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Allen Jackson - When God Intervenes (Part 2)

May 1, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - When God Intervenes (Part 2)
Pastor Allen Jackson's mission is to help people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - When God Intervenes (Part 2) | May 1, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: hey, would you like to make an impact for
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  • The kingdom of god in this generation?
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  • I have an idea, and oh, by the way, it's biblical.
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  • Let's practice hospitality.
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  • I know it doesn't sound very complicated, but imagine your
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  • Kitchen table as an expression of the hope and the love of god.
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  • We've all got the ability to do this.
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  • You don't have to be martha stewart.
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  • You don't have to be a gourmet chef.
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  • Let's just invite--open our home, invite people to our
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  • Kitchen table, and then watch what god will do as we live out
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  • The assignment of being ambassadors for his kingdom.
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  • God's moving in the earth.
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  • Let's go with him.
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  • Kitchen table is one of the easiest ways to share life and
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: i put a little paradigm at the top of
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  • Your outline.
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  • We really began using that during covid, in the midst of
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  • Some of the craziness that began to emerge in that season.
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  • Really, as a means of avoiding deception so that we could
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  • Fulfill god's purposes.
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  • And it's proved useful, far beyond the covid narrative.
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  • I think it's helpful--one of the most consistent warnings
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  • Jesus gave us about this time in history was about the
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  • Prevalence, the increase, of deception.
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  • And that little tool will help, a great deal.
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  • If you'll cultivate the habit of watching, and listening, not
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  • Just being present, but actually watch, and listen, and then
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  • Think, but then don't stop there.
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  • Then you have to be willing to act.
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  • You wanna watch, and listen, and think, and act.
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  • We're gonna talk about that a bit more as we move through the
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  • End of this year and begin a new year.
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  • I had the radio on, this week, in my car and i didn't catch the
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  • Introduction of the person who was being interviewed, but he
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  • Was some sort of highly celebrated economist, very
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  • Well-educated, very well-respected, you could tell
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  • By the tone of the interview.
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  • It just happened to be foolish, in my opinion.
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  • But i grew up in a barn so you can watch, and listen, and think
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  • For yourself.
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  • But the premise that he kept asserting, repeatedly, over and
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  • Over and over, again, was that, "economically," he would say.
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  • And he would have-- "economically, there's really
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  • Absolutely no difference whatsoever between legal and
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  • Illegal immigration."
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  • Oh, don't heckle, but i suppose he made the assertion more than
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  • A dozen times and he would, "economically--" and i'm--i
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  • Start talking to my radio, which is really not a good practice.
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  • They're one-way.
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  • Now, google can hear you, but your radio can't.
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  • And i said, "well, you know, if i use that theory, if i use your
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  • Premise, as far as purchasing power, there's no difference in
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  • The money i earned than if i robbed a bank!"
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  • I mean, if we're just talking purchasing power, there's
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  • No difference!
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  • I mean, there's that little inconvenience of one's legal and
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  • One's illegal, and if you wanna set aside the law, and you wanna
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  • Give complete license to lawlessness, then there's really
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  • No difference than earning something and
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  • Stealing something.
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  • Well, if you're just kind of, sort of not paying attention,
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  • And you're not really listening, and you're not watching, and
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  • You're not thinking, you'll be deceived by knuckleheads!
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  • People who have an agenda that they don't fully disclose, and
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  • We don't have a tremendous number of places where the truth
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  • Is celebrated, so you have to be a bit more wary as a consumer.
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  • I wanna encourage you to continue to watch, and to
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  • Listen, to think, and to act on the truth that you can see.
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  • If you'll combine that with reading your bible, and learning
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  • To listen to the spirit of god, i believe the lord will lead us
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  • Through, no matter how confusing, or deceiving, the
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  • Messaging around us.
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  • If you're not doing that, you will be deceived, because the
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  • Messaging is confusing.
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  • I don't think we have to be frightened, in fact, it's kind
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  • Of exciting.
