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Allen Jackson - When God Chooses You (Part 2)

December 10, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - When God Chooses You (Part 2)
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 2) | December 10, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen jackson: you know, allen jackson ministries was launched
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  • To strengthen the church.
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  • I've 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 and the vision that
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  • God has put in our heart.
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  • It's a living thing.
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  • We began with broadcasting messages with radio
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  • And television.
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  • We added publishing with print and books.
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  • We've added small group curriculum which now spreads
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  • 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, doing leaders and pastors
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  • Conferences, and now we have on-the-ground
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  • 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, that
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  • War-torn country, to stand with the church there.
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  • Thank you for your partnership.
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  • It's changing what we're doing around the world.
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  • A very generous partner of the ministry has agreed to match
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  • Your gift this week, so every dollar counts twice.
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  • Thank you for making an investment in allen
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  • Jackson ministries.
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  • Together around the earth we're strengthening the church.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: here's the suggestion.
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  • Don't reject the breakthrough moment because you're not the
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  • Center of it.
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  • It's a temptation.
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  • "but wait a minute, i wanted a break.
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  • I knew how i wanted this to happen.
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  • But i don't want somebody else to get blessed.
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  • I wanted to be blessed."
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  • I know we'd never say that in church, but we would think it
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  • In church.
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  • Don't reject the breakthrough moment because you're not
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  • The center.
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  • God in his infinite wisdom and ability gave the gift to the
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  • Shepherds while he was giving a gift to all humanity.
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  • We all got a gift in that stable.
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  • I walked to bethlehem on christmas eve, because the gift
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  • God gave us in bethlehem was significant enough.
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  • I was 2000 years late, but i thought it was worth the walk.
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  • And in the midst of what god was doing, he invited the shepherds.
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  • You see, god's breakthroughs in your life, in my life, may
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  • Simply be a component of a much larger story, but it is
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  • Nonetheless a breakthrough for us.
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  • God himself brought us a message, extended to us
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  • An invitation.
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  • The second observation i would give you is god didn't really
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  • Change the system.
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  • There was not a declaration the next morning that shepherds will
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  • Be treated differently.
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  • He changed them.
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  • They were still shepherds the next morning.
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  • They still had a herd of sheep to take care of, a flock
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  • Of sheep.
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  • Many considered them peripheral, but while they had their
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  • Morning coffee, they knew god had sent them a savior.
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  • The only people who thought of them peripherally the next
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  • Morning were the uninformed and the ignorant.
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  • They'd had a breakthrough.
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  • They had had a breakthrough.
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  • You see, i think one of the points of frustration, one of
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  • The points that has caused us to be less active than we might
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  • Have been is we want god to give somebody else a breakthrough.
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  • Change them, make them different.
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  • Change the system.
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  • Now there are times god will do that.
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  • It was a problem for the disciples all the way up to and
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  • After the resurrection in acts chapter 1.
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  • If you don't remember the chronology,
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  • The disciples had 40 days with jesus after
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  • The resurrection.
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  • How many of you think you would listen more carefully to someone
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  • Who you had witnessed die on a cross and be raised to
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  • Life again?
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  • How many think you'd take more notes?
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  • They had a 40-day seminar on the kingdom of god, and the one
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  • Question they put to jesus in acts chapter 1 is, "are you
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  • Gonna restore the kingdom to israel?"
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  • Are you gonna throw the romans out?
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  • Yeah, yeah, yeah, i know, we got this pathway to salvation.
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  • We got good news of the gospel for the whole world.
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  • We're gonna go preach.
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  • Yeah, i got it.
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  • We can do anything in your name, but are you gonna
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  • Throw the romans out?
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  • Jesus didn't change the system.
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  • He gave them a power to overcome it.
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  • He gave them the power to overcome it.
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  • The third observation i could give you about the shepherds is
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  • Breakthroughs bring invitations to god's purposes.
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  • You see, so often i think we're a little guilty.
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  • We want deliverance from the pain or the discomfort or the
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  • Obstacle or the hurdle, but we're really not that interested
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  • In god's purposes.
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  • I mean we're saved.
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  • We've been dunked in the tank and we feel like we got our
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  • Credentials, we got our ticket punched and you know, i don't
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  • Wanna be a zealot or a fanatic.
