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LEAD | Daniel 1 Leadership | Josh Navey · The Salt Company Denver

7:03
SPEAKER_06: What's up, So?
7:05
SPEAKER_06: When you stand together, put your hands together.
7:08
SPEAKER_06: We're gonna praise our God who's worthy for praise tonight.
7:18
SPEAKER_04: Don't we spill the cowboy?
7:21
SPEAKER_04: Oh allelujah! God baby! Ohia! Oh allelujah! Washed in the water, washed in the blood.
10:29
SPEAKER_04: I'm as good as Oheluia, I've been washed in the water.
10:35
SPEAKER_04: Washed in the blood of the God.
10:38
SPEAKER_04: Oh hallelujah.
10:41
SPEAKER_06: Put our hands together.
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SPEAKER_06: Amen.
10:44
SPEAKER_06: Praise God.
10:45
SPEAKER_06: We're gonna continue to sing to our God who's worthy of our praise.
10:49
SPEAKER_06: Before we do, I want us to call our hearts and minds to worship by reading these words from the Psalms together.
10:56
SPEAKER_06: If you would join me in the all portion, give thanks to the Lord.
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SPEAKER_06: Call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people.
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SPEAKER_06: Sing to him, sing praises to him.
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SPEAKER_06: Tell of all his wondrous works.
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SPEAKER_06: Glory in his holy name.
11:16
SPEAKER_06: Let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice.
11:20
SPEAKER_06: Seek the Lord and his strength.
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SPEAKER_06: Seek his presence continually.
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SPEAKER_06: Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he uttered.
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SPEAKER_06: Can we read this?
11:33
SPEAKER_06: He remembers his covenant forever.
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SPEAKER_06: The word that he commanded, his promises are true.
11:42
SPEAKER_06: Great is the faithfulness of our God.
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SPEAKER_06: Amen.
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SPEAKER_06: We're gonna continue to sing the faithfulness of our God tonight.
11:57
SPEAKER_06: God of Abraham, you're the God of covenant.
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SPEAKER_06: Faithful promise.
12:06
SPEAKER_06: Time and time again, you improve.
12:10
SPEAKER_06: We do just what you say.
12:12
SPEAKER_06: Though the storms may come and the winds may blow out and may stay.
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SPEAKER_06: And in my heart, when you speak a word, it will come to us.
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SPEAKER_05: My egg to the ground.
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SPEAKER_05: My whole bit of foundation! You never let me down! I could not say! My good to the ground! My oldest!
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SPEAKER_06: From the rising sun, from the rise to itself, hungry, in your face.
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SPEAKER_05: By no work I have done.
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SPEAKER_05: My righteousness are for fate and my saviour's cross.
17:38
SPEAKER_05: We're also fishing.
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SPEAKER_05: Did what I could say each turn on.
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SPEAKER_05: We could make you die.
19:19
SPEAKER_05: I'm just getting my boy, just the fish.
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SPEAKER_05: The joy of my style shall be my final bread.
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SPEAKER_05: And when I stand extended before the throne of God.
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SPEAKER_05: Okay, so on my chip, take it for the cross.
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SPEAKER_01: What else I'll call?
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SPEAKER_01: How are we doing?
22:50
SPEAKER_01: How we doing?
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SPEAKER_01: Man, I love worshiping with you guys.
22:53
SPEAKER_01: That's one of my favorite things.
22:55
SPEAKER_01: All right.
22:55
SPEAKER_01: Here's what we're gonna do.
22:56
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna hang out for a minute.
22:58
SPEAKER_01: And I'd love if you could get your Bible.
23:00
SPEAKER_01: Maybe everybody, you know it's under the seat.
23:02
SPEAKER_01: You've heard me say that before.
23:03
SPEAKER_01: My name's Josh.
23:04
SPEAKER_01: I'm one of the pastors here at Storyline.
23:07
SPEAKER_01: My title is executive pastor, which means I don't know.
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SPEAKER_01: You know, I'd have a job run here and I do some stuff.
23:13
SPEAKER_01: I would love to spend some time talking with you guys about leadership tonight.
23:17
SPEAKER_01: We're on the last week of our series on leadership.
23:20
SPEAKER_01: Can anybody remind me what the other two topics or of leadership have been so far?
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SPEAKER_01: Anyone remember from the last couple weeks?
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SPEAKER_01: Humility.
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SPEAKER_01: Humility and what was that?
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unknown: Courage.
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SPEAKER_01: Courage.
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SPEAKER_01: Yep, courage and humility.
23:32
SPEAKER_01: Well done.
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SPEAKER_01: I think tonight is the least sexy element of leadership, okay?
23:37
SPEAKER_01: We're kind of low-key here.
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SPEAKER_01: On uh not something that you might have even ever thought about is associated with leadership.
23:44
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna be in the book of Daniel, all right?
23:48
SPEAKER_01: Daniel, y'all are like, all right, I got it.
23:50
SPEAKER_01: I need some help finding that one.
23:51
SPEAKER_01: Okay, I don't know the page number, but it's it's pretty easy.
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SPEAKER_01: You know, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judge, Ruth, first of Samuel, first second kings, first second chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Ezra, Joseph, South, Prophet, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel.
24:05
SPEAKER_01: You know, it's easy.
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SPEAKER_01: It's easy.
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SPEAKER_01: Just flip through those books and you'll find it.
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SPEAKER_01: Daniel.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh, we're gonna be a couple places in Daniel.
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SPEAKER_01: We'll start chapter one.
24:18
SPEAKER_01: There's uh some amazing athletes I've watched recently.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh Olympics, we got any Olympic fans in here?
24:25
SPEAKER_01: Y'all, y'all watch some of those Winter Olympics?
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SPEAKER_01: The world baseball classic.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh Go America, right?
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SPEAKER_01: Tonight.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh tell your neighbor what's your favorite Winter Olympic event that you watched.
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SPEAKER_01: Like, did you watch one?
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SPEAKER_01: You can turn them and say, I don't even know that their Winter Olympic has events.
24:50
SPEAKER_01: I think we we can all agree that the most awkward of a Winter Olympic event is that duo luge thing.
24:59
SPEAKER_01: Y'all know the one I'm talking about?
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SPEAKER_01: You're like, I don't I don't want to be that close to anybody ever, much less while the whole world's watching and we're trying to go down this thing together.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, that's interesting.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh I love watching the Olympics.
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SPEAKER_01: The thing about watching amazing athletes is you feel like I am uh in awe of what you're doing, you know?
