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Well, uh, so I'm Cherish Knudson and from Ely, way up north.

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And I've known, um, Pastor Mary for, I don't know, a year?

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Has it been almost a year, not quite?

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So not a terribly long time, but, um, it's an honor.

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It's an honor to know her.

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And I haven't even met Vern yet, right, Vern?

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Is that his name?

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I haven't even met him yet.

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I want to make sure I got his name right.

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Um...

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Like, two weeks or something like that.

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And so we've had Mary to our church once.

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So I passed her Oasis International in right next to the Canadian border.

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Uh, I mean, right next to it.

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You can literally drive a couple miles and you're there.

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Um, so we're right in the woods and it's hard spiritual territory, but I love it.

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Um, there's a lot of physical rock.

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So it's lead rock and I think it's beautiful as that is.

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I think it kind of is the spirit realm too.

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It's a lot of hard rock to bust through.

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But my parents, um, started the church that I'm now pastoring.

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And, uh, then they turned it over to me in 2008.

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And they went and bought a fishing camp in Canada.

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And I was single and 30.

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I had just turned 30.

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Uh, I didn't get married till I was 37.

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So, um, yeah, I had been traveling and ministering for years already at that point.

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I was the primary worship leader.

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I did teaching in the church.

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So it wasn't foreign to me to minister when they turned it over to me.

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But, um, it was a lot of years of, uh, God working, but really learning a lot.

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And so then I got married in, um, 2015.

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And so Patrick and I have two children, uh, Judah Benjamin,

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who is, uh, eight and a half and, uh, lots of energy and work and effort.

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But he is very gifted.

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He's learning the drums and, um, he's got a lot in him.

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Business and music.

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Uh, he loves to work.

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If you ask him, Judah, what's your favorite thing?

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He'll say work.

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Uh, he literally knows, since he was three years old,

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he could drive an excavator and a skid steer and all kinds of stuff.

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So he, my husband does hardscape in, in construction and things.

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We have several businesses.

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We just bought a resort.

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Um, we have a rental.

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We have, we have many things going on.

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And I used to do the books and I've been, uh, released of that mostly by a new admin.

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So that, because I homeschool our kids and then run the church and do a bit of traveling ministry and then the business.

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So I'm never bored, similar to, to Mary.

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There's always a million things to do, um, from morning till night.

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And you still don't have enough time, but, uh, but God is doing great things, uh, at our church.

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We bought our own, we used to rent and so we bought our own building in, um, 21 and paid it off in three years.

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And it was a miracle because, you know, we're smaller than you guys were about, I don't know, between 80 and 90 people.

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And, um, we have a lot of, uh, new believers coming in.

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Um, yeah, which is awesome.

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We, uh, you know, church growth is an interesting thing.

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You know, you're plowing ground and, um, there's times where it's going great and you're like, wow, we're growing and God's moving.

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And then there's other times where it's like, you know, it's harder and people leave and some stay and ups and downs.

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So I've been through all that, like all churches do to a point.

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But, um, we have, since we got our own building, I knew that was going to be a big shift and we've been steadily growing since then.

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So we're, uh, you know, one of the larger churches in Ely now, but we're looking to build a second story on our building now that it's paid off.

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Um, and so I like the idea of what Mary was telling me about going in debt free.

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Uh, we'll see, excuse me, we'll see what God, you know, what his plan is for us.

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We already have the architect designs and everything ready for the second story, but it's a matter of timing for finances.

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So we're believing God for that.

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But, um, yeah, we've got, you know, the people coming out of meth and, um, my goodness, people coming out of a Methodist church.

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We have a whole family that just one by one, they all started coming.

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The son-in-law and then the grandkids and then the grandmas and, and they all left the Methodist church.

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And so it's interesting.

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We got the meth family that just their row gets bigger because they keep bringing in more.

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The ones just out of prison and the ones that, you know, all the unchurched, which is fun.

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And then we've got the ones coming out of religion that fill up this row over here.

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And it's, it's fun to see.

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And then everything in between, of course, um, just what God is doing.

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We really do a lot of deliverance and I do a lot of mentoring and, um, that kind of a thing.

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So, uh, very busy and just trying to train up people to do what I do.

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Um, disciple, you can't do it all.

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So I never wanted to do it all, but, um, but, you know, when you're plowing territory, you do a lot.

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Uh, in the beginning until you can get things under foot.

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So I've been mentoring some people for years and they're the ones teaching the youth group now.

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And they're the ones doing the children's ministry.

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And they're the ones, you know, training people for counseling and deliverance stuff that shadow me all the time.

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And so, um, it's growing, it's strengthening and it's very exciting.

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We have our youth band, we have a youth band now that's new, which my son is the drummer, of course.

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And, um, yeah, so it's awesome.

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We have a drummer, a bass player, guitar player and a couple of singers.

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And so they're just starting out. It's really fun.

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Anyway, that's a little bit about me.

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So, um, the topic today is consecration.

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And I was, I was telling Mary that, um, my goodness, I feel, has anyone heard of Graham Cook?

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Yeah, I used to follow him.

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Pastor Jennifer and I have known each, you guys know Pastor Jennifer.

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Yeah, so her and I have been close friends.

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Oh my goodness.

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For a long time.

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Uh, decades.

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Um, since we were very young, we found a picture the other day, we're like, oh, look how young we are.

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We'd, we'd feel young still.

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But anyway, her and I used to always listen to Graham Cook way back in the day.

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He mentored us through his teachings and things. We went to his conferences.

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And, uh, Graham Cook has this saying that I've been in ministry since Noah was a boy.

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And just funny, um, it's, I'm, I'm getting close to 50.

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I'm a little bit, uh, almost to 50.

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And I can't believe that.

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You know, I think I've been, I've been ministering since I was a teenager.

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And so I was telling her over a lot of her brunch that I just, for some reason on this trip down here,

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I've been reminiscing about my life so far in God.

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And consecration is a big part of that to me because I have this reputation,

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uh, at least in Ely and for those who've known me for a long time.

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Since I was a teenager and my husband says it now too, um,

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that I have this reputation of having really given myself to the Lord

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and not having gone the normal way of a lot of people.

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And at least in our region.

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I think you, I can feel when I drive in to your guys' region

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that the atmosphere feels very different than when you come into our region.

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It's, so it just, it feels a little lighter here.

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Um, so I'm used to just constantly pressing and, and, um,

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always seeking God about how do we break through

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and how do we get the lights to turn on in people's hearts and all of that.

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It's just a, um, a constant press.

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And, and I realize every area has different spiritual things that we deal with.

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But I'm just used to the atmosphere that I live in and what, um, I want to see God do.

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But I think about all the, the process that God takes us through

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and this reputation that people say, oh, cherish. Yeah.

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She's, she's always lived for God.

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She's always done it God's way.

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And I mean, that's not entirely true, but that's how people see me.

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Uh, because like so many, I have had times where I've been mad at God,

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uh, that people didn't know about.

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I've had times where I've struggled to have faith and to trust God

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for healing that wasn't coming and wasn't coming and wasn't coming.

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Um, I believed for a husband for a long time.

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I wanted to be married and, uh, had many opportunities to be married,

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but not to the right one and waited for God's best.

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And, um, so just looking at the faithfulness of God and the power of consecration

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that we continue to see more clearly as we seek Him.

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We continue getting mad at God is so not even a thing on my radar,

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but I mean, I've been there and done that.

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Um, because when you change in your understanding,

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you should change in your outlook and you should change in your lifestyle.

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It should be a domino effect, um, where things that you used to think you don't think anymore

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and ways that you used to speak, you don't speak anymore.

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And so consecration is an ongoing process. Amen.

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It is an ongoing process. It's not one and done.

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You stick yourself in the spiritual microwave and you come out consecrated.

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You know, it's the, that you, in our, in, in human nature,

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we so prefer the microwave version of everything.

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If I could believe for healing, boom, there it is.

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If I could, you know, believe the mountain would move, boom, there it moves.

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I mean, we would be probably a bunch of spoiled brats and we'd have no spiritual muscles.

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Um, it takes a process.

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You know, the Bible, we're going to get into, we'll see which scriptures we go to.

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I have quite a few, but um, the Bible is full, right?

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Of so many scriptures about trials, about what our perspective is supposed to be in the trial

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and recently there's someone in ministry that is close to me

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that I have watched go through some really intense trials.

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And it's, you know, we've all gone through different trials,

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but this, there's been a lot for this particular person.

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And it's made me ponder even things in myself to say, wow, God,

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no matter what we know in God, we don't always live out all that we know.

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The trial exposes our weakness. It always does.

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So we think, oh, I've got this and this and this going on,

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but nobody has it all set in stone, you know?

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So again, reminiscing as I did on the way down,

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I'm thinking about where I was, where I've been and where I am now

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and where I can feel God is shifting things and taking me again.

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And so now I'm, I'm ministering and have been more with people

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that I used to just only sit under their ministry for the most part, you know?

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And so there's this shift of mentality.

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And so when you start rubbing shoulders more with leaders,

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you hear more about what they're going through and what they're learning.

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And I've been in that season for a while,

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but I keep, I don't know how to describe it,

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but it feels new to me right now all over again.

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And so as we, we can look up to ministers,

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but we always have to realize that, wow, we're all in this process.

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We're all in the refiner fire.

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We're all going from glory to glory.

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And until we get to heaven, we're not fully going to be in the glory.

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But there are people that I definitely admire,

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that I think that more of us have the opportunity,

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well, we all have the opportunity to be like people like Dan Moeller.

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Anyone know Dan Moeller?

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Yeah, so he came and stayed at our house a couple of years ago.

