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Practical Ways to Engage with the Bible | with Desiree Danielle | EP83 · Jess Ask

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  Speaker 1: All of them, you hear me. I am excited, like
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  Speaker 1: like it's just so like in this season, in the
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  Speaker 1: season of what may seem like toughness, hardness, the pressing,
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  Speaker 1: the crushing, Like God literally this month has literally just
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  Speaker 1: We have definitely been journeying, and the law has broken
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  Speaker 1: us all the way down all the and I didn't know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I was so upset about having the sit
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  Speaker 1: I'm about to flip it. Okay, if y'all know, y'all know, Listen,
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  Speaker 1: We are doing the Community Highlight, and this week I'm
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  Speaker 1: unapologetically celebrating somebody that's not just a community member, somebody
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  Speaker 1: that is near and dear to my heart. This woman
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  Speaker 1: is a woman of God. She's a minister, she is
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  Speaker 1: a prophet, she is a teacher. And listen, she is
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  Speaker 1: one of my best friends. Okay, my best friends, my sisters.
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  Speaker 1: I am shouting out none other than z Brianka Hearty,
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, listen, this girl has. When I tell
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  Speaker 1: And not just because I got many friends and I
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  Speaker 1: love all y'all. By the way, I love all my friends,
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  Speaker 1: but this one in particular. When I'm doing something, she's
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  Speaker 1: gonna find a means to try to be there. She's
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  Speaker 1: gonna try to support, she's gonna try to do anything.
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  Speaker 1: And Baby, when I started, I didn't even know I
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  Speaker 1: was doing just as she was. Baby, let me tell
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  Speaker 1: you something, Brie, you been there, and I want to
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  Speaker 1: celebrate you, and I want to thank you not just
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  Speaker 1: for feeling obligated to support, but genuinely supporting. Man like
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  Speaker 1: you watch you comment, you're sharing, we're having discussions outside.
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  Speaker 1: I just enjoy our friendship, but I enjoy you being
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  Speaker 1: teaching teaching Like so, if you have questions about things
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  Speaker 1: in the spirit, which kind of goes into what we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be talking about today, if you have questions, I
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  Speaker 1: Hardy that's b R S b R I A N
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  Speaker 1: C A dot H A R D y riunca. I
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  Speaker 1: speak life over you. I thank you, thank God for
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  Speaker 1: your life. I thank God that He is elevating you
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  Speaker 1: in this season spiritually, emotionally, physically. Everything that you didn't
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  Speaker 1: even ask for. God is about to overwhelm you, overwhelm
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  Speaker 1: you with the practicalities of of what you've asked for,
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  Speaker 1: my God. And so we celebrate hearty and y'all you're like,
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  Speaker 1: I get on, how I get on? I pick based
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  Speaker 1: upon coming, sharing, like and subscribing all that stuff. I
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  Speaker 1: want to celebrate y'all because y'all make this word. God
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  Speaker 1: would not allow us to be here if it's not
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  Speaker 1: for y'all. So the way when you show up, I
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  Speaker 1: want to say, I see you for sure. There's a
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  Speaker 1: way probably gonna have all the DJ situation going on.
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  Speaker 1: But all right, so today we're talking about y'all. Know,
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  Speaker 1: I try not to be like, I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: struggle with topics like this does a ray because for one,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, is this I know this is God's platform,
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  Speaker 1: But then I know the way he made me is
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  Speaker 1: like I show God in unique ways and I'm not
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  Speaker 1: trying to like put like shove things down folks throt
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  Speaker 1: like that's I'm really not trying to do that. However,
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  Speaker 1: it's on my heart to talk about practical ways to
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  Speaker 1: use the word. I think you have to free yourself
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  Speaker 1: from that that comes from past experiences, right, Yeah, because
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  Speaker 1: there have been probably experiences that you've had that you
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  Speaker 1: felt like it was like.
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  Speaker 3: Boom boom boom boo boom.
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  Speaker 1: Right, But like you said, God knows who you are, right,
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  Speaker 1: and he knows how he designs you and who who
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  Speaker 1: he has assigned to your voice, right, And so what
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  Speaker 1: that looks like is you just trusting, Like, if this
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  Speaker 1: is on my heart, then I'm going to your Your
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  Speaker 1: responsibility is not to for them to receive it, yeah, right.
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  Speaker 1: Your responsibility is just to give it in a way
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  Speaker 1: that it's i'm gonna say palatable, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: give it, give it authentically, and just release it and
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  Speaker 1: trust that who it's for they'll grab it. Yeah, in
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  Speaker 1: this season now, somebody may hear it today, and they
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  Speaker 1: may come back and hear it, you know, a year
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  Speaker 1: from now, and they hear it differently because they're in
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  Speaker 1: a different season. You know what I'm saying, So just
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  Speaker 1: be obedion. We talking about the Bible today, y'all. Jasica,
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  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry, y'all. Does a rate I'm just telling y'all,
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  Speaker 1: does a rate is.
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  Speaker 3: On a high right now.
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  Speaker 1: So y'all know how being big and her to be
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  Speaker 1: on this camera and she is free, like she's so free,
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  Speaker 1: like she giving advice and everything, she's talking a little more.
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  Speaker 1: I ain't mad, I ain't mad.
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  Speaker 3: Listen.
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  Speaker 1: So practically, I think the opportunity when we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: the Word, when we're talking about Christianity and building ourselves
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  Speaker 1: in the most holy faith, right when we when we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about those opportunities, we have the opportunity as teachers
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  Speaker 1: and disciples of the Word to make things practical. And
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  Speaker 1: one of the things that people say and I've accepted,
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  Speaker 1: I know that I have the the gift of evangelism. Right.
