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A Whole Lot of Shaking Part 2

Allen Jackson Ministries

September 9, 2020

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A Whole Lot of Shaking Part 2

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Pastor Allen Jackson: But I'velearned some things
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by observation.
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Once that process begins, thosebirth pains increase in both
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intensity and frequency untilthere's a delivery.
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And I believe, once we startdown this path, we will see the
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shaking increase in itsintensity and its severity.
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I believe we'll have a peacefulseason somewhere on the other
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side of what we're walkingthrough, but I believe there'll
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be additional shakings to comeuntil there's a delivery of a
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new kingdom and a new king.
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And between here and there,everything that can be shaken
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will be shaken.
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And the one thing left standingwill be the eternal kingdom of
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our Lord.
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Now that's an exciting premise!
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Pastor Allen Jackson: It's goodto be with you again.
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We're going to finishour lesson we started
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on "A Whole Lot of Shaking."
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God is shaking the earth,if you haven't noticed.
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The good news is, God is shakingthe earth, and if he's shaking
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it, he knows how to keep hispeople stable.
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Now, we're gonna look at aspecific aspect of that today,
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what the prophetshave to say to us.
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You know, I spent a lot of timein the church world and with
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Christians, and my typicalperspective is that we've taken
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the prophets, those books at theend of the Old Testament, and we
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treat 'em like they'reextracurricular reading, they're
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not essential, but if youdon't anything else to do,
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you might read 'em.
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Well, Jesus said he expects usto recognize the season we're
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living in based on theinformation we're given in
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the prophets.
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His expectation is we know whatthey had to say.
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Now, if that's Jesus's attitude,I think I'd better bring
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alignment to my life with that.
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Get your Bible out, get somenotepaper, we're gonna look at
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the greatest of the Hebrewprophets today and listen to
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what he said about this seasonthat we're walking through
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right now.
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Enjoy the lesson.
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Pastor Allen Jackson: So a partof this discussion has to do
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with last things, the end of theage in the times.
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And I'm here to confess, I don'thave a chart, I didn't even
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bring a timeline.
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For me, it's more helpful to tryto identify the components of
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what is ahead, because the exactprecision of how those things
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are going to be placed and howthey're gonna unfold,
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there's room for someconsiderable debate.
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And I want to suggest that wecan focus on what can be known,
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and not spend undue time andeffort on things which
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are unknowable.
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And Jesus said very clearly thatthe times and the dates are not
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always known.
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I like that statement in thefirst chapter of Acts, it's not
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for you to know the times or thedates the Father has set by his
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own authority.
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God has authority overwhat's unfolding in time.
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Now, there's somefreedom in that.
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God is not caught off guard.
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Elections don't causeGod to panic.
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A meeting of the UN SecurityCouncil does not cause God
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to pace.
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That's good to know, that Godhas authority over what's
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unfolding in time.
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The one who watches over usnever slumbers nor sleeps.
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See, one of the challenges inseasons of discontinuity, of
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realignment and shaking, is thefear that encroaches on
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our lives.
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It will paralyze us.
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It discourages us.
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This season is challengingbecause of the length of it.
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I think we imagined it would bea two-week, or a four-week, or
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maybe a six-week littleinterruption, and we'd be back
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in the habits.
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And that's not been our case,and I don't think we're at the
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end of it just yet.
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And that's unsettling, and it'sfrustrating, and you want to
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wake up tomorrow, and it'll beback to a better place.
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But God has authority over time.
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Now what we are responsible foris to recognize the seasons in
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which we live.
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In Matthew 16, Jesus again, hesaid, when evening comes, you
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say, it'll be fair weather, forthe sky is red.
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And in the morning today it'llbe stormy, for the sky is red
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and overcast.
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You know how to interpretthe appearance of the sky,
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but you can't interpretthe signs of the times.
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Jesus said, you're better atpredicting the weather than you
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are the spiritual circumstancesaround you.
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Guilty.
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I'm guilty.