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  • God's preparing a people for, i believe, the greatest experience
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  • In the kingdom of god that the world has ever seen.
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  • I believe we'll see more people come to faith in the season
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  • Ahead than any time the world has ever known.
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  • Now, some of that has to do with the population growth, in all
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  • Fairness, but it also has to do with an explosion of technology
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  • That makes it affordable for a little country church in
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  • Tennessee to turn on the lights and we can talk to people in
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  • Anywhere on the planet, which is truly remarkable.
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  • Now, we will also see the greatest opposition to the
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  • Gospel that the world has ever known.
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  • And that will grow in intensity.
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  • So you don't want to allow the fact that there's opposition to
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  • Be the component that would cause you to stand for the
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  • Truth, or not.
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  • We'll be advocates for the truth, where the--where it
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  • Seems to be celebrated, and we'll be advocates for the truth
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  • Where it is less so.
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  • We have chosen to be advocates for the truth, amen?
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  • So watch, listen, think, and act, you've got the tools, now.
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  • We'll keep taking some looks through that window and see if
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  • Somebody else shows up with something absurd.
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  • They are still releasing productions on a very regular
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  • Basis, from the theater of the absurd, in case you
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  • Have forgotten.
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  • Remember, when we started this a moment ago, we said that
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  • Breakthroughs bring with them, sometimes, a sense of being
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  • Set apart?
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  • So one of the questions i will ask you, and i'll ask you
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  • Repeatedly: are you willing to be set apart for the purposes of
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  • God or do you just wanna blend in?
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  • If we used a little bit of a contemporary example: would you
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  • Just like to say you're a college football fan?
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  • Or are you a ut fan?
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  • If you choose one, it's gonna set you apart, particularly if
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  • You go south of here.
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  • I mean, this year you go proudly, stay humble.
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  • Are you willing to be set apart?
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  • You see, we want delivered, we want healing, we want what
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  • We want.
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  • We want our kids to get what we want them to have, or whatever
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  • It is we're seeking the lord for.
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  • Are we truly willing to say, "lord, i'm gonna respond
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  • To you"?
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  • Well, the time simeon's done with this interaction, it's not
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  • All just a group hug.
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  • Very next verse, that's verse 35 and verse 36, luke goes on.
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  • He said, "there was also a prophetess, anna, the daughter
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  • Of phanuel, of the tribe of asher.
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  • She was very old; she had lived with her husband seven years
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  • After her marriage, and then was a widow until she was 84.
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  • She never left the temple but she worshiped night and day,
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  • Fasting and praying.
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  • Coming up to them at that very moment, she gave thanks to god
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  • And spoke about the child of all who were looking forward to the
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  • Redemption of jerusalem."
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  • It's a fascinating little window.
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  • It says that "anna never left the temple,"
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  • That "she worshiped night and day, fasting and praying that
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  • God gives her a revelation of the messiah."
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  • But it wasn't just because she was having a good hair day, or
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  • Because the weather happened to be particularly beautiful on
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  • That morning, and so she decided she would go to temple.
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  • It wasn't because she didn't have a better invitation.
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  • It says, "she never left the temple,
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  • That she worshiped god night and day."
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  • I'm enough of a literalist, i believe she worshiped night
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  • And day.
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  • I believe she sought the lord with fasting and prayer.
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  • And because of that, god gave her the insight, gave her
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  • A breakthrough.
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  • There was an intervention on her behalf.
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  • That's the child.
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  • Maybe she heard simeon.
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  • I'm gonna try to wrap this up.
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  • I played with labels for this, because i'm gonna put the
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  • Segments in several of the lessons, god willing.
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  • For the moment, i like "breakthrough hacks."
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  • Some of you prefer "travel tips."
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  • I know, i got a whole list and then i'll decide which one
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  • Sticks, over time.
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  • But between the narrative that we're given in scripture, and
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  • The reality of our lives, we've got to mesh this into a set of
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  • Behaviors that increase our possibility of participation.