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  Speaker 1: That's a big part of this podcast. Right.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not doing the podcast just to do the podcast. Baby.
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  Speaker 3: Let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 1: It takes too much work to just be out here
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  Speaker 1: just saying, oh, I'm doing the podcast. No, I feel
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  Speaker 1: like at some point, like you gotta be called this
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  Speaker 1: dedicated to it for a reason why. My why is
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  Speaker 1: because it's building up the kingdom of the Lord. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but that's what evangelism is. And for a long time ago,
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  Speaker 1: when I did if y'all studied, study my journey, I
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  Speaker 1: had naturally devoted, right, and naturally devoted. At first it
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  Speaker 1: was just a blog, then went from a blog just
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  Speaker 1: a blog to being basically a ministry. I had an
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  Speaker 1: e magazine coming out, and I have a desire to
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  Speaker 1: still do that, but God allows us to do things
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  Speaker 1: in seasons for a reason. I think that eventually a
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  Speaker 1: magazine will come back out of my belly, but in
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  Speaker 1: that season, that's what I was doing. Yeah. So so
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  Speaker 1: with that being said, when you're trying to find out
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  Speaker 1: your mission and find out your while whatever, one of
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  Speaker 1: the things that kept coming up was I had a
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  Speaker 1: unique way of evangelism, right, And even thinking about that
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  Speaker 1: right now, I'm like, okay, God, you want me to
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  Speaker 1: focus on this sector of the quote unquote five fold
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  Speaker 1: or whatever, and I'm I don't know what it looked like,
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  Speaker 1: right because I wasn't learning that. I really wasn't learning
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  Speaker 1: what the firefold was as I'm still learning the depths
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  Speaker 1: of the fivefold.
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  Speaker 3: And so.
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  Speaker 1: One of my desires was like, I don't I don't
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  Speaker 1: really want to be the person that like shoves scripture
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  Speaker 1: down throats Like I don't, I don't want to do that,
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  Speaker 1: and and and what I mean by that, So people
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  Speaker 1: can be very clear, I have no problem with the scripture.
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  Speaker 1: Like put it came back on me real quick. I
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  Speaker 1: have no problem with the scriptures. I do my diligence
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  Speaker 1: and my best to live by the scriptures, have a
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  Speaker 1: life that that that that that.
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  Speaker 3: Lives in harmony with the scriptures.
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  Speaker 1: Right. But what I'm saying is we have some people
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  Speaker 1: in the in the Christian community or that call themselves
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  Speaker 1: Christians that don't know how to properly feed the scripture
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  Speaker 1: or present the word of God. And so I was
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  Speaker 1: I made a decision that I was like, God, I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to be that person. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to be the person that is just very distasteful with
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  Speaker 1: something that is meant for our good. And so that's
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  Speaker 1: the reason why I struggle with with having certain conversations
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  Speaker 1: because I know that this is not necessarily with this podcast.
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  Speaker 1: It's about we talk about testimonies and stuff like that,
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  Speaker 1: but wherever God wants us to go. I think y'all
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  Speaker 1: end up having a question of how does she get here?
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  Speaker 1: How does she da da da da? This is part
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  Speaker 1: of my life. This is how I want to teach
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  Speaker 1: y'all how I make the word practical. And I even
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  Speaker 1: want deserated upon it, because maybe when Desiree read the word,
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  Speaker 1: she'll get stuck on the scripture for like two months,
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  Speaker 1: get stuck on the scripture too much. But she gonna
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  Speaker 1: eat all that one scripture. She gonna eat off that
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  Speaker 1: one scripture. So justin, how did you even make the
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  Speaker 1: decision to like to get here? So the other day, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: can you say get here as in like this topic,
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  Speaker 1: this topic, this topic, make it, make it plain for
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  Speaker 1: the people. So y'all know, I'm a part of the
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  Speaker 1: Morning meetup. Shout out to David Shan's I'm part of
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  Speaker 1: the morning meetup.
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  Speaker 3: And we're all a new.
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  Speaker 1: Thing that he has us doing is the first ten,
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  Speaker 1: maybe five minutes of the of the meetup, we write
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  Speaker 1: out our to do list for the day.
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  Speaker 3: Right, And so when he was challenging.
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  Speaker 1: Us to do these things, he was like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: don't give me, don't give me anything. You know that's
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  Speaker 1: already on your calendar. That's no the spaces, the gap
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  Speaker 1: fillers that you need to go ahead and get this.
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  Speaker 1: It's only gonna take like ten to twenty minutes that
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  Speaker 1: you've been putting off for two months.
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  Speaker 3: What we need to write that now?
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  Speaker 1: Right? And so we've been we've been doing that. And
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  Speaker 1: I said when he when he showed up and brought
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  Speaker 1: that level of transparency with us, because he was just
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  Speaker 1: sharing us some things and I'm trying to find the
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  Speaker 1: message that I sent him. He was just sharing with
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  Speaker 1: us some things that had been on his hard about
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  Speaker 1: his development and him you know, being better about managing
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  Speaker 1: his time and being more productive. I love, for one.
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  Speaker 1: I love leaders that can just you know, be transparent
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  Speaker 1: and just say, hey, I'm struggling with the same thing
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  Speaker 1: y'all struggling with. It's just on a different level, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like I'm not properly delegating. That
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  Speaker 1: was one thing that came up for him, like I'm
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  Speaker 1: not properly delegating, Like I got people to delegate too,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm still not doing it, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Like so I think I think it was so beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: So I was in my prayer time and well, in
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  Speaker 1: my prayer time, my reading time, and I was reading Luke.
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  Speaker 1: I've had been reading Luke, and y'all listen to this.
