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349. Why Some Men Reap More Than Others · The Impossible Life

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  Speaker 1: That the way you grow in life, your transformation, you
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  Speaker 1: getting to the end of your journey, you seeing the
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  Speaker 1: promised land, it is compounding returns, but in a way
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  Speaker 1: that's different. What God compounds is God compounds how you've lived.
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  Speaker 1: God compounds the seeds of faith that you have sown.
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  Speaker 2: That's impossible. Let me tell you what I believe.
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  Speaker 1: Your weakness is not your technique. Don't think you are.
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  Speaker 3: impossible as an accelerant for greatness. If something's never been
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  Speaker 3: done before, that just means it's unexplored. If they tell
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to another episode of the Impossible Life Podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 2: your co-host, Nick Surface, and I'm looking across as a
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  Speaker 2: man whose endurance is so strong, his finish line has
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  Speaker 2: abandonment issues. That's right, friends, the former Navy SEAL.
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  Speaker 2: Garrett Unkelbach, a man who doesn't need a finish line. Eventually,
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  Speaker 2: the race just gives up.
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  Speaker 1: That's good.
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  Speaker 2: How's that going?
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  Speaker 1: It's going well. I just keep going.
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  Speaker 2: Here's my race strategy. I'm just going to sprint out
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  Speaker 2: of the finish line, or sprint from the starting blocks,
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  Speaker 2: and then I'm just going to keep sprinting. For how long? No,
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  Speaker 2: that's the plan.
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  Speaker 1: Before I scum move. You cross the finish line of
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  Speaker 1: the marathon, you just keep running. Wow. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, wouldn't that be something? You finish an ultra
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  Speaker 2: and you just run all the way back.
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  Speaker 1: Well, see you later.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, great. Gee, why are we talking about that? Today's
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  Speaker 2: episode is to help you develop endurance. Man, endurance is
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  Speaker 2: not like a sexy word. I mean, we see this.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not just developing endurance. It's thinking differently about
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  Speaker 1: your race. Right. When you do need to have an
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  Speaker 1: eye for the prize, you've got to look at the
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  Speaker 1: finish line. But what will help you so oftentimes in
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  Speaker 1: life is having the right perspective. And where I see
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  Speaker 1: people fall short, where I see people miss it, is
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  Speaker 1: they're like, oh, in two years, my company is going
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  Speaker 1: to X, Y, and Z. And they make it to
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  Speaker 1: month 36 and they're like, I guess I should quit.
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  Speaker 1: I guess it's not working. I guess I failed. Where
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  Speaker 1: what you don't see is if you're doing it correctly,
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  Speaker 1: all the growth that's happened in between. So endurance is
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  Speaker 1: certainly a part of the equation, but it's learning to
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  Speaker 1: think differently about what you're accomplishing and having the right perspective.
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  Speaker 1: to truly be able to run your race. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And endurance is talked about in the Bible so, so much.
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  Speaker 2: What I was thinking about when I think of endurance,
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  Speaker 2: I think for most people listening, and I know this
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  Speaker 2: because I take all our messages, for most people listening,
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  Speaker 2: if you say, hey, let's go run five miles, very
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  Speaker 2: few people think that sounds exciting. What I hear a
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  Speaker 2: lot is from our 30-day discipline challenge, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people are like, I hated running. Now, the farthest you
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  Speaker 2: run in our 30-day discipline challenge, I believe is a 5K,
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  Speaker 2: which is 3.1 miles. And a lot of people have
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  Speaker 2: messaged us and said, I hated running. When I saw
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  Speaker 2: there was running, I just wanted to quit. But actually,
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  Speaker 2: all the daily lessons that you gave me and getting
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  Speaker 2: into scripture helped me change my thinking. I've actually developed
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  Speaker 2: an enjoyment of running. What an amazing thing to happen
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  Speaker 2: in 30 days.
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  Speaker 1: And I just have to throw in some, you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe hurtful commentary here.
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  Speaker 2: That's unlike you.
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  Speaker 1: I don't really like running either. Right. But that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean you get to not run. It's part of the
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  Speaker 1: reason we put it in the, you know, yesterday we
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  Speaker 1: did first week of it's next week to the mighty
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  Speaker 1: men fitness test, which a part of our discipleship program
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  Speaker 1: requires you to run a two mile, which if you
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  Speaker 1: think that's like, man, that's ridiculous. Like run it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you make guys run. You should like, what, how are
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  Speaker 1: you looking at life? If you think like, I don't run,
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  Speaker 1: I can't run. You should be able to run. You
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  Speaker 1: should be Louie Zamperini. You should be able to run
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  Speaker 1: until the day that you die. Who has lied to
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  Speaker 1: you about your physical body? That running is so hard.
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  Speaker 1: It's so challenging. I got knee problems. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: not continue to go down this rabbit hole. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: just saying this to say, you need to readjust your
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  Speaker 1: thinking if running is that hard for you. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to be a Navy SEAL, but you are not
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  Speaker 1: a healthy person if you can't run.
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  Speaker 2: Right. And I think that that's reflective of a mindset
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  Speaker 2: of comfort knees. And everybody has something. Some people love
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  Speaker 2: running and hate lifting. Some people love lifting and hate running.
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  Speaker 2: Some people just hate it all. Whatever it is, whichever
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  Speaker 2: way you're geared towards, just know it's all needed. You
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  Speaker 2: want to age well, you need muscle. You need a
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  Speaker 2: good VO2 max, which comes from running. You need to
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  Speaker 2: be doing these things.
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  Speaker 1: And really, for most people, it's not even about a
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  Speaker 1: certain time. You should just be able to jog.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, yeah, because God forbid you ever, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't think we need to go into that,
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  Speaker 2: but you should be able to do those things. We're
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  Speaker 2: not the should all over you podcast. But sometimes you
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  Speaker 2: need to step back and go like, man, where have
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  Speaker 2: I allowed this type of thinking to develop a story
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  Speaker 2: that I've accepted what is actually very weak thinking and
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  Speaker 2: is robbing you? So this is not the Get Out
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  Speaker 2: and Run podcast, but you should get into our 30-Day
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  Speaker 2: Discipline Challenge. I had no plans to plug that, but
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  Speaker 2: it'll really help you, genuinely. I love, man, the more
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  Speaker 2: we go on, G, that thing's been live for literally
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  Speaker 2: a year. We launched it last October. The stories that
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  Speaker 2: come in, are just such a blessing. For the record,
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  Speaker 2: I love hearing from you guys. We get a lot
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  Speaker 2: of messages. I never go like, oh, darn. Because I
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  Speaker 2: screenshot the praise reports and send them to Garrett or
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  Speaker 2: send them to our group chat.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what you get for finishing the 30-day
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  Speaker 1: discipleship path, Nick?
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  Speaker 2: You tell me, G.
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  Speaker 1: You get a better sense of confidence. You get an
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  Speaker 1: open door into the life that you thought you've always
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  Speaker 1: been capable of. We're not going to send you a t-shirt,
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  Speaker 1: but you get something that's way better than that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's basic discipline training. It can be a foundation
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  Speaker 2: for you if you allow it. It's also free.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, boom. There we go. Of course it is.
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  Speaker 2: So anyways, you can find that in school, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: which if you scroll down in the podcast show notes,
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  Speaker 2: there's links to school, like three or four of them.
