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Thriving in our Choices Part 2

Living Proof with Beth Moore

November 10, 2020

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Beth highlights some potential detonators that make us prone to regrettable choices.

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Thriving in our Choices Part 2

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There are some liesthat need dispelling.
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If you and I are gonna getto the truth about really,
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really good decision-making,about making good choices
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that set us up by the powerof the Holy Spirit to thrive,
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then we gotta dispel some liesbefore we ever get to the truth.
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Let's get some thingsout of the way
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so that we're not confusedby 'em.
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Let's set the deception aside,and there are some lies
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that really, really, reallyneed dismantling.
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My job as a teacheris to make sure
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the best of my understanding,
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led by the Holy Spirit,that you remember our lesson.
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And so I'll do anything:Corny works for me.
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Cheesy works for me.
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Whatever it takesto have enough rhythm to it
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or to be silly enoughor goofy enough
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or just memorable enough that,when somebody said,
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"What was that about?"
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You could look at themand tell 'em.
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That's what we're gonna do.
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Number one is this: Quashfalse voices about choices.
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I wanna hear you say number one.Say it back to me.
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All right, there are some liesthat need dispelling.
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If you and I are gonna getto the truth
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about really, reallygood decision making,
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about making good choicesthat set us up
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by the power of the Holy Spiritto thrive,
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then we gotta dispel some liesbefore we ever get to the truth.
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Let's get some things outof the way
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so that we're not confusedby 'em.
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Let's set the deception aside,and there are some lies
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that really, really,really need dismantling.
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Now, what I've done here thisweekend is I've brought us--just
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so that we'll knowthe difference,
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when we get there,
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that this sound is goingto be false--
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[dong, dong]
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And this soundis gonna be true--
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[ding, ding,ding, ding, ding]
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So that you will knowthe difference.
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Again, this one's gonnabe wrong--
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[dong, dong]
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This one's gonna be right.
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[ding, ding,ding, ding, ding]
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And so we're gonna go throughthis a little bit together
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because here's what I want youto--I'm gonna say 'em too fast
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for you to jot 'em down,
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but I am gonna pitch 'emon the board
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so that you can see 'em, butif there's one that you go,
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"Oh, that is me,"
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that is the liethat I need to dispel.
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Then you write that one down.
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But, beyond that, just listen upfor a minute.
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Just a couple of 'emI wanna throw at you
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that we have got to dispel.
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We're gonna quash false voicesabout choices.
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The first statement is this:"I've made choices
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that have ruined my whole life."
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Anybody?
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Would anybody in here be like,"I have been in the course
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of my life--"
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that you would be very prone tosay, "I can tell you right now,
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I have made choicesthat have ruined my whole life."
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[dong, dong]
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Wrong.
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Because we're never gonna get onwith it if you've already got it
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in your head, "It is too late.
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I've already done all that."
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I don't know what you thinkyou're doing
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now--taking up space?
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Taking up oxygen?
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I don't know, but you may haveit in your head,
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"Listen, I'm just existinguntil I get home to Jesus
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"because, honestly,I have already
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completely destroyed my life."
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[dong, dong]
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No, no, you haven't.
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Now, here's what I wannasay to you.
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You may, like I had, you mayhave wrecked your life,
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but you have not destroyedyour life.
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And let me tell you,the beautiful thing
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about wreckage and what makes itvery, very different
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from having destroyed our lives,
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because, "wreckage,"what happens,
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if your life has been wreckedby some choices,
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not ruined--you can't ruin it.
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You're still living it.
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But if it's wrecked,then here's what happens.
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When you surrender that wreckageto God,
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I can tell you that oneof two things will happen
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every single time.
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He is either--and yousurrender it to him.
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He will either repair the wreck,or he will redeem the wreck.
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I need somebodyto get that with me.
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See, there are people,
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you're thinkin',"I'mma tell you,
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I've already completelywrecked my family."
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Well, let me tell ya,you surrender
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that family to the Lord.
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And, for some of you,you literally will watch him
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over the years to come,one person at a time,
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one conversation at a time,
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start puttingthat back together.
