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Ambition Is A Sin Pt2 · Outcast

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I know where you're coming from, man, I know.
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From what? Anyways, Part 2 Yeah, this.
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Is Part 2 of Ambition that we talked about last time.
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You know, I'm good. Before we get started, we always
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pray. So gorgeous.
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Lord, thank you for once again for allowing us, guide us and
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lead us into the absolute truth. And thank you for allowing us to
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record in peace. And may you strengthen us and
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thank you for everything. All glory goes to you.
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Amen. Amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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All right. Joe, I have a question for you.
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Yeah, it's. Just 'cause it crossed my mind
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when you were praying. Do you sometimes feel like
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unworthy? Unworthy like not, not, not.
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Moments like when, yeah, maybe you've given into temptation or
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something. Not not those moments I'm
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talking about like in general. Or in general, yeah.
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It's just a thought. That's a good question.
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I mean, I want to say no, actually, I'm just going to, I'm
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just going to say like, I, I don't feel that way.
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I don't, however, I, I don't feel exalted either in the
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aspect of like I'm better than somebody else.
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I don't feel that way. OK.
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But I also don't feel like, unworthy because I just don't
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feel that way. Interesting.
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You know what I mean? Yeah.
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I just feel like more like Christ came to die.
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I'm following him. I am no greater than the
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alcoholic on the street or the druggie on the street.
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I'm no, I'm no better than them. You're right, but you are in a
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way. You testing me?
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You testing me? Yes and no.
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All right, I know I I know I am a child.
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Of God, just by that it puts you above.
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And I know it sounds weird to say, and it's not something we
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should be boasting about either. I get.
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So you're talking about in this aspect that you were a child of
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the Most High, so automatically just that title itself.
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Yeah, I mean, it's not something to be wearing around your head.
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I like a crown or be boasting about it, but because Christ
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said, you know, like when he spoke about creation, like love
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your neighbor. Yeah, he says we.
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The rainfalls for the poor and the rich.
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Yeah, the just and the unjust, the righteous.
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Yeah, so. Be perfect like your father.
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Who is in heaven? Yeah.
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In regards to creation. Yeah.
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In that regard, we're the same In regards to creation, Yeah, I
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don't know why I this came into my I just my head.
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I was just like what? Well, I will say this.
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I will say this bro, that I know for a fact that God holds not
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that he has favoritism, He has no favoritism, right?
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He has no but however, he does hold people at a higher
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standard, higher standard than others.
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You know what I mean, right? For example, if you know so much
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truth, God used you, you witness is power, God definitely will
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hold you at a much higher standard for he's expecting you
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to walk in such a manner, right? Right.
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You know what I mean? Compared to someone that just
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started or is not even in the walk.
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Right, right. He expects you to be much, you
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know, because you. Are always receiving the
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fullness of of Christ. You know, actually, yeah, now
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that I'm thinking about it, when, when remember when Solomon
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received wisdom? It does say in Scripture that
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when he did receive wisdom from heaven, God is like I will also
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make you rich so no other king can compare himself to you.
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It says that actually. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I'm I'm pretty sure it says. I've read it before because or.
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Just say there'll be no other one like you.
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Like so I I think it was either there'll be no one like you or
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is they won't be able to compare themselves.
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To he was already. Rich.
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No, I know, but he said I'll make you like, you know, like
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because you didn't ask for riches, I will also give you
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riches, like even more. He was rich already, correct?
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But it seems like God just even multiplied his riches even more.
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Yeah. No, he did.
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Yeah. And you when you read, if I
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don't know if it's in Chronicles or First Kings, Second Kings,
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this will tie up to ambition. By the way, he was already
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essentially he was already rich. I mean, you know, he was already
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wealthy. Yeah.
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But the knowledge that he obtained on how to remember, he
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said, give me the wisdom to lead these people.
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Yeah, he said. It was to lead these people.
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Yeah, correct. Yeah.
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So the knowledge was was based on leading them.
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By leading them, inevitably, he was able to grow the Kingdom,
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expand it, put systems, learn how to govern, learn how to
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judge right. He knew how to trade, He knew
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how to negotiate all that, which was all to build the temple.
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Yeah, yeah. Yeah, he needed to do that in
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order to build the temple. Exactly 100% he.
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Had those riches had to come? Yeah, right.
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There was a purpose to it. Yeah, yeah.