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  • We do that with, "let's pray."
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  • You forfeit a tremendous amount, if you never pray with others.
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  • We do that with reading our bible, if you don't read your
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  • Bible, you forfeit a tremendous amount of spiritual stability,
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  • And understanding, and insight.
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  • And there's some other choices that we make that can either
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  • Facilitate god's engagement in our lives, or they'll
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  • Diminish it.
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  • And one that i can take from the lives of these two individuals,
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  • Is that breakthroughs frequently involve god keeping a promise.
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  • For both simeon and anna, what they were looking forward to,
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  • What they were anticipating was god keeping his word.
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  • That he will do what he said he would do.
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  • "he told me he would let me see the messiah.
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  • And i may be 84, but if i have to, i'll be 184, i'm going to
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  • See the messiah.
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  • Now i'm going to the temple every day, and i'm gonna worship
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  • God night and day, and i'll fast and pray, i'm not just mailing
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  • This in.
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  • I'm all in, but i'm gonna see the messiah."
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  • And the breakthroughs in our lives, most frequently, will be
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  • About god keeping his promise.
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  • In the case of simeon and anna, there's a sense of the
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  • Completion and of assignment, and this is really a pretty
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  • Important biblical principle.
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  • You know, we make a journey through time, it's linear.
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  • In fact, the whole story of the bible, the first verse of the
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  • Bible, i bet you know what it is.
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  • What's the first phrase in the bible?
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  • "in the beginning."
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  • The beginning, the beginning of what?
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  • Well, it's not the beginning of the earth and everything that's
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  • In it, because when the spirit of god hovers over the face of
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  • The deep, something's here, it's just chaotic.
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  • We're not really introduced to the very beginning, it's just in
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  • The beginning of what's going to--the opening chapters of
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  • Genesis introduce us to adam, the pinnacle of god's creation.
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  • It's the story of adam and his descendants and how, if they so
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  • Choose, how they might have a relationship with the almighty
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  • God, the creator of the heavens and the earth.
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  • And it starts, "in the beginning," and it takes us to
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  • The book of revelation, which is the conclusion of this
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  • Present age.
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  • It's not the end of god's people, it's not the end of god,
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  • It's not the end of god's activity on this earth.
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  • There's gonna be a new heaven and a new earth, but it's the
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  • End of this present world order.
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  • It's a linear progression.
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  • And we get a hint of that in the story of simeon and anna,
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  • There's a completion of assignment, there was a
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  • Beginning and ending.
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  • "now you have fulfilled your promise, i'm good.
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  • I have seen the consolation of israel.
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  • I have seen the redeemer of jerusalem."
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  • It also invites us into this awareness that there's another
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  • Dimension of our life-- beyond time.
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  • If we're really gonna get into the weeds on breakthroughs,
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  • Folks, they have something to do with more than just our journey
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  • Through time.
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  • It has to do with our impact, what our life does with our
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  • Journey through time.
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  • We have, tragically, been coached towards some very
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  • Mediocre ideas around our faith.
  • 00:12:53.988 --> 00:12:55.590
  • "pastor, i just want to go to heaven."
  • 00:12:55.590 --> 00:13:01.496
  • May i suggest what you wanna do is be as fully obedient to the
  • 00:13:01.496 --> 00:13:04.799
  • Lord as you're capable of?
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  • You want to fulfill what you were created for.
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  • In fact, if you'll focus on that, your destination is
  • 00:13:12.740 --> 00:13:15.577
  • A non-issue.
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  • If you're not interested in those things and all you want is
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  • The destination, you're likely to forfeit all the above.
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  • I would invite you to think of yourself not as totally defined
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  • By your journey through time.
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  • Allen: you know, around the world people are searching for
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  • Truth, and together we're doing our very best to help them
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  • Find it.
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  • Have heard the gospel otherwise.
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  • Opens the door.
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  • Let's keep gathering his people and building his church until
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  • The day our king returns.
