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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: So we're gonna jump into the message today.

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Speaker 3: If you got your bibles, open up your bibles to

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the Book of John. The Book of John, chapter number ten.

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Speaker 2: The Book of John. A little bit about John.

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Speaker 3: He's one of Jesus' disciples and he's a little prideful.

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You won't catch this unless it's in the nuance of

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how he writes. But in one of his stories, he's

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talking about him and a friend. We're running to get somewhere,

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and he talked about himself.

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Speaker 2: In the third person. He's like, but then the other

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disciple beat Peter to the tomb. But he's talking about himself.

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It's just random fact he'd be doing.

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Speaker 3: He calls himself the one Jesus loved, so he'd be

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in the joint.

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Speaker 2: He'd be like, yeah, you know, James.

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Speaker 3: Was there, Peter was there, The one Jesus loved was there.

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But you can't do that write in your own letter.

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That's crazy. John's the best. But John chapter number ten,

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Verse ten is going to kind of be our starting

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point today. If you got it, say I got it.

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If you don't, don't worry. We got you all right.

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Could you throw that up on the screen for me?

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John ten ten says, this funny story. Actually, I grew

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up in a church. My dad was a pastor. It

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was called Abundant Life Church, Abundant Life Christian Church. I

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don't know they had some more spiritual words in there,

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but this was the anchor verse. So John ten ten

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and the NIV, this is what it says.

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Speaker 2: He throw it up there for me. It says this,

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the thief.

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Speaker 3: Comes only to steal and kill and destroy.

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Speaker 2: But I have come that they may have life and

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have it to the full.

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Speaker 3: This is what Jesus is saying. He says, there's a

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thief and he's here to steal.

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Speaker 2: Stuff, to kill and destroy.

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Speaker 3: But the reason I showed up, the reason I'm here,

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the reason I stepped out of heaven and into human history.

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He explains, in these words, I came that they may

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have life and have it to the fool.

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Speaker 2: Look at the message.

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Speaker 3: Eugene Peterson, I was a professor. He kind of paraphrase it.

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This way, he says, a thief is only there to

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still kill and destroy. I have come so that they

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can have real and eternal life, and look at this language,

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more and better life than they ever dreamed of.

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Speaker 2: Jesus is setting some context here.

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Speaker 3: If you want to know why I showed up on

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the scene, why I stepped out of perfection and gold

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streets to relate to you.

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Speaker 2: Why I put on this flesh suit.

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Speaker 3: Why I had to deal with people that I was

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there when they were created.

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Speaker 2: Why I stepped out of heaven.

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Speaker 3: The reason I'm here today is just to let everybody know.

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He showed up so you could have more and better

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life than you've ever dreamed of.

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Speaker 2: That's the point. Why is Jesus here.

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Speaker 3: Jesus tells us himself in John Tinton, I showed up

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so you could have a better life than your dreams.

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So you wouldn't escape life to dream, but you would

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live your dreams while you're awake.

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Speaker 2: I gotta calm down. I'm not even supposed to be

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preaching yet.

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Speaker 3: Okay, the title of my sermon today, I'm taking notes.

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Speaker 2: Write it down.

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Speaker 3: Better than dreaming, better than dreaming, better than dreaming, better

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than dreaming.

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Speaker 2: Lord Jesus, we thank you that you are here.

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Speaker 3: You are here with us in this moment, and I

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pray that you would reveal yourself in a way that

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we cannot ignore, a way that changes us, a way

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that helps us see you differently, a way that changes

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how we see ourselves.

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Speaker 2: And Lord God, we love you. So you let me pray,

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and everybody said amen.

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Speaker 3: When we jump into John chapter number ten, Jesus talking

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to a religious group of leaders who are in summary,

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super lame. They're super lame. They think they're really cool.

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They've memorized a lot of the Old Testament, and they

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think because they.

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Speaker 2: Know a lot about God that they know God. But

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these are two different things.

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Speaker 3: You can know a lot about God and still not

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know God. How do we know this because they knew

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the most quote unquote and they killed him. They had

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the first five books in your Bible, they had that

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memorized since they were teenagers, and they still couldn't see

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God when he was walking around healing people doing miracles.

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So you can know about God and still not see God.

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But Jesus is talking to them, and the context of

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this scripture is Jesus heals a blind man and the

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Pharisees or.

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Speaker 2: These religious group leaders. They go and they.

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Speaker 3: Start interrogating the blind man. Why because they're not concerned

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with the miracle. They're more frustrated about Jesus's method of

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how he gets to miracles. This is something that still

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happens today, and I'm not gonna go on a whole

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rant with it, but people will be more frustrated with

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the method of how people get saved than the actual

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fact that five hundred and twenty four people are getting saved.

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Speaker 2: Still happens today.

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Speaker 3: They frustrated because Jesus, You're not supposed to do it

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like that. That's not how people are supposed to get saved.

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And so Jesus goes on this whole rant as he

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normally does.

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Speaker 2: He's kind of like.

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Speaker 3: Talking to the crowd, but he's also taking direct shots.

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Speaker 2: At all the Pharisees. It's very gangster of Jesus.

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Speaker 3: But he does this whole illustration about sheep and he's like,

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there's a sheep gate and I'm at the gate and

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other people are trying to get in the gate, and

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if you come and it's stuff that doesn't make sense now,

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but if you were a shepherd back then and you know.

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Speaker 2: It made a lot of sense. And here's the connection.

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Speaker 3: Have you ever, I don't know if you've heard the

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scripture of the twenty third song.

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Speaker 2: Some of y'all, you know, if you played any.

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Speaker 3: Type of sports in the two thousands, you probably have

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that tattooed on your.

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Speaker 2: Ribs or something like that. But it's like a very

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specific call. But somebody in here is like, dang it,

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I do.

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Speaker 3: But one of the things that starts out and says,

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the Lord is my shepherd. So when Jesus starts talking

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about he's the real shepherd, that he's the good shepherd,

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everybody in the crowd says, is he saying what I

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think he's saying. Everybody knows there's a connection that's deeper

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that's happening right now. He is making a claim to

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be somebody who we've been looking for for hundreds of years,

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and he's saying, yeah, I know you've been looking for him,

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but it's me.

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Speaker 2: Just make the pharise. He's very, very angry.

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Speaker 3: But then he backs up and he uses this verse

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verse number ten, and he says, the enemy or the

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devil with adversary, he has three goals in your life

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to steal to kill and destroy it. Now, I'm not

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gonna spend much time on the devil because he don't

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need no time and just a little bit of vice.

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Don't give the devil any of your time. It's a

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waste of your time to get him your time. It's

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just it don't make no sense. And some people love

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to be like, oh the devil, be quiet. The devil's defeated.

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Speaker 2: He's dead. He has literally no powers at all.

