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Winning the Battle Against Worry · Wetumpka Church of Christ Online

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Alright. Thank you.
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All right, good evening to everyone.
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Good to see everybody. We'll go ahead and get started
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this evening. Hope everybody's had a good day
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so far. For the David, we are sure.
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Delighted about the news with your son Dane, the studies that
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he's had and the baptism that was just wonderful new.
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So we are just so thrilled and delighted about that will be
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praying for her. Alright, we will pick up where
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we left off. Last time.
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We're talking about just some suggestions for helping us heal
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anxiety from the inside out. So some things that That we can
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do can try to put into practice, that will help.
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Again. I don't think those that this is
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a an issue that you deal with on a regular basis.
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And we mentioned this last Wednesday, you know, all of us.
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I am convinced have something that will be a constant.
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Struggle In Our Lifetime that will flare up from time to time.
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And sometimes it, we may feel like we're overtaken by it.
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And so, what I'm saying, is it whatever that particular issue
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is that just sometimes has our number.
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It'll be a lifetime fight in battling, whatever that
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particular issue. Weakness, bias problem sin is I,
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and when I say that, I'm not saying that we're Habitually
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committing the sin, but it may be something that we have to
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constantly be aware of cognizant of, and very proactive in the
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way that we handle it. Fight it battle it.
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So that we're winning the battle more than we're losing the
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battle. And so, if anxiety is, is one of
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those that It's been maybe a lifetime struggle for someone.
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You're never going to get to the point.
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And this is the point paid. Last Wednesday is where you get
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the point of. Well, I've conquered it.
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I'm done. I never have to think about it
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again. I am the Victor.
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I am the master of this issue. Move on.
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But hopefully we can come up with techniques whatever our our
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issue or a struggle or weakness, the Temptation that that we have
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to deal with. throughout the course of our life, we come up
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with ways to combat with ways to Deal with it in a successful
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more than a defeating manner. We started with these
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suggestions. Last one is the first ones, slow
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down. Listen to the alarms.
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Don't try to drown them out with phone scrolling, binge-watching
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music, blaring self-medicating Etc.
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Write down the thoughts that trouble you and review for truth
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and accuracy. What we're trying to do with
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anxiety, is to move from being terrified by it to being
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notified by it. So, we're not allowing the
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anxiety to Us to enslave us to ensnare us.
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We're being notified by it when it's coming.
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And then we don't try to default to those distracting techniques
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where, okay. Well, I'm just going to mute or
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numb the alarm, rather than deal with what is causing.
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The alarm number, to feelings are real, but they do not always
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tell the truth. The example we gave you may
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forget someone's name that you've known forever.
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Does that mean that you have dementia?
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Not necessarily when you write down the anxiety-producing
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thoughts and analyze them. It helps separate fact from
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fiction. Remember we talked about Jacob,
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when he believed, you know, and it's interesting to me.
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I love the Holy Spirit. Revealed it to us when the other
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brothers, bring back the bloody Coat of Many Colors Jacobs
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response is. I know he didn't say well, I
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guess, you know, the evidence leads to this being Joseph fate.
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It was, I know, did he? No, no, he did not, but he felt,
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The evidence was overwhelming, there was indisputable that his
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son had been devoured by a wild animal.
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So his feelings in response to that were real, but they were
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based on something. That was not true.
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Number three and this is where we left off.
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Last one, is they keep a gratitude Journal.
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Those forces are mined out of the past, keeps it from
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speculating about the future and it makes us focus on the
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present. Again, going back to what Jesus
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said in Matthew 6:34. When he told us multiple times
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that chapter, not to worry, says sufficient for the day is its
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own trouble. So Jesus did not negate.
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The fact that each day comes with its specific challenges.
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And issues and problems in burdens.
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So Jesus is acknowledging. The fact that we're going to
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have to deal with issues each and every day more than likely
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in our life but sufficient for the day.
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So what anxiety does is we've said several times before is it
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compounds whatever you're dealing with that day with
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regret or guilt that you're carrying with you to that
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present-day that took place in the past and your worries about
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the uncertain future and you're compounding.
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At on the day. Now, you've got an unbearable
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load. One of the things that a
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gratitude Journal. Does it is, it takes us out of
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the past and it keeps us from thinking about the future and
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we're just focused on what are we think full for?
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What are we grateful for this day?
