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Allen Jackson - You've Gotta Serve Somebody (Part 2)

August 18, 2025 | S25 E233 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - You've Gotta Serve Somebody (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - You've Gotta Serve Somebody (Part 2) | August 18, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: hey, i sat down recently with my father to do a
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  • Podcast for my "culture and christianity" podcast, and it
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  • Was so valuable to me.
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  • I mean, it was stories that obviously i'm familiar with, but
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  • As i heard him recount his faith, it ignited something in
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  • Me about the faithfulness of god across generations.
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  • Well, i encouraged my dad to put together a book about his
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  • Experiences with the holy spirit.
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  • It changed his life, my parents's life, ultimately my
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  • Family's life.
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  • I believe the book will be a real encouragement to you.
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  • I wanna make it available to you right along with "unleashing the
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  • Power of the holy spirit."
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  • It's something i put together a while back that's been one of
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  • The most effective tools we've ever had in the ministry.
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  • Together they'll open the doorway for you to not just have
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  • Language around the holy spirit, but to have something to
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  • Actually do to invite him into your life on a regular basis to
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  • Give you the wisdom you need to help you unlock the problems
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  • That we face.
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  • The spirit of god within us to help us, guide us, and direct
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  • Us, that's invaluable, and these books will help you understand.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: you know, i believe in the sinner's prayer, and again,
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  • I don't want to minimize or denigrate that.
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  • But it's a doorway to serving the king.
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  • And there's some things that go with that.
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  • Again, it's not an inclusive list.
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  • I didn't think you'd want to stay if i tried to make an
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  • Inclusive list.
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  • But i started with the most obvious, and i think we
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  • Understand as servants that it really isn't about my will.
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  • Something has to happen, i have to surrender my will, i have to
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  • Yield my will, that my will cannot predominate.
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  • It doesn't mean we're void of a will.
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  • We have one, god's given it to us.
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  • What we wanna do is not completely neutralize it.
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  • We want to redirect it towards the lord.
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  • We wanna use our will.
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  • My will is to honor the lord.
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  • I want to learn to walk in godliness.
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  • I wanna learn to walk uprightly before him.
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  • I wanna learn to walk in righteousness and holiness and
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  • Purity, and none of those things are automatic, and i don't
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  • Believe any of them should be understood in purely
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  • Spiritual terms.
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  • They all have very practical expressions.
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  • But i can tell you this, if you lack the intent, if you don't
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  • Have the will for them to happen, it is highly improbable
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  • That they will fill your life.
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  • You have to choose to honor the lord.
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  • Ephesians chapter 1, "paul, an apostle of christ jesus by the
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  • Will of god."
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  • Paul had no intention of being an apostle of christ jesus.
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  • Paul had every intention of being a pharisee of
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  • The pharisees.
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  • He hated christians.
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  • He put people in prison that said they believed jesus was
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  • A messiah.
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  • You had a divine interruption.
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  • And our reality is i don't believe any of us intended, it
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  • Wasn't originating in our will to be servants of the most
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  • High god.
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  • God did an intervention.
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  • We usually call it conviction or we've got some labels around it,
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  • But there's a redirection, a radical redirection.
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  • It's a part of our god story.
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  • It may have not meant a change of career.
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  • Paul is still a student of scripture, a teacher of
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  • Scripture, and one who intervenes in the lives of
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  • People on behalf of the word of god, but he put jesus at the
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  • Center of that.
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  • And you and i are called by god.
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  • It's his will.
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  • Philippians chapter 3, paul said, "whatever was to my profit
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  • I now consider a loss for the sake of christ.
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  • I consider it rubbish."
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  • The original language, even more harsh, "that i may gain christ
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  • And be found him into him."
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  • "look, there were some things that were to my credit.
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  • I had some advantages, some opportunities.
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  • I had some good education and some good training and some
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  • Momentum and some accomplishments.
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  • From where i stand today," he said, "you know, it's really
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  • Kind of just a bunch of junk.
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  • I have yielded my will to serve god."
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  • I'm asking you to consider that.
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  • You may be a tenured christ follower, you may have y--
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  • You can finish my sentences.
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  • You may have read your bible through many, many times.
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  • But are we willing to yield our will to god?
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  • It's a characteristic of a servant.
