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Allen Jackson - When God Intervenes (Part 1)

December 6, 2025 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - When God Intervenes (Part 1)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - When God Intervenes (Part 1) | December 6, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: you know, allen jackson ministries was
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  • Launched to strengthen the church.
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  • I spent my life in the church, and we began allen jackson
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  • Ministries to try to be a voice beyond just the local
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  • Congregation where i serve.
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  • It has grown each year in our imagination,
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  • And the vision that god has put in our heart--
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  • It's a living thing.
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  • We began with broadcasting messages
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  • We added publishing with print and books.
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  • We've added small-group curriculum,
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  • Which now spreads across our nation and around the world.
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  • We're doing conferences.
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  • We visited more than 20 cities,
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  • Doing leaders and pastors conferences.
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  • And now we have on-the-ground partners internationally.
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  • God has opened a unique door in israel to work with some
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  • Emerging congregations there in the upcoming year.
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  • We have some very real connections in ukraine--
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  • That war-torn country--to stand with the church there.
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  • Thank you for your partnership.
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  • It's changing what we're doing around the world.
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  • Your gift this week, so every dollar counts twice.
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  • In allen jackson ministries.
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  • Together, around the earth, we're strengthening the church.
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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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  • Allen: breakthroughs.
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  • God's interventions in our lives.
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  • I wanna--i wanna look at two.
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  • They're a part of the jesus story, the birth narrative in
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  • The luke's gospel.
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  • Not so much the stable in bethlehem, but they have a very
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  • Significant message to be delivered for both the reader
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  • And the audience in the first century.
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  • Simeon and anna, you know them, many of you know them rather
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  • Well, i suspect.
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  • The challenge they face wouldn't be the typical challenge.
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  • It wasn't the challenge of elizabeth and zechariah, who
  • 00:12:55.390 --> 00:12:58.193
  • Were childless, and the biological clock
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  • Was not encouraging.
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  • Simeon and anna had a different kind of a challenge.
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  • God has made a promise to them and they're aware of that.
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  • They're conscious of that.
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  • It's expressed to us in the text, but their clock
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  • Is ticking.
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  • In fact, luke says of anna, "she was very old."
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  • You know, i've introduced lots of people in my life but i don't
  • 00:13:23.952 --> 00:13:26.521
  • Know that i've ever introduced somebody, saying, "they are
  • 00:13:26.521 --> 00:13:29.490
  • Very old."
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  • How'd you like to make the book, as being "very old"?
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  • I mean, that's kind of like hopelessly decrepit, beyond
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  • The pale.
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  • But they've approached a time in their life and the promise of
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  • God has not been fulfilled.
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  • How many think that could be a battle?
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  • Ooh, i promise.
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  • Lord, we've honored you and you've told us you would do
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  • Something, and our peer group is just about gone.
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  • I promise you, i assure you, there was a battle in
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  • Their minds.
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  • They needed a breakthrough.
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  • 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."
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  • That would be a good way to make the book.
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  • How'd you like to be recorded in heaven, that next to your
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  • Name--"righteous and devout," wow.
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  • Are you striving for that?
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  • It's highly improbable it would ever be addressed towards you if
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  • You don't intend it.
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  • There's a righteousness, it's a gift.
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  • You receive that as a free gift, but then you choose to lead a
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  • Righteous life.
  • 00:14:49.671 --> 00:14:52.440
  • That choice really isn't about the gift you've received.
  • 00:14:52.440 --> 00:14:55.209
  • We've had a lot of conversations in contemporary american
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  • Christendom about the gift of righteousness.
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  • I believe in that.
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  • I'm the beneficiary of that.
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  • But then it is incumbent upon us to choose to lead a
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  • Righteous life.
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  • And it's said of simeon, he was both righteous and devout.
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  • Focused, disciplined, purposeful.
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  • "he was waiting for the consolation of israel, and the
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  • Holy spirit was upon him.
