"How to Rule Your Spirit - Guest: Pastor Brian Mandel"

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Jesus.

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special guest. Really appreciate you being here today. Hey, it's

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fun. Let's keep doing this. Yeah. So, Annette is home with

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uh painters right now as we're having some deconstruction

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slash slash construction done in our house. Fun. We it's yeah

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we we had a cabinet company come in and they completely

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flubbed it up to the point where they're literally rebuilding

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the cabinets. The Christmas gift you didn't want, right? Man,

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this thing is dragging out and anyone who's done home,

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rentals, and remodels knows, you know, the perils. We feel

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like we're gonna be on HDTV is one of those shows of, you

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know, construction disasters and uh so yeah, our our our

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kitchen's just totally whacked right now. We did have them

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reinstall the bad cabinets and the doors just just so we'll

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have some cabinets through the holidays cuz they're gonna be

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down for 2 weeks. We don't really want them here over the

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holidays. We we need some downtime. Yeah, you need to take a break.

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So, yeah, it's been an adventure. That's for sure. So,

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anyway, we're we're getting past it and uh or we're in the

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middle of it. Now, we've gotta they'll come back hopefully by

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the end of January. This will be done. Mm. Hopefully. It's all

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gonna be worth it. Just keep telling yourself that. I'm not

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holding my breath. I'll just say that. So, hey, welcome to

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yeah, check it out. We'd love to have you and uh hey everybody.

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It's Thursday. It is Thursday. It's Thursday. Almost

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Christmas. My gosh. It is literally here and uh I'm loving

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it. I've I've been in the Christmas spirit this year. I

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feel like I'm celebrating this year. It's it's been a good one.

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It has been a great year. We've had a great year at the

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bridge. I mean, God is moving as we celebrate. Aslan is on the

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move. We're seeing so many good things happen and and we've

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just had some good things happen recently. We talked a

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little bit about that. You know, our our Christmas event at

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Market Plots which one of our church members did and we jumped

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in on it which is exactly how these things are supposed to go

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but just even salvations and baptisms and people jumping in

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that hadn't been in church for years or ever and I mean just

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we're just seeing everything across the board. It's mind

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bending. I I went to lunch with a church member yesterday,

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Robbie and as we're sitting there, I mean no less than six

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people from our church were in that restaurant and came over

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to the table. We were having church right there at the table

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were high five and hugging. Yeah. Loving each other. It was

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like it was so cool. I just I love being in a smaller

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community. Yeah, I wasn't got my car washed the other day and

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uh the the girl checking me out was like, hey Pastor Brian and

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I was like, hi. Get used to it brother. I I know you you guys

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have been here for a year now. We're celebrating a year with

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you guys but also just know that the longer you're here,

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the more that will happen. You'll go to H.E.B. and you

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will be on aisle four for a while because you'll end up

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stopping and talking to people and so you're gonna have to

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forget the days of going in and getting milk and and cereal

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quickly. Such thing as being anonymous anymore. Not anymore.

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That's the beauty of being in a small community. I always love

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shows like uh you know, Gilmore Girls at Stars Hollow, uh

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Mayberry RFD, you know, Barney Fife, all that, you know, these

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small communities. There's something joyful and life giving

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about being in a small community. Yeah, it's good and

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every once in a while, if I need to feel anonymous, I'll

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just drive into San Antonio. That's the beauty. We live, we

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we're very short drive to Austin or San Antonio. I mean,

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it's easy to get away if we need to and uh and it's good to

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feel, you know, like you're part of something bigger, you

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know, and go to Lock and Terror or whatever and hang out at

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the mall there and great restaurants and all that. So,

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yeah, that's easy for us. So, we kinda got the best of both

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worlds here. I'm liking it. And we're in a small town that's

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very um on the move. I mean, this is a small town with a lot

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happening. It's a destination. It is. Fredericksburg is a

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huge destination area. Not just in Texas but we get people

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from literally all over the world and we are a German

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community and we're known for that. Yeah. So, we get people

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from Germany here that come to visit our town because we're

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like a sister sister community. It's really cool. Uh every

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time I go downtown, I hear languages and accents I don't

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even recognize. I'm shocked. Yeah, whenever I've been in

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other places or I'm talking to people from other places, you

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know, um how many people know about Fredericksburg have heard

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of it or have already been there? So, so if you're

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listening, you should come visit cuz it is a great place

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to be. Yeah. Great place to hang out. I mean, it's crazy.

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The people who are moving here right now from all over. We get

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a lot of people from Texas like Houston. Yep. Uh Midland

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Odessa. You know, people retiring from the oil field

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industry or you know, Dallas, Fort Worth, California,

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California, Denver. I mean, I feel like we're getting the

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good Californians though. No doubt. No doubt. I mean, we get

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people that in fact, it's it's interesting when you talk to

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people who come from other places, particularly

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California. They're they're almost afraid to tell you that

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they're from California. There is a there is a lot more

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traditional values oriented conservative people in

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California than they get credit for. Absolutely. Especially

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when you get up north. Uh when you get up, you know, north of

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Redding and on on up into the mountains and and up in that

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area. There's a lot of rural areas out there and they're

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they're not playing the game. There's a there's a county in

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Southern California called Irving. Um right near, it's

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actually near Anaheim where Disney World is and all that.

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Right. It is one of the most conservative counties in the

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entire country. It's Irving or Irvine. Uh I think it depends

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on how you say it. I'm gonna make you. Irvine. I'm about to

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make you. Probably is correct. Second guess yourself. Yeah.

