Best of TBN 2025 (Part 1)

December 30, 2025 | 56:42

Join TBN for the best moments from 2025. We’ll go behind the scenes and experience this year’s highlights, teaching moments, worship encounters, and more! Laugh out loud, see previews of new programs, and dive deep into God’s word. Kick off the new year with TBN and come away with fresh perspective!

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| Best of TBN 2025 (Part 1) | December 30, 2025

Welcome to tbn's best of 2025.
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We have to do this, friends.
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You ready?
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Okay, let's do this.
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Would a clap help? yes.
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Okay.
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Kick off the new year with us as we remember our past year.
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Enjoy laugh-out-loud moments.
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God wants us to pray for our dreams and pray for things that
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Are over our head.
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When you said pray for things that are over your head,
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Lord, i would love to have
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Chocolate brown hair like joel osteen. [laughter]
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♪ god brought us out of egypt land with the mighty arm ♪
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♪ and with an outstretched hand ♪
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You're going to have to help me
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With how to make my hair your color
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If there's a little secret. there's no secret.
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We're gonna make gaza great again.
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We're gonna have gaza largo.
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We're going to have disney gaza.
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I'm dealing with the fact that
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My hair used to be your color, right?
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I feel like my hair-- and you can tell
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Because he's mentioned that a couple times.
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♪ yo, and god sent to us yeshua the messiah ♪
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There'll be some at home,
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I can hear somebody, you know, either clutching their
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Pearls or tearing their clothes.
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Catch a glimpse of new programs you have yet to see.
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Power was left with us.
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Thy kingdom come.
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Thy will be done
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On earth as it is in heaven.
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It's time to bring the kingdom
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Of god that is at hand to light.
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Dive deep into god's word and the promises he has for you.
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If you're still here, if you're not dead, you're not done.
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No matter who you are, you are qualified.
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You are worthy.
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You are called by god, and
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There's a purpose for your life.
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So in a world
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That says, give me your best, god says, give me your worst.
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This isn't here to kill me.
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This isn't here to strangle me and take me out.
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This is here to bait my faith. right.
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God giving us an opportunity to say who he is.
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This is the best of 2025 on tbn.
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Anybody love jesus?
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♪ i wish i could tell you, i wish i could describe it, ♪
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♪ but i can't contain it ♪
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♪ can't keep it to myself ♪
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♪ there aren't enough colors to paint the whole picture ♪
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♪ not enough words to ever say what i found ♪
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♪ wonderful and when beautiful and glorious and holy, he is ♪
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♪ merciful and powerful ♪
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♪ who are you talking about? ♪
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♪ that's my king ♪
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♪ hey, we declare the glory ♪
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♪ give him all the honor ♪
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♪ altogether worthy ♪
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♪ who we talking about? ♪
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♪ that's my king ♪
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He's not a far away god.
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He's an up close, personal savior.
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I just think people don't know.
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I just think people don't know how good and wonderful jesus is.
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Like, he is so indescribable.
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He was so gentle and so fun and
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Loving and always healing and helping.
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♪ not letting the rocks cry without joining the chorus ♪
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♪ there aren't enough notes to make the harmony ♪
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♪ it's the song of the angels ♪
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♪ angels all of the angels ♪
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♪ all of the earth in heaven ♪
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♪ symphony ♪
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♪ wonderful and beautiful and glorious and holy ♪
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♪ he is merciful ♪
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♪ and powerful ♪
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♪ who are we talking about? ♪
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♪ that's my king ♪
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♪ yeah, we declare the glory ♪
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♪ yes, we do ♪
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♪ i give you all the praise ♪
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♪ nobody who we talkin about? ♪
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♪ nobody but jesus ♪
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Jesus is himself the focal point,
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The one who explains to us what life is really all about.
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No matter who you are, god knows you.
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He has a plan for your life.
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He wants to use you in
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Incredible ways, and wonder of wonders,
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He wants to know you.
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He's faithful and just to forgive you from sins and
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Cleanse you from all unrighteousness.
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That's so true.
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♪ that's my king ♪
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♪ that's my god ♪
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♪ he's my god, that's my shepherd ♪
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♪ he's my shepherd ♪
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♪ that's my king ♪
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♪ hallelujah, that's my anchor, my defender ♪
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♪ who we talking about? ♪
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♪ that's my king ♪
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♪ come on, y'all ♪
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♪ we declare the glory ♪
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♪ give him all the honor ♪
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♪ altogether worthy ♪
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♪ who we talking about? ♪
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♪ that's my king ♪
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♪ we declare the glory ♪
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♪ yes, i will ♪
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Would you like to know about and join a kingdom led by jesus
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As the king of kings
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Into a life of victory and joy that you can't even imagine?
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And you'll be filled with hope.
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And we're on the side that wins.
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♪ who we talking about? jesus ♪
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♪ who we talking about? ♪
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♪ nobody like you ♪
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♪ king of kings ♪
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♪ who we talking about? ♪
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♪ jesus glory ♪
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♪ forever who we talking about? ♪
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♪ who we talking about? ♪
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♪ that's my king ♪
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♪ yeah ♪
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Today, i'm following in the
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Footsteps of a man who changed history.
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Time magazine called him the most influential man that
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Has ever lived.
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Jesus of nazareth.
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And you know, i'm not very
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Religious in the traditional sense of the word, but to me,
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There's something so appealing,
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So intriguing about this person.
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He was a refugee.
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He was a renegade.
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You know, he was a wild one.
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No doubt.
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All the rough people seem to love him.
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And yet the ruling elite struggle so much with it.
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What was it that was so unique, so special about him?
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And how did this guy
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Effectively change the world forever?
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I like with the story of jesus learning for me that the first
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People to see the baby jesus were regular.
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Like not the not the super well educated.
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They were the people of the land.
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The people of the land, shepherds, the most simple
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People in the community.
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Yeah.
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Speaking to dandan about the sort of people the shepherds
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Were, it was those that were outside of normal society.
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They were rougher.
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They lived off the land.
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And, you know, they wouldn't
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Have had all the kind of niceties.
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And i like that because so often church, i think, can feel
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Like you've got to be a certain way, you've got to be smart or
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Religious, but actually the ones that god revealed it to
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Said, you've got to go to bethlehem, wasn't to these
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Religious elite.
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It was to the wild ones.
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I want to hear about the moment in new york.
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You were
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Fighting for your territory.
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You were a gang member.
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You were,
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You were in your area.
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And god chose to point into
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That part of new york and find you.
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Well, i was totally, totally lost.
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I mean, there's no answer for god or jesus christ.
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It's happened that there was a lot of abuse.
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And to a place that, that you come into a place that you
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Don't believe in nothing.
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I tried to hang myself from the mango tree because i don't
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Want to live.
