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The Be.Attitudes of Following Jesus Series - Part 2B: Be With Jesus | Andy Yeoh · Generations Church

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  Speaker 1: Hey, you welcome to the Generation's Church podcast. We pray
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  Speaker 1: you will be blessed by this message. Today I made
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  Speaker 1: a word of God both encouraged and challenge you to
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  Speaker 1: be all God purpose you to be. Now, let's dive
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  Speaker 1: right in.
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  Speaker 2: We have been on a series called The b Attitudes
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  Speaker 2: of Following Jesus.
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  Speaker 3: It's our very long version of.
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  Speaker 2: Discipleship series, basically talking about discipleship.
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  Speaker 3: We have been learning, or at least we've been trying
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  Speaker 3: to learn, from.
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  Speaker 2: The Word of God, the words of Jesus, what it
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  Speaker 2: means to be a disciple, because that word disciple and
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  Speaker 2: discipleship have been used over many, many years in many
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  Speaker 2: different ways, and sometimes we can forget what Jesus really meant.
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  Speaker 2: And since he was the one that introduced this to us,
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  Speaker 2: it is his invitation to follow him that starts this
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  Speaker 2: thing called discipleship. We want to learn from the Word
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  Speaker 2: of God what it is. All right, we have done
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  Speaker 2: already I think at least four parts four parts or
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  Speaker 2: two or four parts with a prelude included. So if
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  Speaker 2: you want to follow, the whole thing is started with
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  Speaker 2: words meaning. So if you go to a podcast, start
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  Speaker 2: with that and keep listening to all the different podcasts
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  Speaker 2: that we have. Today we continue Part two B because
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  Speaker 2: last week I couldn't finish Part two, so last week
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  Speaker 2: therefore it's Part two A. Today is Part two B.
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  Speaker 2: Cool O, get great? Let me do a quick summary.
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  Speaker 2: For some of you you know this already, but for
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  Speaker 2: those who are just joining us, I hope to at
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  Speaker 2: least give you a very quick crash cause on what
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  Speaker 2: we have talked about so far, disciple ship is defined
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  Speaker 2: as the lifelong process. All these are very intentional words.
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  Speaker 2: It's a lifelong process. You'll almost never get done with
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  Speaker 2: this process until you see Jesus face to face again
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  Speaker 2: in heaven. It's a lifelong process, an intentional one, a
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  Speaker 2: relational one.
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  Speaker 3: It's a journey.
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  Speaker 2: And what it is journey all about becoming more and
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  Speaker 2: more like Jesus. Okay, we have defined this process as
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  Speaker 2: someone who has organized their life. Again those very intentional words.
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  Speaker 2: You need to organize your life around three main lifelong goals.
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  Speaker 3: What are those goals?
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  Speaker 2: Be with Jesus, become like Jesus, and behave like Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: I just put him all in beace. Although John Mark
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  Speaker 2: Comer says be with Jesus, become like Jesus and do
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  Speaker 2: as Jesus did. I've just expanded it to behave like Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: I will of course explain it when it comes to
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  Speaker 2: that part. This chart or this diagram helps us understand
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  Speaker 2: that it's not a linear process. It's not step one,
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  Speaker 2: then step two, step three. It's always happening. You're always
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  Speaker 2: going to learn to be with Jesus as you learn
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  Speaker 2: to become like Jesus, as you learn to.
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  Speaker 3: Behave like Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: At the very core of it, all, the very foundation,
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  Speaker 2: is to be with Him. And we learn what it
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  Speaker 2: means last week. Ultimately, every human being, whether we realize
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  Speaker 2: it or not, we desire uni or convenion with God.
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  Speaker 3: We all desire relationships. We all know that.
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  Speaker 2: Even your friends who don't know Jesus know that they
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  Speaker 2: want convenient relationship. They just may not know that ultimately
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  Speaker 2: your heart longs for God. But we are believers should
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  Speaker 2: know that ultimately or desire is to be with God.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: So discipleship is a way of life. It's not a
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  Speaker 2: format program three steps, seven steps. It's a way of life,
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  Speaker 2: a particular way of living your life. And this way
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  Speaker 2: of life takes practice. And when I say practice, it's
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  Speaker 2: not just training. It's like not practice as in like training,
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  Speaker 2: but practice as in like It becomes your tradition. This
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  Speaker 2: is how you live, This is how you think, this
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  Speaker 2: is how you act. Practice doesn't mean just attempting to.
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  Speaker 2: It means action. You actually act it out, all right.
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  Speaker 2: And we must be careful to also say that the
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  Speaker 2: aim is not perfection in the sense that human means perfection.
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  Speaker 2: When the Bible uses the word perfection, it means maturity, okay,
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  Speaker 2: And like all things, whether it's fruit or wine or Durian,
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  Speaker 2: maturity is a process. It takes time. So we're aiming
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  Speaker 2: for persistence. We don't give up even if befall one time,
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  Speaker 2: we get up seven times, we just keep getting up
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  Speaker 2: and keep going. It's about persistence and consistency.
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  Speaker 3: Follow me, so far great?
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  Speaker 2: So we all started with the invitation of Jesus when
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  Speaker 2: he said these powerful words, follow me. Now, the Jewish
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  Speaker 2: listeners know what this means, because even before Jesus showed
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  Speaker 2: up on the scene, it's something that the Jewish people
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  Speaker 2: already know. By the way till today is being practiced.
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  Speaker 2: There are still rabbis that live on the earth today,
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  Speaker 2: and it's still calling for students followers to follow them,
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  Speaker 2: and the idea is to live with stay with be
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  Speaker 2: with the rabbi and learn everything, and not just learning information,
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  Speaker 2: but learning to become a type of person. So when
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is followed me, he actually literally met in those Peter, James,
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  Speaker 2: John and all those people literally come and walk with me. Come,
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  Speaker 2: come and follow me, walk around with me and follow
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  Speaker 2: and do what I do. Of course, today Jesus is
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  Speaker 2: not here in the flesh, but he's here through the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit. So following him is not just walking behind him.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, because of the Holy Spirit, he's not just
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  Speaker 2: with us, He's in us.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: So to us come follow me and spend time with
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  Speaker 2: me is what it means for us. So last week
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  Speaker 2: we talked about what does it mean to be with Jesus?
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  Speaker 2: What does that mean? We learn that Jesus sent us
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  Speaker 2: the helper, the Holy Spirit. One way to translate that
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  Speaker 2: is Jesus is sending us another one of him, the
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  Speaker 2: Spirit of Jesus.
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  Speaker 3: So the Holy Spirit didn't come just to be with us.
