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The Be.Attitudes of Following Jesus Series - Part 5: How? A Rule of Life | Andy Yeoh · Generations Church

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to the Generations Church podcast. We're so
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Speaker 2: So let's get straight into it.
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Speaker 3: This is part five, but week nine or ten or
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Speaker 3: So, today's part five. We have covered what it means
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Speaker 3: to be a disciple. We have talked about how discipleship
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Speaker 3: is the lifelong process of becoming like Jesus is an
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Speaker 3: intentional process. It's also relational process, not just a program.
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Speaker 3: It's relationship, but it's a process and it's life long.
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Speaker 3: You won't get it just tomorrow or even next year.
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Speaker 3: It's lifelong.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 3: We talked about how we name this series called the
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Speaker 3: Bee Attitudes of Following Jesus, meaning the bees and the
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Speaker 3: attitudes of this thing called discipleship, and some book calls
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Speaker 3: it practicing the way. So in the ancient times, they
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Speaker 3: actually did not call the disciples Christians. They called them
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Speaker 3: followers of the way. Yeah, so this is where it's from.
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Speaker 3: We are all followers of the way if we are disciples, amen.
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Speaker 3: And the way is Jesus is the Way, the truth,
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Speaker 3: and the life. We have also learned that being an
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Speaker 3: apprentice another word for disciples, someone who learns from the master.
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Speaker 3: Being a follower of Jesus is therefore being someone who
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Speaker 3: has or will organize our life around three goals. Every
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Speaker 3: single day were living to achieve these three goals, which
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Speaker 3: is to be with Jesus, to become like Jesus, and
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Speaker 3: to behave like Jesus, in other words, doing as Jesus did. Okay,
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Speaker 3: you can understand it from this chart. Being with Jesus,
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Speaker 3: abiding in him his words, abiding in us, spending time
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Speaker 3: with him.
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Speaker 2: That's at the very core of our lives. And as
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Speaker 2: we do that, it affects all the other parts of
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Speaker 2: our life, as we try to become like Jesus and
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Speaker 2: behaving like him.
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Speaker 3: We have also described this whole process of spiritual formation,
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Speaker 3: so that process of becoming like Jesus is called spiritual formation.
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Speaker 3: We learned that we are already being spiritually formed right now,
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Speaker 3: even if this is the first time you're hearing this
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Speaker 3: message or this word, you have already been spiritually formed.
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Speaker 3: You are a type of person, right. You didn't just become, say,
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Speaker 3: an impatient person today. It was formed in you over
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Speaker 3: all kinds of things. Friends, you have, books, you read, things,
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Speaker 3: you do, experiences, you have all sorts of things. We
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Speaker 3: are saying that if you want to be like Jesus,
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Speaker 3: we cannot just be unintentional and just leave it be.
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Speaker 3: We have to be intentional and make sure that we
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Speaker 3: are in the process of being formed to become like Jesus.
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Speaker 3: So the process is called the process of being formed
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Speaker 3: into a person of love in Christ.
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Speaker 2: Right. We've also learned last week.
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Speaker 3: We concluded last week that in terms of behaving like Jesus,
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Speaker 3: doing as he did, there's the three part framework that
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Speaker 3: guides us. Simply, it's called making space for the gospel,
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Speaker 3: preaching the gospel, and demonstrating the gospel.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I want to know what it is. Check out
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Speaker 2: the podcast. Today.
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Speaker 3: We're gonna sort of land this plane and the next
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Speaker 3: two weeks we'll still be within the series, but we're
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Speaker 3: gonna do things a bit differently.
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Speaker 2: Next two weeks.
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Speaker 3: Okay, maybe I'll tell you more about it later, but
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Speaker 3: today we're gonna talk about it. How how do we
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Speaker 3: do it? What does a day today look like for
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Speaker 3: an apprentice of Jesus that does all these things we
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Speaker 3: have learned in the last four hundred ninety six parts. Okay,
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Speaker 3: what does it look like?
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Speaker 2: So? How?
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Speaker 3: And we want to we want to introduce to you
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Speaker 3: something called a rule of life. Don't do your neighbor and
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Speaker 3: say a rule of life? Okay, all right, don't don't
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Speaker 3: get too caught up or afraid already against the word rule.
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Speaker 3: I know we are like, ah, but bear with me.
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Speaker 2: It's gonna be awesome. It's gonna beautiful. Now.
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Speaker 3: A key theme in this whole series, this whole time,
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Speaker 3: what we've learned about this upporship is we need to
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Speaker 3: increase our intentionality in partnering with God.
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Speaker 2: Amen. We are not in control of our formation.
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Speaker 3: You're either being formed by the Holy Spirit or being
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Speaker 3: formed by some other spirit.
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Speaker 2: Either way, you're being formed. We're not in control of that.
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Speaker 3: What we can control is our intentionally, how we partner
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Speaker 3: with God.
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Speaker 2: So that He forms us. Amen.
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Speaker 3: If we spend no time with God, then he is
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Speaker 3: not able to form us. When we spend a lot
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Speaker 3: more time with God, then he forms us. What we
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Speaker 3: can be in control of is how much time we
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Speaker 3: spend with him.
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Speaker 2: Amen.
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Speaker 3: So this whole theme, this whole series, is about how
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Speaker 3: can we increase, not decrease, our intentionality, our conscious decisions.
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Speaker 2: To partner with God so that he can form us
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Speaker 2: to be like his son. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Peters Cazzero said this, nurturing a growing spirituality with depth
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Speaker 3: will require a thoughtful, conscious, intentional plan.
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Speaker 2: Somebody say, plan.
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Speaker 3: Not at hark, not to come, not see how plan
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Speaker 3: a thoughtful, conscious, intentional plan for our spiritual life.
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Speaker 2: Not this.
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Speaker 3: It is a plan for our spiritual lives. Not plan
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Speaker 3: our spiritual lives. It is impossible to plan your spiritual
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Speaker 3: life because you can't do nothing to your spiritual life.
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Speaker 3: God does the word. Of course, the question is which God?
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Speaker 3: Oh it is Jesus. So for weish, I have no.
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Speaker 2: Other gods before us except the living God. Amen.
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Speaker 3: But we are intentionally, thoughtfully, consciously making a plan for
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Speaker 3: our spiritual lives.
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Speaker 2: Amen.
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Speaker 3: It's just like you can't really control, you can't lead,
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Speaker 3: you can actually lose.
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Speaker 2: Weight, per se, you can't like just we can't say
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna grow dinner. But you can make a.
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Speaker 3: Plan for losing weight, and so if you do all
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Speaker 3: the right things, then you might lose weight.
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Speaker 2: Follow me.
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Speaker 3: Okay, So we can't transform, Sorry, we can't control our transformation.
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Speaker 3: We can only control our trajectory. Which direction are we
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Speaker 3: hating that we can control? But we can actually control transformation.
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Speaker 3: That's why some people like maybe Mark and I are
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Speaker 3: doing the exact same things, but he transforms a week
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Speaker 3: earlier than me. That's not frailitism, that's just how God
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Speaker 3: works in people's life.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 3: But as long as we're both hating the same trajectory,
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Speaker 3: so all of us here, if you want to be disciples,
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Speaker 3: we are hating the same direction.
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Speaker 2: Remember it's not.
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Speaker 3: About perfection, it's about consistency and persistence. Yeah, so some
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Speaker 3: of us will be you know, after a week. Some
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Speaker 3: of us are ten steps ahead, some of us are
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Speaker 3: just two steps. But that's okay, as long as we're
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Speaker 3: in the same trajectory. Understand, tragictory is right, So we
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Speaker 3: can't control our transformation. We can only control our trajectory.
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Speaker 3: We can't control transformation. But oh yeah, so we Therefore
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Speaker 3: we must make a plan for spiritual lives. If all
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Speaker 3: we can do is set the direction we move in,
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Speaker 3: then it cannot just be left by itself, because then
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Speaker 3: the win of the world and the winds of life
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Speaker 3: will just blow you where it wants follow me. We
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Speaker 3: must make a plan. Somebody say, make a plan. Discipleship
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Speaker 3: therefore is a call. It's an invitation.
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Speaker 2: That's what I'm doing.
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Speaker 3: I'm standing up here and say, hey, church, here's the
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Speaker 3: call from Jesus. Come on, bring more intention, intentionality and
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Speaker 3: decisions to our lives with God. Don't leave your spiritual
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Speaker 3: growth to add hog or chance. Make a plan. How
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Speaker 3: do we make a plan for spiritual lives? How do
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Speaker 3: we do that? So as we think about how to
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Speaker 3: make a plan? May I so, and there's plenty of
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Speaker 3: you go to a Caneline bookstore, you go online in
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Speaker 3: such all kinds of ways to be disciple. Right before
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Speaker 3: we do any of that, can I invite us to
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Speaker 3: just take a trip down history and let's learn what
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Speaker 3: did the first century disciples do? What Peter, James and
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Speaker 3: John and all of their disciples and follow us? What
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Speaker 3: did they do? So they came up with this concept?
