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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - When We See Jesus (Part 2) | May 19, 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: 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
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- Not on the doorpost of the house, the first born in every
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- House 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. 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 doorframe 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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- I know you know that.
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- You've been wounded by things people have said.
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- You know, we learned a little phrase as kids, "sticks and
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- Stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me."
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- It's not true. it's not true.
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- Well, if it's true in the negative, i assure you it's true
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- In the positive.
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- You can say what the word of god has said about you and it will
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- Bring freedom and liberty to your life.
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- So i'm gonna give you some verses of scripture and then i'm
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- Gonna give you a proclamation, a profession of faith that is a
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- Summary statement of those verses of scripture.
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- And whatever challenges you're facing tonight, i'm gonna show
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- You through the word of god, the victory that is ours through the
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- Blood of jesus.
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- But in order to realize that, to live in that, you've got to be
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- Willing to give expression to it.
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- Let's walk through it, and then i'll give you some hints on how
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- To put it into practice.
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- Ephesians 1:7 says, "in whom we have redemption through his
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- Blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of
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- His grace."
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- In psalm 107, "let the redeemed of the lord say so, whom he hath
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- Redeemed from the hand of the enemy."
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- Don't just say, "let the redeemed of the lord believe in
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- Their redeemer."
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- Says, "let the redeemed of the lord say so."
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- I think church and worship and the people of god should
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- Be respectful.
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- I think an expression of the fear of god, a reverence for god
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- Should be a part of when we're together, but i don't understand
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- That to mean we're timid.
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- "let the redeemed of the lord say so," the psalmist said.
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- So i take those three verses and i testify to what the word of
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- God says the blood of jesus does for me.
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- Through the blood of jesus, i am redeemed out of the hand of
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- The devil.
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- Through the blood of jesus, all my sins are forgiven, amen?
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- I can't accomplish any of those things for myself.
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- The only possible way they can be descriptive of allen is if,
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- By faith, i receive what jesus accomplished for me through his
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- Shed blood.
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- I want to invite you to make those three statements with me.
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- We can just read them together if you would like.
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- Are you ready?
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- In your outdoor voice.
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- "i testify to what the word of god says the blood of jesus does
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- For me; through the blood of jesus, i am redeemed out of the
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- Hand of the devil; through the blood of jesus, all my sins
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- Are forgiven."
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- That's a good beginning.
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- Let's not stop there.
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- 1 john 1:7, "if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we
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- Have fellowship with one another, and the blood of jesus
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- Christ his son cleanses us from all sin."
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- I don't do a lot of word studies with you.
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- I can put you to sleep without them.
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- But there is a bit of a grammatical component in that
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- Verse that is helpful.
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- The verbs in that verse are in the continuing present tense.
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- So if we wanted to read it in the most literal expression, you
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- Would say if we walk and continue to walk in the light.
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- And if we fellowship or if we continue in fellowship with one
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- Another, then the blood of jesus christ his son continually
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- Cleanses us from all sin.
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- In order to be cleansed, we have to walk in the light and we have
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- To stay in fellowship.
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- There were many destructive aspects of the covid craziness,
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- But one of them was the lie that emerged that it's not important
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- For the people of faith to be together.
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- I understand we can learn in many ways.
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- I'm grateful for all the digital technology and all the ways we
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- Can communicate.
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- What we'll do on our campus this weekend will be shared in the
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- Nations of the world.
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- I'm very thankful for that.
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- But there is something that cannot be replaced with being in
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- The midst of people of faith saying yes to the lord.
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- And if you have settled for a digital worship service, i'm
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- Grateful for the opportunity, but i want to encourage you to
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- Find a community of people.
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- It's not just my imagination.
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- I just read it to you.
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- I'm gonna read it again.
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- "if we will continually walk in the light, as he is in the
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- Light, and if we will continue in fellowship with one another,
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- Then the blood of jesus will continually cleanse us from
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- All sin."
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- Now, let me caution you.
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- Somebody say, "well, i don't believe that."
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- I appreciate that god has given us free choice, but a part of
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- Learning to live out discipleship is to submit to the
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- Authority of scripture.
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- For far too long in the contemporary church, we have
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- Been told we can stand apart from scripture and we can
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- Judge it.
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- I want to invite you to a different posture.
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- When you read your bible, let it judge you.
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- Let it evaluate you and your behavior.
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- Sometimes it's uncomfortable, sometimes it's even unpleasant,
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- But if you will let the word of god read you while you read it,
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- It will change completely the trajectory of your life.
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- It'll bring the power of god to bear in your life.
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- It'll move you from a theoretical christianity to a
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- Transformed experience.
