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Allen Jackson - When Kingdoms Collide (Part 2)

June 23, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - When Kingdoms Collide (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - When Kingdoms Collide (Part 2) | June 23, 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: in the current environment, i keep this kind of
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  • Running list in my head between the theater of the absurd and
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  • The truth of god's word 'cause they seem to be in focus all the
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  • Time depending on the messaging you listen to and how they spin
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  • What you're watching.
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  • And i need the balance.
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  • I need the foundation of god's word to help me
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  • Sort through the releases of the theater
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  • Of the absurd because oftentimes they're
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  • Released with some very impressive credentials.
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  • Very notable people signing off on them.
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  • I've come to the realization that people who serve the absurd
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  • Typically do so for purpose.
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  • They do it to gain profit, to gain pleasure, to
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  • Gain opportunity.
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  • So, they endorse things that if you step away from them with any
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  • Clarity oh, it'll look absurd,
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  • But they endorse them because there's some
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  • Personal benefit 'cause they choose the pleasure or they
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  • Choose the gain or they choose the opportunity presented.
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  • People who choose the truth oftentimes the gratification is
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  • Delayed, which means it's not always the easiest choice.
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  • It's always easier for me to say yes to m&m's than no.
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  • After all, they've got a candy shell, so they melt in your
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  • Mouth, not in your hand, right?
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  • I mean, i always feel that when there's an opportunity to
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  • Interact with an oreo double stuff, that the grace of god has
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  • Emerged in my life once again.
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  • I don't have that same compulsion with broccoli.
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  • Choosing the truth often is about delayed gratification.
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  • That doesn't make it--mean it's less valuable.
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  • In fact, typically it means it's more valuable.
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  • I can give you some examples from things that are just a part
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  • Of the current public discussion; a line that we've
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  • Lived with now for quite some time, but it's been
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  • Challenged recently.
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  • The absurd was there are a limitless number of genders
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  • Determined by personal feelings.
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  • Now, i had an interview with a psychiatrist that works in a
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  • State system, not this state, and on their evaluation form
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  • There were more than 30 choices.
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  • I'd have to go back to graduate school just to process
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  • That list.
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  • We've heard recently from a political leader that there were
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  • Only two genders: male and female.
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  • Now, i'm grateful for that expression of authority in our
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  • Lives, but i'm very concerned that it didn't begin with a
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  • Groundswell from the churches.
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  • That should not have been first and initially a political
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  • Declaration, that should have been so obvious and so loudly
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  • Reiterated from the churches.
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  • And when i say church in this little section, i mean church.
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  • I don't mean just institutional, organizational, professional
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  • Christians; i mean the believers.
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  • Folks, if you work in a profession that has acknowledged
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  • Multiple genders and you didn't have the courage to say there's
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  • Two, don't talk to me about pastors using their courage.
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  • "i assure you i have spoken the truth when i deal with my
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  • Professional group."
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  • Limit your opportunities.
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  • But this issue has to go beyond our ability to be critical and
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  • Complain about places of worship.
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  • If you sit in a place that doesn't tell the truth, why?
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  • On this topic i believe the churches, the believers had
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  • Failed to teach biblical truth regarding gender roles for so
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  • Long, but we arrived at the point that men and women were
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  • Competing in athletic contest because we've spent decades
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  • Avoiding the clear teaching of scripture that we're not the
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  • Same and we preferred to tell our daughters that they could do
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  • Anything a boy could do.
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  • No.
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  • We're different.
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  • We're not lesser or greater, but we're not the same.
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  • That's not my imagination.
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  • It comes from the word of god, and we're going to have to have
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  • The courage to come back to that.
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  • And we've found our culture so absurdly off-kilter on
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  • This point that we have absurd statements like it's always
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  • Wrong for a man to use physical violence against a woman.
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  • I don't object to that statement.
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  • I think it makes perfect sense.
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  • And then we have the international olympics, and we
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  • Have men boxing with women.
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  • Now, you can't reconcile those two.
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  • They're irreconcilable.
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  • It's absurd.
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  • But the church, the believers have avoided the truth so long
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  • Because we imagine there was something to be gained if we
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  • Just ignored the truth.
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  • I'll tell you another absurd statement we've heard for some
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  • Season, that an open border is an expression of compassion;
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  • Followed very closely by the statement that our border
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  • Is secure.
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  • Well, the truth is an open border is dangerous to
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  • All citizens.
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  • Securing the border is a first responsibility of government,
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  • And a failure to do so is a complete capitulation upon the
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  • Responsibility of those who have leadership over us.
