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Your Move with Andy Stanley

Andy Stanley - What Our World Needs Now (Part 2)

August 30, 2025 | S25 E35 | 30:10

Andy Stanley - What Our World Needs Now (Part 2)
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Your Move with Andy Stanley | Andy Stanley - What Our World Needs Now (Part 2) | August 30, 2025
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  • Andy stanley: hey everybody, welcome to "your move" where we
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  • Help you make better decisions and live with fewer regrets.
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  • I'm andy stanley, and i'll be your guide.
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  • Did you know that 75 million americans identify as either
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  • Atheists, agnostic, or not religious at all?
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  • Seventy five million and most of these folks are under
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  • 30-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, but it wasn't always that way.
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  • Once upon a time, the christian faith was irresistible.
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  • The original version, the version depicted in the new
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  • Testament, well, it's still very much irresistible.
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  • And what did the original, the irresistible version look like
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  • And what did it sound like?
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  • Stick around and we'll talk about it today
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  • Right here on "your move."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Andy: one of the strangest
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  • Things about you, and i don't
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  • Know you, but there are a lot, okay, there are a lot of strange
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  • Things about you.
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  • If you don't know what they are, the people closest to you, they
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  • Know all the strange things about you.
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  • And even though we've never met and this is kind of offensive
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  • And if especially if you're not a church person it's like, oh
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  • Here we go, but this is, this is for all of us.
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  • One of the strange, one of the strangest things about you is
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  • That while you know what's best for you and the reason you know
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  • What's best for you is because you're you, even though you know
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  • What's best for you sometimes, maybe often times you ignore
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  • Your own good advice and me too.
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  • Health advice, financial advice, relationship advice, marriage
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  • Advice, parenting advice that you like--you have acted against
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  • Your own best interests and so here's what we all have
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  • In common.
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  • This isn't a christian thing.
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  • This is just a thing thing.
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  • We have all been our own worst enemies at time.
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  • In fact, your greatest regret, which i bring up all the time, i
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  • Don't know why, but your greatest regret, and this is
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  • True for all of us, your greatest regret when you were
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  • Moving in the direction of that greatest regret, you kinda knew
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  • It was a mistake.
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  • You knew that, you know, i don't know if this is the wisest thing
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  • To do, smartest thing to do.
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  • Your mama warns you, you know, people warned you, but you're
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  • Like, you know, i can figure this out.
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  • You kinda knew what you were getting into, and then you acted
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  • Surprised when it all fell apart.
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  • You're like, i can't believe this is happening and there's a
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  • Part of your mind going, yeah, you can 'cause you kinda knew.
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  • I mean, and so why do we do this?
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  • It's like we can't help ourselves.
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  • We promise ourselves over and over and never again never again
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  • Never again and three hours later or the next day, whatever
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  • It might be, you have broken promises you've made yourselves.
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  • So here's the bottom line to get us started off, everybody on the
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  • Same page on this happy, uplifting message.
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  • You've been unfaithful to you.
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  • And the good news it's not just you.
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  • In fact, who will rescue us from us?
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  • Who's gonna rescue me from me?
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  • Who's gonna rescue you from you?
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  • Who's gonna rescue you from that habit, from that thing from that
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  • Secret from that thing that's not all that bad, but you really
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  • Don't wanna do it anymore.
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  • You just, you believe in self control and you got self control
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  • In this area, but for some reason this is like you've
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  • Become a slave to some kind of thing.
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  • Who's gonna rescue you from that?
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  • That's what we're talking about in this series, what our world
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  • Needs now.
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  • And what we're saying in this series is what our world really
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  • Needs right now is for christians to be
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  • More christ-like.
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  • Now if you're not a christian, you're like, finally a christian
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  • Acknowledges you guys don't always act very christ-like, you
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  • Want me to become one of you and you're not even very good at
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  • What you're supposed to do, to which i just acknowledge exactly
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  • We're working on it.
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  • But what the world needs now is for more jesus's followers to
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  • Live their life as if they're actually following jesus.
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  • And here's why.
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  • There are so many of us, if we would just act christ-like,
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  • Things would change.
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  • Things would change in our homes, things would change in
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  • Our communities, things would change in our nation.
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  • But let's be realistic.
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  • You can't dunk like anthony edwards.
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  • You can't put like jordan spieth.
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  • You can't dance like bruno mars.
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  • You can't sing like beyonce, and you're expected to live
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  • Like jesus?
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  • I mean, i can't even live up to and measure up to other people
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  • At this how in the world am i supposed to live my life like
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  • Jesus and act and react like jesus?
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  • And according to the apostle paul, we can't, not
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  • Consistently anyway.
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  • And paul talks about this throughout his epistles, but the
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  • One we're--the passage we're focused on in this series is
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  • Found in a letter he wrote to a group of churches in modern
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  • Day turkey.
