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Weakness · Outcast

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All right, welcome back. Thank you for those that have
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been listening and for those that are new, welcome and that
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before we start, we always pray. So let us pray.
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Lord, thank you for everything. Just the freedom that we have
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here guide us and lead us into the absolute truth.
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For there's no one greater than you.
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Amen. Amen.
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Amen. Yeah.
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You know that song? We grew up hearing it.
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It's like. Which one?
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Like this is gonna be in Spanish but to translate it it the name
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of the song is Yagin la re compenza.
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Yeah. Yeah, and then in English it's
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sometimes like he's singing. He's like, sometimes I feel
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weak. It's messing to devil Avez is no
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quiero Escalade. Like I don't want to keep going.
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And then he goes on. I lift up my hands.
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It's lanto me manos El cielo E con cristo.
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I forgot. I forgot how the rest goes.
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Basically. He's like, sometimes I feel
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weak. I don't feel like going.
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I just lift up my hands. Pretty much that's what he's
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saying. Question is, should a Christian
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feel weak? Should a Christian feel weak?
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See scripture. But here's the thing.
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When Paul speaks about weakness, what does he mean?
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Like when he says when I'm weak, I am strong.
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Meaning like what? Like in in in his desires of the
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flesh. And he's able to overcome that
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and deny that because of Christ. So it's in what we before it's
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in Second Corinthians 12. 2nd Corinthians 12.
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Yeah, now let's. It's titled here A Thorn in the
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Flesh, but that's besides a point.
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Yeah, some conclude that he was suffering with a much lust or
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something. Some conclude he had a sickness
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in his eye, he had stomach issues.
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They conclude too many things. But for example, you and I, if
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we have, we have. A man has a desire, right?
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How can that be a thorn in the flesh?
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That's something that because of the disobedience, Yeah, Adam and
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Eve had, right. Our bodies then are acting
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opposite to what they should have acted in the Garden of
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Eden. Yeah.
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Yeah. The side effect, right?
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So you can't really call that a thorn in the flesh, not because
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with or without God, you still have that desire.
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Because right? If you decide to follow him or
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not, you still have that desire. Because, yeah, because it says
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that a messenger of Satan was sent well.
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That's something different. But but what do you mean about
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weakness? This is Messianto that for those
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who don't know Spanish, it means sometimes I feel weak avesus
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sometimes. Avesus noqueros calaria.
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So my question to you is like, should a Christian feel weak or
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is he exempt from feeling weak? Or are there moments of that he
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feels weak and what? And if so, what does that mean?
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Is it the Flash or is it his own spirit that's weak?
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Right, I get what you're saying. I do.
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I do. I do you know what I mean?
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I. Do I do understand now when he
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sings that song? Yeah, that song is is in
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Spanish. Yeah, yeah, it's a good song
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too. It's it's basically about like
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sometimes I'm weak, but I lift my hands.
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Yeah. And it says, yeah.
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Vienna, La recompense. I mean, the recompense is coming
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soon. Yeah.
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Yeah. But we know as Christians,
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Christ, Christ is coming. If that meets us, we go to him
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either way, right? Yeah.
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So meaning like in the aspect of like of like man, this is
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getting heavy. But what does that mean?
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Because our modern time, like the modern time that we live in,
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are completely different times than even 500 years ago.
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Completely different. You can say that they had a hard
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life. Their life was a little bit
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more. It's a little harder.
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I mean, didn't have technology to facilitate.
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Wow. Facilitate things, right.
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Wow. That was great for we have
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transportation in different forms.
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Yeah. Train car.
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Yeah. Flying.
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We have Internet now, so we are connected all together, right?
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Social media, you can be known and not known.
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Technology helps us with work. Yeah, education.
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Right. So if you really think about it,
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what's so tough about our times? If you really think about.
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It tough I guess I mean. In in in that regard right now.
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Could it be that we are so comfortable?
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No. No, no.
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Like the fact that I mentioned the technology now in our time,
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you would you would think that'd make things easier.
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Right you. Should feel at ease, right?
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You should feel, yeah. Right.
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Yeah, OK. But that doesn't seem the case,
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does it? No.
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We're talking in general it seems like believers and non
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believers. Yeah, because it seems like it's
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getting worse, if anything. Yeah.
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No, non believers and believers. A non believer and a believer
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still struggle with lust or have this desire a man or a woman,
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right? If it's not just that, then you
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know you are attracted to your same sex.
