"Fear Is A Liar... Unless..."

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This is Jimmy and Annette.

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We are excited because we are living up in a down world and this is episode, yeah, believe

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it or not, episode number 27.

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Can you believe that?

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I can't.

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Every week I'm just like, what?

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I know.

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Where does the time go?

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I know.

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Time is flying.

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Oh my goodness.

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I read an article recently that as you get older, time seems to move faster because you

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get all this history under you and it's time relativity.

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So it's not actually moving faster, but in your mind, because you have this larger span

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of years, it feels like it's going faster.

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Yes.

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Are you just bored?

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Is that why you're reading?

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I read, I'm a trivia freak.

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I love all kinds of news and information.

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I'm an information junkie.

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You are an information junkie.

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Yes, you are.

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Definitely.

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You always have been.

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I know.

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I love learning.

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I'm a learner by nature.

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When I did the Strength Finders, Tom Roth's Strength Finders, it was one of my top learner.

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This last time we took it, it's in my top 10.

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It's like number six.

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So it's still in that 10 range.

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Oh my gosh.

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What happened?

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I guess I'm not learning as much.

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I don't know.

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Maybe you feel like you've learned enough.

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How are you doing today, Annette?

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I'm doing great.

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Dame Annette.

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We are on what day of our sabbatical?

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Have you counted the days?

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Actually, we are on, I do have it written down, we are on day 10.

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Day 10.

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Day 10, can you believe it?

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Of 56?

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No, it's 60 days.

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60 days.

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Yeah.

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Wow, day 10.

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Although it really didn't start that Monday because honestly, that was our Sabbath.

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Tuesday was a holiday.

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It was July 4th.

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So I would say Wednesday, it really started on the 5th.

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It did.

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We had Chris and he was with us last week on our podcast.

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It was so cool having him.

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He's going to be here all next week.

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So I'm hoping he'll be okay to do another podcast and we'll bring up another subject.

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We can do a follow-up with him.

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I know.

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Yes.

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That'll be good.

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That'll be rich.

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Because he is so good.

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By the way, he is on his sabbatical as well.

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So we've been kind of comparing notes and learning and going to town on that.

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So he'll be back with us just for a few days because during the sabbatical is get some

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time with us.

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So we're looking forward to seeing him next week.

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So like I said, we were day 10 and it didn't feel like until Friday for me.

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Yeah, because he left Friday morning and then it felt like…

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He and Jackson, our youngest grandson.

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Okay.

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This is the day it's really beginning where we kind of set our own pace.

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Right.

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And we're by ourselves.

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The next morning really we got up and we decided, okay, this is how we're going to start our

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day.

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This is how we're going to end our day.

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I know.

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And it has been…

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Well, the first few days though, I talked to Tina and I said, Tina…

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Mr. Chevy's here.

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I know.

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He just came.

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He just heard that we were in here.

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Let him get up in your lap.

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Come on.

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Wait, hold on.

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Yeah.

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Don't let him tear anything apart.

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I talked to…

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He can't even get up here.

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Come on.

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Come on.

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Jeff.

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He's not exactly athletic.

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Hey, Mr. Chevy.

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Welcome to the show.

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So I talked with Tina and I told her I was bored.

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And she's like, you're bored.

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I'm like, because I can't look at the business side of the church.

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I can't do any of the normal work that I do every day, not just five days a week, but

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every single day.

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So I've had to come up with kind of a new normal schedule.

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And I'm not bored anymore because I'm reading.

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I started reading a book by Beth Moore, which is her memoir.

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It's very good, very enlightening.

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It gave me even more respect for her as a teacher.

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I've always had huge respect for her as a Bible teacher.

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She's phenomenal.

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It has really encouraged me to look at her studies again.

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I talked to Tina about maybe doing one of her studies, but her book is amazing.

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So I'm doing that.

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I'm doing a couple of devotions and just listening.

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Most people, when they go on a vacation, they do all this fun stuff.

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Our fun is getting in the Word, listening to teaching.

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We're so odd.

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We really are.

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But okay, so we may be odd compared to other people, but as a follower of Christ, when

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we gave our heart to Jesus, we decided we were going to be all in.

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Now we had bumps along the way.

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We had to learn.

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We made a lot of mistakes early on.

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But there was a point where we just said, we're either going to go all in or we're

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going out because you can't do this halfway.

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You can't do it half-hearted.

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And so for us, we're all in.

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And so here's what…can I share this?

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So we were talking to Pastor Eddie Freeman.

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He is my relational pastor from Gateway, and he's become kind of a friend, a coach, a

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friend, and he really helped us kind of get a loose-knit plan, loose but flexible plan

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for this sabbatical.

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And just before I even go deeper into that, what a sabbatical is, it is not an extended

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vacation.

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It's also not a work sabbatical.

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There's no such thing.

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In fact, that's about as antithetical as it can get.

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Which I read some articles on sabbatical, and it was all about work.

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People go study.

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And it's, wait a minute, the whole idea of sabbatical is an extended Sabbath where you

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actually cease from work.

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And you literally rest, you recover, you rejuvenate, and then you refill and restore.

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And that's the whole point.

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So you can literally park your brain.

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For me, it's the difference between reading books and studying to get prepared for the

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next week's sermon or message or counseling session.

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It's more for me now, I get to actually read and study for just me and not thinking about

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this is going to be a series or this is going to be the next sermon.

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So I didn't realize how much I missed that because we're just on this regimen for years

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where we just every week we come up with a new message, a new thing, a new series, a

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new study, a new whatever, a new ministry.

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It just never stops.

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You can't get off the gerbil wheel, so to speak.

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So that's what sabbatical is all about, is really a time of rest and recovery.

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And for me, resting is learning how to enjoy the presence of God.

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And you can't do that if you're constantly doing.

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You and I have talked quite a bit over the last few weeks about whether we want to go

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somewhere.

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And we keep going back and forth.

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Okay, let's go to the beach.

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Okay, let's do it.

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Because it's refreshing to do that.

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But then today we're relaxing in the pool and we're like, let's just don't go anywhere

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because what it'll do is it'll get us anxious being on the road because you've got to travel

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or in the air, looking for places to eat.

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You're just constantly...

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And why not enjoy just being home?

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Then when we go on vacation, do our traveling.

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There you go.

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I love that.

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But why not do a sabbatical where you're actually really resting?

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Have you noticed how much we're sleeping in?

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Unless I'm walking.

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If I'm walking, which I've only got it down to two days a week, I get up at 6.30.

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But when I'm not, boy, we're sleeping until like 7, 7.30, 8 o'clock, which is amazing.

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Which is mind-bending for me.

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It is because we usually get up really early.

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I don't take naps and I don't sleep in.

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But I've been taking naps.

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I took a nap the other day, remember?

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I just went and laid down and I went, wow.

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Refreshing.

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It's because we can.

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When you're working and nonstop and doing what we do, you feel like you don't have permission

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to really take a break.

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It's not necessarily true, but it feels that way.

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It feels that way.

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And to people's expectations.

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They want you available all the time.

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They're going to private message you on Facebook.

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They're going to direct message you on LinkedIn.

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They're going to text you because you gave your number out to too many people.

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Now everybody has your phone number.

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I mean, sometimes it can get overwhelming.

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And I've had people say, you didn't get back with me with an email.

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We had somebody leave the church because I didn't return an email.

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And I'm like, I get 150 to 200 emails a day.

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Grant you, most of those are junk.

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But it's almost impossible to keep up with the amount of information because in our technological

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world and through social media, we've made ourselves so available that people are getting

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less than the best of who we are because we're too available.

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Let me just say this.

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It's not that we disdain that people want to talk to us.

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It's just that we only have capacity for so much.

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This is where the Lord has been reeling us in.

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I love what Pastor Eddie said.

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He said, if you had not already been practicing Sabbath, I would not even have considered

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coaching you and counseling you through a healthy sabbatical.

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And so it's true.

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We've done that to a degree.

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And so we're getting better at that and we're learning.

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Jesus, the scripture says, would withdraw often into lonely or desolate places to be

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with his father.

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What was he doing?

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He was recharging and refilling his tanks.

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So we're learning.

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I feel like because we have the time, we'll reach our…

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I can't wait till the end of this.

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I'm not looking forward to it yet because I'm enjoying this, but I can't wait to see

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the end result because I feel like I'm getting so full of his presence.

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What I love is we in America are so blessed to have the opportunity to hear many different

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preachers preach the Word of God.

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And we don't take advantage of that enough.

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And then you've got people in China who, boy, you've got this underground church.

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It's not really underground, but they call it the underground church because you can't

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be known as a church in China.

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And they have just one scripture that may be just from a torn Bible.

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And that's what they live on.

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And I can't imagine going through a place, living in a place where you don't have that

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opportunity like we do, where we can hear the Word of God.

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I can get on my phone and listen to it in five seconds.

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And so I'm actually…

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I am utilizing this time of rest to rest in him.

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And that doesn't mean just laying down.

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It means resting in him means to…

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I'm soaking in the presence of God in everything I'm doing with my devotions, with teaching.

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I want to learn more because there's so much more to learn.

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We're never going to learn everything we need to learn before we see Jesus.

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Never.

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But why not use this time and use it wisely, right?

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Yeah.

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When we were talking with Pastor Eddie on the phone right before we started the sabbatical

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with our staff, there was a pastor that was sitting with him, Pastor Matt.

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Yes, you talked about that last week.

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And so that has really encouraged me.

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It really did.

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Because he said these words, which are really heartbreaking.

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Even you could see it in his countenance and how he just bowed his head.

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He said, I squandered mine because I answered the phone.

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I returned texts.

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I even met with people that were in crisis because he said, and I look back on it and

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I regret it because now I have to wait another five to seven years to do this.

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I squandered it.

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And that word squandered, it just, it reminded me of the story of the prodigal son who squandered

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his inheritance.

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And he had that tone about him.

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And while it was a hard thing for him to talk about, it so inspired you and I to say, we're

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not going to squander this.

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We're not going to waste this.

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The only thing we're going to do that may appear to be work related is this podcast.

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But it's only because this is a kind of an outflow for us.

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It's not church related.

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This is our personal podcast.

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So yeah, totally.

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I totally get that.

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This has been, it's very refreshing.

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I feel very refreshed already.

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I do too.

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Literally, I just can't imagine what it's going to feel like in eight weeks.

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The only thing that we do have going that's been kind of tough in the last few weeks is

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both of our daughters are seriously ill right now.

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They're just going through some hard stuff physically.

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So those phones ring.

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Our youngest is having heart issues.

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She's 22, having heart issues.

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Was in the emergency room twice last week and today she's with a cardiologist.

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They're trying to figure out if she has some heart failure at 22.

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Thank God.

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We have hope and we have a God that we can go to and pray to and ask Him to heal them

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or find the answers to heal them.

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You know what I mean?

