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We're going to continue talking about Word of Life's Vision.

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And this is message number five, and I think we might be over halfway with this one.

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We'll see. But we've covered a fair amount of ground.

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This morning I want to deal with assignments and mandates,

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and then short, intermediate, and long-term vision,

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and kind of throw that in the mix, get us thinking about that.

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So with that in mind, of course, for the next few Sundays, as you heard in announcements,

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we're going to be off this for Palm Sunday and Resurrection Sunday.

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We're not going to be dealing with this.

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Then the following Sunday, Igor and Anthony are here.

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So it'll be the 14th of April before I get back to this.

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So kind of keep that in mind.

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If you have your book turned to page 27, that's where we'll be starting this morning.

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And I want you to show that chart that's on the handout.

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Now, with the book is supposed to come this handout.

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If that didn't come with, the guys are going to come back around and get that to you.

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I found it after the book was put together.

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We'll put it in the next one, the next set.

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But I found it afterwards, and it's a good summary.

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So I wanted everyone to have it, so you'll have to get it in handout form.

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So if you just got a book, put your hand in the air and they'll come by and give you this handout.

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But I want you to see that chart.

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The chart, you have a handout up there someplace on your computer.

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And I want to be able to show that and have you see that.

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And also, when you get a chance...

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Well, I probably shouldn't bother her with this until she's done.

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Let's see if she can find the chart.

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Because the chart kind of explains what we've been dealing with to this point.

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Remember, every Christian church has the same purpose.

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We're all supposed to be doing the same thing.

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Where we differ is in our sub-purpose.

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Our purpose is what we're supposed to be doing.

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Our sub-purpose as a church is how God uses us to do that.

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And it's the same thing with us as Christians.

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We're all supposed to be doing the same thing.

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Promoting and advancing the kingdom of God.

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How I do that compared to how someone else does that is going to be different.

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That's okay. That's called the body of Christ.

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Not everybody's a left hand.

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And the left hand works differently than the right.

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Or at least it's supposed to.

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So that whole concept of how God uses, I said the last time I believe,

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I said God custom builds everything.

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He doesn't have two the same of anything.

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Everything in creation is different.

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How He can take a little area on the front of our head

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and change it 8 billion times.

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Is amazing.

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That's just those living right now.

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We're not counting all those in history.

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So God custom builds everything, including His churches.

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We're all supposed to be doing the same thing.

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That's our purpose.

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How we do it, our sub-purpose, that's unique.

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There we go. I knew you'd come through for me.

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So now that you've got that up there, I'll give you the next thought.

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I want people to be able to text in any questions or whatever they have.

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So once this comes down, could you put the phone number back up for a bit

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in case they need that.

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We talked about core values last Sunday.

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General purpose does not change.

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As we go into goals, the reason a church is here, the church is here,

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the reason Christians are here doesn't change.

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It doesn't change from generation to generation.

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It stays the same all the way through.

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Very unchangeable.

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Sub-purpose obviously changes person to person, church to church,

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but that too is supposed to be fairly stable.

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Core values never change.

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And we talked about them last Sunday.

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The things that keep us on the...

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Let's say it this way today.

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The things that keep us on the narrow path, the narrow road, never change.

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They won't change next generation.

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They didn't change from five generations ago.

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They're the same.

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The word of God remains the same.

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So the core values, which keeps an organization going the right direction,

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never change.

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We talked about those last Sunday.

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Assignments and mandates change.

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They're transitional.

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They come and go.

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You fulfill them and then you go on to a new one.

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So they come and go.

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And all this works in with the...

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Come on, the goals.

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Come on, Brian.

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Brain kick in.

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It's time.

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They work in with the goals, which I want to talk about this morning.

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But we'll start on page 27.

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And this is going to be easy.

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Word of life vision.

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There's a whole bunch of pages here.

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You can all read.

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We're definitely not going to go through all this.

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I just want to give you the heart of it.

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Letter A, vision begins in the heart of one person

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and will spread to others from that one.

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That is the scriptural way.

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You don't find in Scripture God ever looked for a committee

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to start something.

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He never looked for a group of people.

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God looks for one person

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and will light the fire in them

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and then others who have the same fire

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get drawn to that one

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and, you know, everything in the Old Testament,

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the judges, he never had a committee for a judge.

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When he told Gideon to go do his thing,

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he looked for Gideon.

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He didn't look for five guys.

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He looked for Gideon.

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When he needed an ark,

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he didn't look to the church

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or their church of that day to build an ark.

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He looked for a man, Noah.

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And that's just how God works.

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He drops the vision to see what needs to be done.

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He drops it in somebody's heart.

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Number three there.

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Now the person is ready to see how God wants them

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to do the purpose,

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which becomes their sub-purpose.

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The purpose remains the same for all churches.

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How we do that becomes the sub-purpose.

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We were in St. Cloud this last week.

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We had to do some things.

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Mary had to go to Hobby Lobby

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and it's one of the places that has one.

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And we pulled up to the stop sign

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or the stop light

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and a car pulled up beside us

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and they were advertising their church

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on their back windshield.

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They had a sticker.

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We haven't done that yet.

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So I don't know what I feel about that.

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But they were advertising their church

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on their back windshield

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from the rear window.

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And it was talking about it being a cowboy church.

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And I told Mary and said,

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see, they go to a cowboy church.

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That's cool.

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That's their sub-purpose.

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That cowboy church is supposed to do the same as us.

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Get people saved.

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Get people living for God.

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Get people discipling other people.

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And you know, the whole thing that Jesus

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gave to the church to do.

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They just do it with horses.

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Some churches are motorcycle churches.

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That's cool.

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I got no problem with that.

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We're not one of them.

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We don't have that many people who drive by here.

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But it's okay.

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I mean, it's just not the way God uses us.