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But if it never happens
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because they're also gettingto make their own choices,
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I can tell you this:
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He could redeemwhat was stolen from you,
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and you can still livea fruitful,
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thriving life.
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Let him repair.
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Let him redeem.
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Watch what he will do.
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The next statement is this,that we've got to quash:
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"Making good choices is equallychallenging for everyone."
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[dong, dong]
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Wrong, wrong.
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Our situationsvary dramatically.
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The tools we've been givenand taught
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in our upbringingdiffer dramatically.
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Each of us may havethe opportunity
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to make a good choice,
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but we do not all haveequal ease in making
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that good choicein that opportunity.
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Is anybody gettin' that with me?
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I want you to see1 Samuel chapter 30.
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Let me give you a little bitof background.
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Saul is king at this time.
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David has a small army of peopleat this time
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that are serving with him,
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and he and his men have beenout on a--to do battle,
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and when they come backto the village
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where their familieshave been,
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all of their wivesand their children are missing.
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All of them have beentaken captive.
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None of them have been killed,but they don't know that.
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All of them have been kidnapped.
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Not one of their family membersis there in that village
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when they get back,
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and so you can imaginethey're horrified.
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And so I want you to see
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verses 3 through 6,that say this.
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It says, "And when Davidand his men came to the city,
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"they found it burned with fire,
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"and their wives and sonsand daughters taken captain.
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"Then David and the peoplewho were with him
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"raised their voices and wept
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until they had no more strengthto weep."
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Can you imagine the scene,all of them going,
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and everything's burned?
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Imagine them seeing itfrom a distance,
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and all they can see is smokecoming up from that village,
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and they come, and they findnone of their wives,
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none of their children,and their grief is so strong.
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It says that they "raised uptheir voices and wept
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until they had no morestrength to weep."
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David's family hadalso been taken.
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Verse 6, says, "And Davidwas greatly distressed,
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"for the people spokeof stoning him,
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"because all the peoplewere bitter in soul,
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"each for his sonsand daughters.
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But David strengthenedhimself in the Lord his God."
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Can you imagine this,on any regular day,
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they had thought,"I believe we'll stone David"?
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Why did they have stonesin their hands?
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Because they had bitternessof soul.
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Had bitterness of soul.
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So important for us to see thatso many of our decisions
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that are out of kilterwhen we look
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at one anotherand judge one another
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for some of the decisionswe've made.
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Sometimes the circumstancesare overwhelming.
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The challenges are inestimable.
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There's real-life bondagethat can be in play.
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I was thinking.
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I've jotted a couple of thingsdown just to make the point.
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For instance, a severelyunderprivileged kid
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doesn't even knowwhat the good options are
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half the time.
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Anybody gettin' that with me?
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Doesn't meanhe can't make good decisions.
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He can.
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It means he's making decisionswith a whole lot fewer tools.
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A sexually abused childwon't develop the tools
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that naturally make "No"seem like a viable option
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for boundary setting.
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I mean, it's just different.
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It's just different.
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Does she have,does he have this,
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the opportunity to makea good choice?
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Yes.
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The same easein that opportunity?
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Absolutely not.
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Person who is only eatin' dirtdoes not know manna
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is even on the menu.
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If that's all they've had,why in the world
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would they think there wasanything else they could order?
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Ready for the next one?
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Good and evil are obvious.
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Make the right choice.
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It should be plain to you.
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[dong, dong]
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No, not always, not always.
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Hebrews 5, verse 11,"about this we have much to say,
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"and it is hard to explain,
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"since you have become dullof hearing.
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"For though by this timeyou ought to be teachers,
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"you need someoneto teach you again
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"the basic principlesof the oracles of God.
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"You need milk, not solid food,for everyone who lives on milk
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"is unskilled in the wordof righteousness,
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"since he is a child.
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"But solid foodis for the mature,
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"for those who have their powersof discernment
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"trained by constant practiceto distinguish
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good from evil."
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There are forms of good and evilthat only people that honestly
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have trained themselves upin the Word of God
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can even recognize.
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He said it's for people thatknow how to eat solid food
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in the Scriptures.
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I mean, that is,that's almost troubling.
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I gotta tell you,just last fall,
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I took the girlson a bucket-list trip
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that we had plannedfor years.
