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Yes, God Series - Part 1: Radically Reasonable | Andy Yeoh · Generations Church

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Hello there, Welcome to Generations Church podcasts. We're so glad you're listening to
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this message. We hope you'll be inspired to grow in your faith in God.
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Enjoy the message Godless Today. I will start with this topic called radically
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reasonable. Sounds like an oxymoron, and now how do you be radical and
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reasonable at the same time? But you know our Bible tends to have these
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concepts, right, It's a truth and grace at the same time. So
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radically reasonable. Let's turn our Bibles to Romance verse one to two. I
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beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you
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present your bodies, you your whole self, your bodies, your kidney,
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lungs, your intestines, your eyes knows everything, present your bodies a living
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sacrifice that is holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
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And do not be confirmed to this world, but be transformed in one that
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we've been reading for so long. Do not be confirmed to this world,
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but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what
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is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. So it's it's all
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a progression. God wants us to present ourselves as a living sacrifice, you
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know, and to remain in that state, we have to be transformed because
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we cannot think in our own self way and continue to serve God this way
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against you know what I'm saying. We've been going through a series called change,
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and we talked about how our minds need to be renewed, and that's
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the most important part of change that needs to happen in man. Okay,
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cool, Today we're gonna read it. We're gonna look at verse one.
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Okay, So let's look at verse one and two from the New Living Translation.
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Here we go, and so, dear brothers and sisters. So,
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okay, cool, the New Living Translation a bit or male and female bros
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and sis. I plead with you that now you'll know what besiege means.
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Just now you're like, what's that word? Is that English? Besige means
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urge? Plead you kind of what I'm doing every Saturday and what I'm doing
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today. I'm coming like I'm trying to use everything I have within me to
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urge you, to convince you, to persuade you. I plead you with
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you. Please, brother and sisters, give your bodies, in other words,
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give your lives to God. Let your lives be a living and holy
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sacrifice, the kind that God will accept. Why when you think of what
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He has done for you? Is this too much to ask? It's a
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different way of saying it, right, but basically this is what it means.
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When you think about what God has done for you? Is it too
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much to ask? What is too much to ask? To make your bodies
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your life a living? Say sacrifice. I don't know about you, but
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you know the word sacrifice and the word Christianity should be synonymous. It should
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be no one and the same. Jesus wasn't born, you know, in
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a bungalow with a civil spoon, and you know he was born in a
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manger, and he was born in a manger, and he knew what he
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was here for. He was ultimately going to die on a cross. Amen.
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In this world where we try to be more comfortable, we work harder
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so they can earn more so that they can be more comfortable. Right,
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more comfortable car, more comfortable house, more comfortable bank account. You know,
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in a world where we try to be more comfortable, we practice a
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religion, or at least we claim to practice religion. They actually is born
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out of sacrifice somebody says sacrifice again, and God is saying to us he
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wants us to live our lives as a sacrifice. Now, have you ever
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heard of the word radical? I wonder if you think of sacrifice as something
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radical, and for some for some reason, I think we do. Like
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for example, when you hear someone who maybe like me, lah, okay,
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not Mela, I'm not so great, but no, people who like
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well give up their jobs, give up their big paycheck to go inserve the
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Lord. And we say, wow, so sacrificial. Wow, what a
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radical life? Right? We tend to associate that. Right. The Bible
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talks about a second kind of sacrifice. But God wants us to be a
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living sacrifice. But there's a probably leaving sacrifice where we're alive. We're alive
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and we can walk off. We can one Saturday say God, I'm all
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for you, and the very next day maybe not. Maybe I'll delay my
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obedience and obey some other time. Okay, God, to break a sacrifice.
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I thought you just wanted my Saturday, But now you want my Mondays
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too. That's food, so nice, God, Hey, don't touch that.
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Wait God you want wait? I thought you want them, but ten
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percent now you want more. No no, no, no, no,
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no no. I didn't sign up for this. That's the problem with the
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living sacrifice. That's what we all are, and God wants us to be
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a living sacrifice. Okay, there's a difference between living and the dead.
