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Your Move with Andy Stanley | Andy Stanley - A Better Question (Part 1) | January 4, 2025
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- Andy stanley: hi, everybody.
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- Welcome to "your move," where we help you make better decisions
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- And live with fewer regrets.
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- I'm andy stanley and i'll be your guide.
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- Now, you have probably noticed that people with power usually
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- Leverage that power to keep it and to, well, to get more of it,
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- Which is unfortunate because, well, imagine what our
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- Communities, our families, our world would look like if we all
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- Used our influence to benefit the people around us instead of,
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- Well, instead of just the person in the mirror.
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- Somebody's gotta go first.
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- Why not you? why not me?
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- Stick around and we'll talk about what that might look like
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- Right here on "your move."
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- ♪♪♪
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- Andy: now, as we start a new year, this is typically, for
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- Many of us, the season of self-improvement, which is good.
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- And the reason this is good, and i don't--i'm not--i don't have
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- Anybody in mind but some of you, you need to improve
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- Yourself, okay?
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- I'll just leave it at that, okay?
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- So this is a good thing.
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- This is where we become painfully aware because we're
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- Reminded--painfully aware of where we are and where we're
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- Not, what we need to start, what we need to stop doing, what we
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- Need to start eating and stop eating, eat more of and eat
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- Less of.
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- And in many of our cases, it's the same stuff that we decided a
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- Year ago that we were gonna do less of and do more of and stop
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- Eating as much of.
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- And i get that, i'm guilty of that as well.
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- And in this season, we're really asking without--i mean, you
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- Didn't have this question before today.
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- But basically, the question for most of us during the season is:
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- What should i do about me?
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- And this is an important question to ask.
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- In fact, multiple times at our church we talk about things that
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- You need to work on for you, and i need to work on for me.
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- What can i do to make myself, in this case, you know, smarter?
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- What can i do to make myself slimmer or stronger?
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- Healthier, wealthier, successful-er.
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- Maybe you want this year to make yourself less lonelier.
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- And as a pastor, i just wanna say, go for it.
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- I hope you accomplish all of those goals.
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- I hope next year your goals are different because you've been so
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- Successful this year.
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- Stick with them, get that degree, you know, break
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- That habit.
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- For some of you it's get out of debt.
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- I hope you're massively successful and consistent.
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- But i want to, in the next three times we're together beginning
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- Today, i wanna add a question.
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- I wanna give you something to add, a second question, that,
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- Actually, is gonna potentially help you.
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- It may actually motivate you with your "what should i do
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- About me?" goals.
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- But it's a different question.
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- It's not a religious question, so if you're not a religious
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- Person or you're new to faith or you've abandoned faith or
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- You're--somebody dragged in here, you spend the night with
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- Family and they're making you watch this, sorry, this has
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- Nothing to do with religion.
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- This is just a really important question that i think, and i
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- Think you'll agree, that everybody should ask and answer,
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- And everybody should ask this question in every season of life
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- Because the answer, or the answers, to this question change
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- With each season of our life.
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- In fact, if the question, i'll tell you what it is in just a
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- Minute, if it sounds familiar, it's because i introduced this
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- Back in 2015.
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- And every once in a while i kind of drop it into something as
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- A reminder.
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- But in every season, we should all, i think, dust this off and
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- Ask and answer this question.
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- Now, little heads up, a little warning.
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- This question will mess with you, it will bother you, it may
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- Make you feel guilty, it may motivate you, if we allow it to
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- Do its work.
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- This is the kind of question that can focus you and maybe
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- Change you.
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- I mean, as we're gonna discover, this question, or similar
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- Questions, actually change some people's life.
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- It has the potential to change, honestly, this isn't preacher
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- Talk, it has the potential to change the trajectory of
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- Your life.
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- You may be surprised by a rush of emotion or maybe a rush
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- Of guilt.
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- I think when we ask this question, some of us, if we're
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- Honest, we're tempted to look away because the answer
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- Scares us.
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- For some of you, when i ask the question, you're gonna know the
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- Answer immediately.
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- Others of you aren't gonna have an answer, and that's okay,
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- That--we're gonna talk about it for a while.
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- This is just the beginning of the conversation.
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- So there's no guilt, and if you don't have an answer,
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- That's okay.
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- But i would suggest you write it down and put the question
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- Somewhere where you can look at it because this is the kind of
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- Question that will make your life better.
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- Now, if you're a christian, again, this isn't a religious
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- Question, but if you are a christian, especially if you've
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- Committed to being a jesus follower, this, i don't know,
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- This question is important for us for several reasons, and
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- We're gonna talk about one specifically next time.
