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Allen Jackson - When You Follow A Star and Find A Stable

December 25, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - When You Follow A Star and Find A Stable
Television is filled with dysfunction, and the world is drowning in it. Negativity has saturated people of all ages, fed by competition to the bottom on social media. What if someone new came along with a fresh operating principle? A person who has travelled the world, seen the worst of it but deals strictly with how to move forward. An honest and inspiring leader who has lived the full Christian life as a pastor and uses his wisdom to inspire others. Meet Allen Jackson.
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - When You Follow A Star and Find A Stable | December 25, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: we began allen jackson ministries to strengthen
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  • The church.
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  • Thank you for your partnership.
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  • Together, we made an impact in this nation, but we're not done.
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  • In fact, in many ways, i believe we're just beginning.
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  • The status quo is not adequate any longer.
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  • We can't sit in our churches and have our polite bible studies
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  • And sing our favorite choruses while we watch darkness
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  • Increasing in the world around us.
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  • We have to have the courage to tell the truth to our culture, a
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  • Biblical worldview to engage current events in a way to make
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  • What we believe a part of the fabric of our schools, our
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  • Homes, our communities, our nation, and beyond.
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  • We have invitations now from war-torn countries in israel and
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  • Ukraine to strengthen the churches there.
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  • I want to ask you to make an investment with us in allen
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  • Jackson ministries to make 2026 the most fruitful year we've
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  • Ever had together.
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  • God is moving in the earth.
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  • We want to keep the pace.
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  • We want to take new steps to make a new impact.
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  • Your help makes that possible.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: i wanted to take just a moment to wish you a very
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  • Merry christmas.
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  • You know, the lord has been good to us.
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  • I know none of our lives are perfect.
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  • There's still challenges and difficulties and things we're
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  • Inviting god into.
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  • But on this christmas morning, it is an honor to stand
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  • Together, to declare jesus is lord, and to open our hearts
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  • Once again to god on this very special day.
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  • Thank you for spending a few minutes with us.
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  • I pray that the message is a blessing to you, but more than
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  • That, i pray the joy and the love of almighty god fills your
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  • Heart and your home.
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  • Merry christmas.
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  • Allen: the title is "when you follow a star and you find
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  • A stable."
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  • My experience, following god is not what i thought it would be.
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  • I was a pretty reluctant convert to the faith and a very
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  • Reluctant convert to ministry.
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  • And i have to say it's been the most remarkable adventure of my
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  • Life and continues to be so, and i want to invite you on an
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  • Adventure of your own tonight, if you're inclined to accept
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  • The invitation.
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  • I want to start in matthew's gospel in chapter 2.
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  • It says, "after jesus was born in bethlehem in judea, during
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  • The time of king herod, magi from the east came to jerusalem,
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  • And they asked, 'where is the one who has been born king of
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  • The jews?
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  • We saw his star in the east and we've come to worship him.'
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  • And when king herod heard this, he was disturbed, and all
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  • Jerusalem with him.
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  • When he called together all the people's chief priests and the
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  • Teachers of the law, he asked them where the christ was to
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  • Be born.
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  • 'in bethlehem and judea,' they replied, 'for this is what the
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  • Prophet has written: "but you, bethlehem, in the land of judah,
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  • Are by no means least among the rulers of judah; for out of you
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  • Will come a ruler who will be the shepherd of my
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  • People israel.'"
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  • Then herod called the magi secretly and he found out from
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  • Them the exact time the star had appeared.
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  • And he sent them to bethlehem and said, 'go and make a careful
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  • Search for the child.
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  • And as soon as you find him, report to me, so that i too may
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  • Go and worship him.'"
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  • Pretty familiar passage, i suspect.
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  • You don't have to be a hardcore bible reader to be familiar with
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  • That story.
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  • The wise men that came in search of jesus, we don't know much
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  • About them.
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  • They're rather enigmatic characters--don't even know
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  • Their names.
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  • We have to kind of cobble together the details from bits
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  • And pieces of information that are relayed to us.
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  • We usually assume there were three because there are three
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  • Specific gifts mentioned, but even that is a bit of an
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  • Assumption on our part.
