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Speaker 1: What if everything you thought about glory was wrong. What
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Speaker 1: if true glory isn't found in success but in surrender.
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Speaker 1: What if the greatest moments of your life don't come
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Speaker 1: through comfort but through obedience. Because on the night before
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Speaker 1: his crucifixion, in the most intense moment of his life,
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Speaker 1: Jesus didn't pray for rescue. He didn't ask the Father
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Speaker 1: to take away the suffering. He didn't call down angels
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Speaker 1: to destroy his enemies. He didn't even pray for strength
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Speaker 1: to endure. He prayed for glory. Father, the hour has come,
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Speaker 1: glorify your son, that your son may glorify you, John
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Speaker 1: seventeen one. This is the most powerful prayer ever prayed,
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Speaker 1: not because it brought comfort, not because it brought deliverance,
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Speaker 1: but because it revealed the true nature of God's glory.
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Speaker 1: And here's what might shock you. Jesus glory was the cross,
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Speaker 1: the suffering, the shame, the sacrifice, the very thing the
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Speaker 1: world sees as defeat Jesus called glory. And this changes everything,
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Speaker 1: because if Jesus found glory in the cross, then may
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Speaker 1: be glory in our own lives doesn't come through the
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Speaker 1: things we expect may be true greatness isn't found in
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Speaker 1: power but in humility. Maybe real success isn't about winning
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Speaker 1: but about obedience. May be glorifying God means walking through
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Speaker 1: the fire, not avoiding it. So let me ask you,
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Speaker 1: what if God's greatest plan for your life doesn't look
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Speaker 1: like success but sacrifice. What if the path to your
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Speaker 1: purpose requires pain before victory? Are you willing to trust
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Speaker 1: God even when his will leads you through suffering? Because
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Speaker 1: by the end of this video, you will never see
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Speaker 1: the cross, the glory of Jesus, or your own purpose
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Speaker 1: of jesus most powerful prayer, because this prayer changes everything.
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Speaker 1: And with that being said, let's get started. When Jesus prayed, Father,
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Speaker 1: the hour has come, glorify your son, that your son
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Speaker 1: may glorify you. John seventeen one. He was asking for
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Speaker 1: something that seems completely upside down to us, because when
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Speaker 1: we think of glory, we don't think of suffering. We
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Speaker 1: think of victory. We think of power, recognition, achievement. We
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Speaker 1: think of standing on a stage, being admired, being honored,
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Speaker 1: being celebrated. But Jesus saw glory in something completely different.
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Speaker 1: He saw glory and surrender. He saw glory and sacrifice.
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Speaker 1: He saw glory in the cross. And that's the kind
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Speaker 1: of glory we don't like to talk about, because, let's
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Speaker 1: be honest, we live in a world obsessed with personal glory.
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Speaker 1: We chase success, status, and significance. Even in the church,
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Speaker 1: we can fall into the trap of seeking recognition instead
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Speaker 1: of true obedience. We love the idea of glorifying God
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Speaker 1: when it means being used in mighty ways, when it
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Speaker 1: means preaching, leading worship, building ministries, seeing miracles. But what
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Speaker 1: about when glorifying God means being overlooked? What about when
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Speaker 1: it means losing something instead of gaining What about when
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Speaker 1: it means taking up a cross instead of a crown?
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Speaker 1: Because for Jesus, glory was not about self promotion, it
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Speaker 1: was about self denial, and this wasn't just a theme
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Speaker 1: of his final prayer. This was his entire mission. In
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Speaker 1: John twelve twenty three to twenty four, just days before
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Speaker 1: his crucifixion, Jesus said, the hour has come for the
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Speaker 1: son of Man to be glorified. Very truly, I tell you,
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Speaker 1: Unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies,
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Speaker 1: it remains only a single seed. But if it dies,
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Speaker 1: it produces many seeds. He was saying, my glory is
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Speaker 1: in my death. My victory is in my sacrifice. This
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Speaker 1: is why his entire life led to this moment. Every miracle,
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Speaker 1: every sermon, every act of compassion, it was all leading
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Speaker 1: to the ultimate moment of glory, the cross. And here's
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Speaker 1: what's even more shocking. The cross was not just a
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Speaker 1: display of Jesus' glofe glory. It was the greatest revelation
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Speaker 1: of God's glory. Because what is the glory of God.