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- But the reason we should all take this seriously, as
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- Christians especially, is because this question, or the
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- Sentiment behind the question, the thing that fuels the
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- Question, actually threads its way through the entire story and
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- History of our faith.
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- I'll give you a couple of examples.
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- The, sort of, the, i don't know, the oxygen, the thing that fuels
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- This question is the reason that moses--most of us don't know
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- Enough about the story of moses, is the reason that moses
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- Couldn't stand by and do nothing while his people labored and
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- Suffered under the authority and the mistreatment of their
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- Egyptian taskmasters.
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- I mean, we know, most of us, know the story about "let my
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- People go."
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- Moses just--and the thing about moses, he was a prince.
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- He was actually part of pharaoh's household, but he was
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- Related to this nation of slaves.
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- And it would have been so easy for him to just look the other
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- Way and just, you know, kind of ride this out as a prince
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- Of egypt.
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- And he just couldn't do it.
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- It's why this isn't as familiar a story, but it's a
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- Powerful story.
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- It's why queen esther in the 5th century.
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- She was actually the queen of persia.
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- She was the wife of the most powerful person in the world.
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- And if you know the story, it's why she couldn't stand by and do
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- Nothing when she discovered there was a plot to exterminate
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- All the jews in persia.
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- And she finds out about this and she's the queen, but it's not
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- Like when we think kings and queens because the, you know,
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- The king had a harem.
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- It was king xerxes.
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- And as the story goes, he chose her as the queen because she's
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- The most beautiful person in the empire that he could find.
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- But he had, you know, other stuff going on.
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- And so you didn't just walk into the presence and say, "honey,
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- I've got a question."
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- In fact, there was a law that you could not enter king
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- Xerxes's presence without being invited.
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- And if you did, it was the death penalty.
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- And she discovers there's this plot and the only person that
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- Can stop, you know, her people from being exterminated is
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- King xerxes.
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- And he hasn't called, you should read the story, he hasn't called
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- On her in over 30 days.
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- And so she gathers some people together, she says, "you gotta
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- Pray for me, you gotta fast, because i'm going in.
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- And if he doesn't hold out his gold scepter, my life is over.
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- But i've got to go in anyway."
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- And then she makes this famous statement, maybe you've heard
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- This statement before, didn't know who originally said it.
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- And she said, "and," i love this, "if i perish, i perish,
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- But i can't stand around and do nothing."
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- This question and the sentiment behind this question is really
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- What fueled nehemiah, one of the greatest leadership stories in
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- Ancient history, maybe ever.
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- And one of the great things about the story of nehemiah,
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- Maybe for us, is there's no miracles.
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- You know, god doesn't do anything unusual.
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- It's just good old-fashioned leadership and work.
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- Nehemiah was the cup bearer to king artaxerxes of persia again.
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- And he's got it made, he's got like this cush job.
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- He's just, i mean, he's living the dream in the most powerful
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- Empire of the world.
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- He's got a relationship with the most powerful man, you know,
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- Alive at that time and he gets news that things are not going
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- Well in judea, jerusalem where he's from because he's a judean.
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- Originally, his family was.
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- And he's got this tension on the inside.
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- "things are bad there, but things are good here.
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- But i can't un-hear what i've heard."
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- And he goes to king artaxerxes and he asked for permission to
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- Leave his service.
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- Nobody does this.
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- I mean, you spend your whole life getting to this place.
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- He asked for permission to leave the service to go back to
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- Jerusalem to do something for the people.
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- In fact, he actually says, "would you make me the governor
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- Of jerusalem of judea so i'll have the authority to go back
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- And address the economy, to go back and address the fact that
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- The gates have been burned down the walls have been torn down.
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- That things are--the people are depressed and distressed?"
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- And the king says, "you have permission to go," and he goes,
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- And it's an extraordinary, extraordinary story.
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- But the thing that caused him to leave what was comfortable for
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- What was uncomfortable, really, is behind the question that
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- We're gonna wrestle with for the next few times that
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- We're together.
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- In some way, you know, this is the reason that jesus left his
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- Father's side in heaven, the best that we can understand
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- That, and came to be one of us and to live among us and to
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- Suffer as one of us.
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- It is certainly, no exaggerated--no exaggeration, no
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- Exaggeration, it was certainly the reason that he left the
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- Safety of galilee where it was his people and traveled south to
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- The lion's den of jerusalem, knowing what awaited him there.
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- And it's not just the ancient world that's been impacted by
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- This question or a question like it.
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- The modern world.
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- In fact, the modern world has been shaped by men and women
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- Who've refused to, this is so important, who've refused to
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- Look the other way, who refused to look the other way when the
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- Answer to this question became apparent.
