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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Threshold - Faith
Publishing Date: 2021-09-26T06:00:44-07:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/threshold-faith/

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burnout, that you keep them strong.

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So we bless them now as they go to New York in Jesus' name. Amen.

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Cool guys. Okay. Let's go with,

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this is part two of last week's message.

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Last week's message was about threshold,

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and this one's titled Threshold Faith.

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So we said last week that threshold is a space,

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threshold is a space between one door closing,

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between one door closing and another door opening.

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And another opening.

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That's what we said last week,

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that threshold is a space

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between one door closing and another opening.

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And we said that it's that moment when you step off the map,

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and by faith, you go into a land you don't know,

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and you go without a plan.

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So you step off the map, and like Abraham did in Hebrews 11.8,

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you don't have a plan, and you don't know the land.

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That's what we said threshold was last time.

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And if you, to understand part two,

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it might be a good idea to listen to part one

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if you haven't listened to part one.

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So we're talking about how,

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and then we said that usually this applies

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to discovering God or new things about God.

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We said it applies to phases in our lives.

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We said it applied to movements of God

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where God is moving you from one place in him to another.

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We said that it applies to the permission he gives us here

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on earth to do things.

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It applies to the authority that he's bringing us into,

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and it applies to new assignments that he's giving us.

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So I'd suggest to you, for instance, that the guys

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from Ohio are on a threshold.

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They've come here, they've taken the risk,

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and now they're standing at the threshold or something,

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and one door is closing behind them, another is opening.

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They're stepping off the map, but they don't have a plan,

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and they don't know the land.

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And so this is the perfect Sunday to be here.

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And in the process, these are the things

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that thresholds apply to.

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One, discovering God, finding out something new about God

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that you didn't know thus far, because he is so deeply multifaceted

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that we keep discovering him our entire lives here on earth

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and then in heaven, taking us to different phases,

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movements that he's beginning on earth,

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permission to do things, authority, and assignment.

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And this is what we said last time.

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And we said that thresholds are triggered

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when one is dissatisfied.

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There is a degree of dissatisfaction that is required

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for thresholds to be triggered.

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If you're not dissatisfied with life, you can continue in it

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because you reach this place called a level of competency,

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and you can stay there.

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Most Christians and most people in the world stay there.

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You come to a place, either denominationally, individually,

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corporately, personally, in your marriage,

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in every area of your life, you reach a place of competency

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and you stay there because there's no dissatisfaction.

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It is when you're dissatisfied that you begin

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to look for something else.

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Every time you're dissatisfied with a restaurant, what do you do?

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You find another restaurant.

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Because, yeah.

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So dissatisfaction is one of the things that's required

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to trigger a crossing of thresholds to a readiness

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to have the familiar stripped off,

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a readiness to have the familiar stripped off,

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a readiness to have the familiar stripped away.

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If you stripped away, and if you don't have that,

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you may have dissatisfaction, but you won't be able

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to do anything with dissatisfaction.

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The moment I feel dissatisfied, now I have to be ready to strip

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off that which is familiar because whatever I'm stepping into,

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hey, I was just going to text you.

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Really, I was just telling me I'm going to text Sam.

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Where are you, Sam?

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And there you appear.

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I should have text, thought of it earlier.

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Hi, Dan. Yeah.

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So a readiness to have the familiar stripped away,

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that's important too because otherwise I can be dissatisfied

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and I can write songs about dissatisfaction.

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I don't need no satisfaction.

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I don't think the boy likes Rolling Stones.

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Okay. Pardon?

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Hey, it's a song from your time that I got the words.

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Oh, thank you.

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Okay. Just that one line.

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It seemed to fit.

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Okay. So after dissatisfaction, there must be a readiness

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to strip away that which is familiar.

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The third one is there must be an obsession with change.

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There must be an obsession with change, with God change,

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with God changes.

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There must be an obsession with it.

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Hey, this is so important, because if you don't have an

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obsession with God provoked changes,

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there's no need to be dissatisfied.

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You won't even look to see if there's something new

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on the horizon.

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You'll still be using your iPhone 3.

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Really. Because there's no need.

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You don't even know that things have changed

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because you're not obsessed with change.

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A people that are not obsessed

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with God changes will not see the changes God is trying

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to bring.

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And like I said last time, if you have not made any major

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changes in your life over the last three or four years,

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if you're stuck in the same place doing the same things,

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doing them well but doing the same things,

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then something you should question the pace

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of your Christianity.

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Any questions?

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This is just recapping what we said last time.

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The other thing was, if you want to cross thresholds,

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one of the triggers is the hazard of moving.

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The hazard of moving.

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As in, be ready that things will change in life.

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This God is so not theoretical.

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He doesn't just teach, teach, teach, and then say,

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now that you've learned everything, move on.

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No. He now says, now that you've learned everything,

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let me test you on it.

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That's the problem with this God.

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Anything he teaches you, he tests you on.

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Yeah. So he'll test you on it.

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So if he says that, listen, change is coming.

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If he says, I'm taking you from one place to the other,

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then having known that, now get ready for an actual movement,

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physically, spiritually, locationally,

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sometimes geographically, both the same words,

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emotionally, expect change to happen.

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So it's not necessarily geographical?

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No, not necessarily geographical.

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But one of the things I've noticed

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is whenever there's a spiritual change,

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there's usually some physical relocation that happens.

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Almost always.

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Guys, when it came to Israel and God,

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land was so connected to change.

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And so every time they changed in an adverse way,

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they lost land.

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Every time they changed in a positive way, they gained land.

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What if you questioned your pace and found it wanting?

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Get in touch with someone who has a pace to their lives with God

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so that they can help you walk that route faster.

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Guys, I was asking some people this question yesterday.

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You're building a house, and you find out

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that there are certain parts of the house

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that you're building that you don't know how to build.

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What do you do? Pray? No.

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You pray yes.

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But then after that, you go and ask someone

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who's a contractor in that particular area,

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can you help me with this?

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I don't even know how to unlock my iPad.

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I had to ask Brandon.

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No, I knew how to unlock it, like to make it stay unlocked.

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So I asked Brandon.

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I asked someone who knows.

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He's not a tech guy.

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He's like a...

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He's not a tech guy.

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And so...

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And yet, even for...

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Yeah, he knows stuff.

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So even for little things, I would go and ask somebody.

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We need to begin to ask people who have expertise

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in the areas of life that we don't so that we benefit.

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And this church has enough experts.

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So, in different areas.

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Anything you want to know about the Rolling Stones?

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You know who to ask.

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No.

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Pardon?

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I'm gonna be out.

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Who do you want to call?

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Ch-ch-ch.

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I don't know.

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I'm full of these old songs today, man.

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This is not good.

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No, it's not at all.

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Stay on track.

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Stay on track, yeah.

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Okay.

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I've already made a mistake.

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I'm gonna ask you to stay on track.

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I'm gonna ask you to stay on track.

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I've already made a mistake today.

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I don't know whether to re-announce it on...

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I made an announcement about Bahrain

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that nobody in Bahrain knows.

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But now they know.

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And one of the leaders texted me saying,

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you should have waited.

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Nobody knows.

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Cats out of the bag.

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Okay.

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And the last point I want to make

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with regard to the recap is,

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divine thresholds of battle fields.

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Divine thresholds of battle fields

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where God breaks through for you

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and moves you into a new place.

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Divine thresholds of battle fields

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where God breaks through for you

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and moves you into a new place.

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As in every time you cross a threshold,

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God does two things.

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One, he helps beat a Goliath in your life.

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Two, he brings you into a new territory.

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Always. Always.

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So the more we hesitate to cross thresholds,

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the longer it takes for God

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to then change a certain area in your life.

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Be...

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Go and listen to last week's

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and you'll see that

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he invites us to cross thresholds every so often.

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And the more you become aware of it,

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the greater the frequency of thresholds

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that you will cross.

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Because his invitations are constant, eh?

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God is constantly moving and he's saying,

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hey Jacob, want to come? Want to come? Want to come?

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Invitations galore.

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Just continuously.

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Any questions?

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Okay.

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So one of the things we really need

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for thresholds is faith.

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That's why we're calling this

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teaching threshold faith.

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So crossing... Prashanth suggested that

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I talk about this because he said

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I talk about thresholds but it requires faith.

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So can you revisit faith?

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So if this goes well,

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I did a good job.

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If it doesn't go well, it's his fault.

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So crossing thresholds is scary

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because we are submerged in reasoning.

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Crossing thresholds is scary

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because we are submerged in reasoning.

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We speculate what's going to happen.

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We have subjective experiences

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from the past that prevents us

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from daring to take a new step.

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God seemed to have failed us last time

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so how is he going to do this time?

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Sometimes there's a sensory overload

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because we are so used to,

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depending on our five senses,

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that it just frightens you

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from crossing a threshold

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or crossing into a place

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where you don't have a plan

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and you don't know the land.

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There's a pressure where people

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give you great advice telling you

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what happened to them when they made

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this foolish move like you were going to do.

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There are misplaced loyalties

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where you feel that if you do this

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then you're going to break someone's heart

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or break someone's trust.

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And then there are conditioned responses

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where you always react to certain things

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a certain way and you're scared

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not to cross thresholds.

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These are some of the reasons why

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it's so difficult to step into new ground

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where there is no plan.

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Therefore we stay with the old

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and keep doing the old really well.

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People benefit, it's not that people don't benefit

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but God is moving on.

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Always be where God is going to go

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not where God was.

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Because one of the things

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with being where God was is

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you only hear the word he spoke before you

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your ears get dull

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to the proceeding word

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and your heart is only aware of the preceding word.

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Your ears get dull

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to the proceeding word.

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As in you heard God

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hear

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and your ears are so

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tuned to that that as he invites you

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you don't want to go for all these really valid reasons.

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But what happens in the

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process is

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anything that God says here now

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your ears are dull to it. You will not even hear it.

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Come on man

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we've got to break out of it.

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The word becomes something that doesn't go in

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because it might change me

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and so I'm scared that it will change me

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and I deliberately begin to shut down.

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In every area of life

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what is your

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area of struggle?

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Is it faith? Is it giving?

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Is it kindness? Is it

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vulnerability?

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What is it in that area

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because I have decided that I will live

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by what my father or grandfather

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or pastor taught me two years ago.

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Now what happens is whenever God

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speaks here I'm unable to hear it

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because I've gotten dull.

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There's nothing like

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becoming dull to the word of God.

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And what's it called? A traditional mindset.

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What do you mean by a traditional mindset?

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Jesus said to the guys

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hey your traditions will void the word.

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The word

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in flesh is saying

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to people made by the spoken word

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that my words

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will be made void by your

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traditions.

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This is why

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keep this

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thing of yours

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super fluid and open to learning

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your grey matter.

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Keep at it as you get older.

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Any questions guys?

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So what we need then is a Christ like faith.

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One of the things Christ like faith does

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and what I mean by Christ like faith

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is the faith that Christ

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says we should have and that he talks about

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in the Bible. Christ like faith gives you

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a single eye. A single eye.

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You're able to see the narrow

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passageways that he cuts through rock

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and all these

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things that we talked about suddenly

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become less important. I don't

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submerge myself in reasoning.

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I stop speculating on what ifs.

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I don't go by

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my past experiences

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which sometimes can scare me.

