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Andy Stanley - The Way In A Manger (Part 1)

December 13, 2025 | 28:29

Andy Stanley - The Way In A Manger (Part 1)
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Your Move with Andy Stanley | Andy Stanley - The Way In A Manger (Part 1) | December 13, 2025
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  • Andy stanley: so today, i'd like to begin with a
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  • Ridiculous question.
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  • It's ridiculous because i already know the answer.
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  • It's kind of rhetorical, so you don't need to answer out loud or
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  • Raise your hand, but to just get us all on the same page, and i
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  • Know the answer, but have you ever lost your way on your
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  • Way somewhere?
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  • Yes, we all have.
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  • I--sandra's here, she would tell you that sometimes i lose--used
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  • To be because usually we lose our way on our way somewhere
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  • That we've never been before, but she would tell you that
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  • Oftentimes i lose my way on my way to places i've been multiple
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  • Times before.
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  • Maybe you can relate to that.
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  • Now, we don't usually use our--lose our way much anymore
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  • Driving because there's not much excuse because of gps on our
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  • Phones and everything, but there are--there continue to be places
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  • Where you can lose your way.
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  • Hiking, if you ever hike.
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  • In fact, if you hike a lot, you don't lose your way, but if you
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  • Ever--if you don't hike a lot and you decide you're gonna
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  • Hike, and one of the most terrifying things in the world
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  • Is to lose your way hiking.
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  • I've done that as well.
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  • Parking garages.
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  • You can lose your way in a park--yeah, parking garage.
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  • So, a lot of you do what i do and i'm not too embarrassed to
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  • Tell you.
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  • I get my phone out and i take a picture of level four
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  • Section whatever.
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  • It's red.
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  • Here's a picture of the cars next--you know, there's a, you
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  • Know, because it's easy to get lost in a parking garage.
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  • And if you've lost your way in, like, a big car parking garage,
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  • It can be terrifying.
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  • The point is--it's we've all had that experience and we'll
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  • Continue to have that experience, but here's the
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  • Interesting thing about all that.
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  • The interesting thing is we never know the precise moment
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  • When it happens.
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  • When we've crossed over or crossed the line from i know the
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  • Way to lost my way.
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  • You don't know exactly when you're lost.
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  • You don't know exactly when you go from not lost to lost.
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  • And whether it's a parking garage or hiking or whatever it
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  • Might be, the truth is, by the time we realize we've lost our
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  • Way, we've been lost for quite some time, right?
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  • Anyway, and you can guess where i'm going with this.
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  • What's true of losing our way when we're going to a physical
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  • Location, what's true of losing our way on our way to a physical
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  • Location is true of losing our way in life.
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  • Specifically, we're lost before we know it.
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  • We're lost before we know we're lost.
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  • And when i say losing your way in life, i mean like your entire
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  • Way with every part of your life, or maybe losing your way
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  • In one area of life, you're lost before you know it.
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  • Your marriage is kind of lost before you realize that it's
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  • Been lost, you just didn't know it.
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  • She didn't know it, she--he didn't know it, but
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  • You--suddenly it dawns on you, "oh, this is not going well."
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  • This can be true of any area of life.
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  • You realize we're living in the wrong direction, assuming it's
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  • The right direction.
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  • And you don't know it at the time.
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  • Your foot's on the gas, smile on your face, you know, playing the
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  • Music loud and moving--actually moving away from the life that
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  • You want, moving away from the relationship you want, moving in
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  • The opposite direction of what you ultimately want.
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  • And while it's happening, because you don't know it's
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  • Happening, while it's happening and i don't know it's happening,
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  • These two things collide, but they can exist, they
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  • Can coexist.
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  • We're both confident and clueless at the same time.
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  • Now, you know this is possible because you've met people who
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  • Are confident and clueless.
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  • You watch--in fact, when you were, i didn't know you then,
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  • But when you were 16, you were confident and you were clueless,
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  • But you had an excuse.
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  • Frontal lobe development is a real thing, okay?
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  • Before there's frontal lobe development, we were all
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  • Confident and clueless, but it's not just
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  • An adolescent thing, it's an adult thing as well, because in
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  • Some area of your life or your life in general, you can
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  • Actually be moving in the opposite direction you should be
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  • Moving in and do it with confidence, but you're clueless
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  • That's happening because we don't know when we've crossed
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  • That line from know the way to not know the way.
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  • And here's the other strange thing, and this is where maybe
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  • Some of you are today or maybe you're there today.
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  • When we begin to suspect that something's off, when we begin
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  • To suspect that something's not exactly right, when something
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  • That started off as magical isn't magical anymore, in fact,
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  • It started off as magical and now it feels a bit medicinal
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  • Like this is something i have to do, and then it's something you
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  • Feel like you can't live without.
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  • And when that happens, when we tend to--when we realize, "hey,
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  • Maybe i've lost my way," you probably wouldn't use that
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  • Terminology, but at that point you would later, but when you
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  • Begin to wonder and suspect, you know what we do?
