Basics Training
November 22, 2020
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Pastor Allen Jackson's mission is to help people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
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- Pastor Allen Jackson:I believe, in 2020,
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- God's put usin training.
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- We need the church to bedifferent, more alive, more
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- vital, more prayerful, morediscerning, able to hear with
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- greater confidence, more filledwith the Word of God.
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- And God has sent us home totrain, train ourselves
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- to be Godly.
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- Pastor Allen Jackson: The titlefor this session is,
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- "Basics Training."
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- Basics training.
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- Matthew 24 is Jesus's mostlengthy prophetic discourse.
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- And I want to read you just acouple of verses from
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- Matthew 24.
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- Jesus is talking about our worldin the season before he returns.
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- And he says, "Becauselawlessness is increased,
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- most people's lovewill grow cold.
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- But the one who endures to theend will be saved.
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- And the gospel of the kingdomwill be preached in the whole
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- world as a testimony to all thenations, and then the end
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- will come."
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- Jesus's presentation concludeswith the penultimate event, he
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- said this gospel of the Kingdomwill be preached in the
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- whole world.
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- So don't be discouraged ordissuaded by the dozen or more
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- things that Jesus said will beindicators of the conclusion of
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- the age, some of them are prettyintimidating.
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- Because the ultimate event isthe proclamation of the gospel
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- of the kingdom to the wholeworld.
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- We have the tools and thetechnology and the opportunities
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- to make that assignmentachievable in this generation.
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- But Jesus said something elsethat I want to draw your
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- attention to, these are thewords of our Lord.
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- He said, "because lawlessness isincreased, most people's love
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- will grow cold."
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- Now, in Greek there's multiplewords for love.
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- There's eros for physical love,and philia for brotherly love,
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- but the word that's used here isthe word that's translated for a
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- God kind of love.
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- So he's talking about the lovein the hearts of the people
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- of God.
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- That the radical, dramaticincrease in lawlessness will
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- cause the people of God towithdraw from an attitude
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- of love.
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- Now, you don't have to be verydiscerning to see that that's
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- taking place right now.
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- In fact, I'll start within thechurch, just some simple
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- observations how we've turnedaway from the law of God.
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- It's not uncommon to hear itwithin the context of
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- church discussions.
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- People say things like, well, Ijust don't believe God would
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- send anyone to hell.
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- Well, I respect your right toyour opinion, but that's not an
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- informed one.
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- Because the Scripture tells usjust the opposite.
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- Or I'll hear people say, well,the Old Testament is just too
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- harsh, I'm a New Testament kindof a person.
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- Well, I appreciate that youwould prefer to think about
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- happy things, but the NewTestament also houses the book
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- of Revelation.
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- And a significant portion of theearth's population is destroyed
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- by the judgment of God in theNew Testament.
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- I don't want to highlight thedarkness, but I don't want us to
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- be naive and to deny the truth.
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- Or we'll hear others say, well,you know, God is about love.
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- And he is.
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- But he's also about justice.
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- It's commonplace in many of ourChristian settings these days to
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- question the authority ofScripture, to question its
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- authenticity, its veracity.
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- We may use it as a point ofhistorical information, but
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- we've rejected it in far toomany settings as a rule of faith
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- and practice.
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- Please don't imagine yourself tobe a Christ follower unless you
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- accept the Word of God as yourrule of faith and practice.
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- We have turned away from thefoundations.
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- It's equally popular in manyChristian settings to question
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- or even deny the uniqueness orthe Lordship of Jesus.
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- We'll talk about multiple pathsto God, we'll talk about other
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- expressions of faith in ourworld, other religious leaders,
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- Buddha or Muhammad.
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- Jesus said, "I'm the way, thetruth, and the life, no one
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- comes to the Father exceptthrough me."
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- Jesus of Nazareth is either theincarnate son of God or
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- a deceiver.
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- You can't have it both ways.
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- We've got to turn our heartsback to the rule of God.
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- Others will say, thou shalt notis just a little too harsh, can
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- we be a little less blatant, alittle more inclusive?
