Matt Chandler: Becoming Like Jesus | Life Today

April 21, 2026 | 27:29

The author and pastor maps out a path to holiness that embraces life’s ups and downs.

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Matt chandler: it has left the christian imagination in the
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West that suffering is normal, and what feels like a loss to us
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Might actually be a win.
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I describe sanctification not as up and to the right but think of
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A coil laid horizontally, where every high and low is actually
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Still moving you towards something, and that something is
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To become like jesus.
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Announcer: next.
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Randy robison: hey, welcome to "life today."
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We're excited that you're here.
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I'm randy robinson, this is blynda lane.
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Blynda lane: happy to be here.
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Randy: we are here with a dynamic pastor, author, and kind
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Of a great guy to talk to.
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His name is matt chandler, and he has a brand-new book out.
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It's called "becoming like jesus," yeah, okay, and there's
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A word on there, blynda, i'm curious, holiness, the everyday,
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What does it say?
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The everyday journey to living a life of holiness.
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What do you think of when i say the word holiness?
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Because i know there's a lot of different things going in
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People's minds right now.
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Blynda: set apartness.
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Randy: set apart, that's good.
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I like that one, you're getting the root words here.
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Blynda: i like that.
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Randy: well, i wanna find out exactly what that means.
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Blynda: what does matt say about it though?
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Randy: matt, welcome to "life today."
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Matt: oh, man, it's good to be back.
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It feels like moments ago we were here.
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Randy: always good to see you.
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Matt: i love that.
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Randy: and this is one of those hot words.
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I think it means different things to different people.
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What does it mean to you?
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Matt: well, i think it doesn't matter what it means to
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Me, right?
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I think it matters how the scriptures define it, and
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Holiness is certainly being set apart, and so god calls us to be
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A holy people, but it's also a word that scares the heck out
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Of everybody.
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Blynda: take us through on becoming like jesus.
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You're focusing a lot on the matthew 5, the beatitudes.
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Take us through kind of the heart behind the book and what
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You're--the message you're wanting to give.
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Matt: well, it's a book that i would argue is probably 23 years
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In the making.
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I don't think a young man should write this book.
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I've pastored the same church for 23 years, i've ministered in
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The same location to the same people, and i wanted to write an
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Honest book about sanctification.
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I just think most people think that sanctification is up and to
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The right, and then what happens is a significant disorientation
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When they realize that's not the way this is going to work, and
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So the way--
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Blynda: and all the sudden god is now disappointed in some way.
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Matt: that's right, and if you'll pay attention to a lot
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Of, not all of, but a lot of the deconstructionists, their
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Stories sound like that.
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They grew up in church, and they were following jesus, and then
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Their mom got sick, or then they lost their job, or then their
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Friend was, and it's like it has left the christian imagination
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In the west that suffering is normal and what feels like a
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Loss to us might actually be a win.
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I describe sanctification not as up and to the right, but think
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Of a coil laid horizontally, where every high and low is
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Actually still moving you towards something, and that
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Something is to become like jesus.
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So, if you think of a horizontal coil moving forward, okay, then
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What is he doing?
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What is he up to?
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Well, i embed the book in the beatitudes of matthew 5, and i'm
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Making the argument jesus didn't come to find these people, he
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Came to make them, and so he's not looking for, like, to
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Develop these eight character attributes in you, but rather
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Through these eight character formation things, over and over
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Again, he forms you more and more and more into the image
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Of jesus.
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And so that's kind of the framework.
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Randy: so, how--contrast those two in a way that i can
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Grasp, right?
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Because i've always felt like, you know, if i wanted to be like
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Jesus, i just need to act more this way, right?
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That's kind of the--
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Matt: so, you can do that, but you're not gonna be like jesus,
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Because jesus, right?
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Is full of the holy spirit, connected to the father, and so
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If you're watching jesus live a life of discipline, the one that
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Most frequently is in the scriptures is withdrawing to be
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With the lord, right?
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Now, you're not seeing the other ones come to the forefront, but
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If i ask you to study jesus's life, and i ask you to--which
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Part of this is requiring an alarm clock, which part of this
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Is requiring, you're gonna say he's up early, he's up all night
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Doing what?
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Connecting to the presence of god.