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Oh, so on target, babe.

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I feel like this gift of sabbatical has given us also the ability to focus in prayer.

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That reminded me.

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Yes.

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So praying for Alicia, praying for faith.

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We have time to do that now.

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We're not distracted by a lot of things.

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I've done a complete break from social media.

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Which I'm shocked.

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And I have felt little to no angst about that.

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I did before we started, but once we started, I had so set my mind and I was going to do

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my daily devotional.

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I thought, you know what?

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We have a lot of readers and people said, oh, even at church on Sunday before we left

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for our sabbatical, I had people come to me and say, oh, I use your devotional as my daily

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devote, my one daily devotional.

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And I was like, oh, I might do it.

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And then I said, and I might not.

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And I decided not to.

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I thought, you know what?

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If I do that, it's going to keep me engaged at a level of trying to perform.

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I don't mean that in a bad way.

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I know what you're saying.

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An expectation, I need to produce something.

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And that's just work.

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And for you, you said your devotion really is for you.

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It is.

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Always is.

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You just happen to put it out for them.

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Right.

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But then you can get caught up in, well, do they like it?

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Are they going to say, are you going to have faith?

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Are you going to have a naysayer on there, which you always have?

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And so you don't need to be sucked into that.

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No.

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So it's been really, for me, my morning, I would just call it a rhythm.

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We've settled into a rhythm here finally where we feel like, oh my gosh, this is amazing.

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We keep saying this is the greatest gift we've ever received.

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I'm still in shock.

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I feel so blessed every day.

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I'm thankful.

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And when I get up, I go, wait, I don't have anything on my schedule.

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It's really quite remarkable.

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I've never experienced anything like this.

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So we both get up and we always take care of Chevy because he's the priority, trust

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me.

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So we get him to take care of.

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But you go to your office, I go to mine, and we have different things that we do.

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So what have you been doing in terms of devotionals?

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And these are things we would do anyway, but there's a different level that we're doing

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now, but we always do these.

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And usually I start with a devotional and then I go into my work and I start doing all

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the work.

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That's normal.

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I'm normal.

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Right.

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Which I'm not doing now.

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So I do our personal stuff.

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I always look at credit card.

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Anything that we have online that I can look at, I always look at to make sure because

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I always look for identity fraud on everything.

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I'm very just aware, astutely aware of what happens in the world.

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So I look at that.

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But mainly I'm getting into my devotion and then typically I'm yelling, oh my gosh, because

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I heard something or read something that is so just, I mean, it just penetrates your heart.

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And then I say, okay, you need to read this now.

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Now, we're reading the same devotional right now because there's a devotional called, do

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you know what the name of it is?

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Is this the one with Bill Johnson?

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Bill Johnson, yeah.

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The Way of Life.

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The Way of Life.

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Yeah, The Way of Life.

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It's 41 days.

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And we're on day five.

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And it's on the You Version Bible.

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Yes, which is great.

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And it's short, but it's so impactful.

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Profound.

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I think that's what I love about it because sometimes you can get in a devotion that's

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so long on You Version that you miss out on the nuggets that God wants to give to you

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to settle you.

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Oh my goodness.

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This has just been today.

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When I listened to it and I yelled, oh my gosh, I was just so glad that you got out

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and you felt the same way.

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I actually sent it to Tina too for her to listen to because it was quite powerful.

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I was just coming from the other end of the house and I thought to myself, okay, she's

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just read something or heard something because you do that.

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You react viscerally out loud.

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I do.

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And I do too.

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We're both enamored with God's Word and what we're learning.

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And so I heard you.

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And then I did my version of that and I did mine.

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And just for people listening though, this is a good help.

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So maybe you're looking for a Bible, maybe a Bible app.

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So the YouVersion Bible app is free, download it on Android.

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You can download it.

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You can get the web version of it.

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You can download it onto your Mac for Apple.

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So it is the number one Bible app in the world and it's free, has thousands of translations,

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thousands of languages.

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They have done so much with it and thousands of devotional options where you can do read

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alongs, you can do… they have video pieces to it.

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I mean, it is one of the most comprehensive.

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It is a God-given tool to all of us.

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Well, and I love that it has a search engine so you can… for me, I was searching…

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For topics.

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Different.

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You can search topics or you can search people that you'd like to listen to, which Bill

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Johnson is one of those out of Redding, California.

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And I just put in Bill Johnson and he had several devotions.

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Most of them are five days, but this happened to be 41 days.

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I love that.

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And I thought, okay, this is the way of life.

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That sounds pretty interesting.

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But every day has been wonderful, but today hit me hard.

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Talking about purity versus power.

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Wow.

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Wow.

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So let's talk about that in a moment because this is…

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God has been… just to let you all know that as we're continuing through this, there's

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another Bible app I want to say, or a Christian app that would be really helpful for it.

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It's called Lectio 365.

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You can get that on Android or Apple.

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Lectio 365.

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It is developed by a pastor out of England named Pete Gregg.

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It's G-R-E-I-G.

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And he has a phenomenal voice for narration.

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And he did just recently, he and two other guys did a pilgrimage from Iona in Scotland,

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the island of Iona, to Lindisfarne, which is a 300-mile trek on foot.

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And it's a pilgrimage that you do.

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Which is very similar to the one in Spain.

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Yeah, the Camino de Santiago, which is 500 miles.

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Why have we not ever heard of this one?

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I don't know.

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I mean, well, I didn't hear about the Camino until not long ago.

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So because a friend of ours did it.

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Is this newer?

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No.

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Oh, no.

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It's called Aidan's Way.

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It's St. Aidan, who was from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, the UK.

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And it's his journey that he did.

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He was an evangelist and made a massive impact on the UK with the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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And so people go back and retrace his steps on this.

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And this is through the highlands of Scotland.

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Can't even imagine.

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So it was one of the most beautiful places on the planet.

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I think we need to plan to go.

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That is, I want to visit that.

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In fact, I was going to write Pastor Pete and say, if you could pick any of the most

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scenic places on Aidan's Way, where would you go?

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And then I was actually going to do that and reach out to him.

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So they do a video each day after their trek and they unpack and talk about what God's

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speaking to them.

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And you can get that again on Lectio 365.

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All of those videos are on YouTube.

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You can just look up Pete Gregg Pilgrimage or Lectio 365 Pilgrimage.

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And all of the videos from their treks, three weeks worth.

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And so I'm retracing their footsteps.

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I'm going through the devotional.

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So those are two devotionals, super helpful.

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Lectio 365 app and the YouVersion Bible app.

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And again, we're listening to Bill Johnson's The Way of Life.

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If that would help you and you're looking for something to get into, these are game

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changers.

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They'll change your life.

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So God's been speaking to you and I both.

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So as we stepped into this, again, not wanting to squander or waste anything, we've committed

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to getting into the Word.

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But from the place of rest, we're not striving.

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We're not laboring.

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We're resting into His presence, resting into and in praying simple prayers like, Lord,

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give me a hunger for your Word.

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Give me a hunger for more of you.

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Give me a desire to draw closer to you.

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So those kinds of things are what I'm praying.

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And He is opening up the gates of heaven.

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I mean, it's like the heavens have parted over us.

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So, so far so good and we're just getting started.

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Do you feel the peace that's in this home?

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Well, today, that's my habit.

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I do a thing called the Monk Journal every day.

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You can look that up.

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It's online.

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It's called the...

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I know, I got a lot of tools.

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Are they paying you?

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No, no, they should.

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But anyway, the Monk Journal is a way you can track your daily...it has a theme for

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the month that you write out.

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And my theme for the month is pilgrimage, sabbatical pilgrimage, day 10 is what we're

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on today.

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And then I do a habit every day and I'm doing the fruit of the Spirit.

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Oh, that's right.

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There's seven of those.

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Peace.

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So I did love, joy, peace from the other day when I started this.

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And then because it's a seven-day cycle, but it's nine, I'll double up a couple of those.

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So today is peace.

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And I've just...I have been resting in Him, been resting in you and I and our relationship.

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We've had such a beautiful day together, relaxing together, cooking.

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Cooking.

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Oh my gosh.

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Every day.

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We are cooking every day because we have time to.

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It's been interesting.

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It's been a blast.

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Going to the store every few days, buying enough good food.

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Good food.

503
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Healthy food.

504
00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:58,360
And then cooking and saving money.

505
00:23:58,360 --> 00:24:00,440
Of course, groceries are expensive these days.

506
00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:02,400
It is, but it's a lot less than eating out.

507
00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:03,400
But we know what we're eating.

508
00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:04,400
Yeah, healthy.

509
00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:05,940
We're eating healthy.

510
00:24:05,940 --> 00:24:08,400
And so we feel good.

511
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:12,400
And we've lost quite a bit away in the last week, I would say.

512
00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:16,200
Well, we decided to start our keto journey over again.

513
00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:17,400
We rebooted.

514
00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:21,400
We did that for four years and then COVID hit and we kind of dropped the ball after

515
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:22,680
COVID.

516
00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:25,460
And we've been looking for a time to reboot.

517
00:24:25,460 --> 00:24:31,000
So we have rebooted and man, we've run hard with it for 10 days straight.

518
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,840
And yeah, we've both lost weight and we feel a thousand percent better.

519
00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:35,840
So much better.

520
00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:36,840
I can't even tell you.

521
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:39,240
It's just unbelievable.

522
00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:42,560
We've rebooted and it felt like it didn't take as long this time.

523
00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:44,320
Our bodies just kind of remembered that.

524
00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:45,320
Exactly.

525
00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:46,320
And here we are.

526
00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:47,320
We're already back in it.

527
00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:54,360
So cooking healthy, good food, organic food, real food, live food, lots of salads and stuff.

528
00:24:54,360 --> 00:24:55,360
It's been so good.

529
00:24:55,360 --> 00:24:56,360
It's been invigorating.

530
00:24:56,360 --> 00:25:00,520
But also the fact that we're doing it together has been just really amazing.

531
00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:05,920
That makes it so much easier to do when two people decide to do something together like

532
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:06,920
that.

533
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:07,920
It's powerful.

534
00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:08,920
It's very powerful.

535
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:10,420
And we do this, we're not on sabbatical.

536
00:25:10,420 --> 00:25:11,420
We cook together.

537
00:25:11,420 --> 00:25:12,420
We do things together.

538
00:25:12,420 --> 00:25:18,000
We've made commitments to each other that we're going to do life together.

539
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:22,220
So I have friends and my best friend, Adam, he and I do bro dates.

540
00:25:22,220 --> 00:25:24,820
We need to schedule another one.

541
00:25:24,820 --> 00:25:27,400
But we want to do things together.

542
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:29,080
I drove over to another town.

543
00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:31,880
I traded a guitar with a guy.

544
00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:32,880
Again.

545
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:34,080
And it was a good trade.