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If it's not that, then you know you think you are of your
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opposite sex and so on and so many different things.
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Right, right. But then you also have to
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question, well, what we have the technology, shouldn't it make
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our lives a lot easier? It sure, Yeah.
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No. Yeah, you would think so, yeah.
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You would think so, yeah. Based on how things were back, I
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would even say 304 hundred years ago.
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Was that that far? I mean, right, right.
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In retrospect, in the universe, this was just couple
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microseconds. Yeah.
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To us, it was just a 403 hundred years ago.
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Yeah, 403 hundred years ago. So you would think it would make
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things easier in a lot of ways. But we, you know, I'm speaking
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in general, believers and unbelievers, we suffer.
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There's still sickness, even though technology advances,
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things start to become a little bit more dull and you become
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numb to them because some people either will be like, well, this
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is how the world is and that's how they deal with it.
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And others, they want to deal with it.
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And then they feel the anxiety and all these things.
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Right, right. I don't know if scripture says
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this, but I remember reading a book a while ago that when
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mankind like acquires more knowledge every time it just it
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just brings more sorrow. Oh yeah, Solomon said that.
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Yeah, okay, He said okay, Yeah, yeah.
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More knowledge comes more sorrow.
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Yeah. And that's that's literally,
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that's literally what happening. The more we acquire knowledge.
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And by knowledge that also implies technology advances.
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That's more knowledge. Yeah.
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Yeah. That brings sorrow.
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Why? Because medicine advances.
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And if medicine is going to advance, there also is people
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around the world who are wicked that will cause a type of
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medicine that will get you addicted.
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So that's so sorrow technology can cause because you're always
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on the computer, your posture is different.
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You are doing an action that's not very natural to your body.
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You're looking at the screen, right?
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That emits a lot of lighting, messes up your eyes, vision just
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just by physical. It brings sorrow, not mentioning
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emotionally having access to information, having you can see
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nudity at any given time. You can bully anyone through the
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technology you you can become rich if you want at that, at A
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at a rapid at a rapid rate, you can go.
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You can go really fast. Yeah, you could grow a lot more.
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So technology speeds things. It does, yeah.
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So it just compounds and it compounds and it compounds,
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Yeah. So our times are essentially
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different. Yeah, very different. 1600 years
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ago, they're just different. That being said, when a
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Christian says I feel weak but what does that mean?
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Right. Like what does he mean right?
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Right, because the non believer also feels weak.
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Some of them don't even care. Yeah.
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Some of them enjoy the weakness. They don't even know that that's
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a weakness. It's just I'm a man that could
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do whatever I want. Yeah.
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Yeah. But when you then acquire not
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like what Luke says, you say you were going to read something in
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Luke's. Like when you know something,
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you now know something of greater responsibility that will
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now be accounted to you. So when you learn more, and you
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learn more not just in the world but with God, God also keeps
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that into account. You know better.
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Yeah. No, no, it does.
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No, Luke does talk about that. Says much more is given to you,
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much more is required. Yeah, that is in the.
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Book of Luke yeah that's something to that deals with you
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and God as you draw near close to him and he draws near close
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to you in the world. That's the same thing.
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Just the knowledge is just bring sorrow.
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No, it does. So when I, when I ask you like,
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OK, well, should a Christian not feel weakness or you're just
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misinterpreting that and you're just exposing yourself too much
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that you, you what Christ says if you have a right hand that
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causes you to sin, chop it off or take your hand out.
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Right, right. So basically Christ is saying
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like, there's what? There's no excuse.
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Like if you know this causes you to sin, what should you do?
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If you proof screen time is because, you know, you want to
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cut that out. If you get a flip phone and it
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doesn't always have to deal with pornography, it could deal with
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something else. You're just scrolling all the
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time or you're on the phone all the time and the flip phone
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minimizes that. This is an example, right?
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It's just there's so many things now in our time that when you
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say go, well, no, I'm not saying you're not supposed to feel
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weakness. You're going to feel weak.
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Yeah, yeah. I mean, you're, you're, you're
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still in this E mortal body that that it's receiving signals from
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your brain, right, right. For your spirit of your soul.
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Yeah. And the question is if you feel
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weak those times of weakness. Now I don't want to compare it
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to the one that Paul talks about here.
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This is. No, that's different.
