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Allen Jackson Ministries | Freedom From Guilt And Shame | January 14, 2022
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- Pastor Allen Jackson: We live in a time where the true gospel,
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- the gospel of Jesus of Christ, that Jesus of Nazareth was the
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- incarnate Son of God, that he was born of a virgin, that he
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- was crucified by the Romans on a cross outside the city of
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- Jerusalem, that he died on that cross, that he was buried, that
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- he was raised to life again three days later, that he
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- ascended to heaven and he's seated at the right hand of God
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- the Father Almighty, and from there he'll come back to the
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- earth to judge both the living and the dead, that he's the
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- judge of all, it's a non-negotiable part of
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- the gospel.
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- It's good news because on that cross, Jesus exhausted the curse
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- of sin for all of humanity.
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- He took upon himself the punishment that was due by
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- divine justice, our godlessness and our rebellion, that we in
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- turn might receive all the blessing that was due his
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- perfect obedience so that through faith in Jesus of
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- Nazareth we might be forgiven of our sins.
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- We could be made righteous.
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- We could have standing with God without guilt or shame.
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- We could be justified.
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- We could be made just as if we'd never sinned.
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- We can be sanctified, set apart for the purposes of God.
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- And any hold that Satan or the kingdom of darkness might assert
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- over us has been broken through the redemptive work of Jesus.
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- And it's available to any human being who will believe,
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- regardless of our sex, our race, our educational status, our IQ,
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- our income.
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- The ground at the foot of the cross is level.
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- It's the good news of the gospel.
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- There is no better news available to a human being, but
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- it begins with the acknowledgment that we are
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- sinners and that we need a Savior.
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- If you won't acknowledge that we need a Savior, the gospel
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- is irrelevant.
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- If we think we can save ourselves, if by cooperating
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- together--there's nothing in human history that suggests
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- human beings are willing to cooperate for the betterment
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- of humankind.
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- It's just not--I mean, you can find little pockets, handfuls of
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- people for a brief intervals that will demonstrate that, but
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- apart from the transformation from the inside out, human
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- history suggests quite the opposite.
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- So another gospel, Galatians chapter 1, and verse 6, Paul's
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- writing to a church, to a church that he has helped birth.
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- And he said, "I'm astonished that you're so quickly deserting
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- the One who called you by the grace of Christ and you're
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- turning to a different gospel."
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- There's an entire segment of the church that doesn't even wanna
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- have a discussion about the fact that you could turn away from
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- the truth.
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- I don't want you to live in fear of your salvation.
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- That's not fruitful.
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- But I don't want you to live so presumptively that you think
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- because you recited a prayer and got dipped in a pool, you can
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- live any way you want to live and say to God kinda casually,
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- "Oh, I'm sorry," and you'll be good.
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- You won't.
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- It's a very destructive deception.
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- "I'm astonished that you're so quickly deserting the One who
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- called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a
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- different gospel, which is really no gospel at all.
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- Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and
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- are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ."
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- The world hasn't changed much in two millennia.
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- A lot of confusion and a tremendous attempt to pervert
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- the gospel of Christ.
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- Seem right?
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- A different gospel, another gospel.
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- I can tag three or four that are really prominent amongst us,
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- amongst American Christiandom, Western Christiandom.
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- The gospel of wealth, that if you have enough resources, you
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- can live pretty much any way you want and then just express some
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- generosity towards church from time to time and God will count
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- you blessed because your accumulation of things is
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- evidence of God's blessing upon your life and must impute to you
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- some sort of righteousness, or holiness, or goodness.
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- Now, I believe God wants to bless his people.
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- Poverty in the Scripture is very clearly a curse.
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- There's nothing holy about being impoverished, but accumulated
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- resources is not a declaration of faithfulness.
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- Now, there's so much enmeshed in that and I don't want to take
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- the time tonight, but don't believe that gospel.
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- There's a gospel of pleasure, the pursuit of happiness.
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- How could God be opposed to that?
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- He created us to experience happiness.
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- He gave us the capacity.
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- That's true.
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- He gave you the ability to enjoy food as well and a body to
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- process it, but he warns you against gluttony.
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- But there's a gospel of pleasure, that if I'm happy, it
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- couldn't be wrong.
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- It could be sin.
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- It could be ungodly.
