"Working The Word Because The Word Works!"

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ś Don't get down when you're seeing the worst

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ś Because the last will be the first

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ś What a day I'm telling you

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ś All things will be new

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ś Living up in a down world

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ś I'm excited to be with you

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ś It is bright and early in the morning

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ś Hey gorgeous how are you doing over there

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ś I'm fired up

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ś I'm excited we're getting to help people live up in a down world

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ś Just getting started

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ś Hey gorgeous how are you doing

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ś Any time you get new equipment you really get excited

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ś New gear

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ś You sure are gorgeous this morning

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I don't want to be gorgeous.

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All right, you're gorgeous.

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Wow.

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Okay, now you're telling all my secrets.

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No, no, no.

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It's not even in the show notes.

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I went off script.

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Cute sounds like what you'd say about Chevy, right?

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Yeah, he is cute, for sure.

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I like the way Tina and Adam open.

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Hello, my love.

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Hello, my queen.

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We can't copy them.

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No, we're not gonna do that.

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But I love that.

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I love that he calls her his queen.

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His queen.

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Hello, my queen.

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But he's got that radio.

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You don't have that, honey.

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Don't do it.

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I do not.

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That sounded really bad.

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I'm so from Texas.

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I'm such a West Texas.

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Adam, I'm so sorry that he did that.

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You have one of the best voices I know.

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He does.

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He really does.

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I'm jelly.

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I'm so jelly over that.

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Yeah, totally jealous.

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Yeah, you should be.

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Yeah, but he's worked on it for 40 plus years.

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That was his...

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And he smoked for years too, so that helps.

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And it didn't...

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What?

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No, it gives it that...

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Ew, smoking is not good though.

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No, it's that nice rasp he has.

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Oh, I don't think...

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I think he's just got...

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I have one right now because of that drainage.

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He's got the best radio voice.

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He went into the right field for sure.

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Totally.

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You know what?

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We listened to nearly two hours of no agenda yesterday.

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I want him to know that we did that.

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Adam, Podfather, Curry, brother.

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It was so good.

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It was amazing.

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We were like cheering.

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I mean, it was like, come on with your bad stuff.

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So now we'll have to figure out how we can keep listening.

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Work it in, yeah.

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Six hours, I don't know, Adam.

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That's a lot.

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That's a lot for us.

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It's a lot, brother.

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It's really good information.

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I would definitely recommend people,

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if they wanna know what's really going on in this world.

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Especially now.

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That's a really good radio or a podcast to listen to.

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No Agenda with Adam Curry and John Dvorak

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and they are just deconstructing all of the misinformation.

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It's a nice way to say it.

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I was gonna say BS.

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Everything is misinformation right now.

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It is the craziest thing.

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It's insanity right now.

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And so yeah, I don't wanna dive off yet into that.

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We'll probably roll into that at some point.

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But first of all, we are living up in a down world.

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This is Pastor Jimmy and Dame Annette,

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affectionately known as.

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And we pastor Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas.

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And we love doing a podcast.

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We decided to do this a while back when Adam and Tina.

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A year and a half ago in January.

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We got to know them and Adam was like,

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you guys are like natural podcasters.

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You should just do it.

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So we just basically bought gear.

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I don't know where he got that from.

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Plugged it in and just started.

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And so we are now on episode number 72 today.

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72.

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They just crossed with a Korean keeper.

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100.

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So yeah, congrats to them for sure.

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There's this amazing too.

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Oh, amazing podcast.

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So do give them a listen.

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And so what's up in your world over there?

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Well, we're being blitzed by the media coverage

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of the DNC, is that what you're calling?

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Yes, the Democratic National Convention.

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I had a DNC when I was young.

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And that kind of feels like that I know.

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No, no, no, TMI, white TMI.

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The DNC is a joke.

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Oh, okay.

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That's what I'm saying.

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It's a joke.

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The Democratic National Convention is a joke right now.

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And what we're seeing is not real.

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And people are buying into things.

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And so yeah, I'm being, yeah.

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I had to correlate it with the DNC I had,

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because it really is the same.

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So I know, what can I say?

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Wow, too early, too soon.

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I know, sorry.

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So yeah, I mean.

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But anyway, your message,

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let's go into your Sunday message.

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Well, let's change gears.

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Okay, we are shifting gears.

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We are.

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We are.

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Podcast whiplash.

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Well, you did.

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Sounds like Adam and Tina.

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Before we do that.

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Oh no, why?

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We wanna invite people to go to our website.

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Oh, you don't wanna do that at the end?

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I'm gonna do it now and at the end.

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Okay, you go ahead.

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To go to our website, Living Up in a Down World.

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Actually, we've received some notes since last week.

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And they're not things I'm gonna read on air,

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because they've got more personal nature.

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But I wanna say thank you for those who wrote in

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and encouraged us also, for Adam Curry.

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Just, you know, Adam, he practices what he preaches.

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And that is value for value.

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That if what we're doing here adds value to you,

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then you can simply add value back.

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One of the main ways you can do that is by giving our link

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out, sending our link to other people who may be encouraged,

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who may be helped by our conversations about God,

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about marriage, about the culture, about this world,

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the Bible, scripture.

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And so if it encouraged and help you,

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then send it out to other people.

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That's one of the best ways you can show value.

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Other ways, go to our website, livingupinadownworld.com.

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Click on subscribe, and that way you'll get

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on our mailing list and you'll know

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when our podcasts are coming.

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But also you can also either through PayPal

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or on any of the platform podcasting 2.0 apps,

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like Cast-O-Matic, you got a face over there.

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We just kinda noticed that we're under a boil use

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for falling water.

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What?

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Yes. Boil.

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Boil use.

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We have boil our water. What if we have RO water?

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It doesn't matter.

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We have to boil our water?

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We have to boil our water due to well issues.

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Oh my gosh.

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Oh, that'll be fun.

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I know.

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We had water this morning, but it was already.

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It's RO water is what we use.

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Yeah, it doesn't matter.

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Really?

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Yeah.

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I thought that takes out everything.

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No, no.

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Anyway.

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Okay, anyway, we digress

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because it's on the surf of the web.

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It just came up as a news flash where we live

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because they're putting in that new well.

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Wow.

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We have to be.

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Okay.

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Due to well issues.

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Oh, nice.

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Yeah.

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We have to boil our water until further notice.

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Wow.

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Yes.

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Yeah, yes.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Yeah, yes.

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Hey, first world problems.

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Yeah.

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Most of the world has to do that just to live

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and don't even have the luxury of it.

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So let's just be thankful, right?

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Yeah.

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So like I said, go to livingupandanddownworld.com.

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Sorry.