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Speaker 3: They were the ones who came up with this thing.
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Speaker 3: Called a rule of life, not this. So what I'm
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Speaker 3: saying is when when when the disciples heard Jesus say,
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Speaker 3: follow me, and then they and then Jesus did, and
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Speaker 3: they watched Jesus did, and they help, and then Jesus
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Speaker 3: asked them to do and he helped, and then they did,
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Speaker 3: and Jesus watched when they went through the whole process,
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Speaker 3: and they heard the words of Jesus. I'm the Vineyorda
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Speaker 3: branches of Barty Me and Ryan and you you know,
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Speaker 3: when he heard all that, and they had to right
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Speaker 3: now come up with a plan, come up with a
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Speaker 3: way to.
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Speaker 2: Live this life.
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Speaker 3: They decided, you know what, we need this thing called
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Speaker 3: a rule of life.
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Speaker 2: Guys, don't worry. It's simple than you think.
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Speaker 3: And by the way, it's part of the practicing the way,
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Speaker 3: because I think in the next few lessons you'll do
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Speaker 3: this in more detail. But a rule of life. But
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Speaker 3: notice that it is rule of life, not rules of life.
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Speaker 3: Do you notice that is a rule, not rules, Just
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Speaker 3: like fruit of the spirit, not fruits of the spirit,
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Speaker 3: fruits of the spirits like okay, someone, we have patience. Also,
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Speaker 3: fruit of spirit is a result of walking in the spirit.
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Speaker 3: The focus should be how to walk in the spirit,
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Speaker 3: not how to be more patient. You know why it
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Speaker 3: doesn't work for us because from Sunday School we learn
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Speaker 3: all these fruits sometimes already something grapes, right, or the
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Speaker 3: grapes once their cle is patient. One circle is kindness, right,
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Speaker 3: and we try to be more patient. We try to
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Speaker 3: be more kind. That's why we fail because as we're
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Speaker 3: trying to be more kind, we missed out on patience.
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Speaker 3: We miss out on gentleness when it's supposed to be.
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Speaker 3: One fruit is a result, good tree, good fruit. Right,
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Speaker 3: And if you read the verses before and after, it's
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Speaker 3: all about walking in the spirit.
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Speaker 2: And we have learned what walking in the spirit means.
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Speaker 3: It's directing our consciousness towards God all of the time.
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Speaker 2: Amen.
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Speaker 3: So it's a fruit. So this thing is called a
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Speaker 3: rule of life, not rules. So it's not to be
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Speaker 3: understood as Oh so now to be a disciple to
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Speaker 3: come up with a list of things to do, and
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Speaker 3: I must comply to it, and if I fail, then
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Speaker 3: I'm going to be not a disciple. Oh my gosh,
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Speaker 3: this is so much work. Can I go to another church? No,
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Speaker 3: it's not a list of rules to comply it's a
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Speaker 3: rule of life. And now explain it comes from this
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Speaker 3: original word in Latin. Yeah, I speak Latin, just one word, ah, and.
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Speaker 2: It's the word okay.
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Speaker 3: By the way, a rule of life is an ancient language,
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Speaker 3: not a modern one. They came up with this in
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Speaker 3: the first century. The word regular is where.
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Speaker 2: We get words like anybody want to guess regular regulation,
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Speaker 2: and also rule and ruler.
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Speaker 3: You know that wooden't stick that has numbers on it
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Speaker 3: and lines, that's a rare gula in Latin. And the
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Speaker 3: word ruler comes from that word originally. So the disciples
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Speaker 3: back then ancient times, when they when when they came
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Speaker 3: up with a rule of life, they're using the word regular.
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Speaker 3: And many scholars also argue that this word regular in
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Speaker 3: Latin was also the same word use by ancient Mediterranean
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Speaker 3: farmers to describe.
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Speaker 2: What we will call a trellis. I don't even know
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Speaker 2: what a trailist is. It's the name of a band. No,
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Speaker 2: just kidding, Uh. Trailist is how they grow grape friends trellists.
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Speaker 2: So so you've got so these this some treadist looks
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Speaker 2: like this, it's like and then the vines will grow
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Speaker 2: around it. Some trainist looks like an arch and they
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Speaker 2: grow on top of it a trellis. So this is
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Speaker 2: also regular a rule of life, a trellist of life.
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Speaker 3: That means we are trying to build a this thing
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Speaker 3: for your life. You are trying to build this for
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Speaker 3: your life.
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Speaker 2: Amen. And some of it looks like this.
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Speaker 3: It's some kind of a structure so that the vines
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Speaker 3: can grow on it, can wrap around it, and there's
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Speaker 3: a direction to it.
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Speaker 2: Follow me. This is what it looks like for grapes.
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Speaker 3: Sometimes you got this kind of stars or you know,
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Speaker 3: have you seen it like the rotan and it's like
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Speaker 3: more crosses. So grapes just don't just grow on the
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Speaker 3: ground wild and uncontrolled, or.
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Speaker 2: They don't grow upside up up the side of a rock.
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Speaker 3: Grapes are put on trellises in order to get them
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Speaker 3: up off the ground and to index their growth in
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Speaker 3: the right direction towards what life and light, light and
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Speaker 3: life and space, so they can grow in order for
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Speaker 3: the vine to bear maximum amount of fruit. Is designed
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Speaker 3: to do that. Yeah, without a traillis without these things.
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Speaker 3: Maybe I'll show you this other picture. Without a traillis
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Speaker 3: you won't get wine. So you're like, oh, without a
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Speaker 3: trellis of vine may just die because they may not
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Speaker 3: get enough sun, they're not off the ground, they're not
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Speaker 3: getting lined, they're not hitting.
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Speaker 2: The right direction. Or they may not even live in
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Speaker 2: the first place.
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Speaker 3: They die very quickly, or it may it may live
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Speaker 3: for it be incredibly vulnerable to disease, damage from wild
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Speaker 3: animals easy to get to, or being trampled food. So
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Speaker 3: it's very damaging, destructive to not have a trellis. What
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Speaker 3: is the rule of life for a disciple, a disciple
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Speaker 3: that has a trail list?
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Speaker 2: What is your traillis?
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Speaker 3: So that you can index your growth and your life
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Speaker 3: can go towards the light and life amen In a
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Speaker 3: similar way, that's what Jesus used.
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Speaker 2: He used the word pictures that he used. It's no coincidence.
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Speaker 3: It wasn't just because you were speaking from from winery
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Speaker 3: or something. It's all his pictures were understandable to the listeners.
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Speaker 3: So Jesus is, I'm the true vine. My father is
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Speaker 3: the gardener. He's a vine dresser. Every branch in me
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Speaker 3: that that's not beare foe. He takes away.
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Speaker 2: He prunes the cuts.
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Speaker 3: By the way the word prune, the word prune, Yes,
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Speaker 3: it's cut but sometimes it's also the same Greek word
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Speaker 3: also means lift up because maybe too low, not getting
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Speaker 3: in the sun to dark, so with the gardener lifts
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Speaker 3: it up.
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Speaker 2: So pune doesn't just mean cut because later there's a cut. No, So.
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Speaker 3: Amen following so far, yes, so I know why your
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Speaker 3: branch is abiding me. Stay on my trellist, stay on
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Speaker 3: this rule of life.
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Speaker 2: If you want to grow, if you want to get
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Speaker 2: what you want, if you want to be somebody that
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Speaker 2: is more like me. Amen.
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Speaker 3: So the early Christians, they heard the word of Jesus,
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Speaker 3: they sort the examples of Jesus, and they took it
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Speaker 3: to its logical conclusion.
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Speaker 2: Now, wait a minute.
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Speaker 3: If Jesus is the vine and we're the branches, and
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Speaker 3: the goal is to actually bear much fruit, uh huh,
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Speaker 3: we need a trellis because that's how grapes grow. And
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Speaker 3: Jesus is using that word picture to tell us what
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Speaker 3: our life should be like. So we need we need
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Speaker 3: an organizing structure to go underneath our life, something that
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Speaker 3: supports our life. Follow me, We need some support structure
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Speaker 3: to get us going in the right direction, to open
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Speaker 3: us up to the spiritual equivalent of sun and rain
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Speaker 3: and oxygen.
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Speaker 2: And lights.
