Jennie Allen - Lies About Ourselves

April 29, 2026 | 27:29

The author and speaker exposes and debunks the core lies that we are worthless, helpless, or unlovable

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Life Today with James Robison | Jennie Allen - Lies About Ourselves | April 29, 2026
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  • Announcer: coming up.
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  • Jennie allen: the enemy works with a smidgen of truth, right?
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  • There is a smidgen of truth that we are unlovable on some days
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  • And we are--you know, we didn't hit the mark, we failed.
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  • The beauty of god and the kingdom of god is that he says,
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  • "you don't have to hit the mark."
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  • The beauty of the kingdom of god is you don't have to perform to
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  • Be loved.
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  • Like, you're loved because you are, because you exist.
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  • Announcer: author and teacher jennie allen exposes the lie you
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  • Don't know you believe.
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  • [music]
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  • Randy robison: welcome to "life today."
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  • We're glad you're here.
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  • I'm randy robison.
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  • This is blynda lane.
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  • Blynda lane: happy to be here, randy.
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  • Randy: always good to be here.
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  • Always good to be here with today's guest, jennie allen.
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  • Blynda: oh my goodness, we have her on again.
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  • She came back.
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  • And we're talking about her newest book, "the lie you don't
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  • Know you believe."
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  • Randy: you don't know you believe?
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  • Blynda: "the lie you don't know you believe."
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  • And just to recap a little bit, in the previous show with her,
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  • We talked about how important it is to actually recognize that we
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  • All have core lies that we don't even know we believe, and
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  • Starting to peel back the layers and recognize that we believe
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  • These lies is huge in living in freedom, living in truth, and
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  • Actually making an impact in the world.
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  • Randy: yeah, well, let's get into it.
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  • Jennie, welcome back.
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  • Jennie: always good to be here.
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  • Blynda: we're so glad you're with us.
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  • Jennie: yeah, thanks for having me.
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  • Randy: just for those who may missed the last program, which
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  • By the way, you can see all the programs at lifetoday.org, but
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  • For those who are just joining us today, what are these sort of
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  • The catch-alls?
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  • What are the broad lies that we tend to believe?
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  • Jennie: well, i remember talking to my counselor one time and he
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  • Mentioned, you know, we were talking about these three lies,
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  • And i was like, "i don't think there's just three."
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  • And he was like, "well, how many do you think there are?"
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  • I was like, "i think there's thousands.
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  • I think--i believe thousands."
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  • He was like, "give me one," and i gave him one, and he showed me
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  • How it boiled down to one of those three.
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  • So we believe, this is psych 101, that all the identity lies
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  • We believe about ourselves really boil down to, "i am
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  • Helpless," "i am worthless," or "i am unlovable," and that those
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  • Three lies really begin to shape our identity from a young age,
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  • And move on for decades and decades left largely
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  • Unchallenged, which is why i called it, "the lie you don't
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  • Know you believe," because we think they're true.
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  • Randy: i was not told any of those things.
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  • My parents never told me i was worthless or helpless
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  • Or unlovable.
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  • So where would i get any of those ideas?
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  • Jennie: what--do you struggle with any of those?
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  • And can you tell me?
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  • Because usually you can think of an age.
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  • I remember being in first grade and i lost one of my
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  • Smurf buttons.
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  • That's what we had, we had little smurfs along the wall.
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  • And i lost one.
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  • I still vividly remember putting my head on the desk, missing
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  • Five minutes of recess, and crying quietly through that
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  • Whole five minutes, because i felt so ashamed.
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  • And so, we can pick up these lies in little ways, in
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  • Big ways.
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  • Things happen.
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  • A dad walks out, and he never said anything negative to you,
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  • But he left your family and now he lives in a--somewhere
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  • Different, and immediately in your head you pick up a lie
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  • That, "gosh, i am worthless because," or "i must not be
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  • Lovable because he wouldn't have left," yeah.
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  • Randy: i had an experience in fifth grade where i was rejected
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  • By some schoolgirls, and i have done some work in my life to
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  • Know that i did pick up something there where i did feel
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  • Like, you know, i'm less than, i'm unlovable.
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  • But for me, that was walking with the lord for a long time
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  • And having people around me--like, in a lot of gracious
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  • Ways, the lord helped expose that lie.
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  • But if you're, you know, just on the streets and just kind of
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  • What--how are you really understanding that things i'm
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  • Doing today are affecting me because i'm believing a lie?
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  • Jennie: yeah, so i think it's just good to start taking
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  • Inventory of your thoughts.
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  • What are the thoughts you're thinking about yourself?
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  • What are the thoughts you think in a stressful situation?
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  • I had someone, even just today, leave me a message.
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  • I don't know her, but she said, "jennie, i've read all your
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  • Books and i'll be honest, i saw the title for this one and i
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  • Didn't think i needed it.
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  • And then i went to this party and i walked in, and immediately
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  • I felt insecure.
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  • And i was overcome, and i felt insignificant.