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  • I don't wanna be, i don't wanna go too far with this stuff.
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  • Well, we may not just say that exactly out loud, but it--if
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  • You looked at our calendars and how we spend our time and our
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  • Resources, what we're striving for, what we're dreaming about,
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  • It's the message that we're shouting.
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  • And when god intervenes when there's a breakthrough, it is
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  • Typically an invitation more fully into the purposes of god.
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  • I assure you the shepherds were not the same after that day.
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  • How many of you believe there were shepherds in the crowds
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  • Listening to jesus when he began his ministry?
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  • I mean, it's 30 years later.
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  • How many think those shepherds would have told their kids about
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  • That night, until they got tired of hearing the story?
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  • How many think that they would have paid attention to what
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  • Happened to that child?
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  • How many think they would have held on to mary and joseph and
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  • The story that emerges?
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  • I don't think it's a stretch of the imagination at all to
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  • Imagine that when jesus delivered the sermon on the
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  • Mount, on the mount of beatitudes, there were shepherds
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  • In that crowd.
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  • When they followed him 3 days into the hills and he taught and
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  • The people were hungry and jesus said, "send the people away" and
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  • They feed a multitude with a little boy's lunch, there were
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  • Shepherds eating bread and fish that day.
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  • You see, i believe breakthroughs are invitations into
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  • God's purposes.
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  • Jesus used shepherds in his parables, in some very
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  • Influential ways.
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  • The lost sheep, and the shepherd that goes to find them.
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  • He's identified as a good shepherd.
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  • And there's a fourth perspective on breakthroughs i would give
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  • You there that breakthroughs bring new awareness to our own
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  • Life assignments.
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  • Those shepherds met the lamb of god.
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  • You know, their job was to raise the sheep that were gonna be
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  • Used in the temple for the sacrificial system.
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  • There's no reason you should know, but you can--you can take
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  • Those flocks of sheep and drive them from the valley in
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  • Bethlehem right to the kidron valley through the sheep gate
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  • Into the city of jerusalem, to the pool of bethesda where
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  • They'd be washed and prepared so they could be sold on the
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  • Temple mount.
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  • Now it was a--it was a very ungodly profit scheme.
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  • They're gonna be sold at exorbitant prices and the
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  • People manipulated.
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  • It's why jesus took a whip and overturned the tables of the
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  • Money changers.
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  • It wasn't because they were selling something in the temple;
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  • They were ripping off the people.
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  • And yes, the shepherds are a part of that system and they're
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  • Being abused in the midst of it all.
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  • They're certainly not profiting from it in any
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  • Extraordinary way.
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  • But after that breakthrough night, when the angel said,
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  • "there's a savior born to you, we want you to go see him.
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  • We want you to have a front row seat.
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  • Go look through the window of the nursery.
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  • Go talk to mary and joseph," i would submit to you that caring
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  • For those passover lambs has a whole new meaning.
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  • They're not just doing grunt work anymore.
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  • It's not just busy work anymore.
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  • Allen: allen jackson ministries exists to strengthen the church,
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  • To strengthen the people of god across our nation.
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  • Thank you for your partnership with us.
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  • These last few years we have touched literally millions of
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  • People across our nation and around the world.
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  • As we look to the new year, i don't believe there's ever been
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  • A more important time for the church to have a voice.
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  • I want to ask you to prayerfully consider making a generous
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  • Investment in allen jackson ministries, partner with us in
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  • Strengthening the church in our nation and around the earth.
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  • God is moving.
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  • We want to move with him.
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  • Female announcer: god continues to open doors for allen jackson
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  • Allen: i brought you a proclamation.
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  • You don't have to stand for it, but let's read it together.
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  • "praise be to the god and father of our lord jesus christ, who's
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  • Blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual
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  • Blessing in christ.
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  • For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be
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  • Holy and blameless in his sight.
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  • In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through
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  • Jesus christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will--to the
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  • Praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in
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  • The one he loves."
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  • Did you hear it?
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  • It's an invitation almost as unique as the one given to
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  • The shepherds.
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  • He's blessed us and you can put your own--you can make
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  • It singular.
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  • "he's blessed me or he's blessed you, in the heavenly realms with
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  • Every spiritual blessing in christ.
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  • For he chose you or me.