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I was young. one day wilkerson to come to new york
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City, and he didn't know nothing about the city.
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And yet he came into my turf and my territory to announce
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The good news.
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He screamed, god has the power to change your life.
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And i say, you shut up.
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There's no god.
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Get out of here!
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You don't belong here.
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You know, you can get killed here.
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And i spit at him and i cursed him.
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I call him every name in the book.
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And i told him, if you say--
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If you say another word, you're a dead man.
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When i got close to his face and he can see all over me.
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He started screaming at me.
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And you don't say this.
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He starts screaming loud, kill me,
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Kill me!
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I said, what's the matter with this guy?
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What's the matter with him?
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This is easy, you know.
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Nicky, you can kill me.
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Cut me in a thousand pieces.
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You can throw them right on the street.
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Every little piece going to crying out to you that jesus
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Loves you, nicky.
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The damage was done.
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Jesus love you. jesus love you.
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Jesus love you.
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For two weeks i could not sleep.
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Talk to us about
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Have there been people that have come through your program
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That you think, well, lord, who knows what's going to happen
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With this one?
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They seem like the hardest case or the most difficult to reach.
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And you've watched god do what only god can do.
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Yeah. i saw a young girl that showed up in our building and
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She was so frail.
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I mean, her hair was down to here.
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She showed up in our building.
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She was horribly abused physically by her father.
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Sex trafficked.
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Um, some of the most hideous things i've ever heard.
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A young lady, you know,
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Things that were done to her that were broadcast and sent
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Out illegally, and just she showed up in our building, and
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She was just walking around like this.
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She's just walking around like this and like a zombie,
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Like a dead person walking.
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And she checked into our women's program, and it was
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Almost like the word of god was gradually lifting her head
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Week by week. wow.
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And then the next week, she showed up and she was kind
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Of like lifting up a little bit more and a little bit more,
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A little bit more.
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And then she'd begin to lift her head fully.
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And then she said, pastor,
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I'm no longer cutting my arms anymore.
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She showed me his scars up and down her arms of just, you
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Know, trying to alleviate the pain of what she's been
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Through, cutting herself.
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And she said, i got fewer.
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And i begin to see layers of god's work, like the gradual
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Lifting of the head, the posture begin to change, the
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Scars begin to heal until
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Eventually there was nothing left.
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And now, when she gets up
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And speaks, it's like a seasoned speaker.
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I'm like, it's almost a little bit scary in a good way to see
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How much god can change someone.
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You're like-- wow. i don't even recognize you anymore.
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It's like, i don't even remember their past anymore
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That much.
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I have to almost think about it because of the transformation
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That takes place.
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But everyone in our program, you know, they're in the word
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Of god every day.
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It's a one year program.
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I mean, it's beans and rice and
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Jesus christ, that's what it is. [laughter]
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Man, up in the morning and no cell phones for a year.
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Wow.
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And people just begin to-- and we tell them that it's the
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Toughest year, but it'll be the best year.
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And you just begin to see guys that came in with ankle
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Bracelet monitors, you know, and some guys came in from
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Rival gangs who hated each other, and then they become
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Best friends.
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The gospel is the only thing that can really reconcile
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People together.
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I'm convinced of it because i've seen the power of what it
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Does when everyone starts fighting the same battle, and
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That is whatever issues they bring into the program, and
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Then they have a solution through the power of god.
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And that's why, you know, the dream center, we've turned down
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Millions of dollars of government grants because they
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Would take jesus out of the element.
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How in the world could you ever do that?
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You know, so we just realized that if god is first, you never
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Water down who you are over the years.
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You just stay true to the fact that you know
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It's the lord, it's the lord, it's the lord,
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Then great things will happen.
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♪ how many times can you hear the same light before you ♪
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♪ start to believe it? ♪
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♪ the enemy keeps whispering to me ♪
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♪ i swear these days it's all that i'm hearing ♪
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♪ i used to know who i was ♪
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♪ now i look in the mirror ♪
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♪ and i'm not so sure ♪
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♪ lord, i don't want to listen to the lies anymore ♪
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♪ the truth is, i am my father's child ♪
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♪ i'll make him proud ♪
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♪ and i'll make him smile ♪
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♪ i was made in the image of a perfect king ♪
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♪ he looks at me and wouldn't change a thing ♪
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♪ the truth is, i am truly loved by a god who is good when ♪
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♪ i'm not good enough ♪
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♪ i don't belong to the lies ♪
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♪ i belong to you ♪
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♪ it's the truth ♪
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Satan, talking about these spiritual battles,
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Would love to discourage you,
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Defeat you,
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To think that god has forgotten you.
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But god has not forgotten you.
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The thief on the cross who was crucified next to christ.
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And we say thief.
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He was probably guilty of a far more serious crime because, you
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Know, the romans didn't crucify thieves.
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So he probably was an
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Insurrectionist, probably a murderer.
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And, uh, and so here he is, being crucified next to jesus,
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And he turns to the lord and says, lord, remember me when
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You come into your kingdom.
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And jesus says, truly, truly, i say to you, today you will be
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With me in paradise.
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You know what god wants more than anything?
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Do you know what he wants from us?
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Brokenness, which is another
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Way of saying what god wants is you.
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But you know what?
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You are fundamentally,
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Categorically, definitively broken.
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So when we come to god and say, i'm broken--
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That's all you get.
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Now i get you.
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And that's what i wanted all along.
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♪ i belong to you ♪
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♪ and that's the truth ♪
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♪ i know who i am ♪
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♪ 'cause i know who you are ♪
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♪ and i hold your truth inside my heart ♪
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♪ i know the lies are always gonna try and find me ♪
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♪ but i've never been so sure.
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♪ the truth is i am my father's child ♪
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♪ i make him proud ♪
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♪ and i make him smile ♪
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♪ i was made in the image of a perfect king ♪
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♪ he looks at me and wouldn't change a thing ♪
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♪ the truth is, i am truly loved by a god who is good when i'm ♪
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♪ not good enough ♪
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♪ i don't belong to the lies ♪
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♪ i belong to you ♪
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♪ and that's the truth ♪
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♪ and that's the truth ♪
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I think i'm surprised at how rough it was,
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How can a stinking and bottom of the pile and desperate a
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Situation this was.
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He was saying it was probably in a cave,
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You know, where half of it is, where they sleep, and the other
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Half all the animals corralled in.
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It's going to be stinking.
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It's going to be about as rough
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A place as it's possible to be born.
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Who are the people that visited him?
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Okay, so we have the shepherds.
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They are the first ones that are coming to visit jesus on
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The same night that he was born.
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The shepherds were outside bethlehem, they were
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Shepherding their animals outside.
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Normally, the shepherds are not at the circle inside the city
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Because they are farmers.
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You don't want shepherds to cross your field.