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  • The really uncomfortable part is because of sloppy grace the
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  • Church has failed to teach about the sovereignty of god.
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  • We have no imagination of boundaries, or borders, or thou
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  • Shalt not.
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  • We've had so much sloppy grace that anything goes and
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  • Everything's okay.
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  • And so, when someone comes to us and uses grace or compassion as
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  • A lever of manipulation, we're unprepared to think our way
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  • Through it.
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  • I'll tell you another statement that--it's absurd, but it made
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  • Its way into the realm of truth recently.
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  • More than 90% of federal employees don't work full time
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  • From the office.
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  • Just think about that for a moment.
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  • More than 90% do not work full time from the office.
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  • Now, it's hard to imagine that as an efficient anything.
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  • Suppose i told you that i wanted to continue to do my job, but i
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  • Just want you to know 90% of the next several years i won't
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  • Actually be in the house.
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  • I'll be with you in spirit.
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  • And, i mean, i'm going to zoom some.
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  • Those of you watching the stream, you're going, "that
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  • Works for us.
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  • Just whatever works for you, pastor.
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  • Keep the lines open."
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  • It's so absurd when you say it out loud.
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  • You think, "well, who's watching over that?"
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  • Well, clearly it wasn't us.
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  • The truth is work is an expression of character and work
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  • From a biblical perspective is inherently good.
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  • In fact, i don't think it's a stretch of scripture to suggest
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  • That when you go to work you go to worship every bit as much as
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  • You do as when you walk into a sanctuary to sing a chorus.
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  • In fact, when we meet god in genesis chapter 1, he's working,
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  • And just for the casual observer he's working a six-day week.
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  • "well, well, well."
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  • Again, church and believers have capitulated to culture.
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  • See, it's easier for us to think we can be enhanced or enriched
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  • By affluence and we'd rather turn our attention to elder
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  • Places, and too often in contemporary culture we use our
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  • Children as an excuse for our avoidance of work.
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  • We do.
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  • "well, i need to spend more quality time with my children."
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  • Now, i'm an advocate for that, i believe it's important; but i
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  • Would submit to you, men especially, that we have three
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  • Primary assignments in the sight of god.
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  • One is to introduce our children and teach them about the kingdom
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  • Of god.
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  • Not the church, not the sunday school, yours.
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  • Church and sunday school can be a help.
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  • They can be an assist.
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  • That's why you can't sit in the church that dishonors jesus or
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  • The authority of scripture.
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  • You make your children incredibly vulnerable.
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  • And then we have to protect them and provide for them, and those
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  • Things lead the discussion.
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  • The scripture says that if you don't provide for your family
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  • You're worse than an infidel.
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  • We've lost that message in the contemporary.
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  • I read the literature.
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  • I read the articles.
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  • I know what we've been pumping out for quite a season now.
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  • It's how we arrived in this place where 90% of the federal
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  • Employees can work from home.
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  • Sure.
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  • One of the other absurdities of our current environment
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  • Is just the unbelievable, frivolous waste of money.
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  • I saw a stat come out in the last few days.
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  • It was difficult to believe just 'cause i know a bit more about
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  • That part of the world.
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  • Our department of defense was preparing to send $50 million to
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  • Gaza for condoms.
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  • Maybe, just maybe an expenditure that could be put under review.
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  • The truth is we've lost sense of the stewardship of time, talent,
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  • And money; and from a biblical perspective, we've already
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  • Glanced at it in luke 16.
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  • It's an expression of our character.
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  • It's as much an expression of our faith.
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  • It's how we pray and how we worship.
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  • Contentment is the biblical value.
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  • The scripture says that godliness with contentment is of
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  • Great gain.
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  • The bible says don't take what you don't earn.
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  • There are values that we have to reintroduce to our families and
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  • Through our families into our communities and into
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  • Our culture.
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  • We have lost sight of them.
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  • We have embraced a whole host of imposters, absurdities.
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  • We've been watching a national debate for the last few days
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  • Around dei: diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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  • John spoke to that last weekend.
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  • I cannot improve on what he had to say, but the essence of it is
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  • That we've made hiring decisions regarding imposed pa--future
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  • Employees based upon their appearance,
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  • Not their competence.
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  • That's absurd.
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  • The truth is we're one human race, one blood; that our
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  • Character and our heart is far more significant than our
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  • Appearance and the awkward reality, again, is the
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  • Capitulation of the church.
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  • Again, church and believers have preferred cultural acceptance
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  • And avoided the conflict.