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- There's a gospel of social justice.
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- More than acknowledging that I'm a sinner, we go look for the sin
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- of everybody else and we devote our lives to professing everyone
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- else's sin and demanding that they do something different.
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- It's another gospel.
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- We have a gospel of globalism, that we're all God's children,
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- that we all look the same, and we're all gonna end up in the
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- same place, and we don't need to get caught up in this notion
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- about Jesus.
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- Just soften the Jesus rhetoric a little bit and we can all
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- get along.
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- It's a perversion of the gospel.
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- The result of another king or another gospel brings guilt and
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- shame, because compromise does that.
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- Compromise brings with it a sense of futility, of emptiness.
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- Compromise doesn't mean you reject God.
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- Please, we need to get this straight.
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- Compromise doesn't mean you say, "I'm going to become a Muslim,"
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- or "I'm going to practice Buddhism," or "I'm now agnostic.
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- Don't talk to me about God."
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- You can read your--do your daily Bible reading, and be in
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- worship service regularly, and fill your life with compromise.
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- The audience that Jesus spoke to throughout the Gospels were not
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- people who had rejected the covenant with Abraham.
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- They said repeatedly, "We're Abraham's children.
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- There's our temple.
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- Can't you smell the aroma of the daily sacrifice?
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- We keep the right holidays and we tithe of our ment and we
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- tithe of our spices we buy in the marketplace.
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- We're so scrupulous in our fastidious obedience to
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- the law."
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- And Jesus said, "Woe to you.
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- You're blind guides."
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- Then he turned to the crowd and said, "Don't follow
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- these people.
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- Don't listen to them."
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- And the crowd was addled or confused.
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- They don't know what to do.
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- I feel like we're in one of those seasons because we're so
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- rife with compromise.
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- Ecclesiasties is written from the perspective of King Solomon,
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- David's son, this wealthy king.
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- And the beginning of the book and the ending of the book are
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- pretty good bookends, "The words of the Teacher, the son of
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- David, king in Jerusalem: 'Meaningless!
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- Meaningless!'
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- says the Teacher.
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- 'Utterly meaningless!
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- Everything is meaningless.'"
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- The older translations, King James and such, say "Vanity,"
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- but "Meaningless" is a better translation,
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- a literal translation.
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- It's empty.
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- It's a chasing of the wind.
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- It's futile.
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- You see, sin is futile.
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- It promises something it can't fulfill.
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- It's why the end of addictive processes are destructive.
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- They're progressive.
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- Well, if you had a little bit more, you'd be better off.
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- If you got a little further.
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- It doesn't matter if it's a substance, or it's money, or
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- it's adrenaline.
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- Whatever it is, more will be better, and it isn't better.
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- Until finally you realize your strength is spent, or your
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- health is broken, or you've forfeited a great deal and the
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- answer is it's meaningless.
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- And the book concludes with a summary statement in chapter 12
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- that says, "All has been heard; here's the conclusion of the
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- matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, it's the whole
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- duty of man."
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- Why would you do that?
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- Because God will bring every deed into judgment, including
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- every hidden thing, whether it's good or evil.
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- Your compromise will not be effective.
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- The things you've done in the dark will be shouted from
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- the housetops.
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- The things you've been--that you have hidden will be exposed.
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- The things that you thought you could explain away will have to
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- face the light of God's truth.
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- So he said the end of the matter is fear God.
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- Serve him with your whole heart.
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- I brought the example, I think the clearest example, if I look
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- for a doorway for guilt and shame on the Christian Church in
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- our nation, if I was limited to one or two, I'd probably start
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- with abortion.
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- It was made the law of the land in the '70s, not because it was
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- spelled out, not because it was voted upon, because the Supreme
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- Court fabricated illegal perspectives that made it okay.
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- But it was really a response to the rebellion and the immorality
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- of the '60s.
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- It was a logical next step for the rebellion, and the
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- ungodliness, and the immorality that was unleashed upon us in
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- the '60s.
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- We didn't want to be constrained any longer by
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- biblical worldview.
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- Primetime television used to be things like "Leave It to
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- Beaver," "Make Room for Daddy," "Gilligan's Island."
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- You've seen 'em on Nickelodeon.
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- That's where--me too, alright?
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- Now we have "The Bachelorette."