546
00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:36,440
It was a win-win for both of us.

547
00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:37,440
Both got what we wanted.

548
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:42,480
But I was going to drive two hours, meet him, then drive two hours back.

549
00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:43,480
He was driving from Dallas.

550
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:44,800
I'm driving from Fredericksburg.

551
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:49,880
So we met in the middle in Colleen, Texas to do this exchange.

552
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:51,840
And I kissed you as I was leaving.

553
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:53,640
I said, I don't want to leave.

554
00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:57,920
I know I love you that much.

555
00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:00,720
But you did leave and you went and got your guitar.

556
00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:01,720
Well, I had a commitment.

557
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:02,720
It's okay.

558
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:03,720
I had plans.

559
00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:04,720
And I'm happy about it.

560
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:09,520
And so anyway, and I talked to him this morning via text and we're both happy.

561
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:10,520
So it's a win-win.

562
00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:11,520
That's what matters.

563
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:12,520
He's excited about his new guitar.

564
00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:14,280
I'm excited about my new used guitar.

565
00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:18,440
So anyway, so this has been a great journey for us.

566
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:23,620
And we want to each week that we do our podcasts, we want to just kind of share our learnings

567
00:26:23,620 --> 00:26:24,620
and share what we're getting.

568
00:26:24,620 --> 00:26:26,720
And again, we're doing this podcast a little early.

569
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:27,720
This is Wednesday, actually.

570
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:31,760
So it normally would have been two weeks, but we're 10 days in because we're actually

571
00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:38,760
doing it early so that we can do a newsletter and talk about what we are talking about on

572
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:39,760
our podcast.

573
00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:43,140
We wanted to do the podcast before we write the newsletter because we want the newsletter

574
00:26:43,140 --> 00:26:46,960
to reflect some of the content so you'll know what's coming.

575
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:47,960
Hopefully that'll help you.

576
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:51,480
So I got a lot of people to thank, but we'll do that at the end.

577
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:53,740
So let's roll into what we're learning.

578
00:26:53,740 --> 00:26:58,240
What is God showing us together?

579
00:26:58,240 --> 00:26:59,240
Go ahead.

580
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:00,240
Oh, okay.

581
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:01,240
I thought you were ready to roll.

582
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,240
No, you go ahead.

583
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:08,640
Well, I think part of what kicked it off is part of our journey on this sabbatical and

584
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:09,640
our reboot.

585
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:15,000
And we always go to the gym at least twice a week, if not more, but that's been our

586
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:16,480
habit for years.

587
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:18,840
But we decided to up our game a little bit.

588
00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:22,720
And so we used to, when we go to the gym, I'm just going to be honest, I've listened

589
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:23,720
to rock.

590
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:28,400
I would rock out and just stuff classic rock just to get me pumped up for the gym.

591
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,320
But something's been shifting in me in the last few months.

592
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:33,320
It's me praying for you.

593
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:34,320
Wow.

594
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:35,320
No, I'm just kidding.

595
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:36,320
Okay.

596
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:37,320
This heathen husband pastor.

597
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:39,720
No, I do love, because I'm a musician.

598
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:41,080
You're a guitar player.

599
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:43,320
Love music and love good guitar music.

600
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:46,520
And so I do listen to a lot of instrumental music and stuff.

601
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:49,760
But anyway, I've been leaning into different things.

602
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:53,160
I've been leaning into actually listening to scripture.

603
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:59,280
The U-version Bible has on these translations, you can actually listen to them read the Bible.

604
00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:06,800
So I went to bed with my AirPods on last night and listening, started at Colossians.

605
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:10,320
And I woke up, well, my earbuds died in the middle of the night.

606
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:11,880
And so I don't know where I ended up.

607
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:14,440
But I thought, you know what, why don't I have the Bible going?

608
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,600
So going to the gym, I've been doing the same thing.

609
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:19,600
I've either listened to the Bible or listening to a message.

610
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:24,960
So on Monday of this week, we both listened to a message from John Bevere.

611
00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:25,960
Oh my goodness.

612
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:32,000
So John and Lisa Bevere have been in ministry about 25 to 30 years, speaking.

613
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:33,640
They're international speakers.

614
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:36,860
They both authored many books.

615
00:28:36,860 --> 00:28:37,860
They're both powerhouses.

616
00:28:37,860 --> 00:28:38,860
Her too.

617
00:28:38,860 --> 00:28:39,860
I mean, she's Italian, so there you go.

618
00:28:39,860 --> 00:28:40,860
Well, she's Sicilian and he's Italian, so you can imagine.

619
00:28:40,860 --> 00:28:41,860
Can you imagine the powerhouses?

620
00:28:41,860 --> 00:28:46,860
Oh my gosh.

621
00:28:46,860 --> 00:28:47,860
I bet that's loud.

622
00:28:47,860 --> 00:28:48,860
And four boys.

623
00:28:48,860 --> 00:28:49,860
Yeah, yeah.

624
00:28:49,860 --> 00:28:50,860
They have a big family.

625
00:28:50,860 --> 00:28:53,080
So he's been ministering and speaking all over the world.

626
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:57,120
And I've always had a high respect for both of them and their ministry.

627
00:28:57,120 --> 00:29:01,800
And so he happened to be speaking at Gateway Church up in Southlake, which is a sister

628
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:03,260
church of ours.

629
00:29:03,260 --> 00:29:06,120
We're connected to them through the network.

630
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:12,120
So while Pastor Robert has been doing his summer getaway, he's been bringing in all

631
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:16,000
these different speakers and he called it the summer of giants.

632
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,360
And so John Bevere was there this last Sunday.

633
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:20,360
That was one of the…

634
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:21,360
Literally…

635
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:23,240
That message is a game changer.

636
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:26,840
I think I almost yelled in the gym when I heard this message.

637
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:29,400
I think I almost fell to my knees and got born again.

638
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,600
I'm like, I need to get saved again.

639
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:38,600
That message, I sent that to Tina and asked her to listen to it.

640
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:44,840
I talked to her a little bit yesterday and I couldn't even convey to her what I wanted

641
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:50,600
to convey through his message because it was so powerful.

642
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:52,320
I said, you've just got to listen to it.

643
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:54,360
And she wrote, she was like, oh wow.

644
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,000
I mean, I don't even know what to say.

645
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:58,000
And I said, I know.

646
00:29:58,000 --> 00:29:59,600
That's how I felt.

647
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:02,800
Because he talked about the awe of God.

648
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:07,000
So many of us have lost the awe of God, the fear of God.

649
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:08,000
The fear of God.

650
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,360
And I think that word puts people off.

651
00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:12,560
Because I think, oh, we're supposed to be scared of Him.

652
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:14,960
That didn't have anything to do with being scared.

653
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:17,280
I think there's been some abuse through the years of that term.

654
00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:18,280
Yes.

655
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:19,280
Hey, you better…

656
00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:20,280
God's watching you, kind of like Santa Claus.

657
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:21,280
You know, you better watch out.

658
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:22,280
You better not cry.

659
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:23,280
Yeah, you better not pout.

660
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:24,280
I'm telling you why.

661
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:25,280
That is not God at all.

662
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:26,280
God's coming to town.

663
00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:31,120
I mean, so we have this inordinate fear.

664
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:33,600
And the Bible uses the term, fear of the Lord.

665
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:38,240
And yet, we have redefined that word in a negative sense.

666
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:40,480
And actually, it's a good thing.

667
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:41,480
It's a positive.

668
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:42,480
I jotted a couple of notes.

669
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:43,480
Okay, yeah, sure.

670
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:47,160
So, he asked the question, what is the fear of the Lord?

671
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:50,760
And he said, it is not to be scared of God.

672
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:52,600
That's a real important distinction.

673
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:53,600
It is.

674
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:59,320
It's been classically defined from some of the not-so-bright Bible teachers through

675
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:05,200
the years who don't bother to do their exegesis and study of the original languages, three

676
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:08,800
languages the Bible is written in, Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek.

677
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:10,160
And you've got to study…

678
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:11,160
You've got to.

679
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:18,320
…and mine out the jewels and gems, especially on tricky passages or words that can be defined

680
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:21,820
in different ways in different times or different cultures.

681
00:31:21,820 --> 00:31:23,160
And so, what is the fear of the Lord?

682
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:25,080
It's not to be scared of God.

683
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:27,920
He gives a scripture, Exodus 20, 20.

684
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:28,920
Listen to this.

685
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:35,080
And Moses said to the people, do not fear, for God has come to test you, and that his

686
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:40,480
fear may be before you, so that you may not sin.

687
00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:46,500
So God showed up to test them, and that his fear would be before them.

688
00:31:46,500 --> 00:31:48,080
What does the fear of the Lord do?

689
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:49,080
It's…

690
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:50,080
Remember, now, fear…

691
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:51,400
Let me define what fear is.

692
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,460
To fear God is to be in awe of him.

693
00:31:54,460 --> 00:31:57,460
So think about that as opposed to being afraid.

694
00:31:57,460 --> 00:31:58,460
It's like saying, he's awesome.

695
00:31:58,460 --> 00:32:00,440
Think of where the word awesome comes from.

696
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:01,880
And that's such a popular word.

697
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:05,840
Still in this cult, that's one of those terms that, you know, groovy came and went, right?

698
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:06,840
Exactly.

699
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:09,300
But awesome has stayed with us.

700
00:32:09,300 --> 00:32:11,160
But it literally means he is awesome.

701
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:14,000
In other words, he's to be awed to give.

702
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:15,160
And here's what it literally means.

703
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:24,400
If you break the word down, it means to honor, tremble, revere, esteem, respect, value, and

704
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:28,560
venerate him more than anything or anyone else.

705
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:35,600
I think that when we see God in person for the first time, we will be down on our knees.

706
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:36,600
Or our face.

707
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:37,600
That's what I mean.

708
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:38,600
With our face.

709
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:39,600
I'll be sucking rug.

710
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:40,600
Exactly.

711
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:43,320
Because we will be in such awe of him.

712
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:44,600
But he doesn't want it.

713
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:46,480
Yeah, he wants it now.

714
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:47,480
There you go.

715
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:48,480
Thank you for saying that, Annette.

716
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:49,480
That is it.

717
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:50,480
Right there.

718
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:51,480
You better preach, girl.

719
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:56,680
No, I love that because we sometimes treat God like he's just the buddy next door.

720
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:57,680
Exactly.

721
00:32:57,680 --> 00:32:58,680
The dude, the bro.

722
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:00,600
Hey, bro, how's it going?

723
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,400
We have lost the fear of God.

724
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:04,400
We sure have.

725
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,120
We've lost the awe of God.

726
00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:12,240
And God, in his love for me, has been bringing that back into my space.

727
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:13,240
Exactly.

728
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:17,200
And anyone who's been 10 minutes with me knows I'm a grace guy.

729
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:19,040
And the reason is because I need so much of it.