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  • How long do you think a servant would flourish if he was given
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  • An instruction and said, "no, don't want to"?
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  • See, we have taken such a soft approach in many aspects of our
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  • Faith that we think god offers us suggestions.
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  • The new covenant, we imagine, is so grace heavy that god is no
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  • Longer sovereign, that god offers suggestions or hints
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  • Or invitations.
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  • I think god still provides directives.
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  • "moses, i've heard the cries of my people.
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  • I've seen their suffering, and i'm sending you."
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  • "i don't wanna go."
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  • "i know, shut up and go anyway."
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  • Living bible.
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  • "ananias, go tell saul.
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  • I've been watching him.
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  • He's made a miserable mess of his life.
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  • I have a new assignment for him.
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  • Go tell him it's gonna be really difficult."
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  • Ah... god's will.
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  • So, i think, at the heart of being a servant is we begin to
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  • Take--the bible, the description that's given, the
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  • Larger description, is about overcoming.
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  • We have to crucify that old part of us that says, "i want my way.
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  • This is what i want."
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  • Okay, duly noted, but now there's a more
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  • Relevant question.
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  • What does god want?
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  • And it's not always simple.
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  • So, we start with the fundamentals.
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  • We understand the fundamentals about godly and ungodly, we say,
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  • "i have to learn to want godliness."
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  • We understand the fundamentals between moral and immoral and
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  • Say, "i have to start to choose moral."
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  • With what you understand about right and wrong, we have to
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  • Begin to say, "you know, i-- okay, i choose what's right.
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  • But it--there'd be more advantageous
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  • If i was less right.
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  • There'd be more profit if i was a little less right.
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  • Might be more pleasure if i was a little less moral."
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  • Might be, but not really.
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  • And we have to take our will, the way we serve the lord,
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  • And say, "i will choose what i understand of godliness."
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  • And what i've found is there's a progressive revelation.
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  • As you do that and i do that, then we can take another step.
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  • Do you ever go to a gym and watch people do things that you
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  • Can't do?
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  • Bunch of freaks?
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  • A bunch of skinny, fit people?
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  • I think we ought to have a gym for people that are fluffy,
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  • Eat donuts, and watch videos of skinny fit people.
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  • That's a franchise idea right there.
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  • You know, we imagine that the people that are in better
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  • Physical condition than we are, "it was just genetic.
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  • They just got a different set of gifts than i did."
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  • I used to take care of horses; you know, some horses, you feed
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  • Two horses the same amount of feed, and one of them flourishes
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  • And one of them doesn't.
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  • I'm a flourisher.
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  • And you look at those people, "oh, they got some gift i
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  • Didn't get."
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  • Yeah, they did, it's called discipline.
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  • And to learn to take my will and say, "i will serve the lord"--
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  • Every one of us has access to that.
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  • The second component of being a servant of the king is
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  • Contentment, contentment.
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  • This comes from the spirit of god.
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  • It doesn't come from our old nature.
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  • In philippians chapter 4, paul writes, and he said, "i know
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  • What it is to be in need, and i know what it is to have plenty."
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  • He's lived on both extremes.
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  • He said, "i've learned the secret," and that intrigues me.
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  • He describes it that way.
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  • "i've learned the secret of being content in any and
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  • Every situation."
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  • Wow, can you imagine to be content no matter the situation?
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  • "whether i'm well fed or whether i'm hungry, whether i'm living
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  • In plenty or in want.
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  • I can do everything through him who gives me strength."
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  • Whether i have a lot or a little, whether it's easy or
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  • It's difficult, whether there's applause or criticism, i've
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  • Learned there's a place of contentment.
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  • And that the place is--the bridge through those places is i
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  • Can do it in christ jesus.
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  • I can't do it in my own self.
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  • It's not just a mental exercise.
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  • It's not about discipline or force of will.
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  • I have to stay in christ.
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  • I have to remember i'm serving the king in this place.
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  • If i weren't serving the king, i wouldn't stay in this place.
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  • If i weren't serving the king, i wouldn't hold this attitude.
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  • If i weren't serving the king, i wouldn't be engaged in
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  • This behavior.
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  • I can do it in christ.
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  • See, contentment is not complacent.