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They had to make a decision atabout three o'clock today about
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the weather, and there was awhole pattern of thunderstorms
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moving across the southeast, andthey were a bit of spot storms,
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but it was highly probable thatwe could've had more thunder or
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lightning this afternoon.
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We've got enough experience inthis part of the world to know
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that was a reality.
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I'm more comfortable making aweather decision than I am a
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decision about the season inGod's purposes we're living in,
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and I bet you are too.
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So rather than read that passageand think, well, how could they
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be so hardhearted?
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I think we have tounderstand there's a bit
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of a deficit in us.
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Because if Jesus said, we canknow the time and we can be
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aware, that it's possibleto do that.
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Similar passage, Luke 12, verse54, he said to the crowd, when
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you see a cloud rising in thewest, immediately you say, it's
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going to rain, and it does.
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And when the south wind blows,you say it's gonna be hot,
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and it is.
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Hypocrites?
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You know how to interpret theappearance of the earth and the
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sky, how is it that you don'tknow how to interpret the
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present time?
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Please note, Jesus's expectationis that we know how to interpret
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the present in light of theprophetic information of the
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Scripture through a Biblicalperspective.
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That is Jesus'sexpectation of us.
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None of the crackpots amongstus, or the lunatic fringe, but
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that if we're gonna flourish, ifwe're gonna make prudent
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decisions in the context of ourfaith and the purposes of God,
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we're gonna have to have someawareness of what God has said
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to us Biblically.
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We're gonna have to payattention to the prophets.
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Luke 16, Jesus is teaching, it'sa parable, it's a story he's
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telling to illustrate a point.
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Some of you remember theparable, it says, a rich man was
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dressed in purple and fine linenand he lived in luxury
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every day.
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He's a one-percenter.
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At his gate was laid a beggarnamed Lazarus, and he was
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covered with sores and he longedto eat what fell from the rich
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man's table.
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The dogs came and lickedhis sores.
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The time came when the beggardied and the angels carried him
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to Abraham's side, and the richman also died and was buried, in
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hell, where he the rich man wasin torment, he looked up and saw
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Abraham far away with Lazarusby his side.
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And he called to him and said,Father Abraham, have pity on me
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and send Lazarus to dip the tipof his finger in water and cool
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my tongue, because I'm in agonyin this fire.
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That's an unpleasantcircumstance, agreed?
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But Abraham replied, son,remember that in your lifetime
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you received good things, whileLazarus received bad things.
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But now he's comforted andyou're in agony.
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And besides all this, between usthere is a great chasm so that
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you can't go from here,nor can anyone cross over
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from there to us.
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Well, I beg you, Father, sendLazarus to my father's house,
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for I have brothers.
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Let him warn them so that theywill not also come to this place
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of torment.
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And Abraham replied, they haveMoses and the prophets, let them
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listen to them.
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No, he said, if someone from thedead goes to them,
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they'll repent.
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And he said, if they don'tlisten to Moses and the
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prophets, they won't beconvinced even if someone rises
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from the dead.
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What's Jesus's message?
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What's his counsel?
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He just gave us some veryimportant instructions.
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He said, listen to Moses and theprophets.
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Listen to the Scripture,especially to the prophets.
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You know there were over 300 OldTestament prophecies fulfilled
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in Jesus?
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More than 300.
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Not one or two, not a coupledozen, more than 300.
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God needed a unique people to bethe vehicle for world
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redemption, and he chose thedescendants of Abraham, Isaac,
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and Jacob.
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And he gave them hundreds ofprophetic insights, descriptors,
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of how to recognize the Messiahwhen he came, yet many missed
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Jesus's message.
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Is that fair to say?
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They were a very religiouspeople, that first century
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audience, they had a temple, onethat had been remodeled by Herod
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the Great, it was one of thewonders of the ancient world.
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They celebrated all the rightholidays, they celebrated
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Passover and Pentecostand Sukkot.
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They maintained the dietaryrules, they ate kosher, they
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wouldn't eat unclean things.
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They understood they had aunique racial identity based on
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their descent as the covenantpeople of God, yet in spite of
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all those things, they werelargely unaware of the Scripture
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and its relevance for theirmoment in time.
