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Dr. Trudy Simmons with The Christian View - EP-005 - Taking Every Thought Captive · Mental Health Matters - Overcomers.tv

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  Speaker 2: Welcome to another episode of Mental Health Matters. I've got
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  Speaker 2: doctor Chrudy Simmons on with us today. We've been doing
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  Speaker 2: a various series on different topics. Last time was porn
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  Speaker 2: and we talked about behaviors you've talked about with sidal thoughts,
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  Speaker 2: and I just wanted to get in a little bit
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  Speaker 2: into Welcome to see doctor Trudy.
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  Speaker 3: Good to see pastor Chuck. Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. We even did one show from a Starbucks. In
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  Speaker 2: the background, you were traveling with your husband at one
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  Speaker 2: of the stores. And I appreciate your availability to go
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  Speaker 2: live and you have a laptop and good Wi Fi.
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  Speaker 2: We can go live anywhere. That's right. That's right.
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  Speaker 3: Technology is amazing as long as we know how to
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  Speaker 3: work it, which that stretched me that day. I was like,
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  Speaker 3: I don't even know how to go live from So
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  Speaker 3: it worked out and I was very thankful.
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  Speaker 2: And I've got a lot of things streaming behind me,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm noticing my show open is like struggling to
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  Speaker 2: get through my show open. So I got some tech
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  Speaker 2: issues to work out, but I wanted to jump into
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  Speaker 2: a little bit about you today. This is like our
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  Speaker 2: fifth time we decided to start doing this one on
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  Speaker 2: ones and then next week we'll we have Nick Rick
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  Speaker 2: Corvedo and his nephew Cody that have a counseling accounseling
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  Speaker 2: practice here in Farmington. I know you're a coach, You're
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  Speaker 2: a minister, a therapist, most of all a daughter of
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  Speaker 2: the Most High God. Amen to that. That's your identity
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  Speaker 2: in these roles. Your focus is helping all who come
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  Speaker 2: into your life receive, acquire, and move into their purpose.
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  Speaker 2: So I've read lots of books where I know companies
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  Speaker 2: have a mission statement, but there's some coaches that will
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  Speaker 2: encourage individuals to think what would be your mission statement?
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  Speaker 2: Your life, your purpose? You thought through all that, obviously
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  Speaker 2: your published that that's on your website.
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  Speaker 3: So purpose is something that has always been in my
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  Speaker 3: heart to help people find because otherwise we're lost. But
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  Speaker 3: scripture even says without a vision, my people perish. And
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  Speaker 3: so people want to know why they're here. That's a
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  Speaker 3: that's a huge topic. People go through seasons in their lives.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm like, hey, why am I here? What am
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  Speaker 3: I supposed to be doing? You know, we don't feel
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  Speaker 3: fulfilled enough, or we don't feel challenged enough, and so
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  Speaker 3: people feel lost, pastor Chuck, And it's happening more and
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  Speaker 3: more with the busyness of life. We are busy, and
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  Speaker 3: we are doing so many things that are we doing
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  Speaker 3: what God really called us and gifted us to do?
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  Speaker 3: And if we're not, it's going to leave us at
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  Speaker 3: the end of the day empty and drained.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. And even the phrase came up on
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  Speaker 2: our last show. I just did a national Coalition of
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  Speaker 2: Ministries to Men's show with a guy named David Maddox
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  Speaker 2: who was a teacher speaker for the Coalition of Ministries
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  Speaker 2: of Men, and he had a book called ten Minutes
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  Speaker 2: that Transform Intentional with your kids to get scripture in them.
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  Speaker 2: And it's our role as a mom or dad or
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  Speaker 2: even a grandparent to make sure that we're you know,
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  Speaker 2: getting scripture in the mind. And that's kind of the
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  Speaker 2: tagline for mental health matters, renew your mind, renew your life.
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  Speaker 2: So even before we went life, before we went live,
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  Speaker 2: you're like, we want to talk about taking every thought
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  Speaker 2: captive to the obedience of Christ. So our thought life
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  Speaker 2: is crazy. There's even billboards as I'm driving fantasy and
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  Speaker 2: it shows the girl and it's an adult stop and
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  Speaker 2: fantasy life. And you know, God's been convicting me over
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  Speaker 2: previous fantasies in my thought life. And I'm like, I'm
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  Speaker 2: a minister now, twenty five years in and it's not
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  Speaker 2: okay to be fantasizing about things that are not godly right,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, so, I mean there's a whole there's
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  Speaker 2: a whole lot there, and so our thought life matters.
