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The Study of the Book of Colossians Part 14 - Simply Christ Podcast · Simply Christ Podcast

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Simply Christ podcast hosted by Leon Martin, along with Aaron
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Keaton, Melvin Martin, Andrew Schrock and Dan Blatz.
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Let's get right to it. All righty, here we are again on
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a Monday night looking forward to digging into the gospel and
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Colossians at least a part of it for sure the word of God and
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learn something of the scripture that they haven't heard or
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whatever before. So we appreciate that,
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appreciate that. And Melvin being on here, I'm
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assuming probably Andrew will be out here as well.
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He had a long weekend with their family camp that we talked about
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the last two weeks a little bit. So he's going to be.
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On here, on the summit. If he didn't get hung up
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somewhere. So if not, we'll go from here.
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So before we go any further, Dan will kick us off with a word of
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prayer. Father, we're grateful that we
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can gather like this remotely. Different countries, different
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provinces, different states, and people from all over are able to
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tune in, both live and afterward.
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We receive this as a gift from You, God.
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We're not afraid of it because we recognize that You have made
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all these things. We pray, God, that you would
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bless our time and Your word, that even through the distance,
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even through the technology, that Your Word would be alive
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and sharp as it is promised to be.
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Pray that you would have an impact on our own souls and on
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those that hear it. Father, we do pray that you
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would bring these words so that we are attempting to speak to
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those people that are in desperate need, those that are
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hurting, those that are in doubt, those that are perhaps
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condemned. We ask God that you would by
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your Spirit make some people alive through your word because
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of this message tonight, because of our study, we thank you for
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being with us. We pray to guide our
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conversation and our study in Jesus name, Amen.
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Amen. Yeah.
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So I was, yeah, at the camp there in Ohio, of course, Friday
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afternoon and Saturday and Sunday that I had the
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opportunity to sit down and talk with a young guy from Wisconsin,
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a young family. He's, I don't know if he's
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listened, he'll probably laugh at me, but I'd say he's 30 or 35
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somewhere that ballpark young guy and he's an entrepreneur
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kind of guy. We were talking about how that
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in American, I'm sure Canada is the same way to a certain degree
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anyway, how that how that opportunity abounds and how that
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there's just no excuse for not having, you know, being broke
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and not being able to find a job or do something or whatever
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opportunity abounds. We got to talking about, you
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know what he has a heating and heating and HVAC business.
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And we were talking about how that it just explodes for him.
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Like he has all the work that he can ever do.
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And I was asking him what he thinks are some of the key
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things that you can do as a business.
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And you guys are both kind of self-employed.
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And I just kind of wonder what your input on it's like what are
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some of the things that you can set yourself apart within a
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business? What are some of the things that
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would help a young guy start a business that he should know?
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One of the things that he said, we were talking about it and I,
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I agree with this too, that just, you know, answer your
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phone. If someone calls you, answer
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your phone and, and, or call back.
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Like be courteous enough to answer or if you can't answer a
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call back at your earliest convenience, like reply to
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everybody and then just do a good job.
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And he said that that amazingly sets you above 80% of the
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businesses out there, just that you know, so I didn't know if
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you guys have any other input on stuff like that.
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I I found that conversation really interesting.
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Well as soon as you brought it up my answer was going to be
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very very similar. My wife sent a an Instagram reel
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to to me and the kids the other day and it said this.
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A simple cheat code for life is just be easy to work with,
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respond quickly, do what you said you do be pleasant.
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An alarming number of people suck at all of this.
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It's not simple. Like I'm no genius.
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I don't do like, I, I don't have some exceptional IQ that I can
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do the work that I do extraordinarily.
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I just do it as faithfully as I can.
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I respond to people as quickly as possible.
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I, I respond, I tell them when I'm going to be a little bit
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late on something I could just keep.
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It's so simple, right? And, and I can't, I can't keep
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up with the work right. So it's it's very simple recipe.
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Yeah, it, it is amazing to me how many people that you call
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and they say, hey, I'll call you back in an hour or two and you
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never hear back and you actually have to call them again if you
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wanted to answer. And that to me, I usually won't
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call back unless it's, you know, a one off business that I can't
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find something somewhere else. But yeah, now with any ideas,
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any, anything that sticks out to you?
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Yeah, I think communication is the biggest key, like with your
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customers and just being real with them.
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You know, I think not making promises that you can't keep
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right, just being. And if you do promise then
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something then and you can't fulfill that promise, then let
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them know exactly because I tell you it is.
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You're right that it's so disgusting how people, how other
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contractors and especially in the contracting world, like in
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the in the trades, it's it's just crazy how some people
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operate or most of the people operate.
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And so, yeah, if you are communication, open
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communication at all times with your customer and just being
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real with them, even like I found is sitting down and just
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spending some time with the customer.
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Like even before, like even when you go meet with them to look at
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the job, it just like, you know, ask questions about them and
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their family and, and just be real with them and, and being
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confident, you know, even like sometimes some customer will ask
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me if I can do this certain thing.
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And maybe I haven't done it hardly before, but I would say
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sure, we can do that. And, and, and then I'll do the
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research I have to do or whatever to make sure that I can
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perform that whatever that customer is asking if I have not
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done it before. So just being confident and just
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being real because most people are not real with people.
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And, and The thing is, is, yeah, go ahead.
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I'm just going. To say you're kind of selling
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yourself, right? Yeah, you are.
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That's, that's correct. Because people can sense if you
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are there to do a good job, like if you can do it, if you're
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going to do a good job and you're there to please them and,
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and do the what they need done in the most timely and perfect
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manner as you can, they can sense that versus someone that
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is just simply doing it to make money like that, that all that
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matters is to the money people. Customers can sense that.
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I've got a question for you, though, Leon.
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Like I, I work by myself. I sometimes hire out certain
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things to engineers or, or those kinds of things, HVAC
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professionals that do the design.
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But it feels like a whole different thing when you're
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actually running a business where you're, you're, you've got
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employees and you've got schedules and you've got things
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that have to be done. You can't always predict the
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outcomes. You can't promise too much,
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right? Yeah, yeah, well, I mean a big
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part of that is, is knowing what your team is capable of.
