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Allen Jackson Ministries | Refuse To Fail Part 1 | August 24, 2021
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- Allen Jackson: The topic to me is really essential to
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- this season.
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- We want to talk about the refusal to fail.
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- You know, we're in an unprecedented season.
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- This is an uncharted time.
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- We've never done this before, not in our lifetimes.
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- We've never had a global pandemic, and quarantining of
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- healthy people, and complete disruptions of the stabilizing
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- institutions in our societies.
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- We've never faced the economic challenges that are building on
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- our horizon.
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- We've never seen our rights and privileges that are guaranteed
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- to us by our Constitution set aside with such brazenness.
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- We've just never walked through a season like this.
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- We've also never seen this season where the Spirit of God
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- was moving like he is right now, stirring hearts and
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- moving people.
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- And the one thing I'm conscious of is the pace of change and the
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- magnitude of the change, and so we're making decisions based on
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- things that we haven't seen and experienced before, and you're
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- not gonna get everything right.
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- And I can tell you that one of the biggest mistakes, I think,
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- that we're tempted to do is try to pretend like nothing has
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- happened, to just go back to the decision processes we had two
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- years ago, and go back to how we thought, and behave like we
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- behaved, and act as if nothing has happened.
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- I don't think that will help.
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- I don't think that will bring us to a better place.
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- But we can't yield to our mistakes and we can't afford to
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- give discouragement a heightened place because we fail, because
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- you're just not gonna get every choice right.
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- I'm not and you're not.
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- Know who Thomas Edison is?
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- He's not a current fellow.
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- Well, I don't take much for granted anymore, but one of the
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- most prolific inventors in American history.
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- But credited with the invention of the light bulb.
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- And I read-- whether it's accurate or not, I'm not sure,
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- but I read that after he had successfully presented the light
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- bulb to a gathering of the press, he told them that he
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- had failed.
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- And somebody inquired and he said he'd failed over 990 times
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- before he got the thing to work.
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- And the question was posed to him, "Well, were you discouraged
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- after almost a thousand failures?"
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- And his response was what intrigued me.
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- He said, "I wasn't discouraged.
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- There's 999 steps in the development of the light bulb."
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- And I love the attitude.
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- We've never walked this way before and we're not gonna get
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- every choice right.
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- We're not going to respond in the perfect way to every bit of
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- news that comes your direction.
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- We're in a season of new responses to life.
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- And when I reflect on some of the old responses and the ways
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- we have behaved, we're gonna see needs to be different, that the
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- way we were behaving 18 months ago or two years ago aren't
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- adequate for the season before us.
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- And those kind of changes frequently bring with them some
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- lingering questions.
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- And it's easy to second guess how we were, or who we were, or
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- what we were doing, but it isn't helpful.
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- We need to understand how to keep the accounts short, and our
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- heart clean, and be prepared to hear what the Lord has for
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- us today.
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- So that's the point of this particular session, and with
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- God's help maybe we'll all leave here with a bit more freedom
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- than that with which we came.
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- We're just gonna refuse to fail.
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- We're not gonna refuse failure, because to do that you'd have to
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- stop moving and we don't intend to do that.
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- I thought it would be helpful to start by identifying the kind of
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- lives that God can use, 'cause I think most of us think that God
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- uses perfect people, or at least God uses-- for significant
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- things, God uses people that are more perfect than we are.
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- I don't know about you, but I'm pretty conscious of what
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- I'm not.
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- Doesn't take me a long time to find out.
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- You know, when you have to list those weaknesses thing, that--
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- you can go to town with that.
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- And we have an adversary who is an accuser and he does a
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- beautiful job of helping you stay in touch with either the
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- points of failure or your points of frustration.
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- If he can't get you to buy into the fact that you've made
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- mistakes, he'll get you to buy into the fact that the people
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- around you are making mistakes and he'll make you miserable
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- with them.
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- He's good.
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- He's an accuser of the brethren, and if you won't listen to his
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- accusations about you, maybe he can get you to listen to the
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- accusations about other people.
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- And both of those tracks are equally destructive.
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- So I thought it would be helpful to start with just a quick
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- review, and I chose some very familiar characters because
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- they're all big time biblical heroes.
