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New Eyes, New Ears, New Mouth - Part 1 | Andy Yeoh · Generations Church

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  Speaker 1: Hey there, you're listening to the Generation's Church podcast. We
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  Speaker 1: pray that the word of God today will challenge, change
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  Speaker 1: and channel.
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  Speaker 2: You into your God given destiny. Now let's get started.
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  Speaker 3: Let's continue on the series of like, how are we
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  Speaker 3: going to allow God to make us new?
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  Speaker 2: Amen? A happy new you.
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  Speaker 3: The focus is not unhappy, because when not here this
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  Speaker 3: to be happy? I don't think god ultimate purpose of
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  Speaker 3: being God is to make us happy, but to make
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  Speaker 3: us purpose full and joyful. But I'm just using the
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  Speaker 3: word happy to mean blessed, to mean fulfilled.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, Please, I'm a boring preacher. I fall asleep
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  Speaker 3: at my own preaching, so please keep me awake by responding.
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  Speaker 3: Whether I say something good or bad, respond anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Is that cool? All right? So let's continue today.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna start this sort of message series called new eyes,
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  Speaker 3: new ears, new mouth. So to be a happy new you,
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  Speaker 3: you need to have new eyes, new ears.
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  Speaker 2: New mouth. Amen. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: So when we started Happy New You, we looked at
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  Speaker 3: Acts chapter sixteen, the story of Paul and Silas. So
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  Speaker 3: I'm just reading one verse out of the whole passage,
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  Speaker 3: So if you're interested, please read in context the story
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  Speaker 3: Okatain read from verse twenty two to thirty one. Let
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  Speaker 3: me summarize Paul and Silas being apostles and doing what
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  Speaker 3: they do. They basically set a slave girl free. There
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  Speaker 3: was a girl who became a slave to some sorcerer
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  Speaker 3: and she was used to kind of like tell fortunes
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  Speaker 3: and all that. But Paul and Silas cast demons out
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  Speaker 3: of her and she could no longer do it. So
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  Speaker 3: now she cannot bring income to her bosses, and her
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  Speaker 3: bosses became unhappy. Accused Pauland's somehow managed to get Paul
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  Speaker 3: and Silas thrown into not just prison, but the dungeon
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  Speaker 3: whipped Bruce beaten up Canna nicely for doing nothing wrong,
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  Speaker 3: for setting someone free. Follow the situation so far, So
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  Speaker 3: an innocent person doing something good is thrown into a
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  Speaker 3: very difficult, painful situation. Now, if you were in that situation, okay,
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  Speaker 3: you may react and response quite differently. Right, if someone
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  Speaker 3: takes something from you, store something from you, or if
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  Speaker 3: someone bad mouth of you, or someone slap you for
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  Speaker 3: no reason, what do you think the general.
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  Speaker 2: Reaction will be?
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  Speaker 3: Slap them back, you know, keyboard, worrying them back on
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  Speaker 3: Facebook or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 3: So, It's very interesting what Paul and Silas did. Instead,
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  Speaker 3: instead of the usual fight back, scull back, wag back,
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  Speaker 3: they prayed and sang hymns to God, and the world
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  Speaker 3: around them were listening. They were watching, observing. So I
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  Speaker 3: just want to bring you attention as a Christian, especially
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  Speaker 3: as a Christian, the world around you is listening and watching. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: how you deal with pain, how you deal with uh injustice,
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  Speaker 3: how you deal with whatever situation in your life. You're
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  Speaker 3: being watched, even if you don't realize it. And the
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  Speaker 3: world around Poland Silists were watching and listening and observing
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  Speaker 3: their response to a very unfair, difficult situation.
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  Speaker 2: Amen, and Poland Silence.
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  Speaker 3: Instead of the usual reactions, they prayed and worship God,
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  Speaker 3: and if you read on, we saw that as a
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  Speaker 3: result of that they were set free and the ultimately
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  Speaker 3: led to the prison Gods and his family's salvation.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Which let me just pull it all together and
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  Speaker 3: say that's the post of our life. We are saved
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  Speaker 3: so that we can become a good sheaf to those
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  Speaker 3: who don't know Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Yet.