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  Speaker 2: If you just click in there, you can sign up
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  Speaker 2: for free. You go into the classroom section and you
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  Speaker 2: just click start. Follow the instructions. Don't be the person
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  Speaker 2: that does day one and skips over day zero and
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  Speaker 2: then asks me to release it to you. I do
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  Speaker 2: that for people still because I want y'all to just
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  Speaker 2: enjoy it. But follow the instructions. That's part of the
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  Speaker 2: discipline training.
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  Speaker 1: Anyways. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So today we're talking about like endurance and we're talking
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  Speaker 2: about growth and transformation and the actual process because we
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  Speaker 2: have an idea of what we think it is. And
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  Speaker 2: then there's the way that it actually is. And there
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  Speaker 2: is a massive tension between those things, and we want
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  Speaker 2: to address that because we want to give you a
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  Speaker 2: mindset of endurance so that you can run it to
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  Speaker 2: the end. It's so important. So we're going to start
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  Speaker 2: where we always start, which is the Word of.
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  Speaker 1: God, G.
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  Speaker 2: And Jesus, man, I'm in right now and reading through
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  Speaker 2: the Bible. I'm doing, for the second year in a row,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible recap with Tara Lee Cobble, reading through it.
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  Speaker 1: And I love it, man.
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  Speaker 2: We've arrived.
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  Speaker 1: What book are you in right now?
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  Speaker 2: We're in the Gospels. And in the Gospels, you read
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  Speaker 2: them chronologically, so you dip into all four.
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  Speaker 1: And, dude, I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to hang out in the Gospels. I'm genuinely,
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  Speaker 2: I think next year I'm going to study more the
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  Speaker 2: Gospels rather than go through the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: Doing the Gospels chronological where you're in all of them
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  Speaker 1: is the funnest when you, maybe you didn't do this
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  Speaker 1: on your first read, but it's so fun when you
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  Speaker 1: see the parallels and you see how different people talk
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  Speaker 1: about it. Or, you know, two of the books had
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  Speaker 1: this or three of the books had this, but the
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  Speaker 1: other didn't.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they give little details. I mean, you're exactly right.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just loving it. So anyways, in Mark 4, 30
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  Speaker 2: through 31, and Jesus gives so many examples. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's Matthew 13 is where he talks about the kingdom
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  Speaker 2: and gives so many the kingdom is like examples. But
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  Speaker 2: in Mark 4 is like this version of it, is
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  Speaker 2: Mark's account of it, which Mark actually took Peter's eyewitness
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  Speaker 2: account and gave it to us. So this is really
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  Speaker 2: a lot from Peter. This is what it says, Mark 4,
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  Speaker 2: 30 through 31. Again, he said, what shall we say
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  Speaker 2: the kingdom of God is like, or what parable shall
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  Speaker 2: we use to describe it? It is like a mustard seed,
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  Speaker 2: which is the smallest of all seeds on earth. This
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  Speaker 2: is the kingdom of God. Yet when planted, it grows
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  Speaker 2: and becomes the largest of all garden plants with such
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  Speaker 2: big branches that the birds can perch in its shade. Now,
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  Speaker 2: you'll notice that Jesus left out the timeline. He didn't
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  Speaker 2: say within six months. He just, right? Because we're like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we love that, like small to massive. Well, how long
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  Speaker 2: does that take, G? I have no idea. Well, let's
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  Speaker 2: look at the timeline of Christianity a little bit just
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  Speaker 2: to give you an idea. So Jesus comes to earth,
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  Speaker 2: gets mobbed by lots of people, and then tells them, hey,
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  Speaker 2: you want miracle Jesus? You only came to me because
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  Speaker 2: of what I did. I'm the bread of life. Gives that,
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  Speaker 2: thins the herd, then goes and dies on the cross.
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  Speaker 1: Gotta eat my flesh and blood and also hate your family.
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  Speaker 2: Right. I mean, and you laugh, but this is actually,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and if you take those out of context,
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  Speaker 2: it can be wildly out of control. But like, So
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  Speaker 2: all these people are like, okay, well, I guess we're,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they turn back and Jesus, I've read this
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  Speaker 2: this morning, John six, do y'all want to leave too?
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  Speaker 2: And Peter goes, where would we go? You're the, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're the holy one of God. You have all the answers.
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  Speaker 2: So they follow him. And then he's like, well, you
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  Speaker 2: guys have come this far. Now let's go to the cross.
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  Speaker 2: And then the only one that stuck around at the
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  Speaker 2: cross was, was John. So you can see like this,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is so popular. They want to forcibly make him King.
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  Speaker 2: Actually a few weeks later, we're going to kill the
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  Speaker 2: same guy that we wanted to make King. That's what's
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  Speaker 2: that's humanity, right? So when Jesus finally goes on the
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  Speaker 2: day of Pentecost, how many people were around? This great ministry,
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  Speaker 2: three years. That was preceded by 30 years of development.
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  Speaker 2: You've got 120. For those of you out there who
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  Speaker 2: started your men's group and are really upset that you
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  Speaker 2: only have, insert whatever number, be faithful. The test is
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  Speaker 2: always what, G?
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  Speaker 1: Faithfulness.
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  Speaker 2: Always. So from 120 people, the Holy spirit shows up
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  Speaker 2: the day of Pentecost and 3000. I'm sure you could
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  Speaker 2: do the multiple of that, what that is G, but it's,
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  Speaker 2: it's just under, it's probably like 25 X in a day.
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  Speaker 1: Boom.
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  Speaker 2: And you, and then you get a few days where
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  Speaker 2: a couple thousand are added to their number. You're like,
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  Speaker 2: praise the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, then little do you know, you're about to go
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  Speaker 2: through some persecution. For how long? Just a couple hundred years.
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  Speaker 2: So by AD 303, Emperor Diocletian puts in what's the
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  Speaker 2: last great persecution of Christians. And I'm talking to the
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  Speaker 2: point that if it was even suspected you were a Christian,
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  Speaker 2: people could go in and just throw you out of
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  Speaker 2: your house, and you were doing a service to the
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  Speaker 2: Roman Empire. The amount of persecution that they went through
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  Speaker 2: is incredible. So in AD 303 through 311, so that
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  Speaker 2: great persecution lasted an additional eight years. This is after
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  Speaker 2: so many years before this where, I mean, look at
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  Speaker 2: every single one of the disciples was martyred. John died
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  Speaker 2: of old age, but that was only because he failed
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  Speaker 2: to die when they put him in a burning vat
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  Speaker 2: of oil. Like how many people would rather die than
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  Speaker 2: actually sustain that? I mean, it's brutal. Like people make
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  Speaker 2: it sound like he had it easy. He got put
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  Speaker 2: on the Isle of Patmos. That was not a vacation plan.
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  Speaker 2: He got exiled there.
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  Speaker 1: We can't kill you, so I guess we'll just leave
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  Speaker 1: you on this island.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, until you die anyways. And then he writes the
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  Speaker 2: Book of Revelation. So, I mean, when you look at
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  Speaker 2: what these guys went through, unbelievable. And keep in mind,
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  Speaker 2: if they did that to the leaders, it's not like
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  Speaker 2: the followers were like, oh, we're just doing this to
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  Speaker 2: the leaders. This is a normal thing. So then in
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  Speaker 2: AD 313, they make religious tolerance a law under Constantine.
