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Ambition Is A Sin Pt3 · Outcast

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All right, all right. Welcome back.
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Welcome back, Diego. Thank you for having me on
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again. Yes, Sir.
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That's it. It's a pleasure.
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Always. Absolutely.
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So this is I would think this is Part 3.
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Yeah, this is part three. Yeah, absolutely.
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But before, before we start, we always pray.
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So, you know, thank you, God, for allowing us to be here,
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guide us and lead us into the absolute truth.
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For there's no one greater than you.
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Amen. Amen.
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Amen. All right.
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So I mean, last time we left off at ambition, right?
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Talking about ambition. Yeah, knowing the difference of
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God's will, Yeah, versus you. Yeah, absolutely.
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I heard I was like scrolling on TikTok, right.
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And there's this guy, I think his podcast is called The Deep
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End. Basically what he said there is
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that kind of blew my mind. He goes like that man prepares
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his way, but God directs them, right?
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That's a verse in Proverbs and it's kind of, you know, we read
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all of Proverbs and that's kind of, it kind of alludes to that
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theme throughout the whole. Yeah.
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But when he uses it, he says it like people misinterpret that
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because what what God really means is that that he wants us
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to prepare ways and God is going to direct those those ways that
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we've prepared. Does that make sense?
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Wait, wait, say that one more time.
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The way he spoke about it was men prepare their ways and God
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directs them. What he meant by that is that
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when we were on the move, all God does is change the green
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light to red light. Really.
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Yeah. In other words, he then explains
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that it's those ways that we prepare.
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God directs those ways that we've prepared.
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I see. So basically you choose and then
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God will just like help you out. He will like direct what you've
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chosen. Bro what he said that?
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When if you read it in context, that's not what it says
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completely off. And on top of that too.
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You have something to say. I feel like you have something
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to say. I'm.
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Literally thinking right now, like, does this mean does this
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mean like we're talking about us trying to move too fast or us
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trying to? That's interesting that you said
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that because then he says on the following, he's like, there's
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some Christians who who live their lives just quiet and
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silent and they don't move anything, living their righteous
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life. And then God almost like has to
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make them move because he's tired of them not doing
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anything. Really.
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Wow. So I guess what Paul said didn't
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matter. How?
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I guess not. Yeah.
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So that's why, yeah. That's that's what it came to
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mind like move either moving too fast or you're.
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Not doing anything to me. Yeah.
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You know, there's a difference between like, you know that the
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parable of the talent of the talents, like that one that
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didn't do anything with his talent.
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Yeah, yeah. Right, but it wasn't the person
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that went to go grab the like. Like he wasn't the one that got
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the talent himself. It was given to him by the king.
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Ah, that's a dude that's. Good.
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You know what I mean? It's good.
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So it's like. It's like if he gave me away.
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Uh huh. Don't just stay there.
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Yes, I I gave you the directions.
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Yeah, exactly. Go.
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Yes. He gives you the talent, You go
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use it. Yeah.
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Yeah, you could do something with it.
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He was the one that gave it to you.
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That's that's good. Yeah, bro.
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But yeah, on the on the post, he was like, you know me because
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he's a, he's a business consultant, right?
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You know, he sold a company that was like $78 million, whatever.
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So he I feel like something. No, no, I don't feel like he
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interprets scripture based on his lens.
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Because he's at that level, right?
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Right. Yeah, something like that.
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It's like if I were to interpret scripture because I'm a musician
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and I'm a interpret it through the lens of a musician, right?
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You see? And every time everybody does
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that, it's inevitably comes to justifying to what why you're
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doing. Right, right, right.
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You see, that's very interesting that you're saying that, bro,
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because in the story of Philemon, you know, you see Paul
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as a prisoner, you see Philammon as someone as like someone in in
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high standards, like high status, you know, high status,
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you know, people would look up to him.
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And then there was on the slave on an.
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On SMS. On SMS, but you know, it's interesting because they
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all were on the same page. It wasn't like all because you
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have more experience in this, I'm not going to listen to you.
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Paul was like, yo, hear me out, you know, and this miss is
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listening. He's different now, so that's
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bring him into your home, you know, but it seems like, you
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know, when you get more experience, when you, when you
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go through things in life, all of a sudden you're, you have the
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authority to interpret Scripture the way you want it to.
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But that's what happens. And when he speaks 100% he's he
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says he. If I'm judging, well, God will
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correct me. No, he will cause yeah.
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I'm not perfect. And one, I will say this, you
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cannot be afraid of God's judgement.
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Yeah. So yeah.
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He he says he hears the Lord's voice probably does, but he says
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he hears and and, and it has led him to touch people's heart and
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business consulting meetings. OK, I get that, that perhaps
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there are non believers in that atmosphere who need to hear the
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word of God, right? Yeah.
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No one is going out there and how can you even have access
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unless you're in business? Yeah, yeah, to go and speak to
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them, right. So I get it.
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I get it. Yeah, but I just, I was confused
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when when I was confused because it's, that's not what it says,
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right? No, because if the man who
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prepares his ways guy directs him that what that means is he's
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changing your ways. Yes, exactly.
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He's directing you now. And when he directs, he's not
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going to direct what you've established.
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Exactly man and OK, let's just say like you establish the way
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and then God will just help you out, right?