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- I mean, they are A-list biblical characters.
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- Abraham is the father of our faith.
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- God was willing to identify himself-- This is amazing to me.
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- He's willing to identify himself to humanity as the God of
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- Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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- I mean, you may have noticed he's not the God of Allen,
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- George, and Bubba.
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- God was willing to be identified as, "I'm the God of that
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- character right there."
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- So you know, of all the people in the Bible, Abraham is held up
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- to us as the epitome, the pinnacle of a man of faith.
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- Now, most of you know his story.
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- God promised him that he would make from Abraham descendants as
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- numerous as the stars in the sky or the sand on the seashore a
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- mighty nation.
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- And then he gets to the point where you would expect him to be
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- having children and he and his wife are childless.
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- You know the story, but in Genesis 16, verse 1, it says,
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- "Sarah, Abram's wife, had borne him no children.
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- But she had an Egyptian maidservant, so she said to
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- Abram, 'The Lord has kept me from having children, so go
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- sleep with my maidservant.'"
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- Even if you're reading this for the first time, you're thinkin',
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- "Ooh, this is not a good idea.
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- This is not gonna work well."
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- So what you know from just a casual read is there's a lot of
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- pain, there's a lot of frustration, there's a lot
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- of disappointment.
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- You see, if we don't know what to do with those things, they
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- contribute to some really destructive choices.
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- "'Perhaps I can build a family through her.'
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- Abram agreed.
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- So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years--" He left
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- home ten years ago.
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- God said, "You leave your home, I'll make from you a
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- mighty nation."
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- He's ten years into it and it doesn't look like God's paying
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- any attention.
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- I paid the movers.
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- I did my part.
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- No kids.
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- "After ten years, Sarah took-- Sarah his wife took her Egyptian
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- maid servant Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife,
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- and she conceived."
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- And the outcome of that was Ishmael, not the fulfillment of
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- the covenant God had made with Abraham, and a challenge that
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- persists in the earth until today.
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- You know, Abraham-- the most striking characteristic of
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- Abraham's contribution to the story is that he
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- waited patiently.
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- If you're gonna figure out, you know, what's Abraham celebrated
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- for, man of great faith, but what was the demonstration
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- of that?
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- He waited patiently.
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- So we get to Joseph, and Joseph is a totally
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- different character.
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- Joseph-- God intervenes in Joseph's life when he's a
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- young man.
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- He's his father's favorite.
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- That's a problem.
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- He comes from a dysfunctional family.
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- So Joseph is gonna be a powerful character for the purposes of
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- God, but he comes from a very fractured family.
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- Did you know that God can overcome your fractured
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- family systems?
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- It's good to know.
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- It's important to know.
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- Because the adversary, the one who accuses you and accuses the
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- ones around you, will make you miserable and convince you you
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- can't, or you won't, or you shouldn't, or you'll never
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- become or amount because your family system was so fractured
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- you didn't get the opportunities you were entitled to or you
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- should have, and it's an incubator for dissatisfaction,
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- and anger, and resentment.
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- Well, Joseph comes-- if you look up "Dysfunctional family,"
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- Joseph's picture will be right there.
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- And when he was a young man, adolescent, he has dreams.
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- And he's not particularly clever.
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- He's a bit arrogant, and he goes and tells his dreams to
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- his brothers.
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- In Genesis 37, and verse 5, he had a dream, and he told it to
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- his brothers, and they hated him all the more.
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- If he'd just been quiet, he'd have been better off.
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- "And he said to them, 'Listen to this dream I had.
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- We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field, when suddenly
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- my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered
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- around mine and bowed down to it.'
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- And his brothers said to him, 'Do you intend to reign over us?
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- Will you actually rule us?'
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- And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what
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- he'd said."
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- They're gonna hate him enough to sell him as a slave.
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- That's a bad day.
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- But before Joseph is done, he's gonna be the prime minister
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- of Egypt.
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- He'll be selling his brothers grain.
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- They'll be bowing down to him.
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- They won't recognize him.
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- It's an improbable story.
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- Moses, he's held out to us in the Scripture as the epitome of
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- a leader.
