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Allen Jackson - When God Intervenes (Part 1)

April 30, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - When God Intervenes (Part 1)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - When God Intervenes (Part 1) | April 30, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: hey, would you like to make an impact for the
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  • Kingdom of god in this generation?
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  • I have an idea and, oh, by the way, it's biblical.
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  • Let's practice hospitality.
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  • I know it doesn't sound very complicated, but imagine your
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  • Kitchen table as an expression of the hope and the love of god.
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  • We've all got the ability to do this.
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  • You don't have to be martha stewart.
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  • You don't have to be a gourmet chef.
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  • Let's just invite--open our home, invite people to our
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  • Kitchen table, and then watch what god will do as we live out
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  • The assignment of being ambassadors for his kingdom.
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  • God's moving in the earth. let's go with him.
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  • Kitchen table is one of the easiest ways to share life and
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  • Allen jackson: i want to start a new series with you under the
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  • General theme of breakthroughs, those places in our lives where
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  • God intervenes.
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  • And this really has come out of a portion of my own journey in
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  • These last few weeks and even months.
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  • I've got a good friend, and we touch base from time to time, in
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  • Another state and we had agreed for some breakthroughs,
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  • Particularly in some initiatives that he was walking through.
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  • And it's led to several conversations about what
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  • Breakthroughs would look like and how that would feel and how
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  • We would know.
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  • And i--so as i've been thinking and praying and living with
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  • That, i wanna just walk through some of that with you.
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  • And the christmas season seemed like a perfect time to do that.
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  • And in my head, a breakthrough are those places where there's
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  • An intervention, where god intervenes in our lives, where
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  • There's an outcome that could really only adequately be
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  • Understood by acknowledging that god was involved in what
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  • Was happening.
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  • It's something beyond a very well-organized something, or
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  • Something that was really well thought through, or something
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  • That really expressed the creativity that god had given
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  • To us.
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  • A breakthrough to me represents something far beyond that where
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  • People look at that and go, you know, "only god."
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  • And i'm not saying we didn't plan and it didn't require
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  • Creativity and it didn't require diligence, but god was involved.
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  • In galatians 4 and verse 4, it says: "when the time had fully
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  • Come, god sent his son, born of a woman, born under law, to
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  • Redeem those under the law, that we might receive the full rights
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  • Of sons."
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  • "when the time was just right," one of the translations says,
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  • God sent his son that we might become children of god.
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  • Folks, we didn't initiate that.
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  • That was not the result of a planning committee that said,
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  • "you know, we're really in deep weeds and we need some help."
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  • God initiated it--that whoever would choose could be a part of
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  • His eternal kingdom.
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  • So for those christians that are kind of on the spectrum where
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  • Miracles are infrequent and maybe relegated to some point in
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  • The distant past, i would remind you there is no entrance into
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  • The kingdom of god without the supernatural involvement of god.
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  • A new birth is more than a rational choice.
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  • It's an expression of the power of god where we're delivered
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  • From a kingdom of darkness and brought into the kingdom of
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  • The son.
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  • And that was god initiated.
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  • So we've all experienced a breakthrough, if you're a
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  • Christ follower.
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  • When i say breakthroughs and we're gonna talk about this a
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  • Good bit.
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  • We're gonna look at some different individuals and
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  • Breakthroughs that they've had and what components we could
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  • Learn from that.
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  • But when i think of a breakthrough, it represents
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  • Many things.
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  • It could be a point of deliverance.
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  • It could be a time of great revelation, of insight,
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  • Of understanding.
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  • It could be a time of redirection.
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  • It could be a place where god's purposes and plans are initiated
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  • In a completely new way.
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  • Sometimes it's a completion of something that we're not capable
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  • Of completing on our own.
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  • And god brings it to a finality.
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  • It can be the purposes of god being advanced or revealed or
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  • Welcomed or understood.
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  • No, i think in most of the conversations i have with folks
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  • And we're talking and praying about breakthroughs that we're
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  • Searching for, the ideal breakthrough is when there's a
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  • Problem or a challenge or some deficit that we will acknowledge
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  • And we invite god into that.
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  • And in the ideal circumstance, god responds with complete--a
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  • Complete solution and the completely intact
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  • Imagined future.
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  • Boom!