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  Speaker 1: So Luke twenty one, twenty first chapter, the thirty fourth
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  Speaker 1: through the thirty fifth first it says, in this Christian
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  Speaker 1: Standard Bible, can you give us that that that that
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  Speaker 1: chapter in that verse again? Okay, it's Luke, the twenty
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  Speaker 1: first chapter, chapter the thirty fourth through the thirty fifth verse.
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  Speaker 1: Let me know when you're read eh ready read It says,
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  Speaker 1: be on your guard so that your minds are not
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  Speaker 1: dull from carousing drunkenness and worries of life, or the
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  Speaker 1: day will come on you unexpectedly like a trap. For
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  Speaker 1: it will come on all who live on the face
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  Speaker 1: of the whole earth.
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  Speaker 3: And the Lord kept.
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  Speaker 1: Having me said, thirty four to thirty five, thirty four
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  Speaker 1: and thirty five?
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  Speaker 3: Did I not read the whole thing?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, call me out now, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So, as I'm reading this scripture in my private time,
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  Speaker 1: you guys, I feel like the Lord won't let me
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  Speaker 1: leave a place if he wants me to really get it.
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  Speaker 1: This is how it felt about the scripture. And so
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  Speaker 1: I kept rereading it, and he kept bringing me back
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  Speaker 1: to the part where it says be on your guard right.
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  Speaker 1: And so the question is, okay, God, how do I
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  Speaker 1: be on my guard right? It's you know, we have
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  Speaker 1: scriptures that say don't guard your heart, don't guard this.
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  Speaker 1: The work guard is like, okay, use it losen. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: but you want me to be on guard, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So I got questions how do I do that practically?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how to do that? And he said,
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  Speaker 1: an example is what you learn in MMU, the morning
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  Speaker 1: meet up.
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  Speaker 3: That's what EMMU stand for.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I say that, but the morning meetup
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  Speaker 1: you learn you need to write your to do list.
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  Speaker 1: The way you don't allow your mind to wonder or
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  Speaker 1: become drunk with all the other things that are not
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  Speaker 1: going to benefit you. It's not the intoxicated with the
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  Speaker 1: negativities and all this other stuff. Is practically, you write
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  Speaker 1: down what you need to do. And I said, God,
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  Speaker 1: that's about the most simple way you can put something.
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  Speaker 1: So we think think that we got to be on defence,
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  Speaker 1: mold about something that God says, no, just write the list.
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  Speaker 1: So when you when when you have those moments, you
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  Speaker 1: can go back to what you said you was gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: And it also marries the idea of write it down,
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  Speaker 1: writing a vision and make it plain. What is my
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  Speaker 1: vision for me today? How do I make Dave calls
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  Speaker 1: it getting I can't even I'm not even gonna try
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  Speaker 1: to miss up his word. Never mind forget I was
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  Speaker 1: about to say it. But basically the idea of it
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  Speaker 1: is what's gonna push your push your business forward? Right,
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  Speaker 1: this is an entrepreneur neural group. What is gonna push
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  Speaker 1: your business forward? The things that you keep putting off?
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  Speaker 1: Write those things down, get them done so your your
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  Speaker 1: business can go to the next level. And I think
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  Speaker 1: that when we think about scriptures like this, we have
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to be better stewards of the word by
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  Speaker 1: making it practical or how do I make it practical?
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  Speaker 1: The first thing, let's go down this list, right. The
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  Speaker 1: first thing is know the season that matches the version
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  Speaker 1: of the word that you need to read. Right, I've
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  Speaker 1: been through multiple versions. I've been through of course, when
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  Speaker 1: you introduced King James version as a child, children don't
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  Speaker 1: want to read that. And my daddy would talk about
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  Speaker 1: DESI rad Daddy would always talk about, oh well, you
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  Speaker 1: like soap operas?
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  Speaker 3: Don't you.
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  Speaker 1: I said, yes, Daddy, Well the bibble is a big
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  Speaker 1: soap soap opera. What she ain't lied about that? That
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  Speaker 1: will fact because you get older and you started reading
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  Speaker 1: some stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, just read David's Store. You get a whole off that.
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  Speaker 1: But he was trying to attract me to something. But
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't make the connection because watch this the language language.
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't get with the language.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes we're not able to make it practical or
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  Speaker 1: digested for ourselves because we have not dated versions. Bru. No,
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  Speaker 1: you're so right. I just began to read the Passion
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  Speaker 1: translation because I'm kind of I'm going through the I'm
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  Speaker 1: in Matthew right now, but I'm also reading through the
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  Speaker 1: through the Gospels, and the Passion is only the New
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  Speaker 1: Testament proverbs and psalms. Okay, but like you said, it's
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  Speaker 1: I'm in a I know I'm in a different season
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  Speaker 1: than I needed. I needed to be a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more clearer and so that I can understand where I am.
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  Speaker 1: And even just reading the Lord's Prayer the other day,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: I think I posted in my stories, but I had
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  Speaker 1: never read it read like that. And when I read
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  Speaker 1: that translation of the Lord's the Lord's myself, but I
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: should not the Lord's Prayer. I had never read it
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: like that, and when I read it, I was like,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: it was almost like I got a whole nother revelation.
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  Speaker 3: You want to read it?
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Actually I was gonna read what you just read.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the Passion and it says guard your heart right.