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SPEAKER_01: Like uh except curling.
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SPEAKER_01: You're like, I could do that.
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SPEAKER_01: But all the other events, you know?
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SPEAKER_01: Have you never been curling?
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SPEAKER_01: I've been curling, and I think if you let me go 20 times, I could be pretty good at curling, okay?
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SPEAKER_01: Like, just give me one semester of curling as my one hour credit to finish out, and I would I could beat a lot of people.
25:41
SPEAKER_01: It's it's not that hard.
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SPEAKER_01: It's hard to be amazing, it's not that hard to be good.
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SPEAKER_01: You know what I'm saying?
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, don't hate, don't hate.
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SPEAKER_01: But most of the athletes, when you watch them, you're like, wow, they're doing things I could never do.
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SPEAKER_01: You know?
25:54
SPEAKER_01: Like, uh, well, I'm gonna keep going.
25:56
SPEAKER_01: Uh the one thing that you've never said as you watch amazing athletes doing something amazing is you're like, oh man, you know, that skier, they went down that hill faster than they've ever.
26:07
SPEAKER_01: You know what?
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SPEAKER_01: That person has an incredible heartbeat.
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SPEAKER_01: Like, can you believe how well their heart beats as they're doing?
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SPEAKER_01: You know, they're doing something amazing, but every single one of them have something keeping them alive to be able to do it, and you never are in awe of that, right?
26:26
SPEAKER_01: It's just you just expect it.
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SPEAKER_01: That's how I want you to understand our leadership trait tonight of faithfulness.
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SPEAKER_01: Every single leader that you have ever seen and been like, that's a good leader.
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SPEAKER_01: They have this heartbeat of faithfulness.
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SPEAKER_01: And you might not have even paid attention to it.
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SPEAKER_01: You, it might be as dumb in your mind as saying, wow, that speed skater has an amazing heartbeat.
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SPEAKER_01: But every single leader has this trait of faithfulness, is what we're gonna see tonight in Daniel.
26:58
SPEAKER_01: I read a book recently, I actually I have like three pages left, so uh just to be honest, I haven't finished the book, but I've read 99% of this book.
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SPEAKER_01: It's called Captain Class.
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SPEAKER_01: And this dude looked at, I'm sorry, this is another sports thing.
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SPEAKER_01: Is it okay if I give you another sports thing?
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SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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SPEAKER_01: If you say no, then talk to me later.
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SPEAKER_01: I'll try to think of a better example.
27:16
SPEAKER_01: But it's what I'm interested in, so I'll read some books.
27:19
SPEAKER_01: And he tries to find the most dominant dynasties in sports history.
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SPEAKER_01: So we're talking, it's like all sports of modern era since the 1800s.
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SPEAKER_01: What are the most successful dynasties?
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SPEAKER_01: So you got some of the normal ones, you got Jordan's Bulls.
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SPEAKER_01: That's actually tier two.
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SPEAKER_01: It doesn't even make his tier one of what a tier one dynasty is, but you know who does?
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SPEAKER_01: The 1990s Cuban women's volleyball team.
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SPEAKER_01: Incredible! Three golds in a row, didn't lose an international match.
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SPEAKER_01: That's the type of dynasty we're talking about here.
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SPEAKER_01: 70s Steelers fall into this category.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh, the 50s Yankees.
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SPEAKER_01: There's some uh famous ones and some not so famous ones.
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SPEAKER_01: But as he's going through these, he finds 16 dynasties that fit his criteria of elite dynasty, and he says, you know what I want to find out?
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SPEAKER_01: I want to find out what's the common thread that ties all of these dynasties together.
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SPEAKER_01: Like what made them tick?
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SPEAKER_01: What made them work?
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SPEAKER_01: Because if you can figure out what makes the most successful sports franchises and teams ever, then maybe you can build it like that, you know, like intentionally.
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SPEAKER_01: You would think, you know, like the coach is a reasonable guess as to what would make one of these dynasties.
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SPEAKER_01: It's not the coach.
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SPEAKER_01: Some of them had different coaches through their dynasties.
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SPEAKER_01: You would think maybe like the amount of money that was poured into it, but if you're the fan of the Dallas Cowboys or the New York Mets, then you know money is not actually what uh buys it.
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SPEAKER_01: The Dodgers are testing this theory a lot right now.
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SPEAKER_01: It's not the money, though.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh, you would think maybe it could be the owner and the management, but that's not it either.
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SPEAKER_01: Your best guess, though, is gonna be that you have a goat on your team, right?
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SPEAKER_01: Like if you got a goat, you could run a dynasty.
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SPEAKER_01: But even that, it's not the star player that defines whether it's gonna be a dynasty or not.
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SPEAKER_01: Not every team had a goat in these 16 dynasties that he traced.
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SPEAKER_01: There was only one thing that was common through every single dynasty that he traced.
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SPEAKER_01: Do you want to know what it is?
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SPEAKER_01: I told you the title of the book, so if you're paying attention, you would already know.
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SPEAKER_01: Every one of these teams had an elite captain.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay?
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SPEAKER_01: And he defines what a captain is.
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SPEAKER_01: He's got seven characteristics.
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SPEAKER_01: And the summary statement I need you to know is that it wasn't the star.
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SPEAKER_01: It was not the star on any of these teams.
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SPEAKER_01: It was a guy or a girl, a man or a woman, who was willing to give everything they had behind the scenes, who was willing to set the pace with their aggressiveness, who was willing to call his or her teammates out on what they were doing and raise the bar for everyone else.
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SPEAKER_01: That's what was common in all of these dynasties.
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SPEAKER_01: And so, as we talk about faithfulness tonight, I want that to play a little bit in the background of your mind.
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SPEAKER_01: That's what I'm gonna tell you is what God teaches us.
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SPEAKER_01: But it's also what is just true about life.
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SPEAKER_01: Faithful leaders are successful leaders, they are the type of people that lead the 16 greatest dynasties of all time in athletics.
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SPEAKER_01: They might not be the shining star, the once-in-a-lifetime talent, but they're committed to what they're doing.
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SPEAKER_01: Here's three values or three elements that I want you to hear tonight about faithful leadership.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, one of them, the first one, is a faithful leader has godly character.
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SPEAKER_01: The second one is that a faithful leader has longevity.
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SPEAKER_01: And the third one, I'm not gonna tell you that, it's gonna distract you, okay?
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SPEAKER_01: So we'll just wait and we'll get to the third one when we get to the third one.
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SPEAKER_01: But first, godly character.
