Tim Tebow: Embracing the Way God Sees Each of Us | Takeaways with Kirk Cameron

November 3, 2025 | 54:57

Kirk Cameron is joined by former NFL Quarterback Tim Tebow discussing how God sees every person as valuable and our calling to do the same and make a difference in the lives around us.

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Takeaways with Kirk Cameron | Tim Tebow: Embracing the Way God Sees Each of Us | Takeaways with Kirk Cameron | November 3, 2025

Kirk cameron: when is the last time you saw a homeless person
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In your community and you found yourself looking away and not
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Making eye contact?
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Or maybe you ran across someone disabled or who needs special
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Attention and you felt inadequate to help.
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Did you know that we're all called to help the vulnerable,
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The poor, and those in crisis?
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My guest today, tim tebow, will share insights on how god sees
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Each and every one of us as valuable and worthy, and by
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Seeing others the same way, we can help make an impact on
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Helping those in need.
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Tim tebow: when we look at the life of of jesus, one of the
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Things that i'm so impacted by, over and over again, is his love
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For the most vulnerable but not that he just says it, but he
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Acts upon it.
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And the greatest form of love is not an emotion.
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It's a choice.
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Kirk: it's all next on "takeaways."
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Kirk: my guest today is a speaker, entrepreneur, and
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College football analyst for espn and the sec network.
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Prior to his current endeavors, tim tebow was an nfl
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Quarterback, a two-time college football national champion, and
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A college football hall of fame inductee.
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He's authored five "new york times" bestselling books, and
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His latest one is called "look again: recognize your worth,
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Renew your hope, run with confidence."
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Tim, thanks so much for coming on "takeaway."
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Tim: i appreciate it. great to see you.
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That was a good snap too, he got there, i like it.
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Kirk: you know, my kids taught me that.
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I blew it so many times.
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Tim: i love it. good for them.
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Kirk: i embarrassed them. they finally taught me.
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Tim: did all six of them teach you?
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Because that's a lot of practice.
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Kirk: especially my boys, and it depends on how old they are.
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So older people don't know the snap either.
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So i gotta go back to the other.
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Tim: i get it. i get it.
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Kirk: i'm so excited to have you here.
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Tim: thank you, man. thanks for having me.
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Kirk: i have so many people in my life who appreciate you, the
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Work that you do, the work that your family does, and are just
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So impressed with your consistency over the years, and
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You're just an inspiration to them.
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Tim: i appreciate it and i just am so grateful for you and the
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Impact that you've had for so many years and just staying in
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The fight for so many years and, growing up, getting a chance to
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Watch you and hear you and just grateful for you.
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So glad to be here.
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Kirk: thank you.
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Well, you've got a brand-new book out called "look again" and
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I love the perspective that you take in here at reexamining
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Yourself and other people the way that jesus does.
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What inspired you to write this book and why now?
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Tim: about 4 years ago i was at "a night to shine."
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It's a worldwide celebration for individuals with special needs
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And there's all these awesome cars that the kings and queens
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Would be in the back of and it's driving over the red carpet and
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All of the fans are standing there, cheering, and i'm
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Cheering and cheering, and losing my voice, i'm cheering
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So loud.
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And there's this young lady that has blonde hair and a red dress
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In a red convertible and the car drives by and i didn't even know
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That our foundation was working with all the churches to put
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Bumper stickers on the back of all the cars, but she drives by
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And with just the absolute most joy.
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And i just, i had so much joy from watching her and the car
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Drives by and on the back it says, "royalty on board."
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And i just get emotional and i started to think, "dang,
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That's it.
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That is it."
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And so it started us on a journey for about the last 4
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Years of studying what does it mean to be made
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In the image of god?
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Because, growing up, i hear all the time that it's rational,
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Relational, or functional.
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And so i thought, well, we're rational beings so that we can--
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You know, god has given us a brain so that we can strategize
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And that we can have rational thought or it's relational--that
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We're created for a relationship with god and for other people.
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And then functional--that he's called us to rule and reign and
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Subdue the earth.
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And i think all three of those are part of it but i so
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Convicted because i thought, what about 16% of the world's
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Population that have some form of special need?
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Are they less in the image of god because maybe they can't do
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That to the same extent and i believe that the heart of god is
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Absolutely no,
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That everyone is created on his--in his image on purpose
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And for a purpose, and there's nobody that is less than or
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More than.
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And so we started to really look at it and and talking with a lot
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Of ancient near east scholars and old testament scholars and
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Historians and going back and really looking at what does it
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Mean to be made in the image of god?
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And when you really look at it from the ancient near east
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Context, the image of god is a term that is for those that were
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Exalted as kings or monarchs, and so you look at an egyptian
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Pharaoh would be made in the image of ra, a god that they
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Believed in.
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An assyrian king would be made in the image of bael, a god that
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They believed in.
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So when you look at this term and when someone would have
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Picked up the bible and read genesis in the ancient near
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East, they would have been like, "oh my gosh, this is a term that
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Was used for the kings or monarchs," and they would have
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Seen it on statues but they would have seen it primarily
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Just used in that way but now they're saying the god of the
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Bible is saying this about all of humanity.
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It is a royal worth statement.
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It is god's heart for humanity.
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That's how we should see it, more than just rational,
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Relational, or functional.
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Are those pieces?
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Sure, i think they're pieces, but more so it is a worth
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Statement of the value that our god has for all people.
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Kirk: we're having church right here on the set of "takeaways."
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This is awesome and i think that sometimes within christian
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Circles, especially people who read their bible and they
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Appreciate theology, we wanna start with the depravity of man
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And we wanna say, you know, i'm nothing without god.
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However, in scriptures we also have to see that we were made in
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The image of god, like you're saying, and we have inherent
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Worth and dignity simply because we were made in the image of the
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One who created everything.
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So sin is real but so is the inherent dignity of the
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Human being.
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Tim: absolutely, and have we fallen short?
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There's no doubt.
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I fall short on a daily basis, but it doesn't mean that i'm
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Less in the image of god.
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It doesn't mean that my worth and my value to god are less.
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And then if we fast forward to the new testament and we look at
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The life of jesus and the love, the greatest love story rescue
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Mission of all time, which is the life of jesus, and that
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Jesus's life, death, burial, resurrection, and he offers us
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His free gift of eternal life-- that, when we accept it, that we
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Are forgiven, reconciled, redeemed, but also adopted into
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God's family.