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  • That's the way we want it.
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  • Oh, don't look innocent.
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  • I mean, i've listened to thousands of people present
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  • Prayer requests and the one we want is what we want, the way we
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  • Want when we want.
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  • Now will be acceptable.
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  • Well, yesterday was better.
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  • Tomorrow is questionable.
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  • That would be our breakthrough.
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  • And sometimes the lord does that.
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  • But my observation is that life is seldom ideal.
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  • And while god is busy with breakthroughs, they come in many
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  • Different packages.
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  • In fact, i find that we are frequently delivered out of
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  • Something, but we're not brought into something
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  • Different immediately.
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  • Sometimes the lord delivers us out of a place, but what's next
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  • Is not as immediately apparent and we have to continue to
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  • Follow the lord which causes significant groaning.
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  • Or sometimes we're delivered from something.
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  • But the adversary that we perceived isn't
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  • Just annihilated.
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  • They're not totally removed from the arena.
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  • God's delivered us from that place.
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  • But our adversary still stands there intact and we think,
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  • "well, i thought god would melt them."
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  • Or sometimes it's physical and we pray for healing and god
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  • Brings healing and restoration through the medical community.
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  • And we think, "well, i don't wanna have to go to the doctor."
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  • Duly noted.
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  • I don't want to stop at the filling station either, but it's
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  • Better than pushing a car that's run out of gas.
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  • Sometimes we're healed through a combination of prayer
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  • And medicine.
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  • Sometimes god brings healing, but there's still doctors
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  • Involved or there's a diagnosis that we didn't want.
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  • And then the diagnosis is walked back and somebody said, "well,
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  • You know, i guess they missed it."
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  • I don't think they missed anything.
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  • I think somewhere in between the beginning and the end, god
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  • Was involved.
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  • I think any time you present yourself for help and you get an
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  • Outcome that is acceptable, that brings restoration and renewal,
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  • You should be wise enough to say, "god was involved in that."
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  • If it's a trip to the doctor's office or a trip to the
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  • Mechanic, if you get a favorable outcome, i hope you have the
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  • Wisdom and experience to take a step back and say, "god,
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  • Thank you."
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  • Then you'll pay your bills with joy.
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  • Sometimes god presents opportunities to us,
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  • Breakthrough opportunities, and then you recognize that it could
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  • Be such and yet it still requires of you
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  • Effort and resources.
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  • "well, if it was god--" if it was god, it would sometimes
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  • Require of you effort and resources.
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  • I'm pretty certain god called moses to go help the hebrew
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  • Slaves get out of egypt.
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  • But if i've read the narrative anywhere close to correctly, it
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  • Required a bit of effort on old mo's part.
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  • In fact, it took everything he had.
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  • In fact, god buried him in the desert, but it was a
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  • Breakthrough of biblical proportions.
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  • So if i were looking for the basics and i will get to your
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  • Notes, i promise i will.
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  • Some of you were so excited it was a short outline and you
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  • Thought, "yes!"
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  • You're newer.
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  • You know, the basics around a breakthrough, it seems to me,
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  • Begin with it isn't a passive response.
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  • It's not like we just sit around and say, "you know, if god wants
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  • To help me."
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  • You see, even our entrance into the kingdom of god doesn't
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  • Emerge that way.
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  • The bible says that we have to believe in our heart and confess
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  • With our mouths.
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  • We can't save ourselves. we don't work our way into that.
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  • But you have to respond to the lord.
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  • And if you just sit with your arms folded and say, "well, if
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  • God wants me to go to heaven, he'll come get me.
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  • If god's a god of love and grace and mercy, i don't believe god
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  • Would let anybody go to hell," you can say that all the way
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  • To hell.
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  • It requires a response on our part.
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  • Not that we earn it or deserve it.
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  • Don't imagine that breakthroughs are passive.
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  • Don't imagine that god's interventions are passive.
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  • We read the galatians passage that god's in the--in the
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  • Fullness of time, when the time was just right, god sent
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  • His son.
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  • But you know the christmas narrative well enough to know
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  • That it took breakthroughs in the lives of multiple people for
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  • That story to emerge.
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  • It wasn't absent human beings saying yes to the lord.
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  • It was very much engaged with people.
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  • So don't think that breakthroughs are passive.
