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Culture’s Standards Versus Jesus’ Way Of Living | 1 Corinthians | Week 4 | Pastor Jamey · Life Community Church

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  Hello, this is Jamie Bridges, and thank you so much for joining us for this week's podcast.
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  All of our services are inspired and built straight from the Bible.
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  Let's get into this week's message recorded at Life Community Church.
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  That's the first time I preach with that intro.
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  Fuck.
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  It's a little uh intimidating.
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  You guys doing alright?
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  Listen, um, if if you approach an individual at church and tell them that they look better with a beard.
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  Not that I've had this experience today, but it would be similar to me going to a woman and saying, you look better with makeup.
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  I'm just throwing that out there.
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  Guys, can I have some help here?
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  Thank you.
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  Thank you, men.
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  Thank you, men.
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  Let's rally together.
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  Some of you are cowards.
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  I see you not clapping.
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  Because she rules you.
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  It might be the reason you don't have a beard.
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  I'm just kidding.
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  I just oh, yeah.
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  All day.
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  All day, every day.
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  Uh walked out yesterday like this, and the twins looked at me and was like, What did you do?
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  And I was like, Do we really need to talk about it?
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  This is what I no, you look so different.
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  Yeah, I know.
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  I get it.
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  It's fine.
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  Well, welcome to Life Community Church.
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  Happy summer.
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  Come on, Summer.
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  We're my summer people.
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  You love summer, yep.
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  You love Midwest summer.
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  Scott, chill.
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  Yeah, you love the humidity.
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  I love it.
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  I love it.
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  Hey, we're we're all summer long and for 15 years we've done this where we have spent the summer in a book in the Bible, and uh we're spending all summer long, all 16 weeks in the book of Corinthians.
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  And um I'll be honest with you, like this isn't my this isn't my favorite way to to preach.
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  Like I'm I'm more of a I don't know if you know this about me, but I'm more of like a like spontaneous ADD kind of guy.
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  Like I like, and I gotta hone in on 16 verses in chapter two.
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  You might as well put a leash on me.
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  So it's not my favorites, okay, but I understand the concept.
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  It's the reason we've done it for 15 years.
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  We want to be on the same page.
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  We know that you're traveling, we're traveling, everyone's traveling, and so for us to do that, we can do that through Bible reading plans and uh podcasts and all of those things.
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  And so we want to we wanna hone in together on what this looks like and what we're talking about all summer.
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  So today we're in chapter two, and uh, Paul, one of the things that I love about Paul, I've done deep dives into Paul's life, and uh Paul was obviously wrote a lot of the New Testament.
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  Paul was a guy who that last song that we just sang about, Jesus Changes Everything, was really uh some of the lyrics from that song was built out of this house, and it was after Paul's life, because Paul was a guy who literally believed he was changed from who he was to who he is now, and he believed Jesus changed him.
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  He believed he was a persecutor, he was a murderer, he was a religious zealot, and all of a sudden when Jesus came and interrupted his life, he was radically changed.
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  Like Jesus was number one in Paul's life, and so we see this throughout his writings, we see this throughout all the books that Paul wrote, we see this coming out so much that he can say to the Galatian church, I have been crucified with Christ.
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  It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.
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  He's saying everything that I do now with the rest of my life, it reflects who Jesus is.
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  That was opposite of what Paul used to be and who he used to be.
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  And so what Paul is saying up front is listen, this is who I am.
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  I'm not ashamed of it so much that he says, I'm unashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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  Everywhere Paul went, you knew he was compassionate, he was bold, but the Bible also tells us that Paul wasn't that good to look at.
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  It's an ugly dude.
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  Short, the Bible says, we relate.
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  Bow-legged, big nose, bald.
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  If you look at old statues of Paul, you'll see his writings, nice, glorious beard, nothing on top.
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  Right?
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  I'm relating to the short, some of you are relating in the other.
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  Right?
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  This is what we find out so much that in 2 Corinthians 10, Paul says, Some of you are saying that my letters are powerful, but in person I'm unimpressive.
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  Paul's saying that.
