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342. When to Quit and When to Endure - Are You Following Purpose or Protecting Your Ego? · The Impossible Life

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  Speaker 1: We are all called to a form of endurance. And
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  Speaker 1: part of what's meaningful and purposeful in that is that endurance,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to develop our character. It's going to develop
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  Speaker 1: our capacity. It's going to develop our faithfulness. These are
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  Speaker 1: things God wants to strengthen in you. So endurance is
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  Speaker 1: this ability to carry weight, but it's carrying weight with
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  Speaker 1: a purpose. That's what you were called to do. If
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  Speaker 1: you're just selfish, you're going to live a miserable life.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to miss the purpose of your life. You're
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  Speaker 1: going to be empty on the inside. That's impossible. Let
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  Speaker 1: me tell you what I believe. Your weakness is not
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  Speaker 1: your technique. Don't think you are.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to another episode of the Impossible Life Podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's a good one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You got me.
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  Speaker 2: That one made me chuckle a lot. Like I said,
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  Speaker 2: I have a process for this, and I got clarity
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  Speaker 2: on this, and we just fully send. So praise the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: I never thought anybody would worship that, but, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're the guy. All right. Gee, today's episode is so
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  Speaker 2: meaty that I just feel like we should just hardly
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  Speaker 2: Full send.
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  Speaker 1: Hard charge. Hard charge it. Hard dog, full sprint. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: My daughter, Grace, she started saying, Daddy, that's a hard dog.
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  Speaker 2: I know. I've got Elijah saying it as well.
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  Speaker 1: It's good. The other day, she wanted to get in
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  Speaker 1: the ice bath because I was in there and she
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  Speaker 1: wanted to get in. And I go, is that a
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  Speaker 1: hard dog? She goes, yeah, it's a hard dog. And
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  Speaker 1: so I get her in. And she does what she,
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  Speaker 1: she's getting bigger. So she does what she normally does.
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  Speaker 1: She like stands in there up to her waist. And
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  Speaker 1: I was like, no hard dogs go all the way down. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Like shoulders in. And it was actually the first time
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  Speaker 1: that she's done it. And the look on her face
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  Speaker 1: was hilarious. Ripped the air right out of her lungs.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It'll do that to you. She got out. She was
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  Speaker 1: full panic. Yeah. She got out. And then. I went
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  Speaker 1: and talked to her. She ran around, warmed up. I said, no,
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  Speaker 1: you got to do at least 10 seconds with your
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  Speaker 1: shoulders under. That's what hard dogs do. And she goes,
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  Speaker 1: I want to be mini hard dog.
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  Speaker 2: She's already found a way. She's like, let's just find
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  Speaker 2: the technicality. And isn't that, that's like all of our brains.
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  Speaker 2: That is what we all do is what a little
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  Speaker 2: five-year-old Grace is doing is we find a way to negotiate.
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  Speaker 2: That still counts. All right. But full sense. So today,
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  Speaker 2: like we're big on endurance. Obviously the Bible is massive
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  Speaker 2: on endurance. We're going to cover all this. And the
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  Speaker 2: question becomes like, how do I know when to endure
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  Speaker 2: and when to quit? Because it's not that you just go, well,
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  Speaker 2: once I start anything, I finish it.
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  Speaker 1: Because if you.
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  Speaker 2: Start the wrong thing, the wise thing to do is
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  Speaker 2: to realize it and to get back on course, right?
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  Speaker 2: Because running in the wrong direction is not a wise
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  Speaker 2: thing to do. And that sounds overly simplistic, but in life,
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  Speaker 2: it's a lot more complicated. So we're going to answer
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  Speaker 2: that question. There's a lot to it. Famous example of this, G,
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  Speaker 2: where I think it's so interesting. And this is where
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a little bit easier to to see
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  Speaker 2: whenever you look at like business, I think business is
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  Speaker 2: a great place where you go like, well, should I
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  Speaker 2: keep going? Because, you know, should you quit on your faith? No.
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  Speaker 2: Should you quit on your marriage?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: Like there's some things where it's very obvious, like that
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  Speaker 2: God has said, no, this is something that I've given you,
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  Speaker 2: but there's so much where it's like the application of
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  Speaker 2: endurance gets a little bit more complicated. Well, there's this
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  Speaker 2: little app that we all know and love called Instagram.
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  Speaker 2: And I didn't know this, but I was looking this up.
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  Speaker 2: Such an interesting story. Instagram actually started as an app
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  Speaker 2: called Bourbon, B-U-R-B-N. So Kevin Systrom, he built this HTMI5
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  Speaker 2: mobile app, which tells you how long ago it was.
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  Speaker 2: And basically, he had made this app. He got a $ 500, 000
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  Speaker 2: seed round where you could check in at locations. You
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  Speaker 2: could plan future plans and earn posts for outings. And
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  Speaker 2: then like you could share photos from the outings that
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  Speaker 2: you did. It was like a social app. And if
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  Speaker 2: you remember like Foursquare and some of these like check-in
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  Speaker 2: things were big in like late 2009, like early 2010 timeframes.
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  Speaker 2: So anyways, he launches this app. Unfortunately, it's like really
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  Speaker 2: complicated and people weren't really using it the way he
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  Speaker 2: wanted to. So it's looking like a failure. Okay. When
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  Speaker 2: to stick, when to twist. However, he noticed that a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people They weren't using the checking and planning tools,
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  Speaker 2: but they were sharing photos. And it was massively in
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  Speaker 2: favor of the sharing photos and very, very few people
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  Speaker 2: actually using what it was intended for. And so he
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  Speaker 2: was on a vacation with his partner at the time,
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  Speaker 2: and she wanted to share pictures. And he was like, well,
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  Speaker 2: why don't you put your pictures up on, I think
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  Speaker 2: it was Facebook. And she was like, well, my pictures
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  Speaker 2: don't look as good as everybody else's. So he had
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  Speaker 2: this brainwave. What if we could create a filter that
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  Speaker 2: that would make the pictures look better because remember camera
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  Speaker 2: quality is not super high, high in like 2009, 2010.
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  Speaker 2: What if we can make it look better? And while
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  Speaker 2: they're applying the filter, it's already uploading the photos so
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  Speaker 2: that it would make up for slow connection speeds. So he, he,
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  Speaker 2: he has this brainwave puts it in. It was the
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  Speaker 2: first filter they had, which I think was like X
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  Speaker 2: pro two. And so he comes out, he stripped 90%
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  Speaker 2: of the app that he'd spent $ 500, 000 and a lot
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  Speaker 2: of his time on and decide to go all in
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  Speaker 2: on this data of we're going to allow people to
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  Speaker 2: just share the Uh, pictures.
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  Speaker 1: An app that now you could have Claude do in
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  Speaker 1: 45 minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. That's the thing that's so funny is like you
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  Speaker 2: fast forward and you're like, how much time and effort
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  Speaker 2: did you spend on that? I could do that. I
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  Speaker 2: could talk that into Claude and make it happen. But
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  Speaker 2: the point being, so he, he basically strips it down
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  Speaker 2: to pictures, likes, and comments, launches it. And in the
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  Speaker 2: first month he gets 25,000 users. Like this doesn't really,
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  Speaker 2: I don't, this is what everybody wants. This isn't necessarily
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  Speaker 2: the way things always go. And then, uh, they, they
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  Speaker 2: then get acquired 18 months later by this company called
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  Speaker 2: Facebook for a billion dollars. And so like start off
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  Speaker 2: with a bourbon ad.
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  Speaker 1: Nice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's the story everybody wants is like, oh, I
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  Speaker 2: just found a little part to pivot and that's how
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  Speaker 2: we got there.
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  Speaker 1: Turned a bad idea into a billion dollar idea. Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And we all want that. However, I'm sure I could
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  Speaker 2: tell you 50 other stories of people who just kept
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  Speaker 2: going down the wrong line and ended up wasting even
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  Speaker 2: more money. And those are the stories that we're not telling.