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Speaker 3: And we also need this structure to protect us from
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Speaker 3: wild animals from getting trample on. We need an organizing
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Speaker 3: structure to go underneath us, something that carries our life
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Speaker 3: basic clear follow Like I said, I promise you it's
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Speaker 3: simple that it sounds. A role of life is just
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Speaker 3: simply is a schedule and a set of practices, A schedule,
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Speaker 3: practices and relational reedoms that organizes our life around the
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Speaker 3: three goals that you already know about now, yeap. That
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Speaker 3: means it's a schedule that makes you be with Jesus,
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Speaker 3: become like Jesus, behave like Jesus. It's a set of
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Speaker 3: practices things you do that makes you become bev Jesus,
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Speaker 3: Become like Jesus, behave like Jesus. It's a relational readm
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Speaker 3: the way you hand the relationships that makes you be
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Speaker 3: with Jesus, become like Jesus, behave like Jesus. Makes sense
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Speaker 3: when you have a rule of life and it enables us. Therefore,
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Speaker 3: when it without it, it disables us. With it, it
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Speaker 3: enables us, enables us to live in alignment and congruence.
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Speaker 3: So you're you're saying, I want to be more like Jesus.
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Speaker 3: But you don't have a churlis. It's not congruent, it's
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Speaker 3: not in alignment. You're actually hating a different direction. But
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Speaker 3: if you want to be more like Jesus, a true disciple,
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Speaker 3: then you gotta have a rule of life, a schedule,
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Speaker 3: a set of practices, a relational reedom that makes it
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Speaker 3: aligned and congruent with your actual deepest desire, which we
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Speaker 3: have learned our heart actual desires for God to be
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Speaker 3: with him, to be like him, and to behave like him.
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Speaker 2: Amen.
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Speaker 3: All right, So what is the rule of life? It's
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Speaker 3: all about participation with God. God is working, he is moving,
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Speaker 3: he is doing something in our lives. We either participate
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Speaker 3: with him or it just happens without us.
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Speaker 2: And we don't want to lose us out. Now.
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Speaker 3: If the journey of discipleship is about aiming our life
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Speaker 3: according to a deepest desire, which is to be like God,
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Speaker 3: be with God. If that's discipleship, then a rule of
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Speaker 3: life is two things.
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Speaker 2: A reference or a map. It's a way to live
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Speaker 2: today drawing.
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Speaker 3: So when you go on Google Maps and you put
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Speaker 3: your location, it's set right if you take a wrong road.
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Speaker 3: He recal Clason still brings you back to the place.
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Speaker 3: But now you have a reference. Now you know how
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Speaker 3: far how close you are to your destination. A rule
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Speaker 3: of life is a reference, a man drawing a line
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Speaker 3: between me and in the midst of God and who
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Speaker 3: I want to become like amen. It's also how we
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Speaker 3: say yes to Jesus. So basically, when you have a
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Speaker 3: rule of life, you have a way of saying, yes, Jesus,
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Speaker 3: I'm following you. Yes, Jesus will spend time with you.
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Speaker 3: Yes Jesus, I will give where you want me to give.
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Speaker 3: Yes Jesus willself here. Yes Jesus, I will stop doing that. Yes,
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Speaker 3: Jesus our fast. A rule of life is your way
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Speaker 3: of saying yes to Jesus. It's not a list of
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Speaker 3: rules or some brilliant idea on how you squeeze the most.
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Speaker 2: Out of your spiritual life.
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Speaker 3: But it's paying attention to all of God's invitations to you.
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Speaker 3: Come spend more time with me, come be with me,
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Speaker 3: Come think like me, come walk with me.
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Speaker 2: All right. In other words, it's saying yes to God's
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Speaker 2: work within us. When we have a rule of life.
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Speaker 3: For example, maybe part of the rule is I pray
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Speaker 3: every morning that waking up, going to the corner and pray,
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Speaker 3: you're saying yes to God's work working within you. When
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Speaker 3: you miss that prayer time, while God wants to work
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Speaker 3: within you, he's not able to because you were not there.
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Speaker 2: But when you wake up and you go to that
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Speaker 2: place and you spend time with God, you're saying yes, God,
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Speaker 2: work within me, work within me. Amen.
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Speaker 3: Because you are not in control of your transformation, Nothing
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Speaker 3: you do will transform you.
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Speaker 2: You can only be in control of your trajectory. So
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Speaker 2: you go to that place, you sit there, or you
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Speaker 2: stand there, or you lay there or whatever it is,
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Speaker 2: you spend time with God and let God's work within you. Amen.
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Speaker 3: You're asking this question, how can I live today inhabiting
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Speaker 3: God's invitation so that I can create the most room
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Speaker 3: in my inner world with my whole body, with my
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Speaker 3: whole life for God.
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Speaker 2: What transformation in me?
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Speaker 3: Basically, it's just like, how can I say yes to
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Speaker 3: God when he says spend time with me? When he
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Speaker 3: says stop that, when he says lesson that? How can
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Speaker 3: I How can I make say as many yes as
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Speaker 3: possible to create as much room as possible Forgot to
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Speaker 3: work within me?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? Wow?
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Speaker 3: Pastor isn't there a lot of work? News flash, Life
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Speaker 3: is work? Have you not noticed? Marriage is work? Boyfriend girlfriend?
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Speaker 3: Relationship is work? Work is work. Raising children is work.
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Speaker 3: I know they always say, ah, don't make just feel
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Speaker 3: like work, But yes, it's when I say, well, I say,
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Speaker 3: in the purest sense, have you not noticed the when
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Speaker 3: God created the world, he rested one day he worked
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Speaker 3: the audio rest or six days? Life is work? And uh,
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Speaker 3: there's multiple verses in the world. It says a worker
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Speaker 3: is worthy of his wages, which also suggests if you
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Speaker 3: don't work, you're not worthy of your wages. So if
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Speaker 3: you're like, how come I'm not blessed her? How come
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Speaker 3: I'm not getting healthier? How came I'm not growing up
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Speaker 3: because you don't work, you don't put in the work.
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Speaker 3: Because a worker is worthy of his wages, a non
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Speaker 3: worker is not worthy of his wages or the rewards,
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Speaker 3: or the gifts, or the blessings or the feeling the blanks.
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Speaker 2: Life is work, Marriage is work. Spiritual life is work.
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Speaker 2: News flesh, we already have a rule of life. Oh yes,
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Speaker 2: we do. We already. We are already working in our lives.
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Speaker 2: You think you're not working, you're already working in your
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Speaker 2: life to become a type of person. The type of
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Speaker 2: person you are is because of the rule of life
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Speaker 2: that you already have. You just may not be intentional
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Speaker 2: or you may not be aware what it is. But
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Speaker 2: how you wake up, how are you going to sleep,
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Speaker 2: how are you interview people? The kind of relationship you're
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Speaker 2: keeping your life, that the happiness that you keep, all
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Speaker 2: that is forming you.
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Speaker 3: You already have a rule of life. We already have
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Speaker 3: some schedule, some set of practices, yes or no, and
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Speaker 3: relational riadoms that we live by. You already do. The
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Speaker 3: question is not do you have a role of life?
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Speaker 3: The question is do you know what it is? Are
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Speaker 3: you aware what is making you to become?
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Speaker 2: Most of us are not. I was not.
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Speaker 3: I just started learning this and go, okay, I'm noticing.
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Speaker 3: No wonder, I'm so anxious, no wonder, I'm impatient, No wonder,
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Speaker 3: I'm like this.
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Speaker 2: No wonder.
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Speaker 3: This irritates me because something has found me to become this.
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Speaker 3: But I don't want to be this. I want to
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Speaker 3: be like Jesus. So I gotta change my rule of life.
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Speaker 3: I gotta change the previous version. I can't if I
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Speaker 3: keep the previous version, I want to be this version.
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Speaker 3: So do you know what your rule of life is
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Speaker 3: and the rule of lie that you have already right
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Speaker 3: now existing?
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Speaker 2: Is it working for you or against you?
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Speaker 3: Is it based on long term desires of your heart
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Speaker 3: or instant.
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Speaker 2: Gratification quick fix?
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Speaker 3: Is it based on wisdom or foolish assumptions? Is it
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Speaker 3: making you more and more a person of love? Or
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Speaker 3: is it making you more and more anxious and angry
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Speaker 3: and bitter and hurt and so on and so forth.
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Speaker 3: Whatever your rule is right now, what's it making you
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Speaker 3: to be? Have you stopped and asked that question? Is
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Speaker 3: it grounding you deeper in relationships or pulling you away
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Speaker 3: from connection from relational connection?
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Speaker 2: Is it making you more like Jesus or like someone else?
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Speaker 2: We already have a role of life.
