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Your Move with Andy Stanley

Andy Stanley - The Responsible (Part 2)

October 11, 2025 | 30:10

Andy Stanley - The Responsible (Part 2)
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Your Move with Andy Stanley | Andy Stanley - The Responsible (Part 2) | October 11, 2025
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  • Andy stanley: hey, everybody, welcome to "your move" where we
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  • Help you make better decisions and live with fewer regrets.
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  • I'm andy stanley, and i'll be your guide.
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  • Did you know that 75 million americans identify as either
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  • Atheists, agnostic, or not religious at all?
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  • Seventy-five million, and most of these folks are under 30
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  • Years old, your kid's or maybe your grandkid's age.
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  • For many people, faith has just become, well, irrelevant.
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  • Christianity, in particular.
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  • But it wasn't always that way.
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  • Once upon a time, the christian faith was irresistible.
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  • The original version, the version depicted in the new
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  • Testament, well, it's still very much irresistible.
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  • And what did the original, the irresistible, version look like
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  • And what did it sound like?
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  • Stick around and we'll talk about it today, right here, on
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  • "your move."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Andy: i wanna just start with a question.
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  • The answer is yes, it's a rhetorical question, so you
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  • Don't have to answer out loud.
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  • But the question is this: have you ever had to take
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  • Responsibility for somebody else's mess?
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  • We can just start with this: if you've ever changed a diaper,
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  • Yes, okay, a baby diaper.
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  • If you've ever changed a toddler's diaper, that's like
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  • Next level, right?
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  • So yes, we've all at some level in our life had to take
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  • Responsibility for somebody else's mess.
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  • But more to the topic of the series, there's this question.
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  • It's a longer question.
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  • Have you ever had to take responsibility for a mess
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  • Resulting from somebody else's irresponsibility?
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  • Have you ever been penalized because of somebody did
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  • Something and next thing you know they're gone, you gotta
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  • Pick it up?
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  • I think all of us have experienced this at work.
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  • You're on a team and somebody doesn't do their part, but the
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  • Team has to make a presentation and so you have to pick up their
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  • Responsibility because you don't wanna look bad, you don't want
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  • The team to look bad.
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  • You give somebody an assignment, they don't do it and suddenly,
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  • You have to stop what you're doing and do what they were
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  • Supposed to do because it just has to get done.
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  • I think this happens at work.
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  • It happens at home, it happens pretty much in any arena of life
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  • And maybe you've experienced that, you feel penalized because
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  • Of something somebody else did.
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  • And--but the thing is this, you don't blame a baby for
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  • Their mess.
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  • But when adults act like babies, it's so irritating and it's
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  • Irritating because, i mean, it's just--it's irresponsible
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  • Because, unlike a child, they actually have the ability--this
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  • Is where the word comes from.
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  • They actually have the ability to be responsible.
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  • They have the ability not to create the mess in the first
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  • Place and then they have the ability to own the mess once
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  • They create it and they have the ability to fix what they mess
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  • Up, to clean up what they mess up.
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  • So it's just so--it's just so irritating.
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  • Or at least if the mess can't be cleaned up, to acknowledge,
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  • "okay, that's my mess.
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  • This is my fault that i did this," instead of just
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  • Walking away.
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  • Now, if you're not a christian, i wanna say something to you for
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  • Just a minute to tune in.
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  • In fact, if you're not a christian, i think you're really
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  • Gonna like this message more than the christians.
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  • In fact, you may be glad you're not a christian by the time this
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  • Message is over.
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  • But let me just say something if you're not a religious person or
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  • Specifically not a christian.
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  • One of the irritating things about some christians, not jesus
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  • Followers, but people who just believe stuff, one of the
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  • Irritating things about some christians is that they use god
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  • As a cover for their irresponsibility, and this is so
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  • Embarrassing to those of us who are trying to follow jesus and
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  • Represent jesus on earth, and it goes something like this, that
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  • It sounds like this.
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  • "it's true, i messed up, i messed up.
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  • I've made some mistakes."
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  • By the way, let me talk about mistakes.
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  • A mistake is if you're going to someone's home and you take a
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  • Wrong turn.
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  • That's a mistake.
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  • These are actual sins, but we don't like to use the word sin,
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  • So we call them mistakes, we dumb it down, we feel better.
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  • So they say, "yeah, it's--i've messed up, i've made some
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  • Mistakes, but god forgave me.
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  • That's in the past.
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  • All things are new, and god doesn't want me to go back.