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  • I thought, 'i don't belong here.
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  • Nobody wants to talk to me,' and she was like,
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  • [gasps]
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  • 'this is what jennie's talking about!'"
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  • So it can hit you, it can hit you at different times.
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  • And then when you start to take inventory of those thoughts, i
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  • Really encourage you to say them out loud to someone, because
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  • When you say them out loud, they make a different kind of sense
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  • Than they do in your own mind.
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  • And you start to go, "oh wait, i see a pattern."
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  • And so you're looking for patterns, but also, there's a
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  • Quiz on my website, jennieallen.com, that's free.
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  • It asks you a few, ten simple questions, and you can kind
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  • Of diagnose.
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  • A lot of people think that they don't have one and then they get
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  • One sent to them after they take the quiz and they're like, "oh,
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  • Actually, that makes sense," and they're going back through their
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  • Life and they see that theme.
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  • So i think it is a little bit tricky to get to it, but once
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  • You get to it, it is so powerful, because you start to
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  • Recognize it as a lie rather than accepting it.
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  • Blynda: it feels like it's a thread you pull on that if you
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  • Pull a little bit, it's gonna start unraveling a lot in
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  • Your life.
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  • You're gonna realize you've probably lived a lot with
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  • That lie.
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  • Jennie: but it's really hard to notice for yourself, because
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  • It's just the way you think, and you think it's true.
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  • So, it's just there.
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  • It's just there in your psyche for decades.
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  • Randy: yeah, i'm thinking to myself i'm gonna have to go take
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  • Your quiz, because i mean, the hardest person sometimes to see
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  • Is yourself, right?
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  • I think there's an illustration, actually, in your book, that
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  • Might indicate that sometimes we need a little help seeing what's
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  • True and what's not.
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  • I love that story, by the way.
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  • Jennie: yeah, the squirrels?
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  • Randy: would you tell us about your rescue?
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  • Jennie: yeah, so my kids loved to rescue animals, especially my
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  • Daughters, and they would bring in probably animals that had
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  • Parents that were off getting them food.
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  • And they were really great at bringing home all kinds--we
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  • Brought home bunnies and turtles and all kinds of things.
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  • And one day they brought home all these baby squirrels that
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  • Were left on the road, the middle of the road, and so that
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  • Was a true rescue.
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  • We were, like, gonna save these things.
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  • We were giving them droplets of milk.
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  • We looked up, you know, how to save the squirrels, and we're
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  • Giving them droplets of milk and all these things.
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  • We're taking care of these squirrels.
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  • And we lived in austin, texas, and they had a great
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  • Animal shelter.
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  • They love their animals in austin, and so we had become
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  • Friends with everybody there.
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  • We take our, you know, next rescue to them.
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  • It's an hour drive, so we drive an hour with these squirrels to
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  • Save their lives, and we fed them, we've taken care of them,
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  • And we get there.
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  • And these, you know, people that love all the animals on the
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  • Earth look at us like we're the craziest people in the world.
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  • And they're like, "ma'am, you have rescued baby rats."
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  • Randy: did they want them?
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  • Jennie: no, they didn't even want them!
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  • Nobody wants them!
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  • I mean, they were like, "what do we do with this?"
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  • I'm sure they fed it to something else in the, you know,
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  • Who knows?
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  • But i would just say, you know, we do this with our own mind,
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  • You know, we take care of these things.
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  • We protect these things.
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  • I remember talking to my counselor one time and i was
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  • Like, "if i stop saying, 'i should be doing this and i
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  • Should be doing this,' and i stop feeling the pressure i live
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  • Under, then i'm just gonna float out to sea."
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  • He was like, "you're never gonna do anything again, jennie?
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  • You're never gonna work out, you're never gonna read your
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  • Bible, you're never gonna do anything?"
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  • "probably not."
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  • Like, i really believed that, that if i quit being so hard on
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  • Myself, that i would just be lazy and never leave my bed,
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  • I guess.
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  • And he was like, let's--he goes, "does that sound like god?"
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  • Like, that your voice--the voice always in your head is that you
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  • Should be doing something and i was like, "yeah, i don't know, i
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  • Don't know."
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  • Blynda: okay, but break that down a little bit, because
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  • You're actually hitting on something that i think is
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  • Important to hear, that questioning all of our
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  • Motivation of why we do what we do, is that kind of where it
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  • Ends up being like, are we--you know, what i say, that the
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  • Things and the systems and the disciplines that i have, have
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  • They been motivated, you know, by something pure, or by a lie
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  • To try to perform?
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  • And how do you differentiate?
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  • Jennie: oh, let me say this, that there's so much grace for
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  • All of this, right?
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  • We're just doing the best we can.
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  • Most of us are just doing the best we can.
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  • And i've had so many times that i've been so hard on myself, or
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  • I've tried to fix my motives, fix the lie, and not live for
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  • It anymore.
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  • And i will just say this: that never works.