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They will destroy it.
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So they always had to keep a certain distance outside the
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The city or village.
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So they must have been kind of half excited to come in, but
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Also a little apprehensive.
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They were terrified to see an angel at night.
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You know, they are there.
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It's dark and everything in the mountains.
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Suddenly an angel,
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And then they were surrounded by angels from all over, and
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Then go to bethlehem.
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You know, the lord, the christ
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Was born, and they go there immediately.
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And what do you think they expected to see?
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I guess a royal king, you know, a nice couple that is dressed
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Very, very nicely with some bodyguards around, a nice
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Vehicle or nice donkey, you know, parking outside,
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Whatever it was there.
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And this is what they would expect. if god is sending angels
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To tell them about the birth of christ, you wouldn't expect a
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Couple that sits there
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Somewhere with animals and manger.
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So what was the reality?
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I mean, here, there is a strong smell here.
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Think about an awkward scene again
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If your wife, you know, is there.
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She just had her baby.
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And suddenly a group of shepherds or bus drivers or
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Taxi drivers, they are suddenly entering, breaking into the
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Door and say hello.
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We came to see the baby,
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How would she feel?
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How would you feel as her husband?
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But from the first moment of jesus' birth, he was reachable
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In a sense to the common, low level people.
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That's a humble, humble beginning.
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You know, if it's like meant to be. the son of the son of the
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Almighty, you would think this is not what you expect.
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So jesus is coming to be accessible to everyone.
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Everyone. if he would be born in a palace, you can imagine
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That the shepherds would never be able to enter.
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The guards would tell them, who are you?
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You can't enter over here.
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You can't see that baby.
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But jesus, from the moment he was born, it was for first of
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All, the simple people around him.
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I have this image sometimes of nativity and it's all
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Christmas and nice.
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And, you know, this is probably
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A palace compared to what they had.
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I think it's an amazing thing, you know, to know where they
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Started from and where jesus started from.
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There is, in a sense, almost no lower point than at this point
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That he can start from.
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No lower point.
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For god, that's quite an entrance.
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God is not mad at you.
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God's mad about you.
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Right? jesus said it best, for god so loved the world.
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For while we were yet sinners, christ died for us, not while
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We were yet christians.
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God loves sinners, but he does hate sin and the soul
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That sins shall surely die
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The bible says, and so god's judgment comes upon sin.
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So christ died in our place, atoning for our sins.
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A way i've summed it up over the years as christ came to pay
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A debt he did not owe because
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We owed a debt we could not pay.
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So he became the sacrifice.
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That's why it's so ridiculous for people to say by living a
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Good life, they can get to heaven.
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You'll never be good enough.
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You'll always fall short
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Because you, i, us, we all are sinners.
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So it's preposterous to think that we're good enough.
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That's why we need jesus.
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Because we sin.
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But jesus, as the sacrificial lamb of god, took away the sin
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Of the world.
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Theologically, though, greg, god was mad at sin.
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His anger burned in the old
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Covenant and it no longer burns.
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Well, i would say it still burns against sin, but there
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Has to be a sacrifice.
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Now, if we come-- we come to the father through the son.
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Relationship trumps everything, and that's the only way
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I have access to god,
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Not because i'm good enough or smart enough or have the
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Right id tag.
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It's because of relationship, and because jesus
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Died for us,
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We've been adopted into god's family.
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God is love.
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Yes, he is.
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Okay. and so if the prodigal son story is jesus telling
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A story-- it's a parable.
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It's just a story.
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It's not real.
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It's just a story.
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Okay? and but he's trying to give people, the reader, kind
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Of the idea of what the father's attitude is going to
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Be when you come.
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He's going to meet you before you get there.
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He's going to go out to you.
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He's going to embrace you, kiss
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You, and put on a feast for you.
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That's the attitude that jesus is trying to give.
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That's how, i guess we're supposed to separate the person
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And the sin. yeah.
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That god is always after terrorists.
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Yeah. people that strap on bombs and blow people up,
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God is still wanting them, trying to woo them.
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So god loves everyone.
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Yes. so you have to--
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That's the only way in my brain i can separate the
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Dirty, rotten scoundrels
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Things that somebody might do and the person itself.
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Right.
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And that's what god does to all of us.
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Don't take god for granted.
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Remember, he's the source of all joy.
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He's the source of every good thing, every good gift.
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And every perfect gift comes down from the father.
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This is the book of james.
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Mhm.
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If that's true, and i'm trying to find joy and happiness in my
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Life, surely i have to consider god.
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You have to consider god.
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You can't just say, well, i decided i'm going to find it
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In some other way.
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There is no other way.
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There's no other way to find the joy you're looking for in
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Your heart that will keep you through every crisis that you
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Face, every situation you go through
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There is a peace and joy that
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You can have that comes from god
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When you make jesus christ your lord and savior and put him on
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The throne of your life.
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And if you've never done that, if you have never put jesus
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Christ in control, you need to move over.
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For me, what salvation brought was identity.
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It was no longer having to be this person in this group or
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This person in that group, and all of these different masks
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That i was wearing.
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It was like, i get to like completely put them down.
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As a 13 year old, this is what i remember thinking.
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And my identity is in something that will never change and is
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Not contingent on my good behavior or my bad behavior.
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And that was what my yes was.
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♪ he was just an ♪
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♪ ordinary baby ♪
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♪ that's the way he planned it ♪
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♪ maybe ♪
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♪ anything less than common would have kept him apart ♪
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What does the word of god say that i am?
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I am loved, i am victorious, i am more than a conqueror.
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I am in him.
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He is in me.
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I have provision, i have joy.
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He's my strength.
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He's my peace.
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He's everything that i need, my satisfaction.
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So that is the truth.
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The belt of truth.
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The belt holds your sword.
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It holds the breastplate.
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And if your belt was loose, everything was loose.
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So the truth of god's word was the very foundation of what
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Christ either did or didn't do at the cross for us.
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♪ choosing to partake of all our joy ♪
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♪ and pain ♪
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♪ he was just an ordinary baby ♪
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♪ that's the way he planned it ♪
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♪ maybe ♪
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♪ so that we could come to him and not be afraid ♪
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God has no grandchildren.
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He only has sons and daughters.
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It was just this overwhelming
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Understanding that it wasn't just that god loved my mum, but
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That it was a personal thing for mem that i was invited to
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Come as well.
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♪ both his birth and death were planned from the start ♪
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♪ but ♪
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♪ between his entrance and his exit ♪
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♪ was a life that had affected ♪
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♪ everyone who's walked the earth to this very day ♪
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♪ and with no ♪
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♪ airs of condescension ♪
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♪ he became god's pure extension, ♪
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♪ giving you and me a chance to be reborn ♪
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♪ he was just ♪
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♪ an ordinary baby ♪
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♪ that's the way he planned it, may be ♪
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♪ so that we would come to him and not be afraid ♪
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♪ so that we could come to him ♪
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♪ and not be afraid ♪
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♪ he was just ♪
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♪ an ordinary baby ♪
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♪ ooh ♪
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Maybe my favorite verse in the bible is in the context of the
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Prodigal son.