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You know, like one guy said in that situation, he said under
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promise and over deliver, never do it the other way around.
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Like if if you're not quite sure on the guy, be honest with, you
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know, or or maybe under promise a little bit from what you
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normally would at least that if it it they don't doesn't
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disappoint them. If it's not quite what what you
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know, they were what it could have been, you know, so that
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that would be the one thing I would say the other thing at two
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yeah, like you got to know what your your guys is capable of
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doing for sure. But but just in general, this is
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one. This is one thing that I find I
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find it interesting. This usually puts a customer
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into my lap and ready to do business when I walk in, you
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know, cold call guy calls me, Hey, I want to sell my stuff.
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I walk in the and one of my first questions usually is like,
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OK, yeah, I'm here as an auctioneer, but what do you want
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to have? What do you want to have happen
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here? Like, and and I like, like, what
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would you if in the best world possible, what would happen
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here? You know, and some people will
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say, well, I just want this load off my shoulders and this mess
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out of my hair. OK, we can do that.
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Some people say, well, I got some really expensive antiques
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and I'm nervous about what they're going to bring.
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OK, we're your guy because we can do it this way.
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We could take very careful consideration, advertise it,
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probably make sure it's good. And it's amazing how many people
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you know. They actually, some guys just
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want it out of their hair. And then I talked to him about
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our full service offering. We do everything from A-Z.
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You don't even have to show up. Give us the code to your door
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and the next time you see your house, it'll be empty and
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shining, ready for the realtor. And they're like, where do I
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sign? Where do I sign?
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And the next guy would not want that.
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He would not be comfortable. He'd like to watch every step of
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the process. So I, I agree with what Melvin
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was saying. Just being there and hearing
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what the customer actually wants is, is a big deal.
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Like, and that's how I feel when someone comes in Tooting their
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horn about what they can do and the equipment they have and the
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capabilities, but they never take the time to ask me what I
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actually wonder how I want it done.
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I feel kind of left out of the equation.
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Absolutely. Yeah.
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Yeah, because you are working for them.
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Yeah. It's not about you, it's about
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them. No, it's not.
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They're they're paying me. So they're going to, they're
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going to get to say what I do, that I'm their servant then.
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So yeah. That's.
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Good. Yeah, yeah.
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It's I always fight that. Kind of thing and always do your
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work like it was your own like if you do that people, people
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see that and and they're you're they're sold.
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I mean they can see that you care about what you're doing.
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So that's. Well, that that goes even for
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being an employee like so many people think that once they
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finally run a business, they'll serve well or they'll do a good
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job and till then they don't really care.
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But if you take the biblical advice of not with eye service
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as men pleasers and do your job as unto the Lord, not as unto
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men, all of a sudden, every single day is redeemed and
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you're doing a spiritual work every day.
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Whether you're going to some mundane farm job that you're
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sorting through cucumbers or like, I mean, everything you do.
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And it doesn't take long to where your employer is going to
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notice and pick up pick up on, hey, this guy's never standing
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around. They always show up on time.
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They're sweeping when there's nothing to do, like just
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they're, they're steadily working.
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They're working for something higher than what this job pays
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right. Your motivation is not just the
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paycheck. The motivation is I'm serving
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the Lord from heaven. Yeah, I mean, even if there's,
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even if you're scraping the menorah alleys in a in a dairy
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barn, be the best menorah scraper that ever existed, you
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know what I mean? Yeah, that's the and that goes
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exactly with what the context is tonight like Colossians 310 says
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and I put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after
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the image of him that created him where there is there neither
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Greek Jew he goes on. But you know, part of part of
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walking out the Christian life is doing just this doing a good
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job at whatever you do. You know your ministry and we
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were talking to I was talking with a different guy.
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Your ministry isn't does just what you do for God like this,
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this podcast, this isn't the only ministry that I have.
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My business is by and large a reflection of who I am in
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Christ. Actually, it is.
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It had better be and and that is actually how people read you,
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whether you like it or not. I mean, if you are touting
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Christ and ripping people off and offering 1/2 paced service,
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I don't think they're going to have a good image of
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Christianity because of that, you know?
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One of the one of the qualifications of an elder is
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that you have a good reputation of them that are without without
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the congregation, right? They know how you operate.
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If somebody recognizes that, hey, I might not agree with his
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views, but he does what he's what he said he's going to do
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and he's kind and he's gentle and, you know, like all those
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things are there, right? Your life, your life should your
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whole life should represent price.
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I mean, I've had customers. I mean, one time, a couple of
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times it happened one time specifically sticks out in my
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mind. I had this lady call me and she
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was a pretty well to do lady and she called me and she wanted me
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to do this job for and I gave her price on it.
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She said go ahead and and I've never actually met her in
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person. And she gave me the code to her
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house and said, you go in and you do whatever you need to do,
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you know, and and I never actually physically met her.
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Now, why did she trust me? Like I don't know why she
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trusted me. Like she gave me access to whole
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whole property. And she had she was wealthy.
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She had a lot of things, you know, and I know I got
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recommended by someone else to her.
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And that's the other thing. If you can grow your business,
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if you do your job well and you respond to your customers like
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we're saying, and you, you will never have to advertise ever in
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your life because your customers will recommend you to someone
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else. And that is how you'll get your
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jobs. And you will never.
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You'll be busy beyond busy. And they'll be their best
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customer too, if they come recommended.
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Yeah, they're, they're easier to work with than the ones that
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find you on Google. I I've discovered that there's a
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difference because the ones on Google, you're just another
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business. If their friend recommended
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them, they're you're pretty pretty much in so verse 12 says
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put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved bowels
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of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mine, weakness,
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long-suffering. And it goes on there into verse
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13. But again, very relevant to what
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we're talking about really in a lot of different ways, but as as
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part of our life. You know why why is it that God
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would have his his children, the believers.
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You know, why is it that he would instruct us to put on
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bells of mercies, kindness, humbleness of my meekness and
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long-suffering anyway? I mean, because we're a
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reflection of him. I don't know.