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Speaker 3: I don't give the devil the pleasure of even getting

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the opportunity to use my vocal course to talk about him.

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He just ain't that important. But for two seconds, let

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me explain.

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Speaker 2: This scripture to you.

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Speaker 3: Still kill and destroy here's the easy illustration. I went

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down the whole rabbit hole of the original language just

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to give it to you simply where you can understand.

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Still kill and destroyer is like these three steps. If

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Speaker 2: Password to your phone.

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Speaker 3: That was I stole your password, so now I have access.

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Nothing's changed, you don't know it, but I have an

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access point to something you desperately need. That's the steal

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to kill would be like if I went into your

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phone and I deleted all your apps in all your contacts.

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Speaker 2: So it's still a phone.

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Speaker 3: It looks like it functions, it turns on the same way,

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but there's something that is missing that is primary to

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its immediate fund and purpose. It was created destroyed after

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he does all that, your.

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Speaker 2: Phone is destroyed.

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Speaker 3: Not in the sense that it's crushing that got ran over,

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but it can't be used for its intended purpose.

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Speaker 2: This is what the devil tries to do to you.

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Speaker 3: So he doesn't start off with trying to destroy you completely.

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He starts off by just trying to steal a little

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bit of your connection and communication in your marriage. Then

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he kills your intimacy so that y'all still technically married,

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but there's no life actually happening in the middle of

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your marriage. So then he can destroy the ultimate purpose,

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which is for you to be a picture of God

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on earth. You still married, you still find you still

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look good on the outside. But he's stolen, he's killed,

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and he's destroyed. He is he's slow with He doesn't

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come out yelling at you in a red pitchfork and

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being like I'm here to take.

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Speaker 2: Your purpose, give it over.

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Speaker 3: That's why I be so interested Christians me sometimes man

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just begiving me because we be missing the plot. Sometimes

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we're like, oh, man, you watching that show you going

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to head there's demons and devils jumping off that TV

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into your soul. Maybe maybe I'm not saying there's not,

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but I'm saying when you when you stop being kind

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and you lose joy, you don't realize the Bible says

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the joy of the Lord is your strength. So if

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he can take your joy, you can't get stronger. So

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I'm just saying, you gotta be you gotta be aware.

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Speaker 2: Of the enemy's taxes.

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Speaker 3: He still kills and destroyers. But then Jesus he summarizes

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his whole mission and he says, the reason I am

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here is so you can have a better life than

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you've ever dreamed of. Now it's interesting to me, Jesus,

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does I mean, if I'm reading this scripture, I don't

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know what it's about to say Jesus like, this is what.

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Speaker 2: The enemy does.

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Speaker 3: Now I'm about to tell you why I am here,

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and I'm not going, Okay, here we go.

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Speaker 2: He's here to beat up the devil. He's here to

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make sure I go to heaven. He's here to.

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Speaker 3: Make sure I'm always healed. He's here to answer all

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my questions. He's here to do what I need him

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to do when I need him to do it. He's

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here to make me feel good here.

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Speaker 2: He doesn't say any of that. I'm here so you

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can have a good life. Now.

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Speaker 3: I know some of you are like, that's not spiritual enough.

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Speaker 2: That can't be that simple.

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Speaker 3: In today's time, where there's no peace, no clarity, full

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of anxiety, full of fear, full of worry, full of

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all these things.

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Speaker 2: I want to submit to you this morning.

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Speaker 3: The life that Jesus is presenting could be the most

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spiritual act ever, you having a better life than you

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could dream of.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 3: I get this because we are trained spiritually to want

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super deep like.

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Speaker 2: Stuff where we go, oh my gosh.

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Speaker 3: So when you just say, like Jesus here so you

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can have like a super fulfilling life, you're.

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Speaker 2: Like, what what does that? What does that mean?

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Speaker 3: I'm about to walk you through it here. But here's

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my submission today. When Jesus says I came that you.

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Speaker 2: Might have life and life to the full, the language that.

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Speaker 3: He's using is I am here so that you can

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have an exceeding and obnoxious, overflowing amount of fulfillment and

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satisfaction in your life. The word picture is like it's

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just an exorbitant amount, Like it's so much you cannot contain.

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pour on it for fifty years and then another fifty

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so much love, so much patience, so much peace in

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your life. He says, That's why I'm here, so you

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can have a full.

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Speaker 2: And satisfying life. What kind of life. Let's just start

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off with the fruits of the spirit.

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an exceeding amount of love, joy, and peace, an overflowing,

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obnoxious amount.

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know what to do with it. People bump into you

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and they feel love. People look at you and they

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just think, I don't know what that is. But I've

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never seen somebody that seemed to that present with me,

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that God showed up so that you could have more

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joy than you know what to do with. Not so

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you're scratching and clawing and fighting for these little moments

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where you kind of have peace.

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Speaker 3: I want the world to be following apart and you

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not think nothing of it.

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Speaker 2: Because you know who holds the future.

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and I know people in here are asking why am

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I following Jesus? And I still don't feel that way.

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I can have a lot of love, a lot of joy,

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a lot of peace, a lot of patience.

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and there.

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is it that the whole reason he showed up is

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something that we can barely seem to find.

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Speaker 2: I want to present to.

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Speaker 3: You today that you can live this life and it's

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easier than you think.

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Speaker 2: Okay, let me let me, let me, let me get.

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Speaker 3: Myself together here because I'm sometimes I have so much

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to say and it would just be too much.

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Speaker 2: Let me give you this point.

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Speaker 2: Write this down.

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Speaker 3: The fulfillment we seek is usually found in the action

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we avoid. The fulfillment we seek is found in the

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action we avoid.

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Speaker 2: Here's here's the whole sermon. I'm gonna give it to you, and.

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Speaker 3: Then I'm gonna prove it to you for the next

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twenty minutes, and then I'm gonna really prove it to

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you for the last Like ten. Okay, there is a

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difference between accepting grace and acting on grace. And you

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can live your whole life having accepted the grace of

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God but never acted on the grace of God.

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Speaker 2: And I want to present to you this morning.

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Speaker 3: The reason John ten ten feels like a such outlandish

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idea is because many of us live a significant amount

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of our life having accepted Jesus but never acted on

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the grace he gave us. What I mean, if I

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gave you one hundred million dollars.

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Speaker 2: You could accept it and never spend it. And this

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is what you would do. You would walk around like,

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sh I got a hundred million dollars and people be like,

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how much money?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 2: You was what you were checking your bank account? Siri,

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read to me my bank account number. They have twenty

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eight cents. No the other account. The other.

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prideful because you think that since you accepted it and

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it's in your account, you know how to use it.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm about to I'm about to get into it.

