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#275 Revival In Your Home: Letting God's Love Reign · The OneCry Podcast

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  Speaker0: First of all, to have the
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  Speaker0: love of God, this quality, you must have
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  Speaker0: the God of love.
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  Speaker1: Welcome to the One
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  Speaker1: Cry Podcast, a nationwide call for spiritual
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  Speaker1: awakening. The goal: accelerating the movement of God through sharing
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  Speaker1: revival truth, stories, and reports.
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  Speaker2: Well, welcome to the One Cry Podcast. I'm Kyle Reno with
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  Speaker2: my buddy and spiritual friend and a man,
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  Speaker2: just awesome man of God, Bill. I love you. I love you, man.
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  Speaker2: I'll tell you.
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  Speaker0: Well, it's mutual.
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  Speaker0: It's back at you, man. I, I, uh, you know, uh,
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  Speaker0: people don't know you and I, uh, served together.
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  Speaker0: I don't know how many years, 2 different occasions.
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  Speaker2: 2,
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  Speaker2: 2 stints. So I mean, altogether 13 years or so.
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  Speaker0: Yeah, and, uh, and in that,
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  Speaker0: uh, just developed such a deep friendship and love. And then now
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  Speaker0: that we, we, we get to keep serving together on
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  Speaker0: these podcasts, it's a real joy for us.
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  Speaker0: So I don't know what anybody else is getting out of these podcasts, but we're
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  Speaker0: having a blast.
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  Speaker2: Gives us— it gives us a chance to hang out
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  Speaker2: and talk about things that, you know, that the Lord has
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  Speaker2: taught us by his grace and is still teaching us. And man, you started
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  Speaker2: us down a thought last week, and we're really in a series
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  Speaker2: of messages here and thoughts about revival in the home. You know, if we,
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  Speaker2: if we want to see holistic revival in the church and in
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  Speaker2: our cities, across our nation, uh, man, a genesis
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  Speaker2: point would be what is God doing in our homes? What's he doing in the
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  Speaker2: heart of a husband and wife, heart of children, as he brings
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  Speaker2: about restoration and renewal and the life
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  Speaker2: of God being poured out. But I really feel like through this chapter
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  Speaker2: of scripture that you leaned us into last week, there's one non-negotiable,
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  Speaker2: that God's love would emanate in every way through us.
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  Speaker2: And so you set it up and you may— you sort of left us hanging
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  Speaker2: in the best way possible.
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  Speaker0: Yeah, that was a cliffhanger last week.
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  Speaker2: Yeah, well, take us in deeper.
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  Speaker0: Yeah, and you know, Kyle, all of
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  Speaker0: us people that listen to this podcast,
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  Speaker0: generally most of them are interested in seeing the movement of
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  Speaker0: God happen in our nation, in our world, in our
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  Speaker0: churches. But what we— and
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  Speaker0: what we know is that has to happen in us individually. But if it happens
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  Speaker0: in us individually, it's got to manifest itself in the home.
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  Speaker2: Right.
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  Speaker0: I mean, if you don't— if you say, man, we're having a great revival
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  Speaker0: in church, but all our homes are a wreck, and, and they're selfish and,
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  Speaker0: and screaming and hollering and, and self-focused, and,
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  Speaker0: and we, you know, we hate our homes, we, we're not loving
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  Speaker0: our spouses, we're not— our kids are dysfunctional
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  Speaker0: because of what's going on in the home. Well,
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  Speaker0: that's where it's got to start. That's where it's got to play out.
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  Speaker2: Right.
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  Speaker0: And, and what we saw last week, Kyle,
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  Speaker0: is that the key to that is learning
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  Speaker0: how to let the love of God rule
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  Speaker0: and reign in our hearts and in our homes.
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  Speaker0: Now, we described that last week as a
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  Speaker0: little different than what people may think. Love that Paul is talking about
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  Speaker0: in 1 Corinthians 13, this agape love.