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What's going on? Our life right now that that we
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have to be grateful for when you think about adding guilt from
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the past with worries about the uncertain future.
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Iran to the day, you know, that's a compound compounding is
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great. If you're talking about interest
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that you're gaining on your savings or an IRA, but
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compounding is not good. If you're compounding worries
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and anxieties number for allow yourself to be vulnerable, be
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brave enough to share your anxieties with a trusted friend,
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family member or group. And that is one of the primary
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takeaways for this class is that I'm hoping that it will
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embolden. Us anyone who this is a
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struggle, I'm hoping it will embolden you to allow yourself
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to be vulnerable. To allow yourself to be open to
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share with a trusted friend. Somebody that, you know, you can
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take these issues too and they'll put it in a vault and
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they're not going to go broadcast it on their social
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media account, but they're going to be someone that you can
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bounce these issues off of and they're going to be a source of
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help and Encouragement to you. So, allow yourself to be
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vulnerable. Be brave enough to share your
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anxieties with a trusted, friend, family member or group
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number 5, anxiety. Does not execute you.
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It grinds you down. Some of you may have experienced
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panic attacks in your life. When you have a panic attack.
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You have to treat it the same way that someone who is caught
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in a Riptide in the ocean has to handle that Riptide.
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I learned this from my wife who spent a lot of time in the ocean
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growing up and she said, if you ever get caught in a Riptide you
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don't fight your way out of it. You just ride with it and
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eventually. You'll work your way out of it.
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I've some of you have been. Whitewater rafting before and
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you know, they give you that whole safety Spiel at the
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beginning before you you go and one of the things they say if
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you get dumped out of your raft and you get caught in a
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Whirlpool, you just go on your back and kick your legs up out
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of the water and eventually the whirlpool will spit you out.
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If you try to stay in that whirlpool and just fight it and
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panic and You're going to have issues, you're going to have
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problems. So basically what you have to do
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is just yield yourself to it and give into it in essence.
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That's the same thing you have to do with the riptide and
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eventually you'll work your way out by the course of the water,
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allowing you to leave. So with panic attacks.
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Don't try to fight it. You just drop your shoulders.
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You breathe, you let it run. Its course.
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Over time, the more you choose not to fight the things, you
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cannot control the less, your body will use Panic or flight to
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get your attention. It's kind of like that bully.
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Who's in the schoolyard. Are you looks for the ones that
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he can get the best reaction out of when he's picking on them?
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And the ones that he gets the reaction that he wants?
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Then what does he do? Continues to bully that kid,
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right. Because that kids giving me what
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I want the reaction that I want. If Panic sets in and you react,
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In a way that I'm not going to fight it.
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I'm not going. I'm just going to allow it to
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run. Its course and eventually your
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body says wait a minute. Okay.
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Well, what's the point in having these anymore?
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If you know you're not going to make a big deal about it when it
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occurs. Number 6.
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If you want to change how you feel and act start by working
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and boy, this is, this is easier said than done.
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I know believe you me as I read this.
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I know this is the case start by working to control your
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thoughts. You say how in the world?
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Well, we cannot stop the thoughts that pop into our mind,
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but we can control the thoughts that we respond to or give
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audience to you. Think about David on his
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rooftop. And he sees Bathsheba, it may
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that was probably a completely incidental that was not, I'm
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sure David's intention when he went on the rooftop that night
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to spot Bathsheba bathing on her.
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Rooftop, it was, it was an incidental.
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Occurrence. The mistake that David made is
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his lingering on his rooftop, and allowing his mind, and his
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eyes to absorb, what he was seeing, which then, of course,
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contributed to the horrific mistakes that he made after
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that. So David maybe could not have
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controlled initially seeing Bathsheba on that evening, but
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he could control. What he allowed his mind to
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continue to do from that moment. Overturn with his second
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Corinthians chapter 10. and, So many times.
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We get some additional tidbits. If we take maybe a familiar,
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passage that we know very well and consider for a moment.
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The context surrounding it. So 2nd Corinthians chapter 10
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and verse 5? Says, what Alex are you there?
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You'll read that one for us. Yes, sir.
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When you have meditated upon that verse before taking every
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thought, captive what what kinds of thoughts?
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Do you think specifically when you're trying to make
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application in your own life? To what Paul just said, have you
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thought specifically about what kinds of thoughts?