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  So much that what Pastor Sean did so beautifully last week is he said, like some of you, you love Apollos because he's he's nice in stature, he's well polished in his words, he's he's receivable, all these things.
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  You like him.
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  Some of you, you like the boldness of Peter, you like the confidence that Peter walks with.
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  When I come in, you're not impressed with me.
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  You're only impressed with my letters.
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  You're only impressed with what I'm sending you.
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  And so Paul instantly, from the very beginning, he lets us know, man, I'm the least of the apostles.
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  I know there's nothing special about me.
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  It's the reason he says, like, my power works best in weakness.
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  Paul understood who he was.
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  He's not trying to be something he's not.
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  And he's writing to Corinth, a wealthy community, a wealthy city.
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  To us, and you might have heard this on the podcast, to us, it's a lot like LA.
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  It's a lot like New York.
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  These high profile, high wealth, high gas prices, high all these things are going on.
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  And this is this is what Corinth is like.
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  They're very sophisticated, very uh a lot of theology, a lot of intelligence, a lot of wisdom.
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  A lot of these things are happening.
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  So when Paul's talking, he's saying up front, guys, listen, I'm not trying to woo you with my words.
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  In fact, he says this in verse 1.
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  He said, When I first came to you, dear brothers and sisters, sisters, I I don't I didn't use lofty and impressive words to tell you God's secret plan.
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  For I decided that while I was with you, I would forget everything except Jesus Christ, the one who was crucified.
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  Paul says, Listen, I didn't come to you trying to impress you with my now understand, Paul was raised and mentored by one of the top educators.
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  So Paul was well educated.
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  He said, Listen, in my well being well educated, I didn't come to you trying to impress you with big words and all of these things.
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  I came to you and I only said one thing Jesus Christ and him crucified.
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  That's it.
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  I left everything else out, just that.
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  Jesus Christ.
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  Paul understood that transformed lives come from the gospel, not personality, not performance, not persuasion.
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  He says, This comes from the good news of Jesus, and so that's all I'm gonna give you.
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  And some people are like, ah, you're not very impressive, Paul.
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  Short guy?
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  You're not very impressive.
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  You just talk about the same thing.
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  And he's he's coming from this place.
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  The church grows strongest when Jesus is the center.
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  That's when the church grows strongest.
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  He then continues in verse 3.
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  He says, I came to you in weakness, timid and trembling, and my message and my preaching were very plain.
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  Rather than using clever and persuasive speeches, you see the theme?
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  I relied only on the power of the Holy Spirit.
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  I did this so you would trust not in human wisdom, but in the power of God.
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  Paul admits he comes in weakness, he comes in fear, he comes trembling.
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  Yet the Holy Spirit moved powerfully.
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  Here's what we know about Paul's life.
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  When God showed up, you couldn't say that's what Paul did.
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  Paul was so gifted, Paul did that.
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  They said, despite Paul, look what the Lord has done.
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  Despite who Paul was, despite his education, look what God has done through him.
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  So much of our experiences, so much of what happens to us in life, even when Paul says, Listen, the peace that God gives goes beyond our human understanding.
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  What does that mean?
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  That means that there's a peace that God gives that even though your circumstance does not change, it goes against all human wisdom.
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  That's the kind of peace that God gives.
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  This is what Paul's coming from.
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  He's saying, guys, listen, there is something bigger than myself.
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  There's something bigger happening here.
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  There's something bigger than my wisdom.
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  And he's wanting everyone to see so that your faith would not rest on human wisdom, but that your faith would rest on the power of God.
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  Rely on the power of God, not on your thinking.
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  We a lot of times try to figure things out.
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  Let me try.
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  If I can figure, listen, if you can figure out the mysteries of life, you might be God.
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  Paul's saying, I can't figure this out.
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  Apart from the Holy Spirit, I'm nothing.
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  This is the place every single one of us has to get.
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  Because the moment we make this about something that we can do, why do we need the Lord?
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  This is what Paul is addressing.
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  Verse 6.
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  He said, Yet when I was among mature believers, I do speak with words of wisdom, but not the kind of wisdom that belongs to this world or to the rulers of this world who are soon forgotten.
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  No, the wisdom we speak of is the mystery of God, his plan that was previously before the world began.
