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Allen Jackson - When Kingdoms Collide (Part 1)

June 22, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - When Kingdoms Collide (Part 1)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - When Kingdoms Collide (Part 1) | June 22, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: we have a new resource for you.
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  • I'm really excited about this.
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  • It's a book. it's a booklet.
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  • It's a small book called "your identity in christ."
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  • It was derived from years of teaching and leading in the
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  • Context of the church.
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  • We're walking through a season, folks, when there's so much
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  • Confusion about our identity.
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  • We put this together to help you understand who you are in
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  • Christ, not just about your salvation, but so that you can
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  • Lead a triumphant, victorious, overcoming life.
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  • We built it for an individual read.
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  • It's great for a small group.
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  • It's a great resource for your kitchen table time as a family
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  • With children or grandchildren.
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  • If you know who you are in christ, it changes everything
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  • About the landscape of your life.
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  • I'm righteous in the sight of god.
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  • I can stand before god without fear, guilt, or condemnation.
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  • Those are such important foundational principles to get
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  • Secure in your heart, around your table with the people you
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  • Care about, in your small groups, with your friends.
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  • Your identity in christ, it's a game changer.
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  • I believe it will add momentum to your spiritual growth in
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  • This season.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen jackson: i want to begin a discussion that i know we're
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  • Gonna spend two or three sessions on under the general
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  • Theme of "when kingdoms collide."
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  • And please don't let the outline be too cumbersome for
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  • You tonight.
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  • I'm gonna try to not to do that myself.
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  • So, if we don't get done, we'll just pick it up with next.
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  • I'm more interested in what the lord has put before us, "when
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  • Kingdoms collide."
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  • I believe we're watching a very visible--as visible a
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  • Demonstration of spiritual conflict as i can remember in
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  • Many, many decades.
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  • We're seeing a collision of kingdoms, and i'm not talking
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  • About politics, of worldviews, of values, of good and evil, of
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  • Dark and light.
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  • There's a lot of labels you can use.
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  • The evidence of that is we're walking through
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  • Unprecedented change.
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  • It's coming at a pace of a magnitude and a scope that we're
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  • Not accustomed to.
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  • There's tremendous realignment afoot, but it's difficult to
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  • Keep up with it.
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  • It's often difficult to understand if it's good or bad.
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  • You just wish we--could we hit pause and talk about this for
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  • A moment?
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  • But it moves.
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  • Well, i'm not sure that's different.
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  • I think there's been tremendous change underfoot for quite a
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  • Season now.
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  • I just think the tone of it has changed a bit.
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  • And so, our old paradigm of watch and listen, think and act
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  • Is more important now than it's ever been.
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  • There's a great temptation to withdraw and say, "you know,
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  • I'm tired.
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  • It's wearying, it's, you know, i survived the election and now i
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  • Just wanna wash my hands of it."
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  • I don't think that's the best approach because the change
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  • Isn't over.
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  • And if you're not watching and listening and thinking, it could
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  • Bring consequences that you would prefer it didn't.
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  • There's various biblical labels for what we're watching.
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  • The kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness, i'm not
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  • Gonna take the time to walk you through all of these passages,
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  • But they're all within the scripture.
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  • Kingdom of darkness, kingdom of light, the kingdom of heaven and
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  • God, the kingdom of satan, my father's kingdom, an eternal
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  • Kingdom, this present age, all of that right now is in
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  • The blender.
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  • And to maintain your perspective and your values is not simple.
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  • It takes some determination and some focus.
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  • It takes some fellow travelers who are christ followers.
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  • I do not believe you have any shot at this if you're not
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  • Regularly, systematically reading your bible.
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  • I need the grounding that comes from the word of god, and i've
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  • Read my bible once or twice.
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  • I've used this topic or theme before and i'm gonna revisit it
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  • Again, "the theater of the absurd."
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  • Please don't imagine they have closed.
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  • They are new releases every day.
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  • But i would like to hold up next to that the emergence of truth
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  • Because there are new releases in that arena on a daily basis
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  • As well.
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  • And your emotional response has a great deal to do with what you
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  • Choose to focus upon.
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  • The value of truth, i don't believe it can be overestimated.
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  • In proverbs 23:23 says, "buy the truth and do not sell it: get
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  • Wisdom, discipline, and understanding."
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  • That there's nothing more valuable than the truth.
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  • You know, a purchase is an exchange of something that you
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  • Consider valuable for something that you imagine to be even
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  • More valuable.
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  • You exchange your time for money.