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  • I would submit to you that contentment is a posture of
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  • Trust, that it's a confident place of knowing god's
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  • Faithfulness and knowing that it will be expressed in your
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  • Circumstances--if not in this moment--the faithfulness of god
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  • Will be expressed.
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  • And so, i choose to be content.
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  • The timing and the method of that expressed faithfulness
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  • Resides in god's fear and not ours.
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  • I've told you on many occasions i complain about god's timing.
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  • I still do.
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  • He doesn't seem to be too moved by my complaints.
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  • But i'm telling you, contentment is a gift.
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  • 1 timothy 6:6 says, "godliness with contentment is great gain."
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  • Apparently you can be godliness with great discontentment and
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  • You forfeit a great deal of gain.
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  • Why would you do that?
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  • Why would you do that?
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  • Practice contentment.
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  • I choose to be content.
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  • "well, life's harder this week than--" i understand, but let's
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  • Choose to be content.
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  • God's faithfulness will arrive.
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  • His provision will be apparent.
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  • "i didn't want to walk this path."
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  • I understand, but god has led us down this path, and he will lead
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  • Us through the shadowed valley.
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  • God is faithful.
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  • There's a third component of serving the king, and that's
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  • That we're entrusted with authority, that that authority
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  • Can be extended, given to us, or it can be withdrawn.
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  • I think it's an important distinction.
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  • Philippians chapter 2, verse 8, it's speaking of jesus again,
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  • Says, "being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and
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  • Became obedient to death--even death on a cross!
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  • Therefore god exalted him."
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  • "therefore" is a conclusion word.
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  • I learned years ago, and i've told you often, that when you
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  • See a "therefore," you need to find out what it's there for.
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  • Because jesus took the nature of a servant and he humbled himself
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  • And became obedient, obedient even to death on a cross,
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  • "therefore god exalted him to the highest place and gave him
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  • The name that's above every name, that at the name of jesus
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  • Every knee would bow, heaven and earth and under the earth,
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  • And every tongue confess that jesus christ is lord."
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  • Why did god do that?
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  • He entrusted him with authority because he became a servant.
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  • You want the authority of god to be brought to bear in your life?
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  • Begin to serve the lord and his people.
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  • I don't think it's primarily a knowledge issue.
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  • I don't think it's about learning original languages.
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  • I don't think it's a social skills issue.
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  • I don't think it's a a resource issue.
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  • I think the lord has to know he can trust us, that his will
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  • Matters to us, and that we will learn to be content with little
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  • Or a lot, we'll learn to trust him.
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  • If he knows we can be engaged, he--because of jesus's
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  • Attitude, because of the choices jesus made, he's given this
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  • Exalted position above all of creation.
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  • It's not nepotism, it's not because of some status he had in
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  • The family.
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  • The scripture's very clear.
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  • Jesus used this when he told the parables of the servants and
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  • The talents.
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  • Remember the servants that came back and they had a good report.
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  • They said, "you gave me two talents, and i have two more."
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  • He said, "well done, good and faithful servant."
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  • One with five talents came back with five additional, "well
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  • Done, good--" there was no discrepancy between the two.
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  • They've been faithful whether-- with the gifts that they've
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  • Been given.
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  • Then the one came in and he said, "you know, i took what you
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  • Had and i buried it.
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  • There's been no fruitfulness from it, but here you go."
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  • He said, "you're wicked and lazy, a wicked and lazy servant.
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  • Take away what he has."
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  • So that authority, those gifts, those blessings, they can be
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  • Extended, they can be withdrawn.
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  • Are you serving the lord?
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  • I want to.
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  • I don't want to point to how i've served the lord.
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  • I want to serve the lord today and tomorrow.
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  • I want to keep that alive in me.
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  • It's not a seasonal thing.
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  • It may look different in different seasons, that would be
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  • My experience, but i want to serve the lord.
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  • You can be entrusted with authority.
  • 00:13:23.685 --> 00:13:27.488
  • And then a fourth characteristic of serving the king is there are
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  • Limits to that authority.
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  • This intrigues me, john 13, jesus is speaking.
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  • "i've set you an example that you should do as i have done
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  • For you.
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  • I tell you the truth, no servant is greater than his master, nor
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  • A messenger greater than the one who sent him."
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  • It's a fasc--no servant is greater than his master.
