Andy Stanley - The Responsibles (Part 3)

October 18, 2025 | 30:10

Your Move with Andy Stanley — to help people make better decisions and live with fewer regrets.

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Your Move with Andy Stanley | Andy Stanley - The Responsibles (Part 3) | October 18, 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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  • Atheist, agnostic, or not religious at all?
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  • Seventy-five million, and most of these folks are under thirty
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  • Years old, your kids' or maybe your grandkids' 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
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  • New 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: so today is part 3 of this four-part series where i'm
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  • Inviting you into and we're inviting each other into to join
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  • This elite group of superheroes, super citizens, super husbands
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  • And wives and moms and dads and high school students and middle
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  • School students and children, super people, men and women,
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  • Students, who are taking responsibility for their lives,
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  • Their past, their present and, as we're gonna talk about today,
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  • Their future.
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  • This elite group of people that understand that their
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  • Irresponsibility, their irresponsibility, eventually
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  • There's no way around it, that their irresponsibility
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  • Eventually becomes somebody else's responsibility.
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  • And these superheroes that we're calling the responsibles that
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  • You're invited to be a part of, the superhero responsibles,
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  • They're like, "i'm not having any part of that, that to--for
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  • My irresponsibility to land in somebody else's lap, that is an
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  • Epic fail.
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  • I don't go there.
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  • I'm not having it."
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  • The responsibles clean up what they mess up.
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  • It's who they are.
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  • They're the best neighbors, they're the best friends,
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  • They're the best husbands and wives, the best students, the
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  • Best parents and you're invited to join that group, but to join
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  • That group, for us to join that group, requires that we ask and
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  • Answer, and answer honestly, a really important question, and
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  • We don't ask it and answer it once.
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  • We ask it and answer it throughout our life in every
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  • Season of life because in every season of life the circumstances
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  • Change and the question is this: am i taking responsibility for
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  • My life?
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  • Am i taking responsibility for my life?
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  • Not, the question isn't, am i a responsible person?
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  • You are a responsible person.
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  • You show up at work, you show up at school, you pay most of
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  • Your bills.
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  • So, you know, if i were to try to accuse you of being an
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  • Irresponsible person, you can point to many, many, many areas
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  • Of your life where you are a responsible person.
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  • But our question is different.
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  • It's are you taking responsibility for your life?
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  • For your full responsibility, for everything you're
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  • Responsible for, your actions and reactions, your past
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  • Obligations, and your future obligations.
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  • And, as i said last time, this isn't a christian question, this
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  • Isn't a religious question, this isn't a christian thing.
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  • This is just a thing thing, this is just a people thing.
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  • If you're not a real--if you have no faith at all or you come
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  • From a different religious tradition, here's what i know
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  • About you.
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  • You don't want your irresponsibility to become
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  • Somebody else's responsibility, you don't want your mess to end
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  • Up in somebody else's lap because that's, well, it's
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  • Irresponsible and it's embarrassing, and you don't
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  • Think of yourself as an irresponsible person.
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  • So this is--this is an all skate, this is for all of us.
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  • But if you are a christian or somebody who's seeking to learn
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  • How to be a jesus follower, like we're doing this, a growing
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  • Network of people all over the world that realize it's not just
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  • About what you believe, it's about what you do with what
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  • You believe.
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  • If you wanna be that kind of jesus follower, then this is
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  • Super-important because, as jesus followers, not only are we
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  • Forbidden from becoming an unnecessary burden to someone,
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  • We're actually commanded to look for opportunities to do
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  • The opposite.
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  • Here's what the apostle paul wrote.
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  • I mean, it doesn't get much clearer than this.
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  • He said this.
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  • He said: "carry each other's burdens."
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  • Because from time to time we can't help but be a burden
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  • Because things happen that aren't our fault or that we're
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  • Not responsible for and suddenly there's a need and suddenly
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  • There's a bump and suddenly there's a help thing that we're
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  • Not responsible for.
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  • He said, "hey, if you're a jesus follower, i want you to be freed
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  • Up and i want you to have the margin to be able to carry other
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  • People's burdens."
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  • Implication: don't become a burden unnecessarily.
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  • Don't create a burden that somebody else has--somebody
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  • Else has to carry.
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  • And then look at what he says next, and this is one of these
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  • Statements that kind of slips through the cracks that if you
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  • Were raised in church, this probably wasn't front and
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  • Center, but it should have been.