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  Speaker0: It's not the eros love, which is the self-seeking,
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  Speaker0: I love you for what you can do for me. You know, a lot of
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  Speaker0: people and a lot of relationships are built
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  Speaker0: on nothing but erotic love. And I'm not talking about just sexual,
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  Speaker0: I'm just talking about self-seeking love.
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  Speaker2: Hmm.
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  Speaker0: You know,
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  Speaker0: I love you 'cause you make me feel good.
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  Speaker2: Hmm.
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  Speaker0: And when
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  Speaker0: you don't make me feel good, I'm outta here. Well, how many how many marriages
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  Speaker0: are built on that? And it's like two leeches
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  Speaker0: just sucking the life out of each other, and no wonder it's
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  Speaker0: doomed to doomed to failure. And other homes
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  Speaker0: are built on just a kind of a humanistic phileo love—that's
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  Speaker0: kind of a brotherly friendship—and that's fine as
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  Speaker0: far as it goes, but it is not
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  Speaker0: this. Agape love that Paul talks about,
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  Speaker0: that we defined as a God quality. It's not a
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  Speaker0: man quality. It's the God quality that
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  Speaker0: always responds in self-sacrifice. It's an unselfishness
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  Speaker0: that at its heart is the essence
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  Speaker0: of what God is. God is love.
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  Speaker0: 1 John 4:7. God is love.
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  Speaker0: This kind of love. What is that? That's God. It comes from
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  Speaker0: no other source. And,
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  Speaker0: and when the love of God is there, without that, what I am is nothing.
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  Speaker0: What I do is nothing. What I receive is nothing.
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  Speaker0: And then he describes that love that we
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  Speaker0: talked about last week. It suffers long. It's patient.
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  Speaker0: It's kind. It's not jealous. It's not rude.
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  Speaker0: It doesn't seek its own way, its own time. Just, Kyle, just think
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  Speaker0: about what it would be if all your
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  Speaker0: kids and you and Katie all at the
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  Speaker0: same time were filled with that.
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  Speaker2: Hmm.
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  Speaker0: And that love was ruling and reigning in the home.
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  Speaker0: That would be revival in any of our homes. And conversely,
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  Speaker0: Without that, we've got nothing.
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  Speaker0: We've got nothing. And that's what he says. You just got nothing. You receive
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  Speaker0: nothing. You have nothing. You are nothing if
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  Speaker0: you don't have the love of God. That's, that's what 1 Corinthians 13
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  Speaker0: says. So, Kyle, we wanted to talk about on this
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  Speaker0: podcast, how do we get that?
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  Speaker0: How do we get that? Well,
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  Speaker0: it's let me just mention two or three parts
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  Speaker0: of that. First of all, to have the
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  Speaker0: love of God, this quality, you must
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  Speaker0: have the God of love, right? So if
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  Speaker0: you don't have God, you don't have this love.
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  Speaker0: You don't have any capacity for the love. You don't have it. It's like
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  Speaker0: saying well. I've got a real cool
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  Speaker0: looking car over here. And let's say it's a,
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  Speaker0: you know, a Corvette with all the trimmings. And man,
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  Speaker0: it just looks so fabulous. There's one little problem. It doesn't have an engine.
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  Speaker0: And so it looks cool. You can sit in it.
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  Speaker0: You know, you could sit in it and read a book.
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  Speaker0: You're just not going anywhere.
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  Speaker2: Yeah.
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  Speaker0: And if you don't have
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  Speaker0: the love of God, You don't, you don't have what you
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  Speaker0: need. And that only comes from the God of love.
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  Speaker0: So you have to open up your life and
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  Speaker0: let God through Jesus Christ, let him come
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  Speaker0: into your life as the Lord and Savior of your life.
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  Speaker0: You can't work this up. You can't grit your teeth
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  Speaker0: and say, okay, I'm going to love like God loves. I'm going to read 1
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  Speaker0: Corinthians 13. I'm going to memorize it, and I'm going to
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  Speaker0: try real hard to do that. You, you ain't got it
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  Speaker0: without God. So number
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  Speaker0: one, here's the question: are you a true believer?