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Yeah. Yeah. It's it's fascinating. In Colorado is the

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same way. I mean, like where Colorado Springs is proper,

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that's a very conservative county there. Even though

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you're you got Manitou Springs, you've got just north, you've

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got Denver, and yet you've got this pocket of

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conservatism and so I think those pockets are growing now.

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I think they might be. With with what happened in this

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last election and where things seem to be going and heading.

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And uh speaking of that, wow. How about those drones? Oh man.

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Drones are, that's exciting. You know, is that not the funniest

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thing? I had to text Adam Curry about that and be like, yeah,

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like you gotta set me straight on this cuz I'm seeing a

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million conflicting reports here. What is going on? And uh

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he was like, just listen to the first 20 minutes of my podcast

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and it'll put your mind at ease. That's true. That's true. I uh

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I was gonna look up cuz I actually wrote down some stuff

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on that because to me, it's fascinating. Uh man, where'd it

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go? Had it all written down? Oh, I know what it's for. Where

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did I put this? I put a whole thing on drones. What? Okay,

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this is weird. I think a drone has stolen my my notes here.

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This is so weird. Blame it on the drones. No kidding. Where

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did it go? Anyway, so it's interesting in terms of the

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drones and what's happening there. Um one of the things I

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did learn from Adam Curry uh back when we met and we

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started building a friendship was that uh because of his

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background in media deconstruction, podcasting,

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but also some things with his family. Yeah. Being involved in

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government. I'll just keep it there. He can tell it if he

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wants to. Um he he said to me, he said, whatever the modern,

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whatever the mainstream media is chasing. Yep. Look somewhere

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else. Right. He said, it's a diversion. And he said, always

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always look at sleight of hand. It's always smoke and

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mirrors. Hey, look over here. Look, if they're saying, look

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over here, you need to be looking somewhere else. Yeah.

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And he's really awakened me to that and that's been really

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powerful for me. Well, and it just so happens that there's a

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there's a house bill that's due to be passed. Isn't it today

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or was it yesterday? The twentieth. So that. It's

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tomorrow. It's tomorrow. Oh, it's tomorrow. Yeah. Okay. Oh,

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I found my notes. So, go ahead. Okay. Well, I don't I don't

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know all the details of it but the bottom line is they're

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trying to essentially re-up the Patriot Act or something like

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that. FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 and they're gonna they

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wanna re author re up it so to speak and it gives the federal

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government the ability to for them. They're saying this is

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all about controlling these drones. Correct. That's how

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they're selling it. Right. But there's also a lot of other

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things. It's called HR 8610 counter UAS authority safety

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security act man. Say that fast three times in a row. Yep.

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Well, and I believe that that act will essentially give the

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government expanded powers to you know, ostensibly to

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intercept enemy drones but the way that that extends to you

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know, basically being able to infringe on the rights of the

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American people is a big part of that package as well which

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same thing as it was with the Patriot Act. It was all in the

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in the in the package of national defense and national

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security but what it ultimately did is it let people let the

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government intrude into our personal lives into our phones

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and do our data and to all those things. Exactly. I'm

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gonna read a quote right out of this bill. It is this that

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another person said this way. It gives various government

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agencies the authority and then in quotes in right out of the

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bill which you can look up on USA.gov and which I did. I

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checked it out to destroy or disable aircraft in flight and

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intercept signals and communications and you know,

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you gotta think about this is on American. It's a pretty broad

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stroke there. That is a very broad stroke cuz these signals

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and communications could be your cell phone. Yeah. Your your

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texts, your emails all under the guise of protecting you.

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Yeah and what it what it essentially does is it

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eliminates any form of privacy, you know, and so you you don't

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have any right to privacy anymore. Yeah. I mean which is

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about as unamerican as it can get. This is so

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unconstitutional and so that vote is up for tomorrow. There

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was another vote last week. I believe on Sunday that or or

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last week cuz Adam was talking about it on Sunday which was

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another piece of this. It was another it's called something

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else. He he wrote me and told me about it but it sounded very

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similar. I mean these are what's happening is is they're

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they're trying to under the guise of protection. Drones,

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there's drones everywhere. There's drones from China here.

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There's drones, you know. Yeah. All that. We need we want to

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protect you. So, we're gonna gonna pass this bill that's

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gonna give us now the right to intercept those drones and

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people will cheer because they're okay protect us from

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the drones. Right. What? Give me a twelve gauge shotgun. I'll

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protect you from the drones. Well, and there's there's

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another end of this that I I heard Adam talking about the

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other day, you know, that has to do with money as always, you

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know. Really? In terms of the who's making the drones and

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the companies that is getting the contracts to to build

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drones and pushing out other companies that make drones and

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so that, you know, any drone that even a private citizen

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has is, you know, if this all goes like they want it to,

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we'll have to be made by a very select group of people with

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whatever kind of software on the inside of it and so I mean

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there there's multiple angles here for sure. For sure. I've

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watched some of the video of these drones and I'm like,

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what's the big deal? I mean literally up in what Adam said,

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he said a lot of these are private, you know, just

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hobbyists that are getting in on the action. They wanna get

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their phone, their drone on TV. You know, they wanna get

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somebody to video their drone and it's kind of funny go

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viral. He said this. He said a combined Senate and House

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version of this bill has already passed as part of the