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  Speaker 2: The Holy strict comes to be in us, in our
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  Speaker 2: very depth of our being.
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  Speaker 3: He's deep inside of us. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: And to understand this where to understand the theology of
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  Speaker 2: the temple. Back in the day, the temple is where
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  Speaker 2: you go to meet God. That's where God's presence literally resided.
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  Speaker 2: But then Jesus came, sent us the Holy Spirit and
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  Speaker 2: taught us that He's now giving us a helper his his.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, in John chapter two, he's he replaced the
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  Speaker 2: whole theology of the temple by saying that he isn't
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  Speaker 2: he is the Temple. He is the the overlap between
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  Speaker 2: heaven and Earth.
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  Speaker 3: So Jesus tabernacle among.
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  Speaker 2: Us, he became among us, he became flesh and dwelt
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  Speaker 2: among us.
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  Speaker 3: He becomes the Temple.
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  Speaker 2: And then before he left the earth, he then says,
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  Speaker 2: I send Holy Spirit. Why because the Church is the
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  Speaker 2: Temple and individually, as believe us, you are the temple.
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  Speaker 2: And so if the temple is the dwelling place of God,
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  Speaker 2: you got move and follow me. Okay, that if the
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  Speaker 2: Temple is the dwelling place of God, where does the.
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  Speaker 3: Holy Spirit today reside?
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  Speaker 2: He resides in us because we are a temple and
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  Speaker 2: the Church is a temple. Amen, So because it is
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  Speaker 2: in Latin, Saint Augustine said, basically, you are you were
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  Speaker 2: more inward to me than my most inward part translated
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  Speaker 2: to be this way, or in simpler terms, you were
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  Speaker 2: closer to me that I am to myself.
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  Speaker 3: This is God.
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  Speaker 2: God is closer to us than we think, closer than
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  Speaker 2: we realize. Because the word spirit is the same word
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  Speaker 2: as breath ruak in Hebrew and numa in Greek. It
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  Speaker 2: means spirit or breath. And we learned that when we
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  Speaker 2: take in breath. So a Hebrew person want to say,
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  Speaker 2: I rua, right, I breathe in oxygen. And the act
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  Speaker 2: of breathing in do you know what it's called scientifically,
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  Speaker 2: is called inspur ration. When you breathe out, it's called expiation,
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  Speaker 2: and that whole process has called respiration inspiration.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, I love the Bible.
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  Speaker 2: When you receive the Holy Spirit, you're receiving inspiration, breath
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  Speaker 2: of God. And if you understand how the respiratory system works,
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  Speaker 2: when you breathe in, when you inspire in oxygen, it
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  Speaker 2: goes into your blood cells, which goes into every part
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  Speaker 2: of your body. That's the picture of abiding in Christ,
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  Speaker 2: because when the Holy Spirit comes and we receive him
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  Speaker 2: into us, he goes to every part of us. Roger
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  Speaker 2: just physically, but spiritually speaking Amen. And so Jesus then
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  Speaker 2: thought the disciples before he left, and he said this
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  Speaker 2: his last sermon or last Bible study. I am the vine.
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  Speaker 2: You are the branches. Now abide in me, and I
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  Speaker 2: not with you in you. It's the word meno, the
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  Speaker 2: word abides, the word meno, which means remain or make
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  Speaker 2: your home or translated to be abide, abide, meaning make
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  Speaker 2: your home in me. Jesus says, as I make my
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  Speaker 2: home in you. This is what it means to abide
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  Speaker 2: in Jesus, making our home.
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  Speaker 3: And how do we do this?
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  Speaker 2: Because Jesus is not here physically Back in the day,
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  Speaker 2: the disciples actually asks Jesus, where are you staying?
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  Speaker 3: Where are you man? Knowing?
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  Speaker 2: And then Jesus says, come follow me, and you will
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  Speaker 2: see right today. How it's going to be done is
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  Speaker 2: through the spirit. The Bible says, Jesus sends us the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit through the spirit. So ultimately we are seeking
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  Speaker 2: for a home in God. We're seeking for a home
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  Speaker 2: in God because that's where we belong. So John fifteen,
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  Speaker 2: what Jesus really saying is I will be with you
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  Speaker 2: and within you. It was also to make sense, just
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  Speaker 2: follow me with you and within you. So what does
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  Speaker 2: it mean to be with Jesus? Simply put, to abide
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  Speaker 2: in Jesus and Jesus in us, to be in God
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  Speaker 2: and God be in us. You could understand this, disciplesh
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  Speaker 2: It means that you can't actually run away from God
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  Speaker 2: because He's closer to you than you realize. Then we
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  Speaker 2: talked about how to be with Jesus, which is we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna We're gonna finish off this whole part. But last
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  Speaker 2: week we touched on the first point of this part,
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  Speaker 2: how to be with Jesus. Number one, we talked about
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  Speaker 2: how to direct our consciousness. Okay, I'm not talking about
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  Speaker 2: some new age stuff, not just some psychological stuff. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: but God met us with a conscience, our consciousness. That
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  Speaker 2: means our field of awareness. Let me give you some
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  Speaker 2: simple words to think of consciousness, your awareness. Are you
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  Speaker 2: aware of God right now? Are you a way of
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  Speaker 2: God when you're in the office? Are you aware of
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  Speaker 2: God when you're stuck in the gym? Are you aware
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  Speaker 2: of God when you're pooping? Are you aware of God
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  Speaker 2: when you're on a date? Awareness or your awakeness or
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  Speaker 2: your attention These days our attention are getting pulled all directions.
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  Speaker 2: But directing our attention means we have to be intentional
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  Speaker 2: about directing our attention to what's right. And Jesus saying,
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  Speaker 2: direct your attention to me, or a deeper word for
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  Speaker 2: believers is affections.
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  Speaker 3: Where is your passion, where is your affection?
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  Speaker 2: Direct that direct your whole being at Jesus so consciously
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  Speaker 2: talks about the flow of thoughts, your mindstream, your awareness,
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  Speaker 2: all of those things. Yeah, So when Jesus says, abide
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  Speaker 2: in me and my words, abide in you, he's talking
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  Speaker 2: about our consciousness, all right, because the reality all of
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  Speaker 2: us are making a mental home right now. We are
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  Speaker 2: all abiding today, tomorrow, yes, to day, last week. We're
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  Speaker 2: all abiding. Our mind our consciousness, our awareness, our attention,
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  Speaker 2: our affection has a home somewhere. Some of us it
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  Speaker 2: could be in our business. We're very preoccupied with that.
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  Speaker 2: Some of us are in our fitness. We're preoccupied with that.