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To see how God uses you

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and what he wants to accomplish

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is called the vision under number three there.

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Seeing it is vision.

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Go to page 28.

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What is the vision a word of life?

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Well, as we said before, one of our sub-purposes

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is to be a full gospel church

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because that has kind of gone by the wayside.

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I won't say any more than that.

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It shouldn't have gone by the wayside, but it has.

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So he's asked us to be that.

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But in that mix,

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letter D,

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we are a how-to church.

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Another way to say it,

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we are to empower people to know how to

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live a Christian life

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and underline there,

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live the Christian life in a victorious,

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overcoming manner in a full gospel way.

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And then this goes on and explains

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all kinds of things.

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Jump up to page 38.

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And you can read through that

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and you're all smart people,

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so you'll know what it's saying.

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I'm not going to read it to you like we're in first grade.

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Jump over to page 38.

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Top of the page.

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The heart of our vision is to teach, show,

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and enable people to know how to live

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their Christian life victoriously

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in a full gospel fashion.

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Part of a full gospel fashion

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is found at the bottom of page 38.

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The Holy Spirit will always be central

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to what we are trying to do.

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It's the reason He was given

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and it lists not everything,

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but a number of things

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that He's supposed to be doing

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in the church right now.

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According to Barna,

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of Christians in

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the American Christian church,

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only one out of four

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think the Holy Spirit is actually a real person.

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Yeah.

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Three out of four Christians

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in America do not understand

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the Holy Spirit is a person

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who does these things.

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You say, well, what do the others think?

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The greatest majority answered

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their poll or their survey

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by saying, well, we think the Holy Spirit

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is a force, like a power.

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Well, if you don't even know He's a person,

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chances are to know any of that

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and what He's supposed to be doing in your life,

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you don't know that either.

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The Holy Spirit, I mean,

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to me, it's like

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He was given for the last days.

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That was the purpose.

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In the last days,

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I will pour out my Spirit.

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If any time the church

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needs the Holy Spirit,

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it's the time we're living in.

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It's like, wow.

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So it's very central to,

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well, how do you live for God?

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Well, first of all, you better really get in touch

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with the Holy Spirit.

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He's here to do all those things,

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teach you, lead you, guide you, speak to you,

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be your helper, comfort you, on and on and on and on.

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We have to have that.

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It's a central piece to who we are.

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Page number 40.

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Word of Life is here to teach,

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show and encourage people, them,

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how to live this earthly life

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in a godly and prosperous manner.

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Slide down that page to the next paragraph

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that's capitalized,

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and I don't know who typed this up,

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might have been me,

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but I found three errors in there.

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To enable someone to know

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what God is asking of them

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in every area of life,

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we must address and have answers

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for every question, issue, and subject

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that a believer put an R there

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that a believer might encounter.

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That is crucial to our vision.

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You say, how am I going to live forgot?

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Well, you're going to have to get some questions answered,

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you're going to have to get some understanding,

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you're going to have to get some knowledge,

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or you're going to go flat on your face.

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It's crucial.

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We are to have a godly, righteous,

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and faith building, life imparting,

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answer or answers, however you want to say it,

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and solutions or solution for their situation.

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So that's all part of it.

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That's all I'm going to say about that.

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Forrest Gump.

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Move over to page 42.

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Here's where the heart of where I'm trying to get to this morning.

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So purpose is what we're supposed to be doing.

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Subpurpose is how we're supposed to be doing it,

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which a big part of that is the full gospel realm.

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A big part of that is how to.

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We dwell on the how to.

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I've said this before, I'll say it again.

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So many churches that I grew up in one,

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so many churches I go to,

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they tell us what we're supposed to be doing.

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You're supposed to believe God.

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You're supposed to give your heart to God.

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You're supposed to live for God.

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All these things, well, that's what we're supposed to be doing.

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How are we supposed to do that?

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And I watch all kinds of Christians wandering around.

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I've watched this since it started boiling in me in high school.

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Watching all kinds of Christians wandering around,

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trying to do what they're supposed to be doing

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without any understanding of how they're supposed to do it.

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You're supposed to believe God.

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Well, how do you believe God? What does that look like?

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Well, you just believe them.

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That's not an answer.

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There is a way in Scripture showing what that plays out like.

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That was never taught to me growing up.

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And I, like I said, I went to church all the time.

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I grew up in a Christian home.

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Never taught to me.

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Believing God to them was kind of like a rolling dice.

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We know he can.

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He might.

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Let's pray and see what happens.

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We're believing God.

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No, you are not.

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Not according to what Scripture says.

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Faith is being sure.

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It's not rolling dice.

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Well, we'll pray and we'll see how it goes

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and then that'll be God.

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Really?

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So the whole concept of

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for people to live successful and overcoming lives

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they need to know how to do

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what they're supposed to do.

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That's a huge emphasis for us.

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So on page 42, let's jump into assignments and mandates.

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Assignments are, there's a whole big definition there

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if you want to go to the third one down,

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third hyphen, assignments are projects that God gives to us

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as a church.

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Assignments for you are projects he gives to you

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as a person.

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And once you're done with the assignment,

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well then the assignment's over.

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He'll give you a different one.

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Like for instance, what we're doing with Jim Isaacson,

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that's an assignment.

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It's not a command.

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Mandates are commands

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or official orders.

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Thou shalt not lie.

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That's a mandate. That's a command.

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Assignments are, would you do this for me?

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That's how he approached us

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with Jim.

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And by the way, he's going to be here

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the end of the month

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is a plan at this point.

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And he's going to be sharing,

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because I think there's a lot of people here

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who've never heard his story

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of what happened to him at 15 when he went to hell.

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He's going to be sharing that story on the 21st

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of next month.

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So kind of keep that in mind.

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But assignments are projects.

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Here, I want you to do this.

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Where Mary is gone speaking this morning.

