideal breakthrough is when god responds with a
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  • Complete solution, immediately.
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  • And our imagined future is delivered to us, one fell
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  • Swoop, boom.
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  • That's the kind of breakthroughs we want.
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  • "i haven't been feeling well.
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  • I haven't talked to the doctor.
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  • Pray for me.
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  • I don't wanna talk to the doctor.
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  • I wanna feel better.
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  • In fact, i'd like to feel 20 years younger," right?
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  • That's a breakthrough.
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  • Well, life is seldom ideal.
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  • And my experience in my own journey and with others is that
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  • Frequently when there's a breakthrough we're delivered out
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  • Of something.
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  • But we're not immediately delivered into what the
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  • Solution is.
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  • When the hebrew slaves were delivered from the power of
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  • Egypt, they didn't find themselves the next morning in
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  • The promised land, with the occupants of the land
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  • Having vacated.
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  • But they were very much involved in a breakthrough.
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  • Oftentimes we're delivered from something, but our adversary,
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  • Whatever that adversarial relationship was, whoever the
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  • Opponent was, they've not been completely removed
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  • Or annihilated.
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  • And if we're really honest, if god delivers us from some
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  • Destructive something or other, we want whatever that was to be
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  • Completely obliterated.
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  • We'd like to watch it melt.
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  • And video tape it and watch it again and again and again.
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  • Or maybe you have a physical need and you're praying
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  • For healing.
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  • And i think typically the preference is we'd be healed
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  • Without any medical intervention whatsoever.
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  • God, you just do that.
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  • But frequently, i believe god's just as involved with the
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  • Breakthrough and brings healing to our lives in the midst of the
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  • Medical community.
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  • I don't believe that's less faith, amen?
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  • I've seen god do remarkable things with people that are in
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  • The midst of some very outstanding care from
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  • Well-trained professionals.
  • 00:12:16.318 --> 00:12:18.654
  • Again, the breakthrough, if we come with the imagination that
  • 00:12:18.654 --> 00:12:21.957
  • It has to be delivered in the way we want, in the form we
  • 00:12:21.957 --> 00:12:24.894
  • Want, we will forfeit much of what god will do.
  • 00:12:24.894 --> 00:12:30.833
  • Sometimes if it's a breakthrough when god presents opportunities
  • 00:12:30.833 --> 00:12:34.336
  • To us.
  • 00:12:34.336 --> 00:12:35.671
  • And it's clear, but it also requires of us work and the
  • 00:12:35.671 --> 00:12:42.678
  • Investment of resources, a change of behavior.
  • 00:12:42.678 --> 00:12:49.218
  • When god recruited moses at the burning bush and said, "you
  • 00:12:49.218 --> 00:12:51.320
  • Know, i've got a little assignment i need you to give
  • 00:12:51.320 --> 00:12:53.155
  • Some attention to," moses was wise enough to know he wasn't
  • 00:12:53.155 --> 00:12:55.825
  • Gonna get to keep maintaining his routine.
  • 00:12:55.825 --> 00:12:58.694
  • He was gonna have to give up his tickets to the titans games.
  • 00:12:58.694 --> 00:13:02.998
  • He was leaving town.
  • 00:13:02.998 --> 00:13:05.167
  • He had to go home and tell the family.
  • 00:13:05.167 --> 00:13:09.672
  • You see, god presents an opportunity.
  • 00:13:09.672 --> 00:13:11.707
  • It's a breakthrough opportunity, and we think, "well, it
  • 00:13:11.707 --> 00:13:14.043
  • Shouldn't be difficult.
  • 00:13:14.043 --> 00:13:15.377
  • It shouldn't require effort of me.
  • 00:13:15.377 --> 00:13:16.745
  • You know, just if it's god, it'll just happen."
  • 00:13:16.745 --> 00:13:19.281
  • No, that is not biblical.
  • 00:13:19.281 --> 00:13:24.920
  • Jesus came, offered himself on a cross.
  • 00:13:24.920 --> 00:13:27.723
  • God raised him to life again that you and i could be
  • 00:13:27.723 --> 00:13:30.793
  • Justified, delivered from the consequences of sin.
  • 00:13:30.793 --> 00:13:35.297
  • God's done everything he's going to do for your salvation
  • 00:13:35.297 --> 00:13:39.068
  • Or mine.
