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Hour of Power with Bobby Schuller | Say To This Mountain MOVE | August 8, 2021
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- ♪♪♪
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- ♪ Joyful, joyful, we adore you ♪
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- ♪ God of glory, Lord of love ♪
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- ♪ Hearts unfold like flow'rs before you ♪
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- ♪ op'ning to the sun above ♪
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- ♪ Melt the clouds of sin and sadness ♪
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- ♪ drive the dark of doubt away ♪
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- ♪ Giver of immortal gladness, fill us with the light of day ♪
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- ♪ Amen, Amen ♪
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- ♪ Amen! ♪
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- Bobby Schuller: This is the day the Lord has made.
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- We will rejoice and be glad in it.
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- Good morning.
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- Hannah Schuller: And hello, visitors and church family.
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- We are so happy that you're here.
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- You know, God will never, ever give up on you.
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- You matter too much to him, and you matter to us.
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- You are loved.
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- Bobby Schuller: We're so grateful that you're with us
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- wherever you are, and we're praying that today is a day
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- where you really feel sorta refilled.
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- Whenever we're even doing good work for the Lord, it's easy to
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- feel exhausted, and so an important part of the Sabbath
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- rhythm is sort of refilling the tank by spending time with
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- the Lord.
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- Of course, everything we're doing here is for the Lord.
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- It's for Jesus.
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- And my hope is that this morning we're encouraged as we lift
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- him up.
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- So, Father, we come and gather in your name, and we ask that
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- your name would be lifted up.
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- We pray, God, that as we lay our lives down for you, you would
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- lift us up, Lord, and give us the strength we need to carry on
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- into a victorious life.
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- We pray it all in Jesus's name, amen.
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- Hannah Schuller: Amen.
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- Haven Schuller: Turn to the person next to you and say,
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- "God loves you and so do I."
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- ♪♪♪
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- ♪ The timeless theme ♪
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- ♪ earth and heaven will pass away ♪
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- ♪ It's not a dream ♪
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- ♪ God will make all things new that day ♪
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- ♪ Gone is the curse from which I stumbled and fell ♪
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- ♪ Evil is banished to eternal hell ♪
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- ♪ No more night ♪
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- ♪ No more pain ♪
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- ♪ No more tears ♪
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- ♪ Never crying again ♪
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- ♪ And praises to the Great I Am ♪
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- ♪ We will live in the light of the risen Lamb ♪
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- ♪ See all around all the nations bow down to see ♪
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- ♪ The only sound is the praises to Christ our King ♪
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- ♪ Slowly the names of the book are read ♪
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- ♪ I know the King ♪
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- ♪ so there's no need, no need to dread ♪
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- ♪ No more night ♪
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- ♪ No more pain ♪
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- ♪ No more tears ♪
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- ♪ Never crying again ♪
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- ♪ And praises to the Great I Am ♪
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- ♪ We will live in the light of the risen Lamb ♪
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- ♪ See over there ♪
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- ♪ there's a mansion all prepared just for me ♪
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- ♪ where I will live with my Savior eternally ♪
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- ♪ There will be no more night ♪
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- ♪ No more pain ♪
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- ♪ No more tears ♪
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- ♪ Never crying again ♪
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- ♪ And praises to the Great I Am ♪
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- ♪ We will live in the light of the risen Lamb ♪
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- ♪ Oh, praises to the Great I Am ♪
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- ♪ We're gonna live, we're gonna live ♪
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- ♪ in the light of the risen Lamb ♪♪
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- [congregation applauding]
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- Hannah Schuller: You may be seated.
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- In preparation for the message, Mark 11:22, "'Have faith in
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- God,' Jesus answered.
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- 'Truly, I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, "Go,
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- throw yourself into the sea," and does not doubt in their
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- heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be
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- done for them.
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- Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe
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- that you have received it and it will be yours.
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- And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against
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- anyone, forgive them so that your Father in heaven may
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- forgive you your sins.'"
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- Church, your words are powerful, amen.
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- Bobby Schuller: Thank you for joining us
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- on "Hour of Power" today.
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- We hope you've found incredible hope and inspiration
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- from this program.
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- As the world gradually comes back to life after more
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- than a year of being cocooned in quarantine,
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- a fresh start is beckoning us to embrace a vibrant future,
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- to dream big,
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- and to look with anticipation to the great things
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- the Lord wants to accomplish through us on the earth.
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- Hannah Schuller: As always, this is the cry of our heart
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- here at "Hour of Power."
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- We've been humbled as God has sustained us through what
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- was surely the most challenging season in recent history,
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- and now we're ready to forge ahead
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- even with greater gusto.
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- Bobby Schuller: For the past five decades,
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- whether on mountaintops or in valleys,
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- your support and prayers have loved us back to life,
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- and today we're ready to share Jesus's good news
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- with millions more.
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- However, we need your help to make it happen
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- in the midst of our summer slump.
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- so we can take the transforming power
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- of the gospel to new generations,
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- male announcer: Danny and Kristin Adams are content
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- creators, public speakers, and authors who spent 15 years
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- working in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles.
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- In 2016, God called them to leave LA and move to
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- Indianapolis, Indiana, where they began creating
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- family-friendly content and hosting marriage events.
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- Their new book, "The Road to Love and Laughter: Navigating
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- the Twists and Turns of Life Together," showcases their love
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- story and how they learned that laughter truly is the
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- best medicine.
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- Please welcome Danny and Kristin Adams.
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- Bobby Schuller: Hi, guys, welcome.
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- Danny and Kristin, so nice to meet you both.
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- For those who are not familiar with your content, tell us a
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- little bit about your story and what you guys do.
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- Kristin Adams: Well, first of all, it was the first time to
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- see our book trailer and things played in a church service live,
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- so thank you for that experience.
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- Bobby Schuller: Awesome, yeah, you're welcome.
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- Kristin Adams: Yeah, so we met in LA.
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- We were both in the entertainment industry.
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- I was a television host.
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- Danny did various things, and acting, and stunt stuff for
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- sports commercials and films.
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- But we always knew that one day God called us to--was gonna
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- call us to combine our efforts and do things in his name.
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- And so Danny got the crazy idea a few years ago that we should
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- move to Indiana.
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- He actually told me that God called him to move to Indiana,
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- and I said, "Did he tell you to take me with you?"
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- because we had never--we had never talked about leaving
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- California and raising our kids in Indiana, and so.
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- Danny Adams: Five years ago, we moved from the beautiful palm
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- trees of California to the glorious cornfields of Indiana.
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- Here we are.
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- Kristin Adams: And so the mandate was to make
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- family-friendly continent where God has always welcome.
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- We started posting these lip sync videos and a bunch of folks
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- liked 'em and shared 'em, and it led us to where we are now.
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- Bobby Schuller: That's awesome.
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- So you're continuing to make this content.
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- That's the amazing thing about the way the entertainment
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- industry is.
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- I mean, we're here in Southern California in the greater Los
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- Angeles area, you know, and you kinda get this elitist feeling
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- sometimes like, well, you have to be here to make an impact.
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- But the truth is, I mean, like Georgia is really growing a lot
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- now for films, and a lot of people are going to different
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- places like Texas and Indiana because a lot of the boundaries
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- that used to be there are not there anymore.
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- Like, anybody can whip out their cell phone and shoot whatever
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- they want and put it out there.
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- And if it's good enough, it's gonna make the rounds.
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- The hardest thing I would think at making something funny
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- sometimes would be making it family-friendly.
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- Is that a challenge for you, to be funny and family-friendly?
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- I mean, I'm funny and family-friendly, I feel like,
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- maybe, maybe not.
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- Kristin Adams: You're funny and family-friendly.
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- You do it.
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- Danny Adams: That's right, that's right.
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- And I think nowadays, the content that's out there,
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- I think you look around and say, "Man, that might be difficult,"
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- but that's what Kristin and I grew up on.
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- We grew up on watching content and family programming around
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- with our whole family, and that doesn't exist--
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- "Carol Burnett Show."