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We had him for like three days. It was awesome.

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I'll never forget it.

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But he's been one that continually speaks into my life,

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not one-on-one anymore, you know,

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but there was a time where I was with him physically when he came to minister.

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But there's certain people like that that I go, wow,

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they have mastered something that we all can

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in mindset, in lifestyle,

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but I see a lot of the church, we don't.

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Many of us, as many leaders I know and others,

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we're moving in this direction to be like Christ, right?

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Jesus is the consecrated one.

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And we'll read scriptures about that.

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He was the one that was set apart in his lifestyle on earth

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in a way that no one before him quite like that had ever done,

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and no one probably since exactly like that.

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He was perfect, he was sinless,

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and yet he said, follow me in my example.

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And so when I think of certain people that I admire,

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and including Dan Muller,

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who I is probably one of the most,

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if not the person on earth that I admire the most spiritually right now,

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that's just me personally,

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because I see in him something that is so solid

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in every category of his life,

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that God is so present and he has been so consecrated

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in the fullest extent of what I see in scripture.

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And I go, wow, God, that is the example that we can all follow.

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And you know, he travels to a different church

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every weekend, just about.

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And he's busier than he's ever been doing that.

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And so he sees a lot of the body of Christ continually.

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Different denominations probably in lots of different states.

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And what he continues to say is what he sees in the church.

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And he comes to encourage people, he comes to challenge people.

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But he says, what I see a lot of is,

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we're living here as a body of Christ,

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and we're called to live here.

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And so we have to continually watch our mindset

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to get from here to here.

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What's possible to live and to follow after the life of Christ.

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And I know in my own life, how many have been going through

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a certain thing, you're trying to master a certain truth

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and it feels like it's been years.

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You're like, I mean, okay, say that it's faith.

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I've been on the journey of faith for eight years, right?

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Maybe it's because you need healing

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or maybe it's because of someone you know needs healing

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or maybe it's because it's not about healing,

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it's about faith and some other thing, an expectation.

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And so you feel like you're working on something for so long

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and you feel like God's going through the layers

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of all your unbelief and the layers of all of your perceptions

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and shifting it and changing it and it just takes time sometimes.

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And it's like, God, why does this have to take so long?

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But I don't know that it always,

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some things I do believe just take time.

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They just do.

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And other times, I think that we slow it down

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maybe unintentionally

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because of distraction, because of believing little lies,

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little foxes that come in to destroy the vine.

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And so there's different things that we do.

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I think I know myself that I've done things to slow things down,

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wanting this but just not getting my act together

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in order to really allow God to speed things up

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if that's possible in certain areas.

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And so our goal though is

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if I didn't see it before, I want to see it starting right now.

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If I've been missing something before,

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I don't want to miss it starting from this point on.

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And that's always my mindset.

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And so let's look at a couple of scriptures here.

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Let's start in Ephesians.

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Ephesians, oh yeah, I'm going to do one verse three

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and I'm going to speed up a couple verses

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and then jump down and highlight one further down.

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Okay, so Ephesians one and I have the amplified version.

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So if it gets a little wordy, maybe just want to listen

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but at least you know where I'm reading.

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May blessing be to the God and Father

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of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us in Christ

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with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm.

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Even as in his love he chose us,

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he actually picked us out for himself as his own

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in Christ before the foundation of the world

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that we should be holy, consecrated, and set apart for him

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and blameless in his sight, even above reproach

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before him in love, for he foreordained us

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and planned in love for us to be adopted

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as his own children through Jesus Christ

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in accordance with the purpose of his will.

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That we might be to the praise and the commendation

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of his glorious grace which he so freely bestowed on us

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in the beloved. I love that.

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So I don't know what your version of the Bible says there

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in verse 3, but it says that we should be holy,

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consecrated, and set apart for him.

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And that's what consecrated means is to be set apart

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to make sacred something, to set something

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aside for a higher spiritual purpose.

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And he told us to be holy and he set us aside

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for his glory. Now, I have been a Christian

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since I was four years old.

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I grew up in a Christian family. I remember being

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four years old. We lived on a lake.

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I remember four years old standing on the dock

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talking to God. And I remember him talking to me.

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I heard him as clear as day.

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I went to a Baptist church at the time,

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even though my parents were very Holy Spirit-filled.

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It was just the only decent church nearby.

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You have less selection when you're in northern Minnesota

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of churches to go to and we were in the Cook area.

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Anyway, so we went to a Baptist church.

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I heard the salvation message. I understood it,

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but I was standing on the dock.

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I remember just loving on God, thinking about

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what Jesus had done, similar to what we just read here,

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that Jesus picked me. He chose me.

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He set me apart for his glory.

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And I remember just thinking about this

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in a four-year-old mind and understanding it

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and being in awe of it.

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And I remember starting to cry

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as I just felt his love wash over me.

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And so I remember even leaving church one day

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and I think they'd shared the salvation message

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in an even more explicit way.

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And I remember my dad carrying me.

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I remember hanging over his shoulder

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as he's carrying me out of church.

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So I was little enough for him to do that still.

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Him carrying me out of church

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and I'm crying and crying and crying

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because I'm thinking about what Christ has done.

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So being so aware

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of God's choosing of me and his eye on me

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from a very, very young age,

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but that he set me apart for his glory.

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So even though I started out that way,

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I grew up in church.

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We went to lots of different churches.

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We moved around a lot when I was young

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until we finally landed in Ely

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and then we stayed put.

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Finally, I was about the age of 12 then.

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But I had already experienced a lot of church life

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and in church you discover a lot of sincere people.

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But people who I started,

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even as I got into my teenage years

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and I went to Bible school and all this,

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you hear things and you learn things the wrong way.

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Because it's the religious version,

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it's not the life-giving version.

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And there were so many things that I picked up

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that diluted just that clean, fresh passion,

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that consecration.

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And so we all grow up in life, obviously,

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with different experiences,

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some harder than others and all of that.

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But these things influence us in a way

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where even if you start out at a young age

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as a true believer,

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you can start to catch this wave,

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this religious wave that's in a lot of churches

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of I'm saved so that God can help me.

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It's kind of an unspoken, it's spoken,

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but it's subtle in how it's released

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and how it's preached.

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So that people come to God because they're in need.

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I mean, I'm sure you have seen it in your church.

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I know I've seen it in mine.

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People come in crisis to church.

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They know where to go when they're in crisis.

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And they're like, my marriage is about to fall apart.

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I just broke my arm.

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You know, I need God to heal.

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I need God to restore.

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They come.

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I pray over them.

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They've gotten healed.

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They get their marriage restored.

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They get deliverance.

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God gives me words of knowledge.

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They get ministered to.

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They come a couple of Sundays and then they're gone.

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And so this human nature thing, right,

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that people that God is here for me,

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but I'm not really consecrated to him.

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I'm just looking for him to help me,

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because I know that he's a loving God,

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because I know that he's a powerful God

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and he can do things for me that I need.

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And it's not that people mean,

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I don't think, always to be insincere,

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to be flippant about God.

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But I think that, you know,

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even when you say to someone,

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so how are you doing today?

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And they say, oh, they go right away

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most of the time to their circumstances.

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Well, let's see, how am I doing?

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Well, my dog just died.

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And I'm not feeling that well.

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I've had a digestive thing going on.

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And our finances are kind of tight this week, whatever.

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And a lot of people tend to speak out of their experience.

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And this is how I'm doing.

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So then the need for prayer

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or the need for counsel or whatever

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comes out of that need.

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So I need the church maybe to help my financially.

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I need someone to pray over me for healing.

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My heart's a little discouraged about my dog.

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You know, whatever it is.

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And God cares about all those things.

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Obviously we know that.

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If he knows when the sparrow falls,

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he cares about it all.

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But the thing about consecration

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is it's a mindset that is radically different

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than what we can go around

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and experience in any number of churches.

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It's a mindset that is,

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I am set apart, I belong to him.

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Let's turn to 2nd Corinthians,

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chapter 5,

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and verse 18.

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But all things are from God,

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who through Jesus Christ

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reconciled us to himself,

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received us into favor,

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brought us into harmony with himself

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and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation

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that by word and deed

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we might aim to bring others

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into harmony with him.

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It was God

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present in Christ,

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reconciling and restoring the world

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to favor with himself,

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not counting up and holding against men

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their trespasses,

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but canceling them and committing to us

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the message of reconciliation

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or restoration to favor.

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So it was God present in Christ

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bringing us back to him.

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It wasn't, I mean God was rescuing us

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from our sin, yes,

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but the whole thing was

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him rescuing us to bring us back to him,

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into relationship with him,

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to be consecrated back to him,

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to belong again to him

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and no longer to ourselves.

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Because we were belonging to ourselves

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in our sin.

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We were lost,

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as soon as Adam and Eve ate of the tree,

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who did they think about, themselves?

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The God of self

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was what Lucifer became.

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Then he tempted Adam and Eve

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into the same deception

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where self is on the throne.

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Self is the focus.

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So Adam and Eve,

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because Adam right away,

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he's blaming Eve, you know,

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and right away everyone's pointing the finger

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at someone else because all of a sudden

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everyone's in self-preservation.

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Something that Brand knew that they had never

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felt before, that they had never

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thought about before, but they'd just

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eaten of that fruit that opened up their mind

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to another God.

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And the God was self.

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And so,

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what I see that we have to watch

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in Christendom

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is that

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we, yes, we're those here

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that have chosen Jesus Christ today.

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I believe he's my Lord and Savior.