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  • Allen: there's another dimension of our service, there's another
  • 00:14:37.692 --> 00:14:39.928
  • Dimension of our person.
  • 00:14:39.928 --> 00:14:41.796
  • Time is not your enemy.
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  • I'll give you an example in your notes, because i think it
  • 00:14:46.301 --> 00:14:48.569
  • Highlights this for us, so beautifully and i don't wanna
  • 00:14:48.569 --> 00:14:52.240
  • Stay here long, but in deuteronomy 34, this is moses,
  • 00:14:52.240 --> 00:14:55.576
  • The greatest leader in the bible until we get to jesus.
  • 00:14:55.576 --> 00:14:58.046
  • And he starts out with this group of people who were slaves,
  • 00:14:58.046 --> 00:15:02.016
  • And they're delivered, and the red sea, and the man of the
  • 00:15:02.016 --> 00:15:05.153
  • Whole deal, and now he's at the end of his journey through time,
  • 00:15:05.153 --> 00:15:08.756
  • And they didn't make it into the promised land.
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  • What was discussed at that bush that was burning, way back in
  • 00:15:12.994 --> 00:15:15.830
  • Exodus chapter 3 has not become a part of his experience,
  • 00:15:15.830 --> 00:15:19.133
  • Because of the unbelief of the people.
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  • God said, "you can't go in there.
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  • You can't have a land that flows with milk and honey, you're
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  • Gonna wander in a circle for a long time, for decades."
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  • And moses had to lead them.
  • 00:15:30.211 --> 00:15:34.882
  • A faithless, rebellious group of people--
  • 00:15:34.882 --> 00:15:37.885
  • That is not a wonderful assignment.
  • 00:15:37.885 --> 00:15:46.327
  • But now god said, "you're done.
  • 00:15:46.327 --> 00:15:49.731
  • Let's go up the mountain and i will show you the land."
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  • Moses got a fly-over, and then it simply says--i put it in
  • 00:15:54.902 --> 00:16:00.508
  • Your notes, it's deuteronomy 34, that "moses, the servant of the
  • 00:16:00.508 --> 00:16:03.011
  • Lord died there in moab.
  • 00:16:03.011 --> 00:16:05.380
  • As the lord had said, he buried him in moab--" the lord
  • 00:16:05.380 --> 00:16:08.216
  • Buried him.
  • 00:16:08.216 --> 00:16:09.984
  • "in the valley opposite beth peor, but to this day, no one
  • 00:16:09.984 --> 00:16:14.322
  • Knows where his grave is."
  • 00:16:14.322 --> 00:16:17.525
  • But i wanted to give you another window because moses didn't step
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  • Out of the narrative, we're not done with moses.
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  • He's mentioned all through the new testament.
  • 00:16:23.498 --> 00:16:26.434
  • But not just as a record of history, in luke chapter 9, it's
  • 00:16:26.434 --> 00:16:30.805
  • The transfiguration.
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  • Jesus is on the mount of transfiguration with his most
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  • Trusted disciples.
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  • And it says, "as he was praying, the appearance of his face
  • 00:16:37.311 --> 00:16:39.147
  • Changed, and his clothes became as bright as a flash
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  • Of lightning.
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  • And two men--" two men.
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  • Two men.
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  • Not ghosts, not apparitions.
  • 00:16:49.524 --> 00:16:54.062
  • There are words for those things, those aren't the words
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  • That are used.
  • 00:16:56.531 --> 00:16:57.999
  • "two men, moses and elijah, appeared in glorious splendor,
  • 00:16:57.999 --> 00:17:07.241
  • Talking with jesus."
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  • Now the next sentence fascinates me, because at some point after
  • 00:17:11.045 --> 00:17:15.650
  • The event, somebody had to talk about what they talked about.
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  • Because luke records that they spoke about "jesus's departure,
  • 00:17:21.422 --> 00:17:26.394
  • Which he was about to bring to fulfillment at jerusalem."
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  • It sounds like he's gonna catch a flight.
