Andy Stanley - Living With Yourself (Part 1)

July 18, 2026 | 28:29

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Your Move with Andy Stanley | Andy Stanley - Living With Yourself (Part 1) | July 18, 2026
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  • Andy stanley: hey, everybody, welcome to "your move"
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  • 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 we have all heard about or watched people we know do
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  • Terrible things and then we wondered how do they live with
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  • Themselves, the implication being if you did something like
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  • That, well, you wouldn't be able to live with yourself.
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  • But the truth is you could.
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  • You could do the unthinkable and live with yourself.
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  • People do it all the time, but there is a way to ensure that
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  • You never go there, and that's what we're talking about today
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  • Right here on "your move."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Andy: so here's something we've all thought.
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  • And perhaps something, at some point along the way, you have
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  • Said out loud, after someone was found out.
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  • You know, like every week, you know, somewhere in the news or
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  • Whatever your newsfeed is, or whatever you look at, there's
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  • Somebody who's found out, in other words they had a secret,
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  • They had something going on in the background and, [gasping]
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  • Now everybody knows.
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  • Or maybe it's someone in your personal life or in your family
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  • Or somebody at work and they're found out.
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  • It's just, you know, suddenly it's been discovered that
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  • They've been living a double life.
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  • They had something going on nobody knew about and harboring
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  • A secret, or maybe you would even consider it like a
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  • Secret sin.
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  • And lying to the people that are closest to them, lying to the
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  • People that depend on them, lying to their family, maybe
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  • Lying to their constituency, lying to the people at work and
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  • Now they're--they've been discovered and, you know,
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  • They've been called out and they're caught.
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  • And when that happens, and you get kind of the nitty gritty of
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  • The story and all the details, you've thought, or maybe you've
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  • Even said to someone, "uh, how could they--how could they live
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  • With themselves?
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  • I mean, how can you be this publicly, and this privately?
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  • How can you be this in this group, but this with this
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  • Other group?
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  • I mean, i don't know how those folks, i don't know how he,
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  • I don't know how she, live with themselves.
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  • How could they carry on for so long with that going on in
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  • The background?
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  • How could they carry on without melting down?
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  • You know, how did they keep up the charade?
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  • How did they live with themselves," right?
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  • Or how did they, you know, show up at church, or let me, you
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  • Know, bring it into my industry.
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  • How did they show up at church and preach and have that going
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  • On in the background, right?
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  • I mean, there's been a few of those stories.
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  • Because when the truth comes out, you know, when the story
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  • Breaks and the family's devastated and reputation's
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  • Ruined and careers destroyed, we think, how do, how, you know,
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  • How could they live with themselves?
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  • And behind how could they live with themselves is this
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  • Assumption: i couldn't live with myself.
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  • I mean, the reason it's so difficult to imagine how they
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  • Live with themselves is you put yourself in their situation, you
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  • Think, i couldn't live with myself and do what they did in
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  • Light of what--how it was going to impact the people that
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  • Supposedly they love, say they love, and the people that have
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  • Put their trust in them.
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  • You and i, we say, oh, my conscience, my integrity
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  • Wouldn't allow me to live with myself with that going on.
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  • But the truth is, you could live with yourself.
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  • You couldn't live with your, and this is what we're gonna talk
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  • About, you couldn't live with your current self.
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  • But if left unattended, if neglected, your current self may
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  • Not be your future self.
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  • Left unattended, your future self could be someone who
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  • Wouldn't--you wouldn't even recognize, that you
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  • Might despise.
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  • A version of you that you could, in fact, live with yourself, in
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  • Spite of the unhealthy version you'd become.
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  • And the reason this happens, you know why this happens?
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  • The reason this happens, this is so deep, okay?
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  • The reason this happens is because people think it
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  • Can't happen.
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  • That's why it happens.
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  • But this happens to people because they think, well, that
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  • Could never happen.
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  • Specifically, that could never happen to me.
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  • I couldn't get to the point where my external life and what
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  • People see is so far afield and so far away
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  • From what i am on the inside.
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  • That couldn't happen to me.
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  • And the reason it happens to people is because the assumption
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  • Is it can't happen to me.
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  • And the best way to keep that happening to you, and the best
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  • Way for that not to happen to us, is to ensure that it could--
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  • To assume rather that it could, and then to take steps to ensure
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  • That it doesn't.
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  • And that's what this series for the next 3 weeks is all about.
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  • "living with yourself: 3 habits to safeguard your soul."
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  • "living with yourself: 3 habits--3 habits to safeguard
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  • Your soul."
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  • Three habits to ensure that the self you're living with is the
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  • Self that's on display.
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  • Habits to ensure that what people see is what they're
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  • Actually getting.
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  • Now, here's what you all know.
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  • You don't have to live very long to know this.
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  • Life is hard on our souls.
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  • And when i say soul, i'm just talking about your interior
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  • Life, that inside part of you, the part that fears and worries
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  • And hopes and dreams and wishes and experience disappointment.
