Making Hard Decisions - Asking For A Friend Part 1

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Well, good morning and welcome
to Real Life Church.

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It is so good to see your
smiling faces out in the crowd

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today.
We're so pumped just to worship

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God with you today.
Well, hey, if you're with us

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here in person, active.
Tech and thrill Or maybe you're

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joining us online today.
Just go ahead and stand your

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feet.
We're going to worship God Big

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Together today.
You give life an eternal spark.

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I call you healer because you
can mend any broken heart.

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I call you faithful father.
You finish everything you start.

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My soul is made to respond.
No.

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You'll buy a.
Falls in there, and you deserve

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every single one giving me a
million ways.

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So you amazed you what you've
done in life falls in wonder.

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I don't leave.
You know you'll buy it.

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Falls in there.
And I say I'm back to you.

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You deserve the highest starter.
Your love is bounded beyond what

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I could drink, your craziest
pictures and you never give it

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up on me.
I call you bondage trader

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because you're handing out the
prison keys.

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My soul.
So be free to pay the free

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tomorrow.
Know you'll buy 1000.

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Eggs deserve every single one.
Giving me a million away to give

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you answer what you've done,
honey.

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God's in wonder at all.
You know you'll buy 1000.

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Sing all back.
Sing all back.

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Sing all back.
Sing all back.

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I came forever, the beginning
and the end, while Lord answered

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it, the sign of a man, the line
of the Tudor wrote.

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The reason that the second had
to lead us all.

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Why always glory?
Feeling.

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Fishing.
Boom.

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What?
Ocean?

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Carter Who?
Who may go away?

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Watch it.
GPA say Mom and Gray walk on the

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see while we chill.
You are Jesus, my child.

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No one should die.
Know you'll buy its mouth.

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In it you disturb every single
one.

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Giving me a million ways.
I'm the lazy way You've done

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mine.
Know you'll buy its mouth in

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here.
Disturb every single one Given

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me a meal away.
The men do what you've done.

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And I am lost in one day.
And I'll be tea.

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Don't you buy 1000 hay and I'll
sing on bed to you.

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Sing on my back.
Sing on my back.

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Amen.
You've got some praise.

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You see all those?
Names of God listed out.

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It's incredible that we barely.
Touch such a small piece of all

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of who God is.
But when I look at that list,

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the name that means the most to
me sometimes is that Emmanuel,

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that God with us, and that God
promises that no matter what

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we're walking through or we're
going through, that he is going

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to be there with us right beside
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He is a close God.
So we're going to continue to

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lift up that no matter what
you're going through today,

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God's with you and he loves.
You because there's a grace when

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the heart is undefined, another
way when the walls are close,

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and then when I look at the
space between where I used to be

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and this reckoning.
I know I will never be.

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There was another in the fire
standing next to me.

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There was another in the waters
holding back the seas, should I

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ever need reminding.
How I bet separate there's

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across that there's a burden
where another died for me, there

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is another in the fire.
My dad let me leave the waters

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cause I'm no longer a slave to
my sin anymore.

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And should I pull in the space
between what remains of me and

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this reckoning?
Either way I will bound to the

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things of this world.
I know and I know I will never

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be alone.
Be another in the fire standing

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next to me.
There is another in the waters

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holding back the seas.
And should I ever meet,

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reminding the power set me free.
There is a grave that holds

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nobody.
And now the power lives in me.

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There is a never in the fire,
fire, fire.

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There is a never in the fire.
There is a never in the fire.

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And I can see the light in the
darkness, and the darkness bows

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to him.
I can hear the word in the

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Heather and the space we wish
them.

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I can feel the glow shake the
deepness, and the Prince and

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walls hate it.
Another temperature.

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There is no other name but the
name that is Jesus and he who

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was and still is and will.
Be through it all, so come what

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may and.
Space between all the things and

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scene and this reckoning,
because I know I will never be

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alone.
Because I know I know I will

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never be alone, Will be another
in a fire that's to me.

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Go be another.
We're in the waters holding back

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the seas.
And should I happen to be back

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my day How good you been to me.
I'll count the joy come every

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battle because I know that's way
over here.

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And I can see.
I can see the light in the

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darkness.
How the darkness bounces.

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I can hear the.
In the heavens of the face

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between us and I can feel the
ground shaking beneath us.

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And the Prince and walls came
in.

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Nothing's in between us.
Nothing's in between But be in

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lover in the fire.
The scarling looks to me But be

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in lover in the water.
Holding back the scene.

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Should I play with my day?
Hope you do better tonight.

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Or count the joy.
Come every battle.

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There's no That's where you'll
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Count the joy from every battle.
Count the joy from every battle.

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Battle count the joy come every
battle.

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Count the joy come every battle.
Because I know that's where

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you'll be.
Just how comforting.

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It is to be able to say that.
Then there's another in the fire

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standing next to you and things
are rough and crazy and maybe

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you just don't know where to
turn and God is with.

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You always He is right there,
right beside you and this next

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song available, and there's just
nothing more humbling and

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fulfilling than saying yes.
To God, your hands open wide,

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your heart open wide, just as a
willing vessel to be.

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Used by him.
I mean, there's no higher

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calling than just being open and
available to letting God use

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your life.
There is a road may seem I'll

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follow away your spirit leads.
As my life may be, I will give

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you every piece and I you call,
I am available and I say.

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Kiss the Lord.
I am available.

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I am with open hands, counting
on your grace again.

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Listen, me and boy of you.
I just want to see you move

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while here you call.
I am a baby boy.

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I say yes, alone I am.
The bull I hear you call, I am

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available, I say Yes, the Lord,
I am available.

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My hands are open wide too.
My heart is open wide.

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Come, do whatever you want to.
Here I am.

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Here I am.
You can have it all.

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You can have it all.
Here I am.

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Here I am.
You can have it all.

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You can have it all.
Here I am.

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Here I am.
You can have it all.

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You can have it all.
Here I am.

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You can have it all.
You can have it all.

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You can have it all.
You can have it all.

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You can have it all.
You can have it all.

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That the sound of true is in the
room by sayings to you.

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You're the one who gave me life.
Nothing is a sacrifice.

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So use me how you want to guide.
Have you thrown within my heart?

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I hear you.
I hear.

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You call, I am available, and I
say, yes, the Lord I am

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available and I hear you call I
am.

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A visible.
Here I am.

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Here I am.
You can have it all.

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You can have it all.
Here I am.

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Here I am.
You can have it all.

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You can have it all.
All right, man, let's give it up

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for a big God this morning and
let that just be the cry of our

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heart this morning, that we can
just lay our lives down to him.

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That could be a scary thing.
But, man, that we can just

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surrender to his will less of
him or less of us and way, way

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more of him.
I hope that's the cry of our

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hearts today.
It's an honor to be with you

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this morning.
It's so great just to worship

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together as a group of
believers.

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And before we keep this thing
rocking and rolling today, can

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we take a moment and can we
recognize an awesome group of

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people hanging out with us today
called Real Life online?

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So I'm wondering, can they hear
you this morning?

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Can we make them feel welcome?
That's that's what's up.

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Yeah.
We're glad you're here real life

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online.
And we're equally glad that

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you're here in the room.
So I want you to take about 30

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seconds and greet someone around
you, maybe even learn a name

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really quick Connect. 30
seconds.

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Then you can have a seat.
Go for

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it.
Awesome.

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Love watching you all connect
out here in the room today.

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Well, hey, we are honored and
excited to spend our Sunday

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morning with you right here at
Real Life Church.

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Want to welcome anyone.
That's brand new in the room

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today.
If you're a first time guest,

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welcome to Real Life Church.
I have a step for you.

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I would love for you to take on
your seat.

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Maybe you're sitting on it,
hopefully not.

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Probably on the ground in front
of you you'll see a long card

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and a pen.
That's our connect card and I

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would just love to invite you
right now while I'm talking.

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Go ahead and grab that.
Man, I want you just to fill out

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as much information as you're
comfortable filling out.

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Here's what we would love to do.
We'd love to connect with you

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this week.
Nothing weird.

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No one's showing up at your
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Want to mail you something and
want to just send you a message

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of encouragement this week to
check in with you.

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So go and fill that out.
You actually drop that in the

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bucket at the end of The
Gathering today, so fill it out

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now.
Hang on to it there till the end

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and everyone else in the room, I
invite you to also pick that up.

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This is an all skate moment
because even if you call real

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life home, even if you serve on
the dream team, you've been here

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a long time.
If you're not brand new, there's

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still so many things on there we
would love for you to fill out

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on that card.
Like your prayer request.

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Want to celebrate some praises
that are going on in your life?

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We don't want anyone at the end
just to throw in throwing a card

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in the bucket all by themselves.
So kind of weird to single out.

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So we're all going to do it.
So go ahead and do that.

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This morning.
We would love to just celebrate

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with you.
Pray over those cards this week

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here at Real Life Church a
little bit more about us.

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We are at church on a mission.
That mission is to see people

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far from God discover their real
life and purpose in Jesus.

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Why is that our mission?
Because souls matter to God.

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That's what it's all about.
People matter.

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Souls matter, and that's why we
exist, is to bring Jesus to

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people.
So we invite you.

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If you're currently not on
mission at a church anywhere, or

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you've been hanging out with us
and you're not on mission with

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us just yet, we invite you to
join us side by side.

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We would love to serve side by
side with you on mission.

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God's done an amazing, amazing
job this year through real life

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and it and it years not even
close to being over with.

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We're excited to see what
happens here on this home

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stretch show.
We'd love for you to partner

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with us.
There's some cool ways you can

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do that you'll hear about coming
up later.

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Man, I'm excited because this
week we're going to kick off a

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brand new series called Asking
for a Friend.

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There's so many questions that
we have like real personal

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questions, kind of hard to ask
out loud, really to be

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vulnerable and talk to people
about.

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And so this series is going to
try to tackle some of those

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questions we might be too
nervous to ask and really answer

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them in a a Christ centered way,
a meaningful way, a practical

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way, full of grace, but also
full of truth.

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And so I'm excited we get to
welcome a special guest to kick

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this off.
So I want you to give a big real

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life welcome to our very own
Barry Hardy as he leads us in

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asking for a friend.
Bring us to the throne, Barry.

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Don't you guys love Drew?
Give it up for Drew.

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Here's what I know about Drew.
He always dresses for success.

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I love your shirts.
I know your wife doesn't always

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appreciate him, Holly.
Is that right?

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But I love how you how you just
present yourself.

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That's right.
You know what I also love about

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Drew?
Drew's got a big heart, and he's

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emblematic of so many of you
guys here.

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So I'd love listening to you
guys worship.

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Isn't it a great day to be in
God's house?

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You guys excited?
We have another praise.

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Our mission team made it back
from Columbia all in one piece.

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And that's good, because half of
them were my family and I

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almost.
I almost died.

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We ran out of macaroni and
cheese.

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I didn't know what to do.
We were me, me, and Bree.

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We were.
We were on our last or last.

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Life support, right?
So I want to invite you guys

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back next week.
We're going to hit a pause.

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I know we're launching the
series today, but we're going to

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hit a pause next week just to
hear what the mission team

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experienced.
I know that God really moved.

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They saw some awesome things
they were able to minister and

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they were ministered too as
well.

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And I'm excited to hear just the
whole breath of what God did in

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that trip and how you guys
invested in them to send them

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out.
So be ready to come back next

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week and just hear those awesome
stories so as we kick off today.

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Asking for a friend.
Have you guys ever asked that

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question that you were too
embarrassed to ask, you didn't

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know the answer to?
And so you're like, I've got

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this friend Drew, and he's got
this issue right.

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And I love you, Drew.
I appreciate you sitting up

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here.
We all have those, right?