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  • It had been revealed to him by the holy spirit that he wouldn't
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  • Die before he'd seen the lord's messiah.
  • 00:15:30.445 --> 00:15:34.148
  • Moved by the spirit, he went into the temple courts.
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  • When the parents brought in the child jesus to do for him what
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  • Was the custom of the law required, simeon took him in his
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  • Arms and praised god."
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  • Male children were required to be presented to the priest
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  • For circumcision.
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  • So it's highly probable jesus was not the only child being
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  • Presented that day.
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  • This is jerusalem.
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  • 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.
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  • When they're moving into adulthood, there are people from
  • 00:16:06.147 --> 00:16:08.616
  • The jewish community all over the world will take their
  • 00:16:08.616 --> 00:16:11.085
  • Families to jerusalem so they can have their bar mitzvah
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  • In jerusalem.
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  • Doesn't take any imagination for me to imagine that there were
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  • Children from around the country being brought to jerusalem
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  • For this.
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  • But in the midst of all those children, simeon, we're told
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  • That the holy spirit was upon him and it was revealed to him
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  • That he wouldn't die before he'd seen the messiah.
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  • And on this day, out of all the children, he goes and takes
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  • 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.
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  • For my eyes have seen your salvation, which you've prepared
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  • In the sight of all people, a light for revelation to the
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  • Gentiles and for glory to your people israel.'
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  • The child's father and mother marveled at what was said
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  • About him.
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  • And simeon blessed them and said to mary, his mother: 'this child
  • 00:16:59.500 --> 00:17:02.236
  • Is destined to cause the falling and rising of many in israel,
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  • And to be a sign that will be spoken against, so that the
  • 00:17:05.873 --> 00:17:08.309
  • Thoughts of many hearts will be revealed.
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  • And a sword will pierce your own soul too.'"
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  • Simeon stepped onto the stage of scripture there for a few lines,
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  • An old man, full of the holy spirit.
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  • The holy spirit was upon him, we're told.
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  • If you'll allow me just a few observations, these have
  • 00:17:26.928 --> 00:17:29.197
  • Something to do with opinion and something to do with just a
  • 00:17:29.197 --> 00:17:31.232
  • Reading of the text.
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  • I'd say it's highly probable that simeon and anna knew
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  • One another.
  • 00:17:35.570 --> 00:17:37.238
  • We're gonna be introduced to both of them in consecutive
  • 00:17:37.238 --> 00:17:40.108
  • 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
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  • The messiah.
  • 00:17:49.851 --> 00:17:52.620
  • In fact, it's that first statement that i would call your
  • 00:17:52.620 --> 00:17:54.755
  • Attentions to.
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  • It says that simeon was waiting for the consolation of israel.
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  • Now, i don't know about you, but i'm not a great waiter.
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  • If someone needs patience, i pray the lord gives it to you.
  • 00:18:06.734 --> 00:18:13.441
  • I mean, to be just completely honest, i think microwaves are
  • 00:18:13.441 --> 00:18:17.044
  • Terribly slow.
  • 00:18:17.044 --> 00:18:21.048
  • I mean, i'm old enough to remember when they were
  • 00:18:21.048 --> 00:18:22.817
  • Introduced, at least into the general public and you could
  • 00:18:22.817 --> 00:18:25.553
  • Have one in your home and, you know, whatever that was 100, 120
  • 00:18:25.553 --> 00:18:29.824
  • Years ago, it was a pretty good breakthrough.
  • 00:18:29.824 --> 00:18:33.561
  • But couldn't--isn't there something we could do to improve
  • 00:18:33.561 --> 00:18:35.730
  • On that?
  • 00:18:35.730 --> 00:18:37.098
  • Does it really take, what, 5 minutes to bake a potato still?
  • 00:18:37.098 --> 00:18:40.635
  • Can't we get that down to, like, 90 seconds?
  • 00:18:40.635 --> 00:18:45.239
  • I mean, for real.