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Like what he's saying right, All right, then then what about when
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Christ said when he's like leading the crowd and he turns
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and he says, if you guys want to be my disciples, hate your life,
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hate your mother, father, sister, all these things.
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He's basically saying hate your life.
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And then he's saying, which one of you when you guys plan, you
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don't sit back and calculate and to build that tower that you're
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building. And then if you let it go, then
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then everybody will point at you and say, isn't, isn't this
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person, didn't you, didn't this person start the tower?
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And all of a sudden he's leaving.
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And then he, he moves on to another example about the king
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where he sees an enemy from a distance.
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And then he says that the, you know, the king sees that and the
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enemy is coming. It's too much.
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So he surrenders. So you, why don't you surrender
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your things? Basically what I'm trying to say
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is almost like that is that is very contradicting to what
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Christ said because Christ is basically saying give up your
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possessions and follow my ways. Yeah, what he is also saying is
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that because he's in the move, he doesn't know how to stop.
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That's why he gets those red and green lights from the Lord,
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right? I.
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Wait, so he's saying like, what do you mean by that, Like?
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Because he he pretty much comparing himself to those who
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don't do anything because they're always living their
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prayer life and quiet life. Interesting.
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And do nothing. So you have to become rich in
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order for yourself to be like. You have to be on the move.
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You have to be in the same caliber as he and or way of
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thinking or he thinks that is the standard of in which what
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God wants you to be doing. This is what it seemed like what
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he he didn't say that specifically.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. It seemed like that.
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Right, right, right, right. The question is, if he didn't
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have all that, then would he still say the same thing?
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It's like John the Baptist being a hobo in the wilderness pretty
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much. Christ said he's one of the
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greatest man that has come out of a woman and would he say the
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same thing if he were to live a life like that is a question I.
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Don't know. And you know, it's funny that
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you're saying all this, man, because before we started this
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podcast, I asked you, I'm like, yo, could I grab a Coke 0?
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Yeah, go for. It yeah, yeah.
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So like story he said, yeah, OK, could you could you grab like I
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was like, I grab a Coke Zero and and you're like, I don't have
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Coke 0 and I go and I grab a water and then I see I see a
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whole case of of Coke. Die code can.
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Be free. I'm like this guy.
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This is. Hey I I never I just said I
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don't have code. No, no, no, no.
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Yeah, you're right. You're right.
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And but. What are you trying to get?
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With it, you didn't have it. So then afterwards, you know, we
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got it and you're like, all right, man, I need to, I need a
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dollar from each of you. Yeah, you guys owe me $2.00 a
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dollar each. Yeah, yeah.
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And I was like, she went there. I was like, all right, here you
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go. And then you grab it and you
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burn it. That's crazy, yo.
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And when you did that, that was actually really funny, man.
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I because it threw me off guard. I didn't expect that.
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And not that I, I didn't really care, right, because it's just a
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dollar, but you know, the real test would have been like.
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A20 A 2050 or $100 dollar bill. You know $100 bill is 2 Korean
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barbecues, gas and. Everything.
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Yeah, dude, you could do a. Lot.
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Of a lot of things with $100 yeah, yeah, yeah, you.
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Know anything you know? Oil change?
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Yeah. Any necessity yet?
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Yeah. So basically what I'm trying to
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get through all this is like, alright, let's just say he
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wasn't in the position of like a business consultant and he was
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like living like John the Baptist, right?
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You know, the question is, would he still say the same thing?
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Like you should be on the move but not striving after.
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Like, you know, like I guess riches and all that.
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But then they would say, well, because I'm in this position,
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God reveals it to me in this way and someone in that position got
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reviews it to them that way. And that that doesn't make sense
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to me because look at my cousin Wilmer.
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He was going to that yeah caliber and.
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And then he realized, still, still.
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And what about Paul when he says I've learned to be content with
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with everything and with nothing?
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So question is, when you're in a position of nothing, will you
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still? We're not promoting laziness.
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I hope that's we get better trust.
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Trust me, because you know why? When God gives you a talent, you
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better be moving. Whatever that task.
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Is you better be moving. You gotta do something do.
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It yeah yeah, do it not that you were going to position that
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talent no God is going to place it there he's going to give it
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to you we're. Not promoting laziness and we're
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not promoting you people to to go to poverty, right?
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Absolutely. If we really think about it,
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we're technically all poor, really, even the rich.
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Yeah, yeah, according to the rich.
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And we're poor. Because this is it is Christ who
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gives those riches. Up and down, right?
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Yeah. It's kind of sad, man.
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You know, ambition really does make one confident.
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It does. It really does it.
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Makes you confident. It builds your identity.
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People see you as go getters and others applaud you for it.
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Yeah. It it's beginning stages, it
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seems harmless. Yeah, seems harmless even in the
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as you're in the middle stage, but when it starts to be kind of
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toxic is when that's when you live by it.
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Yeah, that's true. And nothing can move you because
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you're, you're, you're at the forefront of this.
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Yeah, no, absolutely. But I guess you need a red
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light. You need a red.
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Light. I guess you need a red light.
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Yeah, I don't know how that works, but.
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As a believer, obviously. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Yeah. Any thoughts?
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You know, this is giving me quite some thoughts about pretty
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much, you know, we can't be ambitious.
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You know, we can't be ambitious because you know, definitely it
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would take your time away from our from our spiritual time and
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at some point separated us from God.