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Yeah. And go ahead with your thoughts
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on verse 12. Yeah, I would say every time
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that you show mercy to someone as the elect of God because of
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his mercy and kindness to us, if you put on mercy, you show mercy
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to someone who does not deserve it.
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Anytime you love someone unconditionally, whether they
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deserve it or not, every time you give up your own agenda and
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submit yourself to someone else, every time you forgive someone
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that shouldn't be forgiven. You know, I'm moving into verse
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13 a little bit there, but you're giving God glory and
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you're not living by principles and philosophy in vain deceit.
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You're not trying desperately to give up your own desires and and
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no, no honor satisfying in the flesh like in chapter 2.
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This is a whole different way of living because we have been
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crucified with Christ because we are alive with him, because
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we're seated together with Christ in the heavenly places,
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because he's been so incredibly merciful to us.
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Therefore, just as a simple reaction to the goodness and
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grace of God, just put on these things and it's like you put
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your shirt on in the morning, put on as the elect of God,
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beloved, holy and beloved bowels of mercies.
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The word bowels is an interesting word.
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It almost not doesn't fit our lingo anymore right?
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Like we would say love from the heart or be merciful and
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compassionate from your heart. But we do talk about having a
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pit in our stomach or butterflies in our stomach, or
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it could feel it in my gut, right?
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Like there, there is this place deep within where you can reach
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to now, now that you've been shown mercy and you can also
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show mercy. And I don't think this kind of
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mercy is really possible apart from understanding how merciful
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God is to you. And so that kindness and that
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humbleness of mine and the meekness and the long-suffering,
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the ability to suffer continually if need be, suffer
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for a long time. It only comes to understanding
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that he suffered long for us. He was kind.
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The kindness and love of God appeared on the man.
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Titus talks about that. He was humble.
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He put upon himself or he took upon himself the form of a
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servant. All these things are lessons
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we've learned from Christ. They're not me trying to be
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religious. They're not me trying to rule my
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flesh. It's hey, my flesh been dealt
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with. My position in Christ is dealt
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with, my authority is dealt with.
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My, you know, all of that is there and it's clear.
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So now I'm just going to Simply put on as the beloved of God,
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these these beautiful attributes that are reflections of who God
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is. And so each time we do that, in
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some small way, we are picturing the gospel to someone else.
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And that's how we can then glorify God because this is the
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epitome of who he is. This is the crux of the
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Scriptures. This is what all the Old
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Testament pointed towards. This is all that we're pointing
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back towards is Christ and what he did for us.
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And we can tell people that. And I don't think you can preach
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the gospel without telling it, but your actions, your
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day-to-day interactions can be reflections of that thing, that
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gospel message. And so kindness, mercy, love,
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humbleness of mind, meekness, all of those things are
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reflections of what Christ has done for us.
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Yeah, which is our reasonable service, he says.
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Yeah, it really is. Yeah, Melvin.
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Yeah, I think I had to think that.
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You have to remember that this is in the context of the new
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man. Like he's he's he's laying it
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out what what it looks like, what the new man looks like.
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Previously he had given us a list of what the old man looks
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like. And you know, the fornication
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uncleanness in order to faction that whole is anger, malice,
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blasphemy, filthy and communication out of your mouth.
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And he's saying you have, you have put off that you have put
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off the old man and you have put on the new man.
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And now he is. He's saying this is what the new
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man looks like, because look what it says in verse.
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Let's say put it. Find me, I scrolled up a little
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too far. Look what he says in verse 10.
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He says and have put on the new man which is renewed in
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knowledge after the image of him that created him.
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So in other words, the new man is created in the image of
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Christ. Right and so this is what it
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looks like that this is what it looks like for us as a new man
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this because he's saying you have put off those previous
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things and now you have put on the new man.
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And this is what it is. And it's, you know, beloved
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bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness,
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long-suffering. And it's just Neil, go on with
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more there in verse 13. But the humbleness of mine, I
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guess stuck stuck out to me as well.
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It's just like what that exactly looks like humbleness of mine.
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I think it for us to be humble, we, you can fabricate
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humbleness, right? I mean, many people can
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fabricate humbleness, but humbleness of mine, if, if
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you're, if your mind, if your mind is humble, if you're
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mindful to be humble, it will happen automatically, right?
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It's not a fabricated thing and then meekness and long-suffering
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out. This is actually convicted me
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reading through this because you know, this is what the new man
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is actually so. Yeah, for sure.
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And and I like, like what it says in Ephesians 424.
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It says it this way, that that, yeah, put on the new man, which
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after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
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You know, Dad, you were saying that this is something that the
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the new man, the believer does or is expected that we would do.
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And it's because this new man is created after God in
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righteousness and holiness. Like this would be this this
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kind of thing is going to be really hard for an unbeliever to
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pull off for any length of time. Yeah, you can fool the guys for,
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you know, Sunday morning church service, but in business, that
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would be a really good example. Like who are you when you're out
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of the job site and you and and something's not.
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Are you having a bad day? You know, is your Christian
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going to shine out? Is that that that's created
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after godliness and true righteousness?
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You know, is that going to shine out or is it that old man?
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You know, I, I mean, I, that's really, that's really what we're
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talking is if now when you were saying like it's like a mind of
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humbleness, humbleness of mind, it says, I agree.
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Like you could act humble for a minute.
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But if you have a mind of humbleness, that is something
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that is within you, You don't have to decide to be humble if
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that's an idea. Well, in in Colossians chapter 2
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verse 18, he says, let no man beguile you of your reward in a
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voluntary humility. So it's not this idea of trying
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to humble yourself. You're not trying to put
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yourself down. You're not trying to become
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less. You're simply recognizing who
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you are and you're having a real view of who you are, right?
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You're not. You're not trying to think that
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you're like pretending like you less than you actually think you
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are. You're, you're just real with
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who you are. And you're recognizing God for
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who he is. Right.
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Amen. Yeah.
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Amen. That's good.
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That voluntary humility stuff. It, it comes across as so false,
23:03
pious and so religious that it rubs people the wrong way.
23:06
Like, who am I supposed to be now in your presence because
23:09
you're so humble, right? Like, it just, it's so weird.