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The project of helping get the Red Lake Church

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not only a building, but getting them going.

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That was an assignment to us.

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Now it hasn't ended yet.

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We're still involved with that.

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We don't know how long.

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Maybe that will be the rest of our life,

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an assignment.

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Some assignments are transitional,

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some take longer, so forth.

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Mandates are orders and commands.

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You're being told,

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this is what I want you to do.

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Like for instance, the land we're buying next door.

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That was not an assignment.

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That was a command.

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The Father hath need of that land.

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Oh, good.

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I wonder who's going to do something about it.

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Let's not think of what he said.

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He said it to us.

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We're going to do something about it.

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That's a command.

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It's not a, you know,

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if you do this, I'd appreciate it.

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Could you take care of that for me?

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No, no, no, it's like I need that.

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Get it for me. That's a command.

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So they all work differently.

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Just kind of separate them in your mind.

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And then as we start going through the

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opening of the scroll,

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we'll talk about that a little more

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and kind of interject it.

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But that's all you need to know.

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Assignments or projects,

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mandates are commands.

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And there's plenty of pages

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here to describe that to you

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a little bit more in depth.

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Letter C is important

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because that's where we're going this morning.

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Assignments and commands.

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For instance, let's back up to that chart.

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You got purpose at the top.

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The reason the church exists began

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when Jesus started

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showing us the pattern

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of how he wanted things to change

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in the new covenant from the old.

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And then the church was introduced

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by the disciples, the apostles

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and how it was supposed to operate.

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Jesus said what was supposed to be done.

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Paul said it was supposed to be done.

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I mean the apostles, the disciples said

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this is what the church is about.

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That's what it's supposed to do.

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That has never changed.

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That is a multi-generational

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long-term until Jesus comes back

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or the world comes to the close

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of this session.

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That will never change.

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The purpose for

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every Christian church remains the same.

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Sub-purposes

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tend to be long.

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Long-golds

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goes for

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lifetimes or genera...

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like ours is supposed to be intergenerational.

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The same sub-purposes

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is supposed to be picked up by the next generation

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we hand the baton on and it goes on.

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He made that very clear to us.

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But not everything is that way.

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You can have short, intermediate

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and long-term goals.

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Let her see.

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So jump over to page 44.

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I want to point out a couple of things there

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as we begin talking about this.

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Again, in Scripture

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and this works in with goals,

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assignments, mandates, so forth.

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In Scripture

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number seven,

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the gift that a ministry

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or a person works under

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can be

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church's look at it

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in two ways.

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You can have a program

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which is something

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somebody felt needs to be done

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so they take someone who

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it's not really in their heart

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but they might be good at it

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so they take it and they put them in charge of it

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or they take a group of people and put them in charge of it

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and say it's your job to take care of this

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and make this happen in the church.

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That's a program.

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And programs can be good for a while

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but they usually die.

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It's usually like trying to push a chain uphill.

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It just doesn't take long

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and it just does not want to move well.

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And you've got

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the three old ladies who comes to women's group

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and it's been there for 50 years

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and we're not getting rid of it

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because three ladies still come.

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That's a program.

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You look at me surprised like

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you want to get rid of the women's group?

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If only three old ladies

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are coming, yeah, it might be good to do something different.

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It's not holy ground in the scripture.

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Thou shalt have a women's group.

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See, that's where programs take you

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into traditions and traditions are religion

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and Jesus said your traditions

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can make the word of God

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of no effect.

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In other words, we should be doing something different.

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We feel like God's leading us to do something different

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but who's going to break it to the three old ladies?

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We're going to shut that down

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and do something different.

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Just saying.

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Ministry is something

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that God drops and someone's heart

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it burns in them.

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They have a desire to see it happen.

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They are willing to invest

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their life into it

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to make it happen.

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Ministry is something that once

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it's burning in them

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they're willing to lay their life

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down for it.

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I have yet to see someone

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want to lay their life down for a program.

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Case in point.

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We're going to do that

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on Friday nights.

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Friday nights is always

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the night I go out to eat with my husband.

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We stop at Walmart and pick up a couple of things

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for the weekend. Can we find a different

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night? That's a

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program person talking.

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It doesn't mean that much to him.

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Let's find a time where it's

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convenient for me.

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Now, a ministry-minded

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person would say, I don't care what night

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of the week is, this has to happen.

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If Friday is the night, I'm there.

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They will readjust their lives,

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they'll readjust their schedules, they'll readjust

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everything to do what they feel

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God asked them to do.

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It's huge in the end

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of what gets produced.

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And that's all that section

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there is talking about. So jump over

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to page 51.

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I wanted that in there because

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I wanted to point it out. It's in there, but I wanted to point it out.

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Because when he asks us to go

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and do something, it costs us

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something.

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The favorite

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feeling of the American church is

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convenience.

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It has to be convenient or we're

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not overly interested.

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That's why we get so little

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done.

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Because it's not convenient.

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Let me talk about that a little

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more next Sunday.

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Page 51.

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Accomplishing Word of Life's

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Vision. So of the things

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we've seen so far, and if you've read

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the book now you've got a good

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understanding of it because

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you wrapped yourself around more.

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How do we accomplish all this?

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Well, go to page 123.

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All this.

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Let's talk about all this a little bit.

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Go to the end of the book.

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This was

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given to the

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page 124 was given to us

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before we ever moved up here.

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It was put in print in

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2007, page 123

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and 124.

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Hasn't, we haven't changed anything.

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It was reprinted

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and I put dates into things

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in

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2011 when this

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book was written.

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Expanding the vision which

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dealt with the subject from a little

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different angle.

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Church started in our home

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in June 2004.

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One year and a half later

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the modular became

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the church place.

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2008 we purchased

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the land.

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Knew that we had to have a place.