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- There isn't anybody in the Scripture to compare with Moses
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- until we get to Jesus.
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- In fact, the author of Hebrews in the New Testament has to make
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- the argument to his audience that Jesus is superior to Moses
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- because it's not apparent to them.
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- Moses is a Hebrew and he knows it, but he grows up in Pharaoh's
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- palace because his parents refuse to murder him as an
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- infant, as they were supposed to.
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- There's a long precedent of the courage to protect
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- your children.
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- We need a bit of that courage today.
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- It says, "One day after Moses had grown up, he went out to
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- where his own people were, and they watched them at
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- their labor.
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- And he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people,
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- and he glanced this way and that.
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- And seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and he hid him in
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- the sand.
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- The next day, he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting.
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- And he asked to one in the wrong, 'Why are you hitting your
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- fellow Hebrew?'
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- And the man said, 'Who made you ruler and judge over us?
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- Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?'
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- And Moses was afraid."
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- He understood that what he'd thought he had hidden was known.
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- Moses tried to be a deliverer in his own strength and it didn't
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- work out so well.
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- He had to flee.
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- He forfeited everything.
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- All of the unique qualifications that seemed to empower him to be
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- in a unique position to be a difference maker were forfeited
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- in a moment of rage.
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- Now, if I take those lives-- and they're all familiar stories
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- to you.
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- They don't need much explanation or amplification for me.
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- I think we can all agree that Abraham, Joseph, and Moses all
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- had tremendous failures in their lives.
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- None of them got a perfect track record.
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- They've all been in trouble, but each of them had a success that
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- eclipsed or was greater than the magnitude of their failure.
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- That fair?
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- You know their stories.
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- I won't belabor them.
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- Then I think we can extrapolate from that that their area of
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- failure became the arena of their greatest success, that the
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- things that were problematic to them proved to be the incubator
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- or the soil from which their great successes came from.
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- The great triumph of Joseph's life I don't think was in his
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- ability to manage Egypt's economy.
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- I think it was in the way he interacted with his family when
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- they were presented themselves some years later.
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- And if there's one more observation, and it's the most
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- awkward in my little list, it all had to do with God's time.
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- Every one of them had some timing problems.
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- God's time is not our time.
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- Being patient, waiting.
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- I just think God needs me to help him, right?
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- He seems to get distracted.
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- He tends to look away.
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- He must-- I don't know what he does, but clearly if he'd just
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- listen to us, we could help him, right?
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- We got some calendar ideas.
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- If he'd just focus, we could help him.
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- And it takes some life lived and some experienced gathered to
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- even begin to think about the patience it takes to follow
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- the Lord.
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- So, simple announcement, simple premise as the on-ramp to the
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- outcome in this particular presentation is that failures
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- don't disqualify you.
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- Impatient failures, great detours, failures that are gonna
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- introduce tremendous pain, that put you on a path that may take
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- years to reconcile-- 'cause some of these problems were
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- not short-term.
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- They weren't reconciled in a day, or a moment, or a step into
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- a furnace and a walk out without even smelling smoky.
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- Some of these problems persisted for years and had
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- multiple chapters.
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- So if there's one idea to invite you into the arena, it's a life
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- that God can use is not the perfect life.
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- It's not the life with the perfect family, with the perfect
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- circumstances, with the perfect set of choices.
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- That all of those things that seem to be arrayed against us,
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- God is more than capable of overcoming if we will seek him.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Allen Jackson: I'm really excited to share with you a
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- The book's called "Unleashing the Power of the Holy Spirit."
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- It's one of the most misunderstood parts of
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- our faith.
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- I think often we treat the Holy Spirit like he's an unwelcome
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- intruder or somebody that we're reluctant to embrace.
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- Well, Jesus said that it was better for us if he went away
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- because he would send the Holy Spirit.
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- Well, the purpose of this book is to help you and me make peace
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- with the person of the Holy Spirit, to welcome him into our
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- lives so we don't have to hold him at arm's length anymore.
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- He's your helper.
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- He's your advocate.
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- It's the power of God present to help you in the midst of all the
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- challenges of your life.
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- The Holy Spirit will never make you do something you don't
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- want to.