23:13
So the humbleness of mine is a whole different category, right?
23:18
Where I'm not trying to put on a show.
23:20
I'm not trying to appear humble, I'm just recognizing who I am.
23:24
Yeah, that's good, Dan. I like that that that is that's
23:27
dead on. Homeless is not trying to make
23:30
yourself lower than who you're actually are.
23:33
Because he has gone through a pretty big list of where we are
23:37
in Christ and where we stand in Christ, you know?
23:40
So yeah, well, actually just the the beginning of this verse.
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I was this is maybe a little bit of a buddy hole, but he says
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they're put on therefore, as the elect of God.
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So are these the people that that God decided before we were
23:55
ever formed in mother's womb that we would be believers?
23:59
Are we are is it talking to those elect or how much of A
24:03
Calvinist are we here? And but, but what I really like
24:08
like is that it says that you are holy and beloved.
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We are the elect of God that are holy and beloved.
24:16
Like if you just ponder kind of thing for a second, he is
24:19
calling us holy. And have you ever considered
24:22
what holy actually means? I mean, that's perfect
24:24
righteous, perfectly righteous through the blood of Jesus, of
24:28
course. And beloved, he he we, we
24:31
actually, we're not a we're not somebody that he just kind of
24:37
wishes would do the right thing. So we stay out of his sight, not
24:40
bring up problems, right? He is somebody that actually
24:44
loves being around us. He loves having us as his
24:48
children. He doesn't.
24:50
It's not hard for him to deal with us because he loves us
24:54
through his son Jesus. The way has been made that he
24:57
can just openly love us and let the the that grace and mercy
25:02
rain down on us and and just soak into us.
25:06
Isn't it? That's beauty.
25:07
Twice. And you mentioned that Romans
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chapter 12, the renewing of the mind, you know, as a, as a
25:13
living sacrifice, that kind of thing, like the the former sins
25:18
that we communicated in the anger, wrath, malice, filthy
25:21
communications, the evil concupiscence, all that kind of
25:24
stuff. It came pretty natural to us
25:27
after we had learned the patterns, you know, the at the
25:29
first sign of frustration, you hit something or throw something
25:33
or, you know, yell out the window, like all these random
25:35
things that seem to just come to people very naturally and
25:38
easily. Now we're supposed to put on,
25:41
you know, almost by practice, put on these new attributes and
25:44
these new beautiful things based on, but first of all, get your
25:47
mind right. And then now just Simply put
25:49
them on and eventually they become who you are.
25:52
Like they become your day-to-day experiences.
25:55
All of a sudden the mercy just comes out of you.
25:57
It's not like you're trying hard to, to, to continuously put it
26:01
on. It becomes the same kind of
26:03
habit that anger or wrath or malice was prior.
26:07
Well, if you put it on, you're taking it with you, right?
26:09
I mean, you're not, you're not putting it on all the time.
26:11
You just put it on, then it's with.
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You like you're. There you go.
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Yeah, and I. Was going to say about the the
26:17
chosen. So I thought of that too about
26:19
the elect. Sorry, Leon, I I seen that too.
26:23
And and so here's here's what how I see that and what I see it
26:27
saying. If you look that word, the Greek
26:30
word of God, that is just one word that means supreme divinity
26:35
or or God like that word of is just a fill in Word there.
26:41
So now in my mind, it's the the chosen those that have chosen
26:46
God, because the elect means chosen.
26:49
So those that have chosen God or chosen Christ is the way I see
26:55
that not necessarily that God chose us before time, He chose
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He. Chose that we would be that we
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would come to him through his son Jesus.
27:05
But I, I just know that this is a, a verse that gets picked out
27:09
and kind of held up by the Calvinist crowd a little bit as.
27:13
The rest of us are probably a little bit scared of the word
27:16
because as soon as we use it, it sounds like we're referring to
27:19
something different than what we are.
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But we are a God's chosen people, you know?
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We just don't believe that it's some kind of irresistible
27:28
determinism where God chose, you know, the whole duck, duck damn
27:32
idea like that. That's just not a biblical
27:34
concept. And we can see that clearly.
27:36
And we're not talking about that.
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We are chosen because we're in Christ.
27:40
He chose us in this way and in this fashion and through this
27:44
person. And we are the elect, the
27:46
beloved of God. So I don't think we need to go
27:50
the Calvinist predetermined route.
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Yeah, I just had to throw that in there because of the word and
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and you know, the the idea of being holy.
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I just, I just quickly looked that up.
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It's not, it's not so much the idea of being perfect as it is
28:06
what it says whole and entire complete.
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We are complete. And that is that is so good
28:15
because a lot of in this world, because of sin and stuff that
28:18
happens to us, we are often not complete.
28:20
We're often broken into bits or pieces and and and can't
28:24
actually function really. But here we are holy and beloved
28:27
in him. So hey, Cameron, I was reading
28:30
your comment. You're saying taking this in as
28:32
a family. Bless you for doing that.
28:35
While I've been here in the in the room doing this, my family
28:38
is almost always out in the living room watching it on a
28:41
laptop as we're as we're recording here.
28:44
So my family likes that too. So that's that's pretty cool.
28:48
They're they're doing a a different thing tonight.
28:50
So but anyway, all right, verse 13 for bearing one another and
28:54
forgiving one another. If any man have a quarrel
28:57
against any, even as Christ forgave you, so also do you.
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So he gave us a really good example on how to do that.
29:05
Christ was the perfect example. He he's the one that could
29:10
forgive perfectly. And so we have we had a good
29:13
role model in that and a lot of instruction in in how that
29:17
should happen. And I'm telling you, I I think
29:20
for bearing one another kind of the same as long-suffering is
29:24
going to be the hardest one in the world for a non believer in
29:28
Christ to pull off because it it, it requires like something
29:34
like, you know, being humble for the two hours you go to church.
29:39
That's one thing. OK, but to be for bearing that
29:42
means that you have to put up with maybe something that just
29:47
grates you for a long, long time, and without Christ, that
29:50
is going to be really hard to do, isn't it then?