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So, transformation happens in the presence of god so that the
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Banner over our life should be i want to orient my life around
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The presence of jesus.
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How do i keep moving towards him?
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How do i shrink any distance between me and the presence
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Of jesus?
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So if we think through the beatitudes, there's some--like,
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Some theologians would say they actually work in succession,
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That blessed are the poor in spirit, there's your salvation.
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Nobody comes into the kingdom without being poor in spirit,
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They're not wrong, and then it kind of moves through a
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Successive kind of flow.
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I think you can make that argument once.
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Like, the first time you go through it is probably a
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Succession of those things, but i don't think you could say once
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You've been persecuted for righteousness' sake,
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You're done.
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I've been in, you know, following jesus now 33, 34
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Years, do you know how many times i've had to learn blessed
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Are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of god?
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Like, over and over and over again, but every time it's a
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Different experience.
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There's something different about it.
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And so when i'm being taught life circumstances from the hand
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Of god or my own stupidity, i get invited into the presence of
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God to avail my heart to him and let the work of formation
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Take place.
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The way it's working now for most people is, oh, man, i made
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This mistake, i was judge instead of the merciful one, let
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Me repent of that and just move on, but what we wanna be able to
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Do is just go i want this moment to do its work in me.
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I want this moment to form me.
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That's what god's committed to.
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He who began the good work in you will be faithful to carry it
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Unto completion.
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When does that end?
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At the coming of the lord.
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But in this space between, this already but not yet, every high,
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Every low, forming, shaping, and if you don't see it that way, i
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Think you'll lose heart, and i think you'll create distance
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From god.
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Blynda: in this in between you speak about, i feel like--i
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Think you've even referred to it before, we like things done more
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Quickly, and we're in a long journey, it's like a marathon,
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Not a sprint, and you even make the analogy that we we're a
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Microwave society but a crock pot is our spiritual walk.
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How do you encourage the believer who in this coil you're
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Talking about, that's a long journey.
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You said you've experienced that poor in spirit over and over
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And over.
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It's hard, especially the older you get to feel like, man, am i
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Ever going to arrive?
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Matt: yeah, here's what i think's required, deep work over
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Time in community.
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So if you have that grid, now you know what you signed up for.
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So deep work, the sheer volume of surface-level triviality that
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Most christians walk in, like never get down to the heart, all
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Above the line, strength and might, not heart and soul, like
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Vulnerability, confession, deep work, and then the
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Acknowledgement that i am not on some quick journey, i'm on a
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Long journey home, and jesus knew what he was buying on
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The cross.
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Like, jesus knew what he was buying on the cross.
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The reason it's so public and so graphic is because of me, and
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Jesus knew what he was buying on the cross, and he's not asking
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For a mulligan.
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And so he is as committed to me in that journey as he's ever
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Been since the foundation of the earth was laid, if you want to
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Believe the apostle paul in ephesians.
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And so deep work over time, one degree of glory to the next, but
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One degree over two decades is a great movement, great movement.
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And then deep work over time in community.
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You cannot become like jesus without the effects that come
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From community that's doing that deep work over time with you.
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If you have those three things there, and you'll lean into
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Those three things, because they're gonna be times that the
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Deep work is a little painful, and it'd be a lot easier just to
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Kind of just leave buried what's buried and move forward
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In might.
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There'll be time that the slowness of what christ is
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Accomplishing in us feels like there's a better fix somewhere
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Else, and you'll do spiritual bypass.
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You know, you'll go off with some secondary theological
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Thing, and you'll baptize it in the holy spirit, and it's called
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Spiritual bypass.
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Or people will bother you, and you'll change churches eight
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Times, and you'll, you know, you'll be spring loaded
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With offense.
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It's called a belonging deficit, which is ironic.
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The reason people run all the time is they have belonging
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Deficits, and once you have a belonging deficit, you read
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Rejection in a room that it's not.
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Like, i had a young woman share with me that one of the reasons
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She doesn't like going to the church she goes to, she's not a
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Member of ours, is because when she's there everybody's judging
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Her, and i was like, well, tell me more, say more about how that
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Plays out.
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And then she told this story, i mean this is--i'm gonna rub
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My head.