  • 00:18:45.239 --> 00:18:47.575
  • Yield signs on the highway.
  • 00:18:47.575 --> 00:18:51.712
  • You know the true meaning of them, right?
  • 00:18:51.712 --> 00:18:54.415
  • It means hurry because if you can get to the intersection
  • 00:18:54.415 --> 00:18:56.484
  • Ahead of those other people, you go first.
  • 00:18:56.484 --> 00:19:02.623
  • Don't practice everything i preach.
  • 00:19:02.623 --> 00:19:07.562
  • And simeon made the book and almost the first thing we're
  • 00:19:07.562 --> 00:19:09.897
  • Told about him is he was waiting to see israel consoled.
  • 00:19:09.897 --> 00:19:15.603
  • Israel is living under great stress.
  • 00:19:15.603 --> 00:19:17.271
  • They're an occupied country.
  • 00:19:17.271 --> 00:19:18.639
  • There's occupying armies, they're paying taxes to a
  • 00:19:18.639 --> 00:19:21.876
  • Pagan king.
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  • It's a daily point of humiliation--not just
  • 00:19:23.711 --> 00:19:27.248
  • Spiritually, there was physical humiliation for their wives and
  • 00:19:27.248 --> 00:19:31.452
  • Their children.
  • 00:19:31.452 --> 00:19:33.421
  • And he's waiting to see israel consoled.
  • 00:19:33.421 --> 00:19:37.191
  • Look at isaiah 40 and verse 31: "those who wait for the lord
  • 00:19:37.191 --> 00:19:40.494
  • Will gain new strength; they'll mount up with wings like eagles
  • 00:19:40.494 --> 00:19:44.298
  • And they'll run and not get tired, and they'll walk and not
  • 00:19:44.298 --> 00:19:46.567
  • Become weary."
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  • Some of you have been asked to wait for your breakthrough.
  • 00:19:47.902 --> 00:19:52.607
  • We're not told how long simeon's been waiting.
  • 00:19:52.607 --> 00:19:54.775
  • We're just told he's no longer young and he's waiting.
  • 00:19:54.775 --> 00:20:00.381
  • He's not very old.
  • 00:20:00.381 --> 00:20:01.716
  • Anna is very old, but the promise of scripture is that if
  • 00:20:01.716 --> 00:20:07.722
  • You will wait for the lord, you'll gain new strength.
  • 00:20:07.722 --> 00:20:11.892
  • He won't just renew your strength.
  • 00:20:11.892 --> 00:20:14.061
  • He'll give you new strength.
  • 00:20:14.061 --> 00:20:15.963
  • You pack on new muscle, you'll gain new capacity, that there's
  • 00:20:15.963 --> 00:20:22.536
  • A benefit, spiritually, sometimes in waiting and, again,
  • 00:20:22.536 --> 00:20:25.573
  • This one's not easy for me.
  • 00:20:25.573 --> 00:20:29.710
  • But that's not all we know about simeon.
  • 00:20:29.710 --> 00:20:31.245
  • It says the holy spirit was upon him.
  • 00:20:31.245 --> 00:20:34.282
  • And then luke gives us some additional insights.
  • 00:20:34.282 --> 00:20:36.083
  • He said some things have been revealed to him by the
  • 00:20:36.083 --> 00:20:38.019
  • Holy spirit--that he wouldn't die until he'd seen the messiah.
  • 00:20:38.019 --> 00:20:42.056
  • That's a pretty significant revelation.
  • 00:20:42.056 --> 00:20:45.293
  • Simeon is familiar enough with the person, the voice, the
  • 00:20:45.293 --> 00:20:48.763
  • Direction, the interaction of the spirit of god.