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We have those questions that if
I were to verbalize it, that

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person would judge me.
I would have condemnation.

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I'd have guilt.
I'd have shame.

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Well, I'm too embarrassed.
I, you know, you ever hear the,

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the, the sayings?
Like there's no such thing as a

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dumb question.
I really believe that because if

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you don't know, you might as
well ask.

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It's better to be thought a fool
than to act like one.

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I want to know what I don't
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And so when we're talking about
asking for a friend, these are

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the questions that we're going
to lean into.

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These aren't easy questions.
They're not.

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They're not ones that often are
dealt with because they're so

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sensitive.
And they're the ones that,

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especially in church, we don't
want to bring up because we know

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or we think we know the answers
to them already and we don't

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want to hear anything that's
going to go against what I

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already believe.
What I have are already hold.

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And so that's why this idea of
asking for a friend is so

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important.
And once you guys know something

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else, this isn't a wingtip
church.

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We wear steel toes around here,
right?

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There's too many collapse for
that one.

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I don't know.
We step on each other's toes,

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but we do.
And the reason, as Drew said,

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it's not because there's any
condemnation here.

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There's no judgment.
We want the best for you and we

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don't hold just.
I hold myself accountable.

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I'm wearing these steel toes
because I don't want you guys to

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step on my toes when I need it
as well.

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So as we go through these
questions, I want you guys to

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keep in mind that there's a
vision for where we're going and

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we're going to spend the
majority of our time today on

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laying out that vision that call
in our life.

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And at the end, we're going to
ask one question, and I'm not

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going to be able to do it
justice, but we're going to

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spend just a little time going
through that one question.

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But before we get there, I want
to lay this out for you because

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I want you guys to have a heart
for what we see as leadership

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here at real life.
Because if I just jump into this

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and start answering questions,
I'm going to be, I'm going to be

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messing some of you guys'
Cheerios up.

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You know what I'm talking about.
I'm going to upset some people,

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and I may upset some people here
anyway.

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And again, that that's okay.
We can have disagreements, but I

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want you to know what we're
going to bring to you.

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It's not.
What Pastor Sean says is real

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and true.
Just based on Pastor Sean.

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It's not just what I think is
right and it's true.

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It's going to come back to the
most important thing that we can

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give you, and it's based on
God's word, right?

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Because if it's just me, it's
just what I want you guys to do.

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What does that mean?
And if it's just what you want,

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what good is that?
Because we can all be wrong.

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And so we're here as a church,
as a body, as a people called

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out by God in this community to
live on mission for him, to hold

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each other accountable.
And so my prayer for you guys is

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this is that sit back and let go
and give it to God.

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Because maybe there's something
that we can learn, maybe there's

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something that we can take and
it comply to our lives that will

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help us individually and help us
as a church to move forward.

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And so I know if we allow the
Holy Spirit to do that, it will

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radically change not only our
today, but our tomorrow.

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And that's what God has for us.
I remember the other night,

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while the family was still gone,
did you guys see those cool

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storm clouds that were coming in
the distance?

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They were on the north side.
I think it was Friday night.

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I mean my daughter, we walked
outside and you just see these

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massive clouds and it was dark
and you just see the lightning

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move through those clouds.
It was so cool.

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She's out there taking pictures.
Anybody else in here like

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thunderstorms?
You guys enjoy that.

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It's cool just to see it.
And I really think that people

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are are are interested in storms
different way and people see

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storms in different way.
There's people that I know that

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morning they could have said
without knowing the news or the

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forecast, they said, hey, we're
going to get a storm tonight

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because they could see some
signs in the sky.

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Now I'm more like the person.
I I can't do that.

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But I see a storms coming when I
see the clouds coming and I see

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the lightning.
And then there's some of us in

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here.
We enjoy the storm.

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We're the people out there
walking the tornado signs are

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going.
Tornado signs are going off.

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We're out there with a camera.
Right?

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Ethel, look.
The cows flying through the air.

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Anybody in here?
That you?

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Anybody here?
Tornado chasers.

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You go out there.
You're the idiot like me.

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Yeah, I can't.
I don't see it yet.

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That's right.
I knew you would be, Tim.

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Can I tell you guys something?
And I don't think this is an

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opinion.
I see storm clouds coming.

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I feel raindrops already
starting to land.

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And am I going to sit here and
say, like, this world is falling

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apart in the sense, like, this
has never happened before?

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History repeats itself.
I'm a student of history and I

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think history is repeating
itself.

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And I see these storm clouds
building and I see a couple

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things very, very clearly.
I think we're in a time.

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In this world, in this country
that we're facing something that

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we haven't seen for a while.
And you can't stop and listen to

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the news or listen to the
political factions and know that

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this world is broken and set
itself against itself.

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Because this world so divided on
its values, what we believe,

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what we think should happen,
that there is something coming

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and I don't know what it is and
and that's not my purse here, to

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tell you that we're in for the
next civil war.

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But I think back in history,
what was happening in 1855, five

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years before the Civil War, do
you think those people knew that

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something bad was going to
happen?

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I think anybody with a half a
brain might not have picked it

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out, but they would have known
something's going on.

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What about in 1929, Germany?
Nobody knew Hitler was going to

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take over the world, but they
could have known something was

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going to be going on.
And I think we're in that state

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here.
And that's the first thing that

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I see.
There is something brewing.

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There's something different
right now that's happened in the

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last 10 or 15 years.
Something is coming and it

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starts with our values.
If you'd have gone 50 years ago,

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most of the people in this
country would have claimed the

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title Christian.
Now, I don't have any illusion

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that they were all Christians,
but they would have all said

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something along like, yeah,
well, yeah, I think what the

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Bible says is real.
Whether or not they live that

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way or not, they would have,
they would have, they would have

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made a statement that way.
A high, A high proportion.

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A high majority.
We live in a time now that

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that's not the case.
I remember when I was little,

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they used to fight about should
we have prayer in school now?

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We talk about what happens if
you teach your kids something

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different.
Do you get reported to DFS?

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And if you think that's
something that's crazy, watch

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the news.
This battle lines are moving and

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they're going further and faster
than I ever dreamed would have

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happened.
The second thing I see clearly

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is this is that.
In this world, we have no

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grounding.
We have no common ground to have

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discussions.
And that's why I I believe in

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this presidential candidate.
I believe in that presidential

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candidate or no, I believe in
this or I believe in that.

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And we can't have a discussion
anymore because we don't even

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have a belief in truth.
And the thing that follows out

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of that is this, is that the
whole world is spinning and

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falling apart.
And the question that comes to

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my mind is this.
Where's the church?

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Have you guys ever asked that
question?

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And here's the issue that I see
is that sometimes the church

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disappears because the church
doesn't look any different.

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Why do the divorce rates, Why do
the the pornography rates look

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no different in the church than
they do in the outside world?

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And this is something that is,
is, is is is a burden to those

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that that have a call of God in
their life.

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And it's something that we have
to evaluate not only on a church

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level, but as an individual
level.

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I also see a a third thing and
maybe it's because I've missed

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it, but I see and this is this
is the uplifting part.

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I see for whatever reason men of
God, pastors that are

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recognizing the things that are
coming at our doorstep and

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they're saying no more.
We have to take account, we have

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to take responsibility for what
God's called us to.

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And so I see men like Pastor
Sean in these discussions that I

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have with him.
How do we alter?

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How do we change our life
groups?

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To pour truth into people's
lives because we have people

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without hope.
We have people without purpose.

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We have people that are just
lost.

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They're mores and they're people
that come to church, even people

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that would call themselves
Christian.

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And so I see them in like Pastor
Shawn and some other pastors

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that that that I follow.
And they're running back to the

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word of God in a way that though
we've always valued the word of

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God here, they're running back
to an emphasis of like.

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This is where we have to start
from.

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This is what we have to get into
our people's hearts.

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Because if I go and tell you
guys, here's an issue you should

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be dealing with, but you don't
have any way to communicate the

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gospel, the basic thing that
God's given to us, your

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leadership has let you down.
And so our responsibility is to

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give you guys the things that
God has given us.

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And then your responsibility is
to take that and apply that to

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your lives and teach the next
generation.

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Because if you don't do that,
we'll have a generation that

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doesn't know God in the in the
consequences that come from that

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will be ones that we should have
seen, we should have seen those

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storm clouds coming.
There's a guy that most of you

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probably don't know, His name's
Augustine, Saint Augustine, and

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he was a Bishop in Africa in in
the in the early 5th century.

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And he wrote this cool book, and
it's called The City of God.

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What he told his, his peers and
his church back then, it would

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apply to us as well, he said.
You guys have to be part of the

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city of God, not the city of
man, and I would wholeheartedly

456
00:33:37,310 --> 00:33:41,030
agree with him.
Now I want to say this real life

457
00:33:41,030 --> 00:33:43,990
is known as a little rough
around the edges.

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Would you guys agree?
We're a little salty and you

459
00:33:48,310 --> 00:33:51,230
want to know why?
Is because we have this value.

460
00:33:51,810 --> 00:33:54,810
We want to see people far from
God discover their real life and

461
00:33:54,810 --> 00:33:58,290
what?
And I love that.

462
00:33:59,010 --> 00:34:01,770
And I know as long as Pastor
Sean's here, is here, and as

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00:34:01,770 --> 00:34:05,090
long as I have any say at all,
we will always be a church that

464
00:34:05,090 --> 00:34:09,210
is open to the broken, the
hurting, the people that are far

465
00:34:09,210 --> 00:34:11,969
from God, the people that have
been burned by church.

466
00:34:12,250 --> 00:34:14,810
That's who we are.
And so we're always going to

467
00:34:14,810 --> 00:34:18,210
have an element of having people
that have broken, messy lives.

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And that's great.
And that's awesome.

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00:34:21,300 --> 00:34:25,739
But I can I tell you this is
that is, as a church, if we stop

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00:34:25,739 --> 00:34:29,260
right there and we get people to
to the to the message of

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00:34:29,260 --> 00:34:32,020
salvation and they accept
Christ, that's good.

472
00:34:32,900 --> 00:34:35,820
But we can't stop there, because
that's not where the gospel

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00:34:35,820 --> 00:34:39,420
start stops.
The gospel comes into a person's

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00:34:39,420 --> 00:34:43,780
lives and it gives them
salvation, and it reunites them

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00:34:43,780 --> 00:34:45,780
with the purpose that God had
for them.

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00:34:46,210 --> 00:34:49,730
To to worship him and be in in,
in in a relationship with God.

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00:34:49,730 --> 00:34:51,449
That's what was lost in the
Garden of Eden.

478
00:34:52,570 --> 00:34:56,449
But it has a ramification that
has to change our entire lives.

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00:34:57,010 --> 00:35:00,970
We can't have Jesus on Sunday
and then I run my own life on

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00:35:00,970 --> 00:35:04,530
Monday through Saturday.
That's not how it works because

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00:35:04,530 --> 00:35:07,610
if you do, we're going to live
like a person that has a broken

482
00:35:07,610 --> 00:35:10,330
mind and you're going to go this
way and then you're going to go

483
00:35:10,330 --> 00:35:11,250
that way.
James talks.

484
00:35:11,250 --> 00:35:13,850
It talks about it being tossed
to and fro.

485
00:35:14,410 --> 00:35:16,530
And that's what the church is in
a lot of ways today.

486
00:35:17,050 --> 00:35:19,690
We don't know which way to go
because we don't know who's on

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00:35:19,690 --> 00:35:26,450
the throne on that day.
The things that affect us and

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00:35:26,450 --> 00:35:29,290
destroy us are the things that
we allow to come into our lives.

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00:35:29,450 --> 00:35:33,250
And so I believe that we have a
call on our church in Augustine

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00:35:33,250 --> 00:35:35,450
in the city of God.
What he was reacting to was this

491
00:35:35,450 --> 00:35:36,890
is that he had some people
coming along.