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God gave us this

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as a really good stepping stone.

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2012

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we purchased it and moved in

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in December of 2012.

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Go over to page 124.

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Why are we doing all this?

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What are we trying to accomplish?

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We're actually trying to go somewhere.

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The ultimate vision

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which always involves building people

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this really hasn't

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changed much.

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And building people, by the way

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the building of people is actually

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every church is supposed to do that.

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It's part of the general purpose.

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But it's nice to just throw it in there

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and keep reminding ourselves that

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this is more about church

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more than just church serving

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me.

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Church is supposed to build people

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and families and communities

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and states and nations.

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Really?

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It took you that long to agree to that?

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Like...

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I gotta keep you awake.

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I know I can get boring but

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I didn't think this early we were struggling already.

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Part of

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building people is you have to have

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we live in a physical world.

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You have to have some form of physical facilities

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that you can do the different things

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God asks you to do.

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Like I said

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these were listed in 2007.

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Now it's interesting here.

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Wellness center.

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Now Mary has health matters

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and that's part of

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we feel in

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the church building itself

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there needs to be a space

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where we can have professionals

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chiropractors, doctors

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whomever come in

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and be able to help people

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live healthy and well.

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Sick Christians are not

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to the glory of God

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and they don't accomplish much

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other than just survive.

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And

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there are physical things

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we can actually do

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to be healthier.

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Some things we need to stop

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like drinking

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monster drinks first thing in the morning

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and there's some things we need to do

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and that is

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part of that.

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So if you're going to do it in the church

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you have to have a location to be able to do that.

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Halfway houses.

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Aha!

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That's come to pass to a point.

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Mentoring and maturity programs

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lion's den on Tuesday night

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cornwinds the night very much

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is dealing in that realm

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and when Jim gets here

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and he starts doing what he's doing

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the mentoring and maturing

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in the things of the spirit realm

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things he operates in

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are going to just shift into high gear there.

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School, we always wanted a school here

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so that's why kicking in with life wise

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it's like no brainer.

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And we had a preschool

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but the state

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has shifted things so dramatically

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against the church

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having a Christian

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school, preschool, anything like that

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they are trying really, really, really hard

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to make sure the Bible

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doesn't get taught in Christian schools.

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In fact, that's why we shut ours down

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because the county worker basically announced to us

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that

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you will change what you're teaching

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or the state is going to find you.

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Or teaching in Bible verses.

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That's what I'm talking about.

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You're not going to do that.

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Now where the state is going and that's a few years back already

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and now we know where the state is going.

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So I don't know how the school thing will play out

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homeschooling associations, things like that maybe.

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Substance abuse recovery

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you can check that one

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that's going to enlarge this fall

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it should be this fall

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when we get that

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outpatient

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thing happening at TBO

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a couple of three days a week

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right in the building

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that's going to be taking place.

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I don't want to get too sidetracked here.

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It will take too much time.

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Abuse recovery, that's there.

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Daycare, not sure about that.

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Preschool, not sure about that.

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The multi-purpose area

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we're not there.

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The auto care ministry

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I want to see

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in

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on the grounds in the building

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a

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auto shop

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where

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people who are struggling financially

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can keep that

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piece of junk running

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until they can get

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prospered to the point they can buy something decent.

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And it

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be staffed by

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volunteers who are in the church

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good mechanics, they throw in

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two, three hours a week and

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they're there helping each other.

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Just don't want to dwell there long.

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We don't have that yet.

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Handyman repair ministry

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boy, we could use that.

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We have a little bit of that, but it's not really a ministry at this point.

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It's a program.

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Somebody needs help.

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I say, could you help them?

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Okay, I think I can.

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And then that's the end of it. Nobody picks it up

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and runs with it from there.

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But it's very useful.

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Regional center and ministry, that you

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can check. That's becoming more and more.

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Especially our special conferences

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or meetings. We have people

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starting to come from Wisconsin,

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northern Minnesota,

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open heavens meetings. We had people from North Dakota,

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Wisconsin, and from Bemidji

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here.

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So that's starting to happen. Busing is happening.

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On and on and on. A bunch of these

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are already happening.

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So we're making progress

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toward the long

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term goal.

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The long term where we're supposed to be getting.

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So go back to page 51.

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When it says, so how do we do

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all of this? Well, that's just kind of a snapshot

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there in page 124.

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It's simple. We go there first.

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It's people who make this happen.

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But we have to have goals.

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So go down to letter A.

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Let's talk about goals. And that's what we're going

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to sit on here for a bit this morning.

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We need to look at three areas

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of goals. Any business runs

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this way. Any person who runs

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their life in a business fashion runs

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this way. Any church

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should run with goals.

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Goal setting. You have short term,

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intermediate term, and long term goals.

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The vision, the

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purpose, the sub purpose, everything falls

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into

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those three.

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So let's

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talk about them. Long term goals, bottom

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of the page. As an example

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there I said, let's just go with

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driving from Minneapolis to

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Florida. Long term goal, we're going

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to Florida. If you're going to southern Florida

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you're talking probably around 1,800 miles from here.

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Something in that area.

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And we're driving, Walt.

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We're not flying. We're

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driving. Okay?

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This is going to take

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a few days to make

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this happen unless we kamikaze it.

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Like I used to when I was younger and I don't

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like doing that anymore.

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But as it says there, it's a slow tedious process

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to reach the long term goal, especially

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if you have children

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with.

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Because it's such

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a long term goal

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the famous questions

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come up.

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You're not to Cambridge yet. Are we

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there yet?

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You have

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made it out of the state.

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How much longer is this going

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to take?

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Adults think

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the same way.

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You have a

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long term goal

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after you've been in it

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for six months.

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Oh, I don't know if this thing is ever going to happen.

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Because they don't understand

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our life. Habakkuk 2

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and 3.