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- It's why dr. king left the comfort and the safety of the
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- North to come to the uncomfortable, unsafe south.
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- And he stayed here because he could not un-hear what he had
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- Heard, he could not unread what he'd read, and he could not
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- Unsee what he'd seen.
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- That's why my friend, and some of your friends as well, janine
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- And ian maxwell--janine ran one of the largest and most
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- Successful marketing companies in canada some years ago.
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- It's why that ian and janine maxwell moved to a pretty much
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- Forgotten kingdom in the middle of africa 12 years ago.
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- They had visited swaziland, the king later renamed it eswatini.
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- It's kind of cool, if you're the king, you can say, "we're gonna
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- Rename our country," and everybody just nods.
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- So he renamed the country eswatini.
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- But when they moved there, when--and then first,
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- Originally, visited there, it was the kingdom of swaziland.
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- And when they got there, they saw children raising children
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- Because the aids pandemic had destroyed and killed off almost
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- All the adults.
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- Years ago, sandra and i went and visited with them there and we
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- Saw this firsthand.
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- And when you see it, you can't unsee it.
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- And so they shut down their business and they moved to
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- Swaziland, now eswatini, and they just began rescuing babies.
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- When we were there, we went with them to rescue two babies.
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- And the first thing they do would--have them tested to see
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- If they're hiv positive.
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- And oftentimes they are.
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- And they've been rescuing babies for 12 years.
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- And if you're wondering how many babies they've rescued, i had
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- Her send me this picture this week.
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- They've rescued this many babies, because that was 12
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- Years ago, and now they're 12 years old and 11 years old, and
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- This is janine.
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- Four hundred and one, this is number four hundred and one.
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- There's ian on the other side.
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- Because once they saw it, they couldn't unsee it.
- 00:11:42.475 --> 00:11:46.346
- And then she tricked me.
- 00:11:46.346 --> 00:11:48.748
- She named one of the babies andy, and now i have to fund
- 00:11:48.748 --> 00:11:53.419
- Them for the rest of my life.
- 00:11:53.419 --> 00:11:55.421
- So little andrew, actually, if you--i'm just kidding.
- 00:11:55.421 --> 00:11:58.124
- Anyway, this question is why sandra and i became
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- Foster parents.
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- Sorry.
- 00:12:03.663 --> 00:12:05.031
- I--we had a friend and he told us his story.
- 00:12:05.031 --> 00:12:07.033
- He was a foster kid, grew up in foster homes, and i listened to
- 00:12:07.033 --> 00:12:11.004
- His story, we listened to his story, and we're like, i can't
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- Un-hear that.
- 00:12:13.973 --> 00:12:15.308
- And suddenly, i've become aware.
- 00:12:15.308 --> 00:12:18.111
- We wake up to a reality in our communities that we didn't know
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- About before.
- 00:12:21.147 --> 00:12:22.482
- And once you know, you can't unknow.
- 00:12:22.482 --> 00:12:23.850
- And we couldn't, you know, foster all the kids that needed
- 00:12:23.850 --> 00:12:26.085
- To be fostered, but we could foster some.
- 00:12:26.085 --> 00:12:28.488
- And so for ten years, you know, kids are in and out of our home.
- 00:12:28.488 --> 00:12:33.660
- So all that to say this: when we address, and when i give you the
- 00:12:33.660 --> 00:12:38.731
- Question, you may not have an answer, and that's okay.
- 00:12:38.731 --> 00:12:42.702
- You may not have an answer yet, but in the meantime, i want you
- 00:12:42.702 --> 00:12:45.605
- To write this down and i want you to put it somewhere and i'm
- 00:12:45.605 --> 00:12:49.576
- Inviting you to allow this question to bother you until you
- 00:12:49.576 --> 00:12:54.714
- Have some sort of answer.
- 00:12:54.714 --> 00:12:59.118
- On the other hand, as soon as we--i give you the question,
- 00:12:59.118 --> 00:13:02.021
- Some of you are gonna know immediately what the answer is
- 00:13:02.021 --> 00:13:04.057
- And you're gonna be frustrated because you're like, "yeah, i
- 00:13:04.057 --> 00:13:06.359
- Think about that all the time, andy, but i don't know what to
- 00:13:06.359 --> 00:13:08.361
- Do and i don't think there's anything i can do.
- 00:13:08.361 --> 00:13:10.196
- And thanks for reminding me, i'd rather not think about it.
- 00:13:10.196 --> 00:13:12.432
- The problem is too big, it's too complicated, and i can't
- 00:13:12.432 --> 00:13:14.901
- Do anything."
- 00:13:14.901 --> 00:13:16.236
- And i'm here to tell you: everybody can do something.