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That you need to take captive. What do you think is?
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Maybe the general reaction when you think?
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I take every thought captive? What kinds of thoughts?
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That's a big one. Probably that comes to the mind
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of most males is. Okay.
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I'm going to take I'm not going to allow myself to go down the
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road mentally. That David went down, you know,
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with Bathsheba anybody else have a thought of a particular
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thought that comes to your mind that covetousness is a big one.
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Absolutely that. That's that one's a fueler for a
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lot of other sins and mistakes, right?
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Exactly. Yes, that's a big one.
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Brod huge. Yes.
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Yes, sir. Absolutely being very purposeful
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intentional in in the practice of this principle brother Danny
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into captivity to The Obedience of Christ that they were naming
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all of those ones that got to get fitter and had bring it.
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Deviance Christ. Good thoughts.
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That's it. Yeah, absolutely.
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Because we got to replace those thoughts with something.
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Don't we our minds? Not just going to, you know, I
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mean, I know guys. We talked about our ability to
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put our mind on screen saver mode, but you know, and and we
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can't do that forever. You know.
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So eventually you have to replace those negative thoughts
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with those positive thoughts, that you know that Christ wants
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us to be our mental focus. A couple of things within the
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context of where this verse Falls, that is interesting to
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look with me in verse 2, someone read verse 24.
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So just a couple of verses before verse 5 that we just
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read. Okay, so, Paul is making a
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reference to those who were doing what?
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Slandering him talking bad about him, knowing the firecracker
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that we believe Paul to be is the in the way that he's
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revealed to us in scripture. What kind of thoughts, you think
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Paul would have, if he spent time reflecting upon those that
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are going around, slandering him and talking bad about him.
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And What kind of thoughts, do you think Paul might?
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The old saw Paul might come into his mind as he's thinking about
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that and I get my hands on that guy just one good time.
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Yeah, that's the kind of thing that I'm, that's the kind of
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thought that I'm thinking Paul would like to have as a reaction
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to, okay, so he's talking about people that are slandering.
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Somebody look, what's that? Yes, absolutely.
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I know right now. Verse 10.
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Somebody read verse 10 for us. So, this is Paul talking about
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people who are doing what? Making fun of him right.
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Boy. He talks big and bad when he's
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riding, but man, you look at him and That's not too to intimidate
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him of a figure. There is interesting me.
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So Paul is addressing before he says take every thought captive
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and after taking every thought captive to two things that
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probably a lot of us, think about It's may be a struggle for
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us to have the best thoughts in our mind.
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When we think about those people that are out there gossiping
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about us, slandering us saying, bad things about us.
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Those people who are making fun of us, mocking us.
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You know, here. So here's Paul addressing people
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who've made fun of his physical stature as physical appearance.
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And those who are out there, slandering his name.
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And right there in the middle of that.
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Here's Paul saying I take every thought captive to The Obedience
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of Christ. So a lot of times in, yes, we
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think about, okay, those vices those sins.
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Those things that pop in that are - that our Sim sinful, that
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are sensual that are tempting. But also what Paul is addressing
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here are those times where you know, we want to lash back at
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people that are mistreating us that are Treating us badly and I
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can imagine that could probably be an issue for Paul being the
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kind of person that he was this fire in his bones kind of guy
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that he had that he can fire in the bones kind of guy that he
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was. And so I can only imagine that
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there would be times where Paul would want to revert back to his
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old ways at least verbally in responding to these people who
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are treating him this way, but he's saying I'm taking every
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thought captive to The Obedience of Christ.
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Yeah. I mean, can you imagine anything
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being more insulting to Paul than that?
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Because, yes, you know, we've done Andrew.
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You've been under the personality classes that we've
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done. Before we try to piece together,
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what we can learn about, these people from scripture and their
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personality types. And and if Paul was a choleric
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as I think he, you know, scripture reveals him to be
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then, yeah. Don't tell a choleric.
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They're not good at what they've chosen as their life's Mission
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profession. Occupation.
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Whatever. Exactly, very, very interesting
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thoughts. They're surrounded by around
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that verse. Number 7.
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The thoughts we give audience to affect our heart rates, stress
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hormones, our gut health. So we have to challenge those
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thoughts. There is nothing wrong with
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saying out loud. Get behind me.
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Satan exactly the way Jesus said to Peter in Matthew chapter 16.
