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Allen Jackson - When We See Jesus (Part 1)

May 17, 2025 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - When We See Jesus (Part 1)
Pastor Allen Jackson's mission is to help people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - When We See Jesus (Part 1) | May 17, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: god is moving in the earth in the most
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  • Remarkable ways.
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  • It truly is extraordinary what we see god doing.
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  • We have people coming to our campus in middle tennessee from
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  • All over the nation, from nations of the world.
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  • We're seeing more people baptized, more people engaging
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  • In ministry.
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  • It's truly a remarkable time to see god raising up voices
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  • Of truth.
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  • The one thing we hear consistently that is valued from
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  • The ministry is our willingness to speak the truth into the
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  • Current set of circumstances.
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  • And people often ask, "is there anything we can do to help?"
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  • And in reality there is.
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  • I wanna invite you to consider becoming a monthly
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  • Ministry partner.
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  • For your gift of $25 a month, you enable us to imagine a
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  • Future that expands the platforms of the ministry.
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  • That's our baseline for how we plan and what we look
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  • Forward to.
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  • If you haven't yet taken that step, please prayerfully
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  • Consider doing so.
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  • We'll share some extra content with you and some unique
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  • Opportunities with you, and together, we'll take a message
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  • Of truth to this generation.
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  • God is moving and we wanna move with him.
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  • Allen: the title for this session is "when we see jesus."
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  • And it's not really about his second coming although i guess
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  • It could be.
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  • It's really built upon the experiences of easter and
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  • Jesus's closest friends of the events of that easter weekend of
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  • Jesus's death, burial, and resurrection changed their
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  • Lives dramatically.
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  • They were never the same again.
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  • Their behaviors were never the same again, their attitudes
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  • Were different.
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  • The ones who were professional fishermen, they never went back
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  • To their fishing careers.
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  • They fished a little bit, but they never went back to
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  • Their former roles.
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  • Their destinies were changed.
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  • That's my goal tonight.
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  • I want us to ask the lord for a revelation of him that will
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  • Bring a change to our future.
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  • I really, i have very little interest in playing church or
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  • Just going through the routines or the order of a service.
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  • I have every interest in being transformed by the revelation of
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  • A living christ in my life and it's my prayer for you.
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  • And i happen to think that we're living in a season where the
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  • Opportunities for that are really
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  • Unprecedented, unparalleled.
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  • God is moving in a way i've never seen him move.
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  • I've been a christ follower for a bit and i've never seen the
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  • Spirit of god moving in the way he is now.
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  • In my imagination, it's like a rapidly moving stream.
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  • I've been in white water rafting a bit, not a great deal,
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  • But some.
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  • And, you know, you see it on tv it's not too intimidating.
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  • They put you in a little rubber dinghy and drop you in the
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  • Middle of that white water all of a sudden it's focus time.
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  • And it feels like to me that the spirit of god is moving with the
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  • Rapidity of white water.
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  • You can--god would do things in your life now in a matter of
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  • Months or weeks that in the past i would have imagined would
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  • Require periods of years.
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  • It's time to say yes to the lord.
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  • And i would tell you conversely on the opposite side of that if
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  • You decide to focus your attention on something that's
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  • Ungodly or you open the door for something that's ungodly, you'll
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  • Be swept away far more quickly than i have been accustomed to.
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  • See whichever direction you're going, i believe
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  • It's accelerated.
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  • I tell people all the time, "keep saying yes to the lord,
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  • Keep saying yes to the lord, keep saying yes to the lord.
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  • Don't be satisfied to say, well, i made a profession of faith a
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  • Decade ago or two decades ago.
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  • I want this day to have said, god, i intend to give you
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  • My best."
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  • And if you've made the mistake of stepping into the wrong
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  • Current, before we go tonight, i'm gonna give you a pathway,
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  • Some tools to change the implications of that.
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  • You can't stay in the middle any longer.
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  • There was a time not long ago when you could stand in the
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  • Wrong stream and with a little focus and a little attention you
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  • Could stand against that current and maintain your equilibrium.
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  • You can't do that today.
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  • You don't manage sin.
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  • You can't manage ungodliness.
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  • If you've accommodated it, if you've opened the door for it in
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  • Your life, if you're practicing it, before you leave this campus
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  • Tonight, i'm gonna encourage you to repent.