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  But the rulers of this world have not understood it.
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  If they had, they would not have crucified our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  He said, Listen, Paul explains, there is a deeper wisdom from God that the world cannot understand.
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  Human rulers, leaders failed to recognize that Jesus was who he said he was.
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  And because of that, they were spiritually blind.
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  The world often rejects what Jesus values.
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  This is the heartbeat of what Paul's trying to get to the Corinthian church.
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  He says, listen, the world has a standard, heaven has a standard.
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  You and I have to understand and discern the difference.
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  His point is, apart from the Spirit of God, you cannot discern that.
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  You cannot discern what heaven wants when you're spiritually blind.
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  You cannot discern what Jesus values when you put your wisdom into it.
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  If you're an overthinker in this world, this is gonna mess you up today.
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  Because you're overthinking something that takes faith and the power of God to transform.
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  Your thinking ain't gonna fix it.
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  Your wisdom's not gonna fix it.
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  You have to submit and surrender to.
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  Because here's what culture values.
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  Culture values image, Jesus values character.
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  Culture is so consumed by how we look, how successful are we?
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  Do you build your brand?
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  Do you protect your image?
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  Being impressive.
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  Jesus says it's all about holiness, it's all about humility, it's all about being faithful, it's all about being authentic.
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  It's the reason when Samuel came and he's looking, he says, God doesn't judge people judge by the outward appearance.
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  God judges by what is going on inside here.
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  God judges character.
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  That's why when you see who God has used, even looking in this passage, he looked at all of the brothers of David.
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  He's impressive, he's impressive, he's impressed.
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  What did the Spirit of God say?
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  The Spirit of God said to Samuel, Do you got another son somewhere?
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  Because I know on the outward, these guys look impressive.
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  The Bible called them handsome, strong.
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  These guys look impressive, but the spirit of God is saying, There's another boy somewhere.
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  He's like, Yeah, yeah, the little kid who's out playing with the sheep.
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  We got him.
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  Bring him here.
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  And the Bible says, when he saw him, God said, This is the king that I have chosen.
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  That's not culture, you guys.
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  Culture said, Let's look at that guy, he's impressive.
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  Jesus says, I got something else going on inside this heart.
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  This is what he's talking about.
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  Culture values power.
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  Jesus values servanthood.
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  Jesus values surrender.
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  Jesus values serving people, lowering yourself, loving sacrificially.
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  He says, greatness comes through humility, not arrogance, not winning at all cost, not being first, not making others serve you.
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  That's the reason Jesus said, Whoever wants to be a leader.
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  He didn't leave the question there.
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  Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be the servant.
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  He's saying, Listen up front, Jesus flipped the description, the definition of greatness.
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  He flipped it upside down.
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  Because culture values self, Jesus values surrender.
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  Follow your heart.
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  Culture says, do what makes you happy.
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  You know how dangerous doing what makes you happy is?
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  I mean, have you ever just wanted to punch someone?
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  That would make me happy.
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  Have you ever have you ever wanted to?
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  I mean, there's so many things that we can say, like, do what makes you happy, follow your heart.
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  The Bible says your heart is the most deceptive.
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  It's deceiving.
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  Live your truth.
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  Put yourself first.
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  And Jesus says, deny yourself.
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  Follow me.
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  Submit to God.
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  Live by truth, not feelings.
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  So when Jesus says, if any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way.
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  This is denial.
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  If my heart is telling me I need to do something, I need to check my heart and go, is this really what I should be doing?
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  Because there's consequences to those things.
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  I know we don't talk about that a lot.
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  But some of us are living in those consequences.
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  We know consequences.
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  We know right and wrong.
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  And culture values these temporary things whereas Jesus is trying to see eternally.
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  Big picture.
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  Not just this moment.
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  Big picture.
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  What do we value?
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  Popularity?
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  Status?
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  Souls.
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  Being faithful.
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  Being generous.
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  Eternity.
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  That's the reason Jesus said, don't store up treasures on earth.
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  Store up your treasures in heaven.
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  What is he saying?
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  He's saying, guys, think about what we're doing as followers of Jesus.
