Thriving in our Choices Part 3
November 17, 2020
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Talking today about tools to help us choose wisely.
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Thriving in our Choices Part 3
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- But the thingabout hatred is
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- it does not just becomea killer 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 killsall sorts of things.
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- Hatred cannot doanything but kill.
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- ♪♪♪
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- ♪♪♪
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- Would you turn with me, please,to Luke, chapter 10?
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- Oh, we're gonna have fun today.
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- We are gonna havesome fun today.
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- See, I think Bible studyis a blast.
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- We have to get involvedwith it
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- and get in there with it,
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- not separatethe Word of God
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- from the mouth of God,does anybody hear
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- what I'm saying to themthis morning?
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- And when we're havingour study time at home,
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- when we're readingour Scriptures,
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- perhaps in the morning,that we're engaging with him,
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- and we're--we speak to him,we're dialoguing with him,
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- that he's speaking to usthrough his Word
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- and we are speaking back.
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- Luke, chapter 10--I want to read
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- what, to any of youreally familiar with the Gospels
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- and familiar with some of these
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- really, reallywell-known stories,
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- you will already start smiling
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- by the time I get throughthe first verse.
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- It is verse 38of Luke, chapter 10,
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- that says, "Now as theywent on their way,
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- "Jesus entered a village.
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- "And a woman named Marthawelcomed him into her house.
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- And she had a sistercalled Mary."
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- Now, this drives me crazy.
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- I got no answer for you.
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- I got all sorts of questions
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- I don't have any answers forwhatsoever.
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- But one of the thingsthat drives me crazy--
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- and you can checkany of your major translations--
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- that she is "named" Martha
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- and the other womanis "called" Mary.
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- Why?Why?
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- Why was she--why wasn't she named Mary?
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- One was named Marthaand the other was called Mary.
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- Well, there can be--
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- there's several meaningsto the name Mary,
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- but one of those wordscan mean bitter,
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- it's like the waters of Marahin the Old Testament,
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- and you just have to wonder,why?
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- Why was she called Mary?
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- "And she sat at the Lord's feetand listened to his teaching."
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- He was--I need somebodyto go with me here.
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- He was Bible teaching.
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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 that Mary was
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- in there at Jesus's feet,listening to him teach.
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- Women in theology class,right here in Luke chapter 10.
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- I want you to understandthat we are here today--
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- let me just, like, publicly,unabashedly, unashamedly--
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- in the studiesof the Scriptures,
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- because Mary was invitedinto Bible class.
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- There's no telling howall the men looked up at her
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- and thought,"What are you doing here?
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- "Surely, sheis serving coffee.
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- I'll have onewith cream and sugar."
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- Only she's going, like,
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- "You're gonna have to getMartha.
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- I'm coming in to study."
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- [audience laughing]
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- I love our brothers so much,I love our sisters so much,
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- and I love the factthat the Word of God
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- invites us allto the feet of Jesus.
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- And it says, "But Martha,"verse 40,
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- "was distractedwith much serving.
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- "And she went up to himand said,
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- "'Lord, do you not care
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- that my sister has left meto serve alone?'"
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- [audience laughing]
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- (Beth Moore)I love this part:"'Tell her then to help me.'
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- "But the Lord answered her,'Martha, Martha,
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- "'you are anxious and troubledabout many things,
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- but one thing is necessary.'"
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- Doesn't mean a whole lotof things aren't important.
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- One of the most important partsof the segment
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- is that we understandthat there is
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- lots and lots to be done.
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- But he says but one thingis absolutely necessary.
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- "Mary has chosenthe good portion,
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- which will not be taken awayfrom her."
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- The NET says it this way:"Mary has chosen the best part."
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- You and I have gathered hereto talk about choices,
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- about becoming choosyin a land of a million choices.
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- We're compilingeight tools, eight tools
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- so that we can be set up
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- in a way to makechoice kinds of decisions.
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- And we're seeing it right here,just in the day-to-day.
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- I want you to notice a coupleof different things with me
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- because we're lookingat the passage
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- and thinking to ourselves,you know, we're always hoping
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- a Martha's somewhereat our gathering.
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- I mean, like, who's gonna dothe dessert tray?
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- I mean, one of the first thingsI'm thinking about
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- when we're goingto somebody's house
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- for some kind of gathering--what are we gonna eat?
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- That's what I'm wondering about.