- 00:13:16.236 --> 00:13:19.939
- And then, you may be the opposite.
- 00:13:19.939 --> 00:13:21.875
- You may know the answer to the question and you may know
- 00:13:21.875 --> 00:13:23.943
- Exactly what to do, but it scares you.
- 00:13:23.943 --> 00:13:28.915
- And it should, because it's gonna cost you.
- 00:13:28.915 --> 00:13:30.817
- It's gonna cost you some time and some money, some freedom.
- 00:13:30.817 --> 00:13:33.753
- It's gonna cost you some opportunities and it may cost
- 00:13:33.753 --> 00:13:36.222
- You a reputation.
- 00:13:36.222 --> 00:13:37.891
- It may cost you a relationship because you've got family
- 00:13:37.891 --> 00:13:39.993
- Members that are, like, "you're gonna do what?"
- 00:13:39.993 --> 00:13:42.161
- But here's why that's okay and here's why it's worth it.
- 00:13:42.161 --> 00:13:46.199
- Here's something we all have in common.
- 00:13:46.199 --> 00:13:49.969
- The people that you admire the most, the people you admire the
- 00:13:49.969 --> 00:13:55.341
- Most are not the people who got in shape, got out of debt, and
- 00:13:55.341 --> 00:13:58.144
- Then just got on with their lives.
- 00:13:58.144 --> 00:14:01.114
- The people that have--that inspire you are not the people
- 00:14:01.114 --> 00:14:05.718
- Who have devoted themselves to becoming the best version of
- 00:14:05.718 --> 00:14:08.421
- Themselves and then just went on to be a better version
- 00:14:08.421 --> 00:14:12.759
- Of themselves.
- 00:14:12.759 --> 00:14:14.227
- The folks who inspire and amaze you are the folks who, at some
- 00:14:14.227 --> 00:14:20.667
- Level, had the courage to ask, answer, and act on
- 00:14:20.667 --> 00:14:28.207
- This question.
- 00:14:28.207 --> 00:14:29.976
- And they are the people that made a little piece of the world
- 00:14:29.976 --> 00:14:34.614
- Better and they certainly made somebody's world better.
- 00:14:34.614 --> 00:14:39.953
- So this is a question we should all ask, and we should all ask
- 00:14:39.953 --> 00:14:43.523
- It in every season of our lives.
- 00:14:43.523 --> 00:14:46.259
- And, just wanna be fair, while it's absolutely appropriate,
- 00:14:46.259 --> 00:14:50.229
- While it's absolutely the right thing, in fact, it may be the
- 00:14:50.229 --> 00:14:53.566
- Urgent thing for you to ask the question, you know, "what should
- 00:14:53.566 --> 00:14:56.836
- I do about me?"--i mean, there may be some things that you
- 00:14:56.836 --> 00:14:59.572
- Really need to immediately address, what should you do
- 00:14:59.572 --> 00:15:01.808
- About you, and i would encourage you to do that.
- 00:15:01.808 --> 00:15:04.744
- As you start the year along with this question, i just wanna
- 00:15:04.744 --> 00:15:08.648
- Invite all of us to take a step away from the mirror, step off
- 00:15:08.648 --> 00:15:14.654
- The scales, put our phones down for just a moment and ask a
- 00:15:14.654 --> 00:15:20.226
- Better, a clarifying, i'll be honest, a terrifying question
- 00:15:20.226 --> 00:15:25.631
- That will reveal something about you, but has the potential to
- 00:15:25.631 --> 00:15:32.005
- Catapult you beyond you in a way that maybe you never
- 00:15:32.005 --> 00:15:38.077
- Thought possible.
- 00:15:38.077 --> 00:15:39.412
- So here it is: what breaks your heart?
- 00:15:39.412 --> 00:15:48.721
- What breaks your heart?
- 00:15:48.721 --> 00:15:50.923
- It's okay not to know, but it's the question we should all ask
- 00:15:50.923 --> 00:15:54.861
- From time to time-- what breaks your heart?
- 00:15:54.861 --> 00:15:56.195
- And like me, just to be clear, like me, there are a lot of
- 00:15:56.195 --> 00:15:58.965
- Things that bother you, there are a lot of things that
- 00:15:58.965 --> 00:16:01.234
- Irritate you, there are things that offend you culturally,
- 00:16:01.234 --> 00:16:05.405
- There are things that bother you nationally, there may be some
- 00:16:05.405 --> 00:16:08.341
- Things that irritate you locally.
- 00:16:08.341 --> 00:16:11.878
- But is there one thing that surpasses all those
- 00:16:11.878 --> 00:16:15.715
- Other things?