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- I'm an old soul.
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- I grew up with Red Skelton and Dick Van Dyke and Jonathan
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- Winters and all these guys who were very--had a lot of
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- physical comedy, but that was something that the whole family
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- could sit down and enjoy together.
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- And that's just healing, laughing together as a family.
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- So our heart was that we could produce that type of content
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- where grandkids could watch with their grandparents and everybody
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- in between.
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- Bobby Schuller: Well, like Jim Gaffigan is probably one of my
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- all-time favorites, and he's super-clean.
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- Danny Adams: He's from Indiana, Bobby.
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- Kristin Adams: Indiana shout out.
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- Bobby Schuller: Okay, awesome.
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- So I want to talk about your new book, you guys.
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- So one of the things that you do is not just entertainment, but
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- you're also really big on family, on keeping families
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- together, on marriage.
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- And you know, I love that, too, because divorce is becoming so
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- common and a lot of, you know, young people--not even young
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- people, middle-aged people are worried about getting married
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- and having kids 'cause their parents didn't make it, or their
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- friends didn't make it, and they saw all of the, you know, gnarly
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- stuff that came out of that.
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- And so you guys have a heart for couples.
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- Tell us a little bit about why that's such a big part of
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- your story.
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- Kristin Adams: Well, sometimes what's really hard for you ends
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- up being the burden that you carry for others.
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- We've had a hard time, you know, fighting for our marriage, and I
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- feel like a title for the book-- you know, we joked in our book
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- trailer that it could be called, "The Road to Disaster," you
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- know, sometimes instead of "The Road to Love and Laughter,"
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- because it is.
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- Marriage is hard, and--but it's beautiful and it gets better the
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- longer you stay in it and committed, and let that iron
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- sharpens iron thing that God wants to do with your
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- partner happen.
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- But it's hard work.
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- It's holy work, and it's hard work.
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- And you know, we really got the inspiration to do it because we
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- would get all these comments on our videos like, "You guys have
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- so much fun together.
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- You're just--it just must be a barrel of laughs all the time.
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- And I wish my spouse would dress up in the car in costumes with
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- me and do lip sync videos.
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- My marriage would be great then."
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- It's like, oh my gosh, these people.
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- I hope they really don't think that it's super easy for us just
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- because we have a shared interest of entertaining.
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- And even this in the write-- process of writing this book,
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- Bobby, it was--you know, it was really hard.
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- We're counting fights and embarrassing--you know, getting
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- in fights in front of our kids on the way to counseling, all
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- these things, wanting to throw in the towel.
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- And it was very healing and revealing for us to write
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- the book.
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- Danny Adams: That's right, and you know, we encourage people
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- that the video was a 3-minute video, but there's 23 hours and
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- 57 minutes left in the day that we approach life
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- very differently.
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- We may look like two peas in a pod with two wigs on and doing
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- the whole song and dance, but that's not reality.
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- And we understand that, you know, as a couple, especially
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- when you're out there representing Christ, that
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- there's going to be opposition, that there is an enemy pressing
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- back on you to let--you know, to dampen your light.
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- And so that's one thing that we really concluded was,
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- you know what?
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- We need to stop fighting with each other and stop--and start
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- fighting for each other.
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- Bobby Schuller: This is totally anecdotal, but you seem to be
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- around the stage of life where a lot of marriages make or break.
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- When you have young kids, you're full professionals, you have a
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- lot going on, and you're around--you know, you have
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- things that you have to do.
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- That can be the season where it can get the hardest sometimes,
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- and yet it's easy to forget that the best lies ahead very often,
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- as I've seen with a lot of empty nesters and stuff are able to
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- get a lot of the fun back.
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- One last question from this book.
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- I love that you--I mean, obviously you put "love"
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- in the book.
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- That seems, like, obvious, but then the other big word used
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- was "laughter."
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- Why did you use the word "laughter" in your book?
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- Kristin Adams: We just--we think it's a really good, vital
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- sign for any healthy relationship, you know?
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- And I think--I mean, at some point--not everybody.
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- You know, everybody has a different type of sense
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- of humor.
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- You may not think you're married to the funniest person or
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- anything like that, but I'm assuming at some point, either
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- in your dating relationship or your early marriage you
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- laugh together.
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- It should be fun and joyful, and I think--
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- Danny Adams: Or laugh at each other.
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- Kristin Adams: Or laugh at each other or whatever, whatever
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- works for you.
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- But I think, like the enemy we talked about wants to steal
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- everything, and laughter and our joy is one of them.
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- And you know, it's good to be serious about our faith, but we
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- should also be joyfully alive in it at the same time.
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- And so even in the midst of our hard seasons where we have an
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- ample amount of conflict, more than we would like, or heated
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- fellowship, as we call it.
- 00:17:44.245 --> 00:17:45.613
- Bobby Schuller: Heated fellowship.
- 00:17:45.613 --> 00:17:47.281
- Kristin Adams: Because we're holy, Bobby.
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- And so even in those seasons, it's like, we've got to do
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- things that lighten the load and that connect--laughter brings
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- people together.
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- In your audience right there, when you're sharing a laugh
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- together, it's a social bond.
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- It's a human connection.
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- It's a personal bond, and it's really good for marriages to
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- guard that.
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- Danny Adams: And that's our motto, Bobby, is Proverbs 17:22,
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- "A merry heart does good like medicine, but a broken spirit
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- dries the bones."
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- So we know what that does.
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- We know we want to counter that broken spirit with laughter.
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- Bobby Schuller: Yeah, it's like every couple that's married,
- 00:18:18.946 --> 00:18:21.516
- there was a time.
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- Like, even if--no matter how bad it is right now, there was a
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- time that you loved each other enough that you at least went on
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- a date, or you at least got married, and you loved being
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- around each other enough that you're like, "Yeah, I can see
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- myself with this person forever."
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- And I always feel like that's reclaimable, you know?
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- Like, deep down inside, we're all kind of the same people that
- 00:18:37.732 --> 00:18:40.668
- we were, and I love-- I really feel like you--
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- because you've been through it, there's a lot of--
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- actually, there's a lot of young couples right now
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- that are doing marriage books, and they're kinda almost
- 00:18:47.808 --> 00:18:50.378
- too young to do it, or like, they seem like they haven't--
- 00:18:50.378 --> 00:18:52.547
- you're kinda like, "You don't even have kids," like--
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- and not that that's--not-- that sounds horrible, but
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- there is something about having kids, or going through trauma,
- 00:18:57.952 --> 00:19:02.423
- you know, over time, that puts so many stressors.
- 00:19:02.423 --> 00:19:06.027
- It's already hard enough when you don't have those things in
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- your life.
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- And so I just love your approach to this and that you want to
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- bring people back to laughing again.
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- I want to encourage you, if you're at home and even if your
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- marriage is great, but I really wanna encourage you, you know,
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- it's like--it's kinda like a good relationship is
- 00:19:19.707 --> 00:19:22.076
- like hygiene.
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- You know, you gotta always work on it.
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- And the book is called, "The Road to Love and Laughter."
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- I wanna encourage you to get this book.
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- Work on it.
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- Even if you're, you know, thinking of getting married,
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- it's a great way to have a good, healthy perspective of a healthy
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- relationship and marriage.
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- Guys, thank you so much for joining us today.
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- We appreciate you, Danny and Kristin Adams.
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- Kristin Adams: Thank you, lots of love.
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- Bobby Schuller: Thank you for joining us
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- on "Hour of Power" today.
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- As the world gradually comes back to life after more
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- a fresh start is beckoning us to embrace a vibrant future,
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- to dream big,
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- and to look with anticipation to the great things
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- the Lord wants to accomplish through us on the earth.
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- Hannah Schuller: As always, this is the cry of our heart
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- and now we're ready to forge ahead
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- I remember this weird phenomenon when I was trying to lose some
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- I have this weird way of accidentally stumbling into
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- hobbies and then becoming obsessive about them.
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- You can ask my wife.
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- Running was a thing I was doing a couple of years ago, and I
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- was, you know, really working hard on running.