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  Speaker 2: And then in AD 325, they have the Council of
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  Speaker 2: Nicaea with Constantine also brought in, and then the emperor
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  Speaker 2: after that made Christianity one of the religions that was
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  Speaker 2: acceptable by the Roman Empire, and it absolutely exploded. So
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  Speaker 2: that's 300 years. Fast forward a couple thousand more years
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  Speaker 2: to now, and there's 2.3 billion Christians, according to Pew Research,
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  Speaker 2: in 2020. Like, oh man, now we see that it's
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  Speaker 2: the tree that Jesus described. The guys that he was
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  Speaker 2: talking to about how it's a tree that's big enough
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  Speaker 2: that has the branches for all the birds to perch in,
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  Speaker 2: and it gives you shade, those guys all died hundreds
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  Speaker 2: and even thousands of years before we actually see that
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  Speaker 2: taking place. And I'm not saying that we've arrived or
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  Speaker 2: we've made it now. You know, the kingdom is still
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  Speaker 2: to come. But when you think about that timeline, man,
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  Speaker 2: and you zoom out and you realize what God's willing
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  Speaker 2: to do over time, I hope it makes you reassess
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  Speaker 2: what endurance looks like in your life. Because we get
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  Speaker 2: hung up on a six-month period or it's been a
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  Speaker 2: rough year or I'm in a rough season. Thank God
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  Speaker 2: you keep using the word season because guess what? Seasons change.
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  Speaker 2: So the biggest thing we want you to take away
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  Speaker 2: from today is that you just, you don't arrive and
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  Speaker 2: you don't move at the same speed for the whole journey.
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  Speaker 2: There's periods of acceleration. There's periods where it feels slower.
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  Speaker 2: It's one of the reasons why we love ultra marathons
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  Speaker 2: and using running examples, because I think the most valuable
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  Speaker 2: thing you get in an ultra marathon is in a
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  Speaker 2: 24 to 30 hour period, you get more life lessons
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  Speaker 2: in a condensed period than anything else I know of.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you go through all the highs and lows.
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  Speaker 2: So These are the lessons of endurance. These are the
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  Speaker 2: lessons of endurance. So one thing that I think is
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  Speaker 2: a good example, so you may be going like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: that's interesting about the church. Here's something everybody can relate to.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever heard that couple and that they've been
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  Speaker 2: married for 40 years and they're like, we're more in
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  Speaker 2: love now than we were when we first met? And
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  Speaker 2: that sounds really nice, but I'm 21 years into marriage.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm, I'm now getting to experience this because I
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  Speaker 2: used to be like, I was, you know, maybe I
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  Speaker 2: was cynical.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I would hear people say, and I'm like, really, I'm
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  Speaker 2: looking at your wife, dude. And she's not looking that great. Like,
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  Speaker 2: how could you be more in love? I've seen your
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  Speaker 2: marriage pictures. You know, she was slamming hottie back then.
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  Speaker 2: What's happened? You know, you know, and I'm just, this was,
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  Speaker 2: this was 20 year old Nick's mind when I would
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  Speaker 2: hear these older couples say this. I'm like, I don't know, dude.
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  Speaker 2: Cause you know, at that point I'm just kind of going,
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking around and I'm going, you're hot.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you love Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Like I was not necessarily the greatest, uh, not necessarily
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  Speaker 2: have the clearest values, And God gave me grace and
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  Speaker 2: provided the best way.
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  Speaker 1: If marriage is the best it ever gets on day one,
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  Speaker 1: it's not a good deal. There you go.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for saying that much quicker than me. So
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  Speaker 2: now I've been married 21 years. Dude, I totally get
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  Speaker 2: what they mean. Now my wife still looks amazing, and
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  Speaker 2: it's not just about looks. But here's the point. The
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  Speaker 2: example I gave when I was talking about my thinking,
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  Speaker 2: when I would hear people say that at 20, now
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  Speaker 2: in my 40s, I 100% get that because the level
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  Speaker 2: of connection that my wife and I have, the level
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: of understanding.
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: The trust. Guess what?
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: We've both changed.
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: How much?
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: A lot. What I value now in my forties compared
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: to what I really glad that Nick's changed.
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: That's unnecessary. What I value now in my forties is
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: so much greater than what I valued in my twenties. It's,
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: it's like a completely different list. And that's what you
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: can't see. Cause like in my mind, I was like,
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: right now, all I want to do is be with
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: my wife because, you know, we've just gotten married. We've
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: got all the, the fluttery feelings in our stomach. You know,
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: it's like, it's very emotional led and, you know, and
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: you just think, well, man, if it can just stay
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: like this forever, it's going to be so great. And
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: what you don't realize is that those things are so temporal.
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: And as you change and you mature and you start
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: to rule yourself and you begin to be able to
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: make the right choices, what you focus on changes, how
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: you serve and love each other, your level of depth
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: and intimacy and knowledge of each other, the life experiences
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: you've shared, what you're building together. Now you have like
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: 5 million ties together, whereas at the beginning you had
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: a few and And they were enough to get you going.
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: And so I think for, for, if you're in a marriage,
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: hopefully you're experiencing that.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: And just, just what we're going to talk about today
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: is very similar to marriage. People also go through tough
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: times in their marriage.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: A hundred percent.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: Every, every marriage for every person in your life. It's,
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: it's rare for folks that it's just, you know, everything
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: just kept getting better all the time forever. And it
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: was always better than it was before. You're going to
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: go through difficult times. And even if you, you know,
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: I can tell you, if you have the benefit of
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: having parents who have a great marriage, you don't have
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: to go and you make some of the right choices.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: You don't have to go through every single struggle in marriage.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: You don't have to learn every lesson in life by experience. Regardless, though,
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: you will go through tough times in life. Yeah, guaranteed.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: You will go through tough times in life. And not
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: every year of your marriage is going to feel like
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: absolute bliss. But we have this unrealistic expectation at times
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: where it's just like, man, I just, you know, things
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: are just going to keep getting better. And that's not
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: the way that it goes. And that's where people end
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: up quitting in life. They end up giving up, turning away,
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: just slowly, passively quitting over time when they feel like, oh, well,
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: you know, it's just been like a couple years of
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: tough times. And I guess this is it. I guess
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: I'm in the wrong lane. I guess I'm doing the
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: wrong thing because it's not getting better all the time.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: And that is a very poor expectation. But so oftentimes,
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: it's how people think it's going to go. Yeah.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And I, here's what I, here's what I think
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: is so interesting, man. Cause we have this idea, like
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: you said, of how we think it's going to go.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: And we think it's just going to be a straight line.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: Like I'm going to work, I'm going to do a
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: certain amount of work and it's going to get me
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: a certain distance.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: I'm going to start a podcast and it's okay. Only
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: five people listen to the first episode, but then 50
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: people listen to the second episode. Yeah. 500 people listen
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: to the third episode. And you think that's just going
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: to go on and on forever and ever until, you know,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: And then by after a month, we're going to have
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: a million listeners.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: Right. And so we think it's just going to be.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: The former presidents have started podcasts and not received those results.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: So manage your expectation. Boom.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: Shout out to Obama. But we think it's going to
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: be like this slow, steady climb. And we're just going
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: to make like, hey, I'm going to go five miles
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: a year. And then at the end of 10 years,
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: I'm going to have 50 miles. Like I'm climbing a
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: 50 mile mountain. And that's not how it goes. You
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: know where everybody sees this, G? I think this is
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: actually a great example. Your mortgage. I got my 30-year
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: mortgage and I got it at a 5% interest rate.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: And isn't that great?