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  • God loves me. god wants me to move forward.
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  • He gave me a fresh start."
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  • And according to this version of christianity, it's actually a
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  • Perversion of christianity as we're gonna see in a minute, but
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  • According to this version of christianity, god gives all the
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  • Christians a divine release form, where they are released
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  • From all prior responsibility of all their previous actions.
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  • They just to get--they get to go forward with their life
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  • Because god forgave them for their--for all their actions or
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  • Reactions, inactions, and the thing is about these christians
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  • That use god as a cover, here's the other thing they do.
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  • They actually believe that god can't even remember
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  • Their mistakes.
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  • But you can.
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  • And if you're responsible for the consequences of their
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  • Mistakes, you can.
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  • And they may believe god has forgotten all about it and
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  • God's given them a divine release form, but you don't feel
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  • Released, do you?
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  • 'cause you're having to fix their mess and carry the
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  • Responsibility that they're actually responsible for, and if
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  • That has been your experience with christians, i just want you
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  • To know i'm so sorry.
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  • Stay tuned.
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  • Okay, so today is part two of our series, "the responsibles,"
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  • And essentially this whole series is about an invitation
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  • For everybody, everybody, christian or non-christian, an
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  • Invitation to join a select group of we're calling them
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  • Super-heroes, super-citizens, super-family members, men,
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  • Women, even children and students, who have decided to
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  • Own, to take responsibility, for their lives.
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  • And joining this elite group of humans requires that we ask and
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  • Answer the following question honestly.
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  • And again, the easiest person to deceive is the person in the
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  • Mirror, so we have to ask and answer this question honestly,
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  • And we have to ask and answer this question consistently.
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  • And the question is: am i taking responsibility for my life?
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  • Am i taking responsibility for my life, for my past actions,
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  • For my past reactions, and for my future obligations?
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  • In other words, are you taking full responsibility for the
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  • Things that you are actually responsible for?
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  • Now, to be clear, we're not asking this question, we're not
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  • Asking, am i a responsible person?
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  • You are a responsible person.
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  • The focus of our question, am i taking responsibility for my
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  • Life, is different.
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  • The focus of this question is not are you paying your bills?
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  • You're paying your bills because that benefits you.
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  • It's not, are you going to work?
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  • Of course you're going to work, that benefits you.
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  • It's not, are you going to school?
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  • Of course, hopefully you're going to school, because that
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  • Benefits you.
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  • It's not those kinds of things.
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  • This is the broader question.
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  • This is about past responsibilities and future
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  • Obligations or future responsibilities.
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  • So, the focus of today, or in light of the focus for today, i
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  • Want to drop back to that first long question i asked you up
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  • Front, this question: have you ever had to take responsibility
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  • For a mess resulting from somebody
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  • Else's irresponsibility?
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  • And if you have, or maybe you're in the middle of it right now,
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  • You know how this feels, and it feels terrible.
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  • It feels helpless because there's a mess, somebody has to
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  • Deal with it, and they have walked off and you are too
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  • Responsible to walk off so you're gonna stick around and
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  • Clean up their mess because you're a responsible person and
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  • You feel like you don't have any choice and you kind of feel
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  • Helpless, you feel frustrated, which i learned in counseling is
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  • The same thing as being angry.
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  • I would tell my counselor, "i'm frustrated," he'd say, "no,
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  • You're angry."
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  • I'd say, "no, i'm not, i'm just frustrated."
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  • He said, "that is anger." i'm like, "no, it's not.
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  • Okay, maybe it is. okay, yeah."
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  • Anyway, so we feel frustrated, angry, we--you know what else
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  • We--if you have to clean up somebody else's mess?
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  • You feel stuck and you feel sidetracked because you had your
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  • Day planned and so-and-so, i won't make up bad names.
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  • They didn't do their part, so now i have to abandon my plans
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  • Today to clean up their mess and now i'm behind and i
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  • Look irresponsible.
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  • Maybe it's worse than that.
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  • Maybe the mess somebody left for you, it didn't just take a day
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  • Of your life, it required a season of your life.
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  • It's like they reached over and grabbed the steering wheel of
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  • Your life and yanked you out of your lane into their lane and
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  • Then got out of the car and said, "now you drive, but you
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  • Gotta drive my life because i'm out and you gotta take
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  • Responsibility for what i'm ultimately responsible for."
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  • Maybe you got stuck with financial obligations, legal
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  • Obligations, maybe somebody left and now you're raising your
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  • Children, their children, by yourself.