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Speaker 3: This is how we get spiritually obese, because oh, I

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was listening. I was listening to the sermon and it

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was so good. It really just spoke to my heart.

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this is if this has ever fault happened to you,

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I love you.

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Speaker 2: But here's what be happening.

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Speaker 3: Man, past a child, that was the best sermon you

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ever preached. Sometimes I'd be like, I don't know, but

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I appreciate it. I hear in the middle of church,

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we mean saying something, ooh that's so good man, I

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needed that. But just because you heard it and you

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felt it doesn't mean you did anything with it.

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Speaker 2: I'm not. I'm not.

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Speaker 3: I'm being super I'm super wool man, and I'm trying

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to keep.

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Speaker 2: It calm, kind and collected and confident. I'm going through

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my frame. Croc, come on, man, I'm locking in. Man.

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does that you do what Jesus did. It's very easy

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to watch your favorite preacher and say, man, that was good,

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and you never do nothing with what they said.

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Speaker 2: It's very easy. I'm saying it's very easy because I

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do it all the time. We'd be like, whooh man,

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Speaker 3: And sometimes I'll be saying to myself, don't tell me

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you love it. Show me you love it by changing

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something in your life.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, I really needed that. Tell me how much.

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Speaker 3: Show me how much you needed it by what you

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did differently on Monday because of what you heard on Sunday.

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is in the action we're avoiding. So we think that

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just hearing information and hearing people talk and hearing people

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pray is the same as actually doing it. But this

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is how you get this delta and this internal frustration

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because you feel like you should be further along because

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you got so many notes, and you got so many

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prophetic words, and you got so many revelations, and you

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have so much power written down in your phone.

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Speaker 2: But then you look at your life and you barely.

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Speaker 3: Got any peace, you barely got any joy, you barely

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got any love, and now you mad because it was

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like I was at church and I wrote it down

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and I felt the goosebumps, and they went to the

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chorus and they said, just y'all sing it, and I

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sang it, and I did.

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Speaker 2: It and I felt it. But I went to work

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and felt the same.

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Speaker 3: Maybe there's an opportunity to close the distance between what

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you've accepted and what you're acting on. Because here's the deal.

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Your life is not changed by the truth you accept

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to and believe. They are changed by the truth you

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accept and then act like you believe them.

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Speaker 2: There's a difference.

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Speaker 3: Your life is not changed by just accepting. There's a

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transformational thing that happens. Yes, but if you really want

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the full life here on earth, it's gotta show up

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in your actions. Because here's the deal. Accepting grace gets

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you into heaven. And let me just say this, if

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that's really you was all trying to get out of this,

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you good, You into heaven.

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seventy eighty ninety, well, however many years you got accepting grace,

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it secures your eternity and so if you're just trying

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to live like a super mediocre life and just make

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sure you make it into heaven, I don't.

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Speaker 3: So if you're just like Charles, I'm really only in

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here to secure my past so that when I die,

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i'm in the line. That's the only reason I come

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to church. That's the only reason I read my Bible.

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That's the only reason I pray, that's the only reason

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I give. That's the only reason I do anything. Is

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because I just didn't want.

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Speaker 2: To go to hell.

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Speaker 3: And so Jesus said that if I believed in him,

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then I'll go to heaven.

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Speaker 2: And that's really all I want. I don't really want

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the peace he has. I don't want the joy he has.

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to heaven, but still be anxious like all my friends,

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and be worried about the future, and just try to

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control my kids because I'm afraid.

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I'd love to fight with people in the comments, and

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I'd love to tear people down, even Christian people. I'd

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love to just keep tearing them down, and my friends

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look at my life and I say, I go to church,

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but then they don't see anything. And I'd love be

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trying to act like two different people, So like at

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church on Sunday, I'd love to show up and acting

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my life is great. But then I'd like the rest

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of my life just to do whatever the heck I

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want to, because all I was really concerned about was

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just getting into heaven.

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Speaker 2: But I don't want to really do any of like

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the stuff, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, because that's just it's a lot, and I just

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I really only have what time will you be done preaching?

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So I don't really know why I need to go

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to church if I got the.

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Speaker 2: Card into heaven? What do I need you for? What

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do I need church for? What do I need friends for?

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Why should I why? What does it matter who I

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have sex.

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Speaker 3: With or how I talk to people, or if I

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look my waiter in the eye.

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Speaker 3: Because I'm going to heaven and I got my cards,

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So I don't really know why you're telling me to

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read this book. I don't really know why you talk

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about these tribes and I got a text tribe to

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eight too, eight two eight two. I don't get it

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because I got my pass and I'm good and that's

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all I wanted from him. I'm not saying you say

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it like that, but I do know we all live

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it like that, because accepting grace changes your eternity, but

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acting on grace changes your reality. Accepting grace will get

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you into heaven, but you gotta act on grace if

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you want to get Heaven into you. Accepting grace will

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have you feeling good in a moment, but acting on

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grace is how the early Church started a movement.

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Speaker 2: There is a difference. If you're just here to come

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to church, check your box and feel good, that's cool.

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Speaker 3: But if you are here to see blind eyes opened,

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if you're here to see dead people walk out of tunes, if.

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holy holy.

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Speaker 3: If you're here to find purpose that the world can't

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give you. If you're here to walk on water, if

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you are here to see something different. Friend, you're gonna

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have to go from looking and observing and one day

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you're gonna have to act.

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Speaker 3: And this is how we have different experiences in our

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Christian walk, because we have some people that look like,

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how'd it be happening for them?

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Speaker 2: How they be hearing God so much?

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Speaker 3: How is because there is a step you can take

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to act on what you believe in.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna give you three three ways that you can

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act on grace, and I promise you'll change your life,

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not because I said it, but because the.

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and so he's got some.

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Speaker 3: Stuff to say about his brother, which if I was

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writing a book about my brother, I'd be just in

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there talking trash like, yeah, he is God and everything

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jump shot was broke.

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Speaker 2: Just throw some little jabs in there, okay.

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gonna read it to you out of the message.

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what this says.

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Speaker 3: Don't fool yourselves into thinking you're a listener when you're

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anything but letting the word go in one ear and

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out the other. Act on what you hear, go to

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the next one.

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Speaker 2: What does it say? It says those who.

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Speaker 3: Hear and don't act are like those who glance in

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the mirror, walk away, and two minutes later have no

481
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idea who they are or what.

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Speaker 2: They look like. Now, let me give you the go

483
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back to that one real quick.

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Speaker 3: So I'm gonna give you a little context on why

485
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that's important. Because mirrors weren't accessible like they are now.

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If you go back in that time, it was very

487
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rare for you to have a mirror. It was polished

488
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bronze that someone had to work hard, really really really

489
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intentional to get a little reflection.

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Speaker 2: So what the scripture is saying is if.