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- And so, did the housenot have to be prepared
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- with all the--she was distracted,
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- the Word of God says,with all the preparations.
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- Well, here's the deal.
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- She just didn't keepthe "pre" in the preparation,
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- anybody got it with me?
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- Because after hewas still going,
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- he's in there teaching,
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- she's in there fiddlingwith the napkin rings.
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- And you might say,and I get this, totally,
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- I mean, well, like,well, somebody had to cook.
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- Well, really,all somebody had to do
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- was, like, bring a snack.
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- Maybe a--just a coupleof loaves and fishes.
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- Because, I mean, all you haveto do is look at Jesus and go,
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- could you feed us here?
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- Starving, starving.
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- [audience laughing]
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- So, I mean, it's not like therewasn't anything to do about it.
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- He could do it, he could do it.
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- But I want you to notice,because this is so us.
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- I don't know if anybody elsefeels this way,
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- but there are a coupleof different words going here.
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- Notice it saysshe was distracted,
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- she was distracted.
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- It's from the Greek lexical termperispao, perispao,
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- and that "peri," P-E-R-I,means around, around.
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- It can be, like,just starting out this way
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- and it literally--and that "spao" mean
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- to just shoot outdifferent directions.
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- So she's just runningin circles, she's here,
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- she's there, she's here,she's there.
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- I mean, just likethe pitter-patter
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- of her little feet,
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- constantly, constantly,and she's just distracted.
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- And it says, "You areanxious and troubled--"
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- anxious,it's an interesting word.
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- It comesfrom a Greek lexical term,
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- merimnao, merimnao,and it means anxious care.
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- There are other Greek wordsthat mean care and concern.
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- We are called to careand concern ourselves
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- with one another and with thingsthat need to be done,
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- care for our households,
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- care for the workthat we've been given to do,
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- care for our loved ones.
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- We're told all of that.
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- This is a different word here.
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- This is not just care,
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- it's care with a side orderof anxiety.
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- It's anxious care,
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- and it says anxious careand troubled.
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- That word--I thought this wasso interesting
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- because that anxious care
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- and the sense of the wordin my Bible software,
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- my Logos program,it says this,
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- and I'm quoting,"to think moodily."
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- It's care with--in a bad mood,is anybody getting that with me?
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- Like, it's not just care,it's that I care
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- and I'm in a really bad moodabout it.
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- I mean, it's just like,you know, because you were--
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- the last time you were--"I'm trying to take of you!"
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- You know what I'm talking about?Like--
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- [audience laughing]
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- So, I mean, this is us.
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- We get this, we get this.
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- Do you--I truly believe,
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- I truly believeit could be said
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- that at the end of it all,
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- especially in the dayin which we live,
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- it is highly likely
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- with all the thingswe've got pulling at us,
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- that more of us will not fulfillour callings to the ministries--
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- and all of us have been assignedone, all of us.
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- You don't have to thinkin vocational terms,
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- just, God's given us alla calling, purpose to live out.
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- And it is very possiblethat more of us
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- will miss that over distractionsthan depravity.
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- We're distracted,doing a thousand things at once,
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- and we're in a bad moodabout it.
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- It's not just that we'redistracted,
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- it's that it's giving us anxietyand it's making us moody.
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- I wanna say that again.
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- Our--all our distractionsare making us anxious
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- and moody, troubled, troubled.
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- You know the kind, just upset.
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- That was a synonymfor the Greek word,
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- just upset, just upset.
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- I can tell you who didn't havea good time that day.
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- There is no conceivable world
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- in which they could have thankedMartha enough.
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- I need somebody to hear it.
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- When we think,"Not one person thanked me!
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- Not one!"
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- You know what I'm talking about?
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- Not one--but listen,I can tell you,
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- I am not a great cook.
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- But I cook a few things...
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- And so when I knowI have killed it--
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- this is why I don't get
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- to really kill itin the kitchen,
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- is because I cannot keepfrom being prideful about it.
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- When I know, when I know Ikilled the Thanksgiving dinner,
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- I might as well have wrungthe turkey's neck myself
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- and plucked the thing.
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- And I mean, I just,
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- my dressing was perfect,the whole thing.
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- I look--I set my fork down,I set it down kinda heavily,
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- set my fork down,and I looked at my family,
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- and I said, "Nobodyneeds to tell me it's good,
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- I already know it."
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- [audience laughing]
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- Anybody knowwhat I'm talking about?