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  • We just look the other way, and we--essentially, we just
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  • Move faster.
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  • And if we're lucky, even though it doesn't feel like we're lucky
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  • At the time, if we're lucky, somebody who loves us comes
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  • Along and says, "hey, hey--"
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  • They try to warn us, they--that they try to point out the fact
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  • That, and it's interesting, they try to point out the fact that
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  • Things aren't going as well as we think they are thinking that
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  • Maybe we don't see what they can see.
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  • They, you know, we're not dialed into what they're dialed into.
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  • And when they try to warn us, this is so interesting to me
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  • Anyway, when they try to warn us, they actually use
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  • Directional language, they use highway language.
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  • They say things like, "hey, i don't think you're headed in a
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  • Good direction.
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  • Hey, i don't think the path you're on and that you and your
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  • Wife or your husband are on, i don't think the path you're on,
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  • I don't think the way you're doing family and the way you're
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  • Disciplining your kids--hey, it's none of my business, but
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  • Hey, i don't think the path you're on is gonna get you where
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  • You wanna go," or maybe they're super direct, "you just need
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  • To turn your life around."
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  • And our response is, "thank you so much for not minding your
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  • Own business.
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  • I'm fine."
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  • I mean, how many times have you said that or heard that?
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  • "no, no, no, i'm fine."
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  • And you've heard, "i'm fine" from people and you know they're
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  • Not fine, but they think they're fine.
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  • And maybe somebody's told you, "you're not fine," but you're
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  • Sure you're fine.
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  • Andy: hey, thanks so much for watching this episode, but
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  • Before we continue, i wanna take just a moment to share something
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  • And now, back to today's episode.
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  • Andy: now here's something really fascinating, at least i
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  • Think this is fascinating.
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  • 3000 years ago, not 2000 years ago when jesus was around, 3000
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  • Years ago, king solomon writes out a statement or dictates a
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  • Statement that is so fascinating.
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  • Listen to what king solomon says.
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  • This is amazing because it's true then and it's true now and
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  • It's a bit harsh, but here's what he writes.
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  • He says, "there is a way which seems right," looks right, feels
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  • Right in the moment.
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  • "there is a way that seems right to a man," or to a woman, or to
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  • A high school senior, or to newlyweds, or to, "hey,
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  • We're--this is how we think we should raise our children."
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  • There is a way that--there's always a way that seems right,
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  • That feels right, that makes perfect sense to us, and because
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  • It makes perfect sense to us, we choose it, we embrace it, we
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  • Commit ourselves to it.
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  • And we've all done this, every single one of us.
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  • We didn't think of it in these terms, but we've all chosen
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  • A way.
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  • We've chosen a way to live, if you're dating, you've chosen a
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  • Way to date, you have chosen a way to entertain yourself,
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  • You've chosen the schedule, you've chosen the way that you
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  • Play, you've chosen the way you spend your money, you've chosen
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  • The way that you parent, we all choose our way.
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  • And the reason we choose those particular ways for those
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  • Particular areas of our life is because, well, it just seems
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  • Right to us.
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  • I mean, either it's because everybody else is doing it, it's
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  • A reaction to what our parents did, or maybe we've embraced
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  • What our parents did, but it just seems right to us.
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  • When you, if you can remember, when you started dating way
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  • Back, wasn't it true you--the way you dated, you assume that
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  • It was the right way to date because it was gonna lead you to
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  • Something greater, hopefully somebody great when you got
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  • Married, if you're married.
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  • You were confident, you--the way that you were doing marriage was
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  • Gonna lead to happily ever after.
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  • So, we all choose a way, and the reason we choose the ways we
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  • Choose is because he's right, they seem right to us.
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  • But then, as you probably know, there's a dot, dot, dot because
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  • There's, you know, there's another part to this.
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  • I'm gonna give you my version because it's easier and softer
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  • And kinder than his version.
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  • So, my version is there is a way that seems right to a person,
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  • But just because it seems right, doesn't mean that it is right?
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  • And this is why you can be on your way and i can be on my way
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  • The wrong way and think it's the right way because it seems like
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  • The right way.
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  • "there is a way that seems right to a man," here's how he
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  • Finishes it, "but its end is the way of death."
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  • Merry christmas.
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  • It's a--look at what he does here, it's so interesting.
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  • It's a death end.
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  • Or we would say it's a dead end.
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  • There is a way that seems right to us that has the potential to
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  • Kill us, but for most of us, the ways that we've chosen aren't
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  • Gonna kill us, but they have the potential to kill something
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  • Important to us.
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  • They have potential to kill a relationship that's important
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  • To us.
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  • There's a way to do marriage that has the potential to kill
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  • Your marriage.
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  • There's a way that seems right to you that could kill your
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  • Career, destroy your health, destroy who you see in
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  • The mirror.
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  • And we're all old enough that i think we all know this is true.