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  • And in this passage of scripture in what we call the book of
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  • Galatians, it was a letter that circulated around these little
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  • House churches in turkey, modern day turkey.
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  • In this particular letter, he actually gives us a list of what
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  • Christ-like looks like.
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  • This is what this is, a list of what christ-like looks like.
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  • But it is not, and this is where we get confused.
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  • It is not a to do list because we have all to tried, right?
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  • And we have all to failed.
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  • This is different.
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  • He says, no, this isn't a to do list because you can't do
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  • This consistently.
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  • This is a fruit list.
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  • It's a--he calls this the fruit of the spirit.
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  • Now a fruit is something that's produced through you, not
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  • By you.
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  • It's a list of things and characteristics and honestly,
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  • They're mostly just reactions that are produced through us but
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  • Not by us, and he refers to these as the fruit of
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  • The spirit.
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  • He says, the spirit of god, if you're a believer, lives inside
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  • Of you, and if you will allow the spirit of god to, he will
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  • Birth and he will create in you and through you the fruit of
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  • The spirit.
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  • So i came up with my own definition that we're gonna look
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  • At one in particular.
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  • Basically the fruit of spirit is this.
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  • It's reactions, because again, most of these are reactions,
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  • Reactions produced through us as a result of our submission to
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  • God's spirit within us.
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  • And here's how he sets it up in galatians.
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  • Here's what he writes.
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  • This is and again, he makes it so simple.
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  • He says this, he writes this.
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  • "since we live by the spirit," that is, since god's spirit
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  • Lives in you, and again, if you've invited jesus to be your
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  • Savior, the holy spirit came to live inside of you, but even if
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  • You have it, even if you're not a christian, did you know that
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  • You have been made in the image of god?
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  • That there's a divine spark, there's a divine spirit within
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  • You which is why at times we look up and say, if there's
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  • Anybody out there, help me.
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  • There's just something in all of us that knows there's more to
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  • This life than this life.
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  • And so he says that since the holy spirit lives inside of you,
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  • He says, i love the imagery.
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  • "let us keep in step" or let us maybe your english translation
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  • Says, let us walk by or keep in step, "with that spirit."
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  • In other words, since god's spirit lives in you, you are to
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  • Keep up with, keep in step with, pay attention to, let the spirit
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  • Of god inside of you animate you, influence you, and nudge
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  • You toward the fruit of the spirit.
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  • And to pause when you run out of goodness and to pause when you
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  • Run out of patience and to pause when you run out of self control
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  • And to pause when you run out of joy and to pause when you run
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  • Out of kindness and to say, "heavenly father, i'm at
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  • My limit.
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  • I need you to take it from here.
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  • I can't.
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  • You can.
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  • I need you to do this through me."
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  • And that is what you as a christian, i, as a christian,
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  • Are invited to do and to experience.
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  • Then he gives us a picture of what these fruit look like.
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  • He lists them, he says, yeah, this is what the holy spirit's
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  • Gonna nudge you toward.
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  • The fruit of the spirit is love, which is kind of the banner
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  • Piece that's a summary of all of these.
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  • Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, these are the things
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  • We run out of eventually, specially with specific people
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  • And specific environments.
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  • Faithfulness, gentleness, self control, then i love this line.
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  • This is one of my favorite lines in all of the new testament.
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  • "against such things," and i wish i could just spend 20
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  • Minutes on this, "there is no law."
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  • In other words, you can max these out.
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  • There's no law against these and there's no law that can make you
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  • Do these.
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  • This is the amazing thing about the christian life and
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  • Following jesus.
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  • There's no law against these things.
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  • So, for the next few minutes i wanna unpack faithfulness.
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  • Now this one, this faithfulness should be easy for us because we
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  • Are so disgusted when we hear about someone who's
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  • Been unfaithful.
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  • Not just in a marriage, but somebody who's been unfaithful
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  • At work or a corporation or a company was unfaithful to an
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  • Employee or to a group of employees and you hear the story
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  • And you're like, i can't believe they would treat people
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  • That way.
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  • Or i can't believe he treated her that way.
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  • Or i can't believe she treated him that way.
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  • When you hear stories of unfaithfulness, it's so, it's so
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  • Immediately disgust us that certainly we shouldn't struggle
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  • With faithfulness.
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  • Andy: hey, i wanted to take just a minute to
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  • Address a growing 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, we use a research backed digital strategy
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  • That's already making 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: but here's the thing, and this is why we're talking
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  • About it.
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  • Like all the fruit of the spirit, like all the things on
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  • This not to do list that the apostle paul gave us, like all
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  • The rest of the fruit of the spirit, faithfulness is easy
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  • When it benefits us.
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  • All these things are easy when it benefits us, right?