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No, I don't understand. It's not like he wasn't rich
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already. He had.
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It all No he so when? When?
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Rich people who say claim to be Christian or business owners
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Christian, which I do believe that there is out there right,
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right, right. But others who claim to be
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Christian and use this as in like you see, he asked for
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wisdom, but he was already rich. The rich that he was attaining
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was for a purpose which was obviously for the for the
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building of the of the temple. The first temple, right?
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Exactly. So I did find it.
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I did find it by the way, First Kings chapter 3 verse 13, it
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says, I give you also what you have not asked, but riches and
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honor, so that no other king shall compare with you all your
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days. So he gave him even more.
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So no king can be compared to him.
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Interesting. Yeah, yeah.
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So there we see that God already takes away any hierarchy of
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trying to have the number one title 2.
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We see that he gives him riches and honour.
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And honour, yeah. Because he didn't ask for it.
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So when when actually he had the opportunity that God did ask
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Honest, anything I'll give to you.
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Your ambition could have kicked in.
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Yeah, right. Your ambition could have just,
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you know, a. 100. Percent.
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But Solomon was taught. He was taught well.
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Yeah, he was taught well by his father.
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Yeah. So he asked properly, it's like,
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and he didn't even know what he was asking essentially either,
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right? I think he'd be lazy.
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I think he says give me wisdom to lead these these people of
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yours. Yeah, right.
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Yep. The wisdom he the wisdom that he
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acquired was specifically to guide these people.
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These people were so stiff necked that he had to actually
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give him like wisdom of heaven. Yeah, in order to like lead
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them. That's how stubborn they were.
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Exactly. Some people don't need it.
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Yeah, I know exactly. You know, some people think
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like, yeah, this wisdom that was given to him is because he
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wanted to lead the people. It says here, give me.
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OK. It says second.
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Oh, this is Second Chronicles, right?
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Oh, that's where it is. No, you know what, let's read
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first Kings 39 'cause that's what we were reading before.
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Give your servant, therefore an understanding mind to govern
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your people, that I may discern between good and evil.
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For who is able to govern these? These govern these great people?
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Yeah, my bad. I completely botched it.
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For who is able to govern this? Your great people.
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Great people. Meaning it was big now.
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Yeah, right. Yep.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he he has to.
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Discern between good and. Evil so.
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So we already had the knowledge of good and evil.
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He now asks him how to discern right between that.
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Yes, and he obtained it. And so he was able to attain all
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the stuff that God gave him. Not only that he was able to
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lead, but because he knew how to discern between good and evil,
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he also kind of used it to his advantage.
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He did. He started playing around with
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his heart. Yes.
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And he was justifying every step of the way to what he was doing.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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And so that's what he writes ecclesiastics.
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And he felt unworthy. You read the ecclesiastic.
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His unworthiness was like. Oh damn man, he's like I just
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wasted my whole life. And that's why I, when you were
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praying, that's why I crossed my mind, because sometimes, man,
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I'm trying to, I'm not trying to be all mopey.
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I'm just saying like there are moments, dude, first of all, you
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got to hate your flesh. Whoever's listening, hate your
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flesh. Don't even by any means try to
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like, like pat it in the back in the shoulder.
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No way. Nope.
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There's just moments where you just feel unworthy.
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Not because a friend of mine was like, are you, are you?
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Who are you to declare if you're worthy or not?
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I'm like, but I do recognize that I'm I'm not worthy, right?
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I mean, Scripture says like what?
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What Christ said like yeah, when you come.
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Or when you serve the master at the at the very end, you know he
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says save it. You know, you should say this.
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I'm an unworthy servant. Because he's told him you're
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going to serve your master. Yeah.
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You're going to cook and then serve yourself.
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No, you're going to serve your master and then the leftovers.
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Then you'll say, now you can come.
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Yeah. And then you'll say I'm an
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unworthy servant, correct? Yeah.
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So when it just, it just feels like that, right?
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That'd be if you might have like given into temptation or just
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meditating, or you recognize she just recognizes goodness.
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Yeah, no. OK, you know that is true.
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Like whenever God reveals something so deep.
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Dude, I'm just. Like and I'm just like, man,
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dude, it makes me want to tear because.
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Yeah, well, not to that point, but no, for that guy.