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, amortization is man's invention. Correct. It's what we want
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: to see out of growth. Yes. And banks created it
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: because it's logical and it's the most easy to follow
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: for people to commit to and also to the lender.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: It's very good up front. But that's not the way
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: that growth works in life. A company that we all
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: know and love and is still changing the world today
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: or at least selling to the majority of the world today, Apple.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Perfect example. From 1975 or 1976 when that company started,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: then they went through. They had some good products, didn't
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: really make a lot of money, but they knew they
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: were doing something special. Then Steve Jobs is crazy. That's
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: just a factual statement. They had a hard time with that.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: They get rid of him for 12 years.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: And so by 1998, the company's over 20 years old,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: and they realize getting rid of Steve was a bad idea.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Steve comes back, and then a few years later, we
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: have the iPhone. And then, you know, everyone's been paying
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: attention to Apple since the iPhone in 2001. Yeah. But
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: you don't realize that there was 25 years from the
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: beginning of Apple to the first iPhone.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Right. And you look at Apple today and their launch
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: of their new iPhone Duo, which... is retailing at a
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: mere $ 3, 000 for an iPhone.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: A laptop for a phone.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for real. A two terabyte.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: You use a motorcycle for a phone.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Dude, you could get a laptop cheaper than you can
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: buy their two terabyte iPhone, the new one. That blows
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: my mind.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: It is smaller though.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but okay, you're probably going to have one. But
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: we look at that company, and it's so easy. I mean,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: we could go through this on Amazon.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: You could pick.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, we look at others.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: SpaceX. SpaceX, Stripe. 20 years in the making. Yeah, exactly.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: And in 2003 when SpaceX, that's when it started, right?
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: In the common knowledge public, who's going like, oh, wow, SpaceX?
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: No one cared. Now, I think they started with a
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: $ 25 million valuation, which for a lot of people is like, oh,
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: my gosh. But considering the industry that they're in, that's like, hey, great,
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: you're a grain of sand. It's just not, it was
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: not big things.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: And it's, well, you could even just take, um, Elon
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Musk's life from a perspective of, it's not going to
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: go the way you thought it's going to go. Look
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: at where he's at today. And let's just talk about
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: him from the success of technology, technology development. Okay. That
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: dude went like almost lost it so many times. Yes.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: But just continued to endure. And as I mentioned prior,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: and you know, one of my favorite, most favorite thing,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: recent things that Elon has said is that he attributed
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: all of his success to his ability to eat glass.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Is that what he actually said?
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: I just keep going. Right.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: So why are we saying this, G? Because look, if
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: you could sum up your life, and this is not
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: just like in business, but this is your life of
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: following Christ. It's like, it's adventures in missing the point.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: It's not going to go how you think. You absolutely
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: have to know whatever idea you have, whatever you think
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: you know, it will not go that way. Look at
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: the best things in your life. Did they go the
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: way you expected them to? No. Look at the worst
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: things in your life. Did they go the way that
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: you expect them to? No. It's always the things that
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: we don't see. And so you have to be armed
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: with this mindset of being prepared for the unexpected. You
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: talked about not being the person who knows how to
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: solve every problem, but being the type of person who
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: could figure out how to solve every problem. And that
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: sounds like, okay, that's not that much of a difference,
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: but there is a massive difference between I already know
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: and I can figure it out no matter what. And
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: that's the mindset of The Impossible Life.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: I have a PhD in figure it out.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Boom.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: What university? Hard Dog University. Okay. I should have known.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: I think that was one of your interests.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: All right. So we're going to get into three points
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: to really help you with endurance and And I just,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: I heard this, I so love John Bevere. Obviously, he
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: was on our podcast, what, 49 episodes ago. But I
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: listen to his podcast, every single one. And he's been
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: talking about this lately. And I want to bring it
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: in here for those of you that don't listen. There
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: was this professor that did extensive research into every character
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: in the Bible. And he categorized them like professors do,
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: very scientific approach. And he found that 75% of the
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: people that we read about in the Bible did not
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: finish well.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: So it's like the parable of the sower.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: It is like the parable of the sower, man. But
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: this is a warning for us.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: You probably could have guessed that. Hey, what are the
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: characters of who God used in the Bible going to
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: look like? They're going to look just like the parable
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: that his son told.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: And you could probably take all of them, the ones
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: who fell short, and put them in one of the
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: three categories.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, for sure you could. And I actually want
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: to go into that a little bit more on another podcast,
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: so I think that would be a fun one to do. But, man,
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: I hear that. And, like, that, gee, that, that's, that, like,
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: it bothers me, man, to hear that. I think, I
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: was talking to somebody about this recently. I think about, like,
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: seeing Jesus. I don't know if it's, like, unhealthy the amount,
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: but I think about the end a lot, dude. I
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: think about it every single day. I go, I do
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: not want to get to meet Jesus and have him say, man,
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: this is great, but I had so much more for you.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Or even worse, away from me, I never knew you. Like,
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: that actually breaks me. Um, and, and like, if we
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: don't have that eternal perspective, we will make so many
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: compromises because that's really where it's going to end up.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: We've been told very clearly. And if someone's telling you
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: what's coming for you and you still drop out, like,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: I don't really know what excuse you have every year
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: on the mighty men path. Cause we're coming to the
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: end of it. We get to the end and we
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: have to, unfortunately have conversations with some guys and say, Hey,
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: you're not going to pass this year. And they're, you know,
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: they'll have a lot of reasons why. And what, what
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: we do at the beginning of the year is we
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: sign a contract. that has all the expectations of what
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: you're saying you're going to do. So for me as
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: a leader, it's an easy conversation. Not that I'm going
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: to beat anybody up, but I go, hey, help me
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: to understand. You signed this in the contract where it's
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: very black and white. What part was unclear about this?
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: And that's what we're in. We have it in black
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: and white.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: There's no surprise standards.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: No, exactly. And we have it in black and white, man.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: It's so clear in the Bible. So, G, let's arm ourselves,
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: because there's three points that we need for this mindset.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Well, really, I'm going to put it into three points,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: but the lesson and the perspective that I want everyone
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: to have from today's episode is, I've said this before,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: there's so much more that God has for you than
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: you think. And you've got to realize that when you're
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: running your race and you feel like, I can barely
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: run laps around my block, how am I supposed to
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: climb a mountain? And you just... Begin to break down
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: and you don't like the pace that you're at and
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: you don't feel like you're in a place where you
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: could achieve what you feel like you're capable of achieving
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: and you don't see the path from where you are
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: to where God's going to take you. There's a reason
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: God doesn't show us the middle because the middle sucks. Yeah,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: no kidding. Right? God, he'll give you the beginning and
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: he'll give you the end. He doesn't show us the middle.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: He says, look, just trust me. It's like when I'm
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: teaching my kids to swim. Okay. I promise you won't drown.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Jump in the pool. That doesn't mean you won't feel
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: like you're drowning. I'm just saying, trust me, you won't drown,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: but your head's going to go into the water. I'm
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: not going to tell you about that right now. We're
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: just going to work on your swimming. Okay. And what's
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: at the end of this story is great. You're not
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: going to like what happens, but trust me. Wow.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: I didn't know that second phase was also a, how
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: to teach your kids a second, second phase of buds.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: That's so much of our journey in life. So what
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: I want to do today is I'm going to, I'm
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: going to put this into three simple lessons, three key points.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: of what it takes to really understand that the way
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: you grow in life, your transformation, you getting to the
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: end of your journey, you seeing the promised land, it
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: is compounding returns, but in a way that's different. What
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: God compounds is God compounds how you've lived. God compounds
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: the seeds of faith that you have sown. But every
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: time you sow a seed, sometimes you don't get that back.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: But what God is, is God is the author of justice.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: So even where you've sown a seed, And it's like, man,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: I did everything right, and the storm came, and maybe
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: it's unfair that your harvest was destroyed. God sees that,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: and God has justice exactly for that. And so what
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: you've got to know, too, is God cares way more
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: about what you can accomplish than He cares about your growth.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: And when you get to the place where, like Scripture
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: talks about, you're mature and complete and lacking nothing, that's
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: where God puts you into the places where you can
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: reap a lifetime of harvest in a year or in
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: two years. But you have to do the work and
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: the process to be able to get there. So let
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: me break this down into kind of three key lessons,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: three key points that you've got to understand if you
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: want to see everything that God has for you. And
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: you've got to have a different mindset about it. Okay.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: So point number one is you have to endure to
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: be able to grow. Okay. A lot of people in life,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: they go through hard stuff. It's harder than they wanted
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: it to be. This was what I saw all the
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: time talking to tadpoles who wanted to join the military
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: and And they wanted to just understand how hard is
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: it exactly? Like, tell me how hard it's going to be.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: So that way I know I'll have confidence in myself
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: that all I have to do is be able to
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: do X, Y, and Z, and then I will make it.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: And what I tried to help the tadpoles I worked
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: with understand is that if I did that for you,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: if I quantified for it, quantified it for you, the
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: moment the instructors exceed whatever quantification I gave you, you
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: will be so close to quitting. Because you've thought you
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: could put your growth, you thought you could put your success,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: you could put a number around it. But it's not
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: about what you can achieve. It's about the person that
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: you're becoming. So if you quit, you're never going to
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: see it. You'll never see the promise if you quit.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Growth comes in your life from the follow through, from
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: sticking it out. Growth comes in the lessons learned. And
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: you can learn when you fail. You learn when you fail.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: But when you quit, you are rejecting the lesson. I'm
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: not going to say that you can never learn from quitting.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: That's a big absolute statement. But I will say most
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: of the time in life when you quit, you go
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: back to the beginning of the road that you started down. Yeah. Right?