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  • This isn't like, "wow, i've never thought of this."
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  • We've all at some point in our lives chosen a way that we
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  • Thought was the right way that turned out not to be the
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  • Right way.
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  • We were confident we chose the right way.
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  • And when we chose it, it was the right way, until it wasn't.
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  • And then, boom, dead end.
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  • And when we realized it, because we've all lived long enough to
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  • Bumped into some of these dead ends because of the ways we
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  • Chose, when we bumped into it, when we finally recognized, when
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  • It dawned on us, "hey, we chose the wrong way," you know what
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  • Kind of language we used?
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  • We use the same language that the people who tried to warn
  • 00:11:20.197 --> 00:11:22.700
  • Us used, this is fascinating to me.
  • 00:11:22.700 --> 00:11:24.735
  • We use that same terminology now to describe our own lives.
  • 00:11:24.735 --> 00:11:30.574
  • "i'm not sure where to turn."
  • 00:11:30.574 --> 00:11:33.611
  • I--and this is a big one, "i don't know how to get back to
  • 00:11:33.611 --> 00:11:37.748
  • The person i was."
  • 00:11:37.748 --> 00:11:39.116
  • And maybe this is you today, and by the person i was because
  • 00:11:39.116 --> 00:11:41.485
  • There was a time in your life where you had peace
  • 00:11:41.485 --> 00:11:44.088
  • With yourself.
  • 00:11:44.088 --> 00:11:45.656
  • And you may not have used this language, but there was a time
  • 00:11:45.656 --> 00:11:48.292
  • In your past where you had peace with god, that you liked the
  • 00:11:48.292 --> 00:11:53.597
  • Person you saw in the mirror, and now you realize you're not
  • 00:11:53.597 --> 00:11:57.334
  • That person and you're not moving toward that person, and
  • 00:11:57.334 --> 00:11:59.804
  • You're trying to figure out how to get back to the person you
  • 00:11:59.804 --> 00:12:02.973
  • Used to be.
  • 00:12:02.973 --> 00:12:05.109
  • Or we use this kind of language, "i don't know how to get through
  • 00:12:05.109 --> 00:12:08.212
  • This," and this is something that you created, or that
  • 00:12:08.212 --> 00:12:13.350
  • I created.
  • 00:12:13.350 --> 00:12:14.685
  • It's like, "oh no, i've made a mess.
  • 00:12:14.685 --> 00:12:16.053
  • It's not 100% my fault, but at least 20% of this is my fault."
  • 00:12:16.053 --> 00:12:19.223
  • You know, the other person would say, "80%'s my fault," it
  • 00:12:19.223 --> 00:12:21.492
  • Doesn't matter.
  • 00:12:21.492 --> 00:12:22.860
  • "i have a mess on my hands and i need to get through this.
  • 00:12:22.860 --> 00:12:25.563
  • I don't know how to get through this.
  • 00:12:25.563 --> 00:12:28.432
  • I don't know how to get past this," right?
  • 00:12:28.432 --> 00:12:32.837
  • I'm not--you see, the language is all the same.
  • 00:12:32.837 --> 00:12:34.638
  • "i'm not in a good place."
  • 00:12:34.638 --> 00:12:36.540
  • Maybe today you would say, "that's--hey, i'm not in a
  • 00:12:36.540 --> 00:12:38.676
  • Good place.
  • 00:12:38.676 --> 00:12:40.044
  • I need to change course.
  • 00:12:40.044 --> 00:12:42.613
  • I'm willing to acknowledge i lost my way."
  • 00:12:42.613 --> 00:12:48.118
  • And again, this is the kind of language we use when we think
  • 00:12:48.118 --> 00:12:51.689
  • About those moments, those times that season of life when we lost
  • 00:12:51.689 --> 00:12:54.725
  • Our way, but again, maybe this isn't a distant memory, maybe
  • 00:12:54.725 --> 00:12:57.862
  • It's not a recent memory.
  • 00:12:57.862 --> 00:13:00.731
  • Maybe for you today it's a current reality, but if you're
  • 00:13:00.731 --> 00:13:03.167
  • At the place where you're willing to acknowledge, "you
  • 00:13:03.167 --> 00:13:05.102
  • Know what, even though i'm an adult, even though i should know
  • 00:13:05.102 --> 00:13:07.104
  • Better, even though it's embarrassing, yeah,
  • 00:13:07.104 --> 00:13:09.440
  • Solomon's right.
  • 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:10.774
  • There is a way that seems right to a man, and i chose one of
  • 00:13:10.774 --> 00:13:12.776
  • Those ways, and as it turns out, it's not the right way, and it
  • 00:13:12.776 --> 00:13:15.246
  • Is a dead end, and i'm not sure what to do."
  • 00:13:15.246 --> 00:13:19.583
  • Congratulations, you've already taken the first step required to
  • 00:13:19.583 --> 00:13:22.119
  • Turn your life around.