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  Speaker 2: Some of us are your family. I'm not saying any
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  Speaker 2: of those things are bad things. It's just that we
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  Speaker 2: need to realize that it is mentally home somewhere. So
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  Speaker 2: if we're not intentional about making a home in Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: it will just go further along that direction.
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  Speaker 3: So the question is not.
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  Speaker 2: Whether you're abiding, The question is are you abiding in
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  Speaker 2: Jesus and the words of Jesus. Because whatever you're abiding
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  Speaker 2: is the person you become. Whatever you give you attention
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  Speaker 2: to is the person you become.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: So your consciousness, your awareness, attention, affection, all of these
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  Speaker 2: things sets the direction or the trajectory of your spiritual formation.
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  Speaker 2: We will talk about these words again as we go along.
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  Speaker 2: And your character. Whatever you aim your consciousness or your
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  Speaker 2: awareness or your attention act, that will set the direction
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  Speaker 2: of your life. So we are to aim our consciousness, awareness,
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  Speaker 2: attention at Jesus as often as possible, all throughout the
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  Speaker 2: day and the week and our life as often as possible.
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  Speaker 2: It's probably not possible to have to do it every
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  Speaker 2: single second of our lives. Again, it's not perfection, it's
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  Speaker 2: persistence and consistency. Amen, we learned about the Heapslord, the
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  Speaker 2: signs of practice. The more you think of something, the
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  Speaker 2: easier it becomes you to think it again, and harder
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  Speaker 2: not to think it again.
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  Speaker 3: Simper that.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, the more you practice something, it becomes habitual, the
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  Speaker 2: more it becomes natural. It's true even when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to spiritual formation. It's like if you go on the
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  Speaker 2: mud road. Once you make a track, you go over
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  Speaker 2: a thousand times, it becomes a rut.
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  Speaker 3: Your mind's like that.
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  Speaker 2: Once it becomes a rut, you ultimateically go into that
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  Speaker 2: and go into that direction again. For example, makeing simple.
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  Speaker 2: If you think about Jesus constantly, it becomes easier to
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  Speaker 2: think of him and harder not to think of him.
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  Speaker 3: So it's called neuroplasticity.
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  Speaker 2: That makes your mind's mellible and it's it will be
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  Speaker 2: formed and shaped. So whatever you think a lot of
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  Speaker 2: it becomes more and more habitual and natural. Okay, that's
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  Speaker 2: why Paul said, don't be conformed to this world, but
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  Speaker 2: be transformed by the renewal of your mind. Transform the
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  Speaker 2: neuroplasticity of your mind, transform the direction of your mind.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: So renew our minds means aiming our consciousness at Jesus
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  Speaker 2: all throughout the day. His word, his person is beauty,
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  Speaker 2: His goodness is the care of What abiding means. We
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  Speaker 2: ended last week with this part what is the reward
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  Speaker 2: of prayer? What is the reward of prayer? We tend
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  Speaker 2: to think of reward of prayer as answered prayers, miracles, breakthroughs.
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  Speaker 2: That's one way that God answers prayers, but not all
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  Speaker 2: the time.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: God always offers us his presence even when he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: offer us his power. And that's a mystery that we
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  Speaker 2: have to learn to become comfortable with. Why God heals
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  Speaker 2: some and doesn't heal others, why he resurrects some and
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  Speaker 2: not others, when he gives to some and not others.
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  Speaker 2: That's God's prerogative, his sovereign, and we will almost never
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  Speaker 2: understand that. And the more we are abiding, just the
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  Speaker 2: more comfortable we become living within that mystery. Okay, And
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  Speaker 2: so we talked about abiding and that our mind has
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  Speaker 2: this blank space moments in our day where we're not
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  Speaker 2: really doing anything, and then there's this blank space, and
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  Speaker 2: what we tend to do we tend to in this day,
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  Speaker 2: and if we tend to whip our phone and start scrolling,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonn start to fill up that blank space. Now, psychologically,
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  Speaker 2: the unaided mind, the undirected mind, tends toward chaos. It
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  Speaker 2: goes into thoughts of fear, anxiety, worry, doubts. Have you
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  Speaker 2: ever noticed that if it's not directed, it will go
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  Speaker 2: into like all those dark places, because that's how the
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  Speaker 2: mind works. So you either leaped to the past that
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  Speaker 2: you cannot change, or leap to the future they cannot control.
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  Speaker 2: Depending on your personality, it will go either way. Whichever
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  Speaker 2: way you go erupts you off the present moment. So
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  Speaker 2: we said last week, we get so caught up in
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  Speaker 2: the things we cannot control past future and allow them
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  Speaker 2: to control us, and we end up losing control over
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  Speaker 2: what we actually can the present moment.
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  Speaker 3: So we ended with these three things.
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  Speaker 2: We say that we need to recognize that there are
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  Speaker 2: three points in our lives where we are actually abiding,
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  Speaker 2: remember abiding our consciousness. We our mind makes a home
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  Speaker 2: in the first thoughts when we wake up, the last
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  Speaker 2: thoughts we go to sleep, and the random moments throughout
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  Speaker 2: our day, the blank spaces, especially the part when you
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  Speaker 2: when you are not actively directing your mind where it
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  Speaker 2: goes to is where you're actually abiding in. It gives
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  Speaker 2: us a very big clue where your mind is preoccupied. Yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 2: so what if the reward of prayer is not just
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  Speaker 2: answered prayer in the form of things, but in the
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  Speaker 2: form of men. No, that as we pray, we become
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  Speaker 2: more and more conscious of God's presence, more and more
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  Speaker 2: conscious of him.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: I know it sounds difficult. It's difficult even for me.
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  Speaker 2: I told you last week that, Okay, the thing is this,
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  Speaker 2: we we cannot really be intentional about the fleeting, random
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  Speaker 2: blank spaces in the middle of our day.
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  Speaker 3: Something you can help you, right.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes you're stuck in the traffic light and then suddenly
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  Speaker 2: your mind goes a certain place and it's chaos. It's
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  Speaker 2: like all the things you haven't done yet, all the
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  Speaker 2: things that all the bad things that could happen, and you're.
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  Speaker 3: Not thinking about Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes it's not so easy to be intentional because it
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  Speaker 2: depends on what kind of day it was, who's talking
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  Speaker 2: to you, who's bothering you? Right, But we can be
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  Speaker 2: very intentional about the first thoughts when you wake up
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  Speaker 2: in the morning, what do you go to first? And
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  Speaker 2: I've been trying to myself to not go to my notifications,
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  Speaker 2: my WhatsApp or Instagram or the game I was playing
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  Speaker 2: last night. I tried to be very intentional about the
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  Speaker 2: first thing I want to keep my consciousness is the
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  Speaker 2: world of God, even if it's just one verse. You
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  Speaker 2: can also be very intentional about the last thoughts you
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  Speaker 2: have before going to bed.
