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2079 Election Special: A Great Opportunity · Brant & Sherri Oddcast

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  I don't want to add to the noise
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  on election stuff, and I'm very aware of that.
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  But I can't.
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  I feel like I need to say something. Okay.
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  I did not post, this will post
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  today, the day after the election.
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  I had a podcast ready, but we did not, discuss anything post-election.
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  Yeah.
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  And so I held it just in case you had something you wanted to say.
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  Oh. You're smart.
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  Thank you.
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  But I hope it's fitting and helpful.
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  And if it's not, I'm very sorry.
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  But this whole thing is such a great opportunity
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  to find out who is actually discipling you.
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  And I'm saying this to, to believers and I think I'm sure
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  most people listening are with are purported Christians or whatever.
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  And we talk about the importance of being an actual disciple.
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  You're apprenticed by, by Jesus hopefully.
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  But you do follow somebody in something like, because we're all sheep.
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  That's the whole point. Like, yeah.
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  So the question is who's actually doing it?
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  And I would say it's a real opportunity because if you're if you're utterly bereft
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  by election results, just just just crushed
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  or you're
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  absolutely elated for your deliverance.
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  Then you might want to find out
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  who's actually been discipling you because that's really not a Jesus thing.
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  If you've been doing this any kind of time at all,
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  where you're learning the way of Jesus and trying to do...
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  you may be a Christian.
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  But the problem is idolatry will always hit you that way.
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  Right.
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  So and we find out a lot about ourselves like
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  are you going to badmouth your brothers and sisters in public?
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  Your Christian brothers and sisters.
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  Are you going to do that?
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  That's not a disciple thing.
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  I can tell you that.
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  Are you going to presume the worst of them?
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  That's not a disciple thing.
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  But if you've been doing that
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  well then you have a chance here to reflect and go, “wait a second....
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  say maybe,
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  You have some areas of real growth here.
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  Yeah.
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  And this goes for all sides every time.
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  By the way, last election, this election,
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  next election, when your side wins, when your side loses all of that.
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  But if you're going to, if you're going to presume the absolute worst
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  motives of your brothers and sisters, that's exactly contrary to Scripture.
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  Just so you know, it's contrary to the golden rule about like Jesus
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  saying do for others what you want them to do for you.
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  You don't want them.
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  You don't want them presuming the worst of your motives.
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  You might want to go.
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  All right.
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  That person voted differently from me.
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  I don't get it.
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  I don't agree with it.
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  But in their heads they've got it worked out...
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  to be charitable so that you can preserve unity.
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  And that can show you a lot.
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  Another thing I thought about too is
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  I was reminded about the Ten Commandments or everything that God tells us.
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  It's for our own good.
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  The first one you shall have no other gods before me.
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  That's for your own good.
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  Because he's the only God
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  and everybody has a god, at least that you consider the ultimate meaning...
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  that provides meaning for your life. Yeah.
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  If he's the one, then you'll have this peace He's, he's rock solid.
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  But if, if politics is it.
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  You're not.
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  Period.
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  You're going to be freaking out again.
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  If it's not this election, it will be another one. Yes.
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  It's all going down.
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  Oh, and and.... it's just like...
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  if you treat somebody like they're the Messiah themselves.
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  And then that's completely contrary to Scripture, too.
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  And it can only last depending on what office or whomever it is, is
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  two years, four years, six years, like you're it's it's a roller coaster
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  because the person you know, we don't have a king, so to speak.
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  So they only are in office for a certain amount of time.
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  And so that's why it's such it's so fleeting.
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  The anxiety is always there because I, I'm gonna have to gin all this up again
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  in four years. Yep.
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  And it's very distressing to your brothers and sisters in Christ whom you love.
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  Right.
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  If you
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  treat someone like the Messiah where they're like, what in the world?
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  It's especially distressing.
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  So that's a problem.
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  But it's, it's this idolatry.
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  And when we find out like we find out if something crushes us or again, we...
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  it's the ultimate wonderful thing. Like
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  that's, that's if we become discipled by the culture.
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  That's what happened.
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  Yeah. That's not Jesus.
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  So and by the way, Jesus doesn't seem concerned.
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  We we made up the word Christian.
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  It's in the New Testament three times.
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  And it's to help delineate.
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  I don't completely understand, but they're Gentiles and Jews.