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  • I'll give you more uncomfortable category.
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  • We've listened to the absurdity that it's my body and my choice.
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  • The biblical perspectives are out of date on human sexuality.
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  • "my body my--nobody can tell me what to do with my body."
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  • Unless they decide to tell you to get vaccinated and then
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  • That's a mandate.
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  • The truth is the sanctity of human life and god-defined
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  • Boundaries for sexuality should shape the lives of his people.
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  • Church and believers have ignored biblical presentation of
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  • Sexuality and because of that we've had to capitulate on the
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  • Sanctity of human life.
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  • We're not confused.
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  • We're not unaware.
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  • It's not that we don't understand.
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  • It's just inconvenient and we think god's going to grade on a
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  • Curve and that grace thing is going to come into play, so we
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  • Can fudge around the edges and somehow it's going to be okay.
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  • We mock god.
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  • Reason our culture found ourselves in this place is
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  • Because the church had lost our voice.
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  • There have been voices crying in the wilderness.
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  • I want to close with an example.
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  • I'm going to get almost through your outline.
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  • Just a reminder that the authority of scripture, a
  • 00:13:20.348 --> 00:13:22.517
  • Biblical worldview, a judeo-christian worldview is
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  • So important.
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  • And when you hear a messaging or ideas or principles that are
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  • Leading you away from the fundamentals of the character of
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  • God that you know from reading your bibles, there should be a
  • 00:13:33.828 --> 00:13:37.799
  • Warning light that begins to flash at a very high intensity
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  • Even if there's a promise of gain, profit, pleasure,
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  • Opportunity for yourself or your children or someone you love.
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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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  • Allen: well, i was reminded of something recently and i wanted
  • 00:15:28.710 --> 00:15:30.979
  • To share it with you.
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  • You know, the word of god--i have said frequently lately that
  • 00:15:33.815 --> 00:15:36.317
  • The word of god thunders against sin, that there's a moral
  • 00:15:36.317 --> 00:15:41.356
  • Authority in scripture.
  • 00:15:41.356 --> 00:15:43.324
  • And then when you will align yourself with the word of god,
  • 00:15:43.324 --> 00:15:45.860
  • There's an authority that comes to your perspective that far
  • 00:15:45.860 --> 00:15:48.629
  • Exceeds your position, your stature, your wealth; all those
  • 00:15:48.629 --> 00:15:52.166
  • Things that the world uses to evaluate us.
  • 00:15:52.166 --> 00:15:54.869
  • Martin luther king jr. brought a message of civil rights to our
  • 00:15:54.869 --> 00:15:59.207
  • Nation, but the authority for which he delivered his message
  • 00:15:59.207 --> 00:16:01.876
  • Was the word of god and the outcome reflected far more than
  • 00:16:01.876 --> 00:16:05.780
  • Anything he could personally mash up.
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  • Well, at the national prayer breakfast in washington, d.c.
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  • On february the 5th, 1994--i couldn't believe it.
  • 00:16:12.220 --> 00:16:16.691
  • It had been 30 years.
  • 00:16:16.691 --> 00:16:18.659
  • I just remembered the event, and when i went to look it up it was
  • 00:16:18.659 --> 00:16:21.295
  • Been almost 30 years.
  • 00:16:21.295 --> 00:16:23.164
  • Mother teresa stood before president and mrs. bill clinton
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  • And vice president and mrs. al gore, along with 4,000 others in
  • 00:16:27.502 --> 00:16:32.840
  • Attendance, and she called abortion murder.
  • 00:16:32.840 --> 00:16:39.380
  • Now, i would remind you, if you don't remember, that at that
  • 00:16:39.380 --> 00:16:42.083
  • Point president clinton had vetoed a partial birth abortion
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  • Ban multiple times, and should you not remember a partial birth
  • 00:16:46.087 --> 00:16:51.259
  • Abortion was delivering a child to the head crowns and then
  • 00:16:51.259 --> 00:16:55.263
  • Puncturing the head, vacuuming out what was there to collapse
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  • The head and make an easier delivery.
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  • We vetoed that multiple times.
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  • We didn't want to stop that.
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  • And this is mother teresa, a little person with--that chose
  • 00:17:10.111 --> 00:17:16.317
  • The truth of god standing in that setting without many
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  • Allies, "i feel that the greatest destroyer of peace
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  • Today is abortion because it is a war against the child, a
  • 00:17:24.892 --> 00:17:29.630
  • Direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the
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  • Mother herself.