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We are sons and daughters of the king.
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Therefore, what are we?
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Royalty, because we're sons and daughters of the king.
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So he creates us with this royal worth and then he reconciles
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Into us--us into his family when we accept him, as royalty.
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That's how we should see people, but in our society very often we
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Don't see people with the true worth and value we should.
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I know i've missed the mark so many times, and a lot of times
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In our society we see people as valuable when they do something
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That we believe is valuable to us.
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But if they don't do something valuable, then we--and we have
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To fight this lie that some lives matter less.
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Because human worth is fixed and we have to fight that lie and
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Embrace the truth that we are all made in god's image and we
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Are all loved, we are all treasured, we were all seen by
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God with this royal worth and value, and now we have to go
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Live that out to the world.
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Kirk: this is speaking to the need that every single one of us
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Has, whether we are famous and talented or beautiful or smart
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Or whether we don't really measure on those types of
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Scales, but we are valuable to god, we are made in his image,
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And we're gonna talk more about the way that jesus looked
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At people.
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And i can think of so many stories in the new testament
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Where he went up close personal, put his hands on people, called
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Them by name, and took care of them like they were royalty.
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I'm fascinated how you wrote this book down into
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Three sections.
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Can you explain those three sections and why?
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Tim: yes, recognize your worth, renew your hope, run
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With confidence.
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Recognize your worth: that when we recognize our worth, and it
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Starts with us, that i would actually not from a standpoint
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Of arrogance, from a standpoint of value and worth, that god
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Loves me this much, that he-- when i was born, i wasn't
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An accident,
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I'm not a happenstance,
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That i'm here on purpose and for a purpose.
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That gives me a worth and a value that i am loved.
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Yes, have i fallen short?
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Absolutely, but i'm still valued in love.
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And when it starts by looking at yourself in the value that god
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Sees you and then when you understand that, then i--when i
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See you, kirk, regardless of what we have in common or what
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We don't have in common, like or dislike, i see you with that
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Value, because that's the lens in which i'm seeing myself
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Through and so that's the lens i'm gonna see you.
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So it starts by recognizing your worth.
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That renews my hope.
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What does renew mean?
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It just means to flourish once more--that we would actually
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Flourish because we would find an anchor for our soul that is
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Firm and secure and we find that in the person of jesus.
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And then because we recognize our worth, it renews our hope,
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Now i can truly run with a confidence.
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I can run after the call that god has on my life, you can run
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After the call that god has on your life, and we can run after
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The people that we have been called to go care for.
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And i really don't believe that we can do that if we don't
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Recognize our worth or other people's worth--why would
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I run?
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Why would i exert the energy?
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You see, maybe one example is i'll give--kirk, if i lost a
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Penny and i said, "man, i lost a penny.
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I really have to find it.
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I can't find it.
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It's under the couch, it's under something," like, you would look
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At me and be like..."tebow, you're an idiot.
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You've lost it."
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But if my wife was here and she lost her diamond ring and i
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Said, "kirk, my wife lost her diamond ring," you would know
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Innately that it is valuable to her and a diamond ring is
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Valuable, so you would probably be kind enough to say, "hey, i'm
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Gonna stop and i'm gonna go look for it," right?
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Kirk: for sure.
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Tim: but in our society, how often do we treat people
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Like pennies
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Instead of more valuable than any diamond ring that has ever
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Been created or found?
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And see, if we see people as valuable and we know they're
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Innately valuable, we will treat them that way, but we don't
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Always see them that way.
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When we drive by someone on the side of the street that's
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Homeless, do we see them as valuable or do we just see them
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For maybe the mistakes that they've made or the hard times
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That they've hit?
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And we have to rethink because, as you said, jesus did stop and
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See people.
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And i love the scripture.
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I think it's maybe 67 times the bible tells us that jesus
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Sees people.
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You see, a lot of the society at that time, they saw people by
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Their sin.
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I can't help but be reminded of zacchaeus.
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The people saw him and called him by a sin, but jesus sees him
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In the tree and he calls him by his name, knowing that, hey,
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You're gonna come down from that tree and just a few days later
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I'm gonna go up a tree because you're so valuable to me.
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Kirk: tim, people look at you and then they look again and
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They see that's tim tebow.
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They're not looking at you because they think of your sin.
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They look at you because they think of your success.
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How has writing "look again" helped you to look at yourself
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Differently over the years, and to look at yourself differently
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Than the way other people see you?
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Tim: well, i think there's been so many times that i have--i
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Have lived in shame because i'm reminded by the enemy of my
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Worst days, my worst thoughts, my worst actions.
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I remember there's been times when a mom or dad would say to
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Me, "hey, i just want you to know you're our son or you're
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Our daughter's role model," and i would think, "no ma'am, no
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Sir, not if you knew me on my worst day, i wouldn't be their
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Role model."
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But then i also get to go back to scripture and remember that
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I'm no longer defined by my scars.
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I'm defined by his scars.
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And yes, i have messed up and i have fallen short, but i also
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Know that i've been covered by the blood of jesus and i have
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Been redeemed and i have been reconciled and i have been made
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Right with the father, right?
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And so now i'm no longer and our heavenly father doesn't call us
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By our sin.
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He calls us by our name and that we get to know that we are
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Adopted into his family when he sees us,
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That he sees us through the blood of jesus, of what he has
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Done for us and we have been reconciled.
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What does reconciliation mean?
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It means to make enemies friends.
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Means to close the gap.
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It means to be made right again.
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You know, a lot of times we talk about salvation is just
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Forgiveness and that's a part of it, but it's not
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Just forgiveness.
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That would be wiping the debt away.
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It's more than just that.
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It's more than just i got rid of your bad.
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No, but i'm also making you right.
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I'm bringing this together, reconciliation that you would be
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Friends again, that there would be no separation in
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Your relationship.
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It's more than just forgiveness.
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Reconciliation is what we get through the blood of jesus.
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Kirk: we're gonna go away to a break and we're gonna come back
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And drill down deeper into this.
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This is wonderful.
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When we come back, we're gonna continue to talk with tim about
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How god sees all of us as worthy and valuable and how that should
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Change us to see every person we meet the same way.
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Stay with us.
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Kirk: welcome back.