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  • You'll exchange your money for food or for transportation or
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  • For education because you believe what you're exchanging
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  • Your time or your money for is of greater value, so you make
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  • The exchange.
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  • And the author of proverbs says, "buy the truth, whatever it
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  • Takes, exchange it for the truth.
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  • And when you get the truth, never let it go."
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  • That's a very high value attached to truth.
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  • Matthew 13.
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  • Jesus, very similar idea, he illustrates it differently.
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  • He says, "the kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in
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  • A field.
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  • When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy he
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  • Went and sold all he had and bought that field.
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  • Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for
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  • Fine pearls.
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  • When he found one of great value, he went away, sold
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  • Everything he had and bought it."
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  • Same idea again.
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  • You discover something of such great value that everything else
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  • That you could consider your own possession that you have
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  • Authority over you would trade for what you have discovered.
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  • Jesus refers to it as the kingdom of heaven.
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  • The author of proverbs refers to it as truth.
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  • If i distill it down, there's just an unparalleled value to
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  • The kingdom of heaven and the truth that emanates from it.
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  • There's nothing more significant than standing--your standing--in
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  • The kingdom of heaven.
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  • Nothing.
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  • No degree, no achievement, no acclaim, no resource,
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  • No opportunity.
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  • Nothing.
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  • Now you'll have to live with that a little bit because
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  • We're--if you're listening to this in a church, you know,
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  • That's kind of the default answer.
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  • "well, of course, pastor."
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  • But in the reality of our lives, the--normal is to prioritize
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  • Many things before our status in the kingdom of heaven.
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  • Or we cling to some mistaken notion that once we have turned
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  • Our faces towards heaven, that it really needs a little further
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  • Consideration because it's been forever established.
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  • Again, i don't want you to live in fear of your salvation,
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  • Neither do i want you to live in pride and arrogance.
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  • One of the principles that the bible introduces to us is that
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  • You can know the outcome of your decisions at the beginning.
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  • That we don't have to make life choices from an
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  • Uninformed perspective.
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  • That when we're choosing between curtains number one, two, and
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  • Three, we can know what's behind the curtain.
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  • That's remarkable.
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  • That is truly remarkable.
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  • It brings a purpose to everyday life and to every person's life.
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  • I borrowed a--just a stanza from a poem.
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  • I don't read a lot of poetry.
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  • I know you're shocked, but i thought this one was on point.
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  • It's very familiar, by robert frost.
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  • It's "the road not taken."
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  • It's just the introduction.
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  • He said, "two roads diverged in a yellow wood.
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  • And sorry i could not travel both and be one traveler.
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  • Long i stood and looked down one as far as i could to where it
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  • Bent beneath the undergrowth."
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  • He's lamenting.
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  • That when you come to decision points, it's not always possible
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  • To see the outcome.
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  • And i would submit to you that the word of god gives us insight
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  • Into outcomes.
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  • I understand it's far more popular these days.
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  • In fact, current thoughts suggest that there are many
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  • Options that are either equal in outcome or that the outcome is
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  • Unknowable, and, therefore, there's no responsibility
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  • In choosing.
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  • Some say it this way, "you know, there are many paths to god, it
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  • Doesn't really matter which faith you choose, just
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  • Choose one."
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  • It's kind of the 21st century version of the old
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  • Roman pantheon.
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  • For those who hold a bit of a different worldview and they
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  • Say, "you know, the outcomes really can't be known.
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  • So, just do what feels good because, at the end of the day,
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  • No one knows."
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  • Well, the scripture gives us a very, very different
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  • Perspective, and it's one that's not often discussed in church.
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  • We're pretty casual with this thing.
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  • In matthew chapter 7, jesus gives us the shorter version, or
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  • At least the shorter version is recorded.
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  • Jesus is speaking, and he said, "enter through the narrow gate.
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  • For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to
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  • Destruction, and many enter through it.
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  • But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and
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  • Only a few find it."
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  • And if you've been worshiping here for a while, we've been
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  • Living this out because for several years, the road to the
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  • Church has been narrow and few could enter at one time.
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  • And it would test the patience of the lord himself.
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  • But in recent days, a wide gate and a broad path has
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  • Been opened.
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  • And while i'm rejoicing, i have to admit this passage gives me a
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  • Bit of pause.
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  • I don't believe that jesus was talking about new salem highway.
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  • But i do believe he was talking about our life choices.
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  • And he said, "there's a pathway that leads to destruction that
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  • Is the majority choice."
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  • Now he has my attention because very seldom, i think, do we like
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  • To be outliers.