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  Speaker 2: And again this is where our purpose will either be
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  Speaker 2: attacked or solidified, right.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, And back to getting your mind, you know, getting
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  Speaker 3: that the word into our children. It's so important. My
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  Speaker 3: my daughter right now, I have a twenty year old
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  Speaker 3: and then I have a ten year old and my
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  Speaker 3: little girl's like, Mom, when i'm your age, we're not
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  Speaker 3: even going to be living in reality. We're going to
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  Speaker 3: be living in a virtual world. And I was like,
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  Speaker 3: that's why you need to be grounded right now. And
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  Speaker 3: it's got word. You need to know what his word
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  Speaker 3: says because there's a difference between truth and lie, and
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  Speaker 3: as believers, we have to learn how to decipher what's
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  Speaker 3: real what's not real. Even if you look on social media,
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  Speaker 3: pastor Chuck, you know, you can put photos on there
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  Speaker 3: and they're not real. I created something the other day.
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  Speaker 3: I was just playing with Ai and I was like,
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  Speaker 3: oh my goodness, it looks so real. So being grounded
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  Speaker 3: and rooted in God's word will help us when we
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  Speaker 3: need to, you know, need that discernment. But and that
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  Speaker 3: does go to taking your thoughts captive, renewing your mind
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  Speaker 3: on God's word. I tell my clients a lot when
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  Speaker 3: they're struggling, I'm like, Okay, you got to take your
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  Speaker 3: thought captive. But not only that, You've got to challenge
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  Speaker 3: that thought. Does that thought line up with the word
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  Speaker 3: of God? That does that thought say what God's word says?
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  Speaker 3: So then you capture it, you challenge it, and then
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  Speaker 3: you change it. If the thought is not lining up
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  Speaker 3: with God's word. If it's not at a fine then
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  Speaker 3: we need to start changing those thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, every thought captive. You know what do you remember
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  Speaker 2: the Bible verse area for that one is?
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  Speaker 3: Is it Ephesians?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Okay, hold on, So the good thing about Bible
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  Speaker 2: gateways you can actually do a search take every thought.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see, there you go. I was thinking because this
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  Speaker 2: is also there's another key verse that's kind of associated
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  Speaker 2: with it. Let's let's look at it real quickly, make
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  Speaker 2: a big screen. It says, there's our mental health matters,
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  Speaker 2: renew your mind, reknew your life. That's based on Romans
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  Speaker 2: twelve one. Don't be conformed to the world, but be
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  Speaker 2: transformed by the renewing of your mind. That's kind of
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  Speaker 2: a subtitle for our show. But Second Corinthians, Chapter ten,
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  Speaker 2: verse five, casting down arguments and every high thing that
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  Speaker 2: exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought
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  Speaker 2: into captivity to the obedience of Christ. So we live
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  Speaker 2: in a world where a lot of people are feelings
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  Speaker 2: I don't feel like going to work today, and they
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  Speaker 2: just didn't go. I need a me day, right right,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I mean, who's not tired getting out of bed?
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  Speaker 2: And you know, we got things to do and place
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  Speaker 2: to go. And you know, if we just operated on
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  Speaker 2: feelings alone, we're in trouble.
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  Speaker 3: Right. Our feelings lie to us, you know, our feelings
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  Speaker 3: will lie to us, our emotions will lie to us.
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  Speaker 3: And there's a saying that says, it's so crazy. It's
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  Speaker 3: okay to have feelings, it's okay to have emotions, just
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  Speaker 3: don't let those emotions and feelings have you. Right. God
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  Speaker 3: gave us our emotions. He gave us that ability to
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  Speaker 3: feel is long as it's not controlling us down a
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  Speaker 3: negative path. And a lot of times, you know, people
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  Speaker 3: come into my office because they have let their feelings
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  Speaker 3: and emotions lead them down to a negative path.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd also say adultery started with they fell out
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  Speaker 2: of love and fell in love with someone Else's the
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  Speaker 2: reason why God made it a commandment. Don't commit adultery
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  Speaker 2: because you're going to feel like doing it.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: I would just say this, even like last couple of weeks,
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  Speaker 2: I've been thinking temptation, every temptation known the man, and
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  Speaker 2: I think that's also in this area of scripture. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to expound upon that there's no temptation uncommon demand.
