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At The Movies Pt 1 - Who Is Seated In Your Control Room | Dave Snyder · Reach Church Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hey everyone, welcome to the Reach Church Podcast. This is
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  Speaker 1: Dave Snyder, pastor here at Reach Church. Each week we
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  Speaker 1: share messages from our Sunday gatherings to help you discover
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  Speaker 1: the love of God, be empowered for purpose, and impact
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  Speaker 1: your world. We pray this message encourages you and helps
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  Speaker 1: you grow in your walk with Jesus. Let's get into
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  Speaker 1: today's message. This morning we're starting our At The Movies
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  Speaker 1: series and, um, I'm excited about this. I think this
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  Speaker 1: is such a fun way to bring out the Word
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  Speaker 1: of God and what the Word of God is speaking
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  Speaker 1: to us. And what we're going to do this morning,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to watch a clip, just a short clip.
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  Speaker 1: We're not watching a whole movie. Don't think you came
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  Speaker 1: to church for movie time. Maybe some of you would
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  Speaker 1: prefer that, but we're not going to do that this morning.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to watch a short clip, and then the
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  Speaker 1: clip is going to ask us a question. The clip
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  Speaker 1: is going to ask us a question that we're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about, and what we're.
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  Speaker 2: In the word of God.
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  Speaker 1: But what we're doing, it's similar to how Jesus taught.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you saw that on the screen. It says
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  Speaker 1: in Matthew chapter 13, Jesus always used, I like that word,
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  Speaker 1: he always used stories and illustrations. We call them parables
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  Speaker 1: like these when he spoke to the crowds. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: he never spoke without using such parables. And this fulfilled
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  Speaker 1: what was spoken through the prophets. I'll speak to you
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  Speaker 1: in parables and I'll explain things hidden since the creation
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  Speaker 1: of the world.
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  Speaker 2: So Jesus taught with stories.
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  Speaker 1: Why did he do that? It makes us wonder, like, God,
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  Speaker 1: why did you do that? Why did you choose to,
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  Speaker 1: why didn't you just speak plainly? No, he spoke in stories.
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  Speaker 1: And I think one of the reasons, at least, is
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  Speaker 1: because God wired your brain for stories, right?
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  Speaker 2: You remember stories.
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  Speaker 1: You can remember right now, most of you, if you've
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  Speaker 1: read the story of the Good Samaritan, you can rattle
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  Speaker 1: off that story. You remember the story because your brain
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  Speaker 1: is wired for that. You know, you could rattle off
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  Speaker 1: the story of the parable of the sower. A man
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  Speaker 1: went out to sow seed and some fell here and
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  Speaker 1: some fell there. You may not remember all the details,
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  Speaker 1: but you got the gist of the story because that's
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  Speaker 1: how God made you.
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  Speaker 2: And so what we're going to do this morning is
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  Speaker 2: use that.
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  Speaker 1: And I think this is something, what I like about this,
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  Speaker 1: I think this is something that's going to stick with you.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to be on Friday. Still remembering, oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I remember we did. I remember that.
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  Speaker 2: Message because this is something that's going to stick with you.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it's an important, what we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: today is an important topic for your life.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll get into that. I can hear the popcorn bags.
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  Speaker 2: That's okay. In a minute, I want to hear the Bibles, right?
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  Speaker 2: But that right now is popcorn and it's great.
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to start with a movie that the kids,
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  Speaker 1: if there's some kids in the room, you've seen this
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  Speaker 1: movie probably. Maybe not the parents unless you got dragged
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  Speaker 1: to the movie. But this is a kid's movie that
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  Speaker 1: God's going to speak to you through today. Can you
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  Speaker 1: believe it? This is a movie called Inside Out number two.
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  Speaker 1: And what we're going to do is just watch three
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  Speaker 1: minutes of this movie. And let me set it up
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  Speaker 1: in case you haven't seen this movie before. This is
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  Speaker 1: the you're going to see characters. that are living inside
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  Speaker 1: of this young girl's brain, right? And the characters represent
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  Speaker 1: emotions that she has, and she's trying to learn how
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  Speaker 1: to deal with her emotions, learning how to manage her
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  Speaker 1: emotions and all this different stuff. But it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like a play taking place inside of her head. And
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  Speaker 1: so I want you to check out this clip. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you can relate to that. You've ever
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  Speaker 1: felt like the wrong thing has taken control of your life.
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: You ever had a situation like that? I know if
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  Speaker 1: you have kids, the answer is yes. Because I thought
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  Speaker 1: I was a very patient, just level person. Nothing really
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  Speaker 1: got me upset until I had a teenager. And I
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  Speaker 1: found out anger wants to sit in my control seat
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  Speaker 1: all the time.
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  Speaker 2: And the little fires coming out of his head.
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  Speaker 1: He's just smashing the buttons. And sometimes in our lives,
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  Speaker 1: the wrong thing wants to take over. It's not wrong
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  Speaker 1: to have emotions. It's not wrong to be angry. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: was angry. Jesus had sorrow. Jesus expressed emotions. The wrong
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  Speaker 1: thing is when it sits down in the chair and
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  Speaker 1: it takes over. And if you let a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of fear come in, fear will take over. And fear
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  Speaker 1: will grow into anxiety or depression and all these other things.
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  Speaker 1: And they sit down and they don't get up on
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  Speaker 1: their own. And so here's the question. Who is seated
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  Speaker 1: in the control room in your life? Who's seated at
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  Speaker 1: the controls? Because the control room of your life, it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't get taken overnight, right? It gets taken one thought
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  Speaker 1: at a time. It starts with a thought, doesn't it?