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  Think about what that means for eternity, not just here in this moment.
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  The danger for the Corinthian believers is not just culture outside the church.
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  The danger for the Corinthian believers, which is the same for us, is culture getting inside the church.
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  What Paul is addressing with the Corinthian church, what he's warning the Corinthian church is don't think like the world.
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  Don't value what the world values.
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  Don't measure success by the way culture measures it.
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  Instead, love me.
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  Serve people.
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  Live by the Spirit.
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  Think with the mind of Christ.
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  The Holy Spirit, Bible says, as we're about to read, reveal reveals spiritual truth.
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  Verse 9 says, That is what the scripture means when they say, No eye is seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.
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  You know what he's saying to us right now?
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  He's saying, You can't even fathom the way God wants to bless and use you if you would just.
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  I prayed with Christina in between services at the tent as she's about to embark this week and go to Thailand for two months.
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  What is that?
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  That's someone going, God, I'm willing to go.
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  He says, Listen, because you're willing to go, because you're willing to do those things, you can't even fathom.
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  Your ears, your eyes, you, your heart can't even fathom what God has in store for you.
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  There's so much more, he's saying, than what than what you're experiencing right now.
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  But it was up to us that God revealed these things by his spirit.
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  For his spirit searches out everything and shows us God's deep secrets.
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  No one can know a person's thoughts except that person's own spirit.
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  And no one can know God's thoughts except God's own spirit.
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  And we have received God's spirit, not the world's spirit, so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given to us.
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  Paul says, God has prepared incredible things for us.
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  But these truths are revealed through the Holy Spirit.
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  And the man says, Sir, could you pick me up and take me to the pool?
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  Because every time I want to go there, someone beats me there.
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  And Jesus responds with a question that I think is very peculiar.
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  And the question is, do you want to be healed?
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  That sounds like an obvious question.
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  Do you want to be healed?
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  Is this something you want?
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  And he's like, hello.
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  38 years.
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  This is all I've ever known.
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  Can you pick me up and take me over there?
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  And the Bible says, Jesus at that moment says, just get up and walk, take your mat and go.
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  And he was healed on the spot.
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  But my thought in this question, which is for us today, do you want to be changed?
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  Do you want the mind of Christ?
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  Do you want to experience all that God has for you?
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  And I think that's an important question.
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  You would think the obvious answer to that question is why are you even asking it?
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  It's an obvious yes.
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  Same way as do you want to be healed?
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  It should be an obvious yes.
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  What Jesus is teaching in that moment that I think he's teaching us is I don't think a lot of us want to be healed.
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  Had it been so, he wouldn't have asked the question.
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  He would have just said, take up your mat and walk home.
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  But he asked him the question because with the answer comes accountability and responsibility.
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  And I think a lot of us say, God, I want to be changed.
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  I want to be different.
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  I want all of these things.
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  Jesus is saying, okay, if you are, you can no longer use them as an excuse.
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  What he's saying to the man is, if you're healed, you can no longer beg here.
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  You can no longer live the way you used to live.
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  We understand that because we see that.
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  But spiritually, Jesus is saying, Do you want more?
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  And I would go, Well, of course I want more.
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  And he's going, but you're going to be changed.
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  And if you want more, you can no longer do this.
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  You can no longer do that.
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  And I think so many times our answer is instantly yes.
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  But when we ponder it, we actually don't want to give this and that up.
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  We like this too much.
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  This is too unknown.
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  This I do know.
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  This I can hold on to.
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  And we understand it, you guys.
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  We get it.
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  This is a spiritual principle, but we get it.
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  We understand that if I want my life to be changed, I got to do things differently.
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  If I want to lose 15 pounds and I think I'm going to live the way I currently am and I'm going to be able to lose that 50 pounds, I'm ridiculous.
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  It's ridiculous to think that.
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  We understand that my appetite has to change.
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  The things that I put in my body has to change.
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  How I move my body has to change.
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  Or I'm not going to see any results.
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  That's where we get the definition of insanity.
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  You're doing the same thing over and over and over, and you're expecting different results.
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  We get that because we've all tried it.