  • 00:13:39.068 --> 00:13:40.402
  • He doesn't have a plan b, there's not something extra.
  • 00:13:40.402 --> 00:13:43.739
  • In order to benefit from that, we have to choose.
  • 00:13:43.739 --> 00:13:49.612
  • We have to choose to engage.
  • 00:13:49.612 --> 00:13:53.949
  • It's very much a breakthrough for any person from every
  • 00:13:53.949 --> 00:13:56.485
  • Nation, race, language, or tribe, but it requires a
  • 00:13:56.485 --> 00:14:00.322
  • Response of us.
  • 00:14:00.322 --> 00:14:01.891
  • So there's a pattern for breakthroughs that doesn't fit
  • 00:14:01.891 --> 00:14:04.727
  • Kind of the narrative that we have put in place, you know, god
  • 00:14:04.727 --> 00:14:07.329
  • Can do whatever he wants and i want him to do something for me,
  • 00:14:07.329 --> 00:14:09.365
  • But i want him to do it my way.
  • 00:14:09.365 --> 00:14:12.067
  • So we're gonna take a few sessions and see if we can
  • 00:14:12.067 --> 00:14:14.336
  • Understand a bit more about this.
  • 00:14:14.336 --> 00:14:16.305
  • There's some basics that i'll continue to remind you.
  • 00:14:16.305 --> 00:14:18.974
  • I don't think breakthroughs come because we're passive.
  • 00:14:18.974 --> 00:14:22.378
  • I don't think we earn them.
  • 00:14:22.378 --> 00:14:23.746
  • I don't think we deserve them, but it's not just something that
  • 00:14:23.746 --> 00:14:26.315
  • Happens to you.
  • 00:14:26.315 --> 00:14:27.650
  • Salvation doesn't happen to you.
  • 00:14:27.650 --> 00:14:30.119
  • You have to repent.
  • 00:14:30.119 --> 00:14:31.487
  • You have to choose jesus as lord, you have to choose to
  • 00:14:31.487 --> 00:14:33.088
  • Grow up.
  • 00:14:33.088 --> 00:14:34.423
  • Righteousness is a gift.
  • 00:14:34.423 --> 00:14:36.892
  • But you're also called to lead a righteous life.
  • 00:14:36.892 --> 00:14:39.094
  • We've talked way too much about the gift and far too little
  • 00:14:39.094 --> 00:14:42.364
  • About the assignment to lead a righteous life.
  • 00:14:42.364 --> 00:14:46.001
  • I believe in the gift, but i believe it comes with
  • 00:14:46.001 --> 00:14:48.904
  • A responsibility.
  • 00:14:48.904 --> 00:14:51.507
  • I believe breakthroughs are fueled by obedience, by a
  • 00:14:51.507 --> 00:14:54.944
  • Determination on our part to do the very best we know to honor
  • 00:14:54.944 --> 00:14:58.180
  • The lord.
  • 00:14:58.180 --> 00:15:00.716
  • My observation is breakthroughs typically result in us being set
  • 00:15:00.716 --> 00:15:04.253
  • Apart a bit.
  • 00:15:04.253 --> 00:15:05.821
  • The fancy word is sanctified, but it's when god's purposes
  • 00:15:05.821 --> 00:15:08.991
  • Become more apparent in our lives.
  • 00:15:08.991 --> 00:15:10.793
  • We don't just get an answer to prayer so we can go on our happy
  • 00:15:10.793 --> 00:15:13.629
  • Merry way.
  • 00:15:13.629 --> 00:15:15.030
  • God brings a breakthrough to our lives, so we have a different
  • 00:15:15.030 --> 00:15:17.700
  • Kind of fruitfulness in the season that follows.
  • 00:15:17.700 --> 00:15:23.005
  • Are you really ready for a breakthrough or do you just want
  • 00:15:23.005 --> 00:15:25.174
  • Your way?
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  • Allen: i want to use the shepherds and the christmas
  • 00:16:33.609 --> 00:16:35.377
  • Story as a bit of an example, i think, to help us
  • 00:16:35.377 --> 00:16:37.212
  • Understand this.
  • 00:16:37.212 --> 00:16:38.947
  • The shepherds are chosen by god.
  • 00:16:38.947 --> 00:16:41.784
  • I don't believe they're ever gonna be the same after that
  • 00:16:41.784 --> 00:16:43.752
  • Night in those fields outside bethlehem.