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  • We all like to consider ourselves somewhat independent
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  • Of thought or independent in our style or independent in
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  • Our perspective.
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  • But i don't find very often that we truly want to stand outside
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  • The norm.
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  • And yet jesus said that the majority opinion leads
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  • To destruction.
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  • He said, "there's a minority choice and a much less
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  • Frequented path that leads to life."
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  • Allen: hey, i wanna ask you a question.
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  • How do you identify: male, female, southerner,
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  • Educated, housewife?
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  • How do you identify?
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  • Well, i wanna suggest knowing your identity in christ is the
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  • Most significant component of your person for both
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  • Time and eternity.
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  • We put together a resource. it's a new booklet.
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  • It'll help you understand who you are in christ, your identity
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  • In the kingdom of god, and what the implications of that are for
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  • Your life today.
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  • It's a game changer.
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  • I believe it'll be a blessing to you and to your family.
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  • Female announcer: every day the world tries to define who we
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  • Are, what we should believe, and whether we're enough, but god's
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  • Word tells a different story.
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  • In pastor allen's new book, "your identity in christ: 12
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  • Truths about who you are," he shares biblical truths that will
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  • Help you recognize who you are in christ.
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  • Request your book and free companion card today with your
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  • Allen: luke gives us a bit of the same message, but he
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  • Provides a little further insight.
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  • I think it's worth a moment.
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  • It's in luke 13, "jesus went through the towns and villages,
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  • Teaching as he made his way to jerusalem.
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  • And someone asked him, 'lord, are only a few people going to
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  • Be saved?'"
  • 00:11:44.319 --> 00:11:45.653
  • Now that's a question i would like to know jesus's answer to,
  • 00:11:45.653 --> 00:11:47.589
  • Wouldn't you?
  • 00:11:47.589 --> 00:11:49.257
  • Lord, is there just gonna be a few?
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  • To which jesus responded, "'make every effort to enter through
  • 00:11:53.728 --> 00:11:57.599
  • The narrow door, because many, i tell you, will try to enter and
  • 00:11:57.599 --> 00:12:01.569
  • Will not be able to.
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  • And once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door,
  • 00:12:03.271 --> 00:12:05.774
  • You'll stand outside knocking and pleading,
  • 00:12:05.774 --> 00:12:08.743
  • "sir, open the door for us."'"
  • 00:12:08.743 --> 00:12:10.078
  • I want to pause just a moment. look at verse 24 again.
  • 00:12:10.078 --> 00:12:13.248
  • This was the--this was jesus's immediate response to the
  • 00:12:13.248 --> 00:12:16.184
  • Question, will many be saved?
  • 00:12:16.184 --> 00:12:19.154
  • He said, "make every effort."
  • 00:12:19.154 --> 00:12:23.291
  • Make every effort.
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  • I've spent my life, my adult life at least,
  • 00:12:24.759 --> 00:12:27.061
  • Around christianity.
  • 00:12:27.061 --> 00:12:28.429
  • I have to tell you that is not the tone with which we give away
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  • An invitation into the kingdom of heaven.
  • 00:12:31.099 --> 00:12:34.669
  • We say it's simple, that it's easy.
  • 00:12:34.669 --> 00:12:40.542
  • Now i agree that, because of jesus's sacrifice,
  • 00:12:40.542 --> 00:12:43.444
  • It's available to everyone.
  • 00:12:43.444 --> 00:12:46.114
  • And there's not an iq test, thank god, nor a dexterity test.
  • 00:12:46.114 --> 00:12:51.986
  • We don't have to be ambidextrous.
  • 00:12:51.986 --> 00:12:55.456
  • But it would be a mispresentation to say that to
  • 00:12:55.456 --> 00:12:58.726
  • Choose to give your heart to jesus, to call him lord of your
  • 00:12:58.726 --> 00:13:01.796
  • Life, is a commitment to easy.
  • 00:13:01.796 --> 00:13:07.202
  • That's a misrepresentation of scripture.
  • 00:13:07.202 --> 00:13:10.572
  • I wouldn't want anyone to be turned away because they
  • 00:13:10.572 --> 00:13:14.275
  • Perceive the challenge to be beyond the scope of their
  • 00:13:14.275 --> 00:13:17.111
  • Abilities, because i don't believe that is true.
  • 00:13:17.111 --> 00:13:20.748
  • I believe god will help any person who is willing to yield
  • 00:13:20.748 --> 00:13:24.953
  • Themselves to the lordship of jesus.