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You can show value on any of the podcasting platforms.

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Check out more of the modern podcasting platforms

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like Cast-O-Matic, Fountains, our favorite.

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And you can do value for value on there.

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You can send Satoshis and Boostergrams just to encourage

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and love to hear from you.

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But big thanks to Adam Curry, 77,700.

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K-Y-B-O.

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What?

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I hit the wrong one.

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What are you playing?

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I can't hear.

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I did K-Y-B-O.

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Oh, well.

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That was a striper boost.

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I did the K-Y-B-O.

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Keep your buckets overflowing.

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Keep your buckets overflowing.

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Well, you need to do that too.

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We do need to do that.

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That's for sure.

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That's for sure.

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So anyway, yeah, as far as our week goes

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and what's been going on, man,

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last week was a whirlwind week.

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We talked about it on the show.

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So we came back excited, enthusiastic, but physically tired.

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So yeah, the last part of the week was like recovery.

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Wow.

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But it was good.

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It was amazing.

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It was amazing.

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So you were mentioning Sunday.

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Sunday.

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You were on fire.

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And you got Brian Mandel, Pastor Brian, on fire.

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And the church was lit up second service.

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And faith asked today,

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which service do you want us to put online?

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We were like, second service.

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Because you just lit a fire under everybody

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with just going to the word

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and speaking the word over ourselves

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and living up in a down world, basically.

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That's what it's about, isn't it?

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And it was really, you kind of went back

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to our old roots of walking by faith

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and speaking faith over us,

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speaking faith-filled words over us.

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And it was really powerful.

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Tell me, can I ask you a question?

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Or I want to just give you something to leap off onto.

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For you, in your walk with God through the years,

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what is the difference between a passive Christian life

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and a Christian life that's more active

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and declarative in nature?

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Well, the difference is, okay,

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the joy of the Lord is your strength.

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And the only way you can have joy in the Lord

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is by getting in His word, singing His word,

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worshiping.

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When I'm down, okay, I shared this with you this morning,

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but I think it bears repeating.

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This is how you live up in a down world.

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I remember as a teenager,

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breaking up or being broken up with my boyfriend.

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And as a teenager, you have these songs that...

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Your songs.

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Your songs.

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Yeah, these are our songs

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that are reminiscent of your dating, your courtship.

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And typically, this is what's so sad.

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And I know this for a fact,

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that this happens with a lot of women.

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I don't know about guys,

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but with a lot of teens for sure,

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is we'll, even after we've broken up,

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we'll listen to those songs.

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It'll just get us down and more down.

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And then we'll continue to listen.

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And it's almost like we enjoy being in that place,

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although we don't need to be in that place.

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We need to be in a better place.

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There's a word for that.

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We love to commiserate.

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Yeah, for sure, for sure.

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We just love to wallow in it.

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Yes, we do.

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And so I have found as an adult,

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that when I get down, when I turn on worship music,

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especially worship music that has the word in it.

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Like for instance, today,

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we were listening to Red Rocks worship.

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Oh, I love those guys.

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They're out of Denver, Colorado.

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Yes, and we used to do some of the songs in church

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and we're like, we haven't done these in a while.

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So I was listening to them and it built me.

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I literally felt like I was walking a foot off the ground

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because it was the word of God in song.

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Why do you think Psalms, songs in the Bible

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is about it's songs?

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Right, it's worship.

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And why is it the most lengthy book in the Bible?

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Because if you really think about that,

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that's why we need to surround ourselves with worship.

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Now, last week we surrounded ourselves with the Doobie

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Brothers.

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It wasn't bad.

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It brought back old memories.

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It was fun and nostalgic.

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It's nostalgic, but this is what brings life to me.

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This is what brings joy.

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This is the joy the Lord gives me strength.

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And so we actually went online to see

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if there was a new album and of course there was.

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It was in April and I began to listen to them

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and I'm like, okay, here's some new songs for our church.

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Because we're so inundated with bad press, bad news

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that if we don't pull ourselves up by our boot strings,

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is that the way you say it?

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Bootstraps.

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And put on things that are gonna lift us up,

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we're gonna stay in that down depressive state.

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Whether we're depressed or not,

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it's a depressive state.

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Absolutely true.

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And so I found myself this morning

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just in a whole new place.

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And I feel like that's a word for people,

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especially if you're a Christian.

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If you're not a Christian, you don't understand these things.

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And that's okay, you can get there.

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But if you're a Christian and you're not walking in joy,

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you're not walking in peace, put on some vibrant music,

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not some music that's gonna bring you down,

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worship music that has the word in it

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that is gonna lift you up.

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And it will lift you out of those circumstances.

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So what you were doing Sunday,

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especially at the end of both services,

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you started reading Deuteronomy 28, one through 14.

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And you were reading those and putting that

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in a statement of who we are.

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We're above only and not beneath.

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We're blessed in the city, blessed in the field,

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blessed in the country.

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As you were doing that, our church,

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you could feel the room change.

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You could feel the atmosphere, especially second service.

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And so I just, I think you're onto something there.

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And I think as a church, it's not about being fake.

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It's about allowing the word of the Lord

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to bring us that joy and that faith

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because that's where our faith comes in.

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No kidding.

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It comes by the Romans 10, 17, faith comes by hearing,

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hearing by the word of God.

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And so the more word we get in us,

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the more faith we'll have and we'll know

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we'll be able to discern the times.

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And you use that word, I think on Sunday,

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we've talked about it.

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We need to discern the times.

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We need to like the men of Issachar,

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they discern the times and they knew what to do.

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Do, yes.

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So we need to be discerning.

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But if we're not in the word, we'll discern the wrong,

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we won't have the right discernment, correct?

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Absolutely.

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I would like to read the first part of Deuteronomy 28.

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And I wanna encourage you to jot this down, make a note,

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however you need to remember it.

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It's Deuteronomy chapter 28, one through 14.

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And when you read it, this is what we learn

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gosh, this has been nearly 30 years ago.

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Yeah.

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We learned to read this in a declarative manner

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because this is a promise.

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It was a covenant promise made to Israel,

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made to God's people in those early days,

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but it was attached to in a part of the,

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it's called the Deuteronomy covenant.

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And also out of Genesis 13.

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Which is an everlasting covenant.

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It never goes away.

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That's the point.

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I think that's the problem.

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It is an everlasting covenant,

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which means it's still in, not in vogue,

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it's still enforced today.

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But the problem is as so many churches say,

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we don't even live by the old covenant.

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And that is erroneous.

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I think that's just old news.

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It's erroneous.

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What we need to realize is the power of our words.

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And when we take God's word and make those our words,

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that's a double whammy.