  • 00:16:43.752 --> 00:16:46.455
  • You know, they sound so romantic, the shepherd's
  • 00:16:46.455 --> 00:16:48.924
  • Fields, oh.
  • 00:16:48.924 --> 00:16:53.128
  • I was with philip, my brother and i were living in jerusalem.
  • 00:16:53.128 --> 00:16:56.298
  • We were at the university.
  • 00:16:56.298 --> 00:16:58.967
  • And on christmas eve we were told there was a group of people
  • 00:16:58.967 --> 00:17:01.236
  • Gonna gather in the shepherd's fields to sing christmas carols.
  • 00:17:01.236 --> 00:17:04.373
  • Well, i mean, how many years are you living in jerusalem and you
  • 00:17:04.373 --> 00:17:06.809
  • Can go to bethlehem on christmas, so we said we're in.
  • 00:17:06.809 --> 00:17:10.913
  • So we go to the appointed place and they're loading buses.
  • 00:17:10.913 --> 00:17:15.684
  • We get on the bus and there's six or seven women that get on,
  • 00:17:15.684 --> 00:17:18.587
  • There's no seats left, and they said, is there anybody that
  • 00:17:18.587 --> 00:17:20.756
  • Would be willing to give your seats up?
  • 00:17:20.756 --> 00:17:24.893
  • They said there's another bus coming.
  • 00:17:24.893 --> 00:17:27.196
  • So i mean, we grew up in the south and, you know, so sure,
  • 00:17:27.196 --> 00:17:29.832
  • You can have our seats, so we got off the bus.
  • 00:17:29.832 --> 00:17:32.167
  • The bus pulled away and somebody walked up, said, "there's no
  • 00:17:32.167 --> 00:17:33.802
  • More buses coming."
  • 00:17:33.802 --> 00:17:37.906
  • On christmas eve in jerusalem, yeah.
  • 00:17:37.906 --> 00:17:42.277
  • No problem, bethlehem's only 5 miles away.
  • 00:17:42.277 --> 00:17:44.313
  • We'll find a way to bethlehem.
  • 00:17:44.313 --> 00:17:45.647
  • So we get to bethlehem, we get to the shepherd's fields.
  • 00:17:45.647 --> 00:17:47.316
  • It's--they gave everybody a candle.
  • 00:17:47.316 --> 00:17:50.419
  • If you light the candle, you can see the words to the christmas
  • 00:17:50.419 --> 00:17:52.821
  • Carols, and it's windy and the field's muddy and it's cold and
  • 00:17:52.821 --> 00:17:56.625
  • We're already ticked off because they left us.
  • 00:17:56.625 --> 00:18:00.529
  • And i'm telling you, there was nothing about the shepherd's
  • 00:18:00.529 --> 00:18:02.331
  • Field that felt romantic, godly, lovely.
  • 00:18:02.331 --> 00:18:08.437
  • Nevertheless, the shepherds.
  • 00:18:08.437 --> 00:18:12.341
  • "there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping
  • 00:18:12.341 --> 00:18:14.776
  • Watch over their flocks at night.
  • 00:18:14.776 --> 00:18:16.145
  • And an angel of the lord appeared to them, and the glory
  • 00:18:16.145 --> 00:18:18.747
  • Of the lord shone around them, and they were terrified.
  • 00:18:18.747 --> 00:18:20.682
  • And the angel said to them, 'do not be afraid.
  • 00:18:20.682 --> 00:18:22.651
  • I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all
  • 00:18:22.651 --> 00:18:25.754
  • The people.
  • 00:18:25.754 --> 00:18:27.222
  • Today in the town of david a savior's been born to you; he's
  • 00:18:27.222 --> 00:18:29.658
  • Christ the lord.
  • 00:18:29.658 --> 00:18:31.026
  • And this will be a sign to you: you'll find a baby wrapped in
  • 00:18:31.026 --> 00:18:32.895
  • Cloths and lying in a manger.'"
  • 00:18:32.895 --> 00:18:34.263
  • We've all learned that passage from "charlie
  • 00:18:34.263 --> 00:18:35.631
  • Brown's christmas."
  • 00:18:35.631 --> 00:18:39.701
  • "and suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with
  • 00:18:39.701 --> 00:18:42.271
  • The angel, praising god and saying, 'glory to god in the
  • 00:18:42.271 --> 00:18:44.873
  • Highest, on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests.'