  • 00:13:24.953 --> 00:13:28.022
  • In fact, the scripture says he's given us everything we need for
  • 00:13:28.022 --> 00:13:30.658
  • Life in godliness.
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  • You can check me, it's in peter.
  • 00:13:32.460 --> 00:13:35.330
  • So, it's not that we lack the ability or we lack the resource
  • 00:13:35.330 --> 00:13:39.767
  • Or we lack the intellectual acuity or--it is none of
  • 00:13:39.767 --> 00:13:43.872
  • Those things.
  • 00:13:43.872 --> 00:13:45.907
  • But it would be a gross misstatement of the facts to
  • 00:13:45.907 --> 00:13:49.177
  • Suggest that following jesus is easy.
  • 00:13:49.177 --> 00:13:53.248
  • It'll take the very best you have.
  • 00:13:53.248 --> 00:13:56.684
  • In fact, in my experience, it's more strenuous, demands more of
  • 00:13:56.684 --> 00:14:00.388
  • Me than any undertaking that i have embraced to this point
  • 00:14:00.388 --> 00:14:05.627
  • Because i have to be willing to yield my heart and my emotions,
  • 00:14:05.627 --> 00:14:10.899
  • And my thoughts and my will.
  • 00:14:10.899 --> 00:14:14.869
  • And those things do not come easily to me.
  • 00:14:14.869 --> 00:14:18.573
  • I have a very strong bias towards what i think and what i
  • 00:14:18.573 --> 00:14:23.611
  • Feel and what i want.
  • 00:14:23.611 --> 00:14:27.615
  • And to yield those things makes the other forms of discipline
  • 00:14:27.615 --> 00:14:33.488
  • That i have engaged in seem somewhat simplistic.
  • 00:14:33.488 --> 00:14:37.592
  • And i believe that's what jesus is saying: make every effort.
  • 00:14:37.592 --> 00:14:41.863
  • "make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because
  • 00:14:41.863 --> 00:14:45.033
  • Many, i tell you," not a few, "many i tell you will try to
  • 00:14:45.033 --> 00:14:49.370
  • Enter and not be able to."
  • 00:14:49.370 --> 00:14:50.872
  • Do you have that imagination?
  • 00:14:50.872 --> 00:14:56.611
  • "once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door,
  • 00:14:56.611 --> 00:14:58.980
  • You'll stand outside knocking and pleading," you're gonna make
  • 00:14:58.980 --> 00:15:02.183
  • Your case, he said.
  • 00:15:02.183 --> 00:15:03.518
  • "'open the door for us.'
  • 00:15:03.518 --> 00:15:04.886
  • But he will answer, 'i don't know you or where you
  • 00:15:04.886 --> 00:15:07.055
  • Come from.'
  • 00:15:07.055 --> 00:15:08.656
  • And you will say, 'we ate and drank with you and you taught in
  • 00:15:08.656 --> 00:15:11.960
  • Our streets.'
  • 00:15:11.960 --> 00:15:14.562
  • But he will reply, 'i don't know you or where you come from.
  • 00:15:14.562 --> 00:15:17.398
  • Away from me, all of you evil doers.'"
  • 00:15:17.398 --> 00:15:20.501
  • See, it isn't about acquaintance.
  • 00:15:20.501 --> 00:15:22.837
  • It isn't about familiarity.
  • 00:15:22.837 --> 00:15:25.606
  • It's not about an awareness or even knowledge.
  • 00:15:25.606 --> 00:15:30.111
  • "we've listened to your messages.
  • 00:15:30.111 --> 00:15:31.713
  • We know who you are.
  • 00:15:31.713 --> 00:15:33.614
  • We're not unacquainted."
  • 00:15:33.614 --> 00:15:37.185
  • Jesus said, "there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
  • 00:15:37.185 --> 00:15:40.955
  • That phrase "gnashing of teeth" is used repeatedly, and it seems
  • 00:15:40.955 --> 00:15:45.226
  • To me that it suggests a condition for those people who
  • 00:15:45.226 --> 00:15:47.695
  • Were very, very close to the kingdom of heaven, but did not
  • 00:15:47.695 --> 00:15:51.966
  • Enter in, did not participate.
  • 00:15:51.966 --> 00:15:54.002
  • And when that ultimate judgment point comes, when the
  • 00:15:54.002 --> 00:15:56.504
  • Opportunity ceases to be present any longer, the response is this
  • 00:15:56.504 --> 00:16:01.209
  • Overwhelming state of remorse that's summarized in this
  • 00:16:01.209 --> 00:16:05.013
  • Gnashing of teeth.