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  Speaker 3: Ultimately, how you do in your job, how you do
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  Speaker 3: in your marriage, how you do in your relationship, your friendship,
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  Speaker 3: your business, all of that. Hopefully it's so that you
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  Speaker 3: can shine a light and people will see the good
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  Speaker 3: works that you do for God and day to one
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  Speaker 3: to come to God, come to know Jesus, amen so,
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  Speaker 3: and a lot of things in the Bible, those details
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  Speaker 3: are not there by chance. At midnight, at midnight, midnight
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  Speaker 3: is that moment in the day where yesterday becomes today.
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  Speaker 3: Right midnight signifies a turn, a change. We are at
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  Speaker 3: the turn of a new year. We are and this
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  Speaker 3: is a time where most of you write down your resolutions.
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  Speaker 3: This is week number one, two three, How many you
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  Speaker 3: have broken some of em? Like we all have this
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  Speaker 3: new hope right happy knew you midnight midnight where things turn,
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  Speaker 3: where things change. Paul and Silas had a very different response.
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  Speaker 3: Instead of crying to themselves, there's a list of things
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  Speaker 3: that they did in stead, somebody say in state it's
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  Speaker 3: a very important word. That means that if you're got
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  Speaker 3: to be a happy new you, you gotta have an
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  Speaker 3: instead instead of having the attitude I would have this.
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  Speaker 3: Instead of look at things that way, I will look
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  Speaker 3: at things this way. They are saying that, I'll say
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  Speaker 3: this instead somebody sayings that so Instead of crying to themselves,
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  Speaker 3: they cry od to God. Instead of cursing, their prayed.
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  Speaker 3: Instead of worrying, they were worshiping. Instead of complaining, their praise,
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  Speaker 3: instead of feeling sorry for themselves. They become part of
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  Speaker 3: a bigger story, bigger than themselves.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 3: So there wasn't Instead. They could have cursed, but they prayed.
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  Speaker 3: They could have worried, but they worshiped. They could have
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  Speaker 3: done that, but they did this. That's what made them different.
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  Speaker 2: Amen? How how can I that? Are you bleeding?
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  Speaker 3: Bruce bunker Porta And in the situation in the Dungan
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  Speaker 3: sang hymns brow.
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  Speaker 2: Not even playing a boom? Did you sing this this?
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  Speaker 2: Modern eyes?
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  Speaker 3: They were older than that. Did you know the hymns
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  Speaker 3: that we all celebrate?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: The words are from the writer, the tune is from
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  Speaker 3: the pub Yes, okay, So.
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  Speaker 2: They were singing hymns.
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  Speaker 3: How when we read the Bible, we need to read
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  Speaker 3: with their curiosity and saying.
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  Speaker 2: God, why? How? What? When? How? Who? Amen?
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  Speaker 3: So how I believe to Heaven new you? It starts
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  Speaker 3: with new eyes. Somebody'sying new eyes. They saw with new eyes.
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  Speaker 3: Now I don't mean this literally literally, like go and
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  Speaker 3: do let's sing now, okay, or get a new peril class.
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  Speaker 3: You know I mean symbolically right, new eyes, a new
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  Speaker 3: or let me give you this word, a new perspective.
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  Speaker 2: In other words, the way you look at life.
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  Speaker 3: In twenty twenty three should be different in twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 3: because the simple premise is this. If you look at life,
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  Speaker 3: and by life I mean everything about you the same
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  Speaker 3: way last year as you do this year, then what
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  Speaker 3: will change?
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  Speaker 2: What will be better? Amen?
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  Speaker 3: So new eyes the power of perspective? Do say perspective?
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  Speaker 2: How have you would.
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  Speaker 3: Agree that looking and seeing is not the same thing.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody looks, but not everybody sees. Yep, you could be
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  Speaker 3: looking at the same thing, but you see very differently. Amen,
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  Speaker 3: look and seeing it's not the same thing. You can
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  Speaker 3: look at something, and so we all look at the
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  Speaker 3: Bible every Saturday, but we may not see what the
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  Speaker 3: Bible is trying to tell us.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So new eyes to see with.
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  Speaker 3: You got to look at life and see differently than
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  Speaker 3: you did before. Otherwise it'll be what insanity to expect
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  Speaker 3: the different results when you're doing the same thing over
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  Speaker 3: and over again. Albert Enstein said that yep, okay, see
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  Speaker 3: this is why it's so powerful to praise God. Praise
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  Speaker 3: is an act of faith. Praise is saying something true
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  Speaker 3: about God, even if you don't feel it or see it.
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  Speaker 2: For the moment. Amen.