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Yeah, at some point, yeah, that's secularly speaking.
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But there are those believers within the faith who want to do
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things for God. Like is is it?
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I was going to say is, is it me or is it, is there a trend with
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entrepreneurship and like Christianity or like Bible
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studies, like is that kind of becoming a trend now?
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You know what? Yes, because you know it,
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Proverbs says. Those that live in fantasy will
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face destruction, right? And all I see when I'm on social
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media is people promoting like someone like at a farm with a
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nice truck. I mean, yeah, I will be honest
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with this. Christian has become very
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trendy, so everybody's hopping on it.
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Yeah. Whether some of them are
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genuine, some of them might not be genuine, I don't know.
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Yeah. And so they're all following
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this, this, this, this trend. And they shouldn't be because of
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a trend, right? And so others listening to us
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would be, well, you guys are also on podcast.
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Hey, listen, I never wanted to do this.
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Yeah, yeah. Keep repeating it myself, but.
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No, Yeah, man. I mean, dude, there's some great
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examples in the world too, like that are followers of Christ.
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For example, Francis Chang, on paper, he's actually a
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millionaire. You know, he's apparently he
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sold a book. It was worth 4 million.
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You know, he he made 4 million and he decided to only keep
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maybe like 200 K and give the rest to like some, some, you
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know, like organization. Yeah.
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And people in the world would call him crazy for that.
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Yeah, man, are you kidding? It'd be like, are you nuts?
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Yeah, no, absolutely. You know you didn't keep the
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fortune for yourself. And and and and others would be
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like, well, that's him. No, dude, he's setting the bar.
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He's setting the bar. He said he's like, come on,
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don't, don't, don't do that, right?
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Don't do that. Right.
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It's crazy how you have to. Well, that doesn't mean you have
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to do it. Hey, listen.
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One body, one mind, right? He's setting the bar.
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He's setting the bar. What's up?
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What? 200K is not enough or you know
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what I mean? Like it?
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No, it just blows my mind, you know, and, and you even seen the
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Scripture too, Paul. Paul was a tent.
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He had a tent big, a tent making business.
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And then he collected the money and gave it to the churches.
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He was on the mission. And Paul was a rich man, you
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know. So I'm not saying riches are
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bad. But the question is like, like,
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because we know the good and bad, right?
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Like we know the good and bad temptation, temptation becomes,
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it becomes evil because we know the good and bad.
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Because temptation to me like is like, there's good temptation.
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Well, yeah, I mean, if you think about it, Oh, do a whopper's
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really tempting right now. Yeah.
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Oh, man. Right, Right.
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And. Yeah, cuz one could say.
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Well, yeah. Well, ice latte, whatever.
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Salted caramel. Oh, that's something right now.
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Right, right, right, right. A lot of things that you would
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want this or that you would want to do for a guy may see
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tempting, yeah, but is it his will?
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Is it? Yes, exactly.
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Is it a task in which he might give you where which will
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require a test of your character?
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Yes, exactly. Now it says, yo, I want to read
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something interesting. James chapter one verse 14.
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Right, it says. But each person is tempted when
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he is drawn away and enticed by his own evil desire.
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Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and when
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sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death.
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OK, now we're like. Like say, say that one more
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time. Yes, yeah, I'm gonna say it one
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more time when we do, one more time.
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But each person is tempted when he's drawn.
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OK, so each person is tempted when they're drawn.
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Yes, that'd be a good thing or a bad thing.
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But in this case, he's referring to something.
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Yeah, wicked. Because he he's drawn away and
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enticed by his own evil desire. So he's drawn away, enticed.
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By his own. You could do it, yes, it's OK.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Then after desire has conceived,
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it gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully grown, it gives
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birth to death. Now I know James, the book of
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James, if you read it all in it's full context, he's, you
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know, he writes to the rich because he really also mentions
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too on top of that a lot of key points he says, have you not
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made evil distinctions among yourselves?
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You know, you definitely have meaning.
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Like he's basically like, you definitely have, you know what
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you're doing. How are you going to hear the
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law saying like, love your neighbor as yourself and then
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you tell the poor to go sit over there?
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Simply because the high the the high status people.
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Yes, exactly because like in the first chapter.
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Yes, because the rich, you know, it's James, calls him out.
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He says, you know, you say like, oh, let's go here so we can make
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money and establish for ourselves and make wealth for
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ourselves. And then, you know, they're just
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neglecting the poor. And some of them don't even pay
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the poor, don't even pay their workers.
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So like even within ourselves, like inside ourselves, we know
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deep down that like, like we're going against a current.
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We know we have the subconscious, which is like what
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we do on the daily, then we have no mind about it.
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We have we have the conscience that we do like daily like.
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Yeah, like like move this can. Yeah, move that.
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Can I do that? You know, you open that door, I
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start. It and my consciousness reflects
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that What? It yes, exactly.
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You turn the steering wheel, you turn the car on, but then
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there's this subconscious right where this is where you think
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when you tell me about your day or you tell me how you feel and
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then there's through Christ. There's this other voice that's
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higher than your subconscious, which things be through Christ
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you can overcome, which is your spirit, which is your spirit
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exactly. So you being a follower of
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Christ, you know deep down if this is your ambition dictating
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this. Oh yeah.
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You know what I mean? There's no shot you're blinded
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by this. There's no way, you know.