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She was like, well, i walked in, and i went up, my husband
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Doesn't go, so he wasn't with me, and everybody's asking me
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About my marriage, like judging me for my husband not
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Being there.
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I'm like, or they know you've been married in a newish
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Marriage, and they're genuinely curi--but you see what a
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Belonging deficit does?
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It makes her read offense where there's none.
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It's just people trying to connect with her, and she's not
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Connecting because she has a belonging deficit to begin with.
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But if you'll commit, and you'll dive in with people for the long
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Haul, man, the lord uses that in deep ways.
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He's used it in my own life.
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I mean, there--i don't even-- i'm not supposed to say this,
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There are people in my church i don't like, and what the lord's
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Taught me over time is that most frequently what i don't like in
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Them is actually something in me, and so when i go to the lord
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And begin to pray, he'll do work in me that changes how i
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See them.
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And if you look at the fifty-something one another's in
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Scripture, one of them is tolerate one another.
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Like, the lord just knew like there's gonna be brother, you
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Just gotta tolerate that brother.
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Like, you ain't gonna be best friends, you ain't going on
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Vacation, but you can tolerate him.
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And i've just learned people are so quick, they don't give
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Belonging a chance.
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They go to church, but they don't really belong to one, and
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I think the biblical call to become like jesus is to belong.
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Randy: here's the problem, and because i hear the same
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Thing too.
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People in church aren't perfect.
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Some of them don't even act like christians or act like
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Christians are supposed to.
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What do you say to the person who maybe have like genuine
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Observations, like these people don't, whatever?
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Because a lot of them give up for some--i mean, the reason,
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The particular reason might be valid, but your greater point
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Is scripture.
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What do you say to them?
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Matt: well, one, i would wanna make some distinctions.
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Like, if i'm sitting with them right now, we're having the--i
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Wanna talk about what you're seeing.
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I don't want you in some place that's destructive or abusive
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Or toxic.
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So if that's going on, get out.
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Yeah, i don't care what other good thing might be happening
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There, abusive, toxic, destructive, not difficult,
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Difficult stay, destructive go.
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And if that's what you're experiencing, i'm telling you to
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Get out.
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If you're just pointing at the normal hypocrisy of a human
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Being, i would tell you praise god you would feel welcome
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There right?
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You're gonna feel welcome there.
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Randy: there's room for one more.
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Matt: that's right, like, if you're out there, and you
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Haven't joined the community because you can't find a perfect
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One, i would just say as soon as you showed up, you would ruin
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The perfect one.
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You better see yourself a little bit with a little bit more
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Reality than maybe you are right now.
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And so we're all, like who's batting 1,000 of us?
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Man, i'm not.
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You come too close to me, you'll see the lord's still got--he's
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Got some things he's gotta shave off this brother.
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Randy: and you're the pastor.
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Matt: that's right, isn't that wild?
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And so like nobody, or even like biblically this is true,
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Historically this is true.
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Like, i often think of peter.
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So, you've got that acts 10 moment at cornelius's
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House, what?
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He's got the vision of the blanket, kill and eat.
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Brother had that pork sandwich for the first time, you know,
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Broke out in tongues, and then he's at cornelius's house, then
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He's a part of, like even states it's illegal for me to do what
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I'm about to do.
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Then cornelius and his whole house converts to christianity.
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Now we've got our gentiles moving, the kingdom of god fully
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Breaking through.
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But paul has to rebuke him all these years later in galatia
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For what?
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For being a racist.
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How?
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He had a vision from god, an angel of the lord spoke to
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His face.
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He was there when jesus was arrested, saw him crucified,
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Touched his resurrected body, ate fish with the resurrected
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Jesus over a smoky fire, right?
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And then is used by the spirit, not just at pentecost, but to
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Usher in the gentiles.
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And then, you know, decades later, same old racism rearing
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Its head in galatia.
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Paul had to rebuke him to his face.
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Like, you're like, okay, great.
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If god can be patient with that, he can be patient with me.
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Randy: that's the progressive sanctification that you're
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Talking about.
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All right, so what hope does the average person, me, blynda, the
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Viewer, have to become like jesus?
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Matt: well, i think your holiness and you becoming like
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Jesus is fully paid for and available.
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I think it's fully--i'm not thinking your holiness.