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  • Faithfulness is easy when it benefits us, but faithfulness,
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  • Because if your boss finds out he's gonna fire you or
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  • Faithfulness because if your husband found out, he's gonna be
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  • On his way out, that is not the fruit of the spirit.
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  • We call that the fruit of self preservation.
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  • And we're all really, really good at that, right?
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  • This is different.
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  • This is again a characteristic that when you run out of your
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  • Gas, you run out of gas, you run out of your juice, you run out
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  • Of your ability, you're at your wits and your patience is out,
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  • Your kindness is out.
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  • You don't know that you can remain faithful.
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  • This is when we are invited to pause and allow and ask the holy
  • 00:10:37.655 --> 00:10:40.925
  • Spirit to kick in on our behalf to produce through us what we
  • 00:10:40.925 --> 00:10:44.495
  • Cannot produce on our own.
  • 00:10:44.495 --> 00:10:46.664
  • So here's the question when it comes to faithfulness.
  • 00:10:46.664 --> 00:10:48.799
  • What does spirit induced or spirit produced faithfulness
  • 00:10:48.799 --> 00:10:53.404
  • Look like?
  • 00:10:53.404 --> 00:10:54.739
  • And the short answer is, it looks like jesus.
  • 00:10:54.739 --> 00:10:59.343
  • Specifically, jesus in the gospels.
  • 00:10:59.343 --> 00:11:02.813
  • This is why i tell you all the time, follow jesus through
  • 00:11:02.813 --> 00:11:05.182
  • The gospels.
  • 00:11:05.182 --> 00:11:06.517
  • Follow jesus through the gospels.
  • 00:11:06.517 --> 00:11:09.220
  • You discover what god is like and you discover what following
  • 00:11:07.885 --> 00:11:11.922
  • God looks and reacts like.
  • 00:11:11.922 --> 00:11:14.692
  • Jesus in the gospels, faithful in spite of.
  • 00:11:14.692 --> 00:11:19.764
  • Reliable, regardless.
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  • Someone who made and kept his promises.
  • 00:11:22.900 --> 00:11:25.836
  • And that's what the holy spirit will walk us and nudge us
  • 00:11:25.836 --> 00:11:29.774
  • Toward it.
  • 00:11:29.774 --> 00:11:31.142
  • Here's the thing about jesus when you follow him through the
  • 00:11:31.142 --> 00:11:32.643
  • Gospels, jesus was faithful to the men and women entrusted
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  • To him.
  • 00:11:36.413 --> 00:11:37.782
  • He was faithful to the men and women entrusted to him out of
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  • Devotion to his father in heaven.
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  • This is the difference.
  • 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:44.455
  • He was not devoted and was not faithful to them on just because
  • 00:11:44.455 --> 00:11:48.058
  • He thought they were worth being faithful to.
  • 00:11:48.058 --> 00:11:50.528
  • He was here to explain what god is like, so he illustrated and
  • 00:11:50.528 --> 00:11:54.431
  • Demonstrated faithfulness when confronted with unfaithfulness
  • 00:11:54.431 --> 00:11:59.036
  • Because if you've read the stories, the men and women
  • 00:11:59.036 --> 00:12:01.305
  • Entrusted to him, especially the guys gave jesus very little
  • 00:12:01.305 --> 00:12:04.975
  • Reason to remain faithful to them.
  • 00:12:04.975 --> 00:12:07.478
  • He was faithful not because they deserved it, but because he came
  • 00:12:07.478 --> 00:12:10.147
  • To reveal the character and the faithfulness of god, our father.
  • 00:12:10.147 --> 00:12:15.352
  • Now this is where my story intersects with this because i
  • 00:12:15.352 --> 00:12:20.357
  • Grew up, i mean, i've been a christian since i was six.
  • 00:12:20.357 --> 00:12:22.326
  • I'm a preacher's kid.
  • 00:12:22.326 --> 00:12:23.661
  • I know the bible backwards and forwards.
  • 00:12:23.661 --> 00:12:25.129
  • Like i said before, you know, when i sin, i can go to the
  • 00:12:25.129 --> 00:12:27.865
  • Verse that goes--talks about my sin.
  • 00:12:27.865 --> 00:12:30.401
  • It's terrible, okay.
  • 00:12:30.401 --> 00:12:32.036
  • It's wonderful and terrible.
  • 00:12:32.036 --> 00:12:33.637
  • And so many times growing up and maybe you can relate to this.
  • 00:12:33.637 --> 00:12:36.640
  • I have broken my promises to god.
  • 00:12:36.640 --> 00:12:38.542
  • The longer you are a christian, the more promises to god
  • 00:12:38.542 --> 00:12:40.878
  • You break.
  • 00:12:40.878 --> 00:12:42.213
  • Have you noticed that?