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  Speaker0: Has Christ really come to dwell in your hearts by faith?
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  Speaker0: Have you trusted in Christ as your Savior and Lord?
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  Speaker0: Is he in you? Because that's, that's the only
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  Speaker0: way you will have what you need to be able to love
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  Speaker0: properly. So number one, It's salvation,
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  Speaker0: right, Kyle? Yes. I mean, it's surrendering your life to Jesus
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  Speaker0: Christ. But we can be Christians and
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  Speaker0: have the love of God in us because the Holy
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  Speaker0: Spirit has come to live inside of us, which is what happens when we're
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  Speaker0: a Christian. But for some reason,
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  Speaker0: the love of God is not coming through us.
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  Speaker0: I mean, I know a lot of Christians beginning with this one
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  Speaker0: right here. And I'm not— if you're listening by radio, I'm not
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  Speaker0: pointing at Kyle. I'm pointing at myself. Right. This one
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  Speaker0: right here. I've had so many times
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  Speaker0: where the love of God is just not there. And I'm selfish.
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  Speaker0: I'm impatient. I'm unkind. I'm rude.
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  Speaker0: I keep a record book. I don't endure.
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  Speaker0: I don't, you know, I've got— I just don't have the love
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  Speaker0: of God coming through me.
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  Speaker0: And there's one reason for that. I'm not—
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  Speaker0: here's a way, a term that we use in the Bible
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  Speaker0: that describes it. I'm not filled with the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker2: Hmm.
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  Speaker0: I'm not letting the Spirit of God control me.
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  Speaker0: He's not in charge. I'm not letting him take
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  Speaker0: control. And that's what the filling of the Holy Spirit is. The Bible says in
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  Speaker0: Ephesians 5:18, don't get drunk with wine. Don't be filled with
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  Speaker0: wine. It makes you do all kinds of crazy things,
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  Speaker0: but be filled with the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker2: Hmm.
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  Speaker0: So if
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  Speaker0: the Holy Spirit has come to live in me, then the
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  Speaker0: love of God is there. The fruit of the Spirit Mm-hmm. Is love.
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  Speaker0: But I've got to let the Spirit of God control.
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  Speaker0: And that comes by recognizing my need,
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  Speaker0: right? And surrendering my control at any
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  Speaker0: given moment of the day to him and saying, Lord, you live in
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  Speaker0: me, love through me,
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  Speaker0: pour through me like rivers of living water.
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  Speaker0: Kyle, talk to us about that for just a moment. And then
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  Speaker0: I wanna tell a powerful illustration of how I learned
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  Speaker0: this in my life.
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  Speaker2: Yeah, I think of
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  Speaker2: coming to a place where you realize that you and
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  Speaker2: I were not merely bad people at some point, we were dead people.
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  Speaker2: We were incapable of this quality
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  Speaker2: of love that you're talking about. We were incapable. of this quality
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  Speaker2: of peace and joy and all those things.
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  Speaker2: But the beauty of the gospel is that Christ saved us into the family,
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  Speaker2: and then, and then the Spirit of God indwelt us. And now
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  Speaker2: we're learning to live filled with God flowing
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  Speaker2: through us with things that's not us— attributes,
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  Speaker2: characteristics of God, God's love toward a person.
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  Speaker2: My sister-in-law that you know, Kimberly,
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  Speaker2: married my brother Zach. May the Lord bless her for that. Yeah.
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  Speaker2: She's awesome. But she knew me, uh,
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  Speaker2: pre-Christ. And she— we grew up around the same area
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  Speaker2: and all that. And she will often say this to people
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  Speaker2: about our family. And now she'll say,
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  Speaker2: Kyle, uh, was without a shadow of a doubt one of the most
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  Speaker2: hateful people I've ever known. Right. And, and, and there's
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  Speaker2: a lot of reasons for that up until I'm 19 years old, uh, a lot
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  Speaker2: of, a lot of environments that helped shape me to become this person
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  Speaker2: that was hardened of heart and hateful toward
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  Speaker2: people. And, and had, uh,
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  Speaker2: honestly, I was always looking for what I could get, not give.