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  Speaker 1: So this is Luke twenty one, thirty four through thirty
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  Speaker 1: five in the past translation, be careful that you never
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  Speaker 1: allow your hearts to grow cold. Be careful that you
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  Speaker 1: are not caught off guard, or your hearts will be
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  Speaker 1: weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the worries of this life,
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  Speaker 1: and that day will come upon you suddenly like a trap.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let me come and find you drunk or living
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  Speaker 1: carelessly like everyone else, for that day will come as
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  Speaker 1: a shocking surprise to all. So as we talk about practical, like,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: sometimes I do get stuck because I'd be like, Lord,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: what that means? Yeah, like what does word mean? So
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: practically like, if you do whatever translation that you are reading,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: and there's something that a word that you don't understand,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: it's okay to go to Google. It's okay to go
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: to Google. And say, what is the meaning of this word?
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Depending on where it is in the Bible. If it's
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: in the Old Testament or the New Testament, you can
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: go and look up the Greek version of it if
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: it's in the New Testament, or you're gonna look up
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: the Hebrew. Yeah, if it's in the in the Old Testament,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: to help you get understanding on what the word is
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  Speaker 1: saying in that season for you. Yeah, that's that's that's
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: so powerful and so good. And I even like that version.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: I like, but I'm gonna call you out when you talking.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: You gotta put them sorry, the camera on myself. Okay,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: hold on, hey, y'all, I'm still learning. We still do this.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: You immediately put that camera on me. Listen what I'm
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: working on it. Okay, now you just pull anyway. I'm
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: working on it. So hey, as we as were obedient
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: to the word of God, God has been answering and
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: this is just another step of obedience. Because if I'm
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: one hundred percent honest, can be honest with y'all. I
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: don't like being right here, and that's okay only because
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: this is not where I'm used to being. I'm used
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: to being in the background. So that's more comfortable. But
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: you know, sometimes God you do some different things. So
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: here we all, you know, y'all just bear with me,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: just gonna keep me on point and things live. Y'all
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: gonna get the live correction. We're just gonna journey along
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: that you just back back to the back to the
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  Speaker 1: world of God practicality, because she tried it, she really tried.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: But I'm glad that you brought that up. So different versions.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: It's saying the same thing, right, But sometimes you get
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: when we talk about meditating on the word day and
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: night right, feasting on the words some of the some
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: of the scriptures say, you can get so much out
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: of it. Because even with that version, I heard something
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: something else too. You get what I'm saying, Like being
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: read the first first Scripture twenty four says, be careful
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: that you never allow your hearts to grow cold. That part,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: be careful that you don't allow your hearts to grow cold.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: What happens now now the second part to how I
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: make scripture practical? I asked questions, Yeah, so now, based
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  Speaker 1: upon what she said, this is so good. Based upon
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: what she says, well, God, how do how am I
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: able to make my heart cold. And the next question
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: is what happens when my heart goes cold physically? Like
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: if you think about it now, naturally, in my mind
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: before I even google, if my heart going cold, it
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: means you did, I'm dying, dying. If it's going cold,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: that means I'm dying. So how do I live? So now,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: the questions that I'm asking is allowing God to circulate
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: answers through one scripture, right, And so when we're looking
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: at the scripture, we're not just looking at it to
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: be like, Okay, this one I'm supposed to do. This
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: so legalistic and that's why I don't deal with certain
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: certain groups of people. Let's just let's just keep it
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: like that. I ain't gonna lie to you. I love y'all,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: but y'all get on my nerves. Legalistic people that will
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: just look at the scripture and say, Okay, this is
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: what he said, and this is what he meant, because
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: this is what they say. It's so many interpretations. I'm looking.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: I was watching I've been watching Chosen right, baby. If
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: you haven't watched Chosen Well, I just started three right,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: and I love the depiction of where it It literally
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: talks about the lives of the disciples, right, and we
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: think about the disciples as the high high priests, high people.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: They're like, oh my God, they were able to work
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: walk with God, but they don't. It gives you such like, bro,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm doing. The Jesus is frustrating
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: me right now because he's doing what he want to do.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: They out to try to kill his man, and we're
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: trying to protect him and he we have way eating
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: and you know, you got down Thomas. They don't like
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Matthew because like it made it. It's making it so practical, right,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: And I've really been enjoyed, ain't that? And so what
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: what I did did learn from there or I'm learning
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: from watching the Chosen, is that the Gospels really bring
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: a different interpretation of Jesus based on their their experiences.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: And so while you get so much detail from Matthew
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: is because one he was a calculated man, Like he's
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: a very calculated man. Jesus knew that, and he knew
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: when to pull him. He said, my people are gonna
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: need these details. Cool almost I just I just almost shot, like,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: my people are gonna need these details.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: So I need Matthew to see this, Oh I need.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: I need the grunt or the the what am I
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: trying to say? The nastiness right of of Peter in
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: the letters? So I'm gona let him. I'm just gonna
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: let him focus on just condemn it. I'm just just
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: cutting oats. You know what I'm saying. Just let me,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: just let me just go. Let's say him loose on
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: that he knew who he was dealing with, so he
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: allowed them to experience different parts of him so that
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: they could be translated in the way that needed to
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: be translated. And so it's the same way with reading
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: and a digest excuse me, a digesting the word. So
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: when we go into it, we have to go into
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: it with an open mind and be open to the
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  Speaker 1: thoughts that we're still gonna have questions in the scripture.
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  Speaker 1: But that's where Holy Spirit come on, come on. To
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: make it practical, you need the third thing, Holy Spirit. Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: You can't just go read and just be reading just
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: to read. You have to say, you know, a holy spirit,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: land with land, a plane with where you want me
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: where you want me. Case in point. So as the
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: scripture said, don't allow, be careful that you never will
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: allow your hearts to grow cold. So you may be
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: like your heart grow cold like because you because you
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: may be naturally thinking about like the heart itself, like
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: the really the heart like pumps pumping, like how does
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: the heart grow cold?