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- I mean, just,full-on Martha, full-on.
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- I mean, you cannot thank usenough
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- when we're in a bad moodabout it,
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- cannot thank us enough.
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- So Mary had chosenwhat was best,
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- and it could not be takenfrom her.
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- All right, we've already madetwo points together.
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- I wanna hear our motto,because it's gonna become
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- very important to us.
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- What's our eight-word motto?I need to hear it, okay?
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- (audience)Therefore choose life,
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- for He is your life.
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- (Beth)Isn't thatthe most beautiful thing?
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- If you needlepoint,you need to needlepoint that.
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- If you print--that needs to go up.
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- That's the most beautiful thing.
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- Therefore choose life,for he is your life.
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- There's this gorgeous portionin Colossians that says,
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- "When he who is your lifeshall appear in glory,
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- you shall also appear with him."
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- It's so powerfulbecause in both Testaments,
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- it's saying the same thing.
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- When Jesus said to them,"I am the way,
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- I am the truth,I am the life,"
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- life is in me,
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- therefore choose life,
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- because I am your life.
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- So our first two--let me hear your first one,
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- number one: quashfalse voices about choices.
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- Number two.
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- (audience)Recognize every choose-fuse.
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- (Beth)You and Iare going to learn how,
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- in the momentthat a choose-fuse goes off,
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- where we can give ita name, okay.
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- Like, oho, I remember this one,there it goes.
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- And we've got this windowof opportunity
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- that you can callwhat you want,
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- I call it pre-idiocy,
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- that I've got this moment that Ican make a different decision.
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- And I'mma tell you something,at first it's
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- really, really hardbecause all this time
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- we've been thinking,well, no, it's not just hard,
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- it's impossible.
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- Like there was just this surgeof that detonator going off,
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- and we just--one reason why I say
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- in that intense sexual passionthat we were talking about,
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- you know, this is one reason why
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- the New Testamenttells us to flee,
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- that there comes a timewhen you run from something.
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- You don't just like...
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- When, I mean,
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- when you're, like,just detonating inside,
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- you run for your life.
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- Hi, I'm Selena,and this is Natalie.
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- We know this has beenone of the most difficult years
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- for us collectively.
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- But we want you to knowthat God has not once been
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- far from you in all of this.
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- (Natalie)We've put togethera personal box 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
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- her daily personal timewith the Lord.
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- It's not necessarilysomething we need to copy.
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- Your individual relationshipwith Jesus
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- gets to be its own thing.
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- Perhaps you knowa new believer
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- or just someone lookingto get more committed
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- to the Word this year.
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- This would be the perfect giftto help inspire them
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- to find joyin the Scriptures daily.
- 00:14:06.771 --> 00:14:09.774
- (Natalie)These tools, as Beth says,
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- allows the Wordto speak over you
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- before the world does.
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- We look forwardto seeing you next week.
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- (Beth)I gotta tell you,
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- we have all been through a lotin the last years,
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- and I have never in my life,I say to you,
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- I have never had more confidence
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- in the pure gospelof our Lord Jesus Christ.
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- ♪ O my soul ♪
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- ♪ Lift up the nameof the one who saves ♪
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- ♪ He reigns forever ♪
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- ♪ O my soul ♪
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- ♪ 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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- Let me tell you something.
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- He's come to speak in powerto us this weekend,
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- because his Wordis fresh and alive.
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- That's the miracleof the Scriptures.
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- (announcer)Come join us in a city near you.
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- When, I mean,
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- when you're, like,just detonating inside,
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- you run for your life.
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- That's what you do,you run for your life.
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- So that's one and two,let's get to three.
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- Number three is this:
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- let a few BIG Choicesmake a thousand smaller ones.
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- I love this point.
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- Behold, the artof simplification.
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- I still love to makelots of choices,
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- but I also love itwhen a few big choices
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- already have automatically madea lot of smaller choices for me.
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- That's just a relief.
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- I don't have to go backthrough that,
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- I just keep looking backat this one because,
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- you know, well, that one--I made that choice,
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- so it keeps making these for mein the daily
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- because I made this oneover the life.
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- Is that making any senseto anybody here?
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- When a few big choices
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- make innumerable small ones,I love that.
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- Now, I'm gonna throw outa few examples,
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- but I need you to knowahead of time,
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- I am a work in progress here.
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- Sometimes I do thisbetter than others.