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A dead person have no rights, have no will. A dead person cannot
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cannot make choices. God doesn't want you to be a dead sacrifice. God
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wants you to be a living one so that you can continue to make the
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choice to remain a sacrifice. Amen. So God is saying we are to
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prison our bodies basically every single day. So we've learned this before. If
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you're not transforming, you're conforming. So if you're not changing the way you
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think and change the way you live, it's very hard to be a living
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sacrifice. You've got to change the way you think about your life so that
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you can become a living sacrifice. So if you're not transforming, you're not
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becoming that kind of a person. It's going to be very hard. You're
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just going to flow along with whatever the world is saying. Now, that's
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basically it. So you've got all these concepts from the verse, a living
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holy, acceptable, reasonable, all these words are there. I'm confused by
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the word reasonable. I don't know about you, because living holy doesn't sound
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reasonable to me. It sounds radical to me. It sounds like, oh,
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it's only for certain kind of people living acceptable living sacrifices. Living means
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your life. Like I said earlier, dead people don't have real you don't
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have a choice, you don't have rights, You're just there. But a
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living sacrifice has to continuously every day make that choice and say God, not
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my will, by yours be done. Today on a Tuesday afternoon, when
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I'm about to walk into the meeting room, in the room God, Today
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on a Wednesday morning, when I'm about to walk to the exam hall,
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God, I'm a living sacrifice. The Bible says in Look ninet twenty three.
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Then he said to them all, to us all, if anyone desires
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to come after me, you want to follow me, you want to be
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a Jesus follower, let him deny himself and take up his cross every single
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day, not just sat the day or Sunday, every day and follow me.
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Wow, looks like God is asking us to think o our cross.
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Means He's asking us to die to ourselves every single day. So the concepts
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aligned, Paul, God is from where got it from? Here? Be
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a living sacrifice, die to yourself every day. Now, I said earlier
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about whether sacrifices, living a life of sacrifice, is it radical or reasonable?
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We tend to think it's a radical concept. Yeah. Wow, you
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give your job to serve God. Wow, so ridical? While you're serving
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three minutes three waw? So ridical? You want you spend half of your
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week in church? Wow? So radical? What you mean Friday nights you're
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not at the club? You're aware, Gigi? Now, wow, so
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ridical? What you mean you give ten percent to the church? Wow?
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So redical? Where at which point? I wonder? At which point did
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these things become ridical? Think about this. If I walk to Billibilla,
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Matt right now, and there's a ten of cook and the cook says it's
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touring. Get fifty cents and I go through the counter and I say bah
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bah and they say two fifty whow? And I pay fifty cent and I
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turn around and say, guys, look at me. I'm so radical.
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You'll be looking at me and thinking what are you talking about? It's not
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radical, it's the price to pay. Yes, what if what if we're
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watching my wife and I watching Netflix at home some Korean drama we don't while
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this is imagine we do. And then a Robbert comes into our house with
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a knife, like him like, just now give me your television, give
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me your money. Yeah, verytention. Go. Then he was about to
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go after my wife. My children asleep in the bedroom upstairs, so they're
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safe for now. But it's about to go and maybe I don't know,
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threated my wife with a knife and maybe he's trying to stab or something.
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And then I jump in front of the guy, or rather in front of
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my wife to protect her. Who watching corean drama actually coding drama going on
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about to jumping form ah that steps me and steps ah? How many think
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that? Wow, there was so ridical of you men. Really, I
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was just being a husband law. What's the alternative? Let him step my
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wife out? What's the alternative? The thing about it? What's the other
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dave step lay? I can remarry? What's the alternative? You do what
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you have to do. If I if he's trying to step my goldfish,
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and I tell me from it, maybe readical law, then you can like
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what so readical goldfish? Don't you say that, but it's my wife.
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I'll do whatever you think. I'm not thinking at that point. I just
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want to save my wife. So I jump and I can now something.