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  Speaker 3: What I because those things you can very easily control.
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  Speaker 2: Because you can form disciplines and habits around those two parts.
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  Speaker 2: So can we at least start with those two then
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  Speaker 2: we work on the rest of it. It's not about perfection,
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  Speaker 2: but persistence and consistency, because yeah, if we try to
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  Speaker 2: do this tomorrow morning. And I told you readier right
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  Speaker 2: last week a few mornings, I went to the World
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  Speaker 2: of God first. Then suddenly I opened up my game.
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  Speaker 2: You're playing Monopoly goal any of you get my notification,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to ask for a card from you.
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  Speaker 3: Please give me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm ana be worried because I our end. I gave
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  Speaker 2: you fifteen billion dollars. Next day it will be like
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  Speaker 2: one millions that people steal my money.
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  Speaker 3: And ah.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, one morning I found I find myself going to
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  Speaker 2: the game versus half way to a relized Hey, shocks,
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  Speaker 2: shock shocks. I'm not supposed to be playing games, supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be going to the Word of God. So I
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  Speaker 2: close it quickly and go to the water God. It's
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  Speaker 2: going to happen. Friends, when that happens, you're not a
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  Speaker 2: bread Christian. You did not fail at abiding in Jesus,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: you are just human. That's what the brain does. The
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  Speaker 2: brain wants to go everywhere. But see what we're trying
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  Speaker 2: to do every day. B Babby is driving this truck
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  Speaker 2: on this mud road, track by track by track and
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  Speaker 2: creating ruts. This is what the supposition can look like.
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  Speaker 2: We're we're almost never. We are a thousand kilometers away
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  Speaker 2: from where we need to be. This saint, saintly person,
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  Speaker 2: where are everything, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: you go to tough fun us, Holy Spirit to choose
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  Speaker 2: for you? What tough fun? So many choices, Holy Spirit?
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  Speaker 2: What should I eat today? What should hear? A sweet
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  Speaker 2: sour pop or black pepper pop or no taste pok
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  Speaker 2: or what? Jesus, Jesus, please, one thousand came away. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not there yet, but you know what, guys, as we
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  Speaker 2: go on this journey, we're also one thousand came from
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  Speaker 2: where we used to be.
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  Speaker 3: We didn't know all this, we know, Jesus, we didn't
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  Speaker 3: pray to we are.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, we're very far away from where we used to
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  Speaker 2: be all because we tend to focus on wow, very
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  Speaker 2: far from where we need to be. But it's progress,
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  Speaker 2: it's a process, it's a journey.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: So the more you learn to abide, the more you
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: train your mind. Remember the neuroplastics is. The more practice,
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: the more sticky becomes. The more our minds practice being
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  Speaker 2: with Jesus, the Missa, it will reach a point where
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  Speaker 2: the next time you're stressed out, you find yourself talking
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  Speaker 2: to God. First, how beautiful would it be? But we
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  Speaker 2: will never get there if we don't train our minds.
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  Speaker 2: And where do we start? We start where we have
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  Speaker 2: the most control over the first thoughts in your mind
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  Speaker 2: and the last thoughts in your mind. Let's deal with
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  Speaker 2: that first, because you know what, scientifically and sergic psychologically,
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  Speaker 2: those two moments has a disproportionate effect on your neural construction.
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  Speaker 3: You can find you can go and google it.
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  Speaker 2: What you think about in the first thing in the
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: morning and the last ones in your mind has a
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  Speaker 2: disproportionate effect. Yes, it's more powerful than what you do
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  Speaker 2: during the day. And so if you settle that two parts,
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  Speaker 2: it will affect your random parts of the day.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: So one day you'll find yourself blank space, standing traffic jam.
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  Speaker 2: He's still going to chaos. You're like, oh Jesus, I
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: wonder what do I do about that?
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  Speaker 3: Deal? Ah?
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  Speaker 2: Man, I got this research paper, God, two thousand hundred words.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: I've written five hundred. This is messed up. God help me.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: And you're not even trying hard anymore. You're even trying
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: to be holy. It's just there's ruts in your brain
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  Speaker 2: right now. That's where you go to when you're stressed.
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  Speaker 2: That's where you go to when you're not at peace.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: That's where you go to when you have a problem.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: That's where you go to when your heart is broken.
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  Speaker 2: That's where you go to when you're born. That's where
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: you go to when you're disturbed. You know what I'm saying,
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: But it has to be intentional. Let's start where we
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: can so embrace this process. You are one thousand care
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: away from where you need to be, but you're also
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: one thousand km from where you used to be.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Why go backwards? Keep moving forward? But yesterday post I try.
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  Speaker 2: I tried to read the Bible, and then I got
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  Speaker 2: a text from my friend. I feel so horrible. Hey,
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: try again, James, clear atomic habits. You know this port
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  Speaker 2: that guy? He said, don't don't feel Two times don't
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  Speaker 2: allow yourself to feel two times the same mistake. So
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow morning supposed to rebible, you play game first the
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  Speaker 2: next morning, don't do it again. Make sure you don't
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: because then it starts to build tracks and then rots,
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  Speaker 2: am I I think I'm already beating myself. You get
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  Speaker 2: it right, But then the more I say, the more
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  Speaker 2: you get Okay. So point two B. Point two A
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  Speaker 2: was direct your attention. You have to direct it. You
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  Speaker 2: have to direct it. Number two is be intentional and
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  Speaker 2: discipline with your habits.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so your first thoughts, last thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: You can form habits around those types so that you
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: become very conscious and you protect those moments.
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  Speaker 3: In your day.
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  Speaker 2: Those things you do and don't do around that is
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  Speaker 2: called habit. We can develop practices to guard our first
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  Speaker 2: and last thoughts of the day, what we will and
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  Speaker 2: what we will not do. For example, when you wake
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  Speaker 2: on the morning, I will not touch my phone first.
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  Speaker 3: You can do that.
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  Speaker 2: Before you go to sleep, I will put my phone
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  Speaker 2: in another room. You can do that. Before I read
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  Speaker 2: the news, I will read the World of God first.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Those are things you can form. Practices equals habits, but
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: it only becomes habits once it becomes a rut in
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: the road of your mind. How do habits form practice practice,
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: practice practice practice? Ah went off, come back again, don't
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  Speaker 2: try it, don't feel the second time. Amen, we need
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  Speaker 2: to learn how to create habits next around. Found the
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  Speaker 2: direction of our attention and affection, because that will produce
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  Speaker 2: change in us over time.