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  Speaker2: You know, I was a user of those things. Then I,
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  Speaker2: then I came head face to face with Jesus
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  Speaker2: Christ at 19 years old, and I got
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  Speaker2: a new heart. I got a new heart. And I think
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  Speaker2: the, the level of depravity in which I was living in
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  Speaker2: made me very aware of like, I don't, I don't know how
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  Speaker2: to move toward people in this way. So it made, it made me
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  Speaker2: really depend. She would— she says this is a testimony to the Lord.
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  Speaker2: She says to see who he is now makes
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  Speaker2: her believe the gospel even bigger. You know, because, because I didn't have
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  Speaker2: that in me. I didn't— I just didn't have that in me. But now,
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  Speaker2: now if you go to my wife and my children,
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  Speaker2: they don't know the person she once knew. Because now they see— now
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  Speaker2: they see the activity that God has made me,
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  Speaker2: transformed me, renewed me. So I use that as an illustration
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  Speaker2: of— that's just as true though for any other person ever.
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  Speaker2: Like the need for the display of God's love
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  Speaker2: through somebody. But you have to, you have to cultivate. I'm actually going to talk
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  Speaker2: about this some next week, uh, even in that Ephesians 5,
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  Speaker2: that to learn how to be a Spirit-filled spouse,
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  Speaker2: to be a Spirit-filled parent, like that, that daily dependence
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  Speaker2: on God, which is the Christian life.
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  Speaker2: Yeah. I mean, it is the Christian life.
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  Speaker0: In every dimension.
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  Speaker0: Yeah. And, you know, let me give
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  Speaker0: an illustration, because I think when we see this practically,
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  Speaker0: it gets so real. So I had,
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  Speaker0: I had a person that hurt me and
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  Speaker0: my family worse than anybody ever has.
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  Speaker0: before or since. You know, it was just a deep wound,
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  Speaker0: and I did not love this person.
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  Speaker0: And so, first of all, God had
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  Speaker0: to convict me that I needed to forgive
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  Speaker0: them. And forgiveness is a choice made possible by
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  Speaker0: the grace of God to release that debt
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  Speaker0: and give it over to God and say, God, If you need to deal
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  Speaker0: with them, you can do that. I'm not going to be judge, jury, and executioner.
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  Speaker0: So I learned that. I learned about forgiveness during that
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  Speaker0: time, having to— I couldn't live with bitterness and
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  Speaker0: hatred towards this person. So I chose to
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  Speaker0: forgive them. And that was quite a journey.
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  Speaker0: And I had fully, I think, forgiven them. But now here's
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  Speaker0: the second part. I just didn't ever want to see them.
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  Speaker0: And one day I realized that I was going to
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  Speaker0: have to see them. And, uh,
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  Speaker0: and I thought, man, I don't want to see them, but I couldn't, I couldn't
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  Speaker0: avoid it. And I thought, what am I going to do? I was actually preaching
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  Speaker0: a revival in a town out in Oklahoma,
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  Speaker0: Clinton, Oklahoma. And I told the pastor,
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  Speaker0: I'm going to have to see this person tomorrow. And And
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  Speaker0: I don't, I don't want to. I certainly don't love them. I've forgiven
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  Speaker0: them. I just don't wanna be around them.
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  Speaker0: And, and I'm the preacher.
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  Speaker0: But more than that, I'm a Christian.
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  Speaker1: Yeah.
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  Speaker0: And the Bible
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  Speaker0: says, Jesus said, love everybody,
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  Speaker0: love your enemies. You know, even love your enemies. This is the difference in
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  Speaker0: this new kingdom, is that in my kingdom,
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  Speaker0: We love our enemies and we pray for those who despitefully use
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  Speaker0: us. So I didn't know what to do. And then I was praying
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  Speaker0: the day before and I realized that the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker0: lived inside of me. And I said, all right,
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  Speaker0: Lord, you live in me. You are
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  Speaker0: love. And so here's my body.