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We understand the basics

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of salvation and we've come

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to that place of understanding very clearly,

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but what I believe we always have to watch

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out for is that deception

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that Lucifer, that Satan

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brought in even to Adam and Eve, that it

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doesn't come into us in our current

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salvation experience.

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That that selfishness

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that was so obvious at the

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fall of man,

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that that doesn't seep in

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to my current relationship with God.

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So that I don't

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somehow slowly slip into

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a selfish mentality

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that's really about me on the throne instead of

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him in a deceptive way,

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because how many...

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I mean, we all know Satan's deceptive.

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His devices are deceit

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and trickery. He's an evil genius,

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the Bible says. So it says

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be on watch because he's always

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going around looking. We know this.

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So it's constantly

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taking like a monitor

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of myself and saying, God,

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am I living consecrated

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or am I still getting into

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focus of me

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when the whole

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picture of God's saving

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us was from ourself.

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That's water baptism, right? You're dead.

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You're dead. You're in

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everything about you

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preserving yourself, caring for yourself.

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I don't mean self-care. Yes, take

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a shower and feed yourself and those kind of things.

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Don't neglect those things. I'm talking about

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the soulish things,

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the things in our mind, our will and our emotion

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that she looked at me wrong

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and what do you mean

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by that and all the different

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attitudes and the self-care

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that's unhealthy that can

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seep in. There's so many scriptures

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in the New Testament about how we're to

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give out and love each other and forgive each other

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and that doesn't always

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happen well in the church. My goodness, we have

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one church in Ely that

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I think they've had church split

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four or five times. I've lost track

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and they were the largest church

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probably most of those times

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and then they would split because of

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animosity in the ranks

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and they just went through another bad one.

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It might have been the worst ever. I don't know

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but

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you look, how does this happen? It can only

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happen. I mean there's a few

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reasons it can happen. I think there's a

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literal demonic thing over

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that church that needs to be broken that

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no matter what leadership is there, elders

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are in place that they just keep going in this cycle

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so it's spiritual and it keeps

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finding people to land on. That's the problem.

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Is there still new

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people to land on even when

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the leadership is shifting over the

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decades? And so

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I realize that that's a thing

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there too but it's like, well what's

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we should all be dead

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to ourselves. We should all be about Christ.

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So this unity and everything that we're

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supposed to be able to function in

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to see heaven come to earth

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Satan is looking to

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wreck that. He's looking to throw

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a wrench into that so that God

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can't be glorified because that's

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the whole reason we need to die is so that

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God can be glorified. So that he comes

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and lives on the inside of us

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so that like Jesus said

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my words are his words, my actions

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are his actions.

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And that level of consecration

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I don't know about you but

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where I travel a lot it's hard to find.

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It's hard to find people

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we have many in our church but

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it's not common to

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talk to Christians

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that understand true consecration

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and truly

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are laying their lives down in a

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sacrificial way.

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So God was

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in Christ, we just read here

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to bring us back to himself

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to take us away

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from the detour, from the path

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that we had been on to bring us back

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to that fellowship with him where now

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we are put into Christ

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the life we have

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is now in Christ.

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Alright let's turn to

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the main one I want to get to here

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which is 1 Peter chapter 4.

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This is so good.

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1 Peter 4 1

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So since

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Christ suffered in the flesh

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for us

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arm yourselves with the same

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thought and purpose

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to suffer rather than fail to please

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God. For whoever

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has suffered in the flesh having the

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mind of Christ, so you've suffered with

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having the correct mind of Christ

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is done with sin

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has stopped pleasing himself

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in the world and pleases God

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for that he can

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sorry so that he can no longer

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spend the rest of his natural

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life living

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by his human appetites and desires

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but he lives for what God

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wills.

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So good. I know that's kind of

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simplified. But this is awesome.

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So when we talk about suffering

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it's saying here that

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we need to, like Christ

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he suffered it says arm

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yourselves.

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Arm yourselves. So this is about

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now you know if you go into

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battle and you're not armed

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that's going to be bad.

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You're probably going to die very quickly

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right? You go in without

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armor, you go without a shield, you go without a weapon

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you're probably going to

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your end is coming very quickly.

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So I love this. Arm yourselves.

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So this is about protection.

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This is about

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our good. This is about us lasting

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for the distance.

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To arm ourselves with what?

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The same thought and purpose

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that Jesus had.

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Patiently

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to suffer rather than to

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fail to please God. Now the hardest

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thing I think for our human flesh

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the part where we come so alive when we're

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not supposed to be so alive is in

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suffering.

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Now we know the story of many

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Coryton boom and I mean many many

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many who have suffered well

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suffered very well

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but this is

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I'm always aiming for oh lord I don't

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see enough of this in myself or

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the church at large so we need to keep hearing this

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word. Most of us really need to keep hearing this

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word. To suffer well

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is to have

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the mindset I'm protected

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when I'm not about me

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complaining

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is the opposite of faith

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it's the opposite of trusting God

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and you know I

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have dealt with me and my family

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for the last I don't know it's been

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seven or eight years or so

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some physical issues

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not as bad as most

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not as bad as many but just a long duration

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where we got exposed to something

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in our bodies and it's just caused

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lots of money and lots of

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We have inconvenience and just yuck.

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Anyway, I'd sum it up as yuck.

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And so, me having a mother's heart for my children and seeing them go through these things,

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it's like, Collie, this is so dumb, you know.

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But we're in the world where there's contaminants and there's things,

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and our bodies get exposed to things.

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Now, I've suffered many things before, you know,

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and been healed, pressed in for healing, seen healing happen.

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I know Mary shared about how she was healed of cancer when she was at our church.

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Awesome. I've been healed of things the doctor said,

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no, that'll never go away. And it did.

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You know, I prophesied to it and it would go.

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I've seen healing. I've prayed over people. Many people have been healed.

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But this has been a long, suffering, seven or eight-year thing.

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And it has... I haven't...

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I've suffered well at times and not so well at other times.

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It's been very long.

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And so, it's easy to complain when things go long.

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It's easy to, at times, not feel trust in God.

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Like, God, how much longer is this going to go?

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And how much longer do I have to watch my kids go through this?

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And how many more thousands of dollars is it going to take for us to just keep us up to par

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and functioning and healthy and whatever?

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You know, we got busy lives. We can't just stop for all this junk.

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And so, lots of...

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You know, I've learned to trust God in things,

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but how many know there's always something new that comes

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that maybe you went through the last trial well,

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and you learned lots of things there,

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but then this new trial is going to bring out some more stuff

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that you need to throw to the garbage can spiritually

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and some new mindsets that you need to get

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in order to really become what this verse is saying.

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Because arming ourselves with the thought and purpose,

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so I don't want to complain.

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I don't want to fail to please God.

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For whoever has suffered in the flesh with the mind of Christ

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is done with sin.

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I love that. Whoever suffers well,

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pleasing God the way that Jesus did,

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it says that he was reviled and he didn't revile in return.

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Right? He was betrayed, and yet when he came back

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and after he died rose from the dead

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and he walked through the wall and appeared

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to where the disciples were, he was like,

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peace be to you.

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He could have been like,

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Peter, I'm going to wring your neck first.

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You know? He could have...

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He was betrayed. He knew.

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He said, you know, you're going to do it.

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I've already prayed for you. He was already okay.

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He was already unafended

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before Peter had even done it

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because he knew he was going to do it.

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But all the disciples ran.

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All of them were hiding in fear.

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And Jesus, the first thing he does

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when he appears is he says, peace to you.

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So when we have this mind,

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it says that if we suffer

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and we're not complaining

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and we're not going, God, where are you?

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And God, why don't you hurry up?

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And God, why is this happening to me?

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Which is all about me.

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It's all about me.

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If we don't do that, then we're not sinning.

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It says that the person who suffers well

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has not sinning.

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He's not pleasing himself or the world.

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He's pleasing God.

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He can no longer spend the rest of his natural...

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This is verse 2.

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He can no longer spend the rest of his natural life

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living by his own human appetites and desires,

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but he lives for what God wills.

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This is my heart saying, God,

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I don't want to complain.

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I just want to know what is the truth.

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How do you see this?

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And I want to please you.

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I want to please you.

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I want to find out what does consecration

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look like in my situation?

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What does it look like with my mouth?

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What does it look like?

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Of course, we know out of the abundance of the heart,

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the mouth speaks.

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What's going on in my attitudes?

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What do I need to sort out if there's lies

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that have gotten in there about who God is?

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Now, the subtle thing is as much as I,

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in all the different years of me

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walking with God and seeing God's faithfulness,

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doing it right, doing it wrong,

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all of that up to this present time

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even when we know truth,

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the enemy can sneak in in our soul

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and get into areas that throw us off

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so that we're not...

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there's parts that aren't pleasing Him.

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There's parts that are showing it's not consecrated yet.

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All of this maybe is looking good.

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All of this in this part of our life

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and this part of our soul is good,

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but now this part's getting worked on.

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We know that God can delay things,

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that God can allow, if you want to say it that way,

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God can allow things and suffering

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so that you get things worked out of you

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that literally might not get worked out any other way.

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They just might not

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because human nature can be really stubborn sometimes.

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And I'm gonna tell on my husband here for a minute

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because he... and he's okay with it,

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I know because he's shared this publicly at our church.

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But, you know, he hasn't been saved as long as me.

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And just, you know, hasn't had the longevity and things.

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And so he's had to learn a few things in our marriage.

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But his heart has always been radical and awesome for the Lord.

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And that's why I married him.

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His heart is humble and he's after the Lord.

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Well, he had... there was an area that we...

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we've never been really arguing or fighting in our marriage.

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We've had a great marriage for the most part, pretty easy, I would say.

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But there was this one thing that we...