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Right, So I'm like, hm hm, the Holy Spirit. I
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: go to Google, like you said, you gotta you gotta
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: make sure you leaning on the Holy Spirit. Yeah, it's
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: some stuff out there, stuff out there, some stuff. So
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: I typed in, how does your heart go cold?
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  Speaker 3: Okay?
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: And there's a couple of different you know, platforms and
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: things that came up, and my spirit landed on this article,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: this piece of this this piece of this article. It
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: says this is real time. This is real time. Is
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: real time that she was talking. I was like, let
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: me go to Google. It says what causes a cold heart? Okay,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: this is a more it's more spiritual. But sometimes we're
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: thinking like natural, right, what's causing what causes a cold heart?
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: So the first thing it says, it's chronic stress. Right,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: it says, oh ho oh oh, y'all getting this in
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: real time because she didn't even know the scirits side. Girl,
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  Speaker 1: you you telling me that that's what that sayst chronic stress. Okay,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: it says living under constant pressure, whether from work, personal responsibilities,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: or financial stress, can lead to emotional burnout over time.
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  Speaker 1: This can cause a person to emotionally shut down as
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: a coping mechanism. So you don't shut down.
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  Speaker 3: So you're not on guard, does ray?
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: So be careful that you are not caught off guard,
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  Speaker 1: come on, or your hearts will be weighed down with carrousing,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: drunkenness and the worries of this life, which is what
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: causes the heart to be cold. And if we look
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: if we look up drunkenness, can you look up? Look
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: that up real quick? If we look up drunkenness, the
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: first thing I think about. And we're using this scripture
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: as an example, so this ain't the only scripture. You
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: can do this to it, like this is a live
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: type of Bible study like flow or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: We didn't prepare for this at all.
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  Speaker 1: So when you look at it and you start looking
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  Speaker 1: at key words, right, I wish I wish yall could
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: see how I write out when I hit key key words,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: I'll circle it underlined and then make it like, oh
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: this connects to this, Like it looked like a word
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: mouth or something like that. But when you look at
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: the key words, when you think about like drunkenness, don't
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: take don't take it for granted that you know what
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: the word means. Right. That's why I'm having her look
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: it up because I think Corrison and drunkeness are like
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: similar and in definition. But but when you think about drunkeness, like, okay,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: what's another word for drunkness?
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: Okay? Intoxicated?
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Okay, to be full of right, So intoxication means I'm
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: full of something right, So I can be intoxicated with
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit. Oh you better come on, this is
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: what I just look what. That's what I landed on.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: Come on, give me, give me some.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Where we're at. I'm gonna come right here. So I
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: land I typed in. When you typed down, what is drunkness?
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: I landed on. What is the difference between intoxication and drunkenness?
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Tell me our alcohol. Intoxication can be defined as follows
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: a state a state in which alcohol is present in
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: an organism. Drunkenness can be defined as follows a behavior
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  Speaker 1: which occurs in people who have been who have consumed,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: or believed that they have consumed, or want others to
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: believe that they have consumed alcohol. So read the first
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: one again. The intoxication. It's a state in which alcohol
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: is present. So it's literally intoxication. I've drinken, I've drinken alcohol,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: whatever contents, that is right. Drunkenness is a behavior which
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: occurs when people who have consumed or believed that they
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: have consumed or want others to believe that they have
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: consumed alcohol. So drunkenness is the response to intoxication of
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: the alcohol. So the intoxication part still has a of
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: to it, right, So there's a response, thank you, to
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: what you what you depend on to consume? To what
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: am I trying to say, not consume? There is a response,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: look at y'all. Look, but they're gonna be like, why
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: you can't get your thoughts together?
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: There is a response.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: It's basically what you're what you digest, right, and so
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: what am I digest? So if I have to be
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: on guard, if I have to be in the mindful
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: even going back to what the version I said, right,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: it said something about no, okay, yeah, it does say that,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: thank you Holy Spirit. It says be on be on
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  Speaker 1: your guard so that your minds are not dulled so
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: that your minds are not dull. So what's dulling our minds? Right?
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: And so now when we ask those proper questions, we
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: can put ourselves in those those those practical moments of saying, okay, God,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: you said, don't do this.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: What causes these things?
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Practically? How can I defend those things? And you we
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: we we bypassed small things like a to do list,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: a to do list, and that's all. I was like, God,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: why should I be doing this? Because your your mind
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: won't wonder, your mind won't be dull, so you can
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: be on guard so you won't be drunk with the
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: worries of life. This is what the words say, y'all.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: This is what the words say. It says, it says,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: and the worries of life or that they will come
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: to come on you.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: It will come on you.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Unexpectedly like a trap. So basically, if I don't be
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: on guard, I'm trapped. I set myself up for yourself
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: up to get stolen, to get kidnapped by the enemy.
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: And then we'd be like, oh with the enemy, no, no,
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: no no, no.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Baby, You you went and became his became his bait
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: easily because you decided not to do what to do? This?
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Like that's how practical God wants to make the word
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: to us. I just saw it like as we're talking, like, uh,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: you know how they a hunter in the in the
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: in the forest and they set up, let's say, a
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: bear trap or they set up a little trap for
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: like little rabbits or whatever.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: Right, so it maybe like a.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Little basket kind of thing where you need to catch them.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: And they've lined the the uh, the path with something
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: that's appealing or appetizing, right, so it may be carrots,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: it's for kicks and giggles. Maybe it's a little trail
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: of carrots, right that they're like, oh, look at the carrots,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: not thinking like why would these carrots be Like why
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: would these random carrots be on this path? You know
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like why would these random carrots be
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: on this path? And it's like if you were consumed,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: or if you are already in a place where you
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: know you should have been, that wouldn't have that wouldn't
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: even been a distraction for you to lead down that past,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. If you if you're following
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: checking off the things on this like oh, I got
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: this to do. You look over here and be like, oh, man,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: ain't got time for that. I got to get to
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: this list. You know what I'm saying. Versus, if you
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: don't have anything that the structure of the list, if
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: you don't whatever that thing is right, if you're not
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: focused on what it is God's calling you do, it's
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: easy to get distracted and lead yourself down this little
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: random carrot trap and get trapped now right here. And
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: it's because we followed the wrong path, hold the wrong path.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: And I think that we make it more we make
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: it more difficult for ourselves because we don't know.