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  • And meanwhile, kind of playing this out and this is where it
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  • Really hurts.
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  • Meanwhile, the irresponsible person is free.
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  • They just kinda go on about their merry way because they got
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  • Extra time and sometimes now they have extra money and then
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  • They start over and then in some cases they start a brand-new
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  • Family and then, insult to injury, they find god.
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  • And god brought someone new into their lives, and you're like,
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  • "hey, what about your mess you left with me," as they move on
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  • With their life.
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  • And they claim to be taking their cue from god, but they
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  • Weren't, and they aren't taking their cue from god, they're
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  • Taking their cue from jelly roll.
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  • Some of you are familiar with jelly roll, okay?
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  • It's actually one of my favorite singers, and i love this line
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  • From this song, it's on my playlist.
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  • There's--he has two songs that i just love, but listen to this
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  • Line, it's so powerful.
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  • He writes, "i took the rearview off this old ford, so i only see
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  • In front of me."
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  • "i took the rearview off this old ford," rearview mirrors off
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  • This old ford, "so i only see in front of me."
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  • And it's like the person that left you with a mess took the
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  • Rearview mirrors off their life.
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  • And now they don't see you because you're in the past.
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  • And if that's your situation, i just wanna say something to you.
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  • They did not find god, they just found an excuse and wrapped it
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  • With religion, wrapped it with a verse.
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  • Andy: hey, i wanted to take just a minute to address a growing
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  • Crisis in america.
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  • Did you know that nearly 75 million americans have no
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  • Religious affiliation, none whatsoever?
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  • Most of us know some of these people.
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  • Many of us are related to some of these people.
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  • So for us, they aren't statistics, they're people we
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  • Love and would love to see return to faith in jesus.
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  • So at "your move," we are committed to reaching people
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  • With the teaching of jesus right where they are and when they
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  • Least expect it.
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  • We use a research-backed digital strategy that's already making
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  • A difference.
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  • So if you'll stick around after today's message, we would love
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  • To tell you more about it or visit the website or call the
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  • Number on your screen to learn how you can be a part of this
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  • Revolutionary approach to introducing and reintroducing
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  • People to jesus.
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  • Andy: now real quick, again, if you're not a christian, this is
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  • So important and i know i say this all the time.
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  • I don't--as a pastor, i don't have any right in the world to
  • 00:10:55.639 --> 00:10:59.276
  • Tell you how to live your life.
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  • So if you hear me saying "you ought to" and "you don't," i
  • 00:11:00.644 --> 00:11:03.180
  • Have no right to tell you how to live your life or what to do if
  • 00:11:03.180 --> 00:11:06.317
  • You're not a christian, but i just, i do wanna say this
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  • To you.
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  • If you've left someone with a mess to clean up or bills to pay
  • 00:11:12.623 --> 00:11:15.726
  • That are your bills, if you're not doing what you expect others
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  • To do, if you're not practicing what you would preach or you're
  • 00:11:19.730 --> 00:11:23.033
  • Not practicing what you expect others to do, here's the thing
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  • I'll say to you, then i'll move on.
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  • You're not a whole--i know this is offensive.
  • 00:11:28.672 --> 00:11:31.442
  • You're not a whole person because you have left--you have
  • 00:11:31.442 --> 00:11:35.679
  • Left a piece of you behind you.
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  • You can't--and i don't know if you know this or not, but you'll
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  • Figure it out by the time you're 40 or over 40.
  • 00:11:41.585 --> 00:11:43.854
  • You can't actually leave your past behind you, it follows you.
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  • And eventually it catches up with you.
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  • And eventually you can't outrun it anymore, and so the wisest
  • 00:11:51.462 --> 00:11:55.499
  • Thing to do, it's gonna come nipping at your heels and at
  • 00:11:55.499 --> 00:11:57.535
  • Your conscience, the wisest thing you could do is to turn
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  • Around and face it and acknowledge it and embrace it
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  • And own it, and that's a much better story to tell.
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  • The story that, "you know what, i ran from my past.
  • 00:12:07.311 --> 00:12:09.246
  • I was irresponsible.
  • 00:12:09.246 --> 00:12:10.614
  • I created a mess other people had to clean up, and
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  • One day i heard some guy talk.
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  • I don't know who it was. i think it was at a church.
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  • I don't know, it isn't important, but for whatever
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  • Reason, i decided to quit running and quit lying to
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  • Myself, and i turned around and i took responsibility for
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  • My past."