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  • Say to the lord, "i'm sorry."
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  • It'll sweep you away.
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  • And if you haven't been saying yes to the lord, tonight's your
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  • Night, we're gonna do that.
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  • You know, we see the outworkings of this played out in our
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  • Culture, but they're really secondary and tertiary issues.
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  • The root of this is spiritual.
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  • There's something so perverse, so ungodly amongst us that we've
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  • Lost the ability to even pray for our nation.
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  • If you say, "god bless america," there are people who are angry
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  • At you.
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  • That's messed up.
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  • Christians are afraid to say simple things like, "i believe
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  • Jesus is the son of god.
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  • May god bless america again."
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  • Because there's some label that will be hung on them.
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  • I intend to say those things loudly, repetitively,
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  • Consistently with determination and i would invite you to say
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  • The same.
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  • I'll give you two quick examples of ways that there's powerful
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  • Forces tearing at the fabric of our nation and understand this,
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  • They'll destroy the future of our children.
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  • One was an open border.
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  • We will not exist as a sovereign nation unless we have borders
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  • That are regulated.
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  • And the multiplied millions of people that came into our
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  • Country illegally.
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  • Anything that begins with the word illegal does not have a
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  • Good outcome.
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  • And now they're trying to sort that out, to deport violent,
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  • Murderous, angry criminals and there's tremendous resistance
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  • For it.
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  • The previous several administrations have deported
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  • Multiplied thousands of more people than the
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  • Current administration.
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  • The difference is there's a spirit that's been unleashed for
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  • The destruction of our nation.
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  • If they came here illegally, it's not kindness to perpetuate
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  • What they did illegally.
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  • You don't deserve due process if you came illegally.
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  • And we're a nation of immigrants.
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  • I'm pro-immigration.
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  • But the other side of the same coin is tariffs.
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  • We've been betraying american workers for decades.
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  • We have been betrayed.
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  • Our jobs, our livelihoods, and our futures have been exported.
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  • They've been taken offshore and there's an attempt.
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  • I don't know what the outcome will be to begin to restore that
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  • Pride and dignity that we are a nation who does something.
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  • And it will require us to be willing to go to work, but work
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  • Is a biblical principle.
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  • When we meet god in the book of genesis, he's working and if you
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  • Take notes, he's working a six-day week.
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  • And he worked from sun up to sundown.
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  • Powerful forces and in the midst of that, the church seems
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  • Addled, confused, timid, frightened.
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  • We'd rather talk about abstract theological principles or new
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  • Ideologies that will make us the darling of our
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  • Contemporary culture.
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  • We would rather talk about dei than the redemptive work of
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  • Jesus and its necessity in the life of every human being.
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  • May god forgive us.
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  • We better repent.
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  • If you're attending a church that doesn't acknowledge the
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  • Authority of scripture and the uniqueness of jesus and his
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  • Redemptive work, you need a new place to worship.
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  • It's not a church.
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  • I don't care what the sign says or what the architecture
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  • Looks like.
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  • God is moving in the earth and we have to decide that we're
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  • Gonna move with him.
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  • Stop holding up your resume and start talking about the
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  • Fruitfulness of our life this week.
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  • I gave you an outline.
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  • I gotta go back there, don't i?
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  • That's the weakness of giving you all those scriptures,
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  • You know what i'm supposed to be doing.
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  • By the time we get to acts chapter 1 and jesus ascends back
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  • To heaven, the disciples' attitude and understanding of
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  • Jesus has been completely transformed.
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  • The events of easter combined with acts chapter 2 and the
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  • Outpouring of the holy spirit changed that group of people.
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  • They're changed more dramatically in that 40 day
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  • Window or so than they were in the previous three years.
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  • They followed jesus as a teacher, as a miracle worker, as
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  • A healer, as a rabbi.
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  • They even acknowledged him as messiah, the christ, the
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  • Anointed one.
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  • However, after easter, they have a completely different awareness
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  • And they're changed.
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  • You can see it in the reports that were given in the pages
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  • Of scripture.
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  • They helped to author it, they told the stories, they told the
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  • Stories about how they were before easter.
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  • That's how we know the material in the gospels.
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  • They told us how they were different after jesus ascended
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  • Back to heaven.
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  • We know the narratives from the book of acts.
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  • They had to tell the stories.
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  • Most of the video from that window in time has been lost.