30:55
SPEAKER_01: Did you guys make it to Daniel yet?
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SPEAKER_01: You flip through all those pages?
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SPEAKER_01: All right, we're gonna be Daniel chapter one to start.
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SPEAKER_01: We're Daniel chapter one, and we're starting here in verse three, okay?
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SPEAKER_01: The king ordered Ashpenaz, that sounds like a fun guy to be around, right?
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SPEAKER_01: The king ordered Ashpenaz, his chief eunuch, maybe not that fun to be around, to bring some of the Israelites from the royal family and from the nobility.
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SPEAKER_01: So there's this uh kingdom Babylon, and they have come to Israel and they have conquered Israel, and now they are going to take some of their best and brightest back to Babylon.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, keep keep looking with me.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh look here in verse 4.
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SPEAKER_01: It says, From the royal family from the nobility, young men without any physical defect, good looking, suitable for instruction in all I mean, we got some like real Sigma energy going here, knowledgeable, perceptive, and cave.
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SPEAKER_01: I have an eighth grader of serving in the king's palace.
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SPEAKER_01: He was to teach them the Chaldean language and literature.
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SPEAKER_01: Do you see what's happening?
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SPEAKER_01: He's overtaken the king, uh, another kingdom, Israel, and now he's bringing their best and brightest, and he's going to assimilate them into the Babylonian culture.
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SPEAKER_01: You see that?
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SPEAKER_01: The wisdom, knowledge.
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SPEAKER_01: He's gonna teach them the language, the literature.
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SPEAKER_01: Babylon was like peak culture in that day.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh, I'm gonna say this word wrong, so correct you can correct me to your neighbor, but cuneiform was like a written thing that they came up with.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh, the hanging gardens, y'all probably learned about that in history.
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SPEAKER_01: That's Babylon.
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SPEAKER_01: They were polytheistic and had a whole bunch of gods, and they were like peak culture of the day.
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SPEAKER_01: They were cultured, if you will.
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SPEAKER_01: And this king, his name is we're gonna find out is Nebuchadnezzar, is trying to bring their best and brightest into this culture.
32:51
SPEAKER_01: You could think of this as discipleship if you just want to bring a Christian word into what was happening.
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SPEAKER_01: He's trying to disciple these men into a different culture.
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SPEAKER_01: Does that make sense?
33:02
SPEAKER_01: Keep going.
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SPEAKER_01: The king assigned them daily provisions from the royal food and from the wine that he drank.
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SPEAKER_01: They were to be trained for three years.
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SPEAKER_01: And at the end of that time, this is almost like a college education in Babylonian culture, and at the end of that time, they were to attend the king.
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SPEAKER_01: In verse 7, we even see that the Babylonians give these young men new names.
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SPEAKER_01: Like, we are so pulling you out of your culture that you don't even get to keep your name.
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SPEAKER_01: You might recognize some of the names that they're given Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
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SPEAKER_01: That's actually not their real names.
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SPEAKER_01: That was their Babylonian names.
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SPEAKER_01: Their real names were Rak, Shak, and Beni.
33:44
SPEAKER_01: No, I'm just kidding.
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SPEAKER_01: Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.
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SPEAKER_01: I think that's it.
33:51
SPEAKER_01: You don't even know their names.
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SPEAKER_01: We're gonna get to that.
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SPEAKER_01: Alright, verse 8.
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SPEAKER_01: Daniel determined that he would not defile himself with the king's food or with the wine he drank.
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SPEAKER_01: So God's laws about what they should eat and drink were being disobeyed if you do what this king's saying.
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SPEAKER_01: Make sense?
34:08
SPEAKER_01: People pull out of Israel, out of Jerusalem, and they're taken to this new culture, and this king's like, I'm gonna make you do stuff my way, and it goes against God's law.
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SPEAKER_01: They're leaving where it was easy to follow God, and now these young men have gone somewhere to where it is very costly to obey God.
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SPEAKER_01: So Daniel just didn't go along with it.
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SPEAKER_01: He didn't just say, Well, I'm in a new place, you know, I'm just gonna live it up.
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SPEAKER_01: Like maybe they know what they're doing.
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SPEAKER_01: No.
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SPEAKER_01: So Daniel asked permission from the chief eunuch not to defile himself.
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SPEAKER_01: He stepped out.
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SPEAKER_01: Verse 9, God had granted Daniel kindness and compassion from the chief eunuch.
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SPEAKER_01: Yet he said to Daniel, Look, Daniel, this could go real wrong.
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SPEAKER_01: I fear my Lord the king who assigned this stuff.
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SPEAKER_01: If he looks at you and sees your face is looking thinner than the other men, you're gonna endanger my life with the king.
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SPEAKER_01: But this guy, Daniel, talks him into a few days, and Daniel looks good, healthy, strong, so the guy lets him keep going.
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SPEAKER_01: Daniel coming out of where it was easy to follow God, standing somewhere now where it's difficult to follow God.
35:17
SPEAKER_01: Listen to this leadership is always countercultural, but you get to see it here.
35:21
SPEAKER_01: Daniel's not just gonna go along with what everyone else does, he's stepping out a line because he knows that God has asked him to.
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SPEAKER_01: God's law is more important than what this king has asked him to do.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh verse 18, skip down there.
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SPEAKER_01: At the end of the time the king had said to present them, the chief eunuch presented them to Nebuchadnezzar.
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SPEAKER_01: The king interviewed him, and among all of them, no one was found equal to Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.
35:49
SPEAKER_01: No one was found equal.
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SPEAKER_01: Now we know it's not just Daniel, but all four of these guys have been choosing to do it God's way.
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SPEAKER_01: And so they began to attend the king.
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SPEAKER_01: In every matter of wisdom and understanding, verse 20 says, that the king consulted them about.
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SPEAKER_01: He found them ten times better than all the magicians and mediums in his entire kingdom.
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SPEAKER_01: All right, look, the first thing is that a faithful leader has godly character.
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SPEAKER_01: Faithful leader has godly character.
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SPEAKER_01: That means you are the same person.
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SPEAKER_01: You follow Jesus, you're a disciple of Jesus no matter what room you walk in.
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SPEAKER_01: Can I say that one again for you?
36:31
SPEAKER_01: And we kind of lock in on that.
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SPEAKER_01: You are the same person no matter what room you walk into.
36:38
SPEAKER_01: This is what godly character is.
36:40
SPEAKER_01: Guys, you guys are in a tough season of life for this to be true about you, aren't you?