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  Speaker 3: Someone's focused too much on the I want to be holy.
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  Speaker 3: I want to be like Spechual.
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  Speaker 2: You'll get there by changing the habits bit by bit.
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  Speaker 3: Amen, I'm getting there slowly.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: I can very easily now not check any messages, any Instagram,
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: being anything else. And maybe you don't understand what I'm saying.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: I used to not be able to like I can't
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: I just have to check my messages. I have to check,
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: But now I can just put it aside. So maybe
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: that's why you get my replies later. Now, what if,
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: as John Marc Comer uses this term, what if we
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  Speaker 2: turn God into a habit and we don't mean this
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: by God is a mental ess like Ah I think
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  Speaker 2: about Yulan. God is relational, He's a person. But we
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: mean what we mean by turning God the face like
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  Speaker 2: God becomes part of our discipline, part of our makeup
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: part of our content busness. What we mean by turning
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  Speaker 2: God into a habit, it is not so much God
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  Speaker 2: but us, because we all have a role as disciples
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  Speaker 2: and a responsibility.
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  Speaker 3: Your role and responsbility is to.
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  Speaker 2: Choose, decide at the pawn, your response to form the
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  Speaker 2: right habits. Victor Frankel, who is a neurologist and as psychologist,
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  Speaker 2: who was take arrested and put in the concentration camp,
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: was a Jew, and from the concentration camp where he's
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  Speaker 2: changed and arrested and trapped, he said this, everything can
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  Speaker 2: be taken from a man, but one thing, the last
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  Speaker 2: of the human's freedoms, and the freedom is this to
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  Speaker 2: choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: choose one's own way. You can be chained, shackle put
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  Speaker 2: in a dungeon. It looks like you're trapped and not free.
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  Speaker 3: Ahh.
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  Speaker 2: But you have one freedom left and that cannot be
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  Speaker 2: taken away from you.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: What's that freedom?
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Your response to pretty simply the greatest humor, the greatest
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  Speaker 2: freedom that a human being has is what we do
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  Speaker 2: with our mind. And when I say mind, I don't
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  Speaker 2: just mean thinking. It means your attitude, your response. No
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  Speaker 2: one and nothing can take this freedom from you. So
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: whatever can come at you in your life, things can
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: be taken away from you everything, but this one thing
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: can never be taken from you, your response. So, Victor Frankel,
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: when you try to define character, this is how you
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: define it. Between stimulus and response, something that stimulates a
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: reaction and your actual response.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: Between that, there is a space.
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  Speaker 2: In that space is our power to choose our response.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: The power to choose is in that space. In our
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: response lies our growth and our freedom. So there's a
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  Speaker 2: stimulus to distract you, and you have a resplace, a
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  Speaker 2: space between like will you get distracted or not?
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  Speaker 3: Power to you and say no, I'll do this instead.
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  Speaker 2: That's the power that we have in man, the ability
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: to pause before you react or respond. It's about that's
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: where your consciousness is. It's all about where my mind goes,
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: what do I abide in?
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  Speaker 3: What do I men know?
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: In turning God into a habit follows this idea that
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: mental habits must be formed. The unaided mind, the undirected mind,
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  Speaker 2: tends towards chaos.
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  Speaker 3: That's where your.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: Mind is already going if you don't direct it. Jesus
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: is saying, direct it to me, bide in me and
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  Speaker 2: my words in you. Words not just words, sir. That's
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: why thoughts are actually words. Concepts are actually words. Like
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: when I say apple, how do you describe apple? However
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: you describe it? Even if you draw it? You say, oh, no,
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: I do use I can just draw it, sure, But
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: when you draw it, how.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: Do I form the consciousness to know there is an apple?
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: So words, so words. That's why Jesus being the word
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: is so important. He is the definition. We go to
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  Speaker 2: him for the definition of what's good, what's evil, what's right,
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  Speaker 2: what's wrong.
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  Speaker 3: He is the word. He is the definition a man.
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  Speaker 2: So your mind is already going towards chaos if you
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: don't direct it. So a key facet of apprenticeship to
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Jesus is intentionally learning to curate our consciousness. What do
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: you allow into your consciousness? And what you don't allow?
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: Am I losing you? Or is still following me?
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: Okay?
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: This is why scripture plays such a vital role, because
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: what words is going to your mind? If it's not
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: the words of Jesus, something else is. That's why a
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: lot of people, smart people always tell this. They'll tell
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: you to read. And by the way you think reader,
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: you're reading. The talk is reading.
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  Speaker 3: I thought he's watching.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: No, yes, but it's reading. It's imprinting something in your brain.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: What are you reading? All I'm saying is even Jesus
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: is saying that be intentional about what you're reading. There
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: was no TikTok. Then by it's the same concept what's
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: being imprinted in your mind. So bring our minds into
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: flow around God, around the fluit of the Spirit, around
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: the presence of the trinity deep within us, because we
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: become who we follow. Whoever or whatever we aim our
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: lives at will then shape us into its image. So
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: if you are aiming at fear anxiety, you become that image.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: Whatever you look at, therefore you become. So look at Jesus.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: I know it sounds easy, friends, but it's not. It's
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: a process. The idea is is tomorrow, let's be a
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: few more steps closer than yesterday. You add that you'll
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  Speaker 2: be a lot closer next year.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: So whatever you look at constantly, look at constantly, and
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: you can you can take that literally like look at TikTok,
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: or you can take that metaphorically. Whichever you take it,
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: Whatever you look at constantly is going to form you
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: into a person who is a parody of all those realities.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: So if you look at men, success, you.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Look at other people, you look at sports, sex, celebrities.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: What you look at, you're going to become that type
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: of person. But if you look at the Trinity, you
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: look at Jesus constantly, it's going to form you into
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: a person who's what loving, joyful, peaceful, patient, kind, gentle, faithful,
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: and so on.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: And this happens slowly through a process.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: Can be rushed. Amen, So listen to this. The golden
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: rule of habit change is this. You can't extinguish a
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: bad habit, You can only change it. In other words,
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: you can't end a habit, you can only replace it.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: What it means is this, since you cannot get rid
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: of habits, it will remain forever. So if you have
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: a bad habit like you like to find during dinner,
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: forever you will controlled during dinner. You can never geary
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: of it, whatever the habit is. So if you don
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: want to contulde during anymore, you have to replace it.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Yet to be intentional, because if you don't do that,
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: you will always do the previous habit.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: It's all the same. Okay, so.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: Charles doing I think it's the guy who did all
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: his research all habits.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: That is Q.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: Routine reward, queue routine reward, queue routine reward. No amount
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: of will can take away the pattern that is already
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: in your brain. But you can build over it. Build
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: over it. You can use the same queue, same reward,
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: just change the routine. Example, the cube is I see
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: a jelly donut. Your ROUTINEO is I see jelly donut,
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: I eat jelly donut.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: What's the reward? You get sugar high? Nice? The next
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: time you see a jelly do not you eat it again? Why?