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Remember

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the example I gave you?

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He will show you the end of

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the vision.

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He will show you what you are

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to accomplish in life.

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And it's probably going to take most

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of your life to get there.

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Abraham's main goal

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was what?

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What was the long term goal

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that God gave Abraham?

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To become the

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father

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of many nations.

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Jesus was going to come through

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Abraham.

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The long term big picture

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Abraham had one thing he needed to

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accomplish on this earth.

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Get this thing set up

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in covenant with God so Jesus

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can show up.

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And in the middle of all that

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you've got many nations being

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birthed this, that and the other.

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That if you look at Abraham's life,

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that was his lifetime goal.

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Took him a long

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time over half his life

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before he ever had a son.

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So he was

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looking forward to that.

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He came out of the earth, the

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Caldees way back from when he

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actually had a son. And God called

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him out and he said, I'm going to give

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you all this land and your descendants

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are going to multiply way beyond this.

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So there's a long term goal. He's showing

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him the end of the vision. You're going

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to be the father of many nations. And

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then that thing played out over

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Abraham's lifetime. But you know

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what? The vision God gave Abraham

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was a multi

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generational

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vision.

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It's one of the reasons God chose Abraham.

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It says

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one of the reasons God chose Abraham

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is because God knew Abraham

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would command his children after

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him.

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This thing that he was handing to

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Abraham had to last

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to Jesus.

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If the ball gets dropped

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we get to start

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over.

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This was multi generational.

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Hundreds of years

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Abraham was back in around

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2000 B.C.

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Hundreds of

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years to get to Jesus.

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Long term

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goal.

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So when Abraham died he was not

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the father of many nations.

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Positionally he was.

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But in reality

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he had Isaac.

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He could have questioned God and said, God

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that must not have been you who talked to me.

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Oh no, it was God.

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We gave you a long term. Here's

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what you get started in your lifetime.

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Now there's other things along

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the way. But long term

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is we're going to Florida

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we actually have to get there.

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It takes a long time

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to accomplish it. The more immature

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you are the more difficult it is

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to hold yourself to task.

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We're going to go to Florida.

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Be quiet. I don't want

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to hear another word out of you.

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We're only

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in Kentucky.

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And I don't know if I can

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take this anymore. Honey, can you do

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something with our him,

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them?

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Because the more immature you are

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you don't see

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progress, you don't understand

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progress, you just want to be there.

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And as Isaac's Christians

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if we're immature

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what God asks us to do, we do

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it for a week and then it's like

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I've done this for a week.

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I mean we're not there yet.

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It might be most of your lifetime

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he's going to have you do this until you get there.

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And that's why a lot of

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times Christians fail because they've got the lofty

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dream and many times it is

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God. I've had people say to me

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this is what I feel God wants me to accomplish in my lifetime.

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Five years later, how are you

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doing? I gave up on that.

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Why? What just seems

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so long?

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And I wasn't making any progress.

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Well, the long-term goal

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is to hold us

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focused

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where we're supposed to go. Page 52

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third paragraph down

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intermediate-term

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goals is what keeps us on task.

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See, here's where we're supposed to

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end.

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How do we know if we're making

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progress? We're focusing on the

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end, but what are the tasks?

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How are we going to make

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progress?

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Intermediate-term goals are the ones that

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clearly show us if we're making progress,

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like on the road trip to Florida.

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An intermediate-term goal

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is if you have children

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chances are you're not driving straight

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through.

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If you are, God have mercy

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on you.

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You're going to need it.

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You probably are going to go

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someplace and spend the night.

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So the

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first leg of the journey is an

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intermediate-term goal.

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You're still focused on Florida,

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but we're going to get

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to XYZ

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city. We'll spend the night.

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And then the next day

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you might

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consider

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doing something the children

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are interested in

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to help encourage them

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to make the next leg of the journey.

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See, I grew up

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with hardcore parents. They didn't

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consider any entertainment for the kids.

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It's like

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we're going to southern Texas.

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We're going to be there in the morning.

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It's like

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we're not doing anything.

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We're not going to stop.

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We're not going to fill gas.

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What do you got for me to do?

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There's nothing you need to do.

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You're just in the back seat.

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Come along.

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It's like, no,

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that long-term

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that can be rough.

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You might want to stop and see

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something along the way. You know the arc?

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You could take a little detour and hit

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the arc on the way. Or if you want

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to see Mammoth Cave, you could make that.

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And see, it's all steps.

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It's intermediate range.

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Here's where we're going.

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So how can we tell we're making

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progress to get to Florida?

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We made it to southern Illinois

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where we spent the night.

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Don't ask

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if we're there yet, because we're not.

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But we made it that far.

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We made it to Mammoth Cave

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and we saw part of the cave

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and we spent the night.

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It's another

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chunk.

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It shows us we have movement.

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You need those.

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Or you get very discouraged.

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It's like, we'll never get Florida.

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Then there are short-term goals.

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These are absolutely

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necessity.

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They create the movement.

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But you can also waste a lot of time on them.

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Because you're going to Florida.

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You're sitting in the back seat as a child.

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You're looking out the window.

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The trees are going by really fast.

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We should be there by now.

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I counted a hundred red Volkswagen's.

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Mom told me to.

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And I counted a hundred of them.

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Are we there yet?

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I turned the window down.

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Dad's driving really fast because the window just...

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Well, now we hit a button.

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That's a few years ago we turned it down.

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Now we hit a button.

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Hopefully Dad didn't lock that up up front.

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We can hit the window and the window goes down.

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And it's like the window is coming.

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The window is coming in the window.

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And it's like, boy, we're going really fast.

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See, short-term daily things

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go by really quick.

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And they can deceive us

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into thinking,

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boy, we're making a lot of progress.

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Look at how far we've gone.

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I counted a thousand and three of those

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mileage posts.