  • 00:13:22.119 --> 00:13:23.454
  • You've acknowledged where you are, because here's a reality
  • 00:13:23.454 --> 00:13:25.990
  • For all of us.
  • 00:13:25.990 --> 00:13:27.358
  • This isn't a religious thing or a christian thing, you can't get
  • 00:13:27.358 --> 00:13:30.361
  • To where you wanna be until you recognize where you are.
  • 00:13:30.361 --> 00:13:33.530
  • You can't even begin to move in the direction you need to move
  • 00:13:33.530 --> 00:13:36.634
  • Until you realize where you are.
  • 00:13:36.634 --> 00:13:37.968
  • You cannot get to where you wanna be until you recognize
  • 00:13:37.968 --> 00:13:40.104
  • Where you are.
  • 00:13:40.104 --> 00:13:41.438
  • So, this is step one, and it's a huge step, and maybe in the next
  • 00:13:41.438 --> 00:13:43.574
  • Few minutes or maybe already, you're willing to acknowledge,
  • 00:13:43.574 --> 00:13:46.210
  • "you know what, i chose a bad way."
  • 00:13:46.210 --> 00:13:53.217
  • Now, some folks never get there, you know that.
  • 00:13:53.217 --> 00:13:56.854
  • Some folks never get to the point where they're willing to
  • 00:13:56.854 --> 00:13:59.123
  • Recognize or admit that they chose the wrong way, so they
  • 00:13:59.123 --> 00:14:01.558
  • Just--they just stay lost.
  • 00:14:01.558 --> 00:14:06.530
  • And people who are lost or chose the wrong way, you know what
  • 00:14:06.530 --> 00:14:09.166
  • They do?
  • 00:14:09.166 --> 00:14:10.534
  • They blame everybody else because of their problems.
  • 00:14:10.534 --> 00:14:12.236
  • It's not working.
  • 00:14:12.236 --> 00:14:14.405
  • They're not happy.
  • 00:14:14.405 --> 00:14:15.906
  • It's not working out, it's not getting better, and if it's not
  • 00:14:15.906 --> 00:14:19.576
  • Working out and it's not getting any better, then somebody's to
  • 00:14:19.576 --> 00:14:22.346
  • Blame and it's very difficult to look in the mirror and say, "ah,
  • 00:14:22.346 --> 00:14:25.049
  • There's the person that's to blame," so they just stay lost.
  • 00:14:25.049 --> 00:14:28.585
  • They blame everybody else and everything.
  • 00:14:28.585 --> 00:14:30.454
  • If you're a person who--i know i'm kind of meddling.
  • 00:14:30.454 --> 00:14:33.991
  • If you're a person, every once in a while, somebody who's close
  • 00:14:33.991 --> 00:14:35.993
  • To you says, "you're never wrong," and your first thought
  • 00:14:35.993 --> 00:14:39.930
  • Is, "correct.
  • 00:14:39.930 --> 00:14:44.835
  • I'm never wrong,"
  • 00:14:44.835 --> 00:14:48.572
  • You've chosen a way that is a dead end and you don't know it.
  • 00:14:48.572 --> 00:14:55.679
  • Now, the question that some of you are asking right now, i hope
  • 00:14:55.679 --> 00:14:58.849
  • You're asking, is, "andy, what in the world,
  • 00:14:58.849 --> 00:15:02.720
  • What in the world does any of this have to do with christmas?
  • 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:06.457
  • We are depressed, okay?
  • 00:15:06.457 --> 00:15:08.692
  • You've dredged up all this stuff from my past, or i'm having a
  • 00:15:08.692 --> 00:15:11.962
  • Hard time not elbowing her or elbowing him.
  • 00:15:11.962 --> 00:15:14.164
  • I'm thinking about my kids.
  • 00:15:14.164 --> 00:15:15.532
  • I'm thinking--" and the thing is, this whole thing of choosing
  • 00:15:15.532 --> 00:15:19.103
  • The right way and the right--and the wrong way, it has everything
  • 00:15:19.103 --> 00:15:21.538
  • To do with christmas because well here's the thing,
  • 00:15:21.538 --> 00:15:23.607
  • Look up here.
  • 00:15:23.607 --> 00:15:24.942
  • When we think of trying to figure our way forward or our
  • 00:15:24.942 --> 00:15:27.177
  • Way back or, you know, trying to find the way or figure out the
  • 00:15:27.177 --> 00:15:30.514
  • Right way, we think in terms of decisions we need to make, we
  • 00:15:30.514 --> 00:15:33.951
  • Think in terms of habits we need to break, we think in terms of
  • 00:15:33.951 --> 00:15:36.887
  • Information we need to get, advice we need to get, goals we
  • 00:15:36.887 --> 00:15:40.958
  • Need to set, habits to begin, you know.
  • 00:15:40.958 --> 00:15:43.594
  • And all of that's good and all of that's necessary, but here's
  • 00:15:43.594 --> 00:15:45.763
  • The good news of christmas.