  • 00:16:05.013 --> 00:16:09.517
  • Don't stand in that place.
  • 00:16:09.517 --> 00:16:12.954
  • Don't stand at a distance.
  • 00:16:12.954 --> 00:16:14.989
  • Don't be content with being familiar.
  • 00:16:14.989 --> 00:16:21.796
  • "they'll be weeping and gnashing your teeth, when you see
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  • Abraham, isaac, and jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom
  • 00:16:23.865 --> 00:16:26.567
  • Of god, but you yourselves thrown out.
  • 00:16:26.567 --> 00:16:31.439
  • People will come from the east and the west and the north and
  • 00:16:31.439 --> 00:16:33.574
  • The south, and will take their places at the feast in the
  • 00:16:33.574 --> 00:16:35.877
  • Kingdom of god.
  • 00:16:35.877 --> 00:16:37.311
  • Indeed there are those who are last who will be first, and
  • 00:16:37.311 --> 00:16:42.917
  • First who will be last."
  • 00:16:42.917 --> 00:16:45.620
  • It's a very plainspoken passage.
  • 00:16:45.620 --> 00:16:48.956
  • Honestly, it doesn't require a great deal of interpretation,
  • 00:16:48.956 --> 00:16:51.526
  • But it does stand in contrast to much of the messaging that
  • 00:16:51.526 --> 00:16:55.663
  • Washes over a contemporary evangelical christian.
  • 00:16:55.663 --> 00:17:00.234
  • And i don't want you to be unaware.
  • 00:17:00.234 --> 00:17:01.569
  • I don't want you to be so secure in your self righteousness that
  • 00:17:01.569 --> 00:17:04.305
  • You're not listening to the scripture.
  • 00:17:04.305 --> 00:17:06.941
  • I don't wanna be.
  • 00:17:06.941 --> 00:17:08.910
  • Do you imagine you could ignore the direction of scripture and
  • 00:17:08.910 --> 00:17:12.680
  • Still be included in the kingdom of god?
  • 00:17:12.680 --> 00:17:16.117
  • If you do, you're deceived.
  • 00:17:16.117 --> 00:17:19.120
  • I can tell you personally that i'm not willing to accept
  • 00:17:19.120 --> 00:17:21.689
  • That gamble.
  • 00:17:21.689 --> 00:17:25.760
  • And i would encourage you to reject that proposal as well.
  • 00:17:25.760 --> 00:17:32.266
  • So, the solution is to align yourself with kingdom values.
  • 00:17:32.266 --> 00:17:36.037
  • It's not rocket science.
  • 00:17:36.037 --> 00:17:38.506
  • When jesus's disciples said, "teach us to pray," this is the
  • 00:17:38.506 --> 00:17:41.275
  • Prayer jesus gave them.
  • 00:17:41.275 --> 00:17:42.610
  • You know 'em as the most repeated prayer in the history
  • 00:17:42.610 --> 00:17:44.378
  • Of the church.
  • 00:17:44.378 --> 00:17:45.746
  • The lord's prayer, the our father.
  • 00:17:45.746 --> 00:17:47.081
  • In matthew 6, jesus said, "this is how you should pray: 'our
  • 00:17:47.081 --> 00:17:49.584
  • Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come,
  • 00:17:49.584 --> 00:17:53.421
  • Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven."'
  • 00:17:53.421 --> 00:17:57.458
  • Jesus said, "you should pray like this, 'let your will be
  • 00:17:57.458 --> 00:18:00.495
  • Done in the earth like it's done in the heaven.'"
  • 00:18:00.495 --> 00:18:02.597
  • Who did you imagine was gonna do that?
  • 00:18:02.597 --> 00:18:03.998
  • The preachers?
  • 00:18:03.998 --> 00:18:06.868
  • Well, then jesus would have said that.
  • 00:18:06.868 --> 00:18:09.403
  • Let the preachers do your will in the earth.
  • 00:18:09.403 --> 00:18:13.074
  • No, he said, "this is your prayer."
  • 00:18:13.074 --> 00:18:15.343
  • When you pray that prayer, it's an invitation to raise your hand
  • 00:18:15.343 --> 00:18:19.514
  • And say, "i will be an expression of your will."
  • 00:18:19.514 --> 00:18:24.986
  • That's so easily said and so very difficult to live out.
  • 00:18:24.986 --> 00:18:30.324
  • It is so very difficult to live out.
  • 00:18:30.324 --> 00:18:35.897
  • "let your will be done through me."