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Speaker 1: It's not just his power, It's not just his majesty.
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Speaker 1: It's not just the splendor of heaven or the fire
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Speaker 1: on Mount Sinai. The greatest display of God's glory was
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Speaker 1: when Jesus hung on a cross for the sins of
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Speaker 1: the world. In Exodus thirty three, eighteen to nineteen. Moses
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Speaker 1: begged God, show me your glory. And how did God respond.
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Speaker 1: He didn't show Moses a throne, He didn't show Moses
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Speaker 1: lightning and fire. He revealed his goodness it He said,
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Speaker 1: I will cause all my goodness to pass in front
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Speaker 1: of you, and I will proclaim my name the Lord.
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Speaker 1: In your presence. I will have mercy on whom I
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Speaker 1: will have mercy. God's glory is his goodness, his mercy,
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Speaker 1: his willingness to love us when we didn't deserve it.
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Speaker 1: And that is exactly what the cross was. The Cross
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Speaker 1: was the ultimate moment of God's goodness. It was where
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Speaker 1: justice and mercy met, where sin was punished but sinners
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Speaker 1: were forgiven, where death was defeated but eternal life was
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Speaker 1: made possible. And this is why Jesus prayed for glory,
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Speaker 1: because the Cross wasn't a loss, it was the victory.
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Speaker 1: And here's where it gets personal, because if jesus glory
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Speaker 1: came through obedience and suffering, then what does that mean
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Speaker 1: for us? We love to say, Lord, use me for
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Speaker 1: your glory. But what if glorifying God means being misunderstood?
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Speaker 1: What if glorifying God means losing relationships. What if glorifying
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Speaker 1: God means walking through suffering instead of avoiding it. Because
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Speaker 1: Jesus didn't just pray this prayer for himself, he prayed
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Speaker 1: it for us. Later in John seventeen he said something shocking.
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Speaker 1: I have given them the glory that you gave me,
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Speaker 1: that they may be one as we are one. John
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Speaker 1: seventeen twenty two. Did you catch that the same glory
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Speaker 1: that Jesus had, the glory of surrender, the glory of obedience,
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Speaker 1: the glory of the cross, he has given to us,
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Speaker 1: which means that if we are truly following Jesus, we
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Speaker 1: will experience the same kind of glory he did, not
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Speaker 1: the world's version of glory, not fame, wealth or recognition,
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Speaker 1: but the kind of glory that comes through laying our
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Speaker 1: lives down. This is why Paul said in Philippians three ten,
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Speaker 1: I want to know Christ, yes, to know the power
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Speaker 1: of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like
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Speaker 1: him in his death. Because the glory of God is
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Speaker 1: not about getting more, it's about giving more. It's not
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Speaker 1: about rising higher, it's about going lower. It's not about
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Speaker 1: being seen, it's about being surrendered and if we are
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Speaker 1: going to follow Jesus, we must redefine what glory really means.
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Speaker 1: It means choosing obedience even when it costs us. It
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Speaker 1: means walking in love even when we're rejected. It means
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Speaker 1: trusting God's plan even when we don't understand it. Because
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Speaker 1: if Jesus found his greatest glory in the cross, then
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Speaker 1: our greatest glory is in following him there, and that
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Speaker 1: is the kind of glory that changes everything. Everything had
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Speaker 1: been leading to this, every prophecy, every miracle, every moment
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Speaker 1: in history had been building up to this exact hour,
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Speaker 1: and Jesus knew it. That's why, as he lifted his
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Speaker 1: eyes toward heaven and began his final prayer, the very
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Speaker 1: first words he spoke were, Father, the hour has come
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Speaker 1: John seventeen one. This wasn't just a statement about timing.
