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Life Today with James Robison | Jennie Allen - Lies About Ourselves | April 29, 2026
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- Male announcer: the following program is sponsored by friends
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- Of life outreach international and the friends
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- And partners of tbn.
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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?
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- Remind me."
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- Like, "remind me that i am not a product of my book sales."
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- Like, "remind me that i am not mattering in this life because i
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- Have, you know, this many friends that call, and care
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- About me, and wanna, you know, spend time with me."
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- "remind me that these are not the measuring sticks by which
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- We live."
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- Randy: here's the, i think, the tough question, at least it
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- Would be for me.
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- It is for me.
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- So i take your three kind of core lies and i go, "okay,
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- I'm worthless."
- 00:10:29.774 --> 00:10:31.109
- Well, i have been, at times.
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- There are times when my wife really needed my help and my
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- Support and i didn't provide it.
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- 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.
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- And, "i'm unlovable."
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- I know i've been a complete jerk.
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- And, you know, i would be real hard to love at that point.
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- I think for a lot of people, you're going, "yeah, these are
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- Lies," and a lot of us are sitting here and going--
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- Jennie: "they're kind of true."
- 00:11:03.942 --> 00:11:05.276
- Randy: "they're not entirely lies, it's the truth."
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- Jennie: so there's a whole chapter in the book called "the
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- 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
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- Not helpless, that finally we could control our lives, or that
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- Finally we could be loved by everyone and no longer would
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- That be an issue for us anymore.
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- Or that we could finally hit some mark out there in the
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- World, and then we would matter, and then we would be
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- Worth something.
- 00:11:29.267 --> 00:11:30.635
- That's the lie under the lie, is that you think you could
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- 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.
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- You can see in scripture, like at times, scripture calls us
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- Blades of grass, grasshoppers, like, just meaningless.
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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,
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- "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
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- Be loved.
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- Like, you're loved because you are, because you exist, because
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- God knit you together in your mother's womb, and he knows
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- Every hair on your head, and he knows everything about you, and
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- He loves you anyway.
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- And he still made a plan to get you back.
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- The beauty of the story of god is that we get to exhale, that
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- 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
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- To perform.
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- You need to suck the marrow out of everything in this life.
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- You need to hit the marks.
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- 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.
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- Parenting, after i finished a speaking event, after i, you
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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?
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- The moment that the enemy appeared to jesus in
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- The wilderness.
- 00:15:21.265 --> 00:15:22.633
- What a moment.
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- 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
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- Living for this kingdom.
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- I'm living for the next."
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- In every answer it was, "i eat bread you don't know about."
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- So he's saying, you know, that in every interaction it was--he
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- Answered him with a view of his life in the world that came from
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- Scripture, was rooted in scripture, but the enemy used
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- Scripture too.
- 00:16:04.275 --> 00:16:05.710
- But he answered, jesus answered, with the stability of knowing
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- Whose he was and where he was going.
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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.
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- He's not hiding.
- 00:17:18.816 --> 00:17:20.151
- Jennie: he will.
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- 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?
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- 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
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- 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?
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- Blynda: absolutely.
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Three children for several months.
- 00:20:24.335 --> 00:20:27.538
- And you go, "how can you do that?"
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- For one, it's the power of the dollar, but also it's the power
- 00:20:28.906 --> 00:20:31.842
- Of the people, like isak and many that you see in these
- 00:20:31.842 --> 00:20:34.979
- Videos, who are on the ground.
- 00:20:34.979 --> 00:20:36.914
- The systems are in place.
- 00:20:36.914 --> 00:20:38.282
- We're in a unique position at life outreach because we've
- 00:20:38.282 --> 00:20:41.819
- Been doing this for so long.
- 00:20:41.819 --> 00:20:43.220
- We have the relationships and the systems, the distribution,
- 00:20:43.220 --> 00:20:47.591
- So that $100 will help feed 10 children for several months.
- 00:20:47.591 --> 00:20:51.395
- Many of you could give a gift of $1,000 and it would feed 100
- 00:20:51.395 --> 00:20:55.299
- Children for several months.
- 00:20:55.299 --> 00:20:57.868
- 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.
- 00:21:02.206 --> 00:21:06.110
- The situation in many places is so desperate that they literally
- 00:21:06.110 --> 00:21:10.047
- Cannot wait another day.
- 00:21:10.047 --> 00:21:12.783
- We're there.
- 00:21:12.783 --> 00:21:14.118
- We need you to step up, to join us in mission feeding.
- 00:21:14.118 --> 00:21:18.255
- Announcer: right now across the continent of africa, children
- 00:21:19.690 --> 00:21:22.960
- Are suffering, facing severe malnutrition and even death.
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- With food reserves critically depleted and many areas
- 00:21:27.198 --> 00:21:30.334
- 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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- Help feed and care for 3, 5, or 10 children for 3 full months.
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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
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- Much about and we forget how significant they are.
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- 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.
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- 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."
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- Imagine that, "my peace i give to you."
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- One other example, krishna believed, of course, in
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- Reincarnation, but he never had the nerve to say what jesus
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- Said.
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- "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."
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- 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
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- 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."
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- 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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