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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: From Milk To Meat
Publishing Date: 2024-03-10T06:00:44-07:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/from-milk-to-meat/

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I'll spend some time singing and worshiping again, okay, before we go into teaching.

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I want you to listen to what I'm going to read.

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This is from Luke chapter 7.

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One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee's house

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and reclined at the table.

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And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was reclining

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at table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabasca flask of ointment, and standing

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behind him at his feet, weeping.

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She began to wet his feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair on her head,

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and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

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One of the things I want us to do together, because I believe he desires it from us,

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is can we, together as a people, without having Sheldon on the piano and others with instruments,

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can we sing to him?

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Why and how?

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Like this lady who doesn't even have a name in the Gospel of John.

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Simon's house, it's a very big house, I'm sure.

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He's a Pharisee, he's a rich guy.

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There are other people reclining at the table with Jesus, and it's not her place.

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She's not supposed to be there.

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But she somehow made her way into the house.

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Because there's only one thing, as you read down that passage, you'll see Simon in turn

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asks Jesus about something, and referring to this lady, to this woman, Jesus says, she

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has been forgiven much.

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And when you're forgiven much, you love much.

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I want us to worship him together, without instruments.

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But like this lady, like this woman who made her way in, somehow she wanted to be at his

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feet.

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Somehow she wanted to break the alabaster flask.

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Somehow she wanted to anoint him.

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It wasn't her place.

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If you ask her, she'll tell you there were so many eyes on me, so many people calling

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me names, so many people saying I shouldn't be there, so many people reminding of my past.

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Their eyes said a story that she didn't want to remember.

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And then it didn't matter for her, because she wanted to be at that place.

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She wasn't even in the front, from the back, behind him.

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She started weeping, because she was forgiven much.

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So can we worship him like that?

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Because she didn't need people playing in the background to worship him.

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For her, in the chaos, in the sound, in the...

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Jesus' attention, initially I'm sure, was on other things.

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But she had so much to give him that she said, I will do it regardless of what people think,

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regardless of what people say about me.

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So then, can we worship him as we sing this song together, giving him everything that

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we have, because he deserves it?

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You have been forgiven much.

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I have been forgiven much.

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And it doesn't matter who we are, where we are from, what we did, because at his feet,

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every slate is wiped clean.

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And at his feet, there is always a new start.

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And at his feet, there is new mercies, new grace that runs after us.

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Can we do it?

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So let's do it in the sincerest way you can.

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In the sincerest way I can, I want to do it.

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It won't look anything else, like anything else to the next person, but in your heart,

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you're embracing him.

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In your heart, you have him at his feet.

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In your heart, you're pouring out everything you have, your affection to Jesus, your embrace

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for him.

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Let's do it as a people.

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We have some time, so these guys will obviously, they have a mic and their sounds will be louder,

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I want your voice to echo.

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I want your voice to be lifted up so that we're doing it together.

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Let's do it, yeah?

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Worthy is the lamb who was slain, Holy, holy is he.

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Sing a new song to him who sits on Heaven's mercy seat.

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Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come.

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With all creation I sing praise to the King of Kings, You are my everything and I will adore you.

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Clothed in rainbows of living color, Flashes of lightning, rose of thunder.

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Blessing and honor and strength and glory and power be to you the only wise King.

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Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come.

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With all creation I sing praise to the King of Kings, You are my everything and I will adore you.

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Filled with wonder, awestruck wonder, At the mention of your name.

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Jesus, your name is power, Breath and living water,

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Such a marvelous mystery.

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Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come.

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With all creation I sing praise to the King of Kings, You are my everything and I will adore you.

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Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come.

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With all creation I sing praise to the King of Kings, You are my everything and I will adore you.

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Jesus, we know the way is clear, The veil is torn, we have access to your feet.

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Jesus, we come to worship, We come to pour our affection, our adoration.

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We come to pour it out over your feet, Jesus. Pour it out and we wipe it with our very hair.

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That's the kind of worship we pour out to you, Holy, holy, beautiful one, we worship you, beautiful one.

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How lovely are your feet, Jesus. How worthy are your hands, Jesus. How worthy are you, Jesus.

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Light of the world, you step down to darkness, You open our eyes, let us see.

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Pour out our praise and we'll be happy.

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Oh, you are all things, you deserve the glory.

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Day and night, night and day, let incense arise.

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Day and night, night and day, let incense arise.

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Day and night, night and day, let incense arise.

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You are worthy of it all.

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You are worthy of it all.

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For from you are all things, and to you are all things.

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You deserve the glory.

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You are worthy of it all.

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Jesus, Jesus, you are worthy of it all.

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For from you are all things, and to you are all things.

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You deserve the glory.

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I am forgiven

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because you are forsaken

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and I accept

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that there is no one like you

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there is none like you

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and you are all things

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and you are all things

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and you are all things

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Holy is the Lord Jesus

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the one who's worthy

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the one who's worthy

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to open the scroll

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the one who's worthy

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of all our praise

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and praise the one who's worthy

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holy, holy

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is the Lord God Almighty

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holy, holy

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is the Lord God Almighty

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who has an is and is to come

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Jesus, we love you

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oh how we love you

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and you are the one

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that our hearts adore

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Jesus, we love you

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oh how we love you

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you are the one

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our hearts adore

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and our affections

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our devotion

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poured out on the feet of Jesus

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our affections

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our devotion

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poured out on the feet of Jesus

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our affections

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our devotion

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poured out on the feet of Jesus

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we love you

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oh how we love you

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you are the one

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that our hearts adore

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and here we are to worship

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here we are to bow down

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here we are to say

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that you're our God

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cause you're all together worthy

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you're all together lovely

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all together wonderful

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to me

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oh here we are to worship

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here we are to bow down

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here we are to say

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that you're our God

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there is no other

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you're all together lovely

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you're all together worthy

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you're all together wonderful

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to me

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and I'll never know

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how much it cost

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to see my sin

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upon that cross

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and I'll never know

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how much it cost

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to see my sin

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upon that cross

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and Jesus you

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are our King

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Jesus you

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you alone are

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our King

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Jesus you

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Jesus you

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the one and only

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King

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Jesus Jesus

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Jesus you

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are my

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King

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hallelujah

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to the King

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hallelujah

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to the Lord of Lords

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hallelujah

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to the King of Kings

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hallelujah

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to the Lord of Lords

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Jesus

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we worship your Majesty

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Jesus

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we worship your Majesty

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Jesus

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we worship your Majesty

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Jesus

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we worship your Majesty

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I'm blessing

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and honor

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glory and power

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be unto your name

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Jesus

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all blessing

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all power

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glory and honor

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be unto your name

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be unto your name

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be unto your name

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Jesus

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all blessings

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Jesus

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all blessings

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Jesus

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So even as we stand Jesus

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those lines

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day and night

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incense arise

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let incense arise

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our it's

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we know

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that it is one thing to sing it

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and we mean it when we sing it Jesus

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but our lives

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are to be

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a living sacrifice

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and so as we sit or stand

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here but as we pour

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out our affection as that song

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said or as we

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give you honor here

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we say Jesus we want to

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live our lives

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as a living sacrifice

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so that day

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and night night

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and day

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incense will arise from my

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life from our lives

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from this embassy of Acts

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29

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real lives dying

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to ourselves

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so that we can become

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like your son

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Jesus

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thank you accept

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what we are offering to you Jesus

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accept it

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because you deserve it

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and more thank you

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thank you

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So when I was in my eighth grade

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you get to pick

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either economics

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or computer

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computer programming

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so I'm going to expose Dawn here

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I had to start with that

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so

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I picked computers

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it was C programming for those of you

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know and I scored

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really bad in my exam was pretty bad

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as I come home and I tell

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everyone about it and obviously

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not great

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back in the day on Sundays we'll go from

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one city to another city

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to attend church

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so we have to bus it

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and every Sunday

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you wake up because

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you want to go to the service

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but when you get into the bus

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Dawn and I always fight for the side

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seat as we used to call it so window seat

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because that's what you're after

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getting to the church was secondary but being

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getting that seat was more

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important than anything else

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and so this is March or something

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I'm in you know he's in fourth grade

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whatever age that is

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I'm in eighth grade

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and so I get the side seat this week

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that particular week

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and I'm sitting down and I'm like I made it

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I got it so this whole week

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we were trying to you know I got what I

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wanted and so Dawn nudges me

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and says if you don't

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give me the side seat

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I'm going to shout out and let everyone

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know how much you scored for C programming

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I said what?

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He said I'll do it so I said no you can't

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do it so he said no I'll do it

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I said there's no way you can do it Dawn

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so he said 80

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no please

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so he goes on

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to almost blurt out how much

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I scored and I was very

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careful not to have anyone

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else know about it so I said it's yours

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side seat is yours so I

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moved over when I think about

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our childhood

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this happened quite a lot of times

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so people would come

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home and if they're visiting once every year

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or once every two years

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they would look at Dawn and I

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and they would always have really good things to

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tell about Dawn and then they'll look at me

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and they'll say is your mom not

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feeding you? Obviously I look different now

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but you know back

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in the day is your mom not feeding you?

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So I used to dread it

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but almost every single person

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who came at the very end would say

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something that I really used to enjoy because they

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would say but you're really mature

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for your age and I used to go

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wow I like that because that's

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about the only compliment I get you're

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way more mature than your age

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so I grew up

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the other thing before I forget

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another thing that Dawn used to do

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because it's all about

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exposing Dawn today another thing

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that he used to do is we used to have these

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bakeries you know and when you're

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standing waiting for a bus

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and if there's a bakery next door

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nearby Dawn would almost

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always drag

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my mom buy her sari

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to go into the shop

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and I used to dread all of this

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because to me this guy is making

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a whole lot of noise and a lot of drama

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that I dreaded and so I

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would almost separate myself from the entire family

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stay on this side because I didn't want to associate

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myself with Dawn that's how

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I grew up what's the point?