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NDAA on Saturday. That was this this past Saturday. He said

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that's what all this noise is about. He says he he said he

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expects everything to die down in the next three or four days

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after all the hobbyists stop flying their drones to get on

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television. He says the politicians are well aware of

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this and the drone lobby may not be extremely powerful but

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they're very noisy because it includes local law

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enforcement, Hollywood, etcetera who are using cheap

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Chinese drones. They now will have to go. So so this is a

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ploy to get in and really just take control. I mean, it's

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another angle. It's always about that. You think about

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what's happening right now. We're in control. Oh my

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goodness. I mean now with with what's happened even recently,

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I won't get into the to the weeds on it but the speaker of

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the house, Mike Johnson is now kinda his backs against the

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wall cuz he tried to rush push through a bill that had a lot

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of money and fall out going over to to democratic agencies,

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a lot of fat, lot of fat and I'm still not sure what's

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going on with that. I'm Mike. I'm I'm the jury's out a

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little bit. I mean, I like the guy. Yeah, I feel like he's

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trying to do the right things but I feel like he gets put in

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these positions where he's trying to he's trying to be

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such a diplomat that he has seems to have a hard time

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taking much of a stand on anything clearly. Yeah, that's

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that's what makes me nervous about him. I don't I wouldn't

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call him a rhino yet cuz I know that that name gets thrown

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around a lot Republican in name only but he is he is

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legitimately in a in a tough situation where to get anything

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done. He's gotta play both sides to a degree. Yeah, I

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thought that there's also gotta be limits to that. There's

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that give and take but at what point do you draw a line in the

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sand and say we're done. You know, yeah, we're not playing

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that game. Fortunately, that bill got struck down

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yesterday. Oh, really? That that got shut down yesterday.

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and keeping up with it and and they that has been nixed and

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they're gonna re regroup. I'm sure you know, so there'll be

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more coming but but I think what's happening and I do know

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Johnson on some things is trying to put things off until

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Trump gets in office. I'm not sure why he tried to push this

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through. I'm sure there was give and take that we'll never

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know about. It's politics. Yeah, that's that's the give and

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take of politics. Man, I think I'll stick in stick with the

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church world. Hey, speaking of the church world, I wanna share

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something. I I do a daily devotional called the daily

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grind and I just call it that. That sounds terrible. It's like

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it's a grind to me. It's really not. It's it's coffee. That's

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the whole point. It's caffeine. It's my daily grind and so

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every morning and I've done this gosh for now 23, 24 years,

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maybe 25. If I just do the math, it's probably longer than

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I think cuz I'm older than I think and so I just what I do is

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I get up early in the morning, get up about six every morning

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and I just go sit down at my computer after getting my coffee,

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my first cup, always black rifle and I sit down and I'm

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just I just sit before the Lord. Nothing fancy. Sometimes

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I'll just I'll randomly pick up my Bible and thumb thumb

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through it and I'll see something or or wherever it

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stops, I'll kinda read. So, it's not it's not real formal.

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It's quite relaxed and and then I'll land on a verse of

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scripture and I'll just trust that the Lord led me to that

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scripture however I found it. Right. So, today, I did one on

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Luke 4, 31 and 32. I'm gonna read it out of the ESV. That's

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the English Standard Version and it's talking about Jesus.

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It says, and he, Jesus went down to Capernaum which that's

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on the Lake of Galilee. That's right there on on the on the

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shore of the Lake of Galilee. It's a fishing village, a city

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of Galilee and he was teaching them on the Sabbath and they

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were astonished at his teaching for his word possessed

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authority and that just jumped off the page this morning

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cuz I was thinking about that word authority and what does

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that mean and the reason the reason that word has become

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maybe a little more in my filter is because of what's

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been going on with our federal government. What's been going

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on in the world? Yeah. You know, cuz we talk about what

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is authority mean when when authority is conferred from a

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higher authority. For example, the federal government may give

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the DOJ a certain what they call a jurisdiction. Right. And

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the jurisdiction is that those boundaries in which they have

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the authority to enact certain things and do certain things

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and you know, there's been a lot of talk over the last bit in

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terms of they've have been a lot of what they call overreach

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government overreach. That means they're stepping on the

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authority. Yeah, outside of their purview and so but I

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think about this in terms of spiritual things and I wrote

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this. I'll just read this and we can we can talk about it. It's

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called the authority of the kingdom as Jesus begins to teach

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the message of the kingdom of God. The people quickly

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realized this is no ordinary rabbi. They were used to the

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weak scholarly and impotent teachings of the rabbis but

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Jesus words were laced with authority and power. Something

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was different. Jesus jurisdiction came from God and

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was released in and through Jesus to reveal the will and

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plan of God. When we read God's word today, his authority is

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still present to bring the kingdom of heaven into this

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present moment. Wow. So what does that say to you because it

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pings all kinds of things in me even though I wrote that I

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trust the Holy Spirit helped me write it but I it even I'm

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already leaping off into other directions with that but well

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the first thing that comes to my mind is that you know there's

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a difference between somebody who tries to exert authority

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versus somebody who actually carries it. The type of

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authority being referred to here in the scripture is it's

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what is it's potency from heaven. It's a it's a it's

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power. It's potency. It's it's effectiveness. You know

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authority isn't speaking louder or more dominantly. It's it's

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when you got God backing you up in what you're doing and in

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what you're saying and you know what I was taught a long time

