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Speaker 1: Welcome to Transformation Church Podcast, where we represent God to

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the lost and found for transformation in Christ. We're so

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glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe

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God will transform your life. Do today's message?

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Speaker 2: All right? Are you all ready for the word today?

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Let's get to it. We're starting a brand.

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Speaker 3: New series called Fearless, So everybody say Fearless. Oh yeah,

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this is about to be good, a cool thing if

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you don't know. I've got the opportunity every summer for

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the last six summers to preach.

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Speaker 2: A series over the summer.

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Speaker 3: And because during this time, our lead pastors, Pastors Michael

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and Natalie, take a sabbatical every single year to refresh,

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to reset, to get vision.

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Speaker 2: Every time we come in January, we have a Word

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of the year.

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Speaker 3: Pastor Michael spends this time praying and fasting and getting

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that word for the year. And so one, I'm just

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grateful for our pastors. And I always love the summer

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because it's just a fun, wild time.

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Speaker 2: So one thing I'm gonna ask.

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Speaker 3: You before we jump into this message is this summer,

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would you be praying for our pastors as they are away.

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Speaker 2: Resting and resetting. You have no idea.

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Speaker 3: The toll it is to lead a global movement and

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do all the stuff, just the regular stuff, just raising

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your kids, making Peter butter, jelly sandwiches, you know, just

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regular life stuff. Meanwhile, also pastoring and covering all of us.

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So if you make a commitment to pray for our pastors,

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can everybody just say I will?

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Speaker 2: All right? All right, all right.

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Speaker 3: So we're starting a brand new series called Fearless.

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Speaker 2: And the truth is there's this old.

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Speaker 3: Preacher saying that I heard a long time ago, which

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is study yourself full, pray yourself hot, and preach yourself empty.

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And I'm about to do all three. So just prepare

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your spirits. I have so much information to share with you.

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You literally yesterday and my wife will tell you I

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was in our room for like three hours studying neuroscience

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and your brain.

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Speaker 2: And how it responds to danger and fears.

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Speaker 3: So if we have a nerd moment together and you

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check out, it's all right.

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Speaker 2: I won't even hold you to it.

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Speaker 3: Just go back and listen to it. But we're gonna

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start off. We're gonna read Psalms fifty six, So if

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you got your Bible, will go to Psalms, chapter number

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fifty six, and we will read that scripture Psalm fifty six.

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If you got it, say I got it?

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Speaker 2: Great? Three people. I love that Three people.

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Speaker 3: Y'all are like, oh, it's just a rhetorical question.

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Speaker 2: Now I'm away for you. We a beout to read God.

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There you go. I love the trickle in got it?

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Speaker 3: Got it? Come on, some of y'all you just typing

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it into Google. Man, shouldn't take that long. Come on,

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you have to forgive us. We had a power outage

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today at like nine to fifty five. All the power

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shut out, and so we don't have the massive sky Bible,

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as I call it, the back screen. So you have

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to really read it for yourself and see if I'm

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telling the truth. Okay, here we go, Psalm fifty six,

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first number one.

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Speaker 2: We'll go one through four.

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Speaker 3: The Bible says, Oh God, have mercy on me, for

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people are hounding me. You ever had anybody hound you?

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Come on, I feel like my kids was hounding me yesterday. Jesus,

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I was yesterday almost had one of those you just

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stop like that.

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Speaker 2: You've ever done that one? No? Just me okay?

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Speaker 3: Now, literally it feels like my whole body gets electrocuted.

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I'm like, come on, calm down, stop it.

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Speaker 2: Okay. My foes attack me all day long.

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Speaker 3: I am constantly hounded by those who slander me, and

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many are boldly attacking me.

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Speaker 2: Come on.

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Speaker 3: It's one thing if they're trying to be passive aggressive,

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but it's some people are.

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Speaker 2: Like, that's what you're gonna wear. Okay. It's those type

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of people that get you.

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Speaker 3: First number three says, but when I am afraid, I

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will put my trust in you. I praise God for

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what he has promised. I trust in God. So why

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should I be afraid? One of the most gangster lines

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right here. What can mere mortals do to me?

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Speaker 2: It's a gangster all right.

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Speaker 3: Here's the title of today's sermon, week number one, Fearless.

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The title is write it down. Born for danger, Born

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for danger. I was born for danger.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what you what's something?

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Speaker 3: Tea?

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Speaker 2: How you doing? My lower up? Vadis get to see you? Hey,

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I just recognize my friends. Okay, Ah, I was born

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for danger. Okay, all right, we're gonna pray.

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Speaker 3: Lord, thank you that we are all born for danger,

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and Jesus that we pray.

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Speaker 2: Everybody said, all right, now let's get into it. Here's

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the thing.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if you know where you come from now,

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I'm not talking about like where you were born. I

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was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky. So I was raised

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Bowling Green one fifteen Clearview Avenue. That's where my grandma stayed.

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That's where we spent the summers. We was wilding out

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back in the day when they just used to get

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on your bike in the morning, come back, get food

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at noon, and then go back on your bike until

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the street light came on.

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Speaker 2: That's how I grew up.

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Speaker 3: Now, ain't no way my kids getting on the bike

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to go down the street.

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Speaker 2: What you crazy?

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Speaker 3: No, you pedaling the circle in this driveway? That's exactly

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abby is way more great that could be?

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Speaker 2: Like can we go on the street. No, you can't

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go on the street. What a car run you over?

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Speaker 3: A car will literally hit you and you will break

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your neck and I'm gonna have to take you.

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Speaker 2: I say it exactly like that. They're like, yeah, they're

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not gonna break our neck. And so but I grew up.

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Speaker 3: And here's what I'm trying to get at is everybody,

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you have something in you that didn't start with you,

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and it's kind of your genes and your makeup and

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your family of origin, and there's just stuff about your

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DNA that makes you who you are. I got four kiddos,

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and they all look and act like me and my

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wife in different ways.

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Speaker 2: And the other night, I gotta tell you a story.

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This is last time O. The night before, we're.

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Speaker 3: Sitting at the dinner table and we're going around and

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this is just a random family activity.

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Speaker 2: We're making up jokes and.

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Speaker 3: Riddles, just making them up on the spot, and people

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got a guess.

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie it. I was crushing it. I was.

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Speaker 3: I was doing so well. I'll give you one right here.

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I'll see if I remember it.

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Speaker 2: Well was uh, okay, what has I but no face?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 2: Runs but has no legs? And then what was the

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Speaker 3: I don't remember the last part, But.