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The point is this

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growing up I somehow developed

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in me an impression

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that maturity

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is being serious

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and that maturity

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is acting like you're a grown up

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people would come and tell me

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you're really mature for your age

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and so that

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impression began to sink into

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my mind my being yeah

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when they say that it really means that

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if I act serious and if I'm not like

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Dawn then I'm mature

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because Dawn shouts, screams, cries

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all of that bad stuff

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I'm the good kiddo

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I just need to put up a good face, smile

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polite, gentle

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all of that stuff and I get these compliments

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and so you grow up

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and without knowing

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you have this impression in your mind

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that maturity is equal to

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not doing what Dawn did

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and it is

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being

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serious about life

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being serious and if you're serious

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you're mature

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and somehow we have the tendency

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to associate different things with maturity

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it depends on your background

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it depends on your upbringing

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when I say the word let's say

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spiritual maturity because there is

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physical maturity, there is emotional maturity

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if I say spiritual maturity

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if I say spiritual maturity all of you

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depending on your background

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depending on where you came from

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depending on what happened, your story

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you associate those two words with

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something

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for me it is this

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you associate these two words

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with something

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and that's what I

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want to talk about today, spiritual maturity

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so if you need a title

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the title is

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from milk to meat

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by the way if you're a vegan

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we can talk afterwards

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from milk to meat

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from milk to meat

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so what is

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spiritual maturity then?

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so spiritual maturity

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simply defined for us

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is not being serious

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it's not always having

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a straight face

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it's not any of those things

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Christian maturity

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simply is

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being Christ-like

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so you can laugh out the most in the room

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and you can be

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the most mature person in the room

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you can crack the best of jokes

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which Don doesn't do

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but you know, anyway

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and you can still be

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the most mature

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so Christian maturity is

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being Christ-like

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and so when you think about

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Christ-like, when I think about Christ-like

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we have to look at it as

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am I thinking like how

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Christ thinks?

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am I thinking

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like how Christ thinks?

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because if I think the way

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Christ thinks, then

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I can reason the way

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Christ reasoned

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and I can act

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or live out like how

00:26:04.560 --> 00:26:06.560
he lived out

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so thinking like Christ thinks

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is important

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we are a byproduct

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of our thinking

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go to Proverbs

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chapter 27

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23, Proverbs 23

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verse 7, it says

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for as he thinketh in his heart

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so is he

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for as he thinketh in his heart

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so is he

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so the way I

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think forms and

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shapes the person I become

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the way you think

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forms and shapes the person you will become

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it doesn't matter what your age is

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you can be as little as

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Shiloh, as old as

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whoever else

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if you think like Jesus

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you will mature

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and mature and mature to become

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like Jesus

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if you think like yourself

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you will be yourself

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and to the extent

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to which you allow

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yourself to change

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so that your thinking is like

00:27:08.560 --> 00:27:10.560
the thinking of Jesus

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to that extent you will mature

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in other words

00:27:14.560 --> 00:27:16.560
maturity, spiritual maturity

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is the rate

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at which you are becoming

00:27:20.560 --> 00:27:22.560
like Jesus

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it is

00:27:24.560 --> 00:27:26.560
a progression, it is the rate at which

00:27:26.560 --> 00:27:28.560
I am becoming like Jesus

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so if you hang out with me

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and if all you are getting is more and more

00:27:32.560 --> 00:27:34.560
Derek, I am not

00:27:34.560 --> 00:27:36.560
mature

00:27:36.560 --> 00:27:38.560
if you hang out with me

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and you see things in my life

00:27:40.560 --> 00:27:42.560
that point to the person

00:27:42.560 --> 00:27:44.560
that I

00:27:44.560 --> 00:27:46.560
am to live and die for

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then I am mature

00:27:48.560 --> 00:27:50.560
people have to

00:27:50.560 --> 00:27:52.560
look at us and see Jesus

00:27:52.560 --> 00:27:54.560
in us

00:27:54.560 --> 00:27:56.560
that's why the Bible says

00:27:56.560 --> 00:27:58.560
be imitators

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be imitators of me

00:28:00.560 --> 00:28:02.560
be imitators of Christ

00:28:02.560 --> 00:28:04.560
Paul said it

00:28:04.560 --> 00:28:06.560
and what we are talking about

00:28:06.560 --> 00:28:08.560
absolutely not

00:28:08.560 --> 00:28:10.560
abstract, really tangible

00:28:10.560 --> 00:28:12.560
children

00:28:12.560 --> 00:28:14.560
look up to their parents

00:28:14.560 --> 00:28:16.560
and they do things

00:28:16.560 --> 00:28:18.560
as they see

00:28:18.560 --> 00:28:20.560
they imitate, it's normal for children

00:28:20.560 --> 00:28:22.560
to do that

00:28:22.560 --> 00:28:24.560
when I was a kid I would, papa, my dad

00:28:24.560 --> 00:28:26.560
he had his signature, I really used to

00:28:26.560 --> 00:28:28.560
love it

00:28:28.560 --> 00:28:30.560
and so once I found out that signature is pretty cool

00:28:30.560 --> 00:28:32.560
I am sure there are way better signatures

00:28:32.560 --> 00:28:34.560
people have

00:28:34.560 --> 00:28:36.560
better stuff elsewhere

00:28:36.560 --> 00:28:38.560
but for me, my dad's signature, I really loved it

00:28:38.560 --> 00:28:40.560
so even now at age 35

00:28:40.560 --> 00:28:42.560
I copied my signature from him

00:28:42.560 --> 00:28:44.560
I used the same signature

00:28:44.560 --> 00:28:46.560
I also had the

00:28:46.560 --> 00:28:48.560
pleasure and privilege

00:28:48.560 --> 00:28:50.560
to sign his signature on my report cards

00:28:50.560 --> 00:28:52.560
that gave me

00:28:52.560 --> 00:28:54.560
that gave me good experience

00:28:54.560 --> 00:28:56.560
but

00:28:56.560 --> 00:28:58.560
I liked it

00:28:58.560 --> 00:29:00.560
children see

00:29:00.560 --> 00:29:02.560
things

00:29:02.560 --> 00:29:04.560
that they look at and they go wow

00:29:04.560 --> 00:29:06.560
and they become that

00:29:10.560 --> 00:29:12.560
and the story I remember is

00:29:12.560 --> 00:29:14.560
growing up

00:29:14.560 --> 00:29:16.560
my mom told me a story

00:29:16.560 --> 00:29:18.560
about my dad

00:29:18.560 --> 00:29:20.560
one day

00:29:20.560 --> 00:29:22.560
and said hey he could have made a lot of money doing it

00:29:22.560 --> 00:29:24.560
but he did not do it that way

00:29:24.560 --> 00:29:26.560
because he has a heart of integrity

00:29:26.560 --> 00:29:28.560
as a 10 year old, 8 year old

00:29:28.560 --> 00:29:30.560
you listen to that

00:29:30.560 --> 00:29:32.560
and your mind is formed

00:29:32.560 --> 00:29:34.560
because now

00:29:34.560 --> 00:29:36.560
you have this

00:29:36.560 --> 00:29:38.560
teaching that has come to you, wisdom that has come to you

00:29:38.560 --> 00:29:40.560
that helps you understand

00:29:40.560 --> 00:29:42.560
it's not about money, it's about how you live

00:29:44.560 --> 00:29:46.560
we are a byproduct

00:29:46.560 --> 00:29:48.560
of what we have heard

00:29:48.560 --> 00:29:50.560
what we have understood

00:29:50.560 --> 00:29:52.560
that's what we become

00:29:52.560 --> 00:29:54.560
and so when I talk about

00:29:54.560 --> 00:29:56.560
spiritual maturity and we say

00:29:56.560 --> 00:29:58.560
from milk to meat

00:29:58.560 --> 00:30:00.560
you have to measure yourself

00:30:00.560 --> 00:30:02.560
and compare yourself to the

00:30:02.560 --> 00:30:04.560
thinking of Jesus Christ

00:30:04.560 --> 00:30:06.560
to the person of Jesus Christ

00:30:06.560 --> 00:30:08.560
and the more

00:30:08.560 --> 00:30:10.560
aware you are about what

00:30:10.560 --> 00:30:12.560
you are lacking

00:30:12.560 --> 00:30:14.560
the better it is

00:30:14.560 --> 00:30:16.560
because as I was preparing

00:30:16.560 --> 00:30:18.560
I was looking at my life

00:30:18.560 --> 00:30:20.560
and you don't have to search deep to find out

00:30:20.560 --> 00:30:22.560
where you are lacking

00:30:22.560 --> 00:30:24.560
it's right in front of your face

00:30:26.560 --> 00:30:28.560
so if I am aware that

00:30:28.560 --> 00:30:30.560
yeah Aba, these are the areas

00:30:30.560 --> 00:30:32.560
where I don't look like your son at all

00:30:32.560 --> 00:30:34.560
and then there may be areas

00:30:34.560 --> 00:30:36.560
where you are closer

00:30:36.560 --> 00:30:38.560
now you know

00:30:38.560 --> 00:30:40.560
where you have to train yourself

00:30:40.560 --> 00:30:42.560
where you have to work

00:30:42.560 --> 00:30:44.560
so let's proceed with that thought

00:30:44.560 --> 00:30:46.560
the original design

00:30:46.560 --> 00:30:48.560
for man still remains the same

00:30:48.560 --> 00:30:50.560
we are made in his image

00:30:50.560 --> 00:30:52.560
and we are supposed to be image bearers

00:30:52.560 --> 00:30:54.560
on earth

00:30:54.560 --> 00:30:56.560
which is why

00:30:56.560 --> 00:30:58.560
in Habakkuk chapter 2 verse 14 it says

00:30:58.560 --> 00:31:00.560
for the earth will be filled

00:31:00.560 --> 00:31:02.560
with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord

00:31:02.560 --> 00:31:04.560
as the waters cover the sea

00:31:04.560 --> 00:31:06.560
how will that happen?