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ago is that if if you wanna carry authority in God's

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kingdom, you have to be under authority. Yes, absolutely. You

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know that the more that I submit myself to his authority,

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the more of his authority will be conferred and delegated

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down and through me because I've positioned myself under

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him that that submission of coming under his mission. Yes

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allows him to transfer elements of his authority for specific

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situations and moments and trust me with it. It's great

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word and and right along with that and and actually I'm just

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leaping right off of what you said. There there's a there's

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an element that's so important that I think really opens this

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channel and it's humility. Yeah, when you're when you walk

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in great humility, you you can give honor away. You're

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honorable, but you also give honor away easily when you're

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humble and when you do that, it opens up a channel where God

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knows he can trust you. If he can trust you with a little

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bit and you handle it with humility and you handle it

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honorably, then he will trust you with more. Yeah and so

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this this boundary, this jurisdiction can grow. That's

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what's exciting to me is it's really unlimited. You know when

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we're young and we're learning and we're you know our

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jurisdiction is pretty small. I mean, there's not a lot of not

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a lot of people that we influence, you know, 18, 19, 20

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years and I'm not talking about getting online and being an

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influencer. I'm talking about in real life, people who really

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your words carry a lot of weight and value. So, you know

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when you're younger, not a lot, right? Yeah, there's your dog,

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you know at the house, maybe a couple of guys you game with

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online or whatever, but but as you get older God and you grow

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your jurisdiction grows as you mature. God be gifts to give

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you a greater jurisdiction. Now, there's a difference between

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kingdom authority and worldly authority. That's right.

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Worldly authority can be had through positional authority.

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That means you get a title, you get a job, and now you've got

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a jurisdiction. You're over a certain amount of people in a

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company. That's different, right? You have leverage

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through money and you know job descriptions and all that, your

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KOA, all that stuff. Yeah, that's different or your KRA,

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key results area. That all happens in that in the worldly

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sense, but I'm not as interested in that as I am in the

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spiritual sense. Yeah, me too. I mean what does it mean when

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Jesus said you're going to do greater works than these? Well,

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you know what I love about what that that passage you read in

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Luke 4 is that Jesus didn't declare that he was coming with

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authority. It was the people that were being ministered to

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that said it to him. They recognized the authority on him

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and so much so that they had to say it out loud.

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And that's the way it goes with kingdom authority.

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If you feel the need to declare your authority, you missed it

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and that's not godly authority that you're walking in.

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When you're actually carrying heat from heaven,

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people will come and tell you because they'll see it on you.

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They'll experience it in the weight that your words carry,

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you know, even apart from your your notice sometimes.

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Wow, that is a great insight PB. You never have to announce

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your own authority and if you have to announce it, then you

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probably don't really have it. Right. And I've been in those

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environments where people very much very loudly announced

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their authority. They delighted in that and I think sometimes

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they were trying to convince themselves more than anybody

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else. Yeah, and it's one of the probably the distasteful things

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that people wrongly attribute to the church as a broad stroke.

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People maybe who aren't Christians yet or who have had a

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bad experience in church. The mistake is to think that it's

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descriptive of all of church leadership that you know that

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they just come and exert their authority, you know, without

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any reins on it. But man, a true godly leader will speak

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humbly, but his words will carry weight and power

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because he's got the force of heaven behind them. That is so

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true. I just people are flashing in front of my mind that carry

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that but would never tell you they carry that. For example,

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the bishop that I've gotten to know, Bishop Bill, he's an

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Anglican bishop. He's semi-retired from being a bishop

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in a particular jurisdiction, which was in Africa. He's now

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doing other things and we're going to have him hopefully in

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February get him here to come tell some of his amazing global

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stories about what God's doing across the world. But I got to

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know him and he was so unpretentious. He's 74, was 75

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now, but he was 74 when I met him and he was sitting on the

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back row of this large room I was in at a theological

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roundtable retreat and they just went around the room.

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Everybody said, hey, I'm so and so from so on. This is what I

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do. And when he said who he was, you know, I didn't think

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anything about it. You know, I'm an Anglican bishop. I'm like,

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Anglican, what are you doing here? You know, it was kind of

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kind of seemed a little out of place and he was very

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unpretentious in his attire and the way he carried himself. But

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then he ended up in my table group and within minutes of

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sitting with him, I mean minutes, he never had to

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announce his authority. I knew it. I knew I was sitting with a

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general in the kingdom of God. And I use that designation in an

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honorable way to say he has a massive jurisdiction. And sure

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enough, as I got to know him and unpack and hear some of his

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stories, I realized this man really is a general in the

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kingdom of God. He's a mover shaker, a disruptor. I mean,

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he's all the things you want in a leader. And he's 74, has a hip

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issue. I mean, has a hard time getting around and yet this man

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is carrying huge authority. The word authority in the Greek is

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the word exousia and it means conferred authority. You've been

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given or designated and he carries that. And those are the

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kind of people I want to hang around. I hooked my arm through

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his. I said, I'm going to be your friend. I mean, literally,

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and I wouldn't leave his side. I hung out with him the whole

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week, the whole three days that we were there, two and a half

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days we were there. And we've stayed friends. So it's

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beautiful. I can't wait to meet him. Oh man, you'll see what I

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mean when you get around him. Well, you know, I think we live

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in a time in our culture where we desperately need the church.

