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Allen Jackson - When God Intervenes (Part 2)

August 22, 2025 | S25 E237 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - When God Intervenes (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - When God Intervenes (Part 2) | August 22, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: hey, i sat down recently with my father to do a
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  • Podcast for my "culture & christianity" podcast, and it
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  • Was so valuable to me.
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  • I mean, we--it was stories that obviously i'm familiar with, but
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  • As i heard him recount his faith, it ignited something in
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  • Me about the faithfulness of god across generations.
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  • Well, i encouraged my dad to put together a book about his
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  • Experiences with the holy spirit.
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  • It changed his life, my parents' life, ultimately my
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  • Family's life.
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  • I believe the book will be a real encouragement to you.
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  • I wanna make it available to you right along with "unleashing the
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  • Power of the holy spirit."
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  • It's something i put together a while back that's been one of
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  • The most effective tools we've ever had in the ministry.
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  • Together they'll open the doorway for you to not just have
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  • Language around the holy spirit but to have something to
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  • Actually do to invite him into your life on a regular basis to
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  • Give you the wisdom you need to help you unlock the problems
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  • That we face.
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  • The spirit of god within us to help us, guide us, and direct
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  • Us, that's invaluable, and these books will help you understand.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: 1 kings 19.
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  • We're stepping right into the middle of a narrative.
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  • I'm counting a bit on your knowledge of scripture.
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  • Elijah's just had the confrontations on mount carmel
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  • With the prophets of baal.
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  • Fire fell from heaven.
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  • He's not really confronting the prophets of baal, he's
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  • Confronting an ambivalent nation, a nation
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  • Dithering between opinions.
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  • He says to them, "you have to decide today whom you're going
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  • To worship: the god of abraham, isaac, and jacob, or the baals,
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  • The fertility gods."
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  • You know what the people said?
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  • Nothing.
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  • Because there's a power structure in place.
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  • And the true--the true people of god are hiding in caves and
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  • They're standing on a hilltop.
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  • They haven't been hiding in caves.
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  • They've been living compromised lives.
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  • And now elijah the prophet's called them out and they're not
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  • Saying a word.
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  • Until fire falls from heaven.
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  • We have a bit of a change of heart.
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  • But this is jezebel's response.
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  • It's in your notes.
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  • "ahab told jezebel all that elijah had done, and how he'd
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  • Killed all the prophets with the sword.
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  • And she sent a message to elijah, saying, 'so may the gods
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  • Do to me and even more, if i don't make your life as the life
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  • Of one of them by tomorrow at this time.'
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  • And he was afraid and he rose and ran for his life.
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  • And he came to beersheba, which belongs to judah, and he left
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  • His servant there."
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  • He went further south than beersheba.
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  • That's a passage of such amazing contrast to me.
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  • Elijah just prayed and fire fell from heaven on an altar that
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  • He'd covered with water, and consumed the sacrifice.
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  • I mean, at the point of his invitation, the fire fell.
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  • First, i'm shocked.
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  • Jezebel doesn't repent.
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  • She doesn't hesitate.
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  • She doubles down on wicked.
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  • Imagine that, being told that almighty god had intervened,
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  • That hundreds of people have witnessed it, that the prophets
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  • Of the baals had been slaughtered and she doesn't
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  • Relent at all.
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  • She said, "i'll kill him by this time tomorrow."
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  • You see, i think we have this imagination that if the power of
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  • God was made evident, that evil would retreat.
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  • Folks, we haven't paid attention to the narrative.
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  • It's why it's evil.
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  • You don't negotiate with evil.
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  • You don't barter with evil.
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  • You don't make concessions to evil.
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  • The only thing that evil will relent to is a power greater
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  • Than itself.
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  • And that's not you or me.
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  • It's the power of almighty god.
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  • We are wise when we recognize evil exists to understand we
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  • Don't stand in our strength.
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  • It's not about we're not gonna out-organize evil, outthink
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  • Evil, outwork evil, out-plan evil.
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  • It doesn't happen.
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  • We need a power greater than ourselves.
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  • It's why a church that doesn't-- by that i mean capital c.
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  • If the church doesn't welcome the power of god into our midst,
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  • We have no response for the needs of our generation.
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  • I like to learn. i like to study.
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  • I'm all for you need to use your brain.