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Now, there's a message for youand me.
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On top of that, they wereexposed to Jesus's personal life
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and ministry.
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They knew of the miracles, ofthe healings, of the
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supernatural signs, there wereangels, there were voices from
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heaven, the sun was darkened.
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But that generation still, forthe most part, was trapped in
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their routine.
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Now that is sobering to me.
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There's an enormous differencefor the first century
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counterparts that were receptiveto the message that
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Jesus brought.
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Think of the difference in thelife of Mary or Joseph or Peter
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and the crew that were with him,or Bartimaeus, the blind man
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that heard the Jesus storiesand made such a ruckus
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he got Jesus's attentionand said, Lord.
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I want to see.
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Or the man who was on the palletand they let him down from the
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roof and he was restored.
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Person after person after personthat chose to believe, and their
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life was transformed.
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Or the large groups of otherpeople who chose not to believe.
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They ignored what was given tothem.
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You know, the reality is thatmost of our belief emerges at
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our point of need.
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I don't find very often that Itake a step forward in faith or
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in believing in the Lord in justa theoretical construct.
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Belief in my life, and in mylife experienced, emerges from a
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point of need.
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Remember the father that broughthis son to Jesus, the son had
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seizure-like activities, and hesaid to Jesus, if you can
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do anything.
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And Jesus said, if I can?
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He said, if you can believe allthings are possible, remember
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what the father said?
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I believe!
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An emotional response to Jesus,but his brain kicked in and he
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said, Lord, help my unbelief.
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He had a point of need thatdrove him beyond all the
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barriers, beyond all thecriticism, beyond what would the
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neighbors say, what will thepeople think, what will the
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people in my synagogue think.
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My son needs help, and I franklydon't care what they think.
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Think of Mary Magdalene,tormented by demonic activity,
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and Jesus set her free.
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And she said, I'm going to stayas close to this message and
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messenger as I can.
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The Gadarene Demoniac, a manthat was so tormented by unclean
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spirits that he could not livein polite society.
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He lived alone in a cemetery.
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And he encountered Jesus and hewas completely delivered.
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He begged to go with Jesus.
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And Jesus said, no,you need to go home.
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You see, you and I most likelywill believe at the point where
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we have a need.
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So, if in this season ofshaking, it has exposed points
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of fear, uncertainty, or idols,things that you put your faith
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or trust in ahead of where youput your faith or trust in
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the Lord.
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Rather than to think of it as anawful season, if your need has
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been exposed, if your concernshave been exposed, there's an
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opportunity to put our belief inthe Lord in a way beyond
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anything we've done before.
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God is preparing us,strengthening us.
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We have a choice.
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We can turn to God for ourresolution, or we can
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turn elsewhere.
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male announcer: Through prayer,we are not alone in facing
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challenges or problems.
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We have help from Almighty God.
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And thank you for supportingAllen Jackson Ministries.
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Together we are makinga difference.
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Pastor Allen Jackson: I wantto make a suggestion.
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Cultivate the habit of trustin your Bible.
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You may not understandeverything you read.
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In fact, I would say, with somecertainty, you're not going
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to understand.
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How did God create the worldwith his Word?
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I don't know.
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But I believe it.
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I believe God is the creator ofthe heaven and the earth.
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Practice, cultivate the habit oftrusting your Bible and adopting
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your behavior as if it weregiving you the truth.
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Lord knows we've followed enoughinstructions in the last few
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months that have beencontradictory.
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Wasn't that long ago that theexperts stood in front of us and
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said, there's absolutely novalue to wearing a mask, you
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don't need to wear a mask.
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And the same crew of people havebeen standing in front of us in
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recent weeks by saying, one ofthe best things you can do is
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wear a mask.
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And they offered no explanationfor their change of positions,
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they just changed their minds.
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Now, I'm not arguing with eitherposition, we're doing our best
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to maintain our health and helpone another.
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But why is it we bring such askepticism to the things of God?
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The people of God.
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Forget the peopleoutside the church,
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this is a message for us.