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Speaker 1: This was a declaration of destiny. Because all throughout jesus
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Speaker 1: ministry he had spoken about the hour, but up until
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Speaker 1: this moment, he had always said, my hour has not
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Speaker 1: yet come. In John two four, when his mother asked
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Speaker 1: him to perform a miracle at the wedding in Cana,
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Speaker 1: he responded, woman, why do you involve me? My hour
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Speaker 1: has not yet come. In John seven thirty and John
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Speaker 1: eight twenty, his enemies tried to seize him, but scripture
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Speaker 1: says no one laid a hand on him because his
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Speaker 1: hour had not yet come. There was an appointed time,
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Speaker 1: a moment set before the foundation of the world, and
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Speaker 1: until that moment arrived, nothing could touch him. But now
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Speaker 1: in John seventeen, everything changes for the first time. Jesus
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Speaker 1: does not say the hour has not yet come. He says, Father,
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Speaker 1: the hour has come. This was the hour that heaven
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Speaker 1: and Earth had been waiting for, the hour when the
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Speaker 1: Lamb of God would take away the sein winds of
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Speaker 1: the world, the hour when justice and mercy would collide
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Speaker 1: at the cross, the hour when Satan's defeat would be
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Speaker 1: sealed forever. This was the moment everything had been leading to,
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Speaker 1: and it wasn't just planned in jesus lifetime. It had
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Speaker 1: been planned before time began. In Revelation thirteen eight, Jesus
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Speaker 1: is called the lamb who was slain from the foundation
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Speaker 1: of the world, before creation, before Adam took his first breath,
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Speaker 1: before Sin ever entered the world. God already knew. He
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Speaker 1: knew mankind would fall, he knew Sin would destroy everything.
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Speaker 1: He knew we would be helpless to save ourselves, and
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Speaker 1: so before time began, he set a plan in motion,
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Speaker 1: a plan to redeem, a plan to rescue, a plan
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Speaker 1: to restore. And this plan was not built on human effort.
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Speaker 1: It was not dependent on religious rituals, sacrifices, or laws.
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Speaker 1: It was built on one thing, the Cross. That's why
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Speaker 1: Isaiah fifty three prophesied seven hundred years before Jesus was
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Speaker 1: even born, that the Messiah would be pierced for our transgressions,
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Speaker 1: crushed for our iniquities, and by his wounds we are healed.
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Speaker 1: That's why in Genesis twenty two, when God told Abraham
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Speaker 1: to sacrifice his son Isaac, Abraham told Isaac, God himself
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Speaker 1: will provide the lamb Genesis twenty two eight. Because this
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Speaker 1: moment was always the plan. Every prophecy, every event in history,
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Speaker 1: every shadow and symbol in the Old Testament, it was
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Speaker 1: all pointing to this hour. And now, standing on the
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Speaker 1: edge of suffering, Jesus declares that the hour has finally come.
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Speaker 1: Imagine what this moment must have felt like. Jesus had
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Speaker 1: spent three years teaching, healing, and revealing the kingdom, but
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Speaker 1: he didn't come just to perform miracles. He didn't come
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Speaker 1: just to preach sermons. He didn't come to to gather disciples.
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Speaker 1: He came to die, and now it was time. This
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Speaker 1: wasn't an accident, this wasn't a tragedy, This wasn't a
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Speaker 1: plan gone wrong. This was the moment he had been
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Speaker 1: born for, and he embraced it it because this is
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Speaker 1: what separates Jesus from every other religious leader, every other prophet,
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Speaker 1: every other movement in history. He wasn't just a teacher
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Speaker 1: of truth. He was the sacrifice that made salvation possible.
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Speaker 1: That's why in John twelve twenty seven, just before his
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Speaker 1: final prayer, Jesus said, now my soul is troubled, and
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Speaker 1: what shall I say? Father? Save me from this hour? No,
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Speaker 1: it was for this very reason I came to this hour.
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Speaker 1: Do you hear that? Jesus knew the suffering ahead, He
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Speaker 1: knew the agony, the betrayal, the unbearable weight of sin,
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Speaker 1: and yet he didn't run from it. He didn't pray
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Speaker 1: for an escape. He stepped into it willingly. And why
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Speaker 1: because he saw beyond the suffering, He saw what the
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Speaker 1: cross would accomplish. He saw you, and that is the
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Speaker 1: depth of God's love. That's why Jesus said in John
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Speaker 1: fifteen thirteen, greater love has no one than this, to
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Speaker 1: lay down one's life for one's friends. Because this was
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Speaker 1: not just an hour of suffering. This was an hour
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Speaker 1: of glory, an hour where love would be displayed like
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Speaker 1: never before, an hour where sins curse would be broken forever,
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Speaker 1: an hour where all of Heaven would look down in all.