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Both your positional holiness before the lord and the
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Manifestation of that holiness in your life, paid for fully by
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The blood of jesus christ, paid for in full, past, present, and
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Future, fully, freely, and forever, done, paid for.
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Spirit sealed in you with the promise so that you now have the
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Power to begin to live into.
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You just need to be patient with yourselves and repent quickly
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And lean into difficult seasons and suffering, begin to see them
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As normative, because they are.
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They are for men and women in the bible, they are for
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Everybody else, and if we didn't live in a moment where we could
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Project this curated image of ourselves, we would actually be
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More encouraged by just how much suffering is going on all
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Around us.
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Like, i pastor a church, there's so much pain out there, but
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Nobody's willing to really talk about it.
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They cover it up, like i said, with a curated image of
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Themselves on instagram or tiktok or facebook or wherever
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It is, but the reality is the world's filled with a lot of
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Pain, and most people are carrying pain from something
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Behind them or terrified of something in the future that
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They think's coming for them, and, man, if we could begin to
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Do that deep work, what happened back here, right?
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We could understand that it's gonna take time to unravel and
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Renew me, and then i need to find people who want this as bad
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As i want it, and then i'm saying yes to them, and i know
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They're gonna bother me, and i know i'm gonna bother them,
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There's gonna be something in the sparks of that that
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Produces transformation.
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So, i don't care who you are, i don't care if you don't know a
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Theological term, or you don't know where to open in your
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Bible, if you are a christian, your holiness has been paid for,
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And i want you to walk in the victory of it, and i want you to
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Walk in the joy of it, because holiness brings these pictures
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Of like sullen ashen faces, but like holiness, you should be
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Dripping with the oil of gladness, like dripping with the
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Oil of gladness.
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Randy: that's encouraging.
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We just have to let him do what he came to do, which is to make
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Us more like him.
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Matt: yeah, move near the fire.
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That's the way i would often-- if i was preaching it, it's not
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The way i wrote on it.
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The way i would preach it is like how far are you from
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The furnace?
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Like, the only thing that i'm telling you to do is to get
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Close to the furnace.
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And the closer you get to the furnace, the more the things
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That you want to change will begin to change.
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Like, you've been around recovery, you've been around
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Things like that.
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You know, an alcoholic who manages the behavior but hasn't
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Been transformed is going to be miserable and in a fight the
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Rest of their lives, but the former alcoholic sealed with the
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Spirit, in love with jesus, intimately situated there, not
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Only has the discipline of not having the drink, but has been
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Given a new heart.
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Randy: doesn't want it.
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Matt: yeah, and that's the freedom, and this is jesus's
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Beef with the pharisees.
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This is why he says to 'em, "you have heard it said, but i
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Say," why?
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Because he wants us, right?
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Not just physical behavior.
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We're not moralistic deists.
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It's not what we believe.
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The the thing that makes us unique is we're indwelt with the
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Spirit of the triune creator god of the universe and that he
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Loves us and is committed to transforming us over time.
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Randy: that's great, that's great, and he's committed to
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You, he's committed to you, to me, he's committed to you, and
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If you want a little bit of just pushing you towards the furnace,
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You can pick up "becoming like jesus."
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In fact, i'd love to send it to you, and there's a way that we
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Can do that.
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It involves you kind of doing what jesus did, which is caring
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For the poor.
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Right now we feed about 350,000 children every day in the
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Various mission feeding programs, but there are more.
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It's hard to say, it hurts to say it, but if we don't respond,
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If we don't maintain and in some places increase,
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Those mothers will bury their children.
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Blynda: i can't even, like, fathom how a mother--the biggest
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Fear a mom has is that they would lose a child, and this--
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These moms have experienced losing multiple children,
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And it's so avoidable.
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I think that's the thing that when i watch it i think oh my
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Goodness, if we could just get there to help.
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The urgency that is there, that if we can just help them, we can
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Bring the aid that they need.
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Randy: they've exhausted every ability they have in these
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Situations where we go into it, and oftentimes it's drought a
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Lot of times, you know?
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It's just the weather has turned against them.
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It's crops that have failed for various reasons.
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They've worked hard to plant, and they expect that harvest.
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They go--and it doesn't come.
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And when they say if no help comes, we're afraid that we
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Won't be here, we won't exist, that's the reality that they
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Live in.