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- There's an area near our house called Back Bay.
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- It's a 10-mile loop, almost exactly 10 miles
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- from where I start.
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- I'd done it before with my friends, and it used to be I
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- just wanted to finish it, and then I would get to a place
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- where I tried to get it at a certain pace.
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- And the best pace I'd ever done up to this point was we say
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- a 10 1/2 minute pace.
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- That means on average, each mile you're doing takes about
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- 10 1/2 minutes.
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- So you know, a 10-miler would be a little over 100 minutes.
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- So, you know, I'm working on this and trying to get faster.
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- And then one day, morning, I decided, "You know, I want to
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- make this long time of exercise a time of meditation."
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- There was a breath prayer I'd learned from Brennan Manning
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- called--it's just one line you say over and over, "Abba,
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- I belong to you."
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- Typically what you do is you inhale the word "Abba" and you
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- exhale the word, "I belong to you," but that's very hard to do
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- when you're running, so what I tried to do is when things got
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- hard, I would try and close my eyes, focus on the Holy Spirit,
- 00:28:35.662 --> 00:28:39.733
- and just say, "Abba, I belong to you."
- 00:28:39.733 --> 00:28:41.935
- So my goal in running was actually to make it more of
- 00:28:41.935 --> 00:28:45.939
- a prayer.
- 00:28:45.939 --> 00:28:47.274
- I wasn't going for a strong time or anything.
- 00:28:47.274 --> 00:28:49.543
- And you'd forget to do it, you'd get distracted, or when things
- 00:28:49.543 --> 00:28:52.513
- would get hard, I'd get back to this, "Abba, I belong to you,"
- 00:28:52.513 --> 00:28:55.349
- and I was speaking it out as I was running.
- 00:28:55.349 --> 00:28:58.051
- Imagine some some guy running by you and he's like,
- 00:28:58.051 --> 00:29:00.087
- "Abba, I belong--"
- 00:29:00.087 --> 00:29:01.855
- You're like, "Whoa, is that guy okay?"
- 00:29:01.855 --> 00:29:04.224
- So, but the amazing thing is that when I finished, I finished
- 00:29:04.224 --> 00:29:08.996
- with my fastest run time ever.
- 00:29:08.996 --> 00:29:12.099
- I'd done just over a 9-minute mile, a 9-minute pace, which for
- 00:29:12.099 --> 00:29:15.469
- runners is not amazing, but for me it was really good.
- 00:29:15.469 --> 00:29:18.539
- And anyway, I thought about why that was, that the one time I
- 00:29:18.539 --> 00:29:23.544
- wasn't trying to go for a time, when I was relaxed and I was
- 00:29:23.544 --> 00:29:25.913
- saying this out loud, it actually--the spiritual power
- 00:29:25.913 --> 00:29:30.117
- that came from saying this prayer out loud was giving me
- 00:29:30.117 --> 00:29:33.787
- physical power.
- 00:29:33.787 --> 00:29:35.856
- And so today, I want to revisit what we talked about last week
- 00:29:35.856 --> 00:29:39.459
- from the book of James about the power of our words and how so
- 00:29:39.459 --> 00:29:44.331
- much of culture says that whatever's happening inside your
- 00:29:44.331 --> 00:29:48.602
- body is just gonna come out of your words.
- 00:29:48.602 --> 00:29:50.938
- There might be also some biblical passages that seem to
- 00:29:50.938 --> 00:29:53.507
- show that as well, but the sermon from James seems to
- 00:29:53.507 --> 00:29:57.444
- suggest the opposite.
- 00:29:57.444 --> 00:29:59.613
- As a review, there were three images he used to help us think.
- 00:29:59.613 --> 00:30:02.683
- "In the same way that a bit is in a horse's mouth, so do your
- 00:30:02.683 --> 00:30:07.955
- words direct your life."
- 00:30:07.955 --> 00:30:09.923
- You see how it's inverted?
- 00:30:09.923 --> 00:30:11.491
- Whatever I say changes me.
- 00:30:11.491 --> 00:30:15.662
- And he said, "In the same way that a rudder guides a
- 00:30:15.662 --> 00:30:19.199
- ship," right?
- 00:30:19.199 --> 00:30:20.934
- There's a huge ship, and there's wind and there's all of this
- 00:30:20.934 --> 00:30:23.770
- stuff and cargo, but it's this one little thing, invisible in
- 00:30:23.770 --> 00:30:27.674
- the water, that changes the direction of the whole ship.
- 00:30:27.674 --> 00:30:31.812
- And in my life, my words are going to direct the direction
- 00:30:31.812 --> 00:30:35.649
- of my life.
- 00:30:35.649 --> 00:30:36.984
- It's not the cargo, it's not the build of the ship, it's the end
- 00:30:36.984 --> 00:30:39.219
- of the day, it's that rudder.
- 00:30:39.219 --> 00:30:40.554
- That's what's gonna show where I go.
- 00:30:40.554 --> 00:30:42.155
- What if the words I'm speaking, even if they sort of disagree
- 00:30:42.155 --> 00:30:47.694
- with how I'm feeling emotionally, what if the words
- 00:30:47.694 --> 00:30:50.097
- I'm speaking are creating a destination for my life?
- 00:30:50.097 --> 00:30:56.036
- And then finally, James says, "Or words are like a spark.
- 00:30:56.036 --> 00:30:59.406
- They can light a whole forest aflame."
- 00:30:59.406 --> 00:31:02.042
- Just one little word can ruin your whole life, right?
- 00:31:02.042 --> 00:31:06.313
- We know that.
- 00:31:06.313 --> 00:31:07.648
- You can say one thing to your wife, you can say one thing to
- 00:31:07.648 --> 00:31:10.751
- your congregation or to your business, and your job will
- 00:31:10.751 --> 00:31:14.554
- be gone.
- 00:31:14.554 --> 00:31:16.123
- There is power in our words.
- 00:31:16.123 --> 00:31:18.992
- And yet very, very often, we recklessly speak our words.
- 00:31:18.992 --> 00:31:24.097
- Or vice-versa, when we have the power to give life, we
- 00:31:24.097 --> 00:31:27.167
- stay silent.
- 00:31:27.167 --> 00:31:29.002
- And so a part of growing in Christian wisdom as a disciple
- 00:31:29.002 --> 00:31:32.572
- of Jesus is learning to speak when we're supposed to speak,
- 00:31:32.572 --> 00:31:36.743
- not speaking when we're not supposed to speak, and learning
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- how to speak the kind of words that have real power.
- 00:31:39.579 --> 00:31:43.850
- And boy, do our words have power.
- 00:31:43.850 --> 00:31:49.389
- There are so many taboos in every language and culture that
- 00:31:49.389 --> 00:31:53.327
- you're not supposed to say.
- 00:31:53.327 --> 00:31:54.695
- I don't know if I've ever found--
- 00:31:54.695 --> 00:31:56.697
- I'm not an anthropologist, but I'm not sure I've ever heard of
- 00:31:56.697 --> 00:31:58.999
- or found a culture that doesn't have taboos, that doesn't
- 00:31:58.999 --> 00:32:02.235
- have cussing.
- 00:32:02.235 --> 00:32:04.237
- It's weird how even right now, we think, "Oh, well, cussing is
- 00:32:04.237 --> 00:32:07.140
- not that big of a deal."
- 00:32:07.140 --> 00:32:08.475
- Well, there's new cuss words that are emerging that you're
- 00:32:08.475 --> 00:32:10.944
- not allowed to say.
- 00:32:10.944 --> 00:32:12.980
- In an era--in an age of propriety, post-Victorian, you
- 00:32:12.980 --> 00:32:17.651
- know, being that we know--we have these old words like the
- 00:32:17.651 --> 00:32:21.154
- F-word and the S-word, but now, I mean, you can walk down to
- 00:32:21.154 --> 00:32:25.993
- Balboa Peninsula, you're gonna hear people saying those
- 00:32:25.993 --> 00:32:29.096
- words constantly.