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Speaker 3: So Jesus is not calling us to do something we're
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Speaker 3: not already doing. He is calling us to do something
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Speaker 3: we're already doing. But differently, we can all do the
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Speaker 3: typoship because you're already doing it, but Jesus saying, don't
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Speaker 3: do it the way you're doing right now, do it
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Speaker 3: my way. So, as an apprentice of Jesus, we aim
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Speaker 3: our lives at because we're only in control of our trajectory.
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Speaker 3: We aim our lives at being with Jesus, becoming like Jesus,
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Speaker 3: and behaving like Jesus. In other words, saying yes to
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Speaker 3: Jesus invitation when he says forgive the guy it's okay.
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Speaker 3: He's inviting you to be like him, and you say,
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Speaker 3: man is difficult. Man is difficult. He was nasty to me,
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Speaker 3: He wasn't kind. You know, he's all kinds of rumors
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Speaker 3: about me. You know, he did reply my messages. He
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Speaker 3: blocked me on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok. He brought me from
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Speaker 3: from the postman as so I can't even send him
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Speaker 3: like a snail man like, wow, this is serious.
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Speaker 2: Well how do you do that? I don't know, but yeah, seriously,
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Speaker 2: he brought me from from memory. Even he went to
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Speaker 2: some kind of like I don't know, some scientific places
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Speaker 2: lab in Europe and remove memory. I don't know, Wow,
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Speaker 2: how to forgive? But Jesus is forgive, and we say yes, yes.
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Speaker 3: And the more yeses we say to Jesus, the more
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Speaker 3: we are formed into him. By the way, sometimes in
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Speaker 3: Christendom we like to romanticize and say things like, oh,
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Speaker 3: God just wants your heart, but the news is so
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Speaker 3: much worse and so much better at the same time.
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Speaker 2: He actually doesn't just want your heart. He wants all
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Speaker 2: of you.
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Speaker 3: He wants your heart, your mind, your body, your emotions.
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Speaker 2: He wants your belief system. He wants your habits.
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Speaker 3: He wants your budget, he wants your time, he wants
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Speaker 3: your phone, he wants your.
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Speaker 2: iPad, he wants everything.
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Speaker 3: He wants all of us, because he's either a lot
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Speaker 3: of all or not at all. If there's some part
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Speaker 3: in your life, okay, God, you are God in everything,
26:49
Speaker 3: except when it comes to my relationship, because that one
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Speaker 3: I know better. God, I know I like your God.
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Speaker 3: You never dated before, so you don't know. It's okay,
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Speaker 3: let me handle this.
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Speaker 2: If there's such even such a thing, such a an
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Speaker 2: inch of that, he's no longer God of your life.
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Speaker 3: He's not a god of all or not at all.
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Speaker 3: No this Jesus never used the phrase spiritual life. He's
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Speaker 3: not interested in your spiritual life. He's interested in you,
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Speaker 3: your whole life. He doesn't go like, oh that's school, Okay,
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Speaker 3: I'm not there. Go do school and see you in church.
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Speaker 3: Oh that's your work, okay, go go go, go go
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Speaker 3: and bribe going, it's okay, I'll see you on Sunday.
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Speaker 3: Make sure your die. No, he's he's not just interested
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Speaker 3: in your Saturdays or Sundays or once a Friday. He's
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Speaker 3: interested in you, your life, your whole life.
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Speaker 2: Amen. So what is a rule of life supposed to
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Speaker 2: do to me? If I have this child list, what's
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Speaker 2: he gonna do to me? Now?
27:56
Speaker 3: See some of you, are you sign up for some
27:58
Speaker 3: kind of fitness program or your bise supplements?
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Speaker 2: You eat them or you know, you just do it.
28:04
Speaker 3: You don't actually know how it actually works. You just
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Speaker 3: know what it's supposed to do to you, Like, oh,
28:09
Speaker 3: if I eat this gin singer, then I wore this.
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Speaker 3: But you don't actually know how the gen sing properties
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Speaker 3: actually interact with your.
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Speaker 2: Neurons and your hormones and your kidney and what. You
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Speaker 2: don't actually know, or you know it's what's supposed to
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Speaker 2: do with me? Or maybe healthy? Is it? Maybe more friend? Okay, cool,
28:26
Speaker 2: I'll do it. So same thing here a rule of
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Speaker 2: life you may not fully understand exactly. Oh if I
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Speaker 2: pray three minutes, I'll be more patient. If I pray
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Speaker 2: form minutes, give me patient and loving?
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Speaker 3: Oh wow, No, you just know that praying does something
28:42
Speaker 3: to you. So what is it supposed to do? Okay,
28:46
Speaker 3: this one is interesting. I hope I can explain it. Well, okay,
28:52
Speaker 3: here it goes. It slows you down. And this if
28:57
Speaker 3: I stop here, all of you are gonna leave this place,
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Speaker 3: all kinds of ideas. Ah, next week you block out
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Speaker 3: the next rest of the year planning center. What does
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Speaker 3: they slow down? Ma, So I'm not serving anymore, I'm
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Speaker 3: taking a break or whatever version are like, Okay, you
29:14
Speaker 3: go back to your wife and say, hey, we can't
29:15
Speaker 3: take so much anymore, need to slow down. These are
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Speaker 3: the kind of statements and can people take to extremes
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Speaker 3: and actually, wa they do that. They're just trying to
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Speaker 3: fit to their already pre assisting agenda And yeah, I.
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Speaker 2: Tell you, do you? I do you? No, it does.
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Speaker 3: Slow you down, but listen carefully this way I'm trying
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Speaker 3: to explain. But wait, it slows you down, not in
29:38
Speaker 3: the sense of speed, but more inderstent of pace. Can
29:44
Speaker 3: you see how running has changed my life?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? God, difference are it's not the same.
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Speaker 3: Explain speed is distant distance measured over time, and pace
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Speaker 3: is time measure over distance.
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Speaker 2: Woke Boom what is mean okay?
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Speaker 3: Like speed like when you're okay, when you drive somewhere
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Speaker 3: and you say I'm driving fifty kilometers per hour, that
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Speaker 3: means in that one hour you telve fifty kilometers. Pace
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Speaker 3: is five minutes per kilometer. There mean is how much
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Speaker 3: time did you take to so never I'll try explain them,
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Speaker 3: so don't worry about running and cycling and driving. Speed
30:29
Speaker 3: is how much you can do in a set amount
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Speaker 3: of time. So in one hour, I can do twenty things.
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Speaker 2: That speed that kills you pay is how much time
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Speaker 2: you need to do.
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Speaker 3: A set amount of things. So I have to finish
30:46
Speaker 3: my Masters. I'm super stressed because I will have two
30:50
Speaker 3: more modules to complete by the end of this year.
30:53
Speaker 3: But I don't graduate because I have to do my
30:56
Speaker 3: Theological Foundations. That's eleven courses, eleven different subjects. It is
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Speaker 3: possible to do all eleven next year. I do it
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Speaker 3: over three tremesters, four subjects, three subjects, four subjects. I'm
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Speaker 3: doing one module every two months now and I'm dying,
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Speaker 3: so I cannot imagine doing four subjects in three months.
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Speaker 3: But it's a possibility. So I can do that in
31:23
Speaker 3: one year. I do eleven courses, or I pace myself
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Speaker 3: and do four subjects a year. I'll finish lower, but
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Speaker 3: I'll finish and maybe not die while doing it. But
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Speaker 3: if I'm all about speed, I will do all eleven
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Speaker 3: subjects in one year.
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Speaker 2: Nothing wrong with that. You'll be very fast. What was
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Speaker 2: it doing to me?
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Speaker 3: So when I say a rule of life will slow
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Speaker 3: you down, I'm saying, oh.
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Speaker 2: Slow down.
31:53
Speaker 3: So now I come just once a month now because
31:56
Speaker 3: four times the money is a lot.
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Speaker 2: It's not slowing down. Then you're thinking speed.
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Speaker 3: I'm not talking about how much you can do in
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Speaker 3: a set amount of time. Is how much time you
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Speaker 3: need to do a cert amount of things?
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Speaker 2: Amen? Yeahm so.
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Speaker 3: So it's it's not like, oh how much can I
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Speaker 3: serve in a year to become suppersportital and holy, It's like,
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Speaker 3: how long will I need to serve before I become
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Speaker 3: more patient?
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Speaker 2: More time or loving more? Wise? Okay?
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Speaker 3: Man, So a rural life will slow you down, meaning
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Speaker 3: it will pace you. It will help you decide how
32:37
Speaker 3: much time you need to do a cet. You don't
32:40
Speaker 3: change the things you need to do. You need to serve,
32:42
Speaker 3: you need to give, you need to worship, you need
32:44
Speaker 3: to quieten down. You need to practice severalth, you need
32:46
Speaker 3: to fast sometimes, you need to read your Bible.