  • 00:12:42.213 --> 00:12:43.547
  • If you're a brand new christian, god bless you, you gotta, you
  • 00:12:43.547 --> 00:12:45.249
  • Know, you got a short, but i'm telling the rest of us, god
  • 00:12:45.249 --> 00:12:48.819
  • Never again, god, of course, you know, in high school and
  • 00:12:48.819 --> 00:12:50.921
  • College, god, if you will allow no one to find out about this, i
  • 00:12:50.921 --> 00:12:54.024
  • Promise i will not, you know, it's those kind of doing a deal
  • 00:12:54.024 --> 00:12:56.427
  • With god and bargaining with god.
  • 00:12:56.427 --> 00:12:58.329
  • And i was so unfaithful to my promises to god and god has
  • 00:12:58.329 --> 00:13:02.666
  • Remained so faithful to forgive and show up in my life.
  • 00:13:02.666 --> 00:13:07.738
  • This is the picture of faithfulness.
  • 00:13:07.738 --> 00:13:10.975
  • It's returning faithfulness for unfaithfulness.
  • 00:13:10.975 --> 00:13:14.478
  • Returning faithfulness for faithfulness, that's easy.
  • 00:13:14.478 --> 00:13:17.581
  • But faithfulness in the face of unfaithfulness is the ultimate
  • 00:13:17.581 --> 00:13:22.853
  • Expression of the faithfulness of christ.
  • 00:13:22.853 --> 00:13:27.324
  • Now i wanna be really clear about something, okay?
  • 00:13:27.324 --> 00:13:29.693
  • I am not suggesting and i'm not advocating for anybody remaining
  • 00:13:29.693 --> 00:13:33.330
  • In a toxic, dangerous relationship at home or at work.
  • 00:13:33.330 --> 00:13:38.202
  • That's not the point.
  • 00:13:38.202 --> 00:13:39.536
  • In fact, jesus wouldn't recommend that either.
  • 00:13:39.536 --> 00:13:41.205
  • If you're taking notes, just write down matthew 10:23,
  • 00:13:41.205 --> 00:13:43.641
  • Matthew 10:23.
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  • That's not the point.
  • 00:13:44.975 --> 00:13:46.343
  • Here's the point.
  • 00:13:46.343 --> 00:13:47.678
  • What i'm advocating for is that when we run out of one of what
  • 00:13:47.678 --> 00:13:49.647
  • We would consider or paul considers the fruit of the
  • 00:13:49.647 --> 00:13:51.348
  • Spirit, that we pause and we ask the holy spirit to empower us to
  • 00:13:51.348 --> 00:13:56.086
  • Be like christ rather than becoming like someone we don't
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  • Even like.
  • 00:14:00.424 --> 00:14:01.792
  • Rather than returning the favor of unkindness or unfaithfulness
  • 00:14:01.792 --> 00:14:05.429
  • To say, you know what?
  • 00:14:05.429 --> 00:14:06.764
  • No, that's my--that's the normal way.
  • 00:14:06.764 --> 00:14:08.332
  • That's the way everybody else does it.
  • 00:14:08.332 --> 00:14:10.167
  • This is my opportunity.
  • 00:14:10.167 --> 00:14:12.069
  • This is my opportunity because who would remain faithful, who
  • 00:14:12.069 --> 00:14:15.472
  • Would follow through, who would be reliable, who would keep a
  • 00:14:15.472 --> 00:14:18.475
  • Promise to this person or this group in light of how this
  • 00:14:18.475 --> 00:14:20.945
  • Person or this group treated me?
  • 00:14:20.945 --> 00:14:23.547
  • And that's our moment.
  • 00:14:23.547 --> 00:14:25.282
  • That's our moment to shine.
  • 00:14:25.282 --> 00:14:27.017
  • That's when jesus said, he said, let your light shine in such a
  • 00:14:27.017 --> 00:14:29.586
  • Way that people see your good deeds and glorify your father
  • 00:14:29.586 --> 00:14:33.457
  • In heaven.
  • 00:14:33.457 --> 00:14:34.825
  • Being faithful when it's easy, that doesn't give god
  • 00:14:34.825 --> 00:14:37.027
  • Any credit.
  • 00:14:37.027 --> 00:14:38.362
  • It's when we're faithful when it's difficult, when no mere
  • 00:14:38.362 --> 00:14:41.231
  • Mortal would do what we've decided we want god to do
  • 00:14:41.231 --> 00:14:44.902
  • Through each of us.
  • 00:14:44.902 --> 00:14:47.905
  • To respond like our savior when someone has given you every
  • 00:14:47.905 --> 00:14:51.375
  • Excuse not to.
  • 00:14:51.375 --> 00:14:52.776
  • Now, it's not just me.