- 00:16:15.715 --> 00:16:17.083
- Is there one thing, one category, one issue that above
- 00:16:17.083 --> 00:16:19.152
- All the things that just kind of bother you and irritate you and
- 00:16:19.152 --> 00:16:21.854
- Make you mad and make you wanna throw something at
- 00:16:21.854 --> 00:16:23.623
- The television?
- 00:16:23.623 --> 00:16:24.991
- Is there one thing in particular that is above all those
- 00:16:24.991 --> 00:16:28.127
- Other things?
- 00:16:28.127 --> 00:16:29.462
- There--is there one thing that just kind of stays with you?
- 00:16:29.462 --> 00:16:31.531
- You kind of wish you'd never read about it.
- 00:16:31.531 --> 00:16:33.232
- You kind of wish you'd never heard about it.
- 00:16:33.232 --> 00:16:35.134
- You wish you'd never seen it.
- 00:16:35.134 --> 00:16:36.502
- You wish you'd not visited it.
- 00:16:36.502 --> 00:16:38.471
- Because now you can't get it out of your head and it just
- 00:16:38.471 --> 00:16:41.641
- Sits there.
- 00:16:41.641 --> 00:16:43.609
- I'll tell you my personal--my initial foray into this tension
- 00:16:43.609 --> 00:16:48.381
- That this question raises.
- 00:16:48.381 --> 00:16:49.715
- I was in my 20s and i've--i never felt called to ministry,
- 00:16:49.715 --> 00:16:54.053
- I volunteered.
- 00:16:54.053 --> 00:16:55.421
- I mean, i had friends that felt called and went forward and told
- 00:16:55.421 --> 00:16:57.190
- My dad, but i never felt called.
- 00:16:57.190 --> 00:16:58.958
- I was kind of waiting for this lightning bolt or i woke up in
- 00:16:58.958 --> 00:17:01.427
- The middle of the night or the angel--or i would sometimes
- 00:17:01.427 --> 00:17:04.530
- Pray, "god, if you're gonna call me, don't do it audibly because
- 00:17:04.530 --> 00:17:06.532
- I will wet my pants, okay?
- 00:17:06.532 --> 00:17:07.867
- So just don't over call me just, you know, make it clear,
- 00:17:07.867 --> 00:17:11.471
- You know."
- 00:17:11.471 --> 00:17:12.839
- So i'm driving around with my dad one day and i said, "dad, do
- 00:17:12.839 --> 00:17:14.707
- You have to be called into ministry, or can you
- 00:17:14.707 --> 00:17:16.809
- Just volunteer?"
- 00:17:16.809 --> 00:17:18.344
- That's what i asked him.
- 00:17:18.344 --> 00:17:19.712
- We're in our green grand safari station wagon.
- 00:17:19.712 --> 00:17:21.414
- I remember right where we were, in cobb county, you know.
- 00:17:21.414 --> 00:17:23.716
- I said, "can you just volunteer for ministry?
- 00:17:23.716 --> 00:17:25.618
- Because i'd like"--he said, "yeah."
- 00:17:25.618 --> 00:17:27.420
- I said, "well, i'd like to volunteer."
- 00:17:27.420 --> 00:17:29.255
- That's how i got into this.
- 00:17:29.255 --> 00:17:30.590
- And i'll tell you what drove me.
- 00:17:30.590 --> 00:17:32.258
- I was working just as a volunteer with some high school
- 00:17:32.258 --> 00:17:34.360
- Students and i began working with college students and then
- 00:17:34.360 --> 00:17:36.162
- High school students again.
- 00:17:36.162 --> 00:17:37.530
- And the thing that broke my heart was watching students,
- 00:17:37.530 --> 00:17:41.601
- Watching, you know, back then we called them "young people,"
- 00:17:41.601 --> 00:17:44.370
- Watching young people, watching students, teenagers and, you
- 00:17:44.370 --> 00:17:47.673
- Know, college students, watching them make decisions that i knew
- 00:17:47.673 --> 00:17:51.577
- Would potentially undermine their future.
- 00:17:51.577 --> 00:17:54.447
- It just broke my heart.
- 00:17:54.447 --> 00:17:55.815
- I'm like, no, no, no, why are you doing that?
- 00:17:55.815 --> 00:17:57.517
- Why are you going there?
- 00:17:57.517 --> 00:17:58.885
- Why are you participating?
- 00:17:58.885 --> 00:18:00.219
- You don't understand.
- 00:18:00.219 --> 00:18:01.554
- You think it's an event, it's a pathway.
- 00:18:01.554 --> 00:18:02.922
- This leads somewhere.
- 00:18:02.922 --> 00:18:04.257
- I mean, come on, life is hard enough.