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  • Like, beating it down and just saying, "i don't wanna think
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  • This anymore.
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  • I don't wanna live this way anymore," it just never works.
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  • And so everybody just exhale.
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  • Like, we won't have the right motives.
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  • We can't look under every thought in our lives and
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  • Question it.
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  • What--that's not what even god's calling us to do.
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  • There's a freedom that comes with this.
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  • It's an invitation.
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  • I see that these insecure thoughts, when i feel anxiety
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  • About something, these insecure thoughts are an invitation to
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  • Just come back to what i know to be true about who i am, about
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  • Who god says that i am.
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  • And there's grace for that.
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  • So yes, it is impacting everything about us, and it is
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  • Worth discovering.
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  • But what health has looked like for me, what freedom has looked
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  • Like for me, it's not that i never believed the lie, because
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  • You've got to realize, we're being fed the lie
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  • Everywhere in every way.
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  • The lies are backed up with evidence, because we have
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  • To hit the market work, because when you get on social media,
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  • You know, you feel rejection.
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  • People are even mean in the comments.
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  • Like, you can't--or they don't like your post, and your friend
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  • Saw it.
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  • Like, whatever.
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  • You can feel unlovable, you can feel all these things, and you
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  • Can show the evidence.
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  • That is not our goal.
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  • Our goal is to, every time we feel these things, to take them
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  • To god and go, "okay, what is true of me again?
  • 00:09:58.643 --> 00:10:00.679
  • Remind me."
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  • Like, "remind me that i am not a product of my book sales."
  • 00:10:02.047 --> 00:10:06.117
  • Like, "remind me that i am not mattering in this life because i
  • 00:10:06.117 --> 00:10:10.955
  • Have, you know, this many friends that call, and care
  • 00:10:10.955 --> 00:10:15.126
  • About me, and wanna, you know, spend time with me."
  • 00:10:15.126 --> 00:10:17.529
  • "remind me that these are not the measuring sticks by which
  • 00:10:17.529 --> 00:10:21.232
  • We live."
  • 00:10:21.232 --> 00:10:22.567
  • Randy: here's the, i think, the tough question, at least it
  • 00:10:22.567 --> 00:10:24.135
  • Would be for me.
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  • It is for me.
  • 00:10:25.470 --> 00:10:26.838
  • So i take your three kind of core lies and i go, "okay,
  • 00:10:26.838 --> 00:10:29.774
  • I'm worthless."
  • 00:10:29.774 --> 00:10:31.109
  • Well, i have been, at times.
  • 00:10:31.109 --> 00:10:33.912
  • There are times when my wife really needed my help and my
  • 00:10:33.912 --> 00:10:37.615
  • Support and i didn't provide it.
  • 00:10:37.615 --> 00:10:39.551
  • Or you go, "i'm helpless."
  • 00:10:39.551 --> 00:10:41.319
  • Well, i've been there.
  • 00:10:41.319 --> 00:10:42.687
  • Good lord, you know?
  • 00:10:42.687 --> 00:10:44.022
  • You have loved ones, you pray for them, and they die.
  • 00:10:44.022 --> 00:10:45.990
  • You feel really helpless in that situation.
  • 00:10:45.990 --> 00:10:48.827
  • And, "i'm unlovable."
  • 00:10:48.827 --> 00:10:50.195
  • I know i've been a complete jerk.
  • 00:10:50.195 --> 00:10:52.497
  • And, you know, i would be real hard to love at that point.
  • 00:10:52.497 --> 00:10:57.402
  • I think for a lot of people, you're going, "yeah, these are
  • 00:10:57.402 --> 00:11:01.106
  • Lies," and a lot of us are sitting here and going--
  • 00:11:01.106 --> 00:11:03.942
  • Jennie: "they're kind of true."
  • 00:11:03.942 --> 00:11:05.276
  • Randy: "they're not entirely lies, it's the truth."
  • 00:11:05.276 --> 00:11:07.145
  • Jennie: so there's a whole chapter in the book called "the
  • 00:11:07.145 --> 00:11:09.080
  • Lie beneath the lie," and the scarier lie that the enemy wants
  • 00:11:09.080 --> 00:11:12.717
  • Us to believe is that finally we could be in control, that we're
  • 00:11:12.717 --> 00:11:15.820
  • Not helpless, that finally we could control our lives, or that
  • 00:11:15.820 --> 00:11:19.257
  • Finally we could be loved by everyone and no longer would
  • 00:11:19.257 --> 00:11:22.327
  • That be an issue for us anymore.
  • 00:11:22.327 --> 00:11:24.028
  • Or that we could finally hit some mark out there in the
  • 00:11:24.028 --> 00:11:27.065
  • World, and then we would matter, and then we would be
  • 00:11:27.065 --> 00:11:29.267
  • Worth something.
  • 00:11:29.267 --> 00:11:30.635
  • That's the lie under the lie, is that you think you could
  • 00:11:30.635 --> 00:11:33.037
  • Actually get this stuff.