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  • He chose us in him before the creation of the world.
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  • And he chose you to be holy and blameless."
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  • Woo, well, i'm not either of those, but in christ i can be.
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  • "in his love he predestined us."
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  • He looked across the span of time and said, "i choose you to
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  • Be adopted as his sons through jesus christ."
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  • We had no way into the kingdom other than through jesus.
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  • He said, "i'm the door.
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  • No man comes to the father except by me," and god
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  • Predestined you to walk through that door.
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  • It was--it brought him pleasure.
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  • It was an expression of his will.
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  • And when paul wraps all that up, he said, "you are
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  • Highly favored."
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  • When the angel said that to mary, her life plan got put in
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  • The shredder.
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  • Her wedding announcements mocked her.
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  • Her imagination of her new life went away.
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  • It's not gonna be that anymore.
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  • Are you ready for the favor of god to bring some disruption
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  • To you?
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  • Or do you want other people to have disrupted lives and you
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  • Just get the benefit?
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  • I'm gonna start this, we'll pick it up in another session.
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  • I believe god delivered the shepherds from generations of
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  • Rejection in those fields outside bethlehem that night.
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  • And i can tell you this rejection is an epidemic in
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  • Our culture.
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  • It's overwhelming.
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  • And i believe god, if we'll cooperate with him, would bring
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  • A deliverance to us that's just as dramatic and just as great
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  • And just--will just as much rewrite our future as what he
  • 00:12:29.231 --> 00:12:32.067
  • Did for the shepherds.
  • 00:12:32.067 --> 00:12:34.770
  • Because that same king, we're celebrating his birth right now.
  • 00:12:34.770 --> 00:12:40.075
  • And we may not have to go to the stable in bethlehem to see him,
  • 00:12:40.075 --> 00:12:42.745
  • But we can have a revelation of jesus that will deliver us from
  • 00:12:42.745 --> 00:12:47.750
  • That rejection.
  • 00:12:47.750 --> 00:12:50.052
  • The shepherds knew they were outcasts.
  • 00:12:50.052 --> 00:12:51.887
  • They knew they were on the outside looking in.
  • 00:12:51.887 --> 00:12:54.990
  • They understood they were considered second class on their
  • 00:12:54.990 --> 00:12:57.993
  • Best days, that they probably were never gonna be welcome.
  • 00:12:57.993 --> 00:13:02.131
  • They weren't gonna be considered equal.
  • 00:13:02.131 --> 00:13:04.266
  • The people that they wanted to embrace them we're not going to.
  • 00:13:04.266 --> 00:13:08.904
  • All of those attitudes are very, very prevalent around us.
  • 00:13:08.904 --> 00:13:13.442
  • Well, in polite company, we don't talk about it.
  • 00:13:13.442 --> 00:13:18.581
  • It's not helpful, but it's a reality in our lives.
  • 00:13:18.581 --> 00:13:22.985
  • The outward expressions of that look a lot like shame
  • 00:13:22.985 --> 00:13:25.354
  • And humiliation.
  • 00:13:25.354 --> 00:13:28.157
  • Things that we carry internally.
  • 00:13:28.157 --> 00:13:30.426
  • Folks, this isn't something new with us.
  • 00:13:30.426 --> 00:13:31.894
  • It says that jesus in hebrews, in order to overcome the cross,
  • 00:13:31.894 --> 00:13:36.365
  • He had to despise the shame.
  • 00:13:36.365 --> 00:13:37.733
  • He had to walk past it, he had to overcome it.
  • 00:13:37.733 --> 00:13:42.004
  • To be condemned to death as a common criminal by the romans,
  • 00:13:42.004 --> 00:13:46.175
  • By a roman governor, to be stripped naked, beaten almost to
  • 00:13:46.175 --> 00:13:51.447
  • Death, forced to carry your cross through the streets of the
  • 00:13:51.447 --> 00:13:54.817
  • Jerusalem for which you will be king, and be nailed to that
  • 00:13:54.817 --> 00:14:00.656
  • Cross on a major thoroughfare outside the gates of that city
  • 00:14:00.656 --> 00:14:03.826
  • So your adversaries can mock you.
  • 00:14:03.826 --> 00:14:06.695
  • I think we could call that a bad day.