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That's a double shot right there.

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It's like a double shot espresso.

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I mean like, wow, it's a jolt, it's powerful.

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What you say matters.

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And even how you say,

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the spirit in which you say it matters.

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So I'm gonna read this scripture and then we'll just talk.

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I wanna riff on that a little bit

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because I want to teach people how to do this.

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So that when they themselves try to read this

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or start to read it,

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they'll understand the power of these words.

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All right.

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So Deuteronomy chapter 28, starting in verse one.

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It says this.

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Now it shall come to pass if you diligently obey the voice

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of the Lord your God to observe carefully

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all his commandments.

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All or some.

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All his commandments, which I command you today,

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that the Lord your God will set you high above

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all nations of the earth.

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And all these blessings shall come upon you

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and overtake you because you obey the voice

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of the Lord your God.

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Little caveat here on the word blessing.

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What a blessing is by definition is,

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it is an empowerment to prosper.

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Whereas a curse on the flip side of that

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is an empowerment to fail.

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He says all these blessings,

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all this empowerment to have good success and to prosper

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shall come upon you and overtake you because,

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here's why.

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And this is the only reason why.

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Because you obey the voice of the Lord your God.

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There it is.

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Obedience activates blessing.

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It's that simple.

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Obedience, let me say it again, this is important.

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Obedience activates blessing.

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And it's not just because you're a Christian,

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you have that.

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There's the caveat there is you have to walk in obedience.

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Not be perfect.

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Give me a break.

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Because there's only one perfect person

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and he already died and came and he's coming back.

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But you do need to diligently obey.

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You need to, that's an area that we need to keep within us

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that we want to please.

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I love the word please.

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There it is, I love it.

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Versus obey.

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I heard Pastor Allen Jackson say,

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we need to please God.

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I like that better because obey sounds like we're a slave,

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but we are, we're bond servants.

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But the thing is, how about we change that to please?

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Ooh.

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That is a beautiful word.

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And it's not living to please God

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so that we'll somehow get something.

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No.

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That's the mistake.

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No, or get saved.

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Because we're already saved.

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It's a gift.

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We're saved, we're born again.

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We've received Christ as our savior,

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made him the Lord of our life.

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Yes.

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And now we live to please God.

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Why?

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Because he's our father, because he loves us

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and we love him.

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We want to please him.

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Just like I wanted to please my own dad.

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But a lot of preachers that we've heard on TV

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will do this so you can get that.

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That is not this.

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I mean, we do it out of love.

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That fires me up in a negative way.

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It does me too, because that's that prosperity message

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that I don't like.

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God's word.

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Yeah, I don't like any of that.

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I can't stand that.

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That is not this.

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So let me, we'll riff some more off that,

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but let me go for it.

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Blessed shall you be in the city

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and blessed shall you be in the country.

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Blessed shall be the fruit of your body,

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the produce of your ground and the increase of your herds,

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the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.

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Blessed shall you be,

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or blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

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Blessed shall you be when you come in

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and blessed shall you be when you go out.

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The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you

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to be defeated before your face.

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They shall come out against you one way

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and flee before you seven ways.

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The Lord will command the blessing on you

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in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand.

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And he will bless you in the land

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which the Lord your God is giving you.

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The Lord will establish you as a holy people to himself,

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just as he has sworn to you.

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If you keep the commandments of the Lord your God

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and walk in his ways,

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then all the peoples of the earth

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shall see that you are called by the name of the Lord

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and they shall be afraid of you.

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Now it goes on, I'm gonna stop there

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because that's a lot.

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But I wanna just start by saying this,

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somewhere down the line, we bought into the idea

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and the worldview that we're supposed to live

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a passive and weak Christian life.

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When in fact, many, if not most of the events,

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depictions and stories of people in the Bible

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and in our American history,

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that we herald as heroes and saints

542
00:20:18,360 --> 00:20:20,840
for anything but passive and weak.

543
00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:24,200
So the question is this, what happened to us?

544
00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:25,740
Where did we miss the turn?

545
00:20:25,740 --> 00:20:27,400
We became complacent.

546
00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:29,480
Oh, sorry, are you going there?

547
00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:30,740
No, I've got more to read.

548
00:20:30,740 --> 00:20:32,040
Oh, sorry, you keep going.

549
00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:33,280
What happened to us?

550
00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:36,020
Where did we miss the turn?

551
00:20:36,020 --> 00:20:39,780
Who told us to stand down, be quiet,

552
00:20:39,780 --> 00:20:43,060
don't rock the boat, don't make a stink,

553
00:20:43,060 --> 00:20:44,920
get out of the public square?

554
00:20:47,820 --> 00:20:50,820
That's called the passive faith.

555
00:20:50,820 --> 00:20:54,640
And I think, honestly, I have to say this,

556
00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:58,500
a lot of preachers, a lot of churches,

557
00:20:58,500 --> 00:21:01,140
I think we have made the gospel too easy.

558
00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:04,880
Okay, maybe the gospel is easy

559
00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:07,580
because it's supposed to be, but discipleship too easy.

560
00:21:07,580 --> 00:21:10,280
People, we give them a pass.

561
00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:12,620
You don't need to decide, just come to church.

562
00:21:12,620 --> 00:21:16,060
We've told them inadvertently or intentionally

563
00:21:16,060 --> 00:21:20,760
that it's easy, it's free, it doesn't cost you anything.

564
00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:23,000
Just say yes.

565
00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,200
It doesn't cost you everything.

566
00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:26,440
It does.

567
00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:27,800
It's literally laying your life down.

568
00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:31,500
It is, but we've made that too easy

569
00:21:31,500 --> 00:21:35,080
to where I think there's people that think they're saved,

570
00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:37,620
but they're not because they don't think

571
00:21:37,620 --> 00:21:39,840
about God during the week.

572
00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:41,420
They go to church on Sunday,

573
00:21:41,420 --> 00:21:44,060
they might read their Bible every now and then,

574
00:21:44,060 --> 00:21:46,760
but they don't think about pleasing God.

575
00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:53,200
They don't ask God before they make major decisions.

576
00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:55,600
I know that because we've been there.

577
00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:57,400
I've been there.

578
00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:00,000
There's a big difference in who I was before

579
00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,800
and who I am now.

580
00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:04,800
I don't think it's just because I'm older

581
00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:07,340
and don't have much time.

582
00:22:07,340 --> 00:22:11,440
I think it's just because I really got a revelation

583
00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:14,320
and not everybody has a revelation of who Jesus is.

584
00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:17,460
So you and I were talking about this earlier.