00:31:06.560 --> 00:31:08.560
that is you and me and us

00:31:08.560 --> 00:31:10.560
populating earth

00:31:10.560 --> 00:31:12.560
with the knowledge, with the mature knowledge

00:31:12.560 --> 00:31:14.560
of Jesus Christ

00:31:14.560 --> 00:31:16.560
and living like his son

00:31:16.560 --> 00:31:18.560
Aba's son, Jesus Christ

00:31:18.560 --> 00:31:20.560
to a point where the earth will be flooded

00:31:20.560 --> 00:31:22.560
by his glory

00:31:22.560 --> 00:31:24.560
it happens through my life and your life

00:31:24.560 --> 00:31:26.560
and our lives

00:31:26.560 --> 00:31:28.560
Habakkuk chapter 2 verse 14

00:31:30.560 --> 00:31:32.560
and this

00:31:32.560 --> 00:31:34.560
theme is prevalent

00:31:34.560 --> 00:31:36.560
all through the New Testament

00:31:36.560 --> 00:31:38.560
you see Paul writing letters

00:31:38.560 --> 00:31:40.560
to different churches addressing this thing

00:31:40.560 --> 00:31:42.560
spiritual maturity

00:31:42.560 --> 00:31:44.560
spiritual maturity

00:31:44.560 --> 00:31:46.560
you got to grow up

00:31:46.560 --> 00:31:48.560
and he says there are things I really want to tell you

00:31:48.560 --> 00:31:50.560
but I can't tell that to you

00:31:50.560 --> 00:31:52.560
because you are not mature yet

00:31:54.560 --> 00:31:56.560
so you can actually take it further and say

00:31:56.560 --> 00:31:58.560
if I

00:31:58.560 --> 00:32:00.560
if I prevent myself

00:32:00.560 --> 00:32:02.560
from being mature because I like

00:32:02.560 --> 00:32:04.560
certain things certain way

00:32:04.560 --> 00:32:06.560
and I am not conforming

00:32:06.560 --> 00:32:08.560
to the image of his son

00:32:08.560 --> 00:32:10.560
then sometimes the father

00:32:10.560 --> 00:32:12.560
has to hold things back

00:32:12.560 --> 00:32:14.560
because you are not ready for it

00:32:14.560 --> 00:32:16.560
Paul says that

00:32:16.560 --> 00:32:18.560
I really want to share these things with you

00:32:18.560 --> 00:32:20.560
but I can't

00:32:20.560 --> 00:32:22.560
he actually proceeds to share it

00:32:22.560 --> 00:32:24.560
but I really can't share this

00:32:24.560 --> 00:32:26.560
with you because you are not ready for it

00:32:28.560 --> 00:32:30.560
and so for us

00:32:30.560 --> 00:32:32.560
man, if we can have this deep

00:32:32.560 --> 00:32:34.560
desire to

00:32:34.560 --> 00:32:36.560
mature

00:32:36.560 --> 00:32:38.560
it doesn't matter if you

00:32:38.560 --> 00:32:40.560
came to faith a year ago

00:32:40.560 --> 00:32:42.560
two years ago, if you have been in faith for 40

00:32:42.560 --> 00:32:44.560
years, 50 years, it does not matter

00:32:44.560 --> 00:32:46.560
all of us must have the same

00:32:46.560 --> 00:32:48.560
desire to mature

00:32:48.560 --> 00:32:50.560
the same

00:32:50.560 --> 00:32:52.560
desire to look more and more like

00:32:52.560 --> 00:32:54.560
Jesus, the same desire

00:32:54.560 --> 00:32:56.560
to grow up so that others can

00:32:56.560 --> 00:32:58.560
look at your life and they can say

00:32:58.560 --> 00:33:00.560
well look at Matt and Rachel

00:33:00.560 --> 00:33:02.560
I want to be like

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them

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look at Shireen, I want

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to be like her

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that's what we are supposed

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to be living for

00:33:12.560 --> 00:33:14.560
so that the world outside will look

00:33:14.560 --> 00:33:16.560
at something that you are doing

00:33:16.560 --> 00:33:18.560
the way you speak, the way you are

00:33:18.560 --> 00:33:20.560
and they will say that is something different

00:33:20.560 --> 00:33:22.560
there is something different

00:33:22.560 --> 00:33:24.560
about this and I want it

00:33:24.560 --> 00:33:26.560
at least I want to ask what it is

00:33:26.560 --> 00:33:28.560
all about and then you

00:33:28.560 --> 00:33:30.560
can proceed to share the

00:33:30.560 --> 00:33:32.560
life you draw your life from

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so I want to talk about a few things

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we don't have much time today

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let's see how far we get

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so the letter to the

00:33:48.560 --> 00:33:50.560
church in Corinth

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it was written in the year 55

00:33:52.560 --> 00:33:54.560
AD

00:33:54.560 --> 00:33:56.560
Paul was in that

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church in 50 AD

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five years prior to that

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it is when he ministered amongst them

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and a lot of people became believers in the city

00:34:04.560 --> 00:34:06.560
of Corinth and in 55

00:34:06.560 --> 00:34:08.560
AD he is writing this

00:34:08.560 --> 00:34:10.560
letter to them

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and so read it with me

00:34:12.560 --> 00:34:14.560
today be prepared to go through your bible

00:34:14.560 --> 00:34:16.560
we will go through different passages

00:34:16.560 --> 00:34:18.560
so that's

00:34:18.560 --> 00:34:20.560
if you don't have your bible

00:34:20.560 --> 00:34:22.560
open the bible app

00:34:22.560 --> 00:34:24.560
if you have your bible

00:34:24.560 --> 00:34:26.560
get your bible

00:34:26.560 --> 00:34:28.560
because we are going to go through different verses today

00:34:28.560 --> 00:34:30.560
first Corinthians chapter 3

00:34:30.560 --> 00:34:32.560
1-3

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first Corinthians chapter 3

00:34:34.560 --> 00:34:36.560
verses 1-3

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but I brothers

00:34:38.560 --> 00:34:40.560
could not address you as

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spiritual people but as

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people of the flesh as infants

00:34:44.560 --> 00:34:46.560
in Christ I fed you with

00:34:46.560 --> 00:34:48.560
milk not solid food

00:34:48.560 --> 00:34:50.560
for you are not ready for it

00:34:50.560 --> 00:34:52.560
and even now you are not ready

00:34:52.560 --> 00:34:54.560
for it for you are still of the flesh

00:34:54.560 --> 00:34:56.560
read it again please

00:34:56.560 --> 00:34:58.560
but I brothers could not

00:34:58.560 --> 00:35:00.560
address you as spiritual people wow

00:35:00.560 --> 00:35:02.560
it's a church

00:35:02.560 --> 00:35:04.560
they have been

00:35:04.560 --> 00:35:06.560
around for a while

00:35:06.560 --> 00:35:08.560
he ministered amongst them

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if you read the first

00:35:10.560 --> 00:35:12.560
chapter you will find out that they even

00:35:12.560 --> 00:35:14.560
operated in the gifts of the spirit

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see what he is writing in chapter 3

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I can't

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address you as spiritual people

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but as people of the flesh

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as infants in Christ

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because that I fed you with milk

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not solid food for you are not ready for it

00:35:28.560 --> 00:35:30.560
and even now you are not

00:35:30.560 --> 00:35:32.560
ready for you are still of the flesh

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I am going to say a line that has been

00:35:34.560 --> 00:35:36.560
repeated at Acts 29

00:35:36.560 --> 00:35:38.560
way too often

00:35:38.560 --> 00:35:40.560
in a line I like to remind myself of

00:35:40.560 --> 00:35:42.560
a man of

00:35:42.560 --> 00:35:44.560
destiny is a man of choices

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a man of destiny

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is a man of choices

00:35:50.560 --> 00:35:52.560
a woman of destiny

00:35:52.560 --> 00:35:54.560
is a woman of choices

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there is not one person sitting

00:35:58.560 --> 00:36:00.560
under this roof

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who doesn't have choices

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to make

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there are options in front of you

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and you have to choose

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so when Paul is writing

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he is saying guys

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I can't even call you as

00:36:16.560 --> 00:36:18.560
spiritual people because you are still

00:36:18.560 --> 00:36:20.560
drinking milk

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and I can't give you solid food yet

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it's like a parent

00:36:24.560 --> 00:36:26.560
who is trying to communicate

00:36:26.560 --> 00:36:28.560
you've got to grow up only then can I

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give the rest to you

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and in life

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you have to, I have to

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if we are aware of the fact that

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man, we are

00:36:38.560 --> 00:36:40.560
a people of destiny

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a people who are supposed to