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Prodigal son left home, took money, wasted his substance,
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Went into the far country.
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His friends left him.
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He's in abject poverty.
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But the verse that i love is when he came to himself, when
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He came to himself.
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And the way i interpret that is, as long as he was
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Separated, so disconnected from the father, from his family,
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From his so-called friends, uh,
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He was also disconnected from himself.
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He was not in his right mind.
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That's the way i like to interpret that.
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And that doesn't mean mental illness.
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In fact, i don't,
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I don't use the word mental illness anymore.
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I think what we've always called mental illnesses is
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Medical, primarily medical illness.
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So it kind of destigmatizes that term somewhat.
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But he had to come to himself.
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He had to come to his, into his right mind before he could
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Reconnect with himself, with his family, with his father,
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And come home where he was created to be.
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We all have thoughts.
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So anytime you see anything about thought life, it's
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Really for everybody.
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If you're having good thoughts, if you're having bad thoughts,
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Or if you're having thoughtless thoughts, you don't think about
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Your thoughts,
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Um, or if you're like me, bad thoughts kind of surface and
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I feel like i'm not in control of them.
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And suddenly my whole entire day and sometimes weeks can be
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Taken over by a reoccurring negative thought.
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Or you ever had one of these?
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The pending doom thought.
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What if something bad happens?
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If i asked people right now your prevailing thought, is that
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The direction you want your life to go?
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And if it's not, let's consider
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Is there a way to change the prevailing thought in our life?
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Part of taking a thought captive is you
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You don't just say, i'm not going to think that anymore.
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To use captive language, you interrogate it. you hold it
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Down and you ask some questions of that thought.
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Where did it come from?
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Who taught me to think that way?
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What's that led to?
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Who do i know from my childhood
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That might have thought that way?
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Recognizing, okay, there's this
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Thought pattern that's not biblical.
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In fact, it's anti-gospel to say i don't need help, and i
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Need to change that thought, and but for me to be set free
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From that, for me to, as second corinthians talks about, to
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Tear down that stronghold in my life, i needed to recognize
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Where that thought came from and and needed to be
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Intentional to replace it.
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When we are constantly exposing our mind to certain ideas
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And thoughts,
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It creates strongholds.
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It'll create a pattern of thinking, even if you don't
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Want it to.
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I talk in the book about, um, the, the, the law of exposure
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That this, this idea that what we give our eyes to and our
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Ears to just shapes us whether we want it to or not.
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Like you can say, oh, that doesn't affect me,
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And that doesn't make a difference for me, but it does.
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Sometimes we think of thoughts as they just come.
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But you know what?
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You can take somebody else's thought, god's thought, and
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Make it your thought.
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And that's a powerful notion.
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Um, and you don't even have to make it happen.
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You just kind of accept it and receive it.
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As i asked god the question, i said, lord, i said, what lies
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Do i believe about me?
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And out of the darkness god said, you believe you're alone.
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And in that moment he actually took me back in time to when
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I was six years old.
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I was watching in my memory my parents have a
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Divorce level intensity argument.
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I was in the back seat of a car back before we even buckled
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Our seat belts,
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My mom was talking to my dad.
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My dad was talking to my mom-- by the way,
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My parents are amazing people.
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They were just going through a difficult time, and in the
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Moment, my mom took my kindergarten application,
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Well, my application second try at kindergarten, and she took it
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And threw it out the window.
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I remember, i remember in my memory seeing the pages bloom,
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And she started driving away.
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And as she drove away, i out of the back seat yelled stop!
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And i jumped out of the car and
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Started picking up all these papers.
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And as i'm picking up these papers, i watch in my memory,
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As i say to myself, i guess i'm alone now.
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And that thought pattern at six years old literally became a
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Software that i coded into my mind that became a reality.
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Literally everyone in my life i kept at a distance.
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Even my kids, even my relationship with my wife
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Or my team members.
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I had a revolving door of employees. alone was literally
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Like a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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It was like a self-licking ice cream cone that made its way
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Into every area of my life.
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And all of a sudden i'm in this
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Room and i'm crying, and i don't cry.
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I'm a marine.
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You can see the marine corps
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Flag over my shoulder, all right.
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And i'm weeping in front of two grown men.
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It's very embarrassing, you know.
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And so i come out of this moment that god has for me.
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And the counselor goes, now, i
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Want you to ask god what's true.
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And trust me, at this point, i'm not pretending.
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I'm like, i'm in this one to win it.
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And i asked god what is true.
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And god says again, he says, you've never been alone.
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I've always been with you,
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And i love you, and i'm proud of you.
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And he snaps me back into that memory.
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Only this moment in the memory, everything is exactly the same.
00:32:08.182 --> 00:32:11.019
I get out of the car, i go pick up the papers, and as i'm
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Picking up the papers literally in my memory, after asking god
00:32:13.287 --> 00:32:15.890
That second question, i look over here and jesus is standing
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Right next to me, picking up the papers with me, and he and
00:32:18.626 --> 00:32:21.562
I carry these papers, and we sit in the back seat of my
00:32:21.562 --> 00:32:24.132
Mom's car, and she drives off, my mom and jesus and me, and
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All of a sudden, i realize it's strange to think that you're
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Alone when you're sitting in the backseat of your
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Mom's car next to jesus.
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And i thought that was amazing.
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God actually rewrote the whole memory with the true version.
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That was the real version, you know?
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The other version was actually the false version.
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He rewrites the story of this
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Amazing, true version of this story.
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And ever since then, i've been having vibrant conversations
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With the king of kings who wants to have a conversation
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With me and wants to have a conversation with you.
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It's amazing what happens when those walls come down.
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I think sometimes i've had people tell me, well, god's got
00:32:54.395 --> 00:32:57.432
Bigger things to deal with.
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You know, there are people that are, you know, got bigger
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Problems and all that.
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But i always come back to, you are god's biggest deal.
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You know, god's not-- you know, him blessing somebody else or
00:33:04.906 --> 00:33:08.276
Answering their prayers,
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It's not going to stop him from answering mine.
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So i think we have to get out of that mentality that
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I don't deserve it.
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I'm not worthy.
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That's for somebody else.
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But god wants to show out in all of our lives.
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And i'm like you, the the, the longer i live, the more i
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Realize, god, i'm going to i'm going to ask you for what you
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Put in my heart.
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And i'm not just going to, you know, i think it's easy to
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Think about it.
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It's easy to worry about it.