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Speaker 2: Anyways, anybody got a guess?

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Speaker 3: A shoe eyelets on the shoe, runs but doesn't have legs,

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stinks and doesn't have a nose.

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Speaker 2: Boom, That was it? Shoe. I'm great a riddles. Okay.

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Speaker 3: Anyways, so we're doing riddles. Some of y'all get that.

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Next week that's how good that riddle was. Man, I've

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got so much time. Okay, uh, so we're doing riddles.

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Abby goes, Now, listen, here's the thing. We've all got

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our strengths. Clearly, I'm up here doing mine. So Abby goes.

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Speaker 2: So Abby goes to do her riddle and we're all just.

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Speaker 3: Staring at her like I don't even what are you?

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we're like, you gotta add that state.

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Speaker 2: She only had one identifier, she didn't even have three.

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It was just like, what is high but not low?

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I don't know what she said, but it was rains

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but no clouds. I don't even know.

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Speaker 3: I still don't even remember what you said. See it's

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bad right now, it's bad. Then it was bad now

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she said it's a.

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Speaker 2: Shower, rains but no clouds, a shower.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, Yeah, that's how.

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Speaker 3: I felt when she did it the first time. So

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but I promise I'm going to preach, but just wait.

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So she does that exactly how that just.

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Speaker 2: Went, where y'all are like, what, I don't we do that?

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Speaker 3: And Luna Rose Metcalf who has strong Metcalf DNA, and

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I mean that in her soul. She is a strong

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black woman in her soul. On the outside, she's blonde hair,

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blue eyes. Oh look, the screen's back.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 3: So but Luna, right when Abby says a shower, she goes,

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oh my gosh, that joke was so dumb.

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Speaker 2: She said, this girl is so dumb.

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Speaker 3: And unfortunately I busted out laughing early and I was like, Luna,

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you cannot say that.

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Speaker 2: She's like, what that joke was so dumb?

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Speaker 3: And I wish I could say she didn't get that

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Speaker 2: But she did, because that's what I thought when she

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said it. That is such a bad joke. But that's

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just looked like that came up out of her soul.

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She did. Ain't nobody teach her that, and she ain't.

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I'm not out out here, call up here. She just

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felt that. And what I'm getting at is there.

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Speaker 3: Stuff that is in your lineage that only in the

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right circumstances will it present itself. And I want to

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let you know in case you don't know that the

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history of the church is.

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Speaker 2: A people who were born for danger.

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Speaker 3: Now I know this isn't something that we commonly talk

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about because we think we're just supposed to be in here,

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and we sing her songs. And then we got out

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in the world and we live very shy, quiet, don't

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interrupt anybody, don't be weird, don't be strange. And then

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we come back and we do our thing all over again.

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But this heritage of this movement started with people who

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could care less about danger because they knew where they

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were going when they died.

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Speaker 2: And I am afraid the core element.

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Speaker 3: That makes the church the church has gotten lost in

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the last two thousand years. The origin in this movement

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was not made in pews. It was made by people

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who were writing in prison saying they're.

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Speaker 2: About to kill me.

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Speaker 3: But before they do, let me tell you something. To

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live is Christ and to die is Gain, so they

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can take my life.

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Speaker 2: You're born from danger.

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Speaker 3: This was not born from just some cute little things

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that we do on the side. It was born from

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people like a young man named David. David's who we

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read in this scripture, who's a young shepherd boy and

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there's a giant who is attacking God's people, and he

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rolls up as a teenager while all of Israelites the

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best warriors are hiding.

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Speaker 2: And he says, who is this and listen to how

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gangster this is? He says, who is this? Uncircumcised philistine?

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He really cooked that man.

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Speaker 3: It's like God's up, but he rolls up on a

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giant kills him. Born from danger, Born from danger. God

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named Moses. Born from danger, goes up to Pharaoh call

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himself a god at the time. This is why God

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deals so harshly with Pharaoh, by the way, because some

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people have beef with like the ten plagues and like,

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oh my gosh, God, such a terrible god. No, Pharaoh

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was one of the only people in ancient times that

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compared himself and said I am a god.

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Speaker 2: There is no other god. Did it? Wasn't the claim

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that they worshiped other gods.

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Speaker 3: Pharaoh thought he was God. So God said, oh you

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your river, I'm gonna take your food, I'm gonna take

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your stuff. And just to remind you, nobody else, there's

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no other God like me. Born from danger, girl named

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Esther who rolls up on the king. Born from danger,

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you go to the New Testament. Born from danger, Jesus

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Speaker 2: Paul all the scriptures we love to read. He's writing

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from prison. They're throwing him in jail. He's about to

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get out. Born from Danger.

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Speaker 3: There's apostles who they boiled them in hot oil and

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they wouldn't die. Ship them to an island. They won't die.

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church history, there's a girl named Perpetua, and she's in

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the colosseum, like the Roman colosseum, and they tell her

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she's a high Let me give you the context. She's

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a high Roman official's daughter. She gets into the movement

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of Christianity, and to prove a point, they say, we

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don't care who your daddy is. We're killing all Christians.

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or will throw you in the colosseum or in the arena.

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Speaker 3: She's standing there. The gladiators are fighting. They stab her.

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She stands there, pulls the knife in a little closer

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and says, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Now, help me reconcile that movement.

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Speaker 3: With a bunch of people commenting back and forth in

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Speaker 2: And that's supposed to be brave. That's what our faith

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has become. Our faith hasme.

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Speaker 3: I come in here, I sing my songs, I go

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argue on the internet. Nobody at work knows I'm saved.

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I don't want to be too weird. And now I'm

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a part of the same movement. Baby, No, no, don't no.

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Not the same thing. Not the same thing. You were

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born from danger. Now, when I originally said that, some

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of you had issue with that because because you think danger, Like, bro,

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we're supposed to.

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Speaker 2: Be Oh, what's happening where y'all lefting at?

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Speaker 3: Sermon title goes here? Yeah, hey, give us a second.

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We had a power outah. But when I said born

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from danger, some of you are are danger adverse.

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Speaker 2: You're like, I don't mess with danger. We don't do danger.

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Speaker 3: Why because as a kid, we are all reminded and

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Speaker 2: It's dangerous, we don't want to do it. Because y'all

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want to do dangerous things. Because when you're afraid, it's

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because it's dangerous.

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Speaker 3: My daughter Blue, she was on the back of the couch,

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standing on it. They're jumping off. We clearly have no

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rules in our house. We gave up rules a long

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Speaker 2: And they're standing on the couch, they're.