  • 00:11:33.037 --> 00:11:35.073
  • The reality is, you're right.
  • 00:11:35.073 --> 00:11:37.242
  • There's a smidgen of truth.
  • 00:11:37.242 --> 00:11:38.576
  • You can see in scripture, like at times, scripture calls us
  • 00:11:38.576 --> 00:11:41.279
  • Blades of grass, grasshoppers, like, just meaningless.
  • 00:11:41.279 --> 00:11:44.215
  • Our lives are passing, you know, like that, and we don't matter.
  • 00:11:44.215 --> 00:11:47.952
  • And yes, we're sinners from the time we're born, and you could
  • 00:11:47.952 --> 00:11:52.624
  • Build a case for all of that, or it wouldn't be believable.
  • 00:11:52.624 --> 00:11:57.061
  • The enemy works with a smidgen of truth, right?
  • 00:11:57.061 --> 00:11:59.430
  • There is a smidgen of truth that we are unlovable on some days
  • 00:11:59.430 --> 00:12:02.367
  • And we are, you know, we didn't hit the mark, we failed.
  • 00:12:02.367 --> 00:12:05.303
  • The beauty of god and the kingdom of god is that he says,
  • 00:12:05.303 --> 00:12:08.873
  • "you don't have to hit the mark."
  • 00:12:08.873 --> 00:12:10.642
  • The beauty of the kingdom of god is you don't have to perform to
  • 00:12:10.642 --> 00:12:14.746
  • Be loved.
  • 00:12:14.746 --> 00:12:16.114
  • Like, you're loved because you are, because you exist, because
  • 00:12:16.114 --> 00:12:18.650
  • God knit you together in your mother's womb, and he knows
  • 00:12:18.650 --> 00:12:21.719
  • Every hair on your head, and he knows everything about you, and
  • 00:12:21.719 --> 00:12:25.223
  • He loves you anyway.
  • 00:12:25.223 --> 00:12:26.591
  • And he still made a plan to get you back.
  • 00:12:26.591 --> 00:12:28.960
  • The beauty of the story of god is that we get to exhale, that
  • 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:33.164
  • We get to turn the game of this world off and not hit the mark.
  • 00:12:33.164 --> 00:12:37.168
  • If there is no kingdom of god, and there is no jesus, and there
  • 00:12:37.168 --> 00:12:40.438
  • Is no holy spirit, and there is no father god, you need
  • 00:12:40.438 --> 00:12:43.775
  • To perform.
  • 00:12:43.775 --> 00:12:45.109
  • You need to suck the marrow out of everything in this life.
  • 00:12:45.109 --> 00:12:47.212
  • You need to hit the marks.
  • 00:12:47.212 --> 00:12:48.613
  • You need to get the love.
  • 00:12:48.613 --> 00:12:49.948
  • You need to get control wherever you can get it.
  • 00:12:49.948 --> 00:12:52.217
  • And that's the goals of those that don't know god.
  • 00:12:52.217 --> 00:12:55.053
  • But the christian gets to go, "it's not that i give up or
  • 00:12:55.053 --> 00:12:58.756
  • Resign, but i do it out of a place of love."
  • 00:12:58.756 --> 00:13:01.359
  • My counselor one time gave this great example, because i said,
  • 00:13:01.359 --> 00:13:04.429
  • "wait, won't one day we'll be graded?"
  • 00:13:04.429 --> 00:13:06.397
  • Because i was basically, everything i was doing, i was
  • 00:13:06.397 --> 00:13:08.533
  • Giving myself a grade.
  • 00:13:08.533 --> 00:13:09.901
  • Parenting, after i finished a speaking event, after i, you
  • 00:13:09.901 --> 00:13:13.771
  • Know, even how i did with a girls trip, and like, was i
  • 00:13:13.771 --> 00:13:17.275
  • Loving enough and friendly enough, and did i care about
  • 00:13:17.275 --> 00:13:19.577
  • Them more than myself?
  • 00:13:19.577 --> 00:13:20.912
  • You know, i would just give myself a grade, like, it was
  • 00:13:20.912 --> 00:13:22.580
  • Just the way my brain worked.
  • 00:13:22.580 --> 00:13:24.549
  • And i was talking to my counselor about it and he said,
  • 00:13:24.549 --> 00:13:26.951
  • "do you think one day you're gonna get a grade?"
  • 00:13:26.951 --> 00:13:28.653
  • I was like, "yes," and i showed him the scripture.
  • 00:13:28.653 --> 00:13:30.355
  • I'm like, you know, the movie screen, like all our life is
  • 00:13:30.355 --> 00:13:33.691
  • Gonna be shown and we're gonna get a grade.
  • 00:13:33.691 --> 00:13:35.693
  • And he was like, "okay, so i want you to think about where
  • 00:13:35.693 --> 00:13:39.230
  • That scripture falls, and how do you think god thinks about this?