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Speaker 3: In this time, if you looked at a mirror, you

492
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had to stare at that thing for a long time.

493
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You had to intently look, you had to look at it.

494
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So and then you get a picture of yourself. And

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it says you spend all that time looking in the

496
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mirror and.

497
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Speaker 2: You walk away and forget. What does this tell me?

498
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Speaker 3: It's not ignorance, it's unwillingness.

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Speaker 2: It's not you unaware, it's just your they're unwilling.

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Speaker 3: So it's not that you don't know you're unkind of people.

501
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You just don't want to become kind because you looked

502
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in the mirror, you saw it, you saw it was there,

503
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and you said, you know what, I'm good, I'll be fine.

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Speaker 2: Oh goodness.

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Speaker 3: The next scripture, what does it say, but those who

506
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catch a glimpse of the revealed council of God, the

507
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free life, even out of the corner of his eye,

508
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and sticks with it, no distracted scatter brain, but a

509
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man or woman of action. Here's the connection to John

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ten ten. That person will find delight and affirmation in

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the action.

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Speaker 2: What you're looking for. It's in what you are avoiding

513
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doing right now. So the peace you're.

514
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Speaker 3: Looking for, it's in the action that scares you the most.

515
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It's in the thing that you won't do. It's in

516
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the thing that you're worried about doing. And it's so

517
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easy to get so much information around a thing and

518
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still not.

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Speaker 2: Do a thing. But I'm gonna give you three ways

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to act on the grace, because acting on grace works.

521
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Here's the first thing.

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Speaker 3: The first thing that acting on grace does is it

523
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works in me.

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Speaker 2: It works in me. It changes how I think.

525
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Speaker 3: When you go from accepting grace to accepting and then

526
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acting on it.

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Speaker 2: It starts to work in you.

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Speaker 3: The scripture that this church has founded on Romans twelve,

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it says, don't conform to the pattern of this world,

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but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. One

531
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translation says, by changing the way you think, so you

532
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can accept grace and still think crazy, perverted thoughts, crazy,

533
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just wow, I'm going to heaven. But everybody I see,

534
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I'm thinking the most ratchets stuff about because you haven't

535
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acted on the grace you've accepted.

536
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Speaker 2: When you act on it, meaning you.

537
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Speaker 3: Start saying, Okay, I don't want to just accept this,

538
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but I want to align my life to this. What

539
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does God say? What does his word say? Think on

540
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these things that are pure and right and holy and upstairs.

541
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When I start to act on his grace, it changes

542
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the way I think. And if you want to do

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something different, you're gonna have to think different. You're gonna

544
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have to think because you're doing will always revert to

545
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your thinking.

546
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Speaker 2: So you can try to if this is what we do.

547
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Speaker 3: Because I know back in the day you got saved,

548
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it was slam all your CDs, throw all your bad

549
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stuff and come on. So you alln't know about that,

550
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but I remember seeing some people they were smashing CDs

551
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at the altar, and that's how we.

552
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Speaker 2: Knew you were going to heaven.

553
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Speaker 3: I'm never listening to Guns n' Roses ever again.

554
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Speaker 2: Really, that's okay.

555
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Speaker 3: Maybe it's that simple, but because what we do is

556
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we maximize on doing something different. And I'm not saying

557
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you shouldn't do something different, but I'm saying, if the

558
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grace hasn't acted in you and it's changed the way

559
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you think, you being fake and what you're doing any ways,

560
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because you don't even really want to do it, and

561
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you're thinking about doing what you don't want to do

562
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while you're doing what you think you're supposed to be

563
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doing it, And that's why you frustrated. I'm trying to

564
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help you. This is why you.

565
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Speaker 2: Be like, I mean, I hate this is so dumb.

566
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I don't even want to be doing this. Why am

567
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I here?

568
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Speaker 3: Because you haven't changed how you thought about it. So

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when I accept grace, it empowers me to live a

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new life. When I act on grace, it's me drawing

571
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on that power to saying, God, help me stop thinking

572
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about me the way I think about me and.

573
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Speaker 2: What do you say about me?

574
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Speaker 3: So I feel unqualified, but you say that I am

575
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called a qualified and I have everything I need to

576
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live the life you've called me to live.

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Speaker 2: Let me remind myself of that every single day. I

578
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want to act on that.

579
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Speaker 3: I want to live that way, I want to talk

580
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that way. I want to see something different in my life.

581
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When you start acting on grace changes the way you think.

582
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And if you don't change the way you think. I

583
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already said it, but I cannot stress. This is why

584
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it can be so demoralizing trying to make progress in

585
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your walk with Christ because you haven't acted on it yet,

586
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you haven't moved into it yet. The next thing that

587
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the scriptures say is that if you want to act

588
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on grace, the way it works is it works in you,

589
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and then.

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Speaker 2: It starts working on you.

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Speaker 3: This is what you do and how you live, and

592
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how you treat people, and how you talk, and how

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you move and how you move through the world.

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Speaker 2: And here's what I am saying. I am saying you

595
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first say.

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Speaker 3: I want to accept the grace, but I want to

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act on the grace and I want that to work

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in me. And now I want to start changing how

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I live.

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Speaker 2: What do I mean?

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Speaker 3: I mean if the Scripture says that the fruit of

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the spirit, the proof of the spirit, the proof that

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God is with you, that you have surrendered your life

604
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to Him, is love when it starts working on you.

605
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The proof that you love Jesus more is not that

606
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you pray loud. It's not that you come to church.

607
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It's not that you know worship songs. The Bible says,

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it's your super loving.

609
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Speaker 2: That's how you know you're acting on the grace He

610
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gave you. Is you are super loving. You are super patient,

611
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super patient. Show up to get your food. It's late,

612
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:31,440
it's wrong, not even your order, and you're like, oh,

613
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:35,079
don't even worry about it. I got time, don't even

614
00:29:35,119 --> 00:29:36,799
I'm so sorry. We just we've had a busy day.

615
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Don't even worry about it. Don't even worry about it.

616
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Here's an extra tip.

617
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Speaker 3: But I didn't even get your order right, It doesn't matter,

618
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It's fine, don't Hey, you're doing a great job.

619
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Speaker 2: I see you. God loves you. Don't worry about it.

620
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Then you get in your car and it's traffic. Poof

621
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good thing. I don't live a hurried.

622
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Speaker 3: Life, and I got plenty of time to wait here

623
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and and.

624
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Speaker 2: Listen to some music. I can listen to a good thing.

625
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Speaker 3: That's the spiritual thing. That's what the Bible says. You're

626
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super joyful.

627
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Speaker 2: So you all, you have a smile on your face

628
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and you're a hap.

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Speaker 3: People look forward to being around you because of how

630
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much joy you have. That's the most spiritual thing.