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- Or some will say that the thoushalt statements are appropriate
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- if you have some free time ornothing better to do, but you
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- surely shouldn't take them as asdirectives in your life.
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- I see a greater crumbling of anattitude of respect for God's
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- boundaries and God's foundationsand God's law within the church
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- than I see a crumbling of therule of law in our secular
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- society, and that is crumblingbefore our very eyes.
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- We've been asleep.
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- We just haven't paid muchattention.
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- It hasn't mattered enough to us.
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- We've shrugged our shoulders andsaid, well, whatever.
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- In our nation, it's frighteningwhat we're watching.
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- And it isn't just with 2020 andCOVID and the challenges that
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- sheltering in place have broughtto us.
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- We've watched, in the publicsquare now for quite a season of
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- time, discussions, arguments infavor of open borders.
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- The idea is we should haveimmigration without restraint.
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- If we do, we no longer willexist as a sovereign nation.
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- It's impossible.
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- We've watched an intentionalundermining of confidence in law
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- enforcement and military.
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- This isn't something that'sgonna happen at some other point
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- in history, it's happeningbefore us.
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- And if we don't guard ourhearts, our response is, well,
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- it really hasn't touched us.
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- [speaking in foreign language]
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- If we don't use our voices nowwhile we have the freedom and
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- the liberty to be together, whenthey bring it to our doorstep,
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- when they're throwing somethingthrough the window of your home
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- or your business, there won't beanybody to speak for you.
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- So what do we do?
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- Pray!
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- Talk about it with your friends!
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- Help awaken those that areasleep!
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- Don't relent!
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- All of this is made possible bya distracted population, and an
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- informed a group of people andat the heart of that is the
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- church because we've pushed awaythe Word of God, we haven't
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- welcomed the input of the HolySpirit.
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- We've been consumed with our ownselfishness and our own comfort
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- and our own convenience, and wehave failed to be the watchman
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- on the walls that God called usto be.
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- We are salt and light.
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- The church holds the potentialto see this turn back, not a
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- politician or a political party.
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- It's an exciting time.
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- Basics training.
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- Let me start with the obvious,Jesus of Nazareth is Lord.
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- Philippians chapter 2 in verse 9says, "God exalted him,"
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- Jesus, "to the highest place."
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- The creator of heaven and earth,the one that spoke this world
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- into existence, gave Jesus the"highest place, gave him the
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- name that's above every name,that at the name of Jesus every
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- knee should bow, in heaven andon earth, and under the earth,
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- and every tongue confess thatJesus Christ is Lord, to the
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- glory of God the Father.
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- Don't let there be any confusionin your heart or your thoughts.
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- Don't let there be any relentingin your dialog.
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- We've chosen Jesus of Nazarethas Lord of our lives because
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- there's none to equal him.
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- He's been given the highest namein heaven and earth and under
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- the earth.
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- In time and beyond time.
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- He has the most exalted place.
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- And we are honored to call himLord.
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- To bear the name of Jesus is thegreatest privilege of your life.
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- It's a greater privilege thanwhatever other groups you may
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- belong to, whatever degrees youmay have earned, whatever
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- resources you may haveaccumulated.
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- Whatever else you use todescribe yourself, it is
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- secondary to the honor and theprivilege of bearing the name
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- of Jesus.
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- I don't believe we have to beobnoxious, I don't believe we
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- have to be condemning, I don'tbelieve we have to be critical,
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- but I do not believe thatcapitulating and being tolerant
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- of lies and untruth anddeception and the occult and
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- ungodliness honors the Lord, norgives us a greater opportunity.
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- My observation is that ourwillingness to be tolerant and
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- surrender the field has not beenreciprocated with an equal
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- expression of tolerance.
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- And I don't intend to yield.
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- I want to see Jesus's namehonored in our classrooms again,
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- on our university campuses, inour courtrooms, and the halls of
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- our hospitals.
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- It's our heritage as a people.
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- It's been a part of our nationfrom our foundation, and how
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- dare anyone say that ourheritage is illegitimate and
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- shouldn't be honored.
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- Now, that's the assignment ofthe church.
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- Jesus is Lord.
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- There's a second basic you needto know.