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  Speaker 3: That means you may not feel very good right now,
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  Speaker 3: things around you may not be very good, but you
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  Speaker 3: say God, you are good. That's praise, and that's an
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  Speaker 3: act of faith because when you do that, when you
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  Speaker 3: praise God, it gives you perspective. It reminds you you
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  Speaker 3: are good, You are God, I am Man, I'm in
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  Speaker 3: need of you.
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  Speaker 2: It reminds you praise is good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, when you're in the pit, usually it's praise.
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  Speaker 2: It gets you out.
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  Speaker 3: When Joseph was in the pit, out of all the brothers,
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  Speaker 3: you know which one got him out Judah. Judah means
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  Speaker 3: praise of all the brothers, was Judah who say, hey,
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  Speaker 3: come on, don't leave him here, Let's get him out.
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  Speaker 3: Praise gives you a perspective. It's an egg of faith.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't depends on how you feel.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. So what is perspective.
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  Speaker 3: It's a view, a way of looking at things and
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  Speaker 3: seeing things, a mental of you, a mindset, somebody mindset.
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  Speaker 2: We addressed this last year, but I feel we.
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  Speaker 3: Can go deeper a mind set. So guys and girls
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  Speaker 3: have different perspective.
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  Speaker 2: If you haven't noticed it yet.
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  Speaker 3: When we say shopping, a guy thinks shopping is this
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  Speaker 3: and a girl thinks shopping is this?
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  Speaker 2: It's two different things.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, a guy can say I'm going to the shopping
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  Speaker 3: mall to buy a belt. The girl says, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: me too. But a guy goes in there, finds the belt,
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  Speaker 3: buys it, and goes The girl will enjoy the whole
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  Speaker 3: process comes back with an entire enxample, not just belt, shoe, tammering, whatever. Right,
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  Speaker 3: Guys and girls perspective on football is different. Hey, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: one is watching how the game goes there and is
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  Speaker 3: watching and how hot the guy is. I know generalization,
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  Speaker 3: but you get my point. Guys perspecting on love and
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  Speaker 3: girls perspecting on love also two different things. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 3: what's a perspective? Perspective is a way of looking at things,
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  Speaker 3: a way of seeing something.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So with perspective, you can even see what's not there.
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  Speaker 3: Something's not there, but you can see it because of
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  Speaker 3: the way you're seeing. You can even you can even
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  Speaker 3: not see what's there. Maybe someone is trying so hard
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  Speaker 3: to show you love and care, you just can't see it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Church situation very common, very common.
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  Speaker 3: You go, I've been a you pastor for a long
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  Speaker 3: time and I hear this very very common, all right,
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  Speaker 3: Because we'll have a new young person walks into the
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  Speaker 3: church and everybody will talk to the young person.
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  Speaker 2: Here are you? Where you from? Okay?
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  Speaker 3: And then the young person will go back and then
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  Speaker 3: come again after a few weeks. That young person says,
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  Speaker 3: I don't feel I belong. No one talks to me.
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  Speaker 3: And then you are spec your head. What even no
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  Speaker 3: one talks to you? Everybody was talking to you, but ah,
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  Speaker 3: you know who everybody is. It's uncle like me, uncle
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  Speaker 3: like Kannish or the ancle auntie. They don't count nobody
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  Speaker 3: that I want to talk to me, talk to me.
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  Speaker 3: So conclusion, no one talks to me, I don't feel
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  Speaker 3: belong and here you are. Ah, So we perspective, if
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  Speaker 3: you look at it a certain way, you can see
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  Speaker 3: what's not there. You can even not see what's there.
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  Speaker 3: What you see depends on where you see from. So
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  Speaker 3: it's a question of focus. What you focus on you see, right?
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  Speaker 3: Application pretty simple, right, if you focus on mistakes or
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  Speaker 3: you see is if you focus on hurt or you
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  Speaker 3: see yadi, YadA, etcetera, etcetera, dot dot.
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  Speaker 2: Dot, You fill in the blanks.
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  Speaker 3: So can you can you at least see at this
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  Speaker 3: point in time that to change who you are, to
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  Speaker 3: become a new person allowing the word of God and
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  Speaker 3: is to have new eyes.
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  Speaker 2: To see it.