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It's easy to doubt and think it could never happen.
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But it is your faith being released to say-- i mean,
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I go back to jehoshaphat.
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What was that?
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Second chronicles 20, when he was surrounded, he started off
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By saying, god, you know, basically you're the creator
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Of the universe.
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You've done great things and, you know, bragging on the
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Goodness of god and just, you know, he even prayed,
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He said, god, we don't know what to do, but our
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Eyes are upon you.
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Even that's a that's a bold prayer.
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God, we're surrounded.
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It looks impossible.
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But, god, i know you can make a way.
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You know, being a pastor, i get to talk to a lot of people.
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And, you know, a common thing
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Is, you know, i don't feel worthy.
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I've made too many mistakes, and i wasn't raised like you.
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And we go on and on.
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But it's like you said, it's not our righteousness.
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It's what jesus did for us.
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And so you have to take his righteousness and say, god,
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You made me worthy.
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Therefore i can come boldly before the throne.
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And i always liken it to my children.
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If my children when they were younger, if they'd come up to
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You and just felt like a weak worm of the dust,
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And dad, i don't deserve this, but can i just have a little
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Drink of water,
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We would say, what are you talking about?
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You're my child.
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You're my son.
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You're my daughter.
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Come on in.
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Go to the refrigerator.
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What i have belongs to you.
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I think that's that, you know, understanding grace and god's
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Love and mercy, knowing that you're a child of the most
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High, that you're his prized possession, that god
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Chose you before you could choose him.
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♪ greatly blessed ♪
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♪ highly favored ♪
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♪ imperfect but forgiven ♪
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♪ child of god ♪
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♪ greatly blessed ♪
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♪ highly favored ♪
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♪ imperfect but forgiven ♪
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♪ child of god ♪
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There really is a god.
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He really knows your name.
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And there is nothing that can
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Separate you from his love for you.
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And he desires the absolute best for you.
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But you've got a problem.
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You have sin that has corrupted your nature.
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It's corrupted who you are.
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You can't beat it
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Though you try.
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You can't ever restore yourself to purity.
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♪ i'm greatly blessed ♪
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♪ and highly favored ♪
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♪ imperfect but forgiven ♪
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♪ child of god ♪
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♪ greatly blessed ♪
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♪ and highly favored ♪
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♪ imperfect but forgiven ♪
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♪ child of god ♪
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♪ greatly blessed ♪
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♪ and highly favored ♪
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♪ imperfect but forgiven ♪
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♪ child of god ♪
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♪ greatly blessed ♪
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♪ highly favored ♪
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♪ imperfect but forgiven ♪
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♪ child of god ♪
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♪ i'm a child of god ♪
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We tend to think, oh, if i had more money, or if i had that
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House, if i had this or had that, then i'd be happy.
00:37:11.585 --> 00:37:14.155
I saw some of the most
00:37:14.155 --> 00:37:15.089
Miserable people in my life there.
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Is it just a looking in the wrong places?
00:37:16.991 --> 00:37:19.527
Well, the bible says you can't serve god and mammon.
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Doesn't say you can't have god and mammon.
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It says you can't serve them.
00:37:25.733 --> 00:37:27.435
When people seek for money or fame as their number one goal,
00:37:27.435 --> 00:37:30.871
They push god out of the picture and they cancel
00:37:30.871 --> 00:37:33.741
Happiness out of their life because you can't have joy and
00:37:33.741 --> 00:37:36.977
Happiness without god.
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He's the source of it.
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And, uh, i know so many people, and you make this very clear in
00:37:40.214 --> 00:37:45.186
Your statement, sheila, that pursuing money or pursuing
00:37:45.186 --> 00:37:49.190
Fame, um, pursuing prestige or whatever it is your goal is,
00:37:49.190 --> 00:37:54.562
You will get that, but it doesn't come with happiness.
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Happiness is not in the picture.
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Happiness doesn't come just because you have more money
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Than everybody else.
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And, um, i've seen the same illustrations over and over as
00:38:04.672 --> 00:38:08.943
I've been a pastor now all these years.
00:38:08.943 --> 00:38:10.978
It's almost like they get to climb to the top of the golden
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Ladder and open the box and discover that it's empty.
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Mm-hmm.
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The christian answer is that,
00:38:17.618 --> 00:38:18.619
Well, is to give yourself to christ.
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You say, well, if i give myself to to christ, uh, i will lose
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My identity?
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No. what will happen,
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We give ourselves to christ,
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Our identity is not lost, but our selfishness is lost.
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Jesus christ cannot maximize your life, or my life or
00:38:36.270 --> 00:38:40.241
Anybody else's life unless we give to christ. then he can
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Work through us.
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So i have learned the seed of life is surrender, surrender,
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Surrender and surrender.
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When i have a problem, i surrender.
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When i have a challenge, i surrender.
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And i discovered what e. stanley
00:38:55.656 --> 00:38:57.558
Jones taught dozens of years ago,
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There's victory through surrender.
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You say, well, if i give my life to god in jesus christ,
00:39:03.297 --> 00:39:08.035
I lose my life.
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No, god gives it back to us.
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I was really captivated.
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When you write about surrender. yes.
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And i think we think that's very hard because,
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What am i giving up?
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And what are you going to make me do?
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We have this kind of picture of, you know, if i surrender,
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Then terrible things are going to happen.
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What does surrender look like to you?
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Yeah. um
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I remember being in israel and our messianic jewish guide was
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Was talking about places where
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The jewish people actually surrendered.
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They sacrificed before the lord.
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This is the surrender of our animal and what those different
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Sacrifices look like.
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And he said the, the hebrew word for that is corban, and it
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Means to come nearer.
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I was like, wait, wait, wait what?
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Because in our western understanding, a surrender is
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To lose something.
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A sacrifice is a loss of something costly and great.
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I'm giving up something.
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When he said no, no, no, no, no.
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The hebrew understanding of sacrifice, the surrender before
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God, you are gaining.
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You are coming nearer.
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That when we sacrifice something, when we surrender,
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When we live cruciform, we let go of something.
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You're letting go of the thing that's in the way of letting
00:40:15.669 --> 00:40:19.507
You draw closer, nearer to jesus himself, which is an
00:40:19.507 --> 00:40:23.911
Upside down way of thinking.
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It's a gift.
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It is removing, letting go of something, removing something
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That is in the way of you drawing closer to jesus.
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I just get tired of crashing and burning.
00:40:34.955 --> 00:40:37.525
You know, i get tired of making mistakes and getting up and
00:40:37.525 --> 00:40:40.060
Moving forward.
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I get tired of getting so many scars on me.
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And you know, i got to a point in my life before i met sky,
00:40:42.963 --> 00:40:47.568
Before i had the baptism where i'd had enough.
00:40:47.568 --> 00:40:50.871
I was sick and tired of myself, you know what i mean?