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  • And we put on a happy face, and we go to work, and we go to
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  • School, and we hang out with our friends, and we've got a
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  • Public life.
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  • But your soul, that inner part of you that only you know about,
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  • Life is hard on that.
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  • And here's the thing.
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  • Healthy souls, even if you're super-healthy right now, healthy
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  • Souls, if unattended to become unhealthy.
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  • Because nothing gets better, nothing gets better when
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  • Left unattended.
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  • And here's the thing, whether it's our appearance or our
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  • Performance or our reputation, we attend to those outward
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  • Things because, well, people are watching and people are
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  • Expecting, and we're competing and we're competing for approval
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  • And acceptance and progress.
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  • So it's natural to pay attention to the exterior.
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  • We all do that.
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  • But there is only, come on, there's only one person, you
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  • Know this.
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  • There's only one person who can be attentive to your soul.
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  • There's only one person that can be attentive to what's going on
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  • In your heart, and that's you.
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  • And here's why this is so important.
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  • Here's why we're gonna talk about it for the next few weeks.
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  • The health of your soul--the health of your soul determines
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  • Your capacity for duplicity.
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  • The health of your soul, what's happening on the inside of you,
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  • Determines your capacity for duplicity.
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  • Here's what i mean by that.
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  • Duplicity is, i'm one person with this group, i'm another
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  • Person with another group, or i'm one person on the outside,
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  • I'm a completely different person on the inside.
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  • And your--the health of your soul, how you care for your
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  • Soul, determines your capacity, that is, how much duplicity can
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  • You stand, how much duplicity can you live with, determines
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  • Your capacity for duplicity.
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  • It determines how wide, this is important, how wide the gap is
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  • Between who you are and who you pretend to be, and how far that
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  • Can expand before you finally crack or confess or break down.
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  • So the health of your soul determines your capacity for
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  • Duplicity, which means a healthy soul--listen, a healthy soul
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  • Has very little tolerance for duplicity.
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  • A healthy soul realizes, uh-oh, what's going on on the inside
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  • Isn't what's reflected on the outside, and what's reflected on
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  • The outside is better than what's on the inside, and i've
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  • Got some work to do.
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  • That's what healthy souls do.
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  • They stay one.
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  • There's integrity.
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  • The inside and the outside are in sync.
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  • But when you neglect the health of your soul and i neglect the
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  • Health of my soul, that inner person, then we create a
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  • Capacity for duplicity that ultimately comes back to haunt
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  • Us and to hurt us, and more specifically to hurt the people
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  • We would say are most important to us.
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  • It determines how far things can go before your conscience just
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  • Won't let you pretend any longer.
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  • And a healthy soul has a very active conscience, assuming
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  • There's any conscience left if you let this go for very long.
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  • The health of your soul determines your capacity
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  • For compartmentalization.
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  • I mean that's there and this is here.
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  • It determines your capacity for hypocrisy, how willing you are
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  • To lie to other people and how easy it is for you to lie to
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  • Yourself, to posture and to pretend.
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  • It determines whether you choose to close--the health of your
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  • Soul determines whether you choose to close the gap between
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  • Who you are and who you should be, or merely manage the gap.
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  • And managing it eventually breaks down and what's on the
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  • Inside eventually breaks out.
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  • So here's the point.
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  • Do not kid yourself, and i won't kid myself, and let's not kid
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  • Ourselves, but don't kid yourself.
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  • This is the bad news.
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  • You have the potential to become someone you would despise if you
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  • Met them.
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  • You could become the unimaginable.
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  • You could do the unthinkable and live with yourself.
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  • People do it all the time, and they do it all the time because
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  • They think it could never happen to them.
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  • And the difference between those who avoid this and the
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  • Difference between those who don't is the health of
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  • Their soul.
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  • Their willingness and ability to monitor and pay attention to
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  • What's going on on the inside.
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  • So, in this series, we're gonna talk about three habits to
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  • Ensure that that does not happen to you, even though you are a
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  • Candidate, even though you have the potential, just like i do.
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  • Three habits to safeguard your soul.
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  • Now, before i tell you the first habit, we're gonna talk about
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  • The first one today.
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  • I want to set it up by reading to you some statements from a
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  • Letter the apostle paul wrote to christians living in first
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  • Century rome.
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  • We call it the book of romans.
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  • Paul had never been to rome, and he didn't know most of these
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  • People, but he kind of outlines and describes his version of
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  • What it means and what it looks like to follow jesus.
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  • And in the passage we're gonna look at, he asked these people
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  • He'd never met, to do something that on the surface seems so
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  • Irrational and so illogical, i'm sure when they read it, they
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  • Kinda tapped the brakes a little bit, like, "i don't know."
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  • And when i read it to you, even though many of you have read
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  • This before and heard this before, we've certainly talked
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  • About this before, the temptation, the tendency, is to
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  • Kinda tap the brakes a little bit, because this seems
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  • So unreasonable.