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  I just say this is what they.
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  But Jesus was looking for followers. And.
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  It's idolatry to if you know somebody
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  who didn't vote and you're like you have failed your Christian duty.
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  No. They've got convictions.
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  They're following. You may disagree with it.
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  But again it's an idol for you.
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  So you can't see they've touched it. Right.
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  And that's when we get really: You touched my idol.
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  So it's, it's I just want to say it's really revealing and it can be a moment
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  where like Jesus with his disciples, whom he had infinite patience for,
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  but when they, they freaked out
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  and he's like, where you put your trust.
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  What happened there?
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  And I see believers online who are just...
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  like one was like, I have never I, I...
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  words cannot describe the despair, the utter despair.
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  Yeah.
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  Like well, man, I just,
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  I, I hope that we continue to grow up.
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  And I hope that that's true of all of us, on all sides of everything.
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  Well, I had someone say I was talking
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  about how I just am not going to live.
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  And I'm not I'm not
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  I am not going to live
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  a life that is in and out of peace and joy.
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  No, I'm not doing that.
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  I'm not doing it.
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  And so, and that is what will happen
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  if my peace and my joy is tethered to a system.
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  Right?
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  That is is not the kingdom of God.
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  It's not. It's manmade.
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  It's it's it's populated by humans and men and and so, no,
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  I am not tethering my joy and my peace to that.
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  That's ridiculous. Right?
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  That's when my joy and peace will go up and down with this manmade system.
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  And joy is, again, for people have been listening to our podcast, you know this.
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  But like Dallas Willard’s definition is, it's a pervasive
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  sense of well-being regardless of circumstances.
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  Right.
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  And so to have that,
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  I would need that to be tied to something that is fixed, permanent.
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  Right. And so I said that. And then someone,
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  basically said,
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  you know, I'm tired of people using God and trying
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  to, you know, get us out of, you know, us mourning, mourning...
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  Was the word.
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  And and there was a word they.
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  I can't remember something about spiritual.
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  Gaslight, whatever it is.
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  And I said, well, then go ahead and live in fear and anxiety.
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  Like I'm not telling you not to do that...they’ve the freedom.
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  I'm telling you, I'm not going to do that.
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  I'm telling you that based on the history that I have with God, I feel like that
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  it doesn't matter who or what is where in in what part of government.
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  God is for me. His favor is on me.
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  I know that.
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  So I'm not going to have fear and anxiety.
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  If you would like to...
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  I'm not trying to take that off you.
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  I think that it's not healthy, but I don't want you to feel like...
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  I'm not telling you not to do that.
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  Like, let's let's be honest.
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  Jesus would be accused of toxic positivity.
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  Yes he would. Yes.
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  We should just be of good cheer. Yeah.
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  Yeah. Yes. You're right.
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  In this world, you will.
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  Or during the time he was living like they’re in occupation, right?
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  Oh, yeah.
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  All of it? Yeah.
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  This. What is this? Talk of peace.
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  Don't you understand? Yeah, yeah.
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  That happened like...
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  you don't, you don't get it...
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  when he actually totally gets it. He totally gets the big picture.
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  But, see, whatever God you serve, some are really tough to serve.
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  Yeah. And they will take you in fact, almost all of them.
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  They will take you on a ride.
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  What a great point. That is miserable. What a great point.
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  And then Jesus says, tether yourself to me and I'll give you a lighter, easier
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  way to live.
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  I'll actually give you rest. Yeah.
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  They won't. Yeah.
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  This will not end until you die.
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  So, like. So here's your way
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  to have... have
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  peace. Yeah.
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  It's. You're gonna invest in him.
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  If none of this has to do with going, “All this stuff doesn't matter” ,
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  It's not saying this stuff doesn't matter.
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  It's not central. It's not everything.
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  There's a deeper reality. Yeah.
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  To be aware of. It's not naivete.
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  It is again, it's the opposite.
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  It's where you actually know more.
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  And I don't care next time if you're like yeah, but my side one okay.
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  Well next, next time when it loses.
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  What what do you say about your Christian brothers and sisters?
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  What about
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  going off on them because they didn't vote enough or they voted wrong.
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  They didn't show up like, okay,
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  all right.
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  Now let's, let's be discipled by Jesus and then we'll have a different character
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  maybe two years from now, four years from now, and then we'll react differently.