- 00:18:04.257 --> 00:18:05.691
- Don't make your life harder by creating your own regret.
- 00:18:05.691 --> 00:18:09.095
- I mean, some regrets are avoidable.
- 00:18:09.095 --> 00:18:10.596
- They deal with, you know, they have other people that do things
- 00:18:10.596 --> 00:18:13.232
- To us or create environments we can't escape.
- 00:18:13.232 --> 00:18:15.001
- But come on, don't make your life harder than it's already
- 00:18:15.001 --> 00:18:17.703
- Gonna be.
- 00:18:17.703 --> 00:18:19.038
- And that burden stayed with me, and that's what drove my
- 00:18:19.038 --> 00:18:20.640
- Communication then.
- 00:18:20.640 --> 00:18:22.008
- It's what drives my communication now.
- 00:18:22.008 --> 00:18:23.809
- That's why i try to be practical.
- 00:18:23.809 --> 00:18:26.045
- So, you know, sidebar, here's the mini sermon for today: don't
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- Make your life more complicated than it already is with
- 00:18:34.387 --> 00:18:36.656
- Bad decisions.
- 00:18:36.656 --> 00:18:38.024
- That's it.
- 00:18:38.024 --> 00:18:39.358
- That's all i wanna say to you week after week after week.
- 00:18:39.358 --> 00:18:41.027
- You know, follow jesus.
- 00:18:41.027 --> 00:18:42.361
- This is why we say following jesus makes your life better,
- 00:18:42.361 --> 00:18:44.697
- Makes you better at life.
- 00:18:44.697 --> 00:18:46.032
- So that--that's what really broke my heart in those days.
- 00:18:46.032 --> 00:18:48.201
- That is why i stayed for years and years.
- 00:18:48.201 --> 00:18:49.535
- I thought i would work with high school students my whole life.
- 00:18:49.535 --> 00:18:51.871
- I really did.
- 00:18:51.871 --> 00:18:53.206
- Because i'm like, if you, you know, if you can just get these
- 00:18:53.206 --> 00:18:55.641
- Years these college years right, it just puts you on a trajectory
- 00:18:55.641 --> 00:18:59.579
- That's gonna make your life better.
- 00:18:59.579 --> 00:19:01.314
- Now, okay, that's enough about me.
- 00:19:01.314 --> 00:19:02.982
- So, back to you. what breaks your heart?
- 00:19:02.982 --> 00:19:06.786
- Years ago, we're in the kitchen and sandra and i are talking
- 00:19:06.786 --> 00:19:09.589
- About this, and she had a different way of asking this
- 00:19:09.589 --> 00:19:12.692
- Question, so i'll ask--i'll give you her version, and maybe it's
- 00:19:12.692 --> 00:19:15.561
- More clarifying for you.
- 00:19:15.561 --> 00:19:16.929
- She said, "if you were--if you--if it were up to you, if it
- 00:19:16.929 --> 00:19:21.534
- Were up to you and you could choose, like, one thing, if
- 00:19:21.534 --> 00:19:24.937
- You--were up to you and you could choose one thing, there's
- 00:19:24.937 --> 00:19:28.407
- The question, what would you like people to line up and thank
- 00:19:28.407 --> 00:19:31.477
- You for at the end of your life?"
- 00:19:31.477 --> 00:19:32.845
- That's a great question.
- 00:19:32.845 --> 00:19:34.280
- If you just pick one thing, and all your productive years are
- 00:19:34.280 --> 00:19:36.816
- Over, you know, you're sitting on the front porch somewhere,
- 00:19:36.816 --> 00:19:39.285
- And they're gonna line up people who have been and out of your
- 00:19:39.285 --> 00:19:41.721
- Life, and you could choose what they would come and thank you
- 00:19:41.721 --> 00:19:45.157
- For, in other words, the one thing that you would wanna make
- 00:19:45.157 --> 00:19:47.893
- A difference in the world or with a group of people, what
- 00:19:47.893 --> 00:19:50.329
- Would you like for people to thank you for at the end of
- 00:19:50.329 --> 00:19:54.734
- Your life?
- 00:19:54.734 --> 00:19:56.068
- Here's another angle.
- 00:19:56.068 --> 00:19:57.436
- This is kind of the nuclear angle.
- 00:19:57.436 --> 00:19:59.672
- If you could push a button, that's why it's nuclear, if you
- 00:19:59.672 --> 00:20:02.441
- Could push a button and change one thing in the world, what
- 00:20:02.441 --> 00:20:06.846
- Would it be?
- 00:20:06.846 --> 00:20:08.214
- If you could suddenly--you had the power to change one thing in
- 00:20:08.214 --> 00:20:11.717
- The world, what would it be?