- 00:32:29.096 --> 00:32:30.464
- It's not that big of a deal.
- 00:32:30.464 --> 00:32:32.199
- There are new words in a post sort of ethnic, racial,
- 00:32:32.199 --> 00:32:36.703
- you know, thing, those are the new cuss words.
- 00:32:36.703 --> 00:32:38.505
- Do not say those words.
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- You will not see them on YouTube, you will not see them
- 00:32:40.474 --> 00:32:42.642
- in film, nor should you.
- 00:32:42.642 --> 00:32:45.112
- Maybe one day those will go away and there will be new words to
- 00:32:45.112 --> 00:32:47.481
- replace them.
- 00:32:47.481 --> 00:32:48.849
- But every culture has words that are critically bad, that if you
- 00:32:48.849 --> 00:32:52.853
- say them you'll be in huge trouble.
- 00:32:52.853 --> 00:32:55.655
- And there are just things in general, superstitions you're
- 00:32:55.655 --> 00:32:58.125
- not supposed to say, and every culture has this.
- 00:32:58.125 --> 00:33:00.494
- You're like, "Yeah right, whatever."
- 00:33:00.494 --> 00:33:02.329
- Did you know your odds of dying in a plane crash are so
- 00:33:02.329 --> 00:33:07.934
- astronomically small, and yet 11% of people who fly regularly
- 00:33:07.934 --> 00:33:13.273
- are terrified of flying?
- 00:33:13.273 --> 00:33:15.142
- Your odds of being in a plane crash
- 00:33:15.142 --> 00:33:16.743
- are somewhere in the range-- and I know it's a wide rage--
- 00:33:16.743 --> 00:33:19.413
- between 1 in 11 million all the way up
- 00:33:19.413 --> 00:33:21.548
- to 1 in 3.7 billion.
- 00:33:21.548 --> 00:33:24.084
- Even at the lowest level, 1 in 11 million is so minute.
- 00:33:24.084 --> 00:33:29.322
- In comparison, the odds of being struck by lightning at some
- 00:33:29.322 --> 00:33:32.426
- point in your life is 1 in 3.000.
- 00:33:32.426 --> 00:33:36.163
- The odds of flipping a coin and it landing on its side,
- 00:33:36.163 --> 00:33:41.034
- a quarter, is 1 in 6.000.
- 00:33:41.034 --> 00:33:44.337
- The odds of you dying at some point in a car crash is 1 out
- 00:33:44.337 --> 00:33:48.141
- of 608.
- 00:33:48.141 --> 00:33:50.677
- Your odds of dying in a plane crash, at the most conservative,
- 00:33:50.677 --> 00:33:55.015
- is 1 in 11 million.
- 00:33:55.015 --> 00:33:58.185
- And you can say that all day long, but once that plane gets
- 00:33:58.185 --> 00:34:01.888
- to shaking, you're like, "I'm 1 in 11 million, it's me."
- 00:34:01.888 --> 00:34:07.227
- Everybody knows your chances of dying in a plane are very, very
- 00:34:07.227 --> 00:34:12.365
- small, but I just dare you--and here's the power of words.
- 00:34:12.365 --> 00:34:16.736
- I just dare you, when the flight attendant comes, to say,
- 00:34:16.736 --> 00:34:21.308
- "Is this a 747?
- 00:34:21.308 --> 00:34:23.743
- This thing looks brand new."
- 00:34:23.743 --> 00:34:25.745
- Say as loud as you can, without being weird, "This airplane
- 00:34:25.745 --> 00:34:30.183
- is uncrashable."
- 00:34:30.183 --> 00:34:32.986
- You will see more than one person shift in their seat.
- 00:34:32.986 --> 00:34:38.892
- Say in an even louder voice, "Even God couldn't crash a plane
- 00:34:38.892 --> 00:34:43.563
- like this," and you will see atheists looking
- 00:34:43.563 --> 00:34:49.603
- really uncomfortable.
- 00:34:50.203 --> 00:34:53.173
- You will see a Roman Catholic cross herself.
- 00:34:53.173 --> 00:34:57.744
- And you will for sure see at least one person of Irish
- 00:34:57.744 --> 00:35:01.414
- descent deplane immediately.
- 00:35:01.414 --> 00:35:07.220
- And it's because--and why?
- 00:35:07.220 --> 00:35:08.788
- That makes no logical sense, that saying something out loud
- 00:35:08.788 --> 00:35:13.126
- like that, right, scientifically makes no sense.
- 00:35:13.126 --> 00:35:18.832
- And yet, oh man, will that make people shudder.
- 00:35:18.832 --> 00:35:21.768
- See, and the fact that every culture is that way, it's not it
- 00:35:21.768 --> 00:35:26.473
- like an American thing.
- 00:35:26.473 --> 00:35:28.008
- Like, every culture is weird about words.
- 00:35:28.008 --> 00:35:31.878
- Shows that at the very least, all of us believe there's
- 00:35:31.878 --> 00:35:37.350
- something weird, magical, powerful, superstitious,
- 00:35:37.350 --> 00:35:40.654
- whatever about words, and that you--that they ought to be
- 00:35:40.654 --> 00:35:45.225
- handled with care.
- 00:35:45.225 --> 00:35:47.460
- Especially when you say, "This plane is uncrashable."
- 00:35:47.460 --> 00:35:51.665
- Don't do it.
- 00:35:51.665 --> 00:35:53.533
- So there's gravity and power in the spoken word.
- 00:35:53.533 --> 00:35:56.937
- This is a huge part of Jesus's teaching, especially when it
- 00:35:56.937 --> 00:36:00.106
- comes to releasing our faith in power.
- 00:36:00.106 --> 00:36:05.111
- I wanna look today especially at the--one of the most quoted
- 00:36:05.111 --> 00:36:09.683
- passages from Jesus, "Anyone who says to this mountain.
- 00:36:09.683 --> 00:36:16.356
- Anyone who says, says to this mountain, 'Be thou cast into
- 00:36:16.423 --> 00:36:22.462
- the sea.'"
- 00:36:22.996 --> 00:36:24.397
- Let's read it together.
- 00:36:24.397 --> 00:36:26.399
- Well, before we read it, I'm going to set it up because it's
- 00:36:26.399 --> 00:36:28.168
- like a whole chapter.
- 00:36:28.168 --> 00:36:30.337
- Okay, Jesus and his disciples are in a town called Bethany,
- 00:36:30.337 --> 00:36:36.776
- which means "House of Pain."
- 00:36:36.843 --> 00:36:39.079
- Greatest rap group ever.
- 00:36:39.079 --> 00:36:43.817
- Jump around, guys.
- 00:36:43.817 --> 00:36:45.986
- Never heard of it?
- 00:36:45.986 --> 00:36:48.989
- All right.
- 00:36:48.989 --> 00:36:51.424
- They're in Bethany, and they are walking to Jerusalem.
- 00:36:51.424 --> 00:36:57.030
- It's about a mile and a half, maybe 30-minute walk.
- 00:36:57.030 --> 00:37:00.400
- And they have to go, you know, over the Mount of Olives.
- 00:37:00.400 --> 00:37:03.637
- They go down through the valley and then they come up the Temple
- 00:37:03.637 --> 00:37:06.373
- Mount into the temple.
- 00:37:06.373 --> 00:37:08.508
- As they're walking up-- and this is speculation.
- 00:37:08.508 --> 00:37:10.510
- It doesn't say where in between, but there's some really valuable
- 00:37:10.510 --> 00:37:13.613
- real estate between Bethany and Jerusalem.
- 00:37:13.613 --> 00:37:16.583
- And as they're walking towards Jerusalem, at some point, a big
- 00:37:16.583 --> 00:37:20.854
- part of their walk is gonna be going up the Temple Mount, up
- 00:37:20.854 --> 00:37:23.290
- the side, the east side.
- 00:37:23.290 --> 00:37:26.159
- Back then there's trees and all sorts of things.