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  Speaker 2: Like you hear a story about Instagram bourbon and you're like, oh, wow,
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  Speaker 2: that's amazing. So the question for everybody is like, how
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  Speaker 2: do you know when to stick? and when to pivot.
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  Speaker 1: This is actually the, I had one of my good
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  Speaker 1: friends asked me this question and I've been asked this
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  Speaker 1: question many times and I've helped a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: through like personal coaching answer this question. But I said,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, why don't we answer this question?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we've never covered it. Cause you said you're like,
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  Speaker 2: I was actually surprised. I thought we had, well, no,
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  Speaker 2: we've talked, I mean, you've got some solid endurance episodes.
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  Speaker 2: You're not going to ever miss out on us telling like, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: actually you need to endure, but there are times when
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  Speaker 2: you should quit. And, and that's really what we want
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  Speaker 2: to look at. And, and, um, Yeah, I think we
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  Speaker 2: should just dive into it, G. So first, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: first thing, endurance, man. Let's be the impossible life.
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  Speaker 1: That's who we are.
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  Speaker 2: What is endurance?
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  Speaker 1: Well, endurance is, you know, this comes from Scripture, and
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  Speaker 1: one of my favorite Scriptures is Scripture that guides me,
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  Speaker 1: that I think you get a lot of Scriptures in
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  Speaker 1: an entire story. It's helping reveal who God is, but
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  Speaker 1: there's pieces of Scripture that help you understand what does
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  Speaker 1: God want you to do? Why are you here? And
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  Speaker 1: one of those Scriptures that really is a strength to
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  Speaker 1: me is James 1. Consider it joy when you face
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  Speaker 1: struggles of any kind. Because this is an opportunity for
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  Speaker 1: your endurance to grow. And when your endurance is mature,
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  Speaker 1: you'll be complete and lacking nothing. What does God want
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  Speaker 1: for you? He wants your endurance to mature, to become complete.
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  Speaker 1: And what endurance is, is the Greek word hypomone, which
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  Speaker 1: means to stay under the weight. It's pretty important that you...
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  Speaker 1: God wants you to be strong. God wants you to
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  Speaker 1: have the ability to carry weight. Doesn't mean God wants
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  Speaker 1: you to do it all by yourself. What it does
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  Speaker 1: mean is God's like, look, I'm already infinitely strong. I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to get you to pick up more than one
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  Speaker 1: bag of flour at a time. And the way that
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  Speaker 1: I look at endurance is endurance, you can think it's like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's just being hard dog, being tough guy. It's more
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  Speaker 1: than that. Yes, you need strength. You need perseverance. But
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  Speaker 1: endurance isn't just refusing to quit the way that I
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  Speaker 1: want to talk about endurance, the way that I want
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  Speaker 1: to set it up today. Endurance is really about refusing
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  Speaker 1: to abandon what's worth suffering for. Yeah. Because this is
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  Speaker 1: the life that Christ has called us to. It's not
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  Speaker 1: a call to pointless suffering. It's a call to significant,
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  Speaker 1: very meaningful suffering. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I think to the episode we did with Dr. Robbie,
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  Speaker 2: and we really are so blessed because we do have
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  Speaker 2: a very clear filter for what's worth suffering for. And
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  Speaker 2: we're called to it. Hebrews 12, 1 and 2 is
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  Speaker 2: a phenomenal scripture for this. And I want to highlight,
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  Speaker 2: this is after the Hall of Faith. If you know
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  Speaker 2: Hebrews 11, they list out all these great things that
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  Speaker 2: happen in the Bible and talk about these people who
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  Speaker 2: by faith, by faith they overcame, they conquered, and it's like, yes,
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  Speaker 2: all this inspiration. So you have this whole chapter laid
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  Speaker 2: out about all these people who were Enoch, taken up
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  Speaker 2: because he pleased God, like Abraham, the father of faith,
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  Speaker 2: all these people. And then this is the conclusion of it,
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  Speaker 2: like the reasoning, Hebrews 12, 1 and 2. Therefore, since
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  Speaker 2: we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses... Like,
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  Speaker 2: we are told to endure. It's very clear. Like, we're
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  Speaker 2: not put in for a life of ease and.
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  Speaker 1: And Jesus didn't come here to hard dog flex.
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  Speaker 2: Right, no.
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  Speaker 1: Verse two, for the joy that was set before him
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  Speaker 1: endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at
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  Speaker 1: the right hand of the throne of God. He knew
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  Speaker 1: why he was doing it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: There was a purpose to it. Yeah. And there's a
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  Speaker 1: purpose for our endurance, right? There's a purpose for why
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  Speaker 1: God put you on the earth, okay? God put you
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  Speaker 1: here for a reason... God wants you to do something
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  Speaker 1: with your life. And that's different for all of us.
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  Speaker 1: I can't tell everyone at the same time what we're
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  Speaker 1: all called to do. But for each of us, we
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  Speaker 1: are all called to a form of endurance. And part
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  Speaker 1: of what's meaningful and purposeful in that is that endurance,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to develop our character. It's going to develop
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  Speaker 1: our capacity. It's going to develop our faithfulness. These are
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  Speaker 1: things God wants to strengthen in you. So endurance is
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  Speaker 1: this ability to carry weight. And then why we endure
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  Speaker 1: is it's this development in us, development of the strength
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  Speaker 1: of our character, development of our capacity. It's not just
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  Speaker 1: carrying weight, but it's carrying weight with a purpose. That's
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  Speaker 1: what you were called to do. We're here to serve.
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  Speaker 1: We're here to build. We're here to grow. We're here
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  Speaker 1: to become who God's called us to be. You're not
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  Speaker 1: just going to float around on the earth. Because if
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  Speaker 1: you float around on the earth, if your life's all
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  Speaker 1: about you, if you're just selfish, you're going to live
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  Speaker 1: a miserable life. You're going to miss the purpose of
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  Speaker 1: your life. You're going to be empty on the inside.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And we all know that. Like logically that sounds good,
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  Speaker 2: but man, rationale is a killer G because rationale in
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  Speaker 2: the moment is telling me like, oh, but this doesn't
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  Speaker 2: make sense. It would be a lot more like, of
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  Speaker 2: course you're going to do this. Remember we talked about
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  Speaker 2: selfishness is being appealed to all the time in our society.
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  Speaker 2: But so we said, you said endurance develops character, capacity,
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  Speaker 2: and faithfulness. And also, also Jesus talks about in the
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  Speaker 2: parable of the sower, it develops your fruitfulness. Like everybody,
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  Speaker 2: when you hear, you know, produces 30, 60, a hundred fold,
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  Speaker 2: we're like, yeah, like we want to be that guy.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it's so interesting when Jesus gives the
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  Speaker 2: parable of the sowers, I'm so grateful that we have
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  Speaker 2: in scripture some of their private conversations because he talks
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  Speaker 2: to them. He goes, hey, I speak to them so
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  Speaker 2: that hearing they would not understand and seeing they would
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  Speaker 2: not see. And he's like, but I'll explain it to
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  Speaker 2: you because the mysteries of heaven have been revealed. So
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  Speaker 2: he talks about this parable of the sower, sows on
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  Speaker 2: bad ground, it gets stolen, you know, sows up, sows
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  Speaker 2: another place, it grows up and then the weeds choke
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  Speaker 2: it out, sows up another place, the sun scorches it.
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  Speaker 2: And then there's one soil that like produces. And so
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  Speaker 2: we're like, yeah, I want to be that soil. And
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  Speaker 2: he tells them in Luke 8, 15, he says, as
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  Speaker 2: for that in the good soil, these are the people
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  Speaker 2: we want to be. They are those who hearing the word,
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  Speaker 2: hold it fast in an honest and good heart and
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  Speaker 2: bear fruit with what? Dang it. Well, darn. Can I
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  Speaker 2: be like, I wanted the super grow soil, Jesus, that like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it grows 10 years worth of soil in
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  Speaker 2: one year. And it's just not the way. And I
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  Speaker 2: think there's actually an argument to be made. When you
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  Speaker 2: look at what stole from those other soils, I think
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  Speaker 2: that's the condition of all men. I really think you
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  Speaker 2: have to pass all those soils. Are the cares of
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  Speaker 2: this life going to try and choke out what God's
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  Speaker 2: put in you?