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  • Secondly, i would submit to you, they're fueled by obedience.
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  • If you're not walking in obedience to the truth that you
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  • Know, why do you imagine god would bring a breakthrough into
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  • Your life?
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  • Again, i'm not saying you earn it, folks, but i'm saying there
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  • Is a power in the truth, and there's a power and an authority
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  • In obedience.
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  • And we've gotten really sloppy in the contemporary version of
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  • The church.
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  • I mean, we really have, folks.
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  • We're changing.
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  • I'm excited about it.
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  • There's an awakening that's begun and we're a few years
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  • Into it.
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  • We're still kind of rubbing the sleep from our eyes.
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  • And the third thing i would submit is that when there's a
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  • Breakthrough, it typically results in being set apart.
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  • And by that, i--when there's a breakthrough in your life, god's
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  • Purpose has become more apparent to you.
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  • You didn't want that.
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  • That's not usually the nature of the request.
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  • We simply have a point of pain or disruption or need.
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  • And we say, you know, "god, would you help me with this?"
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  • And when god brings those breakthroughs, when there's that
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  • Intervention on his part, if you'll co-operate with it, what
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  • You find on the other side of that is you have an awareness of
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  • Him that you didn't have before.
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  • I think it would be safe to say that god intended for the hebrew
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  • Slaves after they were delivered from egyptian slavery to have a
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  • Completely different understanding of who god was and
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  • Their relationship with him.
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  • Is that fair?
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  • "here's a temple, here's a priesthood, here's a whole set
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  • Of rules.
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  • Here's a whole set of ways to engage with me.
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  • This is what it would mean to worship me."
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  • I tell you that because if you're--if you're really
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  • Serious about saying, "i would like god's help.
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  • I'd like to engage with god.
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  • I would like to welcome the power of god into my life," i'm
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  • Gonna ask you to begin to consider what that could mean.
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  • And it'll mean more than just freedom from pain.
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  • Allen: i have a childhood memory i wanna share with you.
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  • It was our kitchen table.
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  • I've got two younger brothers.
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  • I've gathered around the table, and my parents were
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  • Consistently, persistently inviting guests to dinner.
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  • You know, practicing that notion of hospitality, my brothers and
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  • I weren't always excited about it, but i realized that we had a
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  • Allen: breakthroughs.
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  • God's interventions in our lives.
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  • I wanna--i wanna look at two.
  • 00:12:13.815 --> 00:12:15.617
  • They're a part of the jesus story, the birth narrative in
  • 00:12:15.617 --> 00:12:20.522
  • The luke's gospel.
  • 00:12:20.522 --> 00:12:22.357
  • Not so much the stable in bethlehem, but they have a very
  • 00:12:22.357 --> 00:12:25.493
  • Significant message to be delivered for both the reader
  • 00:12:25.493 --> 00:12:28.663
  • And the audience in the first century.
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  • Simeon and anna, you know them, many of you know them rather
  • 00:12:31.800 --> 00:12:35.470
  • Well, i suspect.
  • 00:12:35.470 --> 00:12:37.539
  • The challenge they face wouldn't be the typical challenge.
  • 00:12:37.539 --> 00:12:40.208
  • It wasn't the challenge of elizabeth and zechariah, who
  • 00:12:40.208 --> 00:12:43.011
  • Were childless, and the biological clock
  • 00:12:43.011 --> 00:12:46.147
  • Was not encouraging.
  • 00:12:46.147 --> 00:12:48.349
  • Simeon and anna had a different kind of a challenge.
  • 00:12:48.349 --> 00:12:52.554
  • God has made a promise to them and they're aware of that.
  • 00:12:52.554 --> 00:12:56.724
  • They're conscious of that.
  • 00:12:56.724 --> 00:12:58.092
  • It's expressed to us in the text, but their clock
  • 00:12:58.092 --> 00:13:02.931
  • Is ticking.
  • 00:13:02.931 --> 00:13:04.265
  • In fact, luke says of anna, "she was very old."
  • 00:13:04.265 --> 00:13:08.770
  • You know, i've introduced lots of people in my life but i don't
  • 00:13:08.770 --> 00:13:11.339
  • Know that i've ever introduced somebody, saying, "they are
  • 00:13:11.339 --> 00:13:14.309
  • Very old."