  • 00:14:52.776 --> 00:14:54.144
  • You've seen this as well, but when you do what i do for a
  • 00:14:54.144 --> 00:14:56.580
  • Living as long as i've done it, maybe i've seen it more
  • 00:14:56.580 --> 00:14:58.415
  • Than you.
  • 00:14:58.415 --> 00:14:59.750
  • I've seen this play out both ways.
  • 00:14:59.750 --> 00:15:03.787
  • I've watched men and women walk through the valley of the shadow
  • 00:15:03.787 --> 00:15:07.124
  • Of abandonment and betrayal and show no evidence of it on the
  • 00:15:07.124 --> 00:15:14.164
  • Other side.
  • 00:15:14.164 --> 00:15:15.532
  • You have to--you've met people who just seem so wrinkle free,
  • 00:15:15.532 --> 00:15:18.669
  • Their life seems so easy and breezy and everything's just
  • 00:15:18.669 --> 00:15:20.971
  • Going their way, and then you hear their story of the child,
  • 00:15:20.971 --> 00:15:24.775
  • The family they grew up in and mom was gone or dad was gone or,
  • 00:15:24.775 --> 00:15:28.679
  • You know, or they, you know, somebody walked off and left
  • 00:15:28.679 --> 00:15:31.548
  • Them during a first marriage.
  • 00:15:31.548 --> 00:15:32.983
  • You hear these extraordinary painful stories of abandonment
  • 00:15:32.983 --> 00:15:36.887
  • And you're like you're shocked because you don't see any
  • 00:15:36.887 --> 00:15:40.557
  • Evidence of it.
  • 00:15:40.557 --> 00:15:41.925
  • They're not wearing it.
  • 00:15:41.925 --> 00:15:43.260
  • They're not carrying it.
  • 00:15:43.260 --> 00:15:44.595
  • It's like they've somehow it happened and they weren't happy
  • 00:15:44.595 --> 00:15:49.099
  • About it, but they somehow it hasn't shaped who they are or
  • 00:15:49.099 --> 00:15:53.337
  • Their identity.
  • 00:15:53.337 --> 00:15:54.705
  • This is the power of inviting god's spirit into those moments
  • 00:15:54.705 --> 00:15:58.776
  • To say, "i can't, you can, you gotta do this through me.
  • 00:15:58.776 --> 00:16:02.112
  • I do not want to become like someone i don't like.
  • 00:16:02.112 --> 00:16:05.315
  • I want to be christ-like and here is my opportunity."
  • 00:16:05.315 --> 00:16:12.122
  • On the other side, i've seen abandonment and betrayal to find
  • 00:16:12.122 --> 00:16:15.993
  • People, they wear it like a coat.
  • 00:16:15.993 --> 00:16:19.563
  • It just defines everything about them.
  • 00:16:19.563 --> 00:16:21.832
  • Maybe that's you.
  • 00:16:21.832 --> 00:16:23.167
  • And let me just be super honest, okay.
  • 00:16:23.167 --> 00:16:25.002
  • If i heard your story, i would not guilt you, i wouldn't shame
  • 00:16:25.002 --> 00:16:29.173
  • You, i wouldn't say what's wrong with you.
  • 00:16:29.173 --> 00:16:30.841
  • If i heard your story of abandonment and betrayal, i
  • 00:16:30.841 --> 00:16:33.377
  • Would say, "goodness gracious, my heart breaks just like your
  • 00:16:33.377 --> 00:16:36.046
  • Heavenly father's heart breaks."
  • 00:16:36.046 --> 00:16:38.148
  • So nobody's gonna shame you or criticize you.
  • 00:16:38.148 --> 00:16:42.052
  • But your heavenly father, he's gonna invite you into a
  • 00:16:42.052 --> 00:16:45.789
  • Different way of life because unnatural or supernatural
  • 00:16:45.789 --> 00:16:50.961
  • Faithfulness in response to unfaithfulness, that's how
  • 00:16:50.961 --> 00:16:55.566
  • Somebody emerges with what will always be a painful memory, but
  • 00:16:55.566 --> 00:17:01.038
  • Not a debilitating identity.
  • 00:17:01.038 --> 00:17:04.708
  • This is part of the invitation to follow jesus.
  • 00:17:04.708 --> 00:17:08.979
  • It's doing for others precisely what they don't deserve you to
  • 00:17:08.979 --> 00:17:14.952
  • Do for them like your father in heaven.
  • 00:17:14.952 --> 00:17:20.491
  • But there's another angle when it comes to faithfulness, sort
  • 00:17:20.491 --> 00:17:24.495
  • Of turning things the other way.
  • 00:17:24.495 --> 00:17:27.564
  • There's another i guess facet of holy spirit empowered
  • 00:17:27.564 --> 00:17:30.400
  • Faithfulness that's equally as unnatural.