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  • Moses and elijah showed up to talk to jesus about his passion,
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  • About the suffering that awaited him in jerusalem.
  • 00:17:42.677 --> 00:17:47.515
  • They'd made a journey of their own.
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  • They stood before pharaoh and said, "let my people go."
  • 00:17:50.952 --> 00:17:54.989
  • They stood before rebellious mobs that said, "we don't like
  • 00:17:54.989 --> 00:17:58.092
  • Your leadership."
  • 00:17:58.092 --> 00:18:00.595
  • Elijah stood on mount carmel and said, "how long will you worship
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  • The idols?"
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  • And nobody would say anything.
  • 00:18:05.333 --> 00:18:07.368
  • Those might be helpful phrases if you're about to stand in
  • 00:18:07.368 --> 00:18:09.971
  • Front of an angry mob in jerusalem that are gonna scream
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  • At you, "crucify him."
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  • We don't know the specifics, all we know is that they talked to
  • 00:18:16.844 --> 00:18:21.349
  • Him about his departure, which he was about to bring to
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  • Fulfillment in jerusalem.
  • 00:18:25.953 --> 00:18:29.790
  • Moses had died and been buried by god, hundreds of years ago.
  • 00:18:29.790 --> 00:18:34.929
  • But moses, a man, appeared and spoke to jesus about the
  • 00:18:34.929 --> 00:18:38.799
  • Tribulations which were before him.
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  • My opinion, it's a dimensional awareness that will strengthen
  • 00:18:42.303 --> 00:18:45.273
  • Our resolve to serve the lord.
  • 00:18:45.273 --> 00:18:47.041
  • There's something to this, that's about more than just
  • 00:18:47.041 --> 00:18:49.043
  • My timeline.
  • 00:18:49.043 --> 00:18:52.680
  • We are a part of the unfolding purposes of almighty god.
  • 00:18:52.680 --> 00:18:59.086
  • Now, that's an investment worth thinking about.
  • 00:18:59.086 --> 00:19:02.456
  • That's a lifestyle worth adopting.
  • 00:19:02.456 --> 00:19:05.193
  • That's more than, "well, i'm just going to church.
  • 00:19:05.193 --> 00:19:07.094
  • You know, i've said the sinner's prayer and i've been baptized,
  • 00:19:07.094 --> 00:19:13.501
  • Sometimes i read my bible.
  • 00:19:13.501 --> 00:19:15.169
  • You know, they just keep harping on it, and those awful
  • 00:19:15.169 --> 00:19:20.908
  • Commitment cards are always slipping those in, ice rink, and
  • 00:19:20.908 --> 00:19:28.115
  • Those chair--tables filled with toys, trying to shame me when i
  • 00:19:28.115 --> 00:19:33.688
  • Come and go from church."
  • 00:19:33.688 --> 00:19:38.693
  • You know, we can get some pretty rotten attitudes, and there's
  • 00:19:38.693 --> 00:19:42.797
  • Enough stumbles and missteps by organized churches that
  • 00:19:42.797 --> 00:19:45.433
  • We contribute.
  • 00:19:45.433 --> 00:19:48.002
  • The reality is, the invitation is to serve an almighty god
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  • That will bear benefits that will bring a reward for
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  • All eternity.
  • 00:19:55.810 --> 00:19:58.346
  • Wherever you are on your timeline, don't think this is
  • 00:19:58.346 --> 00:20:01.015
  • An--not a significant time for your relationship with the lord.
  • 00:20:01.015 --> 00:20:04.418
  • If you're young, give your youth to the lord.
  • 00:20:04.418 --> 00:20:08.289
  • If your kids are young, give that season of your life to
  • 00:20:08.289 --> 00:20:11.325
  • The lord.
  • 00:20:11.325 --> 00:20:13.761
  • If they've all left and you've got your calendar back, and
  • 00:20:13.761 --> 00:20:18.366
  • They're not draining your bank account, it's not just your
  • 00:20:18.366 --> 00:20:23.604
  • Time, and your life, and your money.