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Exactly, exactly. You know you know, bro.
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Even the Pharisees themselves, when they saw Christ, if you
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read Scripture closely, they knew who he was.
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This is not to like also pin down on the rich people.
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Oh, they're. Weak No.
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No. No, I've met.
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No, I've met some people that are wealthy.
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Exactly. Humble.
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Exactly. I have. 100% I have, yeah.
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But when you do get money in power, you do carry this aura if
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you will. Yeah, this is the problem.
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This is. This is the.
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Which is the confidence if you? Will yes this is the problem.
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You start to see hierarchy in the love and faith in Christ
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when you're in the love and faith of Christ, and then you
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start seeing hierarchy. That's when you're wrong.
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That's when you're completely wrong, because there is no
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hierarchy in the love and faith. When.
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Yeah, because if I, for example, if I was to have that
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conversation with the guy who said that, right, he wouldn't.
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To him, I am meaningless to be paying attention to, because who
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am I? Exactly.
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For example, out of out of like all three of us here,
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technically, on paper, you're the richest 1 here, right?
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Technically, not technically, yeah, but yet.
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Yet. Not like that bro.
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No, no, no. But like, yeah, like it's just
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saying yeah. God has, yeah, has blessed me.
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But but you, you see all of us the same.
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Yeah, you see all of us the same.
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In other words, you don't care. Yeah, it doesn't matter if
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you're a pastor, influencer of millions of followers, right?
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It's just when you're in the love and faith in Christ, there
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is no hierarchy. And I think ambition makes like
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makes the faith and love part like it be it that doesn't
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become toxic. You become toxic because of the
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because of the ambition, correct.
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The ambition is what makes it toxic.
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And then you start seeing hierarchy.
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You imagine if Philammon was full of ambition, he would have
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probably looked at on on the. On SMS. On SMS all like, well,
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he was a he's just a slave. No, he Paul was like, yo, I wish
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I could keep him for myself, but you know, you know, you know,
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take him back if it is what you want to do.
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Of course, you know, don't force yourself.
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And I'm, I'm assuming yeah, Philemon took him back, but.
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I guess we'll never know. Yeah, we'll never know.
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It never says because Paul was like was like, man, you know,
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Paul being a prisoner and Philemon being of high status.
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And then I'm not. I'm not What?
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Can't an SMS? An SMS being a slave, there was
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no hierarchy in that. There's no ambition.
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There was just like the faith and love of Christ.
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So like it is true within us. We know if we are doing this
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with our own strength, you know, if we're the ones quote UN quote
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placing the talents there. But you know, talents can only
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come from God, right? So that's why when James says
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here in 14. But each person is tempted when
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he is drawn away and enticed by his own evil desire.
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So it's conceived and it comes from the heart always.
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Yeah. Any ambition.
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It doesn't have to be riches. It can be anything.
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No way dude. Like again, this obviously
22:40
because everybody in our modern time.
22:42
Nah. Everybody wants to be rich.
22:45
Yeah. Wouldn't you want to be rich,
22:46
Diego? Everybody would.
22:48
Everybody would. But.
22:50
Somebody said no, they're lying. But people also can be ambitious
22:55
with career, doctor, lawyer, sports, anything.
23:01
There's so many, so many opportunities in this modern
23:04
world. Yeah.
23:06
That you can do, yeah. Exactly.
23:09
The challenges in our time are just compounding.
23:12
Right, right, right. Right.
23:14
Like I'll give you an example. I it's probably an uncomfortable
23:16
conversation for a lot of people, but I know that in the,
23:21
in that era, they might, they might, you know, they probably
23:24
didn't have like, obviously they didn't have the technology that
23:28
we have, like a phone, which is technically a small computer
23:31
with you. Right.
23:32
Yeah. And you can communicate, You can
23:34
stay connected with the world through social media, but you
23:40
can do also business, Right? Right.
23:42
You do so many things, right. But you can also simultaneously
23:45
see things that are inappropriate.
23:47
Yes. Like, right.
23:49
Like pornography and all that. That that wasn't a thing back
23:53
then. Like in the ancient times.
23:55
Yeah. Yeah.
23:56
That's just an example. Yeah.
23:57
And look what we have to deal with in our time.
23:59
Right. Yeah, we do have to deal with a
24:01
lot of things. Yeah, too.
24:03
Much, right? You know what I mean?
24:04
So like, challenges are compounding.
24:07
That'd be that. That'd be career, that'd be
24:11
sports, business, endeavour, college, whatever it is.
24:16
If it's a distraction when you're alone, bro, you know
24:21
exactly. It's a never ending thing
24:23
Exactly. It's just only going to get
24:24
worse. No, 100 percent, 100%, Yeah,
24:27
yeah, yeah. Now actually before verse 14,
24:35
I'm going to read from here and then I'm going to go to Matthew,
24:38
right? So it says no one undergoing a
24:41
trial should say I am being tempted by God, since God is not
24:47
tempted by evil and He himself doesn't tempt anyone.
24:52
See anyone going under trial? Trial, yes.
24:55
So a temptation can be a trial. Yes, exactly.
24:59
Exactly. It is not God who is like making
25:05
you go into temptation, right? Well, actually the original
25:09
translation is actually trials. For oh for the Matthew 1.
25:14
Yeah, no, for for the for the James one.