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We're talking to former nfl quarterback and bestselling
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Author tim tebow about his new book, "look again."
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Tim, i love that in your book, you redefine mvp and you see it
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Differently now.
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What does it mean to you now?
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Tim: well, it's because god really had to do a lot in my
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Life to redefine it in my own heart first.
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I know a lot of my life i have chased trying to be my best and
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Trying to win and championships and every now and then maybe win
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An mvp as most valuable player, but along the way, through a lot
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Of hurting and suffering people, god had to reframe it in my
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Heart and give me a more important mvp to chase and it
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Wasn't the most valuable player, it was the most vulnerable
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People and i, multiple times, have been so convicted that god
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Was pricking my heart, saying, but, timmy, which one is gonna
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Mean more to you?
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Which one will you actually chase and run after more, with
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More passion, with more urgency, with more dedication, with
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More perseverance?
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Which one will actually mean more to you?
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Not which one will you say means more.
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Which ones where your actions prove mean more to you?
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Kirk: if we're to start focusing on the mvps around us, the most
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Vulnerable people, what's the first step to start seeing
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People that way?
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Tim: the first step would be to see them through the lens of the
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Cross, to see them through the lens of the bible, to see them
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Through the lens of genesis 1:5-9, that we are all made in
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God's image and that when jesus went to the cross that it
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Counted for every single person that we will ever see.
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And how do we know in our society how much something
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Is worth?
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By what someone is willing to pay for it.
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That's how our--that's how economy works.
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That's how our society works.
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We know how much something costs by what someone is willing to
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Pay for it.
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So when we think about the life of jesus, as the son of god,
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Who, i believe, as the son of god,
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Has infinite value and worth.
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He's the son of god, he has infinite value and worth.
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Well, he was willing to give his life in exchange for yours and
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For mine.
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Therefore i believe that you and me and every single person has
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Infinite value and worth.
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You see, when i see people that way, that's gonna change the way
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That i go and treat them.
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If i see people as that valuable to god and i see them suffering,
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How could i walk away?
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How could i look past?
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How could i look over?
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When i see abandoned children, when i see hurting or traffic or
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Exploited or those that are viewed as less than because they
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Have a disability or special need, how could i look away?
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But that's a lot of what we have in our society.
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We have 16% of the world's population has special needs.
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A lot of them are treated as less than, insignificant, or
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Cursed a lot of places around the world.
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You have 153 million orphaned or abandoned boys and girls around
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The world.
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You have over 700 million people that are malnourished around
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The world.
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You have more than 50 million people that are trapped in
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Human trafficking.
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How do we get to a place like that?
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Well, it's because, as a whole, society, we have not seen every
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Person as valuable.
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So many times we have just seen those as valuable because of
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What they do that is valuable to us.
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But when we see them innately valuable, there will be
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Something that stirs in us that we would know, no, i gotta stop
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And i gotta go help, because i know how valuable they were to
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God, that means they're gonna be valuable to me.
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Kirk: you're sounding so much like jesus, i've never heard
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I never--
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Tim: i don't know about that.
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Kirk: i don't mean that in the sense of being sinless.
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I mean it in the sense of when i read the scriptures and i read
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The stories of him meeting with the woman at the well, when i
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Think of the man who was paralyzed and lying on the mat,
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The people who essentially were the vulnerable people in society
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That other people didn't want to talk to or even touch if they
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Were a leper, jesus went to them and he would just, right?
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And i--
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Tim: well, if this is--if we wanna be like christ, let's look
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At what he did.
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Over 60% of jesus's publicly recorded miracles were for those
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Who were afflicted.
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In today's day and age that would be some form of special
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Need or disability and over 70% of jesus's publicly recorded
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Miracles were for those who we would consider the mvp, the most
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Vulnerable people.
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And then when you look at matthew 25 and it's echoed a lot
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Of other places, but that's one of my favorite.
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If you look at matthew 25 and jesus makes it not only
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Imperative to us but he makes it personal to him where he said,
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"whatever you have done to the least of these brothers and
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Sisters of mine, you have done unto me."
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Like, it's staggering.
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A few years ago when i was really diving into that and i
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Was just like, "what?"
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Like, it becomes so personal to him that he makes himself the
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Example--that how we treat the mvp is so personal to him that
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He is saying, "that's how you're treating me."
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So when we look past, when we look away, when we walk away,
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When we don't care for him, it's personal to jesus and if it's
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Personal to him, it better be personal to us.
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Kirk: tim, you say in your book that image matters but not in
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The way you might think.
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Unpack that for us.
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Tim: well, a lot of time our image is so important, our
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Reputation, how people view us, how many fans we have on social
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Media, do we--how many likes do we have?
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How many--all of this.
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But a more important image is how does god see us?
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How do we see ourselves and how are we gonna truly see
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Other people?
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Not are we gonna have the likes and the followers?
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And i would share this: one of the things that i was staggered
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By a few years ago when i saw this statistic, i saw that, in
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One study, that 12% of our daily thoughts are spent in some form
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Of comparison.
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That's crazy.
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Because if we're spending 12% of our daily thoughts in some form
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Of comparison, then what's implied in that is that, "god, i
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Wish i was like that person.
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I wish i had that.
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I wish i looked like her.
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I wish i could play like him.
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I wish i had that corner office, i had that thing."
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And i don't believe that you can be in a mindset of comparison
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And gratitude at the same time.
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I think you can go back and forth, but when we're in a place
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Of comparison, we're in a place of saying, "god, i'm not really
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Content or grateful for where you have me, for who i am, for
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Whose i am, for the things that you've blessed me with," like,
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Because we're spending our time--by the way, when we
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Compare ourselves to other people, especially on social
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Media, you're comparing your real life to other people's fake
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Best moment.
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It's not real.
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That's why they take so many photos in a row and then they
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Have filters and then they edit it and they try to put the
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Best one.
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It's not real.
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And we're comparing ourselves to other people's fake day.
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And i just think that it leads to a place of desperation, of
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Loneliness, and we have a loneliness epidemic at hand.
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We are one of the loneliest generations ever, but we're
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Surrounded by all this technology and by, so-called,
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"all these people," but it's not real community.
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It's not real fellowship.
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It's not real relationship.
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And we spend so much of our time just comparing ourselves to
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Other people.
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Kirk: tell us the story about trenton and the words "god
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Is able."