  • 00:13:14.309 --> 00:13:18.980
  • How'd you like to make the book, as being "very old"?
  • 00:13:18.980 --> 00:13:25.787
  • I mean, that's kind of like hopelessly decrepit, beyond
  • 00:13:25.787 --> 00:13:29.657
  • The pale.
  • 00:13:29.657 --> 00:13:33.761
  • But they've approached a time in their life and the promise of
  • 00:13:33.761 --> 00:13:36.531
  • God has not been fulfilled.
  • 00:13:36.531 --> 00:13:37.932
  • How many think that could be a battle?
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  • Ooh, i promise.
  • 00:13:40.501 --> 00:13:42.670
  • Lord, we've honored you and you've told us you would do
  • 00:13:42.670 --> 00:13:46.174
  • Something, and our peer group is just about gone.
  • 00:13:46.174 --> 00:13:52.213
  • I promise you, i assure you, there was a battle in
  • 00:13:52.213 --> 00:13:56.150
  • Their minds.
  • 00:13:56.150 --> 00:13:58.319
  • They needed a breakthrough.
  • 00:13:58.319 --> 00:14:01.322
  • We'll start in luke chapter 2.
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  • Says: "there was a man in jerusalem called simeon.
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  • He was righteous and devout."
  • 00:14:07.195 --> 00:14:09.731
  • That would be a good way to make the book.
  • 00:14:09.731 --> 00:14:12.567
  • How'd you like to be recorded in heaven, that next to your
  • 00:14:12.567 --> 00:14:14.969
  • Name--"righteous and devout," wow.
  • 00:14:14.969 --> 00:14:21.175
  • Are you striving for that?
  • 00:14:21.175 --> 00:14:22.610
  • It's highly improbable it would ever be addressed towards you if
  • 00:14:22.610 --> 00:14:26.748
  • You don't intend it.
  • 00:14:26.748 --> 00:14:29.550
  • There's a righteousness, it's a gift.
  • 00:14:29.550 --> 00:14:31.019
  • You receive that as a free gift, but then you choose to lead a
  • 00:14:31.019 --> 00:14:34.489
  • Righteous life.
  • 00:14:34.489 --> 00:14:37.258
  • That choice really isn't about the gift you've received.
  • 00:14:37.258 --> 00:14:40.028
  • We've had a lot of conversations in contemporary american
  • 00:14:40.028 --> 00:14:42.363
  • Christendom about the gift of righteousness.
  • 00:14:42.363 --> 00:14:43.998
  • I believe in that.
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  • I'm the beneficiary of that.
  • 00:14:45.333 --> 00:14:48.236
  • But then it is incumbent upon us to choose to lead a
  • 00:14:48.236 --> 00:14:51.606
  • Righteous life.
  • 00:14:51.606 --> 00:14:54.842
  • And it's said of simeon, he was both righteous and devout.
  • 00:14:54.842 --> 00:14:59.347
  • Focused, disciplined, purposeful.
  • 00:14:59.347 --> 00:15:05.486
  • "he was waiting for the consolation of israel, and the
  • 00:15:05.486 --> 00:15:10.191
  • Holy spirit was upon him.
  • 00:15:10.191 --> 00:15:12.927
  • It had been revealed to him by the holy spirit that he wouldn't
  • 00:15:12.927 --> 00:15:15.263
  • Die before he'd seen the lord's messiah.
  • 00:15:15.263 --> 00:15:18.967
  • Moved by the spirit, he went into the temple courts.
  • 00:15:18.967 --> 00:15:21.869
  • When the parents brought in the child jesus to do for him what
  • 00:15:21.869 --> 00:15:24.505
  • Was the custom of the law required, simeon took him in his
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  • Arms and praised god."
  • 00:15:27.909 --> 00:15:30.778
  • Male children were required to be presented to the priest
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  • For circumcision.
  • 00:15:33.348 --> 00:15:35.550
  • So it's highly probable jesus was not the only child being
  • 00:15:35.550 --> 00:15:38.987
  • Presented that day.
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  • This is jerusalem.
  • 00:15:40.955 --> 00:15:42.290
  • This is the temple in jerusalem.
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  • This would be if you visit jerusalem today, the bar
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  • Mitzvahs, the celebrations they have for young men.