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I don't depend on my five senses though they are

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very real and I don't have sensory overload.

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I refuse to bow to

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peer pressure. I have

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loyalties but they will not rule

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over the one allegiance that

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must trump every other loyalty.

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And finally the conditioned responses

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that I have are pleaded with the Holy Spirit

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to change those responses so

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I'm not like one of Pavlov's dogs.

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And that is

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how you begin to work towards this place

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where now you have single sight

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and it's possible.

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So what if you take eight months to overcome it?

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Two years to overcome it. Start today.

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I'm not looking for a miracle

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I'm looking for a change.

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Those words are important what I just said.

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I'm not looking for a miracle. I'm looking

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for a change.

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A miracle is great. God provides

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it but a change is something where God and I

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work together and it is forever.

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When I change I don't need miracles.

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When I don't change I need miracles.

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I've got no problems with miracles.

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I prefer everything miraculously.

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But that's not the way God works.

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His favorite word

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and the one thing he is not

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is change.

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The unchanging one loves the word change.

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So to redefine faith from

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ages ago, faith is entering

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into what God is doing

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with you.

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Or God wants to do with you. Faith is

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entering into what God wants to do with you.

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Faith is entering

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into what God wants to do with you.

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What God wants to do for you.

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It's embracing

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it's embracing

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his action.

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It's saying, ah, so you want to do

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this with me. Alright?

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So I'm going to

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enter into what you are

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doing. I know that you want to do

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it with me, you want to do it for me

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and that others will benefit. Great

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Father. I'm going to step into this.

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Faith is no great

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exploit on my part.

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It is, ah shuck, so this is what you want to do Father.

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You want to do it with me,

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I want to partner with you.

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That's how this works.

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It becomes much easier then.

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He's the one who's carrying the Lord

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and I don't have to

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hold on for dear faith.

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No. I'm just embracing

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his risky action.

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He just happens to want to do it with me.

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That's what faith looks like.

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So,

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renting a space in New York?

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It's just stupid.

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It is super

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expensive.

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But, if that is

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what he wants to do, then

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embrace his risky action

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and then ask Diana to pay for it.

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No.

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So,

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you take it and then

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have to pay for it.

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You take it and then after

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you take it, you expect God to

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do what he wants to do.

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Because you're embracing what he wants

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to do. You enter into what he wants to do.

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Faith is not a means to an end.

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It is the end. Faith is not

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a means to an end. It is the end.

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And what do you mean it is the end?

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The end is, can you be

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a God recognizer? As in, can you

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recognize God and what

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he wants to do with you?

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Can you partner with God? Can you be a God

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partner?

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And then can you be a God pleaser?

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I love this.

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This is when faith

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becomes so much more than, I gotta hang on,

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I gotta hang on, I hope he gets me through.

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The intent is, can I recognize what God

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is up to?

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This then makes faith like a

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childlike adventure. Can I

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find out what God is up to?

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Can I recognize God and what he's doing?

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Gotcha! And now it is, okay,

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now that I know what you're doing, can I

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partner with you, God? Because you're inviting me

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into this. You're saying, I want to do

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this with you. Can I partner with you? I'm scared.

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But I'll hold your hand.

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I remember when I was

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flying from

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Luton to Zurich

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once, and my

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niece was sitting with me.

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And she insisted that she'd be the one

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who would sit with me.

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And then, I didn't

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know that she was scared of planes

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taking off.

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And suddenly, as the plane

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begins to taxi and take off, she

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grabs my hand.

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And once she grabbed my hand, she

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knew everything would be okay. I didn't know

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why she was doing it. I was feeling like,

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why are you grabbing my hand, kind of a thing.

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Because I'm not used to girls grabbing my hand, even though

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she was only five years old. But she

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grabbed my hand and is holding on

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to it tightly. And I thought to myself, that's all

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it takes, eh? Here was someone

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who wanted to share an adventure

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with her favorite uncle.

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She only has one.

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And then at that moment, she

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begins to grab my hand and hold on to it.

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And that makes everything okay for her.

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This is the idea of how we embrace

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God in this and become partners with Him.

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You're scared, but you're partnering with Him.

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And then finally, the third part is so cool,

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because without faith, it is impossible to

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please Him. And so I end up being a God pleaser.

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A God recognizer, a God partner, a God

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pleaser. If you think of faith in these

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components, it will be much easier to walk with Him.

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Any questions?

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Any questions, guys?

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Okay. I said this

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long ago, but maybe it's worth saying again.

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There are faith

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degraders at work. Whenever we want to cross

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a threshold, there are faith

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degraders, as in things

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that hollow out faith.

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And I just want you to be aware of it.

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So,

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these prevent us from crossing thresholds.

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So there's doubt.

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Doubt is the opposite of

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faith.

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And the only way you can go from doubt

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to faith is through the word, eh? There's no other way

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around it. Don't try to make

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doubt as a feeling go away. Feelings

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will come back. The only way you move from

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doubt to faith is through the word.

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The only way you move from feelings to faith

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is through the truth.

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The only way you move from doubt

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to faith, when you have doubts about

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doing what you think God is saying,

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go back to the word you wrote down, where

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He spoke to you, or go back to the word of God,

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where it's very clear, it's the

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only way to go from doubt to faith. If you

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have feelings that are scared, the only way

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to go from feelings to faith

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is through voicing

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the truth. Voicing the truth.

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Then there is

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self-reliance.

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Self-reliance,

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which is the substitute of

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faith. This is a big one, eh,

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for all of us. Self-reliance,

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which is the substitute of faith.

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As in, whenever we

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realize that faith is going to be difficult,

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where we'll have to trust and wait on God

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to do things, we go into self-reliance mode

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because we can handle it better and we can do it at the

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right time. With God, his timing

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is really bad.

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He has

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hundreds of opportunities to do it earlier,

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but he will not.

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And he'll wait till

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all other means are exhausted, and then

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he steps in. So it's much easier to go into

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self-reliance because you can get things done.

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Third,

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low

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expectancy.

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Low expectancy. This is

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one of Christians' favorite ones, too.

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Low expectancy

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is the detractor of faith.

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Detractor of faith.

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As in,

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if I can lower my expectations,

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it's okay. If God doesn't come through, I won't be

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disappointed. And if I lower my expectations,

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I don't need to exert my faith. So why not

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just go low? Like, don't expect

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really God to turn up and do something

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God-ish. Just go low.

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And that way, you're not disappointed.

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Everything will be fine. If it doesn't

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work out, kayser-as-sirah.

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So just be careful of that.

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Low expectancy is the detractor

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of faith. Always

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we'll talk about it later, how to

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have really high expectations of God.

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And to go with the

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expectations that he sets for you.

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God really wants to put on

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the writs for us. He wants to roll

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up his sleeves and show his mighty right arm.

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But sometimes, he says, there's no point

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rolling up my sleeve because you're asking for my wrist.

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And so, the lower the expectations,

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always have high expectations, guys.

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Ask for the moon.

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When he asks you to ask for the moon.

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Next one.

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Ignorance is the failure of faith.

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Ignorance is the failure of faith.

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It's not bliss.

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Ignorance is the

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failure of faith. As in, if I'm

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ignorant of his word,

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I'm ignorant of his promise,

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I'm ignorant of his will,

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then we think God will

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do whatever he wants and we just have

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to roll the dice, divine dice,

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and see what numbers come up.

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That is

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such a...

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That's

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a bunch of...

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So, it's really bad.

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So, ignorance is the failure of faith.

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Fear is the tormentor of faith.

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Fear is the tormentor of faith.

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Fear is the

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tormentor of faith.

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When it comes to torment,

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saying,

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remember what happened last time? It's going to happen again.

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Remember what happened to your mom? It's going to happen again.

00:26:09.120 --> 00:26:11.120
Remember what happened to... It's just

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so tormenting. It's a spirit.

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When fear attacks,

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remember it's a spirit. Don't go

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just with your feelings and your thoughts.

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A spirit. Rebuke the spirit

00:26:21.120 --> 00:26:23.120
and do not inhabit those thoughts.

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Rebuke the spirit, refuse

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to inhabit those thoughts. Those thoughts

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can come and go, but refuse to inhabit

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them because, like I always say,

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you always inhabit what you

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think. You always inhabit what

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you think.

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Fear is something that I must nip

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in the bud because the longer I let it

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stay, the more I begin to inhabit

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it.

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And the last one is compromise.

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Compromise

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is the hybrid

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or the mutation of faith.

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Hybrid or mutation of faith.

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Where, when I

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mix a little bit of faith with a little

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bit of my own

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works, I

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mutate faith. The results are not

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fully God. They have a

00:27:07.120 --> 00:27:09.120
slight smell

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of Yahweh, but they also smell

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of your sweat.

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The aroma is not pure

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Yahweh. It's this mixture

00:27:17.120 --> 00:27:19.120
of

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your sweat and God, and it doesn't

00:27:21.120 --> 00:27:23.120
smell good.

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Hybrid or mutation.

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Which one, Jeremy?

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Okay.

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Pardon?

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You got it. Any questions, guys?

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Q. Do you talk more about the

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ignorance? I don't understand how that

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was fairer.

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Every time I'm ignorant of the word

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or ignorant of a promise or ignorant of

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what God's will is,

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faith fails

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because it has to be

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based on what I hear God saying.

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Results in failure of faith.

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Results in failure of faith.

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So guys, to cross thresholds

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and gain initial momentum,

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because that's one of the things God does.

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Whenever you cross a threshold, God also

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wants to give you momentum so that

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it doesn't matter whether it's uphill or

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downhill, you have so much momentum.

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And it is critical that I have momentum and I

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start things. I don't need to have a

00:28:27.120 --> 00:28:29.120
momentum. We think plans give us momentum.

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No, plans give us a fixed direction.

00:28:31.120 --> 00:28:33.120
We think knowledge of the land

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gives us momentum. Knowledge of the land

00:28:35.120 --> 00:28:37.120
tells us where not to step.

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But momentum comes from God, whereas it's

00:28:39.120 --> 00:28:41.120
the wind of the Spirit that carries you initially

00:28:41.120 --> 00:28:43.120
and it has such a thrust to it.

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And the intent of God's momentum is not to

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make you great, but to completely annihilate

00:28:47.120 --> 00:28:49.120
the enemy.

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That is what momentum does.

00:28:51.120 --> 00:28:53.120
Spirit provoked momentum

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destroys

00:28:55.120 --> 00:28:57.120
obstacles to divine plans.

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That is why you need to have it.

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And it is not around you, it is in you.

00:29:01.120 --> 00:29:03.120
The momentum has to build in you.

00:29:03.120 --> 00:29:05.120
Where you know that you have crossed the threshold

00:29:05.120 --> 00:29:07.120
now, and in you, it doesn't matter

00:29:07.120 --> 00:29:09.120
what people say, you know

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that Jericho will fall.

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You are convinced about it.

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Seven days have gone by,

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the rest of them are scared that nothing's going to

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happen, but you are so blooming sure

00:29:19.120 --> 00:29:21.120
because there's momentum inside you

00:29:21.120 --> 00:29:23.120
that says, this will happen.

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That's the kind of momentum I'm talking about.

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It's not external.

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And God always packs it this way.