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- You've been invited into thekingdom.
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- You have.
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- Regardless of your lifecircumstances, how grand or how
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- humble, the pathway is open toall.
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- In Romans 10 in verse 9 it says,if you confess with your mouth,
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- Jesus is Lord, and if youbelieve in your heart that God
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- raised him from the dead, youwill be saved.
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- Saved from what?
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- Saved from an eternity apartfrom a God of grace and mercy.
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- Saved from an eternity ofjudgment for rejecting Jesus of
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- Nazareth as Lord of your life.
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- Don't allow the hypocrisy or thewickedness of other people who
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- may have embraced Jesus or stoodbeneath the umbrella of the
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- Christian faith to cause you toforfeit the opportunity
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- before you.
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- Pastor Allen Jackson: I cantell you this, that Christianity
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- has been the single mostprofound influence in shaping
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- the values, the course, andthe direction of our nation.
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- And I believe because of ourfaith, we have been uniquely
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- blessed by God.
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- Now, our nation's not perfect.
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- But if we neglect or set asidethe value sets which spawned our
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- freedoms, I assure you ourfreedoms will not persist.
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- Pastor Allen Jackson: Our nationis at a crossroads.
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- It's a line of demarcation.
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- We're gonna choose a directionvery soon, and it's not about
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- an election.
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- I believe what's in front of usis as important as Gettysburg
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- has proven to be in our history.
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- We need a God perspective.
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- The challenge that we face isn'tabout the depravity of
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- the wicked.
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- The great challenge we face isthe indifference of
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- the faithful.
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- We've got to have a heartchange.
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- Well, I worked for several weeksand put together some lessons
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- that I've shared with our churchand I want to share them
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- with you.
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- We put them in a book, "GodBless America Again."
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- There's no question God hasblessed this nation.
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- He called us into existence, andhe has sustained us.
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- What we will be in the futurehas more to do with the hearts
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- of God's people than apolitician or a political party
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- or an election.
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- We need a prophetic perspectivefrom God right now.
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- Enjoy the book.
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- Pastor Allen Jackson: Thekingdom of God will be comprised
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- of people from every nation,
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- every race, everylanguage, and every tribe.
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- Everyone is welcome at the footof the cross.
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- It's not about your IQ or yourbank account, it's not about the
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- gifts you have or that you don'thave.
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- It's not about the treatment youhave received from people good
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- or bad.
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- You have a choice to make.
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- Will you acknowledge Jesus asLord of your life?
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- Jesus is Lord,and you've been invited
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- into the kingdom.
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- Thirdly, it's an invitation to anew way of life.
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- Not to a religious experience,or to join a church, but a new
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- way of life.
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- Romans 14 in verse 7 says, "Noneof us lives to himself alone,
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- and none of us dies to himselfalone.
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- If we live, we live for theLord, and if we die, we die for
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- the Lord.
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- So whether we live or die, webelong to the Lord."
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- See, the objective of thisChristian journey isn't the
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- recitation of a prayer and a dipin a pool, it's to reorient your
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- life to live a new way.
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- And that's more than anappointment on the weekends for
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- a religious service, it has todo with every aspect of your
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- life, how you do business, howyou conduct your relationships,
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- how do you interact with yourfamily system, how you interact
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- with the world around us.
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- Our faith has persisted formillennia across many changes in
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- cultures and ideologies andpolitical systems and
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- economic systems.
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- Our faith has persevered becauseit transcends those things.
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- It's why we can't relinquish thefoundations of our faith.
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- If we do, our culture willcrumble.
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- It isn't progressive to rejectthe Word of God.
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- We've been called to a new wayof life.
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- In Ephesians 4 in verse 22, itsays, "You were taught with
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- regard to your former way oflife, to put off your old self."
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- If there's a former way of life,it's only logical that there's a
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- new way of life.
- 00:13:55.760 --> 00:13:57.095
- And the good news of our faithis that whatever's defined your
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- life, whatever limits there havebeen, wherever evil has touched
- 00:14:00.531 --> 00:14:03.167
- you, whatever brokenness hastouched you, through the power
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- of the cross and the shed bloodof Jesus, you can be restored,
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- delivered, set free, renewed,you can have a new future.