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- So the proclamation from that is the blood of jesus christ, god's
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- Son, continually cleanses me from all sin.
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- Now, the assumption in that, and i know the fallacy of that, is
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- That we are walking in the light and we are
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- Maintaining fellowship.
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- But can we make that sentence a proclamation together?
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- "the blood of jesus christ, god's son, continually cleanses
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- Me from all sin."
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- Now look at romans 5:9, "much more then, being now justified
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- By his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him."
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- If you're doing the bible reading with us, we're in the
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- Book of revelation right now.
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- Pretty intimidating book, huh?
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- You know, the gospels introduce us to jesus, the lamb of god who
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- Takes away the sin of the world.
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- The book of revelation introduces us to jesus, the
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- Conquering king, returning to the earth for his people with
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- Judgment for the nations.
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- You wanna be an early adopter and be jesus's friend before the
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- Scenes of revelation start to play out.
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- Amen, pastor.
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- And that verse in romans tells us that we can be saved from the
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- Wrath of god.
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- You know, i'm a bit amused.
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- I meet christians pretty frequently they say, you know,
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- That they don't like to read the old testament.
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- And their attitude seems to be that the god of the new
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- Testament is different.
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- It's like he got some gummies after he finished malachi and
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- He's chill.
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- Just a little laid back.
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- That's really bad theology, folks.
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- My bible says god said, "i don't change."
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- And i assure you that the god of the old testament, the god of
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- The hebrew bible, is the same god that walks through the pages
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- Of the new testament.
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- It's the same spirit of god that's moving in the earth today
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- That moved in jerusalem when the babylonians came and besieged
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- The city.
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- It's the same spirit of god in us that brought jesus out of
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- The grave.
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- And it says that we can be justified by his blood.
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- Justified or justification is something of a technical term in
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- The new testament.
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- To be justified is to be acquitted.
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- It's to be declared not guilty.
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- It's more than just being forgiven.
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- It's having your record expunged.
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- When we understand that we've been justified, you know, it
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- Changes our standing before almighty god.
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- Allen: so many of you send us messages: letters, emails, notes
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- In a variety of formats saying thank you for the ministry for
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- Willing to speak the truth into culture in this rather
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- Tumultuous season.
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- Well, i hear your feedback and it's very valuable.
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- The question i'm so often asked
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- Is, "i feel like we should do more.
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- 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.
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- We're certainly not unique or alone in that, but there is
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- 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
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- Those monthly partners.
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- Your gift of $25 or more enables us to imagine a
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- Different future.
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- So if god has blessed you through the ministry, i would
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- Ask you to make that simple investment in what's next, and
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- 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.
- 00:12:54.523 --> 00:12:55.858
- 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.
- 00:13:00.729 --> 00:13:05.000
- Allen: to be justified is to be made righteous, to be given the
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- Ability to stand in the presence of god without fear, guilt,
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- Or shame.
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- And you say impossible.
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- It's impossible for me to stand in the presence of god that way.
- 00:13:18.147 --> 00:13:22.585
- And i would agree it's impossible for me, it's an
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- Impossible for you, except for by faith in the blood of jesus.
- 00:13:24.587 --> 00:13:31.393
- He gave himself as a sacrifice.
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- Why do you think those men and women were so dramatically
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- Changed when they saw a resurrected jesus?
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- They'd seen him walk on the water, raise the dead, make wine
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- Out of water.
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- They'd seen him feed a multitude.
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- They knew he was miraculous, they knew he could heal, they
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- Knew he had authority over demons and wind and waves, but
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- When they saw him after the resurrection, they're never the
- 00:13:50.713 --> 00:13:55.084
- Same again.
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- See, i think we know jesus in a lot of ways.
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- We know him as a miracle worker, we may know him as a savior.
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- We may know he's forgiven us.
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- I wonder if we've really seen him as alive.
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- If we imagine that he joins us for our day,
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- That he's interested in our thoughts.
- 00:14:14.837 --> 00:14:18.974
- I wonder if we have the imagination that we can truly
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- Be justified.
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- That through the blood of jesus i am justified, made righteous,
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- Get this, just as if i'd never sinned.
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- People don't forget.
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- But if you looked up my record in heaven, there's not like a
- 00:14:34.590 --> 00:14:38.427
- Full length video of the worst chapters of allen, hallelujah.
- 00:14:38.427 --> 00:14:46.068
- Now we have to live that out in the world.
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- It doesn't expunge all the consequences for
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- Our ungodliness.
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- It doesn't remove the people that have been touched by our
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- Ungodly choices.