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- That's a whole different approach to "Gilligan's Island."
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- You see, the outcome of guilt and shame is expressed in
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- our lives.
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- It's very visible.
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- It results in silence.
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- We don't say anything 'cause we feel guilty.
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- You know it's true.
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- I'm sure if you'll reflect just a moment there have been many
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- times you've been inclined to pray for somebody, a coworker,
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- or a neighbor, or a family member, or to invite somebody to
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- church, or to tell them--share some point of faith, and almost
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- immediately you're reminded of an interaction with that person
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- that was not godly, a time they heard you say something other
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- than, "Praise the Lord," or when you didn't have any compassion
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- for them, or you weren't willing to listen.
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- And in that moment--or maybe a thought that says, "You know, if
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- you offer to pray for them and nothing happens, they're gonna
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- think you're foolish," or "Do you really want them to think
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- you're one of those kind of Christians?"
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- And so what do we do? We just stay silent.
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- Folks, we've been silent long enough.
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- It's immobilized us.
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- We don't do much.
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- We don't say much.
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- I'm tired of seeing ungodliness and wickedness championed, and
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- celebrated, and promoted, and lifted up, and God's people
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- remain mute and immobile.
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- The outcomes of guilt and shame are wrong priorities.
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- You think you have to work it off, or you have to pretend to
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- be more righteous, or a whole host of things.
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- Sometimes our response to guilt, and shame, and compromise is
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- enthusiastic distractions.
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- We give ourselves into more, more entertainment, more fun.
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- I couldn't be sad or ungodly.
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- Look at how happy I am, while we careen down a pathway that leads
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- us further and further away from God.
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- Sometimes we respond with anger.
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- We're mad at the hypocrisy of others or the narrow-mindedness
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- of some.
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- Maybe even violent.
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- Well, the resolution to guilt and shame was very
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- simple scripturally.
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- It's to repent and believe.
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- Repent of our sins and believe that the work of the cross
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- is sufficient.
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- You say, "Well, it's gotta be more complex than that.
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- It has to be something.
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- Don't I have to stand on one foot when the moon is full?
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- It can't be that simple."
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- I didn't say it was easy, but it's not complex.
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- There's a tremendous price paid for your repentance to
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- be effective.
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- A tremendous price paid.
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- It took the sinless, obedient Son of God to be tortured to
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- death so that our repentance could bring freedom.
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- Repentance should not be treated casually.
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- It's not a flippant thing.
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- It's a horrible thing to treat flippantly because it took the
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- shed blood of our Jesus.
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- So when we come in repentance, we recognize the tremendous cost
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- that's been invested.
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- It has to emerge from a place of humility, and brokenness,
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- and desperation.
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- God, I've tried everything else I know and I'm empty on
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- this one.
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- Forgive me of my sin.
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- I wasn't confused.
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- I wasn't misled.
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- I was wrong.
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- I chose the wrong thing.
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- I didn't have the courage, or I wasn't willing, or I was too
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- rebellious, whatever.
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- You can use your words, but tell the Lord the truth.
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- Don't coat it in something else.
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- Call it by its ugliest name.
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- I was greedy, or immoral, or lustful, or lazy, whatever
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- it is.
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- God, I'm sorry.
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- And then after you repent, you have to believe.
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- Belief is not a passive thing.
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- Peter got out of the boat because he believed he could
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- walk on the water 'cause Jesus invited him too.
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- And he began to lose his footing and Jesus said to him, "Well,
- 00:13:36.799 --> 00:13:39.568
- why did you stop believing?"
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- Belief is not a passive thing.
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- Pastor Allen: Hey, in Acts chapter 1, Jesus ascended back
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- to heaven.
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- The church goes public and starts the Jesus ministry in
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- his absence.
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- But just a few chapters into the book of Acts, Jesus is back
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- in time.
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- He's on the Damascus Road, recruiting a new messenger.
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- This time it's Saul of Tarsus.
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- He's an angry, violent pharisee who hates Jesus's followers and
- 00:14:09.832 --> 00:14:14.603
- is dragging 'em towards prisons.
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- And Jesus steps back into time to get his attention.
- 00:14:16.639 --> 00:14:21.010
- Well, Saul of Tarsus becomes Paul the Apostle, one of
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- our heroes.
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- I hope he's a friend of yours.