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  • So what we know, we know from their word of mouth testimony.
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  • They were honest about their failures and their strengths,
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  • And they were honest about the transformation.
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  • After jesus returned to heaven, after the holy spirit's poured
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  • Out, they're more bold, they're more determined, they're
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  • More relentless.
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  • They have a new purpose.
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  • They're not just following jesus any longer.
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  • They're no longer just the group of gotchas going along to help
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  • Clean up whatever jesus points them to, pick up the basket
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  • Fulls of leftovers.
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  • "master, can you pray for this father and his son?
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  • We tried and nothing happened."
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  • After jesus leaves, they're the front line.
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  • There is no retreat.
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  • They're different.
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  • They have a revelation of jesus that has changed them.
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  • If you'll allow me, i've spent my adult life serving in
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  • The church.
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  • We need a new revelation of jesus.
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  • We have revelation of our denominations, we have
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  • Revelation of our styles of worship, we have revelation of
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  • Our preferred length of a sermon.
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  • We've got all sorts of revelations.
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  • We need to see jesus and be changed.
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  • I have no intention of maintaining the status quo in my
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  • Life or in the lives of the people with whom i'm traveling.
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  • I intend to do my best to be an advocate for jesus of nazareth
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  • For the principles of his word, with the truth of the gospel,
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  • And to encourage everybody who'll stand still for just a
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  • Moment and listen to the invitation to join me in being
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  • Advocates for that.
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  • It's time to use our voices for the kingdom of god.
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  • The disciples after acts 2 are no longer living within
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  • The system.
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  • They're no longer just playing within the system, coming and
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  • Going to jerusalem hoping that the leadership there is gonna
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  • Be transformed.
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  • They have a whole new orientation for their lives.
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  • We need that.
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  • Their relationship with jesus has changed and it's resulted in
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  • A change in all their other relationships.
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  • I'll tell you how you'll know when your relationship with
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  • Jesus is different.
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  • When you have a greater revelation of him, it'll change
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  • All the other relationships in your life.
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  • There will be people who are comfortable with you now that
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  • Won't be comfortable.
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  • There'll be a new group of people that move towards you.
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  • Some of us who live too far in the world.
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  • We're way too comfortable with ungodliness and i believe jesus
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  • Is inviting us to follow him in a new way.
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  • Allen: so many of you send us messages: letters, emails, notes
  • 00:11:24.933 --> 00:11:28.269
  • In a variety of formats saying thank you for the ministry for
  • 00:11:28.269 --> 00:11:31.306
  • Willing to speak the truth into culture in this rather
  • 00:11:31.306 --> 00:11:34.909
  • Tumultuous season.
  • 00:11:34.909 --> 00:11:36.678
  • Well, i hear your feedback and it's very valuable.
  • 00:11:36.678 --> 00:11:39.080
  • The question i'm so often asked
  • 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:40.482
  • Is, "i feel like we should do more.
  • 00:11:40.482 --> 00:11:41.816
  • What can we do? how do we do something?"
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  • Clearly god is moving in the earth.
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  • He's raising up voices of truth.
  • 00:11:45.920 --> 00:11:47.322
  • We're certainly not unique or alone in that, but there is
  • 00:11:47.322 --> 00:11:50.225
  • Something you could do that would help us.
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  • Join us as a monthly ministry partner.
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  • Our baseline for how we build our plans for next comes from
  • 00:11:54.996 --> 00:11:58.299
  • Those monthly partners.
  • 00:11:58.299 --> 00:11:59.868
  • Your gift of $25 or more enables us to imagine a
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  • Different future.
  • 00:12:03.505 --> 00:12:04.906
  • So if god has blessed you through the ministry, i would
  • 00:12:04.906 --> 00:12:07.108
  • Ask you to make that simple investment in what's next, and
  • 00:12:07.108 --> 00:12:11.012
  • Together, we will join god in helping to spread the message of
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  • A biblical worldview and its significance for our families,
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  • Our communities, our nation, and for the body of christ
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  • Throughout the earth.
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  • Join us in that partnership, we'll share some unique learning
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  • Opportunities with you, and together, we'll move with what
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  • God is doing in the earth right now.
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  • Allen: i wanna start with revelation chapter 1.
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  • There's hope, i got to my notes.
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  • John wrote this.