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  Speaker 2: But with every temptation. God makes a way of escape, right,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you can run from it. You don't have
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  Speaker 2: to do this. You know, there's a choice, right, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And that's where we decide whether we're going to give
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  Speaker 2: into the temptation or we're going to be obedient. Absolutely
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  Speaker 2: the enemy, you know, he'll dangle some things in front
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  Speaker 2: or even the flesh itself, the devil and his buddies.
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  Speaker 2: We don't even need their help sometimes with some of
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  Speaker 2: the things that we desire. Yeah, yeah, so he said.
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  Speaker 2: James says, you know, don't when anyone's being tempted, don't
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  Speaker 2: say I'm being tempted by God, because God doesn't tempt anyone,
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  Speaker 2: and he himself is not tempted. But temptations arise when
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  Speaker 2: our own evil desires are conceived at births sin and
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  Speaker 2: then if sin fully grown, leads to death, right, death
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  Speaker 2: of that marriage, to death of yourself. Even overdoses, I
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  Speaker 2: feel like getting high, I'm going to try something and
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  Speaker 2: had ventanyl and it didn't know. One hundred and ten
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  Speaker 2: thousand people overdose from drugs this last year. I'm almost
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  Speaker 2: sure ninety nine point nine percent of them thought they
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  Speaker 2: were just partying. They wanted to do you know they
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  Speaker 2: didn't think that was a fatal dose.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. One of my sons, one of his very best friends, died.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was two years ago from an overdose
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  Speaker 3: and the same thing. You know, he just talked to Jonathan,
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  Speaker 3: I'll see you tomorrow. Well, you know, we'll talk, and
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  Speaker 3: there was no tomorrow for him because he gave in
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  Speaker 3: to And I think it's the familiar, right, It's it's
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  Speaker 3: the familiar. This is what my bodies use you, this
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  Speaker 3: is what I do. And that's where you have to
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  Speaker 3: again take those thoughts captive, and what may be familiar
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  Speaker 3: may not be the right thing, and so learning how
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  Speaker 3: to say no and walk the other way. It's like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's like, let's do a three sixty, but
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  Speaker 3: instead of a three sixty, you kind of need to
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  Speaker 3: do a one eighty because a three sixty turns you
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  Speaker 3: around and you're right back to where you started from.
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  Speaker 3: So instead do a one eighty and turn and flee
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  Speaker 3: and go the other way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. And just to expound the Popti verse,
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  Speaker 2: it's always good to read a little bit before and after,
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  Speaker 2: keeping it in context, because I heard a preacher and say,
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  Speaker 2: if you take the text out of the word context.
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  Speaker 2: You left with con. So we don't want to be
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  Speaker 2: con But the weapons of our warfare are not carnal,
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  Speaker 2: but mighty in God, for pulling down strongholds, casting down
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  Speaker 2: argue and every high thing that exalts itself against the
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  Speaker 2: knowledge of God. And that's the atheist, and that's the
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  Speaker 2: even agnostics. They've fallen into a place where somebody gave
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  Speaker 2: them an argument that God doesn't exist. Satan's tried it
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  Speaker 2: with Eve. Did God really say you can't eat from
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  Speaker 2: this tree? Just causing her to doubt every knowledge against God,
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  Speaker 2: bringing every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, being
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  Speaker 2: ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, the Bible talked about punishment. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: this isn't a lo God is love and do whatever
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  Speaker 2: you want kind of God. I mean he's requiring obedience. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and there's a punishment if you disobey.
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  Speaker 3: Well, think about as a parent, right, we still love
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  Speaker 3: our children when we have to punish them or you know,
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  Speaker 3: put them in time out or take their electronics, but
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  Speaker 3: we still love them. There's consequences to be in disobedient
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  Speaker 3: and we hope that there's you know, I think Lord
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  Speaker 3: corrects us in love and he doesn't turn his face
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  Speaker 3: from us. But and that is as as we do
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  Speaker 3: as parents. You know, you've you crossed the line. So
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  Speaker 3: therefore there's a punishment. Doesn't mean I don't love you,
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  Speaker 3: doesn't mean we're not gonna connect again. It just means
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  Speaker 3: that you're in time out for you know, five minutes,
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  Speaker 3: ten minutes. For me, I used to get punished all
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  Speaker 3: the time, pastor truck for my grades. And I would
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  Speaker 3: be in my room for semesters at times.