631
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Speaker 2: The Bible says. Peace. You're peaceful.

632
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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, did you see the news? My answer

633
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is hearts of all. No, No, I didn't see it.

634
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I didn't, so sorry. I was too busy wrestling a

635
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:40,599
three year old and my friend's kid taught my son

636
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:43,279
how to do a chokehold, and so I'm wrestling. I'm

637
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waking up to a headlock in an armbar by a

638
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seven year old.

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Speaker 2: So no, I didn't see the news. Because the truth is,

640
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this is this is all the news I need to

641
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be concerned about. Now listen.

642
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Speaker 3: Please don't hear the reverse of that and be like, oh,

643
00:31:00,559 --> 00:31:02,440
you should just be ignorant. And no, no, no, no,

644
00:31:02,839 --> 00:31:08,039
I'm saying, I'm I know how much information I need

645
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:12,240
to act on and have peace in my life. And

646
00:31:12,279 --> 00:31:14,599
the truth is, some of y'all know a lot, and

647
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:16,559
it ain't doing nothing but making you anxious.

648
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:20,519
Speaker 2: You ain't doing nothing but get more worried.

649
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Speaker 3: It's not that you go to look at the news

650
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so you can intentionally pray and plan and pray. It's

651
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just so you can talk about it with your friends

652
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:29,680
and post about it and infight somebody, and then just

653
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be up late at night worried about, Oh my god,

654
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:31,759
we're all gonna die.

655
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Speaker 2: What's happening. I'm trying, my goodness, I want to run because.

656
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Speaker 3: I'm trying to explain to all of us that the

657
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most spiritual thing, the thing that changed the world, the

658
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way this went from one guy in twelve of his

659
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friends to thousands of people was an actual power that

660
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separated them from everybody else. And as long as the

661
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church looks exactly like the world, what business do they

662
00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:04,759
have coming here? Why in the world, why you should

663
00:32:04,759 --> 00:32:07,000
come to church with me? Why you're just talking about

664
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:08,599
how mad you are your spouse and you hate them?

665
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Speaker 2: You don't why?

666
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:12,359
Speaker 3: What? What do you you hate your spouse? You're rude

667
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:15,519
to your family. I never see you post all the time.

668
00:32:15,559 --> 00:32:19,079
I've never seen your wife. Where are they? We don't

669
00:32:19,079 --> 00:32:21,680
see your family? Your kids look at you and crouch.

670
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,519
Why in the world would I ever want what you have?

671
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 2: Oh, these people don't want God.

672
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Speaker 3: No, they don't want your version of God because you've twisted.

673
00:32:30,079 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 2: It so bad and he thinks they're mad at them.

674
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They want God. Let's be clear.

675
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Speaker 3: But if you don't ever do anything with this grace,

676
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long suffering, you keep a good attitude at a job

677
00:32:49,079 --> 00:32:53,039
where they mistreat you, that's how they know you got

678
00:32:53,079 --> 00:32:53,680
something different.

679
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Speaker 2: I'm faithful. I'm faithful. I do what I say.

680
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Speaker 3: When I say I'm gonna do so, I do it

681
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because I'm a faithful person. This is the I promise you.

682
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This is the life Jesus is talking about. You got

683
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a lot of love, You got a lot of joy,

684
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and a lot.

685
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Speaker 2: Of peace, patience, kindness, kindness.

686
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Speaker 3: I can't tell you how many friends I have that

687
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their story of why they don't mess with God is

688
00:33:29,759 --> 00:33:34,839
because a Christian was unkind. They have no problem believing

689
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that Jesus was God, no problem being interested in a

690
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God who gives them grace, mercy, and power to become

691
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and live the life they're dreaming of. What they have

692
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problem with is people who say they believe that and

693
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are rude to them.

694
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Speaker 2: For how they look. That's what they got problems with.

695
00:33:56,599 --> 00:33:59,480
Speaker 3: So if you are supposed to represent him, I can't

696
00:33:59,519 --> 00:34:02,559
get to hear through you. You seem like an obstacle

697
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:04,880
not helping me get there. So I would rather just

698
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:08,039
distance myself from your whole joint because y'all are so

699
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:11,760
mean and so judgmental, and you fight amongst yourself all

700
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the time.

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Speaker 2: I don't want that.

702
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Speaker 3: This is part of the rise of why people love

703
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:19,559
God and don't go to church.

704
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Speaker 2: This is a part of it because depending.

705
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Speaker 3: On what they wear, you're gonna look at them weird. No,

706
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:28,280
I won't you look at me weird?

707
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:32,159
Speaker 2: Sometimes? Get out of here. Why this child's gone on?

708
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:45,920
Speaker 3: I am I'm so serious right now.

709
00:34:46,199 --> 00:34:48,320
Speaker 2: I'm so serious because.

710
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Speaker 3: I have friends that I love so much, and to

711
00:34:51,039 --> 00:34:53,119
be honest with you, to be honest with you, this

712
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is not this is a reflection of my own work.

713
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Speaker 2: But I be nervous.

714
00:34:55,920 --> 00:35:00,280
Speaker 3: I'd be trying to control who they meet first, because

715
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:01,760
I know, if you meet the right person, this will

716
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:03,880
go good. But if you meet the wrong person, it'll

717
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:04,679
mess up all of this.

718
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:10,800
Speaker 2: And why do we gotta do that? Why can't we

719
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:12,239
trust that, like, oh, you could come in and you

720
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:13,679
could meet anybody. I could never be here.

721
00:35:13,679 --> 00:35:15,639
Speaker 3: You could go to a different church and be beautiful.

722
00:35:15,639 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 2: But I don't be thinking that. I'll be thinking, Okay,

723
00:35:17,599 --> 00:35:18,360
just come on.

724
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:19,960
Speaker 3: This day, and I need you to insu this friend

725
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:21,960
that's super kind, and I need you to insuce this other

726
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:23,760
friend that I know will be patient with you. And

727
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:25,400
I need to make sure there's nobody around that's gonna

728
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,239
look at you weird because you're still trying to figure

729
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:30,880
some stuff out, and so just and that's because that's

730
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:31,400
the story of.

731
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:32,599
Speaker 2: The church for a long time.

732
00:35:36,199 --> 00:35:38,599
Speaker 4: It's because we've accepted all this grace, but we are

733
00:35:38,639 --> 00:35:44,599
not acting like the guy we're supposed to represent. I

734
00:35:44,639 --> 00:35:47,960
have a friend, his name is Alec, and he's a

735
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,480
cyclist and.

736
00:35:49,519 --> 00:35:51,599
Speaker 2: And he was in town this past week. He lives

737
00:35:51,639 --> 00:35:52,119
in Canada.