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00:35:36,890 --> 00:35:38,530
You guys know, Rome, the Roman
Empire.

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00:35:38,530 --> 00:35:42,330
It was one of the most powerful,
most significant empires to ever

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00:35:42,330 --> 00:35:45,560
exist.
And in the time of of Augustine,

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it was in decline.
It was falling apart.

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00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:50,560
And you had these people that
were coming along and saying,

497
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:52,360
hey, you know why Rome is
falling?

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00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:54,080
It's because of those
Christians.

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If we would have stayed with the
old pass and the old gods, this

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00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:01,240
never would have happened.
We would have never lost our

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00:36:01,240 --> 00:36:04,520
power, our prestige.
And Augustine comes along and he

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00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:07,760
lays out this beautiful book and
he says no, no, no, you guys are

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00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:11,030
missing it.
The city of God, the real

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00:36:11,030 --> 00:36:13,710
church, the people that are
living on mission for God.

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00:36:14,350 --> 00:36:16,630
If they weren't here, it would
have been so much worse.

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00:36:17,310 --> 00:36:19,310
And you know why?
That you are destroyed and

507
00:36:19,310 --> 00:36:21,950
you're falling and you're
declining is because you have

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00:36:21,950 --> 00:36:24,190
allowed the city of man to rule
your world.

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00:36:24,430 --> 00:36:28,110
And the Roman Empire fell apart
from an internal rot and

510
00:36:28,110 --> 00:36:32,390
internal decay and internal loss
of values for what the reality

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00:36:32,390 --> 00:36:34,350
of God says is true in our
world.

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And when you read a book like
The City of God that Augustine

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wrote.
Over 1500 years ago.

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00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:45,280
I can't look at our culture now
and not see the same

515
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:47,200
similarities that is happening
today.

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00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:51,480
If Christians would just get out
of the way, this world would be

517
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:53,520
better.
If Christians weren't so bigoted

518
00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:58,440
and backwards, we would be
better in that battle.

519
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:02,480
That we fight is one that most
of the rest of the world they

520
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:06,560
won't understand.
And I look at our world and I

521
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:08,280
can't.
I can't help.

522
00:37:08,690 --> 00:37:12,050
But point to the things that God
has done, the blessings that God

523
00:37:12,050 --> 00:37:15,650
has brought through the church
to the world and say, hey, look

524
00:37:15,650 --> 00:37:17,650
what this is.
Look what God is doing.

525
00:37:18,570 --> 00:37:21,610
But the world pushes back.
And it's something as simple as

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00:37:21,650 --> 00:37:24,610
as a movie called The Sound of
Freedom that talks about the

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00:37:24,610 --> 00:37:26,610
exploitation, the trafficking of
children.

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00:37:26,930 --> 00:37:30,970
When that gets pushed back from
Hollywood and gets no notoriety

529
00:37:30,970 --> 00:37:35,850
and no recognition, I'm, I'm
dumbfounded.

530
00:37:36,290 --> 00:37:39,620
I'm blown away.
I love, I love Avengers.

531
00:37:39,620 --> 00:37:44,620
I love Marvel movies too, right?
But I want to know what's

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00:37:44,620 --> 00:37:48,540
happening in the real world and
the values that this world is

533
00:37:48,540 --> 00:37:52,260
pushing and that the church is
accepting are ones that will

534
00:37:52,260 --> 00:37:54,060
destroy us if we allow it to
happen.

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00:37:55,700 --> 00:37:59,340
Paul Paul dealt with this issue
in a church called Corinth and

536
00:37:59,340 --> 00:38:01,340
he wrote a couple different
letters, letters.

537
00:38:01,700 --> 00:38:03,380
First Corinthians, the 2nd
Corinthians.

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00:38:04,020 --> 00:38:07,740
And Paul comes in and he
chastises the church in a way

539
00:38:07,740 --> 00:38:09,640
that.
That I I think that Paul would

540
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:12,600
chastise us as well.
And then here's the issue with

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00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:14,720
Corinth.
Corinth had the message of the

542
00:38:14,720 --> 00:38:16,560
hope.
They had the gospel and they

543
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:19,880
gave their lives to Jesus, but
they didn't want to give up the

544
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:23,000
things they had before.
And so we would take a little

545
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,960
bit of Jesus over here and they
would add a little bit over of

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00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:29,840
whatever they wanted to do.
I'm going to worship God on on

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00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:33,200
Sunday, but I'm not going to
allow God to change my identity

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00:38:34,240 --> 00:38:37,340
the rest of the week.
And Paul looked at Corinth and

549
00:38:37,340 --> 00:38:40,500
said, what are you guys doing?
You guys think you have this

550
00:38:40,500 --> 00:38:43,460
liberty in the gospel to do
whatever you want to do, and

551
00:38:43,460 --> 00:38:45,820
it's so bad.
And if you don't know what I'm

552
00:38:45,820 --> 00:38:47,460
talking about, he calls the
church out.

553
00:38:47,820 --> 00:38:49,860
And he says this.
He goes, you're doing stuff that

554
00:38:49,860 --> 00:38:51,620
even the pagans are shaking
their heads at.

555
00:38:51,620 --> 00:38:55,540
And does the world shake their
heads at us sometimes For what

556
00:38:55,540 --> 00:38:57,860
are you guys doing?
We don't even do that.

557
00:38:58,660 --> 00:39:01,580
There are search churches out
there like that that have gotten

558
00:39:01,580 --> 00:39:04,440
so far away from the gospel.
And even the world looks at them

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00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:09,120
like, ah, you, that's too far.
So as Paul chastises the the the

560
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:13,800
Corn Church, that chastisement
comes back to us today and it's

561
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:15,480
not one out of judgment and
hate.

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00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:19,120
Paul wanted the best for that
church and Paul would wanted the

563
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:22,720
best for us.
And so as we as we move forward,

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00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:25,640
we have a couple different
choices and that we have to make

565
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:28,760
and these are the hard decisions
that you have to make today and

566
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:31,200
as we move into these other
questions throughout the rest of

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00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:33,200
the series.
When you get your toes stepped

568
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:36,080
on, I want you guys to think
back to this, this platform,

569
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:38,400
this, this framing, this common
ground.

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00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:41,480
And you have to ask yourself, am
I going to be upset by what

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00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:44,080
Pastor Sean or whoever speaking
up here has to say?

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00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:48,520
Or am I going to allow God to
touch my life and work through

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00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:51,280
that through the common ground
and what God wants for our

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00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:52,960
lives?
Because if we come to a

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00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:59,680
situation and a decision that it
has to be about me, where does

576
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:03,740
that leave us?
If I'm going to do me, and I'd

577
00:40:03,740 --> 00:40:09,540
only care about what I want,
what does the church even exist

578
00:40:09,540 --> 00:40:11,780
for?
At that point, we might as well

579
00:40:11,780 --> 00:40:15,020
be a Country Club, something
that we just hang out, play some

580
00:40:15,020 --> 00:40:16,860
cards.
I don't play bridge, I play

581
00:40:16,860 --> 00:40:19,540
pitch or spades, but I don't
know what else they do at

582
00:40:19,540 --> 00:40:22,140
country clubs.
We might as well be a Country

583
00:40:22,140 --> 00:40:23,900
Club.
Or we might as well just be a

584
00:40:23,900 --> 00:40:27,420
selfhelp seminar that meets once
a week just to make ourselves

585
00:40:27,420 --> 00:40:29,540
feel good about what we're going
through the rest of the week.

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00:40:30,650 --> 00:40:32,890
But there's no life change.
There's no ultimate

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00:40:32,890 --> 00:40:34,650
significance.
There is no real life and

588
00:40:34,650 --> 00:40:37,410
purpose in that.
And so the hard decisions that

589
00:40:37,410 --> 00:40:40,890
we have to make have to come
back to, am I going to submit to

590
00:40:40,890 --> 00:40:43,770
what God wants for us?
And we think of submission is

591
00:40:43,770 --> 00:40:45,730
giving up.
We go through the freedom group

592
00:40:45,730 --> 00:40:47,810
and we talk about that.
What does submission look like?

593
00:40:47,810 --> 00:40:50,490
And we have this negative
connotation of submission is

594
00:40:50,490 --> 00:40:53,010
surrender.
I give up and it's over.

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00:40:53,370 --> 00:40:55,450
But submission to God is
freedom.

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00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:59,280
It allows you to live the life
that God has for you, the one

597
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:01,160
that you were created for
originally.

598
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:07,040
That freedom pulls you away from
just the the brokenness and the

599
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:10,520
messiness that we all have.
There's nobody in this room that

600
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:13,880
doesn't have damage and trauma
and issues that have come from

601
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:17,160
either what has been done to us
or what we've done to ourselves.

602
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:23,600
And God wants something better
for us to get to that next

603
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:28,300
level, to get into that battle.
I want you guys to realize this

604
00:41:28,580 --> 00:41:32,820
is that you have an enemy.
You guys have an enemy.

605
00:41:33,620 --> 00:41:36,540
Who is that enemy?
Satan.

606
00:41:38,820 --> 00:41:43,020
We have an enemy.
We get it messed up all the

607
00:41:43,020 --> 00:41:44,420
time, though.
Who is the enemy?

608
00:41:45,900 --> 00:41:49,220
Yeah, a lot of times.
So if I listen to Kanye West,

609
00:41:49,420 --> 00:41:51,700
who are the enemies?
It's all the Jews, right?

610
00:41:52,220 --> 00:41:54,620
I'm like Kanye, you're What are
you doing, man?

611
00:41:55,330 --> 00:41:57,610
You sound like Hiller.
It's like, no, no, no, no.

612
00:41:57,610 --> 00:42:01,490
You're messed up.
My grandma, my mom's mom, she

613
00:42:01,490 --> 00:42:03,250
had an indelible impact in my
life.

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00:42:03,250 --> 00:42:05,690
And when my parents were getting
divorced, she was one of the

615
00:42:05,690 --> 00:42:08,330
rocks in in my life.
But she had a lot of issues.

616
00:42:08,330 --> 00:42:10,530
And you know who the enemy was
for her.

617
00:42:11,370 --> 00:42:12,770
You guys know the word
Illuminati.

618
00:42:14,290 --> 00:42:15,810
The Illuminati.
Don't get me started on the

619
00:42:15,810 --> 00:42:17,850
Bilderbergs, the Trilateral
Commission.

620
00:42:18,370 --> 00:42:20,530
There's also lizard people
living in the center of the

621
00:42:20,530 --> 00:42:22,690
earth, right?
This is the enemy.

622
00:42:25,150 --> 00:42:26,910
I believe that if you don't know
what I'm talking about, you're

623
00:42:26,910 --> 00:42:27,910
better.
You're better off.

624
00:42:29,390 --> 00:42:30,870
Who?
The enemies that I I point out

625
00:42:30,870 --> 00:42:32,150
all the time.
If you're friends with me on

626
00:42:32,150 --> 00:42:36,070
Instagram and the politicians
and the policymakers, I shake my

627
00:42:36,070 --> 00:42:38,310
head every day.
What are you guys doing?

628
00:42:39,990 --> 00:42:42,270
Even the ones that I would
supposedly have agreed with five

629
00:42:42,270 --> 00:42:43,590
years ago.
I'm like, you guys are missing

630
00:42:43,590 --> 00:42:44,550
the boat.
Or Holly.

631
00:42:44,550 --> 00:42:47,830
We mentioned Hollywood, either
or the media is that.

632
00:42:47,830 --> 00:42:52,110
Are those the enemies?
They are against God, but

633
00:42:52,110 --> 00:42:53,950
they're not the enemy that you
should worry about.