  • 00:18:35.897 --> 00:18:37.231
  • I'm not talking about gross expressions of good and evil.
  • 00:18:37.231 --> 00:18:41.202
  • I'm talking about willing to be a light, to use your voice.
  • 00:18:41.202 --> 00:18:45.740
  • Not in criticism or condemnation, but in the places
  • 00:18:45.740 --> 00:18:49.544
  • Where you go to be an advocate for what you know, to be godly.
  • 00:18:49.544 --> 00:18:54.348
  • And to not use your presence or your voice to advocate for
  • 00:18:54.348 --> 00:18:59.387
  • Things you know to be ungodly.
  • 00:18:59.387 --> 00:19:02.490
  • Hard stop.
  • 00:19:02.490 --> 00:19:05.026
  • No buts.
  • 00:19:05.026 --> 00:19:06.928
  • No, but--well, it's a difficult, no.
  • 00:19:06.928 --> 00:19:12.200
  • "let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven."
  • 00:19:12.200 --> 00:19:17.772
  • Jesus taught us to pray.
  • 00:19:17.772 --> 00:19:19.307
  • Pray that.
  • 00:19:19.307 --> 00:19:20.875
  • Now there is an inherent conflict between these kingdoms,
  • 00:19:20.875 --> 00:19:24.312
  • And this needs to be understood.
  • 00:19:24.312 --> 00:19:25.646
  • It's not unique to me or to you.
  • 00:19:25.646 --> 00:19:27.148
  • It's not about our nationality or our race or the
  • 00:19:27.148 --> 00:19:32.086
  • Primary language.
  • 00:19:32.086 --> 00:19:35.156
  • We are descendants of adam and it's--we're a race of rebels.
  • 00:19:35.156 --> 00:19:39.393
  • Adam rebelled against god and we inherited that
  • 00:19:39.393 --> 00:19:43.598
  • Rebellious nature.
  • 00:19:43.598 --> 00:19:45.433
  • And the only way to escape its consequence of ultimate
  • 00:19:45.433 --> 00:19:48.703
  • Destruction is to yield to the redemptive gift of jesus of
  • 00:19:48.703 --> 00:19:52.940
  • Nazareth, to choose him as lord.
  • 00:19:52.940 --> 00:19:56.811
  • But yielding that rebellious nature is not simple.
  • 00:19:56.811 --> 00:20:01.015
  • And there's a--god has an adversary in the earth, a very
  • 00:20:01.015 --> 00:20:04.986
  • Well structured, very well-ordered, very effective
  • 00:20:04.986 --> 00:20:08.189
  • Kingdom of darkness that opposes the purposes of god.
  • 00:20:08.189 --> 00:20:12.927
  • And if satan and his kingdom cannot stop you from entering
  • 00:20:12.927 --> 00:20:17.198
  • The kingdom of god, he'll do everything they can to impede
  • 00:20:17.198 --> 00:20:20.635
  • Your progress, to discourage you, to thwart you fulfilling
  • 00:20:20.635 --> 00:20:24.605
  • What god created you for.
  • 00:20:24.605 --> 00:20:27.708
  • I can't tell you how many christians, i mean, they go,
  • 00:20:27.708 --> 00:20:29.410
  • "you know, i don't--i just don't think about all that stuff."
  • 00:20:29.410 --> 00:20:34.915
  • How long would the united states maintain our freedom and liberty
  • 00:20:34.915 --> 00:20:38.252
  • If we disbanded the military?
  • 00:20:38.252 --> 00:20:41.188
  • We've been perilously close to that.
  • 00:20:41.188 --> 00:20:42.556
  • We've had open borders and the military focused more on dei
  • 00:20:42.556 --> 00:20:46.260
  • Than defeating our enemies.
  • 00:20:46.260 --> 00:20:47.995
  • So, we weren't very far away from that experience, but if we
  • 00:20:47.995 --> 00:20:50.464
  • Completely disbanded it, how long do you think you would
  • 00:20:50.464 --> 00:20:52.433
  • Maintain your liberty and freedom?
  • 00:20:52.433 --> 00:20:56.570
  • Not very long.
  • 00:20:56.570 --> 00:20:57.938
  • How long would israel exist if they decided they're just gonna
  • 00:20:57.938 --> 00:21:00.574
  • Cancel the idea if it's too expensive?
  • 00:21:00.574 --> 00:21:03.277
  • They're tired of the young people having to stay and watch.
  • 00:21:03.277 --> 00:21:06.714
  • We're just going to declare ourselves a peaceful people.