- 00:14:55.210 --> 00:14:57.713
- Those things still populate our lives and we have to overcome.
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- It takes courage and determination and humility and
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- Kindness and a generosity of spirit.
- 00:15:04.453 --> 00:15:08.357
- A willingness on our part to repent, to not only be forgiven,
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- But to forgive.
- 00:15:12.261 --> 00:15:14.430
- All of those things are a component.
- 00:15:14.430 --> 00:15:15.965
- We've walked with too much arrogance, too much hubris.
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- We've pointed at theological principles, but we haven't
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- Really chosen to live them out.
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- We can be justified through the blood of jesus, but then we have
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- To walk through this world with the humility that knows
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- Something that has been given to us that we didn't earn and we'll
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- Have to respond to people with a kindness and a gentleness
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- While they come to understand not only that they can be
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- Forgiven, but what's happened to us because it's unimaginable
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- For them.
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- It's unimaginable for them.
- 00:15:49.765 --> 00:15:51.934
- I wonder if we could make that statement together.
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- "through the blood of jesus i am justified, made righteous, just
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- As if i'd never sinned."
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- Then hebrews 13 expands it even more.
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- "jesus, that he might sanctify the people through his own
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- Blood, suffered outside the gate."
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- He was crucified outside the city.
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- It was a part of the shame and humiliation of what happened
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- To him.
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- And the author of hebrews tells us that he submitted himself to
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- That so that we might be sanctified.
- 00:16:23.132 --> 00:16:25.267
- That's another one of those religious words.
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- To be sanctified means to be set apart for the purposes of god.
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- Now, it takes some some significant determination to
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- Yield my purpose for my life to god's purpose for my life.
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- I've got some clarity on what i want.
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- What i want to achieve, what i want to become, how much i want,
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- This and that and the other.
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- To be willing to say, "god, not my will be done, but your will."
- 00:16:48.390 --> 00:16:55.964
- I have to pray that prayer regularly.
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- There's seldom a week that goes past where there's not some very
- 00:17:00.102 --> 00:17:02.638
- Real invitation put in front of me that looks pretty attractive
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- And i have to say, "god, is this what you want?
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- Is this what you intend?"
- 00:17:09.478 --> 00:17:12.481
- I'm not talking about your salvation.
- 00:17:12.481 --> 00:17:14.216
- I'm talking about your usefulness, your fruitfulness.
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- Are we willing to be sanctified?
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- Are you willing to have your entire life set apart for the
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- Purposes of god, or is somebody giving you a fractured gospel
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- That you think you can make a profession of faith and then
- 00:17:26.395 --> 00:17:29.398
- Compartmentalize your life and have a little church life and a
- 00:17:29.398 --> 00:17:32.067
- Group of church friends and a church vocabulary, but then
- 00:17:32.067 --> 00:17:34.970
- You've got another set of friends and another set of
- 00:17:34.970 --> 00:17:37.072
- Behaviors and another vocabulary.
- 00:17:37.072 --> 00:17:39.007
- Folks, that is deception.
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- And it's the reason the church is as anemic as it is today.
- 00:17:43.745 --> 00:17:46.115
- It's the reason the president of the united states, a political
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- Leader has to stand up and define marriage because the
- 00:17:49.284 --> 00:17:51.854
- Pulpits of the nation haven't had the courage to do so.
- 00:17:51.854 --> 00:17:56.091
- I'm grateful for a leader that will say it, but i'm ashamed
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- That it didn't begin, it didn't reverberate from the churches.
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- It should. it should.
- 00:18:02.831 --> 00:18:06.835
- So there's one more statement there.
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- "through the blood of jesus i'm sanctified, made holy,
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- Set apart to god."
- 00:18:10.739 --> 00:18:12.074
- Can we say it together?
- 00:18:12.074 --> 00:18:14.409
- "through the blood of jesus i am sanctified, made holy, set apart
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- To god."
- 00:18:19.314 --> 00:18:20.682
- All right, at the conclusion to this little tool kit has to do
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- With what is within us.
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- 1 corinthians 3:16 says, "do you not know?"
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- And when the bible says, "don't you know?"
- 00:18:30.392 --> 00:18:31.860
- You know the answer.
- 00:18:31.860 --> 00:18:34.062
- No, we really don't.
- 00:18:34.062 --> 00:18:36.431
- "don't you know that you yourselves are god's temple and
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- That god's spirit lives in you?"
- 00:18:39.468 --> 00:18:41.837
- We can have church outside because the spirit of god is
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- In us.
- 00:18:44.406 --> 00:18:46.108
- Spirit of god didn't dwell in the building, hallelujah.