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To listen to Mosesand the prophets.
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2 Peter, chapter 1 in verse 19,it says, we have the word of the
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prophets made more certain,and you'll do well
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to pay attention to it.
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You do well to pay attention towhat the prophets have to say.
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See, if we're gonna be preparedfor the shaking that's coming,
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we're gonna have to know whatGod has said to us.
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We're gonna have to have morethan a casual acquaintance
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with him.
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We're gonna have to lean,it's gonna take some effort,
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some thought.
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Oh, can't you just give mea summary?
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Well, there's some seasonalchanges.
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I'll give you a big picture andthen I'm gonna hush.
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Matthew 24 is Jesus's mostlengthy prophetic presentation
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in a single presentation.
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And of all the Hebrew prophets,Jesus is the greatest.
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And there's a question, twoquestions, put to Jesus in
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Matthew 24 in verse 3. He'ssitting on the Mount of Olives,
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and the disciples came to himprivately and they said, tell
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us, what will be the sign ofyour coming and the end of
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the age?
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Two questions.
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What's the sign of your return,and the end of the age?
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And Jesus answered, and thenhe gives them his rather
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lengthy list.
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He said, watch out thatno one deceives you.
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One of the primarycharacteristics, as we get to
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the conclusion of the age, is anincrease in deception.
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Don't be frightened by it, it'sgonna grow worse and worse.
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Deception means you believesomething to be true
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that's false.
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How many of you think it'sharder to know what's
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true today?
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It's hard to know what to trust,it's hard to know what to
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believe, they give you acontradictory message on a daily
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basis, multiple times in a day,and it's disorienting.
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So we'll need a God perspective,because that'll be a stabilizing
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component for us.
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And that deception is not goingto diminish, it's gonna
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increase, because Jesus warns usmultiple times about deception.
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He said, many will come even inmy name, claiming I'm the
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Christ, and will deceive many.
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A lot of people are gonnasuccumb to the deception.
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And you'll hear of wars andrumors of wars, but see to it
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that you're not alarmed.
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Such things must happen.
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But the end is still to come.
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Nation will rise against nation,and kingdom against kingdom.
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The word translated nation isethnos, from which we get the
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word ethnic.
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Not nation states in conflict,but ethnic groups in conflict.
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You have any sense that ethnicconflict might be escalating in
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the earth?
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Perhaps.
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There'll be famines andearthquakes and all of these are
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the beginning of birth pains.
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It's an interesting description.
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When you see these thingshappening, that's just the
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beginning of birth pains.
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My dad was a vet, I grew uparound critters being born,
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foals and calves, and kittensand puppies.
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And some stranger things fromtime to time.
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So on lots of occasions, we keptwatch to try to be of any
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assistance possible at the pointof birth.
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And I've never given birth,I confess, but I've learned
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some things by observation.
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Once that process begins, thosebirth pains increase in both
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intensity and frequency, untilthere's a delivery.
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And I believe, once we startdown this path, we will see the
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shaking increase in itsintensity and its severity.
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I believe we'll have a peacefulseason somewhere on the other
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side of what we're walkingthrough, but I believe there
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will be additional shakings tocome until there's a delivery of
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a new kingdom and a new king.
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And between here and there,everything that can be shaken
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will be shaken.
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And the one thing left standingwill be the eternal kingdom of
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our Lord.
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Now that's an exciting premise!
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But there's a change that willhave to come to our hearts and
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to our lives, to the degree towhich we have stood with the
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same imagination of security andfoundation and opportunity that
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people outside the kingdom did.
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Those things we've trusted inare gonna fall away from us.
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And we'll either be filled withanguish, and fear, and anxiety,
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and concern, or we'll beincreasingly reverent and
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grateful for the kingdom that'sbeen revealed to us.
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Now, things are happening ata pace, they're accelerating
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in ways that we've neverimagined possible.
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Churches are padlocked.
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Gathering of evangelicals in LasVegas, a few days ago, they were
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allowed to meet in hotels, sothey met in a hotel.
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They were given an order to saythat the hotel had said, don't
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tolerate that meeting, and theydidn't cancel it.