634
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:57,520
I want you guys to read with me
in Effusions chapter 6, and this

635
00:42:57,520 --> 00:42:58,960
is where we're going to land
today.

636
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:01,840
If he's in chapter 6, we're
going to go through this fast.

637
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:07,080
Who is your enemy?
Verse 12 says for our struggle

638
00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:10,320
is not against flesh and blood,
but against the rulers, against

639
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:13,840
the authorities, against the
powers of this Dark World, and

640
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:17,720
against the spiritual forces of
evil in heavenly realms.

641
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:19,760
Your enemy is not flesh and
blood.

642
00:43:20,270 --> 00:43:21,710
It is not the other political
party.

643
00:43:21,870 --> 00:43:24,150
It is not your boss.
It is not the person that

644
00:43:24,150 --> 00:43:25,590
disagrees with you.
It isn't.

645
00:43:25,590 --> 00:43:28,790
Again, it's not Hollywood.
It is not any of these things

646
00:43:28,790 --> 00:43:32,190
that we point to as being in
opposition to us, even though

647
00:43:32,190 --> 00:43:36,110
that that's true.
Your enemy is a super

648
00:43:36,110 --> 00:43:44,270
intelligent, super super strong,
dark evil spiritual force.

649
00:43:46,110 --> 00:43:48,350
The King James Version puts it
in this way, Powers and

650
00:43:48,350 --> 00:43:51,320
principalities.
That's how I learned that verse

651
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:55,080
growing up, the powers of
principalities and what we don't

652
00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:58,280
realize is, is that God has
given Satan dominion over the

653
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:00,840
world in some level.
That's why when you when when

654
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:05,360
Jesus was tempted in the in the
desert, it was a real temptation

655
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:08,200
because Satan came to him and
said I will give you the entire

656
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:09,840
world and that was in his power
to do it.

657
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:14,240
And there's powers of
principalities set up across

658
00:44:14,240 --> 00:44:16,080
this world.
And I don't know what they are.

659
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:20,340
I just know that they're real
and that they're active and

660
00:44:20,340 --> 00:44:23,580
they're looking for one thing
and that's your destruction and

661
00:44:23,580 --> 00:44:26,060
my destruction.
And this church is destruction.

662
00:44:32,530 --> 00:44:37,850
What is affecting your life?
Who is attacking you?

663
00:44:38,610 --> 00:44:41,410
And I've told you guys this
story before and this isn't if

664
00:44:41,410 --> 00:44:44,050
you're new here, I know this is
going to sound all kind of

665
00:44:44,050 --> 00:44:45,530
weird.
And let me trust me.

666
00:44:45,530 --> 00:44:47,330
This isn't the church that finds
a demon.

667
00:44:47,330 --> 00:44:49,800
And under every rock, we're not
the ones.

668
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:51,920
Like, hey, I stubbed my toe.
I got to get rid of that demon.

669
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:53,120
I got to exercise that one,
right?

670
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:55,200
That's not this church and
that's not me.

671
00:44:56,560 --> 00:45:00,560
But we live in a world that
discounts the supernatural so

672
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:03,880
much that when we start talking
about these things, whether it's

673
00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:08,400
Satan or the OR the demonic
world, we're like, I'm done with

674
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:09,920
that.
It's not real.

675
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:13,400
It's not true.
But that's not, that's not the

676
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:16,200
case.
There is something out there and

677
00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:19,290
there's a reason I think that we
love the movies that we love and

678
00:45:19,290 --> 00:45:22,410
we read the books that we read
and the stories that they come

679
00:45:22,410 --> 00:45:26,890
across of good versus evil.
There's a reason those resonate

680
00:45:26,890 --> 00:45:29,410
with us.
And if you've been in in the

681
00:45:29,410 --> 00:45:31,970
church at any time at all and
you've been in the ministries,

682
00:45:31,970 --> 00:45:35,450
whether they're in the prison
ministries or recovery, recovery

683
00:45:35,450 --> 00:45:39,650
ministries, you have faced and
you have seen and there's

684
00:45:39,650 --> 00:45:43,530
testimony of something that's
other outside of this world.

685
00:45:43,810 --> 00:45:47,490
It's more than physical account
on a dozen different men in

686
00:45:47,490 --> 00:45:48,930
here.
They have experienced it, have

687
00:45:48,930 --> 00:45:51,770
seen it, and they will tell you
they've seen it with their own

688
00:45:51,770 --> 00:45:54,530
two eyes.
But for the rest of us, we live

689
00:45:54,530 --> 00:45:57,530
in an enlightened age.
We live in a postmodern age.

690
00:45:57,530 --> 00:46:00,810
The only thing that we see and
touch is what we what we can

691
00:46:00,810 --> 00:46:03,410
experience here, and we discount
everything else.

692
00:46:03,930 --> 00:46:05,930
And we do that to our detriment
as a church.

693
00:46:07,090 --> 00:46:11,450
When we misidentify who our
enemy is, we're swinging at the

694
00:46:11,450 --> 00:46:14,050
wrong fence.
We're in the wrong battle.

695
00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:17,760
And can I tell you this is that
if you're a Christian and you

696
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:20,560
believe the Bible, can I tell
you the biblical writers believe

697
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:23,640
in the supernatural world.
Jesus believed in the

698
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:27,400
supernatural world, supernatural
world, believed in Jesus.

699
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:30,040
One of the one of my favorite
stories in the gospel.

700
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:33,960
Jesus comes up to this guy
that's possessed and he he can't

701
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:35,560
be bound.
And every time that he's

702
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:38,880
chained, he just destroys it.
And when he walks up to this

703
00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:43,530
guy, this guy comes running to
Jesus, he says, Jesus, son of

704
00:46:43,530 --> 00:46:48,810
God, are you here to torment me?
How did he know who Jesus was?

705
00:46:49,850 --> 00:46:52,570
Jesus only been around 33 years
at that point, give or take.

706
00:46:53,530 --> 00:46:57,610
But he had prior history.
Jesus had prior history with

707
00:46:57,610 --> 00:47:02,450
these, this demonic world.
And so if that happened, then do

708
00:47:02,450 --> 00:47:04,170
we think that anything's
different now?

709
00:47:05,650 --> 00:47:08,330
It may manifest if different
depending on where you're at,

710
00:47:09,090 --> 00:47:12,770
but the demonic world, that
super intelligent agency, he's

711
00:47:12,770 --> 00:47:15,650
here for us.
So here's the choice that we

712
00:47:15,650 --> 00:47:19,770
have.
Are we going to fight or are we

713
00:47:19,770 --> 00:47:23,650
going to cut bait and run?
There's this guy that I follow,

714
00:47:23,810 --> 00:47:26,130
there's a couple other guys
Patrick follows and this guy's

715
00:47:26,130 --> 00:47:27,610
name is Jocko.
Do you guys know who Jocko

716
00:47:27,610 --> 00:47:29,690
Welnick is?
Some of you do.

717
00:47:29,690 --> 00:47:32,010
He does a lot of leadership
stuff and got good, good stuff

718
00:47:32,010 --> 00:47:32,970
if you ever want to check it
out.

719
00:47:33,010 --> 00:47:36,770
Ex Navy SEAL and I was watching
this podcast one time and he got

720
00:47:36,770 --> 00:47:39,170
this question.
He said, hey Jocko, what is the

721
00:47:39,170 --> 00:47:42,310
best martial art that I do that
I need to learn to get into a

722
00:47:42,310 --> 00:47:46,590
fight if you know, to to win
because I want, I want to be

723
00:47:46,590 --> 00:47:50,510
able to take anybody out.
And Jocko's response was kind of

724
00:47:50,510 --> 00:47:52,110
interesting to me.
He said, you know, the first

725
00:47:52,110 --> 00:47:55,110
thing you should be able to
learn to do in a fight, run

726
00:47:55,110 --> 00:47:57,550
away.
And I'm thinking this dude's

727
00:47:57,550 --> 00:48:00,830
huge 63240, There's a story
about him actually breaking a

728
00:48:00,830 --> 00:48:02,710
guy's neck, just wrestling, just
messing around.

729
00:48:03,110 --> 00:48:04,910
This guy would destroy almost
everybody.

730
00:48:05,550 --> 00:48:08,550
And his advice was run, he goes,
because nobody wins a fight.

731
00:48:09,630 --> 00:48:11,830
But he says, but if you're in
the fight he goes, you got to be

732
00:48:11,830 --> 00:48:15,230
prepared.
Now there's some fights you can

733
00:48:15,230 --> 00:48:18,830
run away from, but there's some
fights you can't run away from.

734
00:48:20,030 --> 00:48:22,910
And this spiritual fight that
I'm talking about, the the thing

735
00:48:22,910 --> 00:48:25,910
that is looking to destroy you,
there is no neutrality.

736
00:48:26,110 --> 00:48:32,230
You don't have a choice.
So you can either ignore it or

737
00:48:32,230 --> 00:48:37,070
you can face it.
And the interesting thing is

738
00:48:37,070 --> 00:48:40,650
this, and I know there's some of
you guys in here, you guys love

739
00:48:40,650 --> 00:48:43,250
to physically fight, right?
You guys have been in a couple

740
00:48:43,250 --> 00:48:45,850
brawls.
I don't love it.

741
00:48:45,890 --> 00:48:47,890
You know why?
Because the, the, the, the

742
00:48:47,890 --> 00:48:50,170
outcomes never, always is never
guaranteed.

743
00:48:50,530 --> 00:48:52,850
So we can pull a gun, so we can
pull a knife, whatever.

744
00:48:54,130 --> 00:48:57,530
With the fight that we have
against Satan, can I tell you

745
00:48:57,530 --> 00:48:59,530
that the the victory is already
assured?

746
00:49:00,170 --> 00:49:02,930
It's already won.
We're in the midst of a battle,

747
00:49:03,570 --> 00:49:05,690
but God has already declared
victory.

748
00:49:06,130 --> 00:49:09,030
So when we walk into these
fights, you don't have to walk

749
00:49:09,030 --> 00:49:12,230
in wondering what's going to
happen, Am I going to win these

750
00:49:12,230 --> 00:49:15,230
decisions, these questions for a
friend that are going to destroy

751
00:49:15,230 --> 00:49:18,110
me or or or set me up for
victory depending on my choices.

752
00:49:18,830 --> 00:49:22,630
You have a way to to have
victory.

753
00:49:23,230 --> 00:49:27,150
And I want to go through the
rest of Ephesians chapter 610

754
00:49:27,150 --> 00:49:29,190
through 18 and this is going to
be your quipping this you're

755
00:49:29,190 --> 00:49:31,350
going to call and we'll get into
one last question that we're

756
00:49:31,350 --> 00:49:33,350
going to deal with.
So read with me in verse 10.

757
00:49:34,190 --> 00:49:36,350
These are the this is what Paul
gives us.

758
00:49:36,810 --> 00:49:39,490
To go into this fight that we
have, says finally be

759
00:49:39,490 --> 00:49:42,050
strengthened in the Lord and the
strength of His power. close

760
00:49:42,050 --> 00:49:44,210
yourselves with the full armor
of God, so that you will be able

761
00:49:44,210 --> 00:49:45,810
to stand against the schemes of
the devil.

762
00:49:46,090 --> 00:49:49,770
The devil is scheming to come
after you, for our struggle is

763
00:49:49,770 --> 00:49:53,370
not against the rulers, against
the authorities, against the

764
00:49:53,370 --> 00:49:56,450
powers of this Dark World, and
against the spiritual forces of

765
00:49:56,450 --> 00:50:00,050
evil and heavily realms.
And therefore, put on the full

766
00:50:00,050 --> 00:50:03,090
armor of God, so that when the
day of evil comes, you may be

767
00:50:03,090 --> 00:50:05,580
able to stand your ground.
And after you have done

768
00:50:05,580 --> 00:50:09,900
everything to stand, stand firm.
Then, with the belt of truth

769
00:50:09,900 --> 00:50:13,020
buckled around your waist.
Who knows that we need truth?