- 00:37:26.159 --> 00:37:28.094
- And it says that Jesus sees a fig tree in the distance, and
- 00:37:28.094 --> 00:37:32.032
- he's hungry, and it's in leaf.
- 00:37:32.032 --> 00:37:33.500
- So it's a bloss--it's a green, big tree that looks alive on
- 00:37:33.500 --> 00:37:38.138
- the outside.
- 00:37:38.138 --> 00:37:39.472
- And when he gets up to it, there's no figs on it.
- 00:37:39.472 --> 00:37:43.209
- And he's like, "Gosh dangit, I'm hungry."
- 00:37:43.209 --> 00:37:44.611
- There's no figs on it.
- 00:37:44.611 --> 00:37:46.112
- And out loud, he says, "May you never bear fruit again,"
- 00:37:46.112 --> 00:37:52.152
- and nothing happens.
- 00:37:52.752 --> 00:37:55.155
- Actually my dad--I remember back in the day my dad had a--
- 00:37:55.155 --> 00:37:57.991
- in the backyard, an avocado tree that he planted back in
- 00:37:57.991 --> 00:38:01.628
- San Juan Capistrano.
- 00:38:01.628 --> 00:38:03.697
- And this avocado tree was like-- got to this size.
- 00:38:03.697 --> 00:38:06.633
- I mean, big, you know, and still never had avocados.
- 00:38:06.633 --> 00:38:10.503
- And someone explained--he always got so frustrated about
- 00:38:10.503 --> 00:38:13.973
- that, and just even when we moved, still didn't have any
- 00:38:13.973 --> 00:38:15.875
- avocados on it.
- 00:38:15.875 --> 00:38:17.243
- I remember somebody was explaining something about male
- 00:38:17.243 --> 00:38:19.713
- and female trees, which really had me scratching my head tryin'
- 00:38:19.713 --> 00:38:23.483
- to visualize, you know?
- 00:38:23.483 --> 00:38:29.222
- There's male and female trees?
- 00:38:29.222 --> 00:38:32.425
- Anyway.
- 00:38:32.425 --> 00:38:35.695
- He says, "May you never bear fruit again."
- 00:38:35.695 --> 00:38:38.164
- And then they go--and just remember that image.
- 00:38:38.164 --> 00:38:40.433
- They go into the temple and Jesus famously clears
- 00:38:40.433 --> 00:38:43.803
- the temple.
- 00:38:43.803 --> 00:38:45.171
- There are money changers there.
- 00:38:45.171 --> 00:38:46.740
- They're there for probably for Passover.
- 00:38:46.740 --> 00:38:49.976
- And so there's just all these tourists and money, and
- 00:38:49.976 --> 00:38:52.779
- everybody's makin' money, and it's like they're buying stuff,
- 00:38:52.779 --> 00:38:55.014
- and this a lot of hoorah and excitement and music and stuff.
- 00:38:55.014 --> 00:38:58.385
- But Jesus goes in, and he's furious for lots of reasons.
- 00:38:58.385 --> 00:39:01.588
- Money changers are thieves.
- 00:39:01.588 --> 00:39:03.056
- They're set up in the house of-- or in the Court of Gentiles.
- 00:39:03.056 --> 00:39:07.127
- Just a quick moment, by the way.
- 00:39:07.127 --> 00:39:08.762
- Isn't it interesting in the temple, the Court of the
- 00:39:08.762 --> 00:39:11.631
- Israelites and the Court of Women, very small.
- 00:39:11.631 --> 00:39:14.401
- The Court of the Gentiles is like--I don't know what it
- 00:39:14.401 --> 00:39:17.036
- actually is, but it looks like 80%, 90% of the temple is the
- 00:39:17.036 --> 00:39:20.540
- Court of the Gentiles.
- 00:39:20.540 --> 00:39:22.409
- As believers, the temple is supposed to be a model for our
- 00:39:22.409 --> 00:39:24.644
- spiritual heart.
- 00:39:24.644 --> 00:39:26.246
- And I've always felt like God's heart is for the nations,
- 00:39:26.246 --> 00:39:29.382
- you know?
- 00:39:29.382 --> 00:39:30.717
- Like, you see--and that's where they put all of their stuff was
- 00:39:30.717 --> 00:39:35.221
- in the--like the Gentiles don't matter.
- 00:39:35.221 --> 00:39:38.525
- And that was in big way the heart of many of the
- 00:39:38.525 --> 00:39:41.494
- Philistines, the Sadducees of the day.
- 00:39:41.494 --> 00:39:43.797
- Gentiles don't matter.
- 00:39:43.797 --> 00:39:46.232
- Who cares about it?
- 00:39:46.232 --> 00:39:47.567
- Let's just set it up here in the Court of the Gentiles.
- 00:39:47.567 --> 00:39:50.403
- Jesus goes in and famously clears the temple, almost seems
- 00:39:50.403 --> 00:39:54.774
- in a rage.
- 00:39:54.774 --> 00:39:57.177
- It says--quotes Isaiah, I believe it is.
- 00:39:57.177 --> 00:40:01.648
- Is it Isaiah?
- 00:40:01.648 --> 00:40:03.016
- I can't remember.
- 00:40:03.016 --> 00:40:04.984
- "My Father's house is to be called a house of prayer,
- 00:40:04.984 --> 00:40:07.220
- but you have made it into a den of thieves."
- 00:40:07.220 --> 00:40:10.190
- Clears out everything and then it says the people were just
- 00:40:10.190 --> 00:40:13.293
- amazed at his teaching and he just begins healing people
- 00:40:13.293 --> 00:40:16.496
- like crazy.
- 00:40:16.496 --> 00:40:17.864
- Okay, they go home.
- 00:40:17.864 --> 00:40:20.633
- The next morning, they come into Jerusalem again.
- 00:40:20.633 --> 00:40:25.939
- They're coming up the hill, the Temple Mount, or down the Mount
- 00:40:25.939 --> 00:40:31.811
- of Olives.
- 00:40:31.811 --> 00:40:33.146
- They're going--anyway, but they're looking at the temple.
- 00:40:33.146 --> 00:40:35.148
- They're walking towards the temple, towards Jerusalem, and
- 00:40:35.148 --> 00:40:38.451
- they see that fig tree again, the one that yesterday he said,
- 00:40:38.451 --> 00:40:43.823
- "May you never bear figs again," or fruit, or whatever he says.
- 00:40:43.823 --> 00:40:48.328
- It was dead, and it says it was dead all the way on the outside
- 00:40:48.328 --> 00:40:52.966
- all the way through the roots.
- 00:40:52.966 --> 00:40:55.301
- The curse was so powerful, so permeate--it just permeated
- 00:40:55.301 --> 00:40:59.339
- everything about this tree and it was dead forever.
- 00:40:59.339 --> 00:41:04.878
- Let's read it.
- 00:41:04.878 --> 00:41:06.212
- "In the morning as they went along, they saw the fig tree and
- 00:41:06.212 --> 00:41:09.182
- it was withered from the roots.
- 00:41:09.182 --> 00:41:12.252
- And Peter remembered and said to Jesus, 'Rabbi, look.
- 00:41:12.252 --> 00:41:16.656
- The fig tree you cursed is withered.'"
- 00:41:16.656 --> 00:41:20.493
- When we see this fig tree, the first thing we have to remember
- 00:41:20.493 --> 00:41:26.533
- is that Jesus, being a rabbi, loves imagery.
- 00:41:26.599 --> 00:41:30.904
- And I believe this fig tree, doesn't say it outright, is on
- 00:41:30.904 --> 00:41:33.573
- the Temple Mount.
- 00:41:33.573 --> 00:41:35.909
- And what he was effectively saying was that there was a
- 00:41:35.909 --> 00:41:39.546
- spiritual deadness about Israel or about spiritual people in
- 00:41:39.546 --> 00:41:45.084
- general, that so often people on the outside can seem leafy and
- 00:41:45.084 --> 00:41:51.858
- green and alive, but they bear no fruit.