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That's different. But there's there, it is
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different in the aspect of why this was happening to him versus
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what happens to a regular believer.
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Mm Hmm. But there is insight.
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There's a there's a certain area of this story that you can grasp
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of a little information in regards to when you feel weak,
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right? Question it.
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So what I'm trying to say the question is, is when you feel
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weak, like are you walking side by side by the spirit by side?
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Are you walking by the Spirit and by the Spirit meaning the
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Holy Spirit? Yeah.
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Yeah, exactly. Or or you're not like when you
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feel weak? Like sometimes I feel weak.
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Is it because you're distracted or you that I'm not implying
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that you're never going to feel weak because you are.
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I mean, you we're we're so vulnerable.
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Right. Right.
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Go stand in front of a car, you get killed.
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Yeah. So we're already vulnerable.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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You know, we can be broken easily.
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But when he says sometimes I feel weak, is it because you
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don't want to continue with cut? Is that the weakness you're
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talking about? Because in the song it says
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yeah, the recompense is coming. Yeah.
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Meaning. Meaning is and so in the song,
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the premise of the song is that holding onto the fate.
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Yeah, that's the premise of the song.
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Holding onto the fate. So what does that mean in
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weakness, then? If, if, if, if it means like,
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for example, what if we're persecuting?
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We're caught. And, you know, they're telling
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us to choose between 1:00. That's a moment of weakness,
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too. It is.
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Yeah. And we have to, like, give each
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other like, oh, man, I feel weak in this moment.
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But the recompense is coming, right?
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So when when a believer says I feel weak, what does that mean?
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Is it that you don't want to continue in the faith?
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You're having a hard time with the faith?
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Or is it just you being weak and you think you are being, if you
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will, but unloyal or a sense of guilt or or you just feel like
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oh man, right, Like. But do you think those variables
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are are bad or? No, I think though.
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I think, I think I, I don't. I don't want to say anything.
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I'll tell you right now. There has never been a moment,
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all right, Like, you know, that experience in the plane I told
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you that I've never experienced before because I've gone, I've
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flown before. But that time where that wasn't
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normal. And I don't want to talk about
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it too long because just we just.
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But at that moment I didn't, I didn't talking God or anything
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like that. Yeah, no, it just, it was, it
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reminded me of how in how how we think we're invincible and we're
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not. We're just.
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We're just not. Right, right.
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And at that moment, it's not that all that was happening
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because I needed a God to, like, make something happen.
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No, no, it's just, it's just it reminded me that I'm human,
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yeah. That I'm vulnerable, right?
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That I could die, right? So to me, that was a moment of
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humiliation, right? Yeah, yeah.
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But see, in order for me to have experienced humiliation, I had
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to also feel weak at that moment.
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But not weak because I didn't trust in God, not because I
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didn't have faith in him. Weak because like, I recognize
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that I'm not invincible. Yeah, Yeah.
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No, that's true. That's true.
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Right. So if you could apply that in
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everything and now you're asking like, well, in what variables
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does that mean? To be weak.
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Yeah. I mean, what about in, in the
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aspect of like, for example, someone that does not, they
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don't doubt God. They don't doubt God, Right.
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But things of life start coming their way.
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The flesh is involved in everything.
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Moments like that where they're just like, wow, this is heavy.
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Yeah. You know, like moments like
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that. But they don't doubt God.
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I do you think like maybe like a like for example, when I hear
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that song, it reminds me of that like for example, moments in
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which like I'm following God, why I still am following God,
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but I don't doubt him. No, no way.
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He, you know, but like moments where I give like I let go of
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things because I do want to get closer to God.
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And then, you know, the weight is there.
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But thanks to Christ, Christ that strengthens me.
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I'm. Can you, I'm sorry, can you
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explain that a little better? I'm just trying to.
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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm trying to understand.
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So I'm being, I'm being Jane, No.
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No, no, no, no, I got you. I got you.
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So I'll give you an example. Like for example, I've had to
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let go of a lot of opportunities in which I know a lot of young
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20 year olds would wish they had.
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OK, I let, I let them go not because I want points.
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No, it's, it's just because like I, I know that's going to stray
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me away from God. And even though the
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opportunities sound great and I'm walking by faith now, I do
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not know the outcome of anything.
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I do not know the outcome of letting, letting that go or
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pursuing that. I do not know.