770
00:50:13,380 --> 00:50:15,020
We have to have.
We have to know what the truth

771
00:50:15,020 --> 00:50:17,860
is and what it's not.
We have to have the blessed, the

772
00:50:17,860 --> 00:50:20,660
breastplate of righteousness.
Are our lives lined up with the

773
00:50:20,660 --> 00:50:23,500
righteousness?
Not as we define it, but it's

774
00:50:23,500 --> 00:50:26,300
how God defines it.
This is, that's your next

775
00:50:26,300 --> 00:50:28,860
weapon.
And with the feet fitted with

776
00:50:28,860 --> 00:50:31,420
the readiness that comes from
the gospel of peace, we have to

777
00:50:31,420 --> 00:50:33,950
know the gospel.
We have to really.

778
00:50:33,950 --> 00:50:36,830
We have to know it better than
than than we currently do.

779
00:50:37,510 --> 00:50:39,710
When somebody comes and talks to
you, do you have that hope?

780
00:50:39,710 --> 00:50:43,390
Can you articulate that hope?
That's our job, to equip you

781
00:50:43,390 --> 00:50:46,310
with that, to be able to to to
to articulate what the the

782
00:50:46,310 --> 00:50:50,470
gospel is.
In addition to all this, take up

783
00:50:50,470 --> 00:50:52,470
the shield of faith.
Our faith has to be strong.

784
00:50:52,510 --> 00:50:56,110
We can't waver with which you
can extinguish all the flaming

785
00:50:56,270 --> 00:50:59,830
arrows of the evil one and take
the helmet of salvation and the

786
00:50:59,830 --> 00:51:01,670
sword of the Spirit which is the
word of God.

787
00:51:02,340 --> 00:51:03,740
And again, I'll pause right here
for a minute.

788
00:51:04,660 --> 00:51:08,380
We we don't know the word of God
the way that we need to know the

789
00:51:08,380 --> 00:51:11,100
word of God.
We don't go do it.

790
00:51:11,100 --> 00:51:14,140
We don't go do a job and not
know the manual to do our job.

791
00:51:14,140 --> 00:51:17,220
Well, how do we do the job of
life without knowing what the

792
00:51:17,220 --> 00:51:19,700
word of God says?
No wonder that we we mess up and

793
00:51:19,700 --> 00:51:22,420
we have disagreements about what
we we should do.

794
00:51:24,220 --> 00:51:27,220
No wonder that we have these
these fights in our church about

795
00:51:27,460 --> 00:51:30,620
do I accept this or is that
allowed because we don't know

796
00:51:30,620 --> 00:51:33,930
the word of God And he finishes
with this is the Praying the

797
00:51:33,930 --> 00:51:35,890
Spirit on all occasions, with
all kinds of prayers and

798
00:51:35,890 --> 00:51:38,170
requests.
And with this in mind, be alert,

799
00:51:38,690 --> 00:51:41,410
Always keep on praying for all
of the Lord's people.

800
00:51:44,530 --> 00:51:49,290
This is the tools.
This is the fight that we have.

801
00:51:50,330 --> 00:51:51,890
What is the decision that we
make?

802
00:51:53,650 --> 00:51:56,780
Can I tell you this?
When we get lost, we think the

803
00:51:56,780 --> 00:51:59,780
battle's going to be won on
pulling the vote station and who

804
00:51:59,780 --> 00:52:01,980
we put to DC?
Or we think that we're going to

805
00:52:01,980 --> 00:52:05,620
win by going to a picket line.
Or we think we're going to win

806
00:52:05,620 --> 00:52:07,700
by boycotting the right, the
wrong type of beer.

807
00:52:07,700 --> 00:52:09,020
Right.
I never thought I would see

808
00:52:09,020 --> 00:52:11,500
Baptist preachers boycotting Bud
Light.

809
00:52:11,500 --> 00:52:13,460
And yeah, you guys should drink
Modela.

810
00:52:13,460 --> 00:52:15,500
I'm like, that's not the Baptist
preachers I grew up with.

811
00:52:17,380 --> 00:52:18,500
We're not going to win that
battle.

812
00:52:18,500 --> 00:52:20,140
We're not going to win that
battle that way.

813
00:52:22,660 --> 00:52:24,740
I love what it says right here
at the end of the Ephesians.

814
00:52:25,710 --> 00:52:30,910
You know what our battle cry has
to be, Has to be God, what you

815
00:52:30,910 --> 00:52:34,310
want us to do.
And our first action of our war

816
00:52:34,950 --> 00:52:37,070
isn't running in to beat
somebody up.

817
00:52:37,270 --> 00:52:39,870
It's to fall into our knees and
submission and prayer to God.

818
00:52:39,870 --> 00:52:44,630
And if we don't start there,
we're doomed.

819
00:52:45,630 --> 00:52:48,390
Submission has to be to God.
Our strength comes from God

820
00:52:50,350 --> 00:52:53,630
asking for a friend.
This is where we'll land.

821
00:52:54,630 --> 00:52:56,750
Pastor Sean was in here.
I'd like Pastor Sean.

822
00:52:56,750 --> 00:52:58,390
I've got this friend and we're
going to deal with this.

823
00:52:58,390 --> 00:52:59,910
One question.
Pastor Sean, I've got this

824
00:52:59,910 --> 00:53:06,070
friend, man, he's a Christian,
but he deals with depression and

825
00:53:06,070 --> 00:53:10,390
anxiety and he doesn't think God
shows up in his in in his life

826
00:53:11,030 --> 00:53:12,630
and he does.
He's not sure why he should

827
00:53:12,710 --> 00:53:16,430
continue to go to church is
because if God doesn't take this

828
00:53:16,430 --> 00:53:21,390
from him, is God really real and
his faith really is.

829
00:53:21,390 --> 00:53:25,760
Is is faith really real?
And this is a question that a

830
00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:29,840
lot of us have dealt with.
So what do you think Pastor Sean

831
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:32,240
says in that situation?
What do you say in that

832
00:53:32,240 --> 00:53:34,680
situation?
If you've asked yourself that

833
00:53:34,880 --> 00:53:39,240
maybe you don't know and
depression and anxiety is a

834
00:53:39,240 --> 00:53:43,400
thing that can destroy our
lives, tie this back to what I

835
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:46,400
already said.
We think that that that anxiety

836
00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:49,720
and depression is just something
simply that everybody deals

837
00:53:49,720 --> 00:53:52,820
with.
And it's true at some level and

838
00:53:52,820 --> 00:53:54,220
there can be different reasons
for it.

839
00:53:56,180 --> 00:54:00,300
But there is a factor here that
so many of us don't take into

840
00:54:00,300 --> 00:54:04,700
account.
Is the enemy trying to attack

841
00:54:04,700 --> 00:54:06,780
you?
Because what is the goal for

842
00:54:06,780 --> 00:54:10,500
Satan to attack us?
To bring anxiety and depression

843
00:54:10,500 --> 00:54:14,260
to our lives is to take you out
of the fight, right?

844
00:54:15,580 --> 00:54:17,780
Because who wants to fight when
you think there's nothing to

845
00:54:17,780 --> 00:54:21,930
fight for?
This issue is something that has

846
00:54:21,930 --> 00:54:25,610
affected my family in in in ways
that are is very real and very

847
00:54:25,610 --> 00:54:28,050
personal.
And I'll wrap this up with

848
00:54:28,050 --> 00:54:31,090
sharing just a a bit of my story
from from my family.

849
00:54:31,570 --> 00:54:34,850
I mentioned my grandma earlier,
the Illuminati grandma, right?

850
00:54:37,410 --> 00:54:39,330
I loved her and she did so much
for me.

851
00:54:39,730 --> 00:54:43,170
But one of the things that she
struggled with was the

852
00:54:43,170 --> 00:54:48,610
depression that she had all the
time made her so negative and it

853
00:54:48,610 --> 00:54:50,450
just brought everybody down
around her.

854
00:54:50,450 --> 00:54:52,690
And there were times I know that
she questioned God because of of

855
00:54:53,010 --> 00:54:57,130
of how she felt all the time.
And it wasn't till I as a kid I

856
00:54:57,130 --> 00:54:59,890
didn't understand it.
I I just knew it was like she's

857
00:54:59,890 --> 00:55:01,370
cranky.
I don't like being around her

858
00:55:01,370 --> 00:55:04,450
all the time.
And I didn't, I didn't know why,

859
00:55:04,650 --> 00:55:07,930
what was the issue?
And I found out later the things

860
00:55:07,930 --> 00:55:11,490
that she'd experienced in her
life affected where she was at

861
00:55:11,690 --> 00:55:13,730
at that point and really the
rest of her life.

862
00:55:14,290 --> 00:55:18,200
Because what I didn't know was,
is that her mother, we struggled

863
00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:21,840
with some of the same issues.
And in the in the in the 20s and

864
00:55:21,840 --> 00:55:24,400
the 30s there wasn't a lot that
we could do.

865
00:55:24,400 --> 00:55:27,560
And can I got can I tell you
guys right now there's a reason

866
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:30,960
why we we sponsor people.
We send people to counseling.

867
00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:33,280
We pay for the first four
sessions because we believe that

868
00:55:33,280 --> 00:55:36,080
that's a good thing.
Counseling is good and the

869
00:55:36,080 --> 00:55:38,840
blessings that we get from
doctors and and the medicines

870
00:55:38,960 --> 00:55:41,560
and the and the drugs they give
us can be a very good blessing.

871
00:55:41,720 --> 00:55:43,880
It's the same way that we treat
heart disease or cancer.

872
00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:47,370
So I would never discount that.
And again, if you, if you or

873
00:55:47,370 --> 00:55:50,090
your loved one or somebody you
know need that, we would love to

874
00:55:50,090 --> 00:55:54,130
connect you.
But in the 20s and 30s, they

875
00:55:54,770 --> 00:55:57,330
didn't have a lot of that.
So here's what I didn't know

876
00:55:57,330 --> 00:56:00,930
about my grandma.
Her mom was done with that life

877
00:56:01,330 --> 00:56:05,010
couldn't live that way anymore.
And my grandma came home one day

878
00:56:05,010 --> 00:56:07,490
after school and found her mom
hanging in the basement.

879
00:56:11,370 --> 00:56:15,260
I can't imagine.
I think what what would that do

880
00:56:15,260 --> 00:56:16,380
to you?
Maybe you've experienced that.

881
00:56:16,420 --> 00:56:19,980
I I haven't.
So I saw what my grandma dealt

882
00:56:19,980 --> 00:56:23,140
with, with depression, and it
came from the trauma, the things

883
00:56:23,140 --> 00:56:25,340
that she saw.
The person that was supposed to

884
00:56:25,340 --> 00:56:29,420
love her the most walked away
through this act and she didn't

885
00:56:29,420 --> 00:56:35,340
have a mom anymore.
My grandma ended up finding hope

886
00:56:35,660 --> 00:56:39,900
in Jesus, but she had this
constant battle of is Jesus

887
00:56:39,900 --> 00:56:41,820
enough?
Is Jesus going to walk away from

888
00:56:41,820 --> 00:56:44,630
me?
The interesting thing, the cool

889
00:56:44,630 --> 00:56:48,110
thing that really has has been a
blessing in my life and it's

890
00:56:48,110 --> 00:56:52,470
changed me.
Is this is that she?

891
00:56:52,590 --> 00:56:55,550
Even though she struggled with
it, she put something in my mom.