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  Speaker 2: For all semesters.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because my grades were so bad. My parents were like,
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  Speaker 3: if you can't study, you have to stay in your room,
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  Speaker 3: no TV, no makeup, no hair, you know, styling. You
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  Speaker 3: can come down and eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner and
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  Speaker 3: then you go right back up to your room. They
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  Speaker 3: thought I would study more.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah exactly, and uh it worked right. Look at you
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  Speaker 2: now you're a doctor, and uh you know back to purpose.
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  Speaker 2: You knew what your purpose was, and sometimes parents may
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  Speaker 2: i mean know the purpose for their children. Everybody has
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  Speaker 2: a calling. And yeah, I'm proud of you and you've
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  Speaker 2: And again, as we read through it, words like that punishment,
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  Speaker 2: disobedience to God, our creator, God, our father, like you
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  Speaker 2: said as to a good parent. That's super important. It
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  Speaker 2: also reminds me of Hebrews twelve. Kind of go there
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  Speaker 2: real quick and know you're good with just tracking with me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, add all over the place.
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  Speaker 3: That's okay, me too, So I'm good with it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So Hebrews twelve talks about this. He goes, therefore,
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  Speaker 2: since we're surrounded by such a great clyd witnesses, he
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  Speaker 2: just mentioned a whole lot of Old Testament saints that
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  Speaker 2: are in the presence of God, and that's who we
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  Speaker 2: believe he was talking about. Let us lay aside every
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  Speaker 2: weight and sin which so easily ensnares us. And let
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  Speaker 2: us run the race with endurance, the race that is
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  Speaker 2: set before us, looking under Jesus, the author and the
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  Speaker 2: finisher of our faith. William Portante, as they say in Spanish,
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  Speaker 2: who for the joy set before him, endured the cross,
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  Speaker 2: despising the shame he sat down at the right hand
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  Speaker 2: of the throne of God. So there's a lot right there,
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  Speaker 2: but unpack that for us.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the first thing that I love is that we
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  Speaker 3: are the joy that was set before him, where it
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  Speaker 3: says who for the joy that was set before him?
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  Speaker 3: We are the joy in my mind that was set
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  Speaker 3: before him, that gay, you know that? So he endured
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  Speaker 3: the cross for us, And then I love let us
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  Speaker 3: run with endurance the race that was set before us.
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  Speaker 3: We all have a race to run. And I and
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  Speaker 3: I'm an avid runner. And I was like, life is
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  Speaker 3: not a sprint pastor truck. It is a marathon and
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  Speaker 3: is an endurance race. And if you think about running,
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  Speaker 3: when you run, if you look to the right or
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  Speaker 3: to the left, if you're in a race, it slows
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  Speaker 3: you down. If I look to see where my opponent is,
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  Speaker 3: you know, are who I'm racing against is where they
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  Speaker 3: are and it slows me down. And so that's how
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  Speaker 3: it is. In kind of our faith as well. There
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  Speaker 3: should be no competition in the Body of Christ. We
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  Speaker 3: should all be running our own race, looking to Him,
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  Speaker 3: the author and finisher of our faith, to get us
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  Speaker 3: to where we need to be. Now, we can link
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  Speaker 3: arms with each other and we can be side by side,
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  Speaker 3: but there should be no competition because we all have
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  Speaker 3: our own purpose, our own race to run that really
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  Speaker 3: no one else can do as well as we can,
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  Speaker 3: because he's called to that certain race.
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  Speaker 2: That's good. I just added a QR code next to
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  Speaker 2: That's your website, toutysimmons dot com. There's even a little
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  Speaker 2: button there. Make your appointment now and live your best life,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And that's really what we're trying to talk about,
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  Speaker 2: is is mental health matters finding your purpose and celebrate
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  Speaker 2: recovery and other twelve step groups. Is a thing called
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  Speaker 2: stinking thinking. And you know, you talked about running that race,
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  Speaker 2: and there's times where your body's yelling, quit, stop, I
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  Speaker 2: need water. You're like, no, We're pushing through this you're
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  Speaker 2: telling your body what you will do, what you know,
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  Speaker 2: what you're gonna eat, what you're not gonna eat. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: this is I heard it. One said, you're six inches
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  Speaker 2: between your ear to ear. That's your real estate. It is.