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- I'm grateful for the buildings.
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- They represent something.
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- They give us a point of reverence, a point to give
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- Expression to our faith, they're tools, they're helpful, but you
- 00:18:56.018 --> 00:18:59.488
- And i are the temple of the living god.
- 00:18:59.488 --> 00:19:01.523
- The spirit of almighty god dwells in you if you're a
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- Christ follower.
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- It's unthinkable.
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- There's no other faith in the world that would make such
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- A claim.
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- It's unimaginable.
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- It's the great shift of the new testament and the shift of the
- 00:19:12.668 --> 00:19:14.770
- New covenant.
- 00:19:14.770 --> 00:19:16.338
- Look at 1 peter 1:18, says, "you know that it was not with
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- Perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed
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- From the empty way of life handed down to you from
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- Your forefathers."
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- Peter's not writing to a group of pagans.
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- He's not writing to a group of people that weren't familiar
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- With scripture.
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- He's writing to a group of people who lived under a
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- Covenant with god.
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- They celebrated religious holidays.
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- They read torah.
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- They celebrated--they kept kosher.
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- Their lives were filled with religious rules.
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- And he talked to them about an empty way of life, that they had
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- Been redeemed from keeping a set of rules.
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- Well, the new testament describes jesus literally
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- Walking into the slave market.
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- Slavery proliferated in rome.
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- In the roman empire in a public place, they would drive a spear
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- Into a beam or a wall and then they would stand somebody
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- Underneath the spear.
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- It was understood if you were in a public place beneath the
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- Spear, you're being sold as a slave.
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- And the new testament describes jesus walking into the slave
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- Market, and there we stand, most likely naked,
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- Under the leering gaze of the assembled people, and they're
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- Evaluating you, whether you have the strength to make
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- A contribution.
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- And the challenging part of this is if you're sold as a slave,
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- You may be sold as a slave for some noble purpose, but you may
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- Be sold as a slave for some very ignoble purpose as well.
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- You have no determination over your future.
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- It's the most humiliating of places.
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- And we're told that jesus walked into the slave market and said,
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- "i'll pay that price.
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- I'll redeem that individual.
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- I'll offer my blood, that they can be delivered from
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- That place."
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- Why do we serve jesus?
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- So we can go to heaven? no, no, no, no.
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- We serve jesus because he redeemed us from an empty way
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- Of life.
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- He paid a price to deliver us from the bondage of sin.
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- That's why there's no habit that has authority over you.
- 00:21:17.793 --> 00:21:21.296
- There's no habit that can maintain mastery over your life.
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- There's no dark chapter of your past that can define your future
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- Unless you give it the permission to do so.
- 00:21:28.737 --> 00:21:32.507
- There is a new authority in our lives.
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- We have been redeemed from an empty way of life.
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- There's no disappointment.
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- There's no expression of failure.
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- There's no unexplained circumstance.
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- There's no expression of evil that interrupts us.
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- All of those things are a part of the journey through time.
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- But we have good news through jesus.
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- It's why john in revelation 1, when he hears jesus's voice, his
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- Face is on the ground.
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- Folks, we need a revelation of jesus.
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- I'll read you those last three statements and then we're gonna
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- Say them together.
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- My body's a temple of the holy spirit redeemed cleansed by the
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- Blood of jesus.
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- Oh, i know i look like allen.
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- In case you didn't know, i'm actually a temple of the spirit
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- Of living god.
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- How's that possible?
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- Well, i've been redeemed and cleansed by the blood of jesus.
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- And here's the good news, it's possible for every person that
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- Will believe it.
- 00:22:31.566 --> 00:22:33.468
- Therefore, it's a summary word, means because of everything
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- We've said so far, satan has no place in me, no power over me
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- Through the blood of jesus.
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- Can we read those two sentences together?
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- "my body is the temple of the holy spirit, redeemed, cleansed
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- By the blood of jesus.
- 00:22:49.551 --> 00:22:51.420
- Therefore, satan has no place in me, no power over me, through
- 00:22:51.420 --> 00:22:56.625
- The blood of jesus."
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- Now, here's my suggestion.
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- If you're in a battle, maybe it's a physical battle, maybe
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- It's an emotional battle, maybe it's a battle with grief or
- 00:23:03.765 --> 00:23:06.334
- Disappointment or despair.
- 00:23:06.334 --> 00:23:08.637
- Maybe it's a battle you just need physical strength.
- 00:23:08.637 --> 00:23:10.906
- You're in a really--a season where the demands on your life
- 00:23:10.906 --> 00:23:13.875
- Are overwhelming and you need the help of almighty god to
- 00:23:13.875 --> 00:23:16.511
- Navigate a course.