  • 00:15:47.729 --> 00:15:50.965
  • When they're moving into adulthood, there are people from
  • 00:15:50.965 --> 00:15:53.434
  • The jewish community all over the world will take their
  • 00:15:53.434 --> 00:15:55.903
  • Families to jerusalem so they can have their bar mitzvah
  • 00:15:55.903 --> 00:15:58.172
  • In jerusalem.
  • 00:15:58.172 --> 00:16:00.208
  • Doesn't take any imagination for me to imagine that there were
  • 00:16:00.208 --> 00:16:03.544
  • Children from around the country being brought to jerusalem
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  • For this.
  • 00:16:06.280 --> 00:16:08.116
  • But in the midst of all those children, simeon, we're told
  • 00:16:08.116 --> 00:16:12.720
  • That the holy spirit was upon him and it was revealed to him
  • 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:15.823
  • That he wouldn't die before he'd seen the messiah.
  • 00:16:15.823 --> 00:16:17.859
  • And on this day, out of all the children, he goes and takes
  • 00:16:17.859 --> 00:16:21.562
  • Jesus in his arms.
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  • Verse 29: "'sovereign lord, as you promised, you now dismiss
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  • Your servant in peace.
  • 00:16:28.536 --> 00:16:30.705
  • For my eyes have seen your salvation, which you've prepared
  • 00:16:30.705 --> 00:16:33.341
  • In the sight of all people, a light for revelation to the
  • 00:16:33.341 --> 00:16:35.810
  • Gentiles and for glory to your people israel.'
  • 00:16:35.810 --> 00:16:40.581
  • The child's father and mother marveled at what was said
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  • About him.
  • 00:16:42.950 --> 00:16:44.318
  • And simeon blessed them and said to mary, his mother: 'this child
  • 00:16:44.318 --> 00:16:47.055
  • Is destined to cause the falling and rising of many in israel,
  • 00:16:47.055 --> 00:16:50.691
  • And to be a sign that will be spoken against, so that the
  • 00:16:50.691 --> 00:16:53.127
  • Thoughts of many hearts will be revealed.
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  • And a sword will pierce your own soul too.'"
  • 00:16:55.830 --> 00:16:59.567
  • Simeon stepped onto the stage of scripture there for a few lines,
  • 00:16:59.567 --> 00:17:04.305
  • An old man, full of the holy spirit.
  • 00:17:04.305 --> 00:17:08.176
  • The holy spirit was upon him, we're told.
  • 00:17:08.176 --> 00:17:11.746
  • If you'll allow me just a few observations, these have
  • 00:17:11.746 --> 00:17:14.015
  • Something to do with opinion and something to do with just a
  • 00:17:14.015 --> 00:17:16.050
  • Reading of the text.
  • 00:17:16.050 --> 00:17:17.418
  • I'd say it's highly probable that simeon and anna knew
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  • One another.
  • 00:17:20.388 --> 00:17:22.056
  • We're gonna be introduced to both of them in consecutive
  • 00:17:22.056 --> 00:17:24.926
  • Verses here, consecutive passages, as luke presents the
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  • Narrative to us.
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  • Two people in the temple waiting for the revelation to identify
  • 00:17:30.598 --> 00:17:34.669
  • The messiah.
  • 00:17:34.669 --> 00:17:37.438
  • In fact, it's that first statement that i would call your
  • 00:17:37.438 --> 00:17:39.574
  • Attentions to.
  • 00:17:39.574 --> 00:17:40.942
  • It says that simeon was waiting for the consolation of israel.
  • 00:17:40.942 --> 00:17:44.479
  • Now, i don't know about you, but i'm not a great waiter.
  • 00:17:44.479 --> 00:17:51.552
  • If someone needs patience, i pray the lord gives it to you.
  • 00:17:51.552 --> 00:17:58.259
  • I mean, to be just completely honest, i think microwaves are
  • 00:17:58.259 --> 00:18:01.863
  • Terribly slow.
  • 00:18:01.863 --> 00:18:05.867
  • I mean, i'm old enough to remember when they were
  • 00:18:05.867 --> 00:18:07.635
  • Introduced, at least into the general public and you could
  • 00:18:07.635 --> 00:18:10.371
  • Have one in your home and, you know, whatever that was 100, 120
  • 00:18:10.371 --> 00:18:14.642
  • Years ago, it was a pretty good breakthrough.