  • 00:17:30.400 --> 00:17:32.870
  • That will require maybe even more from you.
  • 00:17:32.870 --> 00:17:37.975
  • Here's why i say that.
  • 00:17:37.975 --> 00:17:42.212
  • You're the guilty party.
  • 00:17:42.212 --> 00:17:45.349
  • You've been unfaithful.
  • 00:17:45.349 --> 00:17:47.217
  • Maybe at work you know what they expect you're not doing it.
  • 00:17:47.217 --> 00:17:50.354
  • Nobody knows.
  • 00:17:50.354 --> 00:17:51.688
  • Who cares.
  • 00:17:51.688 --> 00:17:53.023
  • Maybe in your marriage you've been unfaithful.
  • 00:17:53.023 --> 00:17:54.825
  • Maybe in a previous marriage you were unfaithful.
  • 00:17:54.825 --> 00:17:56.693
  • Maybe with a fiancé, maybe with a friend.
  • 00:17:56.693 --> 00:17:58.629
  • I don't know.
  • 00:17:58.629 --> 00:17:59.963
  • You've been unfaithful. and here's what you've done.
  • 00:17:59.963 --> 00:18:01.431
  • I get it.
  • 00:18:01.431 --> 00:18:02.766
  • You've excused it, it's not a big deal.
  • 00:18:02.766 --> 00:18:04.434
  • It's over, you know, you got a story it's really their fault
  • 00:18:04.434 --> 00:18:06.537
  • Anyway, you know, you've rationalized it.
  • 00:18:06.537 --> 00:18:09.773
  • And you've done what we all try to do with our past.
  • 00:18:09.773 --> 00:18:12.910
  • You've buried it, or you've tried to.
  • 00:18:12.910 --> 00:18:16.580
  • But it's a really shallow grave.
  • 00:18:16.580 --> 00:18:18.916
  • And for the next ten minutes, i'm brushing the dirt off.
  • 00:18:18.916 --> 00:18:24.188
  • And here's the challenge, and here's the problem if you're
  • 00:18:24.188 --> 00:18:26.123
  • A christian.
  • 00:18:26.123 --> 00:18:27.457
  • If you're not a christian again, pick and choose what parts of
  • 00:18:27.457 --> 00:18:29.092
  • This is helpful to you, but if you're a christian, if you're a
  • 00:18:29.092 --> 00:18:31.828
  • Jesus follower, you claim to be, when you bury and don't own,
  • 00:18:31.828 --> 00:18:38.669
  • When you hide and conceal and don't confess and reveal, do you
  • 00:18:38.669 --> 00:18:43.106
  • Know that you are resisting the holy spirit that lives inside
  • 00:18:43.106 --> 00:18:47.411
  • Of you?
  • 00:18:47.411 --> 00:18:50.080
  • When those memories ding your conscience and you do nothing,
  • 00:18:50.080 --> 00:18:54.985
  • You're actually actively resisting christ in you who
  • 00:18:54.985 --> 00:19:00.424
  • Wants to liberate you, who wants you to own, acknowledge and take
  • 00:19:00.424 --> 00:19:06.730
  • Responsibility for the truth.
  • 00:19:06.730 --> 00:19:09.366
  • And in doing so will ultimately set you free.
  • 00:19:09.366 --> 00:19:12.469
  • And you can take off this coat that you don't even know you're
  • 00:19:12.469 --> 00:19:15.038
  • Wearing, but the people around you know something's up.
  • 00:19:15.038 --> 00:19:17.307
  • They don't know what, but they know something's up.
  • 00:19:17.307 --> 00:19:20.944
  • And to say yes to the god who's whispering to you, confess, come
  • 00:19:20.944 --> 00:19:25.215
  • Clean, acknowledge, not confess to god, he knows and god
  • 00:19:25.215 --> 00:19:29.319
  • Is fine.
  • 00:19:29.319 --> 00:19:30.654
  • The only thing that makes god unfine about your sin is that
  • 00:19:30.654 --> 00:19:33.223
  • It's eroding your confidence in him and possibly eroding other
  • 00:19:33.223 --> 00:19:37.194
  • Relationships you're not even aware of because when we carry
  • 00:19:37.194 --> 00:19:40.864
  • Things that we don't confess, when we try to keep things in
  • 00:19:40.864 --> 00:19:44.835
  • The dark, they don't get weaker, they get stronger and they crawl
  • 00:19:44.835 --> 00:19:48.305
  • Out into all of our other most important relationships.
  • 00:19:48.305 --> 00:19:54.011
  • To confess to the person or the people affected by your
  • 00:19:54.011 --> 00:19:57.114
  • Unfaithfulness and until you do, until you do, you'll never
  • 00:19:57.114 --> 00:20:00.851
  • Ultimately be at peace with you or others because secrets leak
  • 00:20:00.851 --> 00:20:07.090
  • Or summarize it this way, faithfulness
  • 00:20:07.090 --> 00:20:10.327
  • Acknowledges unfaithfulness.