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  • And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how
  • 00:17:35.069 --> 00:17:38.372
  • Can we tell other people not to kill one another?
  • 00:17:38.372 --> 00:17:41.576
  • How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion?
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  • As always we must persuade her with love, and we remind
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  • Ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts.
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  • Jesus gave even his life to love us.
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  • So the mother who is thinking of abortion should be helped to
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  • Love; that is, to give until it hurts her plans or her free
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  • Time, to respect the life of her child.
  • 00:18:02.897 --> 00:18:06.467
  • And the father of that child, whoever he is, must also give
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  • Until it hurts."
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  • She went on with one of the most eloquent presentations of
  • 00:18:12.640 --> 00:18:15.343
  • The truth.
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  • It didn't bring change that day.
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  • It didn't bring an immediate reversal.
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  • We've had changes in our laws, but we've yet to have a change
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  • Of heart.
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  • More than 70% of americans still say they're in favor
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  • Of abortion.
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  • We don't say it that way.
  • 00:18:36.664 --> 00:18:38.799
  • Usually it begins with limits.
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  • You know, we're opposed to abortion after 12 weeks or
  • 00:18:41.002 --> 00:18:43.571
  • 16 weeks.
  • 00:18:43.571 --> 00:18:44.939
  • Well, 80% of abortions take place before 16 weeks.
  • 00:18:44.939 --> 00:18:49.777
  • So 70% of americans are okay with abortion.
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  • One out of five people--one out of five women statistically have
  • 00:18:56.984 --> 00:19:00.454
  • Been involved.
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  • Abortion touches every one of us directly or indirectly.
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  • I didn't come to bring shame, i came to do my best to tell you
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  • The truth.
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  • There's a debate.
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  • There's a conflict taking place.
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  • There are kingdoms in conflict.
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  • And that diminutive woman from kolkata stood in front of the
  • 00:19:13.768 --> 00:19:18.005
  • Most powerful person in the planet and held up the truth
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  • About life.
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  • I would submit to you she chose the more narrow path.
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  • I'll contrast that with something we watched recently.
  • 00:19:31.852 --> 00:19:35.056
  • An episcopal bishop in washington, d.c.
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  • Who presides over the national cathedral chose to scold the
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  • Current administration, encouraging them and urging them
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  • To have mercy upon communities across the country who are
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  • Scared, including the lgbtq people and migrants, and she
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  • Went on to advocate for positions that are clearly
  • 00:19:55.676 --> 00:19:59.614
  • Against the authority of scripture.
  • 00:19:59.614 --> 00:20:03.784
  • And, again, she's a bishop in that organization.
  • 00:20:03.784 --> 00:20:06.354
  • I checked just to be sure.
  • 00:20:06.354 --> 00:20:08.623
  • As a matter of law, the episcopal church is
  • 00:20:08.623 --> 00:20:10.791
  • Unambiguously supported a woman's right to choose an
  • 00:20:10.791 --> 00:20:13.694
  • Abortion since before anyone had ever heard
  • 00:20:13.694 --> 00:20:16.397
  • The term roe v. wade.
  • 00:20:16.397 --> 00:20:20.334
  • So in between mother teresa and an episcopal bishop we have a
  • 00:20:20.334 --> 00:20:25.306
  • Kingdom conflict, we have a clash of world-views and we're
  • 00:20:25.306 --> 00:20:31.579
  • Left to watch and to listen and to think and to act.
  • 00:20:31.579 --> 00:20:37.451
  • I know you want to put your fingers in your ears and whistle
  • 00:20:37.451 --> 00:20:39.487
  • And go, "ah, it's not my issue.
  • 00:20:39.487 --> 00:20:42.056
  • I don't want to be involved anymore."
  • 00:20:42.056 --> 00:20:45.226
  • Folks, we're not called to be salt and light when
  • 00:20:45.226 --> 00:20:46.994
  • It's convenient.
  • 00:20:46.994 --> 00:20:48.529
  • Those are assignments you give to children.
  • 00:20:48.529 --> 00:20:53.134
  • "mow the yard if you have time.
  • 00:20:53.134 --> 00:20:55.903
  • Pick up your room if you can."
  • 00:20:55.903 --> 00:21:00.308
  • Those are children's assignments.
  • 00:21:00.308 --> 00:21:03.210
  • Adults have assignments with consequences, and if you fail
  • 00:21:03.210 --> 00:21:07.281
  • The assignment the consequences are typically unpleasant.