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I gotta get what you're saying. For me it's cuz you know why I
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feel like tearing sometimes? Not all the time bro, I don't
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tear like that's. OK, but you're teaming for?
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The Lord exactly that counts. What's wrong with that's manly?
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That's manly. So no, as you said, The thing is
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like at that very moment when it's so precious, like Dang,
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bro, I'm. I feel unworthy at that very
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moment, yeah. There's different ways of
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feeling unworthy. That's one of them, yeah.
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I'm I'm assuming that maybe Solomon at the end felt like
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he's like dude, what did I just do?
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I wasted all my life chasing after my own heart for wind
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after he was chasing after wind. After nothing.
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Nothing exactly. Do you think like his?
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He became ambitious. I was gonna say and that.
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And that was him asking without ambition, yeah.
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Mind you, without ambition, Yeah.
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And he? It still led to ambition because
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he saw the power, that it came with wisdom.
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He then started to marry other women, yeah, to make peace
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treaties. He felt powerful.
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He was showing off his wisdom and all his glory, honor that
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God gave him and all of the splendor of his Kingdom and
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everything. And ambition then also.
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And mind you, he wasn't asking with ambition.
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No, he wasn't. No.
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Imagine the person who's who's asking to do something for God
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and ambition. Ambition is already in the.
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Heart. Oh man, that's.
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All you already cooked. Look, our confidence is in
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Christ. Yeah, our confidence.
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Even when you fall into or trip into temptation, use your
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confidence. Use your confidence.
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Get up, yeah. Ask for strength and keep going.
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Don't make it up. Don't make it up by yourself.
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Yeah, yeah. You know, 'cause I have, I have
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written down here ambition. Ambition makes you confident.
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It does. It does, man.
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Confidence will lead to ambition, yes, and being
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ambitious also makes you confident.
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Right, right. Right.
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No, no, I see. What you're saying, you know,
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one would say, well, you got to be confident.
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You have to be secure of yourself, your confidence in
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Christ. Yes, not in you.
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And you know, it makes so much sense why your confidence should
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always remain in Christ, because what does Christ tell you to do?
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Deny yourself? Yeah.
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Because if I mean think about if you're confident of yourself,
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you're trying to be confidence of you.
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You are. You are denying the part that
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you need to deny. Yeah, exactly.
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If that makes any sense. Do you know what I mean?
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Say that one more time. So it's like if Christ is saying
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deny yourself, by denying yourself, there has to be a
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sense of you hate it, you have to hate it.
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Yeah, yeah. Right, because.
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Because you don't want it. Exactly.
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And every time, like for example, you trip, that's when
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you like I I hate this. That's good.
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And you feel conviction, right pisses you off.
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You're angry that you want to honor continue honoring God.
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Yeah, correct. Correct.
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If you don't, if like, let's say, well, I need to be
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confident, well then if you want to pursue that, you're also
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stopping yourself from denying yourself.
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Yeah, correct. Right.
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You're. Denying yourself from denying
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yourself. Do you know what?
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I'm saying absolutely, absolutely.
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So ambition is agreed it. Is agreed.
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Thank you for bringing that up. Because now I remembered a verse
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that we read in, in, you know, Ezekiel, right?
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No. No about it.
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Yeah, Ezekiel, right. About what?
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What was it about? You know where Solomon writes
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about how much he regrets his life?
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Ecclesiastics. Sorry, ecclesiastics.
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I can't believe I got those two confused.
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But ecclesiastics, I remember they sound the same Realmos or
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they have the E in front of it. So, but I remember reading the
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end part of it where Solomon is basically telling us, you know,
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when he's writing, have a desire like an old man.
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I thought that was very wise of him.
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Towards the end towards. The end.
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Yeah, yeah. He's like young 1, you know,
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like, like the young person he should have like a desire of
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like an old man because an old man just sits in the present.
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His days goes by, doesn't think about ambition.
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He's old. Like the young guy, he just
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wants to go. Yeah.
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He wants to go all over the place.
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Spinning around. Yeah, yeah.
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He's like, yo have be like an old man, like have that desire
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like an old man. He's an old man.
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That's just he's just there. It's tough to do that is hard to
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do that is, but that is very wise of him to say very good
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advice. Because when when I read that, I
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was like, yo, that's actually so true.
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Because an old man just lives in the present.
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Mind you, he was young when he took the Kingdom Solomon.