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- You don't have to be afraid of him.
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- In fact, you want to get to know him.
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- You probably know Jesus and you have an imagination of God
- 00:14:44.432 --> 00:14:46.067
- the Father.
- 00:14:46.067 --> 00:14:47.435
- Well, we need to know the person of the Holy Spirit just as well.
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- That's what this book is intended to do.
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- It's really a how-to guide to make friends with the person of
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- the Holy Spirit.
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- I believe it'll be a blessing to you.
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- Enjoy the book.
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- male announcer: From the opening chapters of the Bible to the
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- synonymous, and we all at some point have places in our lives
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- where it would take no less than the power of God to bring an
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- acceptable outcome.
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- That's the topic of Pastor Allen's unique new book based on
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- Allen Jackson: So let's take the next step in the equation and
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- see what we can do to start to address some of these failures.
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- Acts chapter 9, it's Saul of Tarsus.
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- We're gonna know him as the Apostle Paul in our New
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- Testament, the greatest advocate for Jesus.
- 00:17:14.382 --> 00:17:17.752
- His life is still impacting our world.
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- That's amazing.
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- If 2.000 years after they have buried you, you're still
- 00:17:20.755 --> 00:17:23.157
- impacting the world for Jesus, I'm thinking you're doin' okay.
- 00:17:23.157 --> 00:17:27.962
- "When Saul came to Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples but
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- they were all afraid of him.
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- They didn't believe that he really was a disciple.
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- But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles, and
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- he told them how Saul on his journey had seen the Lord and
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- that the Lord had spoken to him."
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- I love the language in that.
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- It's as if he had a personal encounter with Jesus.
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- You know why?
- 00:17:48.182 --> 00:17:49.617
- He did.
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- Now-- Oh, by the way, in Acts chapter 1, Jesus went back to
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- heaven, but he stepped back into time on the Damascus Road to
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- grab Saul of Tarsus by the back of the neck and shake him.
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- He's still stepping into time for the purposes of his church.
- 00:18:01.762 --> 00:18:05.533
- Ha ha ha ha.
- 00:18:05.533 --> 00:18:07.969
- That is such good news.
- 00:18:07.969 --> 00:18:12.507
- Barnabas said, "This man saw Jesus and spoke with him, and in
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- Damascus he preached fearlessly in the name of Jesus."
- 00:18:16.978 --> 00:18:20.114
- But I want you to note that Peter, and James, and John were
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- afraid of him.
- 00:18:24.385 --> 00:18:26.654
- He was such an angry, murderous, violent, belligerent fellow that
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- the boldest Jesus advocates we know-- they stood before the
- 00:18:32.393 --> 00:18:35.863
- Sanhedrin and said, "You do what you have to do.
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- We will not stop talking about our friend," but they wanted
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- nothing to do with Saul of Tarsus.
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- Now that's a reputation.
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- That's something to be overcome.
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- I don't know what your detractors say about you, but I
- 00:18:52.780 --> 00:18:56.684
- bet it wasn't as bitter as what they said about Saul.
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- So how do we address those life failures?
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- Well, let's just see if we can deconstruct the things that wall
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- us out from God's best.
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- And one is shame.
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- My Bible says that Jesus had to despise the shame in order to
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- triumph through the cross.
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- You see, you're gonna make mistakes.
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- I will.
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- I do.
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- You will.
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- You have.
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- But that doesn't make you a mistake, and you've got to make
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- the distinction.
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- The Spirit of God will bring conviction to you.
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- He'll convict you of a behavior, of an attitude, of a thought.
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- He'll convict you of something you're-- an emotion you're
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- holding that's not helpful.
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- But when the Holy Spirit convicts you, he will show you a
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- pathway out of that.
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- It's repentance.
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- You acknowledge you're wrong, you choose a new path, you
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- choose a new behavior.
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- Repentance requires both of that, a change of thinking and
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- change of behavior.
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- But the Holy Spirit, when he brings conviction, there is a
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- way to be free.
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- The adversary, when he comes, he doesn't come with conviction.
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- He comes with condemnation.
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- You're wrong.
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- You've always been wrong.