- 00:41:51.925 --> 00:41:58.698
- Just like the temple, full of music, full of people and
- 00:41:58.765 --> 00:42:04.804
- sacrifices and regalia and robes and parades, but inside
- 00:42:06.306 --> 00:42:12.478
- spiritually dead.
- 00:42:12.545 --> 00:42:16.749
- The fig tree was in a way a prophesy.
- 00:42:16.749 --> 00:42:21.054
- This is what will happen to those who on the outside pretend
- 00:42:21.054 --> 00:42:26.526
- to be spiritually alive, but in life have no fruit, that it's so
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- much better to be like a tree in winter, where you look dead on
- 00:42:34.100 --> 00:42:37.837
- the outside but you're alive on the inside than to be like that
- 00:42:37.837 --> 00:42:41.741
- fig tree where you're alive on the outside but you never bear
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- any fruit.
- 00:42:44.477 --> 00:42:46.412
- And that's what the Lord wants for us, a fruitful life.
- 00:42:46.412 --> 00:42:51.150
- And so he carries on and they're just blow--their minds are
- 00:42:51.150 --> 00:42:53.353
- blown away that he killed-- like, just killed this tree
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- with words.
- 00:42:55.421 --> 00:42:56.789
- He just like said something to this tree and it was like dead,
- 00:42:56.789 --> 00:42:58.658
- you know?
- 00:42:58.658 --> 00:43:00.126
- And so as they're marveling at this tree on the Temple Mount,
- 00:43:00.126 --> 00:43:03.630
- he says, "'Have faith in God,' Jesus answered."
- 00:43:03.630 --> 00:43:09.035
- Let me pause this for a second.
- 00:43:09.035 --> 00:43:11.204
- When we say mountain-moving faith or something like that, we
- 00:43:11.204 --> 00:43:13.906
- think we're quoting Jesus, but in Jesus's day, moving mountains
- 00:43:13.906 --> 00:43:16.876
- was a common expression of a go-getter, of someone who
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- could--who was industrious, who could do a lot of good.
- 00:43:20.580 --> 00:43:24.684
- They're a mountain-moving person.
- 00:43:24.684 --> 00:43:26.686
- So it was very common in his day even to already say it, so he's
- 00:43:26.686 --> 00:43:29.822
- quoting that when he says that, but he changes it to,
- 00:43:29.822 --> 00:43:32.425
- "This mountain."
- 00:43:32.425 --> 00:43:33.760
- Okay, so, "'Have faith in God,' Jesus answered.
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- 'Truly, I tell you, if anyone said--'"
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- First, anyone says, okay?
- 00:43:38.464 --> 00:43:41.968
- The power is in the speaking.
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- Says to this--to what mountain? This mountain.
- 00:43:43.336 --> 00:43:47.106
- What mountain? This mountain, the Temple Mount.
- 00:43:47.106 --> 00:43:51.878
- We forget he's literally talking about this mountain.
- 00:43:51.878 --> 00:43:56.082
- Anyone who says to this mountain, this dead fig tree,
- 00:43:56.082 --> 00:44:01.054
- this thing that on the outside, especially in the Iron Age or
- 00:44:01.054 --> 00:44:06.359
- Roman Age, just unbelievable.
- 00:44:06.359 --> 00:44:08.995
- One of the great wonders of the world, beautiful.
- 00:44:08.995 --> 00:44:12.198
- It's nothing, it's nothing, it's nothing if it has no fruit.
- 00:44:12.198 --> 00:44:17.503
- It's meaningless.
- 00:44:17.503 --> 00:44:19.405
- In God's eyes, like, who cares?
- 00:44:19.405 --> 00:44:21.974
- If it doesn't bear fruit, it doesn't matter.
- 00:44:21.974 --> 00:44:28.514
- So you see, a fruitless thing like this, you see a fruitless
- 00:44:28.581 --> 00:44:33.152
- mountain like that, you just speak to it and just cast it
- 00:44:33.152 --> 00:44:38.157
- into the sea, 'cause it's worth very little.
- 00:44:38.157 --> 00:44:42.361
- And instead, actually it is-- that line, "Anyone who says to
- 00:44:42.361 --> 00:44:47.133
- this mountain, 'Be cast into the sea,'" really echoes what Jesus
- 00:44:47.133 --> 00:44:50.036
- said when he said, "Tear down this temple, and I'll rebuild it
- 00:44:50.036 --> 00:44:53.005
- in three days."
- 00:44:53.005 --> 00:44:54.373
- What's he talkin' about there?
- 00:44:54.373 --> 00:44:55.708
- He's talking about the prophecy of Pentecost, where we become
- 00:44:55.708 --> 00:44:59.445
- the temple.
- 00:44:59.445 --> 00:45:03.182
- Okay, so he says, "Anyone who says to this mountain, 'Go,
- 00:45:03.182 --> 00:45:06.853
- throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in their
- 00:45:06.853 --> 00:45:09.155
- heart, but believes that what they say will happen, it will be
- 00:45:09.155 --> 00:45:15.194
- done for them."
- 00:45:15.261 --> 00:45:17.597
- And then there's this weird addendum that seems like it has
- 00:45:17.597 --> 00:45:20.099
- nothing at all to do with what he's talking about.
- 00:45:20.099 --> 00:45:22.635
- Please hear me, guys.
- 00:45:22.635 --> 00:45:24.170
- I think this is one of the things that's hanging up
- 00:45:24.170 --> 00:45:26.939
- believers today more than anything, and Jesus revisits
- 00:45:26.939 --> 00:45:30.810
- this point over and over and over.
- 00:45:30.810 --> 00:45:32.945
- I've never heard anybody quote this passage and include this,
- 00:45:32.945 --> 00:45:35.982
- even though it's the most--it seems like the most important
- 00:45:35.982 --> 00:45:39.018
- thing of the whole deal.
- 00:45:39.018 --> 00:45:40.586
- "Therefore, I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that
- 00:45:40.586 --> 00:45:43.790
- you have received it and it will be yours.
- 00:45:43.790 --> 00:45:46.526
- And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against
- 00:45:46.526 --> 00:45:52.565
- anyone, forgive them so that your Father in heaven--"
- 00:45:55.001 --> 00:46:01.040
- may do what?
- 00:46:02.341 --> 00:46:04.243
- Forgive you.
- 00:46:04.243 --> 00:46:06.445
- "If you hold anything against anyone, forgive them so that
- 00:46:06.445 --> 00:46:12.018
- your Father in heaven can forgive you of your sins."
- 00:46:12.018 --> 00:46:18.457
- You cannot have spiritual power if you are not at peace with
- 00:46:18.524 --> 00:46:24.530
- God, and you cannot be at peace with God if you have not
- 00:46:24.530 --> 00:46:30.002
- forgiven your neighbor.
- 00:46:30.002 --> 00:46:32.839
- You cannot be at peace with God if there's that corner of your
- 00:46:32.839 --> 00:46:36.676
- heart that you reserve at your own discretion, full of
- 00:46:36.676 --> 00:46:41.981
- bitterness, resentment.
- 00:46:41.981 --> 00:46:45.551
- Even if it's towards someone who has hurt you, part of the
- 00:46:45.551 --> 00:46:50.423
- freedom we get in life is choosing to forgive.
- 00:46:50.423 --> 00:46:55.795
- And I don't have a lot of time to go into this, but just--
- 00:46:55.795 --> 00:46:58.531
- I know that there are some people in life it seems
- 00:46:58.531 --> 00:47:02.969
- impossible to forgive.
- 00:47:02.969 --> 00:47:05.771
- How do you forgive someone who harmed your child?
- 00:47:05.771 --> 00:47:10.009
- How do you forgive someone who abused you?
- 00:47:10.009 --> 00:47:13.179
- How do you forgive someone that betrayed you?
- 00:47:13.179 --> 00:47:17.250
- And the answer is--the most important part of that is you
- 00:47:17.250 --> 00:47:20.386
- don't do it overnight, but like a discipline, you begin a
- 00:47:20.386 --> 00:47:24.290
- process of letting go of the resentment you have towards
- 00:47:24.290 --> 00:47:28.761
- that person.