  • 00:21:07.281 --> 00:21:12.553
  • We have a choice.
  • 00:21:12.553 --> 00:21:13.988
  • We've been called to the stage, remember?
  • 00:21:13.988 --> 00:21:18.159
  • God is searching the earth for men and women whose hearts are
  • 00:21:18.159 --> 00:21:21.095
  • Right towards him.
  • 00:21:21.095 --> 00:21:22.963
  • Folks, it's not our achievement, or our accomplishments, or our
  • 00:21:22.963 --> 00:21:26.400
  • Platforms, or our resources.
  • 00:21:26.400 --> 00:21:29.470
  • What's about our heart?
  • 00:21:29.470 --> 00:21:33.007
  • What about our heart?
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  • You--this isn't about age.
  • 00:21:34.342 --> 00:21:37.545
  • You can be young and have a heart, that god could tap you
  • 00:21:37.545 --> 00:21:40.014
  • And say, "i've got an assignment that'll change the destiny
  • 00:21:40.014 --> 00:21:42.450
  • Of many."
  • 00:21:42.450 --> 00:21:45.453
  • In fact, that tends to be his pattern.
  • 00:21:45.453 --> 00:21:47.121
  • It's very seldom he recruits us old curmudgeons.
  • 00:21:47.121 --> 00:21:52.360
  • Moses had a little mileage when god came for him.
  • 00:21:52.360 --> 00:21:59.033
  • I could argue that god used samuel in the most powerful ways
  • 00:21:59.033 --> 00:22:03.304
  • When he was at the end of one of his careers.
  • 00:22:03.304 --> 00:22:05.306
  • He's done as a judge, but god said, "samuel, the people are
  • 00:22:05.306 --> 00:22:08.709
  • Making a boneheaded decision and i need you to shepherd them into
  • 00:22:08.709 --> 00:22:12.380
  • What's next."
  • 00:22:12.380 --> 00:22:13.748
  • And samuel said, "i will do that."
  • 00:22:13.748 --> 00:22:15.082
  • He could have been so angry, so enraged, so embittered that he
  • 00:22:15.082 --> 00:22:17.785
  • Said, "i'm not anointing anybody for anything."
  • 00:22:17.785 --> 00:22:22.056
  • So whoever you are on the spectrum, i wonder if we could
  • 00:22:22.056 --> 00:22:25.559
  • Say to the lord tonight, "i choose the truth.
  • 00:22:25.559 --> 00:22:29.363
  • I choose the truth.
  • 00:22:29.363 --> 00:22:31.832
  • For my life, for my home, for the people that i'm doing life
  • 00:22:31.832 --> 00:22:37.471
  • With, i choose the truth.
  • 00:22:37.471 --> 00:22:41.776
  • I choose the truth."
  • 00:22:41.776 --> 00:22:43.110
  • Are you ready?
  • 00:22:43.110 --> 00:22:44.478
  • That's the best way to limit the theater of the absurd.
  • 00:22:44.478 --> 00:22:47.815
  • Politicians can't do this, folks.
  • 00:22:47.815 --> 00:22:50.718
  • They'll initiate their changes and they won't last until the
  • 00:22:50.718 --> 00:22:53.821
  • Ink dries if we don't have a heart change amongst
  • 00:22:53.821 --> 00:22:57.291
  • The believers.
  • 00:22:57.291 --> 00:22:58.993
  • This is our watch.
  • 00:22:58.993 --> 00:23:00.327
  • Will you stand with me?
  • 00:23:00.327 --> 00:23:01.695
  • I know we got to go.
  • 00:23:01.695 --> 00:23:08.068
  • I put you a wonderful proclamation in your notes.
  • 00:23:08.068 --> 00:23:10.604
  • You can use it later.
  • 00:23:10.604 --> 00:23:14.308
  • I want to pray for you.
  • 00:23:14.308 --> 00:23:16.577
  • I don't like messages without an opportunity to respond.
  • 00:23:16.577 --> 00:23:21.782
  • If i just wanted to do lectures, i would have gone to
  • 00:23:21.782 --> 00:23:23.417
  • The university.
  • 00:23:23.417 --> 00:23:24.752
  • The hours are better.
  • 00:23:24.752 --> 00:23:27.555
  • I want you to reflect with me for a moment.
  • 00:23:27.555 --> 00:23:29.824
  • Are you willing to say to the lord, "i'll choose the truth?"
  • 00:23:29.824 --> 00:23:33.194
  • We get so heated up about other people, what they should
  • 00:23:33.194 --> 00:23:36.130
  • Be doing.