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We have to be there. Well, you're over halfway.

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You know, it goes by quickly.

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Things happen quickly.

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And people can feel like,

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oh, man, we're making progress.

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I am so busy.

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Busy is not productive.

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Busy is busy.

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To be productive

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will take you to Florida

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or the long-term goal.

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Is your busyness today

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helping you get

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anywhere?

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Think about that.

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You say, well, what is busyness today?

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Well, on a trip, it would be good to have gas in the car.

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You're going to be busy.

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You're going to have to stop and fill gas a few times.

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You're going to have to eat something along the way.

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Don't let them drink too much,

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especially sugary drinks, because you'll be stopping a lot.

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Choose the restroom.

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You're busy.

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I mean, it's like all this stuff is happening.

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Back in our day, we had the big Atlas out.

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Someone was supposed to guide you,

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and if they took you on the wrong road,

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then you were 50 miles off before you realized

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we're not on the right road.

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And then you're busy getting back to the right road

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and all kinds of busyness.

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But did you actually

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make any progress toward

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the intermediate goal?

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And are you anywhere closer

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to the long-range goal?

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Because it's all the activity

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of what we do day to day

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that eventually

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will get us there.

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And many times,

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churches, Christians get very excited

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about, we're busy today,

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we're busy tomorrow,

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and boy, the next day we're busy.

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Okay, so once a month or two or a year

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is gone by,

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how much closer are we

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to where we're supposed to be going?

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Are we just busy?

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Or are we being productive?

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To be productive,

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you can't just do anything.

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To be busy,

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you can do anything.

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I mean, you don't have a goal.

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You're just busy.

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You're just filling your day.

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You're busy.

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But if you're actually trying to

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accomplish something,

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you can't do just anything.

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In fact, you can't do everything.

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You can't do what all the things you want to do.

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You have to stay on task

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with your daily,

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weekly, monthly routine

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to reach the next step

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of the intermediate range goal.

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For instance,

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let's go back to Abraham.

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Long-term goal, father of many nations.

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Intermediate range goal,

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and we'll hit this here in a bit,

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there are anywares from

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15 to 25 years.

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20, 25 years.

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There's no real definite time.

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Short-term goal is

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2 to 3 years, maybe a little longer.

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Intermediate term goal

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can take you 15 years, 20, 25 years.

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Long-term goal

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can be a lifetime affair.

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30, 40, 50 years.

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Or intergenerational.

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Okay?

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So in a short-term goal,

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we know what Abraham's long-term goal was.

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So let's start there.

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Become the father of many nations.

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Well, before I can become

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a father of anything, I better have a son.

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Intermediate term goal is

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I'm getting pretty old.

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When Abraham was really

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conversing with God, he was 75,

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which would make Sarah about 65.

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God, we don't have a son yet.

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Maybe I can make LRE, LEAZER, my hair.

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No, no, LEAZER is not going to be your heir.

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I'm going to give you a son out of your own.

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King James' word uses loins.

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I'm going to give you a son.

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From that conversation

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to Isaac's birth

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was how long?

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25 years.

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That was not a short-term goal.

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It was an intermediate-term goal.

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Well, where are we going? We're going to be the father of many nations.

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We're going to bring

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the savior of the world into the world.

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That's the long-term goal.

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Right up front we need a boy.

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We need a son because God promised it.

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It took 25 years, intermediate-range goal.

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Okay, so what do we do?

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Well, the short-term goal is

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they didn't know how long that was going to take.

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You and Sarah better get busy.

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If you know what I mean,

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you're going to have to be intimate.

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Or you're never going to have a son.

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Abraham was 99

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when God came to him and said,

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okay, don't give up

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because next year you'll have your child.

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That's when Sarah laughed.

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She had so given up on the goal,

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it's like, what a joke.

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I'm 90 years old

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and I'm going to give birth.

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We have trouble being intimate.

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And we're going to have a son?

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Short-term things matter

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to accomplish the task.

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You have to accomplish the task

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if you're going to get to the overall focus,

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the goal.

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There were things they needed to do

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on a daily basis

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to accomplish the long-term goal

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to get the intermediate-range goal,

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which was the son,

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and Hagar was not supposed to be one of them.

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That was supposed to happen

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as a short-term goal.

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Hagar, that wasn't God's plan.

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That was Sarah's plan

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because she gave up on the long-term goal.

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She didn't think it was going to happen.

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She didn't think the intermediate-term goal

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was going to happen.

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I'll give you my handmade.

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Here's a short-term project.

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See if she'll give you a son.

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Well,

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you know the story.

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That one should have never happened.

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There is things that have to happen

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on a daily,

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weekly, monthly basis

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that gets us to the 25,

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20-year point.

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There is things that have to happen

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on an hourly basis

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that gets us to the next stop

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on the way to Florida.

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They're all short-term.

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But you have to focus

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on what you're doing with your short-term

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or they can really get in the way

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of the big picture,

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like Abraham.

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Following me?

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So jump over to page 53.

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It's talking a little bit more

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about the goals and the long-term goal,

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the end of the vision.

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Oh, I talked about most of that.

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Let's go to page...

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Bottom of page 54,

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it gives you those years

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I laid out.

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Long-term goals can be a lifetime

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intermediate.

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They can range from 5 to 25, 30 years,

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something like that,

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uses the Abraham example.

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And then if you go to

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the short-term goal

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on page 56,

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number 4,

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it'll say from 1 to 2 years in length,

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might be up to 3 years in length,

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short-term goals are designed

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to be very transient.

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You don't keep doing them over and over.

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If you're going to Florida

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and you drove down a certain road,

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you don't loop around

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and do it again and loop around.

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I just love this road.

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We're just going to be busy driving this road

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for the next 10 days.

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You'll never get to Florida.

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Short-term goals are you do them,

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you move on to the next short-term goal.

