#183: Big Trouble Ahead: The Battle with Discouragement
Allen Jackson Ministries
Ben Hayes
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
God's people are battling against discouragement—the loss of courage. In this sermon, Pastor Allen Jackson discusses three common reactions to our current culture. Christians are either pressed and distressed; unaware and unconcerned; or listening and obedient to God. He discusses the differences in these responses and encourages us to personally reflect on where we are, versus where we would like to be. He offers proactive steps we can take to move toward the Lord and refresh our courage, so we can be salt and light to our generation.
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| 0:00.0 | The most damaging thing I think you can do as a Christ follower is imagine you have no business |
| 0:10.3 | left to do with God. I want to push against that with all the strength |
| 0:14.8 | that I have, that if you have said the right prayer and sat in the right building |
| 0:21.1 | that you have no business left to do with God. |
| 0:23.2 | That's as mistaken as thinking that if you were healthy 10 years ago, |
| 0:27.0 | you have no reason to eat a healthy diet and exercise today. |
| 0:32.0 | Your health today is a reflection of the choices you've been making in this |
| 0:35.4 | recent season and your spiritual health is the same. |
| 0:40.0 | Hey guys, this is Alan Jackson Ministries. You can get the outlines for this |
| 0:44.5 | episode at Alan Jackson.com slash podcast. If these messages help build you up or |
| 0:50.5 | encourage you to be a more fully devoted Christ follower, leave us one of those five-star |
| 0:54.9 | ratings. Hopefully that will help others find out about them as well. Now it's on to |
| 0:59.4 | Pastor Allen. Be blessed. |
| 1:10.0 | We're working through this little series under the theme of a big trouble ahead. Not intent to fright and it's really a biblical notion. |
| 1:14.0 | The biblical word for it is tribulation and literally it means big trouble. |
| 1:18.0 | Unfortunately, much of the Christian world has spent the majority of their effort |
| 1:24.6 | constructing reasons why it's not their problem. |
| 1:28.8 | Either the kind of an escapist mentality that the Lord will deliver us and we won't have to go through trouble or some |
| 1:35.0 | other such thing and I'm for any of them I'm happy first load out I'm not looking |
| 1:40.8 | to tribulate on the other hand I don't want to tribulate. |
| 1:43.2 | On the other hand, I don't want to meet a circumstance |
| 1:45.5 | that God has told us about and be unprepared. |
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