585
00:22:17,460 --> 00:22:19,560
This has been an ongoing conversation

586
00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:22,900
and I want you to tell your story

587
00:22:22,900 --> 00:22:24,360
and I'll tell mine, the short version of it,

588
00:22:24,360 --> 00:22:26,800
is that when I was a brand new Christian,

589
00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:29,200
in the fifth grade, I made a decision to follow Jesus.

590
00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:34,220
Now, I was young, I was brand new, I knew zero.

591
00:22:35,420 --> 00:22:37,420
And so I walked in aisle, I checked the box

592
00:22:37,420 --> 00:22:40,620
and I got dunked in a hot tub called the Baptist tree,

593
00:22:40,620 --> 00:22:41,820
but I didn't really know anything,

594
00:22:41,820 --> 00:22:44,320
but something, it lit a fire in me.

595
00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:47,220
It lit a fuse, I'll just put it that way.

596
00:22:47,220 --> 00:22:49,760
And I always say I was introduced to Jesus then.

597
00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:52,200
That doesn't mean I made him my savior and Lord,

598
00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:53,940
but I was introduced to him.

599
00:22:53,940 --> 00:22:55,300
That's the key right there.

600
00:22:55,300 --> 00:22:57,760
A lot of people are just introduced, yeah.

601
00:22:57,760 --> 00:22:59,440
Something happened on the inside of me

602
00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:02,080
where I was so hungry for God

603
00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:05,400
that I would ride a rusty old school bus

604
00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:08,680
that they converted into a church bus to church.

605
00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:11,520
They would pick me up in that old bus every Sunday morning.

606
00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:13,180
Couldn't get my parents to take me,

607
00:23:13,180 --> 00:23:14,480
couldn't get anybody else to take me.

608
00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:17,820
So here I am as a fifth grader going into the sixth grade

609
00:23:17,820 --> 00:23:20,620
and I'm jumping on a bus with a bunch of strangers

610
00:23:20,620 --> 00:23:22,320
who would do that nowadays

611
00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:25,800
because I wanted to be in God's house.

612
00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:29,000
Now, that played out, I was in public school,

613
00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:30,900
the next school year started, I got caught up

614
00:23:30,900 --> 00:23:35,140
and I feel like the enemy just completely threw things

615
00:23:35,140 --> 00:23:36,980
in front of me to get me off track.

616
00:23:36,980 --> 00:23:38,640
Looking back on it, I didn't know it then,

617
00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:40,540
but now as an 18 year old.

618
00:23:40,540 --> 00:23:42,040
What exactly did you do?

619
00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:44,240
As an 18 year old, I really stepped over the line.

620
00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:47,680
This time I accepted Christ as my savior

621
00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:50,760
and declared him as the Lord of my life.

622
00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:53,720
That means I'm declaring him as master, I'm not.

623
00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:55,300
He's God, I'm not.

624
00:23:55,300 --> 00:23:56,760
He's savior, I'm not.

625
00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:59,860
So I did that and at this point,

626
00:23:59,860 --> 00:24:03,560
it's like all of heaven broke loose

627
00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:07,780
and at exactly the same time, all of hell broke loose.

628
00:24:07,780 --> 00:24:11,480
It was like the enemy was doing everything he could

629
00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:13,840
to keep me from pursuing discipleship.

630
00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:15,380
Now here's the interesting thing.

631
00:24:15,380 --> 00:24:17,840
He's out to kill, steal and destroy.

632
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:19,980
So of course, yeah.

633
00:24:19,980 --> 00:24:21,580
So the interesting thing is that

634
00:24:21,580 --> 00:24:23,360
I had no one to disciple me.

635
00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:28,160
This is the last week of my senior year of high school,

636
00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:29,520
so I was moving.

637
00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:31,400
And let's define the word disciple.

638
00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:33,600
You had no one to teach you the things of God.

639
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:36,360
You didn't know how to get in the Bible.

640
00:24:36,360 --> 00:24:37,560
You didn't know how to.

641
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:38,760
You didn't know where to start.

642
00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:39,800
You didn't know where to start,

643
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:40,740
because that's the key.

644
00:24:40,740 --> 00:24:41,580
Where do you read?

645
00:24:41,580 --> 00:24:42,640
What do you do?

646
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:43,800
I mean, this Bible,

647
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:44,980
and I had a King James Version Bible, right?

648
00:24:44,980 --> 00:24:46,640
Okay, that's the biggest.

649
00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:50,580
I can't even understand Elizabethan English.

650
00:24:50,580 --> 00:24:52,720
Exactly, you need a new living Bible.

651
00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:53,560
Something, yeah.

652
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:54,880
Something.

653
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:57,920
And so I had nobody to show me anything.

654
00:24:57,920 --> 00:24:59,160
But here's the deal.

655
00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:01,760
It didn't stop me from pursuing.

656
00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:03,200
There was a hunger.

657
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:06,260
It rekindled that hunger from before,

658
00:25:06,260 --> 00:25:08,760
but this time it was empowered with the Holy Spirit

659
00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:11,700
because I was born again, born of the Spirit.

660
00:25:11,700 --> 00:25:14,700
And I'm telling you, no one could stop me.

661
00:25:14,700 --> 00:25:16,300
I was reading no matter what.

662
00:25:16,300 --> 00:25:18,780
I just opened my Bible and read like Bible roulette

663
00:25:18,780 --> 00:25:20,520
because I didn't care.

664
00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:22,940
It was God's word and it meant something to me.

665
00:25:22,940 --> 00:25:26,720
So I wonder why is there such a difference?

666
00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:28,620
Because even adults, I mean,

667
00:25:28,620 --> 00:25:30,520
I can understand that as a child,

668
00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:34,360
because then we go through hormonal phases as teens,

669
00:25:34,360 --> 00:25:36,020
and we can get off track.

670
00:25:36,020 --> 00:25:38,420
What about adults who get saved and say,

671
00:25:38,420 --> 00:25:42,500
we're ready and I'm on fire and I get baptized

672
00:25:42,500 --> 00:25:45,200
and I want to show, but then I...

673
00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:48,200
You see them leave, you see like there's some people

674
00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:51,080
that have gotten baptized in the last few months

675
00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:52,800
and they're not in church anymore.

676
00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:53,940
What do you think?

677
00:25:53,940 --> 00:25:58,940
Do you think it's because of the weighty things of life

678
00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:00,720
just come in and...

679
00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:01,560
No.

680
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:03,020
Do you think they really got saved?

681
00:26:03,020 --> 00:26:04,060
Here's what I think.

682
00:26:04,060 --> 00:26:07,420
I think people mistake baptism

683
00:26:07,420 --> 00:26:12,300
and making a quote profession of faith for getting saved.