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  Speaker 2: And it grows. Again, it doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: Happen overnight, but as we begin to entertain those thoughts,
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  Speaker 1: we entertain those emotions and those things. And they just,
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  Speaker 1: the wrong thing takes the control.
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  Speaker 2: So the question is who's in.
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  Speaker 1: Control and how do you get the right, how do
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  Speaker 1: you get the right person seated in the right place?
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  Speaker 1: How do you get the right thing in the driver's seat?
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  Speaker 1: So I want to talk about this this morning. And,
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  Speaker 1: and I, what I love is that God's word answers
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  Speaker 1: every question that could come up.
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  Speaker 2: In our lives.
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  Speaker 1: We've just got to look into his word and I
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  Speaker 1: want you to take your Bibles. Now you can, you can,
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  Speaker 1: if you're still eating your popcorn, that's okay. Just set
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  Speaker 1: it to the side for a minute. grab your bibles
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  Speaker 1: or your phone i want you to go to colossians
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  Speaker 1: chapter three and we're going to look at what god
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  Speaker 1: says because he gives you a roadmap for how to
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  Speaker 1: put him in control in your life if you've ever
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  Speaker 1: wondered how do i lord you know you get born
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  Speaker 1: again but you still struggle right you're born again you
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  Speaker 1: love god but you're still struggling with some of the
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  Speaker 1: same stuff the Same things keep coming out of your life.
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  Speaker 1: And you're like, I thought I was a new person.
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  Speaker 1: Why is this good fruit not coming out? Why am
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  Speaker 1: I having so much bad things still coming out of
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  Speaker 1: my life? I've still got the anger. I've still got
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  Speaker 1: the lust. I've still got the depression. Why am I
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  Speaker 1: having and experiencing these things? I've got the wrong thing
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  Speaker 1: in the driver's seat. See, I got to put Jesus
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  Speaker 1: in the driver's seat. I want you to look at
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  Speaker 1: what it says. Let's start at verse one. So if
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  Speaker 1: you've been raised Now, let me just stop there for
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  Speaker 1: a second because some people don't know they've been raised.
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  Speaker 1: You're still living like you ain't been raised. You've been
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  Speaker 1: living like you are the old man, but Paul says.
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  Speaker 2: You've been raised.
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  Speaker 1: When you were born again, when you came to know Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: you were raised with Christ. So since you've been raised,
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  Speaker 1: seek the things that are above where Christ is seated
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  Speaker 1: at the right hand of God and.
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  Speaker 2: Set your minds... on things above.
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  Speaker 1: Set your minds on things above where Christ is seated
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  Speaker 1: at the right hand of God. Oh, sorry, not on
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  Speaker 1: earthly things, for you died and your life is hidden
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  Speaker 1: with Christ and God. When Christ who is your life appears,
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  Speaker 1: then you will also appear with him in glory. So
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  Speaker 1: here's the question, how do I keep the wrong things
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  Speaker 1: out of the driver's seat? So he tells you where
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  Speaker 1: to start here. Go back to that first verse. He
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  Speaker 1: tells you where to start. He says, Since you've been raised.
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  Speaker 1: Since you've been raised. He starts with your position. You've
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  Speaker 1: got to understand, church, who you are in Christ Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to understand what it means to be born again.
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  Speaker 1: That when you're born again, you become a brand new person.
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  Speaker 1: You are a child of God. You know, you're not
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  Speaker 1: some beggar. I've heard some of these songs on the radio.
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  Speaker 1: Have you heard some of these songs? I'm just a
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  Speaker 1: beggar in the presence of the king.
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  Speaker 2: Shut up.
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  Speaker 1: That's not what the Word of God says. The word
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  Speaker 1: of God says when you are born again, you are
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  Speaker 1: a child of God. And in fact, you've been raised
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  Speaker 1: with Christ. So I'm not waiting on some moment like
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  Speaker 1: with Jesus. Remember the story of Lazarus we read not
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  Speaker 1: too long ago? Jesus said, I am the resurrection and
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  Speaker 1: the life. He did not say, I will be the resurrection.
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  Speaker 1: He is today the resurrection and the life. You're not
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  Speaker 1: waiting for some day to be raised. You've already been raised.
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  Speaker 1: So you can start living like you've been raised. Even
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  Speaker 1: though you haven't necessarily experienced it yet, you can live
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  Speaker 1: like it. Because on the inside, you are a brand
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  Speaker 1: new person. Does that make sense to you today? We
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  Speaker 1: had this college ministry for many years. We had this
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  Speaker 1: young guy that came into prayer one morning. We stood
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  Speaker 1: right over here. We were having a little prayer circle
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  Speaker 1: up in the front. And I looked down at his shoes,
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  Speaker 1: and he had the words, sinners. written on his shoes.
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  Speaker 1: I said, where did you get those shoes? He said,
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  Speaker 1: I bought those.
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  Speaker 2: From a Christian website.
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  Speaker 1: I said, you better return them because there's nothing Christian
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  Speaker 1: about them. He said, what do you mean? He said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just a sinner who's been saved by grace. I said,
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  Speaker 1: shut up. That's not in the Bible. You're not some
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  Speaker 1: old sinner who's been saved by grace. Yes, you've been saved. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you used to be a sinner, but that man died.
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  Speaker 1: I'm no longer who I used to be. I've been
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  Speaker 1: raised with Christ Jesus. That means the old sinful man
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  Speaker 1: is dead. Let's leave him in the ground. Stop trying
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  Speaker 1: to resurrect him all the time and talk about how
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  Speaker 1: bad you are. And see, this young man, he struggled.