  • 00:12:22.259 --> 00:12:23.594
  • You see, that's just a better story to tell.
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  • And if you don't turn around and own it, here's what you're
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  • Gonna do.
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  • You're just gonna lie to yourself and you're gonna lie to
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  • Other people the rest of your life, and you know what that
  • 00:12:35.039 --> 00:12:36.974
  • Makes you, and i know it's so hard, you know, welcome to
  • 00:12:36.974 --> 00:12:39.243
  • Church, it makes you a liar for life.
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  • And you don't wanna be a liar for life, so own it, okay?
  • 00:12:42.780 --> 00:12:47.051
  • But i--that's just advice, you know, you don't have to do what
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  • I say.
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  • I don't have any authority.
  • 00:12:50.721 --> 00:12:52.056
  • Meanwhile, if you're a christian.
  • 00:12:52.056 --> 00:12:55.025
  • It's a whole 'nother thing for us because, as a christian, we
  • 00:12:55.025 --> 00:13:01.298
  • Are partisans of or we are part of a kingdom.
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  • We're partisans of a king, that jesus is a king, and he came and
  • 00:13:05.336 --> 00:13:08.606
  • Established his rule and to participate in the kingdom of
  • 00:13:08.606 --> 00:13:11.342
  • God is to submit to the rule of god as demonstrated through
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  • Christ in the gospels.
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  • And as members of this kingdom and as followers of a king, our
  • 00:13:16.614 --> 00:13:21.919
  • King made it excruciatingly clear: forgiveness does not
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  • Release us from our responsibility for our past.
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  • Forgiveness, god's forgiveness, which is amazing,
  • 00:13:39.169 --> 00:13:43.007
  • Unearned, undeserved.
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  • Forgiveness does not release us from our responsibility for
  • 00:13:44.375 --> 00:13:49.947
  • Our past.
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  • In fact, it is the opposite.
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  • The whole idea of taking responsibility for your actions
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  • And taking responsibility for the shrapnel of your actions and
  • 00:13:56.587 --> 00:13:59.456
  • Taking responsibility for the messes that you created and the
  • 00:13:59.456 --> 00:14:01.926
  • Messes i've created is actually embedded in a word that has kind
  • 00:14:01.926 --> 00:14:06.030
  • Of become a religious word, but it doesn't need to be.
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  • It's embedded in the concept of repentance.
  • 00:14:08.632 --> 00:14:12.269
  • Because repentance is, it has dawned on me that i've been
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  • Thinking incorrectly, and i'm going to embrace a new way of
  • 00:14:15.806 --> 00:14:19.209
  • Thinking, metanoia.
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  • I'm gonna embrace a new way of thinking that's going to inform
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  • My actions and so now i'm going to turn and i'm going to live in
  • 00:14:23.747 --> 00:14:29.086
  • A different direction.
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  • And instead of running from and denying what i'm responsible
  • 00:14:30.821 --> 00:14:34.425
  • For, i'm gonna turn and face and embrace what i'm responsible for
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  • And i'm gonna own what's mine.
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  • That's what it means to repent, and here's the amazing thing.
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  • From the beginning, from the very beginning, god from the
  • 00:14:44.868 --> 00:14:48.472
  • Very beginning, god has always instructed his people to take
  • 00:14:48.472 --> 00:14:51.208
  • Responsibility for the messes that they created.
  • 00:14:51.208 --> 00:14:53.644
  • In fact, this was a central theme in all of israel, ancient
  • 00:14:53.644 --> 00:14:56.914
  • Israel's civil law that god gave to moses to give to the people.
  • 00:14:56.914 --> 00:15:01.151
  • I just want to show you one little snapshot of this.
  • 00:15:01.151 --> 00:15:03.587
  • It's so compelling and it's so convicting, but the point is
  • 00:15:03.587 --> 00:15:06.457
  • This is--this isn't like just christianity.
  • 00:15:06.457 --> 00:15:08.726
  • This isn't like, you know, the advanced class.
  • 00:15:08.726 --> 00:15:10.894
  • This is just basic life skills and even if you're not a
  • 00:15:10.894 --> 00:15:13.998
  • Religious person, you know this is true because when you're on
  • 00:15:13.998 --> 00:15:16.967
  • The flip side, when you're on the receiving end, you want
  • 00:15:16.967 --> 00:15:20.270
  • People to take responsibility for their messes, so you don't
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  • Have to.
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  • Here what god communicated to moses for the ancient people
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  • Of israel.