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  Speaker 3: And of course this is not psychology workshop or one
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  Speaker 3: of those things. It's it's a church. What am I
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  Speaker 3: saying to you, I'm saying to you have new eyes
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  Speaker 3: on but do it through the world of God. That
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  Speaker 3: means you gotta look at your world as how God
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  Speaker 3: sees it. So if you're experiencing pain, how you see pain,
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  Speaker 3: How what you focus on about the pain changes you? Yes,
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  Speaker 3: So if you look at pain the way God sees pain,
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  Speaker 3: it changes you too. What you focus on growth. Somebody say, amen,
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  Speaker 3: let me ask you a question. It's on the slide
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  Speaker 3: as well. Say you have you have a few child
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  Speaker 3: If you have few children, or maybe you're a teacher,
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  Speaker 3: or maybe you know your own children, but you got nephews, nieces, cousins.
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  Speaker 3: I want you think of the most difficult child you have,
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  Speaker 3: maybe not cooperative, maybe uh.
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  Speaker 2: Slow to respond, uh, maybe rebect whatever it is.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, you got three the most difficult one, you got
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  Speaker 3: two the most difficult. Maybe you're among all your cousins,
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  Speaker 3: among all your nephew us. Think of the most difficult.
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  Speaker 2: Child you have? Question? Is this child good? All bad?
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  Speaker 3: This child that comes home throw the socks underway everywhere,
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  Speaker 3: never picks up. This child that always answer back when
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  Speaker 3: you say something, This child that always breaks things, This
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  Speaker 3: child that I don't know always cracks your password and.
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  Speaker 2: Fight things with your credit card.
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  Speaker 3: Sally one day got Tesla who bought this? Yeah, this
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  Speaker 3: child good, all bad? Good to bad? Bad because bad?
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  Speaker 3: Because I'm sure you have an explansion, right, don't mean
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  Speaker 3: expectations the very definition of scene right, missing the mark?
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  Speaker 3: This is good, you don't meet it, you're bad. How
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  Speaker 3: many of you think, no, this child is good? No
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  Speaker 3: one thinks this child is good. Anyone want to just
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  Speaker 3: be the one I was saying he's good and somehow
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  Speaker 3: hook up some reason for it, like, for example, the
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  Speaker 3: child is good, he's just doing bad things. Can be
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  Speaker 3: a good word just doing bad things temporarily. This is
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  Speaker 3: generally how we think about life, theology, relationship, anything. Can
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  Speaker 3: I give you a perspective the problem is not whether
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  Speaker 3: this child is misbehaving or behaving. The problem is in
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  Speaker 3: the question. I gave you no choice. I already labeled
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  Speaker 3: a child, this child is good or bad. The problem
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  Speaker 3: is the question. We do that all the time. Well,
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  Speaker 3: this is suffering.
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  Speaker 2: I have in my life?
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  Speaker 3: Is good or better? If God is so good, then
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  Speaker 3: why does this bad thing happen to me? We gave
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  Speaker 3: it no choice. We have to answer it's good, it's bad,
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  Speaker 3: it's good, it's bad. And if that's how we look
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  Speaker 3: at even children. If this child is either just good
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  Speaker 3: or bad, do you know what he affects a parenting
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  Speaker 3: affects the way we see the child, or if you're
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  Speaker 3: a teacher, affects how you teach. Perspective affects everything. The
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  Speaker 3: problem is in the question. And when I say that,
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  Speaker 3: I also mean the problem is in the perspective. Why
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  Speaker 3: do you look at this and only give two options,
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  Speaker 3: good or bad? What if this child doesn't pick up
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  Speaker 3: his own clothes, or doesn't finish his food, or doesn't
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  Speaker 3: do all his chores?
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  Speaker 2: And what if you.
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  Speaker 3: Change the question. What if the question is I wonder
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  Speaker 3: what he's actually good at? Or what if the question
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  Speaker 3: is I wonder what it would take to get him
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  Speaker 3: to pick up his clothes instead of bad. Can you
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  Speaker 3: catch the power perspective? Now, how would it change your parenting?
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  Speaker 3: Because if it's good, you reward, If it's bad, you punish.
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  Speaker 3: But what really changed? It only reinforces the label that
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  Speaker 3: you already put on the child.
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  Speaker 2: The child doesn't change.
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  Speaker 3: But if you ask a different question, what if Wow,
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  Speaker 3: I wonder what made him finish his food the last time?
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  Speaker 3: Not just child? What about colleagues? What about your boss?