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Because you get sugar high. The next time you see
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: something sweet you eat again. Why Because the reward is
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: so nice you want to do it.
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: You keep doing it again.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: So if you remove jelly donut, you don't remove anything
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: because your routine is the same. I see something sweet,
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: I'll wack it. So what must you replace the routine?
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: I see jelly donut, The reward is the same. What
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: do I want it there to day? I want sugar high.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: So you see jelly donut, what you do you eat apple?
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: You still get sugar high? But anye, what's going to
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: your body. It's a bit more healthier. The sugar is
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: better than the jelly donutla. After all, you see jelly donut.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: You want sugar high, you eat apple sli can chose
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: to sell it, no sugar.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: You still going to your body. You can't change the reward.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: Your body needs it, your your your your psyche needs it.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: What you can change is the routine. Amen, So if
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: you make it more personal relation. You know, you see
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: hot girl, what do you want? Actually, actually it's not sex.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: It's not just release. You want convenion, you want intimacy.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: Maybe your routine now is swipe SI, spe right or left.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: I don't know, never do before. Maybe there's your routine.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: You could to change the routine. You're about to watch
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: uponn You're about to masturbate or something, and you think
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: about Jesus. Jesus come and invite you join me now,
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: and then you could have changed your routine and you
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: still get high. But now you're high with Jesus because
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: he feels the deepest part of you that can never
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: be feeled by anything else.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: So think the thing is this.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: It sounds easy, it's easy to hear, hard to do
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: because the things that are best for us. The rewards
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: come slowly, like exercise, are you I've been running so
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: long I still cannot do five minutes?
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: One can this morning?
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: Not through better? But eight minutes? What the srubber gimme
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: you re what know? But a few weeks ago, nine
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: minutes hot? It comes slowly, consistency, persistence, slowly, you do it,
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  Speaker 2: you get better? Amen, Hey listen uh For some of you,
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: you think, what is this? What is this running thing?
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: Just a few months ago? Now I can run ten
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: km no problem? Like I can actually run and then
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: I can still last the day.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: What's so great about this? Baster?
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: What's the problem? Not the big deal here? I think,
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: what's the big deal? Maybe three four months ago I
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: run ten minutes and actually feel chest pain.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: I'm like, oh my gosh, am I gonna die?
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: Now? I could not last time minutes, not even one km.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: I had to stop and go home. It was actually painful.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: But now I can run ten with no pain. My
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: knees are okay, my lungs are okay. How do I
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: do it? How does anyone do it?
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: Bit by bit by bit?
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: It's a process, and that's just exercise. You know, if
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: you actually just run. Just just run. Every day you
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: just become better. There are deeper things life that is
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: even harder taking take longer, like relationships, like building trusts,
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: like growing deeper in God. It's slow, but it's slow tripped.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: Those who like coffee co brew is slow dripped. The
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: product is beautiful.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: Amen.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: So if we had to cultivate this life or abiding
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: in Jesus, we must be patient with the rewards, but
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: we can be sure that they are coming, just as
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: sure as if you exercise, you will get fitter. The
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: more you spend time with God, you will get closer
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: to God. You maybe one thousand came away from where
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: you need to be, but you're also one thousand came
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: from where you used to be. I know.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: So God redefined prayer a little bit. We have designed.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: We have used to describe prayer as with our children.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: Prayer is like talking to God and it's true, and
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: then we realize, wait, this would be one sided. Prayer
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  Speaker 2: is communication with God. You talk to God, God talks
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  Speaker 2: to you.
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  Speaker 3: That's okay.
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  Speaker 2: But I think if you want to understand prayer deeper,
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  Speaker 2: pray it is just simply spending time with God, with
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  Speaker 2: or without talking. Prayer is spending time with God. Can
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  Speaker 2: I propose that to you? Because what Jesus wants is
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  Speaker 2: abide in me and I in you. Being with Jesus
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  Speaker 2: is golaring to be abide in him. How do we
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  Speaker 2: abide in him? Through prayer? But I have to qualify
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  Speaker 2: because when I say prayer, you might think, oh, pastor
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  Speaker 2: they may is not to spend thirty minutes in the morning,
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  Speaker 2: have a list and pray to the least. That's one
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  Speaker 2: way to do it. But if you widen and deepen
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  Speaker 2: the definition, prayer is just spending time with God. That's
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  Speaker 2: why it's possible to pray without seizing. If prayer is talking, wow,
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  Speaker 2: how oh day, talk to God, non stopper in front
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  Speaker 2: of your boss, Hey, Jesus, doesn't make sense. But if
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  Speaker 2: prayer is defined his way, yeah, you are in a
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  Speaker 2: scoring you scoring you for not meeting the cap or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: But you're there in God's presence because you are. Now Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna respond in peace. I'm gonna respond with humility
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  Speaker 2: because Jesus with me right now. Yeah, pray without ceasing,
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  Speaker 2: spending time with God without seizing, directing your consciousness towards
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  Speaker 2: Jesus without seizing all throughout the day, especially the first
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  Speaker 2: part of your day and part of your day, so
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  Speaker 2: that those two parts train your in betweens.
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  Speaker 3: Prayer is spending time with God. Prayer.
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  Speaker 2: If this definition, then it's not just God, I ask
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  Speaker 2: for something and then I get something back. Prayer means
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  Speaker 2: spending time with Him. Means prayer changes not just things,
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  Speaker 2: changes us.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: There's something called contemplative prayer. In the ninth century, there
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  Speaker 2: was this peasant farmer. He will go into this Catholic
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  Speaker 2: chapel every day and you would just sit there in
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  Speaker 2: the choiet, and you'll just sit there for hours. At
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  Speaker 2: one point a priest goes to him and ask him,
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  Speaker 2: what are you doing here all the time?
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  Speaker 3: Farmer? What are you doing here?
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  Speaker 2: Sitting here doing nothing for hours? And this farmer said
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  Speaker 2: this beautiful line to the priest. He said, I look
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  Speaker 2: at him, and he looks at me, and we're happy. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: we can at to hand. This.
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  Speaker 3: This means doing nothing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, this means they're not productive. No, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean if you're running a church on thing business,
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  Speaker 2: you got customers, you cannot sit in the Catholic church
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  Speaker 2: for three hours and do nothing. It's not about the hours.