  • 00:15:45.763 --> 00:15:47.931
  • At christmas, we're presented with another way.
  • 00:15:47.931 --> 00:15:52.069
  • We're presented with a person who claimed--this is amazing.
  • 00:15:52.069 --> 00:15:56.473
  • At christmas, we're introduced to someone who not only claimed
  • 00:15:56.473 --> 00:15:59.109
  • To know the way we should live, but claimed to be the way we
  • 00:15:59.109 --> 00:16:06.116
  • Should live.
  • 00:16:06.116 --> 00:16:07.484
  • He claimed to be the way forward.
  • 00:16:07.484 --> 00:16:10.988
  • Now, i wanna read a couple of verses.
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  • When i read these sentences to you, for just a moment, if we
  • 00:16:13.490 --> 00:16:18.829
  • Could--i don't want you to hear me reading the bible to you.
  • 00:16:18.829 --> 00:16:22.466
  • I want you to hear me expressing the thoughts of a real person
  • 00:16:22.466 --> 00:16:27.171
  • Who had a real genuine experience with jesus
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  • Of nazareth.
  • 00:16:30.841 --> 00:16:32.709
  • That john, who spent three or three and a half years walking
  • 00:16:32.709 --> 00:16:36.413
  • And talking with jesus of nazareth, not storybook
  • 00:16:36.413 --> 00:16:39.316
  • Character, historical character.
  • 00:16:39.316 --> 00:16:41.151
  • John's an older man now, and he's probably dictating this,
  • 00:16:41.151 --> 00:16:44.788
  • Not writing it himself.
  • 00:16:44.788 --> 00:16:46.590
  • And he's trying to put into words,
  • 00:16:46.590 --> 00:16:48.692
  • He's trying to put into words what it was like to be
  • 00:16:48.692 --> 00:16:52.563
  • With someone that he was convinced was god in a body.
  • 00:16:52.563 --> 00:16:59.770
  • Can you picture it?
  • 00:16:59.770 --> 00:17:01.105
  • An older man.
  • 00:17:01.105 --> 00:17:02.673
  • He's probably, you know, close to the end of his life.
  • 00:17:02.673 --> 00:17:06.643
  • Most of his friends are dead.
  • 00:17:06.643 --> 00:17:08.011
  • Peter's dead, the apostle paul is dead.
  • 00:17:08.011 --> 00:17:10.047
  • He doesn't know where the rest of them are.
  • 00:17:10.047 --> 00:17:12.216
  • He's been arrested.
  • 00:17:12.216 --> 00:17:13.584
  • He's, in some ways he's an outlaw, but maybe by this time
  • 00:17:13.584 --> 00:17:16.787
  • He's, you know, he's in prison.
  • 00:17:16.787 --> 00:17:19.156
  • We don't know exactly when he wrote this.
  • 00:17:19.156 --> 00:17:21.925
  • And he finally gets it right.
  • 00:17:21.925 --> 00:17:23.293
  • He says, "okay, i think i got it.
  • 00:17:23.293 --> 00:17:24.628
  • Write this down.
  • 00:17:24.628 --> 00:17:27.030
  • The logos, the word, the everything we've been taught,
  • 00:17:27.030 --> 00:17:34.972
  • Everything we'd imagined became a person and he camped out
  • 00:17:34.972 --> 00:17:41.745
  • With us.
  • 00:17:41.745 --> 00:17:43.080
  • He pitched his tent with us, he made his dwelling among us.
  • 00:17:43.080 --> 00:17:48.785
  • And we--" not we, "we."
  • 00:17:48.785 --> 00:17:50.954
  • Him, "we," and his guys.
  • 00:17:50.954 --> 00:17:53.157
  • "and we have literally seen his glory, the glory of the one and
  • 00:17:53.157 --> 00:18:00.330
  • The only son."
  • 00:18:00.330 --> 00:18:02.933
  • In other words, you gotta slow down.
  • 00:18:02.933 --> 00:18:04.368
  • Guys, he's writing, he wants them to understand this, he
  • 00:18:04.368 --> 00:18:06.570
  • Wants us to understand this.
  • 00:18:06.570 --> 00:18:08.071
  • We camped with him, we ate with him, we searched for firewood
  • 00:18:08.071 --> 00:18:13.343
  • With him, we repaired our sandals together, we listened to
  • 00:18:13.343 --> 00:18:17.548
  • Him, we cried with him, we--i mean, we saw the whole thing.
  • 00:18:17.548 --> 00:18:23.387
  • We watched him, we followed him."
  • 00:18:23.387 --> 00:18:25.189
  • And when all was said and done, after looking at those whole
  • 00:18:25.189 --> 00:18:29.159
  • Three and a half years and watching him die and thinking
  • 00:18:29.159 --> 00:18:31.628
  • It's over, then residents meeting the resurrected jesus
  • 00:18:31.628 --> 00:18:35.098
  • And having lunch, breakfast with him on the beach.