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I'm just letting it go because I know that I have a clear like
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vision that that's going to affect my spiritual life.
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So I let it go. So it feels heavy, and it feels
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heavy because I still am of this flesh.
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So that you say would say like a moment like that makes you feel
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weak. Makes you feel weak, yeah.
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Because you're like, damn, I have to let go.
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Yeah, and but you're like, but I love you God more than in my
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life and this world. So I'm going to let go.
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Even though I'm still of this flesh, I still like, you know,
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like, you know what I mean? Like I still live in this flesh.
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Yeah, because weakness doesn't necessarily mean lust or
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anything. The weakness can also mean you
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don't know. Like when you're walking with
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God, right? You don't really know how weak
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you are in front of God until he confronts you with that.
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Yes. It could be anything.
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I Yeah. When he confronts you with
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whatever's in your heart, then you recognize how weak you truly
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are. Before the Lord we can.
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And the aspect of like, are you a strong vessel or are you a
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weak vessel? Yeah, I confront you with this.
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Like, for example, you know, Oscar, there's this thing in
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your heart and you have to let it go.
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Like what? Yes.
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Test of character, That test of character.
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If I crack, then I was weak the whole time.
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Yeah. But he's exposing that weakness.
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Yeah. Because it is through him.
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That. So This is why there's a little
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section that you can take up from what Paul says.
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Maybe it won't be the same exact reason.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. To the thorn of the flesh he
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has. No.
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No, Yeah, yeah. But for perspective, you want me
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to read it? Yeah, go for it.
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Yeah. I'm just trying to find a good a
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good place to to start. I guess I'll read from 12.
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Boasting is necessary. I'm reading in the translation
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ASP by the way. For those who don't know,
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boasting is necessary, though it is not beneficial.
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This is what he says there. Boasting is necessary, though it
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is not beneficial. But I will go on to my vision.
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Revelation of the Lord. I know a man in Christ who 14
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years ago, Where then the body I do not know, or of the body I do
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not know. God knows such a man was caught
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up in the 3rd heaven. We can speak about who it was
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and who it not another time. And I know how such a man,
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whether in the body or apart from the body, I do not know.
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God knows was caught up into paradise and heard inexpressible
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words which a man is not permitted to speak right and
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other translation says could not utter.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. In behalf of such a man I do not
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boast. In behalf of such man I do not,
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I will not. I will boast.
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But in my own behalf I will not boast except regarding my
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weakness. OK, so he's saying this man, he
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will boast of that person because that's amazing.
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Yeah, but he will not boast. He he will not boast of himself,
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but in his weakness, he will boast.
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Now, the reason why he says that is because if you boast in your
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weakness, right, that then that that implies that you recognize,
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so there's a humiliation going on.
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You recognize that you are, you are not invincible, right?
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You are vulnerable, right? Yeah, I don't want to say this
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in a mean way, but like, you recognize that you're pathetic.
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You're pathetic. Yeah, right, right.
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So because of that, I boast in my weakness.
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So that type of weakness is good.
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Right, for I, I For if I do wish to boast, I will not be foolish,
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for I will be speaking the truth.
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But I But if I refrain from this, so that no one will credit
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me with more than he sees me or hears me from because of the
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extraordinary greatness of the revelations, for this reason to
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keep me from exalting myself. Now why does he say from keep me
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from exalting myself? That means he could exalt
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himself. Yeah, he recognizes that.
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He. That he can exalt himself,
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that's a weakness, right? God has to expose that weakness.
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There was given to me a thorn in the flesh.
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Now this section won't pertain to you and me so far as before
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that can pertain to us. A thorn was listen, this one
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says so. Just a recap.
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So there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of
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Satan to torment me, to keep me from exalting myself.
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Concerning this, I pleaded the Lord three times that it may be
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that it might leave me. And he said to me, my grace is
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sufficient for you. For power is perfected in my
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weak in in weakness. Power is perfected in weakness.
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Right. Most gladly, therefore, I rather
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boast about my weakness, so that the power of Christ may dwell in
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me. Therefore I delight in my
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weakness, in result, in distresses, in persecution, in
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difficulties. So he's describing weaknesses,
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which is an insult. That's when you feel weak in
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distress. You do feel weak there in
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persecution. What did I just say?
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If they caught us and we felt that weakness in difficulties,
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what are difficulties? The world, the things that we go
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through that makes us weak in behalf of this.