  • 00:18:44.873 --> 00:18:49.344
  • And when the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the
  • 00:18:49.344 --> 00:18:51.580
  • Shepherds said to one another, 'let's go to bethlehem and see
  • 00:18:51.580 --> 00:18:53.715
  • This thing that has happened, which the lord has told
  • 00:18:53.715 --> 00:18:55.784
  • Us about.'
  • 00:18:55.784 --> 00:18:57.352
  • So they hurried off and found mary and joseph, and the baby,
  • 00:18:57.352 --> 00:18:59.788
  • Who was lying in the manger.
  • 00:18:59.788 --> 00:19:01.823
  • When they'd seen him, they spread the word concerning what
  • 00:19:01.823 --> 00:19:03.725
  • Had been told about this child, and all who heard it were amazed
  • 00:19:03.725 --> 00:19:07.162
  • At what the shepherds said to them.
  • 00:19:07.162 --> 00:19:08.497
  • But mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in
  • 00:19:08.497 --> 00:19:10.899
  • Her heart.
  • 00:19:10.899 --> 00:19:12.301
  • The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising god for
  • 00:19:12.301 --> 00:19:15.103
  • All the things they'd heard and seen, which were just as they
  • 00:19:15.103 --> 00:19:17.406
  • Had been told."
  • 00:19:17.406 --> 00:19:18.941
  • It's a very familiar passage.
  • 00:19:18.941 --> 00:19:21.343
  • It's not news to any of us, but i wanna submit to you, it's a
  • 00:19:21.343 --> 00:19:24.846
  • Part--it is a breakthrough.
  • 00:19:24.846 --> 00:19:27.416
  • It's a part of a much larger breakthrough.
  • 00:19:27.416 --> 00:19:29.151
  • That's one thing i can tell you, that frequently when god brings
  • 00:19:29.151 --> 00:19:31.587
  • A breakthrough into your life, he'll do it in the lives of
  • 00:19:31.587 --> 00:19:34.756
  • Other people that collectively his purposes can take a very
  • 00:19:34.756 --> 00:19:37.759
  • Significant step forward.
  • 00:19:37.759 --> 00:19:40.395
  • There's really not much of a breakthrough for the shepherds
  • 00:19:40.395 --> 00:19:42.531
  • If mary hadn't said yes to the announcement she was given and
  • 00:19:42.531 --> 00:19:45.334
  • If joseph hadn't said yes to the announcement he'd been given.
  • 00:19:45.334 --> 00:19:49.137
  • There's layers to what is happening, but the shepherds in
  • 00:19:49.137 --> 00:19:51.506
  • This particular narrative are invited in.
  • 00:19:51.506 --> 00:19:54.610
  • And it's a very personal, if you read the way that luke wrote it.
  • 00:19:54.610 --> 00:19:58.447
  • It's a very personal thing and it isn't accidental.
  • 00:19:58.447 --> 00:20:01.550
  • The language could have been different.
  • 00:20:01.550 --> 00:20:02.918
  • Go back to the 8th--in verse 9.
  • 00:20:02.918 --> 00:20:05.254
  • It says: "the angel of the lord appeared to them.
  • 00:20:05.254 --> 00:20:08.857
  • And the glory of the lord shone around them."
  • 00:20:08.857 --> 00:20:12.361
  • It wasn't just that an angel appeared in a field outside
  • 00:20:12.361 --> 00:20:15.030
  • Of bethlehem.
  • 00:20:15.030 --> 00:20:16.698
  • When jesus was baptized, there was a voice that spoke
  • 00:20:16.698 --> 00:20:18.967
  • From heaven.
  • 00:20:18.967 --> 00:20:20.469
  • But it didn't say the voice spoke to peter.
  • 00:20:20.469 --> 00:20:23.805
  • Said there was a voice from heaven.
  • 00:20:23.805 --> 00:20:25.140
  • There are other times when god would speak or intervene and
  • 00:20:25.140 --> 00:20:28.110
  • They would say that people thought it thundered.
  • 00:20:28.110 --> 00:20:29.911
  • When jesus intervened on paul's trip to damascus and can--
  • 00:20:29.911 --> 00:20:34.049
  • Challenged him, there were people traveling with him, but
  • 00:20:34.049 --> 00:20:36.051
  • They didn't understand the message with the same clarity
  • 00:20:36.051 --> 00:20:39.421
  • That the apostle paul did.