  • 00:18:14.642 --> 00:18:18.379
  • But couldn't--isn't there something we could do to improve
  • 00:18:18.379 --> 00:18:20.548
  • On that?
  • 00:18:20.548 --> 00:18:21.916
  • Does it really take, what, 5 minutes to bake a potato still?
  • 00:18:21.916 --> 00:18:25.453
  • Can't we get that down to, like, 90 seconds?
  • 00:18:25.453 --> 00:18:30.057
  • I mean, for real.
  • 00:18:30.057 --> 00:18:32.393
  • Yield signs on the highway.
  • 00:18:32.393 --> 00:18:36.531
  • You know the true meaning of them, right?
  • 00:18:36.531 --> 00:18:39.233
  • It means hurry because if you can get to the intersection
  • 00:18:39.233 --> 00:18:41.302
  • Ahead of those other people, you go first.
  • 00:18:41.302 --> 00:18:47.441
  • Don't practice everything i preach.
  • 00:18:47.441 --> 00:18:52.380
  • And simeon made the book and almost the first thing we're
  • 00:18:52.380 --> 00:18:54.715
  • Told about him is he was waiting to see israel consoled.
  • 00:18:54.715 --> 00:19:00.421
  • Israel is living under great stress.
  • 00:19:00.421 --> 00:19:02.089
  • They're an occupied country.
  • 00:19:02.089 --> 00:19:03.457
  • There's occupying armies, they're paying taxes to a
  • 00:19:03.457 --> 00:19:06.694
  • Pagan king.
  • 00:19:06.694 --> 00:19:08.529
  • It's a daily point of humiliation--not just
  • 00:19:08.529 --> 00:19:12.066
  • Spiritually, there was physical humiliation for their wives and
  • 00:19:12.066 --> 00:19:16.270
  • Their children.
  • 00:19:16.270 --> 00:19:18.239
  • And he's waiting to see israel consoled.
  • 00:19:18.239 --> 00:19:22.009
  • Look at isaiah 40 and verse 31: "those who wait for the lord
  • 00:19:22.009 --> 00:19:25.313
  • Will gain new strength; they'll mount up with wings like eagles
  • 00:19:25.313 --> 00:19:29.116
  • And they'll run and not get tired, and they'll walk and not
  • 00:19:29.116 --> 00:19:31.385
  • Become weary."
  • 00:19:31.385 --> 00:19:32.720
  • Some of you have been asked to wait for your breakthrough.
  • 00:19:32.720 --> 00:19:37.425
  • We're not told how long simeon's been waiting.
  • 00:19:37.425 --> 00:19:39.594
  • We're just told he's no longer young and he's waiting.
  • 00:19:39.594 --> 00:19:45.199
  • He's not very old.
  • 00:19:45.199 --> 00:19:46.534
  • Anna is very old, but the promise of scripture is that if
  • 00:19:46.534 --> 00:19:52.540
  • You will wait for the lord, you'll gain new strength.
  • 00:19:52.540 --> 00:19:56.711
  • He won't just renew your strength.
  • 00:19:56.711 --> 00:19:58.879
  • He'll give you new strength.
  • 00:19:58.879 --> 00:20:00.781
  • You pack on new muscle, you'll gain new capacity, that there's
  • 00:20:00.781 --> 00:20:07.355
  • A benefit, spiritually, sometimes in waiting and, again,
  • 00:20:07.355 --> 00:20:10.391
  • This one's not easy for me.
  • 00:20:10.391 --> 00:20:14.528
  • But that's not all we know about simeon.
  • 00:20:14.528 --> 00:20:16.063
  • It says the holy spirit was upon him.
  • 00:20:16.063 --> 00:20:19.100
  • And then luke gives us some additional insights.
  • 00:20:19.100 --> 00:20:20.901
  • He said some things have been revealed to him by the
  • 00:20:20.901 --> 00:20:22.837
  • Holy spirit--that he wouldn't die until he'd seen the messiah.
  • 00:20:22.837 --> 00:20:26.874
  • That's a pretty significant revelation.