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  Speaker 3: Bad boss? A good boss? Are what if you ask
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  Speaker 3: a different question? The problem is in the question we
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  Speaker 3: need to view people accurately and that the bottom line
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  Speaker 3: says we can't. Only God can. Only God knows you
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  Speaker 3: through and through. In other words, if you want to
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  Speaker 3: view another precious human being accurately, lovingly, christianly, you've got
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  Speaker 3: to view them through the lenses of God. How does
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  Speaker 3: God view that rebellious answering back, dirty, untidy child? How
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  Speaker 3: does God view that? And then as a parent you
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  Speaker 3: view that way. As a colleague, as a friend, as
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  Speaker 3: a neighbor, as an employee, you start to view things
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  Speaker 3: the way God views them. You know why, every question
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  Speaker 3: has a presupposition. Every question that you ask has already
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  Speaker 3: a presupposition, something you already presupposed. That is why the
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  Speaker 3: why question can be so hard to answer.
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  Speaker 2: Canji or late why.
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  Speaker 3: That presupposes questions intent, It doesn't get It's not nice
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  Speaker 3: being asked that doesn't ask no problem, don't being asked
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  Speaker 3: fews like we're asking me why because it's a presupposition. Demesa,
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  Speaker 3: you must have had a you I don't have a
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  Speaker 3: good intention or bad intention? Why So to help the stitution,
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  Speaker 3: we ask differently, Yeah, it's the traffic.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Today, every question has a presupposition. Every thought has a presupposition.
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  Speaker 3: We are nobody can say, Nola, I'm completely neutral, no
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  Speaker 3: such thing.
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  Speaker 2: What if?
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  Speaker 3: So, since every question has a presupposition in the words,
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  Speaker 3: every question has an assumption every time, what if we
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  Speaker 3: all assume the best, always ideal? I know, But what
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  Speaker 3: if we all start to assume the best, always assume
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  Speaker 3: the best of each other, always assume the best of God.
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  Speaker 2: God loves me.
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  Speaker 3: God is perfect, He does nothing that is lacking. Therefore,
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  Speaker 3: if he allows this challenge in my life, he is good.
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  Speaker 3: He's perfect. This is not a mistake. He must have
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  Speaker 3: a good reason for it. And then your attitude changes.
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  Speaker 3: What if that person that is so bad to you?
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  Speaker 3: What if we assume the best. I'm not saying it's
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  Speaker 3: easy to do. I'm saying it changes things. I'm saying
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  Speaker 3: it changes you. New eyes, new perspective, God's perspective. Amen,
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  Speaker 3: having the right perspective is key. And by right, I
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  Speaker 3: don't mean by your or my definition, but God's definition.
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  Speaker 3: Only God gets to determine what is right. Amen, having
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  Speaker 3: the right perspective is key. It changes everything. It is
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  Speaker 3: very important. It is vital for our late relationship with
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: each other. Amen, we are the body of Christ, of
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  Speaker 3: all people on this planet Earth. We've got to get this.
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  Speaker 3: We are one body. The Bible says that's what we
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  Speaker 3: didc community, the way we did it last week. From
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  Speaker 3: one bottle, one sauce, one bread. We all partake together
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  Speaker 3: because one body. We are called and designed to live together.
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  Speaker 3: But we are different. Because some of you are hand
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  Speaker 3: You like to take things with.
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  Speaker 2: Some of us that the lake.
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  Speaker 3: We like to kick things, We have to go places.
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  Speaker 3: Some of you are the bumb You know, it just
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't be every comfortable. I don't know, like we're all different,
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  Speaker 3: but we are one body.
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  Speaker 2: We gotta learn how to relate.
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  Speaker 3: And one of the first things that needs to be
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  Speaker 3: fixed or renewed or change is the way we see things,
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  Speaker 3: our perspective and man.
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  Speaker 2: So it's key. It's key.
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  Speaker 3: So it's key for relationship with each other, it's key
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  Speaker 3: for relationship with God.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody okay with God.
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  Speaker 3: With the right perspective, it leads us to things like
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  Speaker 3: it least us to be a worshipper. When we finally
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  Speaker 3: catch who God is, we don't see him as our
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  Speaker 3: center Claus. Let's admit it, some of us. God is
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  Speaker 3: just our center Claus. When we need something, we show
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  Speaker 3: him how good we've been and he must give it
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  Speaker 3: to us.