892
00:56:56,350 --> 00:57:00,190
The idea that you can rely on
God, that faith is enough, that

893
00:57:00,190 --> 00:57:05,110
God has your best in mind, and
she lived with that gospel in

894
00:57:05,110 --> 00:57:07,150
her life to change my mom's
life.

895
00:57:07,710 --> 00:57:11,110
And then my mom passed that on
to us, and that generational

896
00:57:11,110 --> 00:57:13,550
curse ended up being broke.
The one that my great, great

897
00:57:13,550 --> 00:57:17,230
grandma had, that great grandma
had, and that my grandma dealt

898
00:57:17,230 --> 00:57:20,950
with was broken because of a
reliance on God, because they

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00:57:20,950 --> 00:57:23,790
didn't believe the lie anymore.
They knew that they were under

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00:57:23,790 --> 00:57:27,310
attack from Satan, and they gave
that to God, and they went in

901
00:57:27,310 --> 00:57:30,150
and they won the battle by
believing the gospel and having

902
00:57:30,150 --> 00:57:33,990
that shield of faith and relying
on the sword of the spirit.

903
00:57:36,510 --> 00:57:40,440
Again, I can't touch this whole
issue in this 5-6 minutes and

904
00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:43,920
I'm not doing it justice and we
may touch on this again later.

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00:57:44,720 --> 00:57:47,120
My whole impetus in bringing up
this question at this level is

906
00:57:47,120 --> 00:57:50,840
this is that God has an answer
for you, but God has called you

907
00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:56,720
to a hard decision.
What are you going to do with

908
00:57:56,720 --> 00:57:59,520
that call in your life?
What are we going to do with

909
00:57:59,520 --> 00:58:01,720
that call in our life as a
church?

910
00:58:02,920 --> 00:58:06,480
Because if we don't want to be
that Country Club, if we don't

911
00:58:06,480 --> 00:58:08,960
want to be that, just that
health self seminar, selfhelp

912
00:58:08,960 --> 00:58:13,100
seminar, we have to rely on
something more than just

913
00:58:13,100 --> 00:58:15,100
ourselves.
We have to rely on each other.

914
00:58:15,220 --> 00:58:18,620
But more importantly, we have to
rely on God, on Jesus as

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00:58:18,620 --> 00:58:21,660
revealed in the word of God.
Because He's called us to

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00:58:21,660 --> 00:58:25,100
something great.
He's called us to be the hope of

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00:58:25,100 --> 00:58:28,180
the world, the light on the
hill, the city of God.

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00:58:29,300 --> 00:58:33,380
Will we take up that call?
Will we make that hard decision

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00:58:33,380 --> 00:58:35,580
to do the the thing that God has
for us?

920
00:58:36,300 --> 00:58:39,920
Can I tell you this lastly
before I pray for you guys, I

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00:58:39,920 --> 00:58:43,640
don't like the alternative
because I see where it leads.

922
00:58:44,440 --> 00:58:46,720
I see where it takes a family, I
see where it takes a church, I

923
00:58:46,720 --> 00:58:49,720
see where it takes a nation, and
it's all bad.

924
00:58:51,960 --> 00:58:57,400
I want to walk into that battle
with you guys and not be fearful

925
00:58:57,840 --> 00:59:02,560
of that super intelligent, dark,
heavenly force that has our

926
00:59:02,560 --> 00:59:06,560
destruction of mind.
Guys called us as a church to go

927
00:59:06,560 --> 00:59:10,120
break down the gates of hell.
Will you guys go with me?

928
00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:16,320
Let's pray God as we as we
ponder the things that you've

929
00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:19,000
given us.
God, I just thank you for this

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00:59:19,520 --> 00:59:20,640
this church.
Number one.

931
00:59:21,480 --> 00:59:24,520
God, I thank you for the people
that have come here and God just

932
00:59:24,520 --> 00:59:27,120
thank you for their willingness
to to hear what you've got for

933
00:59:27,120 --> 00:59:28,640
them.
I want to pray for two groups of

934
00:59:28,640 --> 00:59:29,960
people.
Number one, I want to pray for

935
00:59:29,960 --> 00:59:31,520
the Christians that are in the
house today.

936
00:59:33,080 --> 00:59:37,720
God, I know that every person
here has a struggle of of a

937
00:59:37,760 --> 00:59:41,120
choice they have to make.
Are they going to put you on the

938
00:59:41,120 --> 00:59:44,280
throne or are they going to put
themselves on the throne?

939
00:59:45,080 --> 00:59:50,440
And this is a daily decision.
So God, I want to pray for each

940
00:59:50,440 --> 00:59:54,040
person here that calls real life
home in any way, shape or form,

941
00:59:54,040 --> 00:59:56,400
whether you're online or whether
in in person.

942
00:59:58,120 --> 01:00:00,280
God put a blessing on their
life.

943
01:00:00,280 --> 01:00:04,520
God bless them in a way that you
you're so real.

944
01:00:05,750 --> 01:00:09,470
And everything they have to gain
by living their own life is just

945
01:00:09,510 --> 01:00:13,230
pills in comparison to the to
the abundant life that you have

946
01:00:13,230 --> 01:00:15,070
for them, the freedom that you
have for them.

947
01:00:15,910 --> 01:00:17,830
You got to.
I pray that not just for their

948
01:00:17,830 --> 01:00:20,950
benefit, but I pray that for the
benefit of what you've called

949
01:00:20,950 --> 01:00:23,750
them to do.
God, you've called them to do

950
01:00:23,750 --> 01:00:27,230
wonderful things in your name,
to be an influence wherever

951
01:00:27,230 --> 01:00:29,030
they're at, to lead their
families.

952
01:00:29,030 --> 01:00:33,110
Well, to lead this church.
Well, God, I pray as a church

953
01:00:33,110 --> 01:00:39,420
here at real life that we are
known as a people that know your

954
01:00:39,420 --> 01:00:42,180
word, as a people that follow
your word.

955
01:00:43,460 --> 01:00:45,060
I want to pray for one last
group of people.

956
01:00:45,860 --> 01:00:47,940
Maybe you're here today and this
is new for you.

957
01:00:47,940 --> 01:00:50,700
Maybe you have never been to
church or it's been a long time

958
01:00:50,700 --> 01:00:54,020
or you don't have a relationship
with God and you don't

959
01:00:54,020 --> 01:00:57,100
understand everything that I
that I've set up here today and

960
01:00:57,100 --> 01:01:00,300
that's okay.
But can I, can I, can I speak to

961
01:01:00,300 --> 01:01:05,390
you just for a second?
If you don't know God, you're in

962
01:01:05,390 --> 01:01:09,150
a battle as well.
But you're you've set yourself

963
01:01:09,150 --> 01:01:13,590
up against the wrong side.
And I'm not saying that you

964
01:01:13,590 --> 01:01:17,670
follow Satan in the sense that
you're a Satan worshipper, but

965
01:01:17,670 --> 01:01:18,990
you've put yourself on the
throne.

966
01:01:20,150 --> 01:01:23,830
But you were created by a God
that has brought everything to

967
01:01:23,830 --> 01:01:27,550
existence by his word and he's
loves you and he's looking for

968
01:01:27,550 --> 01:01:29,870
you.
You're the prodigal that that

969
01:01:29,870 --> 01:01:31,910
has run so far.
You don't know where to turn

970
01:01:32,230 --> 01:01:35,220
because of the things that have
happened in your life through

971
01:01:35,220 --> 01:01:38,060
the sexual trauma, through the
addictions, through the sense of

972
01:01:38,060 --> 01:01:41,180
loss, through the broken
relationships that you've been

973
01:01:41,180 --> 01:01:42,940
in and you don't know where else
to turn.

974
01:01:42,940 --> 01:01:45,380
And maybe you're here today
because this is the last place

975
01:01:45,380 --> 01:01:48,100
you have to go.
Can I tell you that you're at

976
01:01:48,100 --> 01:01:54,060
the right place and you're at
the right place Because we will

977
01:01:54,060 --> 01:01:57,620
show you and and tell you about
the person that you are looking

978
01:01:57,620 --> 01:02:01,220
for.
And that person is Jesus, the

979
01:02:01,220 --> 01:02:05,450
one that came and died.
He gave up everything to reunite

980
01:02:05,450 --> 01:02:08,330
you with God, and that's who you
were created to worship.

981
01:02:08,330 --> 01:02:09,850
That's who you were created to
love.

982
01:02:10,810 --> 01:02:15,410
So if that's you today, I would
encourage you and invite you to

983
01:02:15,410 --> 01:02:18,770
pray a prayer.
A prayer that the words don't

984
01:02:18,770 --> 01:02:21,170
save you, but your heart behind
them does.

985
01:02:22,890 --> 01:02:25,570
And that heart is this is that
you're tired of living your own

986
01:02:25,570 --> 01:02:30,470
life and in your own way.
And that God has reached out and

987
01:02:30,470 --> 01:02:33,150
he wants to change your heart
and is changing your heart right

988
01:02:33,150 --> 01:02:36,270
now.
And your next step is to accept

989
01:02:36,270 --> 01:02:38,670
what he has for you.
So if that's you today, and

990
01:02:38,670 --> 01:02:42,350
you're done, you're done with
living life your way, and you're

991
01:02:42,350 --> 01:02:45,230
ready to live God's life from
what he's got for you.

992
01:02:45,790 --> 01:02:47,630
Pray something along these lines
with me.

993
01:02:47,630 --> 01:02:50,950
God, God, I know that I've
messed up.

994
01:02:50,950 --> 01:02:54,630
God, I know that my life is so
screwed up that I can't fix it.

995
01:02:55,150 --> 01:02:57,790
And God, the things that I've
done, I can't go back and change

996
01:02:58,270 --> 01:03:00,950
and there an offense against you
and the sin that I have in my

997
01:03:00,950 --> 01:03:03,790
life.
I need you to take that away.

998
01:03:04,230 --> 01:03:06,790
And God.
So today I asked you to take my

999
01:03:06,790 --> 01:03:11,350
past and my brokenness and my
sin and take that off of me.

1000
01:03:11,510 --> 01:03:15,190
And I accept your son is the one
that has made that possible.

1001
01:03:15,190 --> 01:03:20,110
And in today I accept the life
and the salvation that he's

1002
01:03:20,110 --> 01:03:23,630
given me.
And I accept that today.

1003
01:03:24,750 --> 01:03:28,660
Amen That we give it up for
everybody here today that has

1004
01:03:28,660 --> 01:03:37,020
just made that decision.
And come to Christ as you guys,

1005
01:03:37,060 --> 01:03:39,980
as we as we get into the series.
I'm seriously encouraging you

1006
01:03:39,980 --> 01:03:41,540
guys.
There are things you're going to

1007
01:03:41,540 --> 01:03:43,260
hear that you're not going to
like, things that you don't

1008
01:03:43,260 --> 01:03:46,660
agree with.
Allow the Holy Spirit to open

1009
01:03:46,660 --> 01:03:49,660
your hearts.
Because I know that God wants to

1010
01:03:49,660 --> 01:03:53,940
do a work here and He will do it
through us if we allow him to do

1011
01:03:53,940 --> 01:03:56,880
it.
Amen.

1012
01:03:56,880 --> 01:03:59,240
Hey, let's give it up for Barry
sharing that word this morning.

1013
01:04:03,080 --> 01:04:05,960
It's no easy day to get up into,
just talk about the things of

1014
01:04:05,960 --> 01:04:08,240
the word of God.
But I'm just appreciative to

1015
01:04:08,240 --> 01:04:12,200
have a team of people willing to
jump in and do that whenever as

1016
01:04:12,200 --> 01:04:14,200
part of real life, we do.
Here, the early believers in the

1017
01:04:14,200 --> 01:04:16,240
Bible are actually called the
People of the Way.