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  • Too many of us leave it at the car when we come to church.
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  • But we need to know there's a power available to us.
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  • God prepared elijah to confront the spirit of jezebel.
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  • You have to think about that a little bit.
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  • God prepared elijah to confront the spirit of jezebel.
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  • In the same way god prepared john the baptist to go
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  • Before jesus.
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  • And god prepared moses to confront pharaoh and god
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  • Prepared joshua to defeat the canaanites, and god prepared
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  • Daniel to face the babylonians and the persians, and he
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  • Prepared nehemiah to rebuild jerusalem.
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  • And that same god prepared zerubbabel to build the second
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  • Temple, and he prepared peter for pentecost, to lead the
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  • Church in jerusalem, and to take the message to cornelius and
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  • Through that to the gentile nations.
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  • God prepared paul for the roman world.
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  • And here's the greatest step of faith.
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  • God prepared you and me for this season.
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  • Just as certainly as any of those other statements are true,
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  • That last one is true.
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  • My time is slipping away, but i want to take a few minutes and
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  • Talk about some opportunities that i believe are before us.
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  • And whether we'll gain the opportunities or we'll forfeit
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  • Them, every generation has to make this decision.
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  • See, if the church fails, tremendous suffering comes to
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  • The earth.
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  • I don't have time in this session to take you through.
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  • There are many chapters through the history of the church where
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  • We have failed.
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  • And when we fail, tremendous suffering comes.
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  • We become carnal, we become obsessed with our own agendas,
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  • And we don't care about the agenda of god.
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  • We abandon people to the onslaught of evil.
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  • I want to use luke chapter 4.
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  • It's broken apart in several chunks in your notes,
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  • But it's just one chapter from the 4th chapter of luke.
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  • And it's--we're gonna follow jesus, do a couple of stops.
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  • We're gonna do it really quickly.
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  • It says: "he returned in galilee.
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  • He returned to galilee in the power of the spirit."
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  • Do you remember what's immediately preceded this?
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  • Of course you do.
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  • His baptism, where god affirmed him verbally,
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  • Audibly from heaven.
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  • A voice said, "this is my son, i'm pleased with him."
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  • Depending on the gospel you read, because each of the
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  • Gospels records it but slightly differently in who the audience
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  • Was, the spirit of god descended on jesus and he immediately came
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  • Out of the water and the jordan river and the bible says that he
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  • Was led by the spirit into the wilderness where he was tempted
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  • By satan.
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  • God's pleased with him.
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  • And the spirit of god led him into the wilderness to be
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  • Tempted by satan.
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  • Can you--can you process that?
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  • God pleased with you, leading you into a place where there's
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  • Great tension?
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  • "well, pastor, are there other ways to understand it?"
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  • "jesus returns to galilee after his temptation in the power of
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  • The spirit, and news about him spread through the
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  • Whole countryside.
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  • And he taught in their synagogues, and everyone
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  • Praised him."
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  • That's the introduction to this little segment.
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  • News about him spread.
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  • There's a dynamic that the spirit of
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  • God is doing something that's different.
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  • By this point, jesus is 30 years of age.
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  • He's lived in nazareth.
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  • It's a sleepy tiny little village, out-of-the-way village,
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  • 1st century nazareth, maybe 1500 people.
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  • Small place, insignificant, not on a major road, no major water
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  • Source, no roman garrison, no reason to pay any attention
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  • To it.
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  • Little country town.
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  • Jesus has been completely anonymous.
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  • Mary maybe had some insights.
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  • Nobody else.
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  • And when he returns from his baptism and his time in the
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  • Wilderness, now the news about him spreads all over the region.
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  • The spirit of god is moving.
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  • There are miracle stories.
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  • He taught in their synagogues.
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  • And it makes--luke inserts this little phrase: "everyone
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  • Praised him."
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  • There's widespread exception--acceptance.
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  • Very next verse, verse 16: "he went to nazareth."
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  • When he began his public ministry, he left nazareth.
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  • He went to capernaum.
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  • Capernaum was a significant city.
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  • It's a fishing village on the northern end of galilee, but
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  • It's located on a major, major roman road on the largest
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  • Freshwater source in the entire region.
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  • So if you were traveling from the northern countries of syria,
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  • Babylonia to egypt, you're gonna come that way.