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: You start down a road in life. And when you
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: start down that road, there's other paths you could have taken.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: There's doors that are open to you. You say, okay,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go in this direction. And when you quit,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: what you're doing is you go back to the beginning
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: of that road and you have to pick a new door. Yeah.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Man, I hope that that's such a warning sign. It's
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: like our man Hormozy said, failure and success are on
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: the same road. It's just that failure is an earlier exit.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: And Pastor Keith, one of my favorite sayings he says is,
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: you never lose when you learn. That mindset of I'm
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: setting out to learn rather than like, oh, if it
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: doesn't go this way, I lost. I mean, that's a
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: massive shift.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: You got to understand that's what God cares about. Yes.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: God could achieve whatever he wants to achieve in your
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: life in a moment. God doesn't need your help with that.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: But what he does care about is your growth. And
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: this is Galatians 6, verse 9. Been living on Galatians 6,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: 8 a lot lately. So I'll quote that one right
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  Speaker 1: before we go into 6, 9. But Galatians 6, 8,
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  Speaker 1: God will not be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.
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  Speaker 1: So 6, 9, let us not become weary in doing good.
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  Speaker 1: For at the proper time, we will reap a harvest if,
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  Speaker 1: it's a big if here, if we do not give up.
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  Speaker 1: Don't become weary. Don't get tired. Don't start feeling sorry
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  Speaker 1: for yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Because you know your time is coming. So quit trying
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  Speaker 1: to say, well, why isn't it my time? Let me
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  Speaker 1: ask you a question on this, G, because.
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  Speaker 2: I think about why people quit in, and that, that
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  Speaker 2: scripture is so good, uh, of just, cause what it's
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  Speaker 2: basically saying is if you give up, you're basically saying
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  Speaker 2: to God, like, Hey, I don't think you're going to,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think you're true to your law. And we
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  Speaker 2: would never see it that way. But do you think
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  Speaker 2: that what changes in a person over the course of
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  Speaker 2: time is that they stop being focused on the outcome
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  Speaker 2: and switch to just being faithful with the sowing? Because
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  Speaker 2: I think what makes you quit is you're like, man,
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  Speaker 2: I've been sowing a lot and I've only got this. That,
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  Speaker 2: that is like quitting talk.
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  Speaker 1: No, people walk away from seed in the ground all
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  Speaker 1: the time. What's the verse before this? God will not
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  Speaker 1: be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. It's telling
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  Speaker 1: you that. So don't become weary in doing good. Keep sowing.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't like the harvest, this is my internalized
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  Speaker 1: perspective of life. If you don't like what you have,
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  Speaker 1: keep going.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Right? I mean, it's Winston Churchill. When you're going through hell,
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  Speaker 1: don't stop. If you're catching hell, don't hold on.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Keep going. If you don't like the harvest that you have,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: you just need to sow more seed and then also
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: wait for that seed to come to a harvest. And
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: while I'm waiting, I'm not going to stop sowing. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just going to sow and accelerate my sowing. Because what
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  Speaker 1: that means is that a time of accelerated returns is
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  Speaker 1: coming for me. It's the whole point of this. Understand,
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  Speaker 1: God won't be mocked. He has a process. Where we
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  Speaker 1: mess up is we just don't like God's timing. Right.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what? All you can do is cry
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  Speaker 1: about that. That's all you can do about it. Or
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  Speaker 1: you can just spend your time sowing.
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  Speaker 2: And as my man, Garrett Unklebach said, no amount of
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  Speaker 2: tears ever changed a tire.
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  Speaker 1: No amount of tears ever brought a seed out of
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  Speaker 1: the ground. There you go.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know. Could you cry enough that you
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: could be watering?
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  Speaker 1: No, anyways. You could water it. You're not going to
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  Speaker 1: make it grow any faster. Very true. Keep going.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: And the other part of endure to grow is... If
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  Speaker 1: you just think about physical exercises, it's a little bit
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: easier for people to understand. Just doing a set of
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: curls doesn't make you grow. But the curls that hurt,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: that makes your bicep grow. You've got to realize that
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: pain is a part of the process. And pain, when
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  Speaker 1: properly processed, produces great growth in your life. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: not talking about gym pain anymore. I'm talking about the
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  Speaker 1: difficult suck that you go through in your life. Everyone
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  Speaker 1: will go through a valley of tears and a valley
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  Speaker 1: of suck and a valley of beat down. And what
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: you're going to have to do in that season is
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  Speaker 1: realize it's making you better. If you look at that
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  Speaker 1: season of, oh, why me? Even if you don't quit,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to get on the other side of it
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  Speaker 1: and be bitter and be hateful and be scornful about
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  Speaker 1: the season that you're in. But that pain produces greatness
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  Speaker 1: in your life. And so like I said, pain when
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: properly processed produces great growth. What does it mean to
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: properly process Is it seeing that pain through a lens
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  Speaker 1: of God has a great plan for my life. If
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  Speaker 1: you realize that's the case, that God has a great
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  Speaker 1: plan for your life, then all that pain, it has
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: meaning to you. It has purpose to you. You're going
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: to continue to push through. Pain, when properly processed, produces
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  Speaker 1: great growth in our life. Man, I love that.
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  Speaker 2: What I thought about when you were saying that, G,
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  Speaker 2: because the workout example is such a good one. If
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  Speaker 2: you go to the gym and you don't work out
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  Speaker 2: till failure, you don't know what we're talking about. Because
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: who wants to go in there and be like, oh, man,
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm going to get this next
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: rep up. That's what it actually looks like. And that's
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: when you start to experience growth. That was one of
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: the biggest things that I learned from Cody was he
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: talked about reps in reserve. And most people will do
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: like four sets of eight. And really, they've got like
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: another five or six reps in them. But they're like, oh,
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: I started to get a little burn.