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  • "so the lord said to moses, 'say to the israelites: "any man or
  • 00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:31.882
  • Woman,"'" and this is such an important phrase right here.
  • 00:15:31.882 --> 00:15:35.252
  • "'"any man or woman who wrongs another person in any way is
  • 00:15:35.252 --> 00:15:39.823
  • Guilty,"'" i skipped a part, we're gonna come back to it.
  • 00:15:39.823 --> 00:15:42.593
  • "'"is guilty and must confess the sin they have committed."'"
  • 00:15:42.593 --> 00:15:46.463
  • Now, the reason i wanna pause on this statement, by the way,
  • 00:15:46.463 --> 00:15:49.033
  • In the old covenant, in the new covenant, this is the definition
  • 00:15:49.033 --> 00:15:52.169
  • Of sin.
  • 00:15:52.169 --> 00:15:53.504
  • This is what a sin is: anytime you wrong another person in any
  • 00:15:53.504 --> 00:15:56.407
  • Way, that is a sin, whether it's on a sin list or not.
  • 00:15:56.407 --> 00:15:59.276
  • You know, sometimes people come to preachers and they say,
  • 00:15:59.276 --> 00:16:02.012
  • "andy, does the bible say such-and-such is a sin?"
  • 00:16:02.012 --> 00:16:04.381
  • That's not even a good question.
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  • If it wrongs another person, it's a sin.
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  • If it's not good for him, it's a sin.
  • 00:16:08.485 --> 00:16:09.953
  • If it's not good for them, it's a sin.
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  • If it's not good for her, defer.
  • 00:16:11.321 --> 00:16:12.656
  • If it's not good for you, no can do, okay?
  • 00:16:12.656 --> 00:16:15.526
  • Because anything that harms another person is a sin, that's
  • 00:16:15.526 --> 00:16:18.195
  • What sin is.
  • 00:16:18.195 --> 00:16:20.130
  • And so even in the old covenant and new covenant, it's all the
  • 00:16:20.130 --> 00:16:22.433
  • Same, but i skipped a part.
  • 00:16:22.433 --> 00:16:23.801
  • Here's the part i skipped.
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  • The lord god said to moses, "any man or woman who wrongs another
  • 00:16:25.369 --> 00:16:29.206
  • Person in any way and so is unfaithful to the lord," and
  • 00:16:29.206 --> 00:16:34.478
  • Again, now we see a combination of ideas that seem a little bit
  • 00:16:34.478 --> 00:16:37.314
  • Strange, just wait, wait, wait, you've harmed a man or woman and
  • 00:16:37.314 --> 00:16:41.351
  • You've been unfaithful to the lord, what's going on there?
  • 00:16:41.351 --> 00:16:44.321
  • Well again, this is a theme throughout the old covenant and
  • 00:16:44.321 --> 00:16:46.356
  • The new covenant, that when you harm someone god loves, you're
  • 00:16:46.356 --> 00:16:51.295
  • At odds with god.
  • 00:16:51.295 --> 00:16:53.564
  • And again i say this all the time, if you--if you are--if you
  • 00:16:53.564 --> 00:16:58.035
  • Harm one of my children, don't invite me to lunch and say, "no,
  • 00:16:58.035 --> 00:17:02.439
  • No, that's between me and your son.
  • 00:17:02.439 --> 00:17:04.108
  • Yeah, i was--treated your son unfairly.
  • 00:17:04.108 --> 00:17:05.943
  • I said, you know, i trashed your son's reputation, but andy,
  • 00:17:05.943 --> 00:17:08.779
  • That's between me and your son.
  • 00:17:08.779 --> 00:17:10.147
  • Let's me and you, let's be friends."
  • 00:17:10.147 --> 00:17:11.515
  • No, you can't be friends with me if you're hurting one of
  • 00:17:11.515 --> 00:17:14.017
  • My kids.
  • 00:17:14.017 --> 00:17:15.385
  • Well, this is god's perspective on the human race.
  • 00:17:15.385 --> 00:17:18.822
  • You can't be good with god if you owe and you're out of sync
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  • With someone that god loves, and it works the other way around.
  • 00:17:22.392 --> 00:17:25.362
  • God loves you the same way.
  • 00:17:25.362 --> 00:17:26.697
  • God's not gonna be okay with somebody that's mistreated you,
  • 00:17:26.697 --> 00:17:29.666
  • Which of course is the case, because god, john tells us, john
  • 00:17:29.666 --> 00:17:33.403
  • Who knew jesus and saw love face to face, that god is, in
  • 00:17:33.403 --> 00:17:36.039
  • Fact, love.