684
00:26:12,300 --> 00:26:16,660
I think they've replaced something that is a heart shift

685
00:26:16,660 --> 00:26:21,680
and a mind shift and a spirit shift with a physical act.

686
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:24,080
The physical act should be an outflow

687
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:26,300
of what's happening internally, not the opposite.

688
00:26:26,300 --> 00:26:28,880
So we'll do things to try to get to God.

689
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:30,340
Oh, then I'm gonna get baptized

690
00:26:30,340 --> 00:26:31,820
because I was baptized as a baby.

691
00:26:31,820 --> 00:26:33,140
We see a lot of that.

692
00:26:33,140 --> 00:26:34,620
We see a lot of that in the Catholic community.

693
00:26:34,620 --> 00:26:36,780
So we have a lot of people that want to be baptized

694
00:26:36,780 --> 00:26:38,160
because they got baptized as a baby.

695
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:39,520
Now they're an adult.

696
00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:41,720
We've actually do now a training class

697
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:45,060
to make sure they understand why they're doing this.

698
00:26:45,060 --> 00:26:46,400
And to clarify that.

699
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:47,500
I almost think you need to do the training class

700
00:26:47,500 --> 00:26:49,540
a month before and see if they're still ready

701
00:26:49,540 --> 00:26:50,960
a month later.

702
00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:51,800
Yeah.

703
00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:53,940
At the end of the day, we're not gonna deny people.

704
00:26:53,940 --> 00:26:56,680
I mean, fill up with the Ethiopian unit.

705
00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:58,040
What prevents me from being baptized?

706
00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:00,080
I know, but here's the thing.

707
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,480
I talked to you about this this morning.

708
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,240
I pulled out an old purse,

709
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,780
a purse that I used about a month ago,

710
00:27:07,780 --> 00:27:11,080
and it had prayer points for our youth

711
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:12,580
that just went on camp.

712
00:27:12,580 --> 00:27:15,060
And I looked at that and I was like,

713
00:27:15,060 --> 00:27:18,760
they got back from camp over a month ago

714
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:22,800
and we had 20 kids get saved,

715
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,800
but how are they today?

716
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:27,540
And I told you this.

717
00:27:27,540 --> 00:27:29,640
Yeah, we needed to pray before they went to camp.

718
00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:31,100
And yes, 20 got saved,

719
00:27:31,100 --> 00:27:34,300
but now is when we need to pray even more

720
00:27:34,300 --> 00:27:36,140
because now they've gone back to school

721
00:27:36,140 --> 00:27:37,840
and let's see if they're really saved.

722
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:38,680
Yeah, this is where they're really.

723
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:39,980
Or did they get caught up,

724
00:27:39,980 --> 00:27:43,440
which is what happens so much of the time

725
00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:46,520
is we'll go to some event camp

726
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:51,520
or a conference or some kind of retreat

727
00:27:52,820 --> 00:27:57,820
and we'll be surrounded by Christian music,

728
00:27:57,820 --> 00:28:00,760
Christians, no outside interference.

729
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:02,520
No phones, your phones are off.

730
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:05,600
No outside interference or influence.

731
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:07,960
And yes, okay, we're ready.

732
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:12,040
And then we get back into our daily routine of life

733
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,080
and then things change.

734
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:19,520
I think that now's the time to start praying

735
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:22,920
for all of those kids or keep praying and not stop.

736
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:25,520
I think that will be a good reminder for this Sunday

737
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:26,720
for our whole church

738
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:28,480
that the church really got behind our students.

739
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,560
They really took this on and we all had,

740
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:33,920
I had two students I was praying for by name.

741
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:37,720
And you reminded me, I've got their names.

742
00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:39,400
I wanna see where they're at today.

743
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:41,660
I wanna know, I'm gonna talk to our youth pastor

744
00:28:41,660 --> 00:28:44,560
and say, are those kids that got saved,

745
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:45,900
how are they doing?

746
00:28:45,900 --> 00:28:48,640
Are you in their lives to help them get disciple?

747
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:51,940
Because that's when you know it's real

748
00:28:51,940 --> 00:28:54,580
is if, okay, they've gone back to school,

749
00:28:54,580 --> 00:28:56,280
it's been almost a week.

750
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:57,580
How are they doing now?

751
00:28:57,580 --> 00:28:59,620
Because it is hard.

752
00:28:59,620 --> 00:29:00,580
It is hard.

753
00:29:00,580 --> 00:29:02,120
I loved camp.

754
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:04,860
I wanted to be at camp 24 seven every day because-

755
00:29:04,860 --> 00:29:06,020
Everybody wants to stay at camp.

756
00:29:06,020 --> 00:29:06,860
Yes.

757
00:29:06,860 --> 00:29:08,060
And that's why people go,

758
00:29:08,060 --> 00:29:11,120
oh, I wish I could work at the church because it's so,

759
00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:13,120
you know, it's fine,

760
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:15,560
but it's really what we do outside of the church

761
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:16,400
that matters.

762
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:17,640
So think about it this way.

763
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:18,840
Once you say yes to Jesus and you really do,

764
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:21,640
you give your heart to Christ, you're like all in.

765
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:24,440
That is when the enemy comes in.

766
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:25,840
And now the battle happens.

767
00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:27,440
And now you've got to,

768
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:31,380
it's the same principle when Joshua took the Israelites

769
00:29:31,380 --> 00:29:33,320
over into the promised land.

770
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:36,520
The land was given to them, promised to them.

771
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:38,360
They still had to fight for it.

772
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:41,720
Once they stepped over, they had to occupy it.

773
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:44,500
And so we still have to occupy territory.

774
00:29:44,500 --> 00:29:47,200
And a lot of that territory are old habits

775
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:48,600
that we have to submit to him,

776
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:50,960
but you got to occupy something to control it,

777
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:54,100
to occupy and then submit, occupy and submit.

778
00:29:54,100 --> 00:29:55,940
And say, all right, I'm going to give this to you God,

779
00:29:55,940 --> 00:29:57,380
because I've owned this.

780
00:29:57,380 --> 00:29:59,000
Now I'm going to give it to you.

781
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:00,540
This habit that drags me down,

782
00:30:00,540 --> 00:30:02,680
this habit that takes me out,

783
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:05,040
I've owned it, but now I'm giving it over to you.

784
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:07,480
So you have to occupy and then release.

785
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:11,660
And confess it to a youth pastor or someone

786
00:30:11,660 --> 00:30:13,420
that they could help you with that.

787
00:30:13,420 --> 00:30:16,120
Because not everybody can just,

788
00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:18,400
okay, I'm not going to look at porn anymore

789
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:19,660
or whatever you do.