  • 00:20:26.874 --> 00:20:30.111
  • Simeon is familiar enough with the person, the voice, the
  • 00:20:30.111 --> 00:20:33.581
  • Direction, the interaction of the spirit of god.
  • 00:20:33.581 --> 00:20:37.218
  • He understands it has implications for the timeline of
  • 00:20:37.218 --> 00:20:40.321
  • His life journey, that he trusts the holy spirit enough that he
  • 00:20:40.321 --> 00:20:44.692
  • Looks at a--we do baby dedications around here and
  • 00:20:44.692 --> 00:20:47.194
  • We'll put 30 babies and their siblings up here at the front of
  • 00:20:47.194 --> 00:20:49.897
  • The church and simeon is comfortable enough, he could
  • 00:20:49.897 --> 00:20:52.099
  • Look at that group of kids and go, "that's the one," because he
  • 00:20:52.099 --> 00:20:56.871
  • Took that little baby in his arms and began to speak about
  • 00:20:56.871 --> 00:20:59.206
  • Him, wow.
  • 00:20:59.206 --> 00:21:03.311
  • So i'm gonna submit to you and we're gonna look at it from a
  • 00:21:03.311 --> 00:21:05.279
  • Variety of perspectives that an engagement and understanding and
  • 00:21:05.279 --> 00:21:08.883
  • Awareness of the person of the holy spirit and what it would
  • 00:21:08.883 --> 00:21:11.719
  • Mean to recognize his voice is an essential component
  • 00:21:11.719 --> 00:21:15.489
  • Of breakthroughs.
  • 00:21:15.489 --> 00:21:17.325
  • Not somebody else telling you what the holy spirit said, not
  • 00:21:17.325 --> 00:21:20.895
  • What someone else spoke over your life.
  • 00:21:20.895 --> 00:21:23.431
  • I'm not saying those things couldn't be real or legitimate.
  • 00:21:23.431 --> 00:21:25.700
  • But i'm telling you, if we're gonna walk through seasons of
  • 00:21:25.700 --> 00:21:28.235
  • Deception, you and i will have to recognize the voice of the
  • 00:21:28.235 --> 00:21:30.971
  • Spirit of god.
  • 00:21:30.971 --> 00:21:36.210
  • Simeon also has to make peace that it's most probable he won't
  • 00:21:36.210 --> 00:21:39.513
  • See the messiah minister.
  • 00:21:39.513 --> 00:21:42.450
  • He won't see jesus do miracles.
  • 00:21:42.450 --> 00:21:47.521
  • Don't you know he would have liked to have done that?
  • 00:21:47.521 --> 00:21:50.858
  • He's waiting for the consolation of israel, and the revelation
  • 00:21:50.858 --> 00:21:53.828
  • He's given is that you'll get to recognize--you'll see the baby.
  • 00:21:53.828 --> 00:21:59.100
  • There was no promise that he would get to see jesus
  • 00:21:59.100 --> 00:22:02.069
  • Do miracles.
  • 00:22:02.069 --> 00:22:04.338
  • Folks, we serve at the pleasure of the king.
  • 00:22:04.338 --> 00:22:07.975
  • Remember the topic, it's breakthroughs,
  • 00:22:07.975 --> 00:22:09.543
  • God's interventions.
  • 00:22:09.543 --> 00:22:11.078
  • We have roles to play in that.
  • 00:22:11.078 --> 00:22:13.681
  • We can actually facilitate.
  • 00:22:13.681 --> 00:22:17.118
  • And one of the things we've got to resolve is that we serve at
  • 00:22:17.118 --> 00:22:19.820
  • The pleasure of the king.
  • 00:22:19.820 --> 00:22:22.590
  • We serve at the pleasure of the king.
  • 00:22:22.590 --> 00:22:26.727
  • And then i think there's a bit of a hint of
  • 00:22:26.727 --> 00:22:28.696
  • Simeon's personality.
  • 00:22:28.696 --> 00:22:30.030
  • He's pretty assertive.
  • 00:22:30.030 --> 00:22:31.399
  • He takes the baby in his arms.
  • 00:22:31.399 --> 00:22:33.501
  • "hi, mary.
  • 00:22:33.501 --> 00:22:36.771
  • Give me the kid."