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  Speaker 3: 100%.
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  Speaker 2: Right. You know, are doubts going to come along?
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  Speaker 1: 100%.
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  Speaker 2: That's good. And like, it's not until you learn that, hey,
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  Speaker 2: this is going to be with endurance and that I'm
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  Speaker 2: actually going to bear fruit that you can actually run.
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  Speaker 1: And in the context of soil, you know, like where,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because I talk about all the time and
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  Speaker 1: it's a verse I stand on, Galatians 6, 8, God
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  Speaker 1: will not be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And so, you know what that means? That means sometimes, like,
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a very strong and deliberate verse. God
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  Speaker 1: will not be mocked. Yeah. So what it's saying is like,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you feel like you're being mocked, right? Like, man,
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  Speaker 1: why isn't it working?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. It's not working because you have to give it longer.
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  Speaker 1: And God's saying, I promise you the seed that is
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  Speaker 1: sowed correctly will grow. Yeah. He's saying, I will not
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  Speaker 1: be mocked in that. So don't stand on yourself. You
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  Speaker 1: need to stand on me and understand this is the
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  Speaker 1: way things work. And if you've sowed correctly and the
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  Speaker 1: harvest has not come yet, you know what that means?
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  Speaker 1: Means you need to be patient. Yeah. So, okay.
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  Speaker 2: So we've touched on like a little, like, I love
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  Speaker 2: that you pulled out the part where it says for
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  Speaker 2: the joy set before him, he endured. So, cause I mean, I, I,
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  Speaker 2: I've often thought about that. What would someone, what would
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  Speaker 2: you need to know to be like, you're going to
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  Speaker 2: die the most brutal death possible? Like, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: that we kill people as brutal as they used to
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  Speaker 2: even nowadays.
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  Speaker 1: And that's James one, consider it. You have to be
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  Speaker 1: able to see it that way. And this is all
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  Speaker 1: stuff that we've talked about before, right? For, for the
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  Speaker 1: amazing audience that we have here, We don't need to,
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  Speaker 1: I would say, necessarily convince you to endure. We're just
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  Speaker 1: covering some of that today. You know why endurance is important.
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: You believe what Scripture says. But really the question we're
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: answering today that I think is a question many people,
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: it's like, man, I'm serving after God. I want to
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: live a life of purpose. But is what I'm doing
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: what I'm supposed to be doing? Do I keep going
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: down this road or do I pivot? Yeah.
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: So how should we endure? I guess is the obvious question.
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm going to answer the how to know I'm
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: enduring for the right thing. but first I want to
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: talk about how we're supposed to endure in general. Endurance
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: isn't just like, well, I just lace up my sneakers
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: and I dry scoop some pre-workout and bang my head
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: against the concrete and then I just go hit the
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: pavement and I run and I grind it out. That's
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: what endurance can look like, but I want to get
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: into what endurance really is. One of the key pieces
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: of endurance is conviction. You need to have Like your
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: endurance has to come from a meaningful place. And so
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: when I say how we should endure, I just said
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: how to not, you know, just dry scoop, pre-workout and
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: go hard dog, right? Really what an endurance has to
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: come from a meaningful place, but it also has to
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: have the humility to not do the wrong thing. So
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: you've got to have the conviction to keep going, but
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: you've got to have the humility to quit when you're
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: doing the wrong thing, right? Because If there's ego in it,
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: that's not really endurance. And a lot of people, like
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: ego is like anger. It works for a time. And
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: so people, they unfortunately eat from this thing that you
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: shouldn't eat from and it makes them feel stronger temporarily.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: And then they continue to do it because like, well,
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: it got me here. So I should keep doing this.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: And ego and anger, they don't come from a meaningful place.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: They come from a prideful place. And so then what
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: they do is they continue to take you down the
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: wrong road. And that's where sometimes people, ego has taken
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: them down a road, and then they're trying to answer
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: a question that humility is supposed to answer. And this
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: becomes a very tough question. So anyways, how we should endure,
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: it's not about rigidity either, okay? Like you have to
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: have the will to keep going, but you can't get
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: married to the route, right? This is the difference between
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: consistency and rigidity. Like I'm gonna keep going in what
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: God's called me to do, but maybe, you know, Right.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: For the vision here of the impossible life. What's the
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: vision of the impossible life, Nick? Change the mindset of
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: what it means to be a godly man. Okay. And
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: right now we're doing that via podcasts and we have
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: no plans to change that. But let me just use
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: that as an example of there's a lot of different
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: ways that we could shift the mindset. Yeah. Okay. And
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: like say podcast media went away or something like that.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: I don't know. We would have the ability. It's like, okay,
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: we're still called to that mission.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: But we're going to change the method that we do.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: This is the difference between consistency and rigidity. And I
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: think a lot of people get stuck in the endurance
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: question is because they're very rigid. Like, well, I have
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: to do this and the business has to be this.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: And a lot of the things I'll answer this question
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: today and talk about this will be in relation to
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: a business because I think this is where a lot
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: of people ask this specific question. How do I know
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: if I should keep going or if I should quit?
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: I think a lot of people ask that as it
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: relates to a job or a business that they've started.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm glad you said that because some things,
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: like I said in the beginning, you're not called to
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: quit your faith. And there's some things that are so obvious.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: It's like, well, I don't think I need to go
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: to church. Okay, this is not a podcast for you.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: That's just undeniable. You need to be in church. The
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: only thing that Jesus established on the earth was the church,
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: so you.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Need to be in church.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: But it's all those ancillary things where you're like, is
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: this a good thing? Is this the best thing? Is
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: this a bad thing that looks like a good thing?
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: And that's where it gets so confusing. So you said
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: don't confuse consistency with rigidity and you've got to have
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: the humility to quit the wrong thing. And that's where
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: I think that it becomes very tough because the hard
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: part about ego and selfishness is that it's very deceptive.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: It doesn't come along and go like I'm selfishness and
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: you just go, well, you know what?
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: I don't care. I'll take it anyways.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: It comes along and like it strokes some rationale. It
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: strokes some feelings. And now your lens has been changed.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: You're like, this actually looks like, yeah, I think this
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: is a good thing. And it's not until you get
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: down the road that you're like, how did I get here?
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: And so we're trying to identify that, how did I
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: get here, way before you start down the road.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Ego seems great, but it becomes spiritual debt in your life.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: You're having to, it's like, man, I dug myself into
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: a hole with this wrong way of living, this wrong
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: way of behavior. What it comes down to is you've
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: got it. So what is endurance? Endurance is willingness, continuing
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: of suffering. Okay. So what it comes down to is
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: you got to be able to identify what is the
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: core thing that is worth suffering for. Okay. Because what
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: ego's about you, like ego sometimes will drive you past
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: these barriers where you're saying like, okay, this will help
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: me get what I want. But if it's all about you,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: so you'll come to a place where the suffering is like, dude,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: whatever I thought I wanted, it's not worth it anymore.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: You've got to have something that's more important than you
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: that's worth suffering for. So you've got to be able
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: to identify what is the core thing that I'm willing
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: to suffer for. Then you can continue to endure the
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: mission and potentially adapt the methods. You used the hook
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: in the beginning around the Instagram story, but I think
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: there's so many experiences. we have in life where it's like, okay,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: maybe I've got to shift this or pivot that, but
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: I can continue to pursue what matters. Yeah.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: You know, I think the, and this is, you know,
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit convicts the world of sin as I'm
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: walking on, because, you know, we're not the finished article
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: by any stretch of the imagination on this podcast. We're
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: running our race and we know that, you know, God's
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: constantly got us in process. The more I walk the
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit and the more you get more sensitive to
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit's conviction, the more I become aware of
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: areas where I'm selfish. Dude, it sucks, man. I'm just
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: being real. It sucks because I'm like, how am I
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: so selfish? I'm disappointed in myself. But I find that
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit, because you said you've got to say
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: what's worth suffering for, what's the mission, and the humility
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: to quit the wrong thing. Well, the more that you
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: become sensitive to the Holy Spirit's leading. So how is that?