  • 00:20:10.327 --> 00:20:15.098
  • Faithfulness, holy spirit produce induced faithfulness,
  • 00:20:15.098 --> 00:20:18.902
  • Acknowledges unfaithfulness.
  • 00:20:18.902 --> 00:20:21.638
  • That's what faithfulness does.
  • 00:20:21.638 --> 00:20:24.074
  • It takes full responsibility for its actions and it's reactions.
  • 00:20:24.074 --> 00:20:30.047
  • Faithfulness makes things right by bringing those secrets, i'm
  • 00:20:30.047 --> 00:20:34.951
  • Not trying to be cute, faithfulness makes things right
  • 00:20:34.951 --> 00:20:37.554
  • By bringing those secrets into the light.
  • 00:20:37.554 --> 00:20:40.791
  • And yet, yeah, there's oftentimes a consequence when
  • 00:20:40.791 --> 00:20:43.460
  • You do that, but can i just push a little bit?
  • 00:20:43.460 --> 00:20:46.763
  • You're already paying a price for keeping it a secret.
  • 00:20:46.763 --> 00:20:50.067
  • You're already paying a price for the fact that nobody knows
  • 00:20:50.067 --> 00:20:53.103
  • And nobody's ever gonna find out.
  • 00:20:53.103 --> 00:20:54.738
  • That's just yours to carry even though there are people out
  • 00:20:54.738 --> 00:20:57.574
  • There somewhere whose lives would be better and who would be
  • 00:20:57.574 --> 00:21:00.177
  • Set free if you were to acknowledge your unfaithfulness.
  • 00:21:00.177 --> 00:21:05.582
  • Most of us are familiar with the name zacchaeus, and zacchaeus
  • 00:21:05.582 --> 00:21:09.252
  • Was a tax farmer, which meant he had other tax collectors working
  • 00:21:09.252 --> 00:21:12.255
  • For him, and he was an israelite.
  • 00:21:12.255 --> 00:21:14.491
  • He was a person of supposed faith, a judean or galilean.
  • 00:21:14.491 --> 00:21:19.129
  • And if you know the story, jesus comes through his village, he's
  • 00:21:19.129 --> 00:21:21.431
  • Heard jesus is coming.
  • 00:21:21.431 --> 00:21:22.799
  • He does not wanna mix with the crowd.
  • 00:21:22.799 --> 00:21:24.134
  • It is not safe for him.
  • 00:21:24.134 --> 00:21:25.535
  • He probably has security, and he can't see over the people in
  • 00:21:25.535 --> 00:21:28.405
  • Front of him, so he climbs up a tree.
  • 00:21:28.405 --> 00:21:30.107
  • Jesus passes by.
  • 00:21:30.107 --> 00:21:31.475
  • Jesus stops, if you know the story.
  • 00:21:31.475 --> 00:21:32.909
  • He looks up in the tree, and this made the crowd so upset.
  • 00:21:32.909 --> 00:21:36.113
  • "zacchaeus," he said.
  • 00:21:36.113 --> 00:21:37.481
  • "i want you to come down and take me to lunch at your house."
  • 00:21:37.481 --> 00:21:40.283
  • And everybody in the crowd is like of all the people in our
  • 00:21:40.283 --> 00:21:42.519
  • Village in our town, he is the most unworthy for you to have
  • 00:21:42.519 --> 00:21:46.189
  • Lunch with.
  • 00:21:46.189 --> 00:21:47.557
  • That is not fair.
  • 00:21:47.557 --> 00:21:48.892
  • He gets one on one time with this famous rabbi.
  • 00:21:48.892 --> 00:21:50.360
  • The rest of us just have to watch him walk by.
  • 00:21:50.360 --> 00:21:52.329
  • And i kind of think, i'm guessing that jesus set this up
  • 00:21:52.329 --> 00:21:56.333
  • For us so we would discover something that maybe we won't
  • 00:21:56.333 --> 00:22:00.137
  • Discover any other way.
  • 00:22:00.137 --> 00:22:01.571
  • After lunch, zacchaeus comes out and there are people around.
  • 00:22:01.571 --> 00:22:04.274
  • I mean, these villages are not very large.
  • 00:22:04.274 --> 00:22:06.076
  • And people know jesus is in there, so they're, you know,
  • 00:22:06.076 --> 00:22:08.211
  • Keeping their distance, but they wanna see him again.
  • 00:22:08.211 --> 00:22:10.881
  • And zacchaeus comes out and he says the following.
  • 00:22:10.881 --> 00:22:13.950
  • He says, "here and now i give half my possessions to
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  • The poor."
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  • Half?