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  • We really just don't know too much, other than they have this
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  • Label "magi" that we've kind of interpreted into wise men.
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  • I like it.
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  • We can learn some things from their behavior, i think.
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  • They're following a star, maybe for a journey, or at least an
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  • Engagement that will occupy almost two years of their life.
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  • That's a long time based on something you observe in
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  • The heavens.
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  • It begs the question, and i'll ask it again, but i want to
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  • Pose it.
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  • I want to plant the seed.
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  • What are you following these days?
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  • What are you chasing?
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  • They followed a star.
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  • You could call that a whim, maybe an informed decision,
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  • Certainly some awareness of the heavens that something new had
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  • Happened, a new star, something that prompted them to make a
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  • Rather difficult journey.
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  • What are we following?
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  • Well, ultimately, i--spoiler alert.
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  • It's church, and it's christmas eve, our assignment is to
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  • Follow jesus.
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  • But in current culture, that doesn't sound very exciting.
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  • In fact, my experience amongst people of faith is typically we
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  • Ask jesus to follow us.
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  • We want him to stay close because we might get in trouble.
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  • We have an idea he might be useful or helpful, or he might
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  • Know something we don't know, so we don't want him to lose sight
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  • Of where we are, we just don't want him leading.
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  • Because we've got places we want to go and things we wanna do and
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  • Things we want to accomplish and ideas that we think are really
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  • Important, and we're afraid if we ever gave him a more
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  • Ascendant position or ascendant priority that he might interfere
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  • With what we want to do, so we're just comfortable if he'll
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  • Follow us.
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  • Well, i want to invite you to the response of the wise men.
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  • When it's all said and done, when my strength is played out
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  • And my days under the sun are finished, i would celebrate if
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  • Heaven called me a wise man.
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  • I can think of few things you could achieve or pursue or
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  • Aspire to that would be more valuable than to have the host
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  • Of heavens call you a wise person.
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  • These wise men that followed a star, they said, "we have come
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  • To worship.
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  • Where's the one who was born king of the jews?"
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  • That intrigues me a bit.
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  • They're men of some affluence.
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  • They're men of some education.
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  • They're men of some substance.
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  • They can afford to make a difficult journey and make
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  • Elaborate gifts, and they've come to worship a king that they
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  • Don't know.
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  • It's not like an inauguration where we know who's
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  • Been elected.
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  • They've come in search of an unidentified king.
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  • They simply show there's--know there's a new king of the jews.
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  • Anti-semitism is not new, folks.
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  • People hated the jewish people two millennia ago.
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  • And these three men said, "we've come to worship the king of
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  • The jews."
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  • Wise men worship the king.
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  • I'm not talking about a style of worship or whether you raise
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  • Your hands or you shout.
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  • It really begins with an attitude of the heart that we
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  • Intend to honor the lord.
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  • You know, i grew up enduring church, surviving church.
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  • The happiest part about church was the ending.
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  • If you watch people coming and going from church, there's far
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  • More enthusiasm when we leave than when we come in, typically.
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  • It's simply an environment where we're invited to begin to
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  • Contemplate, to consider, maybe even to learn a bit about what
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  • It would mean to worship the king.
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  • I think wise men still search for and worship the lord.
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  • Then we're introduced to herod, he's king.
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  • He's the recognized king.
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  • He's the one with the palace.
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  • He's the one with a degree of power.
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  • He certainly has recognized power and authority.
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  • He has people who do his bidding.
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  • In this story, in matthew's narrative, herod is the
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  • Not-so-wise man, because when he has the report from the magi,
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  • Then he calls the chief priests and the teachers of the law, the
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  • Experts, the scholars.
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  • Herod's assumption, and this is intriguing to me, the magi said,
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  • "we've come in search of a king born to the jews."
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  • Herod assumes it's the messiah.
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  • The word in the english new testament is "christ."
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  • In greek, it's "christos."
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  • In hebrew, it's "mashiach."
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  • And the english equivalent is "messiah."
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  • He said--they said, "we've--" he said, "they've come to
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  • Worship our messiah.
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  • What do you know about the messiah?"
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  • The messiah is the promised savior of the jewish people.