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  • But he's about to make the case that no, this is the most
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  • Reasonable thing you can do, but to do that, it's gonna require a
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  • Shift in your thinking.
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  • Here's what he says.
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  • "therefore, i urge you."
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  • He's leaning in, he's grabbing us by the collar and saying,
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  • "come on, if you haven't heard anything else i've said, you
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  • Know, don't miss this.
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  • I urge you."
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  • "therefore, i urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of god's
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  • Mercy," here's the twist, not in view of god's authority, not in
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  • View of god's, you know, wagging his finger in our face.
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  • Not in view of god's rules and laws and commandments.
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  • He's like, no, no, no, that's not how the christian
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  • Faith works.
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  • We don't do things in order to gain god's love and approval.
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  • We do that because he's given us his love and approval and his
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  • Mercy and his grace.
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  • He's like, in view of everything god has done for you, everything
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  • God has provided for you.
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  • "and brothers and sisters, in view of god's mercy," he says,
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  • Here's what i want you to do.
  • 00:10:37.888 --> 00:10:40.191
  • "in view of god's mercy, to offer--" to offer.
  • 00:10:40.191 --> 00:10:44.395
  • "therefore, i urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of god's
  • 00:10:44.395 --> 00:10:46.263
  • Mercy, to offer," that is, choose willingly to present, to
  • 00:10:46.263 --> 00:10:51.502
  • Yield, to submit, to place at god's disposal, "your bodies."
  • 00:10:51.502 --> 00:10:58.309
  • And in the context he's talking in, this is all of you.
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  • This is the inside of you and the outside of you.
  • 00:11:01.545 --> 00:11:03.748
  • This is the exterior and the interior.
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  • He says, i want you to present your whole self, inside and out,
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  • Everything about you, to god.
  • 00:11:09.553 --> 00:11:11.655
  • And then this is where it gets a little crazy, "as a
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  • Living sacrifice."
  • 00:11:14.291 --> 00:11:16.727
  • Which means nothing to us because we don't do sacrifices.
  • 00:11:16.727 --> 00:11:19.597
  • But in this culture, it was a physical thing that people did
  • 00:11:19.597 --> 00:11:22.800
  • All the time in every pagan culture, and in jewish religion,
  • 00:11:22.800 --> 00:11:25.803
  • Ancient judaism, there were physical sacrifices.
  • 00:11:25.803 --> 00:11:28.839
  • Everybody had a visual of this, that you took an animal and the
  • 00:11:28.839 --> 00:11:31.575
  • Animal died.
  • 00:11:31.575 --> 00:11:32.943
  • Animals did not survive sacrifice and paul's going,
  • 00:11:32.943 --> 00:11:35.646
  • "okay, stay with me.
  • 00:11:35.646 --> 00:11:37.148
  • I want you to consider presenting yourself to god as a
  • 00:11:37.148 --> 00:11:41.952
  • Living sacrifice.
  • 00:11:41.952 --> 00:11:43.287
  • The good news is you don't have to die, but the bad news is you
  • 00:11:43.287 --> 00:11:46.023
  • Have to willingly submit yourself to god," to which we
  • 00:11:46.023 --> 00:11:49.760
  • Say, "okay, yes, you're going a little fast, okay.
  • 00:11:49.760 --> 00:11:52.463
  • Offer my entire self to god?
  • 00:11:52.463 --> 00:11:55.699
  • What if i just call on god when i need him?
  • 00:11:55.699 --> 00:11:59.770
  • I mean, isn't that good enough?"
  • 00:11:59.770 --> 00:12:01.405
  • Well, let me tell you about that approach.
  • 00:12:01.405 --> 00:12:03.140
  • You know this.
  • 00:12:03.140 --> 00:12:04.475
  • If your approach to faith in christianity is i call on god
  • 00:12:04.475 --> 00:12:06.844
  • When i need him, then you have to call on god more often than
  • 00:12:06.844 --> 00:12:10.047
  • The people who surrender, 'cause you need him more because you
  • 00:12:10.047 --> 00:12:12.283
  • Keep getting yourself in trouble, you keep doing that
  • 00:12:12.283 --> 00:12:13.818
  • Stupid thing over and over and over.
  • 00:12:13.818 --> 00:12:15.686
  • And i can prove it because your greatest regret took place
  • 00:12:15.686 --> 00:12:20.124
  • During a time, right, of "i'll call on god when i need
  • 00:12:20.124 --> 00:12:23.627
  • Him" season.
  • 00:12:23.627 --> 00:12:24.995
  • You were in a "i'll call on god when i need him" season.
  • 00:12:24.995 --> 00:12:26.931
  • You were not surrendered to the will of your heavenly father.
  • 00:12:26.931 --> 00:12:29.233
  • You were in the "i'll call on god when i need him" season.