730
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:20,640
But I'm all about grace.

731
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:22,520
All about love.

732
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:29,440
And sometimes in those arenas of grace and love, we can forget that God is also to be

733
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:30,440
revered.

734
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:32,560
He's to be hawed.

735
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:34,400
And he's to be honored.

736
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:35,400
He's to be esteemed.

737
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:37,520
Now, I remember when I was young.

738
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:39,560
Now, remember, I didn't grow up in church.

739
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:43,400
But when I was in the fifth, sixth grade, I attended church for a short time.

740
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:46,360
I rode the bus to church like you did.

741
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:48,840
And it was actually kind of cool.

742
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:52,280
And I just remember, you know, boys will be boys, right?

743
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:58,200
So we'd be running through the church house and church mamas would stop us and say, boys,

744
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:00,720
this is the house of God.

745
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:03,360
You don't act up in the house of God.

746
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:05,020
And we can laugh about that.

747
00:34:05,020 --> 00:34:06,720
But I remember that kind of marked me.

748
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:11,920
It gave me a respect because she was like, this is a special place.

749
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:15,000
You don't act like that in God's house.

750
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:16,920
And you can take that as a negative.

751
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:21,640
I took it as a good thing because it taught me to say, whoa, okay, this place, this is

752
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:22,640
holy.

753
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:23,640
It's special.

754
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:25,920
But here's the thing.

755
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:32,240
Because God lives in us, if we accept him as our Savior, we need to be holy everywhere

756
00:34:32,240 --> 00:34:33,240
we are.

757
00:34:33,240 --> 00:34:35,360
It's not about going into the church.

758
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:39,540
This is where I have a hard time with people who think they can only feel the presence

759
00:34:39,540 --> 00:34:41,080
of God in church.

760
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:42,080
Yes.

761
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:43,960
Hopefully you are feeling it in church.

762
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:47,280
Every church should be hosting the presence of God.

763
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:54,880
But I can host the presence of God right here in my own home when I'm doing my devotions.

764
00:34:54,880 --> 00:35:03,640
And a scripture or something that someone says points me to a scripture that illuminates

765
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:09,800
where I just can't help but be in awe of who he is.

766
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:11,520
That's the place I want to be in.

767
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:14,920
I don't want to have to go to church to feel that.

768
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:17,280
But the church should also obviously be the place.

769
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:23,080
All I meant by that is that's where I was first introduced to the idea of awe, of reverence

770
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:25,040
of the Lord and where I was like...

771
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:30,780
No, and I get what you were saying, but I also am thinking about people thinking that

772
00:35:30,780 --> 00:35:32,800
it could only be at church.

773
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:35,480
You can't have that at home.

774
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:41,560
We can turn on worship music running throughout the house and we can feel the presence of

775
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:42,560
God.

776
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:48,680
Sometimes it gets us down on our knees because we're just so moved by his presence because

777
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:51,560
he loves us to worship him.

778
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:53,360
That's what we're here for.

779
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:56,680
We're going to be doing this for eternity.

780
00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:58,800
Why don't we start now?

781
00:35:58,800 --> 00:35:59,800
Exactly.

782
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:02,640
So, for me, I'm walking in repentance.

783
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:07,960
Now, by the way, repentance doesn't mean I'm falling on the floor, weeping and gnashing

784
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:08,960
of teeth.

785
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:09,960
I'm so sorry, God.

786
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:10,960
I messed up.

787
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:11,960
I'm so sorry.

788
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:13,680
No, it's more...

789
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:15,400
Repentance is actually changing your mind.

790
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:22,080
It means to align your mind with his, align your thoughts with his.

791
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:24,160
So we think it means to say you're sorry.

792
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:25,160
It doesn't.

793
00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:31,380
It just means to course correct, to adjust and to say, okay, Lord, I'm going to change

794
00:36:31,380 --> 00:36:34,720
my mind about this because I've been going this way, but I want to change my mind and

795
00:36:34,720 --> 00:36:35,720
go this way.

796
00:36:35,720 --> 00:36:41,080
So, in terms of that, I have been really meditating on this.

797
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:47,440
Lectio divina, it's a Latin term, and it's basically four-step process to processing

798
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:48,960
the Word of God.

799
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:50,680
The first one means you read the Word.

800
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:55,040
The second part of that, of the four, is that you meditate on the Word.

801
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:56,380
You spend time with it.

802
00:36:56,380 --> 00:36:57,380
You ruminate over it.

803
00:36:57,380 --> 00:36:58,960
You think about it.

804
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:01,480
Then the third part is you pray about it.

805
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:03,600
Okay, Lord, what does this mean to me?

806
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:05,720
And Lord, how do I apply this to my life?

807
00:37:05,720 --> 00:37:10,080
And then the number four of that is contemplate.

808
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:12,960
To contemplate is similar to meditate.

809
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:15,760
You begin to think about how does this apply to my life?

810
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:17,600
How can I work this into my life?

811
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:18,600
So that's what I've been doing.

812
00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:23,720
I've been applying Lectio divina to this idea of the awe of God.

813
00:37:23,720 --> 00:37:31,080
And it is changing so much, even just in the short time of being on sabbatical, of me thinking

814
00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:37,280
about what I do, what I say, even in the practical things.

815
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:40,160
How I react, how I respond.

816
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:44,760
Do I go passive aggressive if I don't like something, slam a door, or push something

817
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:47,160
harder than I needed to?

818
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:48,400
Do I step on the gas pedal?

819
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:53,440
I was going to say, you were driving yesterday and you said even your drive was so peaceful

820
00:37:53,440 --> 00:38:00,120
because you just let your cruise go and you were just not allowing the things of the...

821
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:04,720
This is the power of God's Word and the gospel, the good news and how it works into even the

822
00:38:04,720 --> 00:38:06,040
simple things.

823
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:10,840
So driving, actually before I left, I made up my mind I was going to be peaceful and

824
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:12,840
drive this way.

825
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:15,480
I wish I could have been there.

826
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:17,280
You would have been speed up.

827
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:19,800
Adam would have been proud of me.

828
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,440
That's for you, Adam Curry.

829
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:27,920
So if the speed limit was 70, I set my cruise on 72 because my car will go like one mile

830
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:32,680
under, so it will show 72, but then it's actually, my speedometer says 71.

831
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:40,120
So I drove 71 miles an hour in a 70 mile and much to the consternation of a couple

832
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:41,480
of people behind me.

833
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:48,400
And then I drove 76 miles per hour in a 75 because there was some spots on the road.

834
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:51,880
I had the most peaceful drive.

835
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:57,360
I listened to a book by Pete Gregg that I'm reading called How to Hear the Voice of God.

836
00:38:57,360 --> 00:38:59,080
Oh, it is so good.

837
00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:00,920
And it's really about the Word of God.

838
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:01,920
It's all about the Word of God.

839
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:04,480
It's not about hearing some extra biblical voice.

840
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:06,480
It's about letting the Bible speak to you.

841
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:07,480
It's so good.

842
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:10,320
I can highly recommend it.

843
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:13,920
Pete Gregg, How to Hear the Voice of God.

844
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:14,920
So good.

845
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:18,780
And so I was listening to that on my earbuds or my AirPods.

846
00:39:18,780 --> 00:39:20,680
And then I just put the Bible on.

847
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:26,320
I love to listen to the New International Version UK, a version edition.

848
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:28,280
It's on the YouVersion Bible app.

849
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:29,920
It reads to you with a British accent.

850
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:30,920
You're hilarious.

851
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:31,920
I just love it.

852
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:32,920
I'm trying to learn to speak.

853
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:33,920
Why are we going in America?

854
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:34,920
I don't understand.

855
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:37,720
I know, it's weird, especially Texas.

856
00:39:37,720 --> 00:39:38,720
So anyway, I did that.

857
00:39:38,720 --> 00:39:42,800
The whole time it made my drive peaceful and restful.

858
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:47,960
Instead of getting spun up and anxious, I just had the most peaceful time.

859
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:51,580
So that's the application of what we're talking about.

860
00:39:51,580 --> 00:39:55,840
So in terms of the fear of the Lord, how do you apply that into real life and how do you

861
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:56,840
do?

862
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:57,840
So a couple of things I want to share with you.

863
00:39:57,840 --> 00:39:58,840
Listen to this.

864
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:02,840
There's a Bible verse that addresses the idea of freedom in Christ.

865
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:08,080
Now I, walking at grace, walking in these things for years, I've had people say, hey,

866
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:09,080
you know what?

867
00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:10,080
I'm free in Jesus.

868
00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:14,560
According to the book of Galatians, I'm free to do anything I want.

869
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:20,240
And you can say, well, okay, sure, but here I want to share this with you.

870
00:40:20,240 --> 00:40:25,000
So there's a Bible verse that talks about the freedom in Christ not being an excuse

871
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:26,680
to do whatever we want.

872
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:28,000
And that's in the New Testament.

873
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:34,040
It says this in Galatians 5 verse 13, for you were called to freedom, brothers, only

874
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:41,040
do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one

875
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:42,040
another.

876
00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:44,720
And that is such a powerful verse.

877
00:40:44,720 --> 00:40:45,720
Such a powerful verse.

878
00:40:45,720 --> 00:40:50,400
In other words, and Paul said it in another place, that I'm free to do anything, but

879
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:52,480
not all things are expedient.

880
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:53,480
Exactly.

881
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:55,000
Are good for us.

882
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,800
And so, of course, you're free to do what you want.

883
00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:01,760
God's not going to stop you, but that doesn't mean it's going to produce the good things

884
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:02,760
that you're looking for.

885
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:07,800
Well, and today when we were listening to Bill Johnson and he quoted this, I'm going

886
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:13,640
to say this, in the kingdom, freedom doesn't mean I do what I want.

887
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:18,080
Freedom means I have the ability to do what is right.

888
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:20,120
That is a bombshell.

889
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:21,120
I think I screamed.

890
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:22,120
Thunder in my soul.

891
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:25,840
That's probably when you heard me the first time I went, oh my gosh.

892
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:27,640
So I was watching it on my iPad.

893
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:28,640
I screenshotted that.

894
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:29,640
I did too.

895
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:32,280
In fact, I'm looking at it right now because it is so…

896
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:33,560
I screenshotted it too.

897
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:34,560
Oh, how funny.

898
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:36,360
I've got this right in front of me, literally.

899
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:38,200
And it goes along with that verse.

900
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:39,200
Exactly.

901
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:41,360
Okay, let me say it again because it is so powerful.

902
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:42,360
It is.

903
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:43,640
I'm reading it right off the screen.

904
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:47,600
In the kingdom, freedom doesn't mean I do what I want.

905
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:51,800
Freedom means I have the ability to do what is right.

906
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:52,800
Wow.

907
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:54,760
Which that's righteous living.

908
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:55,760
Booyah.