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When he says, hey, Emily, cross the threshold,

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he gives her the momentum

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so that as she crosses the threshold,

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even though there's nothing that is reassuring,

00:29:41.120 --> 00:29:43.120
she's absolutely confident that

00:29:43.120 --> 00:29:45.120
it'll happen.

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Any questions?

00:29:53.120 --> 00:29:55.120
So,

00:29:55.120 --> 00:29:57.120
we talked about thresholds last time.

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I said, find out the thresholds that you're going to cross.

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And now that you've written it down,

00:30:01.120 --> 00:30:03.120
I'm assuming you wrote it down last time

00:30:03.120 --> 00:30:05.120
for those that were here,

00:30:05.120 --> 00:30:07.120
now gauge the direction God is heading.

00:30:07.120 --> 00:30:09.120
Gauge the direction God is heading.

00:30:09.120 --> 00:30:11.120
Gauge the direction God is heading.

00:30:11.120 --> 00:30:13.120
Gauge the direction God is heading.

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Oy!

00:30:15.120 --> 00:30:17.120
Gauge the direction God is heading.

00:30:17.120 --> 00:30:19.120
You know, one of the words that

00:30:19.120 --> 00:30:21.120
Paul used to say,

00:30:21.120 --> 00:30:23.120
you know, one of the words that

00:30:23.120 --> 00:30:25.120
Paul used to use often, and I love the way he used to say it,

00:30:25.120 --> 00:30:27.120
he would say, I perceive.

00:30:27.120 --> 00:30:29.120
He wouldn't know for sure.

00:30:29.120 --> 00:30:31.120
In Acts 27, 10,

00:30:31.120 --> 00:30:33.120
he's saying to the captain and the ship,

00:30:33.120 --> 00:30:35.120
I perceive that this ship

00:30:35.120 --> 00:30:37.120
will end in a shipwreck.

00:30:37.120 --> 00:30:39.120
I perceive.

00:30:39.120 --> 00:30:41.120
He's got no visible evidence

00:30:41.120 --> 00:30:43.120
to provide them, but somehow

00:30:43.120 --> 00:30:45.120
inside him, he knows. I perceive.

00:30:45.120 --> 00:30:47.120
It's this idea

00:30:47.120 --> 00:30:49.120
of gauging

00:30:49.120 --> 00:30:51.120
the direction God is heading.

00:30:51.120 --> 00:30:53.120
And you can't give anybody any kind of

00:30:53.120 --> 00:30:55.120
evidence for it, but

00:30:55.120 --> 00:30:57.120
you know what is going to happen.

00:30:57.120 --> 00:30:59.120
And so with the thresholds that you wrote down

00:30:59.120 --> 00:31:01.120
last week, or you will write down today,

00:31:01.120 --> 00:31:03.120
begin to gauge, okay, so where are you heading, oh God?

00:31:03.120 --> 00:31:05.120
Do you really want space in New York?

00:31:05.120 --> 00:31:07.120
Do you realize how expensive it's going to be?

00:31:09.120 --> 00:31:11.120
And then you gauge it.

00:31:11.120 --> 00:31:13.120
And then you begin to walk.

00:31:15.120 --> 00:31:17.120
This allows you to adjust.

00:31:17.120 --> 00:31:19.120
Because otherwise you hear a word that was given to you

00:31:19.120 --> 00:31:21.120
four years ago about New York, and you think to yourself,

00:31:21.120 --> 00:31:23.120
well, four years ago this is what you said.

00:31:23.120 --> 00:31:25.120
But then you realize there's more, there's more, there's more.

00:31:25.120 --> 00:31:27.120
God always unfolds.

00:31:27.120 --> 00:31:29.120
One of the things he loves is immediate obedience.

00:31:31.120 --> 00:31:33.120
We love outcomes. He loves

00:31:33.120 --> 00:31:35.120
obedience.

00:31:37.120 --> 00:31:39.120
Immediate obedience

00:31:39.120 --> 00:31:41.120
is so difficult without assured

00:31:41.120 --> 00:31:43.120
outcomes.

00:31:43.120 --> 00:31:45.120
Give me an outcome,

00:31:45.120 --> 00:31:47.120
guarantee the outcome, I'll obey.

00:31:47.120 --> 00:31:49.120
Nah! Give me obedience

00:31:49.120 --> 00:31:51.120
and we'll see what happens.

00:31:51.120 --> 00:31:53.120
And it could well be, Jacob,

00:31:53.120 --> 00:31:55.120
that you obey, and nothing happens on this side

00:31:55.120 --> 00:31:57.120
of the earth, and you find out after you get to heaven,

00:31:57.120 --> 00:31:59.120
forty years after you get to heaven, you find that what I told

00:31:59.120 --> 00:32:01.120
you has come to pass. Through

00:32:01.120 --> 00:32:03.120
some other guy who doesn't even

00:32:03.120 --> 00:32:05.120
give you credit for it.

00:32:07.120 --> 00:32:09.120
I love

00:32:09.120 --> 00:32:11.120
that he demands that. I love this God

00:32:11.120 --> 00:32:13.120
partly because he demands such

00:32:13.120 --> 00:32:15.120
ridiculous things from you.

00:32:15.120 --> 00:32:17.120
And he has the right to do it, because

00:32:17.120 --> 00:32:19.120
he was demanded, he, he,

00:32:19.120 --> 00:32:21.120
God demanded it off him, and he

00:32:21.120 --> 00:32:23.120
did it. And now he says, you want to be my

00:32:23.120 --> 00:32:25.120
disciple? Be like me.

00:32:27.120 --> 00:32:29.120
Nothing he asks of me is

00:32:29.120 --> 00:32:31.120
something he hasn't done already.

00:32:31.120 --> 00:32:33.120
And now he says, okay, give me, give me obedience.

00:32:33.120 --> 00:32:35.120
This is the kind of stuff we are talking about, guys.

00:32:35.120 --> 00:32:37.120
This kind of stuff changes the world.

00:32:37.120 --> 00:32:39.120
This kind of stuff changes the world through ordinary people like you.

00:32:39.120 --> 00:32:41.120
Nick is very ordinary.

00:32:43.120 --> 00:32:45.120
You are, right?

00:32:45.120 --> 00:32:47.120
Okay, just checking.

00:32:47.120 --> 00:32:49.120
Gauge the direction

00:32:49.120 --> 00:32:51.120
God is heading, man.

00:32:51.120 --> 00:32:53.120
And you gauge it through the nature

00:32:53.120 --> 00:32:55.120
of his dealings, you gauge it through the

00:32:55.120 --> 00:32:57.120
nature of his dealings.

00:32:57.120 --> 00:32:59.120
You kind of begin to figure out, ah,

00:32:59.120 --> 00:33:01.120
I kind of know where you are going with this father.

00:33:03.120 --> 00:33:05.120
Like, the Syrophoenician woman knew it.

00:33:05.120 --> 00:33:07.120
She was a

00:33:07.120 --> 00:33:09.120
Syrophoenician woman knew it.

00:33:09.120 --> 00:33:11.120
She was not a Jew. She was, she was

00:33:11.120 --> 00:33:13.120
almost a Canaanite. And she knows

00:33:13.120 --> 00:33:15.120
that Jesus has begun to minister

00:33:15.120 --> 00:33:17.120
to outsiders and Gentiles.

00:33:17.120 --> 00:33:19.120
So, perhaps if I go and ask him

00:33:19.120 --> 00:33:21.120
to heal my daughter, even though he's a

00:33:21.120 --> 00:33:23.120
Jew, he will oblige. How does

00:33:23.120 --> 00:33:25.120
she know it, man? Peter didn't know it

00:33:25.120 --> 00:33:27.120
after Jesus rose from the dead.

00:33:27.120 --> 00:33:29.120
He's still waiting for a white sheet full of

00:33:29.120 --> 00:33:31.120
creepy crawlies to convince him that he should go to the

00:33:31.120 --> 00:33:33.120
Gentiles.

00:33:33.120 --> 00:33:35.120
And this woman, who is a

00:33:35.120 --> 00:33:37.120
Syrophoenician Gentile woman,

00:33:37.120 --> 00:33:39.120
knows that Jesus has already

00:33:39.120 --> 00:33:41.120
begun to go out of the

00:33:41.120 --> 00:33:43.120
narrow Jewish paths.

00:33:43.120 --> 00:33:45.120
And she dares to have

00:33:45.120 --> 00:33:47.120
this dialogue with him. That is so

00:33:47.120 --> 00:33:49.120
amazing. When it's retort for

00:33:49.120 --> 00:33:51.120
retort. She almost sounded like Mae.

00:33:51.120 --> 00:33:53.120
And so,

00:33:53.120 --> 00:33:55.120
sorry Mae.

00:33:57.120 --> 00:33:59.120
And she gets what she wants.

00:34:01.120 --> 00:34:03.120
This is what I mean by

00:34:03.120 --> 00:34:05.120
through the nature of his dealings.

00:34:05.120 --> 00:34:07.120
Be so aware of him.

00:34:07.120 --> 00:34:09.120
Guys, be aware of him and let

00:34:09.120 --> 00:34:11.120
him speak to you as man

00:34:11.120 --> 00:34:13.120
speaks to man.

00:34:13.120 --> 00:34:15.120
Like he did with Moses.

00:34:23.120 --> 00:34:25.120
If you go down this, and he can do it through different

00:34:25.120 --> 00:34:27.120
ways. He can do it through the word,

00:34:27.120 --> 00:34:29.120
he can do it through a Rhema word,

00:34:29.120 --> 00:34:31.120
he can do it through signs,

00:34:31.120 --> 00:34:33.120
he can do it through spiritual

00:34:33.120 --> 00:34:35.120
sight, he can do it through

00:34:35.120 --> 00:34:37.120
conversations you're having with him. There are different

00:34:37.120 --> 00:34:39.120
ways. I'm not even going to go down that route.

00:34:41.120 --> 00:34:43.120
Rhema, spelled wrong.

00:34:45.120 --> 00:34:47.120
That's a Latin spelling of

00:34:47.120 --> 00:34:49.120
a Greek word.

00:34:51.120 --> 00:34:53.120
And guys, if we go this way,

00:34:53.120 --> 00:34:55.120
you'll find that you are very focused

00:34:55.120 --> 00:34:57.120
with regard to crossing a threshold.

00:34:57.120 --> 00:34:59.120
You find that

00:34:59.120 --> 00:35:01.120
you're very foolish and therefore it allows you

00:35:01.120 --> 00:35:03.120
to cross a threshold.

00:35:03.120 --> 00:35:05.120
You find that you're very sure footed.

00:35:05.120 --> 00:35:07.120
And so

00:35:07.120 --> 00:35:09.120
it doesn't matter how difficult the threshold is,

00:35:09.120 --> 00:35:11.120
you are sure footed. And you find that you're

00:35:11.120 --> 00:35:13.120
very conclusive with what God wants to do.

00:35:13.120 --> 00:35:15.120
As in you conclude whatever he wants you to do.

00:35:19.120 --> 00:35:21.120
These are four important things about

00:35:21.120 --> 00:35:23.120
crossing a threshold. If I know that

00:35:23.120 --> 00:35:25.120
this is a threshold that Father, you're inviting me to

00:35:25.120 --> 00:35:27.120
cross, I must become so focused.