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I took them to Italy,
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and it was really,really important, to me,
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that I took themon frequent flyer miles
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because it was my rewardback to them
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because they had said,"Bye," to their mother
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so many times when I'd gotten onan airplane,
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and so I just kept watchingmy miles go up,
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and I thought,"One of these days,
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"y'all just keep kissin' megood-bye
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"because, one of these days,
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"I'm gon' put you on this planewith me
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when I have enough milesand a balance."
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Last mid-spring, I realizedI was getting really,
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really close to the miles,
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and I wanted itto be so special,
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and I wanted usto have great seats.
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And it got to be time, and sowe planned that trip,
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and we went.
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We had the time of our lives,but I will know--about
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a day five of eating pasta?
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And I don't wanna insult anyone,but where I come from,
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we have lotsof international foods
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because, you know,in the United States,
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we're made up of very,very diverse people,
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and they bring usall their foods.
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Is anybody understandingwhat I'm saying?
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I eat a different ethnic foodevery single day of the week
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back in Houston.
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It's the way we eat.
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We never eat just one kindof food,
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never five days of pasta.
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I looked at my girlsand said,
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"I need you to understandsomething today.
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"I need to use my teeth.
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[audience laughing]
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"If I don't use my teeth today,something's gonna happen.
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It's gonna be ugly."
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I said--I went through the wholething: "Do you think God's not
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given us teeth for a reason?"
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And so everythingbecame--I would run
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from restaurant to restaurant.
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Melissa can testify to this--runfrom restaurant to restaurant.
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You know how they putthe menu out front
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under the little glass?
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I would run to it and look atit and go, "No teeth, no teeth."
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And if it was no teeth,we would not stay
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because there comes a timewhen you gotta use your teeth.
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You just got to.
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You can't just gum the Wordof God all your life.
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[audience laughing]
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At some point,bite into the thing, amen?
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At some point, leave sometooth marks on the page.
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Hi, I'm Selenaand this is Natalie.
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We know this has been one ofthe most difficult years for us,
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collectively, but wewant you to know that God
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has not once been farfrom you in all of this.
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(Natalie)We've put togethera personal boxed set
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that will include a Bible,a daily devotional,
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a digital downloadof Beth's full teaching
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a journal, and a pen.
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In the teaching includedwith your quiet-time box,
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Beth shares an exampleof how she does her
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daily personal timewith the Lord.
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(Selena)It's not necessarily somethingwe need to copy.
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Your individualrelationship with Jesus
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gets to be its own thing.
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Perhaps you know a new believeror just someone looking
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to get more committedto the Word this year.
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This would be the perfect giftto help inspire them to find joy
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in the Scriptures daily.
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(Natalie)These tools, as Beth says,allows the Word
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to speak over youbefore the world does.
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We look forward to seeingyou next week.
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♪♪♪
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♪♪♪
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(Beth)I gotta tell you, we haveall been through a lot
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in the last year asI have never in my life.
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I say to you, I have neverhad more confidence
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in the pure gospel of ourLord Jesus Christ.
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♪ O my soul, lift up the name ♪
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♪ of the one who saves ♪
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♪ He reigns forever ♪
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♪ O my soul,lift up your praise ♪
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♪ I will riseand bless the Lord ♪
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♪ O my soul ♪
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♪ O my soul ♪
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♪ O my soul ♪
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♪ O my soul ♪♪
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♪♪♪
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Let me tell you something.
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He's come to speakin power to us this weekend,
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because his Word
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is fresh and alive.
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That's the miracleof the Scriptures.
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(female announcer)Come join us in a city near you.
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This one's really,really important.
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This is more broad-spectrum thanthe ones that we've said so far,
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but I've got to say it'cause I think it's titanic.
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For every gathering like this,
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it's criticalthat we dispel this lie.
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I'm hopin' this landswith somebody in this room.
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Last statement is this:"For the most part,
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people don't really change."
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Now, I'm not gonna ask you toraise your hand or anything,
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but when was the last timeyou said it?
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When was the last timeyou thought it?
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And, I mean, you thought itbased on evidence,
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like, "I knew it."