  • 00:14:06.695 --> 00:14:11.100
  • A lot of shame, but it didn't define jesus's future.
  • 00:14:11.100 --> 00:14:17.606
  • It's a humiliating day.
  • 00:14:17.606 --> 00:14:18.941
  • In fact, his enemies said, "if you're the son of god, you come
  • 00:14:18.941 --> 00:14:22.177
  • Down from there."
  • 00:14:22.177 --> 00:14:24.880
  • They mocked him.
  • 00:14:24.880 --> 00:14:26.215
  • They said, "he healed others, but he can't help himself."
  • 00:14:26.215 --> 00:14:30.986
  • Humiliating.
  • 00:14:30.986 --> 00:14:33.989
  • The inward result of that apart from the spirit of god, apart
  • 00:14:33.989 --> 00:14:37.026
  • From god's help, is a broken spirit.
  • 00:14:37.026 --> 00:14:40.396
  • It's a very biblical concept.
  • 00:14:40.396 --> 00:14:42.197
  • Time restrains me a bit, but proverbs 18:14 says: "a man's
  • 00:14:42.197 --> 00:14:46.735
  • Spirit sustains him in sickness, but a crushed spirit who
  • 00:14:46.735 --> 00:14:49.305
  • Can bear?"
  • 00:14:49.305 --> 00:14:52.775
  • Life tends to orchestrate circumstances, sometimes things
  • 00:14:52.775 --> 00:14:55.277
  • That we have no control over whatsoever.
  • 00:14:55.277 --> 00:14:59.748
  • Oftentimes when we're too young to have the emotional or the
  • 00:14:59.748 --> 00:15:02.351
  • Physical maturity to even understand how to
  • 00:15:02.351 --> 00:15:04.720
  • Protect ourselves.
  • 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:08.357
  • Maybe our parents divorced.
  • 00:15:08.357 --> 00:15:11.560
  • And no matter what the causative agents of that are, no matter
  • 00:15:11.560 --> 00:15:13.996
  • What the outcomes and the repercussions, if you endure
  • 00:15:13.996 --> 00:15:16.966
  • That, there's a sense that somehow i'm not accepted in that
  • 00:15:16.966 --> 00:15:19.969
  • Home in the way i would like to be.
  • 00:15:19.969 --> 00:15:21.403
  • Say, "well, that's not the right way to read that."
  • 00:15:21.403 --> 00:15:24.807
  • Well, that may not be the right way to read that, but that's the
  • 00:15:24.807 --> 00:15:26.775
  • Reality for people that walk through it.
  • 00:15:26.775 --> 00:15:28.444
  • Or maybe you survived the divorce.
  • 00:15:32.014 --> 00:15:36.352
  • No matter how you package it, no matter how you understand it, it
  • 00:15:36.352 --> 00:15:39.655
  • Wasn't the original plan, it wasn't the goal, the objective,
  • 00:15:39.655 --> 00:15:42.424
  • The desire, it wasn't the target on the wall.
  • 00:15:42.424 --> 00:15:44.693
  • I hope we can get married and live together for 3 years and
  • 00:15:44.693 --> 00:15:46.795
  • Then tear this thing asunder.
  • 00:15:46.795 --> 00:15:48.330
  • That feels a great deal like rejection.
  • 00:15:52.201 --> 00:15:56.205
  • Proverbs 15:13 says: "a happy heart makes a face cheerful, but
  • 00:15:56.205 --> 00:15:59.608
  • A heartache crushes the spirit."
  • 00:15:59.608 --> 00:16:04.146
  • I gave you some really simple biblical principles.
  • 00:16:08.217 --> 00:16:12.688
  • I'll touch them, we'll come back and look at them in more detail,
  • 00:16:12.688 --> 00:16:14.890
  • But let me give them to you.
  • 00:16:14.890 --> 00:16:18.293
  • You see, there's a pathway out from under this to know that you
  • 00:16:18.293 --> 00:16:21.830
  • Are precious, accepted, and valuable in the sight of god.
  • 00:16:21.830 --> 00:16:28.771
  • Life brings rejection.
  • 00:16:28.771 --> 00:16:30.572
  • Nobody gets through without it, nobody.
  • 00:16:30.572 --> 00:16:35.611
  • One of the great lies the devil will tell you is that yours is
  • 00:16:35.611 --> 00:16:38.147
  • Worse than somebody else's.