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So when the meeting was over,the hotel lost their license,
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their liquor license,their hotel license.
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We haven't watchedthese things before.
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And if you think they're distantthings in some other part of the
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nation and they're not gonnaimpact our lives, I don't think
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we're paying attention.
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Now, I don't know the timelineon that, I'm telling you,
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it's a new season.
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And it's time for us to begin tolook at what Jesus said with
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some new eyes.
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The beginning of birth pains,something's coming, and it's
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something exciting.
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I have visited the hospital fordozens and dozens and dozens of
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people when there are newbirths, and I've been around
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church when mothers bring intheir new babies, and I've
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watched the expressions of themore mature moms, the moms whose
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children are grown.
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I've never seen the mom who hasgrown children look at a new mom
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and go, oh, that wasawful, wasn't it?
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I've never one time seem that.
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But I've seen hundredsof women get emotional.
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May I hold that child?
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How wonderful!
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Enjoy every moment, it's gonnapass so quickly!
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There's a joy at what's arrivedthat seems to negate entirely
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the discomfort and the pain andthe fear, giving birth is a
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very, very vulnerable time.
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You walk through the valley ofthe shadow of death in order to
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bring that life forth.
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And that's forgotten in the joyof the arrival.
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So when we are counseled tocultivate reverence and
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gratitude, God has counted usworthy to be present in a season
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where his purposes are givingbirth to something new.
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In the same way he brought a newlife out of the brick pits of
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Egypt, and the rebirth of atemple in Jerusalem, his
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purposes will come forth in theearth in a new way at the
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conclusion of this age.
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We're not forfeiting something,we're gaining something.
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Amen!
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So what's our assignment?
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To not hold on to anythingthat we shouldn't.
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To cooperate withthe spirit of God.
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To acknowledge thatwe've been distracted.
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That we were perhapsa bit complacent.
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That we were overfedand overconfident.
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And overcommitted to ourconvenience and our comfort.
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And we're learning to walk innew ways, to be more flexible,
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to change our habits, to respondmore quickly.
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Are we willing to do that?
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I believe we are.
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But it's not easy, 'cause in themidst of that, just as when
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Jesus was here, it calls for adecision, it calls for a change.
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You're going to have to identifywhat's in trouble is the middle.
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If you thought you could hide inthat broad middle and whistle
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both Dixie and the Battle Hymnof the Republic with equal
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enthusiasm, the season haschanged.
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And you'll have to identifywhere you stand.
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It's an exciting time.
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I'm grateful that God calledyour name and mine.
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I'm grateful to be a part.
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Your courage is amazing,but God is preparing us.
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Church isn't diminished.
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Church will be stronger and morevital and more vibrant and more
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prepared to respond with greaterclarity of message and more
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commitment by the personsparticipating than in any time
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in our lifetime.
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I believe it.
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♪♪♪
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Pastor Allen Jackson: I want topray with you before we go, but
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I want to ask you to join me ina prayer.
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You know, we're living in a verytumultuous time, and it's easy
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to see the ungodliness around usand the immorality around us and
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the violence around us andimagine that it's somebody
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else's problem, and that if theywould change, our life would
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be better.
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I don't think that's really avery Biblical attitude.
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I think the prayer is that ourhearts will change.
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The problems facing us aren'tbecause of the depravity of the
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wicked, I believe they'rebecause of the indifference of
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the faithful.
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So if we'll change our hearts,we will see God move in a most
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unique way.
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Will you join me in that prayer?
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Father, I thank youfor your people.
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I know they're precious to you,I know you care about us, and
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you have a plan for our goodand not for our harm.
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We humble ourselves today.
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We turn our faces to you, Lord.
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Be merciful to us, be mercifulto us, we've been stubborn and
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rebellious and uncooperative.
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Lord, when we've been immersedin selfishness and things other
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than you.
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We'll turn our hearts to you asnever before, that you might
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look from heaven and open thewindows of heaven and pour out
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your blessings upon us.
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In Jesus's name, amen.
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God bless you.
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