- 00:47:28.761 --> 00:47:30.396
- And the spiritual--it may be that the spiritual power that
- 00:47:30.396 --> 00:47:33.399
- you have in your ministry is equal to the amount that you can
- 00:47:33.399 --> 00:47:38.337
- let go of the pain that was done to you, or at least forgive the
- 00:47:38.337 --> 00:47:42.341
- person that harmed you.
- 00:47:42.341 --> 00:47:45.645
- Okay, I'll finish with these thoughts.
- 00:47:45.645 --> 00:47:50.249
- Jesus, when he's teaching on faith, is teaching about the
- 00:47:50.249 --> 00:47:52.685
- power of speaking out in faith, of doing it rooted in a life of
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- forgiveness, and doing it rooted in belief, believing that what
- 00:47:58.057 --> 00:48:03.095
- you say will come to pass, believing that what you say is
- 00:48:03.095 --> 00:48:06.432
- rooted in the knowledge of the Word of God, and saying that
- 00:48:06.432 --> 00:48:09.735
- when you speak in this way, things will change.
- 00:48:09.735 --> 00:48:15.875
- And I just want to finish on this last point.
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- In the Bible, there are sort of two sacred words for "word."
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- The first we talked about last week.
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- Anybody remember what it was?
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- What is it, Irene? Logos!
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- Logos. Lah-gas.
- 00:48:30.089 --> 00:48:35.628
- Logos is where we get the word "-ology" from.
- 00:48:35.628 --> 00:48:38.030
- It's where we get "logic."
- 00:48:38.030 --> 00:48:39.532
- It's where we get the ideas of reason and thinking and
- 00:48:39.532 --> 00:48:42.268
- arguments, written words.
- 00:48:42.268 --> 00:48:44.236
- When you hear "logos," think reason, idea, think coding for a
- 00:48:44.236 --> 00:48:49.642
- computer, think about Christ himself, think about the Bible
- 00:48:49.642 --> 00:48:53.980
- in its written form.
- 00:48:53.980 --> 00:48:55.448
- But the other word that a lot of us don't know is this
- 00:48:55.448 --> 00:48:58.718
- word "rhema."
- 00:48:58.718 --> 00:49:00.152
- Everybody say, "Rhema."
- 00:49:00.152 --> 00:49:02.221
- What's the modern way to say it?
- 00:49:02.221 --> 00:49:04.056
- Or do you even have that word in modern Greek?
- 00:49:04.056 --> 00:49:05.658
- You don't have it. Rhema, yes.
- 00:49:05.658 --> 00:49:08.894
- Bobby 1, Irene 0.
- 00:49:08.894 --> 00:49:13.232
- It's an ancient, dead language, the Koine Greek.
- 00:49:14.266 --> 00:49:17.136
- Rhema.
- 00:49:17.136 --> 00:49:18.571
- Rhema is to when the word is spoken, the spoken word, rhema.
- 00:49:18.571 --> 00:49:23.442
- And this is a word that's less used.
- 00:49:23.442 --> 00:49:25.277
- It's very common--most common in the Gospels for "word,"
- 00:49:25.277 --> 00:49:29.048
- but this is when the Word of God is said aloud.
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- When you read the Word of God, you're reading logos.
- 00:49:31.784 --> 00:49:34.353
- When you read it aloud, you-- it's rhema.
- 00:49:34.353 --> 00:49:36.622
- Does that make sense?
- 00:49:36.622 --> 00:49:38.124
- Rhema happens when the Holy Spirit speaks to you, either
- 00:49:38.124 --> 00:49:42.028
- through the Scripture, or perhaps can reveal himself
- 00:49:42.028 --> 00:49:45.498
- through the Holy Spirit and knowledge.
- 00:49:45.498 --> 00:49:48.134
- Or rhema happens when the perfect Word of God is spoken
- 00:49:48.134 --> 00:49:52.138
- aloud, either through the recitation of Scripture or some
- 00:49:52.138 --> 00:49:55.941
- other means.
- 00:49:55.941 --> 00:49:57.276
- But when you speak out what God wants you to say,
- 00:49:57.276 --> 00:49:59.912
- I think it's rhema.
- 00:49:59.912 --> 00:50:01.580
- Rhema.
- 00:50:01.580 --> 00:50:03.015
- And this is important to the authors of the Bible.
- 00:50:03.015 --> 00:50:04.650
- Here's some passages where "rhema" not "logos" is used.
- 00:50:04.650 --> 00:50:08.254
- So when you think about it, rather than written, think about
- 00:50:08.254 --> 00:50:10.656
- it as spoken.
- 00:50:10.656 --> 00:50:12.124
- Matthew chapter 4:4, "Man--"
- 00:50:12.124 --> 00:50:15.628
- Jesus answers when he's being tempted by Satan, "It is
- 00:50:15.628 --> 00:50:17.897
- written, 'Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every
- 00:50:17.897 --> 00:50:21.434
- word,'" every word, so that's rhema, every rhema that comes
- 00:50:21.434 --> 00:50:26.005
- from the mouth of God.
- 00:50:26.005 --> 00:50:28.274
- Or John 15:7, "If you remain in me and my rhema, my words remain
- 00:50:28.274 --> 00:50:35.247
- in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you."
- 00:50:35.314 --> 00:50:38.117
- So that's like hearing.
- 00:50:38.117 --> 00:50:39.452
- This is like hearing the word of God in your heart over and above
- 00:50:39.452 --> 00:50:43.355
- just the Scripture.
- 00:50:43.355 --> 00:50:44.723
- Or Ephesians chapter 6:17.
- 00:50:44.723 --> 00:50:46.926
- Yes, that's right.
- 00:50:46.926 --> 00:50:48.694
- "Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit,
- 00:50:48.694 --> 00:50:52.198
- which is the Word of God."
- 00:50:52.198 --> 00:50:53.599
- So the sword of the Spirit is the spoken word.
- 00:50:53.599 --> 00:50:58.737
- To wield the sword of God is the spoken word, okay?
- 00:50:58.737 --> 00:51:02.575
- So there is a special power in speaking the Word of God allowed
- 00:51:02.575 --> 00:51:08.614
- over your life, and it's kinda scary.
- 00:51:09.482 --> 00:51:11.951
- It's scary to pray aloud for someone if you're--
- 00:51:11.951 --> 00:51:14.720
- if you've never done it before.
- 00:51:14.720 --> 00:51:16.522
- It's kinda scary to speak faith-filled things about your
- 00:51:16.522 --> 00:51:20.326
- bad situation, 'cause you're like, "Well, what if it doesn't
- 00:51:20.326 --> 00:51:22.461
- come around?" you know?
- 00:51:22.461 --> 00:51:25.164
- It's scary to even say thank you or say things aloud to people,
- 00:51:25.164 --> 00:51:28.367
- and yet we all know there's immense power in that.
- 00:51:28.367 --> 00:51:31.804
- You wanna hear something amazing?
- 00:51:31.804 --> 00:51:33.672
- There've been multiple studies on happiness and depression and
- 00:51:33.672 --> 00:51:37.376
- things like that and how to treat it, but one of the most
- 00:51:37.376 --> 00:51:40.813
- effective ways of treating depression and even making
- 00:51:40.813 --> 00:51:44.383
- people feel happier long-term was teaching people to
- 00:51:44.383 --> 00:51:47.419
- practice gratitude.
- 00:51:47.419 --> 00:51:48.988
- So creating list of things I'm grateful for, or saying
- 00:51:48.988 --> 00:51:51.557
- thankful--thank you a lot, but the one that had the greatest
- 00:51:51.557 --> 00:51:55.494
- impact was thinking of someone you really love and appreciate
- 00:51:55.494 --> 00:52:00.199
- and writing a thank you letter to them, not randomly, but
- 00:52:00.199 --> 00:52:04.170
- spontaneously, you know?
- 00:52:04.170 --> 00:52:05.504
- Not on their birthday or something, just--it's just a
- 00:52:05.504 --> 00:52:07.373
- random date and you write this.