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  Speaker 2: It's not about the minutes. It's about the just the
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  Speaker 2: discipline of spending time with him. So if you have
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  Speaker 2: five minutes in between your appointment, what if you spend
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  Speaker 2: three minutes out of that five minutes just look at God.
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  Speaker 3: I give you another b word.
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  Speaker 2: Be Oh God, look at Him as he looks at you,
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  Speaker 2: and it's pleased with you. And just be happy that
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  Speaker 2: you have someone who loves you unconditionally.
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  Speaker 3: He just loves you.
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  Speaker 2: Say now, gus think calls it love or saying nation
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  Speaker 2: someone yeah, in nesious love loving. It's the very posona,
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  Speaker 2: the very difficion of love loving you back, just loving you,
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  Speaker 2: and just being able to enjoy that looking at God
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  Speaker 2: who's looking.
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  Speaker 3: At you in love. This is a form of prayer.
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  Speaker 2: I hope you can add to all the other prayers
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  Speaker 2: you've ready learned. Intercession, petition, spiritual warfare.
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  Speaker 3: Speaking in tongues.
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  Speaker 2: What about just spending time, just abiding, just being in
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  Speaker 2: God's presence.
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  Speaker 3: I will be honest with you.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have time to sit on a pew in
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  Speaker 2: some quiet Catholic church somewhere saying Andrew in ko there
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  Speaker 2: for three hours and just breathe.
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  Speaker 3: I wish I can do that.
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  Speaker 2: I wish to live in a cold country, climb up
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  Speaker 2: a mountain and just sit there. I can't do that,
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  Speaker 2: but I can do this. I can wake up six
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  Speaker 2: in the morning and not look at my phone, put
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  Speaker 2: on my jogging shoes, and run five km, which will
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  Speaker 2: take me about right now an hour or so our
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  Speaker 2: twenty minutes. And in the one hour twenty minutes, I'm
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  Speaker 2: listening to the word of God. And sometimes I don't,
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: I just turn it off. Sometimes I say things, say God,
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  Speaker 2: what are you saying me to me?
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  Speaker 3: To hey? Sometimes I don't. I just say, Dear God,
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  Speaker 3: I'm here, and then I run.
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  Speaker 2: And the truth is is that we start doing this
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  Speaker 2: and maybe you try for thirty minutes. Your discipline is
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  Speaker 2: off for thirty minutes, and it's lightly, not all thirty
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  Speaker 2: minutes that you will connect with God. And like why
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  Speaker 2: you feel that, like the farmer, Oh, I.
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  Speaker 3: Look at him, Hey look at me, and we're happy. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: very lightly.
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  Speaker 2: You spend thirty minutes and thirty seconds in the thirty
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  Speaker 2: minutes where it's like you get it, thirty seconds where
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: you really feel like, oh God, you are here, I
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  Speaker 2: am here, and we are connecting. And then suddenly, ah,
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  Speaker 2: I worry about the deal. Are you the laundry? I haven't,
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  Speaker 2: are you it's raining, I haven't give the laundry yet
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  Speaker 2: it's going to happen. And it's okay because that thirty
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  Speaker 2: seconds worth it. You keep repeating that, and suddenly your
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: mind will find more and more thirty seconds, ten seconds,
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  Speaker 2: five seconds during your day when your mind just goes
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  Speaker 2: to God. Hey, there is not some new a psychology
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: and stuff, but this is God made your brains this way,
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: and now that we know how a brain works, turn
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  Speaker 2: God into a habit.
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  Speaker 3: Amen, behold God, look at him.
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  Speaker 2: There's something called explicit knowledge and implicit knowledge. Our world
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  Speaker 2: celebrates explicit knowledge, knowledge that can be gotten.
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  Speaker 3: We read it comes from the outside. It comes from observation.
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  Speaker 2: We touch and you feel hot, we touch, feel cold, rough, soft,
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  Speaker 2: explicit knowledge. But hey, there's something called implicit knowledge. You
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  Speaker 2: know somehow you can just feel like something is off
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  Speaker 2: with somebody, or you walk into a room. Can you
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: feel a presence? That's that's real too. I know it's
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: mystical and it's hard to explain itself.
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  Speaker 3: We don't talk about it. Lies it can approve, it
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  Speaker 3: cannot nobody. It's there.
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  Speaker 2: John Kelvin calls it census. We need that is a
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  Speaker 2: sense of God, a sense of Deity. All human beings
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  Speaker 2: have it. And because God leaves on the depth of you,
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  Speaker 2: deep inside of you, we actually need to pay more
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  Speaker 2: attention to this implicit knowledge, what we know on the inside.
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: And so let's let's let's just jump to the last
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: part because I've got to end this finally, is how
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  Speaker 2: do we spend time with God? If prayer is spending
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: time with God, and prayer is how we train our
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  Speaker 2: minds ident Jesus, how do we do this? I'm gonna
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: give you a whole bunch of words. It's any and
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: all of these things. It's what practices, habits, focus, removing distractions, walking, running, reading, listening, breathe, adoration, confession, thanksgiving, supplications,
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: all of these things.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, it's not one thing.
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  Speaker 2: It's like you, you figure out your reedom, you figure
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  Speaker 2: out your discipline, you figure out your habits.
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  Speaker 3: But you got to amen.
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  Speaker 2: As I listened to this John Marc Comer, Guy, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I did you give you example of how he did
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  Speaker 2: it as a way or how one person does it,
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  Speaker 2: not as the way to do it. He wakes up
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  Speaker 2: in the morning, his disciplines. He does not touch his
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  Speaker 2: phone at all. In fact, he goes to sleep with
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: his phone in a different room. That's fa hima. And
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: he'll wake up in the morning. He'll make a cup
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: of coffee. He will walk outside, and then he will
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: go badfoot and he'll stand on a rock. Here's this
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: big rock that faces east where the sun rises.
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  Speaker 3: He'll stand on.
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  Speaker 2: The rock because he believes in this neweral thing where
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: it's called grounding. Your barefoot touching the ground, it's called grounding.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: Where it centers your whole being to focus. That's how
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: he does it. Want I give you the example. All
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  Speaker 2: if you're gonna get a rock, now, is it?
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  Speaker 3: No? The point is this.
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: That's how he ends up focusing on God. He does
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  Speaker 2: all those things, bad food, stand on a rock.
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  Speaker 3: Face is.