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- You read his letters all the time as you read through the
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- New Testament.
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- Well, Paul was an advocate for Jesus in a season of tremendous
- 00:14:30.352 --> 00:14:33.789
- turmoil, a lot of confusion.
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- There was a lot of political pressure.
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- There was a lot of deception.
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- In fact, there was a tremendous cost to be an advocate
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- for Jesus.
- 00:14:42.164 --> 00:14:43.732
- Paul was willing to take on that cost to the point that he's
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- still speaking to you and me today.
- 00:14:46.568 --> 00:14:48.671
- His messages to the church are powerful words of encouragement
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- for the circumstances that we face today.
- 00:14:52.207 --> 00:14:55.377
- We've prepared a tool for this new year.
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- It's a daily devotional that I built out of Paul's letters to
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- those churches.
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- We put it in a journal fashion so that on a daily basis, we can
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- reflect on the lessons that Paul was sharing with those people
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- with whom he was making the journey so the Spirit of God can
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- give application in your life and mine.
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- It's that daily feeding, meditating, thinking about the
- 00:15:14.163 --> 00:15:17.232
- Word of God in the context of the challenges of this day that
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- brings true strength to us, and we need God's strength in
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- this season.
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- The fact that I'm born again or had a God experience last year
- 00:15:26.141 --> 00:15:29.178
- isn't enough.
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- I need to know God today, this week, this month, now.
- 00:15:30.546 --> 00:15:33.449
- Well, I believe this tool, it's a devotional built out of those
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- letters from Paul, will be a tremendous strength to you
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- in this year.
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- Open your heart.
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- Begin to say to the Lord, "I wanna follow you."
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- We're the 21st century edition of the book of Acts and we want
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- to do it in a way that honors Jesus just like Saul of Tarsus
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- learned to.
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- female announcer: God has called us to be salt and light in our
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- generation, and Pastor Allen's new 90-day devotional book,
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- "Lessons from Paul," can help.
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- current circumstances.
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- They can help encourage, equip, and strengthen us to follow the
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- Lord no matter what's ahead.
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- Lessons from Paul is a high-quality, full-sized book,
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- and each day includes a Scripture, devotional, prayer,
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- more today.
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- When we encounter hardships, will we decide to follow God or
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- will we pull away?
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- from Paul."
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- Pastor Allen: Now, I've got just a few minutes and you've got a
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- lot of notes, but there's an application to this that I wanna
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- walk through with you.
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- I said on the cross there was an exchange that took place where
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- Jesus exhausted the curse of sin, our sin, that we might have
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- the full blessing of his obedience.
- 00:17:07.476 --> 00:17:11.080
- And there are lots of aspects to that, but one aspect of that
- 00:17:11.080 --> 00:17:14.416
- exchange on the cross is Jesus took the shame that we might
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- have his glory.
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- And glory is the manifestation of the goodness of God, the
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- character of God.
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- Jesus took the shame that went with our brokenness, and our
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- sin, and our ungodliness, and our wickedness that we might
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- have the manifestation of the goodness of God upon our lives.
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- We don't deserve it.
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- We didn't earn it.
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- It's because of Jesus.
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- It's why I'm willing to be identified with him wherever.
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- You are one of those?
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- Yes, I'm one of those.
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- Don't you want to be?
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- Well, I'm not sure.
- 00:17:51.520 --> 00:17:52.888
- They're all hypocrites.
- 00:17:52.888 --> 00:17:54.256
- I know, we'll squeeze one more in.
- 00:17:54.256 --> 00:17:55.591
- C'mon, I'll scoot over.
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- Ephesians 2, and verse 8 says, "It's by grace you've been saved
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- through faith."
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- We need to understand that grace covers everything Jesus did for
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- us on the cross.
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- Grace by definition means it's not merit-based.
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- We didn't earn it.
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- We don't deserve it.
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- There's nothing in it.
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- It's a gift undeserved.
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- So it's by grace you have been saved.
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- Salvation, redemption is not because we deserve it or we
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- earned it.
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- It comes to us through faith.
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- Remember, that's not a passive thing.
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- Faith is expressed in how we live.
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- You see, shame shuts you down.
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- It incarcerates you.
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- It limits your imagination.
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- It freezes you in a space just like being in prison.