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  • Listen to what he says.
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  • He says, "and in this way," in other words, by carrying other
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  • People's burdens, by having the margin to carry each other's
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  • Burdens because you haven't created a burden somebody else
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  • Has to carry.
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  • Look at this: "in this way you will fulfill the law of christ."
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  • Now, everybody's heard of the ten commandments,
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  • The ten la--the big famous laws.
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  • This little phrase right here does not get the airplay it
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  • Should, but this is front and center for all jesus's followers
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  • Because the apostle paul coined this phrase.
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  • This was his phrase to reduce or to summarize jesus's new command
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  • That he gave his disciples at the end of his ministry, where
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  • He said, "a new command i give you."
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  • The apostle paul calls it the law of christ.
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  • There's not ten, there's one.
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  • He's--jesus says, "you are to love one another.
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  • You are to value one another as god through me has valued you."
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  • He said, "you are to love one another as i, jesus, have
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  • Loved you."
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  • There's the golden rule, and then there's the platinum rule.
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  • The law of christ is the platinum rule, and we're to live
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  • Our lives in such a way that we have the margin to help carry
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  • Other people's burdens because we have not become a
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  • Burden ourself.
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  • And the reason he says, "in this way you fulfill the law of
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  • Christ," because it's what jesus did.
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  • Jesus did not put a burden on you.
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  • He lifted a burden from you and that's what jesus's
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  • Followers do.
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  • That's why we take responsibility for our lives.
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  • It's what jesus's followers do, it's what responsible people do.
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  • And then later in the same passage, he kinda doubles down
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  • And he says this, he says: "for each one should--" he's talking
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  • To christians.
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  • "for each one of you," that claim to be a jesus follower,
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  • "you should carry your own load."
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  • That is, you gotta take responsibility for your own
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  • Life, your own actions, your own inaction, your past, present,
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  • And future, instead of creating--and not create a load
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  • For somebody else to carry.
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  • Now, last time we were together, we looked back and we asked the
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  • Question, "are you taking full responsibility for your past?"
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  • Or is someone currently managing your mess from your past because
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  • You left a mess in their lap?
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  • And we talked about what to do if that's the case.
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  • And we were very clear last time.
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  • It's worth repeating that, yes, god forgives you of your sin and
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  • God forgives you for the messes you've created for yourself
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  • And others.
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  • Yes, god absolutely forgives, but jesus was so clear
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  • About that.
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  • And he was so clear in saying, "look, because your heavenly
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  • Father has forgiven you, it's all the more reason to clean up
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  • What you messed up."
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  • In other words, that forgiveness, god's forgiveness,
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  • Does not release us from our responsibility for our past.
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  • It's just the opposite, that taking responsibility for our
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  • Past, taking responsibility for the messes that we've created
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  • Through our actions and inactions and overreactions, is
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  • Actually the appropriate response to god's forgiveness.
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  • It's evidence of this word we don't talk too much about.
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  • It's evidence of repentance-- that you've turned around and
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  • You're moving in the opposite direction and you're embracing
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  • Perhaps responsibility that, in the past, you've run from.
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  • It demonstrates that we've truly had an encounter and submitted
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  • To our "do what's best for others" king.
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  • So today, for the next few minutes, i want to talk
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  • Specifically about your future and there's good news and
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  • There's bad news.
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  • It really depends on you.
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  • There's good news and bad news, and the good news or the bad
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  • News is this: your future is coming for you.
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  • It is.
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  • It's a freight train and it's coming, and the older you get
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  • And the older we get, the faster that train seem to be moving,
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  • Doesn't it?
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  • I tell people all the time i'm like,
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  • I feel like i have three days.
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  • I have christmas, then i have easter and then it's summer and
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  • Then it's christmas and it's easter and it's summer and then
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  • It's chris--and sometimes i just feel like there's
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  • Two, right?
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  • This is--my future is coming for me, your future is coming
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  • To you.
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  • Look up here.
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  • Refusing to plan for or refusing to take responsibility for your
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  • Future as much as you can predict it is actually planning
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  • To be a burden to someone else, perhaps someone you love.
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  • So if you have to leave early, bottom line, don't plan to be a
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  • Burden by being irresponsible and refusing to face the future
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  • That is coming for you.
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  • Instead, we get to do the opposite as jesus followers.
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  • We're to plan to be a blessing to other people.