  • 00:12:29.233 --> 00:12:32.336
  • And then, because you mistakenly thought, and i'm pushing a
  • 00:12:32.336 --> 00:12:36.373
  • Little bit, you mistakenly thought you could pray your way
  • 00:12:36.373 --> 00:12:38.809
  • Out of a situation you behaved your way into.
  • 00:12:38.809 --> 00:12:41.812
  • Oh certainly, if i get in trouble, i'll call on god and i
  • 00:12:41.812 --> 00:12:44.081
  • Can pray my way out of a situation or circumstances i've
  • 00:12:44.081 --> 00:12:46.851
  • Behaved my way into.
  • 00:12:46.851 --> 00:12:48.185
  • It doesn't work that way, and god didn't come through, and you
  • 00:12:48.185 --> 00:12:50.287
  • Wondered, "what's up with god?"
  • 00:12:50.287 --> 00:12:52.256
  • God wondered, "what's up with you?
  • 00:12:52.256 --> 00:12:55.526
  • I already covered this.
  • 00:12:55.526 --> 00:12:57.194
  • Look, i have sent my son into this world to pay for the sins
  • 00:12:57.194 --> 00:13:00.965
  • That you just committed that is undermining your own success,
  • 00:13:00.965 --> 00:13:04.335
  • Your own relationships, your own future.
  • 00:13:04.335 --> 00:13:06.437
  • You continue to sin.
  • 00:13:06.437 --> 00:13:08.205
  • I have paid for your sin, but i'm inviting you to live a
  • 00:13:08.205 --> 00:13:10.975
  • Different life.
  • 00:13:10.975 --> 00:13:12.343
  • I'm inviting you to follow my son.
  • 00:13:12.343 --> 00:13:13.677
  • I'm inviting you to surrender yourself to me and trust me.
  • 00:13:13.677 --> 00:13:19.116
  • So there's nothing wrong with me.
  • 00:13:19.116 --> 00:13:21.151
  • I'm just hoping you'll come to your senses," right?
  • 00:13:21.151 --> 00:13:25.055
  • Then paul assures us that presenting ourselves to god as a
  • 00:13:25.055 --> 00:13:28.659
  • Living sacrifice, as crazy as that sounds--sounded,
  • 00:13:28.659 --> 00:13:31.228
  • Especially to them, he assures us that this is
  • 00:13:31.228 --> 00:13:34.198
  • Not unreasonable.
  • 00:13:34.198 --> 00:13:35.566
  • He assures us it's actually the opposite.
  • 00:13:35.566 --> 00:13:38.168
  • So i'm gonna give you kind of a little, i don't know, kind of
  • 00:13:38.168 --> 00:13:41.839
  • Awkward, gritty, sort of literal translation of what he writes
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  • Next, and here i'm gonna throw a little greek word at you because
  • 00:13:46.677 --> 00:13:48.712
  • This is so amazing.
  • 00:13:48.712 --> 00:13:50.047
  • Here's what he says next.
  • 00:13:50.047 --> 00:13:51.415
  • He says, "offer your bodies as a living sacrifice."
  • 00:13:51.415 --> 00:13:53.918
  • Oh, that's irrational, that's crazy.
  • 00:13:53.918 --> 00:13:55.753
  • Who would do that?
  • 00:13:55.753 --> 00:13:57.121
  • "which is," this is amazing, "which is the logikane."
  • 00:13:57.121 --> 00:14:00.224
  • This is the greek word "logikane," where we get the
  • 00:14:00.224 --> 00:14:02.393
  • Word "logic."
  • 00:14:02.393 --> 00:14:03.761
  • He says, "this is the most logical and reasonable thing you
  • 00:14:03.761 --> 00:14:07.498
  • Could possibly do."
  • 00:14:07.498 --> 00:14:08.832
  • Wait, surrender my life, my body, everything about me to god
  • 00:14:08.832 --> 00:14:13.404
  • Is the logical, reasonable thing to do?
  • 00:14:13.404 --> 00:14:15.806
  • And paul's like, "absolutely."
  • 00:14:15.806 --> 00:14:20.377
  • Well, what do you mean?
  • 00:14:20.377 --> 00:14:21.712
  • Well, why?
  • 00:14:21.712 --> 00:14:23.080
  • And paul would say, your heavenly father would say,
  • 00:14:23.080 --> 00:14:25.015
  • Because god loves you and god is for you.
  • 00:14:25.015 --> 00:14:29.687
  • And god created the human race, which means god knows what's
  • 00:14:29.687 --> 00:14:33.490
  • Best for you, and he's--he knows what's not best for you.
  • 00:14:33.490 --> 00:14:37.594
  • So why would you not surrender to your heavenly father, who
  • 00:14:37.594 --> 00:14:41.999
  • Loves you and invites you into a life where the god who cares for
  • 00:14:41.999 --> 00:14:46.804
  • You is willing to guide and direct your life, but he is not
  • 00:14:46.804 --> 00:14:50.474
  • Gonna force his will on you.