  • 00:20:23.604 --> 00:20:25.439
  • Give that season of your life to the lord.
  • 00:20:25.439 --> 00:20:31.279
  • There's a second observation: breakthroughs involve
  • 00:20:31.279 --> 00:20:34.348
  • Generational opportunity for those who are listening,
  • 00:20:34.348 --> 00:20:38.352
  • Respectful, open, and aware.
  • 00:20:38.352 --> 00:20:40.054
  • The breakthroughs often involve more than just yourself, they'll
  • 00:20:40.054 --> 00:20:42.990
  • Impact the generations around you.
  • 00:20:42.990 --> 00:20:46.794
  • There's no life-season where breakthroughs are not necessary.
  • 00:20:46.794 --> 00:20:50.464
  • The exodus generation needed the power of god to get them out of
  • 00:20:50.464 --> 00:20:53.234
  • The brick pits of egypt.
  • 00:20:53.234 --> 00:20:54.969
  • The wilderness generation needed the power of god to get them to
  • 00:20:54.969 --> 00:20:58.072
  • Be able to occupy the promised land.
  • 00:20:58.072 --> 00:21:00.274
  • In both circumstances, two very different generations, but they
  • 00:21:00.274 --> 00:21:03.044
  • Were powerless to accomplish what god had said he would do in
  • 00:21:03.044 --> 00:21:06.547
  • Their life.
  • 00:21:06.547 --> 00:21:08.482
  • But the breakthrough of one informed the other.
  • 00:21:08.482 --> 00:21:11.352
  • Simeon and anna, they qualified for social security, but the
  • 00:21:11.352 --> 00:21:15.356
  • Message that they delivered was directed towards a young family
  • 00:21:15.356 --> 00:21:18.359
  • That needed the strength, that needed to be galvanized in what
  • 00:21:18.359 --> 00:21:22.330
  • They had undertaken, because they're gonna have to head to
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  • Egypt, very soon.
  • 00:21:25.800 --> 00:21:27.968
  • And the affirmation that came to them, from two people with a bit
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  • More life experience, that were in the temple, on their behalf,
  • 00:21:31.472 --> 00:21:34.675
  • That day,
  • 00:21:34.675 --> 00:21:36.110
  • I could imagine, made an enormous difference.
  • 00:21:36.110 --> 00:21:40.081
  • In fact, anyone listening and open to god's purposes could
  • 00:21:40.081 --> 00:21:43.050
  • Have benefited from what simeon and anna had to say.
  • 00:21:43.050 --> 00:21:46.454
  • You see, when you choose to honor the lord, when i choose to
  • 00:21:46.454 --> 00:21:48.956
  • Honor the lord, it opens doors for many, for any who are
  • 00:21:48.956 --> 00:21:52.793
  • Willing to learn and respond.
  • 00:21:52.793 --> 00:21:54.762
  • Breakthroughs have generational impact.
  • 00:21:54.762 --> 00:21:59.300
  • How about determining to be one of those people?
  • 00:21:59.300 --> 00:22:04.438
  • And, thirdly: breakthroughs provide a glimpse of god's plan
  • 00:22:04.438 --> 00:22:07.274
  • Or his purpose.
  • 00:22:07.274 --> 00:22:09.076
  • Jeremiah 29:11, i love the verse.
  • 00:22:09.076 --> 00:22:11.011
  • He said, "'i know the plans i have for you,' declares the
  • 00:22:11.011 --> 00:22:13.180
  • Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give
  • 00:22:13.180 --> 00:22:17.485
  • You hope in the future.'"
  • 00:22:17.485 --> 00:22:19.854
  • Here's the awkward reality, folks: our awareness of god's
  • 00:22:19.854 --> 00:22:22.923
  • Plans is very limited.
  • 00:22:22.923 --> 00:22:25.860
  • We know what our plan is, we know what we want god--we want
  • 00:22:25.860 --> 00:22:28.262
  • God to work our plan.