- 00:52:07.373 --> 00:52:09.775
- You just take a minute to write out, and then go--and they did
- 00:52:09.775 --> 00:52:12.811
- a study of people who just gave the letter and then they gave a
- 00:52:12.811 --> 00:52:16.282
- study of people who read the letter aloud to the person, and
- 00:52:16.282 --> 00:52:19.718
- both had a positive impact, but reading that letter aloud to the
- 00:52:19.718 --> 00:52:23.889
- person had, like, off-the-charts positive results for people who
- 00:52:23.889 --> 00:52:29.161
- went to their mom or their next-door neighbor or their
- 00:52:29.161 --> 00:52:32.731
- mentor and read aloud a letter.
- 00:52:32.731 --> 00:52:35.901
- You can imagine lots of tears.
- 00:52:35.901 --> 00:52:37.770
- You can imagine lots of hugging.
- 00:52:37.770 --> 00:52:39.538
- You can imagine lots of chills up the spine, even as you're
- 00:52:39.538 --> 00:52:42.141
- reading it.
- 00:52:42.141 --> 00:52:43.509
- What is it about the fact that just having it in writing is not
- 00:52:43.509 --> 00:52:47.813
- the same as having it in writing and reading it aloud to the
- 00:52:47.813 --> 00:52:51.116
- person, saying it out loud.
- 00:52:51.116 --> 00:52:52.751
- There's something powerful about rhema.
- 00:52:52.751 --> 00:52:56.922
- There's something powerful about speaking it out.
- 00:52:56.922 --> 00:53:01.160
- So we must--if we want to have spiritual power, we have to be
- 00:53:01.160 --> 00:53:04.763
- courageous in this way to say to the people we love,
- 00:53:04.763 --> 00:53:08.567
- "I love you."
- 00:53:08.567 --> 00:53:10.502
- There are a lot of dads in here who have never told their kids
- 00:53:10.502 --> 00:53:13.472
- that you love them.
- 00:53:13.472 --> 00:53:14.840
- I want to just encourage you to do that next time you see
- 00:53:14.840 --> 00:53:17.309
- your kids.
- 00:53:17.309 --> 00:53:18.677
- I know lots of guys my age who have--they know their dad loves
- 00:53:18.677 --> 00:53:22.181
- them, and their dad would say, "They know I love them," but
- 00:53:22.181 --> 00:53:25.417
- they will still say to me, "My dad's never said he loved me."
- 00:53:25.417 --> 00:53:28.320
- This is men, grown men, deadlifting 400 pounds, they're
- 00:53:28.320 --> 00:53:31.757
- like, "My dad never said he loved me," you know?
- 00:53:31.757 --> 00:53:35.494
- There's something about just saying it out loud that for the
- 00:53:35.494 --> 00:53:38.964
- dad is very scary.
- 00:53:38.964 --> 00:53:43.235
- Just saying these things are very difficult.
- 00:53:43.235 --> 00:53:45.771
- And one last image I want you to see.
- 00:53:45.771 --> 00:53:48.040
- Here's a bunch of kids having a great time shooting each other
- 00:53:48.040 --> 00:53:51.443
- with water.
- 00:53:51.443 --> 00:53:52.911
- This is what speaking is like.
- 00:53:52.911 --> 00:53:55.781
- When you speak in a group, words splash.
- 00:53:55.781 --> 00:54:00.886
- So whether you're cursing, saying--gossiping, saying how
- 00:54:00.886 --> 00:54:07.926
- you really feel about Jane over in 9D, it splashes on you.
- 00:54:07.993 --> 00:54:14.033
- I had this fear once of like when God said, "I'll bless those
- 00:54:16.068 --> 00:54:18.804
- who bless you, curse those who curse you," I was like, "Well,
- 00:54:18.804 --> 00:54:21.407
- what if I accidentally curse one of those who is a part of
- 00:54:21.407 --> 00:54:24.777
- that list?
- 00:54:24.777 --> 00:54:26.111
- I don't want God to curse me."
- 00:54:26.111 --> 00:54:27.479
- So I'm like, "I'm just gonna--" I felt like--I believe that
- 00:54:27.479 --> 00:54:29.081
- when you say negative stuff out loud, even by yourself, it just
- 00:54:29.081 --> 00:54:31.717
- splashes on you.
- 00:54:31.717 --> 00:54:33.085
- And the inverse is also true.
- 00:54:33.085 --> 00:54:35.321
- When you say thankful things to people, when you say positive
- 00:54:35.321 --> 00:54:38.891
- words, when you say the Word of God aloud, when you say loving
- 00:54:38.891 --> 00:54:42.995
- and kind things, it splashes on you.
- 00:54:42.995 --> 00:54:45.497
- Sometimes--usually people will shoot back, right, whether it's
- 00:54:45.497 --> 00:54:47.866
- positive or negative.
- 00:54:47.866 --> 00:54:49.201
- I just dare you to try and insult someone and think you're
- 00:54:49.201 --> 00:54:51.203
- not gonna get splashed.
- 00:54:51.203 --> 00:54:52.571
- It's comin' back.
- 00:54:52.571 --> 00:54:53.906
- This is what Jesus says, "Don't judge others
- 00:54:53.906 --> 00:54:55.841
- or you'll be judged."
- 00:54:55.841 --> 00:54:57.509
- He's not talkin' about God.
- 00:54:57.509 --> 00:54:58.877
- He's talking about other people.
- 00:54:58.877 --> 00:55:00.212
- If you judge people, people are gonna come down hard on you
- 00:55:00.212 --> 00:55:02.981
- big time.
- 00:55:02.981 --> 00:55:04.316
- They're gonna judge you like crazy.
- 00:55:04.316 --> 00:55:05.684
- So words splash.
- 00:55:05.684 --> 00:55:07.553
- So maybe you're feeling dry.
- 00:55:07.553 --> 00:55:09.688
- Maybe you need some fresh water.
- 00:55:09.688 --> 00:55:12.424
- Just start encouraging people and watch how you
- 00:55:12.424 --> 00:55:14.460
- get encouraged.
- 00:55:14.460 --> 00:55:16.795
- You feel like you're not getting enough--people don't see what
- 00:55:16.795 --> 00:55:19.398
- you do.
- 00:55:19.398 --> 00:55:20.766
- Start thanking people for what they're doing in your life and
- 00:55:20.766 --> 00:55:22.234
- watch how you'll be--people will start thanking you more and
- 00:55:22.234 --> 00:55:24.403
- you'll start feeling more encouraged.
- 00:55:24.403 --> 00:55:25.904
- Words splash.
- 00:55:25.904 --> 00:55:27.272
- Words have power.
- 00:55:27.272 --> 00:55:28.607
- And I wanna encourage you to speak.
- 00:55:28.607 --> 00:55:30.609
- To speak.
- 00:55:30.609 --> 00:55:31.944
- Don't wait until you're perfect to speak.
- 00:55:31.944 --> 00:55:35.214
- Don't wait until you've got it all together to speak.
- 00:55:35.214 --> 00:55:38.217
- Like a bit in a horse's mouth, like a rudder to a ship, like a
- 00:55:38.217 --> 00:55:42.588
- spark to a flame, what you say will direct your life.
- 00:55:42.588 --> 00:55:47.192
- You want your life to go in a better direction?
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- Start speaking the kinds of words that will take you there.
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- Father, we love you.
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- We thank you for all you're doing in our lives.
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- We ask in Jesus's name that you would teach us to speak aloud
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- the rhema word of God.
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- We thank you that I think every single person in this room, even
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- children, even people who have-- who are still struggling with
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- sin, that no matter where we are in our lives, that we have power
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- in our words.
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- Show us what it means to live in that fully.
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- In Jesus's name we pray, amen.
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- And now the Lord bless you and keep you.
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- The Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious
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- unto you.
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- The Lord lift his countenance upon you and give you his peace.
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- In the name of the Father, and of the Son,
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- and of the Holy Spirit, amen.
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