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  • The prophets have talked about him for hundreds of years, you
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  • Would imagine that the king in jerusalem would be very excited
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  • About the arrival of the messiah.
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  • Herod didn't have that wisdom.
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  • He had no intention of worshiping the messiah.
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  • Herod's intention will be made very clear.
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  • He intends to eliminate the messiah.
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  • "i'm not cooperating, let alone worshiping.
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  • I don't want anything to do with him."
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  • I would submit to you, it's a rather early expression of the
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  • Spirit of antichrist.
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  • I know the book of revelation.
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  • The last book of the new testament talks about this
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  • Beastly figure that will step onto the stage of human history
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  • And oppose the purposes of god, but please understand the end of
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  • The age is not something new.
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  • That spirit has been alive and well on planet earth for a long,
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  • Long time.
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  • When pharaoh killed the babies of the hebrew slaves in egypt,
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  • It was the spirit of antichrist.
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  • When nebuchadnezzar had shadrach, meshach, and abednego
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  • Bound with ropes and a furnace heated and then cast into the
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  • Furnace, it was the spirit of antichrist.
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  • How do i know?
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  • Because who came to get them?
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  • The king said, "i see a fourth man in the furnace, and he looks
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  • Like the son of god."
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  • Very good, obi-wan.
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  • Herod's intent is to kill the messiah.
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  • You have to meditate on that for a moment.
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  • Three foreigners, with very marginal connections to the
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  • Jewish people or to the temple or to the worship of almighty
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  • God, have made a difficult journey.
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  • They've informed the king in jerusalem, they said, "we've
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  • Come to worship."
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  • And he has murderous intent.
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  • He's alive and well on the seat of political power, and he has
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  • No intent of yielding it.
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  • I would submit to you that, biblically, you really can't
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  • Separate our faith from the authority over our lives, that
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  • They are enmeshed, that when we're called to be salt and
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  • Light, we're not just called to gather in our churches and sing
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  • Our choruses and recite our verses.
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  • We're called to be salt and light in the culture, to bring
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  • The message of a king and his kingdom into the world in which
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  • We live.
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  • I know that's not always the most popular message, and
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  • There's many voices that will say to me, "pastor, don't
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  • Be political."
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  • I'm trying not to be.
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  • I'm telling you our assignment is to impact our culture.
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  • We can't just huddle in our churches and imagine we can
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  • Please the lord.
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  • Now, there's some lessons from the journey that i don't want us
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  • To miss.
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  • Matthew goes on that same chapter, chapter 2, in verse 9.
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  • He said, "after they had heard the king, they went on their
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  • Way, and they had--the star they had seen in the east went
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  • Ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the
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  • Child was.
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  • When they saw the star, they were overjoyed.
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  • On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother mary,
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  • And they bowed down and they worshiped him.
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  • They opened their treasures and they presented him with gifts of
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  • Gold and of incense and of myrrh.
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  • And having been warned in a dream not to go back to herod,
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  • They returned to their country by another route."
  • 00:11:57.666 --> 00:12:02.104
  • Again, these wise men, in search of the king of the jews, a newly
  • 00:12:02.104 --> 00:12:08.344
  • Arrived king of the jews, they go to the most logical place.
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  • They go to the capital city, and they find themselves ultimately
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  • In the palace inquiring of the king.
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  • All of that makes perfect sense, except that's not the end of
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  • Their journey.
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  • They follow the star on to bethlehem.
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  • That always intrigues me.
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  • Bethlehem is a very short distance from jerusalem.
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  • I've walked it on multiple occasions.
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  • It's not 5 miles.
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  • Now, would you be aware that a star had led you beyond
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  • Jerusalem to bethlehem?
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  • It's not really clear to me.
  • 00:12:39.375 --> 00:12:41.710
  • They had an awareness that i don't have.
  • 00:12:41.710 --> 00:12:44.647
  • They had a sophistication that escapes me.
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  • Siri would have to give me those instructions.
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  • That seems to be the only way i follow directions on the road
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  • Any longer.
  • 00:12:52.922 --> 00:12:55.024
  • But they find their way to bethlehem, not to a palace, but
  • 00:12:55.024 --> 00:12:59.261
  • To a barn, to a stable.