  • 00:22:28.262 --> 00:22:30.431
  • I mean, we're usually a little more subtle in how we say it,
  • 00:22:30.431 --> 00:22:32.533
  • But that's the bottom line.
  • 00:22:32.533 --> 00:22:36.370
  • And we're asked to be faithful, or to persevere, or to
  • 00:22:36.370 --> 00:22:39.273
  • Endure, or to overcome, i began to complain.
  • 00:22:39.273 --> 00:22:45.246
  • "god, i don't wanna do this."
  • 00:22:45.246 --> 00:22:47.114
  • "well, this is my plan."
  • 00:22:47.114 --> 00:22:48.449
  • "yeah, yeah, yeah, but have you seen mine?
  • 00:22:48.449 --> 00:22:50.017
  • Mine did not require perseverance and endurance."
  • 00:22:50.017 --> 00:22:57.892
  • The best response i know on this one is to do what you know.
  • 00:22:57.892 --> 00:23:01.462
  • Fully engage your current understanding, walking all the
  • 00:23:01.462 --> 00:23:06.033
  • Lights you've got, serve the lord with joy and enthusiasm to
  • 00:23:06.033 --> 00:23:11.672
  • The point that you understand what that means.
  • 00:23:11.672 --> 00:23:14.074
  • Do what you know.
  • 00:23:14.074 --> 00:23:18.379
  • I know it's not a new expression, at all, and it has
  • 00:23:18.379 --> 00:23:20.681
  • Very little to do with church, but i think it captures the
  • 00:23:20.681 --> 00:23:22.817
  • Spirit of this.
  • 00:23:22.817 --> 00:23:24.285
  • Fight like you're the third monkey on the ramp to the ark
  • 00:23:24.285 --> 00:23:27.021
  • And it's beginning to rain.
  • 00:23:27.021 --> 00:23:32.593
  • Do not send me a note.
  • 00:23:32.593 --> 00:23:36.363
  • Stop this passive notion about your faith.
  • 00:23:36.363 --> 00:23:40.134
  • "well, it's harder then i thought--" no kidding!
  • 00:23:40.134 --> 00:23:44.371
  • Making an impact for eternity, who told you that was easy?
  • 00:23:44.371 --> 00:23:50.144
  • Why would you invest more effort, more discipline, more
  • 00:23:50.144 --> 00:23:53.113
  • Sacrifice, more dollars, and more time in pursuing your
  • 00:23:53.113 --> 00:23:56.517
  • Hobby, than you do in pursuing the lord?
  • 00:23:56.517 --> 00:24:00.554
  • What's happened to us, church?
  • 00:24:00.554 --> 00:24:03.023
  • I'm not opposed to hobbies and enjoying those, and pursuing
  • 00:24:03.023 --> 00:24:06.861
  • Those, but don't relegate them to--you know what, the technical
  • 00:24:06.861 --> 00:24:09.430
  • Word for that is "idolatry."
  • 00:24:09.430 --> 00:24:12.399
  • We think there's fulfillment someplace other than the lord, a
  • 00:24:12.399 --> 00:24:14.869
  • Greater fulfillment, a more lasting fulfillment, a greater
  • 00:24:14.869 --> 00:24:18.172
  • Refreshment, a more purposeful refreshment.
  • 00:24:18.172 --> 00:24:20.207
  • So we relegate serving the lord to some secondary position.
  • 00:24:20.207 --> 00:24:25.045
  • Do what you know to do.
  • 00:24:25.045 --> 00:24:27.915
  • Why?
  • 00:24:27.915 --> 00:24:29.283
  • Because breakthroughs provide a glimpse of god's plan
  • 00:24:29.283 --> 00:24:30.618
  • And purpose.
  • 00:24:30.618 --> 00:24:31.986
  • Every time you have another breakthrough, you get a bit
  • 00:24:31.986 --> 00:24:33.320
  • More clarity.