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  • Jesus located himself at the center of communications.
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  • If you wanted to get a message out, capernaum was the place
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  • To be.
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  • And he went there and began his public ministry, but now he's
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  • Going back to nazareth, his hometown, "where he'd been
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  • Brought up, and on the sabbath day he went into the synagogue,
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  • As was his custom.
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  • And he stood up to read."
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  • They read a scripture portion in synagogues until today.
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  • "and the scroll of the prophet isaiah was handed to him, and he
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  • Unrolled it and he found the place where it is written: 'the
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  • Spirit of the lord is on me, because he's anointed me to
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  • Preach good news to the poor.
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  • He's sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners, recovery of
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  • Sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the
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  • Year of the lord's favor.'
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  • He rolled it up, he gave it back to the attendant.
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  • Everybody's looking at him and he began by saying, 'today this
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  • Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.'"
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  • That changed the dynamic.
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  • It's not just a historical reading any longer.
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  • It's not just a theology class.
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  • He said, "today, something's happening, in this space."
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  • See, i believe our faith is intended to be linked to the
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  • Conviction that today something is happening,
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  • That god is moving,
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  • That he's called you and me.
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  • We're not just collecting facts or studying history.
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  • We are the expression of the spirit of god in the earth
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  • Today, in spite of our weaknesses and our flaws and our
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  • Inconsistencies and all the stuff that defines us.
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  • And we have an adversary who will remind us of them, and we
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  • Have an adversary, if you'll cooperate with him, he'll make
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  • You far more aware of the weaknesses and flaws and
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  • Inconsistencies of the people around you than you will be of
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  • The presence of god in their lives.
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  • We're told repeatedly to encourage one another daily, you
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  • Know why?
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  • Because we're tempted to criticize one
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  • Another momentarily.
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  • Oh, come on.
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  • How many of you know it's much easier to see ungodliness in
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  • Other people?
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  • I mean, you and i, we're pretty godly.
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  • Holiday weekend, a lot of holidays going on.
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  • People on the lake.
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  • How many think all the people on the lake tonight are having a
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  • Worship service?
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  • How many think godliness is prevailing on the lake?
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  • Mmm.
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  • Don't we feel good about ourselves?
  • 00:11:36.045 --> 00:11:40.883
  • How many of you know there's as much mess in us as there is on
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  • The lake?
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  • "oh well, i don't know about that, you know."
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  • Much, much easier.
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  • Much easier.
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  • "'today the scripture is fulfilled in your hearing,' and
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  • They all spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious
  • 00:11:56.999 --> 00:11:59.602
  • Words that came from his lips.
  • 00:11:59.602 --> 00:12:02.104
  • 'isn't this joseph's boy?'"
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  • And now jesus is gonna mess it up.
  • 00:12:05.107 --> 00:12:08.511
  • You know, for all the people that say jesus is always about
  • 00:12:08.511 --> 00:12:10.813
  • Love, that he's a unifier, he's a bridge builder.
  • 00:12:10.813 --> 00:12:17.186
  • Let's just hug it all out and sing kumbaya.
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  • It's all gonna be good.
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  • Jesus, if he'd just sat down and been quiet and slipped out of
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  • The synagogue, he could have been the star at the covered
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  • Dish dinner.
  • 00:12:27.730 --> 00:12:31.600
  • But "jesus said to them, 'surely you will quote this proverb to
  • 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:34.670
  • Me: "physician, heal yourself!
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  • Do here in your hometown what we've heard that you did
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  • In capernaum."
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  • I tell you the truth,'" you know by now, when you read that
  • 00:12:42.278 --> 00:12:44.280
  • Phrase coming from jesus, you're like, you're locating the
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  • Emergency exits.
  • 00:12:48.250 --> 00:12:51.587
  • "'no profit is accepted in his hometown.
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  • I assure you that there were many widows in israel in
  • 00:12:53.522 --> 00:12:56.592
  • Elijah's time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years
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  • And there was a severe famine throughout the land.
  • 00:12:59.461 --> 00:13:03.199
  • Yet elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in
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  • Another country.'"
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  • That's difficult for us to imagine, but the jewish people
  • 00:13:08.337 --> 00:13:10.706
  • Understood then and today that they were god's chosen people,
  • 00:13:10.706 --> 00:13:15.411
  • That they hold a unique place in god's economy.