  • 00:12:59.261 --> 00:13:01.864
  • This is a long journey, as much as two years, in search of a
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  • King, and the destination is a stable and not a palace.
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  • There's no royal celebration.
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  • There's no display of purple.
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  • There's no ostentatious display of wealth or acknowledgement of
  • 00:13:15.711 --> 00:13:19.448
  • Great power.
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  • They have made a great effort.
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  • They have expended a great expense.
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  • They have forfeited other opportunities over this period
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  • Of time.
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  • I would submit to you, it could have been very disappointing to
  • 00:13:29.892 --> 00:13:33.996
  • Arrive to see the king of the jews in a barn.
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  • In a barn?
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  • Maybe even in a manger?
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  • The timing's not exact.
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  • In a manger, the king of the jews?
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  • Didn't herod say it's the messiah?
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  • In a barn?
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  • I don't know, if i use my imagination a little bit, i can
  • 00:13:58.354 --> 00:14:00.456
  • See these wise men looking at one another.
  • 00:14:00.456 --> 00:14:02.024
  • There's some eye rolls.
  • 00:14:02.024 --> 00:14:04.593
  • "well, you saw the stall first."
  • 00:14:04.593 --> 00:14:07.596
  • "yeah, but you plotted the course."
  • 00:14:07.596 --> 00:14:10.733
  • "yeah, but you're the one that said, 'turn left at the oasis.'"
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  • Warned by god in a dream, they go back another way.
  • 00:14:16.639 --> 00:14:21.043
  • Is it safe to say--i don't think it's a real stretch of the
  • 00:14:21.043 --> 00:14:24.680
  • Text or the narrative: i don't think god exactly met
  • 00:14:24.680 --> 00:14:27.917
  • Their expectations.
  • 00:14:27.917 --> 00:14:31.153
  • Would you leave extravagant gifts with some scruffy
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  • Characters that gave birth in a barn?
  • 00:14:34.924 --> 00:14:38.494
  • You'd be tempted to say, "well, maybe that's not prudent.
  • 00:14:38.494 --> 00:14:45.367
  • That's too much.
  • 00:14:45.367 --> 00:14:48.370
  • Maybe we should just bless them and withdraw."
  • 00:14:48.370 --> 00:14:52.441
  • I don't think it takes much imagination at all to think that
  • 00:14:52.441 --> 00:14:55.010
  • The wise men were somewhat disappointed.
  • 00:14:55.010 --> 00:15:00.049
  • No, i don't like theoretical christianity, so i have a couple
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  • Of questions for you, if you'll allow me.
  • 00:15:02.718 --> 00:15:05.154
  • They're not complicated, and you don't need to answer them
  • 00:15:05.154 --> 00:15:06.889
  • Out loud.
  • 00:15:06.889 --> 00:15:08.257
  • In fact, i'm not sure you need to answer them on christmas eve.
  • 00:15:08.257 --> 00:15:09.992
  • I'd prefer you think about them.
  • 00:15:09.992 --> 00:15:11.327
  • But the first one i've already alluded to: what are you
  • 00:15:11.327 --> 00:15:13.262
  • Following, really?
  • 00:15:13.262 --> 00:15:14.596
  • And not your church answer.
  • 00:15:14.596 --> 00:15:17.366
  • If somebody that didn't know you well examined your calendar and
  • 00:15:17.366 --> 00:15:20.302
  • Your expenditures, what are you following?
  • 00:15:20.302 --> 00:15:25.407
  • Where are you investing your time and your attention?
  • 00:15:25.407 --> 00:15:29.345
  • What is your heart really seeking after?
  • 00:15:29.345 --> 00:15:31.880
  • And the second question, it's equally important.
  • 00:15:31.880 --> 00:15:35.451
  • It may not be obviously related, but i believe it is.
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  • Have you been disappointed?
  • 00:15:38.721 --> 00:15:43.492
  • Disappointment can be a very powerful influence in your life.