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You do them, they're over, you move on

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to get you to the intermediate goal,

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which is we need to get

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to such and such a place

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by lunchtime or for the night

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or whatever. We can't just

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keep looping around looking at the houses

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in this town.

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Well, I like the houses in this town.

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I don't care. It's really fun.

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It doesn't matter.

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If you're going to get to where you're supposed to be

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for the night on the way to Florida,

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you're going to have to get out

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of that town.

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Well, I'd like to try a restaurant in that town.

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I mean, there's a lot of things to do

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in that town. We could be really busy.

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Yeah, you could probably be very busy,

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but you're not being productive at all

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because it's not moving you towards Florida.

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Right?

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Follow me?

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Just because you're busy

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and don't have any time left over

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doesn't mean you're being productive.

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Just because a church has

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a thousand and three programs

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doesn't mean it's being productive.

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Where are you

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supposed to be going?

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And is our

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daily, weekly stuff

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taking us there?

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Short-term goals can be very transient.

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Intermediate-term goals

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change, too. Long-term goals don't change

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much. They're pretty solid.

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So,

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bottom of page 56, it says

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what other short-term goals

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does Word of Life have?

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Because this is so transitional,

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I just left you a blank page

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on the next page, page 57,

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that you could just write some things in.

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So, let me show you how

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you already saw

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the big picture of where we're trying to get.

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It's on the end of the book.

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It's on that page 124.

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That's

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what we've seen

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at this point. You could fill in some details,

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but everything's going to kind of hang on that.

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So, that's where we're going.

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There's other places we're going to see.

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It talks about being a

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multi-generational

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task

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to accomplish what God wants totally

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accomplished.

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So, short-term, right now,

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there's a lot of things going on

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at the church that are short-term goals.

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Anywhere

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from zero to, let's say, three years.

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Three, four years max.

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A lot of things happening.

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Now, we've been waiting

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for a long time

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for these to happen.

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It's kind of like Abraham going to spend

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25 years, and all of a sudden,

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one day, oh, she's pregnant.

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Here we go.

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We only got a few months.

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And you got to get it together.

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And you're a 100-year-old man

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with a crying baby at night, and she looks at you

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and says, go take care of that.

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Oh, all of a sudden, everything

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really changed fast.

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And it's like, we have a short-term goal.

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Change the diaper.

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We can't wait three years on this one.

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This one's really short.

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Yeah.

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Oh.

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So let me give you some idea,

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because right now, the pace is picked up

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very much so.

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Not because we didn't see it coming.

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We saw it coming, but all of a sudden,

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it's coming. Here we go.

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Like, for instance,

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Jim is going to be here at the end of the month.

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We need to establish his ministry.

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And what he's going to be here for,

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what he's going to do.

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Brian and Terry are going to be here

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shortly thereafter, and we need

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to establish not only them

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as youth pastors, but

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their long-range goal

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of

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ministering to troubled youth,

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which they're doing all along the way,

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but they have a great big picture they're looking for,

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and I'll let them address that and share that.

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We're going to be part of that, to establish that.

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We need to

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close on the land next to us.

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That has to be

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soon.

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The word from the owner

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is the mortgage company is finally there.

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They're going to get an appraisal,

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and then we should be able to close.

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So hopefully it's within weeks.

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But we need to close on the land.

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Well, another short-term goal

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is we need parking.

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It's people say, how many people come

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to your church? It says,

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Pennsylvania word Sunday.

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If everybody's here

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on the same Sunday, we're pretty full.

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And you all know we're out of parking.

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So the first short-term

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goal is we got to do dirt work over there

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and increase our parking

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ability.

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Deal with that.

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Little

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longer short-term

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goal. That first one should hopefully

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happen quickly.

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Little longer short-term goal

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is the offices are still

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in the modular at our property

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where we started the church.

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The offices need to come over here.

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Which takes us into a whole

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different issue.

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We already know that

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when everybody's here, we're fairly

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full. Okay?

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We can spend a whole bunch of money

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setting up a building for offices

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or should we not be using the money

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that way and put up a big building

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of where we're going.

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Just get the shell up, maybe

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and put the offices in there

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and start building it out slowly, but

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rather than

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just focusing on, well, we got to move the offices.

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Let's set up the offices.

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Let's do that. That building

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will be someplace between

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five and seven hundred thousand to complete.

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We'll do, we actually want to drop five to seven hundred thousand

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into an office building

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when we're already running out of room.

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What if it takes us five years

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to pay it off? Now, I want to pay it off right away,

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but what if it would take us five years to pay it off?

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Well, in five years, we could be in trouble

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because we're trying to pay off an office

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building and we have a bigger need.

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We don't have a place to put the people.

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Because as some of these people

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come on board and things start

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happening in that

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realm, we're going to grow quicker.

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Short-term goal

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within three years. I'm sixty-seven.

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And by the time I'm in the seventy area,

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I want an assistant...

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Lord, I want an assistant pastor

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on board who is capable of

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long-term me-handing the patan to them.

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I don't just want anybody on board.

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I don't want a five-year

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person on board.

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I don't want a two-year person on board.

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I want someone who

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we can work with.

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They have the same heart, they have the same

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desire, they have the same vision

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and we work together

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and slowly just hand the patan on

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and they run with it.

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And that person has to be of the

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next generation.

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I don't want to say this

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in a derogatory way, but

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we are not the future

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of the church.

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The future of the church is quite a bit younger

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than me.

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And some of you.

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It doesn't mean we are useless.

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It doesn't mean we are worthless.

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We can contribute a lot yet.

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But the focus has to

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shift here

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at some point.

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And the push for that younger realm

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well, we need someone

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who long-term

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can go there

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and be younger.

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That whole realm.

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So I just listed off six, seven things

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that need to take place

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in the next three years.