  • 00:17:36.039 --> 00:17:37.674
  • If i sin against you or wrong you, god takes it personally.
  • 00:17:37.674 --> 00:17:41.945
  • It's not just between me and you.
  • 00:17:41.945 --> 00:17:43.280
  • Again, i can't be out of sorts or out of sync with you and be
  • 00:17:43.280 --> 00:17:45.849
  • In sync with my heavenly father.
  • 00:17:45.849 --> 00:17:47.184
  • And jesus taught this as well.
  • 00:17:47.184 --> 00:17:48.552
  • So back to this text. so what does a person do?
  • 00:17:48.552 --> 00:17:50.521
  • What does a person do when they've wronged somebody else?
  • 00:17:50.521 --> 00:17:52.890
  • This is so interesting.
  • 00:17:52.890 --> 00:17:54.258
  • He goes on, he says under god's covenant with israel, here's
  • 00:17:54.258 --> 00:17:57.194
  • What they have to do.
  • 00:17:57.194 --> 00:17:58.562
  • That person who's wronged another person in any way "must
  • 00:17:58.562 --> 00:18:01.665
  • Make full restitution for the wrong they've done."
  • 00:18:01.665 --> 00:18:04.434
  • They gotta go back and pay back what they've taken or try to
  • 00:18:04.434 --> 00:18:06.870
  • Make up for what they did, to which, you know, i'm sure
  • 00:18:06.870 --> 00:18:10.707
  • Somebody came to moses at some point and said, "okay, wait,
  • 00:18:10.707 --> 00:18:13.110
  • Wait, wait, okay, that seems extreme.
  • 00:18:13.110 --> 00:18:15.179
  • What if i just go to the tabernacle," but they didn't
  • 00:18:15.179 --> 00:18:17.281
  • Have a temple yet.
  • 00:18:17.281 --> 00:18:18.615
  • "what if i go to the tabernacle and i do one of those offering
  • 00:18:18.615 --> 00:18:20.651
  • Things like a sheep offering or a goat offering or, you know,
  • 00:18:20.651 --> 00:18:24.221
  • Isn't there like a real cheap one with some grain
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  • Or something?
  • 00:18:25.923 --> 00:18:27.291
  • Well, can't i just go to the tabernacle and make things right
  • 00:18:27.291 --> 00:18:29.193
  • With god?
  • 00:18:29.193 --> 00:18:30.561
  • I don't wanna go make things right with them because, moses,
  • 00:18:30.561 --> 00:18:33.197
  • They don't even know who did it.
  • 00:18:33.197 --> 00:18:35.832
  • They don't even know who did it.
  • 00:18:35.832 --> 00:18:37.167
  • And now i'm about to out myself," and moses is like, "no,
  • 00:18:37.167 --> 00:18:39.503
  • You--no, this isn't make things right with god and ignore them.
  • 00:18:39.503 --> 00:18:42.606
  • These two go hand in hand.
  • 00:18:42.606 --> 00:18:44.274
  • You have to go back and you have to pay back," but moses
  • 00:18:44.274 --> 00:18:46.643
  • Wasn't done.
  • 00:18:46.643 --> 00:18:48.011
  • Listen to how specific this got.
  • 00:18:48.011 --> 00:18:49.446
  • Add, he says you gotta go back and, you know, add--i'm gonna
  • 00:18:49.446 --> 00:18:54.751
  • Read the whole thing.
  • 00:18:54.751 --> 00:18:56.086
  • "they must make full restitution for the wrong they have done,
  • 00:18:56.086 --> 00:18:57.754
  • And add a fifth of the value to it and give it all to the person
  • 00:18:57.754 --> 00:19:02.426
  • They have wronged."
  • 00:19:02.426 --> 00:19:03.760
  • So you don't just go back and make restitution.
  • 00:19:03.760 --> 00:19:05.128
  • He says, "no, you gotta pay back more than you took."
  • 00:19:05.128 --> 00:19:08.031
  • This was just baked into their civil law.
  • 00:19:08.031 --> 00:19:10.467
  • And again, if you're on the receiving end of being
  • 00:19:10.467 --> 00:19:12.102
  • Mistreated, this makes perfect sense to you.
  • 00:19:12.102 --> 00:19:14.471
  • But when you're the mistreater, it's like, can't i just pray a
  • 00:19:14.471 --> 00:19:17.774
  • Magic prayer and be forgiven and god forgives my sins?