  • 00:18:35.098 --> 00:18:37.501
  • When the whole thing is said and done, as crazy as this sounds,
  • 00:18:37.501 --> 00:18:40.804
  • He's saying to us, "we are convinced that he came from the
  • 00:18:40.804 --> 00:18:49.479
  • Father to planet earth, to be with us so we could understand
  • 00:18:49.479 --> 00:18:55.786
  • The father."
  • 00:18:55.786 --> 00:18:57.154
  • And then we don't have time to unpack this, this is like a
  • 00:18:57.154 --> 00:18:59.056
  • Whole series of messages that i don't--i can't even excavate all
  • 00:18:59.056 --> 00:19:03.994
  • The goodness in this.
  • 00:19:03.994 --> 00:19:05.762
  • And this jesus who came from the father is full of grace
  • 00:19:05.762 --> 00:19:10.500
  • And truth.
  • 00:19:10.500 --> 00:19:11.868
  • See, we think in terms of the balance of grace and truth.
  • 00:19:11.868 --> 00:19:13.870
  • Gotta have grace, gotta have truth.
  • 00:19:13.870 --> 00:19:15.239
  • He says, "no, no, no, that's wrong."
  • 00:19:15.239 --> 00:19:16.773
  • See, that's how we think because we have, like, the truth church
  • 00:19:16.773 --> 00:19:19.042
  • Where you're very dogmatic.
  • 00:19:19.042 --> 00:19:20.410
  • Here's truth, truth truth.
  • 00:19:20.410 --> 00:19:21.745
  • It's like, "oh, i need a little grace."
  • 00:19:21.745 --> 00:19:23.113
  • Run over here to the grace church: grace, grace, grace, "we
  • 00:19:23.113 --> 00:19:24.948
  • Just love you, everything's fine."
  • 00:19:24.948 --> 00:19:26.316
  • Ah, little permissive, need to go back over to the
  • 00:19:26.316 --> 00:19:28.185
  • Truth church.
  • 00:19:28.185 --> 00:19:29.519
  • And john is like, "no, no, no, he's 100% all of it.
  • 00:19:29.519 --> 00:19:33.757
  • He never dumbs down the truth, and he never dials down
  • 00:19:33.757 --> 00:19:37.728
  • The grace."
  • 00:19:37.728 --> 00:19:39.062
  • And when you're in the presence of jesus, you're aware of your
  • 00:19:39.062 --> 00:19:41.565
  • Sin and you're aware of the love of god at the same time.
  • 00:19:41.565 --> 00:19:44.368
  • It's overwhelming because he's full of grace and he's full
  • 00:19:44.368 --> 00:19:48.438
  • Of truth.
  • 00:19:48.438 --> 00:19:49.806
  • And all i'm saying is this: the father in some ways showed up in
  • 00:19:49.806 --> 00:19:54.011
  • A body and revealed himself to us.
  • 00:19:54.011 --> 00:19:56.647
  • This is why--sorry to go on and on and on.
  • 00:19:56.647 --> 00:19:59.449
  • This is why many of the things that jesus said, we wrestle with
  • 00:19:59.449 --> 00:20:05.522
  • And they understood, because when you spend time, that much
  • 00:20:05.522 --> 00:20:10.127
  • Time with someone, you understand the nuance, you
  • 00:20:10.127 --> 00:20:14.197
  • Understand the implications, you understand when they say this,
  • 00:20:14.197 --> 00:20:17.834
  • That they're referring back to and there's context for all
  • 00:20:17.834 --> 00:20:20.170
  • Of that.
  • 00:20:20.170 --> 00:20:21.505
  • And so, in one of the most famous narrative--pieces of
  • 00:20:21.505 --> 00:20:24.641
  • Narrative from the life of jesus, jesus makes a statement
  • 00:20:24.641 --> 00:20:28.011
  • We have all heard a thousand times and we have a hard time
  • 00:20:28.011 --> 00:20:32.449
  • Wrapping our minds around, but john didn't.
  • 00:20:32.449 --> 00:20:35.385
  • John records it.
  • 00:20:35.385 --> 00:20:36.787
  • Matthew didn't, peter didn't.
  • 00:20:36.787 --> 00:20:39.956
  • Because they were in the presence of god in a body, god
  • 00:20:39.956 --> 00:20:44.127
  • Who would come to earth to dwell with us.
  • 00:20:44.127 --> 00:20:47.397
  • So, on the night of his arrest, the conversation we talk about
  • 00:20:47.397 --> 00:20:50.000
  • All the time, jesus lets them know, "i'm leaving," and they're
  • 00:20:50.000 --> 00:20:52.836
  • Like, "oh no, no, no, you can't leave.
  • 00:20:52.836 --> 00:20:54.204
  • If you leave, we're in trouble.
  • 00:20:54.204 --> 00:20:55.539
  • You're our security blanket."