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Speaker 2: You need to do all those things. But how do
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Speaker 2: you paste it out? Makes sense? Pace yourself.
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Speaker 3: Pace yourself, so slowing down or pacing in the sense
33:00
Speaker 3: that you become more conscious and aware of it. Because
33:03
Speaker 3: when you speak peace, peace, peace, speed, you're not actually
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Speaker 3: aware of yourself.
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Speaker 2: You don't even know.
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Speaker 3: It's everything okay, it's everything, alright, it's my muscle's doing
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Speaker 3: all right. You don't know because you're all about speed.
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Speaker 3: But when you pace yourself, you become more aware. Oh,
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Speaker 3: this is happening, this is happening, this is happening. Ah,
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Speaker 3: I don't need this right now. I need that more
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Speaker 3: right now. Pace when you have a rule of life
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Speaker 3: that paces you. And that's what I meant by slowing down.
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Speaker 3: Pace there is a reference. Now, there's a ruler, there's
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Speaker 3: a trellist that measures. You can measure yourself against me
33:35
Speaker 3: by man. So there are two categories of spiritual disciplines
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Speaker 3: as we pace ourself. That is the discipline of engagement,
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Speaker 3: which is stuff that you do, and there's a discipline
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Speaker 3: of abstinence, stuff that you don't do.
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Speaker 2: We need both.
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Speaker 3: So in a spiritual discipline, what do you have to
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Speaker 3: do and what do you have to not do? For example,
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Speaker 3: rest simple engagement. Doing is you gotta preach the gospel
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Speaker 3: that doing go do more preach. Ebstinence will be fasting,
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Speaker 3: don't do, don't eat, or don't watch TikTok so much
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Speaker 3: so from watching six hours a day.
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Speaker 2: Solid uh, you do less.
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Speaker 3: So disciplines of engagement serve, give or disciplines of ebstinence fast, sabbath, solitude,
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Speaker 3: quiet time, read or we can be both.
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Speaker 2: Both are important.
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Speaker 3: We need a healthy blend of abstinence and engagement. Imagine
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Speaker 3: two sets of muscles, the do muscle and the don't muscle.
34:47
Speaker 3: We have both that like like your two but chicks.
34:52
Speaker 3: Sorry no, not no ver accurate. It should be your
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Speaker 3: biceps and triceps. M So they're just being chicky. The
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Speaker 3: button the list doesn't work. But your by saying tricep,
35:05
Speaker 3: that's what. That's what there's what more what it means
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Speaker 3: your do muscle and your don't muscle at any given
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Speaker 3: time one's contracting. So once contractor and once relaxed at
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Speaker 3: any given time.
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Speaker 2: So you need both.
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Speaker 3: You can't just have triceps and no biceps or have
35:20
Speaker 3: bicets no triceps. You can just build your biceps and
35:23
Speaker 3: ignore your triceps. You gotta build both. So we all
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Speaker 3: have to discipline muscles. It's called the dow muscle and
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Speaker 3: the don't muscle.
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Speaker 2: I HM.
35:34
Speaker 3: So like a farmer culveted cultivating cultivating a piece of land.
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Speaker 3: Having a rule of life means there are things you
35:42
Speaker 3: need to remove from the land before you put into
35:47
Speaker 3: the land to grow something.
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Speaker 2: You can't have thorones in there. You can't have like
35:51
Speaker 2: poison toxics in there.
35:53
Speaker 3: You have to remove certain things, maybe rocks, and then
35:56
Speaker 3: you put in the seed or you put in the
35:58
Speaker 3: plant so that it can grow.
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Speaker 2: You need both.
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Speaker 3: Okay, it's both, my friends, both doing less and also
36:04
Speaker 3: doing more, depending on where you're at. Some of us
36:08
Speaker 3: need to do more of something and someone need to
36:10
Speaker 3: do less of something. Amen, because I need to say
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Speaker 3: it because as you go to the practice the way
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Speaker 3: it cause it's gonna sound like what they're saying is
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Speaker 3: just do less les less less less as less. But
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Speaker 3: that was written in the culture where it's doing doing, doing,
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Speaker 3: doing doing, so it says a cultural nuance to it.
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Speaker 2: So I'm trying to bring the balance.
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Speaker 3: For some of you, you need to do more, not
36:33
Speaker 3: doing enough, and so you you need too much. So
36:37
Speaker 3: you need to know where you are. Without a trailist,
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Speaker 3: it's impossible to know. So reminder, a rule of life
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Speaker 3: is not another spiritual practice. The rule of life is
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Speaker 3: not a spiritual practice to add to your already as
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Speaker 3: a spiritual practice.
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Speaker 2: Think of your rural life as a container.
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Speaker 3: You have a container in which to decide what do
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Speaker 3: I fit into my role of life? And what do
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Speaker 3: I take out? Because it can only contain so much.
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Speaker 3: You can't do everything, my friends, but you can do
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Speaker 3: a lot, but we can't do everything. So a role
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Speaker 3: of life is giving yourself a container. And in this
37:19
Speaker 3: container I can only fit this, this, this, this, this is,
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Speaker 3: and the rest of we have to take.
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Speaker 2: Bam. Yeah, So what fits into a role of life?
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Speaker 3: The crux of what the practices, and by the practices,
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Speaker 3: there seteen nine of them that you also discover in
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Speaker 3: your practicing the way it costs later, and I'll share
37:38
Speaker 3: them with you soon. But the crux of the practices
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Speaker 3: of the spiritual disciplines is they are basically how much
37:47
Speaker 3: we do what we can do so that the Spirit
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Speaker 3: of God can do what we cannot.
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Speaker 2: Do in us. So you do everything that you can
37:58
Speaker 2: do and then you leave the rest. Got a right, Okay.
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Speaker 3: So, for example, there's something called direct change, and in
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Speaker 3: direct change, direct changes are change that is within the
38:12
Speaker 3: realm of your willpower. So you're supposed to take less sugar.
38:18
Speaker 3: It's within the realm of your willpower to reframe from
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Speaker 3: taking sugar.
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Speaker 2: Yes, no, I mean you can. You may be tempted,
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Speaker 2: you may be. It may be very difficult.
38:26
Speaker 3: Or maybe you go six days without sugar and it's
38:28
Speaker 3: the seven day cheap day. You can little bit, and
38:31
Speaker 3: then Monday you say, never mind, I will try to
38:33
Speaker 3: stop sugar again. It's within the realm of your willpower.
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Speaker 3: Go ahead and use the wheel power and wake up earlier.
38:40
Speaker 3: Take less sugar, exercise more.
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Speaker 2: Indirect change is significant change that is beyond the realm
38:49
Speaker 2: of your wheel power. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: For example, okay, all direct change. Stop cussing, you don't
38:56
Speaker 3: cust Okay, stop cussing.
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Speaker 2: You can do that.
39:00
Speaker 3: You can say, okay, I am going to stop using
39:02
Speaker 3: bad words with my the same lips, the phrases God,
39:05
Speaker 3: because that's like using the spoon to scoop price and
39:07
Speaker 3: pook at the same time, So I won't do that anymore. Uh,
39:13
Speaker 3: and me miss one or two times and you come
39:15
Speaker 3: back to it a game. But it's the kind of
39:16
Speaker 3: change that you can use so willpower to effect.
39:22
Speaker 2: And uh, okay.
39:23
Speaker 3: Indirect change will be things like I want to be
39:26
Speaker 3: a loving husband.
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Speaker 2: I really want to. It's not a leg power, it's
39:31
Speaker 2: not no today, I want to be a bad husband.
39:36
Speaker 2: Nobody has that.
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Speaker 3: We wake up every day one thing willing to be
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Speaker 3: a good husband. But sometimes we have bad habits. Sometimes
39:45
Speaker 3: we have all habits. Sometimes we learn from our previous generation.
39:50
Speaker 3: You know, this is how you deal with your wife,
39:52
Speaker 3: and it just sometimes comes without beyond our control. That
39:56
Speaker 3: will be indirect change. That will be very hard to
39:59
Speaker 3: say that if you just control. Ah, So you need
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Speaker 3: a little bit more. Because it's not a switch. You
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Speaker 3: can't just flip a switch and not worry. The bobble says,
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Speaker 3: do not worry. Hey, how many of you want to worry?
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Speaker 3: Nobody wants. But it's not within the remo. You will
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Speaker 3: power to no worry nobody. He's just beyond that. So
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Speaker 3: it's not a switch. I'm worrying right now, off Ah,
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Speaker 3: No worried. But you can't flip the stwits and say
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Speaker 3: no worry. But you can practice sebo. You can practice prayer,
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Speaker 3: you can practice scripture, serf gift.