00:40:50.871 --> 00:40:53.974
Just two people in here.
00:40:53.974 --> 00:40:55.709
My real self and the ego.
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I was sick and tired of myself.
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You know, you can blame situations, conditions.
00:41:01.916 --> 00:41:05.920
You can--
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Your rationale can have a
00:41:07.121 --> 00:41:09.723
Hundred reasons why things happen.
00:41:09.723 --> 00:41:11.125
But at the end of the day, it's about choices.
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And i'm not real good,
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Or i wasn't real good at making good choices because of the
00:41:17.464 --> 00:41:21.201
Environment and everything that was going on.
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And so once i decided to quit driving the car myself and
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Surrender, he took those mistakes i made.
00:41:29.209 --> 00:41:32.846
I learned from him.
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He taught me how to get up
00:41:33.781 --> 00:41:36.850
With this monster hit that i just took and be honest and
00:41:36.850 --> 00:41:41.221
Truthful and move forward.
00:41:41.221 --> 00:41:43.290
So all those things
00:41:43.290 --> 00:41:46.226
In the past that happened to me, you know, i tell skye, i'm
00:41:46.226 --> 00:41:49.430
Like the old scarred up seal.
00:41:49.430 --> 00:41:51.865
You know, it's been 20 million battles and i've got scars
00:41:51.865 --> 00:41:54.435
All over me.
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And i feel, you know, that i'm not a poser because, you know,
00:41:55.736 --> 00:42:00.507
Knowing of jesus and knowing him are two different things.
00:42:00.507 --> 00:42:04.144
That's true. you know?
00:42:04.144 --> 00:42:05.446
And so at this point, knowing him and being one with him, i
00:42:05.446 --> 00:42:09.750
Think all these scars and all these things i've been through,
00:42:09.750 --> 00:42:14.488
I'm not that i'm leading by example, but i've been made an
00:42:14.488 --> 00:42:17.491
Example of for people that think i'm not correct or i
00:42:17.491 --> 00:42:21.128
Don't have my act cleaned up or i can't do this, i think all
00:42:21.128 --> 00:42:25.032
Those people that have all the excuses for being in the wrong
00:42:25.032 --> 00:42:27.501
Place at the wrong time, or not being good enough.
00:42:27.501 --> 00:42:30.471
You don't need to be cleaned up.
00:42:30.471 --> 00:42:31.739
Come to him.
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He'll clean you up.
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And by the way, you're
00:42:33.207 --> 00:42:34.141
Introduced as the immortal hulk hogan.
00:42:34.141 --> 00:42:37.578
And now you truly are immortal because you will live in
00:42:37.578 --> 00:42:40.814
Eternity with the lord jesus christ.
00:42:40.814 --> 00:42:42.316
So that's actually a true statement
00:42:42.316 --> 00:42:44.652
When people call you the immortal hulk hogan.
00:42:44.652 --> 00:42:47.187
Across my back, i've got a huge tattoo from shoulder to
00:42:47.187 --> 00:42:51.325
Shoulder that says immortal on it.
00:42:51.325 --> 00:42:53.694
And it's not the immortal hulk hogan.
00:42:53.694 --> 00:42:55.562
It's because of what you just said.
00:42:55.562 --> 00:42:57.665
And i decided to turn back to my faith.
00:42:57.665 --> 00:43:01.068
And one of the things i did was
00:43:01.068 --> 00:43:02.970
I put that crazy tattoo on my back,
00:43:02.970 --> 00:43:05.172
Immortal, meaning i accepted christ as my savior and he
00:43:05.172 --> 00:43:08.375
Died for my sins.
00:43:08.375 --> 00:43:09.376
And i'll live forever.
00:43:09.376 --> 00:43:10.377
It's the only truth there is.
00:43:10.377 --> 00:43:12.613
Everything else is just temporary.
00:43:12.613 --> 00:43:14.381
You know?
00:43:14.381 --> 00:43:15.616
Everything. the fame, the money, the ego, the physical.
00:43:15.616 --> 00:43:19.019
Everything is just temporary.
00:43:19.019 --> 00:43:20.320
And once you get that and you realize that it's so important
00:43:20.320 --> 00:43:24.925
That you make other people understand that that's the only
00:43:24.925 --> 00:43:27.761
Truth there is.
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♪ looking for a reason ♪
00:43:28.562 --> 00:43:31.031
♪ roaming through the night to find my place in this world ♪
00:43:31.031 --> 00:43:36.770
♪ my place in this world ♪
00:43:36.770 --> 00:43:41.141
♪ not a lot to lean on ♪
00:43:41.141 --> 00:43:43.577
♪ i need your light to help me find my place in this world ♪
00:43:43.577 --> 00:43:49.216
♪ my place in this world ♪
00:43:49.216 --> 00:43:53.487
God always wanted to come and dwell in and with his creation.
00:43:53.487 --> 00:43:59.526
And this is-- god is delighted to do this.
00:43:59.526 --> 00:44:02.796
This is what he's been waiting for.
00:44:02.796 --> 00:44:04.631
Like the incarnation in john 1:14, the word became flesh
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And dwelt among us.
00:44:08.335 --> 00:44:09.570
This is not god saying, oh dear, i didn't really want to
00:44:09.570 --> 00:44:12.372
Do this, but they're in such a mess,
00:44:12.372 --> 00:44:13.540
I've got to come and sort it out.
00:44:13.540 --> 00:44:14.908
No, god created humans in order that one day he could come and
00:44:14.908 --> 00:44:20.447
Be human himself.
00:44:20.447 --> 00:44:21.882
God created a world that is other than himself so that he
00:44:21.882 --> 00:44:25.919
Could come and fill it with himself.
00:44:25.919 --> 00:44:28.355
♪ through the night to find my place in this world, ♪
00:44:28.355 --> 00:44:33.360
♪ my place in this world ♪
00:44:33.360 --> 00:44:37.264
♪ not a lot to lean on ♪
00:44:37.264 --> 00:44:39.666
♪ i need your light to help me find my place in this world ♪
00:44:39.666 --> 00:44:45.305
♪ my place in this world ♪
00:44:45.305 --> 00:44:50.577
I don't want to come to the end of life,
00:44:50.577 --> 00:44:52.146
I don't want any of us to come to the end of life and say,
00:44:52.146 --> 00:44:55.115
What would have happened if i would have believed, if i would
00:44:55.115 --> 00:44:57.951
Have prayed, if i had taken the limits off of god?