  • 00:13:15.411 --> 00:13:19.181
  • And jesus said to them, "there were a lot of widows in israel,
  • 00:13:19.181 --> 00:13:23.619
  • And god didn't send the prophet to any of them.
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  • He sent the prophet to a foreigner."
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  • He's saying, "you're not so special."
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  • You understand how offensive that is to those of us
  • 00:13:34.396 --> 00:13:36.465
  • Who gather?
  • 00:13:36.465 --> 00:13:38.667
  • I mean, we are special, we're not on the lake.
  • 00:13:38.667 --> 00:13:44.406
  • And some of us are mad because we didn't get invited.
  • 00:13:44.406 --> 00:13:53.148
  • "and there were many in israel with leprosy in the time of
  • 00:13:53.148 --> 00:13:55.651
  • Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed--only
  • 00:13:55.651 --> 00:14:00.356
  • The syrian."
  • 00:14:00.356 --> 00:14:03.692
  • And all the people in the synagogue said, "thank you for
  • 00:14:03.692 --> 00:14:07.663
  • Reminding us of those truths."
  • 00:14:07.663 --> 00:14:13.235
  • "and all the people in the synagogue were furious when they
  • 00:14:13.235 --> 00:14:16.205
  • Heard this."
  • 00:14:16.205 --> 00:14:17.940
  • And you think, well, they were-- they're having kind of a debate.
  • 00:14:17.940 --> 00:14:21.644
  • They're arguing over the tense of a greek verb.
  • 00:14:21.644 --> 00:14:25.381
  • And some got a little huffy.
  • 00:14:25.381 --> 00:14:28.484
  • But that's really not what it describes at all.
  • 00:14:28.484 --> 00:14:30.419
  • "they got up, drove him out of the town, took him to the brow
  • 00:14:30.419 --> 00:14:34.456
  • Of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him
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  • Down the cliff."
  • 00:14:37.660 --> 00:14:39.995
  • They're gonna kill him.
  • 00:14:39.995 --> 00:14:45.701
  • I don't think you can understand that scene fully by just
  • 00:14:45.701 --> 00:14:48.370
  • Rational responses to a presentation in a synagogue.
  • 00:14:48.370 --> 00:14:52.708
  • There's certainly a spiritual component to it, but it's the
  • 00:14:52.708 --> 00:14:56.378
  • Presentation of the truth that stirs the spiritual response.
  • 00:14:56.378 --> 00:15:01.583
  • I think amongst us, even those of us who have diminished views
  • 00:15:01.583 --> 00:15:04.453
  • Of spiritual influence have enough intuition to know that
  • 00:15:04.453 --> 00:15:08.424
  • When you tell god's truth, it often elicits a disproportional
  • 00:15:08.424 --> 00:15:12.461
  • Response, so we stay silent.
  • 00:15:12.461 --> 00:15:18.701
  • Allen: hey, i sat down with my father recently, did a podcast.
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  • He told the story of how he came to faith, how god transformed
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  • Our family.
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  • They started a home bible study, all the way up to the beginning
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  • Of this church that i've served now for decades.
  • 00:15:31.714 --> 00:15:34.516
  • As i listened, the heart of it was the work of the holy spirit
  • 00:15:34.516 --> 00:15:37.286
  • In his life and through his life.
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  • I asked him to do a book around the topic, and we have it so
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  • That you can invite the spirit of god to be the dynamic
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  • Presence of the power of god to bring change and life and hope,
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  • Allen: i'm a bit bemused that people who talk about old
  • 00:16:23.332 --> 00:16:26.668
  • Testament and new testament, it's like as if there's some
  • 00:16:26.668 --> 00:16:28.771
  • Great gulf.
  • 00:16:28.771 --> 00:16:31.473
  • I mean, 70 times the authors of the new testament or the
  • 00:16:31.473 --> 00:16:34.176
  • Individuals in the new testament, many times jesus, are
  • 00:16:34.176 --> 00:16:36.879
  • Using the writings of the old testament to help you understand
  • 00:16:36.879 --> 00:16:41.050
  • What is being acted out in their lives.