909
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:58,560
That's living and right standing with God.

910
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:02,600
He doesn't want us to do things that are evil just because we're free because we're

911
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:04,160
in the new covenant.

912
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:09,320
No, it's about having the ability to do what is right.

913
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:10,320
What will honor Him.

914
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:11,320
What will bless Him.

915
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:14,360
And why would we want to do things that dishonor Him?

916
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:20,280
And then use freedom or grace as an excuse to say, oh no, I'm all good with God.

917
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:21,280
We're buddies.

918
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:22,280
But He's okay.

919
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:23,600
He's a good God anyway.

920
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:25,320
And I'm still going to heaven.

921
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:27,120
No, I'm sorry.

922
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:30,720
Yes, you're still going to heaven, but that's not going to cut it.

923
00:42:30,720 --> 00:42:39,960
To me, that's…I mean, you're walking a fine line there because you're not going

924
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:43,880
to grow unless you walk in holiness.

925
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:49,320
I mean, holiness in the fear of God, that's what walking…that's what trembling.

926
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:50,720
You're not trembling because you're scared.

927
00:42:50,720 --> 00:42:54,360
You're trembling because you're in just…He is such an awesome God.

928
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:58,640
You don't deserve any of what He's given us.

929
00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:01,780
That's what the power of mercy and grace does.

930
00:43:01,780 --> 00:43:05,560
We don't deserve it, but He gives it to us anyway because He loves us.

931
00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:10,040
And so why wouldn't I want to do what He wants us to do?

932
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:13,320
I don't want to squander my freedom and promise.

933
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:19,000
I don't want to use that as an excuse to live and do what I want to do what makes me

934
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:21,160
feel good in the moment.

935
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:29,440
It's kind of like Jacob and Esau exchanged his birthright for a bowl of beans.

936
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:30,440
He gave it away.

937
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:31,440
He gave his birthright away.

938
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:36,440
He gave it away for a temporary…just for a bowl of chili or beans, whatever this stuff

939
00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:37,440
was.

940
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:38,440
Poorage or whatever.

941
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:40,680
Well, they made it out of an animal they killed.

942
00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:46,280
But anyway, so in the Bible, it says that he literally gave away his birthright.

943
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:50,920
He gave away everything, his whole inheritance, because that was way down the line.

944
00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:53,480
He was young, so he couldn't see.

945
00:43:53,480 --> 00:44:01,480
And yet Jacob was able to get the blessing, and he did it for a bowl of beans because

946
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:06,840
that temporary…that desire for a temporary fix, a temporary feel-good, we'd call it

947
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:08,320
today and we know what it is.

948
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:10,760
It's an endorphin dump.

949
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:12,800
You just want some endorphins, so you do something.

950
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:16,080
So you'd be willing to do something that's not pleasing.

951
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:17,080
Sacrifice.

952
00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:18,080
You're going to sacrifice.

953
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:21,080
You're going to sacrifice something because it's not right in front of you and it's

954
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:23,200
going to take longer to develop.

955
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:27,680
You sacrifice that for the temporary dopamine pump.

956
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:33,440
And that's part of maturing in Christ, is learning not to do those things.

957
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:36,640
And one of the reasons we do that is because we have no fear of God.

958
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:37,640
Exactly.

959
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:40,000
Because we don't…actually, we don't really care.

960
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:41,000
There's no instant consequence.

961
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:43,280
No, we just don't care.

962
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:44,640
We think, well, he's a good God.

963
00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:48,280
He loves us anyway, so that means I can do whatever I want.

964
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:49,280
Really?

965
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:51,960
And again, this fear doesn't go back to being terrified of God.

966
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:59,360
It's to honor, to revere, to esteem, to respect, to value, to value your love relationship

967
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:02,800
with God so much that you're willing to say no to something.

968
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:09,360
It would be like you as a husband saying, I value you so much, but I want to have an

969
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:13,240
affair because that would make my flesh feel good right this moment.

970
00:45:13,240 --> 00:45:14,840
I would have a dopamine boost.

971
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:15,840
Right.

972
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:16,840
But do you really value me?

973
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:17,840
No, not at all.

974
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:19,720
You're having an…you know what I'm saying?

975
00:45:19,720 --> 00:45:25,080
So we just have it all mixed up.

976
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:28,880
I would recommend, if any of you are interested in going a little deeper with this, because

977
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:35,560
I really feel like the Lord wants to say something to all of us about reminding us of how holy

978
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:38,680
He is, how pure He is.

979
00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:41,840
Because it is one thing to say, hey, I'm a friend of God.

980
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:44,560
And the Bible even uses that term.

981
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:48,600
But more often, that's like one time out of thousands of verses.

982
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:52,320
And we tend to camp out on that, which makes us feel good.

983
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:57,080
But at what point do we as followers of Jesus begin to say, I'm going to go beyond what

984
00:45:57,080 --> 00:46:03,080
I feel good in the moment of and say what matters most in the long haul?

985
00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:08,680
So it's really playing the long game as opposed to just this short game that's temporary

986
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:10,320
and subject to change.

987
00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:11,320
Exactly.

988
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:18,940
I think and believe, I would be in agreement with Pastor Bill Johnson and John Bevere,

989
00:46:18,940 --> 00:46:24,160
God is calling His people back to a place of holiness and purity.

990
00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:30,100
And that doesn't mean, you know, we start wearing…girls have to wear dresses and grow

991
00:46:30,100 --> 00:46:32,720
their hair back out and guys have to cut their hair.

992
00:46:32,720 --> 00:46:35,540
I mean, this is not about outward stuff.

993
00:46:35,540 --> 00:46:39,120
This is an inward position of the heart.

994
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:43,640
It's a posturing of the heart to say, Father, I love you so much.

995
00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:45,160
Holy Spirit, I love you so much.

996
00:46:45,160 --> 00:46:47,080
Jesus, I love you so much.

997
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:48,080
Direct me.

998
00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:49,080
Direct my steps.

999
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:52,480
I'm willing to follow you and say yes to you.

1000
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:57,440
It's Isaiah before the throne of God in Isaiah chapter 6.

1001
00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:01,880
When he saw…the Bible says he saw the Lord high and lifted up and the first word out

1002
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:03,280
of his mouth was, whoa.

1003
00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:05,960
Whoa, I'm undone.

1004
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:06,960
Just whoa.

1005
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:07,960
Whoa.

1006
00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:10,720
I mean, his response was, whoa.

1007
00:47:10,720 --> 00:47:13,960
He says, whoa is me.

1008
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:15,640
I'm undone.

1009
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:22,160
And I think that what's happened is we've…because we like this familiar friend mentality.

1010
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:23,680
I was going to say, it's familiarity.

1011
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:24,680
Yeah.

1012
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:27,440
We like that so much that we've just made God our buddy.

1013
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:33,240
We've let our guard down and just, you know, instead of keeping that reverence.

1014
00:47:33,240 --> 00:47:34,440
Yeah.

1015
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:41,120
So it's a reminder because we all do this, not just…I mean, we do it.

1016
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:46,920
That's why when we listen to that message, it brought us to our knees, not physically.

1017
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:53,600
We're at the gym almost, but it literally was like, oh my gosh, Lord, I'm so sorry

1018
00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:57,920
that I have taken you for granted.

1019
00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:02,840
It just literally made me…I went back through all the notes.

1020
00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:08,680
We were able to get the notes off of gatewaypeople.com and we got the notes and we just started just

1021
00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:13,560
going through those notes, all through those scriptures that he talked about, the fear

1022
00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:14,560
of God.

1023
00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:16,280
It was like, oh my goodness.

1024
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:17,280
It just resonated.

1025
00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:22,920
And it was just like, Lord, forgive us for where we've taken you for granted and we

1026
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:26,560
have not revered you enough.

1027
00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:29,000
It's refreshed my relationship with the Lord.

1028
00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:31,000
Again, these are sabbatical learnings right now.

1029
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:36,080
These are things that we've said, Lord, take us through what we need to go through

1030
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:40,440
so that we can grow and we can learn and we don't squander this time.

1031
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:43,560
So all we're doing is sharing what we're learning, what we're growing in.

1032
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:46,480
Hopefully, it'll encourage you.

1033
00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:52,240
The one last thing is in Pete Gregg's book, he's talking about the Word of God.

1034
00:48:52,240 --> 00:48:55,480
He's talking about this very thing about revering the Word of God.

1035
00:48:55,480 --> 00:49:00,480
He said, we just treat the Bible like it's just…well, I'll put it this way.

1036
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:04,240
Oh, I lost his name.

1037
00:49:04,240 --> 00:49:05,240
I'll think of him in a minute.

1038
00:49:05,240 --> 00:49:06,240
The great statistician…

1039
00:49:06,240 --> 00:49:07,240
Barna?

1040
00:49:07,240 --> 00:49:08,240
Barna.

1041
00:49:08,240 --> 00:49:11,680
George Barna said this about the Bible.

1042
00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:15,440
It is the number one bestseller still to this day.

1043
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:18,600
The number one bestseller in the world.

1044
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:23,220
And New York Times took it off their list because it was so repetitive as number one.

1045
00:49:23,220 --> 00:49:25,240
They just felt like it wasn't fair to other people.

1046
00:49:25,240 --> 00:49:29,900
So they literally took it off the list only because it's been the bestselling book for

1047
00:49:29,900 --> 00:49:32,040
decades in a row.

1048
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:33,040
He said this.

1049
00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:34,040
This is what George Barna said.

1050
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:37,240
It is the bestselling book that's never read.

1051
00:49:37,240 --> 00:49:38,240
Wow.

1052
00:49:38,240 --> 00:49:39,240
It's powerful.

1053
00:49:39,240 --> 00:49:45,000
And so just as we land the plane on this part of the show, I just want to encourage you,

1054
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:50,400
if you have not spent time in the Word of God and the Bible, I want to encourage you.

1055
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:55,740
What I'm doing to help me, not just reading the book in my hand, but putting my AirPods

1056
00:49:55,740 --> 00:50:00,800
on and having a block of time where we're going to go work out tomorrow at the gym.

1057
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:05,120
And I told Ann, I said, I think I'm just going to listen to the Bible the whole time.

1058
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:08,720
Find your version that you like or the voice reading that you like because there's a bunch

1059
00:50:08,720 --> 00:50:13,040
of them on the YouVersion Bible and let it run in your ears.

1060
00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:14,040
Listen to it.

1061
00:50:14,040 --> 00:50:16,520
I slowed mine down to 0.75 speed.

1062
00:50:16,520 --> 00:50:17,520
Wow.

1063
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:20,600
It was very slow, especially in a British accent.

1064
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:21,600
Of course.

1065
00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:22,600
But I'm driving.

1066
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:23,760
So I was just listening.

1067
00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:26,640
I was like, I don't want to bite off more than I can chew.