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Speaker 3: Jumping off, and Sonny, she's thinking, I cannot jump, I

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might fall. So the assumption is it's dangerous, you don't

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want to do it. And here's the connection. Many believers

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and many people think, if I want to have less fear,

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I need to have less danger in my life. That's

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how you control your fear, because things are dangerous make

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you afraid.

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Speaker 2: But here's what I can't reconcile.

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Speaker 3: Why would the marker of our movement being God calling

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us to do dangerous things? Things meaning like all of

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jesus friends were murdered because they, like Stephen stoned to

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death for his faith.

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Speaker 2: So clearly dangerous, clearly and over three hundred times the

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Bible says, do not be afraid.

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Speaker 3: Why is it the mark of our faith is for

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us to live a dangerous life, meaning dangerous relationally, because

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we're not connected. Dangerous in how we live, dangerous in

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taking risk, dangerous and starting things people.

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Speaker 2: Won't start, standing up. When people won't stand up.

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Speaker 3: We are called to live a dangerous life, and he

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calls us not to be afraid. Here's the connection. I

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want to say, this will kind of act as like

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a core point, and then I'm gonna We're gonna go

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through the Bible. Here's the idea. Danger is inevitable. Fear

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is optional.

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Speaker 2: Danger is inevitable.

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Speaker 3: There is something in your life that will be quote

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unquote dangerous.

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Speaker 2: What do I mean by that.

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Speaker 3: I'm not talking about evil caneval I'm talking about in

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some theory, it'sous to get married because you don't know

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if you could trust that person, so you don't know

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how it's gonna go. You in theory, is dangerous to

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try to have friends because you don't.

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Speaker 2: Know if they'll be with you or they'll a bandy.

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Speaker 3: It's dangerous to have kids because what if something happens

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and it goes wrong. It is dangerous to do I'm

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talking about there is danger in life.

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Speaker 2: But you being afraid is optional. You have the choice

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whether you want to be afraid or not.

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Speaker 3: Now I know it's like, what do you What does

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this man say?

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's go. We all ready for the nerd part

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of the sermon.

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Speaker 3: Okay, she said, we'll try I love that. Okay, here's

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the thing. Uh, there's a scientist, neuroscientist named Joseph. I'll

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spare his last name because I mispronounce it. Every Diman

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said for the last forty years, he's stead of your brain.

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Here's how people traditionally understand fear. Fear happens in your amygdala,

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which is your reptile brain, just instincts. That's what people understood.

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When you're afraid. Your brain says, oh my gosh, we're terrified.

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Palm sweat, heart races, adrenaline, and you do a couple

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of things fight, flight or freeze. There's a new in

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the added fawn, which is like people pleasing. Is anybody

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ever heard of this fight or flight? Anybody just heard

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that term? Okay, So that's how people understand fear. When

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you're afraid, your body immediately goes into that thing because

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it sense is danger. Here's what his research has been

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proven over the last forty years that your body processing

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danger and you being afraid are two totally separate things.

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Speaker 2: You can be in danger and not be afraid.

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Speaker 3: Here's what fear is. Fear is not just the awareness

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of danger. It's the awareness that it's happening to you.

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Speaker 2: Here's what I mean by that.

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Speaker 3: If you go into the woods and the bushes.

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Speaker 2: Rustle, danger. Your brain's gonna.

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Speaker 3: Go whoa hold up, Hey, what is that?

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Speaker 2: What are we doing?

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Speaker 3: Boom, heart rate spipes, your palms start sweating, and you

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go into one of three.

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Speaker 2: Some of you are like, I'm about to fight a bear.

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Speaker 3: Some of y'all freeze and you don't even realize what's happening.

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the meaning you assigned to that information.

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Speaker 2: Danger says something's gonna happen. I need a run.

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Speaker 3: Your brain says it's a bear. It's gonna eat me.

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I'm gonna die. And when the bear eats me, I'm

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gonna die. Then who's gonna take care of my kids?

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And then I'm gonna do? And then anxiety is you

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continuing to build out that scenario. I'm really trying to

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help you because this is gonna all click danger, this

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is this is strange. I don't know how this feels.

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that that includes our involvement.

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Speaker 2: Now we're gonna go to our scripture.

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Speaker 3: I promise it is all gonna come together at the end,

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because you're all staring at me like I stared at

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my college teacher when I went for one month and bailed.

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But we're gonna do it. Here's the thing we're in

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Psalms fifty six. The context of this, which is important

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for you to know. He's writing this, my foes are

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attacking me. I'm getting hounded, but I won't be afraid.

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He's on the run from a guy named Saul. All

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you need to know about that saw hates him. He's

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on the run. Guess where he runs to. He runs

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to Goliath's hometown. So the guy he killed, y'all remember

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he slung the thing bam, knocked the guy down.

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Speaker 2: He runs to his enemy's hometown and is.

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Speaker 3: Hiding because he's terrified he's gonna get killed. That's what

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Sosng fifty six is. So when he's riding, my foes

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are attacking me. I'm scared. He is in his enemy's hometown, terrified.

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writing this scripture, you don't picture this part. But the

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He starts acting crazy. Y'all don't know this, okay, let

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me read it to you. Let me read it to you.

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Let me read it to you. Let me read it

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to you. Let me read it to you. Hold on,

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where's it at? Samauh okay? First, sam of yo, look

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at this.

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Speaker 2: So David escaped from Saul and went to the king

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of Gath as Goliath. You see the connection there. But

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officiers were unhappy about this. Isn't David the king of

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the land.

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Speaker 3: Isn't he the one that people were honoring with dances, singing?

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Saul has killed this stout. David's tens of thousands. Come on,

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somebody all heard that. Remember the named David, y'all? Remember

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that that's what that is. David heard these comments and

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was so afraid, so he pretended to be insane, scratching.

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Speaker 2: On doors and drooling down his beard. So I get

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the picture. I can't not pass this.

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Speaker 3: He's acting crazy, y'all thinks is as funny as I

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think this for this is hilarious. Superhero David is acting

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insane because he's in a dangerous situation. But here's the

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proof of the neuroscience. He says, I can be in

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a dangerous situation, meaning I'm in the enemy's camp and

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they're about to kill me. Yet when I am I

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will not be afraid. When I am in danger, I

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will not be afraid. Here's all I'm trying to say

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to you. Danger in your life, however you interpret that.

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I'm not talking about driving fast. I'm not talking about

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doing something stupid. I'm talking about whatever you interpret as risk,

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whatever you interpret as a threat.