  • 00:13:39.230 --> 00:13:43.167
  • Like, does this sound like jesus and the rest of the scripture?"
  • 00:13:43.167 --> 00:13:47.906
  • And he's like, "here's the thing, jennie.
  • 00:13:47.906 --> 00:13:50.441
  • You're not gonna float out to sea if you quit saying you
  • 00:13:50.441 --> 00:13:53.945
  • Should do this, and--take this pressure off of you.
  • 00:13:53.945 --> 00:13:56.814
  • Because a good student doesn't focus on grades, a good student
  • 00:13:56.814 --> 00:14:00.351
  • Loves to learn.
  • 00:14:00.351 --> 00:14:01.719
  • A good student wants to show up and know what the professor's
  • 00:14:01.719 --> 00:14:05.390
  • Teaching because a good student knows there's a purpose."
  • 00:14:05.390 --> 00:14:09.093
  • And i was like, that changed everything for me.
  • 00:14:09.093 --> 00:14:11.162
  • Like, why don't i stop giving myself grades and just love
  • 00:14:11.162 --> 00:14:13.932
  • Showing up with all my heart to do what god's put in me to do?
  • 00:14:13.932 --> 00:14:17.402
  • It says he prepared good works for me to do in advance.
  • 00:14:17.402 --> 00:14:20.171
  • I don't have--and he's equipping me to do them.
  • 00:14:20.171 --> 00:14:22.173
  • I don't have to man-handle them, you know?
  • 00:14:22.173 --> 00:14:24.776
  • I don't have to perform.
  • 00:14:24.776 --> 00:14:26.511
  • I can actually just rest in the spirit.
  • 00:14:26.511 --> 00:14:28.379
  • And living that way has been so much more fun.
  • 00:14:28.379 --> 00:14:31.316
  • Blynda: and also, you said something there that makes me
  • 00:14:31.316 --> 00:14:33.184
  • Think how important it is that we actually get in the word and
  • 00:14:33.184 --> 00:14:35.887
  • We know scripture, because even there, when you brought that to
  • 00:14:35.887 --> 00:14:38.589
  • Your counselor, that was a scripture and that is in the
  • 00:14:38.589 --> 00:14:41.059
  • Word, but he had to kind of give you a 30,000-foot view of
  • 00:14:41.059 --> 00:14:44.796
  • Jesus's heart behind what he's saying.
  • 00:14:44.796 --> 00:14:47.765
  • And if we don't know scripture, if we're not in the word to be
  • 00:14:47.765 --> 00:14:51.135
  • Encouraged by that, then we can easily let the world tell us who
  • 00:14:51.135 --> 00:14:55.006
  • We are or, you know, how to shape--
  • 00:14:55.006 --> 00:14:58.142
  • Jennie: how do we know?
  • 00:14:58.142 --> 00:14:59.477
  • When i talk about the kingdom of god and living in it, how would
  • 00:14:59.477 --> 00:15:01.713
  • We know anything about it if we don't know the word of god?
  • 00:15:01.713 --> 00:15:04.515
  • But what we can tend to do is just zero in to a verse or
  • 00:15:04.515 --> 00:15:07.518
  • Verses, rather than the worldview of what god's saying.
  • 00:15:07.518 --> 00:15:11.389
  • And when you think about, specifically i tackled in this
  • 00:15:11.389 --> 00:15:14.392
  • Book, and in the bible study at greater length, the tension of
  • 00:15:14.392 --> 00:15:19.230
  • The moment that the enemy appeared to jesus in
  • 00:15:19.230 --> 00:15:21.265
  • The wilderness.
  • 00:15:21.265 --> 00:15:22.633
  • What a moment.
  • 00:15:22.633 --> 00:15:23.968
  • I mean, this is enemy, god, facing off in the desert.
  • 00:15:23.968 --> 00:15:29.140
  • And you see the devil use scripture to try to tempt and
  • 00:15:29.140 --> 00:15:34.712
  • Taunt jesus.
  • 00:15:34.712 --> 00:15:36.347
  • You see jesus use scripture back with a point, but what jesus
  • 00:15:36.347 --> 00:15:41.519
  • Does is, "i'm gonna answer you with a worldview."
  • 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:44.422
  • Like, he gave him scriptures, but he was saying, "i'm not
  • 00:15:44.422 --> 00:15:48.192
  • Living for this kingdom.
  • 00:15:48.192 --> 00:15:49.527
  • I'm living for the next."
  • 00:15:49.527 --> 00:15:50.895
  • In every answer it was, "i eat bread you don't know about."
  • 00:15:50.895 --> 00:15:53.498
  • So he's saying, you know, that in every interaction it was--he
  • 00:15:53.498 --> 00:15:59.137
  • Answered him with a view of his life in the world that came from
  • 00:15:59.137 --> 00:16:02.306
  • Scripture, was rooted in scripture, but the enemy used
  • 00:16:02.306 --> 00:16:04.275
  • Scripture too.