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We need Christians to walk in true, godly authority. You know,

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I was reading a scripture out of Proverbs 16 the other day

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that I think kind of correlates to this. It's a last or second

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to last verse of Proverbs 16 is verse 32. And it says,

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whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty. And

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he listened to this and he who rules his spirit is greater than

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he who takes a whole city. And that phrase about ruling my

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spirit really jumped off the page when I read that verse. And

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I mean, it was like the Lord was saying to me, there is a way

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that God's people rule and control the spirit that they

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walk into environments in that makes all the difference in,

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you know, really the effect that they have on an entire

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city, according to this scripture. Wow. You know, that

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it's this idea that we're walking in the fruit of the

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spirit of self-control in such a way that God is able to freely

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work through our words and our actions in a way where we're

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not getting in his way. We're ruling our spirit. So we're not

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reacting to the negative things in culture and anger. We're not

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reacting to them and fear. We're not reacting by just trying

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to be louder or, you know, demand that things change

458
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:58,000
because everything's wrong. But there's this sense of that we

459
00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,880
can come in ruling our spirits in such a way under the

460
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:04,800
authority of God where that that peace that we bring into

461
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:08,560
situations is what causes the change, not us coming in and

462
00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:11,040
fighting the same way that that maybe we're being fought

463
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:14,320
against. And there's another verse in that same chapter,

464
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:17,760
chapter 16 verse 7. It says, when a man's ways please the

465
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:21,840
Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. I

466
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:25,600
love that. You know, and I think that's one of the ways that we

467
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,000
cause our ways to please the Lord is that, you know, man,

468
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:31,760
we're not reacting in anger. We're ruling our spirits. We're

469
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:35,200
submitted to God and we understand that we come with his

470
00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:38,800
conferred authority. We carry it wherever we go and we have

471
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:42,480
this promise that God is able and willing to make even our

472
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:45,280
enemies be at peace with us when we show up under his

473
00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:50,560
authority. Wow. Man, I want to back up on that verse 32 as

474
00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:55,600
well, but it bodes in both verses. What does it mean? So,

475
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:58,080
listen, you kind of touched on it. I want to go a little

476
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:00,720
deeper this because if I was listening to us riff on this

477
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:05,040
stuff right now, I'd be saying, okay, I get that, but how do I

478
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:10,800
rule my spirit? So, in he who rules his spirit, whoever's

479
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:13,600
slow to anger is better than the mighty and he who rules his

480
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:17,200
spirit, then he who takes a city. So, what does that look

481
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:20,080
like? You touched on it with the fruit of the spirit, number

482
00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:25,280
nine. Let's stay on that for a minute. Yeah. So, I mean, what

483
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:28,160
immediately comes to mind is the idea of self-control, but

484
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:33,840
not a gritting my teeth sort of I'm gonna control myself, but

485
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:39,360
a recognition that as I am led by the Holy Spirit, as I am

486
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:43,680
submitted to God, that one of the gifts he gives me is the

487
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:49,680
ability to be in control of my thoughts, my emotions, my

488
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:55,360
reactions, and to to do and say what I'm I'm doing with

489
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,720
wisdom, you know, the the wisdom that Proverbs talks

490
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:00,800
over and over and out about throughout the whole book, you

491
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,920
know, it's that, you know, whoever finds wisdom finds a

492
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:06,720
good thing, you know, but wisdom doesn't come when we're

493
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:10,880
all stirred up, spun up, spun out, freaking out, you know,

494
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:15,520
just reacting to everything. Yeah. There's this when I think

495
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,560
of somebody who is ruling their spirit, it's they're they're

496
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:21,600
not reacting. They're responding. Yes. With God's

497
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:26,240
authority. Yes. There's there's almost a holy pause before you

498
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:30,080
react and that becomes a response instead of a reaction.

499
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:33,440
Second Timothy one seven familiar verse for God gave us

500
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:38,160
a spirit not of fear, but of power and love and self

501
00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:41,600
control. Yeah. So, you see it as a fruit of the spirit. Now,

502
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,400
you have it again said basically a spirit of self

503
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:47,760
control. It's a fruit of the spirit and it's a spirit which

504
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:52,160
is so powerful to me that it's not something I've gotta work

505
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:55,680
up but it is something I have to lean into. Yes. I have to

506
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:59,280
receive. I have to accept that. I have to believe that. Yeah.

507
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:02,480
To say, okay, I feel like I'm out of control but my word, the

508
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:06,080
Bible tells me at least two verses right here. One, it's a

509
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:09,440
fruit of the spirit, not a fruit of the flesh, fruit of the

510
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:13,440
spirit. Yeah. And it's a spirit of self control. I've been

511
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:16,880
given that and if I've been given that, then by faith, I

512
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:20,640
can receive it and now by faith, I can employ it. Well,

513
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,920
think about the sermon on the mount, you know, when Jesus is

514
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:26,720
telling these multitudes gathered listening to him

515
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:30,400
teach, he's telling him things like, you know, hey, you know,

516
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:34,480
when your enemy comes against you and forces you to go one

517
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:38,880
mile with them, just go to, you know, if they wanna take your

518
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:41,600
garment, give them your coat too, you know, it's it's what

519
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:44,640
is what is that descriptive of? It's somebody who's ruling

520
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:48,960
their spirit. It's it's not somebody who's not allowing the

521
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:53,200
situation, the person, or the circumstance to take their

522
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:57,200
peace or their ability to to stand in the authority that God's

523
00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:00,080
trying to give them and usually the way that manifests itself

524
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,120
is us coming in the opposite spirit. There it is. Of what's

525
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:08,400
going on. Yeah. In a way that is counterintuitive to the

526
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:11,760
reaction that anybody who's not walking with God would expect.