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- Your family's been wrong for generations.
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- You'll use words that reinforce it.
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- "That's just the way my people are."
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- My Bible says you're a new creation in Christ.
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- "That's just the way we've always done it."
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- If the way you've always done it isn't godly, change.
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- "Well, what would they say?"
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- If the Lord is pleased, do you care?
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- Don't stay trapped by a generational curse.
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- You see, shame is a cruel taskmaster.
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- It diminishes you.
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- It will steal your heart.
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- It'll rob you of your future.
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- And through the power of the blood of Jesus, we can be set
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- free, and cleansed, and transformed.
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- I think it's helpful to make a distinction between regret.
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- You can regret choices you've made.
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- You can regret seasons of your life.
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- You can regret circumstances in which you have been engaged,
- 00:21:03.577 --> 00:21:07.315
- some of your own choosing, some simply because of the place and
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- time of your life.
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- There's a difference between regret and imagining that you're
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- refuse, trash.
- 00:21:16.724 --> 00:21:22.229
- Abraham, Joseph, Moses made some pretty world-class mistakes and
- 00:21:22.229 --> 00:21:29.136
- suffered some pretty significant consequences for them.
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- It would seem that they had thrown away any opportunity of
- 00:21:31.572 --> 00:21:34.842
- significance in the kingdom of God because of choices
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- they made.
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- Now, there were other pressures.
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- There were external influences.
- 00:21:40.214 --> 00:21:42.083
- There were many components to that, but the choices you and I
- 00:21:42.083 --> 00:21:45.486
- make have many components to them, and if you blame the
- 00:21:45.486 --> 00:21:47.922
- components and you don't own your role in it, you're gonna
- 00:21:47.922 --> 00:21:51.292
- wall yourself off from the freedom that comes
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- from repentance.
- 00:21:53.427 --> 00:21:55.696
- Moses could have said, "Well, you know, I grew up in a very
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- emotionally difficult household.
- 00:21:57.631 --> 00:22:01.035
- I was conflicted.
- 00:22:01.035 --> 00:22:03.571
- The woman who took care of me was my mother, but she was
- 00:22:03.571 --> 00:22:06.207
- treated like a servant.
- 00:22:06.207 --> 00:22:09.143
- And all the opportunities in my life came from the powerful
- 00:22:09.143 --> 00:22:12.313
- household of Pharaoh.
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- And I was forced to learn a language."
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- I mean, he had a myriad.
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- He could've been in counseling all of his life.
- 00:22:18.285 --> 00:22:21.989
- Joseph needed the same counseling suite.
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- Abraham...
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- [sighing].
- 00:22:27.795 --> 00:22:30.798
- But they were able to understand that regret doesn't have the
- 00:22:30.798 --> 00:22:36.337
- power to define you unless you give it.
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- 1 John 1:7 says, "If we walk in the light as he himself is in
- 00:22:39.340 --> 00:22:42.376
- the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood
- 00:22:42.376 --> 00:22:45.146
- of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin."
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- In English, it's not quite as apparent.
- 00:22:49.850 --> 00:22:51.485
- Our grammar skills are pretty thin.
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- If they were better, they couldn't manipulate us with
- 00:22:54.422 --> 00:22:55.956
- language as easily as they do.
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- But the verbs in that verse are all in the continuing
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- present tense.
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- If we walk and continue to walk in the light.
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- If we continue in fellowship with one another.
- 00:23:06.300 --> 00:23:10.037
- One of the things with COVID and the isolation that came with it,
- 00:23:10.037 --> 00:23:12.740
- we saw how diminished we are apart from one another.
- 00:23:12.740 --> 00:23:16.444
- I hear people, you know, saying, "I don't need to be with
- 00:23:16.444 --> 00:23:18.379
- other Christians."
- 00:23:18.379 --> 00:23:19.747
- It's just ignorance in the wind.
- 00:23:19.747 --> 00:23:22.950
- We need the strength we gain from one another.
- 00:23:22.950 --> 00:23:24.585
- "If we continually walk in fellowship, then the blood of
- 00:23:24.585 --> 00:23:27.655
- Jesus his Son continually cleanses us from all sin."