  • 00:14:50.474 --> 00:14:52.309
  • It's by the mercies of god, not by the power, authority and the
  • 00:14:52.309 --> 00:14:56.146
  • Force of god, because love doesn't operate that way.
  • 00:14:56.146 --> 00:15:02.286
  • Now, the apostle paul, this is such a big deal, he actually
  • 00:15:02.286 --> 00:15:05.155
  • Teased this same idea out earlier in this letter to
  • 00:15:05.155 --> 00:15:09.226
  • Christians who were living in rome, 1st century christians
  • 00:15:09.226 --> 00:15:11.261
  • Living in rome, in chapter 6 of the book of romans.
  • 00:15:11.261 --> 00:15:13.831
  • But there he states it negatively.
  • 00:15:13.831 --> 00:15:15.699
  • So let me read you this version as well, then we're gonna talk
  • 00:15:15.699 --> 00:15:17.835
  • About this first habit.
  • 00:15:17.835 --> 00:15:19.169
  • Here's what he writes in romans chapter 6. you know, the first
  • 00:15:19.169 --> 00:15:21.638
  • One was do this.
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  • This is do not.
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  • "do not offer any part of yourself to sin."
  • 00:15:25.109 --> 00:15:27.478
  • Now this is so cool.
  • 00:15:27.478 --> 00:15:28.812
  • The apostle paul personifies sin.
  • 00:15:28.812 --> 00:15:31.281
  • He acts like sin is an entity, a living, breathing entity, which
  • 00:15:31.281 --> 00:15:34.785
  • Makes it a lot easier to understand sometimes what's
  • 00:15:34.785 --> 00:15:37.021
  • Going on inside of us because there's somebody in
  • 00:15:37.021 --> 00:15:40.424
  • There, right?
  • 00:15:40.424 --> 00:15:41.759
  • I mean, what is wrong with me?
  • 00:15:41.759 --> 00:15:43.127
  • "i do the very thing i say i'm not gonna do.
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  • What is that?"
  • 00:15:45.062 --> 00:15:46.397
  • Paul talks about that.
  • 00:15:46.397 --> 00:15:47.765
  • "you know, i think the things i'm not supposed to think,
  • 00:15:47.765 --> 00:15:49.233
  • I behave the ways i've--i committed not to,
  • 00:15:49.233 --> 00:15:51.235
  • And i did it again.
  • 00:15:51.235 --> 00:15:52.569
  • What's wrong with me?"
  • 00:15:52.569 --> 00:15:53.937
  • Paul would say, look, don't ask me to explain it.
  • 00:15:53.937 --> 00:15:55.272
  • That's sin.
  • 00:15:55.272 --> 00:15:56.673
  • There's that thing in you.
  • 00:15:56.673 --> 00:15:58.208
  • "do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument
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  • Of unrighteousness."
  • 00:16:01.145 --> 00:16:02.780
  • Apparently, we're gonna offer ourselves either to god or to
  • 00:16:02.780 --> 00:16:05.149
  • Sin as--according to the apostle paul.
  • 00:16:05.149 --> 00:16:07.851
  • And the best way to understand sin in the new testament is this
  • 00:16:07.851 --> 00:16:11.555
  • Word, "selfishness."
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  • My way.
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  • My appetites.
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  • My appetites at your expense.
  • 00:16:16.960 --> 00:16:22.566
  • He says, "don't let sin reign in your body, but rather offer
  • 00:16:19.963 --> 00:16:28.405
  • Yourselves," here it is, what he said in chapter 12.
  • 00:16:28.405 --> 00:16:30.674
  • "offer yourselves to god as those who have been brought from
  • 00:16:30.674 --> 00:16:33.444
  • Death to life," and here's the applicable part.
  • 00:16:33.444 --> 00:16:37.081
  • Here's the application part, "and offer every part
  • 00:16:37.081 --> 00:16:39.883
  • Of yourself."
  • 00:16:39.883 --> 00:16:41.251
  • Imagine if you did this.
  • 00:16:41.251 --> 00:16:42.586
  • Imagine if you had been doing this.
  • 00:16:42.586 --> 00:16:44.288
  • "and offer every part of yourself to him," god, "as an
  • 00:16:44.288 --> 00:16:46.490
  • Instrument of righteousness."
  • 00:16:46.490 --> 00:16:48.425
  • He says--he's saying to this audience, "i want you to offer
  • 00:16:48.425 --> 00:16:51.195
  • Your ears, what you listen to.
  • 00:16:51.195 --> 00:16:52.896
  • I want you to offer your eyes, what you look at.
  • 00:16:52.896 --> 00:16:55.432
  • I want you to offer your mind, what you think about.
  • 00:16:55.432 --> 00:16:57.935
  • I want you to offer your hands, what you do.
  • 00:16:57.935 --> 00:17:00.237
  • I want you to offer your feet, where you go.
  • 00:17:00.237 --> 00:17:02.606
  • I want you to offer your resources that you've been
  • 00:17:02.606 --> 00:17:04.842
  • Entrusted with.