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  • Whatever you decide to serve sets the ceiling, the potential
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  • For your existence.
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  • If you--we talked about money last weekend.
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  • If you serve money, the bible says that money is temporary,
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  • It's a part of this present age, so the limit of your life is
  • 00:14:05.593 --> 00:14:10.665
  • Completely sealed off at this present age.
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  • When this age is over, what you've served no longer
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  • Has value.
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  • I think we get that, in the secular realm.
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  • The authority you serve, the place where you work has an
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  • Authority that expresses over your life.
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  • It's not typically global or universal.
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  • It's limited by that organization, that group
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  • Of people.
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  • Well, the way jesus chose to say it was a servant isn't greater
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  • Than his master.
  • 00:14:33.521 --> 00:14:34.856
  • Well, suppose your master is the creator of all things, the name
  • 00:14:34.856 --> 00:14:39.494
  • At which every knee will bow and every tongue confess.
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  • Then what's the potential of your life?
  • 00:14:43.798 --> 00:14:46.301
  • It's unlimited.
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  • God can do anything.
  • 00:14:48.770 --> 00:14:50.738
  • He can part a sea, he can bring water out of a rock, he can
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  • Cause the most powerful ruler in the world to step out of his
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  • Mind and lose his balance and then give it back to him
  • 00:14:59.247 --> 00:15:03.384
  • Again--nebuchadnezzar.
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  • He can orchestrate circumstances that because you choose to serve
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  • Him will cause you to be thrown into a furnace.
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  • I don't like that.
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  • I'd rather be--lead the parade, rather win the lottery.
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  • I don't want to get tossed into a lion's den.
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  • He told the story how he came to faith, how god transformed
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  • They started a home bible study, all the way up to the beginning
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  • Of this church that i've served now for decades.
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  • As i listened, the heart of it was the work of the holy spirit
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  • In his life and through his life.
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  • Allen: you know, i don't like so many of our platitudes.
  • 00:16:36.978 --> 00:16:39.247
  • "you know, well, god will take you through."
  • 00:16:39.247 --> 00:16:43.117
  • I was thinking of people telling me that.
  • 00:16:43.117 --> 00:16:44.485
  • I wish he'd take them through.
  • 00:16:44.485 --> 00:16:47.922
  • You know, when i'm in those places and i'm--i typically--i
  • 00:16:47.922 --> 00:16:50.291
  • Wish god just took me around, like a bypass, detour.
  • 00:16:50.291 --> 00:16:57.031
  • But he does take us through.
  • 00:16:57.031 --> 00:16:59.167
  • When people are walking through hard times, sometimes the best
  • 00:16:59.167 --> 00:17:02.170
  • Thing you can say is, "god will--you know, i'm praying
  • 00:17:02.170 --> 00:17:04.939
  • For you."
  • 00:17:04.939 --> 00:17:06.307
  • God--i don't--i can't fix a lot of it, but i know the one
  • 00:17:06.307 --> 00:17:09.510
  • Who can.
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  • I'm telling you, this is such an important point.
  • 00:17:11.712 --> 00:17:13.815
  • The limits of authority in your life can be understood by what
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  • You serve--not in word, but in an honest review of time,
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  • Effort, attention, resources.
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  • What are you serving?
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  • I wanna serve the lord.
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  • It changes completely my imagination of the future.
  • 00:17:29.230 --> 00:17:33.434
  • And here's the awkward part.
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  • I don't think we--i think we don't serve the lord because i
  • 00:17:34.802 --> 00:17:36.571
  • Think, honestly, we think it's kind of burdensome,
  • 00:17:36.571 --> 00:17:38.739
  • Intrusive, loathsome.
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  • You know, how much?
  • 00:17:42.110 --> 00:17:44.645
  • It's like, "i need to eat some green, something green.
  • 00:17:44.645 --> 00:17:50.218
  • How about pistachio ice cream, is that green enough?
  • 00:17:50.218 --> 00:17:56.457
  • So how much green stuff do i have--" kathy used to drink
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  • This stuff.
  • 00:17:58.993 --> 00:18:00.995
  • I called it pond scum.
  • 00:18:00.995 --> 00:18:02.363
  • It looked like pond scum.