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  • We are to anticipate the future and make plans according to what
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  • We can anticipate about our own future that sets us up to be a
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  • Blessing to people and not a burden.
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  • And the best way maybe to understand this is this: your
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  • Decisions, my decisions, your daily decisions, my daily
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  • Decisions, are like the steering wheel of our life.
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  • You are steering your life in a direction.
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  • And the direction you're steering your life in, that
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  • Direction to some degree, not 100%, but that direction to some
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  • Degree, determines your destination.
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  • It's the--i call it the principle of the path.
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  • The principle of the path is direction, not intention,
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  • Determines your destination.
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  • Direction, not intention.
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  • We get so easily confused because intention, intention, my
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  • Intent, my intent, my intent, my intent.
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  • Your intent doesn't matter.
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  • Your intent and my intent does not steer our lives.
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  • It is our decisions, which is determined by our direction, our
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  • Direction, not intention, determines our destination.
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  • So you are currently--you are currently steering yourself
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  • Toward a destination, financially, physically, as it
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  • Relates to your health, right?
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  • You're steering your life in a direction emotionally, mentally,
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  • Relationally, even spiritually.
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  • So regardless of your age and regardless of your season of
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  • Life, this isn't just for 25-year-olds, regardless of your
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  • Age, regardless of your season of life, we should all pause
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  • From time to time and ask this question: if this continues,
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  • Where does it lead?
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  • If this continues, where does it lead?
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  • If this continues, where does it lead me?
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  • If this continues, where does it leave me?
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  • And if this continues, where does it leave the people
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  • Around me?
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  • And then we should adjust accordingly.
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  • Are you taking responsibility for your future?
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  • Or are you laying a trap for future you?
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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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  • People to jesus.
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  • Andy: early on in our marriage, sandra and i memorized a verse
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  • Of scripture from proverbs, and i've talked about it before.
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  • In fact, she's talked about it with our congregation before, so
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  • If you've heard this before, good, if not, i'm glad you're
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  • Listening or watching or here today.
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  • Proverbs 27:12, we turned this verse into a prayer that we
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  • Prayed consistently night after night, week after week.
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  • When our kids were born, it's one of the first verses we
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  • Taught our kids even before they were probably old enough to be
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  • Able to memorize scripture.
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  • We just started early because this was such a
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  • Powerful principle.
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  • Here's what it said.
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  • I'm gonna kind of pick it apart and we're gonna jump to the new
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  • Testament, then jump back to this for just a minute, but
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  • Here's what the writer of proverbs said: "the prudent--"
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  • That's the wise person.
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  • The prudent is the person that understands that life is
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  • Connected, that today is gonna impact tomorrow, and yesterday
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  • Is part of the reason i am where i am today, that life
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  • Is connected.
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  • "the prudent see danger," or the translation we memorized from,
  • 00:12:30.534 --> 00:12:34.505
  • Says: "the prudent see danger coming," that is, they're
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  • Looking ahead and it's like, "uh-oh, here it comes."
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  • "the prudent see danger or the prudent see danger coming," and
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  • They do something, they respond to what they see.
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  • "the prudent see danger and then they take refuge."
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  • I remember specifically one of our kids kept saying "refuse."
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  • "the prudent see danger and take refuse."
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  • I'm like, no, it's not refuse, that's different.
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  • Okay, "take refuge," right.
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  • But that's what responsible people do.
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  • They see something coming, they acknowledge it, they admit it,
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  • They don't deny it, and then they take appropriate action.
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  • They respond to or prepare for the inevitable.
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  • But there's another character that gets introduced because
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  • This is how the proverbs work.
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  • "the prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple--" now
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  • The simple are generally, in old testament language, were usually
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  • Younger people, you know, no frontal lobe development yet, so
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  • They're just having a hard time seeing how life is
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  • Connected, right?
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  • "the simple," but what i've learned and what you've learned,
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  • If you live long enough, is you can be older and simple,
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  • That you can approach your life as if life isn't connected, that
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  • Somehow it's gonna work out and somehow there's not gonna be
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  • Consequences and, you know, it's just--he says, "the simple,"
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  • The person that doesn't acknowledge that their lives are
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  • Connected, that today impacts tomorrow, "they just
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  • Keep going."
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  • They see the same danger, they see the same freight train, they
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  • See what's happened to other people, and somehow they just
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  • Keep going, and here's how they excuse it.