  • 00:16:38.147 --> 00:16:42.117
  • Your iq was such that you weren't the top of your class.
  • 00:16:42.117 --> 00:16:48.223
  • And it doesn't take too long to figure that out.
  • 00:16:48.223 --> 00:16:51.960
  • Or your physical gifts and athletic abilities, maybe that
  • 00:16:51.960 --> 00:16:56.498
  • Wasn't your great strength and you weren't gonna be the first
  • 00:16:56.498 --> 00:16:58.667
  • One selected for the team.
  • 00:16:58.667 --> 00:17:01.336
  • Nobody wanted you to travel, except home.
  • 00:17:01.336 --> 00:17:04.339
  • Or maybe god gave you the ability to see the world in a
  • 00:17:07.576 --> 00:17:10.279
  • More creative way, but it left you on the outside more
  • 00:17:10.279 --> 00:17:13.382
  • Frequently than you wanted it to be.
  • 00:17:13.382 --> 00:17:15.484
  • The reasons are as diverse as we are people.
  • 00:17:15.484 --> 00:17:18.454
  • The outcome is we feel that rejection.
  • 00:17:18.454 --> 00:17:21.657
  • Here's the challenge.
  • 00:17:21.657 --> 00:17:23.492
  • Because evil exists and evil by definition isn't fair, when
  • 00:17:23.492 --> 00:17:27.596
  • You're exposed to those kind of wounds, evil will take advantage
  • 00:17:27.596 --> 00:17:31.333
  • Of it.
  • 00:17:31.333 --> 00:17:34.703
  • And you can have not just your own personal wound, not only the
  • 00:17:34.703 --> 00:17:37.706
  • Suffering that comes from that and the trauma that comes from
  • 00:17:37.706 --> 00:17:39.975
  • It, you can get an unhealthy spirit that will take advantage
  • 00:17:39.975 --> 00:17:44.480
  • Of that and torment you with the rejection.
  • 00:17:44.480 --> 00:17:47.216
  • The good news is we can be free.
  • 00:17:50.886 --> 00:17:54.590
  • Those shepherds did not go to 8 weeks of classes.
  • 00:17:54.590 --> 00:17:56.992
  • Come on.
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  • The next morning they didn't get invited to herod's palace.
  • 00:18:01.997 --> 00:18:05.934
  • There's no record that the wise men stopped by the shepherd's
  • 00:18:05.934 --> 00:18:08.137
  • Field with some extra gifts for them.
  • 00:18:08.137 --> 00:18:11.073
  • They woke up the next day, they were shepherds.
  • 00:18:11.073 --> 00:18:14.276
  • But they had a savior.
  • 00:18:14.276 --> 00:18:17.146
  • And the angels, the heavenly host that celebrated the birth
  • 00:18:21.350 --> 00:18:24.453
  • Of jesus, said, "we want to include you in the celebration.
  • 00:18:24.453 --> 00:18:28.190
  • In fact, we've decided you're going to be our messengers
  • 00:18:28.190 --> 00:18:31.760
  • For this.
  • 00:18:31.760 --> 00:18:33.795
  • Go tell everybody."
  • 00:18:33.795 --> 00:18:36.698
  • So if you would like to be free, there's some things we'll have
  • 00:18:40.903 --> 00:18:44.673
  • To do.
  • 00:18:44.673 --> 00:18:46.008
  • We have to forgive.
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  • You'll have to forgive.
  • 00:18:48.410 --> 00:18:50.612
  • You may have to forgive your parents.
  • 00:18:50.612 --> 00:18:53.315
  • They may be gone but you can still forgive them.
  • 00:18:53.315 --> 00:18:55.517
  • You can hate people that are dead.
  • 00:18:55.517 --> 00:18:56.852
  • Did you know that?
  • 00:18:56.852 --> 00:18:58.687
  • You can resent people you don't talk to.
  • 00:18:58.687 --> 00:19:00.956
  • You can be filled with bitterness to people you'll have
  • 00:19:00.956 --> 00:19:02.691
  • Nothing to do with.
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  • We have to forgive.
  • 00:19:04.793 --> 00:19:06.161
  • We're not saying that what happened was right or justified
  • 00:19:06.161 --> 00:19:08.063
  • Or excusable or they did their best.