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  • Of all the apostles, of all the disciples, he was the closest to
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  • Jesus when he was here.
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  • And the book of revelation is written almost 30 years after
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  • Jesus ascended back to heaven.
  • 00:12:47.649 --> 00:12:49.984
  • So john's had decades to live it out.
  • 00:12:49.984 --> 00:12:52.821
  • Most of his peer group are gone, they've been martyred.
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  • And john himself is a prisoner on an island held captive for
  • 00:12:56.191 --> 00:13:00.862
  • The testimony of the gospel, not because he's a thief or
  • 00:13:00.862 --> 00:13:03.431
  • An extortionist.
  • 00:13:03.431 --> 00:13:06.201
  • You understand cancel culture is not new folks.
  • 00:13:06.201 --> 00:13:09.337
  • The timidity and the cowardice of the church is embarrassing.
  • 00:13:09.337 --> 00:13:13.842
  • Say, well, there's a price to pay if we acknowledge that we
  • 00:13:13.842 --> 00:13:16.511
  • Believe jesus is the son of god.
  • 00:13:16.511 --> 00:13:18.346
  • No kidding.
  • 00:13:18.346 --> 00:13:20.081
  • There's been a price since jesus was here.
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  • There's still a price.
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  • If you're not willing to take up your cross and follow jesus and
  • 00:13:23.484 --> 00:13:26.221
  • Say, "i belong to him."
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  • If we're not willing to acknowledge him before men, if
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  • We're not willing to understand there are times and places we'll
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  • Be hated for that, we're not worthy to bear the name.
  • 00:13:33.428 --> 00:13:39.033
  • You're hiding your timidity, your unwilling to acknowledge
  • 00:13:39.033 --> 00:13:43.071
  • Jesus is not evangelism, it's cowardice.
  • 00:13:43.071 --> 00:13:47.442
  • I love you, but we've been coached the wrong way.
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  • Somebody actually sent me an email this week and said that
  • 00:13:52.180 --> 00:13:56.084
  • They worship in another state and their pastor said i'm
  • 00:13:56.084 --> 00:13:58.686
  • Not--the reason we don't tell the truth more directly in our
  • 00:13:58.686 --> 00:14:02.523
  • Church is we want the ungodly to be comfortable.
  • 00:14:02.523 --> 00:14:06.995
  • That's the same notion as going to a doctor and says, "well, i
  • 00:14:06.995 --> 00:14:09.264
  • Want all the patients to come here to come back so i don't
  • 00:14:09.264 --> 00:14:11.199
  • Ever give anybody bad news."
  • 00:14:11.199 --> 00:14:14.836
  • If you're not willing to tell the truth so the people will go
  • 00:14:14.836 --> 00:14:16.871
  • Get a second opinion to see if what you told them was really
  • 00:14:16.871 --> 00:14:19.240
  • True so they can have a better future, we don't deserve to wear
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  • The label.
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  • Revelation chapter 1.
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  • I'm trying really hard, i promise.
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  • John's in exile on the island of patmos.
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  • He said on the lord's day he was in the spirit and he hears a
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  • Voice behind him.
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  • And he turns to see the voice who it is that's speaking
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  • To him.
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  • And it's jesus.
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  • I can't imagine.
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  • He hasn't seen jesus since that day on the mount of olives when
  • 00:14:46.801 --> 00:14:49.304
  • He ascended back to heaven.
  • 00:14:49.304 --> 00:14:52.006
  • He's been working on his behalf.
  • 00:14:52.006 --> 00:14:54.409
  • He's been arrested, he's been threatened, he's been beaten.
  • 00:14:54.409 --> 00:14:57.712
  • Now he's an old man and he's a prisoner and jesus is standing
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  • Behind him.
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  • It's in your notes.
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  • It's revelation 1:17.
  • 00:15:04.919 --> 00:15:06.287
  • "when i saw him, i fell at his feet as though dead.
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  • And he placed his right hand on me and he said, 'don't be
  • 00:15:08.856 --> 00:15:11.526
  • Afraid, i'm the first and the last.
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  • I'm the living one.
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  • I was dead, and behold i'm alive forever and ever!
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  • And i hold the keys of death and hades.'"
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  • I think it's worth noting, john didn't give him a fist bump.
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  • He didn't give him a high five, he didn't give him a hug.
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  • Let's hug it out, bro.