29:52
Yeah, yeah. And then this verse kind of
29:55
gives us an indication of who he's actually referring to with
29:59
the previous verse as well. When he says put on as the elect
30:04
of God all these things, you know, the the bowels of mercies,
30:08
that means you got to be very kind of people who don't deserve
30:11
it and then kindness right after that.
30:14
So first be merciful to them, then be kind to them and then
30:17
make sure you don't think too highly of yourself and be meek
30:20
and be willing to suffer unjustly at times.
30:24
And then for bear with one other.
30:25
They're all about dealing with our fellow man and especially
30:28
our fellow Christians. Many times people will say
30:31
things like I like Jesus, I just don't like the church or I don't
30:34
go to church because the church is full of hypocrites.
30:36
The church is full of people who are going to hurt you and that's
30:39
what these verses are talking about.
30:41
And they're full of people that you will hurt as soon as you get
30:44
to know them and they get to know you.
30:45
Hurts are going to go all which way, every which way.
30:48
And so he turns starts off by saying, just make sure that
30:51
you're merciful. Make sure that you don't think
30:53
you highly of yourself. Make sure that you're kind to
30:56
people. And then also he goes on and
30:58
says for bear one another, that means like when they're doing
31:01
something that's actually maybe hurting you, just bear it for a
31:05
while. And then he says, and if they've
31:06
actually gone beyond and actually done some serious
31:09
offense against you, forgive it. So it's just like it's building,
31:12
progressing one after the other. It starts in the mind this
31:15
simple attitude following Christ being like he is.
31:19
And then even as the church hurts you, even as the church
31:23
does damage to you, it doesn't mean just be a doormat.
31:27
It's this idea of the body functioning together.
31:29
Just like in marriage. If I left at the sign of of hurt
31:33
or irritation or offense, no marriage would work.
31:37
But you have to rub away all those rough spots almost every
31:41
time two people have conflict with one another, there's error
31:44
on both sides. So have that humbleness of mind
31:47
to recognize that, hey, God was merciful to me.
31:49
If I can just take responsibility on this for my
31:54
portion. Let's say my portion is only 10%
31:57
and I recognize, you know what? I could have changed things had
31:59
my 10% been a little different. Very often as soon as you give
32:03
that 10% up, you recognize that there's actually more like 30 or
32:07
40 or 60 or 70% had your attitude been a little
32:10
different, right? And so it's this whole concept
32:13
of if you have a quarrel, if you have a fight, or if you're
32:16
before the quarrel happens, even have a humble mind, have the
32:20
willingness and the ability to suffer along.
32:22
Be willing to forgive and for bear for a long period of time
32:27
because we're a body that needs to function together as as one.
32:31
And then he gives us the ultimate reason to forgive one
32:34
another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you.
32:37
So if he forgave you of everything you've ever done,
32:41
past, present, future, before you ever were even born, then
32:44
that gives us the capacity not not only that does it give us
32:47
the example of how we ought to be, but also the capacity to do
32:51
the very thing that he's telling us to do.
32:53
It would be near impossible, like you said, to be this way,
32:56
to be forgiving, long-suffering, forbearing and all of that with
33:00
one another as we get hurt and offended if we didn't have first
33:04
of all, the example and somewhere to place the people's
33:07
wrong, right? So God looked at Christ
33:10
suffering in our place and he placed our sin upon Christ.
33:14
Now he looks to Christ and he forgives us.
33:16
And now that's, you know, vertically we're made right with
33:19
God, but horizontally we make right with God, right with one
33:23
another. The same way I want you to
33:25
suffer. I want you did wrong to me.
33:27
You deserve to be punished. But I can now put Christ in your
33:31
place and say Christ suffered for you.
33:33
I can also let you go the same way that God let me go right?
33:37
And it it's the gospel doesn't just fix the up and down, it
33:40
fixes the side to side very much too.
33:44
That has helped me even even in business, there's plenty of
33:47
reason to, you know, the offenses come at you all the
33:50
time, especially when you're dealing with the world.
33:53
But even. Yeah, also a church.
33:55
And if I wouldn't have the ability to not carry those
34:00
offenses, I would get weighed down and I would get weary and
34:06
grouchy. But because Christ died and
34:09
because I am a son of his and because he is my Father, I can
34:13
pass all those to the perfect forgiver and let him not affect
34:18
my life. That's that's really good, Dad.
34:20
I appreciate that. No one.
34:22
Yeah, well, you know, so in in gangs and St. gangs most times
34:29
to gain respect or how they respect one another is, you
34:33
know, whoever is the strongest or the toughest is the one that
34:37
is well respected or whatever. Like you have a a pecking order,
34:41
so to speak. And the body of Christ is almost
34:47
like similar to a street gang, so to speak, like it's a whole
34:50
bunch of people coming together. You know, he said in verse 11,
34:54
he said that the the new man in the new man, there's neither
34:57
Greek nor Jew nor uncircumcision nor uncircumcised communicate
35:00
the whole whole list. So there's all these people that
35:03
are coming, becoming new creatures through Christ and
35:09
faith in Christ and now are learning to work together and to
35:14
function together and opposite of a street gang in the body of
35:20
Christ. It's obviously kindness, right?
35:23
It kindness, humbleness, the mind for bearing one another,
35:26
forgiving one another. It's like not necessarily who is
35:32
the toughest or the strongest, right?
35:33
That how it would be in the street gang.
35:36
So it's just amazing. I found this verse in Romans 15
35:42
one and two. It says this We then that are
35:44
strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak and not
35:48
to please ourselves and let every one of us please his
35:51
neighbor for his good to edification.
35:55
So the new man is, look, we need to be looking at one another and
36:03
building one another up and just being there for each other, for
36:09
bearing one another, forgiving one another.
36:11
If any man have a quarrel against any, even as Christ
36:15
forgave you, so also do ye. So yeah, it's it's actually
36:21
pretty simple, but it's very hard to do actually, because
36:25
without Christ, like you said, outside of the Christ, you can't
36:29
do any of these things. Yep, 14 and above.
36:37
All these things put on charity. How good what that?
36:41
So I had one more thing I wouldn't, if you don't mind, in
36:44
Galatians 515, he says. But if you bite and devour one
36:48
another, take heed that you be not consumed one of another.