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  Every single one of us in this room, it's the reason when you're signing up for a new plan, they ask you, have you done this plan or another plan before?
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  Because they know this is like attempt number 10 to lose weight.
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  Hello?
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  You need to bring someone alongside you.
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  Because here's what I know.
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  When we've done healthy things together, that's where I've seen transformation.
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  But the moment I say, hey, babe, listen, I'm only eating meat and I come home and she made lasagna, I'm now tempted to go, oh, I want your lasagna, but I'm not eating that right now.
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  But when we're doing the same thing, now I'm not tempted.
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  Want to come home?
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  What is that?
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  That's accountability.
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  This is what Jesus is asking.
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  If you want it so bad, you're going to bring someone alongside you that while you're getting that fountain solar from Moto, they're going to smack it out of your hands.
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  Like you need that person where you're like I won't do it.
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  I really want to do it.
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  You can't eat that.
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  That's gonna help me.
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  Nobody, I'm just waiting on the Lord to tell them so that they can come to me.
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  Well, the Bible says if you want friends, be friendly.
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  I just kind of stick to myself, I don't know why nobody likes you.
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  I can tell you why.
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  You're not very nice.
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  Your friend says something completely different.
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  It does not say, Come talk to me, it says get away.
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  Why are people getting away?
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  That's what you're saying, you know what I mean?
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  IBF is real.
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  When the guy showed up and walked out, someone needed to come alongside him and say, Hey, you're no longer the person.
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  You're no longer the victim.
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  You're no longer the person that used to be.
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  You need to live differently now.
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  He needed that.
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  So do we.
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  This is what Paul is addressing.
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  He's saying, guys, listen, for us to have the mind of Christ, we have to think differently.
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  It's the reason he ends this whole chapter, the last four verses.
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  He says, When we tell you these things, we do not use words that come from human wisdom instead we speak words given to us by the Spirit.
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  Using the Spirit's words to explain spiritual truths.
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  But people who aren't spiritual can't receive these truths from God's Spirit.
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  It all sounds like foolish to them.
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  It all sounds foolish to them.
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  And they can't understand it, for only those who are spiritual can understand what the Spirit means.
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  Those who are spiritual can evaluate all things, but they themselves cannot be evaluated by others.
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  Who knows enough to teach him?
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  But we understand these things because we have the mind of Christ.
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  Do we have the mind of Christ?
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  Are we relying on the spirit?
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  I encourage you to get around people who are hungry for Jesus.
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  And we're having a conversation.
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  And this is the conversation.
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  And while on the plane, I don't know how you are on the plane.
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  And then sitting next to a guy, we start conversing.
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  And the conversation goes something like, I gave my life to Jesus, but then I walked away because of shame.
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  All this is coming out.
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  And in this moment, he asked Hayes what his favorite verse was.
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  And Hayes said, Philippians chapter, I think, two, and verse eight, quotes it to him.
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  And then he says, Why is that your favorite verse?
• 26:39
  And Hayes says, Well, it's not my favorite verse.
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  When you ask me what my favorite verse was, I asked God to give you the verse that you needed, not my favorite verse.
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  And while they're flying, this man, first and foremost, comes back to Jesus after leaving him.
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  Secondly, is challenged by a 19-year-old kid, sorry, 19-year-old young adult.
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  A 40-year-old man is challenged by his words because someone was sensitive to the Holy Spirit to share a verse when you could have just put in headphones and done your own thing.
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  And I think this is my point in saying this.
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  And I didn't say this in first service.
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  My point in saying this is so many times we tune out the spirit and we try to do things on our own, and on our own we fail to the point where we have to understand I need to tune into the spirit.
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  That there are people that we come in contact every day that the Spirit of God is speaking to you about on their behalf.
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  Because the Bible says God is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked.
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  And if God is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked, he's going to use people who are attentive to his spirit to reach the ungrateful and the wicked.
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  The question isn't, is God speaking?
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  The question is, are we listening?
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  Am I in tune?
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  Is the static too much?
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  Am I in tune?
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  Because here's what it looks like when I have the mind of Christ.
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  I value what Jesus values.
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  And Jesus doesn't value anything more than people.
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  Here's how I know.