36:46
SPEAKER_01: You really started seeing this in high school, didn't you?
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SPEAKER_01: Like guys that you would hang out with, ladies that you would hang out with, and you're like, man, that person is not the same here as they are there.
36:57
SPEAKER_01: And you you kind of get to dip your toe in it, you know, like maybe I like I could fit in better here if I act like this.
37:04
SPEAKER_01: I can I can really get some love and affection if I act like this.
37:09
SPEAKER_01: I'm I'm welcomed in.
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SPEAKER_01: But once you guys step foot into college, on a campus, into a dorm, that goes from a level four to a level 40 in your life of being able to decide am I gonna be the same person in this room that I am in that room?
37:30
SPEAKER_01: Some of that divide is like home, because those people know me as that, and then school, these people know me as that, right?
37:39
SPEAKER_01: This is real, this is real life for you.
37:43
SPEAKER_01: Some of that divide is well, like I know I'm supposed to be like this with my Christian friends that I'm around, but like what if I could just hang out in Babylon for a little bit?
37:56
SPEAKER_01: You know what I'm saying?
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SPEAKER_01: Like, King's offering me some pretty good stuff.
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SPEAKER_01: Just maybe dip my toe into a little bit.
38:04
SPEAKER_01: I don't have to be exactly the same in all the rooms I'm in.
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SPEAKER_01: Like God knows.
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SPEAKER_01: Guys, if you want to be a faithful leader, if you want God to be able to pour through you into others, let me just shepherd you tonight.
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SPEAKER_01: Be the same person in every room that you walk into.
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SPEAKER_01: That's what we see here from Daniel.
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SPEAKER_01: He's the same man in Babylon that he was in Jerusalem.
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SPEAKER_01: He didn't allow his circumstances to change him.
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SPEAKER_01: Do you allow your circumstances to change you?
38:43
SPEAKER_01: Y'all uh y'all know like a tomato plant.
38:48
SPEAKER_01: Y'all ever seen one of those?
38:49
SPEAKER_01: Like you tried to be a gardener or I don't know.
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SPEAKER_01: Have you grown anything in your life?
38:53
SPEAKER_01: Okay, good.
38:54
SPEAKER_01: Thanks, Ben.
38:55
SPEAKER_01: My wife tried to do tomatoes for a while.
38:57
SPEAKER_01: We grew a lot of tomatoes.
38:58
SPEAKER_01: Turns out we just don't eat them.
38:59
SPEAKER_01: So like we were really good at growing them, pretty bad at eating them.
39:03
SPEAKER_01: Did you know there's two ways that you can get tomatoes on your plant?
39:09
SPEAKER_01: I know for a lot of years they only thought it was one way, but it turns out there's two.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay.
39:13
SPEAKER_01: One of them is you can like water it, you can feed it, whatever food the dirt needs, or something.
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SPEAKER_01: The sun will shine down on it, and then the plant grows fruit.
39:25
SPEAKER_01: If you call tomato a fruit, technically I'm right, and you know it.
39:30
SPEAKER_01: Do you know there's another way?
39:32
SPEAKER_01: You could go to the grocery store, and you could buy those little tiny tomatoes, and you could freaking zip tie them to the plant and then take your kids out to the back and be like, see guys, tomatoes are growing in our garden.
39:50
SPEAKER_01: Not that anybody in this room has ever done that.
39:54
SPEAKER_01: But if you zip tie a tomato to a plant, it will die.
40:07
SPEAKER_01: Okay?
40:09
SPEAKER_01: Okay, listen to me.
40:10
SPEAKER_01: Godly character.
40:12
SPEAKER_01: If you're sitting in this room and you think, you know what?
40:16
SPEAKER_01: Like a character, I've probably heard that before, like, that makes sense.
40:19
SPEAKER_01: I want to be a good person, and you walk out of this room and think, I'm gonna try really hard to be the same person in all the rooms I walk into, then your life is going to look like a zip tied tomato.
40:33
SPEAKER_01: Unless.
40:34
SPEAKER_01: Unless.
40:35
SPEAKER_01: This is important.
40:38
SPEAKER_01: Our actions flow from our heart.
40:41
SPEAKER_01: That's what scripture teaches.
40:43
SPEAKER_01: Out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
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SPEAKER_01: That's that's how we are as humans.
40:48
SPEAKER_01: So what you do comes from who you are.
40:51
SPEAKER_01: You know?
40:54
SPEAKER_01: The problem is the Bible tells us that we're all sinners.
40:58
SPEAKER_01: And the fruit that grows out of my heart.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, I could get it right every once in a while, but by and large, it's going to be selfish fruit.
41:09
SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be prideful fruit.
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SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be impatient fruit.
41:17
SPEAKER_01: So what are we supposed to do if how we act comes up from who we are, and who we are are sinners?
41:28
SPEAKER_01: I know it sounds too good to be true, but you need to be given a new inside.
41:34
SPEAKER_01: You need to be given a new heart.
41:36
SPEAKER_01: You need to become someone else.
41:38
SPEAKER_01: You need to be born again.
41:43
SPEAKER_01: That's the gift that God wants to give you and has given so many of you in this room that you are not able to say, I'm just going to have good, godly character.
41:54
SPEAKER_01: You have to believe, you have to have faith that Jesus died on the cross for your sins, rose from the dead, and out of that belief, God says, I will give you a new heart.
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SPEAKER_01: A heart that wants what I want, a heart that's a spiritual thing, not a physical thing, a heart that has eternal life beginning now and lasting forever.
42:15
SPEAKER_01: That is the only way you and I can have godly character that leads us to faithfulness is by being someone new.
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SPEAKER_01: God recreating us.
42:27
SPEAKER_01: You know?
42:30
SPEAKER_01: So what I don't want to do is like put a put a big weight on your shoulders, that you're walking out of here saying, dang, I don't think I can carry that on my back.
42:39
SPEAKER_01: Because it's it's not a thing that I, as a follower of Jesus Christ, carry as a weight, it's something that I beg God to grow inside of me.
42:50
SPEAKER_01: That I look to the gospel message, that even while I was a sinner, Christ died for me and it wells up.
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SPEAKER_01: Just like that tomato actually growing on the vine.
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SPEAKER_01: That's what godly character.
43:06
SPEAKER_01: It's actually uh the Bible gives us some helpful words here.
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SPEAKER_01: Fruit of the Spirit.
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SPEAKER_01: You know what one of the fruits of the Spirit is?
43:20
SPEAKER_01: We got patience.