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  • He said, "i fell at his feet like a dead man."
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  • I've never known anybody like him.
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  • I spent my life serving him.
  • 00:15:38.820 --> 00:15:41.889
  • You see, the modified version of christianity that most of us
  • 00:15:41.889 --> 00:15:44.892
  • Have spent our lives around trying to teach us how to get
  • 00:15:44.892 --> 00:15:47.628
  • Jesus to serve us.
  • 00:15:47.628 --> 00:15:50.098
  • How to get jesus to do our bidding, to answer our prayers,
  • 00:15:50.098 --> 00:15:52.400
  • To give us what we want, to give our children the promotions we
  • 00:15:52.400 --> 00:15:55.370
  • Want them to get and the opportunities we think they
  • 00:15:55.370 --> 00:15:57.238
  • Should have.
  • 00:15:57.238 --> 00:15:59.273
  • The reason we've arrived at that fractured profession of faith is
  • 00:15:59.273 --> 00:16:03.511
  • We haven't had a real revelation of jesus.
  • 00:16:03.511 --> 00:16:07.015
  • I'm not saying you haven't heard about him.
  • 00:16:07.015 --> 00:16:08.483
  • I'm not saying you haven't read your bible.
  • 00:16:08.483 --> 00:16:09.984
  • I'm telling you that there's something yet ahead of us.
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  • It will be expressed in the fruit of our lives.
  • 00:16:13.087 --> 00:16:16.024
  • The disciples left everything to follow jesus.
  • 00:16:16.024 --> 00:16:18.126
  • Their testimony, not mine.
  • 00:16:18.126 --> 00:16:20.628
  • Jesus challenged them and they said, "we've left everything to
  • 00:16:20.628 --> 00:16:23.031
  • Follow you.
  • 00:16:23.031 --> 00:16:24.365
  • What do you mean?"
  • 00:16:24.365 --> 00:16:25.700
  • When jesus said, "i'm leaving and you can't go with me,"
  • 00:16:25.700 --> 00:16:27.168
  • Thomas said, "wait a minute, lord, that's not the bargain
  • 00:16:27.168 --> 00:16:29.404
  • We struck."
  • 00:16:29.404 --> 00:16:31.839
  • And yet after acts chapter 2, they're forever saying that
  • 00:16:31.839 --> 00:16:34.509
  • They're never gonna be the same again.
  • 00:16:34.509 --> 00:16:37.845
  • That's my goal for myself and for you.
  • 00:16:37.845 --> 00:16:40.815
  • We've known about jesus.
  • 00:16:40.815 --> 00:16:42.517
  • We've invited him into our lives.
  • 00:16:42.517 --> 00:16:43.851
  • He's done some nice things for us and we've been polite and
  • 00:16:43.851 --> 00:16:46.888
  • Said thank you, but i'm looking for a different response in
  • 00:16:46.888 --> 00:16:49.690
  • Myself and for you.
  • 00:16:49.690 --> 00:16:51.359
  • In acts chapter 2, this is peter's message on the day
  • 00:16:51.359 --> 00:16:54.829
  • Of pentecost.
  • 00:16:54.829 --> 00:16:56.364
  • A crowd of people is gathered because of the disturbance.
  • 00:16:56.364 --> 00:16:58.699
  • I want you to hear peter's words.
  • 00:16:58.699 --> 00:17:01.369
  • He said, "men of israel, listen to this: jesus of nazareth was a
  • 00:17:01.369 --> 00:17:05.039
  • Man accredited by god to you by miracles, wonders and signs,
  • 00:17:05.039 --> 00:17:08.843
  • Which god did among you through him, as you yourselves know.
  • 00:17:08.843 --> 00:17:13.314
  • And this man was handed over to you by god's set purpose and
  • 00:17:13.314 --> 00:17:16.617
  • Foreknowledge: and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to
  • 00:17:16.617 --> 00:17:19.921
  • Death by nailing him to the cross.
  • 00:17:19.921 --> 00:17:22.590
  • But god raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony
  • 00:17:22.590 --> 00:17:25.259
  • Of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its
  • 00:17:25.259 --> 00:17:28.429
  • Hold on him."
  • 00:17:28.429 --> 00:17:29.797
  • That's not some theological concept that peter is espousing,
  • 00:17:29.797 --> 00:17:35.303
  • He's a witness to that.