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  Speaker 3: Our mind is so so powerful, and they say that
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  Speaker 3: we only really use forty percent of it. We don't
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  Speaker 3: use the fullness that God has given us in our
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  Speaker 3: mind and in our brains. We shut down. And people,
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  Speaker 3: if they would tap into their full potential for what
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  Speaker 3: God has called them to do, it would be amazing.
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  Speaker 3: People would be so excited, they would have the biggest
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  Speaker 3: and best adventures in their life if they would tap
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  Speaker 3: into the fullness of really what God has placed inside
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  Speaker 3: of them. But I think about racing, and I'm doing
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  Speaker 3: another one hundred mile run for my dad because you know,
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  Speaker 3: he passed away a year and a half ago. And
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  Speaker 3: I always say, if my mind can conceive it, then
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  Speaker 3: my body can achieve it. So when I think about
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  Speaker 3: running one hundred miles and twenty four hours, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I think about one step at a time, But I'm
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  Speaker 3: already thinking in my mind that I've already crossed my
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  Speaker 3: finish line. Because if I can get my mind to
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  Speaker 3: conceive it. My body's going to achieve it. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: going to quit because I know where the finish line is.
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  Speaker 3: And so often we talk ourselves out of victory, we
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  Speaker 3: talk ourselves out of success, and we talk ourselves out
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  Speaker 3: of healthy relationships because we've been trained to be so
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  Speaker 3: negative and so defeated.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, amen, that's good. And again it's a mental thing.
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  Speaker 2: And I know we didn't plan on really going there
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  Speaker 2: deep on that the punishment part, but we got to
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  Speaker 2: keep reading the scriptures because this is the encouraging part.
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  Speaker 2: The whole Letter of Hebrews is amazing. It kind of
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  Speaker 2: really puts a lot of things into perspective. But verse
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  Speaker 2: three goes on to say, for consider him who endured
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  Speaker 2: such hostility. He's talking about Jesus. Considered Jesus, who endured
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  Speaker 2: such hostility from sinners against himself, unless you become weary
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  Speaker 2: and discouraged in your souls. Again, this is a mental
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  Speaker 2: health thing right here, and people to become weary and discouraged.
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  Speaker 2: And he goes on to say, you have not yet
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  Speaker 2: resisted to bloodshed striving against sin. We give in way
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  Speaker 2: too quick. Nobody's gotten a beaten because they didn't sin,
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  Speaker 2: and you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you
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  Speaker 2: as sons, My son, you talked about your identity as
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  Speaker 2: a daughter of the Most High. Do not despise the
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  Speaker 2: chastening of the Lord, nor be discouraged when you are
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  Speaker 2: rebuked by him. For whom the Lord loves, he chastens.
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  Speaker 2: He scourges every son whom he receives. And he goes
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  Speaker 2: on to say, if you endure chastening, God deals with
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  Speaker 2: you as sons. For what son is there whom a
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  Speaker 2: father did not chasten. But you are without chastening, you
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  Speaker 2: will become partakers, and you are illimitgit not sons. Furthermore,
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  Speaker 2: we have human fathers who corrected us. We paid them respect,
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  Speaker 2: how much not much more? Be readily in subjection to
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  Speaker 2: the father of spirits and live. So he's kind of
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  Speaker 2: reasoning with people that some people are going through what
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  Speaker 2: they're going through because they've been disobedient to God. They're
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  Speaker 2: running from God. They did not cast every argument down
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  Speaker 2: against the knowledge of God, and these strongholds and they're
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  Speaker 2: all bound up because they're relationship. You're just not right
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  Speaker 2: with God. So first and foremost are mental health matters.