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  Speaker0: I'm gonna give my body to you. And I ask
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  Speaker0: you to just fill me with your love, with yourself and
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  Speaker0: with your love. Here are my arms, here are
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  Speaker0: my eyes, here's my mouth to speak, my eyes to see, my ears
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  Speaker0: to listen, my arms to hold. And Kyle,
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  Speaker0: if I'm lying, I'm dying. I got out of a car
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  Speaker0: on a— On a— parking
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  Speaker0: lot of a Holiday Inn in Clinton,
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  Speaker0: Oklahoma. And I saw this individual and I was consumed
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  Speaker0: with love for them. I just loved them. I went
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  Speaker0: over, I put my arms around them, I expressed
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  Speaker0: my love to them. And I just, I don't
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  Speaker0: know how to explain it. I just loved them. Hmm. Now, what was I gonna
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  Speaker0: do at that moment? Was I gonna pat myself on the back and say,
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  Speaker0: to Bill be the glory, great things he has done? Hmm. Well,
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  Speaker0: I had no love for them, but this was that
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  Speaker0: divine quality. It was the Holy Spirit loving
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  Speaker0: through me. I was filled with the Spirit in that moment because I
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  Speaker0: had surrendered control to him. I wanted him to be in charge.
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  Speaker0: But here's the second thing. I was choosing to follow
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  Speaker0: the promptings of the Holy Spirit. So when the Lord said,
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  Speaker0: go over there and put your arms around them, I just didn't
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  Speaker0: fold my arms and say, well, I'm not gonna do that. I just said,
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  Speaker0: Lord, I'm Yours. I'm Your instrument. I'm Your tool.
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  Speaker0: And does that make sense?
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  Speaker2: Oh
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  Speaker0: yeah.
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  Speaker0: And what's interesting is with this individual,
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  Speaker0: I've had to do this again and again and again. It's easier But
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  Speaker0: I have had to love them by the power of the Holy Spirit because
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  Speaker0: of the deep hurt that happened in the past.
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  Speaker0: But by the grace of God, I have.
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  Speaker0: Right. And this is what
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  Speaker0: has to be in our home. So you can't
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  Speaker0: love your wife, you can't just
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  Speaker0: run on raw emotion. or lust
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  Speaker0: or eros, it's just
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  Speaker0: gonna wear out, right? They're gonna do something that disappoints
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  Speaker0: you and it won't last.
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  Speaker0: The thing that lasts is every day getting
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  Speaker0: up and saying, Lord, fill me with your Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker0: Here's my body. I'll do whatever your Spirit tells
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  Speaker0: me to do. And then letting his love flow
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  Speaker0: through you. And the love of God is shed abroad in your
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  Speaker0: heart and then shed abroad in your home.
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  Speaker2: Man, hallelujah. Well, I'm thinking about revival in the
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  Speaker2: home, and let's, let's just stop for a second and embrace,
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  Speaker2: uh, the fact we got listeners right now.
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  Speaker2: If you're honest, the thoughts the enemy promotes You
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  Speaker2: know, and even maybe you're tired, maybe you've run out of phileo,
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  Speaker2: you've run out of eros. And, uh, and if you were
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  Speaker2: honest, you say, I just don't know if I love them anymore, you know.
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  Speaker2: And how many times, Bill, have we sat on the other side of conversations
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  Speaker2: with couples and that if they fell out of love,
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  Speaker2: you know?