- 00:23:16.511 --> 00:23:18.013
- The needs will be as diverse as we are people.
- 00:23:18.013 --> 00:23:21.349
- But god's provision is complete, entire, and irreversible, and
- 00:23:21.349 --> 00:23:25.954
- It's made available to us by faith in the blood of jesus.
- 00:23:25.954 --> 00:23:31.526
- So i would suggest if you're in one of those places and you
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- Understand it, that you take those simple phrases that i put
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- On your outline in bold print and you say them morning, noon,
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- And in the evening.
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- I would make it my spiritual medicine.
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- It would be my declaration of what the word of god says about
- 00:23:48.043 --> 00:23:51.346
- Me every day.
- 00:23:51.346 --> 00:23:53.114
- I'm not telling you it'll change your circumstances in the first
- 00:23:53.114 --> 00:23:55.417
- 30 minutes or even the first 30 days, but i can tell you i have
- 00:23:55.417 --> 00:24:00.856
- Lived with this, and i have seen the faithfulness of god in my
- 00:24:00.856 --> 00:24:05.293
- Life, in the lives of countless other people.
- 00:24:05.293 --> 00:24:08.864
- Now, i'll give you a cautionary note.
- 00:24:08.864 --> 00:24:11.299
- God seldom resolves the challenges that i see in the way
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- That i would have resolved them.
- 00:24:15.504 --> 00:24:21.276
- I know you're probably not surprised that god's smarter
- 00:24:21.276 --> 00:24:23.678
- Than me, but it shocks me week after week after week.
- 00:24:23.678 --> 00:24:28.483
- But i can tell you god has been faithful in responding to those
- 00:24:28.483 --> 00:24:32.888
- Prayers when i'm willing to believe what he said about me.
- 00:24:32.888 --> 00:24:37.392
- I wonder if we could close by making those statements that are
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- In bold in your outlines together.
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- You think you could do that?
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- Can we stand for that?
- 00:24:44.266 --> 00:24:52.807
- I didn't have enough room to consolidate it on your outlines,
- 00:24:52.807 --> 00:24:55.510
- So you're gonna have to be like piece of cake.
- 00:24:55.510 --> 00:25:04.686
- You're ready?
- 00:25:04.686 --> 00:25:06.955
- "i testify to what the word of god says the blood of jesus does
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- For me; through the blood of jesus, i am redeemed out of the
- 00:25:11.626 --> 00:25:16.298
- Hand of the devil; through the blood of jesus, all my sins are
- 00:25:16.298 --> 00:25:21.436
- Forgiven; the blood of jesus christ, god's son, continually
- 00:25:21.436 --> 00:25:27.108
- Cleanses me from all sin; through the blood of jesus i am
- 00:25:27.108 --> 00:25:32.514
- Justified, made righteous, just as if i'd never sinned.
- 00:25:32.514 --> 00:25:37.953
- Through the blood of jesus i am sanctified, made holy, set apart
- 00:25:37.953 --> 00:25:43.792
- To god; my body is a temple of the holy spirit, redeemed,
- 00:25:43.792 --> 00:25:50.065
- Cleansed by the blood of jesus; therefore, satan has no place in
- 00:25:50.065 --> 00:25:56.004
- Me, no power over me, through the blood of jesus."
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- Amen, hallelujah.
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- Now you've got a powerful tool at your disposal, but you'll
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- Have to use it in order for the benefit to come to your life.
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- Allen: you know, on behalf of the whole team that makes the
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- Content from allen jackson ministries possible,
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- I wanna say thank you.
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- Actually standing in three crosses sanctuary, this is where
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- We do most of our live services, but from these places, this team
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- Of people creates all the content you see so frequently
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- Across a variety of platforms.
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- And you're so gracious, the messages you send, the notes,
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- The emails, the text, the letters you send are an
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- Enormous encouragement.
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- The question we're asked most frequently is, "how can
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- You pray?
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- And is there anything you can do to help as we spread the truth?"
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- And candidly, there is.
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- Join us as a monthly ministry partner.
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- For your gift of $25 or more on a monthly basis, you enable us
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- To take these messages and to share them across
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- A variety of platforms.
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- We do our planning based on the strength of participation from
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- Those monthly ministry partners.
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- So if you'll join us in that, we can multiply this ministry.
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- God is moving in the earth.
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- We are honored to stand with you and lifting
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- Up the name of jesus.
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- I want to thank you in advance for your generosity, for your
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- Faithful prayers, and your financial support.
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- ♪♪♪
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