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  Speaker 2: You need to know that you're a son and daughter
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  Speaker 2: of Jesus. Settle that issue right now, receive Christ his grace,
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  Speaker 2: his forgiveness, and then start from there. That's foundational to
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  Speaker 2: our mental health. And then you know, if we're going
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  Speaker 2: through some tough stuff, we got to ask, hey, is
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  Speaker 2: this no fault in my own or is this really
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  Speaker 2: God's discipline in my life? Because a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: don't want to think that God, you know, and again
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  Speaker 2: with love is like, hey, even your dad, your parents
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  Speaker 2: had to discipline you. He goes on to say that
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  Speaker 2: the fruit of discipline is righteousness and peace. So I
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  Speaker 2: know it's so many sermon there. You take it from there.
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  Speaker 3: No, I love it. I love it, and I love
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  Speaker 3: the fact that it does say for whom he loves,
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  Speaker 3: he disciplines because if we can think about that through
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  Speaker 3: the eyes of love, I think we would think about
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  Speaker 3: the discipline differently. But then also the identity to know
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  Speaker 3: who you truly are past our truck, because if we
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  Speaker 3: don't know who we truly are, if we don't know
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  Speaker 3: that we are sons and daughters of the King, we're
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  Speaker 3: going to act differently, We're going to walk differently, We're
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  Speaker 3: going to sin differently because we don't really know who
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  Speaker 3: we are. And when you think about purpose or mental health,
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  Speaker 3: that's a core essence is you have to know where
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  Speaker 3: your identity lies, because if your identity lies in the world,
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  Speaker 3: there's a saying that says, if we live by people's praise,
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  Speaker 3: then we're going to die by their criticism, and so
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  Speaker 3: we are. If we're just hanging out for for a
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  Speaker 3: pat on the back, for a high five from other people,
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  Speaker 3: then that's not going to last because people are fickle people.
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  Speaker 2: Pleasing is exhausting. Trying to pa it's very exhausting, it is.
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  Speaker 3: It's draining, and you can't walk in your full identity
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  Speaker 3: if you and your purpose, if you are trying to
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  Speaker 3: please everybody and anyone, you just can't. I tried it
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  Speaker 3: for years. It's exhausting.
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  Speaker 2: And so what's funny because it's like worrying about what
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  Speaker 2: other people think. I mean, that's their mental health. All
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  Speaker 2: work come on my own and most.
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  Speaker 3: Of the time those people aren't even thinking about us.
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  Speaker 3: They may be to some degree, but you know, we've
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  Speaker 3: got to have we have to be single minded to Okay,
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  Speaker 3: we've got an audience of one and that's who we've
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  Speaker 3: got to stay connected to and then everything else kind
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  Speaker 3: of trickles from that. But I spent way too many
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  Speaker 3: years people pleasing and wanting people to like me so
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  Speaker 3: badly that I didn't even really know who I was.
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  Speaker 3: And I had to do a lot of soul searching,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of laying things down and just getting before
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  Speaker 3: the Lord. You know, who am I? What did you
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  Speaker 3: create me? What did you create me to be and
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  Speaker 3: to do? First, it's the daughter of a king, you know,
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  Speaker 3: receiving his love. I think is so hard for people
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  Speaker 3: to receive unconditional love from a father. You know, it's
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  Speaker 3: because we're not really at this side of heaven.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it is. I mean it's unconditional love. But
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  Speaker 2: the blessings are very conditional, just like your parents. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they love you because you're you know, you're theirs. But
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  Speaker 2: going to the movies on Friday night is conditional based
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  Speaker 2: on your behavior this week, you know, being in time
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  Speaker 2: out or the blessings all through scripture. If you do this,
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  Speaker 2: then I'll do that. So God's requiring you to do
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  Speaker 2: your part and be obedient. That's why again back to
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  Speaker 2: the commandments, their commandments, because there will be will will
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  Speaker 2: be tempted to commit adultery, will be tempted to lie,
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  Speaker 2: It will even be tempted to murder somebody innocent blood.
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  Speaker 2: There's a difference from killing. It's not thous will not kill.
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  Speaker 2: It's actually translated thus not murder, which is innocent blood.
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  Speaker 2: Ecclesiastes three says there actually is a time to kill
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  Speaker 2: and a time to heal, a time for war, a
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  Speaker 2: time for peace. So a lot of people have a
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  Speaker 2: hard time wrestling with all that too, with their mental
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: health matters. But somebody breaks into your house and they're
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  Speaker 2: threatening a house, jack you and hurt your family. Is
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  Speaker 2: so so almost expected to protect your life and protect
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  Speaker 2: your family's life and do it. You need to take
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  Speaker 2: yourself to protect yourself from that evil person, is right
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  Speaker 2: if you feel you know. So that's a whole other topic.