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Please don't go fish and say what so readical, because it's what's the alternative.
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So in a Christian life, when God says, hey, everybody,
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be a living sacrifice, as long as we think think it's some radical thing,
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it's no wonder most of us don't ever live that way because we think
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saving my wife who's in danger is some radical thing only some guru can do.
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No, no, no no. If you read Sea, the Bible
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is so beautiful. Everything connects. You know why Paul started with, Hey,
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I beseech you. I'm trying to right now. Hey, I'm urging
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you. Everybody, please listen to me, he said. I'm I'm pleading
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with you. Why there is a therefore therefore means there's a beefore read Romans
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eleven. The horror Romans level is saying, you know what, God came
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for the Jews. Actually, but you know what, all you gentiles,
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I'm paraphrasing obviously because I'm not. I'm not Paul, and I don't I'm
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not so articulared by face like God came for the Jews, you're gentiles.
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Actually, Yah, your condemn but God's mercy. God's mercy you and grafted
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you. God forgave your sins. All you're wrong is forgotten. The whole
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rom is never talking about God's mercy. By right, you should all be
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condemned by right. Your destiny is hell by right. But God's mercy came
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in interrupted and said, I'm said, he's got stabbed. The devil wants
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to stab you. And God jumps front and ah, and then Roman says,
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by the mercies of God, when you think about what God has done
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for you, when you think about he's all got stabbed instead of you,
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when you think about he's the one who went to the cross instead of you,
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when you think about the price he paid for you, think about that
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by the mercies of God. Now, therefore, when you think about what
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He's done for you, Hey, everything we do is just reasonable. Is
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paying touring gay fifty cents for a touring gay fifty cents for rock nothing radical.
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I am not minimizing what we're doing. I'm just saying that's how God
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sees it. Ten percent of income radical to God, He is like,
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ah, I gave you one hundred percent. You know what God is saying
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to us, Hello, guys, be reasonable? Be reasonable? What's reasonable?
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Live our lives as a sacrifice for him. It's not radical. I
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don't know where. Maybe the advancement of technology may be a little too much
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message on grads and nothing wrong with that. It's the whole gospel, so
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it includes grace. Maybe I don't know what happened. They suddenly makes some
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of these things that to God, it's just like, I mean, yeah,
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what were you thinking? Is that's what you're supposed to do. Maybe
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we've reached a point where being reasonable is now radical. So in that sense,
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maybe I'm asking you to be radical. But what really asking you to
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do is be reasonable. Now let me qualify this. Please, This is
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not a message to get you to serve in church. It might end up
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with you doing a little bit more that it might, and it's so wonderful.
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This is way bigger than that. This is how you lead your marriage.
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This is how you work in your jobs. This is how you take
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care of your children and your wife. This is how you be a good
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city. Is everything, my friends, It's everything. Radically reasonable The Bible
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talks about being holy. Represent yourself as a living sacrifice that you may be
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holy acceptable. What's holy? We talked about this before. Set apart for
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specific purpose. If you're designed to be a microphone, but you function like
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an ice cream, you are unholy. You get what I'm saying right.
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Our mouth is created to praise God. Let everything that has breath, curse
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your friends. Then everything there's breath, curse your friend. Curse your friends.
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No, no, no, we are This mouth is created to praise
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God. It is not the F word that makes your mouth that tea.
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Is the fact that you use your mouth for something else. Because it holy
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means it's set apart for a purpose. What's the purpose? Praise God?
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Speak, live, be encouraging. Amen. So when you speak something else,
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then it becomes unholy. So what is your life? For? Your
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life is man to live for God. And so when you live for yourself.