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head a particular way

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do particular things

00:36:46.560 --> 00:36:48.560
things that the father even before

00:36:48.560 --> 00:36:50.560
you were formed in your mother's womb

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had purpose for you

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but those things ultimately

00:36:54.560 --> 00:36:56.560
you inherit or you don't

00:36:56.560 --> 00:36:58.560
based on your choices

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a man of destiny

00:37:02.560 --> 00:37:04.560
is a man of choice

00:37:04.560 --> 00:37:06.560
a woman of destiny

00:37:06.560 --> 00:37:08.560
is a woman of choice

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so when I became born

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again as soon as I accepted

00:37:12.560 --> 00:37:14.560
Christ the spirit of God

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came to take residence

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in me

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but from that moment on

00:37:20.560 --> 00:37:22.560
my life

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it depends on what I choose

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sure I am found in Christ

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but am I living and

00:37:28.560 --> 00:37:30.560
leading a spirit led life

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that is on me

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I have the ability to choose

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at any instant

00:37:36.560 --> 00:37:38.560
if I want to follow the spirit

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or if I want to follow the flesh

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which is why I read that last line

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it says and even now you are not yet ready

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for you are still of the flesh

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so living of the flesh

00:37:48.560 --> 00:37:50.560
and not living by the spirit

00:37:50.560 --> 00:37:52.560
keeps me, keeps you immature

00:37:52.560 --> 00:37:54.560
living of the flesh

00:37:54.560 --> 00:37:56.560
and being led

00:37:56.560 --> 00:37:58.560
by the spirit

00:37:58.560 --> 00:38:00.560
is simply not worth it

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I remember using the exact same words last week

00:38:02.560 --> 00:38:04.560
it's not worth it

00:38:04.560 --> 00:38:06.560
these words keep ringing in my ears

00:38:06.560 --> 00:38:08.560
it's not worth it

00:38:08.560 --> 00:38:10.560
man living any other way

00:38:10.560 --> 00:38:12.560
is not worth it

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am I being led by the spirit

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in everything I do

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I like going for night drives

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and so I went on a night drive yesterday

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and interesting things happen

00:38:26.560 --> 00:38:28.560
when you go for a night drive

00:38:28.560 --> 00:38:30.560
and it's 1am or 2am

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and so there is a particular

00:38:32.560 --> 00:38:34.560
road that I like to drive in

00:38:34.560 --> 00:38:36.560
Xavier knows it, Don't know it

00:38:36.560 --> 00:38:38.560
a few people know about this

00:38:38.560 --> 00:38:40.560
so I am driving

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and it's pretty late

00:38:42.560 --> 00:38:44.560
and as I am driving I can see a cop car

00:38:44.560 --> 00:38:46.560
on that side

00:38:46.560 --> 00:38:48.560
he thinks he is hidden, he is not

00:38:48.560 --> 00:38:50.560
I can see him

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I am like, ok cool

00:38:52.560 --> 00:38:54.560
it's pretty late at night

00:38:54.560 --> 00:38:56.560
so I keep driving, keep driving

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and then I go and turn around

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because I don't have anything else to do

00:39:00.560 --> 00:39:02.560
I am just driving

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and so as I drive and I see this guy

00:39:04.560 --> 00:39:06.560
now I can see he is following me

00:39:06.560 --> 00:39:08.560
because he was parked

00:39:08.560 --> 00:39:10.560
and now I am turning around

00:39:10.560 --> 00:39:12.560
and going in a particular direction

00:39:12.560 --> 00:39:14.560
he begins to come after me

00:39:14.560 --> 00:39:16.560
and then I see the red flashes

00:39:16.560 --> 00:39:18.560
and the blue flashes, all of that

00:39:18.560 --> 00:39:20.560
when I was driving he said, what happened?

00:39:20.560 --> 00:39:22.560
why are you driving like this?

00:39:22.560 --> 00:39:24.560
you are driving as if you know I am here

00:39:28.560 --> 00:39:30.560
what are you hiding?

00:39:30.560 --> 00:39:32.560
I said I am not hiding anything

00:39:32.560 --> 00:39:34.560
did you drink? No

00:39:34.560 --> 00:39:36.560
ok tell me, so I had to explain to him

00:39:36.560 --> 00:39:38.560
what I was doing

00:39:38.560 --> 00:39:40.560
what's the point? When I know that there is a cop car

00:39:40.560 --> 00:39:42.560
right behind me, man, you have to know

00:39:42.560 --> 00:39:44.560
I know exactly what

00:39:44.560 --> 00:39:46.560
driving I am doing

00:39:46.560 --> 00:39:48.560
I know my lane, I know the speed

00:39:48.560 --> 00:39:50.560
I know I am always below 50

00:39:50.560 --> 00:39:52.560
because I can see 50 is the thing

00:39:52.560 --> 00:39:54.560
I am below 50, you can't catch me

00:39:54.560 --> 00:39:56.560
because I know you are behind me

00:39:56.560 --> 00:39:58.560
why am I saying this?

00:39:58.560 --> 00:40:00.560
it's amazing right?

00:40:00.560 --> 00:40:02.560
because you can be on the same road

00:40:02.560 --> 00:40:04.560
driving day or night

00:40:04.560 --> 00:40:06.560
and when you know that there is no one else watching