  • 00:22:36.771 --> 00:22:39.940
  • I'm sure it was a bit more friendly than that.
  • 00:22:39.940 --> 00:22:42.943
  • And a boldness: he says aloud that god has kept his promises
  • 00:22:42.943 --> 00:22:46.313
  • And acknowledges jesus as messiah.
  • 00:22:46.313 --> 00:22:49.817
  • That's not an easy thing to do.
  • 00:22:49.817 --> 00:22:51.185
  • Again, we tend to pray polite prayers.
  • 00:22:51.185 --> 00:22:53.888
  • Simeon is aware enough, informed enough, has enough of a
  • 00:22:53.888 --> 00:22:56.824
  • Revelation, to speak with authority over the life of a
  • 00:22:56.824 --> 00:22:59.894
  • Newborn child.
  • 00:22:59.894 --> 00:23:03.063
  • It's a remarkable scene, honestly.
  • 00:23:03.063 --> 00:23:08.235
  • And luke simply tells us in verse 33 that the--mary and
  • 00:23:08.235 --> 00:23:11.105
  • Joseph marveled at what was said about this new baby.
  • 00:23:11.105 --> 00:23:14.675
  • It's taken all their faith just to get to this point.
  • 00:23:14.675 --> 00:23:16.844
  • I mean, it has stretched them physically and spiritually to
  • 00:23:16.844 --> 00:23:19.947
  • The very limits.
  • 00:23:19.947 --> 00:23:21.549
  • They have stretch marks.
  • 00:23:21.549 --> 00:23:24.051
  • I mean, they're at the very edge of what they can comprehend.
  • 00:23:24.051 --> 00:23:26.587
  • There's been some crazy shepherds babbling on and now
  • 00:23:26.587 --> 00:23:32.326
  • They've gone to the temple, they're just trying to check the
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  • Boxes and do what they're supposed to do.
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  • And here's simeon with the baby and all this and then they're
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  • Just marveling at what's going on.
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  • And then simeon turns to mary.
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  • Luke goes out of his way to make this clear.
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  • It's verse 34: "simeon blessed them and said to mary, his
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  • Mother," at which joseph said, "what am i?
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  • Chopped liver?"
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  • "'the child is destined to cause the falling and rising of many
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  • In israel and to be a sign that will be spoken against, so that
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  • The thoughts of many hearts will be revealed and a sword will
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  • Pierce your own soul too.'"
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  • Simeon had a message for mary.
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  • It's really the first hint we have in the narrative that
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  • Joseph perhaps isn't going to complete the same course.
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  • Because before we get to jesus's ministry at the age of 30,
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  • Joseph seems to have stepped out of time.
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  • He's not included, and very early and when jesus is still
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  • Just an infant, we have a hint of that.
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  • Simeon says, "i have a message for you, mary.
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  • There'll be a sword pierce your heart."
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  • That's not an easy message to deliver.
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  • That's not a message of ease and opportunity.
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  • The first part would be kind of fun.
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  • "i've been waiting to see this child for a long, long time."
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  • The rest of the message is not so fun.
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  • Allen: i wanna pray with you before we go.
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  • But i have a specific objective in my heart.
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  • You know, god is changing our world and, i believe, purifying
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  • His church for a harvest that is in front of us.
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  • It started with the pandemic and it broke us out of a routine.
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  • We were familiar with the theater of worship.
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  • We knew what to wear.
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  • We knew when to sit and when to stand.
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  • We knew how to attend a public worship service and not
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  • Embarrass ourselves, if we stayed in our lane.
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  • We were a little suspicious of people that worshiped in a way
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  • That we weren't familiar with.
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  • But we really didn't have to bring our heart to the lord.
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  • Well, a season for a passive faith is gone.
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  • We need a courageous faith and a boldness to say, "lord, i'm
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  • Willing to be different so that your purposes can emerge in
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  • My life."
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  • The technical word for that is repentance.
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  • It's not about gross sin in your life.
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  • It's a willingness to change.
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  • Let's pray.
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  • Father, i ask you to help us if there's anything in our
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  • Thoughts, our imagination, our habits, our patterns, that would
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  • Limit what you would do with our lives, help us to change.
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  • We submit ourselves to you and your authority, in jesus's
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  • Name, amen.
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  • God bless you.
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