  • 00:16:04.275 --> 00:16:05.710
  • But he answered, jesus answered, with the stability of knowing
  • 00:16:05.710 --> 00:16:09.414
  • Whose he was and where he was going.
  • 00:16:09.414 --> 00:16:12.717
  • And so, that's what comes as we mature in christ and know the
  • 00:16:12.717 --> 00:16:17.422
  • Scriptures more and more, is we go, "oh, wait, i know who i am,
  • 00:16:17.422 --> 00:16:21.159
  • I know where i'm going, and i know who god is."
  • 00:16:21.159 --> 00:16:23.828
  • And that gives you power, that gives you freedom, because you
  • 00:16:23.828 --> 00:16:27.765
  • Don't need love to come from everybody else around you.
  • 00:16:27.765 --> 00:16:30.668
  • And you know, i say a lot about my life right now, i feel like
  • 00:16:30.668 --> 00:16:32.770
  • Lucy in narnia riding on the back of aslan, and i'm like,
  • 00:16:32.770 --> 00:16:36.574
  • "where are we going now?"
  • 00:16:36.574 --> 00:16:37.942
  • You know?
  • 00:16:37.942 --> 00:16:39.277
  • Like, i'm not in it to prove something.
  • 00:16:39.277 --> 00:16:40.645
  • I'm not in it to achieve something.
  • 00:16:40.645 --> 00:16:41.979
  • I'm in it to be where god wants me to be and to go where he
  • 00:16:41.979 --> 00:16:45.249
  • Wants me to go, and it's a lot more fun.
  • 00:16:45.249 --> 00:16:47.118
  • Randy: yeah, as dudley hall talks about, it's knowing what
  • 00:16:47.118 --> 00:16:50.755
  • Is the story, what is the big story.
  • 00:16:50.755 --> 00:16:53.291
  • And the big story of christ is reconciling us fallen people
  • 00:16:53.291 --> 00:16:58.729
  • To himself.
  • 00:16:58.729 --> 00:17:00.364
  • And so, these lies that you talk about, that they try to break
  • 00:17:00.364 --> 00:17:04.102
  • Into that.
  • 00:17:04.102 --> 00:17:05.436
  • And a lot of what i think you're talking about is really just
  • 00:17:05.436 --> 00:17:07.872
  • Surrendering our own thoughts and surrendering what the world
  • 00:17:07.872 --> 00:17:12.376
  • Tries to tell us, and go, "god, let me just--i just wanna hear
  • 00:17:12.376 --> 00:17:14.879
  • From you, father god.
  • 00:17:14.879 --> 00:17:17.248
  • You tell me the truth," because he will.
  • 00:17:17.248 --> 00:17:18.816
  • He's not hiding.
  • 00:17:18.816 --> 00:17:20.151
  • Jennie: he will.
  • 00:17:20.151 --> 00:17:21.486
  • Blynda: you even talk about that your husband had a birthday
  • 00:17:21.486 --> 00:17:23.087
  • Party and everybody went around and said something about him,
  • 00:17:23.087 --> 00:17:25.957
  • And so many beautiful things were said, but the one thing
  • 00:17:25.957 --> 00:17:30.795
  • That really kind of came to the surface was that he has an
  • 00:17:30.795 --> 00:17:34.165
  • Amount of self-forgetfulness, where he lives his life kind of
  • 00:17:34.165 --> 00:17:38.469
  • Forgetting about himself.
  • 00:17:38.469 --> 00:17:39.837
  • And wouldn't it be great if, as believers, that's what we did?
  • 00:17:39.837 --> 00:17:43.274
  • Would we believe less lies if really our focus was always how
  • 00:17:43.274 --> 00:17:46.444
  • To serve others, how to love others?
  • 00:17:46.444 --> 00:17:48.479
  • Jennie: yeah, he's really good at that.
  • 00:17:48.479 --> 00:17:50.515
  • I'm always in awe.
  • 00:17:50.515 --> 00:17:51.849
  • And he really walked through an identity crisis earlier in
  • 00:17:51.849 --> 00:17:54.752
  • His life.
  • 00:17:54.752 --> 00:17:56.087
  • He had to decide, like, am i in this to achieve and to win, or
  • 00:17:56.087 --> 00:17:59.524
  • Am i in this for the glory of god?
  • 00:17:59.524 --> 00:18:00.858
  • And people ask him all the time, "what does it feel like to be
  • 00:18:00.858 --> 00:18:03.161
  • Jennie allen's husband?"
  • 00:18:03.161 --> 00:18:04.529
  • Because i'm writing books and i'm speaking everywhere, and i'm
  • 00:18:04.529 --> 00:18:07.098
  • Very visible and he's not.
  • 00:18:07.098 --> 00:18:08.432
  • I don't even think he's on social media.
  • 00:18:08.432 --> 00:18:10.801
  • And he's like, "i know my worth, and i know that sending her out
  • 00:18:10.801 --> 00:18:17.308
  • The door is the best thing for the kingdom."