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Speaker 2: Some of you, it feels dangerous to.

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Speaker 3: Actually step out and start the business God calls you

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to start.

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Speaker 2: Some of you.

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Speaker 3: The honest truth of why you're single is because it

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feels dangerous to trust somebody because you saw your parents marriage.

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So you cover it like, oh, I can't sing, I

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can't find the right person. The truth is you're terrified

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to commit the danger of being the only different one

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in your family. You were raised in a completely different religion,

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you were raised in a completely secul their environment, and

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it feels dangerous to actually claim your faith. The danger

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at your job actually standing up for your faith, the

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danger of God tells you to pray for somebody, and

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you go up to them and you just pray for them.

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Speaker 2: The danger of.

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Speaker 3: At your school starting a Bible study, whatever you interpret

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as danger, it's inevitable. But you do have a choice

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on whether you're afraid or not. Here's here's the idea

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with fearless. The goal is not for you to be fearless. Actually,

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fearless would would low key be idiotic. Let me just

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woods you see a bear, it's not the time.

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Speaker 2: To be fearless. I'm fearless. I'm gonna fight this bear.

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Speaker 3: No, you're gonna We're gonna be praying for your family

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because you're gonna be gone. Man, you don't need to

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be fearless, But because of Jesus, you have the option

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to fear less than other people. You do not have

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to live your life afraid. And here's the summation of

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of this sermon series. I wrote a book, God Chose Me.

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Here's the connection. What good is it if God chose you?

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If you are too afraid to do what He chose

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you for? So here's the that's really the whole sermon.

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When we spend a lot of time God Chose Me.

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That's just to get you confident, secure, you know your love,

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you know you're but you can be chosen and still

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never do what He chose you to do. You can

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be valued by God, love by God, secure in God,

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and live your whole life afraid of what people think

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about you, Afraid of losing something, afraid of how your

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life's gonna turn out, afraid of risk.

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Speaker 2: So you live your whole life loved, but.

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Speaker 3: Never actually living, secure in your faith, but never actually

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stepping out. And what I'm trying to get at in

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this sermon and really in this series is you will

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never experience the fullness of the life God has for

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you until you stop letting your fear control your life.

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You have to stop letting fear control your life. And

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I know traditionally we're like, oh, I'm not afraid, there's

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no us. But what I'm talking about over the next

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couple weeks, we're gonna talk about four core fears.

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Speaker 2: Here's my theory.

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Speaker 3: Everybody in this room, there's one of four fears that

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you have. It's the fear of man, which is what

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a people think about me.

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Speaker 2: Your whole life.

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Speaker 3: It boils down to what a people think about me.

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How do I know because you're doing people pleasing, so

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you don't say stuff you really want to say because

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you're afraid of what they think. You don't do what

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you want to do because you're afraid with You don't

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go where you want to go, because you're so everybody.

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It's either the fear of man, it's the fear of loss,

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what if I lose what I love?

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Speaker 2: How do I know that one?

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Speaker 3: Because you're usually a little controlling. I don't want to

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lose my kids, so I control them. I don't want

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to lose my money, so I can.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to, so I'm afraid of losing, so

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I control.

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Speaker 2: The fear of man, the fear of loss, the fear

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of failure, what if I don't have what it takes.

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Speaker 3: I understand this one because if you struggle with this one,

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you'll act like you don't want to do stuff that

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you really want to do, and you'll be like, oh, no,

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I could have, but I just didn't want to know.

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The truth was you were terrified you were going to fail.

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Speaker 2: So you never started.

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Speaker 3: The fear of man, the fear of loss, the fear

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of failure, and this last one, the fear of inadequacy.

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What if there's something fundamentally broken with me? All of

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your fears, We'll go down into one of those. You're

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afraid of what people will think, you're afraid of if

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you do it, you won't have.

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Speaker 2: What it takes. You're afraid that something on the inside

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of you is broken, or you're afraid if you try

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you'll lose something. So what do we do.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna shortcut the next four weeks, so I'll probably

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have to rewrite the next four sermons. But when you

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replace all of those fears, not to remove them. I

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hate to inform you to this. God doesn't want.

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Speaker 2: You to remove those fears.

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Speaker 3: You have to replace them.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I am this. Okay, here we go. There's two

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types of fear in the Bible.

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Speaker 3: And I'll save you a lot of my nerd stuff

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because I can see you guys aren't tracking today. I

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don't know what it is. I mean, you need to

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sleep better next week because you're not tracking. And it's okay,

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but don't come back here like this next week.

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Speaker 2: Lock in. Come on, I do this every time I preach.

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Speaker 3: You're like, what no, but you're thinking caps on? Come

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on now, two types of fear. I'll save you all

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the boring Hebrew. One type of fear is oh like,

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oh no. The other type of fear is all like,

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oh my gosh. There's a difference. There's oh no, what's

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gonna happen? Then there is the awe of something. So

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when you have the fear of man, which is, oh no,

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what do they think about me? When you have the

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fear of losing, of what's gonna happen? When you have

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to you have to replace that fear with a different fear.

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This is where the scripture calls the fear of God.

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Here's how you replace these fears. One fear says, what what.

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Speaker 2: Am I going to do?

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Speaker 3: And what do they think about me? What if they

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don't accept me if I do this? Here's a better

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fear to replace. That is what if you spend your

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whole life being loved for someone you never were. I

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see your fear, I'll raise you a better one. What

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if I don't have what it takes? What if you do,

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but you were so afraid to try you never found out.

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Speaker 2: What if they think I'm weird?

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Speaker 3: What if your prayer worked and their family line was changed,

551
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but we don't know because you never did it. God

552
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is not asking you, oh, I'm just gonna take all

553
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these away. No, I want to give you a better fear,

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which is when you fear and you are in reverence

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of me. Not fear like you're terrified, not fear like

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oh God, he's gonna hurt me, but a fear that

557
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understands my dad can handle this.

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Speaker 2: There's a different type of this. I was talking. I'll

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never forget this.

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Speaker 3: I was having a conversation with Belle and Avia pastor Michael,

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the two daughters, and randomly they'll come over to our

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house after church, and I was wearing a hoodie and

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it said fear of God.

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Speaker 2: She's like, what does that actually mean?

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Speaker 3: And I was like, you know, how like if you

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in a troubling situation, like maybe something's going on, your

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fault is oh, if.

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Speaker 2: I go get my dad, this is going dad. I say,

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you know that feeling, but you also know when Dad

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saying Isabella.