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  Speaker 2: I can't do that because this John mccomo guy, he's
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: the guy who wrote the book The Ruthless Elimination of
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: Hurry bro. I my personality can allah. We cannot just
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: sit down, We cannot even talk. Call it for too
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  Speaker 2: long we will be bored. So you got to look
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  Speaker 2: at your personality. This is standing on the rock. Just
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  Speaker 2: stand there and ground and just stand doesn't work for
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  Speaker 2: if it works for you, do that.
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: What's the point here? The point is how you see?
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  Speaker 3: For me?
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: You know how I focus? I told you what I
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: have to run and my runner to have a goal.
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: My goal is I I'm gonna run and circle because
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: my house is if I run the whole whole timana
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  Speaker 2: is about one point something. If I run three rounds,
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: it's about five gm. So give I give myself goal
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: and run. So my body is doing something. But because
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: my body is doing something and I'm not holding the phone,
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: I'm not trying.
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: To have a bit to be tempted. I'm running. So
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: now my mind is clear and ready and free to focus.
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: There's me. My personality is I have to do something
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: to focus. What is it for me? Phone? I gotta
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: move remove it, I gotta look at a different app.
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: What is it for you?
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: The point is everybody must find that routine, that habit,
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: that discipline, especially the first moments of your day and
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  Speaker 2: the last moments of your day.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: But I will suggest this to you because for many
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  Speaker 2: of us we're just starting right, we're learning to this
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  Speaker 2: new way of life. Okay, A good entry point into
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: abiding with Jesus through your prayer life is gratitude. So
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: if you wake up in the morning and you don't
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: run or you don't know what to say, I don't
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: know to start start with thanksgiving. Let's all try that.
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: Learn to wake up in the morning and start thanking God.
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: Because the line between gratitude and praise and worship and covenion,
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: it's just like a domino effect. Like you do one thing,
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: it touches the other thing. It touches the other thing
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  Speaker 2: that's is the other thing. Seeah, you begin by thanking
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  Speaker 2: God for the gift. And as you thank God for
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  Speaker 2: the gift, football, Lord, I thank you for my children.
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  Speaker 2: To thank her for the gift. By doing that, you're
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  Speaker 2: actually aiming your graduated towards what the giver. Lord, I
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  Speaker 2: thank you for the gif. Now I'm thanking who. I'm
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  Speaker 2: taking the Lord. And now I'm aiming my consciousness and
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  Speaker 2: awareness towards God. And as I'm aiming my consciousness towards
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: God by thanking him for the gift, I'm not connecting
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  Speaker 2: with the giver. I'm not making contact with him. I'm
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: not spending time with God. And now I have a
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: connection with the Giver. You see how thankfulness and great
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  Speaker 2: you can work. So I think a very easy elementary
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: beginning point is just start your morning by thanking God.
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  Speaker 3: God.
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: I thank you for the sunrise. God, thank you for
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: this coffee. God, thank you for a healthy body. If
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: you have one, God, thank you my niece still work.
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  Speaker 2: I thank you God for sleep. I thank you God
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  Speaker 2: for my business. I thank you go for a car.
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  Speaker 2: I thank you God.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever. I just thank God.
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  Speaker 2: And if you're doing you're connecting with God almost with
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: very little effort.
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  Speaker 3: Start there. What you're trying to do is you're you're
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: tuning your mind. You training your mind towards God.
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: I heard another person say, every time his mind wanders off,
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: how he brings it back is through certain words. He
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: will say a certain word to que his mine to
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  Speaker 2: come back. So for him is he will say holy
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  Speaker 2: Spirit and he py pretic think about it, the wife,
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: the children. When he writes, he say holy Spirit, he
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: comes back. That works for him. Like I said last week,
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: some people, at the end of every email they send,
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: they say one sentence prayer God. A committee is deal
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  Speaker 2: to you, God, A committee's client to you.
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  Speaker 3: They see.
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: Lord Jesus, I find the spirit of greediness. I mean
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: if you want to, you can, but just even a
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  Speaker 2: short God, I thank you for emails, I thank you
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  Speaker 2: for this client.
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  Speaker 3: I think you have a job. Amen, saying grace, we
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  Speaker 3: do just skip.
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: We just do grace like not my son, don't say grace,
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  Speaker 2: I think anod young.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: That's that's that's a caricature of actually what adults do too.
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  Speaker 2: We just say it because it's some ritual, just like
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: you must say no, you're not a Christian. Actually, grace
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  Speaker 2: can be a very good time to aim your consciousness
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  Speaker 2: at God. That would mean now, besides morning and night,
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: you got now at least three more times where you
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: can be very intentional about like inviting God into your
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  Speaker 2: consciousness and say God, I thank you for this food.
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: The Bible says the fats belong to you, So Lord,
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  Speaker 2: take the fats, God, and give me all the nutans.
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  Speaker 3: Amen. Discipleship.
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  Speaker 2: So later on in this series, as this church learns
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: what it means to this disciples and you know what
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: I just tell you now, practically speaking, you have to
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: do discipleship with somebody. Why are you gonna have a
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  Speaker 2: discipler okay, whatever we call it. But learning this and
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  Speaker 2: knowing this, this is discipled Joshua, you know what's my job?
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  Speaker 2: My joy is not to tell Joshua how I do
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  Speaker 2: things and follow me. My job is, Joshua, how's your
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  Speaker 2: consciousness when you woke up this morning? What were you
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: thinking about? Because we're both trying to be more conscious
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  Speaker 2: of God. That's what disappos will look like. I'm helping
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  Speaker 2: you follow Jesus. It's not about a you cannot do
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  Speaker 2: that I do like this one.
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  Speaker 3: You follow me.
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  Speaker 2: We can work that you never do like me, because
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: disciplshi has for many years become like just following someone's patterns.
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: We helping each other come back to God, come back
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: to God. Oh you worry about your business deal? Have
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: you prayed about it?
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  Speaker 3: Can? Come? Let's spray together.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: When you say that, Joshua, come, let's spread together, you're
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: actually inviting, almost pulling the.
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: Person's consciousness to God.
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: Because he may not have thought about God this entire time.
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: Maybe he'd been trying his own way, his own strength,
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: how to get this deal done, and the moment you say, come,
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: let's pray about this, suddenly his mind, Oh yeah, God
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  Speaker 2: follow me. That's what the suppleship process will look like
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: as we move forward in this church. We are helping
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  Speaker 2: each other becoming more abiding in Jesus Amen. So I
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: invite you into this journey with Christ. At the same
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: time I release you to go figure out what's your pattern,
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: what's your reaedom. Some of you can run and do it,
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: some of you cannot. You have to sit still. Whatever
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  Speaker 2: it is. Let's aim our consciousness, let's abide in Jesus.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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