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Speaker 1: And this is what we must remember today, because if
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Speaker 1: jesus life was leading to this hour, then our lives
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Speaker 1: must be shaped by it. So many of us live
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Speaker 1: as if this hour never happened. We chase our own plans,
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Speaker 1: we build our own empires, We live for temporary glory
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Speaker 1: while ignoring the eternal reality that Jesus died to save us.
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Speaker 1: But if this was the most important moment in history,
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Speaker 1: then it should be the most important thing in our lives.
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Speaker 1: Everything we do, everything we pursue, every goal, every dream,
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Speaker 1: it must all be shaped by the Cross. So let
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Speaker 1: me ask you, have you truly embraced what Jesus did
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Speaker 1: for you, not just believed in it, not just agreed
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Speaker 1: with it as it changed you. Because if Jesus willingly
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Speaker 1: gave his life for us, then the only right response
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Speaker 1: is to give our lives fully to him. No more
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Speaker 1: half way Christianity, no more chasing comfort over calling, no
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Speaker 1: more treating his sacrifices just another story. Because the hour
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Speaker 1: came and it changed everything, and now it's time for
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Speaker 1: us to live like it. Jesus had declared it, Father,
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Speaker 1: the hour has come. This was the moment, the moment
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Speaker 1: all of history had been waiting for, the moment when
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Speaker 1: the full plan of redemption would unf And yet what
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Speaker 1: followed did not look like glory. It looked like betrayal.
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Speaker 1: It looked like humiliation. It looked like defeat. Jesus was
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Speaker 1: arrested in the dead of night, abandoned by his disciples,
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Speaker 1: falsely accused in a sham trial. The same crowd that
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Speaker 1: had once shouted Hosanna now cried out crucify him. He
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Speaker 1: was beaten beyond recognition. A crown of thorns was shoved
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Speaker 1: onto his head. He was stripped, mocked, and nailed to
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Speaker 1: a cross, the most shameful, excruciating form of execution the
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Speaker 1: Roman Empire had ever devised. And yet, in that moment,
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Speaker 1: as Jesus hung between heaven and earth, bleeding, gasping for breath,
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Speaker 1: he was glorifying the Father. This is where the world
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Speaker 1: gets it wrong, because we see glory in power, we
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Speaker 1: see glory in victory, we see glory in avoiding pain.
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Speaker 1: But Jesus revealed a different kind of glory because at
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Speaker 1: the Cross the full character of God was displayed like
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Speaker 1: never before. Most people think of God's glory as his majesty,
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Speaker 1: his power, his greatness, and it is, but the Cross
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Speaker 1: shows us that God's glory is also his love. For
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Speaker 1: God so loved the world that he gave his one
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Speaker 1: and only son, that whoever believes in him shall not
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Speaker 1: perish but have eternal life. John three sixteen. This is
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Speaker 1: the glory of the Father, that he loved a sinful,
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Speaker 1: rebellious world enough to send his son to die for us.
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Speaker 1: Because love is not just words, Love is sacrifice, love
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Speaker 1: is action, And on the Cross, God loved us in
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Speaker 1: the most radical way possible. Think about it. The God
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Speaker 1: who spoke the universe into existence allowed himself to be
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Speaker 1: spit on. The God who created the stars let human
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Speaker 1: hands drive nails through his flesh. The God who holds
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Speaker 1: all power chose to become weak so that we could
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Speaker 1: be saved. This is love, not sentimental love, not surface
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Speaker 1: level love, but the kind of love that lays itself
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Speaker 1: down even for those who don't deserve it. But God
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Speaker 1: demonstrates his own love for us in this, while we
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Speaker 1: were still sinners. Christ died for us Romans five Colon eight.
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Speaker 1: No other religion, no other philosophy, no other worldview can
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Speaker 1: comprehend a God like this, Because who would do this,
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Speaker 1: Who would suffer for people who hated him? Who would
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Speaker 1: willingly take the punishment that others deserved, Who would die
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Speaker 1: not for his friends but for his enemies? Only Jesus,
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Speaker 1: And that is why the Cross is the greatest revelation
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Speaker 1: of God's glory. But love alone is not enough, because
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Speaker 1: if God were only loving, but not just, then sin
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Speaker 1: would go unpunished. If if God simply ignored evil, if
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Speaker 1: he looked at the sins of the world and said,
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Speaker 1: it's fine, I'll let it go, then he would not
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Speaker 1: be a holy God. He would be a corrupt judge.