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Tim: oh man, it's just one of my favorite stories.
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Trenton hill, he's an incredible young man.
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He's part of our foundation family and trenton was in church
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One day and they were sharing on judges and gideon, you know, "go
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In the strength that you have.
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Go in the strength that you have."
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And trenton has cerebral palsy and he's thinking, "man, i
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Wanna go--" and the pastor's saying, "go in the strength that
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You have, you know, go and impact the world.
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Go and use what god's given you."
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And he's thinking, "man, i wanna go.
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I wanna go."
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He's this amazing young man, but he's thinking, "but
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I'm disabled.
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I'm in a wheelchair."
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And then he's sitting there and he's thinking, "well, what do
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You get when you take the word 'go' and 'disable' and you put
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Them together?
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'god is able.'"
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And he's just one of the most remarkable young men that he
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Would take that and think--and be reminded of god's word and
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God's truth and god's promises.
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I know i'm disabled, but i also know that god is able.
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Kirk: what a great story, oh my goodness.
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You have so many great stories in here and you're making me
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Think of joni eareckson tada.
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I'm thinking of helen keller.
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I'm thinking of all these people who have disabilities and then
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God demonstrates his abilities through them that so far surpass
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So many able-bodied people who can do so much great stuff and
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They're just focused on what god's able to do on purpose
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Through them with purpose and they're impacting generations
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Of people.
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Tim: well, so many times we think, "well, god, you could do
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More if i have this platform or if i'm in this place," and i'm
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Reminded of the lad that scripture tells us, the boy who
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Brings his loaves and his fish.
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And that miracle didn't come because he brought so much to
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The table.
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That miracle came because he put what he had into the hands of
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The miracle maker.
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And we think all the time, "well, god, you could do more
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With me if i had this platform, if i was on this team, if i won
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This championship, if i had this many followers," and i really
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Believe what god wants is a willingness to say, "hey, these
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Are my loaves and my fish.
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Sometimes i feel like it's a lot.
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Sometimes i feel like it's a little.
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Sometimes it's just crumbs to me, but god, would you just take
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It and use it?"
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I think god just wants a willing heart, and when we give what we
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Have to him, he can do what he wants.
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Kirk: the scriptures say that over and over and over--that the
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Eyes of the lord are everywhere, he's searching to and fro, and
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He's looking to show himself strong on behalf of those whose
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Hearts are fully surrendered to him.
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And often it's gonna be a nobody from nowhere with nothing to
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Offer but a heart that is fully surrendered to him and that's
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The guy that changes the world.
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Tim: well, let's look at so much of scripture, right?
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God used people that had all sorts of flaws and failures.
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I'm so encouraged because i'm like, yes, i'm not disqualified.
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You know, god can still use me in my shortcomings and failures
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And flaws, because that's so much of scripture.
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And it's so encouraging, and i think the more we get in god's
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Word, the more we see that, we're more--the more we can be
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Encouraged, like, oh awesome, god can still use me.
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Kirk: we'll be right back with tim tebow sharing stories of
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People that he's met along the way that made such a difference
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In the lives of those around him.
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Don't go away.
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Kirk: we're back with my guest today, tim tebow, discussing
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Ways that we can care for the vulnerable and those in crisis
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Just like jesus did throughout his ministry.
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Tim, let's go back and talk about jesus.
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I mean, he is the archetype.
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He is our hero when it comes to dealing with crisis situations
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And valuing people.
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What are some situations that we can learn from with regard to
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Jesus going to the outcasts, the fringe, the dangerous, and
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Loving them?
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Tim: well, we can learn from every part of jesus, you know,
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The author and perfecter of our faith.
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And when we look at the life of of jesus, one of the things that
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I'm so impacted by over and over again is his love for the most
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Vulnerable, but not that he just says it, but he acts upon it.
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And the greatest form of love is not an emotion, it's a choice,
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The agape form of love.
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And i believe the best definition for that is to choose
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The best--to choose the best interests of another person and
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Act on their behalf.
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You see, when we as believers say that we love people, then we
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Are going to choose their best interests and we're gonna act on
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Their behalf.
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It's not about, "oh, i love them and i'm gonna feel bad for them
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Over here.
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I'm gonna have sympathy or empathy."
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No, i'm going to love them.
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I'm gonna choose their best interests and share the good
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News of the gospel.
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I'm gonna choose their best interests and i'm gonna care
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For them.
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I'm gonna choose their best interests and find help, to get
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Help, to rally people for them.
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And we look at the life of jesus, that's what he did
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Because it wasn't about just an emotion or a feeling.
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Twelve times in the new testament, i believe it uses the
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Word "compassion," and eight times it's used to talk
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About jesus.
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Compassion in our society, we mix it all the time with
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Sympathy and empathy.
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They're not the same.
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For the greek it's the word "splagchnizomai" from--
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For compassion.
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It means to be moved from your most inward parts.
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It is not comfortable.
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But over and over again it would say, "jesus saw them, had
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Compassion for them," moved from his most inward parts, "and he
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Met their needs."
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Like, we look at the man with leprosy that is lying face down
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On the ground and he's yelling out to jesus, "lord, if you are
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Willing, make me clean."
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And jesus walks across and my guess is it's in front of a
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Whole lot of people and my guess is also that there's a whole lot
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Of people that are saying, "jesus, what are you doing?
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Don't you know that you can't have anything to do with those
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Of leprosy, you know that you would have to stay at least 6
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Feet away," this was far before covid, okay?
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You'd have to stay 6 feet away and if it was a windy day, you
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Would have to be more than 100 feet away from someone with
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Leprosy, and if they got close to you, they would always have
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To say, "leprosy, leprosy, leprosy" or "unclean,
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Unclean, unclean."
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But yeah, jesus is walking to him and i can only imagine that
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There are people like, "jesus, what are you doing?
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Stay away.
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Why would you--why would you be going to him?"
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And he's covering the ground and he walks over and he puts his
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Hand on, he says, "i am willing.
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Be clean," and immediately, the bible says, the leprosy
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Left him.
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And i just--i love that story so much because you can only
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Imagine what culture was saying at that time and the words
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People were saying, how countercultural jesus was that
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He didn't just say and he could have just said, "yeah,
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Be clean."
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But he walked over to him, and my guess is he probably
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Bent over.