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- I just, I mostly--this is what I pursue,
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- even in the onesI'm gonna use
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- for a personal example.
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- But I just want youto see them with me,
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- ways we can make
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- some really bigoverarching decisions
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- that already, like--
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- I don't have to think about thatagain.
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- Today, I can just--
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- I'm choosingwhat I already chose.
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- So think through it a minute.
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- For instance, I want youto jot down 1 Corinthians 6:12
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- because it is so important.
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- It's so important in a culture,and this would have been true,
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- I mean, this would've been trueamong the Romans,
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- in the time of Christ,
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- this has just been truesince there has been
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- any population of humanityon the earth,
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- but so much so nowin the world in which we live,
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- that the word moderation
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- has all but dropped outof our dictionary.
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- We don't even knowwhat it means.
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- We wouldn't even knowhow to spell it
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- because it's just--we just don't have it.
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- And I want you to see1 Corinthians 6:12.
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- I wanna read it to you out ofthe Revised Standard Version
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- because I lovethe way it's worded.
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- It says this: "All thingsare lawful for me,
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- "but not all things are helpful.
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- "All things are lawful for me,
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- but I will not be enslavedby anything."
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- In other words, there area lot of things that are
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- just, like, I mean, we're just,like, we're free in the Spirit.
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- We don't have the law over uswith every tedious detail
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- like they didunder the old covenant.
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- So we live by the law of loveand by the law of the Spirit,
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- and certainlythere are commands.
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- We have commandsin the New Testament.
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- But we are notunder the yoke of the law,
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- and so, he says, okay,this is Paul talking.
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- So all things are lawful,but not all things are helpful.
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- I don't wanna be masteredby anything,
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- I will not be enslavedto anything.
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- So let me just throw outthis example,
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- because I come from a family
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- where alcoholismis absolutely rampant.
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- And I can tell youthat it is not bondage
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- for the family memberI have right now
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- that is livingsoberly and sanely
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- after a very, very--very, veryinsane kind of journey.
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- And some of you knowwhat I'm talking about,
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- and you've had that--it's in your family as well,
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- so, you can just picturewith me where all this can go,
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- into every possible extremeyou can imagine.
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- But I can tell you that,
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- to this particular loved oneof mine,
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- it is not bondageto say no to a drink,
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- it is her freedom,
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- because when she picks that up,she's back in.
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- She says it's not the second sipI'm back in with,
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- it's the first sip.
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- She said it may be
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- that it's not unlawful for mein the Scriptures,
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- it's not sinful--
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- what may not be sinfulfor someone else
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- is bondage to me.
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- So you got to know,you got to know
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- your own heart and mindbefore the Lord
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- and know that,you know what?
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- I might be free to do that.
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- You might be free to do that,and you might do just fine.
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- But I can tell you right now,I walk into that trap
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- and I am back into an addiction like that,
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- that I'm backinto that slavery.
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- Because if you've chosensobriety and sanity,
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- then you've madeyour daily choice,
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- and you just keep choosingit again,
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- because this is what--
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- I don't haveto think it through,
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- I have chosen this to bethe rule over my life
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- so that I can be free,so I choose it again daily.
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- All right, marriage,obvious one.
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- That means that your spouse,
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- that the fact that you madethis overriding, big choice,
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- and I made this overridingbig choice to marry,
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- that that means I'm not havingsex with others regardless,
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- regardless of the opportunitiesand temptations.
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- Anybody going with me there?
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- That choicehas already been made.
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- I wanna tell you something
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- that I think you'll be ableto relate to.
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- I thought, how much of thiscan I really say with--
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- and not get too personal?
- 00:20:31.422 --> 00:20:32.890
- But I think that many of usthat are married
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- or have been married
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- can understand thisand go here on this.
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- But I, you know, I think--I had this idea,
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- and I don't know why,
- 00:20:42.667 --> 00:20:44.035
- I don't know wherethis came from.
- 00:20:44.068 --> 00:20:45.436
- I think I just had this ideathat, I mean, to my husband,
- 00:20:45.469 --> 00:20:51.509
- there would never, ever beanother woman on earth.
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- He wouldn't even notice them.
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- Because you just think,this is how I want it to be.
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- It's the way I need it to be.
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- I told you I dealtwith insecurity,
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- so you can imagine,
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- just, like, there's alwayssomebody cuter,
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- always some--you know,it's always gonna be that way,
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- always gonna be that way.