25:16
Yeah, too. I'm pretty sure it says like
25:17
trials and testing. Yeah.
25:19
Now this you know, Christ in the Lord's Prayer, by the way, the
25:22
the Lord's Prayer is important. I don't anyone saying that it's
25:25
not they're they're foolish. Whoever said the Lord's Wait,
25:30
what? What did you?
25:31
Say the Lord, anyone saying every anyone that says that the
25:33
Lord the Lord's Prayer. Sorry if anyone saying that the
25:37
Lord's Prayer is not important, I think it's foolish I've.
25:41
Never heard anybody say such a thing.
25:43
Oh, trust me it. Has been said.
25:45
Yeah, it's been said. Even if it was said out of
25:47
context, you got to make sure that people don't take you out
25:49
of context then. Yeah, exactly.
25:52
That's a that, that's a new one to me, 'cause I just, I haven't
25:55
heard anybody say that. Yeah, yeah, I know exactly.
25:58
But look what Christ says here. He said he says something
26:00
interesting. And do not bring us into
26:04
temptation and do not bring us into temptation.
26:09
The actual translation temptation is trials, you know,
26:12
but deliver us from the evil 1. Now I just, I, I that's so
26:18
fascinating to me, man, So fascinating to me.
26:21
It's almost like when he says like when you pray, like it's
26:23
praying like this, like you're like this, this relationship
26:25
with God, that you're like, God, please do not bring us into
26:28
trials. What do you think?
26:29
What do you think he's trying to say there in that in that Bible
26:34
verse there? Interesting, the one in James it
26:37
says that if you find yourself in trials, don't say that God
26:39
has tempted. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
26:43
If if that so in other words, don't if you've been brought
26:46
into trial, don't say that God has tempted.
26:47
You. Yeah, because he himself cannot
26:49
be. If you have brought into that
26:50
trial, it's because he can test you, Yes.
26:53
Not because he's tempting you. Correct.
26:55
I just want to clarify that. Yeah.
26:56
Yeah. I honestly do not deserve to
26:59
speak about this. Yeah, but but you know what I
27:07
mean, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
27:08
So Matthew there he he when it says the word tempting in in the
27:12
Greek is referring it literally says trial or test.
27:14
Yeah, yeah, exactly correct. And So what it means there is
27:18
that look, do not bring us into trials, right?
27:20
Uh huh. Or lead us.
27:22
Or was it? It says it says do not bring us
27:25
into temptation, but I I know it's not.
27:26
Bring us into temptation. OK, so, but I'm, yeah, I'm using
27:28
the Greek terminology which just says, so this is what it means.
27:32
So when he took Adam and Eve, that was a trial in and of
27:35
itself. Remember, they just left
27:37
eternity. They could live forever.
27:42
They probably had some significant of some essential
27:45
type of power. They were kicked out.
27:48
They were naked. They had to not work the field.
27:50
They had to sweat. She had to bear.
27:52
She had to bury the baby. The the the the offspring of the
27:55
man. Deliberate.
27:57
That's those are trials. Those are fallen state trials,
28:01
if you will. Right.
28:02
The suffering cane killing cane now has a mark.
28:05
Well, I don't want to get killed because they're going to kill
28:06
me. Was like, there's a mystery
28:08
there. But those are all trials.
28:11
Yeah. Those are just trials of being
28:13
in this world, in this realm, right.
28:15
Because of Adam and Eve. Those trials that we live in
28:18
now, imagine in our time the amount of trials that we have.
28:23
Yeah, they're not the same during Abraham.
28:26
'S right, right, right, right. Like we have other trials, dude,
28:29
we have credit card, we have bills, we have careers and all
28:34
that and the living cost that we have in the East Coast trials,
28:38
we got to make decisions quick ones too, because you know, the
28:41
bills are behind you. Like these are just a bunch of
28:43
trials, right? Right.
28:45
And if we ask God to to bring us away from trials, that's what it
28:49
says, right? Bring us away.
28:51
Yeah, and bring us away do not bring us into temptation, but I
28:56
know, I know in in I think that sorry the Nas, but it does say
28:59
like lead us away. Okay, I'm sorry, lead us, do not
29:01
bring us and it's just temptation.
29:03
But in the Greek it says trials, trials, testing.
29:07
And it makes sense why they will use temptation because the
29:10
trials and testings that we go through in this life inevitably,
29:14
inevitably end up into tempting. He's correcting the people in
29:17
James to do not lead to the thinking that God is tempting
29:20
you. Right.
29:21
That's not right. He's not.
29:22
He's testing you. Yes.
29:23
Is what he's doing, yeah, correct.
29:25
Because he's not someone who gets tempted in order to tempt,
29:28
right? Correct.
29:29
Correct. Do you understand what I mean?
29:31
Does that make sense? God does not tempt.
29:34
If he gets tempt, then that makes sense why he would tempt.
29:37
Right. Exactly.
29:38
Exactly. He does not tempt, He does puts
29:41
us in trials. I think it's different.
29:47
Go for, go for. I do definitely think it's
29:49
different that God will give you a trial or a test, which is
29:54
different than being being tempted because I feel usually a
29:58
temptation. Usually 9 out of 10 times you're
30:01
being tempted about something that isn't good in Lord's eyes.
30:06
Well, think about it is if you're enticed by your own
30:10
desire, you're drawn away, right?