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And he puts his hand on him and he shows him how much he matters
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To him by, in front of all these people, doing something so
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Countercultural that everybody else would be--that view him as
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Less than, as insignificant, but he wasn't to jesus.
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He made such a statement to him and to everybody, "no, i want
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You to know how valuable you are to me.
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I know in this society you're not viewed as valuable, but you
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Are to me," and he bends over and he said, "yeah, i'm willing.
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Be clean."
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And immediately, leprosy leaves him.
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That's, in my opinion, what we are called to do.
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We are called to close the ground, not just sit from afar
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And be like, "oh man, i--i'm gonna pray for you."
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No, and i love prayer.
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Prayer is so powerful and it is so important, but one of my
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Favorite examples of how i believe we should live is--it's
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From the movie, "hacksaw ridge."
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You ever see that movie about desmond doss, "hacksaw ridge,"
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And i believe it was the battle of okinawa, and you know, he was
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Convicted not to carry a gun, not shoot people, but he's, you
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Know, he still wants to help and so while he sees all of his
00:29:32.472 --> 00:29:35.842
Fellow soldiers that are getting wounded and hurt, he starts to
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Pray, "lord, please help me get one more."
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And he would go and crawl while he's praying, "lord, please help
00:29:43.350 --> 00:29:46.553
Me get one more," and he goes and he carries someone and
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Crawls back and he goes and gets another one.
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You see, why i love that picture is because in our society we
00:29:51.558 --> 00:29:55.528
Either crawl or we pray, but he's doing both.
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It's faith in action that i'm gonna crawl and say, "lord,
00:29:59.799 --> 00:30:02.769
Please help me get one more."
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But a lot of times we just sit here and we're like, you know,
00:30:04.137 --> 00:30:06.039
"i'm just gonna pray that god shows up and helps all of
00:30:06.039 --> 00:30:08.241
These people."
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Yeah, you know how--one way he wants to do that?
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Through you.
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So why don't you start crawling to the mvps, to the most
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Vulnerable, to the suffering?
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Because that's what we're called to do.
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And so why don't we pray while we're doing it.
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Why don't we say, "god, open the door because i'm gonna run
00:30:22.622 --> 00:30:25.558
Through it and i'm gonna go to them and i'm gonna go care
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For them."
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Why don't we start doing what he did and say, "lord, please help
00:30:29.296 --> 00:30:31.631
Me get one more," while i'm actually putting that faith in
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Action and i'm moving towards them like jesus did for the man
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With leprosy.
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Kirk: tim, you tell a story about ethan hallmark and why
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He's so important for us to understand how we ought to
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Respond to people.
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Could you tell that?
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Tim: yeah, because that's exactly--everything we're just
00:30:50.183 --> 00:30:51.518
Talking about is exactly what ethan did.
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Ethan was a young man that impacted my life so greatly.
00:30:52.886 --> 00:30:56.022
He is a part of our foundation and our wish family and for
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Ethan's official wish with make a wish, his dream was to go to
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Maui and it was to be able to see the sunrise, see the sunset,
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And be able to go fish during this time, and so, you know,
00:31:11.137 --> 00:31:14.274
He's granted his official wish and he's in the middle of the
00:31:14.274 --> 00:31:19.245
Wish that was for him when everything was being made
00:31:19.245 --> 00:31:23.049
About him.
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And he sees a young man that's hurting and he leaves this whole
00:31:24.718 --> 00:31:30.156
Thing that's built for him and he walks over and he talks to
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This young man because he sees there's something in him that
00:31:33.360 --> 00:31:36.296
Is hurting.
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And he goes back to his family and they're just, you know,
00:31:38.264 --> 00:31:40.700
Don't really know what's going on and the kind of the
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Whole--anything.
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He doesn't say much about it.
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He just goes and talks to this man for a few moments and then
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He comes back and he gets to experience his wish.
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And years later--i think it was about 10 years later--
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Make a wish was trying to get in touch with the hallmark family.
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They finally did, and they said, "hey, there's this young man
00:32:02.088 --> 00:32:06.092
That during ethan's wish, he talked to and that man really
00:32:06.092 --> 00:32:11.231
Wants to get a hold of y'all.
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Is it okay?"
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They said yes.
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So they connected this man and he got in touch with
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Mrs. hallmark and he said, "mrs. hallmark,
00:32:18.605 --> 00:32:21.808
You don't know me but during ethan's wish, i was the
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Young man that he came and talked to.
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And i want you to know that, at that time, i was a
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Raging alcoholic.
00:32:32.285 --> 00:32:34.354
I didn't have hope, but i want you to know, since ethan came
00:32:34.354 --> 00:32:38.792
Over and talked to me, and the kindness and the courage and the
00:32:38.792 --> 00:32:42.095
Boldness and the love and the faith that he shared with me,
00:32:42.095 --> 00:32:45.331
Since that day, i have not had another drop of alcohol and i've
00:32:45.331 --> 00:32:49.736
Also said yes to jesus."
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And it's--that's what ethan did.
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He was a young man that was fighting cancer.
00:32:57.143 --> 00:33:01.181
Didn't live a whole lot longer than that after his wish.
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He passed away a little bit later, and i just can only
00:33:04.150 --> 00:33:07.153
Imagine his reception in heaven was pretty special because the
00:33:07.153 --> 00:33:10.490
Way he lived and, actually, in our tv room, one of my favorite
00:33:10.490 --> 00:33:14.094
Quotes is from ethan.
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He said, "it doesn't matter if you live to be 1 or 100.
00:33:15.595 --> 00:33:18.331
What matters is what you did for christ."
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That's who ethan hallmark was.
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Kirk: why do you suppose so many of us stay stuck looking at
00:33:23.603 --> 00:33:29.409
People the same old way and we're afraid to reach out and
00:33:29.409 --> 00:33:33.613
Talk to people or help those who are less fortunate than us?
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Tim: because we look through a faulty lens.
00:33:37.851 --> 00:33:43.356
I've looked through a faulty lens so much of my life.
00:33:43.356 --> 00:33:46.226
I'm also color blind, by the way, and so i literally have
00:33:46.226 --> 00:33:48.895
Faulty lenses, but i saw a story a few years ago someone sent to
00:33:48.895 --> 00:33:53.666
Me of a man for his birthday, i think he's probably in his 60s,
00:33:53.666 --> 00:33:57.971
And his family got him glasses that would help him to see
00:33:57.971 --> 00:34:01.374
Colors better and they give him these glasses and he's like,
00:34:01.374 --> 00:34:04.978
"what am i doing?"