00:35:27.120 --> 00:35:29.120
And what I mean by focus is just this.

00:35:29.120 --> 00:35:31.120
Even though the fig tree does not blossom,

00:35:31.120 --> 00:35:33.120
sight is nothing.

00:35:35.120 --> 00:35:37.120
As in what I see

00:35:37.120 --> 00:35:39.120
doesn't matter.

00:35:39.120 --> 00:35:41.120
Sight is

00:35:41.120 --> 00:35:43.120
nothing. There's that ad, right? Thirst

00:35:43.120 --> 00:35:45.120
is nothing.

00:35:45.120 --> 00:35:47.120
What's it for?

00:35:47.120 --> 00:35:49.120
Oh, I thought it was

00:35:49.120 --> 00:35:51.120
something a little better.

00:35:51.120 --> 00:35:53.120
Thirst is nothing.

00:35:53.120 --> 00:35:55.120
It's just,

00:35:55.120 --> 00:35:57.120
sorry, not thirst is nothing. Sight is nothing.

00:35:57.120 --> 00:35:59.120
Focus means

00:35:59.120 --> 00:36:01.120
that I'm so focused on what you have said,

00:36:01.120 --> 00:36:03.120
oh God, that what I see

00:36:03.120 --> 00:36:05.120
does not

00:36:05.120 --> 00:36:07.120
any longer have any bearing

00:36:07.120 --> 00:36:09.120
on what I do, what I think,

00:36:09.120 --> 00:36:11.120
how I walk, and where I go.

00:36:11.120 --> 00:36:13.120
No bearing. Sight is nothing.

00:36:13.120 --> 00:36:15.120
And I'm saying to you

00:36:15.120 --> 00:36:17.120
that this is our biggest problem because when we

00:36:17.120 --> 00:36:19.120
see stuff, we want to control it.

00:36:21.120 --> 00:36:23.120
Once you don't

00:36:23.120 --> 00:36:25.120
consider what you see, you will

00:36:25.120 --> 00:36:27.120
find yourself

00:36:27.120 --> 00:36:29.120
loosening your control over things.

00:36:31.120 --> 00:36:33.120
Control is a result of seeing things that are

00:36:33.120 --> 00:36:35.120
not aligning and desperately

00:36:35.120 --> 00:36:37.120
wanting to make them align.

00:36:37.120 --> 00:36:39.120
Oh boy, are we controlling.

00:36:39.120 --> 00:36:41.120
Sight is nothing.

00:36:41.120 --> 00:36:43.120
So that's the first one, focus. Second,

00:36:43.120 --> 00:36:45.120
foolish. You will go without

00:36:45.120 --> 00:36:47.120
armor with five stones

00:36:47.120 --> 00:36:49.120
against a guy who's fully armored,

00:36:49.120 --> 00:36:51.120
has an armor bearer, and is about

00:36:51.120 --> 00:36:53.120
six feet taller than you.

00:36:53.120 --> 00:36:55.120
You'll go up against him. You're very foolish.

00:36:57.120 --> 00:36:59.120
Everybody around you will advise you otherwise.

00:36:59.120 --> 00:37:01.120
Saul will give you his armor, you

00:37:01.120 --> 00:37:03.120
won't wear it. You're completely

00:37:03.120 --> 00:37:05.120
foolish. Your pastor will begin to panic.

00:37:05.120 --> 00:37:07.120
Because he initially

00:37:07.120 --> 00:37:09.120
asked you to do it, and now that you're doing it, he's

00:37:09.120 --> 00:37:11.120
scared that you'll lose your life.

00:37:11.120 --> 00:37:13.120
Happened with you, Xavier,

00:37:13.120 --> 00:37:15.120
this week. I told Xavier

00:37:15.120 --> 00:37:17.120
to do something. He went and did it, and then

00:37:17.120 --> 00:37:19.120
things weren't working, and I panicked and said,

00:37:19.120 --> 00:37:21.120
I did it all that I said. And thank God he did,

00:37:21.120 --> 00:37:23.120
because it worked out.

00:37:23.120 --> 00:37:25.120
But being foolish

00:37:25.120 --> 00:37:27.120
is just going into situations without

00:37:27.120 --> 00:37:29.120
any plan B.

00:37:31.120 --> 00:37:33.120
That's one of the definitions of foolishness.

00:37:33.120 --> 00:37:35.120
No plan B.

00:37:37.120 --> 00:37:39.120
What a god, eh?

00:37:39.120 --> 00:37:41.120
That's why it's so

00:37:41.120 --> 00:37:43.120
hard to follow him and so fun to follow him.

00:37:43.120 --> 00:37:45.120
Third,

00:37:45.120 --> 00:37:47.120
he gives you the sure-footedness

00:37:47.120 --> 00:37:49.120
of a mountain

00:37:49.120 --> 00:37:51.120
goat, where you

00:37:51.120 --> 00:37:53.120
thrill at steep mountain passes.

00:37:53.120 --> 00:37:55.120
You have the hind feet of a mountain goat.

00:37:55.120 --> 00:37:57.120
Talks about it in Psalm

00:37:57.120 --> 00:37:59.120
18 verse 33. I think there it's a deer.

00:37:59.120 --> 00:38:01.120
But when you drive to Banff,

00:38:01.120 --> 00:38:03.120
you see these mountain goats on these

00:38:03.120 --> 00:38:05.120
mountains.

00:38:05.120 --> 00:38:07.120
Half of them

00:38:07.120 --> 00:38:09.120
are standing on air.

00:38:09.120 --> 00:38:11.120
And then the rest of them are standing

00:38:11.120 --> 00:38:13.120
on a rock that's supposed to

00:38:13.120 --> 00:38:15.120
hold them up. I don't know how.

00:38:15.120 --> 00:38:17.120
The sure-footedness,

00:38:17.120 --> 00:38:19.120
where even though the path

00:38:19.120 --> 00:38:21.120
is very narrow, God seems to

00:38:21.120 --> 00:38:23.120
just tell you where to place your foot.

00:38:23.120 --> 00:38:25.120
And you walk

00:38:25.120 --> 00:38:27.120
quite unafraid.

00:38:27.120 --> 00:38:29.120
I'd rather be unafraid

00:38:29.120 --> 00:38:31.120
than use faith

00:38:31.120 --> 00:38:33.120
to overcome fear.

00:38:33.120 --> 00:38:35.120
I'd love to be in a place where I'm unafraid.

00:38:35.120 --> 00:38:37.120
I hated that I'm

00:38:37.120 --> 00:38:39.120
afraid.

00:38:39.120 --> 00:38:41.120
I hated that I'm afraid.

00:38:41.120 --> 00:38:43.120
And that I had to use faith to overcome

00:38:43.120 --> 00:38:45.120
the fear. What if I was unafraid?

00:38:53.120 --> 00:38:55.120
Daniel was unafraid.

00:38:57.120 --> 00:38:59.120
I want to be unafraid.

00:39:05.120 --> 00:39:07.120
The smell of fear is so

00:39:07.120 --> 00:39:09.120
lousy, eh? I hate the smell

00:39:09.120 --> 00:39:11.120
of fear.

00:39:11.120 --> 00:39:13.120
I'm afraid I can smell it.

00:39:15.120 --> 00:39:17.120
You've got to panic and then you've got to cry out

00:39:17.120 --> 00:39:19.120
for help. And then your

00:39:19.120 --> 00:39:21.120
prayers are so panicky.

00:39:21.120 --> 00:39:23.120
You're hoping God will intervene. You've got no

00:39:23.120 --> 00:39:25.120
connection with God while there is fear. Cause

00:39:25.120 --> 00:39:27.120
faith only grows in

00:39:27.120 --> 00:39:29.120
the soil of peace and

00:39:29.120 --> 00:39:31.120
it takes forever to get to that place.

00:39:37.120 --> 00:39:39.120
And then conclusive, as in

00:39:41.120 --> 00:39:43.120
you're God's closer.

00:39:45.120 --> 00:39:47.120
You're not closer to God, you're God's closer.

00:39:47.120 --> 00:39:49.120
He sends you to close things out.

00:39:51.120 --> 00:39:53.120
I love what Paul says about Titus.

00:39:53.120 --> 00:39:55.120
Hey Titus, I want you to go and

00:39:55.120 --> 00:39:57.120
set things in order. I want you to conclude

00:39:57.120 --> 00:39:59.120
what I've started.

00:39:59.120 --> 00:40:01.120
God loves guys who he can send to close

00:40:01.120 --> 00:40:03.120
things off.

00:40:03.120 --> 00:40:05.120
He has a lot of starters, eh? God has

00:40:05.120 --> 00:40:07.120
tons of starters, very few finishes.

00:40:09.120 --> 00:40:11.120
God will love a closer.

00:40:11.120 --> 00:40:13.120
Thresholds,

00:40:13.120 --> 00:40:15.120
if we have these four things, it's

00:40:15.120 --> 00:40:17.120
very,

00:40:17.120 --> 00:40:19.120
thresholds become easy to cross

00:40:19.120 --> 00:40:21.120
and the new territory becomes easy

00:40:21.120 --> 00:40:23.120
to sustain. And for me, this is

00:40:23.120 --> 00:40:25.120
very important right now and

00:40:25.120 --> 00:40:27.120
for the guys from Dayton and for the rest of us,

00:40:27.120 --> 00:40:29.120
this is important. If we can get this right,

00:40:29.120 --> 00:40:31.120
I can walk well.

00:40:31.120 --> 00:40:33.120
Unafraid.

00:40:33.120 --> 00:40:35.120
Any questions guys?

00:40:37.120 --> 00:40:39.120
One of the ways Satan tries to draw you

00:40:39.120 --> 00:40:41.120
away from thresholds is to

00:40:41.120 --> 00:40:43.120
busy you

00:40:43.120 --> 00:40:45.120
with other things.

00:40:45.120 --> 00:40:47.120
So he'll busy you with

00:40:49.120 --> 00:40:51.120
How do I make this square disappear? Oh, there's no square

00:40:51.120 --> 00:40:53.120
there. What just happened to

00:40:53.120 --> 00:40:55.120
my page?

00:40:55.120 --> 00:40:57.120
Brandon?

00:40:57.120 --> 00:40:59.120
Okay.

00:41:01.120 --> 00:41:03.120
Okay.

00:41:03.120 --> 00:41:05.120
It ain't working.

00:41:05.120 --> 00:41:07.120
Brandon, can you fix it please?

00:41:09.120 --> 00:41:11.120
Yeah, the enemy

00:41:11.120 --> 00:41:13.120
seeks to draw me away from thresholds by

00:41:13.120 --> 00:41:15.120
using busyness, circumstances,

00:41:15.120 --> 00:41:17.120
work, ministry, worry,

00:41:17.120 --> 00:41:19.120
fear, fretting. So

00:41:19.120 --> 00:41:21.120
remember, every time you're going to cross a threshold,

00:41:21.120 --> 00:41:23.120
you'll be inundated with work,

00:41:23.120 --> 00:41:25.120
with striving, with ministry,

00:41:25.120 --> 00:41:27.120
with busyness,

00:41:27.120 --> 00:41:29.120
with other less important

00:41:29.120 --> 00:41:31.120
things, less important things because

00:41:31.120 --> 00:41:33.120
when you're at the brink of a

00:41:33.120 --> 00:41:35.120
threshold, there is nothing else that is more important

00:41:35.120 --> 00:41:37.120
than the threshold, especially

00:41:37.120 --> 00:41:39.120
if it is a God-presented threshold.