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- Your past, your failures, thesins of others does not have the
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- authority to limit your future.
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- The cross is sufficient.
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- We have a message for the world,folks.
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- It is good news.
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- It's not a message ofcondemnation or hatred
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- or belittlement.
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- It's a message of freedom.
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- Now, there's one last basic Iwant to be certain that you have
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- on the radar of your heart.
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- And that's that, before we'redone with this, there'll be
- 00:14:39.637 --> 00:14:41.506
- an evaluation.
- 00:14:41.539 --> 00:14:42.874
- Romans 14 in verse 10, it says,"We will all stand before God's
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- judgment seat.
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- 'As it is written, as surely asI live,' says the Lord, 'every
- 00:14:50.081 --> 00:14:53.051
- knee will bow before me, andevery tongue will
- 00:14:53.084 --> 00:14:54.419
- confess to God.'"
- 00:14:54.452 --> 00:14:56.621
- "So then, each of us will givean account of himself to God."
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- Every one of us.
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- Now, for the Christ follower,it's not a judgment of
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- destination, it's not a judgmentof heaven or hell.
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- If you've declared Jesus as Lordof your life, it's a judgment
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- for what you've done with yourdays under the sun.
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- It's a judgment of what you'veaccumulated with the things that
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- God entrusted to you, the giftshe's given to you and the
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- opportunities he presented toyou.
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- It's important.
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- Do you want to live for therewards that God has for you?
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- You may think God's notwatching.
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- You may be dabbling inungodliness and wickedness and
- 00:15:31.622 --> 00:15:34.258
- immorality, and you think you'regetting away with it and nobody
- 00:15:34.292 --> 00:15:37.762
- notices, or it's your life, orit's the privacy of your own
- 00:15:37.795 --> 00:15:40.631
- life and you can do with it asyou choose.
- 00:15:40.665 --> 00:15:42.967
- And there's some truth in that,you have a choice to do
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- as you choose.
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- But the Scripture is very clear,there's a life path that God
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- will reward.
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- And the invitation from theSpirit of God is to live in such
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- a way so that when you step outof time and step into eternity,
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- the creator of heaven and earthcan say to you, well done.
- 00:16:00.218 --> 00:16:02.987
- Now, I want to take the minutesI've got left and talk a little
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- bit about what God is doingaround us and before us, the
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- opportunities that come fromthose basics.
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- God is putting together avolunteer army.
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- He'll invite you.
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- He'll put those invitationsbefore you, but you'll have to
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- choose to participate.
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- In fact, God is identifiedthroughout the Scripture as the
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- Lord of the armies.
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- I've been in some academicsettings that were pretty
- 00:16:31.616 --> 00:16:34.952
- liberal, and very few thingsmade them angrier than a
- 00:16:34.986 --> 00:16:38.456
- presentation of the Lord of thearmies.
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- They prefer to think of God as apacifist.
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- He's not.
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- The phrase in Scripture is, theLord of the hosts.
- 00:16:46.064 --> 00:16:49.534
- The most literal translation isthe Lord of the armies.
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- It's Psalm 46 in verse 7, itsays, "The Lord of host is with
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- us, the God of Jacob is ourstronghold."
- 00:16:56.074 --> 00:16:59.644
- And then in 2 Timothy chapter 2,Paul is giving instructions to a
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- young man that he's coaching,he's mentoring in the faith.
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- Listen to his instructions,they're appropriate for you and
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- me into this season.
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- Timothy--
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- "Endure hardship with us like agood soldier of Christ Jesus.
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- No one serving as a soldier getsinvolved in civilian affairs, he
- 00:17:17.528 --> 00:17:21.399
- wants to please his commandingofficer.
- 00:17:21.432 --> 00:17:23.534
- Similarly, if anyone competes asan athlete, he doesn't receive
- 00:17:24.368 --> 00:17:26.971
- the victor's crown unless hecompetes according to the rules.
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- The hardworking farmer should bethe first to receive a share of
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- the crops.