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Speaker 1: But God is perfect injustice, and because of that, sin
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Speaker 1: had to be paid for every lie, every act of hatred,
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Speaker 1: every moment of rebellion against him. It could not be ignored.
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Speaker 1: So at the Cross, love and justice met Jesus took
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Speaker 1: the punishment we deserved. This is what Isaiah fifty three,
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Speaker 1: verse five prophesied long before it happened. He was pierced
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Speaker 1: for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The
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Speaker 1: punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by
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Speaker 1: his wounds we are healed. This was not just a
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Speaker 1: brutal execution. It was a payment, a payment for every
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Speaker 1: sin that had ever been committed, a payment for the
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Speaker 1: wrath of God that should have fallen on us, A
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Speaker 1: payment that made a way for is to be satisfied
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Speaker 1: while still offering mercy. This is why the cross is
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Speaker 1: not just a symbol of suffering. It is a symbol
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Speaker 1: of justice fulfilled. It is a declaration that sin has
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Speaker 1: been paid for. God made him who had no sin
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Speaker 1: to be sin for us, so that in him we
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Speaker 1: might become the righteousness of God second Corinthians five twenty one.
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Speaker 1: And that is glory to the world. The cross looked
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Speaker 1: like weakness. Jesus had been arrested, beaten, nailed to wood,
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Speaker 1: left to die. The religious leaders mocked him, saying, if
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Speaker 1: you are the son of God, come down from the cross.
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Speaker 1: Matthew twenty seven forty, But they didn't realize this was
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Speaker 1: the most powerful moment in history because on that cross
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Speaker 1: Jesus was defeating Sin, Death, and the devil. Colossians two
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Speaker 1: fifteen says, having disarmed the powers and all authorities, he
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Speaker 1: made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by
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Speaker 1: the cross. Did you catch that the cross was a victory?
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Speaker 1: Satan thought he had won, the world thought Jesus had lost,
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Speaker 1: But in reality this was the ultimate triumph because the
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Speaker 1: moment Jesus died, Sin lost its grip, and three days later,
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Speaker 1: when he walked out of the grave, death lost its
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Speaker 1: power forever. Where O death is your victory, where O
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Speaker 1: death is your sting Verse Corinthians fifteen fifty five. This
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Speaker 1: is the glory of the cross, not a tragic ending
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Speaker 1: and not a failed mission, but the greatest moment of
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Speaker 1: victory in all eternity. So what does this mean for
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Speaker 1: you and me? It means the cross changes everything, and
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Speaker 1: it means we are no longer condemned. It means we
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Speaker 1: are no longer slaves to Sin. It means we are
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Speaker 1: no longer separated from God. And it means we must
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Speaker 1: live in response to this glory, because if Jesus gave
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Speaker 1: his life for us, then how can we live as
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Speaker 1: if it doesn't matter? How can we keep chasing our
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Speaker 1: own plans? When he gave up everything for us? How
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Speaker 1: can we settle for a shallow faith when he endured
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Speaker 1: the cross for us? How can we hesitate to surrender
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Speaker 1: when he held nothing back. You are not your own,
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Speaker 1: You were bought at a price. Therefore, honor God with
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Speaker 1: your bodies. First Corinthians six, nineteen to twenty. The Cross
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Speaker 1: was not just about jesus glory. It was about our redemption.
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Speaker 1: And now the only right response is to live for him,
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Speaker 1: not out of guilt, not out of obligation, but out
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Speaker 1: of love for the one who glorified the Father by
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Speaker 1: giving everything. Because this is what true glory looks like.
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Speaker 1: Not success, not recognition, not earthly power, but a life
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Speaker 1: fully surrendered to God, just like Jesus. Everything Jesus did
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Speaker 1: pointed back to one truth, his perfect unity with the Father.
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Speaker 1: From the moment he stepped into his public ministry, he
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Speaker 1: made it clear he wasn't acting alone. He wasn't just
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Speaker 1: a great teacher, he wasn't just a prophet. He was
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Speaker 1: one with God. I and the Father, a one John
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Speaker 1: ten thirty. And this was more than just a statement.