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For I am weak, then I am strong and I have become foolish.
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OK, so that's. So what are you saying that in
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that weakness, right. For I am weak, then I am strong,
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right? So when when that song says I've
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ested Miss Antholevian, sometimes I feel weak in those
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moments. It's when you're actually
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strong. Right, because.
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Because you're recognizing it, yeah.
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Because then he says, I lift up my hands, he says.
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Because the recompense is coming.
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The recompense. Is coming.
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Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
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So, so like that's what I'm saying, like non believers also
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feel the same type of weakness, same type of persecution,
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whatever that may be difficulty. We are no different.
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We're going through the same thing, right?
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Right. But as a believer, there's just
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certain things in life that shouldn't matter, right?
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If we're following Christ, right?
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Yeah. If we're not after air and wind,
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right. But because we live in a world
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that we're so exposed, the believer, you know, does have
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different challenges that other believers probably €600 didn't
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have. They had other challenges that
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we don't. Have right, right, right.
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You didn't have to starve in the Middle Ages.
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No, no. No, you have to do that where
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they have to kill kids and weird other things that would happen
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in ancient times or. Yeah.
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Six, 500 years ago, right, You didn't have to do that, eat
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leather because there was nothing else to eat.
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You didn't have those challenges.
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Yeah. Our challenges now is we have
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too much food to eat. And not only do we have too much
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food to eat, the food is corrupted.
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So now that affects our health. Yeah, but we're addicted to it.
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Do you see there's other challenges that we're going
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over? Yeah.
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Yeah. I don't want to say this, but
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like, we live in a culture where you constantly look at social
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media, so you're constantly comparing yourself.
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Yeah, yeah, exactly so. That's what I'm saying.
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Like when you when a believer says I'm weak, what does that
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mean? Right.
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What type of weakness are you referring to?
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What does that mean? Do you feel weak because you
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hate what you're feeling? Or I feel weak and you're
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recognizing that vulnerable part of you?
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Yeah. And then you know that through
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Christ. Through Christ, yeah.
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Strong. Yeah.
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And you're. You're you're going through with
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it in the aspect of like of like, yes, Christ is my
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strength. Not one thing would be like I'm
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weak because you keep giving into sin.
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Nah, at that point you're just. That's something different.
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That's that's that's not referring to this.
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Yeah, it's not referring to. That he's referring to
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difficulties. Yeah, boasting.
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Those are those are that's nothing to do like it is still
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essentially. Yeah, obviously if you're self
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exalting yourself, that will lead to sin because God will
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will put down those who exalt themselves.
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Yeah, exactly. But if you are feeling weak
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because you you desire a woman, that's when you need to analyze
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yourself. Well, I'm what am I doing that
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I'm putting myself in that situation for me wanting to do
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that. Yeah.
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Yeah, because, you know, this desire that we have for our
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opposite sex is not a trial. It's something that's in us that
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we have to endure, unfortunately, right?
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Do you think like being very jealous for God causes you to be
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weak as well? Yeah, 'cause then you start to,
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I mean, look at Paul, Paul, Saul before he, he was jealous for
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God, essentially. He thought he was doing the
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right thing. Yeah, and he was in his.
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If you ever think about it, he was.
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No, yeah, I mean, technically he was literally like, I'm doing
25:33
this for God. Right.
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You know, but that led to him persecuting, hurting a lot of
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believers badly. Extremely right.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Jealousy, Kenley. It leads to, to, to, to.
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It exposes your weakness before the Lord, not before man.
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Remember this before? Yeah.
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If you exalt yourself before man, like the Pharisees did in
25:58
Christ said, they will have the reward because it's true that
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people will clap and applause. Yeah, yeah, right.
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So like you boasting. That's why he says boasting is
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necessary, but it is not beneficial.
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But in what aspect? It is not beneficial
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spiritually, but into the world. If you boast in the world, this
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world that we live in, if you prove yourself what you bring to
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the table, that could be as a career, as an employer, whatever
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it is that puts you above. Yeah, yeah, it's true.
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Exactly. Right before men, that makes you
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like, impenetrable, like this invincible person.
26:27
Yeah, yeah. But before God, you're pathetic
26:29
and weak. Yeah.
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And when? You come to Christ and those
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things are exposed. You are weak.