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SPEAKER_01: We got love, we got joy, we got peace, we got patience, we got kindness, we got goodness.
43:29
SPEAKER_01: Faithfulness! Look at that! Oh man! I thought it wasn't planned at all.
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SPEAKER_01: Gentleness and self-control are the last two.
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SPEAKER_01: It's actually a fruit of the spirit that God grows up in us.
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SPEAKER_01: Faithfulness.
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SPEAKER_01: Godly character is one element of faithfulness in the way that we lead.
43:51
SPEAKER_01: Next one.
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SPEAKER_01: Longevity.
43:55
SPEAKER_01: Uh I'm not gonna pull us a passage here, but it's super interesting to me that in the book of Daniel, Daniel.
44:00
SPEAKER_01: Daniel serves at the behest of four different rulers.
44:03
SPEAKER_01: You got Nebuchadnezzar, good luck spelling that.
44:06
SPEAKER_01: You got Belshazzar, even harder, but that's Nebuchadnezzar's son.
44:10
SPEAKER_01: You got Darius, and you got Cyrus, so you can probably handle both of those.
44:14
SPEAKER_01: All four of those kings, Daniel serves under, and he has all kinds of trials.
44:18
SPEAKER_01: If you haven't read the book of Daniel, he's got like legit some of the coolest stories in all of Scripture.
44:23
SPEAKER_01: I don't know what the Holy Spirit was doing, but he was like, I'm gonna give Daniel all the cool challenges.
44:29
SPEAKER_01: Uh the lion's den and the lion's not eating him.
44:32
SPEAKER_01: Uh he's got like a dream.
44:35
SPEAKER_01: The king said, This is crazy.
44:37
SPEAKER_01: The king was like, I had a dream and I want to know what it means.
44:41
SPEAKER_01: And he tells all of his uh like magicians and I don't know else what you call them, uh wise men.
44:49
SPEAKER_01: He's like, I need to know what this dream means.
44:51
SPEAKER_01: And they're like, Okay, tell us the dream.
44:53
SPEAKER_01: And he's like, I don't think so.
44:56
SPEAKER_01: I just want you to tell me what it means.
44:58
SPEAKER_01: And they're like, Well, okay, that's uh let's talk about this a little bit.
45:03
SPEAKER_01: And he's like, No, actually, I don't want to talk about it.
45:06
SPEAKER_01: And I'm going to kill all of you if none of you can tell me what this dream means.
45:10
SPEAKER_01: It's in the Bible, like the book of Daniel.
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SPEAKER_01: You should read it.
45:14
SPEAKER_01: Did you know there's one wise man that went up to the king and told him what he dreamed, because the king didn't tell anybody, and told him what it meant.
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SPEAKER_01: You know what that guy's name was?
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SPEAKER_01: Daniel.
45:28
SPEAKER_01: This is another one where the king has this hand just show up in the room and start writing on the wall.
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SPEAKER_01: No language that anybody in this kingdom had ever heard of before.
45:35
SPEAKER_01: And remember, they're very cultured, they've taken over a lot of people.
45:38
SPEAKER_01: None of them knew this language.
45:39
SPEAKER_01: And then Daniel comes in, tells him what the writing on the wall means.
45:44
SPEAKER_01: Uh, we're about to talk a little bit about uh like uh throwing it into the fire.
45:50
SPEAKER_01: There's all kinds of cool stuff in Daniel.
45:52
SPEAKER_01: Y'all should really read it, okay?
45:53
SPEAKER_01: I'm not kidding, not messing around.
45:55
SPEAKER_01: But longevity, that's what we're really supposed to be talking about here.
45:57
SPEAKER_01: Longevity.
45:58
SPEAKER_01: Daniel served under four different kings, and a faithful leader says, I'm going to maintain who I am in no matter what room I go into, but I'm also going to maintain it over a period of time.
46:11
SPEAKER_01: I think one of the interesting things about saying someone is a faithful leader is you can't ever say that forward.
46:18
SPEAKER_01: You can only say it backward.
46:20
SPEAKER_01: You know?
46:22
SPEAKER_01: Like you and I both know, because we've seen it in the news, pastors that have had tragic falls.
46:29
SPEAKER_01: And you're like, you you just don't even know.
46:32
SPEAKER_01: It's the guys that die, those are the ones you're like, that was a faithful dude.
46:36
SPEAKER_01: He did it.
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SPEAKER_01: All the rest of us, I'm like, Lord, by your grace, by your grace, by your grace, by your grace.
46:43
SPEAKER_01: It's only looking back that we can see that there's a faithful leader.
46:46
SPEAKER_01: But I want to be the type of leader, and I hope you do too.
46:49
SPEAKER_01: Daniel was, where over a long period of time, Eugene Peterson calls discipleship long obedience in the same direction.
46:59
SPEAKER_01: It's kind of a slow march forward toward Christ-likeness.
47:07
SPEAKER_01: Uh have you ever talked to somebody that's married and uh they they would say, like, uh, I've remained faithful to my spouse, you know, that kind of language.
47:16
SPEAKER_01: You know who doesn't say that?
47:19
SPEAKER_01: People that were faithful for a little while, you know, like, oh man, I love my wife.
47:26
SPEAKER_01: She has been so faithful to me, except for those couple times.
47:30
SPEAKER_01: You know?
47:30
SPEAKER_01: Or like, oh, dude, for like two years, my wife was really faithful to me.
47:35
SPEAKER_01: She's just so faithful.
47:36
SPEAKER_01: You know, no, it's longevity, is what makes someone faithful, right?
47:41
SPEAKER_01: It's that committed decision day after day after day, but this is who I'm gonna be.
47:48
SPEAKER_01: Another thing you could think about in this realm is that leadership, period, but especially spiritually, like as we are walking together, it's an oven, not a microwave.
48:01
SPEAKER_01: Longevity is what it looks like to become like Jesus.
48:06
SPEAKER_01: The men and women that you think look most like Jesus have been in the oven, not the microwave.
48:14
SPEAKER_01: You know when you're working out and you're trying to, you know, swell up a little bit?
48:21
SPEAKER_01: It takes time.
48:24
SPEAKER_01: Over and over, you have to repeat what you're doing until you have gains, you stack days, you stack weeks, you stack months.
48:34
SPEAKER_01: Man, some of the older saints, especially here in our church family, I have so much respect for.
48:41
SPEAKER_01: I love learning underneath them.
48:44
SPEAKER_01: I love, I and I would recommend that to you.