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Yeah, he was. So yeah, he was in his early 20s
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maybe. Early 20s.
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Oh yeah, so. Early 20s.
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Late 20s. So he had a lot of like energy.
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So. You know, Bible, the Bible when
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it comes to ambition, Bible basically tells you like to just
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run away from ambition and you know, like we said before, like.
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On the previous episode. Yeah, in previous episode Paul
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just says make this your ambition to live a quiet life.
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There is part in scripture where it says be full of repentance
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and zealousness for the Lord. That is OK to have that zealous,
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that drive to do God's will His way, what he has predestined you
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to do. And that is where we arrive
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because we live in a world, man, we're like, we won't like we've
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mentioned this already, like on the previous episode.
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Yeah. Dreams and goals.
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We're taught what are you want to be when you grow up?
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What are your goals? Right.
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If you have a mentor and you're in business, they'll be like,
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what are your goals? A5 year plan?
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Do you have a five year plan? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Or do you have a 10 year plan? Exactly.
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How are you going to execute it? What systems are in place?
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Like dude, like you're literally projecting yourself five years.
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Yeah, five years. And you're in the present.
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So it's engraved in our culture. If it's not ambition towards a
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business career, I mean career business, any business
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endeavour, a sports of women or vice versa.
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Yeah, man. Like, yeah.
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Your greed could be towards. Anything.
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Anything. Anything.
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Anything. Yeah.
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And when you come to Christ, that is when you need to learn
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to strip yourself first. Yeah, Don't start to.
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I don't want to do this. I want to do that.
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Yeah. And that's your ambition
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dictating. You know it's.
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Just recapping from like a little bit from last episode.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. You know, I actually found a
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quote from. I think it's like an Orthodox.
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Yeah, hold on, hold on to that. OK, OK.
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Because I want you to read it. But this is where we arrive.
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Finding out what God's will is for you, even if it's something
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you didn't plan for or thought you wanted, because it it's what
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He wants. Right, right, right.
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Absolutely no, 100%. Before we continue, yeah, share
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the I did remember you did share that with me, but you you can
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read it. Yeah, No, I.
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I thought it was very interesting.
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I had to screenshot it 'cause he says something that is very
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true. He says what his name is Saint Π
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Yeah, I'm on bushes, Piscios of Mount Athos.
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I don't even know what that is. Or maybe that's not even his
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name. That's just probably like.
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Oh, that's some Greek name, bro. Yeah, it's it seems like he's an
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Orthodox Christian. Right, No, Yeah, it seems like a
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a monk. A lot of them they they see some
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really interesting things bro. Because it's been in the desert
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caves. Bro yeah, meditating all day.
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What was I going to think about? That's great.
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So he says you put your plans ahead of God's plans for you.
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That is why you have anxiety and fear.
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OK, so there you go. That's that's actually perfect.
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I forgot I did say that. So when you're projecting
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yourself five years, even a year or even weeks, right days of
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your goals and dreams, you start to have anxiety and fear because
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you don't have control. Over it you don't exactly 100.
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Percent. And yeah, there is a sense of a
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sheer force of will to want to make things happen.
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Yeah, and you can. You can, yeah.
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Right. But you're losing yourself.
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Yeah, little by little. Because then when you arrive,
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what's next? It's like what?
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Wilmer says, you know, like, what's next after that, you
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know, you get there. Like what?
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What's next? Yeah.
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Yeah, You know, it would actually be good to have him
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here because of his testimony. Oh yeah, for sure.
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Maybe that could be part three, who knows?
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Yeah, yeah, exactly. You know, especially you 2
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because you 2 I know of you guys are.
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Like, yeah, because like you, quite honestly, everybody.
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I mean everybody. Don't like talking about myself,
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but everybody in our family generally, even in yours, I
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believe. Oh yeah, yeah.
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They're all very entrepreneurial in any way.
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Very go getters. That'd be like, I have a cousin
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who's like a lawyer now. Like, you know what I mean?
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I have a cousin who's like AT1 soccer player.
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Like my cousin's very talented when it comes to like business
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stuff like that. Very, very smart.
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Yeah, yeah. And also like if anybody didn't
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know, semi professional gamer, like legit not like, you know,
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one of those pastime gamers. No, no, no, no, no.
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We're talking like serious, like hardcore.
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Yeah, like. Like.