  • 00:19:17.774 --> 00:19:20.410
  • No, the amazing thing about our heavenly father isn't that he
  • 00:19:20.410 --> 00:19:23.280
  • Forgives our--forgets our sin.
  • 00:19:23.280 --> 00:19:25.015
  • The amazing thing is he doesn't forget and he still forgives.
  • 00:19:25.015 --> 00:19:28.785
  • That--this is the relationship you've been invited into and
  • 00:19:28.785 --> 00:19:31.622
  • With that relationship comes the appropriate accountability to
  • 00:19:31.622 --> 00:19:35.492
  • Making things right with the people around us.
  • 00:19:35.492 --> 00:19:37.060
  • In other words, god forgives sin, absolutely.
  • 00:19:37.060 --> 00:19:40.264
  • And, "forgiven people take responsibility for the result of
  • 00:19:40.264 --> 00:19:47.204
  • Their sin," of their mess.
  • 00:19:47.204 --> 00:19:50.641
  • Centuries later, this bad man from the badlands shows up in
  • 00:19:50.641 --> 00:19:55.412
  • The judean valley, john the baptist, and he shows up and
  • 00:19:55.412 --> 00:19:59.549
  • Right in, central to his message and central to his preaching, is
  • 00:19:59.549 --> 00:20:03.787
  • The same concept.
  • 00:20:03.787 --> 00:20:05.455
  • His message was this: "produce fruit in keeping with," there's
  • 00:20:05.455 --> 00:20:09.226
  • The word, "repentance."
  • 00:20:09.226 --> 00:20:10.560
  • "produce fruit in keeping with repentance."
  • 00:20:10.560 --> 00:20:12.663
  • And so the religious leaders came to hear john the baptist
  • 00:20:12.663 --> 00:20:15.165
  • Preach and all of judea came to hear john the baptist preach,
  • 00:20:15.165 --> 00:20:18.235
  • Thousands of people, and here's his message.
  • 00:20:18.235 --> 00:20:20.203
  • He's like, "look, don't give me this religious stuff
  • 00:20:20.203 --> 00:20:23.106
  • Anymore, okay?
  • 00:20:23.106 --> 00:20:24.441
  • You go up to the temple and you do your sacrifices, but you
  • 00:20:24.441 --> 00:20:26.176
  • Don't change.
  • 00:20:26.176 --> 00:20:27.511
  • There's no fruit.
  • 00:20:27.511 --> 00:20:28.879
  • If you're really gonna be right with god," he's
  • 00:20:28.879 --> 00:20:30.547
  • Saying, "i wanna see it.
  • 00:20:30.547 --> 00:20:31.882
  • You've turned to god, show me. you've returned to god, show me.
  • 00:20:31.882 --> 00:20:35.052
  • Let's see it.
  • 00:20:35.052 --> 00:20:36.586
  • If there's no fruit, there's no proof, i'm not buying it.
  • 00:20:36.586 --> 00:20:40.324
  • Simply being a believer and simply going through the
  • 00:20:40.324 --> 00:20:42.826
  • Religious motions, if you are not producing fruit in keeping
  • 00:20:42.826 --> 00:20:46.530
  • With that repentance," john says, "it is fake repentance and
  • 00:20:46.530 --> 00:20:50.000
  • God ain't buying it."
  • 00:20:50.000 --> 00:20:53.303
  • And again we shouldn't be surprised because when somebody
  • 00:20:53.303 --> 00:20:56.373
  • Apologizes to you for doing something and then does the same
  • 00:20:56.373 --> 00:20:58.909
  • Thing over and over and over, you're not buying it.
  • 00:20:58.909 --> 00:21:02.446
  • Jesus followers, when we make a mess, we own it.
  • 00:21:02.446 --> 00:21:08.185
  • We apologize, we make restitution.
  • 00:21:08.185 --> 00:21:11.455
  • We say, what in the world can i do to make it up for you?
  • 00:21:11.455 --> 00:21:13.557
  • And i realize i can't change the past, but if there's
  • 00:21:13.557 --> 00:21:15.559
  • Anything i can do, i want to own this.
  • 00:21:15.559 --> 00:21:19.963
  • So let me ask you, then i'll explain it a little bit, is it
  • 00:21:19.963 --> 00:21:23.266
  • Possible you're lost?
  • 00:21:23.266 --> 00:21:27.504
  • Is it possible that you're lost?