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Speaker 3: You also know like, hey man, lock in, but you're

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not scared, but you are a little like, hey.

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Speaker 2: Let's lock in.

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Speaker 3: There's this beautiful place with God where you know you're loved,

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So you're not afraid in that regard, but you do

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understand he is God, and this is a beautiful place

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to understand of God.

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Speaker 2: Job learns this place of God in the Bible.

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Speaker 3: Job is complaining because God stuff's happening in his life,

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and he's like, God, why are you doing this?

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Speaker 2: Why are you doing that? Blah blah blah blah, And

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so Job kind of.

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Speaker 3: Starts firing back off at God, and God kind of

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just lets him do his thing, and then God kind

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of crosses over into the fear of God. Said, He says, okay, Job,

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real quick, brace yourself like a man. Where were you

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when I put Leviathan in the ocean? Where were you

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when I hung the stars in the sky?

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Speaker 2: Where?

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Speaker 3: And this is God flexing saying, hey, before you get

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out of a lineman start demanding stuff from me, just

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remind yourself that's my breath you got right there. I'm

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the one keeping your heartbeat right now. So just calm down,

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all right, We're gonna get out of here.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna close this thing down.

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Speaker 3: Here's what we're gonna do. Man's first fear. We'll shut

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it down. Go ahead and send the keys because we're

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gonna get out of here.

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Speaker 2: I'm serious.

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Speaker 3: What come on, man, y'all expecting me to be way

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too professional up here.

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Speaker 2: Y'all gonna really have to okay, Man's first fear. Adam

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and Eve are in the garden.

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Speaker 3: God creates everything, perfect, perfect, beautiful. They have purpose, not

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having to strive for anything, not having to make anything happen.

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Everything is perfectly provided for them where they are. And

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the Bible tells us that Adam and Eve. We don't

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get this directly, but it's an inference based off of

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what happens in Genesis chapter three. The snake comes to

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the woman, Hey, why don't you eat from that tree?

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Speaker 2: And the woman goes back and forth. She's like, I

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don't know.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna die if we touch it, which is interesting

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because God didn't say you'll die if you touch it.

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He said you die if you eat it. Which the

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thread of this is humans love to add on to

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what God said, and when you start adding on to

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what God said, it always gets you in trouble. That's

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just a separate little bit there.

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Speaker 2: She touches the apple.

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Speaker 3: The Bible tells us they both suddenly are aware that

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they're naked.

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Speaker 2: They've always been naked, but all of a sudden.

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Speaker 3: They take off running and they sew up fig leaves

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and cover themselves up.

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Speaker 2: The Bible tells us in Genesis three.

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Speaker 3: That Adam heres God walking in the cool of the day. Now,

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this is so interesting and the language is just beautiful

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here because the original.

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Speaker 2: Hebrew word is the same word for spirit. It's ruach.

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Speaker 3: And this word when the Bible says that the spirit

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of the Lord was hovering above the waters, it's the

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same word that means they hear the wind of God

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coming through the trees.

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Speaker 2: This is the language.

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Speaker 3: The garden starts rustling, and they can't see anything yet,

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and they don't feel anything yet, but they feel this noise.

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And here's what happens. What does your body start doing?

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Well before this moment, they would have ran to that noise.

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Why because fear is not a part of the picture

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at this point. Fear is nowhere to be found. So

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when the bushes start rustling, I know who's there. I

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know my father's there. I know I'm safe here. I

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know I'm secure here. But what does the Bible? The

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Bible says that they sowed fig lees and God.

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Speaker 2: Can't find them. Adam and Eve, where are you?

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Speaker 3: When God asked a question, he's not asking for himself

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he's asking for you.

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Speaker 2: Do you know where you are?

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Speaker 3: And the Bible says they come out and this is

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the first mention of the word fear in human history.

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I'm sorry God, I was. I was afraid because I

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was naked, and so I hid. Now, if I'm God,

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I'm thinking, thank God, I'm not God. But as I

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read the story, I'm thinking, what you mean, you afraid

656
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because you was naked?

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Speaker 2: You always naked.

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Speaker 3: Why of a sudden you always been naked, but all.

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Speaker 2: Of a sudden, now you're scared to be naked. Then

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here's what I realized.

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Speaker 3: And if maybe you were a little more locked in,

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I would explain the science to you, but we can't

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go there this week.

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Speaker 2: But it blew my mind.

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Speaker 3: I thought this was true based off my reading, praying,

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and studying of the scripture. Then I spent five hours

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studying science, and science confirms your brain understands your fear

668
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this exact same way. And here's the idea. Fear is

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what happens when your self awareness outpaces your God awareness.

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Speaker 2: Fear is what happens up until this point. They're not

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self aware, they're not self.

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Speaker 3: Conscious, they are naked and free, They're not insecure. They're

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not worried. They're not afraid of what people think. They're

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not afraid of how they look. What does Adam think

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about me? What does she think about me? Did I

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name this animal?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 3: Am I doing? They're not aware of that? Why because

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their self awareness is so low and their God awareness

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is so high that they can't even have time to

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think about themselves.

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Speaker 2: But when does fear show up?

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Speaker 3: Fear shows up when you start thinking about you more

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than you're thinking about God. So you start thinking, I

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can't raise these kids, How am I gonna do it?

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Speaker 2: And what happens if the thing goes out?

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Speaker 3: And what happens if the business doesn't work out, and

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what happens if I can't take it?

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Speaker 2: And what happens if they don't love me? And what

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happens if they leave?

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Speaker 3: And what happens is But when you will stop for

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one second and remind.

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Speaker 2: Yourself, I don't have to think about me. It's not

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my breath in my body.

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Speaker 3: This wasn't my idea, this isn't my church. These aren't

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my children, this isn't my plan. If it was up

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to me, I would have been dead and gone a

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long time ago. But thanks be to my God, who's

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keeping me alive, who's put breath in my body, who

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takes care of my children, who bottles up every one

701
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of my tears.

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Speaker 2: You want to know why you're afraid.

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Speaker 3: Is because you underestimating God and you're overestimating yourself. You're

704
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thinking about what you would do in this situation. And

705
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:50,680
let me tell your friend, you don't having to raise

706
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:53,240
the kids. That's why you're afraid, because.

707
00:33:53,039 --> 00:33:54,759
Speaker 2: You know you. I was having a friend with a

708
00:33:54,799 --> 00:33:55,480
conversation with a.