00:34:04.978 --> 00:34:06.346
And he puts on these glasses.
00:34:06.346 --> 00:34:07.680
And his reaction to being able to see color so much better, he
00:34:07.680 --> 00:34:12.519
Literally gets so emotional and he starts to tear up and he sees
00:34:12.519 --> 00:34:16.656
And he turns and he looks over here and he sees, like, i think
00:34:16.656 --> 00:34:20.026
It was woods and he looks over here and he sees all these
00:34:20.026 --> 00:34:22.562
Colors and he looks at the sky and he's seeing--and he starts
00:34:22.562 --> 00:34:25.365
Weeping and he's so happy and these tears of joy and i was
00:34:25.365 --> 00:34:29.335
Watching that and i was like, that's how we should see people
00:34:29.335 --> 00:34:35.141
If we saw them through the lens of the cross.
00:34:35.141 --> 00:34:39.279
We would see people and we would say, "oh, kirk, i'm so glad to
00:34:39.279 --> 00:34:42.715
See you.
00:34:42.715 --> 00:34:44.651
I see an image being of my creator.
00:34:44.651 --> 00:34:47.153
Man, it's so good to see you."
00:34:47.153 --> 00:34:49.622
Like, we see people that are suffering and we see their true
00:34:49.622 --> 00:34:51.824
Worth and value, and we see them suffering, we see royalty
00:34:51.824 --> 00:34:54.727
In rubble.
00:34:54.727 --> 00:34:56.095
Guess what we do?
00:34:56.095 --> 00:34:57.430
We go care for them.
00:34:57.430 --> 00:34:58.798
We go help them in that situation.
00:34:58.798 --> 00:35:00.600
We should have that same reaction that he had to putting
00:35:00.600 --> 00:35:03.670
On those glasses that help him see colors, because we would
00:35:03.670 --> 00:35:06.606
See people through the lens of the cross and it would
00:35:06.606 --> 00:35:08.841
Change everything.
00:35:08.841 --> 00:35:11.044
Kirk: man, this is a life-changing book.
00:35:11.044 --> 00:35:14.447
I'm so excited that we get to talk about this and for
00:35:14.447 --> 00:35:16.783
Everybody to get to read this now that it's out.
00:35:16.783 --> 00:35:20.186
In the last section of the book, you say that rest is biblical.
00:35:20.186 --> 00:35:24.324
That's good.
00:35:24.324 --> 00:35:25.692
I like rest, but so is running.
00:35:25.692 --> 00:35:27.026
Unpack that for us.
00:35:27.026 --> 00:35:28.394
Tim: oh man, this is something i've wrestled with a lot in
00:35:28.394 --> 00:35:32.932
My life.
00:35:32.932 --> 00:35:35.802
I love church.
00:35:35.802 --> 00:35:37.170
I love the big c church.
00:35:37.170 --> 00:35:38.504
I love my home church.
00:35:38.504 --> 00:35:39.872
I love church.
00:35:39.872 --> 00:35:41.207
But so much of the time in church as we talk about rest--
00:35:41.207 --> 00:35:44.277
As we should, it is biblical.
00:35:44.277 --> 00:35:46.312
But i also don't necessarily believe that rest is that we
00:35:46.312 --> 00:35:50.416
Should just kick our feet up and watch football all
00:35:50.416 --> 00:35:52.885
Sunday, right?
00:35:52.885 --> 00:35:54.254
That's not really, i think, what the bible had in mind for
00:35:54.254 --> 00:35:56.522
The sabbath.
00:35:56.522 --> 00:35:57.857
I actually think it's resting with jesus in jesus, and being
00:35:57.857 --> 00:36:01.361
Able to spend time with him and with our family and being able
00:36:01.361 --> 00:36:04.697
To point to jesus and have a focal point of our rest.
00:36:04.697 --> 00:36:08.067
And so i do, i'm not trying to downplay rest.
00:36:08.067 --> 00:36:10.737
I think it is important.
00:36:10.737 --> 00:36:12.505
I know it is important.
00:36:12.505 --> 00:36:14.607
But at the same time, so is running.
00:36:14.607 --> 00:36:19.946
Running is such an emphasis in the new testament, it's such an
00:36:19.946 --> 00:36:22.915
Emphasis with paul, and paul uses the example of athletes all
00:36:22.915 --> 00:36:27.854
The time and we just don't hear it shared a lot--that we would
00:36:27.854 --> 00:36:34.394
Actually run after the call of god in our lives, that we would
00:36:34.394 --> 00:36:38.431
Run after those that have never heard the gospel, that we would
00:36:38.431 --> 00:36:41.334
Run after those that are suffering.
00:36:41.334 --> 00:36:44.437
I feel like i've spent a lot of my life as a believer, jogging.
00:36:44.437 --> 00:36:51.077
Not running.
00:36:51.077 --> 00:36:52.412
See, the word that's used in scripture is the word "trejo,"
00:36:52.412 --> 00:36:54.747
And it means to advance speedily like an athlete moving forward
00:36:54.747 --> 00:36:58.017
With full effort and a directed purpose.
00:36:58.017 --> 00:37:00.219
How often are we moving forward when god's calling us to
00:37:00.219 --> 00:37:03.189
Something with full effort and a directed purpose?
00:37:03.189 --> 00:37:05.558
I can tell you, for me in sports, i was moving forward
00:37:05.558 --> 00:37:09.195
With a full effort and a directed purpose.
00:37:09.195 --> 00:37:11.964
Maybe was okay sometimes and maybe not as good sometimes.
00:37:11.964 --> 00:37:14.934
It's not about how good i was, but man, i was trying hard.
00:37:14.934 --> 00:37:17.603
Man, i was willing to play with broken bones.
00:37:17.603 --> 00:37:19.238
I was willing to just blood, sweat, and tears.
00:37:19.238 --> 00:37:21.874
I was willing to give up vacations.
00:37:21.874 --> 00:37:23.543
I was willing to put in time, strategy, focus, effort.
00:37:23.543 --> 00:37:26.579
I was willing to embrace the grind.