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  Am I is the mind of Christ an idea?
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  Is the mind of Christ a good concept?
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  Is it a goal?
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  Is it an aim?
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  Or do I have the mind of Christ?
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  Here's how I know Am I valuing the people in my life like I should?
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  Am I treating my wife, my kids, my peers?
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  Am I treating them like they should?
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  Because Jesus did that.
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  He gave us the greatest example of being around 12 best friends.
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  He had the greatest group.
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  And in the moment where Jesus says, How I value them, how I treat them, is the example for everyone.
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  And in the moment of betrayal, in the moment of the most difficult time in their group relationship, one of them betrays him.
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  And in this moment, Jesus could have taught us to unfriend him, to send him away, to do, to, to talk nasty about him.
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  He could have done all those things.
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  And in the moment, Jesus says to us, This is how you treat people who betray you.
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  You wash their feet.
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  You grab a towel and you wash their feet.
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  And I know your offended heart, your hurt heart, your heart that says you don't understand what they did to me doesn't understand that.
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  I don't need you to see that with your natural eyes, your offended eyes, your do what makes you happy eyes.
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  I need you to see it with the mind of Christ.
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  Because the mind of Christ says, except for Christ, you too are that far gone.
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  Don't judge people because they sin differently than you do.
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  He's saying, unless you're willing to put on the mind of Christ, you'll never see what spiritual things have to do with one another.
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  And in this moment, Jesus says, Go and do likewise.
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  He's saying, not wash the feet of people that agree with you and are kind to you and are easy to mentor.
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  He said, Wash the feet of Judas.
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  And it's not what culture's gonna tell you to do.
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  In fact, you'll grab some friends and you'll say, Well, these all these friends tell me I need to I need to set boundaries, I need to do all these things.
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  Alright, cool.
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  Here's how did Jesus set boundaries with you?
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  I'm just throwing that out there.
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  Or did he welcome you in?
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  And I'm not telling you not to be smart, I'm not telling you you don't set boundaries.
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  I'm just telling you, we've excused ourselves away from the mind of Christ to make sense culturally.
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  And what Paul is telling the Corinthian church is you guys have brought culture into the church.
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  That's not biblical.
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  It's not biblical, it's not what Jesus taught us.
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  It's not the mind of Christ, it's the mind of whoever you think it should be.
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  Let's call it what it is.
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  It's the mind of the devil.
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  Does this honor God the most?
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  Is the question.
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  Does this honor God?
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  And listen, I know who's walking away from here.
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  I know who's walking away from here really mad.
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  The person in this room that refuses to heal from a broken heart.
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  And I don't say that to you in condemnation, I don't say that to you to shame you.
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  I say it in you're gonna always make excuses the rest of your life until your heart heals.
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  Because hurt people, hurt people.
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  And you're gonna hurt people the rest of your life until you deal with that broken heart that you have.
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  That only happens when you put the mind of Christ on.
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  You can't do it otherwise.
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  Because in my own, in my own ability, I'm gonna fail people.
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  In my own ability, I'm not gonna see people as lost.
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  In my own ability, I'm gonna see them as competition.
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  Do you know?
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  Oh my god, kid, I would be a bajillionaire if I had a dollar for every time someone in their insecurity over the last 30 years of me doing what I'm doing right now walked up to me and said, You better be careful.
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  So-and-so speaks better than you.
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  Oh, you better be careful, so-and-so is gonna come get your job.
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  And I say, Hey, little person, not walking in the mind of Christ, why are you making this a competition?
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  Can can Pastor Sean, can Pastor Mike, can Michael Brusickey can they not come up here without you making it about something bigger than it was?
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  But I go way back when churches would bring in guys, and here's how they would interview.
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  We don't care about your character.
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  Can you get up and preach us a sermon?
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  And we're gonna evaluate you afterwards.
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  And then you want to know why they stole money, why they cheated on our spouse?
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  Because you didn't care about character, you cared about being appeased, you cared about who was gonna fill seats, you cared about what people had to say that were nice and comfortable.
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  Build this church, and then all of a sudden you realize this isn't the mind of Christ, this is culture coming into the church.