  • 00:16:41.050 --> 00:16:44.753
  • The new testament makes no sense apart from the old testament.
  • 00:16:44.753 --> 00:16:48.791
  • It's not like another god, it's not god 1 point--2.0.
  • 00:16:48.791 --> 00:16:55.230
  • Same god.
  • 00:16:55.230 --> 00:16:58.300
  • Jesus said, "today it's fulfilled in--before you."
  • 00:16:58.300 --> 00:17:02.237
  • You see, every promise of god has a time and a day.
  • 00:17:02.237 --> 00:17:07.276
  • And i know that makes us uncomfortable because we like to
  • 00:17:07.276 --> 00:17:09.344
  • Find the promises of god and think, well, there are, you
  • 00:17:09.344 --> 00:17:11.013
  • Know, in the new testament every promise is yes and amen
  • 00:17:11.013 --> 00:17:13.715
  • In jesus.
  • 00:17:13.715 --> 00:17:15.184
  • It is, but it doesn't mean the timing is yes.
  • 00:17:15.184 --> 00:17:20.155
  • Every promise has a time and a day, and some of you are mad
  • 00:17:20.155 --> 00:17:23.325
  • About god's timing.
  • 00:17:23.325 --> 00:17:25.761
  • I have been.
  • 00:17:25.761 --> 00:17:28.464
  • You know, i get--we get in a hurry.
  • 00:17:28.464 --> 00:17:30.866
  • We look at our calendars and our life plans and the circumstances
  • 00:17:30.866 --> 00:17:33.902
  • We want and when we want things to happen, and god's not
  • 00:17:33.902 --> 00:17:36.205
  • Paying attention.
  • 00:17:36.205 --> 00:17:38.507
  • What are you doing?
  • 00:17:38.507 --> 00:17:42.244
  • Our job is to be obedient to him, to be faithful to him.
  • 00:17:42.244 --> 00:17:47.249
  • I want what i want when i want it.
  • 00:17:47.249 --> 00:17:48.817
  • I'm really not much different than the 4-year-old version that
  • 00:17:48.817 --> 00:17:51.186
  • Wanted the pie before my dad got home from work.
  • 00:17:51.186 --> 00:17:54.723
  • But i'm trying to grow up.
  • 00:17:54.723 --> 00:17:57.860
  • Jesus said, "today this is fulfilled."
  • 00:17:57.860 --> 00:18:00.896
  • Do you know how many times jesus has been in that synagogue?
  • 00:18:00.896 --> 00:18:05.234
  • He's been there for many, many years.
  • 00:18:05.234 --> 00:18:08.170
  • He's got an assigned seat like some of you.
  • 00:18:08.170 --> 00:18:16.311
  • But this day is different.
  • 00:18:16.311 --> 00:18:17.679
  • He said, "today, what the prophet isaiah said is fulfilled
  • 00:18:17.679 --> 00:18:21.316
  • In this space."
  • 00:18:21.316 --> 00:18:26.421
  • And you can feel the stirring start.
  • 00:18:26.421 --> 00:18:29.258
  • "isn't that joe's boy?"
  • 00:18:29.258 --> 00:18:32.427
  • And jesus doesn't stop there.
  • 00:18:32.427 --> 00:18:35.330
  • He said we're not as special as we think.
  • 00:18:35.330 --> 00:18:37.366
  • They wanted to kill him.
  • 00:18:37.366 --> 00:18:39.434
  • It was the contemporary application of truth that moved
  • 00:18:39.434 --> 00:18:43.071
  • Them from the response of well-meaning affirmation to a
  • 00:18:43.071 --> 00:18:46.241
  • Murderous rage.
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  • The--much the same happens today.
  • 00:18:49.144 --> 00:18:52.514
  • We can talk about scribes and pharisees and zealots and
  • 00:18:52.514 --> 00:18:54.983
  • Essenes in the first century religious sects.
  • 00:18:54.983 --> 00:18:58.754
  • We can talk about the bible, bring out all of the source
  • 00:18:58.754 --> 00:19:01.557
  • Hypothesis and biblical criticism and the criteria of
  • 00:19:01.557 --> 00:19:04.426
  • Historical authenticity, and we can examine jesus and his
  • 00:19:04.426 --> 00:19:08.263
  • Ministry as one who established a religion, and there's really
  • 00:19:08.263 --> 00:19:11.767
  • Very little--you can go to harvard and yale and princeton
  • 00:19:11.767 --> 00:19:13.969
  • And do that and flourish.