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  Speaker 1: He struggled for the whole time I knew him. He
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  Speaker 1: struggled with some terrible stuff in his life, with some
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  Speaker 1: terrible sin in his life. He never could break free
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  Speaker 1: of it the times that I knew him. I pray
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  Speaker 1: he's good now. But the time that I knew him,
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  Speaker 1: he struggled because he still saw himself as an old man.
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  Speaker 1: who's trying to be good enough, who's trying to live
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  Speaker 1: good enough. See, he's got the wrong thing in the
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  Speaker 1: driver's seat of his heart. He's got the wrong thing
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  Speaker 1: in his mind controlling. You get the wrong thing up
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  Speaker 1: here and it will control your life. So you've got
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  Speaker 1: to get the right thing. See, if you don't understand that,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to live your life from a place of defeat,
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  Speaker 1: trying to get a little bit better instead of living from.
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  Speaker 2: The victory that Jesus has paid for. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So understand your position. See, the problem is sometimes we
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  Speaker 1: don't feel that way, right? I don't feel like I'm
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  Speaker 1: a new man. I still feel like I'm an old man.
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  Speaker 1: I still feel like I still have the same struggles,
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  Speaker 1: the old man. So I must be an old man
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  Speaker 1: that's just, I'm waiting on God to do something in
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  Speaker 1: the future. See, because I haven't understood my position. I
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  Speaker 1: haven't understood who I am in Christ Jesus. And I
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  Speaker 1: know that might be a little cute movie, but I
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  Speaker 1: think it's asking one of the most important questions for
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  Speaker 1: your life today. Who's in the driver's seat? Who's in
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  Speaker 1: your driver's seat? So he talks about your position. Can
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  Speaker 1: you put those verses back up there again? Verse one,
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  Speaker 1: you've been raised. So then he says, because you're raised
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  Speaker 1: with Christ, you should start seeking things that are above.
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  Speaker 2: No, just stay.
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  Speaker 1: Go back to verse 1. Seek the things, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if that one changed, that one changed. Seek the
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  Speaker 1: things that are above, where Christ is seated at the
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  Speaker 1: right hand of God. You know what that tells me?
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  Speaker 1: There's a place of authority where, like kind of Ozzie
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  Speaker 1: alluded to this morning, where it's unfazed by what's happening above.
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  Speaker 1: on this earth as far as the struggles and the
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  Speaker 1: wars and the conflicts and the worry and the troubles
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  Speaker 1: of life and the anxiety, it's unfazed. Christ is seated
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  Speaker 1: at the right hand of God. And I've been raised
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  Speaker 1: with Christ, so I need to put my mind, seek,
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  Speaker 1: I need to seek, we'll get to the mind in
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  Speaker 1: a minute, I need to seek the things.
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  Speaker 2: That are above. So that's what I'm chasing after. So
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  Speaker 2: here's another question. What am I chasing after? What are
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  Speaker 2: you chasing after in your life? That's what you're pursuing, right?
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  Speaker 1: The Bible tells us what to seek first. Seek first
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom of God and his righteousness. Everything else is
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  Speaker 1: taken care of if you get the right thing in
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  Speaker 1: front of you. If you get your priorities right, if
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  Speaker 1: you seek the right thing, but see this question, what
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  Speaker 1: am I chasing after? It's sort of like peeking into
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  Speaker 1: the control room of your heart. If I want to
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  Speaker 1: know who's seated, I can look in there by saying,
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  Speaker 1: what are you chasing after?
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  Speaker 2: Because that's where your life is headed.
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  Speaker 1: What are you chasing after? Some people chase after different things.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe we could boil it down to success. I want
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  Speaker 1: to be successful in my job, in my life, in
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  Speaker 1: my whatever.
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  Speaker 2: It might be.
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  Speaker 1: And to a degree, success is okay. I want to
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  Speaker 1: be successful. But who defines what success is? See, if
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  Speaker 1: I'm chasing after what somebody else has told me success is,
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  Speaker 1: that's wrong. I got to seek first the kingdom of God.
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  Speaker 1: I want to be a successful father. But who defines
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  Speaker 1: what that is? See, if I've got the wrong thing
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  Speaker 1: in front of me, I'll chase the wrong thing, but
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  Speaker 1: if I keep the right thing in front of me,
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  Speaker 1: I'll live the right way. My life's going to head
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  Speaker 1: the right direction. I want to be a successful pastor,
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  Speaker 1: but what does that mean? Does that mean the church
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  Speaker 1: is full and I tell you all the nice things
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  Speaker 1: that you want to hear all the time? Because I
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  Speaker 1: could fill up a church telling you how great you
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  Speaker 1: are all the time, that you never do anything wrong,
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  Speaker 1: that you're perfect, but that's not what this word says.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes this word is good for correction. This word is
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  Speaker 1: good for rebuke. There's times where the word has to
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  Speaker 1: rebuke us. And if we don't hear it, now listen,
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  Speaker 1: that might empty out a church, but I want to
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  Speaker 1: be successful, not by what your standards are, but what
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  Speaker 1: God's standards are, right? Some people chase after things like approval.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I want to seek approval. I want people
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  Speaker 1: to think I'm doing a good thing or whatever, but listen,
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  Speaker 1: I'm working for his well-done, not man's well-done. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what we have to get in our lives, get the
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  Speaker 1: right thing in front of you. He told me, seek
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  Speaker 1: what's above. So I have to ask myself, and you've
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  Speaker 1: got to ask yourself, what am I pursuing? What am
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  Speaker 1: I chasing after? Because here's the thing, your pursuit will
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  Speaker 1: determine your direction. It's like a compass for your heart.