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You remember? So and that it's a whole
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separate topic to discuss the rise and fall of Peter just in
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one conversation, you know, he goes from being him blessed.
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Are you Simon bar Jonah for flesh and blood has not revealed
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unto you. My father Art in Heaven, given
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you the Keys of the Kingdom and in that same conversation?
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After Jesus said that if in talks about what he's going to
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to do for the world and that is to suffer to die on the cross to
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rise. Again, the third day and Peter
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tries to pull him aside because he's feeling Really good about
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himself right now. He's just been blessed by the
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Lord in front of the Apostles. He's just been given the keys to
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the kingdom. So he's feeling a little little
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big for his britches. So he pulls the Son of God
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inside and rebukes him. Matthew says, this isn't going
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to happen to you. And Jesus says, Get Behind Me.
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Satan or you are a hindrance to me.
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Man, you talking about being. In one conversation.
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And so, Jesus out loud is basically saying, have you not
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taken a second to think that I've had that same thought that?
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No. I don't want to go through this
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for you thankless, ingrates. And so if there's nothing wrong
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with you, have these these thoughts that pop into your head
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that want to take you down this rabbit hole that leads in
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anxiety. You just say out loud, get
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behind me. Satan, not today.
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Satan, whatever your Mantra that you choose is Jesus gave us full
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permission to do that. Number 8, make a list of what
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you can and cannot control. You can control things like
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screen time. Exercise work ethic Etc.
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You cannot control other people's attitudes insecurities
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behaviors. You cannot control what other
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people post on social media. You cannot control what other
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people say and do. You can control whether or not
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you keep an app on your phone. That is causing you stress.
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So decide, here's what I can control.
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Here's what I can't control the things that I can control.
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I'm going to do what I can do about those things.
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To make my life easier to make my life less stressful to make
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my life. Less anxious, the things that I
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cannot control. I'm going to remind myself over
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and over again. I cannot control that.
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I cannot control this person's mouth.
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I cannot control this person's driving skills.
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I cannot control just fill in the blank with whatever causes
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you stress and anxiety on any given day and let go of those
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things that you cannot control. Number nine.
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Unwittingly. We write the story of our future
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from narratives, based on the past.
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This is especially true with trauma.
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When it comes to trauma, we must acknowledge and identify it.
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Then, we must decide to not allow it to identify us.
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Your past is an experience. It is not a destination.
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We mentioned this last Wednesday and talked about that, a good
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bit and we're talking about lot. You were not the worst thing you
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have experienced done or said Philippians 3 and verse 13, Paul
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who had as many skeletons in his closet as anyone. talks about
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forgetting what is behind and pressing or those things that
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are ahead and isn't it interesting that In that
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context. Now, this is very true when it
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comes to trauma and things that we have experienced, especially
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those things that were outside of our control.
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We don't need to You know, think that our, our identity is is
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based upon those things. But in the context in
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Philippians 3, when Paul makes that statement.
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This one thing I do forgetting those things are behind and
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pressing forward to those things.
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Which lie ahead, you know, he is not in the preceding verses in
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Philippians chapter 3. He's not talked about his
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horrific past except just just one brief little comment.
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Most of what he has talked about leading up to.
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That were the things that he was most proud of before coming
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becoming a Christian. A benjamite, a Hebrew of
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Hebrews. According to the law zealous as
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far as practicing the Old Law blameless.
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I mean, he, he lists all these accomplishments accolades both
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from an academic standpoint, a biological standpoint and
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everything in between. And, and yet.
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What does Paul do? He says, I forget all those
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things are behind. So, yes, included in that
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concerning the church, a persecutor, but that was the
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only really negative thing about his past.
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He made reference to before making that statement of
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forgetting those things they're behind.
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So a lot of times We think about Paul forgetting those things
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that are behind, we're thinking. He's focusing on those traumatic
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things, those sinful things, those things that maybe would
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make him lose sleep at night sometimes, but in the immediate
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context, he's talking about everything.
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Yes, being a persecutor of the church, trying his best to
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forgive that and move forward. But but all the things that he
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considered valuable that it considered good.
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In other words. The past is the past, whether it
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was good, bad indifferent. I forget those things that are
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behind I move forward and press forward to those things that are
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ahead. Jimmy excellent.