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: It's prayer. It's prayer. It's time with God. It's being
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: around others. It's true. It's like doing all the basics
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: for a long time. Like anything, the more you get
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: to know somebody, the more you get to know the
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit and you relate with God, the more that
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: he's going to start to convict you on things and
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: you're going to see your motive for things. And oftentimes
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: it's a good thing. And I've talked about if this
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: podcast ever becomes about like, well, how many followers could
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: we get? And it becomes about anything other than us
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: being faithful. We're wrong. And I'd be lying if I
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: said I haven't had times of prayer where I felt
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: like the Holy Spirit said, you're looking at the wrong thing.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: And I've had to repent.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: And so that, that I'm sharing this with the audience
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: because I want this to be real and I want
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: this to be helpful.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: That's a great example of the, you know, rigidity.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Not getting stuck on like, well, it has to be
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: this way. Like it has to be about this thing.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: And I think when, I think people encounter that barrier
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: sometimes and they think like, oh, this is endurance. And
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: so I'll just fight through this. That's not actually the
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: thing you're supposed to be fighting for, fighting through. So
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: I'm going to give three qualities that attempt to put strong,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: healthy endurance in a box that we can understand. So
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: three qualities here of strong, healthy endurance. Number one is conviction.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Conviction is you can say, I know why this matters.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: I know why this is worth suffering for. You don't
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: want it to say, it's like, well, I've just been
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: doing this for a long time. That's not conviction. Conviction
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: is you can Doesn't matter what price you've paid. You
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: can look at it today and say, this is still
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: worth paying the price for. Yeah. Because otherwise you're, you're, you're, you're,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: you're trying to like when people put seed in the ground, like, well,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: I've already spent so much on this seed. That's not
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: the right mentality. You've got to be able to say,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: I know why this is worth doing. This is still
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: worth doing even today. And I think this is where
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: a lot of people get stuck. Again, this is more
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: related to business is if you, if you're saying, I
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: know why this matters or I know why this is
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: worth the pain. If the answer to that is money, well,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: at some point, like the money doesn't change. Like there's
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: inflation on, or sorry, deflation on the value of the
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: money here. When, you know, you're thinking, let's just use
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: easy numbers here. Like, okay, if I can do this,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: I'll make a million dollars.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Right. And this was, you know, spend six months working,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: you know, an extra 40 hours a week on my
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: part-time business. And this will get me on the path
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: to a million dollars. What about when you're on year four? Right.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: And you're still chasing after the same goal of getting
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: your business to a certain place and making a million dollars,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: but you've spent a long time on it now. If
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: the pain is worth the money and the pain keeps
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: going up, but the money doesn't go up, eventually you
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: get to a point where you're like, hey, this isn't
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: worth it. Yes.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: I think you just described, and this is where I
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: so appreciate when we did the Purpose Driven Profit Accelerator,
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: how much you highlighted That businesses don't exist to make money.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: They exist to solve problems. And I think that that
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: simple phrase, as you often succinctly say things, they don't
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: exist to make money. They exist to solve problems. Because
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: so many people, they're solving their own personal problem of
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: money rather than a problem that actually needs to be solved.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: They get to that point, and they run out of–
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: they never had purpose fuel. They had pain and pleasure fuel,
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: and it just runs out. And I think that's where
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: a lot of people will get so far down the
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: road and figure the question.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Well, because then at year four, people are saying, you know,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: if I ask you the question, is it still worth it?
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: The wrong answer is, well, if it's going to take
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: me another two years from here, then yeah, you're going
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: to quit. You're going to fail. When after you've been
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: doing it for four years and you thought it was
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: going to take one year and I say, you know,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: is it still worth it? You start talking to me
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: about why the problem that you're solving is so important.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: You're going down the right road. This comes back to,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: This is one of the things I first identified in
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: talking to students who quit.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Right. Talk to the ones who made it. How did
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: you make it through hell week? One of the most
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: difficult weeks in all of military training in the world.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: How did you do it? When the answer they give
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: you is about someone else, it makes sense why they're there.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: And you talk to the people who quit. Why did
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: you quit? Their answer starts with, well, I, they talk
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: about themselves.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: When, And it's not like saying, oh, well, if I
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: just don't talk about myself, then I'll make it. No,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: it's what you focus on. It's the conviction. Yeah. When
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: you have conviction, you're willing. Why did Jesus endure the cross?
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: For the joy that was set before him. What was
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: the joy? To rescue the people that he loved.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: It wasn't about him.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: And I mean, well said.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Keep going, man. I just think it's so true. So
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: number two here. So the first piece of strong, healthy
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: endurance is conviction. Number two is adaptability. Okay. You've got
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: to have some flexibility in how you get there. And
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: this isn't, you would think this is a human quality,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: but also look at the story of God and humanity. Yeah.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Like we've talked about this before on
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: the journey of your purpose. It's not a tightrope. It
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: is the, you know, it's the multiverse in that God
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: has like, every time you screwed up, God's like, it's okay.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: There's another path.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: There's another path. He can continually fold in. Here's how
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: we get you to what a purposeful life is for you.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: God is not stuck in one place in time and
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: we have to, that's not us, but we got to
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: have flexibility and really what the thing is about, right?
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: When you know what is worth suffering for, what's the
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: key thing that matters, then you're going to be able
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: to say, okay, the destination is more important than the route.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: But when you have an ego problem, you get stuck
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: on like, no, but I said it was going to
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: be this and I need the business, you know, because
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: ego starts telling you, well, if I changed it, you know,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: I said this, I made these ego statements in the
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: past about this business. And so if I change the plan,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Then I make myself look bad, and you don't really
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: know what's worth suffering for.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: And as a highlight, a point of awareness for anybody
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: out there, especially in faith, anytime you start to get
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: to the point where you're like, no, it has to
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: be this way, and it's about anything other than Jesus
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Christ as the way to the Father, you should really
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: step back and think about what you're doing, because most
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: likely you're wrong. And the reason I say that is
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: because I've done this myself. like oftentimes we want to
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: figure things out.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: So like, I've looked at like, what's a normal salvation.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Like what does salvation actually require? And so like, I
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: wanted to find this prototypical, like this is, this is
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: how we really need to get people saved because then
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: they'll last and they'll, they'll walk with God. And like,
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: that's a, sounds like a great logical thought process wanting
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: to do a good thing. And then I go into
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: scripture and I'm like, Oh wait, this Ethiopian guy that like,
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: I think it was Philip just kind of rolled up
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: on while he was reading Isaiah, led him to the Lord.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: And then the spirit whisked them away. And I'm like, well,
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Who discipled that guy? Because in my mind, it's like, no,
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: we've got to get people in for discipleship. He just
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: got whisked away. And then there's other people. It's like, well,
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: we had the baptism of John. Well, you didn't even
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: get the Holy Spirit. I'm going to lay hands. There's
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: different ways. I want to have it. You come in.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: This is exactly what happens. I want to do industrialization Christianity. Why?
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Because I want to control it. At the root of it,
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: what that is, is that's a sense of control. And
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: what you just described about saying God always has another way,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: That's what actual power looks like, is you do whatever
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: you want, and I'm still going to win. I'm still
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: going to make things happen. And that's the God that
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: we serve. So like I said, if you're going to
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: be rigid about one thing, this is the only thing,
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: be rigid that Jesus Christ is God's Son, and there's
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: no other way to the Father than through Him. Other
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: than that, we need to have an openness about how
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: we consider things. Because the more rigid you get, what
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: you'll find is you start to operate in your own
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: strength instead of being led by the Holy Spirit.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: And you start trying to tell God how to do
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: his job. Yeah.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: I don't ever want to do that. Even you saying
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: that makes me shudder. So let's keep going.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: And the third quality. So we have conviction, we have adaptability.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: And these things together, I would say, turn into this
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: third quality.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Which is a sense of surrender. Yeah. You have to be...