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if we fought, and you call it fighting, we fought on this.

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And it was because he had an old mindset that came...

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because he was wild before he gave his heart to the Lord.

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I mean, wild.

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So, you know, I told you from four, I was like in the church going,

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I love you, Lord, in crime. Well, he was not that.

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He was in the world living straight up for the devil

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in every form and category that there was to experience.

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And so he was in jail and he did it all.

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I mean, try to... you know, it was opposite of me, okay?

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So then he gets radically saved.

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So an old mindset, it was a subtle one, right?

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I mean, the obvious ones, he'd already gotten free from those a long time ago.

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But this one subtle one, he was like,

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no, I can do this. This is okay.

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And I'm like, no, you can't. It's an open door for the devil.

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And he's like, no. And he'd give me some medical,

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scientific, whatever, whatever about, no, it's okay.

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And I'm like, no, it's not.

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So we had our intense fellowship about, about that.

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And I'm like, don't, and I said, you promise me you won't.

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Now he, I knew he didn't agree, but he promised me that he wouldn't.

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Well, but then he did.

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And I found out about it.

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And I, and to make a long story short, we were on vacation in Florida.

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And he, he broke my trust and he went and he got some.

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And he took it and it had fentanyl in it.

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And he had, he had no idea that that was a big problem in Florida.

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I think it might still be. I mean, it was just, is it?

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I know it's everywhere, but they had a lot of it.

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This is a couple of years ago. They had big problems.

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It was at a all time high or whatever in Florida.

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He had no idea. I mean, we were in Northern Minnesota, you know, he,

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but had fentanyl in it. Thankfully, my parents were with us on that vacation.

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And he started acting weird and there were, and I, and our son saw it.

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And I was like, what is going on?

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And the ambulance came.

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My dad's like, you need to call the ambulance.

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And so they came and they took him.

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And I was sitting, it was close.

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There was an officer sitting in the waiting room with me guarding a lady.

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And he saw Patrick there hooked up.

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They were already flushing out his system or whatever with what they do for that.

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And they, and I, they hadn't even told me what it was yet.

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And the officer looked at him and he said, is that your husband?

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I said, yeah, he said, that's fentanyl.

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He said, you are so lucky he's alive.

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He said, I have found so many dead people on the streets here.

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And it's too late.

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He's, and he asked a few questions and I answered.

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He goes, yeah, he just about died.

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You were probably half hour or so from him dying.

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And I was like, what?

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I mean, and Patrick couldn't move.

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He's sitting there completely out of it hooked up to whatever they were pumping in him.

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It took him a whole week to detox.

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It was bizarre.

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He could hardly, he couldn't function.

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He could hardly walk, could hardly talk or do anything.

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It was really intense.

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Well, all of that was because he didn't listen to what I said about that open door.

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Now, here's my point.

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He had dealt with a generational thing prior to that and had been asking God for freedom.

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And I think he's already said this to us.

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I'll say it publicly.

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He was anger from his, and he didn't, he just knew he had it.

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He never, we never talked about where it came from or whatever.

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So when after this near death experience, I mean, I was a little ticked at him because when I found out how he got it,

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that he did it by breaking the promise to me that he would never go after this other thing.

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And then he got fentanyl in it.

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And then that's how he almost died.

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I was, I was a little tick, but I was thankful he was alive.

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And so when we got back home, of course, we, I'm like, Calvin, we got it.

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We did some couple of counseling sessions with Calvin, which were great.

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And after one of those sessions in my office, Patrick, all of a sudden,

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because I'd always told him when I could tell that demon of anger and stuff was like, I'm not talking to my husband.

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I'm talking to a spirit.

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It's right there.

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And he's like, no, you're not.

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It's me.

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I'm like, no.

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He was asking for freedom, but because pride and resistance was still there in a blind spot,

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the freedom wasn't able to come.

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So how many know that sometimes we're stubborn?

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And it takes some and my husband just because of his personality, you know,

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just because of who he is.

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He's strong.

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He's gifted.

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He's a runner.

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And that's what God did so powerfully in him when he was newly saved is because his heart was just all in.

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He got delivered of things so fast as soon as he was saved.

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He heard the Holy Spirit talking to him.

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It got filled with the spirit when he didn't even know what that was.

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I mean, he just was accelerated in his learning.

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And yet years into his journey, all of a sudden he hits a spot where he's like, no, I'm going to think this, you know.

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And so God knew that just because of who he is and whatever it took.

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I mean, obviously that he left the open door to the enemy.

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The enemy did what he did.

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God saved him.

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But as we know, God uses things.

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And so none of that was God's plan.

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But God knew that's what it needed to happen because that is what broke everything.

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It broke that mindset that was an open door that had to be shut.

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And it delivered him of anger.

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Because after one of those sessions with Calvin, he knelt down in front of me

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and wrapped his arms around, put his head right here and just started crying.

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He said, Cherish, help me.

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And instantly I went into a vision.

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The Lord showed me a number of different things that were keys to his freedom.

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I had him repeat some things and it left in like two minutes.

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And he's never been the same since.

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He literally stood up and he shook himself like this.

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And he goes, he's gone.

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It's awesome, amen, to see freedom.

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But this is how sometimes when I'm talking about in process of consecration,

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sometimes things can happen easily with us.

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It doesn't have to be hard, amen.

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It doesn't have to be a near-death experience.

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It doesn't have to be as digging our heels in.

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But other times God knows what it takes for some people.

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What it takes for the consecration to come in.

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And he, my husband, has been a different man since then.

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Since that freedom, his seeking of the Lord, his fear of the Lord.

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His fear of the Lord, his awareness of how dangerous it is to allow mindsets

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that can totally even take you out.

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You know, it seems like a small thing.

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He thought it, it wrecked him for months.

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Like his mindset, it was embarrassing for him.

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But then he did finally share it publicly, which was totally his choice.

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And he was very vulnerable about it with our congregation.

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They all know.

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But it was humbling for him.

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He's like, my goodness, how could I, why was I like that?

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Why did I push it to that point?

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That I almost made you a widow and left our children.

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And you know, what a mess that would have been.

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And so, but I have had my own times like that.

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Where I'm like, God, why did I have to make that so long?

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Why did that process have to take so long?

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Why, what was it in my mind that just didn't want to shift?

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I wanted it to, but it just didn't want to shift.

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Now let's turn to, I want to get to something here, Philippians.

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Philippians chapter two.

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Oops.

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Philippians two.

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I've loved Philippians two for years.

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It's, if I could find it now.

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There we go.

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Philippians two.

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I want to start in verse five.

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Let this same attitude and purpose and humble mind be in you,

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which was in Christ Jesus.

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Let him be your example in humility.

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Now the verses before this is all about, excuse me.

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No, I'm missing.

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Oh yeah, yeah, here we go.

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I thought it was before it, but it's after the same attitude.

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Okay, then it talks about in verse six,

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who although being essentially one with God and in the form of God,

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did not think that equality with God was a thing to be eagerly grasped or retained,

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but stripped himself of all the privileges and rightful dignity.

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So as to assume the guise of a servant and that he might become like men

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and was born a human being.

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And after he had appeared in human form,

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he abased and humbled himself still further

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and carried his obedience to the extreme of death, even the death of the cross.

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Therefore, because he stooped solo,

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God has highly exalted him and has freely bestowed on him

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the name that is above every name that at the name of Jesus,

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every knee must bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth.

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Amen. And every tongue openly confess and acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord

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to the glory of God the Father.

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So it says, have this mind in you.

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Now the Bible says, be renewed in the spirit of your mind.

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Right? In the spirit of your mind.

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Now we know God is a spirit. We're a spirit.

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Isn't it interesting that it doesn't just say your mind,

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it says the spirit of your mind.

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So spirit to spirit.

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That means the spirit is our eternal part.

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But the spirit of our mind has to have something go so deep

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that's of God that we're changed in that place.

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And so be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

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having a new mental and spiritual attitude serving the Lord.

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So we need to come into this place of communion with him

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where we take on the mind of Christ.

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We take on his mindset. His humility is...

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I just love it. I love reading...

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This is, I think, one of my favorite sections of the Bible

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where it says that he set aside...

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I mean, this is God.

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He set aside his royal dignity in all that came with that

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to become a human. I mean, that was humble enough.

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That was humble enough.

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Then it says he humbled himself still further

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to die and then not just die

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as if dying would be enough in a human body

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but to go to the cross to die.

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And it says, let that mind be in you.

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And then you see what I talked about earlier

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about how we can be so living for ourselves while we're saved.

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And then it's talking about, but let this mind be in you.

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And so it's not a condemning thing like,

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oh God, I can't do this.

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It says that this is what we should aspire to

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because if you can't ever become something you're not looking at.

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Isn't it 2 Corinthians 2 or 3

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where it says that we have to behold him

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and that as we gaze at him

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that we were transformed into his image

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and the veils are taken away.

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And that's repentance.

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The veils are taken away with repentance.

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So it's like, oh God, I don't want to see that way.

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I want to see, I want to put on the mindset of Christ, the humility.

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So I repent and go, God,

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why am I thinking about how long this is taking?

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Why am I thinking about, well, God,

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what are you going to bring the manifestation of what I need?

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Instead of those things to just put on this humble,

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which is faith, faith is humility.

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God, I'm putting on the mindset of Christ

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that it's like, I'm here for your glory.

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How about I just focus on that?

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If I'm consecrated, I should be focused on

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how can he get the glory through me right now

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instead of how can I get my answer right now?

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Because the, why do we go?

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I'm not, please hear me.

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I'm not saying you can't go for prayer.

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But let's watch.