00:40:06.560 --> 00:40:08.560
you have a tendency to go

00:40:08.560 --> 00:40:10.560
I do it

00:40:12.560 --> 00:40:14.560
being aware of his spirit

00:40:14.560 --> 00:40:16.560
knowing that he is with you

00:40:16.560 --> 00:40:18.560
knowing that you can draw from his life

00:40:18.560 --> 00:40:20.560
allows you to

00:40:20.560 --> 00:40:22.560
live life differently

00:40:24.560 --> 00:40:26.560
and that's, it's simple

00:40:26.560 --> 00:40:28.560
everything that

00:40:28.560 --> 00:40:30.560
the father has for us is simple

00:40:30.560 --> 00:40:32.560
man does

00:40:32.560 --> 00:40:34.560
his best to complicate it

00:40:34.560 --> 00:40:36.560
but everything that the

00:40:36.560 --> 00:40:38.560
father has for you is simple

00:40:38.560 --> 00:40:40.560
for you to understand, simple for you

00:40:40.560 --> 00:40:42.560
to inherit, you don't need any

00:40:42.560 --> 00:40:44.560
PhD in anything for it

00:40:44.560 --> 00:40:46.560
why? because he started with

00:40:46.560 --> 00:40:48.560
fisherman

00:40:48.560 --> 00:40:50.560
he proved it

00:40:50.560 --> 00:40:52.560
if you have a desire

00:40:52.560 --> 00:40:54.560
you can, you don't need

00:40:54.560 --> 00:40:56.560
10 steps to do it

00:40:56.560 --> 00:40:58.560
you don't need 50 ways you can do it

00:40:58.560 --> 00:41:00.560
you just need to be a son

00:41:00.560 --> 00:41:02.560
who is aware of the fact

00:41:02.560 --> 00:41:04.560
that his spirit is

00:41:04.560 --> 00:41:06.560
inside you and that

00:41:06.560 --> 00:41:08.560
he can help direct

00:41:08.560 --> 00:41:10.560
where you go, at what speed you go

00:41:10.560 --> 00:41:12.560
if you turn left, if you turn right

00:41:12.560 --> 00:41:14.560
it's all his direction

00:41:16.560 --> 00:41:18.560
so being spirit led

00:41:18.560 --> 00:41:20.560
allows you to mature

00:41:20.560 --> 00:41:22.560
you progress into the person

00:41:22.560 --> 00:41:24.560
you are supposed to be

00:41:24.560 --> 00:41:26.560
this year, there is one verse

00:41:26.560 --> 00:41:28.560
that I have read

00:41:28.560 --> 00:41:30.560
and it's opened my eyes

00:41:30.560 --> 00:41:32.560
to different things, I think I shared it

00:41:32.560 --> 00:41:34.560
probably a few weeks ago

00:41:34.560 --> 00:41:36.560
Hebrews chapter 4 verse 14

00:41:36.560 --> 00:41:38.560
Hebrews chapter 4 verse 14

00:41:38.560 --> 00:41:40.560
read it please with me

00:41:42.560 --> 00:41:44.560
since then, that's Hebrews chapter 4

00:41:44.560 --> 00:41:46.560
verse 14

00:41:46.560 --> 00:41:48.560
since then, we have a great

00:41:48.560 --> 00:41:50.560
high priest who has passed

00:41:50.560 --> 00:41:52.560
through the heavens, Jesus

00:41:52.560 --> 00:41:54.560
the son of God, let us hold

00:41:54.560 --> 00:41:56.560
fast our confession

00:41:56.560 --> 00:41:58.560
I'll read it again, since then

00:41:58.560 --> 00:42:00.560
we have a great high priest

00:42:00.560 --> 00:42:02.560
who has passed through the heavens, Jesus

00:42:02.560 --> 00:42:04.560
the son of God, let us hold fast

00:42:04.560 --> 00:42:06.560
our confession

00:42:06.560 --> 00:42:08.560
Jesus passed

00:42:08.560 --> 00:42:10.560
through the heavens

00:42:10.560 --> 00:42:12.560
you have to understand that when it happened

00:42:12.560 --> 00:42:14.560
every power and

00:42:14.560 --> 00:42:16.560
principality tried to keep him down

00:42:18.560 --> 00:42:20.560
but because he is the holy

00:42:20.560 --> 00:42:22.560
one, because he is the anointed one

00:42:22.560 --> 00:42:24.560
as we sang today, because he is the

00:42:24.560 --> 00:42:26.560
risen one, because he is

00:42:26.560 --> 00:42:28.560
the one who is triumphant

00:42:28.560 --> 00:42:30.560
all the powers that tried to

00:42:30.560 --> 00:42:32.560
keep him down

00:42:32.560 --> 00:42:34.560
they were defeated, because he

00:42:34.560 --> 00:42:36.560
went past the heavens

00:42:36.560 --> 00:42:38.560
to sit at the right

00:42:38.560 --> 00:42:40.560
hand of the father, why is that

00:42:40.560 --> 00:42:42.560
scripture important in this light

00:42:42.560 --> 00:42:44.560
oh my goodness

00:42:44.560 --> 00:42:46.560
my flesh, your flesh

00:42:46.560 --> 00:42:48.560
my emotions, your emotions

00:42:48.560 --> 00:42:50.560
the stuff that we see and have all around

00:42:50.560 --> 00:42:52.560
us, they are consistently trying

00:42:52.560 --> 00:42:54.560
to keep us from operating in the

00:42:54.560 --> 00:42:56.560
spirit

00:42:56.560 --> 00:42:58.560
and we have someone who went

00:42:58.560 --> 00:43:00.560
before us, who showed

00:43:00.560 --> 00:43:02.560
us that there is a way you can live

00:43:02.560 --> 00:43:04.560
on earth, but live from

00:43:04.560 --> 00:43:06.560
the throne room

00:43:06.560 --> 00:43:08.560
there is a way, and if

00:43:08.560 --> 00:43:10.560
I can catch on to this

00:43:10.560 --> 00:43:12.560
if you can catch on to this

00:43:12.560 --> 00:43:14.560
life will look so different

00:43:14.560 --> 00:43:16.560
so different, because you are not

00:43:16.560 --> 00:43:18.560
living from here up

00:43:18.560 --> 00:43:20.560
this is why

00:43:20.560 --> 00:43:22.560
it says you are seated

00:43:22.560 --> 00:43:24.560
at the right hand of God, why is it

00:43:24.560 --> 00:43:26.560
significant to say that you are

00:43:26.560 --> 00:43:28.560
seated at the right hand of God when

00:43:28.560 --> 00:43:30.560
pavan is sitting right there

00:43:30.560 --> 00:43:32.560
there is a reason

00:43:32.560 --> 00:43:34.560
because if pavan knows

00:43:34.560 --> 00:43:36.560
that yes I am sitting right here, but

00:43:36.560 --> 00:43:38.560
I am actually also sitting at the right

00:43:38.560 --> 00:43:40.560
hand of the father, and that I am

00:43:40.560 --> 00:43:42.560
in the throne room, then everything

00:43:42.560 --> 00:43:44.560
that happens in your life

00:43:44.560 --> 00:43:46.560
you have a different perspective about it

00:43:48.560 --> 00:43:50.560
when you

00:43:50.560 --> 00:43:52.560
look at your future, you think of it differently

00:43:52.560 --> 00:43:54.560
when you think of your present

00:43:54.560 --> 00:43:56.560
you think of it in the lens

00:43:56.560 --> 00:43:58.560
that the father has given you

00:44:00.560 --> 00:44:02.560
so learn to live

00:44:02.560 --> 00:44:04.560
from the throne room

00:44:06.560 --> 00:44:08.560
another thing to keep in mind

00:44:08.560 --> 00:44:10.560
because

00:44:10.560 --> 00:44:12.560
when we live life, what happens is

00:44:12.560 --> 00:44:14.560
we have the knowledge of

00:44:14.560 --> 00:44:16.560
these truths, but one of the things that

00:44:16.560 --> 00:44:18.560
can sometimes pull us

00:44:18.560 --> 00:44:20.560
back is that

00:44:20.560 --> 00:44:22.560
this is not the atmosphere

00:44:22.560 --> 00:44:24.560
you live out, week in week out

00:44:24.560 --> 00:44:26.560
you are here for 2 hours, 3 hours

00:44:26.560 --> 00:44:28.560
and for 2 hours, 3 hours, it's

00:44:28.560 --> 00:44:30.560
look at this, pretty easy

00:44:30.560 --> 00:44:32.560
to think about Jesus

00:44:32.560 --> 00:44:34.560
pretty easy to sing

00:44:34.560 --> 00:44:36.560
praises to him, pretty easy

00:44:36.560 --> 00:44:38.560
to join with other saints

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but on a Thursday evening, 8pm

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you don't feel like this

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I don't feel like this

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if you feel like it, amazing

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I certainly don't feel like this

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Thursday, 7pm

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but this is when

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if I can learn

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that man

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it is possible for me

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to be

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operating from a different place

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from his throne room

00:45:08.560 --> 00:45:10.560
that I am one with him

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that his spirit lives inside of me

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then it changes

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everything that I am about

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then life begins to look different

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no one has to teach you

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because the spirit of God is telling you

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he is speaking to you and he is saying

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I am here, I am here

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can you see this differently

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and this is why, because on a Thursday evening

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7pm, it's the mundane

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it's the stuff that you do all the time

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but can you find

00:45:36.560 --> 00:45:38.560
the divine in the mundane

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can you find the divine

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as you are folding your clothes

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no I don't do it, that side, sorry

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I don't want you to think of certain things

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that I don't do

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I would like to do it more

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there are things that I do

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that's mundane

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I am just repeating it

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but if I am wise enough

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to see the divine

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presence of God

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in those things, those things

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will change, the rhythm

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will change

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and it is in fact these very things

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that sometimes cause you to forget

00:46:20.560 --> 00:46:22.560
the truth and the reality

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of who you are

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can you find the divine

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and by that I mean the divine presence

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of our father

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of his spirit

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in the mundane

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as you are doing your assignments, can you do it

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when you are doing your assignment

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you just want to finish your assignment

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I am talking about the Trinity Western students

00:46:42.560 --> 00:46:44.560
not your assignment

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it's easy to forget things man

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when you are doing these things

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it's repetitive

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and you just know exactly what needs to be done

00:46:52.560 --> 00:46:54.560
you are on autopilot

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but that's when the Holy Spirit

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wants you to see those very things differently

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and if you open up your eyes

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and if you are willing to say

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teach me Abba, teach me

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to find the divine in the mundane

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life begins to look differently

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so I can be washing the dishes

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which I don't particularly enjoy

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but I can now do that

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and while I am doing that

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now I can meet him

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while I am in it

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if we become

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if we are aware of this

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and we make changes

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simple changes but real changes

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to your life, my life

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it will look very different

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by the end of this year

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very different

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so learn to live by the spirit

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number one

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you mature from milk to meat

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by giving up childish ways

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by giving up childish ways

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can you read

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1st Corinthians chapter 13

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verse 11

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1st Corinthians chapter 13 verse 11

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when I was a child I spoke like a child

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I thought like a child

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I reasoned like a child

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when I became a man I gave up childish ways

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when I became a man I gave up childish ways

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I spoke like a child

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I reasoned like a child

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I reasoned like a child

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I reasoned like a child

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I said this before

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your thoughts

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and your reasoning

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they translate into

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your actions and words

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what you speak

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and what you do

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is a result of

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what you think

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It's just the way it is.

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And so if I can leave my childish ways, then I become mature, mature, mature.

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If you look at your life and you can detect, identify the areas where you're still operating

00:48:56.360 --> 00:49:03.720
like a child, then it will be easier for you, as soon as you understand it, to flip, to

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turn the switch on and say, oh, that's not how I am to be.

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I'm different.

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I'm built different.

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Inside of me is the presence of God, is the Holy Spirit.

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And so I have the ability to do this very thing differently.

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I will not be childish.

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Story of Ahab.

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Ahab is the king of Israel.

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And he looks at the vineyard, Nabot's vineyard, and he wants the vineyard.

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So he goes and speaks to Nabot and says, I want your vineyard.

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He's the king.

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Nabot says, no, I can't give you the vineyard.

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What does he do?

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He comes back.

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Ahab, the king of Israel, read this.

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You don't need to read this.

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I'll read it out loud.

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First Kings 21, 4.

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So Ahab went home sullen and angry because Nabot, the Jesterite, had said, I will not

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give you the inheritance of my ancestors.

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He lay on his bed sulking and refused to eat.

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When you're childish, you have an entitled thinking.

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When you're childish, you have an entitled thinking.

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I was talking about this to someone the other day.

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When I said this, they're like, there's nothing wrong in being entitled.

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Because everything that God has for me, I'm entitled to it.

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It's true.

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And it's right to have a thinking that, man, everything the father has is for you, is for

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me.

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But at the same time, when you're a child, you begin to look at what's happening around

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you and you say, I'm entitled to these things.

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And so if I don't get it, I will react in a childish way.

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So the fact that you are entitled to certain things because what Christ did for you is

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good.

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But when you find your life different from what you think is true, are you responding

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childishly?

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Or are you looking at the gap and you want to figure out what the gap is and how the

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gap can be bridged?

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That's a different story.

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But when I look at May's life and I go, wow, look at May's life.

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Those things are really good.

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Look at my life.

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I should be having it.

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He is my father.

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Why don't I have it?

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Why am I being treated this way?

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It's wrong.

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May has it.

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I don't have it.

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Why is it that it's been 10 years now?

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I don't have it.

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Now I enter into childishness.

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Or I can choose to leave my childish ways aside and say, I can't understand this.

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I don't know the answers.

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And I am, there's much pain in my life.

00:51:46.260 --> 00:51:47.860
There's pain in my heart.

00:51:47.860 --> 00:51:49.900
I need to know why, why, why?

00:51:49.900 --> 00:51:55.020
There's a different way to go about it too.

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When you're childish, there is a tendency to have a sense of entitlement.