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  Speaker 1: No, no.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Go to the point that you have eight reps and
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: you hit number six and you're like, I have no
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  Speaker 2: idea how I'm going to do these next two. That
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: is when I saw exponential growth. And that's what you're saying.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: It's like pain when properly processed produces great growth.
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  Speaker 1: And if you have that mindset, then you understand Romans 5,
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  Speaker 1: verse 3 and 4. We glory in our suffering because
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: we know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance, character, and character, hope. Right? Right.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: This is hope and understanding who God is. This is
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  Speaker 1: hope and the plans and the promises that he has
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  Speaker 1: for your life. When you understand this, you go through
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: this suffering and you say, man, this is great. Like
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: what an attitude. This is the same as James 1.
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  Speaker 1: We glory in our suffering. Yeah.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: That thought process of glory and suffering is, like you said,
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: you get to assign the meaning to it. And what
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: we've assigned, I feel like in the American church, is
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: we've assigned, and we talked about this with Dr. Robby,
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: We've assigned suffering as like it's punishment when it's actually
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: what God's using to pressure. It's the pressure that he's
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: using to conform us into the image of his son.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: Same experience, like an insert, whatever's difficult in your life
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: right now. Same experience, but the meaning you give to
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: it will produce an entirely different attitude.
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  Speaker 1: And this is business too, right? Let me put this
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: through a business lens. If you can look at something, right?
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: You can look at an investment opportunity, say, hey, we're
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: going to buy this apartment complex. And if those costs
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: start exceeding what the initial pro forma was, that thing
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: starts to look like a bad investment. And the whole
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: reason that you got into that, right? If you're just,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: let's just talk about like a single investment of, you know,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: buying an apartment complex or something. The whole reason you
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: got into that was for the cash. Right. And if
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: it's not penciling, then it's not penciling. You're going to
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: walk away from the deal. Now, when you're building a business,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: that's different. If you're building a business the right way,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: you're building a business to solve a problem. And sometimes
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: you get through an equation and it's like, man, this
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: didn't pencil the way that we wanted it to. But
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: we know this market so much better now. And the
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: first product that we built has informed this second product
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: that has way greater returns than the first product. And
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: the only thing that you're going to get out of,
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: you know, the only reason you continue in that apartment
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: deal is if you're locked into it and it's like, man,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: this thing's going to pencil out to zeros. Like nobody's,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: we're just going to get our money back and there
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: was no growth, but we learned so much in the process.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: It leads you on to a greater success. And here's
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: what you got to understand as well. And we're still
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: on just 0.1 here. I'm going to wrap up 0.1
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  Speaker 1: in a second. We're still in point one of just
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: endure to grow. What you need to also know is
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: that just take this on. You can just believe me
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: or you can be disappointed for a while and then
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: you'll come back like Garrett was right and I need
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: to just receive this lesson is that most of the
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: time in your life, I'm not telling you you won't
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: ever have super wins and super victories that come in
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  Speaker 1: a short amount of time and are 10 times greater
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: return than you thought they were going to be. I'm
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: saying you'll have those. It's just not most of them.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Most of the time, It's gonna take twice as long
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: and it's gonna cost twice as much. It's just the story.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: That's just the story. And be okay with that. And
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: the reason, this comes back to the earlier points, the
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: reason you'll be okay with that is because you know
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: that those valleys of woe, the hurt, the longer time,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: the longer cost, it's helping you be great. And this
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: is Hebrews chapter 10, verse 36. You need to persevere.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Just hear that. You need to persevere so that when
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  Speaker 1: you have done the will of God, You will receive
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: what he has promised. Let me tell you what part
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: of the will of God is for your life. Part
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: of the will of God is that you grow and mature,
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: that you learn how to trust in him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, big time, man. That's literally, I think that's one
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: of the biggest parts of it is we're being conformed
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: in the image of his son, that he would be
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: the firstborn among many brothers. That's the purpose for us. Okay,
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: how did Jesus learn? He learned obedience through suffering.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Through suffering.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: Well, dang it. Can I have the obedience 101 like
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: class where we just go.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Where's the obedience Cheerios?
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, that's what I want. Give me the gummies.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Give me the obedience gummies.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: Those sound great.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: All right. Number two. Number two. So number one is
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: endure to grow. Number two here is align to multiply. Okay.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: And I'm going to talk about some of these. If
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  Speaker 1: you're not a longtime listener, you've not listened to a
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: hundred or more episodes.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: You've classified what longtime listener is right there. Yeah.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Well, we're over 300. The real Gs are those who
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: have listened to every episode. We're not out here just
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: turning the mics on because I want to run up
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: my electricity bill. Everything that we've done here and poured into,
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: it's cumulative. It's what I said at the very beginning.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: And all of these things will build. There's stuff in
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: the beginning that you need to hear. And sometimes we
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: come back and repeat some topics. I'm just saying this
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: to say, I'm going to talk about some stuff here
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: that if it doesn't fully connect for you, especially on alignment,
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: we have other episodes about this, and alignment is also
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: one of the core topics of Mindset Mastery. That is
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: our second program that you can jump into and be
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: a part of with us where we teach some of
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: our most important topics in a very, very in-depth way,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: more like a classroom. You can just listen to the
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: podcast and that's great, but you can get in the
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: classroom with Mindset Mastery and also get on calls with
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: us and ask questions. All right, number two, align to multiply.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Multiplication comes from the quality of the alignment. Let me
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: talk about alignment really quick here. This is one of
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  Speaker 1: the most beautiful, and I love talking about these types
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: of topics, where it is a scriptural principle, but there
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: is a natural supernatural correlation here. There is math between
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: how these things work and how you win in life. Multiplication,
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: it's what we all want, and it's the right way
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: to grow anything. Instead of just addition of like, oh,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: we just got one more Or we acquired one more
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: customer that here's what you want in your sales business
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: is if you're producing a product, you want customers to
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: create customers.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: That's multiplication.
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Not every customer we ever acquired, we had to pay,
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: you know, 75 cents per customer for a product we sell.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: For a dollar, right?
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: And then you have cost of the product and all that.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: That's expensive.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Real growth is multiplication. And this is exactly how Jesus multiplied,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: by the way. Think about it. Whether you believe that
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ is the Son of God or not, and
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: if you listen to this podcast, you most likely do.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: But whether or not you believe that or not, he
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: is without a doubt, without question, the most famous and
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: most impactful person who has ever lived. Oh, yeah. Who
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: has ever lived. That's without question. That's not a debated topic.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Jesus is the most famous person who's ever lived. And
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: think about the life that he lived. He didn't speak
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: in the biggest stadiums that have ever existed. He didn't
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: exist at the time of the internet or radio or
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: any of the ways to be able to broadcast across
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: the world. He barely went very far. from where he
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: lived and he only spoke to a limited amount of people.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: Yet he's the most famous man who ever lived. And
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: so how did he grow his ministry? Well, you were
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: talking about the growth of the early church. What it
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: started with, Jesus, yes, he spoke messages, but then he said,
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: follow me. And the people who followed him were his disciples.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: And there's a lesson in what Jesus said to his
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: disciples that is one of the core lessons of discipleship
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: that expands to how you grow a team. It's how
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: you grow anything if you want it to really grow,
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: that it's not just your... You know what Jesus isn't
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: still here on the earth doing? He's not still here
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: in person preaching his message. Right. We all preach it
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: for him now. Yeah, no kidding.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: And if you wanna live a life or have a
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: business that it's like, man, why do I keep having
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: to do all of this? You've never learned about multiplication, okay?