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- You're more aware of what you're not.
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- When does the Holy Spirit convicts you, he reminds you
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- you're wrong in what you said, or you've done, or how you're
- 00:18:46.875 --> 00:18:49.044
- behaving, or how you've been behaving, or what you--but with
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- that there comes an opportunity to repent and choose a new path.
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- Shame simply says, "You're hopeless.
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- You never get it right. You'll never get it right.
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- You've always been wrong."
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- That does not come from the Spirit of God.
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- In Hebrews 2:10, it says, "In bringing many sons to glory, it
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- was fitting for God, for whom and through whom everything
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- exists, that he should make the author of their salvation
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- perfect through suffering."
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- What was the objective of Jesus's suffering?
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- It's that first phrase: to bring many sons to glory.
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- God's purpose is to bring many children to glory; that his
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- glory can be made evident in our lives.
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- For his glory.
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- There's no room for us to boast.
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- Are you a pastor? I can't believe it.
- 00:19:38.894 --> 00:19:41.563
- Neither can I. It's still surprises me and I'm decades
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- into this thing.
- 00:19:46.168 --> 00:19:49.438
- You know, people say, "Did you to feel called?"
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- Not particularly.
- 00:19:50.806 --> 00:19:54.610
- When did you realize God was gonna use your life?
- 00:19:54.610 --> 00:19:56.612
- Well, I was talking to him about that today.
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- It's still surprising to me.
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- Well, it's easier for you.
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- No, you just can't see from my side of my eyes.
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- None of us feels just--if you feel overly holy, I'm concerned
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- for you, 'cause we have an enemy, an adversary, who's
- 00:20:13.996 --> 00:20:18.934
- an accuser.
- 00:20:18.934 --> 00:20:21.637
- In fact, the instruction we're given is in Hebrews 12:2.
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- It says, "We've gotta fix our eyes on Jesus.
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- He's the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set
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- before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and he sat
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- down at the right hand of the throne of God."
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- To sit down suggests biblically there's the completion that has
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- taken place.
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- Something's been finished, that the matter of divine justice has
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- been satisfied.
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- But before Jesus sat down, it says that he had to endure
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- the cross.
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- And to do that, he had to despise the shame.
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- Be certain of this, that the cross was an instrument
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- of shame.
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- It was a point of execution for the lowest kind of criminal.
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- You weren't banished.
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- John was banished to the Isle of Patmos for his faith, but he
- 00:21:02.744 --> 00:21:05.247
- wasn't crucified.
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- Jesus suffered the most--the greatest indignity that was
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- available to a human being.
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- And before he was crucified, he was beaten and mocked.
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- The soldiers blindfolded him.
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- You know the story.
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- And they hit him over the head and said, "If you're the Son of
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- God, tell us who hit you."
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- And when he didn't answer, they hit him again and again.
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- Jesus not only knew who hit him, he knew their parents' names,
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- and their kids' names, and their grandparents' names, and their
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- address, and the color of the fabric on the sofa in the living
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- room, but he stayed silent.
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- If he'd have wanted to, he could've caused them to grow in
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- a third ear out the middle of their forehead, but he
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- stayed silent.
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- And he was beaten to the point-- he bled to the point that he
- 00:21:54.830 --> 00:21:58.367
- didn't even have the strength to carry his cross through the
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- streets so they could mock him.
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- So even the other criminals had more strength than he did, and
- 00:22:04.106 --> 00:22:08.543
- he collapsed under the weight of the burden.
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- And finally, they get him to Golgotha and they strip him
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- naked, nail him to a cross, and hoist it into the air.
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- The last public view that the world had of Jesus was beaten
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- severely, gasping for breath, hungry, and thirsty, and naked
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- on a Roman cross.
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- God's Son.
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- And the author of Hebrews says he despised the shame.
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- It won't attach itself to me.
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- The cross was an instrument of shame.
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- Psalm 69:7, "I endure scorn for your sake, and shame covers
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- my face."
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- He took the scorn for us.
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- He took all the expressions of shame that come to us because of
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- our failures, because of the sin of other people.
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- Sometimes we feel shame because of circumstances that we didn't
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- create, family system failures, all sorts of things.
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- Psalm 69:4, "Those who hate me without reason outnumber the
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- hairs on my head."