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: And here's the part that you're surrendering. You have to
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: be fully committed... To, okay, here's what I'm doing. Here's
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: why it matters so much. Here's the price that I'm
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: willing to pay. You've got to be fully committed to that.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Have the endurance. I'm just going to keep going on
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: this without being, and this is the part that you
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: have to surrender. This is the part that you're giving
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: up without being emotionally committed to the outcome. Yeah. And
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: that's where like people keep making this value equation in
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: their head. I'll do it as long as I can
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: get this. But as soon as the other side of
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: this transaction starts going quiet on me and not continuing
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: to reassure me that I'm going to get what I
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: thought I was going to get for the work that
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: I'm putting in, then that's when people get upset and
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: they quit and they back away. Surrender is saying, this is,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: you know, and this is, it's like God's covenant with us.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: I'll do my part even if you don't do yours.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: God invites us into, it's an opportunity. God's always going
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: to do his part. but he's inviting us to learn
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  Speaker 1: how to do that with the life that he's called
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: us to. Look at your purpose and say, I'll serve
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  Speaker 1: you even if you don't serve me back.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, so good. And that's, we've quoted it before,
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  Speaker 2: it's Job, though he slay me, yet my hope will
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: be in him.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: It's Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Our God will deliver us
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  Speaker 2: from this fire and can deliver us from your hand.
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  Speaker 2: But even if he doesn't, know that we will not
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: bow down. Like, come on, man. That is like the
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: right level of.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Of endurance. G.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: So that's the right thing. Yeah, it's impractical. This is
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: how you should endure. Let me talk about what enduring
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: for the wrong thing looks like, and then I'm going
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: to do the best I can to give you some
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: filters to understand how to endure for the right things.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: But what does wrong endurance look like? We made some
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: joking analogy to it earlier but I'm going to put
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: this into a few categories here. Number one is ego endurance, right?
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Ego endurance is when like you get so locked in,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: you're protecting your identity, you're protecting your ego. You're not
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: pursuing the goal anymore. You're just saying, I don't want
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: to be wrong. And you get this, everything starts becoming about,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: you know, you versus them. And there's so, I see
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: so much of this ego content on Instagram. You know,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: it's people put it in different ways, but it's just
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: the me versus the world. And like, I got to
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: beat them. You know, they're against us. You know, DJ Khaled. Yeah, dude.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Like always talking about they. Who's they?
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Dude, they block. I got you some of that for
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: your birthday.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Who's they? Like, you know, if I give, they don't
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: want us to win. Who is they? Right. This is
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: a war with your ego. Yeah.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: This is like you want to. The people who are
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: creating that content, they actually want what I'm trying to
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: teach you how to do. When you get mission focused,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: you do not care about any of, there is no
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: more they. And that's really like the cool guys on
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Instagram are trying to pretend like, you know, I don't
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: care about them. Okay. When you actually live a mission
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  Speaker 1: focused life, when you're doing what God puts you on
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: the earth to do, they disappear. Yeah.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: Well, this is a whole T-shirt industry. There's like T-shirts
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: that say you can insert whatever versus everybody. And you
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: wear that and it's kind of like, yeah, like us
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: versus the world. And like you see this in sports.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: He just created a siege mentality. Everybody was against us.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: And guess what? Those guys win championships. So seemingly that
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: is a route to get what you want, which isn't
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: that the nature of ego, to get.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: What you want. Yeah, but then they get it. and
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: it's not what they wanted.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: Steve Weatherford, Adam on our podcast, said it was the
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: most empty day of his life when he won the
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so wrong type of endurance is ego endurance. And
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: you get to this place where you stop pursuing the
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: original goal. I think a lot of times we'll start
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: with a pure heart or a semi-pure heart. We think
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: we're doing the right thing, but then we keep using
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: ego fuel to keep us going because we're scared and
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: we're frustrated and we don't know how to keep moving forward.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: We're scared to trust in God, so we ego fuel
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: our way forward. And then that becomes the entire goal
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: is just protecting your ego. Yeah, man. This is an
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: endurance that shatters your life, right? Number two type of
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: wrong endurance. And this is, you know, people call it
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: the sunk cost fallacy. I'm just talking about sunk cost
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: endurance here. We're just like, man, I've put too much
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: into this, so I just can't stop.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: And this is where I think sometimes people are asking
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: this question. They start thinking like, man, have I put
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: too much into this and should I stop?
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Right. Am I, am I, am I doing the wrong thing?
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Let me give you a question that this, I wouldn't
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: say this will answer it for a hundred percent of
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: people that are stuck in this place, but this will
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: help many of you. Cause this is both a question
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: that'll help the sunk cost and help the ego issue.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: But the question is this, if I started over, knowing,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: like if you could go back in time, knowing everything
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: that you know now, would you still choose this? If
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: you could go back in, if you could start over,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: go back in time, back up five years ago, 10
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: years ago, would you still go down this road? Because
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: that's a question that's going to, if you feel like
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: the answer is no, you're going to feel like, man, no,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: I've been like pouring money into something and I know
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: it's not going to amount to anything. But if you
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: are less concerned about the value equation of the transaction
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: and you're more focused on why you're doing what you're doing,
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: you're going to say like, no, I would still do
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: the same thing. I mean, like hopefully I would, hopefully
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: I'd be in a different place than where I am.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: I'd do some things differently, but I wouldn't not choose
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: this road.
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: I hope people are gathering what you're putting down here, G,
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: because I think what people want is you want them
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: to give you like an exact filter. So you can
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: go like, here's all the stuff I need to cut out.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: And here's all the stuff I need to keep doing.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Well, this is a wisdom question. You're asking, you're asking
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: me to answer a wisdom question for you. All I
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: can do is give you wisdom. Proverbs says to prize wisdom.
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: If you ask me for the answer, you're asking for certainty.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: The same way that people got into these problems is
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: because they were looking for certainty.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: Well, right. And what you're saying, if people aren't picking
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: this up, it's something you've said on this podcast many times.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: You said God doesn't care as much about what you
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: do as he does about why you're doing it.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Why you're doing it.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: And so when we're talking about endurance and what to quit,
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: you'll notice we keep coming back to the scripture we
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: gave you, why you're doing it.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: He endured the cross. It's exactly why Jesus rebuked the Pharisees.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: You're trying to do the right thing for the wrong reason,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: and Christ will rebuke you all the same in your
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: pursuit of your purpose when you're trying to ask God, like,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: You know, what dance do I got to do for
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: you to make it rain? And he says, seek me
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: with all your heart.