738
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:55,559
Speaker 3: There is a race and when I got into cycling,

739
00:35:56,280 --> 00:36:00,199
I immediately found like all the coolest racing teams in America.

740
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,519
And one thing they do is they they sell like

741
00:36:03,519 --> 00:36:05,599
their jerseys, and so I immediately was like, I'm buying

742
00:36:05,639 --> 00:36:07,760
all the dopest stuff. So I got like, I had

743
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:09,400
no idea what I was doing, but I showed up

744
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:10,920
and the first ride I went to.

745
00:36:11,079 --> 00:36:12,960
Speaker 2: Everybody thought I raced for this team, and.

746
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,199
Speaker 3: I was like, oh no, no, I just I just bought

747
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:19,719
the jersey online. And so we had a race this

748
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:21,639
past week and I had on one of these guys

749
00:36:21,679 --> 00:36:23,519
there's a team out of London and they're so sick

750
00:36:23,559 --> 00:36:24,280
and so dope, and.

751
00:36:24,199 --> 00:36:24,719
Speaker 2: So I showed up.

752
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:26,400
Speaker 3: I had the jersey on, and my friend Alec was

753
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:28,480
there and he's a pro cyclist. And so when I

754
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:31,679
showed up, all these people who normally don't they ever

755
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:33,360
talk to me, they like rolled up.

756
00:36:33,559 --> 00:36:36,639
Speaker 2: And they're like yo, hey, bro like, and they were

757
00:36:36,679 --> 00:36:38,119
talking to my friend Alec and they're like, what are

758
00:36:38,119 --> 00:36:39,440
you doing here? And he was like, oh, I'm here

759
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:41,159
for my boy Charles bl blah blah blah. And then

760
00:36:41,159 --> 00:36:43,199
they were like, oh what up, bro like and the.

761
00:36:43,199 --> 00:36:46,039
Speaker 3: Man get out here. But uh, I've been here for

762
00:36:46,039 --> 00:36:47,119
six months. You never said nothing to me.

763
00:36:49,679 --> 00:36:52,239
Speaker 2: But but this is this is funny. I'll promise it's

764
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:52,840
gonna make sense.

765
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,679
Speaker 3: I get I get in the race and it's like

766
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:59,000
forty or fifty guys and I'm locked in and then

767
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,360
at like five life laps to go, so maybe like

768
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:05,719
fifteen minutes we've been going twenty eight miles an hour

769
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:10,039
in a mile loop for an hour, and my heart rate,

770
00:37:10,119 --> 00:37:13,239
I'm not lying to you, was two o two. My

771
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:19,320
heart rate is like what? And literally another guy attacked

772
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:20,920
and went and it was like five of us all

773
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:22,719
the way down to the end, and I just didn't

774
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:22,960
have it.

775
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:24,760
Speaker 2: At at five laps to go, I just gave up

776
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:25,360
and pulled off.

777
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:27,199
Speaker 3: The road and rolled up to Alex and Alec and

778
00:37:27,199 --> 00:37:28,840
he was he was like, bro, what happened?

779
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:30,679
Speaker 2: And I was like, man, I just didn't have it.

780
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:32,480
I just didn't have it. I just completely gave up.

781
00:37:32,639 --> 00:37:34,440
And he's here's the funny connection.

782
00:37:35,679 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 3: I got home and I took off the jersey and

783
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:42,199
I thought, this is why people don't be liking when

784
00:37:42,199 --> 00:37:44,000
you roll up in a jersey that you can't.

785
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:49,280
Speaker 2: Back up so lot.

786
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:52,599
Speaker 3: I thought that because I showed up wearing this jersey,

787
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:58,000
and here's the connection, people thought that meant something about

788
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:01,719
my heart cycling It's all about your heart rate, because

789
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:02,960
if your heart rate gets to a certain point, it

790
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:04,679
don't matter how strong you are, you just can't go

791
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:08,360
with everybody else. So they saw me on the outside

792
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:11,360
and I look clean, and I looked like I was

793
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:13,960
about to win. But the truth is, when it came

794
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:19,519
down to it, I didn't have anything to offer. No lie,

795
00:38:19,559 --> 00:38:21,280
I told Alex. I was like, bro, I put I

796
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:23,400
took all the jerseys, all my dope jerseys.

797
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:24,880
Speaker 2: I put them. I put them away. I'm not wearing

798
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:29,199
them until I get stronger. I felt so embarrassed. There's

799
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:30,760
none of those people. Literally at the end of the race,

800
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:32,920
they're like, what happened, man? I was like, my leg

801
00:38:33,039 --> 00:38:37,880
really uh? It was immediately started lying, you know, a cramp.

802
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:39,320
Speaker 3: You know. I got hit by a car actually in

803
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:42,280
twenty twenty four, So my hip kind of acts up

804
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:46,760
when I really get going. It's always good to have

805
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:48,239
that that really did happen to me, so I can

806
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:49,079
pull that up as an.

807
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:50,159
Speaker 2: Excuse at any moment.

808
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:53,199
Speaker 3: What happened, Well, I got ran over by a reindeer,

809
00:38:53,239 --> 00:39:03,760
so it's kind of weird. Here's my closer I today,

810
00:39:04,679 --> 00:39:06,360
Acting on grace works in you, works on you, and

811
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:08,480
then and then the most beautiful thing is it starts

812
00:39:08,519 --> 00:39:12,079
to work through you. It starts to work through you.

813
00:39:12,159 --> 00:39:15,599
It starts to work through you, meaning the people around

814
00:39:15,679 --> 00:39:22,599
you start to realize there's something different about you. There's

815
00:39:22,599 --> 00:39:25,360
something I don't know what it is, but there's something.

816
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:31,880
They just seem like there's something different about them. It's

817
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:36,320
just kind of how they I don't know, but there's something.

818
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:39,599
And how they talk there's something, and how they they look.

819
00:39:39,639 --> 00:39:44,119
They're always excited to see me. I know, we be

820
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:46,440
at work and the boss be yelling, but they don't

821
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:53,360
seem to get worked up. There's something different because you

822
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:56,119
accepted his grace, but now you're trying to act on

823
00:39:56,199 --> 00:39:59,639
his grace and you wanted to show up in your life.

824
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:03,800
And all I'm saying this morning is my most beautiful

825
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:08,719
moments with Jesus have not happened in this church in

826
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:13,760
a building. They've happened when I was outside of the

827
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:18,199
church trying to act on.

828
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:18,719
Speaker 2: What I've accepted.

829
00:40:20,119 --> 00:40:23,679
Speaker 3: It was in the function of telling my friends about

830
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:27,440
God and that I was anxious and depressed, and He

831
00:40:27,679 --> 00:40:31,440
did something about it then, like really, I was like, yes,

832
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:33,519
And you don't have to be if you don't want

833
00:40:33,519 --> 00:40:35,360
to be anxious anymore, here's the cool thing you don't

834
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:35,719
got to be.

