We are in the midst of a spiritual conflict unlike anything we have seen in our lifetime.

Then we're going to have to respond in some ways that has not been a part of our

pattern in our past. Up until now you can think oh I'm going to go to heaven

so now church just becomes a matter of conviction. Up until now you could think, oh, I'm going to go to heaven.

So now church just becomes a matter of convenience or it's not, you know,

it's, I've got my God business kind of wrapped up in a neat little box.

We're in a different world. We're called to be

solved in light. We have to be faithful.

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Now it's on to Pastor Allen. Be blessed.

I want to come back and see if we can walk through this. It's really primarily derived from the second

epistle of Peter. We meet Peter in the Gospel, he's a young man.

And he has a lot of the brashness that you would imagine would come with that kind of youth maybe even a teenager and we get to the

book of acts and after the day of Pentecost, Peter and the Apostles are really transformed.

Kind of the Keystone cops prior to that and after that, it's remarkable how they're able to cooperate

with the Lord and see the Jesus story take root in Jerusalem and

Judea and Sumeria the Gentiles are invited in. They respond to the

pressures with tremendous strength and courage and bravery, really in a way that challenges us today.

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