1018
01:04:17,310 --> 01:04:19,590
And how powerful is that to be
something that we'd be known of

1019
01:04:19,590 --> 01:04:21,110
me.
And those people are after God's

1020
01:04:21,110 --> 01:04:22,430
heart.
Those are people who wanting to

1021
01:04:22,430 --> 01:04:25,190
follow God.
And so I'm just excited to see

1022
01:04:25,190 --> 01:04:27,190
where the series goes.
I'm excited for today.

1023
01:04:27,190 --> 01:04:29,390
I'm glad that you were all here
with us, that you've come to

1024
01:04:29,390 --> 01:04:31,510
worship with us, spend your
Sunday morning with us.

1025
01:04:31,510 --> 01:04:33,790
It is so special for us that
you're here.

1026
01:04:33,790 --> 01:04:36,950
And maybe today you are.
You've heard this word, the

1027
01:04:36,950 --> 01:04:38,750
gospel that Barry shared his
prayer and he said, you know,

1028
01:04:38,750 --> 01:04:41,110
maybe today this is all new for
me.

1029
01:04:41,110 --> 01:04:43,790
I've never heard this story of
Jesus who died for me.

1030
01:04:43,790 --> 01:04:46,750
I've never heard about a God who
would love me above all else.

1031
01:04:46,750 --> 01:04:48,070
And if that.
You and you're like, you know

1032
01:04:48,070 --> 01:04:49,830
what, That I made that decision
today.

1033
01:04:49,830 --> 01:04:52,550
We want to celebrate with you
and we have some steps that you

1034
01:04:52,550 --> 01:04:55,230
can take to help you on your
journey with Jesus.

1035
01:04:55,950 --> 01:04:58,150
Because we really, we know that
God has something for you.

1036
01:04:58,150 --> 01:05:01,110
And I want you to be able to
hold on to that truth here at

1037
01:05:01,110 --> 01:05:03,510
real life.
And so here I have a few things

1038
01:05:03,510 --> 01:05:05,350
for you.
One is Congrats, we're happy for

1039
01:05:05,350 --> 01:05:06,870
you.
We're so excited that you're

1040
01:05:06,870 --> 01:05:09,950
putting God into your life.
We have a couple of resources

1041
01:05:09,950 --> 01:05:11,830
for you and there's a few ways
you can get them.

1042
01:05:11,830 --> 01:05:16,070
You can text RL next to 97,000
that's going to connect you to

1043
01:05:16,070 --> 01:05:18,230
part of our.
Our website where we can get

1044
01:05:18,230 --> 01:05:20,270
your information.
We'd love to send you this book

1045
01:05:20,270 --> 01:05:23,670
that's behind me called Begin.
It's a short book.

1046
01:05:23,670 --> 01:05:26,470
It's about 100 pages, but it
really like what do I go from

1047
01:05:26,470 --> 01:05:27,910
here?
How do I know about God?

1048
01:05:27,910 --> 01:05:30,190
What do I do on these first
steps in my faith.

1049
01:05:30,630 --> 01:05:32,910
And we would love to send.
We'll mail you that resource.

1050
01:05:32,910 --> 01:05:35,230
If you fill out that, you can
scan the QR code.

1051
01:05:35,230 --> 01:05:37,510
We also have the connection card
on your chair.

1052
01:05:37,510 --> 01:05:40,310
You can check that box that says
I committed my life to Jesus.

1053
01:05:40,310 --> 01:05:42,150
We'll also send this book out to
you this week.

1054
01:05:42,150 --> 01:05:45,590
We want to be here as a resource
for you as you're on this

1055
01:05:45,590 --> 01:05:49,590
journey with Jesus.
The second thing is this, and

1056
01:05:49,630 --> 01:05:51,110
this is just put in the back of
your mind.

1057
01:05:51,110 --> 01:05:53,390
It's not this week, but in about
a month on our birthday

1058
01:05:53,390 --> 01:05:55,550
celebration, we're going to be
doing baptisms.

1059
01:05:55,870 --> 01:05:58,590
So maybe you're like, I've been
following Jesus a long time but

1060
01:05:58,590 --> 01:06:01,190
never decided to get baptized.
I never made that decision for

1061
01:06:01,190 --> 01:06:03,870
myself.
Or maybe you've just recently

1062
01:06:03,870 --> 01:06:06,110
came to know, Christ, we're
going to be baptizing.

1063
01:06:06,110 --> 01:06:09,150
You can go to our website,
reallifechurchcasey.com click

1064
01:06:09,590 --> 01:06:12,510
events, and there's a place to
sign up to get more information.

1065
01:06:12,510 --> 01:06:15,870
We'd love to get connected with
you in this step, but keep that

1066
01:06:15,870 --> 01:06:17,070
in the back of your mind that's
coming.

1067
01:06:17,150 --> 01:06:19,630
Coming up and it's such a
special time of celebration of

1068
01:06:19,630 --> 01:06:21,550
what God is doing here at real
Life Church.

1069
01:06:22,310 --> 01:06:25,830
And the next one is this for
this same group I, you know,

1070
01:06:25,830 --> 01:06:28,990
just started following Jesus.
I've known God for a while but I

1071
01:06:28,990 --> 01:06:30,630
don't know how to make my faith
my own.

1072
01:06:30,630 --> 01:06:33,110
I am on these baby steps of my
journey with Jesus.

1073
01:06:33,390 --> 01:06:36,310
Next week during the first
gathering we are starting the

1074
01:06:36,310 --> 01:06:39,990
next session of our No God class
and this is a place where you

1075
01:06:39,990 --> 01:06:42,710
can say you know what, I have
questions and it's not only

1076
01:06:42,710 --> 01:06:45,750
okay, it's awesome.
We have very wise and awesome

1077
01:06:45,750 --> 01:06:48,550
people coming alongside.
You to say, let me show you how

1078
01:06:48,550 --> 01:06:50,910
to understand the Bible.
Let me give you some resources

1079
01:06:50,910 --> 01:06:53,470
as you're taking these steps on
your faith to know the basics of

1080
01:06:53,750 --> 01:06:56,150
how do I read the Bible?
How do I know how to pray?

1081
01:06:56,150 --> 01:06:58,990
How do I know what is baptism?
Why should I do it?

1082
01:06:59,270 --> 01:07:02,190
Why do we go to church?
You know, all these questions

1083
01:07:02,190 --> 01:07:04,590
that are kind of like, I just
want to know more about that

1084
01:07:04,590 --> 01:07:05,790
stuff.
I'd love to sit down.

1085
01:07:05,950 --> 01:07:09,110
We offer that it's four weeks
long and it's during our first

1086
01:07:09,110 --> 01:07:12,030
gathering time, So you can still
come on in and go to the second

1087
01:07:12,070 --> 01:07:14,710
gathering, still be a part of
what God's doing in real life.

1088
01:07:14,710 --> 01:07:17,030
But even if you serve on a team
or you come alive.

1089
01:07:17,150 --> 01:07:20,350
But I would say our team would
love to push pause on your

1090
01:07:20,350 --> 01:07:22,990
serving for a month to get into
that class and say I want to

1091
01:07:22,990 --> 01:07:24,670
know more, I want to go deeper
in my faith.

1092
01:07:24,990 --> 01:07:27,710
So that starts next week.
We'd love to give you more

1093
01:07:27,710 --> 01:07:30,230
information if you need some,
but it's in the next steps room,

1094
01:07:30,230 --> 01:07:32,470
which is just pass the bathroom
starting next week.

1095
01:07:32,790 --> 01:07:34,870
You can sign up for that.
You can reach out to us.

1096
01:07:34,870 --> 01:07:36,750
We'd love to get you connected
with that class.

1097
01:07:38,070 --> 01:07:40,440
And then you know what?
There's a lot coming up at Real

1098
01:07:40,440 --> 01:07:42,000
Life.
I have a note card today because

1099
01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:43,840
I could not keep it all
committed to memory.

1100
01:07:43,840 --> 01:07:47,040
There's so many things, but for
all of us, not just those of us

1101
01:07:47,040 --> 01:07:48,800
who are newer to the faith,
there's several next steps.

1102
01:07:48,800 --> 01:07:51,280
And the first one is this.
Maybe you're not new to God, but

1103
01:07:51,280 --> 01:07:53,040
you're new to real life.
And you're like, I want to know

1104
01:07:53,040 --> 01:07:54,520
a little bit, what is this thing
about?

1105
01:07:54,800 --> 01:07:57,800
Well, today, right after the
second gathering, so you guys

1106
01:07:57,800 --> 01:08:01,840
can go out, grab a brunch, come
on back at 12:15, there's just

1107
01:08:01,840 --> 01:08:04,040
going to be a few of us from the
leadership team in that same

1108
01:08:04,040 --> 01:08:05,920
Next steps room just talking
about real life.

1109
01:08:05,920 --> 01:08:07,600
What is this place?
Why did you start it?

1110
01:08:07,600 --> 01:08:09,160
What is your story?
We would love.

1111
01:08:09,240 --> 01:08:11,240
To hear that about you, how did
you hear from us?

1112
01:08:11,240 --> 01:08:13,320
What's your story with God?
How can we encourage you?

1113
01:08:13,560 --> 01:08:16,439
It's a very casual,
conversational time to get to

1114
01:08:16,439 --> 01:08:18,600
know a little bit about real
life for us, to get to know a

1115
01:08:18,600 --> 01:08:20,720
little bit about you.
And if you're like, I'm not sure

1116
01:08:20,840 --> 01:08:23,279
where I'm going to land.
This is a perfect first step to

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01:08:23,279 --> 01:08:25,800
say, I just want to get to know
some people, ask some questions,

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01:08:25,800 --> 01:08:27,720
hang out.
We will have food for you, we'll

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01:08:27,720 --> 01:08:30,080
have food for your kids.
Our real life kids team will

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01:08:30,080 --> 01:08:32,479
continue to hang out with those
kiddos, keep them having a fun

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01:08:32,479 --> 01:08:36,240
time, having some lunch.
So come on back at 12:15, We'd

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01:08:36,240 --> 01:08:38,479
love to connect with you at the
New Year Social.

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01:08:39,240 --> 01:08:42,279
And also, let me challenge you
Barry unpacked a lot of

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01:08:42,279 --> 01:08:45,720
information in a very short time
and a cool resource that we have

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01:08:45,720 --> 01:08:48,720
or you can continue the
conversation is the YouTube.

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01:08:48,920 --> 01:08:52,319
I'm sorry, the YouTube.
Wow, EU Version Bible app.

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01:08:52,560 --> 01:08:54,680
I don't recommend staying up all
night and then talking.

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01:08:54,680 --> 01:08:58,840
It's not a good idea.
EU Version Bible app is a very

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01:08:58,840 --> 01:09:01,040
cool tool that a lot of you may
use to read the Bible.

1130
01:09:01,040 --> 01:09:03,240
But what you might not know is
if you go down to the bottom of

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01:09:03,240 --> 01:09:04,640
the app, there's like 3 little
lines.

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01:09:04,640 --> 01:09:06,080
You can get a whole bunch more
resources.

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01:09:06,080 --> 01:09:08,200
If you click events, it's
actually going to bring up our

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01:09:08,200 --> 01:09:10,319
message notes for the day.
Yeah, you can save those.

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01:09:10,319 --> 01:09:12,640
You can screenshot them.
But it has these cool things

1136
01:09:12,640 --> 01:09:15,319
called talk it over, questions
that you can talk about in the

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01:09:15,319 --> 01:09:17,720
car on the way home.
Use it to challenge each other

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01:09:17,720 --> 01:09:19,520
throughout the week.
Talk with your spouse about it.