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- Reflect on what I'm saying, forthe Lord will give you insight
- 00:17:34.679 --> 00:17:37.482
- into all of this.
- 00:17:37.515 --> 00:17:38.850
- Endure hardship with us like agood soldier of Christ Jesus."
- 00:17:39.984 --> 00:17:44.122
- 1 Timothy 4, in verse 6, Paulsaid, "Train yourself to
- 00:17:44.956 --> 00:17:47.992
- be godly.
- 00:17:48.025 --> 00:17:49.393
- Physical training is of somevalue, but godliness has value
- 00:17:49.894 --> 00:17:52.964
- for all things, holding promisefor both the present life and
- 00:17:52.997 --> 00:17:56.801
- the life to come."
- 00:17:56.834 --> 00:17:58.136
- Train yourself to be godly.
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- Are you conscious that we're intraining in 2020?
- 00:18:00.104 --> 00:18:02.540
- We're not just hangin' on to goback to February.
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- God is training us to bedifferent than we were as this
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- year has been unfolding.
- 00:18:10.414 --> 00:18:13.551
- You know, I meet Christians allthe time and they say, Pastor,
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- I'm trying.
- 00:18:15.620 --> 00:18:16.954
- I appreciate that, but that'snot enough.
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- If outcomes matter, trying isnot the bar.
- 00:18:20.191 --> 00:18:24.061
- And our attitude, pretty muchacross the Christian church, has
- 00:18:25.463 --> 00:18:28.766
- been, well, I tried.
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- Well, bless your heart.
- 00:18:31.736 --> 00:18:34.572
- I want to suggest a biblicalapproach.
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- Train yourself to be godly.
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- Training is engaging inbehaviors, with discipline and
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- routine and intentionality, thatwill enable you to accomplish
- 00:18:42.613 --> 00:18:46.050
- something in the future that'simpossible for you to accomplish
- 00:18:46.083 --> 00:18:49.487
- in this moment.
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- I believe, in 2020, God's put usin training.
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- We need the church to bedifferent, more alive, more
- 00:18:55.426 --> 00:18:57.828
- vital, more prayerful, morediscerning, able to hear with
- 00:18:57.862 --> 00:19:01.098
- greater confidence, more filledwith the Word of God.
- 00:19:01.132 --> 00:19:03.734
- And God has sent us home totrain.
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- Train ourselves to be godly.
- 00:19:06.470 --> 00:19:09.040
- There's a second component ofthis training.
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- We're going to have to have athinking change.
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- I'm quite certain that bootcamp,or basic training, comes with a
- 00:19:13.477 --> 00:19:16.847
- very intentional reprogrammingof how we think.
- 00:19:16.881 --> 00:19:19.517
- In the military, you've gottatransition from a
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- civilian mindset.
- 00:19:21.419 --> 00:19:23.888
- Paul said that no one who isengaged does what they wanna do,
- 00:19:23.921 --> 00:19:29.060
- you want to please yourcommanding officer.
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- There's got to be a thinkingchange.
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- There's many, many examples inScripture, time prevents me from
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- walking through them all withyou.
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- I'll give you one.
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- In Acts chapter 10, we get tolisten in to God as he's
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- adjusting Peter's thinking.
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- Now, before we look at theadjustment, let me remind you at
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- this point, this is Acts chapter10.
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- Peter is the leader of thechurch in Jerusalem.
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- He's the one that presented themessage on the day of Pentecost,
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- and 3.000 people got baptized.
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- Peter spent three yearspersonally engaged with Jesus'
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- ministry on earth.
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- Peter walked on the water, Peterpicked up basketfuls of food
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- after the multitude was fed,Peter was there when Lazarus was
- 00:20:11.068 --> 00:20:14.605
- raised from the dead, Peter hasseen people raised from the dead
- 00:20:14.639 --> 00:20:17.775
- from his own ministry.
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- When Peter walked through thestreets of Jerusalem, they put
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- sick people along the streetbecause, if his shadow fell on
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- them, there were some healed.
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- Peter is not a novice.
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- He's not a beginner.
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- In fact, his resume isintimidating.