36:52
One of the worst kinds of diseases you can have in a
36:56
physical body is an autoimmune disease.
36:59
That's when your body starts fighting against itself.
37:02
It starts shutting certain things down or maybe have it
37:05
comes out as a skin rash or any number of random diseases.
37:09
But they they diagnose it and they say that hey, your cells
37:12
are fighting against you. And it's like this.
37:15
It's a self defeating disease, right?
37:17
Where it's not some foreign thing coming at you, it's you
37:20
yourself fighting against yourself.
37:22
And so that's what a church would be like if we don't put on
37:26
these bowels of mercy and kindness and gentleness and
37:28
forgiveness toward one another. It's like an autoimmune disease
37:31
in the church where we're fighting and devouring and
37:34
consuming our own body, right? It just doesn't.
37:37
It's not a long term solution, right?
37:41
Yeah, no, that, that's, that's a good illustration, Cameron
37:48
wrote. Got it strengthened to be in the
37:50
inner man and it brings benefits at work, at home and within the
37:53
church emotionally, I am certain I have five times the capacity
37:58
to handle offenses and stress that I had before salvation and
38:01
sound Baba study. I agree with that.
38:04
I think that's that's kind of what you guys are saying.
38:07
You know, Christ in US gives us the ability which reflects him,
38:10
not us because you know, we still lack that.
38:15
If if Christ were to withdraw his grace and mercy, we'd be
38:18
right back to square 1. You know, our, our flesh didn't
38:23
necessarily get any better. It's because we have Christ in
38:25
us That, that it's that it's the way it is.
38:29
Dad, are you still with us? It looks like your pitch froze
38:31
up. There it is.
38:33
OK, I, it was kind of hugged up there for a second.
38:35
I didn't know. I lost you guys both for a bit.
38:38
OK, yeah, now he left. He gone apparently the the great
38:46
Internet ways between Canada and USDOT snip.
38:49
There's one. Someone cut the telegram line I
38:55
guess anyway. I heard you're back talking.
39:06
Yeah, let the let the adult leave if the whole party falls
39:10
apart. Funny, no.
39:14
So you know with that being said, Christ, you know, I'll
39:18
read verse 14 again. It says and above all these
39:22
things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
39:27
And I'll say a couple things. I'll let you go ahead, Melvin on
39:32
this, but the, the bottom piece, I looked that up in in the the
39:37
Greek and anyway, one of the definitions that it gives is it
39:41
for the word bond is the uniting principle.
39:45
And I've I just find that interesting.
39:47
I think that's good. Charity is the uniting principle
39:52
of perfectness. And and it really kind of is
39:56
charity is a, is a thing that that is above all of these
40:00
things. It is actually the the kind of
40:02
the rumor or the forefront. Of all these other things we
40:05
were talking about charity, love in action, you know, doing,
40:09
doing the right thing. I've talked about this before,
40:12
but one of the things that I think do you want to do, you
40:15
want to rub Christ in the face of the world around you, love
40:19
your brother, love somebody that is unlovable.
40:23
That I mean, that is that is as an effective of an example as
40:29
you can possibly show somebody, because the world does not love
40:34
unlovable people. They they don't.
40:36
And so it's, it's actually a supernatural quality to be able
40:40
to, to walk in, you know, or put on charity and actually operate
40:47
in that, in that quality, isn't it?
40:51
Yeah, it it's amazing to me. It really stood out to be what
40:55
he says here. Both of all these things put on
40:58
charity. So he went through this whole
41:00
list, you know, of, of how we should be, you know, what the
41:03
new man looks like and what the new how the new man operates.
41:09
And but he says, but above all those, all those things that we
41:13
just went through, put on charity, which what you said is
41:17
love in action. And you know, we think that,
41:21
well, love in action can include all the things we just went
41:25
through. It could.
41:27
But when you do love in action, it's like like in other words,
41:32
you can do you can do a lot of things without love, like a lot
41:37
of good things without Love Actually.
41:40
So that's where charity, I think is.
41:42
So why he says put all these above all these put on charity,
41:47
which is the bond of perfectness.
41:48
There's this verse in first Peter where it says first Peter
41:52
48 it says and above all things have fervor, charity among
41:57
yourselves, for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
42:02
So if you have to remember here that he is talking to the body
42:05
of Christ. He is talking not just to
42:09
everybody in general, but he's talking to the body here in
42:12
Colossians and and what it means that to put on the new man.
42:17
And I think that is so good. I don't know, charity, it's
42:22
just, I don't understand the fullness, I guess, of love in
42:26
action. I don't, but obviously it's
42:30
pretty high priority in God's eyes.
42:35
Yeah, for sure bad. Go ahead.
42:38
Yeah, that's really good stuff. And 1st Corinthians 12, at the
42:42
end, he says, I show you a more excellent way rather than having
42:45
great gifts and abilities. And then he goes into the
42:47
charity chapter right where he charity never fails and so on.
42:51
And then at the end he says, now abide of faith, hope and
42:54
charity, these three. But the greatest of these is
42:56
charity. And then I really like the one
42:58
Melvin picked up from first Peter chapter 4 put on, you
43:02
know, fervent charity towards one another.
43:05
This, this word bond is an interesting one to think about.
43:09
I heard it once years ago. And I, I'm no scientist, so I
43:12
can't verify these things, but it was a Christian Scientist
43:15
saying that there is no scientific explanation as to why
43:20
our atoms like the the cells of our structure, even why they
43:25
stay together. He was, he was giving example
43:28
that water and a table are technically made of similar
43:33
atoms or similar cells in some way.
43:35
But one of them you can pass your hand through the other one
43:37
you'll break your hand on it, right?
43:39
Like it's there. There's no real clear scientific
43:42
reason why it all stays together.
43:44
So our bodies even are made-up of all these individual cells
43:47
that, rightfully speaking, should maybe just come apart,
43:51
you know, But but they don't. They're held together by the
43:53
word of his power. And here he says the thing that
43:56
keeps us together, the bond, the the glue that holds the body
44:01
together is actually charity. And it it encompasses all of
44:04
those things of forgiving for bearing, being kind, pitiful,
44:08
courteous, all those things are, are enveloped inside of that
44:12
word. But obviously, you know, the
44:14
best definition of charity is the whole First Corinthians
44:17
chapter 13 passage. It is not seeking its own.