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  Speaker0: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker2: Yeah, well, and I was, well,
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  Speaker2: okay. How about this though? How about be filled
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  Speaker2: with love? You know, how to be filled with love. Like,
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  Speaker2: to, to— honestly, if you're so depleted
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  Speaker2: in your own love, that just makes you
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  Speaker2: even more open to be filled with God's
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  Speaker2: love flowing through you toward that spouse, toward— hey,
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  Speaker2: in raising kids, hard work, right? I mean, you get wore
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  Speaker2: out. You get, you get tired in the fray, in the
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  Speaker2: fight, and you— at different seasons you find yourself
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  Speaker2: like, man, I— and every parent, I love
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  Speaker2: them, you know, but you might not like them right now, you know,
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  Speaker2: like trying. Let me tell you, but let me tell you, there is
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  Speaker2: a God that loves them fully,
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  Speaker2: perfectly, all the time, and he wants to display it.
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  Speaker2: Think about this. He wants that to roll through you like a river,
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  Speaker2: to wash your children, to wash your wife, to wash
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  Speaker2: your— for the wives, to encourage your husband.
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  Speaker2: And right now you might be thinking, I just don't have that in me.
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  Speaker2: And I'm like, you're right. You don't. You're totally right. You're totally
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  Speaker2: right, you don't. But God can fill you with that. He can
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  Speaker2: fill you. Will you avail yourself? in such a way to
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  Speaker2: let God work through you. I'm gonna talk about that some more next week,
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  Speaker2: you know, to come to a place of faith for that
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  Speaker2: toward your spouse and these things. So I,
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  Speaker2: I love— let me tell you that the longer you follow
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  Speaker2: the Lord, and it really is true, the more time
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  Speaker2: you, you spend in the scripture, the simpler this is
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  Speaker2: to understand.
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  Speaker0: That's
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  Speaker2: right. Now, now, it's hard
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  Speaker2: to live. It's hard to live, but it's— but it is simple
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  Speaker2: to understand. This, this, this story only has
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  Speaker2: one hero, one hero, and it is God himself.
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  Speaker2: I mean, it really is. And he wants to ride into our
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  Speaker2: homes through whoever's listening today to
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  Speaker2: help set an environment that the whole home might be renewed.
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  Speaker2: Amen.
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  Speaker0: You know, Kyle, I cannot—
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  Speaker0: I want us to pray, uh,
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  Speaker0: and really pray for this,
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  Speaker0: for all of us individually right now.
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  Speaker0: But I want to say something. I've done thousands of
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  Speaker0: counseling sessions, and I'll have couples come in,
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  Speaker0: and the guy will say, or the wife, they'll say, well,
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  Speaker0: I just don't love her anymore. I just don't love her anymore.
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  Speaker0: They're expecting me to say, oh, well,
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  Speaker0: okay, that's the end of it.
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  Speaker0: They'll say, well, I just don't love her anymore.
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  Speaker0: I say, well, yeah, that's evident. You're not patient. You're not kind.
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  Speaker0: You're not forgiving. Yeah, you don't have any love.
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  Speaker0: Yeah. They say, well, does that mean I just need to get a divorce?
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  Speaker0: I said, no, it means It means you've got one of the greatest opportunities
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  Speaker0: you've ever had in your life to see the reality of
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  Speaker2: God. Hmm.
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  Speaker0: Because, you see, you never
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  Speaker0: could love her properly. But now God is
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  Speaker0: showing you that you can't do that without
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  Speaker0: him. Now he wants to teach you how
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  Speaker0: to love her with him.
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  Speaker0: By being filled with his Spirit and aggressively
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  Speaker0: cooperating with the promptings of his Spirit
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  Speaker0: and the illumination of his word. And so,
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  Speaker0: Kyle, I want us to pray right now. I wonder if everybody would just bow
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  Speaker0: your heads and close your eyes if you're able.
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  Speaker0: You may be driving along, you can't do that,
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  Speaker0: but if you have recognized,
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  Speaker0: you know, I just don't love Our home is just
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  Speaker0: not filled with love. I'm not filled with love. Just admit
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  Speaker0: it. Just quit playing games and quit playing the blame
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  Speaker0: game. Quit saying, well, if she would just do this,
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  Speaker0: if he would just do that, then I would— you
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  Speaker0: can do that until you die.