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  Speaker 1: It will determine your direction. Whatever you're chasing after, your
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  Speaker 1: life is going to go that way. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: like a carrot in front of your nose, and you're
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  Speaker 1: just going to, You're going to walk towards whatever you're
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  Speaker 1: chasing in life. So let me ask, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: ask you a hard question. If someone watched your calendar
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  Speaker 1: for six months, what would they say you're chasing after?
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  Speaker 1: Some of you all have those calendars you put up
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  Speaker 1: in your house and it's full of everything.
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  Speaker 2: Mine's full of everything, right?
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  Speaker 1: And you got the sports and you got the meetings
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  Speaker 1: and you got the recitals, and you've got all these things.
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  Speaker 1: What are you chasing after? What's your calendar look like?
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  Speaker 1: Let me ask another question. If we could look at
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  Speaker 1: your bank account for the next six months, that would
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  Speaker 1: tell us what you're chasing after.
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  Speaker 2: What do you value? What kind of things do you
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  Speaker 2: put first? So he says, seek first.
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  Speaker 1: The kingdom of God. And then the next part, now
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  Speaker 1: you can go to verse two. The next part, he
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  Speaker 1: moves into what you put your minds on. So he says,
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  Speaker 1: set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
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  Speaker 1: So get your direction right, get your position right, but
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  Speaker 1: you also got to get your mind right. And I
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  Speaker 1: think some of us, that's where we got some trouble
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  Speaker 1: because we got our minds wrong. We got our minds
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  Speaker 1: on the wrong things. We're thinking about the wrong things.
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  Speaker 1: We live, you know, somebody called the mind a battlefield.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's true because there's so many competing
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  Speaker 1: thoughts in this mindset that are competing for your attention.
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  Speaker 2: It wants your attention. It wants you to look.
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  Speaker 1: It's like pop-ups on your screen that they pop up.
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  Speaker 1: You go to a website and something else pops up.
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  Speaker 1: Give me your attention over here. Give me your attention.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just so many things competing to get your mind.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to tell you, the Word of God says,
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  Speaker 1: as a man thinks in his heart, so is he. Right?
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  Speaker 2: So here.
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  Speaker 1: Let's say it this way. I can stand up here
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  Speaker 1: and say some things today. I could start talking about
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  Speaker 1: some statistics... of things that could happen to you. And
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  Speaker 1: for some of you, you start getting afraid. Because you say, ooh,
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  Speaker 1: that could happen to me. Statistically speaking, this could happen.
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  Speaker 1: And I could start sharing some things with you... and
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  Speaker 1: it'll start bringing up a little bit of fear in
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  Speaker 1: your heart. Why would that happen? Because you're getting your
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  Speaker 1: mind on it. And when you get your mind on something...
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: it sits down in your heart and starts giving direction
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  Speaker 1: to your life. So it starts by thinking the wrong things.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: I love what we saw in that clip, how anxiety
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  Speaker 1: came in and took over, right? And bottled up everything
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  Speaker 1: else and set them off somewhere else and it was
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  Speaker 1: going to take over because that's exactly what happens in
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  Speaker 1: people's lives.
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  Speaker 2: You let fear come in.
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  Speaker 1: Everything else goes out the door and fear is in
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  Speaker 1: control in your mind. Anxiety comes in and now anxiety
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  Speaker 1: is in control in your mind.
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  Speaker 2: And here's the problem. We got the wrong things seated.
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  Speaker 1: And what happens in our heads is we play out
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  Speaker 1: this scene of what if. We saw that in the video.
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  Speaker 1: What if this could happen or that could happen? And
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: the thing is about what if. What if always assumes
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  Speaker 1: God's not involved. What if, what if is always a
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  Speaker 1: picture of what if without God, right? Have you ever
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  Speaker 1: had a great what if in your head? What if,
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  Speaker 1: what if I win the lottery or something? You probably
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  Speaker 1: don't play the lottery. I don't play the lottery. I'm not,
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  Speaker 1: but what if something really good happened to me? What if,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: what if I, what if, what if this great thing
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  Speaker 1: happened at work and I get a promotion and this,
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  Speaker 1: or this, this great thing, usually.
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  Speaker 2: We don't play out the great what ifs. It goes
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  Speaker 2: the other way, doesn't it?
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  Speaker 1: Why is our natural tendency to always go towards the
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  Speaker 1: what if something bad happens?
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  Speaker 2: But that's what we do, right?
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  Speaker 1: You have kids and you don't sit up at night
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  Speaker 1: and say, oh, I wonder what if some great thing
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  Speaker 1: is going to happen to them tomorrow while they're off
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  Speaker 1: doing this thing. No, it's what if they're in the hospital?
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  Speaker 1: What if, oh my gosh, what if this happens to them?
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: What if somebody picks on little Johnny and kindergarten and
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: he just never recovers and all these thoughts come into
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  Speaker 1: our heads what if right and it plays out and
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: we start thinking about all the bad things that could
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  Speaker 1: happen but see here's the thing what if assumes god's
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  Speaker 1: not involved you know sometimes we think like what if
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: what if something bad happened but what about psalm 91.
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  Speaker 2: Where God says he will protect you and he'll keep you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, what if I'm struggling with my finances and I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I'm all alone here? Well, what about the
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  Speaker 1: word of God where he says, I am Jehovah Jireh,
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  Speaker 1: your provider. But see, what if fear forgets about God
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  Speaker 1: being involved? You know, anxiety will imagine a future ignoring
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  Speaker 1: the faithfulness of God. So what I have to do
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  Speaker 1: is get the right person in the driver's seat. Let
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: me ask this. How do those thoughts get there? I wonder,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: how do those thoughts come into our head, those what ifs?