  • 00:21:06.714 --> 00:21:13.321
  • Not till the end of the week.
  • 00:21:13.321 --> 00:21:15.389
  • I can answer that question.
  • 00:21:15.389 --> 00:21:17.191
  • Well, let me ask you a question.
  • 00:21:17.191 --> 00:21:19.327
  • How do you imagine you will flourish in your journey through
  • 00:21:19.327 --> 00:21:22.997
  • Time if you make no provision for the kingdom of darkness?
  • 00:21:22.997 --> 00:21:27.635
  • How do you imagine the purposes of god will emerge in your life
  • 00:21:27.635 --> 00:21:31.405
  • And in the lives of those you love if you are not
  • 00:21:31.405 --> 00:21:34.408
  • Purposefully, intentionally, consistently engaged in a plan
  • 00:21:34.408 --> 00:21:40.448
  • That involves the objectives of the kingdom of darkness.
  • 00:21:40.448 --> 00:21:45.786
  • It seems to me we have lived incredibly naive lives.
  • 00:21:45.786 --> 00:21:49.790
  • We point to our conversion and we point to the set of rules
  • 00:21:49.790 --> 00:21:53.694
  • That we've chosen to keep because all of us choose some
  • 00:21:53.694 --> 00:21:55.996
  • Rules and ignore some other ones.
  • 00:21:55.996 --> 00:21:59.633
  • And so, we try to pretend as if this conflict is somehow--we're
  • 00:21:59.633 --> 00:22:04.271
  • Immune from it.
  • 00:22:04.271 --> 00:22:05.606
  • We can declare ourselves conscientious objectors standing
  • 00:22:05.606 --> 00:22:08.376
  • Beneath the invisibility cloth of the grace of god.
  • 00:22:08.376 --> 00:22:13.514
  • Well, it didn't work too well for jesus.
  • 00:22:13.514 --> 00:22:17.017
  • It didn't protect john the baptist.
  • 00:22:17.017 --> 00:22:19.920
  • It didn't keep paul from being beaten almost to death
  • 00:22:19.920 --> 00:22:22.690
  • Five times.
  • 00:22:22.690 --> 00:22:25.126
  • Didn't keep peter or james from being martyred.
  • 00:22:25.126 --> 00:22:32.066
  • In luke 16, jesus said, "no one--no servant can serve
  • 00:22:32.066 --> 00:22:35.636
  • Two masters.
  • 00:22:35.636 --> 00:22:37.204
  • Either he'll hate the one and love the other, or he'll be
  • 00:22:37.204 --> 00:22:40.207
  • Devoted to one and despise the other."
  • 00:22:40.207 --> 00:22:42.443
  • Now that's the thesis statement.
  • 00:22:42.443 --> 00:22:44.612
  • You cannot serve two masters.
  • 00:22:44.612 --> 00:22:47.581
  • And all of us are caught in this tension, folks, no exceptions.
  • 00:22:47.581 --> 00:22:52.186
  • We're all caught in this tension.
  • 00:22:52.186 --> 00:22:55.389
  • And it's a worthwhile exercise from time to time to just have
  • 00:22:55.389 --> 00:22:58.993
  • Some honest self talk about what has mastery of your life.
  • 00:22:58.993 --> 00:23:04.331
  • What are you dreaming about?
  • 00:23:04.331 --> 00:23:05.699
  • What are you striving for?
  • 00:23:05.699 --> 00:23:07.201
  • What are you investing your energy in?
  • 00:23:07.201 --> 00:23:09.637
  • What if it were removed or delayed?
  • 00:23:09.637 --> 00:23:11.338
  • Would it cause disruption to you and frustration to you?
  • 00:23:11.338 --> 00:23:15.476
  • What master are you serving?
  • 00:23:15.476 --> 00:23:18.145
  • I'm not questioning your salvation again, i'm asking you
  • 00:23:18.145 --> 00:23:21.115
  • The direction of your life, the momentum of your life.
  • 00:23:21.115 --> 00:23:23.484
  • We're in a conflict.
  • 00:23:23.484 --> 00:23:27.188
  • Now jesus gives an application, but it's not the only one.
  • 00:23:27.188 --> 00:23:29.957
  • He said, "you cannot serve both god and money."
  • 00:23:29.957 --> 00:23:33.761
  • Cannot is a harsh word.
  • 00:23:33.761 --> 00:23:35.095
  • This means it's impossible.
  • 00:23:35.095 --> 00:23:37.865
  • Cannot happen.