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Excellent point. And I'm gonna jump way ahead in
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my notes to piggyback on something that you said to what
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I was going to do after these things that we're going through
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right now and just pull out a few highlights from.
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I mentioned it briefly you winces ago Bachelor Barrett
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Baxter, wonderful gospel preacher from several years ago,
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wrote a book entitled when life tongue.
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Zen and in his chapter on how to deal with guilt and how to
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overcome guilt, he gave several tidbits on how to do that and
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Excuse me. Let me get right to it.
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So I want. Not state it accurately.
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He says this. So he gives 5 I'll just give you
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this as number four and then we'll cover all five of them
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when we get there. He says sincerely.
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And one time, only ask the Lord to forgive you of a particular
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sin. And then he said don't burden
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the Lord with a whole bunch of times.
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After that, asking for forgiveness, for that exact sin.
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I'm not talking about, you know, sins that you've committed since
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then, but maybe you've got one big one in your past that you've
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asked the Lord to forgive you for, and, and you've made it
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right with the Lord, then the Lord is not expecting or
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wanting. You then to pray to him multiple
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times after that about that. At Siena in the past is already
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been forgiven and forgotten by God, don't continue to ask him
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to do something that he's already done.
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In essence is what he's saying, but he says, you know, you're
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dealing with your guilt and you can't forget it and we cannot
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keep. I'll get you here in just a
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second. What we do with regrets from the
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past, when we try to erase them from from our mind.
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And so they they don't cause this guilt and heartbreak in the
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present. It's like when you use an eraser
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to remove dry erase marker unless you're a way better
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eraser than I am in, every situation that I've ever erased
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aboard that was written on a dry erase marker.
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You can still faintly read what was left behind, unless you've
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got a magic eraser or something better than what I've used.
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Typically. It's very faint, you can write
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over it and it's not going to hinder what you want to do, you
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know. But there's still a faint that
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that's what we do, you know, even when, when we try to
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forgive and move on, when people have wronged us, you know, we
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it's impossible for us as human beings to completely forget.
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God, does not operate that way when David was asking for the
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Lord concerning his sin with Bathsheba and Uriah to blot out
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my iniquities, in Psalm 51, what he was asking the Lord to do is
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something the Lord is capable of doing.
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And that is To remove it as if that writing was never put on
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the dry erase board to begin with.
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It's like it never existed. So when God forgives us of
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something that we have repented for, and changed our heart, and
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our mind, and our attitude, and our actions, when he blocks it
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out. It's as if it never happened,
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so, when God has forgiven us of something, and we go back again
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about that same thing. Lord, at thing, that I ask you
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to forgive me for that, I did and 1983 asking for forgiveness
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for that again and you go back and back and back to that.
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That's what is feeding your guilt.
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But God is handli. You don't have to have blotted
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that out. What are you even talking about?
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Eight. That's it.
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Right. Exactly key.
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The perfect Point. Yeah, don't forget the lessons
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learned from it. The lessons that will Empower
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you enable you not to make that same mistake over and over
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again, but don't bring it back up into your Consciousness so
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that you can then go through the process of beating yourself up
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about it all over it. Yeah.
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Brother dance and do we really believe him if we do then we'll
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get it and not bring it back up. Both sides that if you might
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send you to feel guilty or we might continue, continue to feel
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that God hadn't done what he promised.
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Excellent point, brother Danny, I tell you, I think you've read
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the battle Barrett Baxter's book because that one is number five
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in his suggestions for overcoming guilt, accept the
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forgiveness. In other words, trust that he
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did it trust that he forgave you, so exactly right.
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But anything else there, JP, and then kneel, and then Andrew
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Okay, I'm sorry, brother cliff. Zach.
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That's right. Exactly having that, having that
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balance between those. So in going back to Keith point
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to and it's great. So taking the lessons learned
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and moving on, but yet to get to the point to where you get
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forgiven in the first place to have that Godly sorrow, that
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that remorse, that that remorse, that leads to repentance.
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Not the regret that Judas had where he didn't go through the
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process of reconciliation, but that report remorse that leads
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to repentance that then leads to forgiveness.
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Exactly. Davey.
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Oh, you were you just helping helping me?
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Get to brother. Cliff?
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Good. Good stuff.
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All right, Neal and then Andrew. Sure, absolutely eyes.
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Big part of James instructions. You know, concerning our prayer
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life, if you ask and do not receive because you ask amiss in
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other words, you're asking for the wrong things.