  • 00:20:48.763 --> 00:20:52.400
  • He understands it has implications for the timeline of
  • 00:20:52.400 --> 00:20:55.503
  • His life journey, that he trusts the holy spirit enough that he
  • 00:20:55.503 --> 00:20:59.874
  • Looks at a--we do baby dedications around here and
  • 00:20:59.874 --> 00:21:02.376
  • We'll put 30 babies and their siblings up here at the front of
  • 00:21:02.376 --> 00:21:05.079
  • The church and simeon is comfortable enough, he could
  • 00:21:05.079 --> 00:21:07.281
  • Look at that group of kids and go, "that's the one," because he
  • 00:21:07.281 --> 00:21:12.053
  • Took that little baby in his arms and began to speak about
  • 00:21:12.053 --> 00:21:14.388
  • Him, wow.
  • 00:21:14.388 --> 00:21:18.492
  • So i'm gonna submit to you and we're gonna look at it from a
  • 00:21:18.492 --> 00:21:20.461
  • Variety of perspectives that an engagement and understanding and
  • 00:21:20.461 --> 00:21:24.065
  • Awareness of the person of the holy spirit and what it would
  • 00:21:24.065 --> 00:21:26.901
  • Mean to recognize his voice is an essential component
  • 00:21:26.901 --> 00:21:30.671
  • Of breakthroughs.
  • 00:21:30.671 --> 00:21:32.506
  • Not somebody else telling you what the holy spirit said, not
  • 00:21:32.506 --> 00:21:36.077
  • What someone else spoke over your life.
  • 00:21:36.077 --> 00:21:38.612
  • I'm not saying those things couldn't be real or legitimate.
  • 00:21:38.612 --> 00:21:40.881
  • But i'm telling you, if we're gonna walk through seasons of
  • 00:21:40.881 --> 00:21:43.417
  • Deception, you and i will have to recognize the voice of the
  • 00:21:43.417 --> 00:21:46.153
  • Spirit of god.
  • 00:21:46.153 --> 00:21:51.392
  • Simeon also has to make peace that it's most probable he won't
  • 00:21:51.392 --> 00:21:54.695
  • See the messiah minister.
  • 00:21:54.695 --> 00:21:57.631
  • He won't see jesus do miracles.
  • 00:21:57.631 --> 00:22:02.703
  • Don't you know he would have liked to have done that?
  • 00:22:02.703 --> 00:22:06.040
  • He's waiting for the consolation of israel, and the revelation
  • 00:22:06.040 --> 00:22:09.009
  • He's given is that you'll get to recognize--you'll see the baby.
  • 00:22:09.009 --> 00:22:14.281
  • There was no promise that he would get to see jesus
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  • Do miracles.
  • 00:22:17.251 --> 00:22:19.520
  • Folks, we serve at the pleasure of the king.
  • 00:22:19.520 --> 00:22:23.157
  • Remember the topic, it's breakthroughs,
  • 00:22:23.157 --> 00:22:24.725
  • God's interventions.
  • 00:22:24.725 --> 00:22:26.260
  • We have roles to play in that.
  • 00:22:26.260 --> 00:22:28.863
  • We can actually facilitate.
  • 00:22:28.863 --> 00:22:32.299
  • And one of the things we've got to resolve is that we serve at
  • 00:22:32.299 --> 00:22:35.002
  • The pleasure of the king.
  • 00:22:35.002 --> 00:22:37.772
  • We serve at the pleasure of the king.
  • 00:22:37.772 --> 00:22:41.909
  • And then i think there's a bit of a hint of
  • 00:22:41.909 --> 00:22:43.878
  • Simeon's personality.
  • 00:22:43.878 --> 00:22:45.212
  • He's pretty assertive.
  • 00:22:45.212 --> 00:22:46.580
  • He takes the baby in his arms.
  • 00:22:46.580 --> 00:22:48.682
  • "hi, mary.
  • 00:22:48.682 --> 00:22:51.952
  • Give me the kid."
  • 00:22:51.952 --> 00:22:55.122
  • I'm sure it was a bit more friendly than that.