  • 00:19:08.063 --> 00:19:10.966
  • Oftentimes people don't do their best and we suffer because
  • 00:19:10.966 --> 00:19:13.535
  • Of that.
  • 00:19:13.535 --> 00:19:14.870
  • Forgiveness is not a validation of their behavior.
  • 00:19:14.870 --> 00:19:16.905
  • Forgiveness is canceling the debt.
  • 00:19:16.905 --> 00:19:18.473
  • You don't owe me anything.
  • 00:19:18.473 --> 00:19:19.841
  • I set you free because i want to be free.
  • 00:19:19.841 --> 00:19:24.079
  • Forgiveness begins as a decision of your will.
  • 00:19:24.079 --> 00:19:27.916
  • And if you're conscious of a wound like that, then you may
  • 00:19:27.916 --> 00:19:30.686
  • Think this is silly.
  • 00:19:30.686 --> 00:19:33.288
  • This is silly.
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  • It's not silly, it's real.
  • 00:19:34.923 --> 00:19:36.291
  • I've sat with hundreds and hundreds of people.
  • 00:19:36.291 --> 00:19:39.394
  • Maybe your parents were in a difficult circumstance and they
  • 00:19:39.394 --> 00:19:41.763
  • Gave you up for adoption and you had wonderful parents.
  • 00:19:41.763 --> 00:19:45.267
  • Gave you every expression of love and kindness and support
  • 00:19:45.267 --> 00:19:47.569
  • And affirmation, there's still a rejection that comes.
  • 00:19:47.569 --> 00:19:50.639
  • Just as an expression of faith, say, "i forgive.
  • 00:19:53.842 --> 00:19:57.646
  • I forgive."
  • 00:19:57.646 --> 00:20:01.116
  • Mark 11 says: "when you stand praying, if you hold anything
  • 00:20:01.116 --> 00:20:04.686
  • Against anyone, forgive them."
  • 00:20:04.686 --> 00:20:06.021
  • You can do it while you're standing there.
  • 00:20:06.021 --> 00:20:07.356
  • You don't have to have a 6-week seminar, you don't have
  • 00:20:07.356 --> 00:20:08.957
  • To fast and pray for 3 months.
  • 00:20:08.957 --> 00:20:10.559
  • It's a decision.
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  • Your emotions will catch up.
  • 00:20:11.893 --> 00:20:13.262
  • Secondly, you got to lay down the baggage of rejection, the
  • 00:20:13.262 --> 00:20:15.197
  • Bitterness, the hatred, the anger, the resentment, the
  • 00:20:15.197 --> 00:20:17.165
  • Rebellion, all the things that come with that.
  • 00:20:17.165 --> 00:20:20.636
  • You know, it's illogical.
  • 00:20:20.636 --> 00:20:22.004
  • It doesn't make sense.
  • 00:20:22.004 --> 00:20:23.338
  • If you have a parent and they die when a child is young or
  • 00:20:23.338 --> 00:20:26.675
  • Before you're prepared to say goodbye to them, it feels
  • 00:20:26.675 --> 00:20:28.810
  • Like rejection.
  • 00:20:28.810 --> 00:20:30.212
  • You go, "that's not logical."
  • 00:20:30.212 --> 00:20:31.546
  • I didn't say it was logical.
  • 00:20:31.546 --> 00:20:32.914
  • I'm telling you it reads that way.
  • 00:20:32.914 --> 00:20:34.283
  • And we often respond with rebellion.
  • 00:20:37.786 --> 00:20:39.955
  • We may be mad at god.
  • 00:20:43.492 --> 00:20:44.826
  • Why did he do that?
  • 00:20:44.826 --> 00:20:46.194
  • Why didn't he do something else?
  • 00:20:46.194 --> 00:20:47.529
  • You'll have to be willing to lay down that baggage.
  • 00:20:47.529 --> 00:20:50.399
  • Some of us are defined by our anger.
  • 00:20:50.399 --> 00:20:53.535
  • You're defined by your rebellion.
  • 00:20:53.535 --> 00:20:56.138
  • "i won't give in.
  • 00:20:56.138 --> 00:20:58.840
  • I will not."
  • 00:20:58.840 --> 00:21:00.175
  • You'll have to, if you want to be free.