  • 00:17:35.303 --> 00:17:37.705
  • He said, "you killed the messiah, but death couldn't
  • 00:17:37.705 --> 00:17:40.808
  • Hold him.
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  • I saw him when he was alive," he said.
  • 00:17:42.577 --> 00:17:45.847
  • This is all part of the same message, verse 32.
  • 00:17:45.847 --> 00:17:49.016
  • "god raised this jesus to life, and we're witnesses of the fact.
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  • Exalted to the right hand of god, he's received from the
  • 00:17:53.221 --> 00:17:55.990
  • Father the promised holy spirit and he's poured out what you now
  • 00:17:55.990 --> 00:17:59.760
  • See and hear.
  • 00:17:59.760 --> 00:18:01.295
  • Therefore, let all israel be assured of this: god made this
  • 00:18:01.295 --> 00:18:04.465
  • Jesus, whom you crucified, both lord and messiah."
  • 00:18:04.465 --> 00:18:10.638
  • I would submit to you that's pretty confrontational language.
  • 00:18:10.638 --> 00:18:14.475
  • He's standing in jerusalem in the city where a few days
  • 00:18:14.475 --> 00:18:18.112
  • Earlier, they had screamed at jesus, "crucify him."
  • 00:18:18.112 --> 00:18:22.650
  • And now he's saying to no doubt some of the people that were a
  • 00:18:22.650 --> 00:18:25.820
  • Part of that angry mob, "you crucified the messiah, but death
  • 00:18:25.820 --> 00:18:30.224
  • Couldn't hold him."
  • 00:18:30.224 --> 00:18:31.726
  • This is the peter that denied the lord three times on the
  • 00:18:31.726 --> 00:18:34.262
  • Night he was arrested.
  • 00:18:34.262 --> 00:18:36.264
  • This is the peter that had trouble when they came to arrest
  • 00:18:36.264 --> 00:18:39.133
  • Jesus, he cut off a guy's ear.
  • 00:18:39.133 --> 00:18:41.836
  • This was the same peter that couldn't stay awake and pray
  • 00:18:41.836 --> 00:18:44.238
  • With jesus just before judas came to betray him.
  • 00:18:44.238 --> 00:18:49.143
  • And now he's got the boldness and the courage to say, "even
  • 00:18:49.143 --> 00:18:52.413
  • Death couldn't stop him."
  • 00:18:52.413 --> 00:18:54.949
  • You see, if we have a personal encounter with a resurrected
  • 00:18:54.949 --> 00:18:57.919
  • Jesus, it rewrites our future.
  • 00:18:57.919 --> 00:19:01.022
  • Then we're not just religious or churched or moral or ethical.
  • 00:19:01.022 --> 00:19:04.825
  • We're not just kind or generous or benevolent.
  • 00:19:04.825 --> 00:19:07.762
  • We don't just do good things.
  • 00:19:07.762 --> 00:19:10.298
  • There's a completely different purpose for our lives.
  • 00:19:10.298 --> 00:19:13.701
  • We know something to be true that is so transformational.
  • 00:19:13.701 --> 00:19:17.438
  • It created such a different future for us that we can't
  • 00:19:17.438 --> 00:19:20.708
  • Imagine anybody we meet wouldn't want that same future.
  • 00:19:20.708 --> 00:19:25.112
  • Then we know the reality, not everybody will.
  • 00:19:25.112 --> 00:19:28.115
  • But if we will accept the assignment of going into all the
  • 00:19:28.115 --> 00:19:30.918
  • World with the good news of the gospel, you will meet an
  • 00:19:30.918 --> 00:19:33.554
  • Unlimited number of people who will receive the message
  • 00:19:33.554 --> 00:19:36.324
  • With joy.
  • 00:19:36.324 --> 00:19:37.725
  • Amen is the word you're searching for.
  • 00:19:41.128 --> 00:19:42.797
  • It's okay.
  • 00:19:42.797 --> 00:19:44.131
  • I know you're outside and there's birds.
  • 00:19:44.131 --> 00:19:47.201
  • And you've got food and here comes a plane.
  • 00:19:47.201 --> 00:19:50.938
  • Much competition outside.
  • 00:19:50.938 --> 00:19:53.674
  • But the truth is the same.
  • 00:19:53.674 --> 00:19:56.110
  • The truth is the same.