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: What if this and what if that? It seems like
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: they just come in, doesn't it? But I want to
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  Speaker 1: propose something to you. What if they come into your
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  Speaker 1: life because of what you're allowing into your life?
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  Speaker 2: What if What you're scrolling.
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  Speaker 1: Through on your phone is causing you to have some
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: what-if kind of thoughts. What if the things you're watching
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: on TV are causing you to.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Have what-if thoughts?
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Maybe the 24-hour news cycle isn't the most healthy thing
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  Speaker 1: for you.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know who I'm talking to this morning.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Maybe your social media comparison is not the most healthy
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  Speaker 1: thing for your mind to be feeding on. Because, see,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: we become what we consume. Let me say it again
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  Speaker 1: because I don't think you caught it. We become the
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  Speaker 1: things that we consume.
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  Speaker 2: You are, let's say it this way, you are what
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: you eat. Right?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why I always feel so tired. Well,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: maybe stop eating sugar all the time, right? You are
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  Speaker 1: What you eat. Why am I always so fearful? You
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  Speaker 1: are what you eat. You become what you consume. Let
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  Speaker 1: me say it this way. Whatever has your attention will.
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  Speaker 2: Have access to your control room.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever you give your attention to, you're giving access. You're saying, here,
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  Speaker 1: sit down in the seat. And see, some people are
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  Speaker 1: trying to correct things in their lives. They're trying to
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  Speaker 1: change their habits. Well, I guess I just need to
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  Speaker 1: be a little bit more disciplined. I need a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more willpower.
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  Speaker 2: No, what you need is to get the wrong things
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  Speaker 2: out of your mind.
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  Speaker 1: Your life's change starts when you change your direction and
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  Speaker 1: how you think. But it doesn't stop there. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to look now at verse 5. Look what he says. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: now what's the therefore? That's therefore because of what happened
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  Speaker 1: in the previous verse that you died and you've been
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  Speaker 1: raised with Christ.
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  Speaker 2: So therefore, you can do something.
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  Speaker 1: You can put to death what belongs to your earthly nature.
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  Speaker 1: And then he gives you this list of some things that,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't think this is an exhaustive list because
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  Speaker 1: you can probably come up with some other stuff too
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  Speaker 1: that needs to be put to death. But he says
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  Speaker 1: things like sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed,
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  Speaker 1: which is a form of idolatry. Okay, keep going to
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  Speaker 1: the next verse. Because of these, God's wrath is coming
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  Speaker 1: upon the disobedient. You once walked in those things when
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  Speaker 1: you were living in them. But I want you to notice,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: so he's saying, therefore, because you die, because you've been
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  Speaker 1: raised a new person, and the old man has died, therefore,
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  Speaker 1: you can have the authority and the power to put
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  Speaker 1: some stuff to death in your life. You don't have
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  Speaker 1: to live with those old things. You can live like
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  Speaker 1: you're born again.
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 1: But again, you might be born again, but there's still
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  Speaker 1: the old junk in your life. You understand what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 1: Some people, I tell people this when they come to
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  Speaker 1: our next steps, that Sometimes we're born again, but we
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  Speaker 1: still have the wrong stuff in our lives. We need
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  Speaker 1: to find freedom. And we need to learn how to
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  Speaker 1: walk free and live free and get the right person
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  Speaker 1: in the control room. So here's what he's telling you.
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  Speaker 1: Because you've been raised, you can put to death some
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  Speaker 1: stuff in your life and get the right thing seated.
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  Speaker 2: But notice something. This is on you.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you're not without the power of the Holy
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Spirit at work in you, but he's not saying, let
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: God put some things to death. And he's saying, you
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: do it. You put some things to death in your life.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: And notice he says, he says, don't, he doesn't say
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  Speaker 1: negotiate with those things. He doesn't say, have a nice,
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  Speaker 1: have a nice talk.
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  Speaker 2: Just let them in once in a while.
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  Speaker 1: When you're feeling a little down, you can have a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of the, no, he says, put them to death.
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  Speaker 1: Because here's the thing, if you don't put those things
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  Speaker 1: to death, they will kill you. There are things that
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  Speaker 1: want to destroy your life. Sexual immorality wants to destroy
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  Speaker 1: your life. Lust wants to destroy your life. We could
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  Speaker 1: go through the list again. They want to destroy your life.
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  Speaker 1: Don't play with it. He says, put it to death. See,
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  Speaker 1: I wonder why I keep having the same problems come
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  Speaker 1: out of my life. Because you haven't put some things
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  Speaker 1: to death. You're letting them sit in the control room
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: and they take over. Put some things to death in
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  Speaker 1: your life. Don't give them a visitor pass.
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, once a week. No, put them to death. So
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: I want you to imagine the control room, right? Anxiety
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  Speaker 1: comes in and just starts rearranging everything. She didn't ask permission.
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  Speaker 1: She just takes over. That's what sin does. Sin will
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  Speaker 1: come in. If you let it come in, it will
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  Speaker 1: come in and ruin your life. And now you'll say,
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  Speaker 1: what do I do? I got the wrong thing in
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  Speaker 1: the control room.
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  Speaker 2: Put it to death. Don't play with it.
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  Speaker 1: So God's telling you that's on you. Get the old
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  Speaker 1: junk out because it'll destroy your life. But here's a
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  Speaker 1: good question. How did that thing get there?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: How does lust and greed and evil desires get in
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  Speaker 1: the control room? Again, we let them in. We give
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  Speaker 1: them permission. What you give your attention to is what
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: you give permission to come into your life.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Your attention is like discipleship, right?