26:34
Yeah, 100%. I mean, look what happened to
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him also. I mean, it look like, for
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example, Elijah, Elijah was like when he ran away into the woods,
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he was like, oh, I've been very zealous for the Lord and I'm the
26:48
only prophet here. Yeah.
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And then God was like, no, there there's 1000 more lined up and I
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have not bowed down to bail bow. So yeah.
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Exactly. Yeah.
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So in your jealousy, in God, yeah, it can lead you to no.
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It will lead you to weakness because you recognize that you
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are nothing without God. So that was also interesting,
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the fact that you said that, because then you mentioned the
27:15
word reputation, right? And then we live in a world
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where reputation means everything.
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In the career world, the world we live in now are everything
27:25
matters. Yeah.
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Reputation matters, Your integrity, how you hold
27:30
yourself, all of these things. Yeah.
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Who you are? Before everybody, yeah.
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And sometimes we compromise ourselves when it comes to God.
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Which reputation will we hold? That of a child of God who lets
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the light shine? And your deeds are recognized by
27:45
people without you saying that glorifies God.
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Yeah. Or will you be the one who you
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you're concerned with your reputation, your image, not
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God's image? Constantly trying to prove
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yourself all the time. So we, we, we live in that world
28:00
too. So when you mentioned that, that
28:01
was interestingly that right now towards the end, I was like, oh,
28:04
OK, well, I see why he would have mentioned that because we
28:10
live in a world where reputation matters.
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I mean, I wouldn't say I care much about it, but if someone
28:17
says oh, you, you this and that, I'm like, Oh, yeah, sure to say
28:22
that. If I didn't say, oh, nothing I
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feel about it or get a dopamine effect of it.
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No, 'cause like I, I know myself, like I, you know, I
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mean, I have some narcissistic like tendencies.
28:34
I'm not a narcissist full. Blown bro.
28:36
I do have some tendencies and and I I get what that means when
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you when you're concerned about reputation and when it means
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when sometimes I'm weak. You don't like being you.
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No one likes being weak, especially as a believer.
28:51
When you're exposed to the things that you're still
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tethered by the world. It bothers you.
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Yeah. But then it like, you know, Paul
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says, you know, these weaknesses that happen.
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His was different, right, Mind you.
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Yeah. His was different.
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Something was sent to him. Yeah.
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You know, by Satan to to to Yeah, when we can have a
29:13
conversation about that what we're what really could have
29:15
been, but we can take about some of the aspects of that what it
29:19
means when you're weak. So when you ask, sometimes I'm
29:23
weak. What does that mean?
29:25
Is it because of the faith you can't endure it anymore in
29:29
regards to what it means when you're in the world, being a
29:32
believer and then living in this world, we're not of this world,
29:35
but we live in it. What does that mean?
29:36
That's a weakness, or you're just weak because you you don't
29:42
abide under Christ. Yeah, yeah.
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Those things. Yeah, exactly.
29:46
And you know what, it kind of it all has a lot to do with
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reputation. I think so.
29:52
Because if you're so fixed on your own reputation, then of
29:55
course you're going to, you're going to want to feel like
29:57
giving up because you know why? And Scripture says the first
30:00
will be last and the last will be first.
30:02
And if you're a servant of, of Christ, you, you have to pay
30:07
yourself last. Yeah.
30:09
It's like he, you know, when the apostles asked Christ increase
30:12
our faith and then Christ says, which one of you work in the
30:15
field comes and then does the Master serve you or do you serve
30:19
the Master well in that same way, feed your Master in
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whatever's leftover you will eat.
30:24
In that way your faith increases.
30:25
Yes, your faith increases. Then in the end you'll say I'm
30:27
an unworthy servant. Yes, exactly.
30:29
You are an unworthy servant even though you did all that work.
30:33
I'm an unworthy servant still. So reputation if you are so
30:38
fixed on your reputation. That is true that it does
30:41
increase your faith. It does.
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The more you put yourself last, of course it will increase your
30:46
faith because you recognize you are nothing and you need God and
30:51
you put others before you and you have literally bro, it's
30:56
just by default you're just going to trust God.
30:59
You're going to trust him because you're putting yourself
31:01
last. And to put yourself last it
31:04
takes faith. That's why I said, like when
31:08
I've had to let go of these things, it's not because I want
31:11
points in heaven. No, it's because like God, I I
31:13
want to serve you. And these things, I can see
31:19
clearly that they will take me away from serving you.