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You know, he said or she saidthey really had changed, and,
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obviously, you can see theydidn't, and so the thing is,
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for the most part,
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there are a few exceptions hereand there,
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but for the most part,people don't really change.
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[dong, dong]
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Wrong.
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Nothing could be furtherfrom the Gospel message.
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It is conversion,and it is transformation,
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over and over and over.
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We wanna catch ourselves in thisdemonic lie every single time
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it rears up its head becauseconversion and transformation
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are the two valves ofthe heart of the Gospel.
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Mary Magdalene,delivered from numerous demons
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to become the first evangelistin the Gospel.
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Transformation, change,do not ever become
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so cynical in the faith
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that you have it in your headthat,
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"Really, at the end of the day,people don't change."
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Number two is this:"Recognize every choose-fuse."
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Okay, what is a fuse?
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Number one, in the definition,"a continuous train
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"of combustiblesubstance enclosed
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"in a cord or cablefor setting off
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an explosive chargeby transmitting fire to it."
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Listen up to two, "a mechanicalor electrical detonating device
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"for setting off the burstingcharge of a projectile,
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bomb, or torpedo."
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I wanna suggest to you thatwe have things in our lives
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that are fuses to us and that,when that fuse goes off,
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it's detonators.
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Everybody, say, "detonator."
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When something detonatesinside of us,
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that is when we are most proneto make a regrettable choice.
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It's not gonna be whenwe're feeling levelheaded.
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It's gonna be when somethingin us,
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when a fuse blows--and, I mean,
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then that decision comes outlike a projectile.
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Anybody knowwhat I'm talkin' about?
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Like, that thing just shoots offlike a rocket.
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And so here is the thing.
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If you and I could get towhere we could recognize
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some choose-fuses,
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then we would knowwhen it happens.
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"Oh-oh, that's what that is."
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Fear--huge.
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Fear never makes a gooddecision for us--not ever.
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But it is a huge detonatingdevice because,
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I mean, when it rises up,I mean, that fuse goes off,
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and it starts to push downthat lever
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that sends up that projectile,and I'm telling you,
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at that point, at that point,we gotta know that fuse
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just went off, and "What amI going to do with this?"
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Fear stunts our growth.
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If we maintain a strongholdof fear,
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we will not fulfillour callings.
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We won't.
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It's not that we might not.We won't.
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We won't because we willbe too scared to do
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what Jesus calls us to do.
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Panic is the next one.
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Could--anybody agrees withme, panic is the world's worst?
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Honestly, I don't know--in thislist of things,
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I don't know anythingthat sets me up
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for a poor decisionany faster.
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I cannot have a clear thoughtin my brain when I panic.
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That is a choose-fuse.
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It is fear on fire--anybody?
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Fear on fire.
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The next one is insecurity.
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Ignore the fuse of insecurity.
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Ignore it.
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Tell it, "No, you haveno authority over me.
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"You have no dominion over me.
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That's not what I'm gonna do."
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We have to get secure in whowe are in Christ,
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in who we are.
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Nobody can bring to that mixwhat you can bring
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because they're not you.
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Even if they have your samegifting, you might say,
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"No, no, they're betterthan me at the gifting."
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But they're not youwith that gifting.
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You have to believe thatyou've got a uniqueness
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that you get to bring to themix, that you get to live out.
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This has got to getinto us because,
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let me tell you something:
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We're not gonna winanybody with our insecurity.
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We may make them feel sorryfor us for a while,
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but then they're gonnawithdraw.
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We get to makea different decision.
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We're talkin' about detonatorshere, when "boom,"
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something so blows upinside of you
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and inside of methat we are set up
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in that moment.
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We got this pre-idiocymoment here,
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this window of opportunity, andwhat are we gonna do with it?
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And intense sexual desireis one of them.
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I would be an idiotnot to mention this one.
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I wanna tell you something.
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We can make a decision outof intense sexual desire
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that is not just immoralbut deadly,
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terribly, terribly dangerous.
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We live in a hook-up culturewhere people just, like--I mean,
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you can just, like, have thatintense sexual desire
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overtake you,
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and you can just get onlineand be with somebody
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in no time at all,
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and it's disastrous.
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It's disastrous.
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I wanna throw this one out.