790
00:30:19,660 --> 00:30:20,860
It takes-

791
00:30:20,860 --> 00:30:21,700
Porn's a killer.

792
00:30:21,700 --> 00:30:23,260
I mean, let's just be real.

793
00:30:23,260 --> 00:30:24,200
That is taking-

794
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:27,000
Sexual sin is taking everyone out right now.

795
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:27,840
It's unbelievable.

796
00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:29,040
We watched a-

797
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:30,140
A baptism video.

798
00:30:30,140 --> 00:30:30,980
A baptism video.

799
00:30:30,980 --> 00:30:32,440
Great church down in Corpus,

800
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:33,940
baptized a bunch of people.

801
00:30:33,940 --> 00:30:36,840
And all these teens and what was surprising.

802
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:37,680
The girls.

803
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,120
The girls that were hooked on porn, lust, sexual sin.

804
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:41,520
And they were saying, I'm letting go.

805
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:43,220
What they did, the pastor put them,

806
00:30:43,220 --> 00:30:45,020
I can face it right before their bets.

807
00:30:45,020 --> 00:30:47,720
So what were you testifying of basically?

808
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:48,560
What's your testimony?

809
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:49,400
And they'd say,

810
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:50,220
I'm letting-

811
00:30:50,220 --> 00:30:51,060
Or what are you letting go of?

812
00:30:51,060 --> 00:30:52,400
I'm letting go of pornography.

813
00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:53,460
I'm letting, and we're like,

814
00:30:53,460 --> 00:30:54,700
I'm letting go of lust.

815
00:30:54,700 --> 00:30:55,760
These were like kids.

816
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,560
These were young people that are inundated

817
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:00,600
because of these screens that are so accessible.

818
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:02,980
It's the screens, it's what's the magazines,

819
00:31:02,980 --> 00:31:04,100
it's TikTok.

820
00:31:04,100 --> 00:31:04,940
It's everything.

821
00:31:04,940 --> 00:31:05,780
It's-

822
00:31:05,780 --> 00:31:06,940
So this onslaught,

823
00:31:06,940 --> 00:31:09,080
but it's also pastors falling to this.

824
00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:10,880
It's everyone.

825
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:13,020
I mean, this is so rampant.

826
00:31:13,020 --> 00:31:13,840
It is.

827
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:16,460
And because our culture is so sexualized.

828
00:31:16,460 --> 00:31:18,180
Now I'm not going to dive off in a hole here

829
00:31:18,180 --> 00:31:19,680
because we need another hour show.

830
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:20,520
Right.

831
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:21,920
But, so let's get back to our original point.

832
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:24,020
But what I'm saying is,

833
00:31:24,020 --> 00:31:25,760
you need to be able to confess that.

834
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:28,460
And I love that those teens did that.

835
00:31:28,460 --> 00:31:29,300
Oh, it's beautiful.

836
00:31:29,300 --> 00:31:31,960
So now the pastors that heard that

837
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:33,740
can go to them and say,

838
00:31:33,740 --> 00:31:34,740
okay, how are you doing?

839
00:31:34,740 --> 00:31:36,140
And the parents, and friends,

840
00:31:36,140 --> 00:31:36,980
and everybody else.

841
00:31:36,980 --> 00:31:37,800
How are you doing?

842
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:38,640
What can I do to help you?

843
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:39,480
Yeah, not just pastors.

844
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:40,300
Right.

845
00:31:40,300 --> 00:31:41,140
It's not all on the pastors.

846
00:31:41,140 --> 00:31:44,420
Anybody that they allow in their lives is what I mean.

847
00:31:44,420 --> 00:31:48,340
But leaders that won't take advantage of them, hello,

848
00:31:48,340 --> 00:31:49,460
because there are those too.

849
00:31:49,460 --> 00:31:51,980
But that can say, what can we help?

850
00:31:51,980 --> 00:31:55,820
How can we help you with this?

851
00:31:55,820 --> 00:31:57,660
You know, eradicating this from your life.

852
00:31:57,660 --> 00:31:58,500
Yeah.

853
00:31:58,500 --> 00:31:59,320
Because it's,

854
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:02,560
the enemy knows your weaknesses

855
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:04,640
and he will come at you with those weaknesses.

856
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:05,460
Absolutely.

857
00:32:05,460 --> 00:32:06,300
The Achilles tendon.

858
00:32:06,300 --> 00:32:08,240
And it doesn't matter if you've been a pastor

859
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:10,300
for 41 years like you,

860
00:32:10,300 --> 00:32:13,000
or in the ministry 30 years like me,

861
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,420
or two hours.

862
00:32:15,420 --> 00:32:19,440
The enemy will come at you however he can

863
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:22,380
to get you to deny your faith.

864
00:32:22,380 --> 00:32:23,220
Yeah.

865
00:32:23,220 --> 00:32:26,160
And to get you to use a word that we're using a lot,

866
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:27,660
capitulate, give over to,

867
00:32:27,660 --> 00:32:28,500
which is what that means.

868
00:32:28,500 --> 00:32:29,320
It means to give up.

869
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:30,620
And then you walk in shame.

870
00:32:30,620 --> 00:32:33,660
And God wants to take that shame away.

871
00:32:33,660 --> 00:32:36,500
But you have to have a mindset of,

872
00:32:36,500 --> 00:32:39,300
I wanna please God so I'm gonna avoid this.

873
00:32:39,300 --> 00:32:40,500
But it does take time.

874
00:32:40,500 --> 00:32:41,340
It is so hard.

875
00:32:41,340 --> 00:32:42,180
So let's go back to where we started.

876
00:32:42,180 --> 00:32:44,540
And that is using God's word.

877
00:32:44,540 --> 00:32:45,380
Yes.

878
00:32:45,380 --> 00:32:47,780
To become, as the Bible calls it,

879
00:32:47,780 --> 00:32:49,980
it's the sword of the spirit,

880
00:32:49,980 --> 00:32:51,820
which is the word of God.

881
00:32:51,820 --> 00:32:54,580
And so now we gotta take that word,

882
00:32:54,580 --> 00:32:56,160
and we've said this for years,

883
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:57,480
the word works.

884
00:32:57,480 --> 00:32:58,980
But you gotta work the word.

885
00:32:58,980 --> 00:33:00,420
So how do you work the word?

886
00:33:00,420 --> 00:33:03,220
So let's land on this because I think this is,

887
00:33:03,220 --> 00:33:04,520
this is gonna be helpful

888
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:05,960
because we could go all day on this topic.

889
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:07,640
I mean, literally.