527
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,640
I used to joke about, that's so on point, I used to joke about

528
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:18,320
the fact that we live in that that God's kingdom is an upside

529
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:21,440
down kingdom, then one day I felt the Lord corrected me on

530
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:24,640
that and he said, no, no, no, my kingdom is right side up, your

531
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:27,200
kingdom is upside down. There you go. And I was like, you're

532
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:30,640
right, Lord, we we do, we live in an upside down kingdom, but

533
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:35,200
the kingdom God is right side up, which is an opposite effect.

534
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:37,840
I'll never forget the first time I heard someone talk about

535
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:40,640
coming in the opposite spirit and it was Robert Owens,

536
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:44,480
Pastor Roberts. Yes. Out of Nevada who said that to our

537
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:47,280
group back in Abilene, yeah, 20 plus years ago. I forgot that

538
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:49,680
that was the origination of that. That's where it came from

539
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:53,040
and that's just like it stuck with you, it stuck with me all

540
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:56,800
these years because that was a word of wisdom. Yeah. And that

541
00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:00,240
is so true. So and you see it all through scriptures. You

542
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:04,160
know, somebody says carry your gear one mile, you carry it two.

543
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:06,080
Somebody hits you on the cheek, you give them the other, it's

544
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:09,120
all backwards. It's all upside down and it is what you said,

545
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:13,040
it's counterintuitive. It's Saul throwing a spirit, David, to

546
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:16,560
try to kill him and then David praying for Saul and coming and

547
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,680
still loving him. Yeah, giving him honor. Giving him honor. When

548
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:23,280
he was not being honorable, honor able. Yeah. You know, able

549
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:27,040
to be honored. So that is so powerful and so yeah, so if we're

550
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:31,360
going to talk about ruling our spirit, then maybe it comes back

551
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:34,560
to taking a holy pause when something happens and saying,

552
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:39,120
how do I counter that? How do I come in an opposite spirit? So

553
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:42,720
I guess on a how to, if we're just going to know about what

554
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:45,520
should we do? Because if I was listening, I'd say, tell me what

555
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:51,840
to do. Yeah. So to me, the doing is taking a step back. Agreed.

556
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:55,680
Instead of just because I mean, it is easy to react. You know, I

557
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:59,200
played sports all my life and you train yourself to react to

558
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:03,280
situations. You train yourself to get back, fight back, make the

559
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:07,040
tackle, whatever you react to the play. I mean, boom, boom,

560
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:10,800
boom, everything's in real time. But then you get in real life

561
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:14,000
and it's not like that. And if you operate that way, you're

562
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,880
going to blow stuff up. Well, your flesh always tries to speak

563
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:20,880
first, right? So if you go with your first reaction to things,

564
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:24,400
you're almost always probably not going to be doing that in the

565
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:26,560
delegated and conferred authority. It comes from

566
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:31,440
there it is. Here's another thing about about authority,

567
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:36,640
just we're riffing all around it, but it just hit me. It never

568
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:41,120
has to get loud. You know, I've been around in Christian circles

569
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:45,760
for a lot of years now and in wide and varied situations and I

570
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:50,160
always realized it dawned on me one time. I was in a situation

571
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:54,320
where this guy was trying to take authority over over a dark

572
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:58,080
thing, like a dark spiritual thing. Yeah. And I noticed he

573
00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:00,960
was getting louder and louder and more intense and more

574
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:04,560
intense. And it dawned on me while I was watching this. He's

575
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:08,720
so insecure in his authority. He doesn't know that he really

576
00:34:08,720 --> 00:34:10,960
believes it. It's like he's trying to talk to himself into

577
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:15,440
it. Exactly. Or convince what's going on that he has

578
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:19,440
authority. And I took a lesson, I took a step back from that,

579
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:23,520
and I remember praying and saying, Lord, if I believe that

580
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:29,680
you've given me true spiritual authority and that I am able to

581
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:34,400
rule, you know, my own spirit and that I have received not a

582
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:37,920
spirit of fear, but of self-control, the holy, if I

583
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:41,680
believe that and I'm truly a believing believer, I'll never

584
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:44,880
have to yell again. Yeah. I won't have to announce my

585
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:48,320
authority when I walk in a room. I want to wear a badge or a

586
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:52,560
tag saying senior pastor or whatever, you know, or you know

587
00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:56,560
what I'm saying? I do. Because to me, I want to take it right

588
00:34:56,560 --> 00:35:01,280
back to where I started. This humility is the most

589
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:08,320
underwhelming, under talked about, under, there's a word I'm

590
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:11,040
looking for, but I can't remember what it is, but it's

591
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:16,720
not ever hardly talked about. Because we see humility as weak

592
00:35:16,720 --> 00:35:21,040
when indeed humility is so confident that it's unshakable.

593
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:23,680
It's a God confidence rather than a self-confidence.

594
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:29,120
There it is. Which means that true biblical humility can at

595
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:33,760
times be misperceived as arrogance, you know, because

596
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:37,600
there's a way to be so confident in the Lord that people

597
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:42,480
don't quite get it at first, like where that's coming from.