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Speaker 1: It was the foundation of everything. It's why he healed
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Speaker 1: the sick, raised the dead, and spoke with authority, because
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Speaker 1: everything he did flowed from his oneness with the Father.
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Speaker 1: It's why he could say, anyone who has seen me
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Speaker 1: has seen the Father John fourteen nine. It's why he
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Speaker 1: could promise, I do nothing on my own, but speak
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Speaker 1: just what the Father has taught me John eight twenty eight.
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Speaker 1: Jesus and the Father not separate in mission, purpose, or power.
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Speaker 1: They were completely united. And now, in his final prayer
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Speaker 1: before the cross, Jesus revealed that this unity was at
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Speaker 1: the very heart of salvation. Because he didn't just pray
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Speaker 1: for himself. He prayed for us, Holy Father, protect them
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Speaker 1: by the power of your name, the name you gave me,
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Speaker 1: so that they may be one as we are one
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Speaker 1: John seventeen eleven. This was his deepest desire that we
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Speaker 1: wouldn't just follow him from a distance, that we wouldn't
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Speaker 1: just believe in him as a teacher, that we wouldn't
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Speaker 1: just admire him for his miracles, but that we would
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Speaker 1: be brought into the same oneness that he had with
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Speaker 1: to have a life of complete unity with the Father
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Speaker 1: through the Son. This is why, just moments before his arrest,
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Speaker 1: be one Father, just as you are in me and
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Speaker 1: That means he was praying for you right there in
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Speaker 1: just that you would be forgiven, but that you would
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Speaker 1: be one with him, just as he is one with
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Speaker 1: not religious duty, not a list of rules, not just
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Speaker 1: that out? Because let's be honest, many of us don't
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Speaker 1: We feel distant in prayer. We go through the motions
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Speaker 1: We must remain in him. Jesus said, it plainly, remain
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Speaker 1: we will wither. This is why so many believers feel dry, weak,
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Speaker 1: and powerless, because they are trying to live for God
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Speaker 1: without actually abiding in him. To be one with Jesus,
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Speaker 1: We are called to love one another as He has
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Speaker 1: loved us, because when we live in unity, we reflect
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Speaker 1: the heart of the Father. Right now, Jesus is still
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Speaker 1: to his will? Are you walking in unity with other believers?
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Speaker 1: Because this is not just a call, It's an invitation
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Speaker 1: you are the like of the world. Not you might be,
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Speaker 1: stand for truth, and for some it will cost everything.
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Speaker 1: Right now, there are believers around the world who are
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Speaker 1: He promised that every trial, every sacrifice, every moment of suffering,
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Speaker 1: And those who endure, those who remain faithful, those who
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Speaker 1: no matter the cost. And if we are truly his followers,
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Speaker 1: that means our lives must look the same. This prayer
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Speaker 1: Father through suffering, through sacrifice through the cross, then how
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Speaker 1: can we live as if following him should always be easy.
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Speaker 1: that only asks for part of their life. They want
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Speaker 1: that's not what Jesus prayed for. He prayed for people
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Speaker 1: in the cost. Because there is no true glory without surrender.
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Speaker 1: This means that living for God's glory will always require
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Speaker 1: one sees it. It means honoring God when no one applauds.
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Speaker 1: It means trusting him even when his plan doesn't make sense.
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Speaker 1: And it means being willing to suffer for his name
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Speaker 1: if that suffering reveals his glory. Look at the lives
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Speaker 1: Peter and John stood before the religious leaders in Acts four,
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Speaker 1: we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and
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Speaker 1: heard Acts four twenty, because for them, glorifying God was
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Speaker 1: and power, gave it all up to follow Christ. He
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Speaker 1: was beaten, imprisoned, shipwrecked, and yet he wrote, I consider
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Speaker 1: everything ala loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ,
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Speaker 1: Jesus my Lord Philippians three eight. Because for him, God's
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Speaker 1: glory was worth more than his reputation, his success or
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Speaker 1: Even today, there are believers around the world who live
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Speaker 1: for God's glory at great personal cost. In some countries,
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Speaker 1: choosing to follow Jesus means losing your family, your job,
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Speaker 1: refuse to deny his name because they know that whatever
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Speaker 1: they lose now is nothing compared to the glory that
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Speaker 1: God's glory. It means that every decision, every action, every
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Speaker 1: part of our lives must point back to Him, not
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Speaker 1: to ourselves, not to what benefits us, but to what
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Speaker 1: brings him the most honor. So what does this actually
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Speaker 1: a world that compromises when everyone else is bending the truth,
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Speaker 1: taking short cuts, or chasing success at any cost. Living
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Speaker 1: for God's glory means standing firm. It means being honest
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Speaker 1: even when lying would be easier. It means refusing to
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Speaker 1: do what is wrong, even when it costs you opportunities.