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Sometimes why do we go for prayer?

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Are we going for prayer because I'm so obsessed about my need?

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I'm going for prayer because I'm so obsessed that I need freedom

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or that I need this to shift or my spouse to get saved

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or the finances to have a breakthrough.

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Or am I saying how many people get in a prayer line?

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I mean, and I don't mean to kind of chuckle when I say this,

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but I mean, it's just, it's just kind of common.

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For how, what if people got in a prayer line?

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They'd probably shock the person who's there to pray

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if they got in the prayer line,

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because it just doesn't happen enough,

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and say, hey, I got all this stuff going on,

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but I just want you to pray that I can just be more like him

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and shine in my trial.

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Don't pray about my trial.

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Just pray I can shine in my trial.

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I'm sure people get in prayer lines to do that

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because there's great hearted people, and maybe you're some of them.

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That's awesome.

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But a lot of times it's not that.

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If anyone is ministered for longer than five minutes,

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you just know it's not common, right?

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A lot of the times, and again, God doesn't condemn us in that.

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Please hear me. God doesn't condemn us in that.

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But a lot of times we're looking for the prayer

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because we're looking for the exit.

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Instead of looking for him to be the answer in us.

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And for him to consecrate,

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because if I'm consecrated, then I'm all for his...

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That's what consecrated means, is I'm set apart.

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Regardless of how my life goes,

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I'm set apart for his glory.

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For a higher purpose.

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Well, how does he get glory?

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Not from my complaining.

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Not from my, you know, the...

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Like the Bible says, when you're fasting,

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don't look like you're fasting.

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We were talking about fasting.

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Oh, God, I'm hungry. Is that a sandwich?

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Oh, that looks so good.

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You know, it says, wash your face.

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And don't look like, you know, you need some attention

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because I'm fasting.

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Or for anything else that people do

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to get spiritual attention.

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So, again, if it's all about,

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God, I just want to be like you,

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then our desire for prayer,

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even our prayer with him in our personal time

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should be like, God, you know what I need.

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You know what's in my heart.

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You know the changes that I want in my life

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or my family or whatever it is.

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I'm saying, God, shine through me now.

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Shine through me so that no one can tell

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that I have no money.

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That no one can tell

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that I am getting a verbal lashing

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from my spouse every day.

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That no one...

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You hear me?

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That no one can tell

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that I feel sick to my stomach

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because I have some digestive stuff.

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Whatever it is,

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that we say, God, I saw...

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This is Jesus.

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This is Jesus.

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That he put on this humility.

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He had a whole different mindset

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that he was prepared to go and suffer

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for us by choice.

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We don't usually go, pick me to suffer.

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I'll suffer.

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Send me into the wilderness, Lord.

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I'll go.

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I mean, to just say, God,

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take me in to be tested by the devil.

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People don't want to volunteer for that.

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It's going to come.

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It's going to come to us all,

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trials and tribulations.

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But what I'm saying is,

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our human nature, if it's too alive,

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it's always looking for the exit,

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not to go through something.

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It's just a natural tendency,

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so we have to always check ourselves

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and say consecration means

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I'm here to just shine with him.

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Which means I need my...

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I can't shine if my mentality is not right.

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If I don't have the mindset of Christ,

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if my heart isn't bent on his glory,

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it's going to be bent on my help.

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My getting help, or I'm not getting help.

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I'm not doing well today

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because I'm not getting help.

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I'm doing better today because I got help.

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Not that.

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Not that.

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But that we can live from a higher place.

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That's what set apart means.

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I'm living from a higher place.

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A place of consecration

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where I doesn't matter

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whatever my dreams,

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hopes and aspirations are.

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It shouldn't matter if they're happening or not.

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What I am focused on is

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am I pleasing God with my inner life?

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Is he pleased like we read in 1 Peter?

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What was it?

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Yeah, 1 Peter 4.

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The first verse.

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I'm not sinning

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if all I'm about is his glory.

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That's what it said.

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It said that I'm not living for myself.

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I'm not living for the world.

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That means I'm not sinning.

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Because sin is living for me.

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Which was the first temptation.

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Oh, I think that tree might have something for me.

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I know God said not to eat it.

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But it might have something for me.

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It might help me.

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The Bible says that Eve looked at it.

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She's like, well, it looks good.

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It looks good.

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And she chose to have some.

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That mentality took them away from the Father

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when God had to, through Christ,

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restore us back to the Father.

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Back to him.

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So look down.

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Now, how do we do this?

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I've kind of been talking about it.

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So we left off in verse 11 in Philippians 2.

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Look at verse 12.

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Therefore, my dear ones,

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as you have always obeyed my suggestions,

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so now, not only with the enthusiasm

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you would show in my presence,

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but much more because I'm absent.

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Work out your own salvation

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with reverence and awe and trembling.

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And this is something years ago

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the Lord had me in for probably months.

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In the Amplified it says,

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working out your salvation with reverence

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and awe and trembling means self-distrust,

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with serious caution,

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tenderness of conscience,

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watchfulness against temptation,

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timidly shrinking from whatever might

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offend God or discredit the name of Christ.

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The self-distrust thing was literally

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a season he had me go through

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in like the early 2000s,

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where I meditated on that part

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and parentheses of this verse.

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Self-distrust.

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Because we naturally grow up

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in this earth where everything's about self.

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Self-trust? Well, what do I think?

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Trusting myself, helping myself,

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looking out for myself, defending myself.

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All the self things.

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And all of that is what took us away

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from the Father.

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So if I want to be consecrated

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and I live for him, then I'm saying,

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okay, my life is yours.

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I don't want to have a thought

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that I follow or act on or agree with

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unless it's yours.

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I love this, whatever might offend God,

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timidly shrinking

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from whatever might offend God

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or discredit the name of Christ.

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Because again, if I'm consecrated

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and I'm for his glory,

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I don't want to discredit him

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with my mouth.

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I don't want to discredit him

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with my actions so that no one

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is drawn to him in me

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because they see so much of me

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going through my suffering

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and I'm not going through it well.

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They're like, I'll talk to you next month

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and hopefully you're doing better.

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I don't want to hang with that.

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It can be the natural tendency of people.

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We want people to be seeing us

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in suffering and not even knowing

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we're suffering because God

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is getting the glory from it.

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Okay, so it says,

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verse 13, the answer is

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how do we do this? Not in your

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own strength. For it is

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God, this is so encouraging.

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For it is God who is

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all the while, effectually

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at work in you, energizing

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and creating in you the

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power and desire both to

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will and to work for his good

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pleasure and satisfaction and

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delight.

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So good. So he's at work

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in you to do it.

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He's creating in you

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the desire, the power

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and the desire to will

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and to work for his good

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pleasure.

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So it doesn't come from us.

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As we know, it is continually

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his ability on the inside.

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I was...

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Again, we have a lot of new people

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at Oasis. And so I'm starting

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from the ground level of teaching

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a lot of Sundays for these

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people. And I was telling them

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recently that

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if you're struggling with

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something, then ask. Because the Bible

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says, as you know, ask. Keep on

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seeking. And so

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if we don't have something, we

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ask him. And here he's saying

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that it's not in your own strength.

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I'm going to create in you the power

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and the desire. So when we know it's

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right, we just ask.

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Because sometimes we're resistant, just

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like that story that I told with Patrick.

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Sometimes we're resistant

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to even the change, because

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we have such a strong mindset, or we

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want what we want so badly

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that we just can't

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get past that. And so it's

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ask. Say, God, I know

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that I need to get off this

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thing that I'm just obsessed with.

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And so God, I'm asking,

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created me the power and

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the desire to want

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what you have for me. And that's what the Bible

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says. You have not because you ask

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not. So we have to

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ask him sometimes for that shift

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to happen in our heart because we need his power

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to do it. We cannot do it

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in our own strength. And so I've always

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loved that scripture. That this is

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how he does it.

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And we know

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how much time do I have? Is that

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the right time? 12, 30? Okay.

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Yeah, I'm almost done here.

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So, Romans 8 talks

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about how Jesus is the first born among

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many other brethren.

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That he's the first born.

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He's our example.

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We follow him.

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My daughter just naturally

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she's at that age where she's like

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copy brother, follow

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brother. He's the leader. I'll follow him.

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Which sometimes is okay.

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And a lot of times

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I go, dear Jesus

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and I tell her, don't copy

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don't copy him.

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Don't copy his. I try to

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challenge him. Look, she's copying you know

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she's talking like you. Now I have two to deal

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with that are mouthy.

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Two of you that are

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doing the wrong thing because he's not always

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the best example, but he's getting better.

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But it says that

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Jesus is the first born. My son

01:00:37.590 --> 01:00:39.610
is the first born. And then

01:00:39.610 --> 01:00:41.570
my second born, they do that.

01:00:41.650 --> 01:00:43.530
They just naturally look up to the first

01:00:43.530 --> 01:00:45.430
born. And so

01:00:45.430 --> 01:00:47.370
isn't that interesting language in Romans 8

01:00:47.370 --> 01:00:49.610
that Jesus is the first born among many

01:00:49.610 --> 01:00:51.530
brethren and so we're supposed to copy

01:00:51.530 --> 01:00:53.190
him. We're

01:00:53.190 --> 01:00:55.570
to copy his example, we're to look to him

01:00:55.570 --> 01:00:57.190
he's the first born

01:00:57.190 --> 01:00:58.610
among many brethren.

01:00:59.490 --> 01:01:00.410
And the

01:01:02.370 --> 01:01:03.390
the thing

01:01:03.390 --> 01:01:05.550
that I know

01:01:05.550 --> 01:01:07.490
for me and I think

01:01:07.490 --> 01:01:09.110
that we're all human here today, right?