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  • Have you ever seen a pond where there was no movement and
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  • There's something grows on the top of it?
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  • She had that every morning in a glass.
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  • I passed.
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  • I'd rather have an apple fritter.
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  • I've changed a little bit.
  • 00:18:21.616 --> 00:18:25.686
  • But i think our attitude towards serving the lord is very mu--
  • 00:18:25.686 --> 00:18:28.756
  • "well, how much do i have to, you know, how long?
  • 00:18:28.756 --> 00:18:32.293
  • Oh, man, again?
  • 00:18:32.293 --> 00:18:35.663
  • [sighs]
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  • And i'm not recruiting, so i don't mean just in terms of
  • 00:18:38.132 --> 00:18:40.368
  • Something that we would present to you as a service, but i mean
  • 00:18:40.368 --> 00:18:43.304
  • Every day.
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  • It isn't just my time.
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  • I've got assignments and responsibilities, and some of
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  • Them i would not do-- i promise you--
  • 00:18:48.509 --> 00:18:50.478
  • If i didn't put them in the context of
  • 00:18:50.478 --> 00:18:52.180
  • "i will do this to serve the lord."
  • 00:18:52.180 --> 00:18:55.917
  • But i don't mean that begrudgingly or with resentment
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  • Or bitterness.
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  • I'll do it voluntarily, but i will do this because my intent
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  • Is to serve the lord.
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  • I'm not clueless that there aren't other options, that i
  • 00:19:05.793 --> 00:19:08.329
  • Could do something else, or-- but i choose, i want to serve
  • 00:19:08.329 --> 00:19:13.334
  • The lord.
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  • I want you to begin to think, what's that look like for you?
  • 00:19:14.669 --> 00:19:16.737
  • How could you serve the lord?
  • 00:19:16.737 --> 00:19:20.308
  • An expression of kindness, a kind word, a focus of your
  • 00:19:20.308 --> 00:19:23.444
  • Attention, and initially it's not gonna feel pleasant.
  • 00:19:23.444 --> 00:19:28.082
  • It's like that first day at the gym.
  • 00:19:28.082 --> 00:19:29.584
  • The first day you go doesn't feel so bad, you feel pretty
  • 00:19:29.584 --> 00:19:31.385
  • Good about yourself when you leave, but two days later and
  • 00:19:31.385 --> 00:19:33.621
  • You can't get out of bed without pain?
  • 00:19:33.621 --> 00:19:37.925
  • And that first time you served, well, you'll feel kind of good
  • 00:19:37.925 --> 00:19:40.161
  • About--"oh, i did something good."
  • 00:19:40.161 --> 00:19:42.630
  • You're like, "now i got that out of the way for a while.
  • 00:19:42.630 --> 00:19:44.365
  • I'll go back to doing what i wanna do."
  • 00:19:44.365 --> 00:19:47.535
  • We want to be servants of the most high god.
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  • It's an adopted behavior.
  • 00:19:51.105 --> 00:19:54.875
  • It's the greatest honor of our lives.
  • 00:19:54.875 --> 00:19:57.278
  • Why would we do that?
  • 00:19:57.278 --> 00:19:58.613
  • There's a promise attached to it.
  • 00:19:58.613 --> 00:20:01.949
  • You see, you want the blessings, you want the opportunities, but
  • 00:20:01.949 --> 00:20:05.186
  • You don't want to meet the conditions, so we hold up our
  • 00:20:05.186 --> 00:20:08.856
  • Salvation card and a picture of our baptism certificate and we
  • 00:20:08.856 --> 00:20:11.859
  • Said, "i got it all."
  • 00:20:11.859 --> 00:20:13.227
  • Well, you did, legally, but experientially, we have to
  • 00:20:13.227 --> 00:20:18.299
  • Choose to say no to ungodliness and yes to godliness and choose
  • 00:20:18.299 --> 00:20:24.171
  • To serve the lord.
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  • No servant is greater than his master.
  • 00:20:25.906 --> 00:20:27.908
  • I will willingly say i'm a servant of the most high--i
  • 00:20:27.908 --> 00:20:31.512
  • Will willingly bow my knee, i will willingly stand in a public
  • 00:20:31.512 --> 00:20:36.317
  • Place and say, "i'm with jesus.
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  • I'm with him."