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No, no, like real good. Dedicates us.
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Anyways, besides that, so we we know we know.
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No, I mean, I witness it. I can't say I'm, I'm not like
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that, to be honest, but I've witnessed it for my family.
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My grandfather was was had multiple businesses.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. My dad was a business.
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So you know what I mean? So like I witnessed, I witnessed
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all of that. I see the ambition to drive when
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when you know, when you're not close to God.
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You OK? Actually, this is perfect.
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Let me bring up a Bible verse real quick.
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Right, right. Let me see, bro.
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Sorry, it's in Proverbs. What is it, Proverbs?
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What? Proverbs 2811 This is actually
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perfect. This this is OK.
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Look what it says. All right, go for it.
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Let me see ESV. OK, hold on.
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Let me, let me, let me do the CSBC SB1.
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And this is what I'm trying to get to because my family, you
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know, entrepreneurs very well wealthy are like well off.
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Well off. Yeah, really well off.
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Like my uncles are, you know, well off.
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They had they all had businesses.
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It says here, this is what it says because, you know, I'm, I
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was young, I was just an employee somewhere.
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But I would see like my family being, you know, rich, Rich
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compared to me, way richer. Compared to me so look.
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What it says in Proverbs 2811 A rich person is wise in his own
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eyes, but a poor one who has discernment sees through him.
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So it is it's very true use. For example, I'll give you an
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example. My, my father, you know, he
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lived here for 2020 years, I think, or more right for a
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while. And he had his own construction
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business very successful and made it happen.
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You know, he came here to what he, you know, what he was going
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to do, was able to buy like basically three houses, cars,
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properties in Honduras, right, right, right.
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You made it happen, you know, and you know, he has his Dr.
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ambition to keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going.
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But you know, I sit back now that I'm, you know, a child of
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God and I'm able to discern. I'm sober minded now I sit back
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and I watch him and I'm like, I'm like, hey, dad, I'm like, I
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think it's time for you to like go to your country and relax.
22:25
Go get like, I think your time is done.
22:29
He's like, why, why, why you say that?
22:31
No, you're forcing it. And I can see it.
22:34
I can see that, you know, you're forcing, you're forcing yourself
22:37
to keep going, keep going. Yeah.
22:38
Yeah. Yeah, You know, so this quote
22:40
right here applies. It says a rich person is wise in
22:42
his own eyes. Because in my dad's eyes, it's
22:44
like, no, I have to keep going. Yeah.
22:45
He can make anything. Happen.
22:46
Yeah, yeah, he can make, yeah. So by definition, he he is wise.
22:49
Yeah, yeah, 'cause I have respect, Yeah, 'cause he, he, he
22:52
does make it happen, you know, when he puts effort into it.
22:55
But a poor one who has the sermon.
22:57
So I'm, you know, I'm basically poor compared to what my dad
23:01
makes, you know, sees right through him and I can see that
23:05
like he's forcing and I'm like, this is not God's will and I can
23:09
see that. So for that very reason, you
23:11
know, I tell my dad, I'm like, it's time for you to leave.
23:14
It's time for you to go do something else like, and maybe
23:19
what God has called you to do and you missed out or something
23:22
like that. So ambition definitely blinds,
23:30
of course, it definitely blind 100%, you know, and then the one
23:33
that's living the president, his confidence is in Christ.
23:38
He sees the discernment, He sees right through it.
23:40
He sees right through it. He sees it.
23:42
He can tell. You know, usually like, yo, bro,
23:44
come on, You really think this is God's will?
23:46
Yeah, no, that's true. You know that's true.
23:49
And I think every believer wants to do 1.
23:52
You know they have that. You know that first love
23:55
sensation for God, like, oh, you know they come to Christ for the
23:58
first time. They didn't want to conquer.
23:59
For God, yeah, yeah, yeah, everything.
24:01
And they? Want to do it?
24:02
Which is good and everything right?
24:05
But they slow down. Pace yourself.
24:10
Yes, right. Very true.
24:12
Yeah. Because maybe it's your ambition
24:15
dictating what you want to. Do 100%.
24:17
So that's why like Romans 12/2. I mean, we've said this multiple
24:20
times, like so that do not be conformed to this world, right?
24:25
But I see some something like going through like but be
24:29
renewed through the mind or something like that, right?
24:31
Or could be watching it. You know what I don't want?