709
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:57,480
Speaker 3: Friend and we were talking about raising kids, and her

710
00:33:57,559 --> 00:34:01,839
kid is going to high school, and she said, because

711
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:03,599
I'm thinking about what I was doing when I was

712
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,880
that age, and if they're doing what I was doing,

713
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:10,719
we're all cooked. Please don't be doing what I was

714
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:12,400
doing when I was doing what I was doing.

715
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:21,679
Speaker 2: And that's what fear is. Fear is God says, start

716
00:34:21,679 --> 00:34:24,960
the business. And instead of thinking of.

717
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:30,840
Speaker 3: The fact that an eternal, infinite, not bound by omnipresent,

718
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:34,199
omniscient God is talking to you bowl of dust with

719
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:38,880
his lungs in it. Instead of thinking about that, you

720
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:41,400
think about, well, I hang out no money.

721
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:45,679
Speaker 2: Wait. Wait, the guy who.

722
00:34:45,559 --> 00:34:50,159
Speaker 3: Spoke the stars has taken an idea out of heaven

723
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:55,559
and handed it to a bucket of dust on borrowed

724
00:34:55,679 --> 00:34:59,159
breath who he saved because he wanted to when you

725
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:02,239
were not thinking about him. And you want to talk

726
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:05,960
about made up green pieces of paper that we've assigned

727
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,519
as how we do what we do or not? Oh

728
00:35:09,559 --> 00:35:12,599
my gosh, I think we've got an out of order. Hey,

729
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:14,360
I need you to go up and pray for that person.

730
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:16,440
But God, what if they think I'm weird?

731
00:35:17,679 --> 00:35:19,760
Speaker 2: Wait? Wait, wait, wait a second. That it can't be.

732
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:22,840
That can't be what we're thinking about. That can't be.

733
00:35:23,119 --> 00:35:27,400
Speaker 3: God can't be trying to somehow supernaturally speak to you

734
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:31,119
about someone you've never met and giving you a prophetic

735
00:35:31,199 --> 00:35:34,679
word or a word of knowledge from heaven that Susky

736
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:36,239
has opened up and.

737
00:35:36,119 --> 00:35:37,719
Speaker 2: Imparted into your spirit.

738
00:35:38,039 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 3: Go tell them, no matter what people say, they are loved.

739
00:35:41,559 --> 00:35:43,559
Speaker 2: But God, what if that's weird? And what if that's strange?

740
00:35:43,639 --> 00:35:46,639
Speaker 3: You have no idea that their parents spent their whole

741
00:35:46,679 --> 00:35:49,880
life tearing them down, and instead of having God use

742
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:52,559
you and passed through you and prove to you and

743
00:35:52,679 --> 00:35:55,119
them that He is real, we're over you're thinking, But

744
00:35:55,199 --> 00:35:57,960
what if it's weird? And what if it's strange, and

745
00:35:58,039 --> 00:36:00,719
what if I'm wrong? And if what if? What if

746
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:05,440
God is God? Let's go down that road for a second.

747
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:08,679
What if it's not an accident? What if it's not

748
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:13,880
just a happenstance. This is why it baffles me people

749
00:36:14,079 --> 00:36:17,639
arguing that the whole universe is there was a random

750
00:36:17,679 --> 00:36:20,360
explosion and your life is just chance.

751
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:23,519
Speaker 2: I will, let's let's go down that road.

752
00:36:23,559 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 3: I don't know about the whole God thing because the

753
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,320
seven days of creation, I don't. I'm not arguing that.

754
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:29,920
But you're telling me that your whole life is an accident.

755
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:35,079
It's just a random explosion, and you know, explosion monkeys us.

756
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:38,800
Speaker 2: That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. That's so dumb.

757
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:40,400
And I love you if you believe that, I do.

758
00:36:40,519 --> 00:36:43,840
I love you, and it's dumb. It's dumb.

759
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:47,960
Speaker 3: What if.

760
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:58,440
Speaker 2: Outside of time there was a God who.

761
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:00,519
Speaker 3: Was like, Okay, I got I gotta I got everything,

762
00:37:00,599 --> 00:37:03,280
or got the trees, I got the fish, I got

763
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:07,159
the But there's something there's something I need, There's something missing,

764
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:11,400
there's something missing where there's nobody to enjoy all of this,

765
00:37:13,679 --> 00:37:18,519
and I need to. What if he was thinking about

766
00:37:18,599 --> 00:37:24,760
you back then, you don't ever think about that, because

767
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:27,039
he's all knowing and he stands outside of time.

768
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:29,800
Speaker 2: Chance is three. He's thinking about you.

769
00:37:31,599 --> 00:37:33,719
Speaker 3: He starts with Adam, but he's thinking about you.

770
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:38,639
Speaker 2: And the whole story of man.

771
00:37:39,679 --> 00:37:45,079
Speaker 3: Is God trying to invite us into an impossible life

772
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:49,719
and us being so terrified of what the other created

773
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:51,519
piles of dust think about us.

774
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:56,239
Speaker 2: Come on, just do it. But what if they come on?

775
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 3: Just trust me, What if they come on, you can

776
00:37:59,039 --> 00:37:59,239
do it.

777
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:02,800
Speaker 2: I don't know if I can't. And God is begging

778
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:06,440
and pleading, just like.

779
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:08,559
Speaker 3: He did in a dangerous situation where there was a

780
00:38:08,599 --> 00:38:10,719
storm and.

781
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:15,639
Speaker 4: The disciples are on a boat and it's obviously dangerous,

782
00:38:16,679 --> 00:38:20,199
but someone in the boat realized I can be in

783
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:21,760
a dangerous situation.

784
00:38:22,599 --> 00:38:27,039
Speaker 2: But fear is a choice. And if I look out

785
00:38:27,079 --> 00:38:30,199
on the water and that man that called.

786
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:33,199
Speaker 3: Me when I was nobody says, step out of this boat,

787
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:35,280
what business do.

788
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:42,360
Speaker 2: I have sitting in this boat listening to you? And

789
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,800
here's the thing Peter always gets so much flack.

790
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:48,480
Speaker 5: Peter couldn't keep his eyes off Jesus. He couldn't keep

791
00:38:48,519 --> 00:38:50,280
his eyes on Gee. He didn't, he didn't. I mean,

792
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:51,960
if that's what it's a problem. You got to keep

793
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:56,239
your eye. That's the problem. You've you've never got out

794
00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:56,840
of your boat.

795
00:38:58,599 --> 00:39:00,760
Speaker 3: Who are you talking You've You've never gotten out of

796
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:02,719
a boat ever in your life.