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Speaker 2: That what you can do.
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Speaker 3: In other words, you know what, I cannot control my worry,
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Speaker 3: but I can control what I do with my my
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Speaker 3: next five minutes, My next five minutes. I'm gonna go
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Speaker 3: into the quiet room and I'm gonna speaking tongues.
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Speaker 2: I can do that. I can control that. It's within
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Speaker 2: my will power.
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Speaker 3: And as I pray in tongues, I believe that God
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Speaker 3: is doing something in me that makes me not worry
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Speaker 3: too much.
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Speaker 2: That I can do. That is what you need to
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Speaker 2: be intentional about. Amen.
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Speaker 3: So it's it's useless, pointless, powerless to try to don't
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Speaker 3: worry so much, don't be loved to us food, to
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Speaker 3: be so angry, pointless because it's indirect change. It can
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Speaker 3: only happen if you spend more time with God, spend more.
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Speaker 2: Time in worship, fasting, reading scripture. Amen. Who again, we
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Speaker 2: can control transformation. We can only we can. We can
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Speaker 2: just do our.
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Speaker 3: Best to open our lives to God for his transformation.
41:34
Speaker 3: In us, Jacques Philip said, the primary task of a
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Speaker 3: disciple of Jesus is learning how to open deeper and
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Speaker 3: deeper parts of ourselves to what to grace. Grace means
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Speaker 3: God does the work. Remember the barber analogy. Your hair
41:57
Speaker 3: won't cut yourself. You can't cut your own hair. You
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Speaker 3: have to bring you yourself to the bibble and then
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Speaker 3: let the bubble do his magic. You have to bring
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Speaker 3: yourself to God, surrender and let God do his magic
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Speaker 3: or miracle.
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Speaker 2: Amen. And that's what the practices do.
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Speaker 3: The practices are not an end in itself, but they
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Speaker 3: can and does open us to grace. The more you
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Speaker 3: practice prayer, the more you practice fast thing, for example,
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Speaker 3: the more you open yourself to grace the work of God,
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Speaker 3: and grace can change us into the kind of person who,
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Speaker 3: over time is increasingly more and more loving, and less
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Speaker 3: and less worried, more and more like Jesus.
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Speaker 2: So what does a rule of life do for us?
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Speaker 2: It does four things? Rule of life.
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Speaker 3: So in the practicing the way, because you might read
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Speaker 3: the first line, ask it will slow you down?
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Speaker 2: I prefer it paces you. It paces you. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: That sometimes means you have to speed up. If I
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Speaker 3: want to finish my next half marathon in less than
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Speaker 3: three hours. I have to run faster than I did
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Speaker 3: the last time, but not in a way theyccuse myself.
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Speaker 3: So in some in some parts you have to be faster.
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Speaker 3: In another ways you have to be slower, so it
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Speaker 3: paces you. A rule of life also what breaks the
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Speaker 3: addiction to hurry? And when I say hurry and don't
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Speaker 3: just mean do more and more things. Some people are
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Speaker 3: just workaholics, right, I also mean in the internal sense,
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Speaker 3: like being patient with your change. I know you want
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Speaker 3: to change. Oh you know, I know we want to
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Speaker 3: change tomorrow. But something you have to be. Okay, we've
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Speaker 3: got just working in you for a longer period of time.
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Speaker 3: A rur right also helps us practice the pace of
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Speaker 3: love and peace.
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Speaker 2: How do I.
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Speaker 3: Approach this situation with love? How do I approach that
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Speaker 3: circumstance with peace? And finally, a rule of life focuses
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Speaker 3: on transformation rather than on real power. Okay, what are
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Speaker 3: the practices which you will see in your guide?
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Speaker 2: Anyway? Is this nine things?
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Speaker 3: Sabbath, solitude, prayer, fasting, scripture, community, generosity, service, witness.
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Speaker 2: I will quickly explain them.
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Speaker 3: I won't go too deep into them because we're gonna
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Speaker 3: learn it throughout GGS anyway is that okay? Basically, see,
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Speaker 3: I arrange them tot like that intentionally because the first
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Speaker 3: three is where we if the more we do, the
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Speaker 3: more we be with Jesus. It's saba solitide prayer. Sabath
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Speaker 3: is a spiritual journey that begins with rest. Subriginally begins
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Speaker 3: with rest.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. Over busy people are not loving.
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Speaker 3: Overly busy people as also overly busy people are not
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Speaker 3: living peace and joy. So sab if you go to
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Speaker 3: the cost that we actually ask you to sell us
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Speaker 3: a day where you put away your phone, you turn
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Speaker 3: off the TV.
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Speaker 2: There's different ways to do it.
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Speaker 3: So I won't go into those details because you will
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Speaker 3: go to it in the cost and you can you
44:51
Speaker 3: can learn it on your own.
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Speaker 2: But basically it's.
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Speaker 3: An intentional day slash time where you put away distractions,
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Speaker 3: your phone, your work, maybe whatever it is that takes
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Speaker 3: you away from just being with God and God alone solitude,
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Speaker 3: as the word suggests, it's rest but alone. You don't
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Speaker 3: talk to people, you don't listen to people, you're not
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Speaker 3: around noise. That's why this this is not things written
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Speaker 3: by some amla. They can like just go through some
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Speaker 3: mountains somewhere and then the weather is cool and they
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Speaker 3: sit there and fish for three hours and come back.
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Speaker 2: We all are do I go, are everywhere, gam go
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Speaker 2: to some people.
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Speaker 3: Everybody is there, So you have to find your own
45:39
Speaker 3: other ways to do it. But understand the principle a
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Speaker 3: time to be alone. Jesus did it too, and I
45:49
Speaker 3: think I think Jesus shows a very practical way. You
45:51
Speaker 3: know why he woke up three in the morning to
45:52
Speaker 3: go and do it because the disciples will wake up
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Speaker 3: at five, so he better go do it before they
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Speaker 3: wake up. So his sacrifice he made so that he
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Speaker 3: can connect with his father. Those days in Jewish, those
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Speaker 3: days they start work at six am. So that's why
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Speaker 3: we go at three am. Did you know the March
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Speaker 3: of the two when he finished praying, everybody is looking
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Speaker 3: for you. Six am. People looking for him. Come hear me,
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Speaker 3: touch me, talk to me. So he has to go earlier.
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Speaker 3: You see how he sets a rule of life for himself.
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Speaker 3: I'm not saying you have to pray at three am.
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Speaker 3: Whatever your three am is, You got to have a
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Speaker 3: three am. That's the point prayer, Okay, you know what
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Speaker 3: prayer is. We define prayer as spending time with God
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Speaker 3: with without talking. And then the next three practices is
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Speaker 3: to become like Jesus, fast thing, reading scripture, and community
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Speaker 3: or focus on community at the end a lot more
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Speaker 3: because this is we are not meant to follow Jesus alone.
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Speaker 3: There's literally part of the Bible you cannot even practice
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Speaker 3: if you do it.
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Speaker 2: If you are alone. You can forgive one another, you
46:56
Speaker 2: can love one another, you can serve one another if
46:59
Speaker 2: you're all by yourself. So friends, good news, so bad news.
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Speaker 2: We have to do this in community. Amen.
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Speaker 3: That one is behave like generosity, giving away our time,
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Speaker 3: our resources.
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Speaker 2: Service.
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Speaker 3: When we serve, it has the power to fix things,
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Speaker 3: change this world. We can summarize the world's problems into
47:20
Speaker 3: one word, selfishness. People are selfish, so they're wrong, They still,
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Speaker 3: they kill, they cheat, they lie, they they bribe selfishness
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Speaker 3: to reverse that servitude give amen. And finally you got
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Speaker 3: witness making space for the gospel, preaching the gospel, demonstrating
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Speaker 3: the gospel.
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Speaker 2: Amen. Okay, so in your guide you will see things
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Speaker 2: like that. Okay. So basically they put the nine practices
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Speaker 2: on the top, and then they put a daily, weekly,
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Speaker 2: monthly by the side. Uh. And then you can put there.
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Speaker 3: Okay, seth is something I do weekly, maybe once a week,
47:57
Speaker 3: and then prayer is something I pray daily. Solitude maybe
48:00
Speaker 3: every day, I spend five minutes alone something like that. Okay,
48:04
Speaker 3: obviously you can't read. I'm not eating you too. It's
48:07
Speaker 3: in your guide, so go check it out. I'm just
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Speaker 3: giving you a sample they purposically give you. Like example,
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Speaker 3: this is a sample of someone who is a graduate
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Speaker 3: student in the twenties. You can see how they designed theirs.