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Speaker 1: Because when you live differently, people see Christ in you.
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Speaker 1: It means worshiping Him in the midst of suffering, when
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Speaker 1: life falls apart, when prayers seem unanswered, when trials come.
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Speaker 1: Choosing to trust God anyway is one of the greatest
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Speaker 1: ways to glorify him. Any One can praise God when
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Speaker 1: things are easy, but when you lift your hands in
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Speaker 1: worship through tears, when you declare his goodness even in
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Speaker 1: the middle of pain, you are showing the world that
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Speaker 1: His worth is not dependent on your circumstances. It means
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Speaker 1: loving people who don't deserve it. Jesus glorified the Father
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Speaker 1: by revealing his love, and now we are called to
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Speaker 1: do the same. It's easy to love those who are
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Speaker 1: kind to us, but when you forgive someone who wronged you,
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Speaker 1: when you show kindness to someone who doesn't deserve it,
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Speaker 1: when you love your enemies, you reflect the glory of
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Speaker 1: surrendering your plans for his living for his glory means
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Speaker 1: laying down the future you thought you wanted, the dreams
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Speaker 1: you built for yourself, and saying, Lord, not my will,
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Speaker 1: but yours be done. It means trusting that His purpose
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Speaker 1: is greater than your own, that his plans will bring
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Speaker 1: more joy, more fulfillment, and more eternal reward. Than anything
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Speaker 1: you could ever build for yourself. And most of all,
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Speaker 1: it means making your entire life a testimony of who
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Speaker 1: He is. Is. In your workplace, in your family, in
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Speaker 1: every conversation, every action, every moment, people should see something
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Speaker 1: see that, they will be drawn to Jesus. This is
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Speaker 1: why Jesus prayed this prayer, because the world will only
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Speaker 1: see his glory when his people live for it. He said,
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Speaker 1: I have given them the glory that you gave me,
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Speaker 1: that they may be one as we are one. Then
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Speaker 1: the world will know that you sent me and have
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Speaker 1: loved them, even as you have loved me. John seventeen
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Speaker 1: to live for our own name, but for his, not
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Speaker 1: to chase temporary success, but to live for an eternal kingdom,
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Speaker 1: not to build our own legacy, but to declare His
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Speaker 1: glory to the world. And when we live lie like that,
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Speaker 1: everything changes, because in the end, when we stand before Him,
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Speaker 1: nothing else will matter. Not the things we achieved, not
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Speaker 1: the wealth we accumulated, not the praise we received from others.
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Speaker 1: The only thing that will matter is this, did we
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Speaker 1: live for his glory? So let me ask you, are
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Speaker 1: you seeking your own success or are you truly seeking
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Speaker 1: his glory? Are you willing to trust him even when
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Speaker 1: his plan includes suffering? Are you living in a way
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Speaker 1: that points people to Jesus? Or are you still holding
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Speaker 1: onto your own desires? Because Jesus didn't just pray this
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Speaker 1: prayer for himself. He prayed it for you, And now
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Speaker 1: the only question is will you live it out. Jesus
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Speaker 1: has prayed for us. He has invited us into his glory,
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Speaker 1: not the fleeting kind the world chases, but the eternal, unshakable,
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Speaker 1: all consuming glory of God. But to step into this
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Speaker 1: glory worry means surrender. It means laying everything down. It
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Speaker 1: means choosing obedience over comfort, trust over control, faith over fear.
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Speaker 1: And now, in this moment, the question is no longer
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Speaker 1: about what Jesus prayed. It's about how we will respond,
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Speaker 1: because this is not just a message. This is a call,
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Speaker 1: a call to let go of every false pursuit, a
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Speaker 1: call to stop living for our own success and start
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Speaker 1: living for something greater, a call to surrender every plan,
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Speaker 1: the one who is worthy of it all. So wherever
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Speaker 1: you are, whatever you are carrying, it's time to release it.