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- But in Acts chapter 10, Peterneeds to change how he thinks,
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- or he's limited in what God cando in his life.
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- He's waiting for his Noon meal.
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- It's Acts 10 in verse 11, itsays, "He saw heaven opened and
- 00:20:50.708 --> 00:20:53.477
- something like a large sheetbeing let down to earth by its
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- four corners.
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- And it contained all kinds offour-footed animals, as well as
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- reptiles of the earth and birdsof the air.
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- And a voice told him, 'Get up,Peter.'
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- Kill and eat.
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- And Peter said, 'Surely not,Lord!'"
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- He's a good, observant Jewishman, he keeps the kosher rules,
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- he can't eat what's on thatmenu.
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- If he does, he forfeits hisstatus, his standing.
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- Whatever you imagine would makeyou unclean spiritually, that's
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- how Peter saw what was on thatmenu.
- 00:21:25.276 --> 00:21:27.011
- And God was clearly saying, eatit.
- 00:21:27.044 --> 00:21:29.180
- And Peter said, no, no, no, "Ihave never eaten anything impure
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- or unclean.
- 00:21:37.555 --> 00:21:38.856
- And the voice of the Lord spoketo him a second time, 'Do not
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- call anything impure that Godhas made clean'".
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- Don't call it impure, Peter.
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- He had that same scene repeatedfor him three times, once
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- was inadequate.
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- He finds himself, before theweek passes, at the home of
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- Cornelius in Caesarea, a RomanCenturion.
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- And the events of Acts chapter 2in Jerusalem are duplicated in
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- Caesarea in the home of a RomanCenturion, a Gentile, somebody
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- with no covenant.
- 00:22:08.119 --> 00:22:09.453
- And Peter said, I now understandthat God is no respecter of
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- persons, that what he's done forthe Jewish believers in
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- Jerusalem he will do for thenon-Jewish believers
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- anywhere else.
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- The world shifted in Actschapter 10, the story of the New
- 00:22:22.533 --> 00:22:25.369
- Testament shifted in Actschapter 10.
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- It's as dramatic as the partingof the Red Sea.
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- Prior to Acts chapter 10, thestory is predominantly a
- 00:22:31.442 --> 00:22:33.978
- Jewish initiative.
- 00:22:34.011 --> 00:22:35.479
- After Acts chapter 10, it's opento the entire globe.
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- And God needed Peter, the rockin that early church, he needed
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- him to change how he thinks.
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- Now here's the question.
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- Some of you have been Christiansa long time.
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- Decades.
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- Some of you've endured so manysermons that, if I stumble, you
- 00:22:53.631 --> 00:22:55.966
- can complete the sentence.
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- Do you have the imagination thatGod can introduce a change to
- 00:23:00.604 --> 00:23:05.109
- your thinking?
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- Are you willing to learn?Can we humble ourselves?
- 00:23:07.912 --> 00:23:12.983
- Folks, the goal isn't to returnto someplace we were.
- 00:23:13.017 --> 00:23:16.587
- It's not to recapture somemoment in our past.
- 00:23:16.620 --> 00:23:19.857
- It's to say to the Lord, what doyou have for us?
- 00:23:19.890 --> 00:23:22.326
- We need a thinking change.
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- We've been enlisted on a newassignment.
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- The world has changed this year.
- 00:23:25.629 --> 00:23:29.633
- And it seems to me a thirdcomponent of basic training is
- 00:23:29.667 --> 00:23:31.902
- learning to lead your life underauthority.
- 00:23:31.936 --> 00:23:34.705
- Prior to your enlistment, youare your own authority.
- 00:23:34.738 --> 00:23:38.442
- There may be some civil law, butthose are typically distant and
- 00:23:38.476 --> 00:23:42.012
- can be negotiated.
- 00:23:42.046 --> 00:23:44.448
- But if you enlist in themilitary structure, you
- 00:23:44.482 --> 00:23:47.351
- forfeit that autonomy.
- 00:23:47.384 --> 00:23:52.389
- Your life is placed under a verysignificant, a very serious, a
- 00:23:52.423 --> 00:23:56.393
- very well-structured authority.