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And that was, that was the thrust of his particular
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statement. Because you're asking for things
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that you can spend for your pleasure sake.
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And so I know that's not specifically, she were speaking
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about, but sometimes, we're not necessarily praying for
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something that is pleasurable to us or something that we want
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don't necessarily need but, you know sometimes yeah, it's a
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shift of a focus, even Even beyond that, that particular
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thought or idea is good and you Andrew.
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And Andrew really excellent pointing when you reference Paul
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there, towards the end, is such a good example.
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Because in both cases of Paul in the the success that he achieved
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in, what will the successive? That he was achieving in his
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spiritual walk, when he was still an adherent to the law of
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Moses and in opposition to the Christ in opposition to Christ.
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His motivation was pleasing. God, his anger at those who were
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of the way were you, are, you are hurting my God.
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And so his Zeal was, I'm going to do what I can to take you
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down so that my God can be back in his proper place, that is
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first and foremost, so it was easy for for God to take Paul.
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And use him for the church because his motivation in both
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places. Just like you're saying in the
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good times, the bad and everywhere in between.
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God was his Focus right glorifying.
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Him serving him was his Focus. He just needed to be pointing to
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the right direction. And so it was, it was easy.
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The ones who were not able to make the shift that Paul made
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were the ones who were self. They were involved in
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self-glorifying. Self-gratification, the ones who
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we loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
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We're not going to confess Christ.
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I see even though what he has shown us is beyond dispute.
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He's got to be who he said he was.
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They believed in him would not confess him.
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John 14. Let's to be put out of the
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synagogue Benjamin and then JP. Man, such great advice for all
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of us. And I mean, yeah, let's let's
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practice as Brothers and Sisters in Christ, letting bygones be
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bygones. You know, I guarantee you, if,
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if Jesus had lingered on long after his 40 days, after his
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Resurrection before his Ascension, if he had ever been a
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party to listening to any of those Apostles, dredge up
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Peters, three denials on the eve of his death across.
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I guarantee Jesus with a squash that like a bug.
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He just said, you're not. Peter and we're fine, you're not
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bringing that up. That's that's not a topic for
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ongoing discussion. That's that's a fantastic Point.
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Benjamin. We need to allow that that grace
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and mercy to one another not bring up forgiving sins from the
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Past who each other. Absolutely JP.
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And then Kelly Y'all got some good comments tonight.
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Yeah, bring it. Oh, yes.
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All that. That is so great.
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And I'll just take our thought, I'm sorry Kelly before we get to
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you and you can close this out tonight.
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Going back to that. You know, this the first Peter
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5:7, your cast all your care upon him for he cares for you
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and you may remember several wins days back.
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We talked about that. He that Greek word that is
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translated as casting their first.
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Peter. 5:7 is only used twice the entire New Testament.
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The only other time is when they were describing the way, the two
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disciples cast. The, the coat, on top of the
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cold that Jesus wrote upon into Jerusalem.
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And so you got these two castings.
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So we're casting our burdens upon Christ.
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So he's got, you know, our burdens on his backhand.
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And you've got this idea. Maybe we can allow that that
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coat that's sitting on top of the cult under Christ.
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We can let that represent our pride and then we're right there
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in the middle, you know, so, allow Jesus to sit on our pride
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and squash yet. Allow him.
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To carry our burdens and we're just in the middle along for the
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ride Kelly. Exactly.
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What JP was talking about there a minute ago.
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Yeah, a lot of times those High moments are short-lived, aren't
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they? So we got to, we got to help
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God. We got allow God, to help us
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through the highs and the lows. Definitely.
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Thank y'all so much for great comments.
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Lord willing. We'll pick up their next
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Wednesday. We'll move on to our devotional
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tongue. Okay.
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Got you. 12:30, we met her up here,
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12:30. That's right.
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I'll just move over here. Applejack from a seat, sir.
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Recognize or know her, but just didn't know it.
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And not know that family picnic. Oh, yeah, how could you not know
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John? Hey, hey.
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And yeah. It's am I doing announcements?
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Or am I just going for it as far as I know?
47:50
If we don't have somebody working to say yes, I don't see
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anybody looking like an announcer.
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So, you know speaking man we
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Yeah. Are you there now?
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It's over. Sounds like an announcer.