30:13
You're drawn away that's you're doing this you.
30:15
Are so so do you think in this passage right here he's
30:19
basically the people are probably getting confused
30:21
between temptation and trials. Yeah.
30:23
And then and then James is like is like hold on hold on, hold
30:26
on. Do not confuse trials and.
30:28
Oh no, he's definitely not not not that.
30:30
They're confusing trials. Do not confuse the the the the
30:36
what comes from what? Right, right, right.
30:39
And who's doing the what? Yes, who's doing the what like.
30:41
Who's doing the trial and who potentially could be tempting
30:43
you or setting you up to temptation?
30:46
And you are also a part of it, right?
30:48
Of you putting yourself in the right respect of temptation.
30:51
Exactly. You know what I mean.
30:52
No 100 percent, 100% what? Christ is saying is if you read
30:56
in the context, he said forgive us for our debts, when me for
31:00
forgive our debtors. Yeah, as you forgive us.
31:02
And it says that. Yeah, exactly.
31:03
Then it says 100% yeah. Right.
31:05
Forgive us for our debts, and we forgive our debtors.
31:09
If he says forgive for our debts, that means we'll never be
31:11
able to pay God back, ever. Never, ever, ever ever ever.
31:16
Right in the form of transactions.
31:17
So. But if someone owes you, you can
31:20
forgive them. Yeah, Yeah, yeah, right.
31:22
That person who owes you is because they went under a trial,
31:25
they came and asked for a favour or whatever that'd be for money.
31:28
That could also mean as an emotional what it doesn't just
31:32
always have to do about money, right?
31:34
But you forgive them. No, that's so true.
31:37
You know, that's so true. Yo, I just realized something
31:38
interesting right now that like when he says forgive us for our
31:41
debtors, OK, let's just say someone did harm to you, right?
31:45
And that harm was like terrible. There's no amount of money or
31:49
anything you can pay that off because it's going to be, you
31:52
know, like it's it was done and it probably haunts you.
31:56
But however you forgiving them like that, like for example, we
31:59
can never repay God, no right, ever, ever.
32:02
So that person that did US harm, they can never repay us, but
32:05
however we can forgive them in that way, like the way the Lord
32:10
forgave. Us.
32:10
Do you have anything to say? What's up?
32:14
Oh, no, I guess when it comes to forgiveness, like I definitely
32:19
think with the forgiveness, we, well, we should forgive.
32:23
We should know how to forgive if we're in faith, you know,
32:27
despite, you know, despite how bad something, you know, whether
32:31
it's scenario or whatever that person did to you.
32:35
But it's tough. But do you do you know I'm
32:39
saying though? Say that one more time, all
32:41
right? Let's just say someone did
32:44
something insanely bad like helps you like.
32:46
I did something bad to. You like I'm talking about like
32:48
you just killed one of my family.
32:49
OK, I killed your sister. Right?
32:51
Right. That's wicked.
32:51
But right. This hypothetical.
32:53
This hypothetical. Hypothetical.
32:54
Wicked, right? Right.
32:56
Right, there's. Right.
32:58
There's no amount of money or, or I guess so-called emotional
33:02
support or anything you can do to pay that back ever.
33:06
Yes, I can. You can't.
33:07
So in that same way when it comes to my.
33:08
Only retribution is I need to get tortured to that.
33:11
Yeah, exactly, exactly. And even then, even and even
33:14
then. Let's just doesn't admit it
33:15
doesn't satisfy. Let's just say someone gets to
33:17
revenge still, I know for a fact they still don't feel satisfied,
33:20
so that that will never get paid off.
33:23
But forgiveness? But forgiveness?
33:24
Sets the person. Yes, sets the person free.
33:27
So in that same way when God when you sin, there's no way we
33:30
can pay back God for anything. So.
33:35
It's just, you know, this is a crazy, it's a crazy comparison.
33:40
I mean, not comparison, but it's a crazy scenario.
33:42
You know, somebody killed a family member of yours like a
33:46
crazy thought. But yeah, yeah, yeah, right.
33:49
So there's no amount of money, anything you can pay me back to,
33:53
to Yeah, I can only say you are forgiven, brother.
33:57
It's OK and and and move on. And then?
34:02
Lead us or bring us away. Yeah, from this such type of
34:06
whatever that may be, right, Right, Right.
34:08
That trial may be right. And those are trials of life.
34:10
Yeah. OK, Correct.
34:12
I mean, that happens our trials of life that we undergo every
34:15
day, which is a fallen state that it's a, it's a, it's a
34:18
production of the fallen state. Right, right, right.
34:20
But then there are trials that God does put you in.
34:23
Those are different, yes. Yes, don't be.
34:26
Don't be foolish and walk into a room knowing that you're gonna,
34:29
that there's temptation there. Yeah.
34:31
Knowing in your conscience, I mean your subconscious.
34:34
Others. Yeah, exactly.
34:35
If you know that you're weak, like men for the most part are
34:38
weak, Yeah, You know, because men, you know, always are in the
34:42
heat of the moment, if you will. Right, Right, right, right,
34:45
right. But if you know that about
34:47
yourself, try to do things that could, you know, if if you the
34:51
phone calls it, put your phone away, take a quick shower or
34:55
something. Some you know, you just got to
34:57
do things where you you set yourself up.