  • 00:20:55.539 --> 00:20:57.407
  • He's like, "no, i'm leaving," and they're like, "well, where
  • 00:20:57.407 --> 00:20:59.109
  • Are you going?"
  • 00:20:59.109 --> 00:21:00.444
  • And jesus like, "you know where i'm going."
  • 00:21:00.444 --> 00:21:02.045
  • They're like, "we don't know where you're going."
  • 00:21:02.045 --> 00:21:03.413
  • "you do know where i'm going."
  • 00:21:03.413 --> 00:21:04.781
  • "we don't know."
  • 00:21:04.781 --> 00:21:06.116
  • "oh yeah, and you know how to get there."
  • 00:21:06.116 --> 00:21:07.484
  • "what do you mean we know how to get there?
  • 00:21:07.484 --> 00:21:08.819
  • We don't even know where you're going, so how could we possibly
  • 00:21:08.819 --> 00:21:10.420
  • Know the way to get there?"
  • 00:21:10.420 --> 00:21:11.922
  • And finally, you know, they can't get it.
  • 00:21:11.922 --> 00:21:13.824
  • They go back and forth and back and forth and back and forth,
  • 00:21:13.824 --> 00:21:15.692
  • And jesus smiles and he says, "look, look, you know the way."
  • 00:21:15.692 --> 00:21:23.433
  • And thomas finally says, "lord, no, we don't know where you're
  • 00:21:23.433 --> 00:21:26.770
  • Going, so how could we possibly know the way?
  • 00:21:26.770 --> 00:21:28.805
  • You're saying we know the way to where you're going, we don't
  • 00:21:28.805 --> 00:21:30.574
  • Know where you're going.
  • 00:21:30.574 --> 00:21:31.908
  • This doesn't make any sense."
  • 00:21:31.908 --> 00:21:33.243
  • And then jesus smiles and he leverages this question to make
  • 00:21:33.243 --> 00:21:38.548
  • A broader point that they understand that i think
  • 00:21:38.548 --> 00:21:42.386
  • Sometimes we miss.
  • 00:21:42.386 --> 00:21:44.721
  • Friends, he says, "you do know the way."
  • 00:21:44.721 --> 00:21:47.424
  • And he smiles.
  • 00:21:47.424 --> 00:21:48.792
  • I think he smiles, "friends, you do know the way.
  • 00:21:48.792 --> 00:21:51.628
  • You're looking at it, you're talking to it.
  • 00:21:51.628 --> 00:21:57.134
  • You just spent three years, you know, back and forth from judea
  • 00:21:57.134 --> 00:22:01.238
  • To galilee to the river jordan.
  • 00:22:01.238 --> 00:22:03.774
  • I mean, come on, you know the way.
  • 00:22:03.774 --> 00:22:07.210
  • You're in the presence of the way.
  • 00:22:07.210 --> 00:22:09.012
  • You've been camping with the way.
  • 00:22:09.012 --> 00:22:10.680
  • Come on, after all this time, thomas, you're still asking,
  • 00:22:10.680 --> 00:22:14.651
  • 'show us the way'?
  • 00:22:14.651 --> 00:22:16.920
  • You know by now, come on, guys."
  • 00:22:16.920 --> 00:22:20.190
  • Here it is.
  • 00:22:20.190 --> 00:22:21.725
  • Famous verse alert.
  • 00:22:21.725 --> 00:22:26.696
  • "i am the way."
  • 00:22:26.696 --> 00:22:32.702
  • So here's where we get lost.
  • 00:22:32.702 --> 00:22:35.205
  • When we've lost our way as parents, in our marriage, with
  • 00:22:35.205 --> 00:22:39.176
  • Our career, with just our life in general, you know what
  • 00:22:39.176 --> 00:22:41.711
  • We want?
  • 00:22:41.711 --> 00:22:44.014
  • We want to fix.
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  • We want a plan, "give me a plan," and we want a list.
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  • We want a self-help book, so we do--we all do this.
  • 00:22:52.722 --> 00:22:55.759
  • So, you just google it and there's 50 million resources,
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  • You know, to help you.
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  • And your heavenly father has offered you something so much
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  • Better, and me something so much better.
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  • Do you know what he's offered us?
  • 00:23:11.408 --> 00:23:12.776
  • He's offered us himself.
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  • He sent himself--he became one of us to show all of us the
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  • Way back.
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  • The way back to that place in your life you used to be where
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  • You were at peace with yourself and you were at peace with god,
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  • And you're thinking, "i'll never get back there," and jesus says,
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  • "i am the way back, the way through, the way through the
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  • Mess you have made."
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  • You're at the point where you're transparent and honest enough
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  • And secure enough and mature enough to go, "okay, i'm not
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  • Just part of the problem, i'm a big part of the problem, but you
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  • Know what?
  • 00:23:45.976 --> 00:23:47.310
  • Okay, it's a mess, and i don't know if there is a way through
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  • This," and jesus would say to you this--they understood this.