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  Speaker 2: But these are things that we need to think about
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  Speaker 2: and process and purpose what you are. And that's what
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  Speaker 2: we call doctrine and Christianity. There's a lot in scripture
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  Speaker 2: we can hear the heart of God and how he
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: feels about various topics and issues. And that's why you
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  Speaker 2: have to show the Christian view. God sees everything and
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  Speaker 2: he has an opinion on everything right, and we sometimes
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  Speaker 2: think we're smarter than God. Do you want to talk
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  Speaker 2: about that?
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  Speaker 3: No, we are not smarter than God.
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  Speaker 2: There that's the fool in his heart that says there
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  Speaker 2: is no God. I don't need a God.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we fool ourselves and we if we think we
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  Speaker 3: are ever smarter than God. He knows the beginning from
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: the end. Nothing catches him by surprise, and I think
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  Speaker 3: get just you know, some people say, well, I just
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  Speaker 3: don't understand God. I just don't. And I'm like, I
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  Speaker 3: don't think we're called to understand him because most of
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  Speaker 3: the time we won't understand him this side of heaven.
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  Speaker 3: But we're called to be obedient and we're called to
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  Speaker 3: trust him.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: It's like blind faith, but it's you know, we have
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  Speaker 3: to learn. Like the footprints in the sand, right, you're
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: walking along, but there are two sets of footprints. Is
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  Speaker 3: because he's carrying us if we if we let him,
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  Speaker 3: you know, he will come in and take care of us.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Amen, Well you're amazing, and I'm glad we're doing
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  Speaker 2: people are having a hard time with things that they're
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  Speaker 2: looking at, which will also affect what you're thinking and
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  Speaker 2: what you're the pride of life, the lust of the flesh,
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  Speaker 2: the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life,
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  Speaker 2: or the three root issues that everything kind of all
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  Speaker 2: these sinful behaviors stem from. And those are the three
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  Speaker 2: temptations that actually Jesus dealt with after forty days, forty nights,
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  Speaker 2: not eating that drink and being tempted by the devil
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  Speaker 2: in the wilderness, led by the Holy Spirit to do that,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, God led him into the wilderness to
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  Speaker 2: be tempted, and he had to come back for all
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  Speaker 2: three of those temptations. And it was all about being
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  Speaker 2: obedient to God, worshiping God alone. Don't tempt the Lord
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  Speaker 2: your God. Right. It is written. It is written so
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  Speaker 2: final thoughts before we close in prayer.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I just think, remember that God is faithful
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  Speaker 3: and that he does have grace for us, pastor Chuck.
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  Speaker 3: And when we mess up, remember to fall forward and
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  Speaker 3: not backwards, because as we fall forward, we learn and
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  Speaker 3: we grow and we get stronger. But make sure you
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  Speaker 3: keep in an audience of one because as we fall forward,
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  Speaker 3: you want to be looking at his face for grace.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's amazing, looking in his face for grace. Amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Lead us in prayer. Ladies.
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  Speaker 3: First, all right, Father God, I just thank you that
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  Speaker 3: you are King of kings and Lord of lords. You
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  Speaker 3: are the great I am. I thank you that your
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  Speaker 3: word never returns. For Lord, I pray for everyone listening
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  Speaker 3: today that they will feel your presence, your love, your peace,
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  Speaker 3: and your grace, and yes they will take every thought
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  Speaker 3: captive to the obedience of Christ in Jesus' name. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: And to thank you Lord for time with Trudy. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for your word and the scriptures that we get
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  Speaker 2: We just feel led by the Holy Spirit to talk
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  Speaker 2: they're at, and you're trying to lead them to be
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  Speaker 2: closer to you and to be more like you. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: submit surrender to every area of our life to your lordship.
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  Speaker 2: Thinking about that verse in Luke when he said, why
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  Speaker 2: do you call me lord Lord? Yet you don't do
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  Speaker 2: what I tell you to do? So I pray God
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  Speaker 2: that we would become more obedient Christians in every area
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  Speaker 2: of our lives to bring you glory. Also be used
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  Speaker 2: to you to bring in a harvest of those who
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