44:21
It is putting up with other people's problems.
44:24
That is laying yourself down it it is exactly what Christ did
44:28
for us. So again, that example and also
44:31
the power to do and to follow that example is all in the
44:34
gospel. And so above putting on mercy
44:38
and kindness and charity, or above putting on mercy and
44:41
kindness and humbleness of mind and meekness, even more
44:43
important or above and beyond that is to put on this, this
44:48
charity that he speaks of. So.
44:51
Well, I think that charity actually, if you have put on
44:54
charity, it is going to govern your life.
44:59
It is, it is the overriding principle that is going to
45:03
dictate to a degree whether you have kindness or whether you
45:07
have humbleness of mind or whether you have long-suffering.
45:09
I don't think that you can have those qualities without having
45:14
the charity to A to a degree. You know the charity is the
45:18
overriding principle to to all of this.
45:20
Look what it says in Romans 12 verse 9 and 10 says let love be
45:26
without dissimulation, abhor that which is evil, cleave to
45:29
that which is good, be kindly affectionate 1 to another with
45:33
brotherly love in honor, preferring one another.
45:38
I talked about what that preferring means.
45:40
It means simply that you care more for them than you do for
45:44
somebody else. And it, it's something that,
45:47
that you would go out of the way to make sure that they are taken
45:51
care of. And that's, that's really what
45:53
charity is. If you love something, I mean,
45:56
it's easy to say that you love something, right?
45:58
I mean, we all know that, but we all found out when we got
46:01
married probably that love is always, not, not always the easy
46:05
route. It actually seldom is the easy
46:07
route. It's usually I, I, I think love
46:10
is a feeling. Yes, 100%.
46:11
But it is also and action I Dad, you've talked about this in some
46:16
of your in some of your things before.
46:18
I know it is a choice. It is something that you can
46:21
decide to do or decide not to do.
46:24
But again, if you have put on that charity, charity will
46:27
dictate that you love, that you do these things.
46:32
If if you have charity, you're going to have to do that.
46:35
If you don't have charity that you you can get by without doing
46:38
that. I, I think charity is, is the
46:40
overriding principle. Like I said, if you have to have
46:43
that charity in order to do all these other things.
46:46
Absolutely. First Corinthians 13 again,
46:48
charity suffers long, is kind, doesn't envy, doesn't vaunt
46:53
itself, not puffed up, doesn't behave itself unseemly.
46:56
That the definition of charity is basically put on bowels of
47:00
mercy, kindness, humbleness of mind.
47:02
Like it's basically saying you could just do, you could just do
47:05
charity and it will come out as all these other things, right?
47:09
But I think that the body of Christ is almost like a public
47:13
picture of a marriage almost. You know what I'm saying, if you
47:16
can follow what I'm saying, because here's what happened.
47:20
So when we get married, you know, we know that it's not God
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desire for divorce, right? And so when we get married to
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our spouse, our spouses are mostly very different from each
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other, right? And so we know we don't want to
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divorce or spouse, and so we learn how to love and how to get
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along with her spouse, right, But that in the, in the body of
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Christ, it seems like as soon as you can't get along with someone
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or someone is rubbing you the wrong way or whatever, I'm, I'm
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looking for another church, you know, and, and they just go on.
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And instead of trying to get along with other individuals, it
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just, it seems like it's an epidemic almost in the body or
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crash. It's a picture of cardinality is
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what it actually is if you boil it down.
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Yeah, All right. No, that was good.
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That's rich stuff. You betcha 15 And let the peace
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of God rule in your hearts to the which also ye are called in
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one body and be ye thankful. There's a period after that.
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That is that is kind of a conclusion.
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I know it's not like he goes on to a degree, but it's like this
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is this is important here. I think again, it's one of those
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things that to me, this is kind of backwards, almost like you
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have to have the peace of God in order to display charity coming
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into this backward. Like to me, he started with a
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small stuff that is governed by this, which is actually governed
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by this and this, you know, from it's kind of an upside down
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thing because again, like one of the one of the qualities of
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being born again is having the peace of God of you and over you
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and in you and through you. That is, that is one of the the
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qualities and just let that rule you.
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So the challenge is not to not to have the peace so much as it
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is to let it rule you. Let that peace rule you, not
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your flesh or your desires or what you would like to do.
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Again, if if peace rules you, then it will be easier.
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I'm going to say it's easy, but it's going to be easier for you
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to show meekness towards people, humbleness towards people,
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kindness towards people. If that peace if you're not
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stirred up and fired up and all worried about your own comfort
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first ever. That's that's how I read that to
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the which ye also ye are called in one body and most just be
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thankful. Praise the Lord that he redeemed
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you like look for the things to be thankful for anyway.
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I make it up too much time, Melvin.
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Yeah, I, I don't know. It's just let the peace of God
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rule in your hearts. So in Romans 51 it says,
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therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God
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through our Lord Jesus Christ. And then in Romans 1417, it says
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this for the Kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but
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righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.
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You know, I, I don't know, it's just this peace thing ruling in
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your hearts is a big deal because we talk about, you know,
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working for the Kingdom of God and, and, and the Kingdom of God
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is not physical. It is, it consists of of
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righteousness, peace and joy. And so why would we not let that
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rule in our hearts, right? I mean, why would we not let
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peace rule in our hearts? And I think what he's pointing
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out here is that this is the key.
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This is one of the keys that comes with the new man is that
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we let that peace, that peace we have with God in Christ rule in
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our hearts and then that will guide us and direct us as we
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walk in the body because he says to the witch also ye are called
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in one body. So it we need to let the peace
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of God rule on heart in our hearts to function is in one
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body because we could go into Romans 14 where I think it's
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room 14. It talks about the body and the
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members and all that you know, like he says, some members are
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lesser than the others. We need to need to hold the
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members up and it, it, I don't know, it's this idea of the
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peace of God rule in your heart. So it's just stood out to me
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greatly because we look at other things and we want to do this.