  • 00:19:13.969 --> 00:19:17.306
  • But if you have the audacity to begin to suggest that the
  • 00:19:17.306 --> 00:19:19.541
  • Principles of scripture are relevant today, they present to
  • 00:19:19.541 --> 00:19:23.445
  • Us objective truth and that we should yield our wills to that
  • 00:19:23.445 --> 00:19:26.782
  • Truth, that the god of abraham, isaac, and jacob is still
  • 00:19:26.782 --> 00:19:31.019
  • Calling a people unto himself, and we should submit ourselves
  • 00:19:31.019 --> 00:19:34.289
  • To his authority and his moral boundaries, something starts
  • 00:19:34.289 --> 00:19:38.660
  • To stir.
  • 00:19:38.660 --> 00:19:41.897
  • And the organized church for too long has focused more on being a
  • 00:19:41.897 --> 00:19:46.535
  • Historical society, garnering the traditions that we preferred
  • 00:19:46.535 --> 00:19:52.040
  • And the behaviors that we preferred.
  • 00:19:52.040 --> 00:19:54.376
  • And god desperately needs us to expend--extend his light and
  • 00:19:54.376 --> 00:19:57.713
  • His truth to our generation.
  • 00:19:57.713 --> 00:20:01.883
  • I'll close with that next passage.
  • 00:20:01.883 --> 00:20:04.486
  • It's the very next verse.
  • 00:20:04.486 --> 00:20:05.821
  • I just broke it apart because it fit my outline better.
  • 00:20:05.821 --> 00:20:10.926
  • Jesus leaves nazareth.
  • 00:20:10.926 --> 00:20:12.261
  • He walks through the crowd that wanna kill him, and he goes back
  • 00:20:12.261 --> 00:20:14.263
  • To capernaum.
  • 00:20:14.263 --> 00:20:16.064
  • There's a valley that leads from nazareth to capernaum, you could
  • 00:20:16.064 --> 00:20:18.934
  • Walk it today.
  • 00:20:18.934 --> 00:20:20.669
  • It really forms almost a wind tunnel.
  • 00:20:20.669 --> 00:20:22.271
  • The mediterranean winds, the winds coming off the
  • 00:20:22.271 --> 00:20:25.507
  • Mediterranean sea, come down that very valley at the northern
  • 00:20:25.507 --> 00:20:28.110
  • End of the sea of galilee.
  • 00:20:28.110 --> 00:20:30.012
  • It's what creates those storms that happen so suddenly.
  • 00:20:30.012 --> 00:20:33.315
  • But jesus goes to capernaum, verse 31: "he went down to
  • 00:20:33.315 --> 00:20:35.684
  • Capernaum, a town in galilee, and on the sabbath he began to
  • 00:20:35.684 --> 00:20:39.154
  • Teach the people."
  • 00:20:39.154 --> 00:20:40.522
  • Very similar circumstance.
  • 00:20:40.522 --> 00:20:42.424
  • "and they were amazed at his teaching, because his message
  • 00:20:42.424 --> 00:20:44.526
  • Had authority."
  • 00:20:44.526 --> 00:20:46.428
  • Similar.
  • 00:20:46.428 --> 00:20:47.863
  • "in the synagogue there was a man possessed
  • 00:20:47.863 --> 00:20:49.531
  • By a demon, an evil spirit.
  • 00:20:49.531 --> 00:20:50.866
  • And he cried out, 'what do you want with us, jesus of nazareth?
  • 00:20:50.866 --> 00:20:54.770
  • Have you come to destroy us?
  • 00:20:54.770 --> 00:20:56.104
  • I know who you are--the holy one of god!'"
  • 00:20:56.104 --> 00:20:57.939
  • The demon knows more about jesus than anybody else in
  • 00:20:57.939 --> 00:21:00.175
  • The building.
  • 00:21:00.175 --> 00:21:01.710
  • That's worth noting.
  • 00:21:01.710 --> 00:21:03.645
  • Most of you think the devil's ignorant and stupid.
  • 00:21:03.645 --> 00:21:05.514
  • He's not, you're no match for him, neither am i.