  • 00:17:04.842 --> 00:17:06.210
  • I want you to offer your hopes and dreams and desires.
  • 00:17:06.210 --> 00:17:08.946
  • I want you to offer everything to god and say, 'god, i see all
  • 00:17:08.946 --> 00:17:13.617
  • These as instruments that you can use for your will, and they
  • 00:17:13.617 --> 00:17:18.021
  • Are available to you.
  • 00:17:18.021 --> 00:17:19.756
  • I'm surrendering all of me, with your intent and with your
  • 00:17:19.756 --> 00:17:23.360
  • Purposes and your agenda in mind.'"
  • 00:17:23.360 --> 00:17:26.263
  • And then, what follows is one of my favorite little phrases in
  • 00:17:26.263 --> 00:17:29.566
  • The new testament.
  • 00:17:29.566 --> 00:17:30.901
  • It's easily misunderstood because of the way it shows up
  • 00:17:30.901 --> 00:17:32.269
  • In our english text.
  • 00:17:32.269 --> 00:17:33.604
  • He says, "if you do this," this is amazing.
  • 00:17:33.604 --> 00:17:36.039
  • Here's the promise, here's the payoff.
  • 00:17:36.039 --> 00:17:38.041
  • "if you do this, then sin shall no longer be your master."
  • 00:17:38.041 --> 00:17:43.780
  • Maybe a better translation is, "for then," if you do this, it
  • 00:17:43.780 --> 00:17:46.116
  • Follows right after that.
  • 00:17:46.116 --> 00:17:47.484
  • "for then sin shall no longer be your master."
  • 00:17:47.484 --> 00:17:49.353
  • Again, he personifies sin like sin is a thing, and i'll make it
  • 00:17:49.353 --> 00:17:52.923
  • More practical, less theological.
  • 00:17:52.923 --> 00:17:54.691
  • When you say yes to selfishness, selfishness becomes your master,
  • 00:17:54.691 --> 00:18:01.765
  • And do you know where master selfishness will take you and
  • 00:18:01.765 --> 00:18:05.102
  • Direct you and guide you and order you?
  • 00:18:05.102 --> 00:18:07.538
  • To the land of self-centeredness.
  • 00:18:07.538 --> 00:18:10.541
  • Master sin will order you to say yes to you every opportunity it
  • 00:18:10.541 --> 00:18:15.746
  • Can, every chance it gets.
  • 00:18:15.746 --> 00:18:18.015
  • In fact, master sin, that's how master sin defines freedom
  • 00:18:18.015 --> 00:18:22.452
  • And liberation.
  • 00:18:22.452 --> 00:18:23.820
  • You can be free.
  • 00:18:23.820 --> 00:18:25.155
  • You are free to do whatever you want to do and because you're so
  • 00:18:25.155 --> 00:18:27.724
  • Smart, you'll never be caught.
  • 00:18:27.724 --> 00:18:29.459
  • Because you're so crafty, she'll never find out.
  • 00:18:29.459 --> 00:18:31.995
  • Because you're so, you know, deceptive, they will never know.
  • 00:18:31.995 --> 00:18:35.199
  • You can do whatever you want to do.
  • 00:18:35.199 --> 00:18:37.234
  • Say yes to yourself.
  • 00:18:37.234 --> 00:18:39.203
  • Live in the land of selfishness and self-centeredness.
  • 00:18:39.203 --> 00:18:43.707
  • But ultimately, and most of us have lived long enough to know
  • 00:18:43.707 --> 00:18:46.476
  • This, and still we fall for it.
  • 00:18:46.476 --> 00:18:48.345
  • Ultimately, do you know what self-centeredness ultimately
  • 00:18:48.345 --> 00:18:51.582
  • Liberates you from?
  • 00:18:51.582 --> 00:18:55.285
  • From you.
  • 00:18:55.285 --> 00:18:56.954
  • You're divided.
  • 00:18:56.954 --> 00:18:58.689
  • You wake up one day and you realize, i'm two
  • 00:18:58.689 --> 00:19:01.058
  • Different people.
  • 00:19:01.058 --> 00:19:02.459
  • I'm what they see, i'm what they're actually getting.
  • 00:19:02.459 --> 00:19:05.529
  • I'm what--i'm the person she thinks she married, but i'm not
  • 00:19:05.529 --> 00:19:09.132
  • The--i'm the person he thinks he married, but i--what i am,
  • 00:19:09.132 --> 00:19:12.369
  • I--there is such a gap between what i present and who i
  • 00:19:12.369 --> 00:19:16.240
  • Actually am.
  • 00:19:16.240 --> 00:19:17.574
  • And i've gotten accustomed to living with myself in
  • 00:19:17.574 --> 00:19:21.612
  • This duplicity.