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The second thing about being childish is you're self-focused.

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You think about yourself way more than anyone else.

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I've said this before.

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Can you walk into a room and only be aware of others?

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Oh, that would be, actually that would be the definition of humility if you can do that.

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If you can walk into a room filled with people and you're so forgetful about yourself, that is humility.

00:52:35.100 --> 00:52:39.540
Humility is self-forgetfulness.

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It is when you're in the room, you're only thinking about everything, everyone else.

00:52:44.540 --> 00:52:49.780
Because in your mind, your spot is not at the top.

00:52:49.780 --> 00:52:53.140
Your spot is at the bottom.

00:52:53.140 --> 00:52:55.580
I heard this some time ago.

00:52:55.580 --> 00:53:04.020
In the kingdom, this kingdom is the only kingdom where when you need things, you don't reach higher, you go lower.

00:53:04.020 --> 00:53:05.940
I loved it.

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This is the only kingdom where when you need things from him, you don't reach higher to grab it.

00:53:11.500 --> 00:53:14.620
You go lower to possess it.

00:53:14.620 --> 00:53:22.420
Because the one who went before you and the one who you're following, he is one who is so humble

00:53:22.420 --> 00:53:29.500
that he laid down everything, his divine form to take up the form of a man.

00:53:29.500 --> 00:53:35.620
And you and I can't access those very things until I decide that I will become the least in the room,

00:53:35.620 --> 00:53:43.980
that I will become the least in my family, that I will become the least wherever I go for the sake of his kingdom and for the sake of his people.

00:53:43.980 --> 00:53:49.300
And so having a child, having the childish sense of I deserve all of this.

00:53:49.340 --> 00:53:53.180
And if I don't get it, I'm going to react this way like a child.

00:53:53.180 --> 00:53:56.620
It'll keep you from spiritual maturity.

00:53:56.620 --> 00:54:03.300
And if you're self-focused, everywhere you go, you're thinking about me, me, me, me.

00:54:03.300 --> 00:54:06.980
I have to catch myself with this.

00:54:06.980 --> 00:54:14.140
This is one thing that I've, you know, I think about it so much that I should be practicing this better.

00:54:14.140 --> 00:54:17.820
But it's hard sometimes, man, when you're in a room.

00:54:17.820 --> 00:54:22.420
It's hard to be absolutely forgetful of yourself.

00:54:22.420 --> 00:54:25.620
Is it possible? I know it is possible.

00:54:25.620 --> 00:54:32.020
And I want to be, I want to be like that more and more.

00:54:32.020 --> 00:54:34.340
It doesn't matter if it's work.

00:54:34.340 --> 00:54:39.220
It doesn't matter if it's home, if it doesn't matter, church, wherever you are.

00:54:39.220 --> 00:54:44.780
Can I become like Jesus, where I'm thinking about the other person more than me?

00:54:44.820 --> 00:54:50.740
That's why Jesus on the cross, take care of my mom.

00:54:50.740 --> 00:54:57.380
He's got the Lord of the whole earth, every sin on his shoulders.

00:54:57.380 --> 00:55:01.260
And he's not trying to say something noble.

00:55:01.260 --> 00:55:04.380
He's already thought about every one of us.

00:55:04.380 --> 00:55:08.020
But somehow in his mind, he's also thinking about his mom.

00:55:08.020 --> 00:55:14.100
Does that need to be said?

00:55:14.100 --> 00:55:15.820
He's not trying to say something.

00:55:15.820 --> 00:55:18.540
It's the life he has lived.

00:55:18.540 --> 00:55:23.420
It is the life he has lived that causes him to utter those words.

00:55:23.420 --> 00:55:25.460
Because he is not thinking of himself.

00:55:25.460 --> 00:55:28.340
He's thinking of them.

00:55:28.340 --> 00:55:34.620
And if you and I can become this, become a people who increasingly we are aware of others,

00:55:34.620 --> 00:55:38.020
aware of his spirit more than we are aware of anything else.

00:55:38.020 --> 00:55:44.060
Now, we're progressing from milk to meat.

00:55:44.060 --> 00:55:49.740
Now, the Holy Spirit can do things with me that he has always longed to do.

00:55:49.740 --> 00:55:51.740
He's always desired to do these things.

00:55:51.740 --> 00:55:53.700
But I've been shut off.

00:55:53.700 --> 00:55:56.980
I have said no, because I resisted the knowledge.

00:55:56.980 --> 00:55:57.900
And I resisted.

00:55:57.900 --> 00:56:00.620
This is just the way it is.

00:56:00.620 --> 00:56:06.100
Sometimes in your thinking, you may not use these words, but you are so used to the ways that you live,

00:56:06.100 --> 00:56:11.940
because you have accepted that that is the way you are.

00:56:11.940 --> 00:56:16.620
And if you would allow the Holy Spirit to show you that it is not the way you are, it

00:56:16.620 --> 00:56:21.860
is the way you've chosen to be or chosen to do, now there is possibility for that door

00:56:21.860 --> 00:56:26.740
to open and for the Spirit of God to come and lighten it up so that you can begin to

00:56:26.740 --> 00:56:28.140
operate differently.

00:56:28.140 --> 00:56:31.260
This will do wonders in marriages.

00:56:31.260 --> 00:56:34.140
This will do wonders in relationships.

00:56:34.180 --> 00:56:37.740
This will do wonders because you're used to one way.

00:56:37.740 --> 00:56:43.220
And it is absolutely you because this is what you've opted for every day of your life.

00:56:43.220 --> 00:56:44.440
It's part of who you are.

00:56:44.440 --> 00:56:46.940
But one day you decide, no, no, no, no, no.

00:56:46.940 --> 00:56:49.360
As he's showing me this, I'm going to be different.

00:56:49.360 --> 00:56:53.780
And he's fling wide the door for the Holy Spirit to come into this room and lighten

00:56:53.780 --> 00:56:56.780
it up and then you begin to operate differently.

00:57:04.940 --> 00:57:14.580
Another thing, guys, as part of this, as part of being childish is bridle your tongue.

00:57:14.580 --> 00:57:22.020
This one organ in the body, it's got a lot of power, your tongue.

00:57:22.020 --> 00:57:32.820
If you can master your tongue, you now have control over your destiny as well.

00:57:34.220 --> 00:57:35.420
Your tongue.

00:57:35.420 --> 00:57:45.340
It's amazing how we can, again, speak things that we know is in the gray.

00:57:45.340 --> 00:57:46.820
It's not wrong.

00:57:46.820 --> 00:57:47.980
It's in the gray.

00:57:47.980 --> 00:57:50.300
And I'm not talking about swear words.

00:57:50.300 --> 00:57:54.020
I'm not talking about telling bad stuff about other people.

00:57:54.020 --> 00:57:59.940
I'm talking about there is such righteousness and right way of thinking and speaking that

00:57:59.940 --> 00:58:05.260
the Holy Spirit has that we sometimes in some areas can separate ourselves from that

00:58:05.260 --> 00:58:06.260
because it's OK.

00:58:06.260 --> 00:58:11.660
It's still as Christian is as everyone else.

00:58:11.660 --> 00:58:16.940
But if you and I begin to say, no, about this tongue, I want to speak it.

00:58:16.940 --> 00:58:20.260
I want to speak whatever I speak to really come from you.

00:58:20.260 --> 00:58:26.380
And if I don't have anything to speak, I would rather be silent.

00:58:26.460 --> 00:58:31.220
I don't want to speak things for the sake of speaking things.

00:58:31.220 --> 00:58:37.780
That's when I've seen this way too often when two people are in an argument and one person,

00:58:37.780 --> 00:58:45.380
if they know how to respond with a soft speech, the whole situation is melted away.

00:58:45.380 --> 00:58:46.500
Proverbs says it.

00:58:46.500 --> 00:58:47.500
Where does it say it?

00:58:47.500 --> 00:58:49.820
Proverbs chapter 15, verse 1 and 2.

00:58:49.820 --> 00:58:51.540
I will read it.

00:58:51.540 --> 00:58:54.420
Proverbs chapter 15, verses 1 and 2.

00:58:54.420 --> 00:59:03.300
A soft answer turns away a rap, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

00:59:03.300 --> 00:59:07.660
The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of the fools or fools pour

00:59:07.660 --> 00:59:10.420
out folly.

00:59:10.420 --> 00:59:13.900
And it says in James chapter 3, verse 2.

00:59:13.900 --> 00:59:16.180
So why am I speaking what I'm speaking?

00:59:16.180 --> 00:59:19.860
It's out of James chapter 3, verse 2.

00:59:19.860 --> 00:59:22.820
For we all stumble in many ways.

00:59:22.820 --> 00:59:28.300
And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man.

00:59:28.300 --> 00:59:30.300
Wow.

00:59:30.300 --> 00:59:31.900
Talk about maturity.

00:59:31.900 --> 00:59:41.260
If anyone does not stumble in the way he speaks, he is a perfect man.

00:59:41.260 --> 00:59:50.860
If I can train myself to speak, only the things I need to speak, to speak with a soft answer

00:59:51.860 --> 00:59:59.740
is needed, to speak directly when direct conversation is needed, but to go about it the right way.

00:59:59.740 --> 01:00:01.260
Things will change.

01:00:01.260 --> 01:00:02.700
So control your tongue.

01:00:02.700 --> 01:00:04.820
Master your tongue.

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Next one.

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Train yourself to forget what lies behind and strain forward to what lies ahead.

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I really hope the Holy Spirit will give me the words as I explained this one, because

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it's so important for all of us.

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I'll repeat it.