  • 00:21:05.514 --> 00:21:09.518
  • Our only chance of standing against his attacks are with
  • 00:21:09.518 --> 00:21:13.355
  • The help of the spirit of god.
  • 00:21:13.355 --> 00:21:19.661
  • "jesus said sternly, 'be quiet, and come out of him!'
  • 00:21:19.661 --> 00:21:22.030
  • And the demon threw the man down before them all and came out
  • 00:21:22.030 --> 00:21:25.067
  • Without injuring him.
  • 00:21:25.067 --> 00:21:27.102
  • And the people were amazed and they said to each other, 'what
  • 00:21:27.102 --> 00:21:29.371
  • Is this teaching?
  • 00:21:29.371 --> 00:21:31.039
  • With authority and power he gives orders to
  • 00:21:31.039 --> 00:21:32.974
  • Evil spirits and they come out!'
  • 00:21:32.974 --> 00:21:34.309
  • And the news about him spread throughout the
  • 00:21:34.309 --> 00:21:36.044
  • Surrounding area."
  • 00:21:36.044 --> 00:21:39.114
  • He brought a contemporary message in capernaum as well.
  • 00:21:39.114 --> 00:21:42.417
  • He gave them a demonstration of the gospel.
  • 00:21:42.417 --> 00:21:45.187
  • They could have been offended.
  • 00:21:45.187 --> 00:21:46.521
  • How dare you suggest that one of the good and faithful members of
  • 00:21:46.521 --> 00:21:49.257
  • Our synagogue has anything to do with demonic activity?
  • 00:21:49.257 --> 00:21:53.195
  • I mean, very easily could be offended.
  • 00:21:53.195 --> 00:21:56.164
  • It would have been far more common with our experience to
  • 00:21:56.164 --> 00:21:58.400
  • Have taken the demonized man out of the church and left the demon
  • 00:21:58.400 --> 00:22:00.736
  • In him.
  • 00:22:00.736 --> 00:22:02.604
  • Jesus did the opposite.
  • 00:22:02.604 --> 00:22:03.972
  • He cast the demon out and the man got to stay.
  • 00:22:03.972 --> 00:22:09.077
  • The difference in response between the synagogue in
  • 00:22:09.077 --> 00:22:11.880
  • Nazareth and the synagogue in capernaum is worth a bit
  • 00:22:11.880 --> 00:22:14.316
  • Of reflection.
  • 00:22:14.316 --> 00:22:16.051
  • Which will you be?
  • 00:22:16.051 --> 00:22:18.053
  • Which will i choose?
  • 00:22:18.053 --> 00:22:20.489
  • Will we allow the truth of god to give us the awkward
  • 00:22:20.489 --> 00:22:23.125
  • Discomfort of recognizing that not every chapter in our story
  • 00:22:23.125 --> 00:22:26.828
  • Should be celebrated?
  • 00:22:26.828 --> 00:22:29.631
  • Will we allow it to suggest that there are intrusions of
  • 00:22:29.631 --> 00:22:32.768
  • Ungodliness in our midst and we choose the power to be free?
  • 00:22:32.768 --> 00:22:37.205
  • Or will we defend with fierce determination and hatred when
  • 00:22:37.205 --> 00:22:41.176
  • Necessary a heritage?
  • 00:22:41.176 --> 00:22:44.212
  • The spirit of god is moving in the earth.
  • 00:22:44.212 --> 00:22:46.882
  • I want to join him.
  • 00:22:46.882 --> 00:22:49.217
  • I want to say yes to the god opportunities.
  • 00:22:49.217 --> 00:22:53.121
  • I want to have the wisdom to recognize what god is doing.
  • 00:22:53.121 --> 00:22:57.159
  • Folks, it's time for a new courage, it's time for a
  • 00:22:57.159 --> 00:22:59.528
  • New boldness.
  • 00:22:59.528 --> 00:23:00.896
  • We have a heritage of faith.
  • 00:23:00.896 --> 00:23:02.664
  • The people who made such tremendous sacrifices for you
  • 00:23:02.664 --> 00:23:05.167
  • And i to know freedom and liberty and have the
  • 00:23:05.167 --> 00:23:07.335
  • Opportunities that we have today will wonder what it is we did.