  • 00:19:21.612 --> 00:19:24.915
  • And do you know what the person who's been there, done that, and
  • 00:19:24.915 --> 00:19:28.952
  • Clawed their way back and tried to patch their life back
  • 00:19:28.952 --> 00:19:31.355
  • Together, do you know what they would tell you?
  • 00:19:31.355 --> 00:19:34.091
  • I don't know their exact words.
  • 00:19:34.091 --> 00:19:36.360
  • It would sound something like this: "i urge you--i urge you
  • 00:19:36.360 --> 00:19:42.266
  • In view of god's mercy," because, look up here, master
  • 00:19:42.266 --> 00:19:46.670
  • Sin, master selfishness, master it's all about me, has no mercy.
  • 00:19:46.670 --> 00:19:53.043
  • Sin and selfishness and self-centeredness always bait
  • 00:19:53.043 --> 00:19:57.547
  • You to the threshold of disaster, then stands back and
  • 00:19:57.547 --> 00:20:01.718
  • Once you step over it, sin and selfishness shames you for what
  • 00:20:01.718 --> 00:20:06.089
  • It baited you to do to begin with.
  • 00:20:06.089 --> 00:20:08.592
  • "to offer," to finish the text.
  • 00:20:08.592 --> 00:20:10.027
  • "i urge you, therefore, in view of god's mercy, to offer your
  • 00:20:10.027 --> 00:20:12.462
  • Bodies as a living sacrifice."
  • 00:20:12.462 --> 00:20:13.830
  • This is what somebody's been there and done that and came
  • 00:20:13.830 --> 00:20:15.565
  • Back would tell you.
  • 00:20:15.565 --> 00:20:16.900
  • "that--holy and it's pleasing to god--this is your true and
  • 00:20:16.900 --> 00:20:19.670
  • Proper worship."
  • 00:20:19.670 --> 00:20:21.038
  • This is the english version.
  • 00:20:21.038 --> 00:20:22.372
  • This is the most logical thing you could possibly do.
  • 00:20:22.372 --> 00:20:24.675
  • Then he continues.
  • 00:20:24.675 --> 00:20:26.209
  • Paul continues, and again, here are some very familiar words,
  • 00:20:26.209 --> 00:20:29.179
  • But this is the context that they were spoken into.
  • 00:20:29.179 --> 00:20:31.448
  • And "do not," here's another do not.
  • 00:20:31.448 --> 00:20:33.583
  • "and do not conform to the pattern of this world."
  • 00:20:33.583 --> 00:20:36.286
  • The pattern of this world will split you in half.
  • 00:20:36.286 --> 00:20:39.122
  • The pattern of culture will split you in half.
  • 00:20:39.122 --> 00:20:41.692
  • It will put you at the center of your life, and then you will
  • 00:20:41.692 --> 00:20:45.629
  • Become small, because self-centeredness makes you and
  • 00:20:45.629 --> 00:20:51.601
  • Makes me small.
  • 00:20:51.601 --> 00:20:53.337
  • He says, "but," here it is, "be transformed by the renewing of
  • 00:20:53.337 --> 00:20:56.707
  • Your mind.
  • 00:20:56.707 --> 00:20:58.075
  • And then," here's another payoff.
  • 00:20:58.075 --> 00:20:59.409
  • And then if you do this, surrender, allow god to renew
  • 00:20:59.409 --> 00:21:02.045
  • Your mind, surrender everything, "then you will be able to test,"
  • 00:21:02.045 --> 00:21:05.916
  • That is, discern through the options.
  • 00:21:05.916 --> 00:21:08.785
  • "you'll be able to test and approve," oh, i recognize what
  • 00:21:08.785 --> 00:21:11.555
  • It is, "god's--what god's will is."
  • 00:21:11.555 --> 00:21:15.325
  • Now, come here.
  • 00:21:15.325 --> 00:21:17.494
  • If the notion of god's will scares you, it's probably
  • 00:21:17.494 --> 00:21:21.631
  • Because you have never surrendered to god's will and
  • 00:21:21.631 --> 00:21:24.234
  • Lived in that state for very long.
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  • If the whole idea of god's will scares you, it's because some
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  • Religious person has put some paradigm of god and jesus in
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  • Your head that is completely wrong, because it is sin and
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  • Selfishness that should scare you.
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  • And if you are more afraid, if you are more afraid of the will
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  • Of god, than you are the potential of what sin can do to
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  • You, you have been deceived.
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  • And you don't know when you did this, it just happens.
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  • You have reduced god to a sin forgiver when you get in
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  • Trouble, and a backup plan when you get in trouble, a
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  • Last resort.
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  • But the surrendered folks around you, the men and women who've
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  • Lived a season or two or three or four of their lives to the
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  • Best of their abilities, surrendered to their father in
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  • Heaven, who have surrendered to what it looks like to follow
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  • Jesus, they would assure you that god's will is everything
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  • The apostle paul says it is.
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  • Here's what he says it is.
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  • "his good," it's good, "his pleasing," you'll be pleased,
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  • "his perfect will for you."