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Train yourself to forget what lies behind and strain forward to what lies ahead.

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Where am I getting that from?

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Philippians chapter 3, verses 13 to 15.

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Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it.

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But one thing I do, I forget what is behind me and I strain toward what is ahead.

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I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in

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Christ Jesus.

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Forgetting the things from your past that tries to pull you down.

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What are the things, even as you hear this, things that happened in your past, things

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that you did or things that others did to you.

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Things that were spoken about you.

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Your parents treating you a certain way.

01:01:41.940 --> 01:01:46.940
Your siblings treating you a certain way.

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Things you thought you had, but then stuff happened and you lost it.

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If you ask yourself, have you forgiven?

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You'll say, yeah, I've forgiven.

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But deep down in the corners of your heart, there are things that still pull you back.

01:02:08.580 --> 01:02:12.420
And everything that the Father has for us cries out loud.

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Would you please, please forget the things that are behind you?

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Would you please look ahead at what I have for you and strive to get there?

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Would you please?

01:02:26.240 --> 01:02:30.440
Let me ask you a question.

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Who or what do you need to release?

01:02:33.740 --> 01:02:42.440
Who or what do you need to release from malice, from anger, from resentment, hurt, mistakes,

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bitterness?

01:02:44.960 --> 01:02:57.360
Who or what do you need to release from malice, anger, resentment, hurt, bitterness, mistakes?

01:02:57.360 --> 01:03:06.360
Sometimes, and this is important, because you see this in sometimes how we think, there

01:03:06.360 --> 01:03:12.880
are things that happened and every time God wants to do something, you fall back on what

01:03:12.920 --> 01:03:17.440
happened and you say, well, because it happened, I have to be this way.

01:03:17.440 --> 01:03:20.960
Let me put a different two words on it.

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And it's going to sound rash, but it's important, victim mentality.

01:03:29.960 --> 01:03:35.080
When I use these words, I have to be careful because I'm never saying that the stuff that

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happened to you is okay.

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Please understand, it's a big difference.

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The stuff that may have happened to you is wrong, but to dwell in it is wrong.

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You can get beyond it if you choose to.

01:03:54.620 --> 01:03:57.840
To accept that what happened happened and you have to deal with it.

01:03:57.840 --> 01:04:00.640
It's not forgetting, I won't ever think about it.

01:04:00.640 --> 01:04:04.800
No, you have to deal with it and you have to deal with it the right way and use people

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around you if you need help so that you can deal with those things the right way.

01:04:09.960 --> 01:04:16.480
But you've got to then at one point decide, this does not have power over me.

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This does not have any more control over me.

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I've seen, and that's why I'm saying this, I've seen people when words that the father

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has for them is released, but immediately their mind somehow goes back to the same bad

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thing that happened to them.

01:04:33.580 --> 01:04:36.900
It's so sad because that really happened.

01:04:36.900 --> 01:04:37.900
It really happened.

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It really messed up that person's life, but somehow the devil has built a stronghold

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all around it.

01:04:45.380 --> 01:04:50.160
And it is a stronghold because they default back to that place.

01:04:50.160 --> 01:04:57.820
And so every attempt to pull them out of it with things that the father has for them today,

01:04:57.820 --> 01:05:04.420
it almost seems an impossible task because they would rather cling on to what happened.

01:05:04.440 --> 01:05:09.060
They would rather cling on to what was told, what was said, what was done.

01:05:09.060 --> 01:05:11.660
And it's so difficult then.

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Can we become a people who will not allow things from our past to pull us back?

01:05:20.220 --> 01:05:25.160
And one person's measure of what happened to them could be very different from someone

01:05:25.160 --> 01:05:26.160
else.

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And your story is your story.

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I'm not saying that it does not matter, and that's important because the Holy Spirit

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will never say that it doesn't matter.

01:05:39.520 --> 01:05:42.780
The Holy Spirit will bind up your broken heart.

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But as soon as he binds it up, he'll say like he did with, like the father did with Moses,

01:05:48.020 --> 01:05:49.760
like he didn't get in.

01:05:49.760 --> 01:05:52.900
At one point, you've got to move on.

01:05:52.900 --> 01:05:55.060
At one point, you've got to say enough is enough.

01:05:55.060 --> 01:05:56.060
I'm not going to dwell.

01:05:56.060 --> 01:05:59.560
I'm not going to pitch my tent here.

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Because if you pitch your tent in what was done to you, you can't break loose into the

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new things God has for you.

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Do not pitch your tent in the past.

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One way to get out of that place is to use words.

01:06:20.460 --> 01:06:23.680
One way to get out of that place is to use words.

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Use words to yourself to say, yes, yes, that happened.

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But I will not remain in that place.

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Start with that.

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Then move it, move from that place to talking to Anile and talking to Betty and saying,

01:06:36.760 --> 01:06:41.760
this is such a stronghold in my life and it has prevented me all this while.

01:06:41.760 --> 01:06:46.460
But now I come because now I have professed and have declared that this cannot have an

01:06:46.460 --> 01:06:49.820
effect on me and I resist to be pulled back by this.

01:06:49.820 --> 01:06:56.280
Now I need you guys to hear this because I am committing that I'm choosing a different

01:06:56.280 --> 01:07:02.580
way of living whereby I'm not going to give anything from my past the power to pull me

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back and I want you Anile, I want you Betty to listen to me.

01:07:08.080 --> 01:07:10.440
Now you've spoken it to two other people.

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You don't know the power of words.

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It's not that they pull you towards your future.

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No, no, no.

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This is what you believe because what you believe you proclaim.

01:07:21.640 --> 01:07:26.840
So if you never proclaim these things, maybe you haven't believed it right.

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Because if you really believe it, the words will come out and you won't hesitate saying

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it either.

01:07:34.120 --> 01:07:35.520
I have five or 10 minutes.

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So next one, embrace correction and teaching to come to a place of maturity.

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Embrace correction and teaching to come to a place of maturity.

01:07:52.020 --> 01:07:54.940
Colossians chapter one, verse 28.

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He is the one we proclaim admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom so that

01:08:01.540 --> 01:08:05.100
we may present everyone fully mature in Christ.

01:08:05.100 --> 01:08:11.040
Much loud children as we are used to saying here, very teachable.

01:08:11.040 --> 01:08:17.640
Much loud children are very teachable because you know the heart of your father.

01:08:17.640 --> 01:08:21.800
And if you know the heart of your father, you will go about receiving correction either

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directly from him or through his people very differently.

01:08:26.220 --> 01:08:29.260
This is why there are equipers in the body.

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Let's read it.

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Ephesians chapter four, verse 13.

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Every time I say let's read it, we don't have time for you to read it.

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So just listen to me please.

01:08:37.480 --> 01:08:38.860
Ephesians chapter four, verse 13.

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And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers to

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equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ until we

01:08:49.620 --> 01:08:57.480
all attain the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the son of God to mature manhood.

01:08:57.480 --> 01:09:04.840
So for me to be spiritually mature, for you to be spiritually mature, we have to be connected

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with the equipers in the body.

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If I choose to separate myself, to distance myself, to disconnect myself from the equipers

01:09:13.180 --> 01:09:21.680
that the Holy Spirit has placed in the body, then I am choosing not to be mature.

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And I like it when the Holy Spirit reminds you, tells you, teaches you, hey, this is

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wrong.

01:09:26.420 --> 01:09:33.300
I have so many examples where he corrects me, where he corrects you, I'm sure.

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But can I hear it and change?

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I remember this, I remember this, some time ago, I can't tell you the place, but I'm

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sitting somewhere and it's a presentation and I'm in a place where I don't belong.

01:09:50.900 --> 01:09:56.100
And I'm sitting there and there is someone, you know, sometimes when you go, and this

01:09:56.100 --> 01:10:00.100
is not church related, sometimes when you go for events and stuff like that and you

01:10:01.100 --> 01:10:07.420
to speak, it's great, you like it, you enjoy it.

01:10:07.420 --> 01:10:12.420
And I remember sitting at this place, it's a big, huge auditorium, and there is someone

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who is ahead of me and he is presenting.

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And I'm sitting there literally with the leg on my leg.

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And I'm the guy who's supposed to go next.

01:10:22.360 --> 01:10:26.540
And in my mind, and the guy who is doing this is my age, most of the guys there are much

01:10:26.580 --> 01:10:31.020
older, but the guy who is just ahead of me, he is my age.

01:10:31.020 --> 01:10:37.100
And I distinctly remember, leg on my leg, my arm like this, and I'm like, this dude,

01:10:37.100 --> 01:10:42.020
man, he doesn't need to use a paper, he can just speak.

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That's the thought in my mind.

01:10:43.360 --> 01:10:48.400
He doesn't need to use a paper to speak, he can just speak.

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Why is he like this?

01:10:52.660 --> 01:10:55.100
Why is it that he's making a big deal of it?

01:10:55.100 --> 01:10:58.460
He should be doing this better, it's not good enough.

01:10:58.460 --> 01:10:59.460
Such a setting, man.

01:10:59.460 --> 01:11:02.060
You're using a paper for such a setting like this?

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Pretty bad.

01:11:03.780 --> 01:11:08.060
All of these thoughts go through your mind, it did for me, in a matter of five seconds.

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And now it's my turn.

01:11:09.740 --> 01:11:16.900
I go up, and for the first time in my life, in a setting like that, I falter.

01:11:16.980 --> 01:11:25.900
I didn't have any sheets, because I'm better, because I want to be better, and I falter.

01:11:25.900 --> 01:11:33.580
And I sink so deep that I come back and I sit on that chair, and I'm like, oh, I know

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exactly what happened.