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I don't sorry to use a bit strongest, but you know, it
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almost doesn't matter how good that life is. I don't lie, I don't
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cheat. I don't throw my rubbish to a neighbor's house. I know I'll
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shower his stock for him. I pick up you know people's rubbish. I
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don't cut the I don't care. It doesn't matter because again, it's not
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about you use the month energy. It's not that you spoke bad words to
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making and holy is that you didn't use it for its purpose. So if
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our life is not meant lived as a living sacrifice, we are in the
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in danger of living and a holy life. And you don't even have to
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be a criminal withholding goodness is evil in itself. If I if my wife
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has some kind of disease and I have the medicine, and I withhold americine
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for her because I wanted to keep it for myself. This in case,
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that's evil man. So we're holding our talent, we're holding our gift things,
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we're holding our knowledge or even whatever it is, it's unholy because God
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gave it to us to be utilized. The word holy means her gears.
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It means properly, different, Different means unlike. It also means other.
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If your holy means you are not this, you are over, you are
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different, you are unlike. For the believer, it means likeness of nature
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with the Lord, because different from the world, So why was this holy?
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He means that you are different because you're supposed to be like God,
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not like the world you gave me so far. Holy he means you are
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different. Why are you different because what you wear? You wear different dress,
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you come your head differently. No, No, you're different because you're
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supposed to look like God. And by looking like God, you already look
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different than the world. Unless you don't look like God and you look very
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much like the world, then you're not holy. You see. Can we
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get our minds out of thinking holiness is some kind of white like proper like
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just that this is this the image, it's it's not just that, it's
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just how it is how we live our life. Holy means you are like
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you're like God, therefore different from the world. And I don't know about
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you, but many Christians really try very hard to be like the world and
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places take it. Okay, So if you know me, you know like
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where I'm coming from. So so I hope you know where I'm coming from,
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because I don't mean any you know, I'm not trying to put anybody
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in a countcomfortable place. I'm just saying, like even my wife sometimes we
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talk. Right, we're running a church. Now we can have the conversations,
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and my wife is an amazing person. During the pandemic, she set
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up new companies your age age, your food age, your fresh all that
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her work. She was handling HR, legal, finance, three departments.
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Yeah, so she had a lot of experience setting up companies, setting up
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startups. We didn't know God was preparing us then for now, and so
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there's a lot of experience of wisdom. And we constantly talk and she would
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tell me, She'll say, very you get very great ideas. And sometimes
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she would say things like, you know, in the couple of world we
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do, this is good, this is good. And of course I think
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we can learn for many different things, many different sources. Yes, but
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she would notice I will always remind her, but remember we are a church.
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We can take the good, but we can't take everything because the end
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goal is slightly different now, the end it is different. So, yeah,
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there's a lot of things you can learn from a couple, but we're
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not learning. We're not trying to be like the world now. We can't
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meant to be like Jesus. That's basically what discipleship is all about. To
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be like Jesus is that process to be like him and and to be holy,
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which is to live a living as a living sacrifice is to be set
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apart, to be set apart, I really need to question us, and
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you question myself not to try to be like the world and to not be
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so afraid and run away from things like sacrifice. And I say this lovingly
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because it's it's very important we don't forget this, otherwise we lose the entire
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essence of what being a Christian means. I mean, you read the Bible,
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it's always its opposite concept. It's like gift is better than receiving.
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You know, the poor in spirit will see God. It's all these things.
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God's goal for us. It's not that we live more comfortable lives.