- 00:23:56.427 --> 00:23:58.863
- And when you acknowledge Jesusas Lord of your life, it's not
- 00:23:58.896 --> 00:24:01.665
- your life anymore.
- 00:24:01.699 --> 00:24:03.400
- They're not your days anymore,it's not your calendar anymore,
- 00:24:03.434 --> 00:24:06.604
- or your checkbook, or your bankaccount.
- 00:24:06.637 --> 00:24:09.740
- We lead our lives under theauthority of the king.
- 00:24:09.773 --> 00:24:12.276
- And if you're not doing that,then what exactly is the
- 00:24:12.309 --> 00:24:14.612
- evidence, what is the mindsetthat you're a Christ follower?
- 00:24:14.645 --> 00:24:21.418
- We lead our lives underauthority.
- 00:24:21.452 --> 00:24:23.187
- Now, that's something we learn,it's something we grow into,
- 00:24:23.220 --> 00:24:25.289
- it's something that's developedand cultivated.
- 00:24:25.322 --> 00:24:29.159
- In 1 Corinthians 6 in verse 18,it says, "Flee from
- 00:24:29.193 --> 00:24:32.062
- sexual immorality.
- 00:24:32.096 --> 00:24:35.566
- All other sins a man commits areoutside his body, but he who
- 00:24:35.599 --> 00:24:38.302
- sins sexually sins against hisown body.
- 00:24:38.335 --> 00:24:41.138
- Don't you know that your body isa temple of the Holy Spirit, who
- 00:24:41.171 --> 00:24:44.008
- is in you, that you've receivedfrom God?
- 00:24:44.041 --> 00:24:46.310
- You're not your own, you werebought at a price.
- 00:24:46.343 --> 00:24:51.181
- Therefore honor God with yourbody."
- 00:24:51.215 --> 00:24:55.419
- God is watching.We're under his authority.
- 00:24:55.452 --> 00:25:00.424
- In Luke 7, one of the mostdramatic events in Jesus's
- 00:25:00.457 --> 00:25:02.993
- personal ministry.
- 00:25:03.027 --> 00:25:04.361
- He's in Capernaum, and a Romancenturion sends messengers to
- 00:25:04.395 --> 00:25:08.699
- Jesus, he said, "I need you tocome to heal a servant."
- 00:25:08.732 --> 00:25:12.870
- And Jesus starts on his way andhe gets interrupted, and finally
- 00:25:12.903 --> 00:25:16.040
- the Centurion arrives, he says,"Listen, I don't deserve to have
- 00:25:16.073 --> 00:25:18.175
- you come into my home, you justsay the word and my servant will
- 00:25:18.208 --> 00:25:22.580
- get better."
- 00:25:22.613 --> 00:25:23.914
- He said, "I'm a man ofauthority," he said, "I command
- 00:25:23.948 --> 00:25:26.183
- people and they do my bidding,and I recognize
- 00:25:26.216 --> 00:25:27.618
- in you an authority,
- 00:25:27.651 --> 00:25:29.253
- you've got authority oversickness and disease and demons
- 00:25:29.286 --> 00:25:31.689
- and the wind and the waves.
- 00:25:31.722 --> 00:25:33.457
- If you'll just speak the word,my servant will get better."
- 00:25:33.490 --> 00:25:38.462
- And the Scripture sayssomething, it's one of the most
- 00:25:38.495 --> 00:25:40.297
- remarkable statements in all theGospels, it says, Jesus was
- 00:25:40.331 --> 00:25:43.334
- astonished at this man's faith.
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- Wouldn't you like to have afaith that caused Jesus to
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- be astonished?
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- And you know that basically, itwasn't that the man had spent
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- time in synagogue, he hadn'tspent the time studying any,
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- there were no--it said that herecognized the authority in
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- Jesus, and he would humblehimself and submit to
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- the authority.
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- We've been rebellious too long.We're a people under authority.
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- People say to me frequently,"Pastor, yeah, I know what the
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- Bible says, but let me tell youwhat I think."
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- I will typically try to listenrespectively, but you know the
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- We may not understand it all, itmay take time, it may take a lot
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