01:01:10.770 --> 01:01:11.370
So

01:01:11.370 --> 01:01:13.170
you're probably similar to me.

01:01:13.750 --> 01:01:14.090
Yeah, yeah.

01:01:14.910 --> 01:01:16.810
There's no Nephilim here or anything like that.

01:01:18.010 --> 01:01:18.490
That

01:01:20.630 --> 01:01:21.590
in our

01:01:21.590 --> 01:01:23.150
human nature, we know

01:01:23.630 --> 01:01:25.570
what the devil goes after a lot

01:01:25.570 --> 01:01:27.210
and I'm just going to wrap up with this thought.

01:01:27.730 --> 01:01:29.190
What the devil goes after a lot

01:01:29.190 --> 01:01:31.430
is when we

01:01:31.430 --> 01:01:33.430
see this truth, everything that I've talked

01:01:33.430 --> 01:01:35.390
about, but we're not maybe doing well

01:01:35.390 --> 01:01:37.430
in it, that

01:01:37.430 --> 01:01:39.530
the guilt, shame, and condemnation

01:01:39.530 --> 01:01:41.290
even in subtle

01:01:41.290 --> 01:01:43.130
is again back to that word subtle

01:01:43.130 --> 01:01:45.170
back to those subtle ways

01:01:45.170 --> 01:01:47.710
can man when am I going to get it

01:01:47.710 --> 01:01:49.590
man why am I not getting it

01:01:49.590 --> 01:01:51.650
and the guilt, shame, and condemnation that the

01:01:51.650 --> 01:01:52.910
enemy can bring

01:01:53.530 --> 01:01:55.350
and yet again

01:01:55.350 --> 01:01:56.910
even myself recently

01:01:57.490 --> 01:01:59.750
didn't realize I needed it, but God

01:01:59.750 --> 01:02:01.590
came and just washed my soul

01:02:01.590 --> 01:02:03.270
and he reminded me cherish

01:02:03.890 --> 01:02:05.250
it's like you know when

01:02:05.250 --> 01:02:07.530
when we're all women here

01:02:07.530 --> 01:02:09.650
probably most of us have had children

01:02:09.650 --> 01:02:11.510
even if you hadn't

01:02:11.510 --> 01:02:13.570
you know how what I'm about to say

01:02:13.570 --> 01:02:15.410
that when a toddler is learning

01:02:15.410 --> 01:02:17.570
to walk, if you're a

01:02:17.570 --> 01:02:18.290
decent parent

01:02:19.290 --> 01:02:21.190
you're like you know how we get down

01:02:21.190 --> 01:02:23.110
and we get this stupid look on our face

01:02:23.110 --> 01:02:25.950
and we're like

01:02:25.950 --> 01:02:27.790
come on, come on

01:02:27.790 --> 01:02:29.390
and we just get a little

01:02:29.390 --> 01:02:31.590
silly about it and we're encouraging them to walk

01:02:31.590 --> 01:02:33.130
when they're first learning

01:02:33.130 --> 01:02:34.750
they always fall down

01:02:35.590 --> 01:02:36.810
but then we help them

01:02:36.810 --> 01:02:38.570
do we go oh you bad kid

01:02:38.570 --> 01:02:41.070
what is wrong with you get your act together

01:02:41.070 --> 01:02:41.930
I said walk

01:02:42.750 --> 01:02:44.770
you know it's we don't do

01:02:44.770 --> 01:02:46.670
that right we help them back up again

01:02:47.550 --> 01:02:48.650
and and we're

01:02:48.650 --> 01:02:50.610
still with this look on our

01:02:50.610 --> 01:02:52.590
face come on and we

01:02:52.590 --> 01:02:53.750
get right back to it

01:02:53.750 --> 01:02:56.050
this is always the picture

01:02:56.050 --> 01:02:57.830
that our heavenly father has

01:02:58.910 --> 01:03:00.310
it's always the picture

01:03:00.310 --> 01:03:02.710
of it's

01:03:02.710 --> 01:03:07.170
It's from glory to glory. And he's not focused in what you're getting wrong.

01:03:07.830 --> 01:03:12.090
But see this, we know that nobody can grow well outside of love.

01:03:14.170 --> 01:03:19.630
That even in parenting, oh my goodness, this has gone so deep in me.

01:03:19.710 --> 01:03:24.470
Like, I feel like raising my son is pulling every ounce of religiosity out of me.

01:03:25.090 --> 01:03:30.670
Which I praise God. I really do. I mean, I'm truly thankful. Religion I didn't know was there.

01:03:31.830 --> 01:03:35.070
You know, again, having lived in the church and grown up in the church my whole life.

01:03:35.230 --> 01:03:40.570
So that, you know, you think, okay, well, when a child does wrong, they need consequences.

01:03:41.410 --> 01:03:45.490
Right? So they need to understand there's consequences. You can't do that.

01:03:45.610 --> 01:03:50.270
But then you also need to give them the love and say, you can do it. You can do this.

01:03:50.570 --> 01:03:55.070
And so with my son, because he's been naughty a lot.

01:03:55.310 --> 01:03:59.090
And sometimes, like, it doesn't stop. It's just...

01:03:59.090 --> 01:04:03.590
I mean, I start to feel the stress in my chest of like, you're already grounded.

01:04:03.770 --> 01:04:07.830
You already lost all your... everything with wheels. You already lost all treats for the day.

01:04:07.890 --> 01:04:11.650
You don't get TV or tablet. Like, there's no other consequences to take away.

01:04:11.730 --> 01:04:13.130
And we're only at nine o'clock in the morning.

01:04:15.150 --> 01:04:21.450
You know what I'm like? So there's this thing in me of, okay, there has to be consequences.

01:04:21.590 --> 01:04:26.310
But I'm given he's very loved. And he's very encouraged.

01:04:26.310 --> 01:04:29.390
And so he's got all that going on. You know, when you think of spiritually,

01:04:29.470 --> 01:04:33.130
what does someone need, child or adult, to grow and to do well?

01:04:34.210 --> 01:04:36.530
But there's been demonic stuff working on him, too.

01:04:36.630 --> 01:04:42.250
And so I have to... a generational stuff that Patrick had that hurt Judah.

01:04:42.370 --> 01:04:44.750
Now he's coming out of and getting healing bit by bit.

01:04:45.170 --> 01:04:48.370
But what I'm saying and that is pulling religion out of me is

01:04:48.370 --> 01:04:52.250
because there's times where I just want to ring his neck.

01:04:53.470 --> 01:04:56.150
And I'm like, God, I don't love him right now.

01:04:57.030 --> 01:05:00.330
I don't even want to look at him right now. I mean, I've been to those places.

01:05:00.490 --> 01:05:06.090
Like, it's been severe. Not recent, but in past years. It's been a thing.

01:05:07.310 --> 01:05:11.230
And so I have been like, wow, God, all my love is gone.

01:05:12.850 --> 01:05:18.210
And I've had to go back and say, I am so depleted from the warfare here

01:05:18.210 --> 01:05:22.910
that God, I know this has been my suffering, you know, part of it.

01:05:23.230 --> 01:05:27.110
God, in this suffering, this is hard on me, but I need to get your heart

01:05:27.110 --> 01:05:32.130
because it's like the toddler falling down and me wanting to slap him.

01:05:32.330 --> 01:05:36.630
Well, that's not... he's learning. He's learning. He is who he is.

01:05:37.050 --> 01:05:42.610
And so how God has been teaching me at a whole new level with my son

01:05:42.610 --> 01:05:46.970
how to have the consequences, how to have the love,

01:05:47.110 --> 01:05:51.790
but how to work through and work, get beyond this thing,

01:05:51.950 --> 01:05:55.550
this cycle that we've been in that I'm like, I'm just so ready for it

01:05:55.550 --> 01:05:56.850
to be on to the next season.

01:05:58.150 --> 01:06:03.730
But it's been working something in me that I know I'm going to look back

01:06:03.730 --> 01:06:05.930
and I'm going to go, Judah, let me just shake your hand.

01:06:06.030 --> 01:06:09.190
Thank you so much for being my hell on earth for a little while

01:06:09.730 --> 01:06:14.830
because it's going to be so good that I've already learned so much.

01:06:15.010 --> 01:06:16.750
Because this is our grace grower, right?

01:06:17.050 --> 01:06:20.510
Because if we don't have... I mean, I never would have thought

01:06:20.510 --> 01:06:22.690
that my son would provide my biggest challenge.

01:06:23.630 --> 01:06:27.910
But Graham Cook always said, you have a grace grower, at least one.

01:06:28.190 --> 01:06:31.210
And if you don't like that one, well, then God will just give you one that's worse.

01:06:33.610 --> 01:06:37.850
Because there has to be something... there has to be the refiner fire.

01:06:37.850 --> 01:06:42.370
There has to be something that puts the old self in our face.

01:06:42.510 --> 01:06:44.630
And we go, oh my God, I got to be like you.

01:06:45.210 --> 01:06:49.830
I've got... how do I get... how do I live consecrated, set apart and holy like this?

01:06:49.950 --> 01:06:53.890
How do I get your heart enough to get this religion out of me so that I don't...

01:06:54.450 --> 01:06:56.930
How would Jesus wouldn't have a problem raising my son?

01:06:58.850 --> 01:07:02.230
Jesus wouldn't, you know, and he continually has given me wisdom.

01:07:02.370 --> 01:07:06.170
I mean, I feel like most of me and Patrick's date nights are talking about, you know,

01:07:06.170 --> 01:07:10.390
how do we do this? Well, let's try this. Let's do this.