24:35
To watch. It yeah, search promise, but
24:38
basically it's like it's it's basically saying like you, where
24:41
it inevitably leads you to know the perfect will of God.
24:44
Oh OK, did not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by
24:52
the renewing of your mind so that you may discern what is the
24:57
good, pleasing and perfect will of God.
25:01
OK, keep that in mind, all right, that be transformed by
25:06
the renew of your mind. No one pays attention to that,
25:08
all right. Ephesians 180 that Paul was
25:11
writing to the Church of Ephesus saying like Hey, may the your
25:15
eyes of your heart be awakened to the hope which is calling us
25:19
for. Yes, yes, yes.
25:21
Your your eyes of your heart have to be awakened.
25:23
However, remember subconscious and consciousness, OK?
25:29
If the renewing of the mind is your subconscious, your
25:31
conscious is a reflection of your subconscious, right?
25:34
So if in this case here, opening the eyes of your heart, what you
25:39
see right you think it right you think.
25:44
You feel it and you're 100% right so.
25:47
Listen to this if your mind is being renewed, that renewing
25:51
that's happening is going to transform you, right?
25:53
How can you be transformed if your mind is not being renewed?
25:56
Right, right. I That's what he says by the
25:58
transforming of the renewing right.
26:00
So there's effort to be put into that, right?
26:02
Yes. That's why Paul's speech so much
26:03
about disciplining the flesh. Exactly right.
26:06
So therefore that's what he says towards the end of the chapter.
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I mean verse 2 chapter 12 so that you may know.
26:13
Yeah, it says. So that you may discern what is
26:16
the good, pleasing and perfect will good.
26:20
Pleasing and perfect will of. God yes, okay, yes, correct.
26:23
So His will will point to His Kingdom, to the, to the souls
26:28
and the purpose of his plans, not ours.
26:31
If and when you find out and, and, and knowing His will for
26:35
you, let it happen organically, right?
26:38
Not artificially. Like, let's say like you arrive,
26:41
you finally get that answer, right, right, right.
26:42
You know what is good, pleasing and perfect in, in his in his
26:45
perfect will? Uh huh.
26:47
And then you start to take initiative, take it organically,
26:50
right, because we live in a world with technology, systems,
26:54
marketing. There's so many things out there
26:56
where you can artificially just catapult this and that's.
27:00
Artificial 100% because. You're not trusting on the ones
27:03
who need to listen and then they will spread and then they will.
27:05
Say yeah. Manically, right?
27:07
Yeah, exactly. Artificially can make anything
27:09
happen in our time because of technology and thinking.
27:15
Thinking time is against you. God is in control.
27:17
So sometimes, like I, I'm I admit to it.
27:22
I'll admit to it. Yeah, when you try to push
27:24
yourself. Yeah, like, like when I, when I
27:25
try to go further, I know I'm, I'm, I'm using the artificial to
27:29
do that, right? I organic, meaning I'm trusting
27:32
the time and the process. Amen.
27:33
Yeah. Because God is in control
27:35
exactly and organically. God will place things in their
27:39
position where you just do what you are told.
27:43
Yeah, 100 percent, 100%. So I mean pursuing goals and
27:49
dreams, like if they're, if they're outside of your reach
27:51
and try and you try to reach for them, which are weeks or months.
27:55
It's like what we said, is this going to make you sick?
27:58
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
27:59
It's like what? Like spiritually sick.
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Yeah, 100%. It will be physically torturing
28:05
and but society tells you lock in, push through.
28:11
Yeah, I remember when that when that phrase came out, yo,
28:14
everybody was using it. Lock in.
28:20
Yeah, man. No, I mean, look man.
28:22
I mean, there is a truth to not giving up, but to what end?
28:25
To what end? Especially if it's God's plan
28:27
and not yours, you know? It's like we said, it's like we
28:30
said in the first part of this that if, if you involve, if you
28:36
involve your ambition into God's mission, like eventually you're
28:41
going to turn your back from, you're going to turn your back
28:43
what's. Going to happen, yeah.
28:44
It's going to happen. You're going to turn.
28:45
Your someone else is going to call you out. 100%, you know,
28:48
and the worst part is if you don't listen, that would suck.
28:52
Consequences after that, yeah. Whoever is listening and and
28:56
they know definitively the the willing which God has him in.