48:46
SPEAKER_01: You see an old, well, okay, this is important for you to hear.
48:50
SPEAKER_01: Not every old person is wise, okay?
48:53
SPEAKER_01: Like, I know you want them to be, it's not true.
48:56
SPEAKER_01: Here at Storyline, though, I would tell you to take a dare because there are so many wise older men and women here that have perspective on longevity that I think you need.
49:08
SPEAKER_01: I'm only, what am I, 38?
49:10
SPEAKER_01: I'm 38.
49:11
SPEAKER_01: Like, I'm only like double you, okay?
49:13
SPEAKER_01: There's people that are triple you, like quadruple you here in our church family that they need to look you in the eyes and say, I cannot think of a better use of my 85 years than following Jesus.
49:25
SPEAKER_01: I had a phone call with a guy this week who's 85.
49:28
SPEAKER_01: He served in NAM and was, man, this guy had a lot of stories for me, okay?
49:32
SPEAKER_01: It was a 30-minute phone call and I said five words.
49:35
SPEAKER_01: But this guy loves the Lord, loves the Lord.
49:39
SPEAKER_01: He had a medical thing, I don't even know exactly how to term it.
49:43
SPEAKER_01: It wasn't, it wasn't, it was a type of cancer, and it was a miraculous healing that he was calling and just he had asked us to pray, and we had prayed, and he was like, Guess what?
49:53
SPEAKER_01: I can't believe this happened.
49:54
SPEAKER_01: It shouldn't have been gone in a couple days, but it's completely gone, that kind of thing.
49:59
SPEAKER_01: And as we were talking, he was just telling me some of his story of faithfully following Jesus for 85 years after 42 combat missions in Vietnam as a 20-something year old.
50:09
SPEAKER_01: You know, you're like, there's just so much goodness in longevity and following Jesus over a long period of time.
50:17
SPEAKER_01: If I could just give you an encouragement, I would say don't miss that.
50:20
SPEAKER_01: Like, don't sit around and say, you know what, I'll get to it one day.
50:24
SPEAKER_01: I hope that in my life, I hope, oh man, that I that God lets me get to that stage where I can say, hey, look, for 70 something years, I've been following Jesus, and let me tell you, my dad, he's a pastor, I know family business stuff.
50:41
SPEAKER_01: I don't love it either, but God told me to do it, and so I'm here.
50:44
SPEAKER_01: And I called him and I was like, hey, I'm about to talk to you know a couple hundred college students about uh longevity, faithfulness.
50:52
SPEAKER_01: He just had his 40th anniversary serving as a as a pastor.
50:56
SPEAKER_01: I was like, what do you got for him?
50:58
SPEAKER_01: And he said, Josh, the longer I'm in ministry, the more I realize it's not really about me.
51:07
SPEAKER_01: That you know, when you first, when you're young, you think I want to make a name for myself and he's 60 something, 62.
51:14
SPEAKER_01: He's like, in in the stage that I'm at, I really I have never cared less about if someone knows my name or not.
51:28
SPEAKER_01: That's something, right?
51:30
SPEAKER_01: All right, I want to pull you in to number three.
51:34
SPEAKER_01: Actually, let me tell you one thing, okay?
51:35
SPEAKER_01: Let me tell you one thing.
51:36
SPEAKER_01: Have y'all ever heard of Adnaram Judson?
51:39
SPEAKER_01: Okay, there's this guy.
51:41
SPEAKER_01: He was born in 1788, you know, new nation, just come abroad.
51:45
SPEAKER_01: He was in Massachusetts.
51:47
SPEAKER_01: Uh his dad was a minister, and he grew up and did not want anything to do with God.
51:53
SPEAKER_01: In fact, in high, in some kind of school, I don't even know if they had high school then, in his like secondary school, uh, there was a guy who talked him into deism, and so he became a deist.
52:01
SPEAKER_01: The guy's name was Jacob Eames.
52:03
SPEAKER_01: Jacob Eames was friends with Adnaram Judson, talked him into being a deist, and so he left the faith.
52:09
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
52:10
SPEAKER_01: Uh they uh are in uh like a hostel or a it's a hotel, but in uh in a house, and Adnahiram Judson is kind of sowing his wild oats, running around, and he hears someone kind of like sick in another room in this house, in this bed and breakfast idea.
52:30
SPEAKER_01: And it sounds like it's not good.
52:31
SPEAKER_01: Like this guy's on death's doorstep.
52:33
SPEAKER_01: And so Adnaram Judson starts thinking, oh, what actually will happen to me when I die?
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SPEAKER_01: Teenager turned from his faith, 17, what will we be in?
52:44
SPEAKER_01: Like 1804 at this point.
52:47
SPEAKER_01: And he starts to have like this come to Jesus moment in this uh bed and breakfast while he's hearing this guy.
52:54
SPEAKER_01: He kind of asks the owners of the of the inn, hey, what's going on?
52:58
SPEAKER_01: They're like, ah, he's he's separated off.
53:00
SPEAKER_01: You don't have to worry about it, but it things aren't looking good for him.
53:03
SPEAKER_01: He's very sick.
53:04
SPEAKER_01: Later on through that night, the next night, the guy actually passes away in the inn.
53:09
SPEAKER_01: It's a different world back then, right?
53:11
SPEAKER_01: Like you're in your hotel, you're like, yeah, the guy next door just died.
53:13
SPEAKER_01: That's what happened to this guy in the turn of the 19th century.
53:18
SPEAKER_01: He said, Whoa, like at least I'd love to know his name.
53:21
SPEAKER_01: And they said his name was Jacob Eames.
53:23
SPEAKER_01: The guy that had talked him into deism had died two rooms down from him, and he didn't know it.
53:32
SPEAKER_01: Not everything is gonna work out like that in your life, but sometimes God does something that just gets your attention, right?
53:38
SPEAKER_01: And you're like, Whoa, that how did that happen?
53:41
SPEAKER_01: This was the pivot point in Adnaram Judson's life where he thought, I'm giving everything I got to God.
53:46
SPEAKER_01: I cannot believe that that just happened.
53:48
SPEAKER_01: I want to be sure of where I'm going for all of eternity.
53:51
SPEAKER_01: Adnan Judson gets this thought that I not only want to receive this gospel, but I want to go take it to people who haven't heard it yet.
53:58
SPEAKER_01: So Judson uh has a lady friend that he likes, and he's like, I'd love for us to get married, and then we want to go to the east.
54:07
SPEAKER_01: India was his goal.
54:08
SPEAKER_01: I want to go take the gospel to India.