598
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:45,920
You know, and so you got to be careful with that, but you know,

599
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,560
you can take humility in a weird direction when it becomes

600
00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:51,920
a false humility of self-deprecation and things like

601
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:54,560
that. That's not what we're talking about. We're not talking about that at all. This is

602
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:58,000
about beating yourself down and calling that being humble.

603
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:02,160
It's recognizing the source. That's it. You know, and staying

604
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,400
submitted. You know, you never got to sit much under

605
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:06,720
Bill Loveless, you know, because you came after, but

606
00:36:06,720 --> 00:36:09,760
a lot of what we're talking about is really what Bill talked about, that one

607
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:13,040
of his things, God is our source. We don't have

608
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:16,080
self-confidence. We operate in Christ's confidence. Those are Billisms.

609
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:20,480
He lives his life through us. Exactly. Innocent through us, and

610
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:24,480
we're just available. We're there surrendered. We're

611
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:27,600
available, and that may be another way to look at this.

612
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:35,600
For me, in terms of walking in authority, it's a fact. I prayed this coming in. I

613
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:39,360
was by myself today, so I had about 16 minutes on the highway, and I always

614
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:43,360
try to pray on my way in like that, and I was saying, Lord,

615
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:47,760
I rest in you today. I rest in who you are today.

616
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:51,520
I'm resting in God today. I rest into your peace.

617
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:57,120
I rest into your wisdom. I just, there was just things I enumerated as I was

618
00:36:57,120 --> 00:37:00,560
and I was using that language, and to me,

619
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:04,640
when you're secure, when you understand who your source is, when your confidence

620
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:09,280
is not in you, it's in Christ, you can rest, and now the

621
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:13,200
labor you do, you labor out of a place of rest.

622
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:17,920
The work you do. That's where this thing gets fun.

623
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:21,200
I had somebody stop me, Kit Patterson, dear friend,

624
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:24,640
dear, dear brother, stop me a couple weeks ago.

625
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:29,520
Kit runs, him and his family run Lucanbach. They're the family of Lucanbach,

626
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:33,760
Hondo Crouch's grandson, and he stopped me. He goes,

627
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:38,320
he goes, man, God is doing so much, Jimmy. Here at the bridge, it was on a

628
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:42,480
Wednesday night. He said, I see you.

629
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:46,880
I said, what do you mean by that, Kit Patterson? He goes, I see you.

630
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:50,800
He said, it'd be easy to get tired, be easy to get run down.

631
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:54,080
He said, I see you, and he meant it in the best way. It was a

632
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:57,120
friend sharpening another friend, iron sharpening iron.

633
00:37:57,120 --> 00:38:01,840
He's very good at that, and he wrote me again this morning, said, I see you.

634
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:06,320
So, to me, it was like the Holy Spirit saying, hey,

635
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:10,080
are you doing this? I had to check myself. I did a checkup today,

636
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:13,280
and that's why I was saying, I rest into you, Lord,

637
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:17,680
because it's easy when God's blessed you with

638
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:21,200
jurisdiction, blessed you with authority, and you know

639
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:26,880
you're walking in that to start to kind of shoulder yourself a little bit,

640
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:30,800
and I found myself getting tired. Yeah, here lately just

641
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:33,840
part of it's because my house is completely torn apart right now.

642
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:36,960
That doesn't help. I'm not resting well in my own home because I'm breathing

643
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:40,960
fumes all night, shellac or whatever they stain, whatever

644
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:45,600
they're doing, but I realized, ah, I'm getting tired

645
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:49,120
because I'm not going back to my source.

646
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:52,560
So, this morning I completely ride the ship on that

647
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:56,240
and said, Lord, I just rest in you. I came in refreshed.

648
00:38:56,240 --> 00:38:59,280
Wow, that's so good. It just took a second.

649
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:03,840
It didn't take hours or two days. It just took recognizing.

650
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:09,120
Scripture says that that humility is really the entry point, the access

651
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:12,240
point to grace at the end of the day. No doubt.

652
00:39:12,240 --> 00:39:14,480
It gives grace to the humble. Yes, he does.

653
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:19,920
And that grace is part of that authority. It's that power, the ability, the

654
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:24,080
authority that we need to rest in whatever he has

655
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:27,200
us doing and not be striving and laboring and straining.

656
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:30,400
Gosh, everything we've said just all dovetails in. I mean,

657
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:34,400
because as you were saying that, I'm thinking it means you're secure

658
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:38,240
in who you are, so you're confident. But the confidence isn't

659
00:39:38,240 --> 00:39:42,400
who you are, it's who he makes you to be. And it's in him because he's the

660
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:45,840
source, not us. And when I get that order right,

661
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:49,760
it clicks and I felt that lift off of me driving in.

662
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:53,440
I just was like, I started laughing out loud, literally in my car. I know it's

663
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:56,240
weird. I'm driving down the road in my SUV

664
00:39:56,240 --> 00:40:00,080
laughing, but I just felt this peace, you know, that peace that passes all

665
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:04,400
understanding that literally guards and garrisons the heart. I just

666
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:07,760
rested in it and I was like, God, you're so good.

667
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:11,760
And all it took was a shift. It just took a nanosecond.

668
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:15,600
And oh man, I remember the days when it would take months to do that.

669
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:21,360
Yeah, you gave the practical wisdom earlier. There's power in pausing

670
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:25,360
and it's not something we're good at these days.