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: Luke chapter 6, verse 40, a disciple is not above
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: his teacher, but everyone then when they are fully trained
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: will be like their teacher. Said in a different translation,
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: it says the student is not greater than the master,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: but the student can do everything that the master can do, right?
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: Jesus is saying, look, and it's one of the last
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: things that Jesus said before he died. He said to
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: his disciples, you'll do even greater things than I did,
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: which is a radical statement when you look at Jesus's life.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: What did Jesus say? He's like, hey, look, man, I'm
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: not trying to get you guys to just be my fans, okay?
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: You have to be just like me. I'm going to
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: teach you everything that I know, and I'm going to
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: teach it to you so well that when I'm gone,
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: you don't need me anymore. Like Jesus said, the poor
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: will always be among you, but I won't always be.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: He said that after he taught a lesson on the poor.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: And it was not an indictment on the poor. And
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: that's the way a lot of people hear that verse.
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  Speaker 1: What Jesus is saying is, I just did this. One
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: day it's going to be your turn. This is what
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: real multiplication and discipleship comes from. But the point here is,
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: and I'm just talking about multiplication for a second to
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: set up the point. The point here is align to multiply. Okay.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: Alignment is one of the things we talk about in
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: mindset mastery. Alignment is not like, hey, these are my boys.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: We like the same things. That's what a lot of
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: people think. Or you get into like, church, Christianese world,
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, alignment, like we all go to
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: the same church. Not in alignment, okay? I'm going to reset.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: If that's your definition of alignment, let me reset you, okay?
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: Alignment is not we like the same things. Alignment is
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: we share the same values and we have the exact
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: same objective. When I was in the military, I didn't
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: need guys to go to church with me for us
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: to have alignment. What I had was I had people
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: who had paid the same price that I had. who
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: had the same set of values about this nation, about
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: our military that I did, and they had been through
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: a process where they knew how to focus and put
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: the mission above themselves the same way that I did.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: So when we sat in a mission brief and we
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: heard the commander, or in my case, my first deployment,
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: literally had the president tell us, okay, this is what
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: I need you to do, that we could then turn
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: and I could count on my teammates to give their
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: life for me or me for them and us for
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: the mission. And what made us so capable, there was
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: multiplication here where 20 men could do what a thousand
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: men couldn't. And it wasn't because we had better guns
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: or necessarily we had a little bit better training. We
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: had both of those things, but they've tried giving those
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: things to people who don't think this way and they
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: don't get the same results. The multiplication comes from perfect alignment.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: We are in exact sync. Jesus said to his disciples
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: what it was going to cost for them to be
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: like him. Everything. And Jesus isn't greedy. God's not greedy.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: He's saying, anything that you hold on to in yourself
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: that's like you and not like me, you won't be
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: like me. And if you're not like me, you can't
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: do what I can do. You want to walk on
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: the water? It requires full faith. A great example of
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: just this multiplication process is, I'll just make an analogy
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: for you here. It would be like, on one hand,
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: you could be the author of many books, okay? Or
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: you could go preach a lot of messages and you
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: get all these people saved. That's great. You get all
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: these people saved, but you just got them saved. And
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: if you have been walking with God for any number
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: of time, you know that people can get saved in
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: their life, not necessarily be transformed, right? God will do
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: a work in you. But if you don't enroll in
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: the process, if you don't get discipled, if you don't
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: learn how to hear his voice, your life doesn't change.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: And you're certainly not going to lead anybody else to
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: the gospel. Now, there are people, I have multiple friends
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: that have a personal story of like the Apostle Paul,
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: where God like shook them up in a hotel room,
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: everything changed in their life. And it wasn't all in
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: an instant, but they didn't get a lot of discipleship
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: and they grew through a process radically changed and have
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: brought others to Christ. I'm not saying, I'm not putting
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: a box on what God can or can't do, but
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: I am telling what the Bible says is his process.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: And his process was, I discipled people and those disciples
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: discipled other disciples and those disciples discipled other disciples. So
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: instead of one times 5,000, which is 5,000, it's 12
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: times 12 times 12 times 12 times 12 times 12
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: times 12, continual, and you get a massive number on
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: the other end versus just what is the effort of
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: one man. So it'd be like someone who's the author
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: of many books, that's great. Or you get a teacher
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: who's not creating students, but he's creating other teachers. And
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: this is, by the way, this is what disciple means.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: Disciple means student, but it's continual student. I have to
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: say teacher because we're so ingrained into what that word means.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: But a student used to mean someone who was of
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: a certain philosophy and they perpetuated that philosophy.
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: Right. By the way, if you want to get more
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: information on the alignments, like what you talked about, episode
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: 201 is the one to look into. We dive deep
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: into friendships and talk about what alignments are in more detail.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: So like Garrett said, it's all cumulative.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: So last thing here on this point, right? We're talking
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: about how to get the growth out of your life
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: and the understanding, the perspectives you have to have. The
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: endure to grow portion, we covered that now on align
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: to multiply here. I've talked about multiplication. I've talked about alignment, okay?
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: I've explained what alignment is. If you want to get
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: what you're called to get out of life, you have
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: to learn this concept and bring it into everything that
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: you do. I don't just mean your sales process. I
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: don't just mean how you speak to your team. Everything
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: in your life, you got to get the things that
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: you care about. You got to get your mission very
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: clear to you, to everyone around you, And everyone has
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: to be in strict alignment to that. Otherwise, you're not
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: going to get multiplication. You're just going to get addition.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: And addition is disappointing when you look at the results
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: of your life. Yeah.
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: As a guy who loves math, you know, that's deeply
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: meaningful to you.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: You know, you don't have to love math to understand
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: that multiplication is better than addition.
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Would you rather have your money squared or would
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: you rather just add 100? Well, you know, I guess
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: it depends on what size. Dang it. See, that shows
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: that I'm not the math guy.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: Just keep going. Sorry. I love how you clowned on
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: yourself there. That was great.
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: DJ Khaled, you played yourself.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: All right. Number three here. Last one. So you have
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: to endure to grow. You have to align to multiply.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: And number three, you have to fight division.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: And I'm don't hear this as just math, but you've
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: got to fight division. There are things in your life
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: that will rob you of your destiny. There are things
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: in your life that will rob you of the compounding
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: returns of growth.
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: I use this example, I don't know, a month or
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: two months ago, talking about compound interest and then taxes.
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: Compound interest is awesome until you start wiping out 30%
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: every year. When you wipe out 30% every year, it
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: looks way more like addition.
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: And so you can get some of the things right,
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: but if you start allowing some of these divisions into
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: your life, you rob yourself of the possibility of what
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: could have been your life. Biblically speaking, what division looks
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: like Because there's a promise for you. God had a
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: promise for his people. And the division of that promise,
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: what beat it down, what made it last longer, what
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: made it hurt, what made it not be as good,
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: the division of that promise always came from a lack
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: of obedience, okay? And I think what people struggle with
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: sometimes today is like, well, I'm not an Old Testament
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: king where God sent a prophet and spoke to me
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: and gave a direct set of instructions. I don't understand
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: how I'm disobeying. And I would challenge back to you, yes,
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: you do, okay? What that Old Testament king didn't have
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: was the Holy Spirit. He didn't have the conviction of
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: God in his heart saying, that's right and that's wrong.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: And at the root of all disobedience, it's primarily a
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: hard issue. And what we need in our lives, how
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: you're going to fight that division is on a daily basis.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: If you don't learn how to manage your taxes and
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: have a great tax strategy, it's like, I'm just going
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: to cut down trees harder. You can try that, but
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: it will eat you up. You've got to learn how
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: to defeat these things that are trying to come into
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: your house and eat your food when you're not looking.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: And in this context, it is having a heart that
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: is not continually renewing itself towards God. If you allow
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: wrong things into your heart and just say, well, I'm
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: going to, I'll just do it the way that I
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: think I should do it. And one day God will
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: reward me. And when I get all the money or
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: I get the reward or I get the success, I'll
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: get right with God at that point. If you walk
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: down that road, if you believe that lie, you allow
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: corruption into your life. And that corruption, you know, I
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: said earlier, pain properly processed leads to great growth, okay?