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: If you give your attention to the word of God,
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  Speaker 1: this thing will teach me how to live. If I
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: give my attention to the word, it will correct me
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  Speaker 1: when I'm wrong. It will give me the right thing
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  Speaker 1: to do. What I give my attention to is discipleship.
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  Speaker 1: If I'm giving my attention to the wrong thing, it
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  Speaker 1: will form something in me. It will shape something in
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  Speaker 1: my life. Stop giving your attention to the wrong thing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, because again, what you're feeding your mind on
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: is shaping your life. We could say it this way.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever holds your attention shapes your heart. What has access
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: shapes your heart. So the things that need to die,
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  Speaker 1: he says, put them to death. Now look at verse 8.
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  Speaker 1: He says, now put away all the following. So first,
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  Speaker 1: there's some things you've got to put to death, and
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: there's some things you've got to put away. I'll talk
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: about the difference. But he says, put away the following.
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  Speaker 2: Anger.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Again, it's not wrong to be angry, but it's wrong
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: to let anger control your life, right? Anger, wrath, malice, slander,
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  Speaker 1: filthy language from your mouth.
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  Speaker 2: Go to the next one.
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  Speaker 1: Do not lie to one another since you've put off
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  Speaker 1: the old self with its practices and have put on
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  Speaker 1: the new self. You're being renewed in knowledge according to
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  Speaker 1: the image of your creator. But I want you to
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  Speaker 1: catch this this morning because he says, he says, kill
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  Speaker 1: some things and then put some things off.
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: The language is like changing your clothes. So it's time
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: to change your clothes. So you've got some things that
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: you put to death, but you.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Still got the old clothes on.
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  Speaker 1: Remember when Lazarus came out of his grave and he
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: still had the old clothes, the grave clothes on, and
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: somebody had to help him get that stuff off your life.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: It's kind of the same imagery. You've got something you've
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: got to take off. But here's the difference. There's some
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: things that sit down in the control room. And then
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: there's some things that come out of your life as
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: a result of.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: The wrong thing in the control room, right? So there's
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: one thing you've got to put to death.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: The next thing is like the fruit of that thing
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: that's coming out of your life. And so God first
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: tells you, address the root, kill the thing that needs
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  Speaker 1: to be put to death, because if you don't take
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: care of the root, you'll keep having the fruit, right? See,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: if you keep trying to take care of the fruit,
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  Speaker 1: you keep trying to take care of the anger and
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  Speaker 1: the malice and the lying and the filthy language and blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 1: You're trying to take care of all this stuff that's
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  Speaker 1: coming out of your life, but you haven't addressed the root.
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  Speaker 1: You'll be picking bad fruit the rest of your life.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: So he says, address the root because when you address
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  Speaker 1: the root, the right fruit can now grow. There's a
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: lot of rhyming, but you get it. Kill the root
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: and the wrong thing will stop growing in your life.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Look what he says in verse 12. Therefore, as God's
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: chosen ones, holy and dearly loved, put on compassion. So
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: first you take some things off. You've killed some things.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: You've taken some things off. Now you're not dressed. You
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: got to get dressed. What am I supposed to wear?
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: I got to get dressed for church on Sunday. Well,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: you better put some things on. And it's going to
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: look like compassion and kindness. What about Monday? You've got
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: to put some things on. Put on compassion and kindness
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  Speaker 1: and humility and gentleness and patience. And you can go
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: to the next verse. Bearing with one another, forgiving one another.
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  Speaker 1: If anyone has a grievance against one another, as the
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Lord has forgiven you, you're also to forgive. Above all,
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  Speaker 1: put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity.
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  Speaker 1: So it gives you this whole big list of things
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  Speaker 1: you should be wearing.
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  Speaker 2: But again.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't the concept of I've got to physically work
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  Speaker 1: on all these.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's supposed to be coming out of you.
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  Speaker 1: This is supposed to be fruit coming out of a
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: life that has the right thing seated in your life.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a struggle.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: You know, we talk about forgiveness, and I know sometimes
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: forgiveness is a struggle, and it is hard, and we've
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: been through hard things. But for a normal situation, forgiveness
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  Speaker 1: should not be a hard concept. because it's just fruit
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  Speaker 1: coming out of your life. You know, my natural tendencies
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  Speaker 1: should be changing. So instead of naturally tending to get
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  Speaker 1: angry and have malice and have, I forget all the lists,
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  Speaker 1: but all those things that were coming out, all those,
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  Speaker 1: the wrong things coming out, it should now be my
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  Speaker 1: natural tendency is for things like love and compassion and
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  Speaker 1: kindness and Those things should be just coming out of
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  Speaker 1: me as fruit in my life. I know this is
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: pretty heavy for Inside Out 2, okay? Never got all
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: this watching the movie before. But again, hey, this isn't
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: to condemn anyone, right? This isn't meant to condemn you.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: But we all have times where we struggle, right? And
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: we all have times where we just don't live perfect lives,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: but thank God Jesus did, right? And we have his grace.
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  Speaker 1: And so this isn't like, hey, I messed up in
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: my life. You know, I'm just a mess and Pastor
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Dave is really calling me. I know I'm, but what
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you is the truth of the word of God.