01:11:35.180 --> 01:11:38.860
Derek, you were so...

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Everything that you shouldn't have, you did.

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And it all happened in a span of five, six seconds, guys.

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So when it happened, I obviously realized what had happened.

01:11:49.740 --> 01:11:54.260
And I remember going to the father and saying, I messed up big time.

01:11:54.260 --> 01:11:58.460
You gave me an opportunity, and you put me in a place where I don't belong.

01:11:58.460 --> 01:12:04.660
And as soon as I was there, I took on a form that wasn't mine to ever have.

01:12:04.660 --> 01:12:11.700
And I started, I got my leg on my leg, armchair, and I'm looking, literally grading people

01:12:11.700 --> 01:12:13.220
for what they're doing.

01:12:13.220 --> 01:12:18.420
And then I am up there, and I feel like bad.

01:12:18.420 --> 01:12:22.300
But as soon as that happened, it was very difficult for me when it happened.

01:12:22.300 --> 01:12:28.380
As soon as it happened, there was also this other thing, that learn.

01:12:28.380 --> 01:12:29.940
Learn from this.

01:12:29.940 --> 01:12:32.180
Never again.

01:12:32.180 --> 01:12:33.860
And so what?

01:12:33.860 --> 01:12:39.300
Since then, every time or every place I go, there is this big realization, Derek, never

01:12:39.300 --> 01:12:41.140
get ahead of yourself.

01:12:41.140 --> 01:12:49.380
Derek, learn humility, learn how to think, learn self-forgetfulness, learn understanding.

01:12:49.380 --> 01:12:53.140
Because some of the things that are said in the Bible is not just for the church.

01:12:53.140 --> 01:12:56.180
It is to be applied outside of the church too.

01:12:56.180 --> 01:12:57.460
And so why am I sharing this?

01:12:57.460 --> 01:12:58.580
It's deep for me.

01:12:58.580 --> 01:12:59.580
It's inside me.

01:12:59.580 --> 01:13:01.860
This is a big lesson, because you don't know how bad it felt.

01:13:01.860 --> 01:13:03.700
Only I know.

01:13:03.700 --> 01:13:05.500
It felt super bad.

01:13:05.500 --> 01:13:09.100
But I come out of that, and I'm a better man for that.

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Because I will not, by the help of the Holy Spirit, make the same mistake ever again.

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What is the point?

01:13:16.780 --> 01:13:18.880
Be teachable.

01:13:18.880 --> 01:13:21.100
Be teachable.

01:13:21.100 --> 01:13:24.260
Because if I use that and say, well, that was something else, don't worry, then I'm

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not teachable.

01:13:25.260 --> 01:13:27.220
The Holy Spirit can't teach me anymore.

01:13:27.220 --> 01:13:30.380
I've shut that door to him.

01:13:30.380 --> 01:13:34.740
Sometimes he gets your attention by having you do things and then recognize, oops, what

01:13:34.740 --> 01:13:37.140
did I just do?

01:13:37.140 --> 01:13:41.180
But once you get a handle of, I made a mistake, Aba, can you teach me?

01:13:41.180 --> 01:13:42.560
I'm willing to change.

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Then everything changes.

01:13:45.100 --> 01:13:47.700
The next two things, I'm not going to explain this.

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You can write it down because we don't have time.

01:13:51.520 --> 01:13:56.540
Being unskilled in the word of righteousness leads to immaturity and dullness of hearing.

01:13:56.540 --> 01:14:05.540
Being unskilled in the word of righteousness leads to immaturity and dullness of hearing.

01:14:05.540 --> 01:14:17.940
Yes, being unskilled in the word of righteousness, meaning the word, leads to immaturity and

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dullness of hearing.

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And a scriptural reference for that would be Hebrews 5, 13 and 14.

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Hebrews 5, 13 and 14.

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Yeah.

01:14:33.580 --> 01:14:46.220
I have a couple of slides here for you that I want you to, you can take a picture or ask

01:14:46.220 --> 01:14:47.220
Brandon later.

01:14:47.220 --> 01:14:48.860
Brandon, if you can bring it up.

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Here are some questions for you to ask yourself.

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We won't go through them today, but you can, if you're serious about this, you can take

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the time to think through it.

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Questions to think of.

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This has been used at Axe 29 and before.

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Are you known as someone who models love as a prime value?

01:15:11.020 --> 01:15:15.540
Are you someone who models love as a prime value?

01:15:15.540 --> 01:15:20.340
Are you demonstrating high levels of grace and kindness in your response?

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This is when people treat you bad.

01:15:22.940 --> 01:15:31.580
One thing about maturity guys is that when everything is sunshine, it's easy to be mature.

01:15:31.580 --> 01:15:38.620
When things are difficult and things are going hard, that is when your maturity is tested.

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So when it's difficult, are you demonstrating high levels of grace and kindness in your

01:15:43.380 --> 01:15:45.020
response?

01:15:45.020 --> 01:15:51.540
Using your temperament and personality, are you able to exert the fruit of self control?

01:15:51.540 --> 01:15:58.140
Are you sincere, deeply to yourself and honest about learning?

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Next please.

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Thanks Aaron.

01:16:06.620 --> 01:16:07.620
You're taking everyone's time away.

01:16:07.620 --> 01:16:08.620
Just kidding.

01:16:08.620 --> 01:16:14.060
Go for it, bro.

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Next one.

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Are you able to move beyond your own frustration to deliver God's work over?

01:16:26.260 --> 01:16:32.220
Sometimes you are frustrated with what's happening to you that you find yourself at a place where

01:16:32.220 --> 01:16:36.500
you don't want to receive anything for anyone anymore.

01:16:36.500 --> 01:16:42.020
And it prevents the father from using you for someone else's sake.

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Number six.

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Do you move in the opposite spirit to what comes against you on a spiritual or human

01:16:50.580 --> 01:16:51.580
level?

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There's a person who always does this.

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Can you recognize?

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And if they are trying to be harsh to you, can you move in an opposite spirit?

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What does that mean?

01:17:00.660 --> 01:17:01.660
They're harsh to you.

01:17:01.660 --> 01:17:04.620
You're gentle to them.

01:17:04.620 --> 01:17:09.780
And if you can, if you can allow God to show you these things in your life, it begins to

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change quickly.

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Do you bounce back quickly after attack?

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Really important.

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Happened with Elijah.

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How much time do you need to bounce back after something happened?

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Can you be trusted?

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Do you do things well without accountability being imposed from above?

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Next slide please.

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Do you react to events and people instead of responding to God?

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This is an important one.

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When things happen, you would rather talk about it to someone else before you talk to

01:17:44.660 --> 01:17:47.180
the father.

01:17:47.180 --> 01:17:49.420
When things happen, you would rather first talk to someone.

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I need to talk to someone.

01:17:50.540 --> 01:17:51.820
I need to get this out of my system.

01:17:51.820 --> 01:17:56.500
I need to share this with someone before you talk to the father.

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A mature son or a daughter would run to the father and say, hey, here's what happened.

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I need help.

01:18:03.400 --> 01:18:08.320
And then you can share with others as you need to.

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Do you have a strategy for difficult people in situations that you're placed to deal with?

01:18:12.840 --> 01:18:17.680
You must have a strategy for the same stuff that every time you know pulls you back.

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You must have a strategy from the Spirit of God to go and attack it and say, you were

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successful in doing this to me.

01:18:24.560 --> 01:18:26.200
Not anymore.

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Do you come up with platitudes and repetitions?

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I talked about this already.

01:18:30.640 --> 01:18:35.720
Do you inspire or encourage and nudge people to a place of rest from their problems?

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When people come and share stuff with you, is your immediate reaction, what do you have

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about that I can give?

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Or is it anything else?

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And the last set.

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Do you withhold love, acceptance, or approval?

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You know when that matters more?

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When the person you think doesn't deserve it.

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You have to see these questions in that light.

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Why would I withhold anything good to sin?

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No.

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But if sin begins to treat me bad, can I do this?

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That's the question.

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When someone is dealing with you wrong, can you still do it?

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Do you habitually see the negative or problems before you see the positive?

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Can you see the first and second image that God wants to show people, show about people

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in situations?

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This one is important because if you can't see the second image that the father is showing

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you about someone, then you can have the best discernment there is, but you can't be useful

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to God.

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You have to see what's happening and then you have to also see what the father is showing

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you about the person.

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Because sometimes the father shows you what's happening today in them or with them, with

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the situation.

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You know it, but you're so caught up in what has been shown that you resist wanting to

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hear the second picture that the father wants to show about the person or the situation.

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And the last one, is rejection still a strong influence on your personality?

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If you want these slides, ask Brandon.

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He can send it to you or ask me, I can send it to you.

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But I would highly encourage that you spend time thinking about it.

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So Aba, we come to you.

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We thank you.

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Thank you that you're having us move from one place of maturity to another.

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And as Remy was saying before, all these weeks Aba, you're taking us somewhere where you

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want us to go.

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We want to follow you into those things.

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So Spirit of God, we want to be a people who are led by you.

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We want to be a people who leave our childish ways.

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Open my eyes and our eyes to things that you want us to see where we've gotten so used

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to our ways of living that we are resisting you in those areas.

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We don't want to be like that, Holy Spirit.

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Help us to choose differently.

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Help us to refuse to use repetitions and platitudes, but help us to now cling on to the new things

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you're showing us.

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This I ask for all of us.

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In Jesus name, Amen.

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Cool guys.

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Are there going to be people?

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So if you need prayer, come up.

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There will be someone to pray with you.