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  This is what Paul's addressing to the Corinthian church.
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  He says, You made it something that's not Jesus while calling it Jesus, and Jesus is going, That's not me.
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  I'm grabbing a towel, I'm not a knife, not a spiritual gun where you're murdering people with your words, you're murdering people with your words, you're a gossip and a slander.
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  That's what you are, and you're slandering people, and then you're doing it in the name of Jesus, and Jesus going, That's not me.
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  I could have talked about Judas, I could have showed you that way, but I grabbed the towel and I washed his feet anyway.
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  There's nothing more humbling than washing someone else's feet.
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  Why?
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  Because they're nasty, nasty, we have socks.
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  They didn't, I don't think, anyway.
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  If it was, they would have been like nasty socks.
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  I don't know.
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  They washed dirty, stinky feet.
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  I can't imagine anything more humbling.
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  This is the example Jesus gave because he saw people differently, you guys.
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  He saw them differently.
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  This is the hour as the church.
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  This is the urgency of what Paul's saying.
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  I said, This is the hour of the church where we need to be the church, we need to show them something different.
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  They're not gonna believe what you believe until you show them something different.
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  I am not who I was because of Jesus' love.
• 34:54
  Paul's saying, you know why I'm different?
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  Because I met him, because I encountered him.
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  People don't care what you know about Jesus until you show them Jesus.
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  Show them Jesus, do good, love them, forgive them, extend grace to them, stop not talking to them.
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  You speak, I mean, Paul addresses this later on.
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  You guys, you're so concerned about the gifts and who's got this gift, and who's and Paul goes, Listen, I speak in tongues more than all y'all.
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  I love that Paul said that.
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  He's like, You guys are fighting over these things.
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  You speak in tongues and you're nasty to your waiter.
• 35:32
  You speak in tongues, you prophesy, you have all these spiritual gifts, but when you're out in public, nobody wants to be around you because of how hateful or Paul's going, listen, you're a clanging symbol.
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  You're a clanging symbol if you do all this stuff without love.
• 35:48
  And I think Paul's like, I'm so tired of this.
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  Policy up, you're great, amazing.
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  But I'm not coming with lofty words, I'm coming with the truth, and this is the truth.
• 35:59
  Jesus changed my life.
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  This is what Paul had.
• 36:02
  Paul goes, I don't I don't have height, I don't have stature, I don't have hair, I don't have, I don't have all these things, I don't have, I don't have all these, but here's what I do have.
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  Gee, I once was lost, now I'm found.
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  Here's what I do have.
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  I love people, and I demonstrate like that's all I got.
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  If you want to make fun of it, you want to you want to call me weak?
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  He said so much he says, yeah.
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  In my weakness, he gives me strength.
• 36:29
  You know what Paul said?
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  He said, I'm the least of all the apostles, man.
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  I'm not the best, but here's what I do know I'm ashamed of the gospel, because it transformed my life, which always comes back to this, you guys.
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  At the end of the day, and all you got is your story.
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  Nobody can take that from you.
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  Nobody, nobody can take that from you.
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  All you have is your story.
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  The invitation of what Paul's saying is you want to put on the mind of Christ, put on the mind of Christ.
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  Here's how we're gonna live.
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  Here's how it's gonna be different.
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  And it's an invitation, it's an invitation to be different, not for your name's sake, but for his.
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  For his.
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  Amen.
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  Wow, what a summer we're gonna have, huh?
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  Will you pray with me right now?
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  God, apart from you, we're nothing.
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  I didn't save myself, I can't.
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  I am who I am because of you, Jesus.
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  I can stand here in your grace, I can be the husband, father, grandfather.
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  I can be who I am because of Jesus.
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  God, may we never forget that.
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  May we never forget what you've done.
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  God, I pray that you would help us see the bigger picture, not this moment, not the temporary things, God, eternal things, the things that matter.
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  God, we need you.
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  We acknowledge you right now.
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  Not who I was because of your love for us.
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  In that while we were still sinners, Christ died.
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  God, I'm forever changed because of what you've done.
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  My family is forever changed because of what you've done.
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  Help us to see it.
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  In the mighty name of Jesus.