29:02
Remember, you are a worker, a servant.
29:04
Yeah, you're not the owner of anything.
29:06
Right. If you have a plan and you think
29:10
you are doing it for God, hear me out.
29:12
These are the what ifs. Uh huh.
29:15
If you have a plan and you think you are doing it for God or just
29:20
to the betterment of your spiritual life or family, take
29:25
yourself out of the equation of ambition and see if if you're
29:31
doing it for you or forgot in the situation.
29:36
Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah, no, 100% you're like.
29:39
See if it's you or got in the situation.
29:42
No I do to 100% bro because. You have to test.
29:46
It you have to test it and you know why bro?
29:49
Look, I've heard people of like, oh, you know, like I just
29:53
something happened to me here and there and you know, I just
29:56
feel like God is calling me here and, you know, the plan sounds
30:00
amazing, but the whole time I'm like the foundation sounds like
30:05
it all started because of a problem that you had.
30:09
So is it really God, or is it just that the fact that the
30:11
problem is escalating and you want to go solve it that is?
30:16
True, that is true. But that's why I say what if.
30:20
What if is if you think is a plan and you think you're doing
30:23
it for God and or is it just for the better members?
30:26
But this is where you put it to the test if you really lost.
30:28
Yes, yeah. Take yourself out of the
30:31
equation of ambition and see if it's you, yeah, or if it's
30:33
gotten in the situation. Exactly, Exactly, 100% I agree.
30:37
If and when it's you, then you you have already compromise.
30:40
Compromised yourself. Yep.
30:42
But if and when God seems to be in the situation, then there's
30:46
no need to rush, right? Yeah, 100%.
30:50
Or bend over backwards to life and it's baggage.
30:54
Things should fall into it's place.
30:57
It should, right? It should.
30:59
God says it. The guy's like, well, who says
31:01
it? Was it Christ or one of the
31:04
disciples about what? That keep your eyes on the
31:06
Kingdom of heaven? Actually, no, it was Christ,
31:09
right? And everything else will fall
31:10
into it's place, right? Yeah, no, he says, do not worry
31:14
for the day of tomorrow, okay? Seek first the Kingdom and
31:18
righteousness, and everything else shall be as a man Add on.
31:20
Add on 100% yeah. Because he also understood,
31:25
remember in the time in Christ came to like the only way to
31:30
succeed was also to be part of the government the Roman Empire,
31:34
right or to be half high status, high status within the the
31:39
Jewish community or or at that time.
31:41
Yeah, Hebrews. Oh yeah, status was a.
31:44
Big Thing 100. Percent a very big thing.
31:45
So they were. He was basically letting them
31:47
know, like, relax. Relax.
31:50
Yes, Yeah. This is important 100%.
31:54
So do you have anyone who, well, other than Solomon, who was an
32:01
example that sinned in their task?
32:05
A lot of them did bro. But there's also like Joseph, he
32:10
maintained his integrity. He did, man.
32:12
He really did. No, he really did.
32:14
Yet. But it goes to show like how
32:22
depends on the situation where you can become ambitious or not
32:24
right? I mean dude, there's a lot of
32:27
examples. So like this one, Solomon.
32:30
Solomon, it's an example. Who?
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Who? Samsung.
32:34
Samsung Joseph was, he had integrity.
32:36
Oh, he had an Abraham integrity, yes.
32:39
Oh, Hezekiah, at the end, his ambition, His ambition kicked in
32:44
you. Got a little proud.
32:46
You became proud. Oh.
32:47
Yeah, absolutely. After God granted him more life
32:49
than he was. Like, you know, I'm gonna show
32:51
them. I'm gonna show other nations the
32:52
riches. Yeah, well, let's we'll finish
32:56
it up with that favorite, not favorite verse of yours.
32:59
But you say you like that verse where Paul says to make it your
33:03
ambition, right? What is godly ambition, question
33:07
mark versus what Paul says? The world in the world we live
33:11
in is quite loud and chaotic and public.
33:15
How do we live in a quiet light? How do we live a quiet life and
33:19
working with our hands? How does that look like in our
33:22
time? Remember back then, either you
33:26
were free or a slave, But now everybody for the most part, has
33:29
a sense of freedom and can do pretty much whatever.
33:33
You can pretty much do whatever you want.