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Speaker 3: And then this is a mother with a young son
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Speaker 3: who works as a teacher. This is what looks like. No,
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Speaker 3: everyone here doesn't have to look the same, but what
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Speaker 3: we're saying is we all got to have one.
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Speaker 2: What is yours?
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Speaker 3: I've recently only started in the early in the morning.
48:35
Speaker 3: Look as versus one word one verse verse run put
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Speaker 3: into my ear a sermon or some kind of podcasts
48:42
Speaker 3: as I run a fifty. At the same time, I'm
48:44
Speaker 3: keeping fit while feeding my brain, my mind, my heart
48:47
Speaker 3: that I come back. There was a time where I
48:49
Speaker 3: was boiling promaganate juice. My father taught me so it
48:52
Speaker 3: takes ten minutes to boil. So in ten minutes, I'm
48:54
Speaker 3: sitting on a toller ball. I'm pooping and reading the Bible.
48:57
Speaker 3: I do three things and go. When I finish pook
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Speaker 3: reading the Bible, then my my drink is ready.
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Speaker 2: The drink has to cool down. I can't drink it hard,
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Speaker 2: so what is cooling down? I go shower.
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Speaker 3: After I finished hour, I come down the nicest. The
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Speaker 3: drink is just nice enough to drink.
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Speaker 2: I drink it.
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Speaker 3: Then I take my oh anden I watched that my
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Speaker 3: wife wakes movie, and then I think my supplements about
49:20
Speaker 3: seven eight pills. Then I go and send my son
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Speaker 3: to school, and then my day starts. Amen, something like that,
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Speaker 3: something that there's something I do daily, still working on
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Speaker 3: my weekly monthly ones.
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Speaker 2: Okay, how do you craft a rule of life?
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Speaker 3: There are two thousand disciplines upstream once downstream easy ones.
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Speaker 3: Think of yourself as a second one. Okay, swing as hard, write,
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Speaker 3: swim downstream is easier. Now we need both kinds of disciplines. Okay,
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Speaker 3: we need both downstream ones are like, okay, I running
49:59
Speaker 3: in the morning used to be an upstream for me.
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Speaker 3: Now is most of the time downstream, Like I actually
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Speaker 3: enjoy it. Sometimes we feel like when we enjoy doing something,
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Speaker 3: it's like it's not spiritual enough. Through we feel like,
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Speaker 3: oh no, no, we must must much fast as fast oxygen
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Speaker 3: don't need I holy.
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Speaker 2: Not really like we're all beginning this journey.
50:24
Speaker 3: I think it's smart, practical wise to start with a
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Speaker 3: lot more downstream disciplines. Like now I can wake up
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Speaker 3: in the morning and run, so I use that as
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Speaker 3: my time to spend time with GOT.
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Speaker 2: Those days I try things that doesn't work.
50:38
Speaker 3: Okay, after I send my son to school, I sit
50:40
Speaker 3: down somewhere, I see'st and I talk for one hour
50:45
Speaker 3: because I go to the semi nose frequently. The Indian
50:48
Speaker 3: lady there is my friend. Now, how are you good?
50:51
Speaker 2: Morning? House? Your day?
50:52
Speaker 3: I'm like, I just want to city, ask about how
50:56
Speaker 3: are you? She tells me her life story.
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Speaker 2: Are you that day? Oh my gosh? So can It
51:02
Speaker 2: doesn't work, So ask yourself, Hey, what do you do
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Speaker 2: that you enjoy? That? You can also.
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Speaker 3: Use that as a time where you spend time with GOT. Okay,
51:17
Speaker 3: maybe you like you're like you talk to me not
51:19
Speaker 3: you like to read? Great read some of us maybe
51:22
Speaker 3: very hard to read. So put on the audiobook listener.
51:27
Speaker 3: I when I listen to music, I can't run imagine
51:32
Speaker 3: corn comes tell your faster. So I listened to podcasts run.
51:39
Speaker 3: I find out when I listen to podcasts is more
51:42
Speaker 3: engaged and my thinking is a podcast. I was not
51:45
Speaker 3: thinking about running better. So whatever works for you, La.
51:50
Speaker 3: When I listened to this practice in the way they
51:53
Speaker 3: were talking, like they're talking about fly fishing, La, hiking
51:56
Speaker 3: the mountains, I'm like, Okay, this is Malaysia where they
52:00
Speaker 3: can do two pm, hide a mountain, we hide two pm,
52:03
Speaker 3: we come down, rust can. So you gotta figure out
52:07
Speaker 3: what it is for you, it said, Okay, but must
52:09
Speaker 3: be balanced. Don't just do all the easy easy ones.
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Speaker 3: There must be some because it's triceps and biceps one.
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Speaker 3: Some hard onest one for me will be I've told
52:19
Speaker 3: my wife I haven't started yet, but I want to
52:21
Speaker 3: do a full week water first, once or twice a year,
52:27
Speaker 3: seven days just water.
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Speaker 2: That's hard. That's why I haven't started.
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Speaker 3: So I start easy one for as st La, fast
52:35
Speaker 3: your sugar here, fast, bell rise.
52:37
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 3: But I want to do that because you know it
52:40
Speaker 3: resets my body helps me. So hey, spiritual disciplines, we
52:45
Speaker 3: do that for all kinds of things we do to
52:47
Speaker 3: train for hiking mountain bahloo lah. You know we do
52:50
Speaker 3: that for wedding. La loose spaces so I can fit
52:52
Speaker 3: into the jacket law. All kinds of things you do,
52:54
Speaker 3: we can do this one.
52:55
Speaker 2: We can just being intentional with your spiritual disciplines. Amen.
53:01
Speaker 3: So as we listen to rule, there are two reactions
53:04
Speaker 3: to rules. Some of us are aspirational. We see this
53:08
Speaker 3: rule of living, go yeah. Those of us maybe guys
53:11
Speaker 3: are like more competitive, more like tubs o reented.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna wake up
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Speaker 2: in the morning.
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Speaker 3: Don't be expirational, because a rule of life is not
53:22
Speaker 3: meant to be something you chase. If you're chasing it,
53:27
Speaker 3: something's off somewhere. Secondly, don't also be appracid or rules.
53:31
Speaker 3: I cannot unless spontaneity. I'm a creative when I'm inspired
53:36
Speaker 3: to read the Bible.
53:36
Speaker 2: I read now.
53:38
Speaker 3: When I'm not inspired, sy La, it's just so happened
53:41
Speaker 3: the last six years. Not inspired one by one day,
53:44
Speaker 3: cannot bro you try to have your Americans today. I
53:48
Speaker 3: do feel like coming home. So Darling, you eat yourself,
53:53
Speaker 3: but you haven't come for us six months.
53:54
Speaker 2: I know.
53:56
Speaker 3: Because I just don't do well with edoms and rules
53:59
Speaker 3: are you stay married long? But now either it's good.
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Speaker 2: Don't be like, oh this is a goal, I am I
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Speaker 2: gonna do it because you become like it's all about.
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Speaker 3: Success and failure. It's not a rule of life should
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Speaker 3: not be expirational. Okay, I'll give you a picture. A
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Speaker 3: rule of life is like an anchor. An anchor is
54:17
Speaker 3: to a ship. When an anchor drops into the ocean
54:23
Speaker 3: and the ship is on top of the anchor, if
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Speaker 3: it's not stormy whatever. Right, you actually don't even realize
54:29
Speaker 3: that there's an anchor. Right, that's what the rule of
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Speaker 3: life should be. You should treat it like an anchor.
54:37
Speaker 3: You wakeme in the morning and you read the Bible
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Speaker 3: first thing in the morning, because that's what you do.
54:44
Speaker 3: That's what you do. When you're thirsty, you drink. When
54:47
Speaker 3: you got diarrhea, you poop. Okay, it's just you know, like,
54:49
Speaker 3: oh I got that right now, m poop must poop.
54:51
Speaker 3: Come on, poop, come on like it. No, no tree
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Speaker 3: is out there now stressing hour, trying to push the
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Speaker 3: food out of the branch. They just be a tree.
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Speaker 3: I'm a tree. I bear fruit. Duran's gonna come out
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Speaker 3: of me soon. It's an anchor. But because it's an
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Speaker 3: anchor of your life, sometimes when life drifts you away,
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Speaker 3: you'll feel the tug pull back. Oh I feel it now.
55:21
Speaker 3: One day miss the run, I feel it. Or it's
55:25
Speaker 3: literally one day I miss a passage of scripture. I
55:28
Speaker 3: feel it because it's like the tug of the anchor anchor.
55:31
Speaker 3: Here you're drifting pulling back. So do make some explirational workout, pogram.
55:37
Speaker 3: I gotta do this. It's like part of your life.
55:40
Speaker 3: That's why it's okay to start with more downstream ones.