  • 00:15:43.492 --> 00:15:48.397
  • I'm intrigued that after two years of following a star and
  • 00:15:48.397 --> 00:15:51.734
  • Their destination being a barn and a baby in a manger, perhaps,
  • 00:15:51.734 --> 00:15:55.404
  • That the wise men were willing to follow direction.
  • 00:15:55.404 --> 00:15:59.508
  • It'd be a really good opportunity for there to be a
  • 00:15:59.508 --> 00:16:01.643
  • Flash of stubbornness.
  • 00:16:01.643 --> 00:16:04.813
  • "we spent two years, and this is the destination?"
  • 00:16:04.813 --> 00:16:08.751
  • "you dreamed what?
  • 00:16:08.751 --> 00:16:10.986
  • I don't care."
  • 00:16:10.986 --> 00:16:13.589
  • Warned in a dream, they went home another way.
  • 00:16:13.589 --> 00:16:16.859
  • See, i would submit to you that what we follow and the ability
  • 00:16:16.859 --> 00:16:21.463
  • To process disappointment are mission-critical if we're going
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  • To fulfill the purposes of god in our lives.
  • 00:16:24.867 --> 00:16:28.437
  • I'm inviting you to something more than sitting in church from
  • 00:16:28.437 --> 00:16:30.472
  • Time to time, folks.
  • 00:16:30.472 --> 00:16:32.374
  • That doesn't anymore make you a christian than dropping by the
  • 00:16:32.374 --> 00:16:34.543
  • Gym a couple of times a year.
  • 00:16:34.543 --> 00:16:37.012
  • I've tried that.
  • 00:16:37.012 --> 00:16:39.014
  • All that means is i know people who perspire regularly.
  • 00:16:39.014 --> 00:16:43.118
  • I like to stop by the gym.
  • 00:16:43.118 --> 00:16:45.621
  • About a block past the gym i frequent, there's a
  • 00:16:45.621 --> 00:16:47.656
  • Doughnut shop.
  • 00:16:47.656 --> 00:16:51.927
  • In fact, i'll go to the doughnut shop, and then go to the gym.
  • 00:16:51.927 --> 00:16:53.829
  • It's like a promise when i get done.
  • 00:16:53.829 --> 00:16:58.400
  • I think we treat church a bit that way.
  • 00:16:58.400 --> 00:17:00.235
  • You know, we drop by, but it doesn't really occupy a place
  • 00:17:00.235 --> 00:17:03.405
  • Of significance.
  • 00:17:03.405 --> 00:17:04.740
  • I'm not trying to get you to be worshippers of a building or a
  • 00:17:04.740 --> 00:17:06.842
  • Tradition or a denomination or an organization.
  • 00:17:06.842 --> 00:17:09.344
  • Those things will all pass away.
  • 00:17:09.344 --> 00:17:12.481
  • But church is ultimately about the king.
  • 00:17:12.481 --> 00:17:14.016
  • Jesus is the head of the church.
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  • So i have a question again: is there a course correction that
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  • Might be needed in your life?
  • 00:17:19.254 --> 00:17:21.890
  • And the follow-up: are there any disappointments to be overcome?
  • 00:17:21.890 --> 00:17:26.728
  • And here's the most honest answer i know: for most of
  • 00:17:26.728 --> 00:17:28.864
  • Us, absolutely.
  • 00:17:28.864 --> 00:17:31.900
  • We would all probably benefit from some course correction.
  • 00:17:31.900 --> 00:17:38.440
  • Wow, usually i get at least one amen at that point.
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  • It's christmas eve, isn't it?
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  • Okay.
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  • All of us benefit.
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  • None of us make a journey without adjusting course.
  • 00:17:47.716 --> 00:17:52.087
  • None of us are so smart we get every turn just right and every
  • 00:17:52.087 --> 00:17:56.191
  • Point along the way with absolute clarity.
  • 00:17:56.191 --> 00:17:59.895
  • A mentor in my life many years ago said to me that most of us
  • 00:17:59.895 --> 00:18:03.832
  • Follow the lord like we learned to parallel park.
  • 00:18:03.832 --> 00:18:07.236
  • You put it in reverse, and you continue that direction until
  • 00:18:07.236 --> 00:18:09.938
  • You hear a noise.