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  • "i got this.
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  • Mom, no, no, i've got this.
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  • I appreciate you guys sitting me down to talk about this, and i
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  • Realize you're concerned for me and it means a lot, you friends
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  • Would, you know, have the courage to talk to me about this
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  • And confront me, but i got this.
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  • I've got this.
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  • Hey, little--i see what you're saying, and i don't think you're
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  • Wrong, but i've got time, okay?
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  • I'm in my 20s.
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  • Okay, i'm only 30-something.
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  • I'm only--i've got time, i'll be fine."
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  • And you know what the--you know what the christian version of,
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  • "i've got this, i've got time, it's gonna work out, it'll be
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  • Fine," you know what the christian version of this
  • 00:14:36.460 --> 00:14:37.795
  • Sounds like?
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  • "i'm just trusting god."
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  • Now, the problem is, this is the end of the conversation.
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  • How do you say to somebody, "well, you shouldn't be
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  • Trusting god.
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  • You need to take responsibility for--" i mean, it's like this
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  • Just shuts down the whole conversation and there's usually
  • 00:14:51.809 --> 00:14:54.311
  • They, like they get this, "i'm just trusting god with this,"
  • 00:14:54.311 --> 00:14:57.648
  • I mean, even as the pastor's like, "all right, well,
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  • Conversation over.
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  • You just trust god with that."
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  • Let me tell you what you should trust god to do.
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  • And this won't make sense to some of you, but i'm gonna tease
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  • This out later.
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  • Here's what you should trust god to do.
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  • You need to trust that god will not suspend the law of the
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  • Harvest on your behalf.
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  • You should trust that god will not suspend the law of the
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  • Harvest on your behalf.
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  • What do i mean by the law of the harvest?
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  • What am i talking about?
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  • This is so important.
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  • We're gonna jump to the new testament real quick because the
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  • Apostle paul addresses directly the christian inclination to
  • 00:15:35.686 --> 00:15:42.559
  • Misunderstand our heavenly father and use religious
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  • Language as a cover or camouflage for irresponsibility.
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  • And so to do that, he sets up one of the most-often-quoted and
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  • Ignored principles in the entire bible, certainly the entire
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  • New testament.
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  • Here's how he starts it off.
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  • Now, remember, he's talking to christians, so look up here
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  • A second.
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  • If you're not a religious person, you're not a faith
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  • Person, or maybe a different faith tradition, and you're not
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  • A christian, this verse isn't directed at you, but i think you
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  • Should pay attention anyway.
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  • So he's writing to christians, and here's what he says--
  • 00:16:14.024 --> 00:16:15.859
  • To christians.
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  • He says, "do not be deceived!"
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  • There's an interesting little greek word "planao," which means
  • 00:16:20.697 --> 00:16:23.400
  • Don't be confused, don't allow yourself to be led astray.
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  • Don't look at these circumstances or these events
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  • And draw the wrong conclusion.
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  • Don't assume what other people assume about their indecision or
  • 00:16:34.011 --> 00:16:37.714
  • Their bad decisions and come to the same conclusions.
  • 00:16:37.714 --> 00:16:39.983
  • In other words, don't be deceived, and the reason he says
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  • Don't be deceived is because we are so easily deceived as it
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  • Relates to what he's about to tell us.
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  • He says, "do not be deceived!"
  • 00:16:47.925 --> 00:16:50.094
  • Then he doubles down, "god cannot be mocked."
  • 00:16:50.094 --> 00:16:54.131
  • In other words, if you think you are going to get away with
  • 00:16:54.131 --> 00:16:57.434
  • Something because you're so smart and so slick and so
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  • Careful and so mature and so wealthy and so whatever it is,
  • 00:16:59.903 --> 00:17:02.906
  • He says you're crazy, you can't mock god, you can't write god
  • 00:17:02.906 --> 00:17:07.678
  • Off as irrelevant, you can't write god off as, hey, i know
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  • What jesus said, and i know jesus is the son of god, but i'm
  • 00:17:10.347 --> 00:17:13.951
  • Really smart, okay?
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  • I'm really careful.
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  • I really got my act together.
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  • I am so resourced.
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  • I know what--you know, i know what it says, i know what it
  • 00:17:19.323 --> 00:17:21.191
  • Says, but, but, but, but--the apostle paul shakes his head and
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  • Says, "do not be deceived!