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That's your goal. That's not wrong, that's okay, but don't don't mess
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it up. Don't mix it up with Oh, that's what God wants for
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me. God's goal for us. It's not comfort. God's goal for us
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that we become more in character with Christ. And people that use energy are
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you know, especially when you talk about relevance, you know, you know
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you've ministry thing. Someone will saying, you know, what if Jesus was
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life to read right? No, you we skinny jeans. Oh oh no,
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no, no skinny jeans so yesterday, No, they wear baggy you
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know, Jesus was here, you wear you wear an oversized T shirt with
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a digital print in front, and then you wear baggy jeans. You know,
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you wear some spots shoes and we're like, oh yeah, yeah,
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amen, Yeah, Jesus would be relevant, you know, yeah, sure,
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sure, he'll probably wear oversized T shirt, maybe read some short shots
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above the knee, and know those high socks with the lines there, and
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then some high cadshoes and he'll walk around being swag like that, and you
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know he'll slay and whatever. But do you really do you? Do you
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really? Can you really imagine Jesus death while wearing all those things being all
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relevant and trendy, coming to church only once a week? Let me seriously
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again, this is not a message to get your come to just more than
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once a week, because there's nothing here once we're here anyway, So do
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you really think that's how he will live his life? We will just talking
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about what he will wear. Hey, let's go deeper. Do you really
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think Jesus, who just here to live a comfortable life, do you think
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that's what he would do, or do you think it's more incredible with him
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if he does things like he'll go out of the way, you know,
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something like that to visit someone in the hospital in his oversized T shirt shots
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and the long socks, and oh, would that be a more character like
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like he would he will empty his wallet, or he would not be afraid
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of, i know, meeting somewhere inconvenient, or he would you know,
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use his talent. You know, he's a carpenter, and so maybe he'll
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make a chair or tape. I don't know. That sounds more in character
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then Jesus taking a holiday every three weeks, you know what I'm saying.
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So being holy is to be set apart for a purpose. Be acceptable.
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Sacrifice, a sacrifice, a lead sacrifice is holy, set apart, different
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than the world wide. Of course, we are like God. In so
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doing we become acceptable, fully, agreeable, well pleasing, gratifying to God.
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They miss go up there, look at the way you live your life.
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And he is happy, He is joyful. He is like, Aha,
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you got it. This is why I created you for all. Don't
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get me wrong, I'm not asking you to give you all your money to
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the church. I'm asking to sell your luxurious car and just drive a batcha
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or you know, tell your bangalow and go and live the heart. I
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mean, you've got most of your heart to do it. Go ahead.
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I'm just saying, sometimes we fight so hard, Really do we really do?
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Christians? We fight so hard for our comfort, We fight so hard
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for our time, even saying those words that some some kind of oxymdern ready,
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like who says it's your time? Who told you your baby is yours?
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God gave it to you, the breath that you breathe right now?
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Well, you created oxygen? Know what God gave it to you, this
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breath. Amen, we hold so time. But this is my time,
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This is my money, this is my marriage, this is my friendship.
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Again and again in perspective, I'm not asking you to have no friends.
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I'm not asking you to like, oh, be a monk. I'm just
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asking you to remember, renew your mind, renew your mind, think thing
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differently. It's if God wants my time, I say yes, if God
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wants your time. This is not a message about you doing more for the
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church. I'm serious. There is no what I mean because for some of
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you, your ministry could be outside of the church. I get that.
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I'm really talking about, Like, if God wants your time, you got
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to say yes. What's the alternative they is not? No, the is
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this obedience. If God wants you to be at the hospital and not at
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the football field, you say yes, because that's what a living sacrifice.
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Who is only different? You think differently. You don't think about your time
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the same way everyone else thinks different. Going to the hospital and God says
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so is acceptable to him. Therefore going to the football field is not.
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He's playing football unholy and sinful. No, it's not. It's just that
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day, at that time, go want to use someone else. He's just
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that day that time, go go to you to spend your money on something
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else. And you know what, whatever I just said, can I bring
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it back to the perspective, it's just reasonable. It's like living. Your
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wife said what a husband will do that you go to shop, you buy
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something, you gotta pay, I pay, you know, wow, I
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probably my money. You know I worked so hard for his money to buy
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this. Ah. So second, No, it's reasonable, it's reasonable.
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It's it's just it's just what a son of God, who know he's been
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forgiven of the most horrible sin. Remember two weeks ago we learned about the
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merciful, a merciful servant, and merciful God. And basically, God forgave
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us of a debt we could never repay. Is that bad? And so
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what's our response? A living sacrifice holy and acceptable to God. My time
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is your God, My money is yours God, my career is your.