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: But if you allow this corrupt thought in, if you
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: allow corruption into your heart, it'll take that pain that
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: you've experienced, it'll turn it into a grudge, it'll turn
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: it into contempt for God, it'll turn it into entitlement
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: towards God. And the only way that you're going to
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: see the great promise that God has for your life,
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: it's not crossing a certain finish line. It's the level
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: of growth that happened in you. And if you're not
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: growing in a spiritual process, if you're not purifying your
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: heart and continuing to root out new things, right? I
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: loved when we had dinner with John Bevere a few
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: months ago, and he was talking about some of that
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: same thought, same concept in his life where it's like, man,
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: as further I've gone, the more I've had to deal
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: with myself, the more I've had to manage myself. That
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: is the great growth that God wants in your life.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: And it's the division if you don't do it. That's
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: the division of what's possible in your life when you're
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: not continually renewing your heart before God.
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, in episode 258, we went into that even more
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: on guard your heart. And gee, that's 100% where I'm at, man.
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: I find that as I walk closer to the Lord,
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: what happens is my sensitivity as to why I'm doing
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: what I'm doing grows. And I like literally, you know,
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: you said it and it stuck out to me and
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: I've told it to so many people. You get on
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: your knees every day and you say, Lord, if it's
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: not from you, I don't want it. And you really
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: mean it. That's you checking your heart. I feel like
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: at this point in my life, my heart management is
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: like an all the time thing. It's like checking your
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: blood glucose. If you had a diabetes, I have to
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: do it multiple times every day. And I'm constantly like,
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: I'm going, Lord, help me with this. And I'm examining
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: it because I feel like I'm becoming more sensitive to it.
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: And it's not from me. It is truly the Holy spirit,
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: like revealing to me the things in me. And dude,
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: thank God he didn't do it at the beginning. Cause
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: it would have been crushing, but it's like, man, it's
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: just the ongoing place is right there in the heart
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: every day. Could not be more true.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: John chapter 12, verse 34 and 35. This is about unity, okay?
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: And where, what unity comes from, now this is a,
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: this is obviously in the Bible, this is a biblical concept, okay?
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: And unity is about being one in Christ and one
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: in love. But this is also a print, there's a
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: principle to this, right? You could take it and make
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: it not a God issue. We talk about some of
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: this stuff on the podcast sometimes. There are people out
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: there who get biblical principles. They take Jesus out of them.
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: But God made a world of order. And the principles
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: that he made, they work the same way. Now, the
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: final principle is that if you don't have Christ, if
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: you don't have love, you have nothing. But you can
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: get a lot of nothing in your life with those
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: principles that lead to certain outcomes, okay? So this principle
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: of unity and division is part of that. This principle
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: of unity, it works with or without God. If you,
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: for example, I use the military one all the time. right?
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: There was high unity on that team as far as
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: what the mission required, right? We were not all of
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: the same belief system. We didn't all serve Christ, but
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: when it came to what it took to do the
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: job as related to the mission, extreme unity.
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: Tower of Babel is a great example in the Bible
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: where God literally says, if we don't separate them, there's
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: nothing they can't accomplish. That's a big statement.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: But a lack of unity comes from not having a
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: love of the mission. You start making it about you.
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: And that's one of like, Because where I talked about
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: division comes from you having a wrong heart. Well, essentially
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: that wrong heart is you make it about you. I
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: live my life through some really core statements because when
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: I've been through the most difficult things in my life
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: and had some of my greatest successes, it wasn't a
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: giant book that I had memorized. It was a couple
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: of core statements that just kept me going. And one
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: of the core statements that you should have heard from
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: this podcast and needs to be a part of your
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: life is if you want to live a miserable life,
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: make it all about you. If you want to live
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: a great life, make it all about other people. And
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: this is John chapter 12, verse 34 through 35. A
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: new command I give you, love one another as I
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: have loved you, so you must love one another. By this,
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: everyone will know that you are my disciples if you
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: love one another.
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: And yeah, that... You know, think about the mindset. I
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: don't think we have the same mindset when you hear
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: the word command. Jesus didn't give a ton of commands
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: when he was on.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: He didn't, no.
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: So for him to say a new command... Now, keep
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: in mind, these are the people of Israel. What did
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: they have given to them?
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: That was also a statement that just made the Pharisees
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: sharpen their swords of like, who are you to be
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: able to give us a command?
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: You don't write commands.
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: Why? Because only God does. And that's what I'm saying.
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: The mindset of the people he was speaking to When
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: he used the word command, I don't know that we
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: have a same level of depth of meaning for a word.
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: Because if we say law, people break the laws all
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: the time. But the commandments were what they.
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: It's an amendment to the Constitution.
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, a new amendment to the Constitution. It's like, whoa, whoa, whoa,
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: we haven't had one of those in a while. Yeah,
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: that's a great example. Thank you, G. I don't think
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: there's an example like.
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: It's a marginal example, but it gets the job done. Yeah,
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: it gets the point across. Colossians 1, verses 10. I
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: appeal to you, brothers... by the name of our Lord
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, that all of you agree and that there
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: be no divisions among you, but that you be united
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: in the same mind and the same judgment. What are
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: we talking about here in Colossians? What he's saying is
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: how important, how important it is that you all get
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: on the same page. He knew what multiplication came from,
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: from true alignment, from a lack of division. We must
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: be of one mind. There must be no discord. And again,
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: this point here, like fight division builds on top of
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: the second point of a line to multiply. But the
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: fight division part is a very personal fight with you.
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: It's you and yourself deciding not to make it about you,
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: but to be about the mission, to love one another.
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: When you love other people, it gives you the power
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: to fight off the division. When you make everything about you,
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: you turn into a sword and you chop down everyone
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: around you. It's all about me. It's all about what
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: I want. And you get angry at God. And it becomes,
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: instead of you getting to be on God's team, it
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: turns into you versus God. And God, why aren't you
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: doing this for me? And God, why aren't you doing that?
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: So this is what fight division is about. Ultimately, what
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: I want you to take away from today, there's a
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: few key things, right? You got to endure so that
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: you can grow, so you can see God's plan for
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: your life. You have to understand what was a mystery,
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: but it's not if you listen to this podcast, but
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: you have to understand the principles. of alignment and multiplication.
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: If you want greatness in your life, it's not an
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: addition process. And then you've got to do the daily,
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: the daily of fighting off division in your life. And
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: I promise you, if you learn these things and you'll
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: learn to live by these things, what you'll realize one day,
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: your time will come, like scripture says, that at the
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: proper time, we will reap a harvest if we do
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: not give up. That harvest will be greater and greater
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: and greater than you could have ever imagined for yourself.
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: Don't give up.
• 55:53
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