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We're asking you today to come alongside of us and give them
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Hope by giving them a simple bowl of food,
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And it breaks down like this.
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If you wanna help feed a child for the next several months,
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$30 will help feed 3 children, $50 will help feed 5 children,
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$100, 10 children, you see the pattern.
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A $1,000 gift today would help feed 100 children for several
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Months, and that's how we get them out of this cycle of
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Desperation and poverty to give them a hope and a future.
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So, yes, i'm asking you to give them a bowl of food today.
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Make the absolute best gift that you can.
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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'll go online or go to the phone
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Right now.
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We need to hear from you.
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It's so close to my heart that these children eat every day,
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And it's because of you.
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Thank you, and please continue.
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And today, if you would like matt chandler's book, and i
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Would highly recommend it, "becoming like jesus," you can
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Request that with any gift, we would love to send it to you.
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And blynda, i know it's gonna bless people.
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Blynda: thank you, matt, for joining us.
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This has been--it's so good, and i'm so excited for this book
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To come out.
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Matt: thank you.
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Randy: and we appreciate all of you guys joining us.
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Join us every time, tomorrow, yesterday, because you can go
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Online and see old shows, and we'll see you again next time on
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"life today."
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[music]
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Joseph prince: that's what the power of right believing
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Is all about.
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You know, it's about focusing on jesus and his obedience.
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You know, scripture says in romans 5:19, "by one man's
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Disobedience, many were made sinners."
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So that's adam's sin.
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"by one man's obedience, many will be made righteous," okay?
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So, sinners sin because they are sinners, okay?
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We are not sinners because we sin.
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We are sinners because adam sinned, all right?
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So, adam's sin made us sinners, therefore we sin.
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Now, by the same token--it sounds so unfair, doesn't it?
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But by the same token--this is the divine unfairness,
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All right?
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By one man's obedience, we are made righteous, okay?
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And when we believe that, it does not produce licentiousness.
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It produces right--i always say this, right believing produces
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Right living.
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How come it that sometimes, you know, we have more faith in what
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Adam has done than what jesus has done?
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For example, when we were sinners, we knew, we were
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Taught, we were we were preached to and all that that you cannot
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Save yourself by good works, all right?
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Only christ can save you.
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In other words, what the first adam did was so powerful that we
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Cannot undo it by our good works.
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No matter what good you do, you are still a sinner.
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You need to be born again.
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But now that we are saved and we are made righteous by that one
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Man's obedience, how come sometimes, all right, when we
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Sin or we fall, okay, they tell us that now you are unrighteous,
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You need to get right.
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In other words, i can undo what jesus did just in one day, by
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One act, whereas, when i was a sinner, i can't even undo what
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Adam did, you know?
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And we're not even talking about the much more of the book of
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Romans, the much more of what jesus has done.
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We are putting them both on the same ground, and we don't even
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Have enough respect and appreciation for what jesus has
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Done.
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And believing right will always produce right because the
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Essence of the gospel is the just shall live by faith.
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Or i can say it like this, the just shall live by right
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Believing.
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There's a lot of preaching on right living, right living, and
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We all want right living.
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But how to get there from here, all right?
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Right believing.
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We need to get right believing in our hearts and our thoughts,
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And one of the best ways is to know that as he is, so are we in
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This world, you know?
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And i've got people who are bad tempered and on addictions, and
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The book has a lot of testimonies of many from
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America, especially those who are--you guys are quite a mess
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Up.
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James robison: no greater truth ever spoken.
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Joseph: and the thing is that many of the testimonies are on
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Freedom from addictions: drugs, eating disorders, depression,
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And especially pornography, sexual sins.
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I got a young man from new york who shared that, you know, he's
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Trained in the martial arts, so he understands discipline.
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But he has been hooked to pornography ever since he was
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13, and now he's in his 20s.
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And he says that, "i used my discipline and willpower to
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Overcome it, it got worse," all right?
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"but when i began to confess and believe that i am the
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Righteousness of god in christ," all right,
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"'father, i thank you.
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You have made me righteous in christ,' and even in the midst
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No desire to."
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Matt Chandler: Becoming Like Jesus | Life Today

April 21, 2026 | 27:29

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