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Speaker 1: It's time to let go of every distraction, every hesitation,
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Speaker 1: every excuse, and fully step into what Jesus has already
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Speaker 1: prayed over you. Let's pray. Father. I come before you
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Speaker 1: with open hands. I have spent too much of my
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Speaker 1: life chasing after things that don't last, living for my
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Speaker 1: own glory instead of yours. I confess that there have
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Speaker 1: been times when I have resisted your call, times when
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Speaker 1: I have clung to my own plans instead of trusting yours.
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Speaker 1: But today I surrender. Today I lay everything down at
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Speaker 1: your feet. Lord, Take my life. Take my dreams, my ambitions,
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Speaker 1: my fears, my failures, Take all of it. Because I
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Speaker 1: don't want to live for myself anymore. I don't want
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Speaker 1: to build my own kingdom. I don't want to chase
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Speaker 1: a life that will one day fade away. I want
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Speaker 1: to live for your glory. I want my life to
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Speaker 1: be a reflection of who you are. I want everything
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Speaker 1: I do, everything, I say, everything I am to point
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Speaker 1: back to you. Jesus, you prayed that I would share
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Speaker 1: in your glory, that I would walk in the unity
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Speaker 1: and love that you have with the Father. But I
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Speaker 1: know that this kind of glory is costly. It means
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Speaker 1: walking the path you walked. It means embracing suffering if
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Speaker 1: it brings you honor. It means being obedient even when
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Speaker 1: it's hard. So Lord, give me the strength to follow
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Speaker 1: wherever you lead, even when it costs me something, even
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Speaker 1: when it takes me out of my comfort zone, Even
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Speaker 1: when I don't understand. I know that surrender is not
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Speaker 1: just a one time decision. It's a daily choice, a
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Speaker 1: daily sacrifice, a daily commitment to trust you over everything else.
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Speaker 1: So Lord, help me when I am tempted to take
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Speaker 1: back control. Remind me that your ways are higher. When
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Speaker 1: fear tries to hold me back, remind me that you
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Speaker 1: are greater. When I face trials. Help me to remember
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Speaker 1: that your glory is revealed in suffering. Right now, I
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Speaker 1: lift up every area of my life, life that I
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Speaker 1: honor you. My career, may it be used for your purposes.
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Speaker 1: My time, may it be spent serving you. My heart,
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Speaker 1: may it love only you above all else. Lord, I
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Speaker 1: give you my future, I give you my plans. I
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Speaker 1: give you every hidden fear and every unspoken doubt. I
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Speaker 1: trust you with it all. And Father, I pray not
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Speaker 1: just for myself, but for every person who has heard
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Speaker 1: this message. I pray for the one who is struggling
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Speaker 1: to their own desires because they are scared to let go. Lord,
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Speaker 1: meet them where they are, show them that you are worthy.
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Speaker 1: Show them that there is nothing more beautiful, nothing more fulfilling,
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Speaker 1: nothing more glorious, than a life fully surrendered to you. Jesus,
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Speaker 1: you said, whoever loses their life life for me will
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Speaker 1: find it Matthew sixteen twenty five. So today I lose
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Speaker 1: my life. I lay it down, knowing that in you
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Speaker 1: I will find something greater, something eternal, something glorious. I
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Speaker 1: fix my eyes on you, not on the trials, not
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Speaker 1: but on you, the one who was glorified in obedience,
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Speaker 1: the one who endured the cross for the joy set
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Speaker 1: before him, the one who now reigns in glory and
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Speaker 1: invites me to share in it. So I say yes,
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Speaker 1: Yes to your will, yes to your way, yes to
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Speaker 1: whatever brings you the most glory. I am yours fully,
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Speaker 1: completely forever in Jesus name. Amen. If you just prayed
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Speaker 1: that prayer, this is not the end. This is the beginning,
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Speaker 1: because following Jesus is not just a one time moment.
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Speaker 1: It is a lifetime of surrender. And some of you
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Speaker 1: know exactly what God is calling you to let go of.
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Speaker 1: asked if it's what He wants for you. Whatever it is,
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Speaker 1: now is the time to lay it down. Now is
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Speaker 1: the time to step fully into what Jesus prayed over you. So,
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