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: And then I'll get the blessing? No, no, that's not
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: all your heart. Seek me with all your heart.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: And then by the time, yeah.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: It's the willingness where Abraham said, it says in Hebrews
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: that Abraham supposed God would bring Isaac back from the dead.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: You're asking me to give up the thing that's most
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: valuable to me, and I don't know.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: If I could or how I would ever get it back. Yeah,
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: and let me just encourage everybody. God is so much
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: better than we can imagine. Like, however good you hope
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: God is, he's better than that. I was reflecting on
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: my life because I had a trip back to San
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Diego recently, and I was saying, like, I'm so grateful
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: for brokenness. I was talking to a new guy at
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: Mighty Man yesterday, and I was saying one of the
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: best things you can have when you come into this
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: place is to know that your ways aren't working. Because
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: when you're broken and you know that your life's not working,
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: you're now open to listening. And when you're opening to
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: listening and you seek God from that place, of like, Lord,
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: just tell me. Like, I just need you. He meets you.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: And I look at our life now, six years into
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: being here in Elevate Life Church and everything that we've done,
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: and I said to Rena, I was like, this is
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: so much better than I ever would. Like, if you
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: would have had me write the script before we moved
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: out here, or even at any point in my life previous,
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: I would have never written as good as what we have.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: And it's so humbling, because it's not me. It's just like,
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: I just want to remind people, God is so good.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: All the things that make you want to hold on
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: to what you think you want, and uncertainties and your fears,
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: those are things that are robbing you from what God
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: actually has for you, which is so much better. Like
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: you said, when you live with purpose, you never know emptiness.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: And so many people live with what looks like a
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: great life, and they know emptiness so well. And so
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: I just want to remind people, we serve a great God.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: He's good all the time. He's better than you can
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: hope for or imagine. He's able to do exceedingly abundantly
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: above more than you can ask, think, or imagine, like
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: it says in Ephesians 3. So I just want to
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: remind people, we serve a good and loving God. So Well,
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: I just felt like I wanted to put that in there, Gene,
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: because it's a revelation to me.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: Get it.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Okay. So last thing here on what wrong endurance looks
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: like is a fear-based endurance. And maybe you're thinking like, well,
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: that's not me. I'm afraid that it's not going to
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: work out, but fear is certainly not what's keeping me going. Well,
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: what this turns in, a lot of people get stuck
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: in something because they're afraid of how difficult it's going
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: to be to change. Yeah. Right? This is... Yeah, so good.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: I'm going to stay... I have a miserable known future... Um,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: and to me, because I have a lack of courage,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: it's better than an unknown future. Yeah.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: It's our quote that we love from the newest matrix
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: where he says 99% of the people are stuck between
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: the fear of losing what they have and the fear
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: of going for what they really want.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: I remember when he said that in the movie, I
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: was like, like that just jumped out at me.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Don't get stuck on the wrong path because you're afraid
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: of the price it's going to take to get onto
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: the right path. It's a fear-based endurance. So Miserable known
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: future to you is better than an unknown future. Anytime
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: fear is driving you, you're not going to like where
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: it takes you.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: Ain't that the truth.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: All right, G.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: So that's what enduring for the wrong things looks like.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: It's ego endurance. It's sunk costs. It's fear based. So
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: I think this is I'm excited for you to deliver this.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: How to know you're enduring for the right thing. There
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: are some great filter questions because what you're really trying
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: to figure out is what's my motives, right? Because as
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: we've said, that's what's underlying this.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Again, it really comes like it's been some of my
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: revelation in my life. God doesn't care. It's from scripture.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: God doesn't care what you do so much, near as
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: much as he cares why you do what you do.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: And this is the same faith that took for you
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: to follow God. Like, hey, I just got to throw
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: myself into this. You got to have this ability to
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: keep putting yourself into the fire. And where many people,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: you've got to understand, what does the opposition say to this?
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: People who oppose God. They say, I don't want to
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: believe in a God. I don't want to believe in
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: a God who thinks that the only way for him
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: to love me is that I would have to believe
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: in him without any of the evidence.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: Okay. This is an argument of the opposition. And it's
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: easy to make an argument for one on something that
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: you've never experienced before. Or as the great poet Chris
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Brown says, how are you going to hate from outside
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: the club? You can't even get in.
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: Boom. Boom.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: I don't know why that popped in my head. I'm
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: glad it did. I thought it aligned well. But the
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: point being, that argument, one, they've never experienced it, but two, really,
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: here's the point that I wanted to make. You, like
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: when this is us, we do this, like this is
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: the opposition, this is the negative side, and I'm trying
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: to highlight it so you don't ever... You realize, I
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: don't wanna be that. It's people who aren't God trying
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: to define what glory is.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: 100%. What can you really.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Like, truly... It's humans who can't even control their own
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: emotions trying to be the one who says, well, I
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: know better what good is. Goes all the way back
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: to the garden where Adam and Eve, they didn't eat
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: from the tree of evil. They didn't eat from the
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: tree of sin. They ate from the tree of the
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: knowledge of good and evil. So now instead of just
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: standing on what God says, now that you've eaten from
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you say, well,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: I should be able to say what good is. And
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: this is exactly the same argument that people make for
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: the most terrible argument murderous things happening in the world today,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: such as abortion, well, the mother should be able to choose.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: I should be able to say what's right. And this
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: is where you give up your life. This is where
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: you lose the opportunity to understand what God put you
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: on the earth for. You can keep saying you're right
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: all you want. It's never going to make it true.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: And you'll just live a life of emptiness. So what
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: I'm saying is the other side of this is realizing
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: that the greatest thing I could ever experience, right? And
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: it's living a life of faith where, I don't know
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: if you've ever had this experience in your life. I
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: had this experience recently where I believed in something I
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: knew was right, and I had to wait years to
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: get the answer for it. And when you get the
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: answer for it, it's very fulfilling, okay? And this is
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: what God gives us the opportunity. Live for what you
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: know is right. Because the other side of that could
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: be like, hey, I'll just, you know, I'll force you
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: to love me. I'll fully reveal myself to you and
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: just tell you how I'm God. Then after that, because
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: you didn't choose it, you just have to believe me
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: when I tell you I'm a loving God. Or I'll
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: give you the chance to come to know me yourself.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: I'll allow you to choose me. Then when you realize
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: who God is and you choose it yourself, you can
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: receive his love in a way that you never could
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: have if it was just forced upon you. That's no
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: real relationship. So God gives us... I'm just giving you
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: some understanding. Why does it have to be this way?
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: This is the best way it could be. God gives
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: you the opportunity... to choose to know Him, experience His love,
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: and come to be with Him, God gives you the opportunity,
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: the same thing with your purpose. Instead of it just
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: being forced upon you, showing you all of the plans
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: and telling you everything else you were gonna do was stupid,
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: God says, I'll give you the opportunity to know me
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: deeper through choosing a life and walking down a path
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: where the only way you'll get down to the end,
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: it's not performative, it's not about how high you can jump,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: but how high can you jump when you trust me, right?
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: And so if you'll listen to me completely... If you'll
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: follow me, it's the only way that you can unlock
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: this door. The only key that will unlock the door
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: of your destiny is having faith. There's nothing else that
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: you can do. It's exactly what Jesus said to the Pharisees.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: You're doing this for the wrong reasons. You think you
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: can perform your way into heaven. Yeah.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: And what you said, G, so good, man. I have
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: thought about this. I wish we could see all the
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: alternative paths of running the scenarios, right? If we could
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: run them all And then realize that we're in the
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: best ones. I think it would give us such a
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: greater gratitude for how God operates because it's natural to
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: have questions. But the more I go on, the more
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: I realize how much God does things for our good.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: Like you sit there and you go like, oh, well,
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: if you did it the way I want, actually that
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: wouldn't work out. Like I was talking, I had a
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: conversation with my little seven-year-old. And he was saying, I
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: don't think I would make a very good God. And
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: I was like, that's a really insightful comment for a seven-year-old.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: So I'm walking into Academy Sports talking about how I'm like,
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: you know what? I'm glad God's God. And he's like, yeah,
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: we wouldn't be very good. I'm like, no, we wouldn't, man.
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: Because he was thinking about what he would do if
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: he was God.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: He's like, I'd smash everything.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: Well, 100%.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, geez, yeah. We'd all be smote.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: Like there'd be no world because he would smite us all,
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: as would I.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: I would be a terrible God.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: All right, Sajid, how to know?
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: How to know if I'm enduring for the right things?
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: What I've got here, again, this is a wisdom question
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: that you're asking. How do I know I'm going down
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: the right road?
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: Because really, it's the right reasons. Not am I doing
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: the right thing? Am I doing something for the right reasons?