  • 00:23:37.865 --> 00:23:39.200
  • You're serving one or the other.
  • 00:23:39.200 --> 00:23:41.202
  • Well, this gets personal so fast.
  • 00:23:41.202 --> 00:23:42.803
  • Aren't you glad the offering's over?
  • 00:23:42.803 --> 00:23:46.006
  • Now reach under your seat and pull out that commitment card.
  • 00:23:46.006 --> 00:23:48.108
  • Nah, i'm just kidding.
  • 00:23:48.108 --> 00:23:49.777
  • It's a good idea.
  • 00:23:49.777 --> 00:23:51.479
  • "the pharisees, who loved money, heard all of this and they were
  • 00:23:51.479 --> 00:23:55.549
  • Sneering at jesus.
  • 00:23:55.549 --> 00:23:58.385
  • And he said to them, 'you are the ones who justify yourselves
  • 00:23:58.385 --> 00:24:01.021
  • In the eyes of men, but god knows your heart.'"
  • 00:24:01.021 --> 00:24:04.325
  • Well, that is an uncomfortable state.
  • 00:24:04.325 --> 00:24:07.495
  • He said, "you have managed to justify your lives and your
  • 00:24:07.495 --> 00:24:11.031
  • Choices and your positions and your power so that when people
  • 00:24:11.031 --> 00:24:14.468
  • Look at you, they're pretty much neutral, but god knows
  • 00:24:14.468 --> 00:24:19.607
  • Your heart."
  • 00:24:19.607 --> 00:24:21.509
  • Again, i don't think that's a threat.
  • 00:24:21.509 --> 00:24:22.843
  • I think it's a promise.
  • 00:24:22.843 --> 00:24:25.479
  • We live in a world where negative labels are cast around
  • 00:24:25.479 --> 00:24:29.583
  • Way too quickly.
  • 00:24:29.583 --> 00:24:32.319
  • I mean, there's all sorts of hateful words.
  • 00:24:32.319 --> 00:24:33.888
  • You're familiar with the litany--"bigot."
  • 00:24:33.888 --> 00:24:38.559
  • "hateful, racist, sexist, misogynist, xenophobic."
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  • I mean, the list goes on and on.
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  • And most of us do our best to never get cast in a light that
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  • Would cause those labels to be attached to us.
  • 00:24:51.005 --> 00:24:56.744
  • But jesus said, "god knows your heart."
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  • See, that's not a threat to me, that's a promise.
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  • It means if i'll give attention to my heart, god knows.
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  • People may say or people may think or people that you want to
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  • Be approving of you may withhold approval for whatever reason,
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  • But god knows your heart.
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  • You don't have to be afraid.
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  • Allen: hey, the reality of life is it's often more difficult
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  • Than i would like it to be and the enemy comes and says,
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  • "you should quit.
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  • You should withdraw from god.
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  • He's not trustworthy.
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  • That he isn't dependable.
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  • You couldn't--you can't trust him for your future."
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  • Well, the enemy's a liar.
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  • God is faithful.
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  • He watches over his word and his people and even when we walk
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  • Through the valley of the shadow of death, he is faithful, and we
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  • Don't have to fear evil.
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  • Let's pray.
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  • Father, i thank you that light conquers darkness and that the
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  • Truth conquers a lie.
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  • And i pray that the life of jesus christ will be more real
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  • In us than any threat we face today.
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  • I thank you for it and i thank you for your faithfulness, in
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  • Jesus's name, amen.
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  • Allen: hey, i'm really excited about our newest publication.
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  • It's called "your identity in christ."
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  • It's a booklet, small book intended to help you understand
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  • Who you are in christ, straightforward, grounded in
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  • Scripture, but i help people take steps towards
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  • Spiritual freedom.
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  • The most essential component is helping them understand who they
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  • Are in christ.
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  • You know, we're walking through a season where there's
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  • Tremendous cultural confusion, so much dialogue about how
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  • We identify.
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  • Folks, understanding who you are in christ, the price that was
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  • Paid to give you status in the kingdom of god, it will write a
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  • Future for you that is not dependent upon your family of
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  • Origin, your life circumstance, the expressions of evil that
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  • You've had to overcome.
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  • In christ jesus we are triumphant, both in
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  • Time and for all eternity.
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  • We put this little booklet together.
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  • It'll help you. you can read it.
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  • You can do it as a small group.
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  • It's easy to share the message with children or grandchildren.
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  • Make this a part of this season in your life and in your home
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  • And with your friends.
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  • It's a game changer.
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  • ♪♪♪
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