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  • God cannot be dismissed.
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  • God cannot be mocked.
  • 00:17:27.698 --> 00:17:29.166
  • He has set certain things in place, certain principles in
  • 00:17:29.166 --> 00:17:33.871
  • Place, universal equations."
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  • And if you ignore them, you pay.
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  • And a principle is different than a law.
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  • Just real quick, a law, you can break a law.
  • 00:17:44.047 --> 00:17:46.650
  • You don't break a principle, you break yourself against a
  • 00:17:46.650 --> 00:17:50.787
  • Principle or you leverage a principle to your own good, but
  • 00:17:50.787 --> 00:17:55.259
  • You don't break it.
  • 00:17:55.259 --> 00:17:56.693
  • You can ignore it, but it's still operating in the
  • 00:17:56.693 --> 00:17:59.263
  • Background of your life.
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  • So what's he getting at?
  • 00:18:00.597 --> 00:18:01.965
  • He's getting at people who think they will be the exception to
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  • This principle.
  • 00:18:05.135 --> 00:18:06.904
  • He's talking to christian people who think they can outsmart god,
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  • And here's what he says: "do not be deceived!
  • 00:18:13.610 --> 00:18:16.346
  • God cannot be mocked."
  • 00:18:16.346 --> 00:18:17.714
  • Here it is.
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  • "a man reaps what he sows."
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  • Only the men, women, you're on your own, you can do whatever
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  • You want to.
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  • There's no connection.
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  • No, you're thinking, "i love the bible."
  • 00:18:27.491 --> 00:18:30.327
  • Now, in ancient literature, almost all ancient literature
  • 00:18:30.327 --> 00:18:35.899
  • Addresses men only, so paul wasn't, you know, dissing
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  • The women.
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  • This is just the way they wrote.
  • 00:18:40.504 --> 00:18:41.838
  • So essentially it means this: "do not be deceived!
  • 00:18:41.838 --> 00:18:43.307
  • God cannot be mocked.
  • 00:18:43.307 --> 00:18:44.675
  • People," all people, "we reap what we sow," and you know this.
  • 00:18:44.675 --> 00:18:47.544
  • You've warned other people of this.
  • 00:18:47.544 --> 00:18:48.912
  • You've seen this, you've experienced this at some level,
  • 00:18:48.912 --> 00:18:51.048
  • And the apostle paul says, "yeah, but at some point we lose
  • 00:18:51.048 --> 00:18:53.917
  • Our minds and we deceive ourselves and talk ourselves
  • 00:18:53.917 --> 00:18:56.687
  • Into things and out of things and we think we can outsmart
  • 00:18:56.687 --> 00:18:58.789
  • God, and god's gonna suspend this principle on our behalf."
  • 00:18:58.789 --> 00:19:03.493
  • Now, when my dad used to teach this--and he would teach us at
  • 00:19:03.493 --> 00:19:06.563
  • Home and he would preach the sermon--he would always say, in
  • 00:19:06.563 --> 00:19:09.199
  • Fact, i can't read this verse without hearing his voice
  • 00:19:09.199 --> 00:19:11.802
  • Saying, "people reap what they sow later and greater," later
  • 00:19:11.802 --> 00:19:16.740
  • And greater, and later is why we're deceived.
  • 00:19:16.740 --> 00:19:20.277
  • "mom, look, nothing's gonna happen.
  • 00:19:20.277 --> 00:19:22.746
  • I did it, i did it. i did it, i did it.
  • 00:19:22.746 --> 00:19:24.548
  • Hey guys, i appreciate it, ladies.
  • 00:19:24.548 --> 00:19:26.116
  • I appreciate you sitting me down and confront me, but look, i've
  • 00:19:26.116 --> 00:19:28.752
  • Been involved in this for a year, i've been involved in this
  • 00:19:28.752 --> 00:19:31.088
  • For 2 years, and nothing's happened, nothing bad
  • 00:19:31.088 --> 00:19:33.490
  • Has happened."
  • 00:19:33.490 --> 00:19:34.825
  • Later, greater, later, greater.
  • 00:19:34.825 --> 00:19:36.193
  • So we get confused and deceived because of later, but you know
  • 00:19:36.193 --> 00:19:39.930
  • What else?
  • 00:19:39.930 --> 00:19:41.265
  • We're overcome and we're shocked over greater.