835
00:40:37,159 --> 00:40:38,159
Speaker 2: And I'm like, well, what I gotta do.

836
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:40,239
Speaker 3: All you gotta do is you just talk to God

837
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:42,840
and you there's a thing called prayer, and when you pray,

838
00:40:43,039 --> 00:40:44,280
it's like you trade all your.

839
00:40:44,199 --> 00:40:48,400
Speaker 2: Anxiety and just gives you peace. Well, what I gotta do?

840
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:50,559
Speaker 3: Nothing really, just you just every day. You just got

841
00:40:50,559 --> 00:40:53,840
to learn how to keep giving it to him. Really,

842
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:55,880
that's yes, that's the Oh my god, it's the best.

843
00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:59,480
And then when you get overwhelmed, you remind yourself that

844
00:40:59,679 --> 00:41:02,079
like he he's in control anyways, and.

845
00:41:02,039 --> 00:41:03,119
Speaker 2: You didn't get yourself there.

846
00:41:03,159 --> 00:41:05,880
Speaker 3: And it's like when you get super pressurized, you remember,

847
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:07,599
like he's got a plan that's so much bigger than

848
00:41:07,599 --> 00:41:07,960
my plan.

849
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:11,880
Speaker 2: And what in the world isn't so great? It's been

850
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:12,599
an acting.

851
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:17,840
Speaker 3: It's been acting and out where it shows up around.

852
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:22,920
Speaker 2: And it shows up through my life. We're about to

853
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:27,519
get out of here. And my prayer is that.

854
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:32,280
Speaker 3: If you have ever felt that way, he felt like, man,

855
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:33,239
I'm following Jesus, but.

856
00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:39,920
Speaker 2: I don't feel fulfilled. My encouragement.

857
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:44,280
Speaker 3: Is to take one truth about Jesus that you've accepted.

858
00:41:47,039 --> 00:41:54,000
Maybe he's a healer. Maybe you've accepted that he gives

859
00:41:54,039 --> 00:41:58,000
second chances. Maybe you've accepted that he's a friend that

860
00:41:58,079 --> 00:41:59,239
sticks closer than a brother.

861
00:42:00,199 --> 00:42:04,280
Speaker 2: Maybe you've accepted that he gives peace in the middle

862
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:05,880
of the storm.

863
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:08,840
Speaker 3: Maybe you've accepted that he's a strong tower and those

864
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:11,719
who run in are safe. Maybe you've accepted that the

865
00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:14,800
Gospel can change your heart. Maybe you've accepted what I

866
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:16,840
don't know what it is for you, but one truth

867
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:20,119
you've accepted, and this week.

868
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:23,239
Speaker 2: I want you to spend the whole week acting on

869
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:24,039
that one truth.

870
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:30,039
Speaker 3: So if God is a healer, what would I be

871
00:42:30,079 --> 00:42:31,760
doing in my week differently than I don't.

872
00:42:31,559 --> 00:42:37,519
Speaker 2: Do right now? Oh that's a dangerous that's.

873
00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:43,519
Speaker 3: A that's a dangerous that's a dangerous Christian right there?

874
00:42:44,519 --> 00:42:46,000
Speaker 2: If I knew God.

875
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:49,159
Speaker 3: Healed anybody, anybody's sick in here?

876
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:54,119
Speaker 2: Anybody not feeling good? Is there anybody who doesn't? You're good,

877
00:42:54,159 --> 00:42:56,280
You're fine, you're hippis? Or what is it? What's what's

878
00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:58,480
hurting right there? Oh you're left? Okay, your left?

879
00:42:59,559 --> 00:43:02,639
Speaker 3: This is because that sounds crazy. But that's the thing

880
00:43:02,679 --> 00:43:04,719
you'd be shouting about in the book is that they

881
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:05,559
walk past.

882
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:08,840
Speaker 2: People and their shadows healed people. So if we're trying

883
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:11,079
to live like that, you can't just read himok. Wow,

884
00:43:11,119 --> 00:43:12,800
that's good. You gotta walk out.

885
00:43:12,599 --> 00:43:14,320
Speaker 3: And be like, oh, man, if I see somebody who

886
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:15,000
ain't feeling good.

887
00:43:15,119 --> 00:43:16,360
Speaker 2: I promise you, I'm about to pray for.

888
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:20,599
Speaker 3: Them so fast because I'm trying to act on what

889
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:25,000
I've accepted. If you knew that God could give peace

890
00:43:25,079 --> 00:43:27,480
in the middle of the storm, how would you be

891
00:43:27,599 --> 00:43:29,800
talking to your family that you ain't talking to him

892
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:34,480
like right now? If you knew that God had the

893
00:43:34,599 --> 00:43:37,320
whole world in his hands and he had a plan for.

894
00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:40,239
Speaker 2: Your child before you knew them, he knew them.

895
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:43,519
Speaker 3: How would you talk to your kid if you knew

896
00:43:43,519 --> 00:43:45,719
God had them and they're okay, and He's got a

897
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:48,199
perfect plan for their life, and he's gonna protect them,

898
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:50,360
and he's gonna keep them, and he's got more than

899
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:52,599
enough grace for every mistake they'll make.

900
00:43:52,599 --> 00:43:54,760
Speaker 2: And he's gonna keep them. And I'm gonna raise them

901
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:57,559
in the way they should go. But I trust my God.

902
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:01,239
How would you raise your kids if you were acting

903
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:03,719
on what you said you've accepted.

904
00:44:06,599 --> 00:44:09,960
Speaker 3: How patient would you be if you knew that He's

905
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:12,360
a God that gave mercies new every morning?

906
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:20,199
Speaker 5: How would you talk to yourself differently? If you knew

907
00:44:20,199 --> 00:44:27,840
God was pleased with you. He's pleased with you, He's

908
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:33,639
pleased with you. If you acted on that. How would

909
00:44:33,639 --> 00:44:36,119
you show up? What type of husband would you be?

910
00:44:36,159 --> 00:44:37,559
What type of wife would you be?

911
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:40,440
Speaker 3: If you and this is where I'm saying that John

912
00:44:40,519 --> 00:44:42,880
ten ten life, it's in that.

913
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:50,039
Speaker 2: It's in the action that we sometimes avoid.

914
00:44:51,199 --> 00:44:58,760
Speaker 3: Every head bow, every eye closed, two groups of people.

915
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:03,360
If you're in here or under the sound of my voice,

916
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:09,440
you're watching this, you're listening to this, and the idea

917
00:45:09,639 --> 00:45:15,320
of that super fulfilled life like tons of joy, tons

918
00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:18,360
of peace, and overwhelming sense.