797
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:04,920
Speaker 2: You've never don't come over here talking to me. You've

798
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:06,000
never gotten out of a boat.

799
00:39:10,159 --> 00:39:17,280
Speaker 3: And here's here's my plea is we will read this book,

800
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:21,880
believe this book, but then not live how the people

801
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:27,159
were reading lived. Think the book's broken, and leave your faith.

802
00:39:29,559 --> 00:39:30,599
Speaker 2: But you can't.

803
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:35,400
Speaker 3: Extract the message from the method. So you can't take

804
00:39:35,519 --> 00:39:39,880
out the boldness that Paul walks with when he says,

805
00:39:40,159 --> 00:39:43,039
before I was born, God chose me. You can't just

806
00:39:43,119 --> 00:39:45,719
extract that and put it on a T shirt and

807
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:48,199
not be willing to go to jail for what you believe.

808
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:52,079
And I'm not talking about, oh, it's proof that you

809
00:39:52,079 --> 00:39:53,719
love God because you go to jail. Know what I'm

810
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:57,159
saying is, if you're arguing with praying for a friend,

811
00:39:57,519 --> 00:39:57,880
you're a.

812
00:39:57,840 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 2: Little disconnected from what he meant.

813
00:40:02,519 --> 00:40:04,840
Speaker 3: If you're worried about what people are gonna think when

814
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:06,800
you say I'm gonna I'm gonna quit this and I'm

815
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:08,360
gonna step into this, that's crazy.

816
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 2: Why would you do that.

817
00:40:11,079 --> 00:40:18,760
Speaker 3: If if he's asking you to do it, just I

818
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:23,199
promise you it's worth it. I promise, I promise, I promise,

819
00:40:23,239 --> 00:40:29,679
I promise you don't have to be so afraid. So

820
00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:34,000
I'm twenty seven. I read it when we started. Somehow

821
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:35,960
I'm sweating so much. These glasses are fogging. I don't

822
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:40,960
even know how that happened. The Lord is my light

823
00:40:42,119 --> 00:40:49,079
and my salvation. So what am I afraid of? Here's

824
00:40:49,119 --> 00:40:49,599
what he's saying.

825
00:40:49,639 --> 00:40:53,239
Speaker 2: When it gets dark, I got a light, and when

826
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:56,719
I die, I'm with him. What I need to be

827
00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:57,159
afraid for.

828
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:03,840
Speaker 3: You know, that's the only really like ace car we got.

829
00:41:08,039 --> 00:41:11,880
The whole idea is supposed to be, we live so

830
00:41:12,079 --> 00:41:15,800
boldly because we know the thing that humans are terrified

831
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:18,880
of the most dying we ain't.

832
00:41:18,679 --> 00:41:19,280
Speaker 2: Got to be afraid of.

833
00:41:21,039 --> 00:41:23,920
Speaker 6: That's really supposed to That's the central idea of this

834
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:28,159
whole message. You being salvage the salvation of your soul

835
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:32,719
is supposed to produce boldness on the earth because you

836
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:33,519
know my.

837
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:37,000
Speaker 3: Eternity is secure, so I can live how I need to.

838
00:41:37,119 --> 00:41:40,159
Speaker 2: Right here, I prayer.

839
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:47,760
Speaker 3: For everybody is that whatever you have deemed too dangerous,

840
00:41:50,159 --> 00:41:52,320
whatever you have deemed too much of a risk.

841
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:58,639
Speaker 2: The thing you want to do but you're afraid to

842
00:41:58,679 --> 00:42:00,440
do because what.

843
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 3: People might think if you do it.

844
00:42:01,559 --> 00:42:01,880
Speaker 7: That thing.

845
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:07,840
Speaker 3: All I'm saying is is if you get out the boat,

846
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:15,400
we do have proof you can walk on water. We

847
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:19,400
do have proof. If you start the business, there's proof

848
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:24,039
it can work. If you work on your marriage, there's

849
00:42:24,039 --> 00:42:28,280
proof God can restore. If you share your faith, there's

850
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:32,239
proof God can use it. And I just don't want

851
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:35,760
to get to the end of my life with a

852
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:42,519
bunch of man I wonder when would have happened. If so,

853
00:42:42,519 --> 00:42:49,679
here's what I do. I'm gonna pray, and here's what

854
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:56,400
I'm gonna pray for. I'm gonna pray that God would

855
00:42:56,440 --> 00:43:02,679
allow us in the next seven days, next seven days too,

856
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:11,280
by any minuscule amount, become less aware of ourselves and

857
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:17,280
more aware of Him, just any point zero zero one percent,

858
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:22,599
if we could just a little bit less aware of

859
00:43:22,639 --> 00:43:28,039
our faults are fit and a little more aware of Him.

860
00:43:28,079 --> 00:43:32,400
And here's the thing. Your self awareness, or your awareness

861
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:36,719
in general, it grows by what you give your attention to.

862
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:40,719
So what I give my attention to is what I

863
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:41,639
become aware of.

864
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:44,440
Speaker 2: Me and a friend. We're joking.

865
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:48,119
Speaker 3: But the New York Knicks won the finals.

866
00:43:47,639 --> 00:43:53,960
Speaker 2: And his go next and his awareness.

867
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:56,159
Speaker 3: I don't know what happened to his, But his algorithm

868
00:43:56,760 --> 00:44:01,079
is only the videos of the eighteen easy crackhead Knicks

869
00:44:01,159 --> 00:44:05,679
fans that are beating up people. It is terrible, completely terrible.

870
00:44:06,559 --> 00:44:11,079
I ain't seen that. All I see is New y'all,

871
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:14,800
New y'all, like people are singing in the streets and flying.

872
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:20,800
But you know, your algorithm is just a reflection of

873
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:21,320
your attention.

874
00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 2: So there's also my friends algonam.

875
00:44:25,519 --> 00:44:27,440
Speaker 3: He's got videos of health and fitness and all these

876
00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:29,480
everything that I don't have, because when I give more

877
00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:30,239
attention to.

878
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:34,679
Speaker 2: It shows me more of your life. Works the same way.

879
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:39,280
Speaker 7: If you give more attention to God, you see more

880
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:42,960
of it. If you give more attention to His goodness,

881
00:44:43,119 --> 00:44:45,880
you see more of it. If you give more attention

882
00:44:46,079 --> 00:44:48,599
to hope, you see more of it. If you give

883
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:51,800
more attention to the grace of God, you see more

884
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:53,519
of it. If you give more attention to.