  • 00:19:41.265 --> 00:19:45.369
  • Well, you know, if you've raised kids, you've told them life
  • 00:19:45.369 --> 00:19:47.404
  • Isn't fair, you're not kidding.
  • 00:19:47.404 --> 00:19:49.172
  • Fairness ended in the garden of eden.
  • 00:19:49.172 --> 00:19:51.074
  • Nothing has been fair ever since, okay?
  • 00:19:51.074 --> 00:19:53.110
  • But here is where we get in trouble.
  • 00:19:53.110 --> 00:19:56.146
  • Later and greater means the consequences and the benefits,
  • 00:19:56.146 --> 00:20:00.550
  • It works both ways.
  • 00:20:00.550 --> 00:20:01.918
  • The consequences and the benefits are always out of
  • 00:20:01.918 --> 00:20:05.222
  • Proportion to the input.
  • 00:20:05.222 --> 00:20:08.191
  • I mean, the easiest way to understand this is the law of
  • 00:20:08.191 --> 00:20:10.160
  • The harvest.
  • 00:20:10.160 --> 00:20:11.495
  • Take any plant, consider the size of the seed, consider the
  • 00:20:11.495 --> 00:20:15.832
  • Size of the plant.
  • 00:20:15.832 --> 00:20:17.167
  • There is almost, there's no correlation.
  • 00:20:17.167 --> 00:20:20.003
  • There's no equality.
  • 00:20:20.003 --> 00:20:21.738
  • It is unfair.
  • 00:20:21.738 --> 00:20:23.106
  • The seed is tiny, the plant is gigantic in relationship to
  • 00:20:23.106 --> 00:20:26.510
  • The seed.
  • 00:20:26.510 --> 00:20:27.844
  • It's the law of the harvest.
  • 00:20:27.844 --> 00:20:29.346
  • So later and greater, and the greater is shocking.
  • 00:20:29.346 --> 00:20:32.482
  • "i don't deserve this.
  • 00:20:32.482 --> 00:20:33.850
  • I didn't see this coming.
  • 00:20:33.850 --> 00:20:35.185
  • This is--there's no proportionality."
  • 00:20:35.185 --> 00:20:37.254
  • Be warned.
  • 00:20:37.254 --> 00:20:38.789
  • There's no proportionality.
  • 00:20:38.789 --> 00:20:41.792
  • You should know this.
  • 00:20:41.792 --> 00:20:43.160
  • Later and greater.
  • 00:20:43.160 --> 00:20:44.494
  • And the language of the proverbs, the writer of the
  • 00:20:44.494 --> 00:20:48.165
  • Proverbs, we are fools, we are fools to assume otherwise.
  • 00:20:48.165 --> 00:20:52.969
  • This is why i said if you're gonna trust god, trust that god
  • 00:20:52.969 --> 00:20:59.376
  • Will not suspend the law of the harvest on your behalf.
  • 00:20:59.376 --> 00:21:04.147
  • Irresponsibility has a consequence.
  • 00:21:04.147 --> 00:21:08.585
  • Later and greater.
  • 00:21:08.585 --> 00:21:11.254
  • So back to proverbs 27 for the grand finale.
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  • You ready for this?
  • 00:21:14.524 --> 00:21:15.859
  • "the prudent see danger, the prudent see danger coming, and
  • 00:21:15.859 --> 00:21:18.295
  • They take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it,"
  • 00:21:18.295 --> 00:21:24.668
  • Every single time.
  • 00:21:24.668 --> 00:21:26.269
  • But when the simple keep going and ignore what's coming toward
  • 00:21:26.269 --> 00:21:32.509
  • Them, and they get clobbered, they're not the only ones that
  • 00:21:32.509 --> 00:21:35.412
  • Get clobbered, right?
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  • They're not the only ones who get clobbered.
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  • The people around them, the people that surround them, the
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  • People that care for them, get clobbered as well because their
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  • Irresponsibility ends up on somebody's plate.
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  • Our irresponsibility, i know i've said it 100 times, always
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  • Becomes somebody else's responsibility.
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  • It's hard to play catch up financially.
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  • It's hard to play catch up physically with your health.
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  • It's hard to play catch up spiritually, and do you
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  • Know why?
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  • You know why?
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  • Because all these things are governed by the law of
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  • The harvest.
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  • Not the law of the final exam.
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  • You can cram for a final exam and pull it off and make an a.