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  • And all of that brings us to habit number one, is that we
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  • Think about taking care of and guarding
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  • And watching over our soul.
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  • Habit number one is simply this, i've just said it 20 different
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  • Ways, is to surrender your will, but here's the catch, every
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  • Single day, at the beginning of every single day.
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  • This has been a routine and a habit for me out of these verses
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  • From romans 6 and romans 12 for many, many years.
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  • Every single morning: "heavenly father, here's my hands, here's
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  • My feet, my eyes, my mind, my ears.
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  • Here's my resources, here's my opportunities, here's my hopes
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  • And dreams.
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  • Here's everything i hope for.
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  • God, i'm presenting all of that to you," every single morning.
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  • Here's how jesus said it.
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  • I bet you've heard this too.
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  • "whoever," that's us.
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  • "whoever wants to be my follower, must say no to
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  • Themselves and take up their cross" annually, at the end of
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  • The year, in january, at the beginning of the year, at camp
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  • Because the songs were so good, at the end of that sermon where
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  • They did that altar call thing.
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  • He says no, if you're gonna-- this is important.
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  • You've been maybe a christian a long time, but you've
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  • Missed this.
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  • To follow jesus requires a decision every single day,
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  • Because of the world we live in and the temptations we face and
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  • What's going on on the inside, right?
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  • He says, "take up your cross daily," every morning, "and
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  • Follow me."
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  • And then he concludes with a question.
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  • I don't really know how to create the emotion around this
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  • Question that it deserves.
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  • It's so powerful.
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  • And i think jesus paused, and he leaned in 'cause he's the
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  • Brilliant communicator.
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  • And he says, "let me ask you a question.
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  • Think about it.
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  • What good--what good, i mean, you want your life to be good,
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  • Satisfying and pleasing, but come on, what good is it for
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  • Someone to gain the whole exterior world?
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  • Look at her go, look at him go, wow!
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  • What good is it really?"
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  • This is the big question.
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  • "what good is it really if someone gains the whole world
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  • And yet at the end of the day, they forfeit their very self?"
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  • Some translations, you know this, say, "forfeit their
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  • Very soul."
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  • Jesus is saying, "come on.
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  • I don't want you to get in your 30s or 40s or 50s or 70s, or you
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  • Retire, or you, you know, run through another marriage and you
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  • Realize i got all the stuff, and i got all the attention, and i
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  • Got the thing, you know, whatever it is, and i got her, i
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  • Got him.
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  • But inside, i'm a mess."
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  • So, for this first habit, here's what i wanna encourage you
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  • To do.
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  • And by the way, please don't miss part 2 and part 3, okay?
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  • For this first habit, here's what i want you to do.
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  • In the morning, simply pray a prayer that goes something like
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  • This: "heavenly father, i surrender myself to you.
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  • My hands, my feet.
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  • My eyes, my ears.
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  • My thoughts and desires.
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  • My hopes and dreams."
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  • That's a hard one, especially if you're young and you got so much
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  • Ahead of you.
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  • "my talent, my opportunities."
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  • Any--everything and anything about me.
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  • "i surrender all.
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  • I--thy will be done through me today."
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  • Now let me tell you why this is important, we're gonna move on.
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  • Daily surrender, however you do it, however you say it.
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  • Daily surrender sensitizes your conscience.
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  • You will be more sensitive to and less tolerant of duplicity
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  • If you do this.
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  • You will be more sensitive to, "uh-oh, i'm about to do, i'm
  • 00:26:12.989 --> 00:26:16.393
  • About to say, i'm about to share, i'm about to post, i'm
  • 00:26:16.393 --> 00:26:19.029
  • About to react, i'm about to say yes to.
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  • I'm about to move in a direction that is contrary to who i wanna
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  • Be on the inside."
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  • Now, last thing before we go.
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  • I've been doing this a long time.
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  • So here's what i know about somebody here or watching.
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  • I need to warn you about one thing.
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  • The moment you say yes to your heavenly father, your heavenly
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  • Father is going to nudge you out of hiding.
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  • Your heavenly father is going to nudge you into the open, so you
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  • Can be loved.
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  • So you can love.
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  • So you can experience the light and the grace and the mercy of
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  • God, who loves you.
  • 00:27:02.439 --> 00:27:05.175
  • Selfishness is a terrible master because it does nothing for you,
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  • It simply takes things from you.
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  • It takes what's most important from you.
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  • Following jesus, as we say all the time, will make your life
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  • Better, and today we've explained one of the reasons or
  • 00:27:17.821 --> 00:27:20.256
  • Described one of the reasons why following jesus makes your life
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  • Better, because he will lead you to close the gap between what
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  • People see and who you really are.
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  • And he will lead you to peace with yourself.
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  • And you will finally be a self that you are happy to live with.
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  • And we will pick it up right there next time, with habit two
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  • And part two of "living with yourself:
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  • 3 habits to safeguard your soul."
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