  • 00:24:33.320 --> 00:24:34.688
  • Simeon and anna left the temple that day saying, "the messiah
  • 00:24:34.688 --> 00:24:39.159
  • Is here.
  • 00:24:39.159 --> 00:24:41.729
  • He's here.
  • 00:24:41.729 --> 00:24:44.698
  • He's here!
  • 00:24:44.698 --> 00:24:47.434
  • We've seen the child.
  • 00:24:47.434 --> 00:24:50.604
  • Now we know something of the timeline, we know what's coming.
  • 00:24:50.604 --> 00:24:54.275
  • He's here!"
  • 00:24:54.275 --> 00:24:57.244
  • See, a breakthrough changes your understanding of the unfolding
  • 00:24:57.244 --> 00:25:01.248
  • Purposes of god.
  • 00:25:01.248 --> 00:25:03.250
  • "that's what--we don't want that.
  • 00:25:03.250 --> 00:25:04.585
  • I just want out of pain!
  • 00:25:04.585 --> 00:25:06.654
  • I just want what i want."
  • 00:25:06.654 --> 00:25:08.989
  • And god said "no, if you'll cooperate, i'm gonna invite you
  • 00:25:08.989 --> 00:25:12.293
  • Into the narrative."
  • 00:25:12.293 --> 00:25:15.596
  • Breakthroughs.
  • 00:25:15.596 --> 00:25:17.865
  • Breakthroughs!
  • 00:25:17.865 --> 00:25:22.102
  • I brought you a prayer.
  • 00:25:22.102 --> 00:25:24.271
  • Why don't you stand with me?
  • 00:25:24.271 --> 00:25:34.315
  • We'll come out of this with a whole series of breakthrough
  • 00:25:34.381 --> 00:25:36.183
  • Prayers, but we can start with this one.
  • 00:25:36.183 --> 00:25:42.389
  • "heavenly father, help us to complete the assignment which is
  • 00:25:42.389 --> 00:25:46.527
  • Before us.
  • 00:25:46.527 --> 00:25:47.895
  • Grant us understanding hearts-- may we be aware of your spirit
  • 00:25:47.895 --> 00:25:53.200
  • And his direction, illumine our path that we may walk
  • 00:25:53.200 --> 00:25:57.771
  • In obedience.
  • 00:25:57.771 --> 00:25:59.139
  • Give us the courage and boldness necessary to follow each day.
  • 00:25:59.139 --> 00:26:04.144
  • Renew our strength, provide daily all that is needed,
  • 00:26:04.144 --> 00:26:08.449
  • Deliver us from evil...
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  • May we be pleasing in your sight, in jesus's name, amen."
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  • Hallelujah, god bless you.
  • 00:26:15.789 --> 00:26:19.627
  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:26:19.627 --> 00:26:24.665
  • Allen: you know, i've often said that what happens in the
  • 00:26:25.966 --> 00:26:27.468
  • White house is not more important than what happens in
  • 00:26:27.468 --> 00:26:29.803
  • Your house.
  • 00:26:29.803 --> 00:26:31.138
  • I have an assignment if you'll accept it.
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  • Imagine your kitchen table as an expression of the love of god to
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  • Our generation.
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  • Let's start to practice hospitality from the inside out,
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  • From our kitchen table to our neighbors, our friends.
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  • God will meet us in that place as we take those simple steps of
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  • Obedience, honor him at our kitchen table, and we can join
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  • With what god is doing in the earth.
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  • Now that is an opportunity.
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  • Announcer: some of life's most meaningful moments happen around
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  • A kitchen table.
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  • That's where stories are shared and faith is passed from one
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  • Generation to the next.
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  • To help you welcome others for a meal, we've created a tools for
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  • Hospitality set.
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  • It includes a custom kitchen towel, three of pastor allen's
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  • Favorite recipes, and some simple tips you can use to help
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  • Your guests feel at home.
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  • Request your tools for hospitality set with your gift
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  • Of $25 or more at allenjackson.com.
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