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  Speaker0: Just let it go. You're not responsible for them. You're responsible
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  Speaker0: for you. And say,
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  Speaker0: Lord, forgive me, because the problem
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  Speaker0: is not her. The problem is I'm not
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  Speaker0: letting your Holy Spirit be in charge.
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  Speaker0: I'm not letting you run my life. I'm not surrendering
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  Speaker0: to your control. I'm not following
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  Speaker0: your promptings. And so admit your sin
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  Speaker0: before the Lord. Just do it right now.
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  Speaker0: And then I wonder if you would pray this prayer, Lord,
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  Speaker0: if you're a believer. If you're not a believer,
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  Speaker0: say, Lord, come live in me.
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  Speaker0: Come live in me. I open my life to you. Come live
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  Speaker0: in me. I want you to take control.
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  Speaker0: And if you are a believer, If that's already happened in your life,
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  Speaker0: pray this prayer. Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker0: take control. I gladly yield
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  Speaker0: control to you,
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  Speaker0: and I'm going to listen to you and cooperate with
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  Speaker0: you in these moments. Here's my body.
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  Speaker0: I offer it as a living sacrifice. My hands.
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  Speaker0: My eyes, my tongue,
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  Speaker0: my ears, my, my whole
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  Speaker0: body surrender to your use.
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  Speaker0: Fill me and flow through me. And I
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  Speaker0: pray that nothing but the love of God would throw—
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  Speaker0: flow through my life to my whole family.
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  Speaker0: In Jesus' name. Amen. And we pray that for
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  Speaker0: your glory and for your sake.
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  Speaker0: Amen.
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  Speaker2: Amen, man.
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  Speaker2: Such rich truth. Lord, help us to live it,
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  Speaker2: man, to live it filled with the Spirit. In a way, I really
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  Speaker2: encourage, uh, maybe some husbands and wives,
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  Speaker2: uh, maybe sit down and listen to that podcast together.
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  Speaker2: And if you're the husband listening or the wife listening,
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  Speaker2: I'm gonna give you a courageous way you could foster that.
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  Speaker2: Say, hey, you know, I listened to something today and
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  Speaker2: realized that there's a lot of things God wants to do in
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  Speaker2: me that I could love you more fully. Uh, I'd love
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  Speaker2: to listen to it. Don't say nothing to them like, hey, you need to listen
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  Speaker2: to this, you know, like, no. Say that you, that you came under conviction.
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  Speaker2: Maybe listen to it together and then just hold each other's hands
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  Speaker2: and say, let's pray that God would help us to love each other better.
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  Speaker0: And, you know, Kyle, it may be— it may need to begin by
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  Speaker0: taking 1 Corinthians 13 and just reading through
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  Speaker0: it and just an honest confession with your
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  Speaker0: mate, saying, I haven't been kind,
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  Speaker0: would you forgive me?
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  Speaker2: Wow.
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  Speaker0: I haven't been patient.
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  Speaker0: Whatever it is, what— whatever hits you between the eyes
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  Speaker0: in that passage Clear your conscience with
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  Speaker0: your mate and then say, by the grace of God,
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  Speaker0: I can't— I'm not going to do this perfectly, but I
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  Speaker0: want to let Christ be in control more.
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  Speaker0: And, uh, pray for me that that would happen.
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  Speaker0: And then pray for that together.
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  Speaker2: Yeah.
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  Speaker0: Yeah, this is, this is so
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  Speaker0: rich. And the next 2 weeks are going to be awesome. We're talking
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  Speaker0: about revival in the home.
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  Speaker2: Yeah.
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  Speaker0: And invite somebody to join,
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  Speaker0: join you and tell them about the podcast. You may have a
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  Speaker0: friend that their home is just in real need of these
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  Speaker0: messages and this truth. And so love
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  Speaker0: them enough to give them a call and say, hey, would you listen to
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  Speaker0: this? And they can listen at their convenience. But I
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  Speaker0: hope you join us next time. We'll see you next week.