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  • He's like, "i am the way through this, and i'm the way forward to
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  • The life that you dreamed of, that you undermined yourself
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  • Because you saw a way that seemed right to you and you
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  • Bought it."
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  • And here's the great news.
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  • His way, this way, we talk about it all the time.
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  • It has a--it requires a different starting point.
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  • We don't start with google.
  • 00:24:22.679 --> 00:24:24.915
  • The starting point that jesus offers us, it's a different way.
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  • It begins with a different question.
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  • Instead of asking the question that we all ask--i ask it too,
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  • I'm not being critical.
  • 00:24:32.088 --> 00:24:33.423
  • Instead of asking the question, "what should i do?
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  • What should i do?
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  • I've made a mess of my life, i need to get back to where i was.
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  • I need to go forward. i need to fix this.
  • 00:24:38.295 --> 00:24:39.629
  • I need to repair this, what should i do?
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  • What should i do?"
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  • Here's the better question, and this is the question they
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  • Understood, and this is why his language made perfect sense
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  • To them.
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  • Because they could all remember the day when jesus extended this
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  • Invitation to them personally.
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  • The question is, "now what am i gonna do?"
  • 00:25:01.785 --> 00:25:05.488
  • The question--the better question is, "who will i follow?
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  • Who will i follow?"
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  • Don't just pick a way, don't try to work your way out or work
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  • Your way through until you've answered the more
  • 00:25:22.539 --> 00:25:25.208
  • Fundamental question.
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  • Not what are you gonna do, or what are you gonna do different.
  • 00:25:26.576 --> 00:25:31.147
  • Who are you gonna follow?
  • 00:25:31.147 --> 00:25:33.249
  • And decide before you make things worse by attempting to
  • 00:25:33.249 --> 00:25:35.952
  • Change things by choosing yet another way that seems right
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  • To you.
  • 00:25:41.257 --> 00:25:42.892
  • And here's the other amazing thing.
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  • His way doesn't begin with a commitment to turn your
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  • Life around.
  • 00:25:46.863 --> 00:25:48.198
  • You already tried that.
  • 00:25:48.198 --> 00:25:49.532
  • It begins with the decision to follow, it begins with--we talk
  • 00:25:49.532 --> 00:25:51.901
  • About it all the time.
  • 00:25:51.901 --> 00:25:53.236
  • It begins with surrender.
  • 00:25:53.236 --> 00:25:57.374
  • Practically speaking, i think it begins with a prayer.
  • 00:25:57.374 --> 00:26:01.945
  • Either the prayer my parents taught me as a kid or a prayer
  • 00:26:01.945 --> 00:26:04.648
  • Similar to this prayer, and my parents taught me to pray this
  • 00:26:04.648 --> 00:26:06.850
  • So long ago, i mean, so early.
  • 00:26:06.850 --> 00:26:08.184
  • I don't remember when we started.
  • 00:26:08.184 --> 00:26:10.553
  • And, you know, true confession or confession, i pray this
  • 00:26:10.553 --> 00:26:16.459
  • Prayer every day still.
  • 00:26:16.459 --> 00:26:18.294
  • It's partly just habit.
  • 00:26:18.294 --> 00:26:20.864
  • I pray this prayer usually more than one time a day.
  • 00:26:20.864 --> 00:26:26.136
  • It's this prayer: "heavenly father, show me your will for
  • 00:26:26.136 --> 00:26:33.410
  • My life.
  • 00:26:33.410 --> 00:26:35.378
  • I've tried the way that seemed right to me.
  • 00:26:35.378 --> 00:26:39.582
  • Show me your way."
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  • Look up here, we're almost done.
  • 00:26:40.917 --> 00:26:42.285
  • At christmas, we celebrate god becoming one of us to show us
  • 00:26:42.285 --> 00:26:45.922
  • The way forward, to show us the ways of the father.
  • 00:26:45.922 --> 00:26:49.426
  • How many times have i told you i'm gonna keep telling you, if
  • 00:26:49.426 --> 00:26:51.327
  • You wanna know what god is like, you just follow jesus through
  • 00:26:51.327 --> 00:26:54.230
  • The gospels.
  • 00:26:54.230 --> 00:26:55.632
  • If you--let me put it in a different way.
  • 00:26:55.632 --> 00:26:56.966
  • If you wanna know what your creator is like, who created
  • 00:26:56.966 --> 00:27:00.003
  • You, who knows what you're created for, and knows how you
  • 00:27:00.003 --> 00:27:02.539
  • Work best, you follow jesus through the gospels.
  • 00:27:02.539 --> 00:27:05.909
  • So, at christmas, you are invited to follow the one who
  • 00:27:05.909 --> 00:27:10.513
  • Demonstrated and illustrated for us the ways of god, the ways of
  • 00:27:10.513 --> 00:27:14.818
  • The father, and the way to the father because god became flesh,
  • 00:27:14.818 --> 00:27:24.027
  • And he dwelt and lived, in history, among us.
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