  • 00:18:09.938 --> 00:18:12.774
  • And then you change directions, and you go that way until you
  • 00:18:12.774 --> 00:18:15.444
  • Hear a noise.
  • 00:18:15.444 --> 00:18:17.412
  • And you continue back and forth until you've done the best you
  • 00:18:17.412 --> 00:18:20.215
  • Can do.
  • 00:18:20.215 --> 00:18:22.384
  • And i think most of us follow the lord with a bit of that
  • 00:18:22.384 --> 00:18:25.420
  • Pendulum action.
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  • We want to act like we're following the straight and
  • 00:18:27.456 --> 00:18:29.124
  • Narrow, but it never seems quite that straight.
  • 00:18:29.124 --> 00:18:33.529
  • Course corrections and disappointments are present in
  • 00:18:33.529 --> 00:18:37.166
  • All of our lives.
  • 00:18:37.166 --> 00:18:38.700
  • They have to be overcome.
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  • Navigating life honestly is about continual
  • 00:18:41.370 --> 00:18:44.006
  • Course adjustment.
  • 00:18:44.006 --> 00:18:45.340
  • And disappointments-- they come to everybody.
  • 00:18:45.340 --> 00:18:48.243
  • If you've never been disappointed, you're either
  • 00:18:48.243 --> 00:18:50.479
  • Paying no attention whatsoever, or you're dishonest, because
  • 00:18:50.479 --> 00:18:55.417
  • Disappointments come to all of us.
  • 00:18:55.417 --> 00:18:59.121
  • You know what a disappointment is?
  • 00:18:59.121 --> 00:19:00.522
  • By definition, that little prefix "dis" means "without."
  • 00:19:00.522 --> 00:19:03.091
  • It's something that shows up on your calendar without
  • 00:19:03.091 --> 00:19:05.527
  • An appointment.
  • 00:19:05.527 --> 00:19:07.329
  • "i didn't expect this.
  • 00:19:07.329 --> 00:19:08.697
  • I didn't want this.
  • 00:19:08.697 --> 00:19:10.032
  • I didn't invite this.
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  • I didn't anticipate this.
  • 00:19:11.400 --> 00:19:14.236
  • I don't like this.
  • 00:19:14.236 --> 00:19:16.471
  • It's disappointing."
  • 00:19:16.471 --> 00:19:19.374
  • Well, the reality is, if you're following god, disappointment is
  • 00:19:19.374 --> 00:19:23.512
  • Not catastrophic.
  • 00:19:23.512 --> 00:19:26.114
  • It can be inconvenient, but it doesn't have to be catastrophic.
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  • I believe god's purposes will never be thwarted.
  • 00:19:31.486 --> 00:19:35.324
  • The wise men found a king in a stable,
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  • And they worshiped him.
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  • Allen: god is moving in the earth, and at allen jackson
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  • Ministries, we're doing everything we can to strengthen
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  • The church in our nation and wherever god opens the door.
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  • Churches for polite bible studies.
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  • Church that's vibrant and vital, and to do that, we've gotta make
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  • An investment.
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  • Allen: i'd like to say a prayer that our offering would not only
  • 00:20:48.130 --> 00:20:51.500
  • Be pleasing to the lord, but that he would use it to bring
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  • Joy and hope to people who are overcoming disappointment.
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  • Could we agree on that prayer?
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  • Father, thank you.
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  • Thank you for your great mercy in our lives, for your great
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  • Blessings to us.
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  • And, lord, as we bring our christmas offerings to you
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  • Tonight, but we do it in faith and anticipation, we pray for
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  • Each of those places, lord, the families to whom it will go, the
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  • Children who will benefit.
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  • Those with great struggles, i pray they'll be encouraged.
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  • And, lord, as we give, we do so trusting you to meet the needs
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  • Of our lives.
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  • We thank you for that.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • Hallelujah, one last thing we're gonna do together.
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  • If you'll stand with me, in those same amazing, green bags,
  • 00:21:33.442 --> 00:21:38.547
  • There's a candle.
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  • If you'll find yours, parents, i hope you have children with you
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  • Or grandparents.
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  • I need your help for a moment.