1068
00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:30,400
So I'm going to listen to it very slow so I can get it.

1069
00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:37,840
But Pete Craig, Pastor Pete, was saying that we have just completely eradicated the value

1070
00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:39,680
of the Word of God out of our lives.

1071
00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:42,060
And yet we revere the Bible.

1072
00:50:42,060 --> 00:50:45,240
We respect the Bible, but we don't read the Bible.

1073
00:50:45,240 --> 00:50:46,520
Doesn't that make sense?

1074
00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:51,420
Well, I love what you shared with me that he said this week while you were reading that

1075
00:50:51,420 --> 00:50:57,000
book in that he said so many people go through like a Bible in a year, which we did, the

1076
00:50:57,000 --> 00:51:01,080
Bible in two years, but you can't comprehend and take in all that.

1077
00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:02,080
I can't.

1078
00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:03,080
I lost so much of that.

1079
00:51:03,080 --> 00:51:09,520
But he said if you could just take one scripture and just meditate on that scripture, exegete

1080
00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:15,560
it, look at commentaries, look at the Greek, the Hebrew, whatever Old Testament or New

1081
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:20,080
Testament that scripture is in, and dive into that one scripture.

1082
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:24,280
You're going to do so much more than reading the whole Bible.

1083
00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:26,480
Do you remember everything we read in two years?

1084
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:27,480
Oh Lord, no.

1085
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:28,480
I've read through the...

1086
00:51:28,480 --> 00:51:31,440
I felt like we went through days where we're just checking the box.

1087
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:32,960
And that's exactly what we were doing.

1088
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:34,440
And we could say, oh, well, we've read the Bible.

1089
00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:39,080
And I've probably read the Bible four times over my lifetime.

1090
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:41,160
But have I comprehended it?

1091
00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:42,160
No.

1092
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:43,160
It's better to ruminate.

1093
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:45,280
To ruminate is what cows do with cud.

1094
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:46,760
They chew it over.

1095
00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:47,760
It's gross.

1096
00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:49,840
But they chew it over and over and over.

1097
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:51,320
They don't just chew it and swallow.

1098
00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:53,400
They chew it and chew it and chew it and stay on it.

1099
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:54,400
That's what we need to do with the Word.

1100
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:59,760
So ruminate means...so we need to ruminate on God's Word, but do it in nugget sizes,

1101
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:02,600
like one passage or one verse.

1102
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:09,080
Just like we found when we were listening to that pastor a few weeks ago and he preached

1103
00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:12,840
on Jude 1.1, we're called, we're loved, we're kept.

1104
00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:14,080
Oh, I can't get over it.

1105
00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:15,080
I'm still on it.

1106
00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:16,080
I still...I still have memorized that.

1107
00:52:16,080 --> 00:52:17,080
I'm ruminating.

1108
00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:18,080
I'm chewing on it like cud.

1109
00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:22,920
And now Tina, you know, she wants to get tattoos put on her arms.

1110
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:23,920
I'm like, I'm still...

1111
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:24,920
Hey, no, that's really ruminating on it.

1112
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:25,920
Get tattooed.

1113
00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:28,440
I'm still praying about that, whether I want to do that or not.

1114
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:29,440
You should.

1115
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:30,440
You should.

1116
00:52:30,440 --> 00:52:31,440
I'm thinking about it.

1117
00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:32,440
It has to be very little though.

1118
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:33,720
I mean, really little to where...

1119
00:52:33,720 --> 00:52:34,720
Make it little and classy.

1120
00:52:34,720 --> 00:52:35,720
Instead of big and sassy.

1121
00:52:35,720 --> 00:52:39,160
It would have to be little and classy to where someone says, what does that say?

1122
00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:40,440
And then I can tell them.

1123
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:41,440
Do it.

1124
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:42,440
Do it in small print.

1125
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:46,280
But honestly, that scripture, how many times did we read Jude?

1126
00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:52,160
We've read Jude before because there's a scripture on down that talks about praying in the Holy

1127
00:52:52,160 --> 00:52:54,320
Spirit and how it builds you up.

1128
00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:59,240
And that's the scripture that I always remember out of Jude because Jude only has one chapter.

1129
00:52:59,240 --> 00:53:04,200
But Jude 1, 1, now that's my favorite verse.

1130
00:53:04,200 --> 00:53:11,600
And so it's just amazing how you can just camp out on one verse and it just...you can

1131
00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:12,600
camp out on it.

1132
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:14,400
We've camped out on it, what, two weeks now?

1133
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:15,400
I know.

1134
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:16,400
We can't stop.

1135
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:17,400
We can't stop.

1136
00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:21,040
And the people that are around us can't stop either, which is awesome.

1137
00:53:21,040 --> 00:53:22,040
I love that.

1138
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:24,040
So much so you're going to get it inked.

1139
00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:25,560
Well, I'm still...

1140
00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:26,560
Okay.

1141
00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:27,560
Do it.

1142
00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:28,560
All right.

1143
00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:29,560
Do it.

1144
00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:30,560
You only live once.

1145
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:31,560
Right?

1146
00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:32,560
Right.

1147
00:53:32,560 --> 00:53:33,560
That's true.

1148
00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:34,560
All right.

1149
00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:35,560
Wow.

1150
00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:36,560
So turn in the corner a little bit.

1151
00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:37,560
We hope that encourages you.

1152
00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:40,760
We just want to kind of...out of our buckets that are full, we have leaky buckets right

1153
00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:41,760
now.

1154
00:53:41,760 --> 00:53:44,680
They're overflowing and we want to share with you what we're learning and hopefully it'll

1155
00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:47,440
encourage you on your journey.

1156
00:53:47,440 --> 00:53:48,440
Couple of things that happened.

1157
00:53:48,440 --> 00:53:50,000
Again, we didn't do a lot last week.

1158
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:54,000
We had Pastor Chris with us, our son, and who will be with us again.

1159
00:53:54,000 --> 00:54:00,800
But also on Saturday, we went out with our dear friends, Adam and Tina Curry and who

1160
00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:01,800
else?

1161
00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:02,800
Christine...

1162
00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:03,800
Christina and Kevin.

1163
00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:04,800
Christina and Kevin.

1164
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:06,440
Christina is Adam's daughter.

1165
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:08,800
And she lives in Rotterdam in Holland.

1166
00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:09,800
Holland.

1167
00:54:09,800 --> 00:54:10,800
And Kevin is her boyfriend.

1168
00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:11,800
That was really interesting.

1169
00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:12,800
And I got to sit by Kevin.

1170
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:17,080
We went to a great vineyard called Augusta Vin, right?

1171
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:18,080
Yes.

1172
00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:19,240
And we had to join that.

1173
00:54:19,240 --> 00:54:22,200
We've never been there before and it was absolutely stunning.

1174
00:54:22,200 --> 00:54:23,200
It's in Fredericksburg, Texas.

1175
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:25,000
I have never seen one like that.

1176
00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:26,000
That was impressive.

1177
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:27,000
It was beautiful.

1178
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:32,040
I felt like I was in another place like Sonoma or Napa or something.

1179
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:33,040
That was just a great place.

1180
00:54:33,040 --> 00:54:35,040
Well, and we've heard nothing but good things about it.

1181
00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:37,760
Anyway, I'm touting there because it was amazing.

1182
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:38,760
Beautiful, beautiful place.

1183
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:40,840
And we had a wonderful time.

1184
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:43,080
We spent the whole afternoon with them.

1185
00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:48,480
And I got to sit by Kevin and I so enjoyed Kevin.

1186
00:54:48,480 --> 00:54:51,680
Kevin is a music producer in Holland.

1187
00:54:51,680 --> 00:54:56,080
And I got to sit and me being a musician, so we had a lot of nerd talk about deer and

1188
00:54:56,080 --> 00:54:57,080
stuff.

1189
00:54:57,080 --> 00:54:58,080
Oh, yeah, yeah.

1190
00:54:58,080 --> 00:54:59,080
You would not have enjoyed it.

1191
00:54:59,080 --> 00:55:00,080
So it was nerd talk.

1192
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:04,520
But also, I just began to ask him questions about living in Rotterdam.

1193
00:55:04,520 --> 00:55:05,520
So he lives in Rotterdam.

1194
00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:06,520
And I'm like...

1195
00:55:06,520 --> 00:55:07,520
And he's from there.

1196
00:55:07,520 --> 00:55:08,520
Yeah.

1197
00:55:08,520 --> 00:55:09,600
I'm like, tell me about growing up there.

1198
00:55:09,600 --> 00:55:11,720
Tell me about what it's like to live in Holland.

1199
00:55:11,720 --> 00:55:14,360
This is his first trip to America.

1200
00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:16,560
So he's wide-eyed about everything right now.

1201
00:55:16,560 --> 00:55:17,560
And he looks at a place.

1202
00:55:17,560 --> 00:55:18,560
He doesn't look like he's from America.

1203
00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:19,560
He looks very...

1204
00:55:19,560 --> 00:55:20,560
Both of them.

1205
00:55:20,560 --> 00:55:21,560
He's very European.

1206
00:55:21,560 --> 00:55:22,560
Both of them look at a place.

1207
00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:23,560
Both of them.

1208
00:55:23,560 --> 00:55:24,560
It's hilarious.

1209
00:55:24,560 --> 00:55:25,560
People were staring.

1210
00:55:25,560 --> 00:55:26,560
Oh my gosh, they were.

1211
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:27,560
As people were walking through the room.

1212
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:28,560
I know.

1213
00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:29,560
It's funny.

1214
00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:30,560
It's hilarious.

1215
00:55:30,560 --> 00:55:31,560
But you know what?

1216
00:55:31,560 --> 00:55:34,320
It's so cool to meet somebody from another part of the world and just find out about their

1217
00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:35,320
world.

1218
00:55:35,320 --> 00:55:36,800
And so I just let him talk.

1219
00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:40,640
And it was really interesting things he was telling me about.

1220
00:55:40,640 --> 00:55:43,760
That city was bombed terribly during World War II.

1221
00:55:43,760 --> 00:55:46,200
It was destroyed, the whole city.

1222
00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:49,120
So it was a beautiful historic city.

1223
00:55:49,120 --> 00:55:51,720
Amsterdam didn't get destroyed.

1224
00:55:51,720 --> 00:55:55,520
It is the beautiful historic and largest city in Holland.

1225
00:55:55,520 --> 00:55:58,180
Rotterdam is the next largest city.

1226
00:55:58,180 --> 00:55:59,360
So it's full on.

1227
00:55:59,360 --> 00:56:01,680
But when they rebuilt it, they rebuilt it modern.

1228
00:56:01,680 --> 00:56:02,680
Modern.

1229
00:56:02,680 --> 00:56:06,560
So if you like the modern vibe, that would be the place to go.

1230
00:56:06,560 --> 00:56:07,560
I know.