  • 00:22:55.122 --> 00:22:58.125
  • And a boldness: he says aloud that god has kept his promises
  • 00:22:58.125 --> 00:23:01.495
  • And acknowledges jesus as messiah.
  • 00:23:01.495 --> 00:23:04.999
  • That's not an easy thing to do.
  • 00:23:04.999 --> 00:23:06.367
  • Again, we tend to pray polite prayers.
  • 00:23:06.367 --> 00:23:09.069
  • Simeon is aware enough, informed enough, has enough of a
  • 00:23:09.069 --> 00:23:12.006
  • Revelation, to speak with authority over the life of a
  • 00:23:12.006 --> 00:23:15.075
  • Newborn child.
  • 00:23:15.075 --> 00:23:18.245
  • It's a remarkable scene, honestly.
  • 00:23:18.245 --> 00:23:23.417
  • And luke simply tells us in verse 33 that the--mary and
  • 00:23:23.417 --> 00:23:26.287
  • Joseph marveled at what was said about this new baby.
  • 00:23:26.287 --> 00:23:29.857
  • It's taken all their faith just to get to this point.
  • 00:23:29.857 --> 00:23:32.026
  • I mean, it has stretched them physically and spiritually to
  • 00:23:32.026 --> 00:23:35.129
  • The very limits.
  • 00:23:35.129 --> 00:23:36.730
  • They have stretch marks.
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  • I mean, they're at the very edge of what they can comprehend.
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  • There's been some crazy shepherds babbling on and now
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  • 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: jesus was a living revelation of almighty god.
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  • That's my prayer for us today--that we would have more
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  • Than a religious experience or some experience
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  • Of reciting a prayer.
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  • We need a revelation of jesus.
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  • It'll change our lives. let's pray.
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  • Father, i thank you that you love us so much that you sent
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  • Your son, that you sent him in a package that we could relate to,
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  • That we could understand, and that he could understand us.
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  • I ask you now, by your spirit, to give us a living revelation
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  • Of jesus of nazareth, not a historical figure
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  • Or a religious leader but the living person of jesus.
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  • I thank you for it. it's in his name we ask, amen.
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  • Allen: you know, i've often said allen jackson ministries
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  • Was created to strengthen the church,
  • 00:26:08.882 --> 00:26:11.085
  • Not a local congregation, not to build buildings,
  • 00:26:11.085 --> 00:26:13.253
  • But to strengthen god's people across our nation
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  • And around the earth.
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  • It's amazing how god has been faithful in opening new doors
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  • Each year as we have walked together through this journey.
  • 00:26:20.294 --> 00:26:22.997
  • We're broadcasting in radio and television.
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  • We're doing publishing, creating small-group curriculum that's
  • 00:26:24.798 --> 00:26:27.768
  • Used in all 50 states and more than a dozen nations.
  • 00:26:27.768 --> 00:26:30.871
  • Now god's opening doors internationally in new ways.
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  • Pastors in israel have asked us to partner with them
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  • In the new year.
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  • Pastors in ukraine-- that war-torn country--
  • 00:26:36.810 --> 00:26:38.579
  • Are asking for help.
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  • We've been given opportunity to broadcast
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  • Across the continent of africa.
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  • We're gonna strengthen the church globally
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  • And not just in america.
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  • I wanna ask you to pray with me.
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  • I wanna ask you to consider making a generous investment
  • 00:26:48.589 --> 00:26:51.091
  • In allen jackson ministries.
  • 00:26:51.091 --> 00:26:52.760
  • I don't believe there's ever been a greater time when the
  • 00:26:52.760 --> 00:26:55.029
  • Need for the church to be strong and have a voice than right now.
  • 00:26:55.029 --> 00:26:58.632
  • Let's pray. father, give us your wisdom.
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  • Give us your heart on how to make an investment.
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  • May our effort be pleasing to you.
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  • May you bring a fruitfulness.
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  • In jesus's name, amen. god bless you.
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