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  Speaker 1: If there's things that are living, it's different. Sometimes we
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: make mistakes and we mess up, but when something is
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: living in your life, you've got to address it. You've
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  Speaker 1: got to kill the things that don't belong and address
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  Speaker 1: those things. You know, so again, this is something we
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  Speaker 1: should have fruit coming out of our lives, not just
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: on Sundays, but on Mondays too, right? And maybe you're
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: here this morning, you're saying, hey, I'm good. I feel
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: like I've got, you know, the right thing. See, I'm
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: pretty patient. I'm pretty this, I'm pretty that. Let's see,
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  Speaker 1: God will test you today. I prophesy on your way home,
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  Speaker 1: you will get the slowest driver you've ever seen in
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  Speaker 1: front of you.
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  Speaker 2: And let's see what comes out, okay? And then you
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: can put it to the test. See, things got to
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: be tested.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: You've got to have your faith tested sometimes because you
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: got to know what's inside of you. See, I want
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: to know what's in me. I don't want to be guessing.
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  Speaker 1: I want to know what's in me. So if I
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: got to be tested, I want to be tested. God
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: put me to the test so I can correct the
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: things that need correction. If I got something hiding back
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: there in the control room and he comes out sometimes
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: when the wrong driver gets in front, I want to
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  Speaker 1: address that guy. I don't want to address the driver.
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  Speaker 1: I want to address the guy living in the control room.
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  Speaker 2: You with me? Let me come back. Sorry, let me
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: go to verse 15.
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  Speaker 1: And God gives us the final key about the control
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  Speaker 1: room of your heart.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm getting ready to close this here.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: He says, let the peace of Christ to which you
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: were also called in one body, rule your hearts and
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: be thankful. Let the peace of Christ rule. Another translation,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: he says, let the peace of Christ have control. And
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: so here's again the question, how do I keep the
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: wrong thing from grabbing control? I have to decide to
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: let his peace rule in my heart. I've got to
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: decide to do that. But Paul doesn't just say peace. Listen,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: he says the peace of Christ. See, this isn't something
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: I think sometimes we get the wrong idea about the
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  Speaker 1: peace of God. And we act like this is something
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  Speaker 1: I've got to work up. I got to do some
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: breathing exercises. There's nothing wrong with breathing. You should all
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: be breathing or you'll die. But breathing exercises will not
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: bring the peace of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: You know? there's not going to happen with meditation.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: It's not going to happen with, you know, sitting cross-legged
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: or whatever it might, whatever kind of things you want
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: to do, humming. It's not going to bring the peace
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: of Christ because it doesn't come that way.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: It comes from him. It comes from him. It's not
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: something you work up. It's his peace.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Jesus said, peace I leave with you. My peace I
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: give to you, not like the world gives. Let not
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: your heart be troubled. Don't let it be afraid. Catch
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: what he's saying. He said, I've given you my peace.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't belong to the world. You don't get it
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: from the world. You don't get it from worldly things.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: You get it straight from God. Peace I leave with
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: you and I give it to you. So now you
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: have the peace of God in your life. If you're
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: born again, you have his peace in your life. So
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: then he says, let not your heart be troubled or afraid.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: So that means if I have his peace, I can
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: still choose to let my heart be troubled. I can
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: still choose to be afraid. But he says, don't do that.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: You got to stay in the peace of God. In
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  Speaker 1: your life today, I'm telling you, you need to stay
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  Speaker 1: in the peace of God because you can choose to
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  Speaker 1: let other things come in. You can choose to let
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  Speaker 1: the wrong thoughts come in and they will take you
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  Speaker 1: right out of the peace of God, but you're just
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  Speaker 1: letting it. Don't let those thoughts take you wherever those
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  Speaker 1: thoughts want to go.
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  Speaker 2: What does he say?
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  Speaker 1: Put that verse up again, verse 15. Let the peace
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  Speaker 1: of Christ rule. When something rules, it means it's in charge.
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  Speaker 1: Let the peace of Christ rule. When his peace is seated,
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  Speaker 1: it's ruling. What it means is his peace has the
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  Speaker 1: final word. It doesn't mean there won't be things in
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  Speaker 1: my life that will sometimes make me afraid because that's
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  Speaker 1: just silly to think that. There's going to be things
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  Speaker 1: in your life that could bring fear. But in those situations,
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  Speaker 1: the peace of Christ is ruling. I don't have to
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  Speaker 1: let my heart be troubled. See, fear doesn't get the
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  Speaker 1: final word, right? Anxiety might want to come in sometimes,
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  Speaker 1: but the peace of Christ is ruling. My emotions don't
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  Speaker 1: get the final word, right? It doesn't mean my emotions
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  Speaker 1: are gone. God doesn't want you to be a robot.
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  Speaker 1: My emotions are good. God gave you emotions, but emotions
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  Speaker 1: aren't supposed to rule over your life. In your life,
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  Speaker 1: fear still gets a voice, but it doesn't get the
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  Speaker 1: final word. Anger might get a voice, but it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: get the final word. But I want you to understand this.
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  Speaker 1: One more time, the peace of Christ. I want you
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  Speaker 1: to catch this because I think we get the wrong
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  Speaker 1: idea sometimes. We're like, well, I got to get his peace.
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  Speaker 2: I need his peace. I need his peace. No, peace,
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  Speaker 2: put that up. Peace isn't the goal. He is. It's his.
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  Speaker 1: We shared this scripture last week about I want to
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  Speaker 1: know Christ. I think it all comes down to this today, church,
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  Speaker 1: in your life. Sometimes the wrong things want to take
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  Speaker 1: the seat, but you've got to get him seated at
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  Speaker 1: the center of your life. He is the goal. I
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  Speaker 1: want to know Christ. Peace is fruit that comes out
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  Speaker 1: of a relationship with him. The answer to who is
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  Speaker 1: in your control room, it's not joy. Joy is good,
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  Speaker 1: but it comes from, joy comes, real joy comes.