  • 00:18:17.308 --> 00:18:20.044
  • And i just--i've watched him wrestle with his own demons and
  • 00:18:20.044 --> 00:18:23.548
  • Find a lot of freedom.
  • 00:18:23.548 --> 00:18:24.916
  • It is possible to live this way.
  • 00:18:24.916 --> 00:18:27.451
  • Randy: it is possible for everyone, and if you need a
  • 00:18:27.451 --> 00:18:30.555
  • Little more assistance that jennie can offer, you'd like to
  • 00:18:30.555 --> 00:18:33.891
  • Walk through some of this process with her, we'd love to
  • 00:18:33.891 --> 00:18:37.128
  • Get this book into your hands.
  • 00:18:37.128 --> 00:18:38.963
  • It's freeing, it's truth, and you know, she talks about
  • 00:18:38.963 --> 00:18:42.266
  • Learning to serve and getting the focus off of yourself.
  • 00:18:42.266 --> 00:18:45.236
  • That is actually a big step towards understanding god's
  • 00:18:45.236 --> 00:18:48.739
  • Heart, i believe.
  • 00:18:48.739 --> 00:18:50.107
  • I've found that to be true in my life.
  • 00:18:50.107 --> 00:18:51.776
  • You've seen that?
  • 00:18:51.776 --> 00:18:53.110
  • Blynda: absolutely.
  • 00:18:53.110 --> 00:18:54.478
  • Randy: here's an opportunity.
  • 00:18:54.478 --> 00:18:55.813
  • I want you to see some people who have really given their
  • 00:18:55.813 --> 00:18:57.415
  • Lives to helping others, but i also wanna see how you fit into
  • 00:18:57.415 --> 00:19:00.851
  • This, because here's a lie for you: your response to this
  • 00:19:00.851 --> 00:19:05.590
  • Really won't make a difference.
  • 00:19:05.590 --> 00:19:07.291
  • Mm-mm.
  • 00:19:07.291 --> 00:19:08.659
  • Truth is, we need all of you guys, every viewer, every
  • 00:19:08.659 --> 00:19:12.930
  • Christian who feels god is moving them to be a part of this
  • 00:19:12.930 --> 00:19:17.368
  • Mission feeding outreach i wanna show you.
  • 00:19:17.368 --> 00:19:20.271
  • Be obedient, just step out there and do it.
  • 00:19:20.271 --> 00:19:22.673
  • You will make a difference.
  • 00:19:22.673 --> 00:19:24.075
  • You have people through whom no fault of their
  • 00:19:24.075 --> 00:19:26.410
  • Own, and despite their hard work, are facing starvation
  • 00:19:26.410 --> 00:19:32.483
  • And death.
  • 00:19:32.483 --> 00:19:34.185
  • And that situation's, with your support,
  • 00:19:34.185 --> 00:19:36.520
  • We were created as christians for good works.
  • 00:19:36.520 --> 00:19:40.191
  • And a good work is not just bringing food, because we do
  • 00:19:40.191 --> 00:19:44.061
  • That in these emergency situations with your support,
  • 00:19:44.061 --> 00:19:47.498
  • But i think it's also a god work, because wow, what an
  • 00:19:47.498 --> 00:19:52.036
  • Opportunity to preach the gospel, to go into a place of
  • 00:19:52.036 --> 00:19:55.373
  • Darkness and share light.
  • 00:19:55.373 --> 00:19:58.409
  • Mission feeding is so much more than the emergency food, though
  • 00:19:58.409 --> 00:20:02.680
  • That's where it starts.
  • 00:20:02.680 --> 00:20:04.949
  • Mission feeding really is sharing life in every way with
  • 00:20:04.949 --> 00:20:10.021
  • People who desperately need it, people who are dying.
  • 00:20:10.021 --> 00:20:14.825
  • That's why we ask you to go to the phone or go online, make the
  • 00:20:14.825 --> 00:20:17.962
  • Best gift you can, knowing that it's very, very simple.
  • 00:20:17.962 --> 00:20:21.365
  • Thirty dollars will, for example, help feed
  • 00:20:21.365 --> 00:20:24.335
  • Three children for several months.
  • 00:20:24.335 --> 00:20:27.538
  • And you go, "how can you do that?"
  • 00:20:27.538 --> 00:20:28.906
  • For one, it's the power of the dollar, but also it's the power
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  • Of the people, like isak and many that you see in these
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  • Videos, who are on the ground.
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  • The systems are in place.
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  • We're in a unique position at life outreach because we've
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  • Been doing this for so long.
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  • We have the relationships and the systems, the distribution,
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  • So that $100 will help feed 10 children for several months.
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  • Many of you could give a gift of $1,000 and it would feed 100
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  • Children for several months.
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  • But do what you can, and please, i ask you with the same passion
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  • That you see from isak, do it now.
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  • The situation in many places is so desperate that they literally
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  • Cannot wait another day.
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  • We're there.
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  • We need you to step up, to join us in mission feeding.