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: We think, we think that.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Being in the third Heaven all the time is what
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: is conducive for lifestyles. But if I can't make the
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: word practical, how am I disciple? Even as you talked
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: about inviting the Holy Spirit in like we've we've we've
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: gone through read these read these verses. We've gone to
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Google to googled up a couple of words, the practical
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: thing in that is holy Spirit. How does this applied
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: to me? Right? Like? How? What?
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: What?
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: In my life? Are there any distraction so good?
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: Like?
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Are there any distractions that's keeping me? You know? From
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: from being obedient? Is there anything that what worries am
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: I taking on? What weights am I taking on? That's
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: not meant for me that I need to get back
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: to you. That's that's the practical thing, is like asking
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: the questions and and and and God has really been
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: working with me here lately about asking and talking and
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: speaking like literally, as we're talking like this to one another,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: that's literally the conversation that you have in your quiet
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: space with God. And it's not anything like I won't
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: say spooky or anything like that. It's literally we reading
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: the word and it's and it's good to read the
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: word out loud, you know, so you're hearing the word
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: as you're speaking it. But also it's like, hey, Lord,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: how does a heart grow cold? Like? What does that
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: even look like? Like it's almost communicating with the word,
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: communicating with the word. You know what I'm saying, how
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: does this apply to me? And as you're sitting there,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: you know, you may give yourself a moment and I'm
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: sure nine times out ten, something's gonna pop in your brain.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna dropping your heart. Adult, somebody, something is
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: gonna drop in your spirit dealing with this thing if
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: you're asking the right if you really won't the transformation, yea,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: the word should transform us, right, And so at first,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: like I can admit to you guys like I was
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: just reading the word just to consume it. Right. Sometimes
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: you're in those spaces where okay, I'm just consuming the
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: word so that way when I need to regurgitate it. Cool.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: But when you're intentionally walking down they say, if you
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: don't believe that you can live a kingdom lifestyle, right,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: I beg to differ. Like I was one that was
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: just like, you know, it's too hard, Like it's too
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: hard to be trying to be like Jesus. Yep, it's
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: too hard to try to like try to figure this
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: whole God thing out and live it. They people just
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: make it too hard for me. And now I'm in
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: a space where I'm like, no, I need to be
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: intentional about asking the right questions when I'm studying. I
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: need to be intentional about saying, God, this don't make
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: sense to me. I need you to make it plan.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: I need you to be intentional about certain things in
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: certain aspects of my life to where I can I
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: can deliver this because I've I've settled in and practiced
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  Speaker 1: it right. I was watching CJ CJ Coach CJ and
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  Speaker 1: on their podcast. I can't even think of it right now,
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  Speaker 1: but he was talking about on a clip he was
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  Speaker 1: saying that the reason why he said the He said,
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  Speaker 1: I take the Word basically as my my lifestyle book.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: Like people will read the Word just be like, oh, okay,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna die just he said. No, I read
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  Speaker 1: the Word and say, oh, this how's supposed to do this? Right?
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: This is my manual, this is my guy.
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  Speaker 1: And I think the opportunity people people just regard the
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Bible as like, oh my God, it's this holy word
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: that only Christians uh to view and read. And it's like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: being I was reading the reading Luke like I said,
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  Speaker 1: and I get to the part where the crucifision happened
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  Speaker 1: and he pop up on folks. He pop up on
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  Speaker 1: folks as he did resurrected. That would scam me too.
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  Speaker 1: I got question I still got questions about it, like God,
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  Speaker 1: why Jesus, why are you popping up on people? Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: folks that withiness you died, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: I get the questions about that, right, But if we
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  Speaker 1: if we were to, because before Jesus right, the chosen
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  Speaker 1: to show you that there were scriptures, right that they
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: believed in the scriptures of Moses, they believed in David,
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  Speaker 1: they believed all these things.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you for giving me the language. Flip.
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  Speaker 3: They believed in the Torah. So let's take that out.
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  Speaker 1: Which is only the first the first five books of
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  Speaker 1: the Bible, the Bible first five only. So they believe
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  Speaker 1: in this, and now you add a resurrection to it.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's where folks. Folks get lost and and
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  Speaker 1: say say, oh, I don't believe in the Bible. No,
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  Speaker 1: you believe in the Bible because you live a good
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  Speaker 1: lifestyle and you live in a lifestyle that the Bible
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  Speaker 1: speaks about.
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  Speaker 3: Let's let's talk about that.
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  Speaker 1: You live the way the Word tells us to live.
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  Speaker 1: You just don't believe that Jesuss out here showing holes
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  Speaker 1: in his hands after this man that he died. You
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  Speaker 1: don't believe in the resurrection. You believe that he possibly
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  Speaker 1: died and whatever happened or whatever he was a prophet.
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  Speaker 1: You don't believe all the resurrection stuff. T that. Don't
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  Speaker 1: believe that me and you disagree with the word but
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: that's the whole thing. I would have to bring the
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  Speaker 1: Great Geno God to help me out with that type
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: of conversation, because that's another time for another day.
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  Speaker 3: That's not my area expertise.