  • 00:23:36.130 --> 00:23:37.465
  • "and i don't like that choice, and i don't like--" stop it.
  • 00:23:37.465 --> 00:23:40.434
  • God knows your heart and my heart, and if we're hiding he
  • 00:23:40.434 --> 00:23:46.240
  • Knows it.
  • 00:23:46.240 --> 00:23:50.511
  • Some of us need to start this prayer for the truth with a
  • 00:23:50.511 --> 00:23:52.880
  • Repentance that we've stood in the shadows and tried to act
  • 00:23:52.880 --> 00:23:56.817
  • Like we didn't notice.
  • 00:23:56.817 --> 00:24:00.254
  • You're not unique.
  • 00:24:00.254 --> 00:24:01.622
  • Peter did that.
  • 00:24:01.622 --> 00:24:03.691
  • Boy, did they get it turned around.
  • 00:24:03.691 --> 00:24:06.393
  • So can we.
  • 00:24:06.393 --> 00:24:09.864
  • That's what they were singing about.
  • 00:24:08.529 --> 00:24:12.266
  • Let's pray.
  • 00:24:12.266 --> 00:24:13.634
  • Father, thank you for your word, for its truth and authority
  • 00:24:13.634 --> 00:24:15.569
  • And power.
  • 00:24:15.569 --> 00:24:17.137
  • I thank you that we're not left alone, we're not left just to
  • 00:24:17.137 --> 00:24:19.740
  • Our opinions or our feelings or what seems prudent to us but
  • 00:24:19.740 --> 00:24:23.944
  • That you have given us guidance and direction and instruction
  • 00:24:23.944 --> 00:24:29.550
  • And, lord, tonight we choose the truth.
  • 00:24:29.550 --> 00:24:32.553
  • We choose your truth over our lives.
  • 00:24:32.553 --> 00:24:35.789
  • We choose the authority of your word over our lives.
  • 00:24:35.789 --> 00:24:40.227
  • Lord, we choose the more narrow path.
  • 00:24:40.227 --> 00:24:43.531
  • We want to honor you.
  • 00:24:43.531 --> 00:24:45.533
  • Jesus, be lord of our lives.
  • 00:24:45.533 --> 00:24:48.402
  • Forgive us when we have equivocated.
  • 00:24:48.402 --> 00:24:50.304
  • Forgive us when we have been indifferent.
  • 00:24:50.304 --> 00:24:52.706
  • Forgive us when we have denied what we knew so that we could
  • 00:24:52.706 --> 00:24:57.011
  • Gain an opportunity or an advantage or a profit.
  • 00:24:57.011 --> 00:24:59.980
  • Lord, forgive us when we've pursued pleasure over what we
  • 00:24:59.980 --> 00:25:03.484
  • Knew to be true.
  • 00:25:03.484 --> 00:25:07.254
  • Lord, we come tonight in humility to repent; to repent of
  • 00:25:07.254 --> 00:25:11.392
  • Our thoughts, to change our minds; and to repent of our
  • 00:25:11.392 --> 00:25:13.661
  • Actions and to choose a new path.
  • 00:25:13.661 --> 00:25:16.830
  • We want to be pleasing to you.
  • 00:25:16.830 --> 00:25:20.501
  • Holy spirit, help us.
  • 00:25:20.501 --> 00:25:23.170
  • If there are things that need to be addressed, bring them to
  • 00:25:23.170 --> 00:25:25.372
  • Our awareness.
  • 00:25:25.372 --> 00:25:28.008
  • Bring voices around us to encourage us.
  • 00:25:28.008 --> 00:25:30.778
  • Show us the people around us with whom we can use our voice
  • 00:25:30.778 --> 00:25:34.014
  • To be an encouragement.
  • 00:25:34.014 --> 00:25:36.183
  • Thank you for what you're doing.
  • 00:25:36.183 --> 00:25:37.551
  • We praise you that you're moving in the earth, that we see you
  • 00:25:37.551 --> 00:25:40.955
  • Moving in our nation.
  • 00:25:40.955 --> 00:25:43.457
  • We see the light being expressed in unlikely places from
  • 00:25:43.457 --> 00:25:46.460
  • Unlikely sources.
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  • Now, awaken your people to be salt and light as we've never
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  • Seen before from coast to coast, and border to border, and
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  • Community to community, and congregation to congregation.
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  • May the name of jesus be exalted and your truth lifted up.
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  • We praise you for it.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • Hallelujah.
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  • God bless you.
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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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