34:59
Yeah, from that, correct. You set yourself 100% aside
35:03
from. Some standards, yeah.
35:04
Yeah, man, Some standard back, yeah.
35:06
Yeah, there's some things that are possible and there's some
35:08
things that are impossible. So, yeah, but no, sorry, we went
35:13
on that tangent about all that, but no, it's I just realized
35:16
that that is so interesting. Yeah, so breaking so there will
35:20
there will be trials and tribulations and temptations
35:23
that this that that that this fallen state produces versus
35:27
there are trials like God does place you like Christ was taken
35:30
to in the spirit to to the desert.
35:32
And that's exactly what I was about to read.
35:35
Perfect, perfect, perfect dude. Because look, there was no
35:38
ambition here. Christ literally just made it
35:41
all about God, not about himself.
35:44
This is what really fascinated me.
35:46
So look what it says. Then Jesus was led up by the
35:49
Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
35:53
So the devil was going to tempt him.
35:56
I got right clear. So it says right here.
36:01
After he had fasted 40 days and 40 nights, he was hungry.
36:05
Yeah, I mean, I would be. 40 days 40 nights in the desert
36:08
desert cold at night and hot in the.
36:10
Days. Yes, yes, we're not speaking
36:12
about like like you're at home, you go about to go to sleep and
36:15
then you're going to continue from now, bro, we're talking
36:17
about in the desert. So wow.
36:20
So then the tempter approached him.
36:23
Then he said look at this. This is the key part.
36:27
If you are, if you are, if you are the son of God, tell these
36:34
stones to become bread. He's answered.
36:39
It is written, Man must not live on bread alone, but on every
36:43
word that comes from the mouth of God.
36:47
Then the devil took him to a holy city, had him stand on the
36:52
pinnacle of the temple and he said to him, If he said If you
36:57
are the Son of God throw yourself down.
37:02
For it is written he will give his angels order concerning you
37:06
and they will support you with their hands so that you will not
37:10
strike your foot against the stone.
37:11
Hold on bro, I just realized something.
37:14
I'm sorry. No, that's OK.
37:15
Christ literally said it is written, man must not live on
37:18
bread alone, but every word that comes from God.
37:21
Every word that comes from. God, that's what you will live
37:23
by. So the enemy was like, oh, OK,
37:26
well it does say this. He did say this.
37:29
He will give you his angels. It is written that he will give
37:31
his angels order concerning you and they will support you.
37:34
So he uses that same, yes, what Christ said, that every man
37:38
shall live by the word of God now.
37:39
He uses now he uses that against him too.
37:42
He uses that against him as well.
37:44
That's crazy. Yeah.
37:45
I'm glad you caught it. Yeah, I was like, whoa, whoa,
37:47
whoa. And so the devil right here is
37:48
playing chess. He's like, oh, yeah, you're
37:50
right. So look, look what it says here.
37:52
He will give his angels. He uses the word of God of what
37:56
he said so and then Jesus told him.
37:59
But it is also rain. Do not test the Lord your God.
38:04
Alright? Again, the devil took him, so
38:07
he's going to use something else on him.
38:08
Do not test the Lord your. God, yes, do not test the Lord
38:10
your God. So the devil took him to a very
38:13
high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and
38:17
their splendor. And he said to him, I will give
38:22
you all these things if you will fall down and worship me.
38:28
So use something. No, he's doing it connected.
38:32
I mean, I already know. But say, say, say, say.
38:34
Well, the enemy understood then that he was tempt.
38:39
He was also speaking to the Lord.
38:41
So when Christ says you will, he also says that you will not
38:43
tempt, you will not test the Lord.
38:45
So then now he's actually now testing Christ as the Lord.
38:49
Bow down to me. Right, right, right.
38:52
Pay attention, he says. You will not test.
38:54
It also has written that you will not test your Lord.
38:56
Test your Lord. When he takes him to this high
38:58
place, that's when he's actually now testing him, right?
39:03
See if who is the true Lord? Whoa.
39:06
You or you bow? Down or you bow down to me.
39:10
I'm sorry bro. I don't know why I see this so
39:11
much more now bro. What did it?
39:13
What was Christ's response? Then Jesus told him Go away
39:16
Satan for it is written, worship the Lord your God and serve only
39:23
him. Then the devil left him and
39:26
angels came and began to serve him.
39:30
Dude I'm sorry bro, I see this at a much deeper.
39:34
Level now I'm glad that. Yeah, Yeah.
39:36
So I thought that was the only one, but no, no, no.
39:38
No dude I bro I'm sorry I see this but going back to the word
39:43
ambition. Ambition.
39:46
It was almost like temptation was exalt yourself.
39:50
Yeah, it wasn't the temptation, wasn't necessarily what you
39:54
would think by him saying turn these stones into bread because
39:56
he was hungry. He already knew that was that.
39:59
That was his weakness. Right, right, right.
40:01
No, the temptation would have been if you are now Christ knows
40:06
that he is, He is the mouth. The when I say this word, word
40:13
that's coming out of my mouth, right?
40:15
That's what Christ is on the mouth of the right.
40:17
Right, right, right. Because but when you say word,
40:19
air is also coming. Yes.
40:21
So the Spirit also doesn't do unless what the sun is sun says.
40:25
So the word, when you breathe and you say something, the
40:27
breath and word are at the same time Amen.