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You say, well, what if they don't?

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It will impede

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the progress of the church.

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It will impede the progress

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of what God is trying to do.

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Plus, some of you

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are hanging on to your money

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to give to your children

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who are going to take a lot of trips

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to Europe and Hawaii

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where you could actually give some of it

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here and we get the job done.

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Feel how the atmosphere changes

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as soon as you bring up money?

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Like,

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oh, that's the problem.

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As soon as they want to do something,

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it's going to cost me something.

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Oh, ye of little faith.

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It'll cost you nothing

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if you believe God

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for what he wants you to give.

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In fact, the laborer

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is the first to eat of the harvest.

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The harvest that comes in,

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you'll get benefit from.

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The harvest that has come in

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that you're sitting on.

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Saying, oh, my children

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I'll handle it wisely.

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Mm-hmm.

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Mm-hmm.

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Right. Unless they've gone through

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some really hard times themselves

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and they're really thankful

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for what you're giving them.

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Woo-hoo!

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That's going to be

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the wisdom flowing there.

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I don't want to be discouraging,

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but that I've seen it over

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and over and over and over.

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So short term,

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we got a bunch of things that are on our plate.

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You know what? God's going to take care of them

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one way or another.

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Because he wants

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the next thing.

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And the next thing.

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And the next thing.

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And it's going to be awesome.

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So I don't want to take any...

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There's so many other points there

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that I wanted to hit this morning. Don't have time.

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I have to hit what we're going to hit

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at the end.

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So let me say this.

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It was kind of

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interesting to me this morning

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the song's choices,

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what Felicia had to say,

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the demonic thing, so forth.

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Because this is what I felt the Lord

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dropped in my heart.

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And we'll find out here in a few seconds

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if it's true or not.

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We're trying to spend most of our time

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now talking about the vision

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of where to life and where it's going.

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But it also applies to persons,

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individuals, to families,

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to businesses that

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all the principles apply.

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So we're going to apply it

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to persons now. Individual people.

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I felt like

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the Lord told me he said,

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there are people here who are

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struggling here and maybe watching online.

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Who are struggling with

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anything that's

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beyond a short-term goal

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and they struggle with some of that.

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Intermediate, like, what are you going to be doing

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15, 20 years from now?

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Well, that's like, pfft, I have no clue.

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Well, what are you on Earth for?

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What's the long-term goal? What are you supposed

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to accomplish while you're here taking up space?

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No idea.

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Well, that's true for a lot of people,

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but he pointed out a certain specific group

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to me. He said there are

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those who want

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to plan out there.

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They want to see it. They want to

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know it, but

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they've got demonic blockages

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and they just can't see it.

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And I said, well, you know, anybody

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can say, oh, the devil's making me

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trouble. You know, it's like, I said, I want

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some specific characteristics.

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What are these people struggling with?

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So he

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gave me three, four of them.

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This will describe

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whether this applies to you or not.

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Whenever you are looking

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intermediate

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or long-term in your life,

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10, 15 years

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out, 25,

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35 years out,

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what are the things that have to be

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accomplished to get where you're going? Whenever you

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put your mind to that,

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it's like a cloud of confusion

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will settle on you

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that you have

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extreme difficulty

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thinking about much of anything.

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It's like the thoughts

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just get rampant

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and

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swirling in your head.

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And it's like this huge confusion

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thing settles on you.

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So you got confusion, you got

01:00:10.280 --> 01:00:12.800
racing thoughts. If you don't get back

01:00:12.800 --> 01:00:14.960
off of it, it's difficult to deal

01:00:14.960 --> 01:00:16.260
with the day-to-day things.

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I mean, even like

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what am I going to do

01:00:20.400 --> 01:00:22.040
tomorrow and how am I going to accomplish that?

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It just gets overwhelming for you because your mind

01:00:24.140 --> 01:00:25.920
is so...

01:00:25.920 --> 01:00:28.020
the thoughts have gotten so out of control

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the confusion is there.

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Number two, of course, we know Scripture says confusion

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is not of God.

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But in that, one of

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the reasons you don't reach out

01:00:40.360 --> 01:00:41.960
into the future too far

01:00:41.960 --> 01:00:44.160
is because these things

01:00:44.160 --> 01:00:45.980
happen to you and you can no longer

01:00:45.980 --> 01:00:47.960
focus. You can't think

01:00:47.960 --> 01:00:49.900
straight. And until you

01:00:49.900 --> 01:00:52.200
let go of that and just deal

01:00:52.200 --> 01:00:54.240
with, well, we'll deal with today and we'll deal with tomorrow

01:00:54.240 --> 01:00:56.140
and next week's

01:00:56.140 --> 01:00:58.040
a long ways out, we'll just... that's all

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we're going to deal with. And whatever happens in the future

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happens in the future. Unless you come back

01:01:02.100 --> 01:01:02.720
to that

01:01:04.500 --> 01:01:05.640
literally it's like

01:01:05.640 --> 01:01:08.060
a confusion, a brain fog settles

01:01:08.060 --> 01:01:10.200
on you, you can't think straight

01:01:10.200 --> 01:01:12.100
and make decisions well

01:01:12.100 --> 01:01:13.680
about today or tomorrow

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until you let go of

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that and don't even go there.

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Then this clears up quite a bit and it's like

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okay, this is what we're going to make for supper.

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This is what we're going to do tomorrow

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to get that job done. But if you

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keep pushing out there, it becomes

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overwhelming to you.

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And he says that's

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demonic. That's not

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you, that's not you being crazy.

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That's not you having a brain

01:01:38.320 --> 01:01:40.160
problem. That's demonic

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because everything clears up

01:01:41.940 --> 01:01:43.660
when you get off of

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where am I supposed to go.

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That is a handicap,

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obviously.

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That he wants off of whoever

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you are.