00:44:57.951 --> 00:45:00.687
♪ looking for a reason, roaming through the night to find ♪
00:45:00.687 --> 00:45:06.527
♪ my place in this world, my place in this world ♪
00:45:06.527 --> 00:45:13.100
♪ not a lot to lean on ♪
00:45:13.100 --> 00:45:15.736
♪ i need your light to help me find my place in this world ♪
00:45:15.736 --> 00:45:21.275
♪ my place in this world ♪
00:45:21.275 --> 00:45:25.546
♪ looking for a reason ♪
00:45:25.546 --> 00:45:28.081
♪ roaming through the nights ♪
00:45:28.081 --> 00:45:30.517
♪ to find my place in this world ♪
00:45:30.517 --> 00:45:33.754
♪ my place in this world ♪
00:45:33.754 --> 00:45:38.025
♪ not a lot to lean on ♪
00:45:38.025 --> 00:45:40.561
♪ i need a light to help me ♪
00:45:40.561 --> 00:45:43.163
♪ find my place in this world ♪
00:45:43.163 --> 00:45:46.366
♪ my place in this world ♪
00:45:46.366 --> 00:45:50.938
You know, i was,
00:45:50.938 --> 00:45:52.406
I was talking to someone recently, and as i was talking
00:45:52.406 --> 00:45:55.409
To him, i was thinking, the issue is you just haven't
00:45:55.409 --> 00:45:59.680
Decided to believe.
00:45:59.680 --> 00:46:01.148
So you're going back and forth trying to work things out.
00:46:01.148 --> 00:46:04.084
At some point, you just have to step off.
00:46:04.084 --> 00:46:07.354
♪ place in this world, myplace in this world ♪
00:46:07.354 --> 00:46:15.362
♪ not a lot to lean on ♪
00:46:15.362 --> 00:46:18.899
♪ need your light to help me find my place in this world ♪
00:46:18.899 --> 00:46:23.737
♪ my place in this world ♪
00:46:23.737 --> 00:46:28.008
Jesus always seems to do more than expected.
00:46:28.008 --> 00:46:31.345
Yes, yes.
00:46:31.345 --> 00:46:32.112
You cannot explain in other way.
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Just with the faith.
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Do you believe or not?
00:46:35.382 --> 00:46:36.917
You want to believe? you are free to believe.
00:46:36.917 --> 00:46:39.386
You don't want to? stay where you are.
00:46:39.386 --> 00:46:42.289
Jesus is always jesus christ around you, but it is never to
00:46:42.289 --> 00:46:47.828
Force you, to force you to enter in your heart.
00:46:47.828 --> 00:46:51.198
What does that mean?
00:46:51.198 --> 00:46:52.666
The heart is the door.
00:46:52.666 --> 00:46:54.468
Got a handle only from inside.
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From you.
00:46:56.770 --> 00:46:58.405
If you open, he comes.
00:46:58.405 --> 00:47:00.440
We don't want to open,
00:47:00.440 --> 00:47:01.708
He stays still.
00:47:01.708 --> 00:47:02.776
Humble around you.
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♪ i'm living proof ♪
00:47:06.780 --> 00:47:12.953
♪ of what the mercy of god can do ♪
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♪ if you knew me, then you believe me now ♪
00:47:20.627 --> 00:47:25.499
♪ he turned my whole life upside down ♪
00:47:25.499 --> 00:47:29.636
♪ he took the old ♪
00:47:29.636 --> 00:47:32.506
♪ and he made it new ♪
00:47:32.506 --> 00:47:36.510
♪ that's what the mercy of god it can do ♪
00:47:36.510 --> 00:47:43.650
♪ now i'm alive to tell the story ♪
00:47:43.650 --> 00:47:48.188
♪ how i've always overcome ♪
00:47:48.188 --> 00:47:51.892
♪ it's his goodness and mercy ♪
00:47:51.892 --> 00:47:55.662
♪ and the power of his blood ♪
00:47:55.662 --> 00:47:58.398
♪ and i'm so glad my freedom wasn't based on what i'd done ♪
00:47:58.398 --> 00:48:06.406
♪ but the goodness and mercy ♪
00:48:06.406 --> 00:48:10.143
♪ and the power of the blood ♪
00:48:10.143 --> 00:48:13.246
Ever feel like the least likely person?
00:48:13.246 --> 00:48:17.484
That's how i felt growing up.
00:48:17.484 --> 00:48:19.686
My father died by suicide when i was five,
00:48:19.686 --> 00:48:23.490
And it changed my whole life.
00:48:23.490 --> 00:48:24.758
I went from being a tomboy to being a scared little girl
00:48:24.758 --> 00:48:28.328
Who hid when anyone came to the house,
00:48:28.328 --> 00:48:32.165
And at night time, when i would be sleeping in bed, my mom
00:48:32.165 --> 00:48:35.002
Would come in and lay her hands on me and say, lord, for this
00:48:35.002 --> 00:48:38.071
One, this least likely
00:48:38.071 --> 00:48:41.875
I ask that you would do what only you can do.
00:48:41.875 --> 00:48:45.645
I'll never forget the night i met jesus.
00:48:45.645 --> 00:48:54.855
My father had a brain injury,
00:48:57.924 --> 00:48:59.559
So he became violent before he died.
00:48:59.559 --> 00:49:01.495
And he'd been a lovely man.
00:49:01.495 --> 00:49:04.231
But suddenly he took his anger out on me.
00:49:04.231 --> 00:49:08.068
And i think i thought if your own father, who once loved you,
00:49:08.068 --> 00:49:11.204
Could hate you, then god could too.
00:49:11.204 --> 00:49:14.708
But when i met jesus like that woman at the well, and he said,
00:49:14.708 --> 00:49:19.246
I know everything and i love you.
00:49:19.246 --> 00:49:24.484
If you're watching this and you're thinking, you know what,
00:49:24.484 --> 00:49:27.521
I don't i don't think i belong in this club, this family,
00:49:27.521 --> 00:49:30.690
Because i've done too much,
00:49:30.690 --> 00:49:32.259
It doesn't matter.
00:49:32.259 --> 00:49:33.894
That's why jesus came. when jesus died on the cross,
00:49:33.894 --> 00:49:38.899
He was taking your sin and my sin on himself.
00:49:38.899 --> 00:49:42.536
He was saying, father, punish me now for everything that
00:49:42.536 --> 00:49:46.807
Sheila walsh will ever do,
00:49:46.807 --> 00:49:49.876
So that when you give your life to him, you can be free.
00:49:49.876 --> 00:49:52.179
It says in romans, whoever calls on the name of the lord
00:49:52.179 --> 00:49:57.651
Will be saved.
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Not might be, will be.
00:49:59.252 --> 00:50:01.688
Whoever calls on the name of the lord will be saved.
00:50:01.688 --> 00:50:18.572
If that is you tonight, then join me in this simple prayer.
00:50:06.560 --> 00:50:22.309
Father god,
00:50:22.309 --> 00:50:24.411
Thank you for sending jesus
00:50:24.411 --> 00:50:27.547
Jesus christ,
00:50:27.547 --> 00:50:29.783
Thank you for dying for me.