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  Speaker 1: However, we think about it, if we were to take
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  Speaker 1: that out, and not saying that I'm trying to take
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  Speaker 1: it out, but were to take it out, you would
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  Speaker 1: be reading the Word too, and you would be living
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: by the Word because the Word provided it. First, we
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: live by these self proclaim like help books and stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing's wrong with that.
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  Speaker 1: But if you really look at some of the things
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: that the thing people for saying they originate, they get
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  Speaker 1: it out.
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  Speaker 3: The biblical pert of God. It's a biblical.
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  Speaker 1: Principle, principle, and the principle gonna work if you work
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  Speaker 1: the principle, regardless of whether you work in the principle
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  Speaker 1: for the kingdom or not. Because what God said about man, say,
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: it's certainly like now now you're not getting to heaven
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  Speaker 1: on just principles. You gotta say, hey, Lord, I'll receive
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  Speaker 1: you as my Lord and say with Jesus Christ that
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: that conversation got to happen. Yeah, okay, that dedication got
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: to happen. But the way you live, you could be
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  Speaker 1: good and not believing the Lord. It's plenty of atheists
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: out here doing it because they believe in just being good,
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  Speaker 1: right and good follows. That's still a biblical principle, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: I ain't got nothing else. I want to be like,
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  Speaker 1: oh it, it's been said. So if y'all ask how
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  Speaker 1: we how we keep it practical? Let's go back over
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: there and go through the versions. All right, they're putting versions.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: You got King James Version New King James ESV. That's
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: an English Standard version Christian Standard Bible. The passion the
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  Speaker 1: am N L T. Now which one get ready to
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: ample the message? Now the message. I want you to
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: be careful with that because you might you might feel
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: a knife come down in your chest or something. Because
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: the message it gives you gives it to your little
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: a little urban Okay. You have all these opportunities for
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: different versions to digest just those those words the language. Right.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: The second thing is to ask the proper questions, right,
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: ask the proper questions when you're studying the word, like
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: how we just had this many Bible study. You're able
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: to do that, and thank you Holy Spader. I hear
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: what you're saying. He's saying this, that's all I want. Yeah,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: like you saying that you got to get this whole book,
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: and I'm really just trying to get you to get
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: about two verses. That's all we read out of Luke.
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  Speaker 1: We read two verses out of Luke. We went into
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: a quick Bible city that we didn't know we was
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  Speaker 1: going to go into, and we asked the proper questions
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  Speaker 1: and God answer us like, oh wow, God, that's how
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  Speaker 1: you made that connection. That's why you use that language here.
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  Speaker 1: So when you ask the proper question, it helped you
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  Speaker 1: become practical. And the third thing is to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that you allow Holy Spirit and why you're studying the
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: word of God, and He will give you make it
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: so plain to where when I asked the question of God,
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: said God, well how do I guard my heart? He said,
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: you remember the conversation that you had on Emmu. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: write a to do list, Jessica, write the to do list.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: Because the day that we did the to do list,
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: don't nobody come from you. I ain't write it the
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: first thing, but after the revelation, I wrote it. And
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: I've been saying some great things happen out out of
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: that part. Ye what you just look through, you know,
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: that's the script. Reading has been one of my honestly
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: read again, praying, if I'm a hundred percent honest, has
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: been two things that have been hard because I am
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: very practical, right, So even you know, some some teachers
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: and pastors or whatever I listen to, they may say, hey,
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: you know, get up in the morning and spend time
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: with the Lord. Well, my brain automatically goes to what
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: that look like because I'm very like, I'm high level,
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: but sometimes I can get too lost in the details
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: of things. So it's like, what that looks like? Do
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: I get up at three o'clock? Do I like? Do
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: I get on my knees? Or do I like stand
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: up in pray? Do I walk? When I read my Bible?
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: I'm I supposed to be sitting. I'm spo to be standing. Shit,
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: I've turned this light on. Do I need this? Like?
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: That's literally my brain goes there and I'll get like
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: analysis paralysis. I want do it or I feel like
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: if I'm doing it this particular way, that it's not
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: right because they're doing it this way, you know, and
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: they like and they seem like they're real close to Jesus.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: And so when I try to do it that way,
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: sometimes I don't. It's like a struggle strike, right, So
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: in this season, just the little simplest of like God
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: has really just been teaching me, like just a little
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: simplest of things.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: And so when it comes to the word, but what
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: drop was you were talking was about being childlike, like
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: no matter how how long you've been on this journey,
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: like there's still more to learn and we have to
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: humble ourselves. Which I went to Matthew eighteen and two
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: where it talked about learning to be like a little
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: child and you have to humble yourself, you know what
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. So there's always deeper that we can go
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: in God, but we just have to learn to one
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: just be open to try new things. Like for me,
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: reading out loud was a struggle because I'm just not
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: used to talking, right, being here talking on his mic
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: is uncomfortable just because I'm not used to talking. So
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: I'm forcing myself, even if it's just one verse, to
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: read it and to read it out loud. And then well,
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: first I'm ask Holy Spirit I to say, hell, hell, hey,
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: holdly Spirit, show me what you want me to see
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: in this uh, in this verse, whether it's something about
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: me or was this inspiration or whatever that is, I'm
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: asking him to show me that that that means I
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: don't know nothing. Literally sometimes like I don't know nothing.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: I need you to show me, teach me, you know,
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: do what you do because I don't know. And I'll say,
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, come, I read it. I'm intentional about reading
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  Speaker 1: it out loud so that you know. They say hearing
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: faith comes by hearing, right, So I'm intentional about trying
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: to read the word out loud more often once so
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: I can just get used to speaking the word. But also,
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: and as I was talking, it just took me back
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: to what Pastor A said a couple of weeks ago,
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: as she's doing a series on God, and she says,