885
00:44:53,559 --> 00:44:57,280
Speaker 3: The generosity of God, you see more of it. This

886
00:44:57,320 --> 00:44:59,039
is why you can't trust everybody that tells you that

887
00:44:59,079 --> 00:45:01,639
the world is terrible and it's bad. And we're all cooked.

888
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:03,039
Speaker 2: That's what they're giving attention to.

889
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:05,840
Speaker 3: But as for me and my house, what I see

890
00:45:06,199 --> 00:45:10,039
is it's darker, and that means the light is even brighter.

891
00:45:10,079 --> 00:45:12,440
Speaker 2: There's never been a better time for the church to

892
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:12,920
stand up.

893
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 3: There's never been a better time for truth and goodness.

894
00:45:17,679 --> 00:45:21,960
Everybody's standing all over this room. I'm gonna pray for

895
00:45:22,039 --> 00:45:25,159
you that you will become more aware of God and

896
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:27,719
less aware of your self.

897
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:29,440
Speaker 2: Every head bow, every eye close.

898
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 3: Lord, Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you,

899
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:39,239
thank you for thinking about us, for thinking about us.

900
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:42,599
You think about us an eternal God, a gracious God,

901
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:44,320
a God with no start and no end.

902
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:45,840
Speaker 2: We are on your mind.

903
00:45:47,119 --> 00:45:49,480
Speaker 3: So much so that you invite us into your plan,

904
00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:53,039
so much so that you invite us into your plan

905
00:45:53,159 --> 00:45:55,519
and equip us and empower us for the plan.

906
00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:56,360
Speaker 2: You gave us.

907
00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:59,559
Speaker 3: Now what I'm asking, would you help us get our

908
00:45:59,599 --> 00:46:06,119
eyes off ourself and our eyes on you, Our eyes

909
00:46:06,199 --> 00:46:11,360
off our deficiencies and our eyes on you, Our eyes

910
00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:14,360
off our insecurities and our eyes on you.

911
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:20,400
Speaker 2: May we become more aware of you.

912
00:46:22,199 --> 00:46:24,159
Speaker 3: The every head bowed, every eye close. Before we get

913
00:46:24,199 --> 00:46:27,840
out of here, If you're in the room, and you've

914
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:30,639
never accepted Jesus as your Lord and savior. If you're

915
00:46:30,679 --> 00:46:33,320
watching online, you've never accepted Jesus as your Lord and savior.

916
00:46:33,559 --> 00:46:37,599
This is the ultimate moment of God awareness. It is

917
00:46:37,639 --> 00:46:41,559
you realizing I will always be afraid as long as

918
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:45,159
I'm the source of my strength. I will always be

919
00:46:45,199 --> 00:46:48,119
insecure as long as I am the source of my future.

920
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:50,239
But when you realize there is a God who loves you,

921
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:53,039
who cares about you, who has a plan for you, you

922
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:56,000
can surrender your life to his will. You can have

923
00:46:56,039 --> 00:46:59,159
a fresh start and a new source of hope.

924
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:00,480
Speaker 2: And his name is Jesus.

925
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:02,639
Speaker 3: If you want to accept Jesus today, in this room

926
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:06,440
or online, every every eye close, I'm gonna count to three,

927
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:08,239
and if you want to accept Jesus, I'm gonna ask

928
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:13,159
you to bravely, boldly raise your hand. It's a brand

929
00:47:13,159 --> 00:47:17,559
new start for you today. The Bible says that he

930
00:47:17,599 --> 00:47:20,880
who knew no sin became sin so that we might

931
00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:24,559
become the righteousness of Christ. I'm gonna count the three

932
00:47:24,599 --> 00:47:26,079
and if you want to accept Jesus as your Lord

933
00:47:26,119 --> 00:47:29,000
and savior, I'm gonna ask you to boldly raise your hand.

934
00:47:29,079 --> 00:47:29,960
One he loves you.

935
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:30,559
Speaker 2: Two.

936
00:47:30,719 --> 00:47:33,679
Speaker 3: Today is the day of salvation. Don't wait another day.

937
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:36,840
Three right now in this room online, shoot your hand

938
00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:40,840
up boldly, raise it high, don't apologize, don't worry about nobody.

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I got you, sister. I see you right here, right here,

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so proud of you. I got you a family right there,

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a mom and a son together.

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Speaker 2: Come on, what are we talking about? Beautiful?

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Speaker 3: I got you over here, brother, So proud of you,

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so proud of you.

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Speaker 2: I see you, sister, so proud of you.

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Speaker 3: Hey, everybody out loud, together as a family.

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Speaker 2: Let's pray together. Everybody say, Dear God, thank you for

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loving me.

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Speaker 3: I admit I've made mistakes. I need you save me,

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change me, transform me. I'm yours and Jesus same. I

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pray Amen. Hey, can we celebrate and cheer for people

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who just decided to give their life to Jesus. Hey, listen,

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if you just made that choice, best choice you could

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ever make. I would encourage you to text the word

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save to the number that comes up on the screen. Also,

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tell somebody, just somebody in your row. Hey, I raised

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my hand and it was me.

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Speaker 2: I don't even know.

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Speaker 3: I'm just new, but to tell somebody and if somebody

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tells you, here's the first rule, don't be weird.

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Speaker 2: Second rule, give them a hug, tell them you love them,

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encourage them. But we're so.

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Speaker 3: Grateful for you and so happy of what God is

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doing in your life. Hey, listen, over the next couple

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of weeks, I really believe God's gonna help us to

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walk out of fear and into a beautiful life, and

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so I would encourage you join us.

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Speaker 2: Every single week is gonna be amazing. But I want

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to take a moment.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna pray for you, and if you need prayer

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for anything at all, some of our prayer team is

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gonna be.

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Speaker 2: Up here at the front. There's nothing too big, nothing

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too small.

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Speaker 3: But we want to agree with you in prayer and

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just agree and believe with you for.

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Speaker 2: What you're believing for. But I worship team's gonna sink.

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You can feel free to stay in worship or you

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can head out. But got to thank you for who

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you are.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for your grace, for your love, for your mercy.

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I pray Lord Jesus that this week we will become

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more aware of who you are, your goodness and your grace.

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Speaker 2: It's in the beautiful name of Jesus.

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Speaker 3: We pray and everybody said, amen, Amen, Amen, we love you, we.

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Speaker 2: Love you, we love you. Thank you for joining us today.

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Speaker 1: If you said that prayer and accept it Jesus into

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your heart, it's the best decision you could ever make.

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We want to celebrate with you, and we have some

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tools to help you on your journey. Tech saved to

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