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  Speaker 2: So what's God? It's just our healer.
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  Speaker 3: We only go to him and not well and sick,
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  Speaker 3: and we're like, okay, God, you're great healer.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah, Priest, he'll me. So what's God? Is our comfort?
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  Speaker 2: Whatever are.
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  Speaker 3: Then God, it's just the thing or the person or
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  Speaker 3: the entity that blesses you or gives you what you need,
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  Speaker 3: what you want, just not the right perspective.
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  Speaker 2: When you catch the right perspective.
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  Speaker 3: And you realize amongst all things that His Savior, Shepherd, Love, Redeemer,
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  Speaker 3: and our comfort teacher, all these.
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  Speaker 2: Things, my alliest things.
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  Speaker 3: Ultimately, he is God, oh mighty, and he is worthy
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  Speaker 3: of a worship. And that should teach me you to
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  Speaker 3: never think I put find her again. The offering back
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  Speaker 3: so odd well, it's more than the other guy, so odden,
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  Speaker 3: he's gone. Having the right perspective makes you a worshiper,
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  Speaker 3: and a worshiper does things like honor. You don't think
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  Speaker 3: God's name for in vain? You you don't just you
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  Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. Can I see I've done just
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  Speaker 3: wrong enough to I think I no longer want to
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  Speaker 3: say you don't come yo, you are a bad personer
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  Speaker 3: because I can't do that.
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  Speaker 2: But that would lead to what, that would lead to guilt?
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: I mean when you are it's a Saturday and you're
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: in Langkawei somewhere, and I text you, hey, brohere are
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  Speaker 3: you what's the feeling guilt?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? What's the found out? Shucks?
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  Speaker 3: And then next week or next time you come to
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  Speaker 3: church because of what?
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  Speaker 2: Then guilt?
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  Speaker 3: You think.
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  Speaker 2: There's the emotion got ones from you? Guilty?
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: So I single whish of you want your child or
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: your wife to love you? Because I feel guilty. I
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: feel guilty. I didn't talk to her today. That's why
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  Speaker 3: it makes you were one hundred percent of all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, darling, today, I'm dating you because I feel guilty.
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  Speaker 3: And if you could hear that thought, which of you
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: wifs will feel like that's so awesome?
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: We think we die guilty? Wait didn't? No, but I
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: would say you didn't come with judge? You should come? Why?
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Because you miss it? Very different?
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: I yeah, I missed just last week. If you so guilty, law,
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: so guilty? La, I need to go to just next week.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want that. I yeah, I didn't go to
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: just last week. I miss it.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: I miss it. I wonder what happened. I wonder what
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  Speaker 2: God said.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I wonder what the presence of God was like
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  Speaker 3: last I miss it. You say the same thing to
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  Speaker 3: your wife. Are you I'm talking to you right now
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  Speaker 3: because I missed talking to you?
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  Speaker 2: Hey? Different? Feeling right?
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  Speaker 3: Don't believe me going? Try go on a date your
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  Speaker 3: loved one and say I'm just doing this case.
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  Speaker 2: I'm guilty, So why why would I build it? What
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: a plan?
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: Thet church and talk like that to maybe you feel guilty. No,
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  Speaker 3: I want to make it sure you miss it, I
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  Speaker 3: miss it, relationship, ma, I want to be in God's presence.
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  Speaker 2: That's true honor.
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  Speaker 3: The other version is just guilt, embarrassed, shame, point scoring,
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  Speaker 3: performance based.
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  Speaker 2: Right. This is God. So I love you God.
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  Speaker 3: You are deserving and worthy of my love. And that
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  Speaker 3: is why I obey. Not because I'm scared, because I
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  Speaker 3: fear you. Goduse I obey because I love you. I
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  Speaker 3: want to please you. Amen, And that's why. Except to
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  Speaker 3: sixteen Paul and Silas Bruce broken falls the accused, what's
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  Speaker 3: the response, God, you did this to Mina, You did
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  Speaker 3: this to me god yr Phone, Why go and become missionary?
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: He was, I know, I know who I am. I
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  Speaker 3: know who you are. I mean not understand it. Oh like,
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  Speaker 3: what the why am I in a prison? But you
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  Speaker 3: are gone? You were gone?
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: Paul and Silas understood that. So the perspective is very different.
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  Speaker 3: I said two weeks ago about how you know some
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  Speaker 3: of us we shopping seven seven eleven eleven girl whatever.