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- I don't need to be cleansed once, I need to be
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- continually cleansed.
- 00:23:33.928 --> 00:23:38.933
- Ephesians 2:10, "We're God's workmanship, created in Christ
- 00:23:38.933 --> 00:23:41.769
- Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us
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- to do."
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- He prepared us.
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- Before we ever drew our first breath, God created us to do
- 00:23:48.275 --> 00:23:50.244
- good works for him.
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- He's not surprised by our weaknesses.
- 00:23:52.346 --> 00:23:55.015
- Folks, I'm not championing your weaknesses.
- 00:23:55.015 --> 00:23:56.484
- If you're living sloppily, stop it.
- 00:23:56.484 --> 00:24:00.688
- If you're willingly practicing sin, it will destroy you
- 00:24:00.688 --> 00:24:06.994
- every time.
- 00:24:06.994 --> 00:24:08.362
- You won't outsmart it.
- 00:24:08.362 --> 00:24:09.697
- You won't out run it.
- 00:24:09.697 --> 00:24:11.065
- You won't outthink it.
- 00:24:11.065 --> 00:24:12.533
- Hiding it does not remove the consequences from your life.
- 00:24:12.533 --> 00:24:17.238
- And if you think you can practice sin and then come to
- 00:24:17.238 --> 00:24:19.206
- some point and just casually wave the "I'm sorry, forgive me"
- 00:24:19.206 --> 00:24:23.777
- banner, you're presuming upon the grace of God in a way that
- 00:24:23.777 --> 00:24:28.415
- terrifies me.
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- Please don't do that.
- 00:24:30.784 --> 00:24:34.455
- Now, we can struggle with sin, we can face the temptation of
- 00:24:34.455 --> 00:24:37.191
- sin, but you don't want to practice it.
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- 2 Corinthians 5:20, "We are therefore Christ's ambassadors,
- 00:24:41.929 --> 00:24:45.399
- as though God were making his appeal through us.
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- We implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God."
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- If we don't have the move of the Spirit that we need in this
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- generation, it's the delivery system that's flawed.
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- The darkness doesn't have the power to withhold the light.
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- Don't be angry at the wickedness, and the immorality,
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- and the darkness.
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- Begin to cry out to the Lord and say, "Lord, what do I need
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- to do?"
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- How do we let righteousness rain down upon us in a more powerful
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- way than we've seen the wickedness rain down?
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- How fun would it be to see the Spirit of God fall upon people
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- on the street and them to begin to lift their hands and worship
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- the Lord, or to pray in the Spirit, or to begin to weep with
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- a spirit of conviction?
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- We're not surprised by expressions of immorality in the
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- public square, or increased drug use in the public square, or
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- increased violence in the public square.
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- I'm looking for outpourings of righteousness in the
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- public square.
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- It's why we're here.
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- Allen Jackson: I want to pray with you before we go.
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- One of Satan's greatest tactics is to remind us of our failures
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- or the times we have been less than we would have preferred
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- to be.
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- He even attacked Jesus.
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- He came to Jesus and said, "If you are the Son of God."
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- He knew very well he was the Son of God, but he wanted to agitate
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- and to plant that question.
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- I'm quite certain he does it to you.
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- He does it to me.
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- Well, let's come to the cross today and thank God that in
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- Christ Jesus we are who he says we are, not who the adversary
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- says we are.
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- Let's pray.
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- Father, I thank you that in Jesus we have been delivered
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- from all the power of the enemy.
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- We've been washed and made clean, and we stand in
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- your strength.
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- In Jesus's name, amen.
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- male announcer: Join us every week for another exciting
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- message from Pastor Allen Jackson.
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- And until then, visit us online and discover remarkable
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- information and resources to help take your Christian life to
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- the next level.
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- And if you're visiting the Nashville area, we'd love to see
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- you at World Outreach Church in Murfreesboro.
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- We're easy to find, so look us up when you're
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- traveling through.
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- And don't forget to connect with Pastor Jackson every day through
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- social media.
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- Thanks so much for joining us and being a part of
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- this ministry.
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- We'll see you again next time for another encounter with
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- Pastor Allen Jackson.
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