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I don't know a better wayto say it,
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that one thing thatcan really, really, really
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be a huge obstacleto making good,
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thriving decisions is hatredlodged in the heart,
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hatred lodged in the heart.
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We talked about panicbeing fear on fire.
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Well, hatred is dislike on fire.
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Hatred is always passionate,always, always.
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It's always energetic.
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It's always got heat to it.
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Hatred is never withoutheat--dislike can be.
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But by the time we gothatred, it is passionate.
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It is passionate.
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So it consumes a lot of energy.
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And, now, listen, don'tanybody misunderstand me.
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There are people in our livesthat, in natural means,
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have deserved our hatred.
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There are situations thathave deserved our hatred.
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There are people who have hurtus, abandoned us, cheated us,
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betrayed us, lied about us,treated us unjustly,
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but the think about hatred is
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it does not just becomea killer
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in the relationship
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with the personthat is its target.
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It becomes a murdererto its host.
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Jesus compared hatred to murder,and there's a reason for that.
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Hatred kills allsorts of things.
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Hatred cannot doanything but kill.
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That's its job.It kills relationships.
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It kills security.
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It kills peace,and not just its target.
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It kills its host, sometimesquickly, sometimes slowly.
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That's why Jesus couldcompare it to murder.
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Here's the strange thingwhere our topic is concerned.
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It clouds our choicesbecause it puts us in the dark.
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For some of us, blind hatredis making our choices for us.
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And I'll show you howmuch it affects our choices.
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I'm gonna bring up 1 John 2:11,and it says this:
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"But whoever hates his brotheris in darkness
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"and walks in the darkness,and does not know
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"where he is going,because the darkness
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has blinded his eyes."
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Do you realize that, for someof us, when we're goin' like,
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"I can't even see my way,"
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"I don't know even knowwhat people are talkin' about
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when they say they reallyhave vision for something,"
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"I mean,my way just looks dark,"
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could it be that there isa lodged hatred inside?
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Because that lodged hatreddarkens the path
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until we do not knowwhere we are going.
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This is a very, very wonderfultime to surrender that
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and to let it go.
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I want you to turn with meto Deuteronomy 1,
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all the way backto Deuteronomy 1.
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I wanna show you a veryinteresting little thing here.
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I was thinking about how hate'shost is often also its target.
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I don't know if I have dealtwith many things more
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in the course of my life--whenyou do some of the stupid things
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I've done in my life,then you kind of have
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that leaningtowards self-loathing.
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There is nothingthat God is confusing
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between our self-loathingand our humility.
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They're not the same thing.
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Self-loathing is its ownmurderous act
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toward ourselvesthat God created
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in his beautiful,beautiful image.
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I want you to see these wordsout of Deuteronomy 1:25-32.
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It says,"And they took in their hands
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"some of the fruit of the landand brought it down to us,
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"and brought us word againand said,
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"'It is a good land thatthe Lord our God is giving us.'
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"Yet you would not go up,but you rebelled against
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"the command of the Lordyour God.
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"And you murmured in your tentsand said, 'Because the Lord
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"'hated us, he has brought usout of the land of Egypt,
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to the land of the Amorites,to destroy us."'"
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It goes on to say
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that even though the Lordhad promised them
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that he would go before themand he would fight
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their battles for them,in verse 32,
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"Yet in spite of this wordyou did not believe the Lord
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"your God, who went before youin the way to seek you out
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"to place a placeto pitch your tents,
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"in fire by nightand in the clouds by day,
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to show you what wayyou should go."
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Somebody in this room, you just,honestly, somewhere deep inside
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of you, you think,"The Lord hates me.
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He hates me."
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It's an interesting thing inDeuteronomy chapter 7:
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"It was not becauseyou were more in number
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"than any other peoplethat the Lord chose you,
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"for you were the fewest.
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It was becausethe Lord loves you."
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The Lord loves you.
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♪♪♪
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I want you to understandwhat is happening here
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because you are watchingsomething revolutionary,
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and sometimes we can missthe forest for the trees,
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and I want you to understandwith me
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that Mary was in thereat Jesus's feet,
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listening to him teach,women in theology class,
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right here, in Luke chapter 10.
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