31:22
Right. So in that, in that way.
31:24
So I mean, so if you, if you're focused on your reputation, then
31:26
yeah, of course you're going to feel like, yeah, this is I can't
31:29
do this anymore. Yeah.
31:31
The more you deny you. We we live in a tricky world.
31:35
Yeah. I mean, in our times, it's just,
31:38
yeah, you know, it's tricky. It is tricky.
31:42
Not tricky. Not because it's, it's.
31:43
It's impossible to solve. No, it's just tricky because you
31:47
want it. Yeah, you want it.
31:49
It's there. It's the opportunity's there.
31:51
Everything is there. Everything is there.
31:54
There's no excuse. Yeah, that's when I.
31:57
The life expenses, just people say, well, life expectancy has
32:00
been increasing. I, I, I'll tell you right now, I
32:03
doubt it. You know, if mind you, my
32:08
belief, the way I think of things is based on what I fully
32:13
believe in Scripture and even in history, history backs it up
32:19
that there was a point where Adam and Eve could live forever
32:24
because they were sustained by the true of life.
32:26
The moment we had no access to that, life started to dwindle
32:29
less in our in our body. You know, that's why they could
32:33
last TO900800700. 400, Yeah, yeah.
32:37
Right, 200 a 120 to barely 90 and they just keep getting less
32:43
less, less, less so when they say, oh, the life expectancy has
32:46
actually gone up. No, no, there's a moment in time
32:49
that we were so bad that there's just no food and the the greed
32:54
of man would would make people last till 30 or 40 years of age
32:59
because of war. But that was just a a moment.
33:02
Yeah. But prior to that we were
33:04
lasting till 100, a 120. Yeah, close to 200, yeah.
33:09
Yeah. So what I'm saying is if that
33:12
logic flows, we're only going to our actually life expenses
33:16
actually going down rather than out.
33:17
Yeah, I I believe it's. Just going to get worse and
33:19
worse and worse. That just means that time is of
33:22
the essence for Chrysum for all this to happen.
33:25
Yeah, absolutely. All right.
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That's what I said, yeah. Yeah, we know that Recompenser.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I say it in English.
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Recompense. Yeah.
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Recompense. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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No, absolutely. And what is that?
33:39
Recompense? Everybody's salvation.
33:41
Access to the tree of life. Oh, yeah.
33:42
All that coming into the Kingdom of it being a part of this holy
33:46
nation. The work is not done.
33:47
As soon as all of this is done. Yeah.
33:49
Yeah. Keeps going.
33:50
Exactly keeps going. Right.
33:51
But in regards to this mortal body, isn't what Paul says
33:56
becoming this imperishable body? Yeah, immortal, having access to
33:59
the tree of life, that is our recompense.
34:01
Exactly. So let this body decay, but
34:04
remember, the inside of you is being renewed through Christ day
34:07
by day, day by day. So do not lose heart.
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Yeah. All right, that's great.
34:13
That's a good one. All right, guys, we're going to
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close it with the prayer and bear with us.
34:18
Certain things are about to come up.
34:21
We'll keep you notified. You want to see like a broken
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record. But thank you for those who are
34:26
listening. We appreciate spreading the
34:28
word. Yeah.
34:29
Let others listen to to this message for whatever God wants
34:32
to do. Thank you, Father, for this
34:35
opportunity to speak about what it means to be weak.
34:38
When one says, you know, sometimes I feel weak, you are
34:42
our strength. Philippians 413 says that
34:44
through Christ I can do all things that strengthens me.
34:48
And that all means that in any situation, in any circumstance,
34:53
we've learned to be content with whatever.
34:55
And that is what gives us strength because you are
34:57
sustenance and give us a strength always to walk by your
35:01
spirit. For He is our counsellor here on
35:05
earth, reminding of of the things that you share with your
35:09
apostles disciples, and convicting us of sin,
35:12
righteousness and judgement. Also a fellow servant by your
35:16
side whom testifies before you and intercedes for us before
35:23
you, Lord. And we are thankful for that and
35:25
that our light shined so that our fruits are seen and that
35:30
glorifies you. And we are thankful that we know
35:33
what your will is, that everybody believes in that whom
35:35
you have sent believe in Him and to abide under him.
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Thank you, Father, for this. Let your will be done here on
35:44
earth like it is done in heaven. And if we have sinned before
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you, forgive us. Amen and Amen.