00:41:39.120 --> 00:41:41.120
Heidi is

00:41:41.120 --> 00:41:43.120
at a threshold.

00:41:43.120 --> 00:41:45.120
That's a

00:41:45.120 --> 00:41:47.120
word that she needs to hear.

00:41:47.120 --> 00:41:49.120
Heidi is at a threshold.

00:41:49.120 --> 00:41:51.120
At this threshold,

00:41:51.120 --> 00:41:53.120
she must make the

00:41:53.120 --> 00:41:55.120
threshold the most important thing in her life.

00:41:57.120 --> 00:41:59.120
So one of the things the enemy does

00:41:59.120 --> 00:42:01.120
is when I'm at a threshold, he'll try to

00:42:01.120 --> 00:42:03.120
confuse me with a whole lot of other things

00:42:03.120 --> 00:42:05.120
so that I'll delay

00:42:05.120 --> 00:42:07.120
crossing because there are so many other

00:42:07.120 --> 00:42:09.120
things to attend and so many other

00:42:09.120 --> 00:42:11.120
things to do and so many other

00:42:11.120 --> 00:42:13.120
things to take care of and

00:42:13.120 --> 00:42:15.120
so in the process, you don't cross the threshold.

00:42:15.120 --> 00:42:17.120
It delays you from crossing the threshold.

00:42:17.120 --> 00:42:19.120
Remember guys,

00:42:19.120 --> 00:42:21.120
all warfare is relational.

00:42:21.120 --> 00:42:23.120
All warfare

00:42:23.120 --> 00:42:25.120
is relational.

00:42:25.120 --> 00:42:27.120
It is

00:42:27.120 --> 00:42:29.120
when I stand

00:42:29.120 --> 00:42:31.120
in Christ that I defeat the enemy.

00:42:31.120 --> 00:42:33.120
Therefore,

00:42:33.120 --> 00:42:35.120
warfare that is not

00:42:35.120 --> 00:42:37.120
fought from a place

00:42:37.120 --> 00:42:39.120
of intimacy with God

00:42:39.120 --> 00:42:41.120
is a lot of struggle,

00:42:41.120 --> 00:42:43.120
unnecessary wounds,

00:42:43.120 --> 00:42:45.120
prolonged battle,

00:42:45.120 --> 00:42:47.120
but if warfare is relational,

00:42:47.120 --> 00:42:49.120
then it is standing

00:42:49.120 --> 00:42:51.120
in Christ that allows me to beat

00:42:51.120 --> 00:42:53.120
the enemy quickly.

00:42:59.120 --> 00:43:01.120
Warfare is always relational.

00:43:05.120 --> 00:43:07.120
Hey.

00:43:09.120 --> 00:43:11.120
Thanks Brandon.

00:43:11.120 --> 00:43:13.120
Hey, how are you?

00:43:13.120 --> 00:43:15.120
Thanks Brandon.

00:43:21.120 --> 00:43:23.120
You resist Satan

00:43:23.120 --> 00:43:25.120
by standing in the presence of God.

00:43:25.120 --> 00:43:27.120
You resist Satan

00:43:27.120 --> 00:43:29.120
by standing in the presence of God.

00:43:29.120 --> 00:43:31.120
And therefore,

00:43:31.120 --> 00:43:33.120
it is much easier to win

00:43:33.120 --> 00:43:35.120
battles standing in the presence of God

00:43:35.120 --> 00:43:37.120
and therefore, it is relational.

00:43:37.120 --> 00:43:39.120
When I try

00:43:39.120 --> 00:43:41.120
fighting Sheldon

00:43:41.120 --> 00:43:43.120
without standing next to Mike,

00:43:43.120 --> 00:43:45.120
Sheldon may beat me.

00:43:45.120 --> 00:43:47.120
Once I'm standing next to Mike,

00:43:47.120 --> 00:43:49.120
now Sheldon is scared of Mike and therefore,

00:43:49.120 --> 00:43:51.120
he's already afraid.

00:43:57.120 --> 00:43:59.120
Okay.

00:43:59.120 --> 00:44:01.120
Let's begin to conclude.

00:44:01.120 --> 00:44:03.120
Guys, if you want to live by faith,

00:44:03.120 --> 00:44:05.120
then you must live with the daily

00:44:05.120 --> 00:44:07.120
question.

00:44:07.120 --> 00:44:09.120
Thanks man.

00:44:09.120 --> 00:44:11.120
Let me try.

00:44:11.120 --> 00:44:13.120
If, great,

00:44:13.120 --> 00:44:15.120
if you want to live by faith,

00:44:15.120 --> 00:44:17.120
you must.

00:44:19.120 --> 00:44:21.120
I pray God that nobody

00:44:21.120 --> 00:44:23.120
in this church right now

00:44:23.120 --> 00:44:25.120
will back off from this.

00:44:25.120 --> 00:44:27.120
If you want to live by faith, you

00:44:27.120 --> 00:44:29.120
must.

00:44:29.120 --> 00:44:31.120
You must do what?

00:44:31.120 --> 00:44:33.120
You must live

00:44:33.120 --> 00:44:35.120
with the daily question.

00:44:35.120 --> 00:44:37.120
You must live with

00:44:37.120 --> 00:44:39.120
the daily question.

00:44:39.120 --> 00:44:41.120
Daily question.

00:44:41.120 --> 00:44:43.120
You must live

00:44:43.120 --> 00:44:45.120
with the daily question.

00:44:45.120 --> 00:44:47.120
What do you, O God, want me to do for you today?

00:44:47.120 --> 00:44:49.120
Every day.

00:44:49.120 --> 00:44:51.120
You must

00:44:51.120 --> 00:44:53.120
live with this question.

00:44:53.120 --> 00:44:55.120
Every day.

00:44:55.120 --> 00:44:57.120
What, O God, do you want me

00:44:57.120 --> 00:44:59.120
to do for you today?

00:44:59.120 --> 00:45:01.120
Don't back off.

00:45:01.120 --> 00:45:03.120
If you don't hear him today,

00:45:03.120 --> 00:45:05.120
ask the same question again. Yours is

00:45:05.120 --> 00:45:07.120
to live by faith.

00:45:07.120 --> 00:45:09.120
One who chooses to live by

00:45:09.120 --> 00:45:11.120
faith must live by this daily

00:45:11.120 --> 00:45:13.120
question. What do you, O God,

00:45:13.120 --> 00:45:15.120
want me to do for you today?

00:45:15.120 --> 00:45:17.120
And at some point when he realizes

00:45:17.120 --> 00:45:19.120
that you're being persistent, or

00:45:19.120 --> 00:45:21.120
that you're being sincere, that you really

00:45:21.120 --> 00:45:23.120
want in, that you want to engage

00:45:23.120 --> 00:45:25.120
and participate with what he's doing here

00:45:25.120 --> 00:45:27.120
on earth, then he begins to say

00:45:27.120 --> 00:45:29.120
things to you. And you begin to

00:45:29.120 --> 00:45:31.120
now action it. And as you begin to

00:45:31.120 --> 00:45:33.120
action it, every day becomes

00:45:33.120 --> 00:45:35.120
an adventure. I'm

00:45:35.120 --> 00:45:37.120
scared of people who say

00:45:37.120 --> 00:45:39.120
that, ah, we must get to

00:45:39.120 --> 00:45:41.120
used to routine

00:45:41.120 --> 00:45:43.120
life in God. Hey,

00:45:43.120 --> 00:45:45.120
when there is routine, don't get used to it, but

00:45:45.120 --> 00:45:47.120
get used to a supernatural God.

00:45:47.120 --> 00:45:49.120
I just don't understand this routine

00:45:49.120 --> 00:45:51.120
God. There's nothing routine about him.

00:45:53.120 --> 00:45:55.120
Nothing routine about him.

00:45:55.120 --> 00:45:57.120
Yes, so I'll wash my dishes.

00:45:57.120 --> 00:45:59.120
Yes, I'll clean

00:45:59.120 --> 00:46:01.120
my house. But that's not a routine

00:46:01.120 --> 00:46:03.120
God. While I'm washing dishes and cleaning

00:46:03.120 --> 00:46:05.120
my house is when God begins to tell

00:46:05.120 --> 00:46:07.120
you what life is about.

00:46:07.120 --> 00:46:09.120
So even the washing dishes,

00:46:09.120 --> 00:46:11.120
which I hate, becomes something that

00:46:11.120 --> 00:46:13.120
becomes slightly interesting.

00:46:15.120 --> 00:46:17.120
Where now you begin to have this

00:46:17.120 --> 00:46:19.120
question daily, and it must be a daily

00:46:19.120 --> 00:46:21.120
question. Guys, I'm telling you something.

00:46:21.120 --> 00:46:23.120
This is something I do every day.

00:46:25.120 --> 00:46:27.120
Until you

00:46:27.120 --> 00:46:29.120
do it every day, you will not get a chance

00:46:29.120 --> 00:46:31.120
to experiment with it. Until you experiment

00:46:31.120 --> 00:46:33.120
with it, you will never find out who

00:46:33.120 --> 00:46:35.120
he is. Until you find out who he is, you will

00:46:35.120 --> 00:46:37.120
never know the adventure of God.

00:46:37.120 --> 00:46:39.120
But if this became your daily

00:46:39.120 --> 00:46:41.120
habit, then you'll find that you're stepping

00:46:41.120 --> 00:46:43.120
into adventures and the largeness of your God

00:46:43.120 --> 00:46:45.120
is growing. And the largeness of your God, whenever

00:46:45.120 --> 00:46:47.120
it grows, affects a whole lot of people around you.

00:46:47.120 --> 00:46:49.120
And you begin to experience him.

00:46:49.120 --> 00:46:51.120
And you begin to show him off.

00:46:53.120 --> 00:46:55.120
Yeah. Yeah.

00:46:55.120 --> 00:46:57.120
When God tells you something,

00:46:57.120 --> 00:46:59.120
you have to begin experimenting

00:46:59.120 --> 00:47:01.120
with it, as in, is this really you

00:47:01.120 --> 00:47:03.120
or God? Do you want

00:47:03.120 --> 00:47:05.120
to tell me a little more about it? Okay, I'm

00:47:05.120 --> 00:47:07.120
going to take a step and wet my toes.

00:47:07.120 --> 00:47:09.120
Ooh, that was cold, Father. You still think

00:47:09.120 --> 00:47:11.120
this is a good idea.

00:47:11.120 --> 00:47:13.120
And so you begin experimenting with it.

00:47:13.120 --> 00:47:15.120
And as you do,

00:47:15.120 --> 00:47:17.120
God just

00:47:17.120 --> 00:47:19.120
helps you with the process, man.

00:47:21.120 --> 00:47:23.120
So that's different than testing.

00:47:23.120 --> 00:47:25.120
That's different than testing.

00:47:25.120 --> 00:47:27.120
You know what he said is true.

00:47:27.120 --> 00:47:29.120
You're just feeling it out.

