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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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- 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: 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,
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- 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
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- 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
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- They, like they get this, "i'm just trusting god with this,"
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- 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
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- 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--
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- 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
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- 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
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- Their bad decisions and come to the same conclusions.
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- 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!"
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- Then he doubles down, "god cannot be mocked."
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- In other words, if you think you are going to get away with
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- 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,
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- He says you're crazy, you can't mock god, you can't write god
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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.
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- He has set certain things in place, certain principles in
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- 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.
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- You don't break a principle, you break yourself against a
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- Principle or you leverage a principle to your own good, but
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- You don't break it.
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- You can ignore it, but it's still operating in the
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- Background of your life.
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- So what's he getting at?
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- He's getting at people who think they will be the exception to
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- This principle.
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- 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!
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- God cannot be mocked."
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- 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."
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- Now, in ancient literature, almost all ancient literature
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- 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.
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- So essentially it means this: "do not be deceived!
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- God cannot be mocked.
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- People," all people, "we reap what we sow," and you know this.
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- You've warned other people of this.
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- You've seen this, you've experienced this at some level,
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- And the apostle paul says, "yeah, but at some point we lose
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- Our minds and we deceive ourselves and talk ourselves
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- Into things and out of things and we think we can outsmart
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- God, and god's gonna suspend this principle on our behalf."
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- Now, when my dad used to teach this--and he would teach us at
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- Home and he would preach the sermon--he would always say, in
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- Fact, i can't read this verse without hearing his voice
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- Saying, "people reap what they sow later and greater," later
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- And greater, and later is why we're deceived.
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- "mom, look, nothing's gonna happen.
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- I did it, i did it. i did it, i did it.
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- Hey guys, i appreciate it, ladies.
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- I appreciate you sitting me down and confront me, but look, i've
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- Been involved in this for a year, i've been involved in this
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- For 2 years, and nothing's happened, nothing bad
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- Has happened."
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- Later, greater, later, greater.
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- So we get confused and deceived because of later, but you know
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- What else?
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- We're overcome and we're shocked over greater.
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- Well, you know, if you've raised kids, you've told them life
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- Isn't fair, you're not kidding.
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- Fairness ended in the garden of eden.
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- Nothing has been fair ever since, okay?
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- But here is where we get in trouble.
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- Later and greater means the consequences and the benefits,
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- It works both ways.
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- The consequences and the benefits are always out of
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- Proportion to the input.
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- I mean, the easiest way to understand this is the law of
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- The harvest.
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- Take any plant, consider the size of the seed, consider the
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- Size of the plant.
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- There is almost, there's no correlation.
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- There's no equality.
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- It is unfair.
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- The seed is tiny, the plant is gigantic in relationship to
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- The seed.
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- It's the law of the harvest.
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- So later and greater, and the greater is shocking.
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- "i don't deserve this.
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- I didn't see this coming.
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- This is--there's no proportionality."
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- Be warned.
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- There's no proportionality.
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- You should know this.
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- Later and greater.
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- And the language of the proverbs, the writer of the
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- Proverbs, we are fools, we are fools to assume otherwise.
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- This is why i said if you're gonna trust god, trust that god
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- Will not suspend the law of the harvest on your behalf.
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- Irresponsibility has a consequence.
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- Later and greater.
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- So back to proverbs 27 for the grand finale.
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- You ready for this?
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- "the prudent see danger, the prudent see danger coming, and
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- They take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it,"
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- Every single time.
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- But when the simple keep going and ignore what's coming toward
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- 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.
- 00:21:38.048 --> 00:21:39.416
- 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?
- 00:22:35.672 --> 00:22:37.073
- 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?
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- 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."
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- 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,
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- Steals their retirement, steals their plans, if your
- 00:25:54.604 --> 00:25:58.508
- Irresponsibility steals from them eventually, of course your
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- Heavenly father, who loves you and loves them would say, "yeah,
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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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- Andy: hey, thanks so much for watching.
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