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: So all I can do is try to give you
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: some wisdom. So I've got five tests here. I'm going
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: to explain these tests. These are tests for yourself. It's filters.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: It's filters. how to look at yourself, how to look
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: at the path that you're walking down and say, okay,
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: am I doing the right thing? Not one of these
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: alone holds all of the, it's not entirely binary where
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: it's like, okay, if you failed test one, then you're
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: doing the wrong thing or you're doing the right thing.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: But all of these should reveal it to you, make
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: it easier for you to understand, am I going in
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: the right direction or am I walking down the wrong path?
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: So here we go. Number one is the value test.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: Something my dad said to me, so you can have
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: anything you want in life, if you're willing to pay
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: the price for it. It's part of the infinite potential unlock.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: You can have anything you want if you're willing to
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: pay the price for it. So the question always is,
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: is the price worth it? Is the price worth it?
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: And so this really, it's a value test. It's a
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: value question. And the value changes based upon what you value.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: This is like what I was talking about earlier, where
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: you're in this business, like, okay, I'll do this for
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: a year if it equals this. And so you have
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: predetermined the value of money. It's worth a year of work.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: Then you've done a year of work and you did
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: not get the money and you're saying, well, it's not
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: worth the price anymore. You're going to quit. You're going
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: down the wrong road. So what you've got to have
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: is if you think about this and like if you'll
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: just sit down and do the math on this, you'll
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: realize that Money is the worst reason to do things.
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: Because the value of money is constantly going down and
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: everything keeps getting harder. Yeah. Right. So maybe I should
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: like think about that. Yeah. Value of money keeps going down,
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: but the things that I'm doing keep getting harder. You're
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: going to have to figure out how to multiply yourself.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: The only way you're going to multiply yourself is through
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: doing something for the right reason and doing something that's
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: so meaningful. Yeah.
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: So the way that you're going to do, you're going
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: to pass the value test is what is the, on
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: the other end of the equation, on the other end
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: of the sum for you is something that's not money.
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly right. I, I, um, I have said no
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: to a lot of businesses because of that, man, because
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: I sit there and I go, you know what? Cause
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: you run a straight line equation.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: Do you?
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: And like the thing that people are focused on, do
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: I want to, do I want all this money? Yes,
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: of course you do. But you misestimate the cost all
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: the time. That's why that's a great question to ask. Like,
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: is the price worth it? Hint, the price is way
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: more than you think it is twice as long as
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: twice as much.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's exactly what happens to all these girls who
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: get into only fans.
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: Right. I think like one at A lot of them
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: realized they didn't even make the money. They thought, oh,
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: if I just post some pictures, I'm going to be
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: a millionaire. So many of them do, and they don't
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: really make any money. But even the ones who do,
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: they realize it cost them more than they thought it
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: was going to cost them because they were chasing the money.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: I don't think there's a girl on the planet who
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: ever got into Oling fans and was like, man, this
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: has been my dream. I feel like this is what
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: I'm called to do. Every single one of them made
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: a dollars-based decision. Yeah.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: We're not gonna do the interviews to find out, but
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: I'm sure there's somebody out there who does.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: Praise the Lord.
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: Praise the Lord.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: Somebody will.
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: Value test, number one. What's number two, G?
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: Number two is the motive test.
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: Okay, this is the test that asks, why are you here?
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: Why are you... Like, really, why are you here? This is...
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: I brought this up yesterday at Mighty Men, and it's
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: a good practice. Some people call it two chairs. I
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: just call it prayer. But you should think about when
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: you're praying... That you're sitting in the same room with
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: God and you're speaking to Him. And imagine God asked
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: you the question in the business that you're on. And remember,
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: God already knows the answer. But He asks you the question,
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: why are you here? Why are you doing this? Think
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: about what you would say. Because what you would say
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: to Him, you'll think about what's the thing you would
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: say to your best friend and what's the thing you
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: would say to your wife and what's the thing you'd
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: say to your pastor. And then you realize God already
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: knows none of those things were true. And he's looking
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: at you saying, why are you here? Yeah. And you're
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: going to have to answer the question for what it
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: really is. What are you really doing this for? Because
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: the reason I'm saying when you're talking to God is
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: it's the most beautiful thing. It's the scariest thing about God.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: He knows what's in your heart. You may have fooled
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: everyone else, but you cannot fool him. Why are you
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: really doing this?
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: Like behind every explanation and statement you've ever made for
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: the business that you're running, for the thing that you're doing,
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: there's something deep in your heart. Do you want people,
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: because this is, I'll tell you, there's a superpower that
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: comes from operating with a pure heart. You get misunderstood
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: a lot early on, but the further you get down
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: the road, things keep getting better for you when you
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: operate with a pure heart, right? Like endurance begins to
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: pay off for you. It takes time for everybody to
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: see it. But when you operate with a pure heart,
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: it's like, wow, the only reason, the only way this
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: guy is still here is because he really believes in
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: this because he's way beyond rational thinking. And the further
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: you go with a pure heart, the better the results get.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: But when you have a corrupt heart or when you're
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: doing it for a selfish reason, the further you go,
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: the more costly it gets and you realize you're stacking
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: weights over your head and you're waiting for it to fall. Yeah.
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: Now, what's so interesting about this question that you put
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: in here, and it just dawned on me when I
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: read the note for the third time, because obviously we
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: prepared this. God asked Elijah this in 1 Kings 19.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: He goes, why are you here, Elijah? And this is
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: where we love where a fire happened, an earthquake, and
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: then he finally hears the thing, why are you here?
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: And Elijah lists off all the things he's done.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: I've done this.
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: I've done that. And God just goes, okay, go, and
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: just sends him off. Doesn't acknowledge any of his stuff.
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: Doesn't go like, you know what, buddy? You're putting in
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: a good effort. I'm really proud of you. There's none
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: that's just like, hey, go anoint this guy. What's required
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: of you? Keep going. Like I'm not stopping to like say, oh,
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: it's so tough. And you gave a great question because
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: this is a good filter.
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: There's a question that goes with this for the motive test, okay?
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: This is one that, again, it's not, this isn't, I'm
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: not judging you. I'm not the one testing you. This
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: is between you and God. You can ask yourself this question, okay?
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: But I think this is, I'm pulling out the highlighter here.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: I'm pausing for a second because if you're listening to
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: this cause you're waiting for like, Garrett's going to say
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: something that's going to help me answer this question of
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: how do I know if I'm going down the, if
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: I'm enduring for the right reason or if what I'm
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: enduring for is stupid. Let me ask you this question.
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: If nobody knew, okay. If nobody knew and you could
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: just erase it from everyone's mind, Think about where you're
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: at in your business. Either you go forward or you quit.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: If nobody knew and you could just erase it from
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: everyone's mind and your problems would go away, your problems
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: would go away, what would you choose?
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: Man, that is a killer. I think you're saying about business,
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: I think that's easy in business. And you know where
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: I think that's hard is when you're in a marriage
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: that's tough. Maybe you found Jesus and your partner didn't
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: or insert whatever circumstances. That's where I think this was
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: a real, this reveals your motives massively because I can
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: just speak from my own end. Whenever I was going
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: through a tough time with Rhian, I'd be lying if
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: I said that I didn't think about what my parents
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: and everybody that I cared about would say, because I
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: knew they would be against me whenever I wanted to quit.
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: And that's, yeah. And you, you stayed in it because
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: for in, you know, at least in a momentary decision,
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: you stayed in it because you're like, well, if I,
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: if I try to quit, everyone's going to be mad
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: at me. Right.
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: And in that case, it helped me stay in for
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: a slight moment, but man, I, I, you know, if
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: you're in a place where you can really examine yourself
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: and hold yourself up to the light and that's, and
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: it is a selfish move, it's not, we're not saying
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: now it's okay to quit. What we're saying is like, man,
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: you need to get with God. You need to get
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: with some brothers. You need to like examine yourself because, uh, you're,
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: you're drawing on a fuel that's not going to last.
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: Mine lasted for a moment. Thank God that God enacted
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: the way that he did. But yeah, that is a
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: massive question. Say that again, G.