00:47:33.120 --> 00:47:35.120
I just found out that my car

00:47:35.120 --> 00:47:37.120
goes so high that I can't

00:47:37.120 --> 00:47:39.120
get into it now.

00:47:41.120 --> 00:47:43.120
Like, the car has a button

00:47:43.120 --> 00:47:45.120
where the car just rises up.

00:47:45.120 --> 00:47:47.120
And I never, I didn't know it

00:47:47.120 --> 00:47:49.120
rises up that much. And then

00:47:49.120 --> 00:47:51.120
today when I tried climbing into my car, I thought

00:47:51.120 --> 00:47:53.120
I'd need a ladder. Because it was like

00:47:53.120 --> 00:47:55.120
this.

00:47:55.120 --> 00:47:57.120
So you experiment, and as you experiment, you

00:47:57.120 --> 00:47:59.120
find that in the adventure God has given

00:47:59.120 --> 00:48:01.120
you, there are so many components that you haven't

00:48:01.120 --> 00:48:03.120
discovered yet.

00:48:09.120 --> 00:48:11.120
So if you see me going

00:48:11.120 --> 00:48:13.120
down Broadway with

00:48:13.120 --> 00:48:15.120
my car going like this in loud rap,

00:48:15.120 --> 00:48:17.120
you know it's me. Yeah? Yeah.

00:48:17.120 --> 00:48:19.120
So please ask this question.

00:48:19.120 --> 00:48:21.120
It's a way into it.

00:48:21.120 --> 00:48:23.120
Thresholds are dead

00:48:23.120 --> 00:48:25.120
when I have a spiritual grasp

00:48:25.120 --> 00:48:27.120
of God's expectations. Thresholds

00:48:27.120 --> 00:48:29.120
are only dead. Thresholds

00:48:29.120 --> 00:48:31.120
are dead

00:48:33.120 --> 00:48:35.120
when I have

00:48:35.120 --> 00:48:37.120
a grasp

00:48:39.120 --> 00:48:41.120
of God's expectations.

00:48:43.120 --> 00:48:45.120
So I'm going to

00:48:45.120 --> 00:48:47.120
go down.

00:48:53.120 --> 00:48:55.120
And the strange thing about

00:48:55.120 --> 00:48:57.120
these expectations is

00:48:57.120 --> 00:48:59.120
they'll be unclear,

00:48:59.120 --> 00:49:01.120
but they'll be unshakable.

00:49:03.120 --> 00:49:05.120
These two words never go together,

00:49:05.120 --> 00:49:07.120
except when God uses them.

00:49:09.120 --> 00:49:11.120
So thresholds are dead when I have

00:49:11.120 --> 00:49:13.120
a grasp of God's expectations. And his expectations

00:49:13.120 --> 00:49:15.120
are so huge, and they're so unclear,

00:49:15.120 --> 00:49:17.120
but they're so unshakable

00:49:17.120 --> 00:49:19.120
that you begin to take the first step. And as you begin to take the first step,

00:49:19.120 --> 00:49:21.120
things begin to clear.

00:49:21.120 --> 00:49:23.120
But

00:49:23.120 --> 00:49:25.120
please don't expect him to tell you

00:49:25.120 --> 00:49:27.120
everything. It never works. You don't need faith

00:49:27.120 --> 00:49:29.120
then. But this

00:49:29.120 --> 00:49:31.120
is the way it works.

00:49:31.120 --> 00:49:33.120
I hope this is encouraging you.

00:49:33.120 --> 00:49:35.120
Because at present, you don't look terribly

00:49:35.120 --> 00:49:37.120
encouraged. But I'm sure your

00:49:37.120 --> 00:49:39.120
heart is, and it takes a while before

00:49:39.120 --> 00:49:41.120
it shows on your face, but I'm used to that.

00:49:43.120 --> 00:49:45.120
Yeah, you do.

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But go ahead.

00:49:53.120 --> 00:49:55.120
No, when I take one step, I now

00:49:55.120 --> 00:49:57.120
have greater confidence that the one step I took

00:49:57.120 --> 00:49:59.120
is great, so I can take a second step.

00:49:59.120 --> 00:50:01.120
It is my confidence that increases.

00:50:03.120 --> 00:50:05.120
It doesn't matter anymore.

00:50:05.120 --> 00:50:07.120
That is the beauty of it.

00:50:07.120 --> 00:50:09.120
Guys, when it comes to faith,

00:50:09.120 --> 00:50:11.120
it's not the clarity that matters. It is the

00:50:11.120 --> 00:50:13.120
confidence that you build up. You begin to trust

00:50:13.120 --> 00:50:15.120
God blind.

00:50:15.120 --> 00:50:17.120
They say faith is not blind. It's partly true.

00:50:17.120 --> 00:50:19.120
You have to hear what he's saying before you can step into it.

00:50:19.120 --> 00:50:21.120
But you don't care

00:50:21.120 --> 00:50:23.120
much for clarity now.

00:50:23.120 --> 00:50:25.120
You don't want a clear picture

00:50:25.120 --> 00:50:27.120
because you have a very unshakable

00:50:27.120 --> 00:50:29.120
God. Which child wants a clear

00:50:29.120 --> 00:50:31.120
picture? You're saying to the

00:50:31.120 --> 00:50:33.120
child, I'm taking you to this

00:50:33.120 --> 00:50:35.120
in Florida. Really? I'd like to know about Florida

00:50:35.120 --> 00:50:37.120
and how many PCR tests you might have to do.

00:50:37.120 --> 00:50:39.120
And what we have. Child doesn't ask

00:50:39.120 --> 00:50:41.120
nothing, man. The child knows you're going to Florida.

00:50:41.120 --> 00:50:43.120
Child grabs your arm, and that's it.

00:50:43.120 --> 00:50:45.120
He does not or she does not want a clear picture.

00:50:45.120 --> 00:50:47.120
They just want an unshakable dad.

00:50:51.120 --> 00:50:53.120
Clarity is highly overrated.

00:50:55.120 --> 00:50:57.120
Perish the thought.

00:50:57.120 --> 00:50:59.120
You want to see how your

00:50:59.120 --> 00:51:01.120
house judge is going to work in Dayton?

00:51:01.120 --> 00:51:03.120
Ain't going to happen.

00:51:05.120 --> 00:51:07.120
David starts to think,

00:51:07.120 --> 00:51:09.120
David started like this.

00:51:11.120 --> 00:51:13.120
David was a doolm.

00:51:13.120 --> 00:51:15.120
And there are people gathering around him and they ask him,

00:51:15.120 --> 00:51:17.120
so what is your plan? And he says,

00:51:17.120 --> 00:51:19.120
I have no plan.

00:51:19.120 --> 00:51:21.120
And then he's so

00:51:21.120 --> 00:51:23.120
unsure of things

00:51:23.120 --> 00:51:25.120
that he takes his parents and drops them off

00:51:25.120 --> 00:51:27.120
at the palace of a pagan

00:51:27.120 --> 00:51:29.120
king and says, I don't know what I'm doing.

00:51:29.120 --> 00:51:31.120
Can you keep them till I figure it out and then

00:51:31.120 --> 00:51:33.120
I'll come back. And 400

00:51:33.120 --> 00:51:35.120
fraff gather around him and say,

00:51:35.120 --> 00:51:37.120
okay, we'll join you.

00:51:37.120 --> 00:51:39.120
And that is how David begins.

00:51:45.120 --> 00:51:47.120
Let's conclude.

00:51:49.120 --> 00:51:51.120
See,

00:51:51.120 --> 00:51:53.120
so guys,

00:51:53.120 --> 00:51:55.120
to grasp God's expectation,

00:51:57.120 --> 00:51:59.120
begin to hear what God says he will do.

00:51:59.120 --> 00:52:01.120
Then name the journey.

00:52:01.120 --> 00:52:03.120
Recognize the impossibility of it

00:52:03.120 --> 00:52:05.120
and dare to trust it.

00:52:05.120 --> 00:52:07.120
I'll just write that down. See what he's saying.

00:52:09.120 --> 00:52:11.120
Name the journey.

00:52:11.120 --> 00:52:13.120
Recognize its impossibility.

00:52:21.120 --> 00:52:23.120
And then dare to trust.

00:52:23.120 --> 00:52:25.120
So, give us a practical example, Jacob.

00:52:27.120 --> 00:52:29.120
See that he's saying go to NY.

00:52:29.120 --> 00:52:31.120
Name it.

00:52:31.120 --> 00:52:33.120
Call it the beginning of

00:52:33.120 --> 00:52:35.120
what God is going to do in the USA through us.

00:52:37.120 --> 00:52:39.120
Recognize its impossibility.

00:52:39.120 --> 00:52:41.120
Small church.

00:52:41.120 --> 00:52:43.120
High rent.

00:52:43.120 --> 00:52:45.120
No money.

00:52:47.120 --> 00:52:49.120
Sheldon for company.

00:52:51.120 --> 00:52:53.120
Nothing is working out right now.

00:52:53.120 --> 00:52:55.120
Recognize its impossibility

00:52:55.120 --> 00:52:57.120
and then dare to trust.

00:52:57.120 --> 00:52:59.120
Anything. I'm just pulling out an example because it's fresh.

00:52:59.120 --> 00:53:01.120
And I'm kind of,

00:53:01.120 --> 00:53:03.120
yeah, I'm kind of excited about it.

00:53:05.120 --> 00:53:07.120
What do you mean see?

00:53:07.120 --> 00:53:09.120
Guys,

00:53:09.120 --> 00:53:11.120
if we tune our heart to God,

00:53:11.120 --> 00:53:13.120
and I believe that anybody in this room

00:53:13.120 --> 00:53:15.120
can do that and you know what it is

00:53:15.120 --> 00:53:17.120
to tune your heart with God,

00:53:17.120 --> 00:53:19.120
if you tune your heart with God,

00:53:19.120 --> 00:53:21.120
you will see in the stars

00:53:21.120 --> 00:53:23.120
that you are going to see

00:53:23.120 --> 00:53:25.120
the light of God.

00:53:25.120 --> 00:53:27.120
You will see in the stars

00:53:27.120 --> 00:53:29.120
the birth of a nation.

00:53:29.120 --> 00:53:31.120
Like Abraham did.

00:53:31.120 --> 00:53:33.120
You will see

00:53:33.120 --> 00:53:35.120
in the jawbone of a

00:53:35.120 --> 00:53:37.120
donkey a weapon

00:53:37.120 --> 00:53:39.120
that can destroy the Philistines.

00:53:39.120 --> 00:53:41.120
You will see

00:53:41.120 --> 00:53:43.120
in

00:53:45.120 --> 00:53:47.120
two loaves of bread

00:53:47.120 --> 00:53:49.120
and fish

00:53:49.120 --> 00:53:51.120
what can feed a multitude.

00:53:51.120 --> 00:53:53.120
You will begin to see things

00:53:53.120 --> 00:53:55.120
through these little signs

00:53:55.120 --> 00:53:57.120
that God gives you. You will see

00:53:57.120 --> 00:53:59.120
an entire nation being saved

00:53:59.120 --> 00:54:01.120
by just standing out and looking at it.

00:54:01.120 --> 00:54:03.120
It's odd how God does this. He takes you out

00:54:03.120 --> 00:54:05.120
and asks you to look at the stars.