- 00:20:11.717 --> 00:20:14.920
- Now, if you don't have an answer, don't force it.
- 00:20:14.920 --> 00:20:18.424
- It's not gonna be a quiz.
- 00:20:18.424 --> 00:20:19.792
- Nobody can read your mind.
- 00:20:19.792 --> 00:20:21.127
- You don't have to know today.
- 00:20:21.127 --> 00:20:22.795
- But if you don't know, if you don't have an answer, i want you
- 00:20:22.795 --> 00:20:27.066
- To think about it because we're gonna continue to talk about it.
- 00:20:27.066 --> 00:20:31.504
- What breaks your heart?
- 00:20:31.504 --> 00:20:34.473
- Now, here's the good news.
- 00:20:34.473 --> 00:20:35.841
- That was kind of the scary scare-you-away news.
- 00:20:35.841 --> 00:20:37.476
- Here's the great news, okay?
- 00:20:37.476 --> 00:20:38.811
- Something--i'm gonna bring you back.
- 00:20:38.811 --> 00:20:40.613
- Regardless of your answer, you're not gonna have to face
- 00:20:40.613 --> 00:20:42.915
- Down a pharaoh and deliver a nation from egypt, okay?
- 00:20:42.915 --> 00:20:45.751
- So you're not gonna have to do that, all right?
- 00:20:45.751 --> 00:20:47.253
- So you can take that--that's already been done.
- 00:20:47.253 --> 00:20:49.455
- You probably won't even have to quit your day job.
- 00:20:49.455 --> 00:20:54.260
- But you're probably gonna have to quit something.
- 00:20:54.260 --> 00:21:00.766
- Answer this question honestly.
- 00:21:00.766 --> 00:21:04.437
- You're not gonna have to give up everything, but you're gonna
- 00:21:04.437 --> 00:21:08.374
- Have to give up something.
- 00:21:08.374 --> 00:21:09.709
- You probably won't have to leave the country, you probably won't
- 00:21:09.709 --> 00:21:11.944
- Have to leave the city, you probably won't leave--have to
- 00:21:11.944 --> 00:21:13.879
- Leave your house, but you're gonna have to leave
- 00:21:13.879 --> 00:21:15.514
- Behind something.
- 00:21:15.514 --> 00:21:18.784
- You probably won't have to leave the country, but i tell you
- 00:21:18.784 --> 00:21:20.786
- What, you will have to leave.
- 00:21:20.786 --> 00:21:22.855
- You have to leave your comfort zone.
- 00:21:22.855 --> 00:21:26.525
- And you're like me and i'm like you, we kind of set our sights
- 00:21:26.525 --> 00:21:32.198
- On the comfort zone.
- 00:21:32.198 --> 00:21:33.766
- But if you have--you let this question get to your heart, you
- 00:21:33.766 --> 00:21:38.337
- Won't be able to stay there all the time.
- 00:21:38.337 --> 00:21:41.173
- You're gonna be forced, you're gonna be called, you're gonna be
- 00:21:41.173 --> 00:21:44.777
- Motivated to step out, because whatever breaks your heart,
- 00:21:44.777 --> 00:21:49.315
- You're not gonna be able to address it from the safety and
- 00:21:49.315 --> 00:21:52.084
- The comfort of your comfort zone.
- 00:21:52.084 --> 00:21:55.554
- You're not gonna have to give up everything, but you're gonna
- 00:21:55.554 --> 00:21:58.090
- Have to give up something.
- 00:21:58.090 --> 00:21:59.425
- And here's the thing: that's okay.
- 00:21:59.425 --> 00:22:01.594
- Let me make you a promise.
- 00:22:01.594 --> 00:22:04.130
- Whatever you give up in order to address the thing that breaks
- 00:22:04.130 --> 00:22:08.734
- Your heart, here's the promise, you won't miss it.
- 00:22:08.734 --> 00:22:16.142
- But if you ignore the tug,
- 00:22:16.142 --> 00:22:24.950
- If you decide, i just can't look
- 00:22:24.950 --> 00:22:26.452
- Over there, i don't wanna hear about that, if you ignore the
- 00:22:26.452 --> 00:22:29.889
- Grief or the anger or the heartbreak, if you keep telling
- 00:22:29.889 --> 00:22:32.958
- Yourself, "there's nothing i can do," let me tell you what you
- 00:22:32.958 --> 00:22:35.828
- Will miss.
- 00:22:35.828 --> 00:22:40.065
- You'll miss an opportunity.
- 00:22:40.065 --> 00:22:41.901
- And here's the real tragedy: you won't know you missed it.