  • 00:20:39.153 --> 00:20:42.423
  • I will embrace a biblical worldview, a judeo-christian
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  • Worldview, the principles of scripture.
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  • I believe there's a god, that he created the heavens and the
  • 00:20:48.162 --> 00:20:51.232
  • Earth, that jesus of nazareth is his son, that he died on a
  • 00:20:51.232 --> 00:20:54.468
  • Cross, was buried, raised to-- i'm in with all of that stuff,
  • 00:20:54.468 --> 00:20:59.740
  • And that has nothing to do with my day job.
  • 00:20:59.740 --> 00:21:01.876
  • Well, it has something to do with my day job, but one led to
  • 00:21:01.876 --> 00:21:04.578
  • The other.
  • 00:21:04.578 --> 00:21:07.848
  • I want to serve the king.
  • 00:21:07.848 --> 00:21:11.786
  • Yes, there's some consequences for that, and sometimes in the
  • 00:21:11.786 --> 00:21:14.455
  • Short run it feels like a deficit.
  • 00:21:14.455 --> 00:21:18.392
  • Sometimes in the short run, inside of me, i'm tempted to
  • 00:21:18.392 --> 00:21:20.428
  • Grumble or complain, and i have to say i don't--i'm--i'll just
  • 00:21:20.428 --> 00:21:24.799
  • Be quiet for a bit until i can get my attitude to the place
  • 00:21:24.799 --> 00:21:29.070
  • Where i can say, "god, thank you for the privilege of
  • 00:21:29.070 --> 00:21:30.738
  • Serving you."
  • 00:21:30.738 --> 00:21:35.042
  • I hope on a regular basis you spend time in places that you
  • 00:21:35.042 --> 00:21:37.745
  • Wouldn't if you didn't consciously think you were a
  • 00:21:37.745 --> 00:21:39.914
  • Servant of the king.
  • 00:21:39.914 --> 00:21:44.452
  • Hope there are invitations you decline because you're
  • 00:21:44.452 --> 00:21:47.455
  • Consciously a servant of the king.
  • 00:21:47.455 --> 00:21:51.292
  • This isn't complicated, it isn't complex.
  • 00:21:51.292 --> 00:21:53.994
  • It's before us, it will change the trajectory of your eternity.
  • 00:21:53.994 --> 00:21:59.333
  • "well done."
  • 00:21:59.333 --> 00:22:01.001
  • I'm not suggesting we earn our way to heaven.
  • 00:22:01.001 --> 00:22:07.408
  • I understand salvation is a free gift, but what you do with your
  • 00:22:07.408 --> 00:22:10.211
  • Life is your gift to the one who gave you the gift of salvation.
  • 00:22:10.211 --> 00:22:15.015
  • One last point, i really--there is an end to this, i promise.
  • 00:22:15.015 --> 00:22:18.252
  • And that's--you should be aware that you're serving someone
  • 00:22:18.252 --> 00:22:21.021
  • Every day.
  • 00:22:21.021 --> 00:22:23.457
  • I think we're really blind to this.
  • 00:22:23.457 --> 00:22:25.593
  • I think it escapes us.
  • 00:22:25.593 --> 00:22:27.595
  • I think if we're not consciously serving the king, we're
  • 00:22:27.595 --> 00:22:30.865
  • Unconsciously serving the kingdom of darkness.
  • 00:22:30.865 --> 00:22:34.502
  • In john chapter 8 jesus is talking to a group of people,
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  • And before i read it, i would point out to you that the people
  • 00:22:37.138 --> 00:22:39.306
  • He's talking to are the covenant people of god.
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  • They offer sacrifices, they eat the right foods, they go to the
  • 00:22:43.778 --> 00:22:47.681
  • Right places, they have the right holidays, they're checking
  • 00:22:47.681 --> 00:22:50.985
  • So many boxes, and jesus said to them, "if god were your father,
  • 00:22:50.985 --> 00:22:55.623
  • You would love me, for i came from god, and now i'm here.
  • 00:22:55.623 --> 00:22:59.026
  • I haven't come on my own; but he sent me."
  • 00:22:59.026 --> 00:23:01.695
  • What's he saying?
  • 00:23:01.695 --> 00:23:03.063
  • He said, "i'm serving my father.