1231
00:56:07,560 --> 00:56:08,560
It's got to be amazing.

1232
00:56:08,560 --> 00:56:12,120
So he was just telling me about his life there and production, what he does in producing

1233
00:56:12,120 --> 00:56:13,920
music and kind of things.

1234
00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:18,960
It was just good getting to know him and getting to encourage him as a young man.

1235
00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:20,560
And he had a lot of tats.

1236
00:56:20,560 --> 00:56:22,360
I'm like, tell me your tat story.

1237
00:56:22,360 --> 00:56:24,040
You got a lot of ink there.

1238
00:56:24,040 --> 00:56:26,200
And it all had to do with redemption.

1239
00:56:26,200 --> 00:56:27,200
I know.

1240
00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:28,240
It's very beautiful.

1241
00:56:28,240 --> 00:56:33,120
So anyway, I just see really good things in their futures, young people.

1242
00:56:33,120 --> 00:56:35,320
And Christina is just stunning.

1243
00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:36,800
She's easy to talk to.

1244
00:56:36,800 --> 00:56:38,360
She looks like a model.

1245
00:56:38,360 --> 00:56:39,360
Supermodel.

1246
00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:43,640
Tall and really, really thin and black, long hair.

1247
00:56:43,640 --> 00:56:45,440
But such a tender heart.

1248
00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:46,440
Yes.

1249
00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:52,120
You could see Adam Curry's, his influence on her.

1250
00:56:52,120 --> 00:56:53,120
That tender heart.

1251
00:56:53,120 --> 00:56:54,120
Yeah.

1252
00:56:54,120 --> 00:56:55,120
Beautiful.

1253
00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:56,520
And just the love for children.

1254
00:56:56,520 --> 00:57:02,120
When she found out I had worked as a case manager in a children's home, she just lit

1255
00:57:02,120 --> 00:57:04,920
up because she's studying to be a social worker.

1256
00:57:04,920 --> 00:57:05,920
Right.

1257
00:57:05,920 --> 00:57:10,480
So that gave us a really cool common ground conversation to talk about life as a social

1258
00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:15,280
worker and what I learned and just the love of kids and love of people and making a difference

1259
00:57:15,280 --> 00:57:16,280
in this world.

1260
00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:20,320
So just cool to see two young people that have a heart to make a difference in their

1261
00:57:20,320 --> 00:57:21,320
world.

1262
00:57:21,320 --> 00:57:23,440
So anyway, such a beautiful visit with them.

1263
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:25,680
And of course, we always love getting our time.

1264
00:57:25,680 --> 00:57:27,280
We got to have time with the Currys.

1265
00:57:27,280 --> 00:57:28,280
Yes, always.

1266
00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:30,160
In fact, Adam, I'm calling you out.

1267
00:57:30,160 --> 00:57:31,640
We got to set a bro date, man.

1268
00:57:31,640 --> 00:57:32,960
It's got to happen.

1269
00:57:32,960 --> 00:57:35,080
Friday night we have a date with all of us.

1270
00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:37,120
We're going to go see the Sound of Freedom.

1271
00:57:37,120 --> 00:57:39,120
Oh yeah, the Jim Cavizio movie.

1272
00:57:39,120 --> 00:57:40,120
I've already seen it.

1273
00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:43,400
Which has been completely ditched by the New York Times and LA Times.

1274
00:57:43,400 --> 00:57:47,200
They won't even acknowledge it and yet it's a number one at the box office.

1275
00:57:47,200 --> 00:57:52,440
Well, and Jim Cavizio came to Fredericksburg a couple of years ago and brought that movie

1276
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:56,360
to a restaurant, to one of our friends who comes to our church.

1277
00:57:56,360 --> 00:57:58,200
She owned a restaurant.

1278
00:57:58,200 --> 00:58:06,720
Got him in along with Lara Logan and her husband and they showed the movie to the people that

1279
00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:09,040
signed up to come, which was one of them.

1280
00:58:09,040 --> 00:58:14,320
It was an amazing movie, but I heard that they rewrote some of it or added some scenes

1281
00:58:14,320 --> 00:58:16,940
since then, but it was powerful.

1282
00:58:16,940 --> 00:58:21,140
There wasn't a dry in the house after the movie and it was very interesting to hear

1283
00:58:21,140 --> 00:58:24,400
Jim Cavizio talk about it.

1284
00:58:24,400 --> 00:58:26,960
When he does a movie, he's all in.

1285
00:58:26,960 --> 00:58:27,960
He's all in.

1286
00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:28,960
He's a method actor.

1287
00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:29,960
He's all in.

1288
00:58:29,960 --> 00:58:30,960
He's definitely.

1289
00:58:30,960 --> 00:58:31,960
He embodies the character.

1290
00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:32,960
He's very godly.

1291
00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:34,960
So, I can't wait to go see it on Friday.

1292
00:58:34,960 --> 00:58:36,200
Oh, he's a lover of Jesus.

1293
00:58:36,200 --> 00:58:40,840
In fact, when he was there that night, they did another gathering that night at one of

1294
00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:43,040
the homes.

1295
00:58:43,040 --> 00:58:45,360
Someone mentioned about the cross at Kerrville.

1296
00:58:45,360 --> 00:58:48,920
In Kerrville, Texas, there's a 70-foot cross.

1297
00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:50,800
It's a piece of art.

1298
00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:54,960
They've built this incredible, it's up on top of a hill, overlooks the city.

1299
00:58:54,960 --> 00:58:59,720
It's stunning and it's like stations of the cross and they have chaplains up there.

1300
00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:03,080
I mean, you can go up there and walk through the stations of the cross.

1301
00:59:03,080 --> 00:59:04,080
It's stunning.

1302
00:59:04,080 --> 00:59:07,500
And so, they all went to see it at night and at night.

1303
00:59:07,500 --> 00:59:08,500
It's really beautiful.

1304
00:59:08,500 --> 00:59:09,840
You can see over the city.

1305
00:59:09,840 --> 00:59:15,640
While they were up there, Jim Cavizio gave his testimony and Lara Logan gave her heart

1306
00:59:15,640 --> 00:59:16,640
to Christ.

1307
00:59:16,640 --> 00:59:17,640
Wow, that is just so powerful.

1308
00:59:17,640 --> 00:59:18,960
She prayed to receive Christ.

1309
00:59:18,960 --> 00:59:22,720
So, Jim Cavizio led Lara Logan to the Lord.

1310
00:59:22,720 --> 00:59:24,200
Is that not beautiful?

1311
00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:29,280
I think Don told us he was thinking about coming to our church that Sunday.

1312
00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:31,320
Yeah, he didn't come, but that's okay.

1313
00:59:31,320 --> 00:59:32,600
I think he would be.

1314
00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:34,640
I don't know what would happen if people…

1315
00:59:34,640 --> 00:59:36,600
I mean, people would know who he is.

1316
00:59:36,600 --> 00:59:41,200
So, anyway, just a beautiful story of God working through this.

1317
00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:47,200
So we have an interesting tie to that movie in that you attended just this private screening

1318
00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:49,200
of it.

1319
00:59:49,200 --> 00:59:55,120
Just the fact that culture, our world is dissing it and that I've even read reports where

1320
00:59:55,120 --> 00:59:58,960
people are saying, oh, there's no sex trafficking problem in America.

1321
00:59:58,960 --> 00:59:59,960
That's delusional.

1322
00:59:59,960 --> 01:00:00,960
Oh my gosh.

1323
01:00:00,960 --> 01:00:01,960
And that the movie is fake.

1324
01:00:01,960 --> 01:00:02,960
It's not fake.

1325
01:00:02,960 --> 01:00:07,920
It's a real story about a real man and Jim portrays that passionately.

1326
01:00:07,920 --> 01:00:13,740
And so, we're supporting the movie by going to the movie and it exposes this issue of

1327
01:00:13,740 --> 01:00:17,280
sex trafficking in our world right now, which needs to be addressed passionately.

1328
01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:23,680
And the IT corridor that we live off of is one of the number one trafficking areas.

1329
01:00:23,680 --> 01:00:24,680
It's horrible.

1330
01:00:24,680 --> 01:00:25,680
Coming out of…

1331
01:00:25,680 --> 01:00:29,240
We've got issues coming out of Mexico, of course, the border issue, and I don't want

1332
01:00:29,240 --> 01:00:32,120
to get all crazy political, but this is real life.

1333
01:00:32,120 --> 01:00:33,960
This is where life happens.

1334
01:00:33,960 --> 01:00:38,760
And as followers of Jesus, we have to stand up for righteousness and for the kingdom of

1335
01:00:38,760 --> 01:00:39,760
God.

1336
01:00:39,760 --> 01:00:45,680
So we pray that God would bring his kingdom on earth as in heaven.

1337
01:00:45,680 --> 01:00:46,920
And that's what he intends.

1338
01:00:46,920 --> 01:00:48,960
And so, that's part of our responsibility.

1339
01:00:48,960 --> 01:00:52,880
So anyway, we're going to go on Friday night with the Currys, get a night out with them,

1340
01:00:52,880 --> 01:00:55,120
hang out, get some good food.

1341
01:00:55,120 --> 01:00:57,360
We can hardly go anywhere in Fredericksburg.

1342
01:00:57,360 --> 01:00:59,360
We're trying to stay away for the eight weeks.

1343
01:00:59,360 --> 01:01:04,720
In fact, when we went to Augusta Ven, which is between Fredericksburg and Kerrville, I

1344
01:01:04,720 --> 01:01:06,600
thought for sure we would run into people.

1345
01:01:06,600 --> 01:01:07,600
Didn't run into us.

1346
01:01:07,600 --> 01:01:10,520
And it's not that we don't want to see our people.

1347
01:01:10,520 --> 01:01:14,000
It pulls you back into a work mode, whether you want it to or not.

1348
01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:19,520
And we don't want them to talk about how much they miss us at church or how bad something

1349
01:01:19,520 --> 01:01:20,520
was.

1350
01:01:20,520 --> 01:01:22,240
How it went or how it went.

1351
01:01:22,240 --> 01:01:23,240
We don't want to worry about anything.

1352
01:01:23,240 --> 01:01:25,820
It like resets us back to zero.

1353
01:01:25,820 --> 01:01:31,280
And so, we're only avoiding the people we love for this season because actually it was

1354
01:01:31,280 --> 01:01:34,040
mandated by my coach, by my pastor.

1355
01:01:34,040 --> 01:01:37,000
And our board was the first ones to bring it up.

1356
01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:38,000
Y'all need to...

1357
01:01:38,000 --> 01:01:40,400
Yeah, redirect your emails, get a new phone number.

1358
01:01:40,400 --> 01:01:42,520
I mean, it's been pretty radical.

1359
01:01:42,520 --> 01:01:44,960
So we only have two people that know.

1360
01:01:44,960 --> 01:01:45,960
I know.