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01:09:19,520 --> 01:09:22,680
Ask your kids about it.
It's a way that you can continue

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01:09:22,800 --> 01:09:26,560
the move of what God's doing on
here through your whole entire

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01:09:26,560 --> 01:09:27,760
week.
A lot of our life groups, when

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01:09:27,760 --> 01:09:30,800
they start up, use this as a
tool to have conversations about

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01:09:30,800 --> 01:09:33,319
spiritual stuff.
So that's not just we're

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01:09:33,600 --> 01:09:35,880
believers on Sunday.
And then the rest of the week we

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01:09:35,880 --> 01:09:38,439
kind of move about our own way.
So I challenge you if you

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01:09:38,439 --> 01:09:40,640
haven't downloaded.
That it's on all the platforms.

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01:09:40,640 --> 01:09:43,000
It's free, there's not ads.
It's an awesome app.

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01:09:43,000 --> 01:09:45,680
But we use it in a special way
so that you can continue to see

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01:09:45,680 --> 01:09:49,960
what God is doing.
Okay, we're almost made it

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01:09:49,960 --> 01:09:52,000
through my long list.
If you got saved, if you didn't

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01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:53,120
get saved, if you have all the
things.

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01:09:53,120 --> 01:09:55,280
The last one is this.
If you're like Okay, I've been

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01:09:55,280 --> 01:09:59,000
coming for a little bit of time
and I think I like what's going

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01:09:59,000 --> 01:10:00,880
on here.
I wanna dive in next.

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01:10:01,270 --> 01:10:04,550
Sunday we are having our crash
course and this is about two

1156
01:10:04,550 --> 01:10:06,830
hour long time hanging out at
our Hope center.

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01:10:06,830 --> 01:10:08,070
So you get to check that place
out.

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01:10:08,070 --> 01:10:09,550
It's awesome what God's doing
there.

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01:10:09,910 --> 01:10:12,990
We get together with a few of
our leadership team and this is

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01:10:12,990 --> 01:10:14,910
the okay.
I'm ready to take the step in my

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01:10:14,910 --> 01:10:17,830
faith where I want to get more
involved in what God is doing in

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01:10:17,830 --> 01:10:19,870
your real life.
I want to know what things there

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01:10:19,870 --> 01:10:22,470
are that I can be a part of.
Ways that we can pour into you.

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01:10:22,470 --> 01:10:26,350
Ways that you can use your gifts
and your abilities to pour back

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01:10:26,350 --> 01:10:27,870
into serving and the purpose of
God.

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01:10:27,870 --> 01:10:29,710
That's that real life and
purpose piece.

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01:10:29,870 --> 01:10:32,430
We love to connect you with who.
God made you to be what?

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01:10:32,430 --> 01:10:35,310
How he's gifted you and then how
you can use that to make a

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01:10:35,310 --> 01:10:38,070
difference for the Kingdom.
And so this is a really fun 2

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01:10:38,070 --> 01:10:40,310
1/2 hour interactive again,
casual time.

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01:10:40,550 --> 01:10:42,830
It's at our Hope Center.
It's next Sunday, so if you want

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01:10:42,830 --> 01:10:45,310
to come, there is a sign up
online for you.

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01:10:45,310 --> 01:10:47,990
I don't know if this QR works,
but if not, that's okay.

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01:10:47,990 --> 01:10:50,630
But go to reallifechurchkc.com,
click events.

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01:10:51,990 --> 01:10:53,230
There's room for you.
You know what?

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01:10:53,230 --> 01:10:55,470
If you just show up, we'll still
be there whether you sign up or

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01:10:55,470 --> 01:10:56,590
not.
So we'd love to have you.

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01:10:56,590 --> 01:10:59,630
It's next Sunday, 2:00 to 4:30
at our Hope Center.

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01:10:59,630 --> 01:11:01,190
Ask one of us if you need an
address.

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01:11:02,710 --> 01:11:04,590
Who we made it.
It's going to be great.

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01:11:04,710 --> 01:11:06,390
And you know why it's an awesome
week?

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01:11:06,390 --> 01:11:10,270
Because our Columbia emissions
team had just got back yesterday

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01:11:10,270 --> 01:11:12,470
morning, which is why my brain
doesn't work and I need some

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01:11:12,470 --> 01:11:14,910
coffee.
Yeah, let's give a hand.

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01:11:14,910 --> 01:11:18,350
Our team had an awesome week.
You are not going to want to

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01:11:18,350 --> 01:11:19,390
miss.
I promise.

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01:11:19,390 --> 01:11:22,750
Next week we are sharing about
what God did through our team,

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01:11:22,750 --> 01:11:24,870
what God did in our lives.
And it is going to be a very

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01:11:24,870 --> 01:11:27,990
inspirational and exciting
morning because we get to take a

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01:11:28,110 --> 01:11:30,670
step back and say not just what
is God doing in real life,

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01:11:30,670 --> 01:11:32,310
What's God doing?
We belt and what's got to in our

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01:11:32,310 --> 01:11:36,030
community, What is God doing
across the world and how has he

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01:11:36,030 --> 01:11:37,990
called and given us the
opportunity to be a part of

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01:11:37,990 --> 01:11:40,430
that?
And by you all praying for us,

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01:11:40,430 --> 01:11:44,030
giving here your generosity
money here allows us not only to

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01:11:44,030 --> 01:11:47,790
send a team to go, but it allows
us to take on some of the

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01:11:47,790 --> 01:11:50,590
responsibility and the weight
we've been giving to say that

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01:11:50,590 --> 01:11:53,590
there are incredible men of
faith across the world.

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You want to do more to reach
more people, and we need your

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01:11:56,550 --> 01:11:58,610
help.
Because the stuff that they want

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01:11:58,610 --> 01:12:01,290
to do isn't just something that,
you know, that Sean and I can

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01:12:01,290 --> 01:12:03,370
just fork out some extra money
and say, let's do this.

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01:12:03,370 --> 01:12:06,450
They have big dreams, big goals,
they serve a big God, and

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01:12:06,450 --> 01:12:09,250
they're excited about what he's
doing in their country to reach

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01:12:09,250 --> 01:12:11,370
the World.
And so we get to encourage them

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01:12:11,370 --> 01:12:13,490
in that.
And so when you give here,

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01:12:13,490 --> 01:12:16,690
you're a part of partnering with
our global partners.

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01:12:16,930 --> 01:12:19,090
We have partnerships with
different pastors, different

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01:12:19,090 --> 01:12:21,810
ministries, different
missionaries across the world,

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01:12:21,810 --> 01:12:24,570
and we get to be a part of that.
And so when you give a real

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01:12:24,570 --> 01:12:26,370
life, that's fruit to your
account.

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01:12:26,850 --> 01:12:29,370
The gospel has moved forward
across the world because of you.

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01:12:29,930 --> 01:12:32,170
And so thank you.
For those of you who do that,

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01:12:32,170 --> 01:12:34,130
thank you for those of you
who've taken that step of faith

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01:12:34,130 --> 01:12:36,210
to say, I want to give, I want
to be more generous.

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01:12:36,210 --> 01:12:38,610
I promise you, when you see what
is happening across the world,

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01:12:38,610 --> 01:12:42,090
it breaks your heart.
So you can't say like, it's OK

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01:12:42,090 --> 01:12:44,810
take it all, Lord, you know,
like the song we sing today,

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01:12:44,810 --> 01:12:49,450
like you can have it all, but
when you give, you can make a

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01:12:49,450 --> 01:12:51,130
difference.
And so if you haven't given, I

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01:12:51,130 --> 01:12:53,490
challenge you too, because
there's three ways you can do

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01:12:53,490 --> 01:12:54,690
that.
If you call real life home, go

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01:12:54,690 --> 01:12:58,200
to reallifechurchkc.com.
Click give text any amount to

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01:12:58,200 --> 01:13:00,360
84321.
We'll have some buckets in a

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01:13:00,360 --> 01:13:02,520
moment, or we have a giving box
in the back if it's more

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01:13:02,520 --> 01:13:04,600
convenient for you to put cash
or check in there.

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01:13:05,560 --> 01:13:08,040
And I'll say that if you and
your family are in immediate

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01:13:08,040 --> 01:13:10,640
need of food, clothing or
shelter today, please reach into

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01:13:10,640 --> 01:13:12,480
the buckets when they pass by.
Take that out.

1230
01:13:12,560 --> 01:13:15,400
Because our heart is also to be
generous here and to be generous

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01:13:15,400 --> 01:13:18,240
to you and your time of need.
And so I would encourage you to

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01:13:18,240 --> 01:13:22,320
grab and take advantage of that.
God can do big things through us

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01:13:22,320 --> 01:13:25,880
when we give, and so I would
challenge you to take that

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01:13:25,880 --> 01:13:27,960
mantle today.
So check out what else is coming

1235
01:13:27,960 --> 01:13:29,320
up in real life.
This is Paul.

1236
01:13:42,520 --> 01:13:46,080
It's backyard Hangouts, couches
and kitchen tables.

1237
01:13:51,880 --> 01:13:54,760
It's story shared and moments
worth remembering.

1238
01:13:57,730 --> 01:14:00,250
It's hoping and praying and
taking chances.

1239
01:14:00,690 --> 01:14:03,570
It's jokes and laughter and
shoulders to cry on.

1240
01:14:07,570 --> 01:14:11,170
It's questions and answers and I
don't knows knowing.

1241
01:14:11,170 --> 01:14:13,530
You don't have to figure it out
by yourself.

1242
01:14:20,010 --> 01:14:23,970
It's messy and imperfect.
It's giving and serving and

1243
01:14:23,970 --> 01:14:30,870
growing Better Together.
It's life, and we weren't meant

1244
01:14:30,950 --> 01:14:34,790
to do it alone.
Life is Better Together.

1245
01:14:35,190 --> 01:14:39,910
Find a life group today at
reallifechurchkc.com.

1246
01:14:42,660 --> 01:14:47,340
Literally today, life groups are
going Live Today.

1247
01:14:47,340 --> 01:14:50,780
You'll see a big wall out here.
You can scan the QR code for

1248
01:14:50,780 --> 01:14:53,300
those different groups.
I just encourage you to take

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01:14:53,300 --> 01:14:55,340
that to heart.
Don't do life alone this

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01:14:55,340 --> 01:14:57,820
upcoming semester.
There's a group for every single

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01:14:57,820 --> 01:15:00,060
one of you and just be praying
over that.

1252
01:15:00,060 --> 01:15:04,300
We love to just interact with
you and they'll start meeting in

1253
01:15:04,300 --> 01:15:09,020
person the week of August 27th.
So you can Sign up today, but

1254
01:15:09,020 --> 01:15:10,820
we're not going to meet for
another couple weeks or so.

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01:15:11,220 --> 01:15:12,420
Awesome.
Like.

1256
01:15:12,660 --> 01:15:16,420
And said let's press pause on
asking for a friend next week as

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01:15:16,420 --> 01:15:19,980
we come back at 9:30 or 11:00
and hear about everything God

1258
01:15:19,980 --> 01:15:22,540
did on this missions trip.
Huge God.

1259
01:15:22,660 --> 01:15:25,100
Huge wins.
Can't wait to see you here as we

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01:15:25,100 --> 01:15:27,220
celebrate with that team next
week.

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01:15:27,220 --> 01:15:29,220
If you want some prayer this
morning, we'll have people down

1262
01:15:29,220 --> 01:15:31,860
in front that would love to just
pray with you this morning.

1263
01:15:31,860 --> 01:15:36,860
And remember, whoever finds
Jesus discovers real life and

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01:15:36,980 --> 01:15:38,340
purpose.
Have a great week.

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01:15:41,850 --> 01:15:44,570
This is the end of this podcast.
We hope you've enjoyed it.

1266
01:15:44,730 --> 01:15:47,450
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1267
01:15:47,450 --> 01:15:50,490
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01:15:50,490 --> 01:15:53,490
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