01:07:10.490 --> 01:07:13.850
And the Lord gave us insight. I mean, it's really been a big thing in our lives.

01:07:14.170 --> 01:07:18.910
And so, but this child has a leader call on him that is just intense.

01:07:19.190 --> 01:07:22.290
And we know this. We know this. He's probably going to, you know,

01:07:22.390 --> 01:07:26.110
be the one to throw the devil in hell himself. I don't know, but he just...

01:07:26.110 --> 01:07:28.750
I say that as a joke, obviously, but I mean, the kid is strong.

01:07:29.270 --> 01:07:32.450
He is just strong-minded and whatever he does, it's going to happen.

01:07:32.450 --> 01:07:35.730
And so when he gets it fully on the Lord, because he does love the Lord,

01:07:36.470 --> 01:07:40.490
it's going to be just incredible. But God has entrusted him to us.

01:07:41.290 --> 01:07:45.910
So he's given us the grace to do it. But there's times where I've wanted to...

01:07:45.910 --> 01:07:47.790
I never swore growing up.

01:07:51.830 --> 01:07:57.150
But I have gone in the bathroom and sworn in raising him at times, you know,

01:07:57.230 --> 01:07:59.230
where it's been like, God, I'm at the end of myself.

01:07:59.230 --> 01:08:05.090
And so this, the guilt and condemnation, you know, we're...

01:08:05.090 --> 01:08:07.830
I mean, it's funny to tell, because, you know, we're in a better place than we were.

01:08:07.890 --> 01:08:12.230
But I'm saying we're years in the, you know, a couple of years ago, it was...

01:08:13.910 --> 01:08:16.950
I don't have words for it. It was a lot.

01:08:17.830 --> 01:08:24.010
But it has so caused me to seek the Lord and to see guilt, shame and condemnation.

01:08:24.630 --> 01:08:32.870
And how is God with us? And how do we help a little soul walk out of things

01:08:32.870 --> 01:08:36.770
and come into the purpose to go from glory to glory?

01:08:37.290 --> 01:08:39.690
How do I teach him how to be consecrated?

01:08:39.870 --> 01:08:45.390
And how do I not be legalistic and very churchy with my son?

01:08:45.570 --> 01:08:47.730
How do I release the presence of God?

01:08:47.810 --> 01:08:50.970
Which I seem to have no problem releasing any other person.

01:08:50.970 --> 01:08:56.210
And yet in my own home, it hasn't been a problem except I was like,

01:08:56.270 --> 01:08:58.430
God, this isn't working, because there's no receiver.

01:09:00.110 --> 01:09:04.150
It's a wall. And it's just throwing punches at me in a wall.

01:09:04.730 --> 01:09:08.190
And there's no receiver out, you know, and so I'm not used to this God.

01:09:08.350 --> 01:09:11.650
Like, you know, I usually can work with something, you know,

01:09:11.710 --> 01:09:13.150
because someone is like, I need help.

01:09:13.250 --> 01:09:14.890
But he's like, I don't need help, but I don't want your help.

01:09:14.990 --> 01:09:16.770
Just leave me alone and I'll be my own leader.

01:09:17.770 --> 01:09:22.010
So it's been a whole different, whole different thing of how do we do this.

01:09:22.110 --> 01:09:23.730
But do you know, I got to tell you a funny story,

01:09:23.790 --> 01:09:26.690
just to really put this in a positive way of the Lord's humor.

01:09:28.190 --> 01:09:30.290
I don't know when this was a while back.

01:09:30.650 --> 01:09:32.610
I really sought the Lord for like a whole day.

01:09:32.710 --> 01:09:35.890
My mom took the kids and I literally, for an entire afternoon,

01:09:36.190 --> 01:09:37.550
got to spend time with the Lord.

01:09:37.650 --> 01:09:39.770
And I spent it all talking to him about Judah.

01:09:41.930 --> 01:09:44.330
And I was like, Lord, I cried out to him.

01:09:44.330 --> 01:09:49.850
And he took me to the scripture in the Old Testament where I kid you not.

01:09:50.150 --> 01:09:52.670
I turned there from what I felt the Lord tell me to do.

01:09:52.750 --> 01:09:55.130
And it said, oh Judah, what shall I do with you?

01:09:57.850 --> 01:10:00.270
Old Testament. I forget where it's found.

01:10:00.450 --> 01:10:01.570
I forget what's profit.

01:10:02.070 --> 01:10:03.450
Talking about the tribe of Israel.

01:10:04.510 --> 01:10:06.070
Oh Judah, what shall I do with you?

01:10:06.070 --> 01:10:07.090
And I went, there it is.

01:10:09.110 --> 01:10:12.070
There it is. I laughed like you're laughing right now.

01:10:12.070 --> 01:10:13.790
I'm like, Lord, you are funny.

01:10:14.450 --> 01:10:18.030
I did not, I mean, I knew you talked to the Jews like that,

01:10:18.070 --> 01:10:19.950
but I mean, it's literally, it's right there.

01:10:20.070 --> 01:10:21.790
That's my question. What do I do with them?

01:10:22.530 --> 01:10:26.130
And then the Lord, so I wrote it all down.

01:10:26.250 --> 01:10:26.810
I journaled it.

01:10:27.110 --> 01:10:29.270
And then I said, okay Lord, so what's the answer?

01:10:30.270 --> 01:10:33.350
There's the question, but the answer wasn't in that passage.

01:10:34.310 --> 01:10:35.410
It's just the question.

01:10:36.250 --> 01:10:39.350
So then the Lord had me turn to the Valley of Dry Bones.

01:10:40.690 --> 01:10:41.730
And prophesy.

01:10:43.210 --> 01:10:45.550
Prophecy, which I already knew, but you know,

01:10:45.930 --> 01:10:47.790
sometimes what you already know, you got to,

01:10:48.030 --> 01:10:49.870
the Lord's got to say it again a different way

01:10:49.870 --> 01:10:53.470
or dig it home a little bit deeper or whatever it is.

01:10:53.630 --> 01:10:58.990
And so anyway, how we, how we see the Lord in our process

01:10:59.670 --> 01:11:03.210
is so hugely important that in our consecration

01:11:03.210 --> 01:11:05.570
and in our whole journey with Him,

01:11:06.390 --> 01:11:09.030
it's noticing what the enemy's trying to do

01:11:09.030 --> 01:11:12.190
to prevent me, keeping me in mindsets

01:11:12.190 --> 01:11:14.150
that keep me locked up so that I'm condemned

01:11:14.150 --> 01:11:16.510
so that I can never really get the mindset of Christ

01:11:16.510 --> 01:11:18.730
because it feels like I'll never get there

01:11:18.730 --> 01:11:20.230
because my answer is never coming.

01:11:20.390 --> 01:11:21.630
Well, just, just die.

01:11:22.450 --> 01:11:24.770
Just be consecrated and just die

01:11:24.770 --> 01:11:27.850
and trust Him enough that He's got your life.

01:11:27.950 --> 01:11:30.030
And really the only reason for our lives

01:11:30.030 --> 01:11:33.510
and really break it all down is just for His glory.

01:11:33.790 --> 01:11:34.230
That's it.

01:11:34.770 --> 01:11:36.410
You know, we talk about callings,

01:11:36.470 --> 01:11:38.230
we talk about gifts, we talk about dreams

01:11:38.230 --> 01:11:40.270
and God cares about all of that.

01:11:40.370 --> 01:11:42.150
He's the one that puts things in us.

01:11:42.770 --> 01:11:44.370
So of course He's gonna complete it

01:11:44.370 --> 01:11:45.870
but don't we love that scripture that says

01:11:45.870 --> 01:11:47.770
He who began the good work in me

01:11:47.770 --> 01:11:49.930
is faithful to complete it.

01:11:50.070 --> 01:11:51.450
So He started it.

01:11:51.570 --> 01:11:53.250
Why am I worried He's gonna finish it?

01:11:53.490 --> 01:11:54.930
It's a promise that He says,

01:11:55.050 --> 01:11:57.510
I'll complete what I began.

01:11:57.810 --> 01:11:59.710
But you have to keep the vision,

01:11:59.850 --> 01:12:01.170
the main thing, the main thing.

01:12:01.690 --> 01:12:03.530
That I'm for His glory.

01:12:03.730 --> 01:12:06.190
I'm not for me and yet so many times

01:12:06.190 --> 01:12:08.910
when I'm ministering to people

01:12:08.910 --> 01:12:12.390
in the vast majority of my life as I look back

01:12:12.390 --> 01:12:13.890
it's a lot about people saying,

01:12:13.950 --> 01:12:15.530
well what can God do for me?

01:12:15.930 --> 01:12:18.850
And really the message of the gospel has always been here

01:12:18.850 --> 01:12:20.650
is that it's not what can He do for me.

01:12:20.710 --> 01:12:22.890
He already did everything for me.

01:12:24.110 --> 01:12:26.090
What am I gonna do now

01:12:26.090 --> 01:12:27.850
through His power for Him?

01:12:29.270 --> 01:12:31.450
What am I gonna do now by His grace

01:12:31.450 --> 01:12:32.710
for Him?

01:12:33.030 --> 01:12:35.350
Because there's nothing else He can do for me

01:12:35.350 --> 01:12:36.750
that He hasn't already done.

01:12:38.450 --> 01:12:39.470
And if you read,

01:12:39.950 --> 01:12:43.030
I didn't read that, that was in Ephesians 1.

01:12:44.070 --> 01:12:45.370
If you keep reading,

01:12:45.510 --> 01:12:48.430
we started out that consecrated

01:12:48.870 --> 01:12:50.050
that He set us apart for Him.