40:30
But who? Which come from the from the
40:34
Lord, from the Father. So that word and breath are one
40:37
in the same Amen. So he knows that he is the word
40:41
exactly the word especially of the Father Amen.
40:44
So if you are. If you.
40:47
Are this was was the test? Yes, and twice yes, because when
40:53
we go back to the Old Testament, who is the one person that
40:55
exalted himself? Lucifer in Isaiah and Ezekiel,
41:01
yes to the story of him. Or in the Hebrew Halal.
41:03
Halal. Yes, halal.
41:05
Correct. And also who else too?
41:08
Who was tempted? Like who exalted himself.
41:11
Saul. He's Hezekiah.
41:13
Right. Who's who is the biggest role
41:16
model? Solomon.
41:19
Solomon was, but who else was? Really.
41:21
Am I missing this one? Damn, you're missing the big
41:22
target. Like what?
41:25
Jane Saul. Moses.
41:27
No Moses. Sorry dude.
41:31
He was like have I not already hit the stone and brought water
41:34
boom and then he he does it are. We not going to get water out of
41:38
this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
41:39
Something like that. Yeah 'cause he was frustrated,
41:40
He was frustrated with the people.
41:42
Yeah. And then God was like, because
41:44
you broke faith with my people, now you will not enter the
41:47
promised land. So like, basically what I'm
41:49
trying to say is like, the temptation here was like
41:54
exalting himself. Mm Hmm.
41:56
Interestingly. It happened at the heat of the
41:58
moment. Yeah.
42:00
That was a test, that was a trial.
42:01
Yes, exactly. But at the end, you know, Christ
42:05
never made it about his ambition.
42:07
He made it. I came here to do what the
42:09
Father has sent me to do. I think we should all live by
42:12
that. Yeah, that's interesting that
42:14
his word, that the Father's word, we call him as a father,
42:17
right? But this being right, right,
42:19
right, uh huh, has an extension out of his mouth which is the
42:22
Lord. Yes.
42:24
Isn't that amazing? That was incredible.
42:26
Yeah, man, very well. Now I just, you know, I wanted
42:29
to bring that up because. Any thoughts Diego?
42:32
I know this is pretty deep. This is a lot to process.
42:35
I know it's easy and simple to understand, but to chew on to
42:40
process it? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
42:41
That's the question that. Would be that would be the hard
42:43
part. Yeah.
42:43
Yeah. I think, you know, 11 can
42:45
listen. You know, one can hear what
42:47
what's being read and told. But but actually processing it,
42:51
yeah, it is a lot to process at once.
42:54
Right, right, right. Absolutely, absolutely.
42:59
So yeah, I guess to basically like wrap this up.
43:04
Nah, man, ambition. At the end of the day, you will
43:07
turn your back away from God. So discern and examine yourself.
43:13
Is this really God's will? So never make it about yourself.
43:18
And another, another key thing to ask yourself, what is the
43:22
foundation for me to do this thing that I say I'm going to do
43:26
it for God? Like what is that?
43:29
Is it because like, you know someone broke up with their
43:32
boyfriend or you broke up with your girlfriend?
43:34
Yeah, that's, that's crazy, bro. Sometimes we do things because
43:38
like we're going through something.
43:39
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You kind of go like, no, no, I'm
43:41
going to do this for God because, yeah, because you're,
43:43
you're trying to cope with it. Right, right now it's just your
43:46
adrenaline is kicking and your emotions are kicking and sit
43:48
down and relax. It's relax, relax.
43:54
So yeah, so, you know, examine yourself, like answer and ask
43:59
yourself the hard questions. What's my motive behind this
44:02
truly? Is this really led by the Spirit
44:04
of God or or am I? Is it because like, I just went
44:07
through something and then I'm just going to say this is for
44:09
God, but really it's actually so that you feel better about
44:12
yourself? We all know we have to, you
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know, work. We have to labour like.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. In a different way.
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Now, today we're basically modern slaves, if you will.
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Yeah, yeah. Exactly, exactly, 100 percent,
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100%. In a way, yeah, Because we have
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to work, we have to pay bills, we have to pay rent, we kind of
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eat and all that stuff. Yep, trust and got it for that
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too. Yeah, you know, 100% for sure.
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You know God will definitely provide.
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He will, he will. In one way it will in one way or
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another. Yeah, 100 percent, 100% you.
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Want me to close your clothes? Yeah, you, you can close
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brother, OK. Thank you father hallowed be
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your name and we thank you for this opportunity to speak about
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your word and kind of wrapping up this kind of three-part
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episode in regards to ambition and always give us a strength to
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keep our eyes on on your Kingdom on your Kingdom.
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And we all have dreams and goals and visions and ideas.
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And you did create us. And if you did create us in the
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image and likeness, we will have to a certain extent, the
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capacity to, to create, to kind of bring things and ideas to the
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table. But always lead us, direct us.
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Don't, don't let us plan our ways.
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And if we have planned our ways, we'll fix it and adjust it, and
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we then follow that what you have chosen for us.
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And this is an everyday thing. I thank you so much that you
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refine us everyday. And once again, if we have
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sinned against you, forgive us because you have done it at the
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cross. You have provided a way of
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cleansing ourselves on a daily basis because Your grace is
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infinite and amazing for all those who abide under your
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grace, thank you Father, thank you Son, and the Holy Spirit.
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Amen. Amen.