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  Speaker 2: From knowing him, right? Right?
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  Speaker 1: It's not positive thinking. That's not the goal. The goal
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  Speaker 1: isn't even peace. The goal is Jesus. And I think
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  Speaker 1: this is where it really separates from that movie because
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  Speaker 1: the movie was about a little girl balancing her emotions,
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  Speaker 1: but our goal is not, you know, there's nothing wrong
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  Speaker 1: with balanced emotions, but our goal isn't that. Our goal
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  Speaker 1: is that Christ is the center and the Lord of
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  Speaker 1: our lives. And That's why you need to put your
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  Speaker 1: mind on things above. That's why you need to put
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  Speaker 1: to death things that compete with him. That's why you
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  Speaker 1: need to put on the character of Christ Jesus so
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  Speaker 1: then you can let his peace rule your heart. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to close with this verse because in the next
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  Speaker 1: several verses, and you can read it later on your own,
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  Speaker 1: the next several verses he talks about what happens when
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  Speaker 1: Christ is ruling. How thankfulness comes. His word fills your mind.
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  Speaker 1: Worship fills your mouth. but I'll close with verse 17.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything
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  Speaker 1: in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to
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  Speaker 1: God the Father through him. Everything I do is meant
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  Speaker 1: to reflect him. It's all flowing from a place of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus being at the center of Would you do this?
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  Speaker 1: Would you stand with me this morning? And we're going
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  Speaker 1: to close in prayer. And I want you, if you would,
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  Speaker 1: just bow your heads for a moment. And I want
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  Speaker 1: to just ask you again that question we started with.
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  Speaker 1: Who's in the control room of your life? You know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe as we've been talking about this, you've realized you've
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  Speaker 1: had the wrong thing sitting in the control room. And
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  Speaker 1: the real issue is that Jesus is not in control.
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  Speaker 1: You know, maybe you spent your whole life trying to
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  Speaker 1: carry weight. You've been trying to carry anxiety. You've been
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  Speaker 1: trying to manage depression. You've been trying to manage all
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  Speaker 1: these things. I want you to know the answer today
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  Speaker 1: is not learning how to manage emotions. The answer today
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  Speaker 1: is Jesus. If today you've never surrendered your life to Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: this is your moment. The word of God says if
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  Speaker 1: you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and
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  Speaker 1: you believe in your heart that God raised him from
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  Speaker 1: the dead, you'll be saved. And I want to ask
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  Speaker 1: you this morning, if you're here, you say, I need
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  Speaker 1: to get my life right with the Lord. I need
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  Speaker 1: to give my life to Jesus. If you're away from
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  Speaker 1: God today, that's you. I want you to raise your
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  Speaker 1: hand right where you're at. I want to pray with you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to embarrass you. Just raise your hand
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  Speaker 1: up so I can see it and pray with you
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  Speaker 1: and agree together.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Lord. I'm going to pray this prayer.
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  Speaker 1: I know sometimes, I've had so many people tell me,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't raise my hand, but I prayed that prayer
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  Speaker 1: when you prayed. And I want to pray that prayer
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  Speaker 1: because I believe there's somebody this morning, this is for you.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe you just didn't want to raise your hand,
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  Speaker 1: but you can still pray right now. And just repeat
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  Speaker 1: this with me and say, Jesus, I ask you to
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  Speaker 1: come into my heart. Forgive me for my sins. And
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  Speaker 1: make me a new person. I give you my life today, Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Amen. For the rest of us today, if you'd say,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I've had some struggles. I've had some moments
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  Speaker 1: where the wrong things are grabbing the controls. Maybe it's anger.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it's fear, worry, whatever it might be. Maybe it's
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  Speaker 1: the approval of people. But listen, I don't believe this
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  Speaker 1: is something we settle in one moment. I think this
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  Speaker 1: is something we settle every moment of every day because
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  Speaker 1: there's going to be times in our lives where the
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  Speaker 1: wrong things try to take over. And what we do
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  Speaker 1: is we continually put the wrong things to death. We
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  Speaker 1: continually put off the things that don't belong so that
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  Speaker 1: we can have the right things coming out of us.
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  Speaker 1: And this morning, let me just pray for you because
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  Speaker 1: maybe there's some people here that you say, I've really
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  Speaker 1: struggled with this. I just need the Lord to touch
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  Speaker 1: me today. I just want to pray for all of us. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: I thank you this morning for your goodness to us. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: thank you that you are seated in the control room
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  Speaker 1: of our lives. Lord, we put you in charge and
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  Speaker 1: we say, have your way in us this morning. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: if there's some this morning, I believe there's some today
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  Speaker 1: that are struggling with things that should have been.
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  Speaker 2: Put to death. And Lord, you've been speaking to them
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  Speaker 2: during the message.
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  Speaker 1: There's things that need to be put to death in
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  Speaker 1: their lives that they are wrestling with. Lord God, I
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  Speaker 1: thank you for just encouraging them today. Lord, I thank
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  Speaker 1: you for helping them to take that step to say,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to live the way God's called me to live.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to put those things to death.
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  Speaker 1: Lord, you might be speaking to people about putting certain
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  Speaker 1: things out of their lives so it doesn't get into
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  Speaker 1: their minds. Lord, I pray that you would let us
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  Speaker 1: feed on the right things because we are what we eat. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: I pray that you would just encourage your people today.
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  Speaker 1: I bless your people. I thank you for this word,
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  Speaker 1: for this moment to just be encouraged in the word
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  Speaker 1: of God. I bless your people in the name of Jesus.
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