54:11
SPEAKER_01: As he is trying to talk this lady's dad into going overseas, this is what he says.
54:18
SPEAKER_01: I have now, uh, this would be my future father-in-law, to ask whether you can consent to part with your daughter early next spring and to see her no more in this world.
54:28
SPEAKER_01: How's that for a letter to a girlfriend's dad?
54:32
SPEAKER_01: Whether you can consent to her departure for a heathen land and her subjection to the hardships and sufferings of a missionary life, whether you can consent to her exposure to the dangers of the ocean, to the fatal influence of the southern climate of India, to every kind of want and distress, to degradation, insult, persecution, and perhaps a violent death seems to be going well in this letter so far.
54:55
SPEAKER_01: Can you consent to all this for the sake of him who left his heavenly home and died for her and for you?
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SPEAKER_01: Little guilt trip, I think, there, but I hear you, Ad Nairam.
55:03
SPEAKER_01: For the sake of perishing immortal souls, for the sake of Zion and the glory of God.
55:08
SPEAKER_01: Can you consent to all this in hope of soon meeting your daughter in the world of glory with a crown of righteousness brightened by the acclamations of praise which shall resound to her Savior from the saved of those that we have reached through her means from eternal woe and despair?
55:25
SPEAKER_01: Okay, landed on a little thick, right?
55:28
SPEAKER_01: I don't recommend writing a letter like that, but the dad said yes.
55:31
SPEAKER_01: They left and they went, and they made it to India and they got kicked out of India.
55:37
SPEAKER_01: They ended up in a place called Burma.
55:40
SPEAKER_01: Okay?
55:40
SPEAKER_01: Longevity, that's what we're talking about, right?
55:42
SPEAKER_01: Faithfulness.
55:44
SPEAKER_01: And Naram Judson did not know the language.
55:47
SPEAKER_01: He didn't know anyone that did know the language.
55:48
SPEAKER_01: So for three years, they spent 10 hours a day studying the language, trying to learn even how to communicate with the people that they were sharing the gospel with.
55:58
SPEAKER_01: They finally learned the language, and Judson says, My goal here is to interpret the entire Bible for the Burmese people.
56:04
SPEAKER_01: I want God's word to be given to them.
56:08
SPEAKER_01: In 1812 is when they arrived in Burma.
56:11
SPEAKER_01: Okay, get this.
56:13
SPEAKER_01: After not one, two, three, four, after six years of serving in Burma.
56:19
SPEAKER_01: Do you know what was six years ago?
56:21
SPEAKER_01: COVID.
56:22
SPEAKER_01: They started serving in COVID, and until this very day, they had one Christian convert.
56:30
SPEAKER_01: Six years of laboring in a place where they knew no one, were trying to learn the language, and one person had said yes to Jesus.
56:38
SPEAKER_01: You want to talk about faithfulness?
56:40
SPEAKER_01: You want to talk about longevity?
56:44
SPEAKER_01: After 12 years, Adnaram Judson was arrested because there was a war between Burma and England, and they thought he was English, though he wasn't, he was an American.
56:55
SPEAKER_01: And in that same year, he was released from prison, and his wife Anne passed away from an illness.
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SPEAKER_01: At that point, in 1824, there were 18 Christians.
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SPEAKER_01: Six years in, one believer.
57:13
SPEAKER_01: 12 years in, imprisonment, death of a wife, death of a child, and 18 believers.
57:21
SPEAKER_01: After 28 years in 1840, Judson finally finished his translation of the entire Bible into Burmese.
57:32
SPEAKER_01: Today, in 2023, there are three million Christians in Burma.
57:38
SPEAKER_01: That every one of them can trace their origins back to a man who said, I'm willing to give it all so that others might hear the gospel.
57:48
SPEAKER_01: To a uh a woman who said, I am willing to give it all, and Judson, I'm willing to lay down my life so that others might hear the gospel.
57:59
SPEAKER_01: But it didn't happen in a microwave, did it?
58:01
SPEAKER_01: It happened in an oven.
58:02
SPEAKER_01: It took a long time.
58:04
SPEAKER_01: Faithful leadership.
58:06
SPEAKER_01: All right, last thing.
58:07
SPEAKER_01: I gotta go.
58:09
SPEAKER_01: I hadn't told you this one yet because I don't even know that I really like it, but I think it's really important for you.
58:15
SPEAKER_01: The third element of faithful leadership is undeterred anonymity.
58:22
SPEAKER_01: Undeterred anonymity.
58:27
SPEAKER_01: In Daniel 3, Nebuchadnezzar wants to build a golden statue.
58:31
SPEAKER_01: You have to worship it, or you get thrown into a fiery furnace.
58:34
SPEAKER_01: And three guys say, We're not gonna bow down.
58:36
SPEAKER_01: Daniel got all the fanfare.
58:38
SPEAKER_01: He was third in the kingdom, but these other three guys that we heard of, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, they were kind of lowly.
58:43
SPEAKER_01: Daniel had to kind of talk them into getting a job with the king.
58:48
SPEAKER_01: But these three guys, they said in Daniel chapter three, listen, listen to the words that they said.
58:56
SPEAKER_01: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego replied to the king, Nebuchadnezzar, it doesn't matter if you throw us into the fire.
59:02
SPEAKER_01: We don't need to give you an answer.
59:04
SPEAKER_01: If the God we serve exists, then he can rescue us from the furnace of blazing fire, and he can rescue us from the power of you, the king.
59:12
SPEAKER_01: But even if he does not rescue us, we want you as king to know we will not serve your gods or worship the gold statue you set up.
59:22
SPEAKER_01: Daniel got the press, he got the position, he got the Bible book named after him.
59:26
SPEAKER_01: Okay, you don't even know Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego's real names.
59:33
SPEAKER_01: Undeterred anonymity.
59:35
SPEAKER_01: That did not stop these guys from saying God has called us to worship him and him alone.
59:41
SPEAKER_01: It doesn't matter if anyone knows our names or not.
59:46
SPEAKER_01: We are choosing to follow him.
59:48
SPEAKER_01: We are choosing to follow the one true God.
59:53
SPEAKER_01: I think there's a sense in which you and I want to be great and we should.
59:57
SPEAKER_01: There's another sense in which what Count Zinzendorf said at the turn of the 20th century is true in my heart, and I want it to be true in yours.
1:00:06
SPEAKER_01: That all we do here on earth is we preach the gospel, we die, and then we're forgotten.