  • 00:23:07.335 --> 00:23:14.476
  • Let's choose the lord.
  • 00:23:14.476 --> 00:23:16.845
  • Can we do that? why don't you stand with me?
  • 00:23:16.845 --> 00:23:18.780
  • I wanna say a prayer for you. i didn't bring you a prayer.
  • 00:23:18.780 --> 00:23:20.682
  • I want to pray for you this weekend.
  • 00:23:20.682 --> 00:23:27.122
  • Won't you join somebody's hands?
  • 00:23:27.122 --> 00:23:30.625
  • If you don't know who they are, tell them who you are.
  • 00:23:30.625 --> 00:23:36.798
  • They won't tell you their name, let go.
  • 00:23:36.798 --> 00:23:42.370
  • I mean, it's pretty--'cause if they won't tell you their name,
  • 00:23:42.370 --> 00:23:43.972
  • They're probably not gonna pray for you, so i'm not really, i
  • 00:23:43.972 --> 00:23:45.574
  • Mean that's like--it's okay.
  • 00:23:45.574 --> 00:23:50.612
  • Father, thank you.
  • 00:23:50.612 --> 00:23:52.581
  • I thank you that we have a heritage of faith.
  • 00:23:52.581 --> 00:23:55.784
  • We have a clear record of men and women who chose you.
  • 00:23:55.784 --> 00:23:59.588
  • Who understood the significance you bring to our lives and the
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  • Importance that it be a part of the public square and how
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  • Valuable it was as we educate our children, as we make choices
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  • For government and authority over our lives, that you remain
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  • The authority over our lives.
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  • I thank you for that.
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  • Lord, you've brought us to this point.
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  • You have kept us and watched over us on many occasions,
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  • Decade after decade, you've poured your spirit out upon us
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  • And brought repentance and mercy and grace.
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  • And yet, lord, we persist in our rebellion, in our selfishness
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  • And our ungodliness, and we pause today.
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  • Or not to excuse or justify, but to acknowledge that we're a
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  • People in need of healing.
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  • We thank you for one another.
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  • Lord, we choose you.
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  • We choose you with our whole hearts.
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  • We want to honor you and walk uprightly before you.
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  • Holy spirit, help us.
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  • If there's anything in us that hinders or impedes or keeps us
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  • Apart from you, give us the awareness, the understanding, to
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  • Recognize it, that we might choose you without reservation.
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  • Thank you for your grace and mercy to forgive and cleanse and
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  • Deliver and heal and restore.
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  • We praise you for it.
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  • And now, holy spirit, give us the wisdom, the courage we need,
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  • The boldness, to speak your truth
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  • With our families, with our friends, in the communities
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  • Where you plant us, wherever you open the door.
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  • May the name of jesus be exalted, may your kingdom
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  • Be extended and, most of all, may you be pleased
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  • With our responses.
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  • May it bring you joy to once again pour out your blessings
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  • Upon our nation.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • Hallelujah, god bless you.
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  • God bless america.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: hey, i got a question.
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  • What's "the eternal breath of life"?
  • 00:26:09.384 --> 00:26:11.886
  • Well, the answer is a new book my dad just wrote.
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  • When i sat down to do a podcast with him and i was listening to
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  • His story about how god had moved in his life and my
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  • Family's life, all the way up to the beginning of the church that
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  • I've served now for several decades, i was so reminded of
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  • The purpose and the power of the spirit of god in our lives, i
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  • Asked him to put it in a book.
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  • That's what we're sharing with you.
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  • We all need god's help.
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  • We all face challenges.
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  • Life's not easy, no matter who you are, but the spirit of god
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  • Is present within us to bring the power and purposes of god to
  • 00:26:37.979 --> 00:26:42.417
  • Bear in our lives.
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  • I believe the book will be a blessing with--for you.
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  • If you'll pair it with "unleashing the power of the
  • 00:26:46.755 --> 00:26:49.157
  • Holy spirit," it's one of the most effective tools we have.
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  • It'll give you a pathway that i believe will bring god's best
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  • Into your family.
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  • You may not plant a church, but you have been given the
  • 00:26:56.631 --> 00:26:58.800
  • Assignment as an ambassador for the kingdom of god, and we need
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  • The help of the holy spirit.
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  • Enjoy the book.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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