55:42
Speaker 3: What's what's easy for you to meet you God? Do
55:45
Speaker 3: that first, then you can do.
55:47
Speaker 2: Your forty day fast thing and all that.
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Speaker 3: Okay, it's just chill. It's this container that has all
55:56
Speaker 3: these practices. Fit in a lot more downstream ones and
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Speaker 3: a few upstream ones. Because life will give you upstream
56:03
Speaker 3: ones where do you like you or not. You'll give
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Speaker 3: you a difficult boss, a crazy girlfriend I don't know,
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Speaker 3: a reb driver, or an unreasonable lecturer is going to
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Speaker 3: happen anyway. So you're gonna get those upstream onths anyway.
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Speaker 3: So build a lot of downstream onths. I can wake
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Speaker 3: up I can do this. I can read. I can
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Speaker 3: read five verses a day, or I can read three.
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Speaker 3: Go for that amen. But hey, don't be apprehensive towards
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Speaker 3: rules or rule because every relationship of substance is built
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Speaker 3: on rhythm and spontaneity. We need both to maintain a
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Speaker 3: healthy relationship. Rhythms carve out time and space for you
56:48
Speaker 3: to be with Jesus, to become like him and to
56:51
Speaker 3: be with him. Remember Moses, Moses had a rhythm. Every
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Speaker 3: day he goes to the part of the desert, he
57:02
Speaker 3: probably circled the bush a million times. It says that
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Speaker 3: us coming to service every week for the last thirty years,
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Speaker 3: ten years, for three years.
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Speaker 2: Whatever. You've been in church since you were a kid
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Speaker 2: Sunday school.
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Speaker 3: You heard all of our stories, and sometimes nothing sparticularly happens.
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Speaker 3: And in one fine day, same old desert, same blood, sheep,
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Speaker 3: so same same poop, sheep, ship poop, same everything. Suddenly
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Speaker 3: the bush comes alive and there's a fire burning, and
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Speaker 3: the bush is not burned, and a voice comes out
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Speaker 3: of it, and suddenly Moses is now a savior of
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Speaker 3: three million people, only to go back into the desert
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Speaker 3: for four years.
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Speaker 2: Anyways, So how about David. David.
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Speaker 3: Every day, Papa say bring this cheeses and break to
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Speaker 3: your brothers. The brothers they aren't having fun. Dead were
57:53
Speaker 3: shooting the gun. They get the hold of gun. They
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Speaker 3: don't spear a sword lastic. Oh, they are doing the
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Speaker 3: real thing. I'm thinking of sheep at the back of
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Speaker 3: the mountain.
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Speaker 2: Nobody's ease. They have to bring sheep, brand and cheese
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Speaker 2: to my brothers. Where's the action, where's the action? Imagine
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Speaker 2: that one day he said, piggy La, someone else can
58:12
Speaker 2: play the drums. Someone else can play key on Pigila.
58:14
Speaker 2: Someone else do the color Piggyla, someone else give ties
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Speaker 2: an offering every time.
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Speaker 3: Me me, me, me that one day you imagine David said,
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Speaker 3: forget it, no more, Jeez and Bray.
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Speaker 2: You can settle yourself. He will not have met go liar.
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Speaker 3: There will be no killing of Giant, there will be
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Speaker 3: no entering Saul's cards, there will be no king David.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, when you carve out a redom, you're actually
58:38
Speaker 3: making space for God to do the spontaneous. Actually the
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Speaker 3: burning bush, the colarth, and then the blind man at protest,
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Speaker 3: the pool bro he has been hanging out at the
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Speaker 3: pool for the longest time, nothing happens, nothing happens. I'll
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Speaker 3: change pool. Then that day he changes pool. Jesus shows up.
59:08
Speaker 3: So marriage is the same right that Jay and I
59:11
Speaker 3: are learning.
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Speaker 2: So many of you try to to to stick to
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Speaker 2: to somehow spontaneity okay, doesn't work.
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Speaker 3: So now we have a calendar. She sends me Google calendar.
59:23
Speaker 3: So we have a set time where we do it.
59:24
Speaker 3: But then we have another set time where we go
59:26
Speaker 3: on dates. We don't talk about church or work, although.
59:29
Speaker 2: It's quite hard, not truel because we love it just
59:30
Speaker 2: so much, but we try to make that our marriage time.
59:34
Speaker 2: This does not mean we never miss it.
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Speaker 3: We're always perfect, but at least we have a readom
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Speaker 3: then to allow for spontaneity to have an A two
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Speaker 3: D we met long or eight Nena instill doing this
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Speaker 3: this day, we over the weekend now, but you start
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Speaker 3: with a freedom amen. Okay, Yeah, how do you live
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Speaker 3: a rule of life?
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Speaker 2: Start small?
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Speaker 3: Start your day with intentionality, make it about celebration and joy.
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Speaker 3: Where do I deeply enjoy God, memby the downstream disciplines,
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Speaker 3: and do it in community with accountability. So we will
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Speaker 3: talk more about this next week and the week to come,
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Speaker 3: and next week I won't it won't be like this anymore. Okay,
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Speaker 3: it won't be one hours some one's anymore. I don't
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Speaker 3: worry for a long time. It will be hard to
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Speaker 3: talk from next week onwards because we want to drive
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Speaker 3: some real issues. But this part is important. We need
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Speaker 3: to do discipleshit in community. A lot of the stuff
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Speaker 3: that we learned over the weeks, it's all about oh,
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Speaker 3: me and Jesus, me, prayer or it's all good.
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Speaker 2: It sets a base, but need to be expressed with
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Speaker 2: someone else.
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Speaker 3: This is where you have someone who disciples you, and
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Speaker 3: then you disciple someone. And also when you do it
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Speaker 3: together with others steps where Jesus are so important and man,
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Speaker 3: the Bible says, go therefore and make disciples. I mean
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Speaker 3: Jesus asked you to go make disciple. If people do
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Speaker 3: want to be disciposed by someone else, how is she
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Speaker 3: going to make disciple?
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Speaker 2: Clearly, this picture.
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Speaker 3: Of someone discipling someone discipling someone is something designed by God.
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Speaker 3: And I know that it's not always been done well
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Speaker 3: by Christians or churches. Some do it very badly, some
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Speaker 3: doing to push to advance other agendas. But we have
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Speaker 3: learned what is the agenda here to become like Jesus.
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Speaker 3: So if I'm discipling you, I'm my goal is to
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Speaker 3: help you be more like Jesus, not more like me.
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Speaker 3: But we have the same base. We understand what it
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Speaker 3: means to be a bye, understand what it means to
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Speaker 3: be have to have spiritual discipline, understand how spiritual information works.
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Speaker 2: We have a base.
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Speaker 3: That's why Paul was so Paul boldly say things like
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Speaker 3: imitate me, emitting me as I also imitate Christ. We're
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Speaker 3: all trying to be like Christ. So somewhere along the
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Speaker 3: way these shar has got to find some way. And
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Speaker 3: we're thinking, now, gg is the way. If you have
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Speaker 3: questions next week, let's let's talk about it. But we
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Speaker 3: need to have someone to process it with. Even the
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Speaker 3: world who is non Christian don't have the biblical values,
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Speaker 3: even they know the value of having a mentor or coach,
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Speaker 3: a trainer, someone to lead. I think we can do
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Speaker 3: it well, Amen, Timothy said, uh, what you have heard
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Speaker 3: from me, posity Timothy in the presence of many witnesses,
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Speaker 3: and trust it to faithful men and who will be
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Speaker 3: able to teach others also, so you see a progression.
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Speaker 3: Here I teach you, you teach them, so on and
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Speaker 3: so forth. So I endways. This picture Trellis, you see,
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Speaker 3: Trelie is like a it's not a it's a structurer.
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Speaker 2: You know you've done that. That that that game before
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Speaker 2: where we all have to hold hands and combine hands
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Speaker 2: and someone sits on it. Yeah, that's what we need
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Speaker 2: to shutther. We don't join hands, we know hold each other.
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Speaker 2: We need to work together. If we don't do that,
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Speaker 2: there's no way to grow. Amen.
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Speaker 3: We may step on store sometimes this past week yourself,
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Speaker 3: I've had so many mis come with different people. Trellis,
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Speaker 3: join hands, Let's work together. The person de separating another
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Speaker 3: person is not greater or smart, the or more wholia.
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Speaker 3: We're doing someone's discipling me, and I'm discipling you, and
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Speaker 3: someone's you're going to disable someone.
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Speaker 2: We are all in this together, amen. So it's not
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Speaker 2: a hierarchy thing. It's not position.
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Speaker 3: What matters is said, we're all being intentional in becoming
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Speaker 3: more of Jesus am.
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