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My family it's yours, My car is yours, my shoes are yours,
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my ring is yours, my head everything is yours God. And it's only
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reasonable to give it to you when you want it, because it's just what
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a son would do. It's just what a forgiven person would do. It's
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just what a liberated, free person would do. All say it because of
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what God has done. Think about that, put that into perspective, and
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then now you live your life reasonably according to that. Amen. Second verse
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is renew your mind. Right, renew your mind verse one and verse to
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you. You can't do verse one if you don't renew your mind. I
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think I've been thinking about talking about this to my face turned blue green rainbow.
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Okay, but Collosions three one to three says this, if then you
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were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is
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sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above,
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not on things on the earth. Don't just think about your life here on
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earth. How many property you buy that can bring to heaven? How many
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what can you so God it because just putting things in perspective only, not
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really thorrowing anybody, just perspective love. Set your mind on things above,
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not things on the earth, not this life, thing in the perspective of
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eternity. Then verse three, why for you died and your life is hidden
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with Christ in God, You're no more you when you got saved. It's
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not you anymore. We're living this life for him. Look at a King
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James version. Just how you say, set your mind right, No one's
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other word for it. Sets your affection on things above. What's in your
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heart? What do you love? Set your affection, your passion, your
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love, your source of joy on things above, not on this earth,
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made than your next poor share you by not be the most satisfying thing to
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you in your life. It will satisfy you. But I hope he's not
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the most satisfying thing, because God is saying that's greater things. Set your
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affection, your love, your passion, your hunger. Set that on things
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above, not below. Have a heavenly perspective. Affection. What do you
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love more than anything else? What do you love more? Where is your
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heart? Where is your love? Please? Sir, This is speaking from
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a man who's a father, who's got children, who's always trying to my
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wife, especially if trying to fight for a time for a family. Right,
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we have to schedule the calendar, have to like. Yes, I
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get that, I get that your family. But God is above it all.
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God is above it all. I hope you catch this. I hope
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you receive this into your heart and maybe you'll take some time to moule over,
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maybe you take some time to reflect. First Corinthians six, nineteen twenty.
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Do you not know that your body, this body, this life that
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God says making a living sacrifice. Do you not know it is the temple
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of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have from God.
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And you are not your own You think you're working for your own self.
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You think you're store treasure for yourself. No, you're not doing it
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for God, for you were bought with a price. Yes, you're longer
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a slave to sin. But did you know you're still a slave to righteousness.
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We change masters, we serve the real master, a man. You
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are bought with a price. Therefore, because you are bought with a price,
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therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, both which are
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God. This tells you not just your Saturday and Sunday, your Monday to
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Friday too, Not just your God covered all, Not just your body,
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your spirit, your inner life, your outer life's all God Romans fourteen eight.
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For if we live, we live through the Lord. If we die,
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we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we'll live or die,
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we are the Lord. Very radical language, Yet God is saying reasonable,
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you just it's what a son would do, just what a forgiven free slave
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would do. Second Corinthians five fifteen. And Jesus he died for all that
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those who live should live, no longer for themselves, but for Him who
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died for them and rose again. Okay, just put this perspective onto everything
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you do. I'm living for the Lord. This love is not my own,
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this love is not my own. I'm doing this for him. Now,
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how are you gonna sep sweep the floor? Now? How are you
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gonna drive on the road. Now. Are you gonna love your husband and
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your wife? Now? How're go chret your children? Now? How are
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gonna cheat your government? How are you gonna serve in the church? How
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are you gonna be friends to those are different than you? Just put this
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not doing this for yourself. You're living for the Lord. This life is
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not your own. Put that now onto everything you do. It's not even
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radical. I think if Christians can be more reasonable, and I meant this,
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we have a different world. We have a different world. Amen.
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I pray every company want to hire you because you're different. I pray every
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single person want to marry those of you who are single, got those are
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merried. You'll be the most eligible bachelor. You'll be the most sort of
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the employee. You'll be the best politician people want the word for because you
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are different, not just your genes, not just your fashion. Bro set
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your mind, your affection. Amen, thank you for joining us. We
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