00:37:26.579 --> 00:37:30.016
For what?
00:37:30.016 --> 00:37:31.718
And i'm not saying it's--i think anything we do, we should
00:37:31.718 --> 00:37:34.320
Try hard with it.
00:37:34.320 --> 00:37:35.655
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your mind.
00:37:35.655 --> 00:37:37.256
I'm not saying that that is bad, but what i am saying is if i was
00:37:37.256 --> 00:37:40.159
Doing--willing to do all of that for a game, what should i
00:37:40.159 --> 00:37:45.665
Be willing to do for the cause of christ, for suffering people?
00:37:45.665 --> 00:37:51.170
And i would say one of the most disappointing things about my
00:37:51.170 --> 00:37:53.506
Life is that my greatest effort has been for a game.
00:37:53.506 --> 00:37:57.643
But hopefully, if we could have a conversation at the end of my
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Life or in heaven looking back, i could say, "no, kirk, it
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Started for a game, but it ended for the cause of christ"--
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That we would actually run, that we wouldn't walk, we wouldn't
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Jog, we wouldn't meander.
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But we would run after what god has called us to
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And, man, i don't-- it might be hard.
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It will be hard.
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We will have troubles and trials.
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We will have tribulation.
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That's also promised, but i also believe it will be totally
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Worth it.
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Totally worth it.
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And i just would encourage and challenge all of the listeners:
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What will your greatest effort be for?
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And will that thing be worth it?
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And if it's the cause of christ, if it's a calling god has for
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You, it'll be worth it.
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Kirk: after the break, tim will share more about the work that
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They do at his foundation and what we can do to have an impact
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In our own communities.
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Stay with us.
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♪♪♪
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Kirk: we're back.
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Tim tebow is my guest today, and we're talking about his latest
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Book called, "look again: recognize your worth, renew your
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Hope, run with confidence."
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Tim, this book is amazing.
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I mean, i needed this conversation and i can't wait
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For people to read this and look again at their whole life.
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I wanna talk about your foundation.
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Tell us what it's all about.
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Tim: well, our mission statement is to bring faith, hope, and
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Love to those needing a brighter day in their darkest hour of
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Need, but to really sum it up is to fight for people that can't
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Fight for themselves and to go to the darkest places and bring
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The light and the hope of jesus and to go to conflict,
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Crisis, chaos.
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We're fortunate to serve in just over 115 countries around the
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World and our heart is to be able to fight for those that are
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Being trafficked or exploited, to be able to care for those
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That are being overlooked or have special needs or those with
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Profound medical needs or those that are orphaned and don't have
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A family and to be able to bring that faith, hope, and love
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For them.
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And it is really to be able to care for the mvp, the most
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Vulnerable people, and we want to do that any and every way
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Possible, especially those in their darkest hour of need, is
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The real area that god has put on our heart and asked us to
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Run after.
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Kirk: this is where the rubber meets the road.
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I mean, you're putting your money, your time, your effort,
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Where your mouth is, and you're actually doing these things in
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115 countries around the world, serving the most
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Vulnerable people.
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What are some of the practical ways that your foundation is
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Helping people who are being trafficked and impoverished
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And marginalized?
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Tim: well, we have teams every day that work with law
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Enforcement to be able to safeguard and bring as many of
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Those that are being trafficked to a place of healing.
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We have over 50 safe homes and 20 more in progress where you
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Get the care, and bring long-term restoration and
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Healing to those that have gone through a living hell on earth.
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We're fortunate with our partners to have four hospitals
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Around the world, to have orphanages in a bunch of
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Different countries, to be able to, in any and every way,
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Leverage whatever god has given us for the sake of the mvp.
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And what does leverage mean?
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It just means to take what you have and put it on the table for
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Something new and better.
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And for us, that new and better is for someone to experience
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Hope, for someone to flourish once more, someone to understand
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What a family really looks like, to understand what love really
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Looks like.
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You know, there was, quite a few years back, i was in a location
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Where, a country, where faith isn't really allowed and we have
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Been able to bring a lot of kids out of terrible places of evil
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And the first little girl that i saw, she didn't make enough
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Money one day and her mom boiled out her eye.
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And the next little girl that i got introduced to was a girl
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That had been sold by her family.
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Another one was her dad was the first one to rape her, and i was
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So--in such a, i don't know, such a place of not--kirk, what
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Do you say to a little boy or girl about what a heavenly
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Father is like when their idea of a father is just the first
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Person that raped them?
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What do you say to a little girl when the idea of love is--
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Really, just looks like betrayal or exploitation?
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How do you even start this?
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And do you know how i believe it starts?
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By showing up again and again and again and trying to earn
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That trust--that we love you and we want something for you.
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We want nothing from you and what we want for you is to be
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Able to flourish.
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What we want for you is for you to know your real worth and your
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Real value, and that doesn't come from a dollar or a cent
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That somebody else paid for you.
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No, it comes from the blood of jesus of how loved you are that
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He was willing to give his life.
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And i just really believe that god has used those that are
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Hurting and suffering and going through living hells on earth to
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Convict me that this is what i'm called to do--is to run towards
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Them with the love and the light of jesus.
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Do you know what's awesome?
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We also know that, yes, it is daunting, it is evil, and there
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Are a lot--there's a lot of evil that takes place in our
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World right now.
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But you know the encouraging thing?
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Is when light and darkness meet, light wins every time.
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And it's not close.
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We get to bring that hope.
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One of the things i love to encourage our team and other
00:43:55.235 --> 00:43:58.038
Teams in ministry, is i want you to think about yourself as a
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Hope carrier.
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That you would take it and you would know, man, we get to bring
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Such hope to the world and we get to do that sometimes with
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Our words, we get to do that with our actions, we get to do
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That with our kindness, we get to do that with our care, we
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Get to do that with medical care.
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We get to do that with with reconciliation, we get to do
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That with safety in so many ways.
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But when you think about yourself that way, right, we
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Look through a different lens.
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Man, i get--we get to be hope carriers and then you see people
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That are starving for it.
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There's something that happens inside of you where it's not
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Just enough to bring it.
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I have to urgently bring it.
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You know, when we realize and we look at studies and one studies
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Will say that every girl that's going through human trafficking
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On average gets raped 5.3 times per day.
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So when we know that is happening, how could we wait?
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How could we jog?
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How could we stand there?