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  Speaker 2: We bought something that used to be.
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  Speaker 3: One thousand ring kid and then sixty percent off and
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  Speaker 3: now it's only four hundred ring kid, and be so happy.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, everybody, I say six hundred ring kah.
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  Speaker 3: No you spend for hundred in it? You're four hundred
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: git border Now you know what I'm saying. No my city, No, No,
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  Speaker 3: you spent four hundred. It's perspective. What if you turn
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  Speaker 3: this around and make it positive. It's not work, it's worship.
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  Speaker 3: It's not work, it's ship. What if removing the sick
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: covers it's not just work, it's worship. You can see
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: something as pressure or it's a pleasure, like giving. Is
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: it a pressure to give or is it a pleasure?
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  Speaker 2: God?
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  Speaker 3: I get to do this? Thank you God, you bless
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  Speaker 3: me with something to give you back, even if it's
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  Speaker 3: two mics. This is a pressure to don't know, to obey,
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: a pressure to love for pressure to be there? Or
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: is it a pleasure? It changes everything? It changes your mood,
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: you're feeling your emotion, and then you you being.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: There, changes everybody else's esmostphere? Right? Wow?
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: What it weill live by assuming the best? It's not
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: time wasted, its time invested. What if your time sitting
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: here is not time wasted, just time passing and never
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: comes back.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: What if it's invested. I don't know when I need
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  Speaker 2: this word.
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  Speaker 3: But I need to keep this word in my heart
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: because one day I'm gonna need this store.
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  Speaker 2: Store store.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: That's how banks work, right, You store money so that
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: one day when you need it and you go back inside, think,
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: got I saved you deposit so they can withdraw. Amen
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: with others. They having a right perspective effects and influences
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: your relationship with others. Amen, let me show your chat.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: It's called the pig Melon. In fact, Pimeleon was a sculptor.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: He he was famous for making a sculpture that he
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: loves so much. And then the movie is that he
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: became a life. He loved meone and he became a life.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: So it's basically talking about how one someone's attitude or
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: someone's view over something so basic. He loves his old
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: cup so much it came to life so that you
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  Speaker 3: brow wrote that myth use his name and call it
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: a pig mailing effect. It tells you that our beliefs
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: about others will influence our actions towards them. So if
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: I think you're undeserving on my love, what do you
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: think I will do? I won't greet you or what
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  Speaker 3: pass you right?
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: You call me?
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: I won't pick up because you're not deserving. Why you're
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: a bad person, You're selfish, you are you are just
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: there to rob from me.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm not gonna be saying.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: Once you form a belief about someone, it will influence
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: your action towards them. So if you think I'm a
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: bad leader, no matter how good I actually am, But
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: if you think I'm bad, you will influence the way
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  Speaker 3: you treat me vice versa towards each other. Two yes, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: your belief or influence your action towards others and the
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: way you treat others. Well, then impact they believe about themselves.
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  Speaker 3: If nobody loves me, maybe I'm unlovable. If everybody rejects me,
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  Speaker 3: maybe I'm a reject. They start to believe how they
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  Speaker 3: are treated. Put this in a parenting perspective. If you
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  Speaker 3: always tell your child he's naught, nothing, nothing naughty, watch
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  Speaker 3: what happens funny?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: We tell them good things and we explain them to follow,
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  Speaker 3: because bottomne is we want them to follow. So if
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: certain bad things and they follow, what You're so surprised
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  Speaker 3: other people believes about themselves. It's impacted by how they
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: are being treated. So if I'm always love accepted, believed on.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: Then I tend to see myself that way too, and
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: they will cause their action towards you. If I always
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: call you you want't be nice to me? Man know right,
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: Because whatever I do, whatever I ask, whatever I say,
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: has a presupposition.
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  Speaker 2: That's an assumption, and it goes around. It reinforces.
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  Speaker 3: So see, I bet to you because I beg to you,
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  Speaker 3: you think I'm a bad person. Anyway, you bet back
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: to me, and it reinforces my belief that to you,
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  Speaker 3: he's a bad person. It goes around and around. Nobody changes,
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  Speaker 3: nothing changes. Yep, God knows this. That's why while I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna give you about six verses about how we should
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  Speaker 3: treat each other, there's plenty more, and very few of
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  Speaker 3: them talks about self love. In fact, none is a misundersuconcept,
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: not saying self care is not important.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: Self love is very different.