00:54:05.120 --> 00:54:07.120
Shows you the stars and says, hey,

00:54:07.120 --> 00:54:09.120
what do you see? See tons of stars.

00:54:09.120 --> 00:54:11.120
Want you to know that your descendants will be more than that.

00:54:13.120 --> 00:54:15.120
Seeing is

00:54:15.120 --> 00:54:17.120
catching these glimpses

00:54:17.120 --> 00:54:19.120
that God gives you of what he's up to.

00:54:19.120 --> 00:54:21.120
And he litters thousands of them.

00:54:21.120 --> 00:54:23.120
That's why dad and mom used to do this for Christmas.

00:54:23.120 --> 00:54:25.120
We would never get a Christmas gift

00:54:25.120 --> 00:54:27.120
till we solved clues.

00:54:27.120 --> 00:54:29.120
And they'd leave these clues all over the place.

00:54:29.120 --> 00:54:31.120
And we'd have to go, Reba and I would go

00:54:31.120 --> 00:54:33.120
hunt these clues and there'd be about six clues.

00:54:33.120 --> 00:54:35.120
At the end of the sixth clue, we would know

00:54:35.120 --> 00:54:37.120
where the Christmas gift is hidden.

00:54:37.120 --> 00:54:39.120
And it's like this. God drops so many

00:54:39.120 --> 00:54:41.120
clues all around the place.

00:54:41.120 --> 00:54:43.120
He is a father who really

00:54:43.120 --> 00:54:45.120
loves doing this with his children.

00:54:45.120 --> 00:54:47.120
There's nothing

00:54:47.120 --> 00:54:49.120
academic or clinical about him.

00:54:49.120 --> 00:54:51.120
Everything is relational. Everything is suited to your personality.

00:54:53.120 --> 00:54:55.120
One of the things we need to understand

00:54:55.120 --> 00:54:57.120
is the personality of God. And the strange thing

00:54:57.120 --> 00:54:59.120
is the personality of God will always

00:54:59.120 --> 00:55:01.120
match the personality he's made you.

00:55:03.120 --> 00:55:05.120
Think of that for a second.

00:55:05.120 --> 00:55:07.120
Every personality,

00:55:07.120 --> 00:55:09.120
every part of your personality, every part of every personality

00:55:09.120 --> 00:55:11.120
on earth that is brilliant and

00:55:11.120 --> 00:55:13.120
flawless came from him.

00:55:13.120 --> 00:55:15.120
Because he made us in his image.

00:55:15.120 --> 00:55:17.120
And now he says,

00:55:17.120 --> 00:55:19.120
Jacob, I know you know my character, I know you know my nature.

00:55:19.120 --> 00:55:21.120
But can you begin to discover my personality

00:55:21.120 --> 00:55:23.120
towards you too? Aren't there

00:55:23.120 --> 00:55:25.120
things, Jacob, that you and I do that I don't

00:55:25.120 --> 00:55:27.120
do with anybody else because I've made you a certain

00:55:27.120 --> 00:55:29.120
way. And when I do it, you immediately know

00:55:29.120 --> 00:55:31.120
it's me.

00:55:31.120 --> 00:55:33.120
I mean, Phoebe

00:55:33.120 --> 00:55:35.120
does this to me and I'll do anything for her.

00:55:37.120 --> 00:55:39.120
She calls me KK.

00:55:39.120 --> 00:55:41.120
Nobody calls me KK.

00:55:41.120 --> 00:55:43.120
The point being, guys,

00:55:43.120 --> 00:55:45.120
there's this part of God's personality

00:55:45.120 --> 00:55:47.120
that is so connected

00:55:47.120 --> 00:55:49.120
to you that when you begin to

00:55:49.120 --> 00:55:51.120
figure that out, you will find

00:55:51.120 --> 00:55:53.120
clues that he leaves almost

00:55:53.120 --> 00:55:55.120
like an

00:55:55.120 --> 00:55:57.120
indulgent father trying to get

00:55:57.120 --> 00:55:59.120
your attention to say, hey,

00:55:59.120 --> 00:56:01.120
I left that there. Did you see that?

00:56:01.120 --> 00:56:03.120
Hey, I left that there. Did you see that?

00:56:03.120 --> 00:56:05.120
Why? Because he's saying,

00:56:05.120 --> 00:56:07.120
let me play this game with you. I can do it without you,

00:56:07.120 --> 00:56:09.120
but I want you there.

00:56:09.120 --> 00:56:11.120
Man, this becomes so much fun

00:56:11.120 --> 00:56:13.120
then. It takes the

00:56:13.120 --> 00:56:15.120
fear out of it and it becomes a game.

00:56:19.120 --> 00:56:21.120
This doesn't apply to just thresholds. It applies

00:56:21.120 --> 00:56:23.120
to everything, guys. Everything.

00:56:29.120 --> 00:56:31.120
Any questions? If I'm not making myself clear,

00:56:31.120 --> 00:56:33.120
let me know.

00:56:33.120 --> 00:56:35.120
We don't think of God

00:56:35.120 --> 00:56:37.120
like this, but he's a father.

00:56:37.120 --> 00:56:39.120
We don't think of God like this, but he's a father

00:56:39.120 --> 00:56:41.120
at the end of the day.

00:56:41.120 --> 00:56:43.120
And fathers' personalities with three different

00:56:43.120 --> 00:56:45.120
children are very different.

00:56:45.120 --> 00:56:47.120
Even the way he scolds them is different.

00:56:47.120 --> 00:56:49.120
The way he disciplines

00:56:49.120 --> 00:56:51.120
them is different. The way he

00:56:51.120 --> 00:56:53.120
reacts after

00:56:53.120 --> 00:56:55.120
disciplining them is different. Everything

00:56:55.120 --> 00:56:57.120
is different. And we are talking about really

00:56:57.120 --> 00:56:59.120
bad fathers that we had

00:56:59.120 --> 00:57:01.120
as in compared to God. So what

00:57:01.120 --> 00:57:03.120
about good fathers?

00:57:03.120 --> 00:57:05.120
What about the good, good father?

00:57:05.120 --> 00:57:07.120
Very different, man.

00:57:09.120 --> 00:57:11.120
Sela. Yep.

00:57:11.120 --> 00:57:13.120
Are thresholds always

00:57:13.120 --> 00:57:15.120
spiritual things or can they be

00:57:15.120 --> 00:57:17.120
just like

00:57:17.120 --> 00:57:19.120
different things? Yeah.

00:57:19.120 --> 00:57:21.120
I don't think we should divide anything

00:57:21.120 --> 00:57:23.120
in our lives into spiritual and non-spiritual.

00:57:23.120 --> 00:57:25.120
Everything is continuous.

00:57:25.120 --> 00:57:27.120
Yeah.

00:57:29.120 --> 00:57:31.120
Okay.

00:57:35.120 --> 00:57:37.120
Yeah.

00:57:37.120 --> 00:57:39.120
Guys, remember,

00:57:39.120 --> 00:57:41.120
it's important to hear the word for faith.

00:57:41.120 --> 00:57:43.120
Reading the word ain't enough.

00:57:43.120 --> 00:57:45.120
Really, Jacob,

00:57:45.120 --> 00:57:47.120
you're being unscriptural. Nope.

00:57:47.120 --> 00:57:49.120
Faith comes by.

00:57:49.120 --> 00:57:51.120
Hearing the word.

00:57:51.120 --> 00:57:53.120
Hearing the word.

00:57:53.120 --> 00:57:55.120
Ah, so you mean play the

00:57:55.120 --> 00:57:57.120
Bible on audio.

00:57:57.120 --> 00:57:59.120
Nope. It is

00:57:59.120 --> 00:58:01.120
this.

00:58:01.120 --> 00:58:03.120
Hearing the word.

00:58:03.120 --> 00:58:05.120
This.

00:58:05.120 --> 00:58:07.120
If I

00:58:07.120 --> 00:58:09.120
choose not to hear

00:58:09.120 --> 00:58:11.120
the word, I

00:58:11.120 --> 00:58:13.120
will not be able to

00:58:13.120 --> 00:58:15.120
walk in faith.

00:58:17.120 --> 00:58:19.120
We've arrived

00:58:19.120 --> 00:58:21.120
at a conclusion that we need to read

00:58:21.120 --> 00:58:23.120
the word and faith will increase.

00:58:23.120 --> 00:58:25.120
Not

00:58:25.120 --> 00:58:27.120
the complete picture. It is hearing

00:58:27.120 --> 00:58:29.120
the word. And hearing

00:58:29.120 --> 00:58:31.120
the word requires that you

00:58:31.120 --> 00:58:33.120
hear when it is

00:58:33.120 --> 00:58:35.120
being spoken, taught.

00:58:35.120 --> 00:58:37.120
And one that avoids

00:58:37.120 --> 00:58:39.120
the spoken word or the

00:58:39.120 --> 00:58:41.120
taught word will not increase

00:58:41.120 --> 00:58:43.120
in faith.

00:58:43.120 --> 00:58:45.120
You'll be

00:58:45.120 --> 00:58:47.120
surprised at how carefully

00:58:47.120 --> 00:58:49.120
I hear what I'm teaching.

00:58:51.120 --> 00:58:53.120
Because my faith has

00:58:53.120 --> 00:58:55.120
to grow too. And then you will be

00:58:55.120 --> 00:58:57.120
surprised at how carefully I hear someone else who's

00:58:57.120 --> 00:58:59.120
teaching.

00:59:01.120 --> 00:59:03.120
Why does

00:59:03.120 --> 00:59:05.120
hearing increase faith?

00:59:05.120 --> 00:59:07.120
Because it is through the

00:59:07.120 --> 00:59:09.120
word that the Spirit of God reveals Christ.

00:59:09.120 --> 00:59:11.120
How Christ is revealed.

00:59:11.120 --> 00:59:13.120
You're able to know His

00:59:13.120 --> 00:59:15.120
magnificence, His amazing ways, and you begin to

00:59:15.120 --> 00:59:17.120
trust Him more. And therefore your faith

00:59:17.120 --> 00:59:19.120
increases. But it's surprising

00:59:19.120 --> 00:59:21.120
how it's not reading the word, it's hearing the word.

00:59:31.120 --> 00:59:33.120
Last two sentences and we're done.

00:59:35.120 --> 00:59:37.120
The Holy Spirit

00:59:39.120 --> 00:59:41.120
is your advantage

00:59:41.120 --> 00:59:43.120
in this whole process.

00:59:43.120 --> 00:59:45.120
You know, sometimes in homes

00:59:45.120 --> 00:59:47.120
you see children coming

00:59:47.120 --> 00:59:49.120
to the dad

00:59:49.120 --> 00:59:51.120
and asking him for something.

00:59:51.120 --> 00:59:53.120
And the dad, the mom

00:59:53.120 --> 00:59:55.120
doesn't want to give it, but she's kind

00:59:55.120 --> 00:59:57.120
of okay with it. So the mom says,

00:59:57.120 --> 00:59:59.120
no I won't give it to you. And the dad

00:59:59.120 --> 01:00:01.120
takes out a cookie and slips it to the

01:00:01.120 --> 01:00:03.120
child. And the mom pretends she's

01:00:03.120 --> 01:00:05.120
not looking. It's literally

01:00:05.120 --> 01:00:07.120
like that sometimes in heaven with

01:00:07.120 --> 01:00:09.120
the father saying, okay you want something?