  • 00:21:27.504 --> 00:21:29.506
  • Let me tell you what lost means, like you didn't know, but--lost
  • 00:21:29.506 --> 00:21:34.544
  • Means you have a destination in mind, but you're going the
  • 00:21:34.544 --> 00:21:38.048
  • Wrong way.
  • 00:21:38.048 --> 00:21:39.783
  • Lost means you know where you want to end up, but you're going
  • 00:21:39.783 --> 00:21:43.854
  • The wrong way.
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  • Here's the point.
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  • If your intent is to follow jesus, not just be a christian,
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  • Not just be a believer, if your intent is to follow jesus, but
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  • You refuse to go back and take responsibility for your past,
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  • You're going the wrong way.
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  • Jesus would say you're lost.
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  • And your savior, your king, came to save you from that.
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  • He came to save you from being incomplete.
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  • He came to save you from not being whole, and you're not
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  • Whole because you have left something.
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  • You've left something that belongs to you behind you, and
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  • To move forward as his kingdom follower, you have to go back
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  • And get it and claim it and own it.
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  • So let me ask it this way.
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  • I know this is so heavy.
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  • I wasn't gonna say this, but i'll say it now that i'm
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  • Almost done.
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  • I dreaded this sermon.
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  • I don't usually dread sermons.
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  • I dreaded this one because it's so heavy.
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  • But the thing that compelled me to go there anyway is because on
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  • The other side of your decision to go back and own it is a
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  • Freedom you will never experience any other way, is a
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  • Freedom that you don't even perhaps know exists because
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  • You've never been there and you've been lying to yourself
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  • And lying to the people around you for so long.
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  • You've been lying, telling that same story for so long, you've
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  • Actually come to believe it.
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  • But every once in a while, something dings your conscience,
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  • Maybe like today.
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  • And you know, and your savior who loves you, this is not,
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  • Listen, this is not punishment.
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  • This is freedom, this is becoming whole.
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  • This is what you were made for.
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  • Jesus calls it the abundant life when our faith has feet and
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  • We're willing to do whatever the king asks us to do.
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  • So is it possible there's someone somewhere from your
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  • Past who's hoping that you'll pay attention to this sermon?
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  • Are you taking responsibility for your life?
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  • Look, you can't change the past, you can't go back into a first
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  • Marriage and make it right.
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  • You can't go back into somebody's childhood, you can't
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  • Go back to that ex-employer, the guy doesn't even work
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  • There anymore.
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  • I mean, you can't go back and change the past, but look, look
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  • Up here, but even acknowledging to those people, even
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  • Acknowledging to her, even acknowledging to him, even
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  • Acknowledging to them that you were responsible and that you
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  • Shirked your responsibility, and that you walked away or walked
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  • Off and left them with a mess, even acknowledging that to them
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  • May set them free to become whole and move forward with
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  • Their life as well.
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  • God's forgiveness doesn't release us from
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  • Our responsibility.
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  • Look up here.
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  • This is the freedom part.
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  • God's grace and forgiveness are why we take responsibility for
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  • Our life.
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  • He reconciled you with god.
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  • He made it so that you could be in sync with your heavenly
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  • Father, and the logical response, the logical response
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  • To that kind of grace is to make things right with the
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  • People in our past, the people that we've mistreated.
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  • Jesus paid a debt he did not owe.
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  • The least we can do is to pay the debts to others that we
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  • Do owe.
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  • This is what it looks like.
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  • This is baked in, this is what it looks like to follow jesus.
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  • So, one last time today, are you taking responsibility for
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  • Your past?
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  • What do you need to do now that you should have been doing
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  • All along?
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  • What do you need to do now that perhaps you should have done a
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  • Long time ago?
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  • And i know it's complicated.
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  • If it wasn't complicated, you would have already taken care
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  • Of it.
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  • But is there something you can do?
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  • Is there someone you need to call?
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  • Now, i gotta be honest and fair, there is an option to all this.
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  • You can just stick with being christian, believe in stuff.
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  • It's way easier.
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  • It is way more convenient.
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  • But it doesn't change the world.
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  • It doesn't change communities.
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  • It doesn't heal families.
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  • It is not the way forward.
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  • It is the way of religion and it is the way of hypocrites.
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  • And i don't want you to live that way and you don't want you
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  • To live that way, and somebody out there on the other side of
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  • You may have the potential to be released from their anger and
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  • Their bitterness if you'll just clean up or attempt to clean up
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  • What you messed up or take responsibility for your life and
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  • Follow your king.
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  • And we will pick it up right there next time in part 3 of
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  • "the responsibles."
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