33:35
So you have to think about it in the in the way Paul says to
33:39
live. Let your ambition be to live a
33:40
quiet life, work with your hands, mind your own business.
33:42
Yes. How can you apply that in the
33:45
world that we live in? Because the world that we live
33:47
in is very loud. It's chaotic, public, dramatic,
33:53
full of hypocrisy, right? And we live in a world where
33:58
pretty much anything is possible, not going to lie.
34:02
Yeah, it's very true. Anything is possible.
34:04
Right. So in a world that we live in,
34:07
how can we apply that? How do we live a quiet life?
34:12
How do we work with our hands? How does that look like in our
34:15
time, in our modern time? Right, right.
34:18
All right. So that's pretty much all we
34:23
have for right now, I guess you could say.
34:25
And perhaps we'll invite our brother, yeah, one more to come
34:29
and maybe share his testimony, right?
34:33
A. 100% on what that. What that looks like and stuff.
34:36
And do you have anything else you want to say in regards to
34:40
this? Let me just read, Let me just
34:43
read this part right here. OK, Go first to the Ogens
34:47
4/11/12 and make this your ambition to lead a quiet life.
34:52
You should mind your own business and work with your
34:55
hands just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the
35:00
respect of the outsiders and so that you will not depend on
35:04
anybody. Keep that in mind.
35:08
Godly ambition and versus what Paul says.
35:11
Yeah, versus what Paul learned. That's true.
35:14
OK, yes. Because he was a A A A an
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imitator of Christ. Yes, 100%.
35:21
And if he's an imitator of Christ, so we should do.
35:23
The same, Yeah, absolutely. And you know what?
35:26
Something interesting. I don't know if this is
35:28
important or not, but each time Christ did a miracle, did
35:32
something he would, he would tell his apostles.
35:34
Don't tell anybody, Keep it quiet.
35:38
That's right. That's right.
35:39
He did say that he. Didn't want to make commotion,
35:41
he. Didn't want to make commotion
35:42
and then look what Paul says, an imitator of Christ.
35:45
So. That's true.
35:46
That's true. You should also live the same
35:48
way too, just to keep that in mind for those that are
35:51
listening. Absolutely.
35:52
So whoever's listening, remember, know what is God's
35:56
will. Discern, examine yourself.
35:58
Like Paul says. Yep, you need to, you need to do
36:02
not set yourself up to failure and don't compromise.
36:05
Compromise yourself. Right.
36:07
Yeah. So, so this is how we wrap it
36:09
up. If you know whoever's listening,
36:11
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36:25
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out and organization as well. We have an organization and just
36:35
to remind everybody. Nonprofit.
36:37
Yeah. Yeah, this is not to become rich
36:38
or anything. It's just that this is what God
36:40
has placed in our hands. We don't know what this is going
36:43
to end like, but we're just following God.
36:46
That's it. Nothing to do with ambition.
36:49
Absolutely not. Absolutely.
36:51
Not yeah 'cause if it was for our own ambition, trust me, we
36:54
would be. If if it was really my decision,
36:57
I would not be here. Bro, no, no, trust me, I would
37:00
not be here too, but I I want to see like where God will take all
37:06
this because I know it this is all from him.
37:09
Absolutely yes, yeah, absolutely.
37:12
So yeah, I think closes up with the prayer and alright.
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Father God, who is in heaven, thank you, hallowed be your name
37:21
that you will be done here in heaven like it is is done in I
37:24
mean in, in that you will be done on earth like it is done in
37:26
heaven. And forgive us for our
37:29
trespasses as we forgive others. Give us that daily bread every
37:34
day. And as much as everybody says,
37:36
Oh, we, you know, we don't need to repeat this prayer, but it is
37:39
the most perfect prayer, perfect template to you to glorify you.
37:43
And we give you thanks for this opportunity to speak about your
37:48
word, to speak about something that's going in our time, in our
37:50
modern time. Everybody wants to become big
37:54
and great and everything and that's seems nice, sounds great,
38:00
but in the end, to what end, right?
38:01
What's next after that? And we thank you, Holy Spirit,
38:05
and give us a strength to keep going to, to, to, to be present
38:10
and, and not push ourselves any further of, of where we are
38:14
right now at this moment. And whoever is listening, always
38:18
remember that God is there listening.
38:22
He's your Father, He's your savior.
38:26
And we thank you Lord, for that. Amen.