  • 00:19:56.110 --> 00:19:59.513
  • I gave you a series of passages that highlight that.
  • 00:19:59.513 --> 00:20:02.717
  • Acts chapter 3, the very next chapter, there's been a miracle
  • 00:20:02.717 --> 00:20:06.087
  • In jerusalem.
  • 00:20:06.087 --> 00:20:07.455
  • A crowd has gathered, they're curious.
  • 00:20:07.455 --> 00:20:09.156
  • And peter and john stand up and say, "you disowned the holy and
  • 00:20:09.156 --> 00:20:12.093
  • Righteous one and you asked that a murderer be released to you.
  • 00:20:12.093 --> 00:20:16.664
  • You killed the author of life, but god raised him from the
  • 00:20:16.664 --> 00:20:20.034
  • Dead, and we are witnesses of this."
  • 00:20:20.034 --> 00:20:22.303
  • This becomes the theme.
  • 00:20:22.303 --> 00:20:23.938
  • We're witnesses of this.
  • 00:20:23.938 --> 00:20:25.273
  • We've experienced this.
  • 00:20:25.273 --> 00:20:26.807
  • This isn't theoretical.
  • 00:20:26.807 --> 00:20:28.142
  • I'm not reciting some discipleship tool that i've
  • 00:20:28.142 --> 00:20:32.079
  • Committed to memory.
  • 00:20:32.079 --> 00:20:33.547
  • I'm sharing with you something that's a part of my own
  • 00:20:33.547 --> 00:20:35.850
  • Experience portfolio.
  • 00:20:35.850 --> 00:20:37.852
  • We are witnesses to this.
  • 00:20:37.852 --> 00:20:39.720
  • You've done some bad things, but there's a pathway through this.
  • 00:20:39.720 --> 00:20:42.156
  • There's a different future for us.
  • 00:20:42.156 --> 00:20:45.026
  • I'm gonna take the minutes we've got left.
  • 00:20:45.026 --> 00:20:46.494
  • I wanna give you a tool.
  • 00:20:46.494 --> 00:20:49.130
  • It's a tool i learned as a young man.
  • 00:20:49.130 --> 00:20:51.732
  • It's been powerful in my life.
  • 00:20:51.732 --> 00:20:54.035
  • It's centered in the blood of jesus and what the blood of
  • 00:20:54.035 --> 00:20:57.204
  • Jesus makes available to you and me.
  • 00:20:57.204 --> 00:21:00.541
  • If the spirit of god were to give the--to make this a reality
  • 00:21:00.541 --> 00:21:03.878
  • In your heart, it's a pathway towards freedom.
  • 00:21:03.878 --> 00:21:07.682
  • It's a pathway towards freedom from sickness or disease.
  • 00:21:07.682 --> 00:21:10.818
  • It's a pathway towards freedom from grief and depression
  • 00:21:10.818 --> 00:21:13.854
  • And oppression.
  • 00:21:13.854 --> 00:21:15.222
  • It's a pathway towards freedom from whatever would beset a
  • 00:21:15.222 --> 00:21:18.225
  • Human being.
  • 00:21:18.225 --> 00:21:20.127
  • You see, god's provision for humanity is complete, it's
  • 00:21:20.127 --> 00:21:23.864
  • Entire, it's irreversible.
  • 00:21:23.864 --> 00:21:25.232
  • It was accomplished on the cross of jesus.
  • 00:21:25.232 --> 00:21:29.136
  • With the death, burial, and resurrection of jesus, god
  • 00:21:29.136 --> 00:21:32.139
  • Accomplished a total irreversible defeat of satan and
  • 00:21:32.139 --> 00:21:35.943
  • His kingdom.
  • 00:21:35.943 --> 00:21:37.945
  • But in order for the benefits of that to accrue to impact our
  • 00:21:37.945 --> 00:21:42.450
  • Lives, we have to receive it by faith.
  • 00:21:42.450 --> 00:21:46.120
  • That's more than just a profession of faith.
  • 00:21:46.120 --> 00:21:48.789
  • That's applying the authority of scripture and the truth of god
  • 00:21:48.789 --> 00:21:51.726
  • Over every aspect of our lives and overcoming our carnal
  • 00:21:51.726 --> 00:21:56.030
  • Nature, that part of every one of us that's hardwired
  • 00:21:56.030 --> 00:21:59.333
  • Towards ungodliness.