  • 00:20:39.421 --> 00:20:41.590
  • But in this case, luke and the spirit of god go out of their
  • 00:20:41.590 --> 00:20:45.160
  • Way to say, "the angel of the lord appeared to the shepherds,
  • 00:20:45.160 --> 00:20:48.764
  • And the glory of the lord shone around them," the shepherds,
  • 00:20:48.764 --> 00:20:51.767
  • "they were terrified, but the angel said to them," the
  • 00:20:51.767 --> 00:20:55.070
  • Shepherds, "'don't be afraid.
  • 00:20:55.070 --> 00:20:56.405
  • I bring you good news.'"
  • 00:20:56.405 --> 00:21:01.076
  • Huh!
  • 00:21:01.076 --> 00:21:04.479
  • I mean, herod, all he got was three dirty wise men that
  • 00:21:04.479 --> 00:21:08.183
  • Had been traveling across the desert.
  • 00:21:08.183 --> 00:21:11.019
  • The shepherds got an angelic announcement.
  • 00:21:11.019 --> 00:21:15.991
  • Verse 11: "today in the town of david, a savior has been born
  • 00:21:15.991 --> 00:21:21.530
  • To you."
  • 00:21:21.530 --> 00:21:24.900
  • I'm thinking if i had written this narrative, i would have
  • 00:21:24.900 --> 00:21:26.802
  • Said, "a savior's been born for the whole world."
  • 00:21:26.802 --> 00:21:30.072
  • But that's not what the angel said.
  • 00:21:30.072 --> 00:21:31.440
  • "there's a savior born to you.
  • 00:21:31.440 --> 00:21:36.845
  • This will be a sign to you.
  • 00:21:36.845 --> 00:21:40.749
  • You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger."
  • 00:21:40.749 --> 00:21:45.887
  • And then this guy lights up with the whole heavenly host.
  • 00:21:45.887 --> 00:21:50.959
  • And the shepherds, they're aware of what's happened in verse 15:
  • 00:21:50.959 --> 00:21:54.496
  • "said, 'let's go to bethlehem and see this thing that the lord
  • 00:21:54.496 --> 00:21:56.565
  • Has told us about.'"
  • 00:21:56.565 --> 00:22:02.037
  • He told us.
  • 00:22:02.037 --> 00:22:04.840
  • This is very much a breakthrough for this very specific group.
  • 00:22:04.840 --> 00:22:13.648
  • "a savior's been born to you."
  • 00:22:13.648 --> 00:22:19.955
  • Now, you can read past it, thinking, "i don't know."
  • 00:22:19.955 --> 00:22:23.992
  • But i don't think i'm overstating it.
  • 00:22:23.992 --> 00:22:26.094
  • In that particular culture at that point in time, shepherds
  • 00:22:26.094 --> 00:22:29.331
  • Were the lowest rung on the social ladder.
  • 00:22:29.331 --> 00:22:33.635
  • They really weren't given full status in a courtroom or
  • 00:22:33.635 --> 00:22:37.639
  • Anyplace else.
  • 00:22:37.639 --> 00:22:40.375
  • So it makes me smile a bit.
  • 00:22:40.375 --> 00:22:42.377
  • This group of people have been excluded.
  • 00:22:42.377 --> 00:22:45.847
  • They've been treated as irrelevant.
  • 00:22:45.847 --> 00:22:49.317
  • They're for the most part uninvited to anything.
  • 00:22:49.317 --> 00:22:54.189
  • If they're invited, it's to something the shepherds
  • 00:22:54.189 --> 00:22:56.024
  • Are doing.
  • 00:22:56.024 --> 00:22:57.359
  • Nobody else wants them.
  • 00:22:57.359 --> 00:22:59.194
  • What's the word for that?
  • 00:22:59.194 --> 00:23:00.562
  • If i said to you, "somebody was excluded and treated as
  • 00:23:00.562 --> 00:23:03.331
  • Irrelevant and they were never invited," what's the word you
  • 00:23:03.331 --> 00:23:06.134
  • Would use to summarize that?
  • 00:23:06.134 --> 00:23:08.870
  • Rejection.
  • 00:23:08.870 --> 00:23:11.072
  • They're for the most part a rejected group of people.