1361
01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:48,400
Well, and I have emailed a couple of people that...

1362
01:01:48,400 --> 01:01:49,400
What?

1363
01:01:49,400 --> 01:01:50,400
No, we're going to...

1364
01:01:50,400 --> 01:01:51,400
I'm just kidding.

1365
01:01:51,400 --> 01:01:52,400
I'm kidding.

1366
01:01:52,400 --> 01:01:54,480
...somebody's house next week that lives out close to Stonewall.

1367
01:01:54,480 --> 01:01:56,360
They promise not to talk about the church.

1368
01:01:56,360 --> 01:01:57,360
Exactly.

1369
01:01:57,360 --> 01:01:58,360
Just friends.

1370
01:01:58,360 --> 01:01:59,360
And that's okay.

1371
01:01:59,360 --> 01:02:00,360
Just hanging out.

1372
01:02:00,360 --> 01:02:01,360
Yeah.

1373
01:02:01,360 --> 01:02:02,360
So anyway, it's been amazing.

1374
01:02:02,360 --> 01:02:03,360
Hey, we love you guys.

1375
01:02:03,360 --> 01:02:04,360
I want to share some shout outs.

1376
01:02:04,360 --> 01:02:05,360
Can I do that?

1377
01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:06,360
Yeah, do that.

1378
01:02:06,360 --> 01:02:07,360
I mean, some amazing things.

1379
01:02:07,360 --> 01:02:16,240
I want to give you the Adam, the Podfather Curry coming in hot this last week with 77,777.

1380
01:02:16,240 --> 01:02:17,240
Total Strapper Boost.

1381
01:02:17,240 --> 01:02:18,240
Did he come through again?

1382
01:02:18,240 --> 01:02:21,240
I did not upload that, but I will give him a round of applause.

1383
01:02:21,240 --> 01:02:22,240
Wow.

1384
01:02:22,240 --> 01:02:23,240
So he writes this.

1385
01:02:23,240 --> 01:02:24,240
Okay.

1386
01:02:24,240 --> 01:02:27,240
Wait, you have a new toy, so that's why you did that.

1387
01:02:27,240 --> 01:02:28,240
I know, I'm pretty excited.

1388
01:02:28,240 --> 01:02:33,240
I'm super excited about my Roadcaster Duo.

1389
01:02:33,240 --> 01:02:34,240
Yes, yes.

1390
01:02:34,240 --> 01:02:37,080
It's got some new sounds on it, so I may have to use them.

1391
01:02:37,080 --> 01:02:38,080
He wrote this.

1392
01:02:38,080 --> 01:02:40,800
All the sevens for the Triple Threats, the Strapper Boost, of course.

1393
01:02:40,800 --> 01:02:42,040
I should have downloaded that.

1394
01:02:42,040 --> 01:02:43,640
I will next time.

1395
01:02:43,640 --> 01:02:47,040
Great episode and kudos for the engineering PJ.

1396
01:02:47,040 --> 01:02:51,360
In other words, we had three mics on and I was able to get Chris on the podcast with

1397
01:02:51,360 --> 01:02:52,360
us.

1398
01:02:52,360 --> 01:02:53,360
We made it work.

1399
01:02:53,360 --> 01:02:54,360
Sir Brian with an I.

1400
01:02:54,360 --> 01:02:56,280
Finally, good to hear from you, Sir Brian.

1401
01:02:56,280 --> 01:03:01,320
You've been a little bit quiet lately with coming in strong with 33,777 Satoshis.

1402
01:03:01,320 --> 01:03:04,000
Man, I'm so appreciate it.

1403
01:03:04,000 --> 01:03:13,080
He says this, looking forward to tonight's show.

1404
01:03:13,080 --> 01:03:14,520
So you get some applause there.

1405
01:03:14,520 --> 01:03:18,240
Coming in hot with 5,000 Satoshis is Gabriel Ashley.

1406
01:03:18,240 --> 01:03:21,400
I think this is the first time she's boosted us.

1407
01:03:21,400 --> 01:03:23,960
So Gabriel, we want to say thank you for boosting.

1408
01:03:23,960 --> 01:03:25,800
Thank you for listening to the show.

1409
01:03:25,800 --> 01:03:27,640
We hope we're a source of encouragement for you.

1410
01:03:27,640 --> 01:03:31,320
And then coming in with 3,300 Satoshis is Jay Moon.

1411
01:03:31,320 --> 01:03:32,920
Jay, thanks for listening.

1412
01:03:32,920 --> 01:03:33,920
Thanks for being a part.

1413
01:03:33,920 --> 01:03:35,160
Thanks for supporting us.

1414
01:03:35,160 --> 01:03:41,320
Also, we've had some contributions through our newsletter through Substack and some of

1415
01:03:41,320 --> 01:03:42,800
our subscribers.

1416
01:03:42,800 --> 01:03:50,620
So if you want to subscribe and become a subscriber to our newsletter, we put it out every week.

1417
01:03:50,620 --> 01:03:56,320
Do give us your email and you can do that by going to livingupinadownworld.com.

1418
01:03:56,320 --> 01:03:58,200
Living up in a down world.com.

1419
01:03:58,200 --> 01:03:59,200
That's our website.

1420
01:03:59,200 --> 01:04:01,080
It's got all of our podcasts on there.

1421
01:04:01,080 --> 01:04:03,380
Has My Daily Devotionals on there.

1422
01:04:03,380 --> 01:04:05,320
You can leave a comment.

1423
01:04:05,320 --> 01:04:06,880
You can write us.

1424
01:04:06,880 --> 01:04:11,280
Or even better, you can leave a review, which is super helpful for us.

1425
01:04:11,280 --> 01:04:14,920
So we've got some contributions through our newsletter.

1426
01:04:14,920 --> 01:04:17,080
One is Steve Wise at $80.

1427
01:04:17,080 --> 01:04:19,080
Steve, I just want to say thanks.

1428
01:04:19,080 --> 01:04:22,080
So appreciate you blessing us with that donation.

1429
01:04:22,080 --> 01:04:26,840
And man, bless you too and thanks again.

1430
01:04:26,840 --> 01:04:31,920
And Julie Herbert, also dear friend of ours, who we love and appreciate, goes to our church

1431
01:04:31,920 --> 01:04:37,640
and she is one of the main people out at Runs Great Creek Vineyards, which is another one

1432
01:04:37,640 --> 01:04:39,560
we're members of, which we love.

1433
01:04:39,560 --> 01:04:42,560
So Julie, thank you for coming in at $80.

1434
01:04:42,560 --> 01:04:45,560
We so appreciate it.

1435
01:04:45,560 --> 01:04:47,560
You're a blessing.

1436
01:04:47,560 --> 01:04:48,560
You're hilarious.

1437
01:04:48,560 --> 01:04:51,560
I cannot believe you like all these sounds.

1438
01:04:51,560 --> 01:04:53,360
I've got to find something cool.

1439
01:04:53,360 --> 01:04:56,400
Now I have to find a really cool one.

1440
01:04:56,400 --> 01:04:57,880
Okay, I like this.

1441
01:04:57,880 --> 01:05:00,280
I'm going to do this.

1442
01:05:00,280 --> 01:05:06,360
And really, our founding member at $150 came in.

1443
01:05:06,360 --> 01:05:08,360
Drum roll, please.

1444
01:05:08,360 --> 01:05:11,420
None other than Adam the Podfather Curry.

1445
01:05:11,420 --> 01:05:12,420
What did I say?

1446
01:05:12,420 --> 01:05:14,420
Adam the Podfather Curry.

1447
01:05:14,420 --> 01:05:15,420
Oh my goodness.

1448
01:05:15,420 --> 01:05:18,600
Bro, we love you so much.

1449
01:05:18,600 --> 01:05:21,040
So anyway, that's our kudos.

1450
01:05:21,040 --> 01:05:22,680
And Chuck wrote us.

1451
01:05:22,680 --> 01:05:27,480
He wrote us on our website and he says this, have you all heard about the book, Unoffendable?

1452
01:05:27,480 --> 01:05:29,200
Oh, have we ever?

1453
01:05:29,200 --> 01:05:31,840
I read that book backwards and forwards.

1454
01:05:31,840 --> 01:05:34,520
He says your latest show reminded me about it.

1455
01:05:34,520 --> 01:05:35,640
Adam might like it too.

1456
01:05:35,640 --> 01:05:36,960
Adam would like that.

1457
01:05:36,960 --> 01:05:43,040
That is a fantastic book about how to become unoffendable and live your life in a way where

1458
01:05:43,040 --> 01:05:46,920
you're not spun up and offended by everything that's going on.

1459
01:05:46,920 --> 01:05:48,640
And I highly recommend the book.

1460
01:05:48,640 --> 01:05:51,640
Cannot remember the author of that book, but I love that book.

1461
01:05:51,640 --> 01:05:53,080
Oh man.

1462
01:05:53,080 --> 01:05:54,640
It's Brant.

1463
01:05:54,640 --> 01:05:55,640
Brant somebody.

1464
01:05:55,640 --> 01:05:56,640
Yeah, I don't remember.

1465
01:05:56,640 --> 01:05:57,640
Anyway, sorry, Sheba.

1466
01:05:57,640 --> 01:05:58,920
He's trying to jump up in my lap.

1467
01:05:58,920 --> 01:05:59,920
I'm talking.

1468
01:05:59,920 --> 01:06:01,720
So anyway, it's the book, Unoffendable.

1469
01:06:01,720 --> 01:06:03,240
Highly recommend that.

1470
01:06:03,240 --> 01:06:08,360
And so with that, we want to say how much we love you and appreciate you and thank you.

1471
01:06:08,360 --> 01:06:09,360
Okay.

1472
01:06:09,360 --> 01:06:10,360
Too many toys.

1473
01:06:10,360 --> 01:06:11,360
You're really going to play.

1474
01:06:11,360 --> 01:06:12,360
I was actually trying to do this.

1475
01:06:12,360 --> 01:06:13,360
Okay.

1476
01:06:13,360 --> 01:06:15,120
So we're landing the plane here.

1477
01:06:15,120 --> 01:06:16,120
We love you guys.

1478
01:06:16,120 --> 01:06:21,120
By the way, check out Adam and Tina Curry's great podcast, Curry and the Keeper.

1479
01:06:21,120 --> 01:06:27,720
You can listen on Fountain or you can go to their website at curryandthekeeper.com.

1480
01:06:27,720 --> 01:06:28,720
God bless you.

1481
01:06:28,720 --> 01:06:29,720
Love you.

1482
01:06:29,720 --> 01:06:30,720
Say goodbye.

1483
01:06:30,720 --> 01:06:31,720
All right.

1484
01:06:31,720 --> 01:06:32,720
Goodbye.

1485
01:06:32,720 --> 01:06:58,720
Bye.