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  • Announcer: right now across the continent of africa, children
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  • Are suffering, facing severe malnutrition and even death.
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  • With food reserves critically depleted and many areas
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  • Experiencing devastating famine, we urgently need to replenish
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  • Supplies to keep feeding the 350,000 children who are
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  • Counting on us every single day.
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  • Through life's mission feeding outreach, your gift of love can
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  • Be an answer to a prayer for a hurting and hungry child in
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  • Their time of need.
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  • Call now with your life-saving gift of $30, $50, or $100 to
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  • Finally, with your gift of $1,000 or more, which will help
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  • Feed 100 children in desperate need, request life's beautiful
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  • Bronze sculpture, the good shepherd.
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  • So, please call, write, or make your gift online today.
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  • Randy: i do hope you're going online, going to the phone, make
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  • The best gift you can.
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  • You really can make a difference, and we would love to
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  • Send you jennie allen's book, "the lie you don't know
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  • You believe."
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  • And by the way, if you're struggling with some of those
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  • Lies within yourself, maybe something you've heard on these
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  • Programs has really made you wanna reach out and have someone
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  • Pray with you, that same phone number, we've got people that
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  • Would love to just pray with you.
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  • This has been a real blessing, blynda.
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  • Blynda: such a blessing.
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  • "the lie you don't know you believe."
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  • And so if they go to jennieallen.com, they can also
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  • Take the free quiz that will help them.
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  • Jennie: yes, absolutely.
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  • Blynda: okay, well, thank you, jennie, for being--
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  • Randy: great resources.
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  • Jennie: yes, such good resources.
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  • Thank you for being with us.
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  • Randy: thank you. we appreciate you so much.
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  • We appreciate you guys, we'd love to see you again here
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  • Next time on "life today."
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  • Blynda: see you soon.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Erwin lutzer: hi, this is pastor lutzer.
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  • Perhaps as you look at the religions of the world, you ask
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  • Yourself, why is it that jesus is the only way to the father?
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  • After all, there are lots of religious options
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  • To choose from.
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  • Well, the answer is simply this, that other religions have gurus
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  • And prophets, they have teachers, but what they don't
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  • Have is a savior who can actually forgive our sins, clean
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  • Us off, so to speak, and present us to god the father as perfect.
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  • Jesus is the only one who has those qualifications.
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  • He was born sinless.
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  • All the other teachers have sin and they admit to their
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  • Sinfulness and their failures.
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  • Jesus was absolutely perfect.
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  • And the good news is when we are falling into sin, so to speak,
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  • We need someone who's not a part of our predicament, and jesus is
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  • Not a part of our predicament.
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  • He became one of us in the flesh, but absolutely sinless to
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  • Take us to the father.
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  • I want you to think about the claims of jesus that we hear so
  • 00:24:49.767 --> 00:24:52.970
  • Much about and we forget how significant they are.
  • 00:24:52.970 --> 00:24:56.907
  • Lenin believed that if communism were to overtake russia, there
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  • Would be bread on every table.
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  • But he never had the nerve to say, "i am the bread of life.
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  • He who comes to me shall never hunger.
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  • He who believes in me shall never thirst."
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  • You know, freud actually believed that psychotherapy
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  • Would help people with all of their ailments.
  • 00:25:18.429 --> 00:25:21.565
  • We can debate whether or not that came to pass, but freud
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  • Would have never had the nerve to say, "peace i leave with you.
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  • My peace i give unto you.
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  • Not as the world gives, give i unto you.
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  • Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."
  • 00:25:34.545 --> 00:25:38.882
  • Imagine that, "my peace i give to you."
  • 00:25:38.882 --> 00:25:44.288
  • One other example, krishna believed, of course, in
  • 00:25:44.288 --> 00:25:47.891
  • Reincarnation, but he never had the nerve to say what jesus
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  • Said.
  • 00:25:52.496 --> 00:25:53.831
  • "i am the resurrection and the life.
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  • He who believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.
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  • And whosoever lives and believes in me shall never die."
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  • You say, "well, pastor lutzer, i have some doubts about the
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  • Christian faith.
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  • I even have some doubts about jesus."
  • 00:26:11.048 --> 00:26:13.817
  • Would you come to him as you are with your doubts?
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  • I can assure you he can handle them.
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  • There is a song that i like, and one of the stanzas
  • 00:26:20.991 --> 00:26:24.194
  • Says these words.
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  • "just as i am, though tossed about, with many a conflict,
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  • Many a doubt.
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  • Fightings within and fears without.
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  • Oh, lamb of god, i come, i come."
  • 00:26:36.674 --> 00:26:41.645
  • No wonder jesus said, "no man comes to the father but by me."
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  • Come to the savior as you are and you'll discover that he's as
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  • Good as his word.
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  • God bless you. you have a good day all day.
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  • Touré roberts: i think you have to go beyond being a believer.
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  • I think that we have to move from being a believer
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  • To knowers.
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