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  • One of the goals is not to set fire to the clothing of the
  • 00:21:49.324 --> 00:21:52.994
  • People in front of you.
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  • So, parents, please engage.
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  • We're gonna light these candles, and we're gonna share that light
  • 00:21:59.568 --> 00:22:02.404
  • With one another as a visible demonstration of being the light
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  • Of the world.
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  • Will you help me, parents? okay, thank you.
  • 00:22:09.745 --> 00:22:17.486
  • Otherwise, we were gonna have to abort, okay, so.
  • 00:22:17.486 --> 00:22:21.289
  • But, together, we can change a community.
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  • Jesus changed the world with 11.
  • 00:22:25.026 --> 00:22:28.797
  • We're way overstaffed.
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  • All right, will you share that with one another?
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  • We'll start.
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  • ♪ silent night, ♪
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  • ♪ holy night. ♪
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  • ♪ all is calm, ♪
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  • ♪ all is bright. ♪
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  • ♪ round yon virgin ♪
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  • ♪ mother and child. ♪
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  • ♪ holy infant, so tender and mild, ♪
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  • ♪ sleep in heavenly peace. ♪
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  • ♪ sleep in heavenly peace. ♪
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  • ♪ silent night, ♪
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  • ♪ holy night. ♪
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  • ♪ shepherds quake ♪
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  • ♪ at the sight. ♪
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  • ♪ glories stream from heaven afar. ♪
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  • ♪ heavenly hosts sing hallelujah. ♪
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  • ♪ christ the savior is born. ♪
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  • ♪ christ the savior is born. ♪♪
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  • Allen: hallelujah, you know, i'm watching this happen,
  • 00:24:29.584 --> 00:24:31.253
  • And our room is a lot like the rest of the world.
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  • Some sections seem more resistant to the light, but we
  • 00:24:34.389 --> 00:24:38.960
  • Made it.
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  • I know it's impolite, but i'm gonna give you permission
  • 00:24:40.295 --> 00:24:42.264
  • In church.
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  • Just turn around and look for a minute.
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  • You're beautiful.
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  • You are spectacular.
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  • You make a difference in your neighborhoods, in your homes, in
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  • Your families, in our community.
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  • You may not be valued in some places, but in the halls of
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  • Heaven, you are of great worth.
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  • And i thank god for your lives.
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  • Can we pray that the light of jesus christ would blaze like a
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  • Wildfire across our nation and throughout our earth.
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  • Father, thank you.
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  • Thank you for christmas season.
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  • We can pause to acknowledge jesus's entrance into our world.
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  • We thank you tonight for the simple reminders that we're
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  • Your children.
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  • And i pray that your light in us would overcome any darkness, any
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  • Challenge, any hurt, any need, that the light of jesus christ
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  • Would triumph.
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  • And i pray that your light in us, in our generation, would
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  • Impact our world, that the name of jesus will be exalted and his
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  • Kingdom extended.
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  • May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.
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  • Deliver us from evil.
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  • Give us our daily bread.
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  • Keep us.
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  • We praise you for your faithfulness.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • God bless you, and merry christmas!
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  • Allen: allen jackson ministries was created to strengthen
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  • The church.
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  • With your help, we've been able to take some steps in that
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  • Direction, but we're more determined than ever to make an
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  • Impact in our world.
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  • We have some invitations internationally to step into
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  • Some war-torn countries, into israel and ukraine, to help
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  • Strengthen the church there.
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  • We plan to respond to that.
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  • But as importantly in this nation, folks, business as usual
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  • Isn't gonna get this done.
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  • We can't be timid and sit in our churches and have polite bible
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  • Studies and sing our favorite choruses.
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  • We've got to take the truth into the public square, a biblical
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  • Worldview back into the midst of our culture.
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  • We're creating tools to help you do that in your home, in your
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  • Church, in your community-- bible studies, publishing books,
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  • Content that we can share with you.
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  • It's time for the church to be the church.
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  • We have an advocacy for jesus of nazareth that has to be heard in
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  • This season, or our children and grandchildren will pay
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  • The price.
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  • Will you make an investment in this ministry to make 2026 the
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  • Most fruitful year we've ever had together?
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  • Thank you.
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