890
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:10,600
What we did and we learned years ago

891
00:33:12,060 --> 00:33:15,040
is we took Deuteronomy 28, the first 14 verses,

892
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:18,740
and we just broke it down into little bite-sized chunks.

893
00:33:18,740 --> 00:33:21,720
What I do is I copy and paste onto a note on my computer,

894
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:23,340
and then I can separate the scriptures

895
00:33:23,340 --> 00:33:25,580
and I can manipulate them in terms of being able

896
00:33:25,580 --> 00:33:26,920
to read them one at a time,

897
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:30,120
as opposed to just this big group of scriptures.

898
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:33,160
And I just go down the list and I say it this way.

899
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:34,620
I'll say, Father, I thank you

900
00:33:34,620 --> 00:33:37,360
that you have made me to be the head and not the tail,

901
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:39,620
above only and not beneath.

902
00:33:39,620 --> 00:33:40,920
I'm blessed coming in.

903
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:42,200
I'm blessed going out.

904
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:43,740
I'm blessed in the city.

905
00:33:43,740 --> 00:33:45,260
And I am blessed in the field.

906
00:33:45,260 --> 00:33:49,440
As the enemy comes at me one way, he must flee seven ways.

907
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:50,540
And why am I blessed?

908
00:33:50,540 --> 00:33:52,340
Because I obey the voice of the Lord.

909
00:33:52,340 --> 00:33:54,700
And that's a short version of what I do.

910
00:33:54,700 --> 00:33:57,240
I use, I do a lot of, you've got a face going on.

911
00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:58,480
You're reading emails.

912
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:00,020
No, no, just go ahead.

913
00:34:00,020 --> 00:34:02,920
It just keeps popping up more stuff with the boil.

914
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:06,860
So it's kind of like now they're offering bottled water.

915
00:34:07,820 --> 00:34:08,960
It's not good.

916
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:10,320
We need to make sure we're okay.

917
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:11,400
But anyway, keep going.

918
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:12,860
No, I don't do that.

919
00:34:12,860 --> 00:34:14,960
Because really I'm listening to what you're saying.

920
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:16,500
It just popped up.

921
00:34:16,500 --> 00:34:17,740
Okay, so.

922
00:34:17,740 --> 00:34:18,700
I'm gonna turn it off.

923
00:34:18,700 --> 00:34:20,200
Thank you.

924
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:21,040
Thank you.

925
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:21,860
Pretend we're at lunch or something.

926
00:34:21,860 --> 00:34:22,700
Yes.

927
00:34:22,700 --> 00:34:23,800
Oh no, then I'd be on my phone.

928
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:24,640
No, I'm just kidding.

929
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:25,480
I know you would be.

930
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:26,300
It's a joke, no.

931
00:34:26,300 --> 00:34:27,140
But keep going.

932
00:34:27,140 --> 00:34:28,300
Because this is what we do.

933
00:34:28,300 --> 00:34:30,740
We take God's word and we work the word.

934
00:34:30,740 --> 00:34:32,920
And when we work the word, it has power

935
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:34,620
because what you say matters.

936
00:34:34,620 --> 00:34:36,980
And the spirit in which you say it matters.

937
00:34:36,980 --> 00:34:38,680
If you just read it, that's one thing.

938
00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:40,120
But when you declare it.

939
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:42,220
It's because you're bringing it inward.

940
00:34:42,220 --> 00:34:44,120
You're not just saying it as words.

941
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:46,820
You're taking it to heart.

942
00:34:46,820 --> 00:34:48,160
And that's the key.

943
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:49,400
Keep going on that.

944
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:50,760
Because I wanna look up a scripture.

945
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:52,300
I'm gonna find it real quick.

946
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:54,440
How do you do it?

947
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:55,260
That's how I do it.

948
00:34:55,260 --> 00:34:56,440
I used to do it around 20.

949
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:57,640
What are other scriptures or things

950
00:34:57,640 --> 00:34:58,940
that pop into your mind?

951
00:34:58,940 --> 00:35:00,140
Just in your random prayers.

952
00:35:00,140 --> 00:35:02,300
Well, no weapon formed against me shall prosper.

953
00:35:02,300 --> 00:35:04,780
And every tongue that rises against me,

954
00:35:04,780 --> 00:35:06,240
you shall show to be in the wrong.

955
00:35:06,240 --> 00:35:07,420
That's Isaiah 54.

956
00:35:07,420 --> 00:35:08,880
Yeah, that's one.

957
00:35:09,980 --> 00:35:11,980
For by his stripes I'm healed.

958
00:35:11,980 --> 00:35:13,880
Because I've got some knee issues right now.

959
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:16,320
And I pray that constantly.

960
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:18,260
So we call it standing on the word.

961
00:35:18,260 --> 00:35:19,360
Standing on the word.

962
00:35:22,060 --> 00:35:23,260
I'm looking up a scripture.

963
00:35:23,260 --> 00:35:26,800
That's why I'm the confession of your faith.

964
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:28,060
I love this scripture.

965
00:35:29,900 --> 00:35:33,600
That with by your mouth you speak.

966
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,140
But what is it?

967
00:35:36,140 --> 00:35:37,180
I know what you're talking about.

968
00:35:37,180 --> 00:35:38,180
I know exactly what you're,

969
00:35:38,180 --> 00:35:40,880
but by confession, I don't know this.

970
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:42,080
I don't know the...

971
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:48,820
Okay, that's called dead air.

972
00:35:48,820 --> 00:35:49,660
That you're supposed to be...

973
00:35:49,660 --> 00:35:50,820
Oh, sorry, I'm thinking.

974
00:35:50,820 --> 00:35:51,820
I'm trying to think.

975
00:35:51,820 --> 00:35:52,860
Hebrews 10 23.

976
00:35:52,860 --> 00:35:55,060
It says this, let us hold fast.

977
00:35:55,060 --> 00:35:56,800
The confession of our hope.

978
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:58,200
Yeah.

979
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:01,300
The Bible word means expectation.

980
00:36:01,300 --> 00:36:03,360
Joy and confident expectation.

981
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:06,200
So let us hold fast the confession of our hope

982
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:10,380
without wavering for he who promised is faithful.

983
00:36:10,380 --> 00:36:12,940
And so that's the principle right there.

984
00:36:12,940 --> 00:36:14,380
We hold fast to that.

985
00:36:14,380 --> 00:36:16,440
The whole fast means to hang on to

986
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:17,880
the confession of our hope.

987
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:20,320
And so take God's word, use God's word,

988
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:23,180
employ it and then deploy it into your life

989
00:36:23,180 --> 00:36:24,920
and into the atmosphere.

990
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:27,820
And it'll make a massive difference in your life.