1:00:13
SPEAKER_01: That's what I want my life to be.
1:00:15
SPEAKER_01: Undeterred anonymity.
1:00:16
SPEAKER_01: If no one in a hundred years knows who Josh Navy is, fine.
1:00:20
SPEAKER_01: That's great.
1:00:21
SPEAKER_01: All I want to do is be faithful to pass the gospel to the next one.
1:00:28
SPEAKER_01: To the next one in your dorm, to the next one on your campus, to the next one in your family.
1:00:35
SPEAKER_01: Hopefully, Lord willing, in the future.
1:00:38
SPEAKER_01: The next one in your home.
1:00:43
SPEAKER_01: Because this life isn't about us.
1:00:47
SPEAKER_01: Romans 12, 1 says, Therefore, in view of God's mercy, offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God.
1:00:58
SPEAKER_01: He's inviting you into an adventure that you can only dream of right now.
1:01:04
SPEAKER_01: And you can have two choices here.
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SPEAKER_01: You can live like this, or you can live like this.
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SPEAKER_01: You know what I'm saying?
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SPEAKER_01: I can hold, I can think I know what's best.
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SPEAKER_01: I can hold on to my plans, my future, or God, I trust you.
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SPEAKER_01: God, I will go wherever it is you tell me to go.
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SPEAKER_01: I will do whatever it is you tell me to do.
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SPEAKER_01: Whether that's leadership opportunities, yes, God, I'll do that.
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SPEAKER_01: Whether that's spiritually influencing the people around me, yes, God, I'll do that.
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SPEAKER_01: Whether that's starting a company and saying, I'm going to do this for the glory of God for as long as he lets me, then do that.
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SPEAKER_01: Maybe it's saying, God, I will give my life to full-time vocational ministry because the church needs the best leaders to lead his people to accomplish his mission.
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SPEAKER_01: Or maybe it's taking the gospel to people that have never heard it.
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SPEAKER_01: Like Adam Iron Manjutsen.
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SPEAKER_01: Guys, God is calling you to be a faithful leader.
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SPEAKER_01: One that has godly character, one that has longevity and says, I'm gonna keep putting one foot in front of the other.
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SPEAKER_01: And one that says, I'm committed to undeterred anonymity.
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SPEAKER_01: It's not about my name, it's about yours, God.
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SPEAKER_01: And my yes is on the table.
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SPEAKER_01: I'd love to pray for you guys, and then we're gonna keep worshiping.
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SPEAKER_01: God, I pray that there would be hearts in this room right now that would lay everything out.
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SPEAKER_01: That even like physical hands right now would go from clinched to released because they would say, Jesus, you laid your life down for me, and I will lay my life down for you.
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SPEAKER_01: Lord, I pray that in the way we worship we reflect that type of sacrifice, in the way that we live, no matter what room we walk into, in the way that we serve, in the way that we love, God make us people that love you with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength, people that lead faithfully.
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SPEAKER_01: I pray that every man and woman in this room would one day hear, well done, my good and faithful servant.
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SPEAKER_03: Amen.
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SPEAKER_03: Stand together, we're gonna sing.
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SPEAKER_05: Do I try?
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SPEAKER_05: My mind can come with it.
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SPEAKER_05: So hide to my lift for it.
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SPEAKER_05: I could take a million times about the touch.
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SPEAKER_05: How good is the love of God?
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SPEAKER_05: Holy fun.
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SPEAKER_02: Can we give it up for our worship team?
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SPEAKER_02: You guys can take a seat.
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SPEAKER_02: And one more time, can we give it up for Josh Navy?
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SPEAKER_02: Josh, thank you so much for tonight.
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SPEAKER_02: I I loved it.
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SPEAKER_02: And I think I don't know about you guys, this is kind of how I'm sitting right now.
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SPEAKER_02: Like, okay, faithfulness.
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SPEAKER_02: Yes, I want to be faithful.
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SPEAKER_02: But like it kind of feels like a heavy weight to carry.
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SPEAKER_02: Like, shoot, now I have to like really work hard to be faithful.
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SPEAKER_02: And I loved what you said.
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SPEAKER_02: I don't know what part of your first points.
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SPEAKER_02: It's it's not like a weight we put on when we decide to be faithful when we're trying to live a faithful life.
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SPEAKER_02: It's actually something that is grown inside of us by the Holy Spirit.
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SPEAKER_02: And what what's required is literally an exchanging of your heart, giving it to the Lord and letting him put a new heart inside of you, and then letting the spirit work.
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SPEAKER_02: And all you have to do is keep an open-handed posture and do the next right thing.
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SPEAKER_02: I love it.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, guys.
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SPEAKER_00: Hey, we have something coming up uh that's exciting in a few weeks.
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SPEAKER_00: On April 5th is this little thing that the church has been celebrating for 2,000 years called Easter.
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SPEAKER_00: So you should definitely be there.
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SPEAKER_00: Invite your friends, but specifically tonight, I want to invite you not just to Easter on April 5th, but actually the next two Sundays, April 12th and April 19th, because those, someone's already excited, they don't even know what I'm gonna say.
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SPEAKER_00: Come on! Uh those are baptism Sundays!
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unknown: Woo!
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SPEAKER_00: And guys, if Jesus, if you've experienced new life in Christ, maybe you experienced new life in Christ tonight, maybe sometime this semester, maybe last semester, and maybe 10 years ago, but you haven't declared that new life in Christ in the waters of baptism.
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SPEAKER_00: We want to invite you to follow Jesus in obedience through baptism.
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SPEAKER_00: And here's after a night like tonight, here's what I hear a lot is man, I don't want to get in front of people because I don't want to make it about me.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, let me just free you from that thinking.
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SPEAKER_00: One, Jesus tells you to.
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SPEAKER_00: Two, because it's about him, and three, because your church family wants to celebrate with you.
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SPEAKER_00: Again, maybe the faithful step just looks like having a conversation.
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SPEAKER_00: Tonight could be a great night to start the conversation about what it would look like to go into the waters of baptism, declaring that your old self has died, that you've been raised to walk in new life, empowered by the Spirit.
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SPEAKER_00: And so we want to invite you guys tonight to start the conversation about baptism.
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SPEAKER_00: Again, that's April 12th and 19th, the two Sundays after Easter.
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SPEAKER_02: We do not have salt company next Tuesday night, so please do not show up.
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SPEAKER_02: But we will see you back here in two weeks, March 31st.
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SPEAKER_02: We love you guys.
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SPEAKER_02: Have a great spring break.