  • 00:23:11.072 --> 00:23:16.344
  • We don't want you.
  • 00:23:16.344 --> 00:23:17.712
  • I mean, we need you to do something, but we don't wanna
  • 00:23:17.712 --> 00:23:20.882
  • Hear you.
  • 00:23:20.882 --> 00:23:22.250
  • We'd rather not see you.
  • 00:23:22.250 --> 00:23:24.453
  • And all of a sudden, while they're completing their
  • 00:23:24.453 --> 00:23:27.255
  • Assignment, they have an angelic visit that appears to them.
  • 00:23:27.255 --> 00:23:34.596
  • "and the glory of the lord shone around them.
  • 00:23:34.596 --> 00:23:40.035
  • And the angel said to them, 'i bring you good news.
  • 00:23:40.035 --> 00:23:46.274
  • Today in the town of david a savior has been born to you.'"
  • 00:23:46.274 --> 00:23:52.881
  • Now all of a sudden, the shepherds, they're
  • 00:23:52.881 --> 00:23:54.816
  • Not peripheral.
  • 00:23:54.816 --> 00:23:57.752
  • They're not on the outside of anything.
  • 00:23:57.752 --> 00:24:01.490
  • They're not wishing they were in herod's palace.
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  • They're not wishing they knew the wise men.
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  • They've got the heavenly host bringing them a personal
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  • Invitation to attend the arrival of the king.
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  • I would call that a breakthrough.
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  • I don't think they're ever gonna be the same again.
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  • They've been accepted by god.
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  • God welcomed them to the party.
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  • In fact, he gave them an assignment, did you catch it?
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  • Said, "the shepherds returned glorifying and praising god for
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  • All the things they had heard and seen."
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  • They're gonna spread the word.
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  • They're gonna return, giving glory to god, praising god.
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  • They're not the same as they were when the sun set.
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  • It's a whole new world they're living in.
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  • Are we--can we call that a breakthrough?
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  • I mean, if god intervened in such a way that he said, "i have
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  • A role for you, a place for you, an assignment for you.
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  • I see you, hear me.
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  • I have a revelation i want you to have," wow.
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  • Well, one of the things i want to do as we walk through some of
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  • These breakthrough scenarios is try to glean a little insight
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  • From each one.
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  • So for the moment i'm labeling my breakthrough, hacks.
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  • Because i want to lead a life that's filled with those kind
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  • Of breakthroughs.
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  • I want my life and my journey to reflect the intervention of god.
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  • I don't wanna do this with just my iq or my physical strength or
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  • My effort.
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  • And i, honestly, i wanna do it in the midst of other people who
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  • Are experiencing those breakthroughs.
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  • Because that's the real multiplier.
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  • Mary saying yes gave joseph an opportunity, and joseph saying
  • 00:25:48.496 --> 00:25:51.766
  • Yes gave an opportunity to untold others in the
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  • Shepherd's revelation.
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  • And so the story unfolds.
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  • Allen: you know, i've often said allen jackson ministries
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  • Was created to strengthen the church,
  • 00:26:08.216 --> 00:26:10.418
  • Not a local congregation, not to build buildings,
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  • But to strengthen god's people across our nation
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  • And around the earth.
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  • It's amazing how god has been faithful in opening new doors
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  • Each year as we have walked together through this journey.
  • 00:26:19.628 --> 00:26:22.330
  • We're broadcasting in radio and television.
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  • We're doing publishing, creating small-group curriculum that's
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  • Used in all 50 states and more than a dozen nations.
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  • Now god's opening doors internationally in new ways.
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  • Pastors in israel have asked us to partner with them
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  • In the new year.
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  • Pastors in ukraine-- that war-torn country--
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  • Are asking for help.
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  • We've been given opportunity to broadcast
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  • Across the continent of africa.
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  • We're gonna strengthen the church globally
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  • And not just in america.
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  • I wanna ask you to pray with me.
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  • I wanna ask you to consider making a generous investment
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  • In allen jackson ministries.
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  • I don't believe there's ever been a greater time when the
  • 00:26:52.093 --> 00:26:54.362
  • Need for the church to be strong and have a voice than right now.
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  • Let's pray. father, give us your wisdom.
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  • Give us your heart on how to make an investment.
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  • May our effort be pleasing to you.
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  • May you bring a fruitfulness.
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  • In jesus's name, amen. god bless you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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