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  Speaker 3: We'll talk about it another time, but look at this
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  Speaker 3: verses how should we treat others?
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  Speaker 2: First contains one ten.
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  Speaker 3: I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, in the name
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  Speaker 3: of our lot Jesus Christ, that all of you agree
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  Speaker 3: with one another in what you say, and that there
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  Speaker 3: be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly
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  Speaker 3: united in mind and thought, perspective view. Let's agree that
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: we're going to assume the best of each other. Agree
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  Speaker 3: that the person you now are so annoyed by so
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: much is a child of God. Jesus died for him too,
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: and you're not more deserving of God's grace than he is.
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  Speaker 2: Changes everything. Amen, But he's late, I know God, but.
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  Speaker 3: He's still my parents will Yeah, still a child of God.
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  Speaker 3: Need some grace and need to change my child God?
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  Speaker 3: Praise smelly? Yeah he wait all jelly? Just now, Yes,
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: where's the child of God? What does a Bible tell
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  Speaker 3: us to How should we live our life? How should
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: we live with other human beings? Do nothing out of
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  Speaker 3: self in ambition? Or then conside rather in humility, value
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: others above yourself, not looking to your own interests, but
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: each of you to the interests of others. Next one,
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other,
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: just as in Christ, God forgave you.
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  Speaker 2: Imagine we live in the world like this.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: Romans twelf that next one be devoted to one another
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  Speaker 3: in love, honor one another above yourself Methew seven to twelve.
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  Speaker 2: The Golden Rule.
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  Speaker 3: So in everything due to others, what you would have
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  Speaker 3: them do to you for this sums up the law
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  Speaker 3: and the prophets James one, nineteen.
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  Speaker 2: My dear brother and sisters take note of this.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: slow to become angry.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: There's a musical called My Fair Lady. It's about this
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  Speaker 2: flower girl.
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  Speaker 3: And then this professor that wants to groom her and
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: train her to behave like a princess.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: There's a scene. I don't have the clip, but in
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: this scene she gave this courtees.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: She said, the difference between a flower girl and a
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: princess is not how she behaves, but how she is treated.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: Now we can dissect these and agree and disagree and
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: all that, but the point here is this.
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  Speaker 2: How we treat impact them.
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  Speaker 3: How parents treat the child, how bosses treat their employees,
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: how brothers and sisters in Christ treat each other impacts
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: has an impact.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: So my big question is what if? What if?
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: What if we live out God's word? Be kind to
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: one another, estingish other above our own interests, be kind
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: of compressions, quick to listen, slow to speak, definitely slow
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: to get angry. This is not making excuses for people
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: like if you're on the worship team and you're late,
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: you're late. It's not trying to make excuses about you,
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: but trying to think the best and assume the best
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: of you. But you have the responsibility to say, I'm late.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: I'll do something about it, especially since my team members
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: treat me so nice. I hope you're motivated to change,
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: not motivated to do litter, so they love me up
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: next time, be later. That that is there is there
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: is a problem. That means you don't have the mental
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: capacity to like detect. The right response is to oh,
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: motivated to do better? Amen, because if they score you,
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: then your motivator to do better.
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  Speaker 2: But out of guilt.
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  Speaker 3: And guilt don't last because nobody wants to feel guilty
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: long long. Who wants to prolong youill? Nobody right, So
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: guilt cannot be the motivation must be love still must
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: be love. So if you're late to a meeting and
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: we love you back, don't get the wrong and I says, wow.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: So nice, like this ship literally still love me? Or
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: next time, come on? I want it? Lock? They no, no,
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: what if?
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: What if we treat each other the way God wants
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: to treat us perspective. Amen, there's just new eyes. You
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: can new mouth, new years, no time. Today will continue
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: some other time. He said, Okay, God is just not
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: there to like. It's not it's not like other gods. Know,
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: we feed him in apple and then give us four digits.
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: Then were going by. Then we get a new car.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: I knows it's not dead. This is not our God. Oh,
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: God gives you a new tesla that you don't deserve.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: If that's what you need. It's a good God. But
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: God is not some puppet, some clown to entertain. You know,
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: He's God.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: Having the right perspective changes and then having a right
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: perspective over each other.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: Changes everything. Amen, even non Christians.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: Even the people outside of the church, outside the body
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: of Christ.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: The way we see affects everything.
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