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I know i'm a sinner.
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I know i've been hiding.
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But you say i get to come as i am.
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So i'm coming, lord.
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I'm coming right now as i am.
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And i want to give my life to you.
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And i want to live for you
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For the rest of my days.
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In jesus' name, amen.
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If you prayed that prayer, you need to know there
00:50:57.811 --> 00:51:00.814
Is a party going on in heaven and your name is on every one
00:51:00.814 --> 00:51:06.186
Of the balloons.
00:51:06.186 --> 00:51:08.188
Find a good church.
00:51:08.188 --> 00:51:10.557
Don't look for perfect church because it won't exist until
00:51:10.557 --> 00:51:13.527
We're finally home.
00:51:13.527 --> 00:51:14.861
Just find a church where they love jesus and what they
00:51:14.861 --> 00:51:18.131
Believe in the word of god and throw yourself in.
00:51:18.131 --> 00:51:21.668
Welcome to the family.
00:51:21.668 --> 00:51:24.571
♪ today i'm living in the light of a new day ♪
00:51:24.571 --> 00:51:28.475
♪ i won't waste another minute in my own ways ♪
00:51:28.475 --> 00:51:32.212
♪ praise the lord i've been born again ♪
00:51:32.212 --> 00:51:35.849
♪ say goodbye yesterday ♪
00:51:35.849 --> 00:51:38.285
♪ i'm living in the light of a new day ♪
00:51:38.285 --> 00:51:41.221
♪ i won't waste another minute in my own ways ♪
00:51:41.221 --> 00:51:45.025
♪ praise the lord i've been ♪
00:51:45.025 --> 00:51:47.527
♪ born again and again and again and again ♪
00:51:47.527 --> 00:51:51.231
♪ you rescued me out of the mess i was in ♪
00:51:51.231 --> 00:51:54.601
♪ you traded my sorrow for something to sing ♪
00:51:54.601 --> 00:51:57.437
♪ now i'm laughing all the way ♪
00:51:57.437 --> 00:51:59.873
♪ let me hear you sing it ♪
00:51:59.873 --> 00:52:00.874
♪ goodbye, goodbye ♪
00:52:00.874 --> 00:52:02.809
♪ yes, today i'm living in the light of a new day ♪
00:52:02.809 --> 00:52:06.913
♪ i won't waste another minute in my own way ♪
00:52:06.913 --> 00:52:10.016
♪ come on, praise the lord ♪
00:52:10.016 --> 00:52:12.185
♪ i've been born ♪
00:52:12.185 --> 00:52:13.186
Colossians three, one through three,
00:52:13.186 --> 00:52:14.821
If ye then be risen with christ,
00:52:14.821 --> 00:52:16.723
Donny, stop looking at the stuff that's around you.
00:52:16.723 --> 00:52:19.659
Stop looking at the broken side of you.
00:52:19.659 --> 00:52:21.628
Seek those things which are above
00:52:21.628 --> 00:52:23.196
Where christ sits at the right hand of god.
00:52:23.196 --> 00:52:25.565
Set all of your affection on things above and not on the
00:52:25.565 --> 00:52:29.035
Broken cycles of the things of the earth below.
00:52:29.035 --> 00:52:31.738
All the stuff that you did and all the stuff that happened and
00:52:31.738 --> 00:52:34.574
All the stuff that went wrong, is hidden with christ in god.
00:52:34.574 --> 00:52:39.312
♪ again and again and again and again ♪
00:52:39.312 --> 00:52:42.482
♪ you rescued me out of the mess i was in ♪
00:52:42.482 --> 00:52:45.919
♪ trading my sorrow for something to say ♪
00:52:45.919 --> 00:52:48.822
♪ now i'm dancing on the grave that i once lived in ♪
00:52:48.822 --> 00:52:52.959
I think if i were to say anything to modern christians,
00:52:52.959 --> 00:52:58.431
I would say
00:52:58.431 --> 00:52:58.965
Put your gun down
00:52:58.965 --> 00:53:01.001
Unclench your fist.
00:53:01.001 --> 00:53:02.602
Yeah. the battle is over.
00:53:02.602 --> 00:53:04.638
Fighting wars that have already been won.
00:53:04.638 --> 00:53:06.873
Satan has no power over us except to convince us that the
00:53:06.873 --> 00:53:11.978
War has never been won.
00:53:11.978 --> 00:53:13.880
That's his stroke.
00:53:13.880 --> 00:53:15.248
We can throw that back in his
00:53:15.248 --> 00:53:16.883
Face and say, no, it is finished.
00:53:16.883 --> 00:53:21.254
♪ i won't turn back ♪
00:53:21.254 --> 00:53:22.922
♪ i won't turn ♪
00:53:22.922 --> 00:53:24.057
♪ no, i won't turn back ♪
00:53:24.057 --> 00:53:26.159
♪ i won't turn ♪
00:53:26.159 --> 00:53:27.460
♪ i'm leaving the world ♪
00:53:27.460 --> 00:53:28.828
♪ the world behind, the cross before ♪
00:53:28.828 --> 00:53:32.132
♪ and i won't turn ♪
00:53:32.132 --> 00:53:34.834
When you get hair
00:53:34.834 --> 00:53:35.835
The color of mine,
00:53:35.835 --> 00:53:37.470
You want to look back and tell your younger self,
00:53:37.470 --> 00:53:41.408
Enjoy the journey.
00:53:41.408 --> 00:53:42.909
Because it is a journey.
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A great adventure into christ.
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♪ again and again and again ♪
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♪ you rescued me out of the mess ♪
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♪ yeah yeah yeah yeah ♪
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♪ you traded my soul for something to sing ♪
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♪ i'm dancing on the grave ♪
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♪ that i once was in ♪
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♪ again and again and again and again ♪
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♪ you rescued me out of the mess i was in ♪
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♪ you traded my sorrow for something to sing ♪
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♪ now i'm dancing on the grave that i once lived in ♪
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It's kind of exciting when sometimes i've been speaking
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About this and young people come up to me afterwards,
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So what should i do?
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What should i be doing?
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I say, don't ask me.
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I don't know who you are, but talk to your friends about
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What you're good at.
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Talk to your friends about what
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May be god is calling you to do.
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Because god wants some people to dig wells in africa.
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He wants other people to teach old testament hebrew in
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Seminary and all sorts of things in between.
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So find out where your vocation is, but then embrace it gladly
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As part of god's total body of christ new creation package.
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♪ i'm dancing on the grave ♪
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♪ i'm dancing on the grave that ♪
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♪ i once lived in i'm dancing, i'm dancing ♪
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♪ praise the lord i've been born again ♪
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December 30, 2025 | 56:42

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