671
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:29,120
We live in a fast-paced, frantic, distracted,

672
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:35,600
you know, one thing to the next culture. There's not a lot of pause, not a lot of

673
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:39,920
built-in opportunities for us to just step back and reflect. It's

674
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:43,120
it's go, go, go. And I think you have to really be intentional

675
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:46,240
if you're going to do that. Brother, you nail it.

676
00:40:46,240 --> 00:40:50,560
I'm looking up something because I want to find this.

677
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:54,320
Yeah, I love that word intentional. That's one of my favorite words in the

678
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:58,880
whole dictionary because

679
00:40:59,920 --> 00:41:04,560
I don't stumble into grace. I don't stumble

680
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into authority. I don't stumble into mercy.

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There's an intentionality that has to happen that we have to

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walk in. I wanted to share this, just some friends that have been

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supporting the podcast, have been encouraging us.

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And before I read that, I just I want to land the plane on this because if

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you're listening today and wherever you are, you may be in

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your car, you may be, who knows, wherever you are

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and you're listening to this, Pastor Brian, I want to encourage you

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that when I said it just takes a nanosecond,

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it's really the truth. What I did when I said,

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Lord, I rest into you, it was literally a step of repentance.

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Repentance for me is pivoting where you are and

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in facing Him again. To return is to reface.

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You face Him again. And I just turned and realized, oh my gosh, running and gunning.

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Things are going, things are snapping and popping at the church. Exciting

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season to be in, Christmas is happening, kitchen cabinets are jacked up, you know,

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just life's happening in very weird real time.

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And it just took my gaze away a little bit. Not on purpose, I mean, I wasn't

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nothing nefarious. And I just realized, whoa, I need to

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reset my gaze. I need to reface Him. I need to return. I need to repent.

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It's a great way to put that. And that's what I did and gosh, it just lifted off.

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And I want to encourage you, you can literally reface, you can

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return, you can repent, you can turn towards Him

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right now. Here's what the temptation and repentance

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is that we're going to spend all of our time talking about the stuff we

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missed or we messed up on. But all that does, that just puts that, that's what

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you're facing. To reface, to return, to repent means to

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literally turn. That's not the star of the show. The star of the show of repentance is you facing Him.

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You look at Him not in fear either that He's going to reject you or spank you.

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You look at Him in love and go, oh God, you're so good. Thank you.

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Thank you. And as you do that by pure physics, you're putting everything

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else behind you. That's right. It's at your back because now you're

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facing Him. And I just connected the dots on that

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this morning. I didn't say, Lord, I'm repenting.

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I just said, Lord, I look at you. I mean, I didn't even go that way. It didn't make,

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it didn't sound very spiritual either. It just sounded like me talking to

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to somebody that's in authority over my life and saying,

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wow, I just rest into you today. You know, what was I doing? I was looking at Him.

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I was gazing. Yeah. Well, you said, you know, you don't

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stumble into grace, right? And that's because it's a product of

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relationship. You don't stumble into a good relationship either.

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I don't know a relationship that's not intentional. For example,

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you and I are both married. It's work, but it's joyful work. And

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sometimes it's hard work. Sometimes it's dying to self, but it's all

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intentional. You have to be intentional. If we're not

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being intentional at it, you can feel the lapse in relationship

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and connection. There'll be a lack of grace in the relationship.

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Oh boy, wherever. We don't want to go there. And so, yeah, we just turn. We

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repent. We reface. We turn to Him and just gaze on Him. And then we

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rest in that. And then He says, hey, you're back. Welcome

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back. Just waiting for your turn. Wow. Well, that's a good Christmas gift to

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give yourself this year is face Him again. Come on. Hey, I want to give some

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kudos to some folks that have been blessing us. Randy Black,

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he has a great website on the Bible. I mean, it's just he reads

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scripture. It's a podcast. And he's just a cool guy, great guy.

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And he blessed us on our last you and I do. I called it the winds of

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change last one you and I did hours before. So thanks, Randy.

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Appreciate it. Adam Curry, he gave us a big boost.

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77,000 sats. Striper boost. Here's Striper Boost.

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That's a striper boost. Adam Curry, we love you. He actually just did.

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I've actually been chatting with him while we're doing the podcast.

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I saw his name come up. So yeah, he said, great. I got another podcast

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to listen to. But he's in Italy right now. Now, I think he's going to be,

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I think they may be in Amsterdam. They're going to be all, this is

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when they travel. I can't keep up with it. But he just did an interview

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with a radio station, talked about his face. And he said, hey, I'm

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talking about his faith and talking about his life and whatnot. They've

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been trying to get him on to do this. So he did that. But they'll be in

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Italy for the next few days over Christmas celebrating his sister's

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birthday. So hey, man, have fun. Curry and the Keeper, check it out.

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They have a great, great podcast. Also Barman. I don't know who Barman

751
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is, but he also boosted us, you and I for that. Thank you. That and

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Adam Curry boosted again. And then Barman, I'm just looking at all the

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names that's here. So yeah, man, just appreciate you guys showing up

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and just being a blessing to us. We want to encourage you. Feel free to

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write us. We want to hear from you. It's great hearing from you, hearing

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what you're going through and what's going on in your life. Share the

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good stuff, the hard stuff. And we're here to pray for you and encourage

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you. Well, listen, we're going to land the plane because we got things to

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do. Thanks for having me back. Absolutely. We got a staff lunch coming

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up. Thank you for joining us today at Living Up in a Down World. That

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is our heart for you to keep living up in a down world. We are out.