991
00:36:27,820 --> 00:36:31,400
All right, so from a carnivore thing,

992
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:32,860
I'm not gonna spend time on this,

993
00:36:32,860 --> 00:36:34,200
but this is important.

994
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:37,200
This is our little carnivore corner.

995
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:40,500
We are on day 410.

996
00:36:40,500 --> 00:36:41,340
Wow.

997
00:36:41,340 --> 00:36:42,740
We both went to the doctor yesterday.

998
00:36:42,740 --> 00:36:46,280
I had my blood panel done and you had your knee looked at.

999
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:47,940
So we were sitting there together

1000
00:36:47,940 --> 00:36:50,480
and she's looking at my blood panel and she's like,

1001
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:52,520
gosh, everything here looks amazing.

1002
00:36:54,020 --> 00:36:55,820
And I said, well, it's because we're on carnivore.

1003
00:36:55,820 --> 00:36:57,320
And she goes, you know what?

1004
00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:00,920
I have a lot of patients on carnivore

1005
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:02,120
and they're all doing well.

1006
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,860
I am ready to start looking into it for myself.

1007
00:37:04,860 --> 00:37:05,700
Our own doctor.

1008
00:37:05,700 --> 00:37:07,400
Finally, finally.

1009
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:10,160
I mean, this is, I have a doctor in San Antonio

1010
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:13,740
that's okay, but this one is in Fredericksburg.

1011
00:37:13,740 --> 00:37:16,100
She's our PA in Fredericksburg.

1012
00:37:16,100 --> 00:37:18,740
And it was nice to hear someone instead of saying,

1013
00:37:18,740 --> 00:37:20,380
no, you need to get back on statin.

1014
00:37:20,380 --> 00:37:21,380
You need to get back on.

1015
00:37:21,380 --> 00:37:24,440
She was asking me, so, oh, I see you have prescriptions here.

1016
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:27,020
You're on ulcer, no, no, no, no.

1017
00:37:27,020 --> 00:37:29,220
You're on simisatin, no.

1018
00:37:29,220 --> 00:37:30,720
She said, you're off all those?

1019
00:37:30,720 --> 00:37:31,560
You're on this?

1020
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:32,880
No, I'm off.

1021
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,120
I mean, totally off of everything.

1022
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:36,160
She's like, wow.

1023
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:39,300
And then of course, and then anyway,

1024
00:37:39,300 --> 00:37:43,160
it's just interesting when a doctor notices and says, wow.

1025
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:45,600
And I literally don't wanna go to a doctor

1026
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:47,040
that says get off of it.

1027
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:48,240
Oh, for real.

1028
00:37:48,240 --> 00:37:49,280
We feel too good.

1029
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,200
I think what's happening with my knee is an injury,

1030
00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:52,440
which is totally different.

1031
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:53,580
That's different.

1032
00:37:53,580 --> 00:37:55,540
It's called doing two deep squats.

1033
00:37:55,540 --> 00:37:56,380
No, I don't know.

1034
00:37:56,380 --> 00:37:58,020
I think it's from that injury.

1035
00:37:58,020 --> 00:37:59,620
Or it could be from weights

1036
00:37:59,620 --> 00:38:02,260
because I've, it could be my leg presses too.

1037
00:38:02,260 --> 00:38:03,080
So who knows?

1038
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:03,920
Well, that too, yeah.

1039
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:05,280
I know it does, but anyway,

1040
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:08,120
I think it's just an injury and overuse, but we'll see.

1041
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:09,220
I'll go back tomorrow.

1042
00:38:09,220 --> 00:38:12,260
But the thing is, is we feel great.

1043
00:38:12,260 --> 00:38:17,260
And when we eat heavy protein, it just builds us up.

1044
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:19,440
Meat, beef, fat.

1045
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:20,600
I mean, it's all good.

1046
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:22,240
So if you have questions about carnivore,

1047
00:38:22,240 --> 00:38:25,440
write us at livingupinadownworld.com.

1048
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:28,840
We call it a three-part, it's a three-leg stool.

1049
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:31,280
Mind, body, and spirit.

1050
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:33,580
And when those are in balance, life is good.

1051
00:38:33,580 --> 00:38:35,920
I'm just saying life is good.

1052
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:37,880
Or as Dr. Kilt says, life is good.

1053
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:39,480
God is good.

1054
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:40,320
Keep the faith.

1055
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:41,160
I love him.

1056
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:43,120
He's a wild man for Jesus.

1057
00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:46,520
68 years old, nearly 69 now.

1058
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:47,760
And he is going strong.

1059
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:50,860
He's been a carnivore for like 15 years and he is a beast.

1060
00:38:50,860 --> 00:38:52,100
He's awesome.

1061
00:38:52,100 --> 00:38:54,840
So anyway, that's just what's going on with us.

1062
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:56,240
We love you guys.

1063
00:38:56,240 --> 00:38:58,840
Thank you for listening and thank you for reaching out.

1064
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:00,500
It was great hearing from you.

1065
00:39:00,500 --> 00:39:01,740
If you've never written this,

1066
00:39:01,740 --> 00:39:03,880
I'm gonna give you an assignment, super simple.

1067
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:07,220
Go to livingupinadownworld.com and just write us a note.

1068
00:39:07,220 --> 00:39:09,040
Let us know where you're from.

1069
00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:12,380
It's, I love getting emails and notes.

1070
00:39:12,380 --> 00:39:13,760
Okay.

1071
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:15,960
I love getting emails and notes from people

1072
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:18,360
outside the country, outside our community,

1073
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:19,520
in our community.

1074
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We just love hearing from you because it matters.

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The fact that you're listening,

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fact that you're tuning in is huge for us.

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We just got a rig, thanks to Adam Curry,

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where we now have two studio options,

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where we can be at home with our studio

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or we can be at our church with our bigger studio,

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but we now have a portable studio.

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So we're gonna be able to do our podcast

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much more consistently because we wanna be with you.

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We wanna encourage you.

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That is our heart.

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And I want you to know something.

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God is for you.

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He's not against you.

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He is for you.

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And so I wanna end with this scripture,

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Ephesians chapter two, verse 10.

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It says this, for we are God's masterpiece.

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He has created us a new in Christ Jesus

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so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.

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So I wanna just encourage you today,

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Annette does as well, that we are here for you.

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That's Ephesians 2.10.

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Check it out in the New Living Translation.

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Whatever we can do to encourage you on your journey

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and help you live up in a down world,

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help you to live with a biblical worldview

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and engage your culture head on

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because we do not live by fear.

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We live by faith in Jesus' name.

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Have a great week.

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God bless.

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I'mации am