- 00:22:41.901 --> 00:22:47.072
- It came and it went, and you were so locked in and i'm so
- 00:22:47.072 --> 00:22:50.543
- Locked in on my comfort zone and my thing and, you know, somebody
- 00:22:50.543 --> 00:22:53.446
- Else can deal with that and it's too big and, you know, what
- 00:22:53.446 --> 00:22:55.514
- Could i do anyway?
- 00:22:55.514 --> 00:22:56.849
- You'll miss the--and you know what you might miss?
- 00:22:56.849 --> 00:22:58.818
- You might miss the opportunity of a lifetime.
- 00:22:58.818 --> 00:23:01.153
- You might miss the greatest opportunity of your lifetime, an
- 00:23:01.153 --> 00:23:04.523
- Opportunity to make a difference in the world, but for sure to
- 00:23:04.523 --> 00:23:07.827
- Make a difference in somebody's world.
- 00:23:07.827 --> 00:23:10.196
- And missing that opportunity, please hear this, missing that
- 00:23:10.196 --> 00:23:14.433
- Opportunity is what you should fear more than the potential
- 00:23:14.433 --> 00:23:18.571
- Cost of facing and answering that question.
- 00:23:18.571 --> 00:23:23.509
- And here's why you should fear that more than you should fear
- 00:23:23.509 --> 00:23:26.078
- What you're gonna have to give up.
- 00:23:26.078 --> 00:23:27.746
- And you know this because i remind you all the time and will
- 00:23:27.746 --> 00:23:31.050
- Continue to.
- 00:23:31.050 --> 00:23:35.254
- At the end of your life, at the end of my life, you're gonna be
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- Celebrated for the difference you made not the dollars
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- You made.
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- We're gonna be remembered for what we gave and not what we
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- Saved, and i'm all for saving.
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- In other words, i tell you this all the time, and any time you
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- Go to a funeral you're reminded of this, but after funerals we
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- Have a tendency, unless it's a really, really close relative,
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- We have a tendency to kind of shake it off and get back to
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- Life and get back to what we're doing.
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- And i understand this, but every time you attend a funeral
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- We're--you're reminded of this, that in the end the value of a
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- Life is always measured by how much of it was given away.
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- And you know that, and i know that, and what breaks your heart
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- Is your opportunity to leverage that while you, we're gonna talk
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- About this in part three, while you still have the opportunity
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- To do so.
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- And here's what's true of me and what's true of you: every single
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- Day is another day that, potentially, that opportunity
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- Slips away.
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- So this question shouldn't scare us.
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- It should inspire us.
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- What breaks your heart?
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- So here's what i want you to do.
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- I just want you to pay attention this week.
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- And this is equally as important.
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- If nothing breaks your heart, you should pay attention to that
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- As well because that says something about you and it may
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- Be an indicator that you have some work to do.
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- And if you are a follower of jesus, as we're gonna talk about
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- Next time when we open the scripture and we dive deep into
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- One of jesus's most amazing teachings, it's a reminder that
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- God wants to do some work in us.
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- Because if it's all about me, no matter how much i weigh and how
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- Successful i am and even how much generosity i, you know, how
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- Generous i am, if it's all about me and if it's all about you, we
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- Have work to do.
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- And if you're not a christian, let me just be clear, if you're
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- Not a christian or religious person, i have no right to tell
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- You what to do.
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- And i'm not trying to manipulate you.
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- I mean, your life is your life and you gotta figure out what or
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- Who's gonna be the lord or the king of your life.
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- But if you call yourself a christian, and i call myself a
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- Christian, we have a lord.
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- The lord has said even the son of man, talking about himself,
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- Did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life
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- For those--and to give his life as a ransom for many, and
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- That--those are marching orders.
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- And it's not to the exclusion of your physical health or your
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- Financial health or your success with your family.
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- But if this isn't a part of, if this isn't a piece of, if this
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- Isn't a slice of your time and your opportunity and your talent
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- And your treasure and your expertise, then maybe you have
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- Some work to do.
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- So, in the meantime, get in shape, diet, exercise, get that
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- Degree, get out of debt, keep working on you.
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- And here's why you should keep working on you, because you
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- Should be the best version of you you can possibly be in order
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- To be a means to an end that is not you.
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- And when you are willing to position yourself as a means to
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- An end that doesn't end with you, you experience life that is
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- Truly life.
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- So keep working on you because chances are there's something
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- Bigger in you--bigger than you that involves you, that may be
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- Waiting on you.
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- And i don't want you to miss it because that would break
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- My heart.
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- And we will pick it up right there next time in part two of
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- "a better question."
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- Andy: hey, everybody. thank you so much for tuning in.
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