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- And I'm--my husbandhas been faithful to me,
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- but I--we went througha time of,
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- well, one of a number of times,
- 00:21:18.302 --> 00:21:20.838
- of just strugglewith this or that.
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- And I can--I felt threatenedin a particular situation.
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- And I think, you know,sometimes we wives ask more
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- than we can handlethe answers to.
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- Can I just say that?
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- Let's--shall we not go eating
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- from the tree of the knowledgeof good and evil?
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- We don't really have to askour loved one
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- if a thought ever goes throughtheir mind about anyone.
- 00:21:46.797 --> 00:21:50.134
- Can I just say, don't go there?
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- Don't go there,just don't even go there.
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- I'm not sayingI went there or not,
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- I'm just saying that,you know--
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- I just was having this struggle.
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- And I'll never forgetwhat he said to me.
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- It didn't satisfy everything,
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- but I've thought about ita million times.
- 00:22:05.449 --> 00:22:07.385
- He said, "Elizabeth,I choose you every day."
- 00:22:07.418 --> 00:22:11.455
- It's like, but do you want to?
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- [audience laughing]
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- [audience laughing]
- 00:22:23.434 --> 00:22:26.804
- You know, I never get enough,never, it's never enough.
- 00:22:26.837 --> 00:22:30.674
- But, I mean, think about that.
- 00:22:30.708 --> 00:22:33.644
- I mean, that's pretty good.
- 00:22:33.677 --> 00:22:35.312
- I mean, what are weexpecting out of somebody?
- 00:22:35.346 --> 00:22:39.483
- What we're really gettingis mostly good decisions.
- 00:22:39.517 --> 00:22:45.890
- But, yeah, yeah,I think that works.
- 00:22:45.923 --> 00:22:50.861
- But one of the thingsthat I do is,
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- I don't think whether or notI'm gonna work out
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- in the morning.
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- I don't--I can't--if I do that,I won't do it half the time.
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- I probably won't ever do it.
- 00:23:00.671 --> 00:23:02.006
- I made a decision years ago
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- that if I was gonna really stayenergetic and healthy,
- 00:23:03.607 --> 00:23:06.277
- I was really gonna have to tryto keep up
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- some level of fitness.
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- And so I made the decisionyears and years and years ago,
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- I mean, in my early 20s,and when I roll out of bed,
- 00:23:14.251 --> 00:23:17.388
- I already know I'm going to,I have my quiet time first
- 00:23:17.421 --> 00:23:19.557
- and then I knowI'm going to work out.
- 00:23:19.590 --> 00:23:21.058
- I never even--I have to beabsolutely sick not to do it.
- 00:23:21.091 --> 00:23:25.229
- And I don't think,"Shall I do it today?"
- 00:23:25.262 --> 00:23:27.731
- Because if I do that,
- 00:23:27.765 --> 00:23:29.200
- you know what I'm gonna sayto my "shall" self?
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- I shall not.
- 00:23:32.169 --> 00:23:34.271
- So, you know, I already madethat decision.
- 00:23:34.305 --> 00:23:36.707
- I talked to a woman hererecently, said, "Miss Beth,
- 00:23:36.740 --> 00:23:39.944
- "do you rememberwhen I had that talk with you
- 00:23:39.977 --> 00:23:42.847
- "about whether or not Ishould stay with my job
- 00:23:42.880 --> 00:23:45.749
- that every single day,I couldn't--"
- 00:23:45.783 --> 00:23:47.451
- it was a ministry job.
- 00:23:47.485 --> 00:23:48.786
- "Every single day,I couldn't decide
- 00:23:48.819 --> 00:23:50.621
- "whether to staywith that job or not.
- 00:23:50.654 --> 00:23:52.256
- "Am I supposed to be hereor not?
- 00:23:52.289 --> 00:23:53.624
- "Am I supposed to be hereor not?
- 00:23:53.724 --> 00:23:54.992
- Am I supposed to be here?"
- 00:23:55.025 --> 00:23:56.327
- And she said, "Do you rememberwhen you prayed over me
- 00:23:56.360 --> 00:23:57.995
- "and then you said, my name,and you said, 'Why don't you,
- 00:23:58.028 --> 00:24:00.698
- "'until God moves you,just, like, do this job?
- 00:24:00.731 --> 00:24:04.201
- "'Just do it.
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- Put everything you've gotinto it.'"
- 00:24:05.569 --> 00:24:06.871
- She said, "It changed my life."