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: when you encounter God, when you encounter Jesus, something about
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: you should change something. Something about you should change. The word.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: Jesus is the word. So as you're reading the word,
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: whether you're reading to read or whether you're just reading
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: to understand, something has changed. Something about you should change.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: You should get a revelation, a conviction, because even conviction
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: you and the mean too, right, something about about you
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: should change if you're open, if you're humble, and if
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: your childlike you know what I'm saying. So this has
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: been good for me because it's just a reminder like, hey,
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: just just trust trust the process because I think sometimes
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: and give yourself grace that part. Give yourself some grace
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: as you're learning. You know what I'm saying, because I
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: don't I don't know the scriptures like that. But how
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: I am learning to settle into how God uses me
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: a lot of times is I love stories, right, So
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: sometimes when I'm having a conversation with somebody, I may
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: not know, oh this is you know Matthew, da da
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: da da da. I remember the story other thing, and
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: most of the time the story recorrelate with what we're
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: having a conversation about. And I'm like, oh, you know,
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: I remember this story. I ain't saying, hey, this is
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: the scripture. I'm saying I remember the story, and I'm
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: just telling the story and whatever it is. Most of
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: the time it's going the person is going to catch
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: you or understand it, because that's Holy Spirit. That's how
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit work versus and I'm saying this so that
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: you can just be open and free to how God
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: wants you to, wants you to flow. If he wants
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: you to get a scripture, get a scripture, but just
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: trust how he's how he's given it to you. It's
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: it's for that person right there in that moment. And
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: you gotta know that your heart is pure, like your
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: heart is clean, like especially when you when you when
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: we were really trying to walk. And it's not about
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: how holy you are, it's what's your heart posture towards God.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. And if you know that
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: your heart is pure towards God, then we're just gonna
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: have to trust that what He's telling us to do
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: is what's needed in that moment. And and we're only
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: responsible for the moment, and we really am responsible that
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: because it says, don't worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow worries
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: about itself. All right, that's it to focus on today,
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: all right. Tomorrow's worries will consume you and make you
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: drunk and dull and make your heart cold, and make
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: your heart cold. So if y'all ain't learned no other
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: scripture today, you learn Luke twenty one. Y'all, let us
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: know what's what's the scripture that you practically get to
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: walk out? Like, let us know in the comments that Okay,
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: this scripture popped out to be or whatever, and I want,
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: I want, I want to show you how I make
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: it practical. I would love to see that, like, because
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: we have those opportunities. Man, we're not We're trying to
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: figure it out too. And guess what the people that
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: you feel like then figure it out. The gag is
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: they still trying to figure it out. That's the gag
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: because there is some stuff that God is like, Okay,
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: you're ready to You're ready to see it this way.
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: This is so good, you're ready to receive it this way.
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: Let me end with this I did. I'm glad.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: If you use a Bible app and you highlight stuff,
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: you can go you go bad to it right and
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: look at the highlights and I highlighted something. Sometimes what
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: I'll do is I'll highlight something I need to pray,
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: a scripture that I need to pray through and saved.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: I think it's undersaved. Highlights, Thank you Holy Spirit. So
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: and Luke twenty five, It says then he opened their
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: minds to understand the scriptures. Right, this is let me go,
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: let me go to the actual scripture, the full chapter.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: So basically, this is when I told y'all that that
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: Jesus had risen at this point, and he was speaking
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: to some of the disciples, so I think two of
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: the disciples at this point, and so he was going
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  Speaker 1: They did not recognize him, Thank you, Holy Spirit.
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: This is a great way to end.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: They didn't recognize who they were talking to, right, But
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: as they were walking, he was going through the scriptures,
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: going through this point with them, right, And it says
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: that at a certain point they realized that it was him,
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: that he that had been speaking to him. And I'm
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: forty four, I'm just gonna read it. Says he told them,
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: these are my words that I spoke to you while
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: I was still with you, that everything written about me
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: in the Law of Moses, the prophets, and the Psalms
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: must be fulfilled. Then somebody say, then then he opened
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: their minds to understand the scriptures, because at that point
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: they didn't know who they were talking to. They didn't
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: know who they were dealing with. And so now my
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: new prayer is God opened my mind to understand. Yeah,
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: and so that goes back to allowing Holy Spirit to
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: be be with you as you're reading, as you don't
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: have to figure this out by yourself.
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: That's the practical part.
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: You get the helper, Come on, you get the helper
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: to help you figure out what the scriptures need to
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: say to you at the time it needs to say
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: to you. That's good and so I prayed that this
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: helped you. If they help me, let's let's have a
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: conversation in the comments session. How what are other practical
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: ways that you use the scripture that you digest the scripture.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: I would love to hear it. Does a ray would
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: love to hear it. Listen, we're having fun here. Shout
• 50:39
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• 50:42
  Speaker 3: We love you, we appreciate you.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: Until next time, remember life could be much more simple
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: if you just says thank you for tuning in to
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  Speaker 1: this week's episode. Since you've made it this far, you
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  Speaker 3: Smith.
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  Speaker 1: I know I won't see you back until next week,
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: but until then, remember to love always yourself and always
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: thank thank God for one another day.
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: Hey, Hey, I know we could be another way. Hey,
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: pray thank God for another day. Hey, Hey, I'm just
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: thankful another day. Hey hey, another day, oh, another day wise,
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  Speaker 2: another day to get it right, another day to rise up,
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: another day living, another day.
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  Speaker 1: We love ones.
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  Speaker 2: I always remember hold it down for a ball one.
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  Speaker 1: Yuhay,