01:12:50.110 --> 01:12:51.850
If you keep reading all the way down to verse 12

01:12:52.290 --> 01:12:54.170
it says all the things

01:12:54.170 --> 01:12:55.750
that He's done for us.

01:12:56.110 --> 01:12:58.190
I mean, He seated us in heavenly places

01:12:58.190 --> 01:13:00.050
and He's crowned us with wisdom and understanding

01:13:00.050 --> 01:13:03.690
and He's put us in equality with Jesus Christ.

01:13:04.530 --> 01:13:07.970
Put us in the sun with Him, made us one with Him.

01:13:09.470 --> 01:13:11.370
He can't go any higher than that.

01:13:12.210 --> 01:13:14.350
He can't go any higher than being in Him.

01:13:14.490 --> 01:13:15.470
So what else can He do?

01:13:16.150 --> 01:13:17.630
There's nothing else He can do.

01:13:17.930 --> 01:13:20.350
So then our only problem is how we're seeing it.

01:13:22.350 --> 01:13:23.650
I don't really have a problem.

01:13:23.810 --> 01:13:25.090
It's just how I see my life.

01:13:25.170 --> 01:13:26.590
It's just what I think the problem is.

01:13:26.650 --> 01:13:27.970
Maybe the problem is just how I'm thinking.

01:13:28.870 --> 01:13:30.950
I'm just thinking the problem is

01:13:30.950 --> 01:13:32.290
that I need this and this to happen.

01:13:32.290 --> 01:13:33.530
He's like, no, that's important,

01:13:33.570 --> 01:13:35.030
but that's not actually the problem.

01:13:35.350 --> 01:13:37.710
The problem is that you're not all about me.

01:13:39.050 --> 01:13:41.270
You're still holding on to your control.

01:13:42.250 --> 01:13:42.870
You're still...

01:13:42.870 --> 01:13:44.410
And even just maybe a part.

01:13:45.530 --> 01:13:45.830
A part.

01:13:46.090 --> 01:13:47.050
Maybe it's not...

01:13:47.050 --> 01:13:49.550
Maybe you've given it all to Him in this part of your house

01:13:49.550 --> 01:13:50.410
of your heart.

01:13:50.490 --> 01:13:52.350
But over here, you're still holding on to this one

01:13:52.850 --> 01:13:54.250
and saying, well, I'm still holding...

01:13:54.250 --> 01:13:55.410
I still want this to happen.

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I'm not really willing to fully trust this to Him.

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And I've done that.

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And that's where we become self-deceived.

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Because we think, I am giving it all to Him.

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It's like, well, let's talk about this topic.

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Ah, you hit a button. Don't talk about that.

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And I've been there.

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I've been there, done that.

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But I know better now.

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So, it's all about transformation.

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Let me just say this.

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That if we are not yet where we want to be,

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but we can see in Scripture, we can see where He's called us,

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here's how we can gauge our heart

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if we're actually already in transformation

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and we can be encouraged instead of feeling guilty

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or condemned to where we're not.

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We can say, well, I...

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You know, even the example I gave of my son.

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Okay, I'm not parenting exactly like Jesus would probably yet.

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But I know that I've changed a lot in how I'm parenting.

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So, instead of saying, well, I'm just a failure.

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I'm just... I'm failing at raising my son.

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I'm not doing that, but I could.

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If I'm not seeing enough results or whatever over years,

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you know, you can feel that.

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The devil can come and tell you that.

01:15:21.680 --> 01:15:22.660
Oh, you're totally failing.

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So then he can take that failure and say,

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well, then how can you pastor a church

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if you can't even raise your own son in the Lord?

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Because isn't that the devil?

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He would totally do that.

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And I don't think...

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If he's done that, I haven't let that have a place.

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So it's kind of foreign to me to say that,

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but he might have said it,

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because it would make sense for him to say it.

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Or at least try to see if I'd take the bait.

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But see how that works.

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What instead I can say is, and what I do say is,

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hey, I've learned a lot.

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I know some things I used to do,

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some things I used to think, even in my inner heart,

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that now are clear to me.

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I can see Christ's way now.

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I can see God's heart in it.

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So I might not be doing my parenting with him

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as well as I will one day.

01:16:07.120 --> 01:16:09.500
But I know I've come a ways from where I was.

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So that means I'm in the funnel of transformation.

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I'm in the funnel of transformation.

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So I'm encouraged because I'm at least not where I was,

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and my heart doesn't want to stay even where I am.

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That means his power and desire is effectually at work in me.

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So I'm encouraged that I am in momentum,

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and if I don't stop,

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failure would just be stopping at this point.

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I cannot fail if I continue to see with him helping me

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what I'm still missing

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and what I still have yet to walk in this of Christ,

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taking the mindset of Christ.

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It takes so much humility to be a mom.

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It takes so much wisdom to be a mom,

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whether it's a natural mom or spiritual mom,

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same thing.

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It takes so much.

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It takes the same and similar kind of grace.

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So to encourage ourselves,

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I'm not going to be guilty about what I've missed up,

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messed up, missed or messed up,

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or what I think I'm currently not getting.

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I'm going to say I can just be encouraged

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that I am in the transformation funnel,

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that he's completing in me what he began,

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because I can at least see where I'm going,

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and I know I want to get there.

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I know I'm not going to stop,

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and by his grace I'll get there.

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And I praise God that I can look back

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and say, well, I'm not back there anymore.

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Do you know that the Bible,

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well, you do know this figure speech.

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Do you know that it says,

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with that scripture,

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neither height nor depth,

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nor anything present, things to come,

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it says neither the present nor things to come

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can separate us from the love of Christ,

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the love that's in Christ Jesus.

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But it doesn't say the past.

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It says things present or things to come.

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So that means the past can separate us

01:18:04.890 --> 01:18:06.350
from his love if we let it,

01:18:07.070 --> 01:18:08.730
because the past will keep...

01:18:08.730 --> 01:18:09.970
what did Lot's wife do?

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It's the looking back that keeps us in bondage.

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It's the, oh my God.

01:18:15.750 --> 01:18:17.830
This is where someone called me

01:18:17.830 --> 01:18:18.770
and distressed the other day,

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someone even not in our church.

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They were all distressing about their life

01:18:22.830 --> 01:18:25.170
and I could feel as I was ministering to them

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the swirling of the things of the past

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that were in the present

01:18:29.650 --> 01:18:31.470
and were keeping her in knots.

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And just in the little bit that she said,

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I could feel it.

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And so I told her,

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and I said, you've got to let go.

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Stop seeing what happened back there

01:18:42.190 --> 01:18:43.570
in your present situation.

01:18:44.710 --> 01:18:46.090
Stop seeing, because it says

01:18:46.090 --> 01:18:48.210
things present and things to come,

01:18:48.470 --> 01:18:50.410
but the past is something

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that can cut you off

01:18:52.190 --> 01:18:53.470
from receiving what you need

01:18:53.470 --> 01:18:55.030
of the love of God if you let it.

01:18:55.350 --> 01:18:57.170
So we have to just look at the present

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and the things to come.

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That's where we need to be.

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Present and things to come.

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Present and things to come.

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And knowing this is the transformation,

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it's this direction,

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it has nothing to do with going back

01:19:07.610 --> 01:19:08.730
and looking back that direction.

01:19:09.910 --> 01:19:10.350
Amen.

01:19:12.490 --> 01:19:13.570
All right, let's pray.

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Father, I thank you

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for your truth that brings

01:19:19.350 --> 01:19:20.790
freedom as we believe it.

01:19:21.290 --> 01:19:22.590
As we agree with it.

01:19:22.670 --> 01:19:24.310
As our minds come into agreement

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with what you say,

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we get free.

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Sometimes we don't need prayer

01:19:30.330 --> 01:19:32.230
because we just need to change how we think.

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And Father, I thank you that you,

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by the Holy Spirit,

01:19:37.550 --> 01:19:39.290
are continually working

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in all of us.

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Lord, to show us how to agree with you,

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to show us how to abide in you,

01:19:45.490 --> 01:19:47.370
to show us how to continue

01:19:47.370 --> 01:19:48.470
in transformation

01:19:48.470 --> 01:19:50.010
to become more like you

01:19:50.010 --> 01:19:50.930
into the image of Christ.

01:19:52.970 --> 01:19:54.830
This is a Christ-centered message

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and I thank you, Lord,

01:19:57.130 --> 01:19:59.190
that you're working in your bride

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because as a whole

01:20:01.050 --> 01:20:02.390
we are going to be beautiful

01:20:02.910 --> 01:20:04.090
without spot or wrinkle

01:20:04.090 --> 01:20:05.630
when you marry us.

01:20:05.830 --> 01:20:06.730
And so Lord, I know

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that that day is coming

01:20:09.030 --> 01:20:10.270
and that you are eager

01:20:10.270 --> 01:20:13.070
for us to appear like you.

01:20:15.590 --> 01:20:17.410
Father, I thank you for these dear women

01:20:17.410 --> 01:20:18.470
in their hearts for you,

01:20:18.610 --> 01:20:19.610
their desire for you.

01:20:20.370 --> 01:20:21.710
And Lord, I thank you that

01:20:21.710 --> 01:20:23.910
anything that would be holding them back today

01:20:23.910 --> 01:20:26.090
from stepping into the high calling

01:20:26.090 --> 01:20:27.090
that's in Christ Jesus,

01:20:27.270 --> 01:20:28.190
I thank you that today

01:20:28.190 --> 01:20:29.510
they would be free from it

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in Jesus' name.

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In Jesus' name. Amen.

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Amen.