- 00:24:06.904 --> 00:24:08.806
- Because she said,"I just decided," she said,
- 00:24:08.839 --> 00:24:10.908
- "Well, I'm not gonna worryabout it.
- 00:24:10.941 --> 00:24:12.243
- "If he wants to move me,he can move me.
- 00:24:12.276 --> 00:24:14.311
- "And until then,
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- I'm just gonna make a choiceto do this job."
- 00:24:15.679 --> 00:24:17.314
- Anybody got that with me?
- 00:24:17.348 --> 00:24:18.682
- Maybe that will speakto somebody.
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- Okay, let me throw out,I think, just one more.
- 00:24:20.551 --> 00:24:26.056
- If you're going to undertakea project,
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- when you say or when I sayyes to a big project,
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- what we're sayingwhen we say that big yes--
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- we are saying noto tons of other things.
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- And we have to stick with itbecause any project,
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- you know, in the day we live,you've got a work project.
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- If you're a writer and you thinkyou're ever going to finish that
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- book while you are doingten thousand other things,
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- you can forget it.
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- It will not happen.
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- It is gonna be the tyranny,the urgent--
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- there will always be
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- a million other thingsfor you to do.
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- And, my word, there's Facebook.
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- I mean, we haven't even--we haven't updated--
- 00:25:04.194 --> 00:25:07.865
- and, you know,we'll get all ready
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- to work on our project,and then you know what we'll do?
- 00:25:10.234 --> 00:25:13.270
- We will take a picture of itfor Instagram.
- 00:25:13.304 --> 00:25:17.408
- Instead of actually doingthe work,
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- let's take a pictureof our desk for Instagram!
- 00:25:19.510 --> 00:25:24.848
- And then, let's seehow many people liked it!
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- It's insane, it's insane.
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- You know what your quicksand is.
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- We've all got some.
- 00:25:34.491 --> 00:25:36.093
- You've got yours, I've got mine,that on my path,
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- if I'm ever gonna getsunk down--
- 00:25:38.729 --> 00:25:40.698
- you know what yours is,I know what mine is.
- 00:25:40.731 --> 00:25:43.167
- And for me, it is Twitter.
- 00:25:43.200 --> 00:25:45.636
- I'm not--I dosome of the other stuff,
- 00:25:45.669 --> 00:25:47.738
- but I'm not as into itbecause I like words,
- 00:25:47.771 --> 00:25:51.375
- and I like ideas,and I like discussions,
- 00:25:51.408 --> 00:25:55.579
- and occasional debate.
- 00:25:55.613 --> 00:25:56.914
- I was just, like,you know, I like--
- 00:25:56.947 --> 00:25:59.450
- that's my thing,that's kinda--
- 00:25:59.483 --> 00:26:02.586
- I'm just a word person.
- 00:26:02.620 --> 00:26:04.154
- Other people, you know,it's gonna be pictures;
- 00:26:04.188 --> 00:26:05.589
- other people,it's gonna be other things.
- 00:26:05.623 --> 00:26:06.957
- But what is your quicksand?
- 00:26:06.991 --> 00:26:08.525
- And so, I wrote outa little rhyme
- 00:26:08.559 --> 00:26:10.461
- because I was going backinto writing
- 00:26:10.494 --> 00:26:12.863
- and so I needed to makea commitment
- 00:26:12.896 --> 00:26:15.733
- for my writing days,or it wasn't gonna happen.
- 00:26:15.766 --> 00:26:17.901
- And I knew this ismy biggest distraction.
- 00:26:17.935 --> 00:26:19.770
- So I wrote out this little rhymefor my writing days,
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- and it says this:"Twitter free nine to three.
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- "Nine to four prosper more.
- 00:26:25.309 --> 00:26:26.777
- "Nine to five expect to thrive."
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- So I look at that clock,
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- 'cause I'm, like,I'm always wanting to check it,
- 00:26:32.683 --> 00:26:34.785
- always wanting to check.
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- It ain't 3 p.m.
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- And, I mean, there's 4,4's really good,
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- but, man, I want to thrive.
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- ♪♪♪
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- ♪♪♪
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- We are chosen in him,and, listen carefully, chosen
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- before the foundationof the world.
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- That means that he already kneweverything about you.
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- He knew every pathetic decisionI was ever going to make,
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- and he still says,"You did not choose me.
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- I chose you."
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