  • 00:21:59.333 --> 00:22:00.735
  • We have to bring the authority, the blood of jesus and say, i
  • 00:22:00.735 --> 00:22:03.437
  • Will not give you first place in my life.
  • 00:22:03.437 --> 00:22:07.208
  • That little voice inside of allen and inside of you that
  • 00:22:07.208 --> 00:22:09.910
  • Says, "i think and i want and i will, you will not dominate my
  • 00:22:09.910 --> 00:22:14.415
  • Life in the name of jesus."
  • 00:22:14.415 --> 00:22:17.518
  • I want to know what god thinks.
  • 00:22:17.518 --> 00:22:19.453
  • I want to know what god's will is.
  • 00:22:19.453 --> 00:22:22.656
  • I want to know how god feels about this circumstance.
  • 00:22:22.656 --> 00:22:25.926
  • And then i will learn to yield those things in me to the
  • 00:22:25.926 --> 00:22:29.463
  • Perspective that god brings.
  • 00:22:29.463 --> 00:22:32.466
  • Yielding's not fun.
  • 00:22:32.466 --> 00:22:33.834
  • Have you noticed?
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  • You know, my driving has mellowed a lot.
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  • Not completely.
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  • And i honestly, i always thought, you know what a yield
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  • Sign is on the road?
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  • I always understood that please don't model my behavior.
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  • I understood yield to me and accelerate.
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  • 'cause if i got there ahead of you, you could yield.
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  • If that makes no sense to you, just pray for me.
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  • I'll tell you what changed my life a lot is that goofy little
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  • Jesus is lord magnet.
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  • You know, it's embarrassing to drive like the devil and have
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  • Jesus is lord on the back of your vehicle.
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  • It should be embarrassing to park like a pagan and have that
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  • On the back of your vehicle too.
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  • But that's a discussion for another day.
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  • I wanna give you a tool.
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  • Revelation chapter 12 and verse 11.
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  • You have it in your outlines.
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  • Says, "they overcame him by the blood of the lamb and by the
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  • Word of their testimony."
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  • And i put in your notes some parenthetical insertions, some
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  • Words in parenthesis that help amplify that verse just a bit.
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  • "they, (the believers on the earth)
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  • Overcame him (satan)
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  • By the blood of the lamb (that's jesus)
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  • And by the word of their testimony."
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  • Or if i just said it in good southern vernacular, that is
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  • They testified to what the word of god says about the blood
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  • Of jesus.
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  • Do you remember the exodus story?
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  • The last night the hebrew slaves spent in egypt.
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  • All the plagues, all the expressions of the power of god
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  • And it hadn't changed the hearts of pharaoh or the people.
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  • They weren't about to release the hebrew slaves.
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  • And god told moses to tell the hebrews to take a lamb and to
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  • Prepare the lamb.
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  • They gave him specific instructions on how to prepare
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  • The food.
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  • The bread was to have no yeast because it didn't have time to
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  • Rise, but they were just to catch the blood of the lamb in a
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  • Basin and to use hyssop, a common weed in the region.
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  • And to put some of the blood on the doorpost of the house
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  • Because god said that night death was gonna pass through the
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  • Land of egypt and on every house where their blood was on the
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  • Doorpost, they would be spared, but where that blood was not on
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  • The doorpost of the house, the first born in every house
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  • Would die.
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  • Whether it was a man, a woman, or even an animal, god said.
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  • Death rolled through the land of egypt that night and the only
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  • People spared were the people with the blood on the doorpost
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  • Of their house.
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  • Do you think there was anybody in the hebrew community that
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  • Didn't participate?
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  • I promise.
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  • And the next morning there was so much grief, so much fear that
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  • They literally drove the hebrew slaves out of egypt.
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  • They gave them their gold and their silver.
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  • Well, that's the imagery that's being used in revelation.
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  • It's the blood on the doorpost of the house except it says we
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  • Overcome satan by the blood of the lamb.
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  • We don't put it on the door frame of our house any longer.
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  • We apply it to the circumstances of our lives with the word of
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  • Our testimony.
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  • It's not enough to have a bible.
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  • It's not even enough to have committed to the memory or read
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  • It to know what it says.
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  • We have to give application of that truth with the authority of
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  • Our words.
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  • You know, your words carry with them a spiritual authority.
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