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: If nobody knew, nobody knew if you could erase it
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: from everyone's mind, right? Whether you, whether you like, if,
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: like say you're in this business and you're like, man,
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: I just feel like it's really not worth it, but
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: I don't want to be a quitter. You know, and
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: Garrett keeps telling me I got to endure all the
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: time and I got to keep going. But if you
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: could erase it from everyone's mind and just start over
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: on something else and, you know, erase the business, erase
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: the problems that you created that come with it, you know,
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: if you could erase it all, what would you choose? Right.
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: Now, if somebody says they would choose to erase it,
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: what would you say to them?
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: I would say you might be enduring for the wrong reasons.
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: And so the answer, like we said, is, It.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: Doesn't, well, I'm glad you asked that question. Okay. It
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: doesn't always mean like, oh, well, if my motives are wrong,
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: then I should just quit.
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: What it means is maybe you need to shift your motives. Right.
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: And that's exactly it. You need to do some heart work.
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: You need to get on your knees. And this is where,
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: because when I have this conversation personally with people that
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: I work with them in their business, I work with
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: a lot of men who get stuck in this situation.
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: And most of the times, it's not actually us changing
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: what they're doing. It's changing their heart and what they're doing.
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course.
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: You might be doing the right thing for the wrong reasons,
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: and it's going to feel like the wrong thing.
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, very good. All right, what's number three, G?
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: Number three is the fruit test, okay? Number three is
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: the fruit test. And what is the fruit? Well, A,
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: what is this producing? What's the business producing? But more importantly,
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: what is this producing in me, right? Right. Consider it
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: joy when you face struggles of many kinds. So all
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: the stuff going on in your life, not just your business,
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: when you face struggles of many kinds, because this is
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: an opportunity for your endurance to grow. That's your fruit, right?
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: What's the whole scripture about there? All that stuff you
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: got going on out there, cool. You know what it's
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: going to do? It's going to make you better. The
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: fruit test is, what is this producing in me? Is
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: this making me better? One of the things that has
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: been a confirmation for me in the season that I've
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: been through, because the last two years have really been
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: some of the most difficult, certainly in the business world,
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: trials I've ever been through in my life. It's made
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: me better. And that's how I know. That's one of
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: the confirmations for me that I know I'm doing what
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be doing. When it's crushing you from
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: the inside out, when it's tearing apart every other area
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: of your life, then that's an indicator for you. You're
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: either doing the wrong thing or you're doing the right
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: thing for the wrong reasons.
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: I think that that right there, the what is this
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: producing in and around me, is such a great endurance.
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: Because God's so much more interested in developing who we
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: are than getting some outcome, because he can make any
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: outcome come about. He's God. And so when you start
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: to understand what things are producing in you, I think
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: that's how you consider things joy.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: The only thing he can control everything, and the only
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: thing he chooses not to control is us.
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: And the thing that he cares most about is the
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: thing that he says, I'm going to give you the
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: space to do this yourself. Mm-hmm. Yeah.
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: Because he cares about us. It's not a relationship with
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: him if he forces us to be a certain way. Yeah.
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: And like I said, you can find joy. I remember
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: the first time something difficult happened at work. And I
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: remember I got excited because I saw it as an
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: opportunity to grow and learn. And I realized something was
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: changing in me because I was like, before I'd have
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: been like, man, I hate this. Why does it have
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: to be this way? This person is such a pain.
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: And instead I was like, you know what? This is
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: such an opportunity for me to grow. That was a
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: real becoming moment for me. And I think that that
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: question was producing in me is such an endurance thought process.
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: So if you can answer that with joy, man, what
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: a win.
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: All right, G, what do you love? So again, not
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: one of these questions alone should answer it for you,
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: but I would encourage you to answer all five of
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: these questions. And then this will not, by thinking through
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: each of these, answering all of these, it's gonna inform
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: your compass. You're gonna get your compass pointed correctly so
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: you can make a better decision. Number four is the
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: wise counsel test. What do the people that I trust,
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: and you listen to people, and we have a whole
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: podcast on this, on teachers and heroes and mentors. In
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: this context, I would say this is one that you
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: want to listen to your mentors on. Because following a
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: teacher or following a hero might have gotten you down
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: the road that you're on. And again, I'm not saying
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: that you're necessarily that you're doing the wrong thing, But
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: on the, am I doing the right thing for the
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: right reasons here? You want to talk to one of
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: your mentors. So what episode is that, Nick?
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: 145.
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you asked. So episode 145 is a great one.
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: Make sure you're listening to a mentor on this. But
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: this is the wise counsel test. And what do those people,
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: and this, again, I'm telling you, this should be mentors.
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: What do mentors that you trust, what do they see? Yeah, good.
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: What's the last one?
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: Those mentors are going to be able to point out
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: to you the things that you don't see. Because they
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: know you, they care about you. and they're a mentor
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: in your life because a lot of them have been
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: down the roads that you're trying to go down. And
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: so when you can hear from one of those people,
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: that's when they're going to be able to point out, well, like,
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: you know, how are you handling this issue? Or what
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: are you doing about that situation? And when you start
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: to explain yourself, a mentor should be able to tell
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: you that's a wrong motive. Yeah, big time. Okay, and
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: then the last one here, number five is the faithfulness test.
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: The test is always faithfulness. The test is always faithfulness.
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: And sometimes you're frustrated because you're looking too far down
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: the road. Yeah. Okay.
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: Like, well, what if it's.
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: Going to take too long and I'm not going to
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: have this and this could happen and all that. Okay.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: That's called anxiety. Yeah. Right. Let's just slow down a
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: second and come back to today. This is what God
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: has called you to do. Be faithful with what's in
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: your hand. What's in your hand is not tomorrow. What's
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: in your hand is today. What does faithfulness look like today? Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Because maybe what you've been spending way too much of
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  Speaker 1: your time doing is each day you're trying to figure
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  Speaker 1: out how to make tomorrow not be so painful. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And you do that enough days in a row, your
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  Speaker 1: tomorrows keep getting harder and harder and harder because you
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  Speaker 1: stopped being faithful. The question you need to ask yourself is,
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  Speaker 1: what does faithfulness look like today? I've got a big
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  Speaker 1: question that I don't know the answer to, and it's
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  Speaker 1: a scary question, but that's not what faithfulness looks like today.
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  Speaker 1: How do I be faithful? today with what I'm called
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  Speaker 1: to and where this should lead to for you. When
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  Speaker 1: you think through all of these questions, I'm not saying
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  Speaker 1: you can never quit. You want to quit for the
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  Speaker 1: right reasons. You want to quit when you've gained the clarity.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to quit when you've run out of courage.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to quit when you've gotten tired. Those
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  Speaker 1: are the quits that will not help you become who
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  Speaker 1: you're called to be. And those are the quits that
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  Speaker 1: you'll regret. You can quit when you've gained the clarity.
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  Speaker 1: You can quit when you realize, okay, I got into
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  Speaker 1: this for the wrong reasons. This isn't the best use
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  Speaker 1: of my abilities. My mentors have helped me see some things.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like who this is helping me become. And
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  Speaker 1: I actually, out of that, now I realize what God's
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  Speaker 1: put me on the earth to do. And I was
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  Speaker 1: pursuing this just for the sake of money. You can
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  Speaker 1: quit those things, but you want to endure. You want
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  Speaker 1: to endure because you have conviction. You can say, regardless
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  Speaker 1: of what I've been through, like Paul says, letting go
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  Speaker 1: of what's behind and pressing on towards what's ahead. I
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  Speaker 1: have conviction. I believe in what I'm doing. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to endure and endure as long as it takes.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to lose endurance or I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to have endurance because I'm afraid to admit that I'm wrong.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to keep going. I'm going to run the
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  Speaker 1: race that God has set before me because God has
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  Speaker 1: put me on the earth for a great reason and
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  Speaker 1: I know what I'm called to do.
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  Speaker 2: Go out there, think better, and live the impossible. See
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