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  • "and if i have cheated anybody," and the crowd kind of murmurs
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  • Like, if, really.
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  • But here's the thing, in zacchaeus's mind, what he was
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  • Doing was absolutely legal.
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  • It was absolutely legal.
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  • But if you're on the other side of that kind of legality, you
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  • Feel like you've been cheated and taken advantage of.
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  • So what he's saying is this, "if i discovered that what i've done
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  • Legally has hurt other people unnecessarily.
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  • If i've cheated anybody out of anything, i'm gonna pay back the
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  • Losses two times.
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  • I'm gonna pay back four times that amount."
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  • And jesus doesn't say, "oh, zacchaeus, you don't have to
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  • Do that.
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  • That's between you and god.
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  • Just ask forgiveness and move on."
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  • Jesus said to him, this is amazing.
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  • Today, today.
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  • Not until today.
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  • Regardless of how many times zacchaeus has gone to the
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  • Temple, regardless of how many sacrifices he's made for his
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  • Sin, regardless of how many prayers that he's prayed, he
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  • Says, "today, salvation has come to this household."
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  • Zacchaeus brought his unfaithfulness into the light
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  • And then he began to make things right.
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  • Jesus makes this incredible statement in sermon on the
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  • Mountain and i'll wrap up.
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  • He says, "blessed or blessed are the pure in heart, for they will
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  • See god."
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  • The opposite is true as well.
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  • "those who have not cleansed their heart and owned their
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  • Stuff will have a difficult time recognizing the work of god,"
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  • The presence of god, or the activity of god, "even in their
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  • Own life."
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  • But blessed are the pure in heart.
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  • So jesus was saying, "zacchaeus today salvation has come to this
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  • House because you have been faithful, you have seen clearly,
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  • And you have acted on that thing that dinged your conscience.
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  • You are making things right and now you stand in right
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  • Relationship with your heavenly father."
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  • So, i hate to ask a question like this.
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  • Have you been unfaithful?
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  • And is there somebody out there somewhere?
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  • Is there somebody out there somewhere whose life would be
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  • Instantly better just to know you're owning it.
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  • Somebody who would say, "now i know what's been going on and
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  • Now i understand because i knew something was up."
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  • And your heavenly father who loves you says, "come on.
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  • Come on, i came because there's better since, come on."
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  • He says, "since you live by the spirit, since god's
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  • Spirit lives inside of you, keep in step.
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  • Keep up.
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  • Keep in step.
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  • Keep up, pause, submit, take a step toward freedom and take a
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  • Big giant step away from, for what i wanna do, i do not do,
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  • But what i hate, i do."
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  • You don't have to live this way.
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  • This is what paul said.
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  • Here's what he discovered.
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  • Here's what some people around you have discovered.
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  • Jesus came to rescue you from that if you will submit.
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  • So, when tempted to be like the people you don't even like
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  • Instead of like your father in heaven.
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  • When you run out of juice, you run out of patience, you run out
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  • Of self control, you've run out, you've run out of goodness,
  • 00:25:35.452 --> 00:25:37.754
  • You've run out of kindness.
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  • This is as far as i can go, this is as far as that, you know, my
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  • Strength can take me.
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  • When tempted to unfaithfulness, even in the small things, that's
  • 00:25:42.993 --> 00:25:45.695
  • Your cue.
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  • That's when you say or pray out loud.
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  • You say, "holy spirit, i need you.
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  • Holy spirit, i'm out.
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  • I'm out, i'm out."
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  • You're sitting in the driveway, about to go in.
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  • I'm out.
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  • You hear the car pull up.
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  • I'm out.
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  • You hear somebody coming up the stairs.
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  • I'm out.
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  • You pull up in front of the school and here she comes.
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  • Here he comes, and, you know, here comes the excuses and
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  • I'm out.
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  • Holy spirit, i need you. i can't.
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  • You can do this for me through me.
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  • What our world needs now is faithfulness.
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  • Let's cover up.
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  • More owning up.
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  • Less just like and more christ-like.
  • 00:26:28.071 --> 00:26:33.443
  • What our world needs now is for christians to keep in step with
  • 00:26:33.443 --> 00:26:37.681
  • The spirit of god.
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  • To walk in the spirit, to keep in step with those nudges and
  • 00:26:39.416 --> 00:26:43.053
  • Those promptings of the holy spirit.
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  • That when he dings our conscience, we act instead of
  • 00:26:44.421 --> 00:26:47.123
  • Cover up and bury.
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  • And what your world needs now, what your family needs now, what
  • 00:26:49.159 --> 00:26:52.929
  • Your company needs now, what your group of friendships need
  • 00:26:52.929 --> 00:26:55.665
  • Now, what your world needs now is for you to lead the way.
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  • Andy: hey, thanks so much for watching.
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