  • 00:23:03.063 --> 00:23:04.765
  • I didn't come on my own."
  • 00:23:04.765 --> 00:23:06.934
  • That's a polite way of saying, "i wouldn't be here if pop
  • 00:23:06.934 --> 00:23:09.003
  • Hadn't asked me to come.
  • 00:23:09.003 --> 00:23:11.005
  • Bunch of knuckleheads."
  • 00:23:11.005 --> 00:23:15.543
  • "you belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out
  • 00:23:15.543 --> 00:23:20.748
  • Your father's desires."
  • 00:23:20.748 --> 00:23:22.116
  • They were very offended at that statement.
  • 00:23:22.116 --> 00:23:24.952
  • But the reality is this:
  • 00:23:24.952 --> 00:23:26.987
  • There's two options.
  • 00:23:26.987 --> 00:23:28.355
  • There's a--it's a dual set of choices.
  • 00:23:28.355 --> 00:23:30.724
  • You either serve god or you're gonna serve the devil or you're
  • 00:23:30.724 --> 00:23:38.499
  • Gonna serve yourself; that old, carnal nature, adamic nature,
  • 00:23:38.499 --> 00:23:42.236
  • Earthly nature, fallen nature is on the wrong side.
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  • Can you be a christ follower and serve your carnal nature?
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  • Yes, you can. you can.
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  • But you will forfeit the blessings of god.
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  • And it's a frightening place to me, because it suggests that
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  • Your fruitfulness can be dramatically diminished.
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  • Remember the parable of the sower and--or, i mean, there's
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  • Just multiple examples.
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  • I'm not trying to frighten you with your salvation, but i'm
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  • Trying to awaken you out of the smugness of self-righteousness.
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  • We're serving someone, and let's intentionally, purposefully, on
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  • A daily basis decide to serve the lord.
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  • It will change--it'll change your home, it'll change the way
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  • You go into the marketplace, it'll change what you do with
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  • Your discretionary time.
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  • I brought you a prayer.
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  • I brought you a prayer.
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  • It's really simple. we can say it together.
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  • Why don't you stand with me?
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  • You're one of the best group of servers i know anywhere in
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  • The world.
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  • I thank god for you.
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  • I can't wait.
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  • I made a comment to someone recently.
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  • I said i can't wait till we get to the other side of this and i
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  • Get to watch your rewards.
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  • I will lose my voice.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • I'll be that half crazy hillbilly somewhere in the back
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  • Of the room just hooting and hollering for you.
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  • It'd be the greatest delight of my life.
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  • It's the greatest honor to serve with you, but i don't want to
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  • Take it for granted.
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  • Together, "heavenly father, i choose obedience to you, to my
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  • Lord jesus, and to the direction of the holy spirit.
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  • Lead me in paths of righteousness.
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  • Grant me a willing spirit to serve you faithfully.
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  • May my thoughts and attitudes be pleasing in your sight.
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  • Lead me not into temptation, deliver me from evil.
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  • May jesus's name be exalted throughout the earth, amen."
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  • Hallelujah, god bless you.
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  • Allen: hey, i got a question.
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  • What's "the eternal breath of life"?
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  • Well, the answer is a new book my dad just wrote, but i sat
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  • Down to do a podcast with him and i was listening to his story
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  • About how god had moved in his life and my family's life all
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  • The way up to the beginning of the church that i've served now
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  • For several decades.
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  • I was so reminded of the purpose and the power of the spirit of
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  • God in our lives, i asked him to put it in a book.
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  • That's what we're sharing with you.
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  • We all need god's help.
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  • We all face challenges.
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  • Life's not easy, no matter who you are, but the spirit of god
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  • Is present within us to bring the power and purposes of god to
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  • Bear in our lives.
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  • I believe the book will be a blessing with--for you.
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  • You'll pair it with "unleashing the power of the holy spirit,"
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  • It's one of the most effective tools we have.
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  • It'll give you a pathway that i believe will bring god's best
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  • Into your family.
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  • You may not plant a church, but you have been given the
  • 00:26:54.795 --> 00:26:56.964
  • Assignment as an ambassador for the kingdom of god, and we need
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  • The help of the holy spirit.
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  • Enjoy the book.
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  • ♪♪♪
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