919
00:45:18,119 --> 00:45:20,360
Speaker 2: Of gratitude and love.

920
00:45:21,159 --> 00:45:23,679
Speaker 3: If that feels really far away, it feels a distant,

921
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:26,559
it feels like, man, I experience that sometimes but not

922
00:45:26,639 --> 00:45:27,159
all the time.

923
00:45:27,199 --> 00:45:31,880
Speaker 2: But I want that life. If you're in here and.

924
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 3: You want to try to take the step of acting

925
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:41,079
on grace, you want to see what this book talks

926
00:45:41,079 --> 00:45:41,800
about show.

927
00:45:41,639 --> 00:45:45,880
Speaker 2: Up in your real life. Every head bout, every eye close.

928
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:50,000
Speaker 3: You're saying, I want to act on grace more. If

929
00:45:50,039 --> 00:45:52,320
that's you, I'm gonna ask you just to slip up

930
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:52,559
your hand.

931
00:45:52,559 --> 00:45:56,800
Speaker 2: I want to say, I pray for you.

932
00:45:53,519 --> 00:45:58,599
Speaker 3: You want to act on grace more? God, you see

933
00:45:58,599 --> 00:46:04,960
our hands and we want to be stuck saying we

934
00:46:05,039 --> 00:46:11,840
believe something that we haven't done. Help us to do

935
00:46:13,039 --> 00:46:16,840
what we have confessed to believe. Help us to be

936
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:22,920
people who have faith that moves past just a moment

937
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:29,079
and shows up in our action. God, would you change

938
00:46:29,079 --> 00:46:29,760
the way we think?

939
00:46:31,679 --> 00:46:34,480
Speaker 2: Would you help us change the way we think? Would

940
00:46:34,519 --> 00:46:35,960
you help us change.

941
00:46:35,679 --> 00:46:37,880
Speaker 3: How we think about ourselves, think about our friends, think

942
00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:38,679
about our family?

943
00:46:41,159 --> 00:46:42,840
Speaker 2: Would you help us to act on your grace?

944
00:46:44,679 --> 00:46:48,639
Speaker 3: Every hand down, every head still bowed, everybody is still close.

945
00:46:49,039 --> 00:46:52,119
If you're in here, there's a beautiful first step you

946
00:46:52,159 --> 00:46:55,760
can take, and that is to accept the grace. And

947
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:57,719
the good news is that's really your only part in

948
00:46:57,719 --> 00:47:00,960
this puzzle is to accept. You ain't got to work,

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you ain't got to strive, You ain't got to pretend,

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you ain't got to prove it. You accept the grace

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of God. Last weekend we celebrated Easter, and the story

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of Easter is the good news of the Gospel. And

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here's the good news. The good news is God has

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paid for all the mistakes you have ever made, will

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ever make, and have thought about making.

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Speaker 2: He's already paid the price. So why does he have

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to pay the price.

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Speaker 3: Because it's clear when we sin, when we make a mistake,

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there's a cost associated with it. Just like if you

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make a mistake or you lie in a relationship, it

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strains the relationship.

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Speaker 2: That is a cost. And Jesus died on a cross to.

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Speaker 3: Pay the ultimate price for our sin so that we

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have to live in shame, that we don't have to

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live in guilt, that we don't have to live under

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pressure and performance, but we can live under his grace.

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And if you're in this room, or you're watching online,

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or you're listening to this, this is the moment where

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your life will change forever if you want to accept Jesus.

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And I'm not talking about no fake get into Heaven card.

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Speaker 2: I'm talking about I.

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Speaker 3: Want my life to look radically different. I want peace

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and I want an abundance of it. I want love

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and I want an abundance of it. I want joy

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and I want all of it. I'm not talking about

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settling for pretending and raising your hands and doing just

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the bare minimum. I'm talking about you are sick of

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your old life and you want a brand new start.

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Today this is your moment. This is what Jesus is about.

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He's always loved you, he's always been there for you,

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and today is that day. If you want to accept

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Jesus as your Lord and savior. I'm about to count three.

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And when I count to three, if you want to

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make that decision, I want you to raise your hand. Now.

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Speaker 2: Here's why you're gonna raise your hand.

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Speaker 3: You're not raising your hand for anybody else around you.

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You're raising your hand to let your mind, your soul,

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and your body. No, I don't just feel this on

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the inside, but I'm gonna act on it on the

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outside because I know that this is a faith about action.

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So if you want to accept Jesus as your Lord

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and savior, I'm gonna counter three. Then you're gonna raise

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your hand.

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Speaker 2: One. He loves you.

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Speaker 5: Two.

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Speaker 2: Today is the day of salvation. Do not weigh another day.

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Speaker 3: Three, right now, in this room and online, lift your

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hand if you want to accept Jesus.

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

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so proud of you, so proud of you. A family

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back here together, right here on the front road.

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Speaker 3: I see you, so proud of everybody here online, everybody

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out loud.

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Speaker 2: Would you pray out loud.

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Speaker 3: Together, everybody repeat after me, say Dear God, I love you,

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Thank you for loving me. Dear Jesus, I admit I've

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made mistakes, Save me, change me, make me new, and

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your name.

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Speaker 2: I pray. Amen.

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Speaker 3: Hey, can we celebrate people who just made that choice.

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Speaker 2: So proud of you. Hey, listen, here's a couple of.

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Speaker 3: Things before we get out of here, and just a moment,

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our worship team is gonna sing and we're gonna have

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some team members come up down to the front. If

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you need prayer for anything, nothing too big, nothing too small.

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Speaker 2: You need prayer for anything in your life or.

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Speaker 3: Something powerful that happens when we pray. Some of you,

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maybe you gotta head out. You're gonna grab your kiddos

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and have but maybe some of you're gonna stay. Our

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worship teams just gonna lead us in worship. The Bible

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says that God inhabits the praises of his people. Something

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beautiful can happen there. But I want to encourage you

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to join us for family dinner tonight if you have

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space and time. And then the last thing, if you

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gave your life to Christ, let us know. Text the

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word saved to the number on the screen and you

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can scan the QR code.

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Speaker 2: But we're so proud of you, Lord God. I thank

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you for today. I thank you that this week we

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are acting on what we believe.

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Speaker 3: We thank you for your grace, for your love and

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your mercy. It's in the beautiful name of Jesus we pray,

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and everybody said amen, Amen.

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Speaker 1: Amen, thank you for joining us today. If you said

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that prayer and accept it Jesus into your heart, it's

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the best decision you could ever make. We want to

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celebrate with you, and we have some tools to help

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you on your journey. Text saved to A two eight

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two eight two and to find out more about TC

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text connect to A two eight two eight two. Be

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sure to subscribe and share this podcast with your friends.

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Thanks for listening. Now go out out and live a

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transform life.