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We, we want to be thankful. We want to be this, we want to
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do that, yes. But he's saying let the peace of
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God rule, let it rule you, let it govern you and be thankful.
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That's a good. That's a big 1.
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I think God it. It overjoys God, but we are
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thankful towards Him. He does it.
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That's just is. It's all over in the Scripture.
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Yeah, there's there's probably not too much to add to that.
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I really like what you said there, but the word let is very
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interesting. You both kind of touched on it
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already, but in the book of Acts chapter 27, it says when the
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ship was caught and could not bear up into the wind, we let
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her drive. You know, he's told us enough
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here to fill our tails, so to speak, like there's enough here
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to show us that we have peace with God that let that thing
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rule your life. Let that reality, that truth,
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what he's done for us, let it be, let it, let it come out.
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It's not this thing of trying hard to make peace.
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We have peace with God now. Let it rule in your hearts.
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You know the world is seeking after this inner peace concept.
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There's a kids movie we watched some years ago where the this
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person is doing this yoga type pose.
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And what do you call that doing? Like a moaning sound and trying
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to find inner peace, inner peace, inner peace, right?
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Like they're, they're trying to find inner peace.
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They'll go to beaches, they'll buy fancy things, they'll get
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less strenuous jobs, all in the attempts to find peace somehow
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in their souls and in their hearts.
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But very often, even when they find what they're looking for in
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this world, they still don't have peace.
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Because what we need is not first and inner peace.
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What we need first is an external peace.
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We need peace with the One who made us, and that peace has been
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made. So now we can take the peace
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that God has made for us in Christ Jesus, and we can let it
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rule in our hearts. Let that be the guiding
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principle. Let that thing be the thing that
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sits on your throne, so to speak.
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Let it rule in your heart. I am at peace with God.
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Nothing I can do gets me out of God's favor.
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Nothing in this world can separate me from the love of God
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in Christ Jesus. I am at peace with God.
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And I'm going to let that idea, that concept, that truth, you
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know, rule in my heart. And you guys both mentioned
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already like just approach life with gratitude.
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I dare you. Even instead of complaining
55:03
about the hot, the heat, complaining about your car, your
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wife, your family, your house, whatever it might be, just be
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thankful for it. It's such a simple principle,
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but coming from a place of knowing you got peace with God
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and your eternal destiny is secured.
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Then you can let that concept, that truth rule and it will take
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over your life. I mean, thinking about, you
55:28
know, kind of backing up and getting an overview of, you
55:32
know, remember we're we're reading a letter that was
55:37
written to a church, a group of believers and, you know,
55:43
instructing them on how to live, you know, first of all, kind of
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who they are in Christ. Like the book of Colossians is
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really good. It tells you how blood sees you
55:57
as a believer, basically, and, and how that should change the
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way that we live. But then this instruction here
56:06
is it's just rich like, and it's not, I don't think that he's
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asking us to, to grip life by the horns and make this thing
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happen. But it's more like like this is
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your this is what I would expect a redeemed believer to be able
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to live like that. That's really actually, you
56:27
know, so this looks like a like if you look at this with your
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carnal eyes, this looks like a formidable list of things that
56:38
would be nearly unattainable. It would be a daunting task, to
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say the very least, If if I read this in in a my pre born again
56:48
state. So I just, you know, for the
56:52
listeners out there, you know, know that this is as much an
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example of what a believer is as it is a challenge to live and
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work in that. You know what I mean by first of
57:08
all this, this information is absolutely worthless to you if
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you're not converted. I guess that's what I'm saying.
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Make sure that you're calling an election issue.
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Make sure that you're a son of God by faith and then this
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becomes sweet. It's it's sweet stuff.
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It you know where to align yourself with.
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You know what to align yourself with and where to put yourself
57:32
and how to unburden. You can live life having put on
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that or let let that piece of God rule in you.
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I think I think that's a beautiful.
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I really like what you said, like let her drive.
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In other words, let the creation that God made of you drive in
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your life. Let her RIP.
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This is what it should look like.
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Just let let the let it run, you know.
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Yeah, I had this this quote that to me kind of summed up this
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chapter. I had written it a couple years
58:04
ago. It says the more you see
58:06
yourself as he sees you, the more you'll start seeing
58:09
everyone else in that same light.
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And that provides instant mercy, grace and compassion to others
58:15
because you recognize what he's done for you.
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So just let that rule. Yeah.
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Let her RIP, guys. We are, we are.
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We are not the tail, we're the head.
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Christ made us that way. We don't, we're not.
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We're not just these guys with no power.
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God made us that we can win. Melvin, you had said something.
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I was just going to, I was thinking when you were talking
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that, you know, so he says, put on, right, put on, put on.
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Then he says and let you know. So in other words, the, the, the
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phrases he's using there it it's so good, you know, And so it's
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opposite of putting yourself first like, like the when you
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put Christ 1st and and then you put on these and you let the
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peace of God rule you, It it's the opposite of you trying to in
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yourself, like in your flesh, trying to, to rule and to, to
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reign. So.
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Yeah, Amen. All right, I'm going to quit.
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I this this was so good refreshing.
59:23
And I was talking with one of the guys that played Amish guy
59:26
that listens to this podcast and he said it is the fastest hour
59:32
of his entire week. That's kind of how I feel as
59:37
though so anyway got to visit with him a while.
59:41
He really appreciated us going through this and stuff and, and
59:45
I told him it's, you know, it's, it's that way for me too.
59:48
I, I just always feel so nourished again having dug into
59:53
the ward like this. So anyway, we're going to call
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it quits hours up. God bless you guys.
1:00:00
Hey, go out and be long-suffering with somebody
1:00:04
today that's not used to being long suffered for It'll change
1:00:08
their life. It really will.
1:00:10
You know, we could we could make an difference to those around
1:00:12
us. I really believe that we can.
1:00:13
So previous episodes, Google simply Christ Ministries, that's
1:00:17
where we're at and find the rest of it.
1:00:20
Jerry and all the guys out there.
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Thanks for being all appreciate it.
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God bless you. Have a good week.
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Thank you much guys.