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- It's easy to say in the midst of life, "Something's wrong
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- with me.
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- Why would these things keep happening to me?
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- How can I find myself?"
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- You see, we have an enemy and an adversary that wants you to be
- 00:23:20.949 --> 00:23:23.652
- incarcerated with shame.
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- It's the point of the cross. You can be free.
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- Psalm 68--69, "I'm a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my
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- own mother's sons."
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- I don't fit in.
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- I'm an outsider.
- 00:23:38.533 --> 00:23:41.536
- Other people seem to fit in, but I just don't fit in quite right.
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- Folks, this doesn't go away and it doesn't have anything to do
- 00:23:45.507 --> 00:23:47.409
- with your orientation towards Christianity.
- 00:23:47.409 --> 00:23:49.578
- When the church was small and we met in a tent in a cotton field
- 00:23:49.578 --> 00:23:52.414
- on the edge of town, people said we were crazy, and handled
- 00:23:52.414 --> 00:23:55.517
- snakes, and drank Kool-Aid.
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- And I was embarrassed and I thought, "Well, you know, if we
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- had a building, it'd be better.
- 00:24:00.889 --> 00:24:03.792
- If we had a few more people, it would be better."
- 00:24:03.792 --> 00:24:05.527
- And we got a building and a few more people and it really didn't
- 00:24:05.527 --> 00:24:07.696
- change a lot.
- 00:24:07.696 --> 00:24:09.431
- And the Lord brought his blessings, and the building got
- 00:24:09.431 --> 00:24:11.032
- bigger, and there got to be a lot more people and they
- 00:24:11.032 --> 00:24:12.634
- still talk.
- 00:24:12.634 --> 00:24:13.969
- They just changed the language.
- 00:24:13.969 --> 00:24:15.403
- Now we're Six Flags Over Jesus and have an ice rink.
- 00:24:15.403 --> 00:24:24.946
- I hope so many people come that we have to have a landing strip
- 00:24:24.946 --> 00:24:27.782
- and a helipad.
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- How do we receive healing from the wound of shame?
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- Jesus told us, repent and what?
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- Believe by faith.
- 00:24:41.596 --> 00:24:44.499
- Thank Jesus that he bore your shame so that you might be
- 00:24:44.499 --> 00:24:47.202
- released from it.
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- Giving thanks is the simplest expression of faith.
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- Some of you have carried these thoughts, and images, and
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- pictures for years, and years, and years.
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- And you say, "Well, you know, I prayed that little prayer, but
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- my feelings didn't change."
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- No kidding.
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- We spent months and months putting on two or three pounds,
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- and I work out once, and I want it to go away.
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- I'm disappointed.
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- I drove past the gym twice, I didn't lose any weight.
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- How can that be?
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- It may take some persistence on your part.
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- Pastor Allen: I want to pray with you before we go.
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- Guilt and shame are such powerful tools of our adversary,
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- that we need the help of the Holy Spirit and to understand
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- who we are in Christ to live our lives free from those
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- potent weapons.
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- So I'm gonna ask you to repeat a prayer with me, then I want to
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- pray with you before we go.
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- So just repeat these lines after me, "Through the blood of Jesus,
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- I am redeemed out of the hand of the devil.
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- The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, continually cleanses me
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- from all sin.
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- Through the blood of Jesus, I'm sanctified, made holy, set apart
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- to God.
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- Through the blood of Jesus, I'm justified, made righteous, just
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- as if I'd never sinned.
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- My body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, redeemed, cleansed by
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- the blood of Jesus.
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- Therefore, Satan has no place in me, no power over me, through
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- the blood of Jesus, amen."
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- Hallelujah, we're free.
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- Now, you thank the Lord for your freedom.
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- male announcer: Join us every week for another exciting
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- message from Pastor Allen Jackson.
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- And until then, visit us online and discover remarkable
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- information and resources to help take your Christian life to
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- the next level.
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- And if you're visiting the Nashville area, we'd love to see
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- you at World Outreach Church in Murfreesboro.
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- We're easy to find, so look us up when you're
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- traveling through.
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- And don't forget to connect with Pastor Jackson every day through
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- social media.
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- Thanks so much for joining us and being a part of
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- this ministry.
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- We'll see you again next time for another encounter with
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- Pastor Allen Jackson.
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