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  • You cannot cram in the areas of life that matter the most to
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  • You, relationally, financially, your health, your relationship
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  • With god, in terms of the time it takes to develop that kind of
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  • Faith, in the areas that matter most.
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  • Isn't it true, small deposits over time make all
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  • The difference?
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  • Small deposits over time make all the difference?
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  • And you can't go back and reclaim the time to make the
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  • Small deposits.
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  • So, are you ready to stop making excuses?
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  • Are you ready to start doing now--are you ready to start
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  • Doing now what you should have been doing all along?
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  • Are you ready to join this epic group of superheroes that we've
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  • Called the responsibles?
  • 00:23:09.806 --> 00:23:13.477
  • If not, if you're like, "ah, andy, i can't argue with you,
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  • You have a microphone on.
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  • I'm sitting here in a crowd and i'm watching online.
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  • I can't argue because--" but if you're sitting here and you're
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  • Like, "you know what?
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  • Okay, andy, you're not all wrong, but i do got this and i
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  • Can handle this, and yeah, i think god is gonna take care of
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  • Me, and i think it's all gonna work out and i do have time."
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  • Here's all i would say to you, okay?
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  • If you're not ready to take this step i'm recommending, tell the
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  • People you will be counting on what you will expect from them
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  • When you eventually reap what you are currently sowing.
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  • You should tell them, you should call them, you should get them
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  • Together and say, "hey, you know, the other day you warned
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  • Me about and i said, 'don't worry about it,' i just want you
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  • To know i still think i don't need to worry about it, but if
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  • This, you know, if what you think's gonna happen happens,
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  • I just want you to know, guys, i'm coming to you for help."
  • 00:24:00.023 --> 00:24:02.859
  • You should just tell them that, when you eventually reap what
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  • You're currently sowing, they should know what you'll expect.
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  • Look up here.
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  • And if you're afraid to do that, you need to think about that,
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  • And if you're not willing to do that, you need to think
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  • About that.
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  • Because if the roles were reversed and suddenly somebody
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  • Came to you and expected you to pick up their slack when they
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  • Didn't take your advice, how would you feel about that?
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  • Isn't this just the wise thing to do?
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  • Isn't this just--isn't this what people who connect the
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  • Dots do?
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  • And maybe if you'll force yourself to do that, that one
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  • Step of responsibility may lead to a second step of
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  • Responsibility where you take responsibility for your life.
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  • Now, if you're not a jesus follower, just want to be clear,
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  • I have no authority to tell you what to do.
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  • I'm just making suggestions.
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  • This is just good advice or good counsel, or at least, i think
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  • It is.
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  • But if you're a jesus follower, i'll just be blunt.
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  • Irresponsibility is a sin.
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  • And here's why i say that, because jesus, he was so clear,
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  • Just follow him through the gospels, and here's what you
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  • Discover about jesus and sin.
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  • Jesus would say, if it hurts him, that's a sin whether it's
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  • On a list or not.
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  • If it hurts her, it's a sin whether it's on a list or not.
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  • If it hurts you, it's a sin whether it's on a
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  • List of sins or not because god cares about you.
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  • And if your irresponsibility steals from other people, steals
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  • Their time, steals their resources, steals their future,
  • 00:25:52.135 --> 00:25:54.604
  • Steals their retirement, steals their plans, if your
  • 00:25:54.604 --> 00:25:58.508
  • Irresponsibility steals from them eventually, of course your
  • 00:25:58.508 --> 00:26:02.812
  • Heavenly father, who loves you and loves them would say, "yeah,
  • 00:26:02.812 --> 00:26:06.416
  • It's a sin."
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  • It creates a burden for someone, it creates a burden for you and,
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  • Jesus followers, we're burden carriers, like our king.
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  • Not burden creators.
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  • So, again, don't plan to be a burden.
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  • Are you planning to be a burden by ignoring your health,
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  • Ignoring your finances, ignoring what's becoming more of a
  • 00:26:31.307 --> 00:26:35.378
  • Pathway than a point of entertainment?
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  • Are you--don't plan to be a burden.
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  • Plan, be intentional, be proactive, to be a blessing to
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  • The people you love the most, the people you would turn to if
  • 00:26:48.525 --> 00:26:52.929
  • Things go off the rails.
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  • Take responsibility for your future.
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  • It's what love does.
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  • It's what jesus followers do.
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