01:00:09.120 --> 01:00:11.120
Come and ask for it. And then he'll

01:00:11.120 --> 01:00:13.120
pretend that he's

01:00:13.120 --> 01:00:15.120
being very goddish while the

01:00:15.120 --> 01:00:17.120
Holy Spirit says, don't worry, I'll get it for you.

01:00:17.120 --> 01:00:19.120
And he grabs this cookie and gives it

01:00:19.120 --> 01:00:21.120
to you. And the father knows fully well

01:00:21.120 --> 01:00:23.120
what is happening. But we don't realize

01:00:23.120 --> 01:00:25.120
how the Holy Spirit is

01:00:25.120 --> 01:00:27.120
our advantage in heaven.

01:00:27.120 --> 01:00:29.120
And that's how he conspires with us

01:00:29.120 --> 01:00:31.120
to bring to pass what God

01:00:31.120 --> 01:00:33.120
actually wants.

01:00:33.120 --> 01:00:35.120
You end up eating

01:00:35.120 --> 01:00:37.120
chocolate covered broccoli in the end.

01:00:39.120 --> 01:00:41.120
Yeah, I know.

01:00:41.120 --> 01:00:43.120
But that's how you get healthy food in.

01:00:43.120 --> 01:00:45.120
And so

01:00:45.120 --> 01:00:47.120
all I'm trying to say

01:00:47.120 --> 01:00:49.120
is this guys, because this example

01:00:49.120 --> 01:00:51.120
just doesn't cut it as much.

01:00:51.120 --> 01:00:53.120
But what I'm trying to say is

01:00:53.120 --> 01:00:55.120
there's a scripture in the Bible which says

01:00:55.120 --> 01:00:57.120
it is the glory of God to conceal a matter.

01:00:57.120 --> 01:00:59.120
It is the glory of Kings to

01:00:59.120 --> 01:01:01.120
search it out.

01:01:01.120 --> 01:01:03.120
You are supposed to search it out and God is

01:01:03.120 --> 01:01:05.120
supposed to conceal it. But we have someone on the inside

01:01:05.120 --> 01:01:07.120
and he's the Holy Spirit.

01:01:09.120 --> 01:01:11.120
So when God conceals

01:01:11.120 --> 01:01:13.120
the matter and you go searching for it,

01:01:13.120 --> 01:01:15.120
the Holy Spirit says, don't worry, I'll play on

01:01:15.120 --> 01:01:17.120
your team for this one. And he begins

01:01:17.120 --> 01:01:19.120
to show you what God actually wants to

01:01:19.120 --> 01:01:21.120
give you but God wants you to persist and push.

01:01:21.120 --> 01:01:23.120
And as you do, the Holy Spirit begins to show

01:01:23.120 --> 01:01:25.120
you what he wants to do.

01:01:25.120 --> 01:01:27.120
And he begins to conspire

01:01:27.120 --> 01:01:29.120
with you.

01:01:31.120 --> 01:01:33.120
Very often I'll have these conversations with the Holy Spirit

01:01:33.120 --> 01:01:35.120
saying, so Spirit of God,

01:01:35.120 --> 01:01:37.120
what do you think I should do? This is what the Father has said.

01:01:37.120 --> 01:01:39.120
Tell me, tell me.

01:01:49.120 --> 01:01:51.120
Last sentence.

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Thresholds when crossed give you a panoramic

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glimpse of majesty.

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Thresholds when crossed

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give you a panoramic

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glimpse of majesty.

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You cannot imagine what Moses felt

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when he stood on the other side,

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stretched out his staff

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and the waters came back.

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And for the first time

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in 400 years, Pharaoh

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and his horses were no longer

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pursuing Egyptians. There were no whips.

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He's standing on this little mound.

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Unfortunately, every time I talk about this

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I think of Charlton Heston. And so

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he stretches out his staff,

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the waters come crashing down,

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and Egypt

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is completely undone.

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And Moses

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realizes now that there is

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a majesty that I've never witnessed

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before. That then fuels him to go

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up Mount Sinai. On Mount Sinai,

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he finishes seeing

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God's glory for 40 days.

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There is something about

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crossing thresholds

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that gives you such a

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glimpse of majesty, a panoramic

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glimpse of majesty, that will change you

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forever and dare you to step

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further and further and further and further.

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You cannot do

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this unless you see it.

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Glory

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is a great motivator. And by glory

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all I mean is the splendor, the magnificence,

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the weight, the power, the laughter,

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the goodness of God.

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Every time you see it, you think to yourself

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I can do greater. Guys,

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know this.

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This is so critical.

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There are so many times in

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life where we will not take the

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next step because we think it's more

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expensive, a little too

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reckless,

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a little too extravagant,

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a little too this, a little too that. We don't

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take it and you don't realize that God is

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going to say, hey Jacob, you're a 99 cent

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burger guy. I'm trying to get you

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to a KFC

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Tooney Tuesday level

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so that you can go to a

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McDonald's $5 level,

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so that you can go to a White Spot

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$19 level, so that you can go to

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a Jet Set Burger at Fairmont at a

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$40 level. And Father, can we please stop there?

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But the point is

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so often we

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will not scale

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in the physical and we think

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we can scale spiritually, but I'm saying

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this to you. First the physical,

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then the spiritual.

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This is so important.

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First the physical, then the spiritual.

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1 Corinthians 15.

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God first says, hey, you think you can

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handle spiritual things Jacob? Let's see if you can handle

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simple

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physical, mammon

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oriented things. And if you can't do that,

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how are you going to deal with spiritual things?

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One of the reasons

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Acts 39 is where it is

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financially is because

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of Heidi's lack of fear

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when it comes to mammon.

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Unfortunately, as a pastor when she makes

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decisions, I have to pretend that I have faith.

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But thank God

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we kept scaling up, kept scaling up.

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To have a bean counter

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as your treasurer is the

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most dangerous thing in a church. There are two people

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you have to be really scared of in a church.

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The church secretary and the church treasurer.

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You get right people

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there, you'll be happy. The church

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will grow.

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That's on the side.

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Please understand

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this last principle I made. It is critical because

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we have a problem in this church when it

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comes to that.

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Physically we do not scale.

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I'm not talking about this way.

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I'm talking about other forms of physical

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scaling. Physically we do not scale

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and we think that spiritually we can't scale

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and I'm saying to you it's not possible.

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Challenge me on it. Ask me questions.

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I'm done.

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When you say scale

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you don't mean scaling the wall.

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You mean scaling,

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amping up the giving

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or amping up the foot ramp.

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No, amping up

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your life.

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Not giving, nothing spiritual

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in this. This is down

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to earth, nitty gritty

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world living.

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Amping up physical life.

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Father, this is where I've lived

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all my life and you're inviting

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me to live life this way

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but I won't because this is

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where I am. And then when he tries

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to do it spiritually it's as useless

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because spiritual things are invisible.

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At least physical is visible.

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And if you can't do it physically you will not

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do it spiritually.

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But when Jesus

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sent you to New York

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he sent you with nothing.

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How is that amping up your life?

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So he can still send you with nothing.

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You can be sent to New York

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tomorrow with nothing. But you know

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this God and the extent of what he can do

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because you've seen it in the physical.

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We think that when God gives us

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something humongously spiritual to do

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that we will be able to do it. But you haven't

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if you haven't experienced it in your own

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personal life at a physical level

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you will not be able to scale

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to where he wants you to go.

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Where do you see that spiritual?

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From Joseph starting in Jacob's house

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going to Potiphar's palace

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going to the prison, going to Pharaoh

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from Moses starting in

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the house of the Pharaoh

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then going down to the back side

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of Sinai, then coming back

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and then going up Mount Sinai which was the ultimate

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place. Pharaoh's place was nothing compared to Mount Sinai.

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Jesus who left his glory

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in heaven, knew how to walk here on

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earth as a poor man

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as a carpenter and

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yet had the ability to stand on the Mount of Transfiguration.

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Peter who

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began to realize ways

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as he walked with Jesus that there is

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more to me than being a fisherman.

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Paul who was an ultimate scholar

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a benjaminite who

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knew what it was to be completely

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impoverished and completely content.

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Jacob who knew what it was

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to be absolutely

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debt ridden, broken

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and how God can deliver and God can bring to pass

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impossible things, financially

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physically, spiritually.

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We don't realize how

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important it is to physically get

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used to God doing things

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but we think we can scale spiritually

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and I'm saying it's not possible.

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Yeah, yeah.

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That was the right word. We have a poverty

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mindset guys.

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We have a poverty mindset.

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That's what

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I'll teach next week. We have a poverty

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mindset.

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A poverty mindset

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will not give up what is in my

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hand till May gives me something better.

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A poverty

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mindset is completely transactional.

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A poverty mindset is an orphan

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mindset.

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I'm going to

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no, I don't need

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to say that.

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Yeah, go ahead.

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No, I didn't say improving my life.

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I'm going to argue with you on this one.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Yeah.

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I'm comfortable.

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It's a really good job.

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So something that's been really bothering

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me is my job. It's a good job.

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It's pretty comfortable. I like the

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people. I like what I'm doing.

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I've

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been feeling God tugging at me it's time to move

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on. So I keep asking him

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what's next? I look for things like

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should I go back to school for that? It's no, no, no.

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And last week I heard

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that you need to quit first.

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I'm very sorry.

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I put you in this.

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I'm not ready for that.

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It's not tied to my well-being.

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It's not about money. It's not about security

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or anything. But I think it's a symbolism

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of, it's more spiritual.

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It's about trusting him what's next for

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my life where he's taking me

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as in sending me and everything. So it's

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more tied to that than my

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physical well-being. That is a physical step.

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I'm not talking about getting richer, guys.

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I'm not talking about

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I don't think so.

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It may have sounded that way to you. But

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that is not what it sounded like to everybody.

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So it would have to be specific to you.

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But I have to argue on this because that is not

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what I'm trying to convey. It's not

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getting a

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red card that goes up and down.

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But

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if that happens, so be it. But the point

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is that at the end of the day

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an impoverished

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mindset prevents me from scaling

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physically. And an impoverished

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mindset will shut down doors for me

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spiritually because I will not be able to step there.

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We'll talk about it next week. But it's

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so critical to our existence, guys.

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Unfortunately,

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the world has gotten this part better.

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Joan's dad

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was not like this.

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When I met him, I had an impoverished

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mindset. Her dad was not like this.

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He was old, eh?

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Like, what I meant is

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when I met him, he was old.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Older, older, yeah. Sorry.

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Sorry.

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But I met some people

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that don't have an impoverished mindset.

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And man, when you meet them,

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you wish you could be like them, but you've never

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practiced it, so you never step into it.

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This is a completely separate topic.

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But so what?

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Alrighty.

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What time is it? I don't want to look at my watch

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because I'm scared.

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Okay. We're doing okay.

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12.55.

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Oh, that is so important. In the next five minutes,

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we have to accomplish a lot.

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So, if the guys from Dayton

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want to come up, we just want to pray for you.

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Okay.

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The two that are dressed properly

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and the guy with the shorts, if you would just want to come up.

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And if you want to put em in the chat.