  • 00:21:00.175 --> 00:21:03.278
  • Some of us said, "i'll never be hurt again.
  • 00:21:07.015 --> 00:21:08.583
  • I will not allow it."
  • 00:21:08.583 --> 00:21:09.951
  • Folks, we live in a broken world.
  • 00:21:09.951 --> 00:21:13.455
  • The third is to understand you're accepted in christ.
  • 00:21:17.059 --> 00:21:20.729
  • Now this is an act of faith.
  • 00:21:20.729 --> 00:21:22.698
  • The shepherds had to believe what they'd seen was real.
  • 00:21:22.698 --> 00:21:25.500
  • They'd never seen us.* they'd never had an angel show up and
  • 00:21:25.500 --> 00:21:29.071
  • Talk to them before.
  • 00:21:29.071 --> 00:21:31.740
  • Ephesians 1 says: "to the praise of the glory of his grace, he's
  • 00:21:31.740 --> 00:21:34.576
  • Made us accepted in the beloved."
  • 00:21:34.576 --> 00:21:37.846
  • See, here's the deal.
  • 00:21:37.846 --> 00:21:39.214
  • We read it in that earlier passage in ephesians.
  • 00:21:39.214 --> 00:21:40.949
  • If god chose me, i'll get over it if you don't.
  • 00:21:40.949 --> 00:21:44.886
  • If god said i'm fearfully and wonderfully made and you call me
  • 00:21:49.091 --> 00:21:51.693
  • Ugly, you have a problem.
  • 00:21:51.693 --> 00:21:56.898
  • I choose to believe that.
  • 00:22:00.502 --> 00:22:03.772
  • It's his affirmation i want.
  • 00:22:03.772 --> 00:22:06.708
  • Everybody isn't gonna like us.
  • 00:22:06.708 --> 00:22:09.611
  • If god says i'm highly favored, y'all are missing out.
  • 00:22:09.611 --> 00:22:14.783
  • I choose to believe that.
  • 00:22:14.783 --> 00:22:17.753
  • Number four, you have to accept yourself.
  • 00:22:17.753 --> 00:22:20.956
  • Ephesians 2 says: "you're god's workmanship, created in christ
  • 00:22:20.956 --> 00:22:25.093
  • Jesus to do good things."
  • 00:22:25.093 --> 00:22:27.696
  • God made me.
  • 00:22:27.696 --> 00:22:29.731
  • Now, i thought he should have made me 6'4 with a lot of lean
  • 00:22:29.731 --> 00:22:32.367
  • Muscle mass.
  • 00:22:32.367 --> 00:22:34.903
  • He made me slightly shorter and a little fluffier.
  • 00:22:34.903 --> 00:22:37.839
  • And the last one there is you find your place in the body
  • 00:22:42.043 --> 00:22:44.146
  • Of christ.
  • 00:22:44.146 --> 00:22:46.415
  • And i don't mean the place you want.
  • 00:22:46.415 --> 00:22:49.651
  • Folks, we get messed up on this.
  • 00:22:49.651 --> 00:22:50.986
  • We take our gifts test and we think, "well, you know,
  • 00:22:50.986 --> 00:22:52.454
  • I'm qualified," well, stop.
  • 00:22:52.454 --> 00:22:55.457
  • I want to be included in the people of god.
  • 00:22:55.457 --> 00:22:59.161
  • I will not stand outside of them.
  • 00:22:59.161 --> 00:23:02.564
  • As uncomfortable and as messy as it is, i'm gonna make the
  • 00:23:02.564 --> 00:23:05.801
  • Journey with them.
  • 00:23:05.801 --> 00:23:08.403
  • I want to be counted with them.
  • 00:23:08.403 --> 00:23:12.240
  • For good or for ill, i intend to be identified as a part of the
  • 00:23:12.240 --> 00:23:16.511
  • People of god.
  • 00:23:16.511 --> 00:23:18.613
  • It's important to me so i will present.
  • 00:23:18.613 --> 00:23:20.382
  • I will show up at church.
  • 00:23:20.382 --> 00:23:21.716
  • I didn't like church.
  • 00:23:21.716 --> 00:23:23.351
  • My spiritual formation didn't take place in church.