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And as a church, as a body of believers, that's done a lot of
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Amazing things, but far too often we've jogged, we've stood
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There, we've act like it's somebody else's
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Problem or issue.
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It's not. it's ours.
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But the question is will we take responsibility and will we show
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Up to the fight against good and evil?
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Kirk: and you're one of the guys who is doing something about it
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And your foundation and all the great people that you have
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Working there.
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Can you share a story of redemption that has come out of
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The work done by your foundation?
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Tim: oh, where do we start there?
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Just, my favorite story is the god stories.
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One of our core values is that we embrace the joy and the
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Burden of the calling.
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I do not believe it is enough to just have the joy.
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I believe that, as believers, we should have the joy.
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We know the joy of the lord is our strength.
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We know that people finding hope and healing is also our joy.
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We get to rejoice in all things.
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Again, paul tells us to rejoice, right?
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And he's doing that from a basement or prison, right?
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So we know that it's not about our circumstances, it's about
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Our savior and we can have joy every day, but we also should
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Have a burden for the hurting.
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And we get to see that every single day.
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We get to see those with the burden, we get to see the joy,
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And we know that we can have both and we got--there's a
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Tension between it but i would say some of my favorite stories
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Have--one example is one girl that has gone through such a
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Horrible evil and has been brought out of that evil of
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Being trafficked and exploited for a very long time and some of
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The worst things that you could imagine, over and over and
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Over again.
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And she has gone through so much healing and accepted christ as
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Her personal lord and savior and has had the chance to be
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Baptized in the ocean.
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I've been so fortunate to be able to do that.
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And she wanted to change her identity for a lot of reasons.
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One, so that she would have a different identity for all the
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People that did evil to her, but also because she wanted a new
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Identity because she know that-- she knows her spiritual
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Identity changed.
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And so she changed it to a name that means princess of the lord.
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Because she knew it's not just my physical id that changed,
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It's my spiritual id that changed.
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And that is the hope that we get to see.
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That's the joy.
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It's the--it's the burden that we had for her in that
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Situation, but it's also you get to see the joy and you get to
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See the joy of the lord in her life--that it's not just that
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She's in a safer place and, yes, that is worth everything, but
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It's also, man, to see her want to choose, no, no, i want to
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Change my name.
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Because not just on the outside, but on the inside, different.
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Kirk: that's right, and going from some identity that makes
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Her feel like she's just worth less to realizing that she's
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Royalty in the eyes of god.
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Tim, that's awesome. you're making a difference.
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You're making such a huge difference and, you know, some
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People can join in and support your foundation.
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If they want to do that, where do they go online to do that?
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Tim: well, they don't have to do that.
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I just encourage them to step in and be a part of different
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Organizations that are making a difference.
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If you feel called to be a part of ours, you can go to
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Timtebowfoundation.org and check out what we do and what we're
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Called to.
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But i would just encourage you to step in somewhere because
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There's a lot of people that need you to step in wherever
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You're feeling called, whatever you can do, would you leverage
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It for an mvp out there?
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Kirk: and finally, what do you hope people will take away from
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"look again"?
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Tim: my biggest hope and prayer is that part of it would be the
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Greatest encouragement for you.
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And the second part would be that it would be the greatest
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Challenge for you,
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That it would be the greatest encouragement 'cause you would
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See yourself through the lens of the cross the way that god
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Sees you.
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But then the challenge would come that you would see so many
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People that are suffering and hurting and that you would
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Answer the call to go care for them.
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Kirk: tim, thanks so much. tim: oh, my pleasure.
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Kirk: god bless you, brother. tim: god bless you, man.
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Thank you.
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Kirk: after the break, we'll review today's takeaways.
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Kirk: after the break, we'll review today's takeaways.
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♪♪♪
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Kirk: wow, what a privilege to talk with tim tebow today.
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I am so grateful for his insight and for all the good work that
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He's doing.
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Tim gave us a great reminder that our faith isn't passive.
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Rather, it demands action, urgency, and a radical shift in
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How we see the world, or at least in how we are tempted to
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See the world.
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Here's a few of our takeaways.
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See people as royalty.
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Tim challenged us with that powerful action item.
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The term "image of god" isn't just about function.
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It's a statement of worth for all humanity: made in
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God's image.
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So stop seeing people for what they can do for you and start
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Seeing them with the innate value and dignity god has
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Given them.
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Chase the right mvp.
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Forget about being the most valuable player.
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It's time to chase the most vulnerable people.
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Tim reminded us of the parable in matthew 25 when the king
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Says, "truly i tell you, whatever you did for one of the
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Least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did it
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For me."
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So don't worry about the size of your platform.
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You can serve god with the platform you have right now,
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Just like the boy with the loaves and the fishes.
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God just wants a willing heart to give what's in your hands to
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The mvp.
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Love is an action, not an emotion.
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Love is a choice to act on behalf of others.
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Tim taught us that love is the compassion of christ.
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It's a word that means to be moved from your most
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Inward parts.
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So when you and i love, we don't just feel.
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We act.
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He used the story of army medic desmond doss in "hacksaw ridge"
00:51:31.859 --> 00:51:35.829
To illustrate this.
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Remember, desmond was praying while he was literally crawling
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Under flying bullets in battle.
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He even helped his enemies.
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That is faith in action.
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So this week, don't just pray for those in need, ask god to
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Show you how you can act on their behalf.
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Run to the fight.
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Tim reminded us that we are called to be hope carriers in a
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World filled with a living hell on earth.
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We know the statistics.
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They're terrifying: that a trafficked girl is raped more
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Than five times a day.
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How can we do anything but run to their rescue?
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That story of the young woman who renamed herself princess of
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The lord after she was baptized is the visible proof that god's
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Light shatters the darkness, redeeming a person's identity
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From the ashes and restoring them to royalty.
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We are his hands and feet, so let's act.
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Well, that's all for this episode of "takeaways."
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Thanks for watching and if you've enjoyed the show, don't
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Forget to set your dvr to never miss an episode.
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And of course you can always catch up on past episodes by
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Searching for "takeaways" on tbn plus or by visiting the
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We hope to see you here next time for more
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Great conversations.
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♪♪♪
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Tim Tebow: Embracing the Way God Sees Each of Us | Takeaways with Kirk Cameron

November 3, 2025 | 54:57

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