  • 00:23:23.351 --> 00:23:26.254
  • My spiritual breakthroughs, the initial ones as a young person,
  • 00:23:26.254 --> 00:23:28.723
  • Didn't happen in church.
  • 00:23:28.723 --> 00:23:30.725
  • Like, the churches i was affiliated with resisted it,
  • 00:23:30.725 --> 00:23:33.762
  • Discouraged it.
  • 00:23:33.762 --> 00:23:35.130
  • I'm not saying they all do that, but that was my experiences and
  • 00:23:35.130 --> 00:23:37.999
  • When i imagined the--when i understood the lord was inviting
  • 00:23:37.999 --> 00:23:40.368
  • Me to serve in a church, i thought, "you gotta be
  • 00:23:40.368 --> 00:23:42.037
  • Kidding me.
  • 00:23:42.037 --> 00:23:44.105
  • They didn't want me and i feel the same way."
  • 00:23:44.105 --> 00:23:48.610
  • When i understood jesus to say he was building a church and
  • 00:23:48.610 --> 00:23:52.881
  • Hell wouldn't stop it.
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  • The greatest privilege of my life: i'll mow the grass, clean
  • 00:23:54.783 --> 00:23:57.319
  • The bathroom.
  • 00:23:57.319 --> 00:23:59.254
  • You show me how to help.
  • 00:23:59.254 --> 00:24:02.791
  • I don't intend to stand still, be inert, celebrate
  • 00:24:02.791 --> 00:24:07.128
  • Past victories.
  • 00:24:07.128 --> 00:24:09.197
  • I intend to be caught serving my king.
  • 00:24:09.197 --> 00:24:14.302
  • [congregation applauding]
  • 00:24:14.302 --> 00:24:20.375
  • Doesn't eliminate you from the realm of rejection.
  • 00:24:20.375 --> 00:24:24.813
  • It eliminates the power of rejection to define your future.
  • 00:24:24.813 --> 00:24:30.285
  • You'll face rejection.
  • 00:24:30.285 --> 00:24:31.620
  • There will be people who won't like you, they won't agree with
  • 00:24:31.620 --> 00:24:33.455
  • What you say, they won't like what you think, whatever.
  • 00:24:33.455 --> 00:24:37.993
  • The list is long.
  • 00:24:37.993 --> 00:24:40.061
  • The pain is not removed or the opportunity, but there is a
  • 00:24:40.061 --> 00:24:44.366
  • Pathway to overcome rejection.
  • 00:24:44.366 --> 00:24:46.568
  • You don't have to spend your life on the outside.
  • 00:24:46.568 --> 00:24:49.938
  • You are incredibly valuable to god.
  • 00:24:49.938 --> 00:24:54.209
  • You have a savior.
  • 00:24:54.209 --> 00:24:57.746
  • You are highly favored.
  • 00:24:57.746 --> 00:25:00.682
  • You have been included in the court of the king.
  • 00:25:00.682 --> 00:25:06.021
  • You have been invited.
  • 00:25:06.021 --> 00:25:13.228
  • I brought you one more prayer.
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  • We can stand with this and we'll work on this some
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  • More in another setting.
  • 00:25:19.834 --> 00:25:21.436
  • Breakthrough day for shepherds.
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  • It's the last prayer in your outlines.
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  • Let's read it together.
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  • "god, i thank you that you love me.
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  • That you gave jesus, your son to die on my behalf.
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  • That he bore my sins, that he took my rejection, that he took
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  • My penalty.
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  • Because i come to you through him.
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  • I am not unwanted.
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  • I am not excluded.
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  • I belong to the family of god.
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  • I belong to the best family in the universe.
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  • Heaven is my home.
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  • Thank you!
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  • Amen."
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  • Lord bless you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: you know, i've often said allen jackson ministries
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  • Was created to strengthen the church, not a local
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  • Congregation, not to build buildings, but to strengthen
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  • God's people across our nation 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.
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  • 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 in the
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  • 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 an opportunity to broadcast across the
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  • Continent of africa.
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  • We're gonna strengthen the church globally and not just
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  • 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 in
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  • Allen jackson ministries.
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  • I don't believe there's ever been a greater time when the
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  • Need for the church to be strong and have a voice than right now.
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  • Let's pray.
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  • 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 in jesus name, amen.
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  • God bless you.
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