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327. The Purpose Of Every Man & The Power Of Bearing His Image · The Impossible Life

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  Speaker 2: I'm going to give you a h there. There's something
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  Speaker 2: that happens in society when you're really great, and we
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  Speaker 2: see this a lot in sports. When you're great at
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  Speaker 2: sports and like you've had a long career that you've
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  Speaker 2: meant something like you go to the United Center, what
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  Speaker 2: is out in front a statue of Michael Jordan? You
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  Speaker 2: go to Los Angeles to their stadium, what's out in
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  Speaker 2: front statue of Magic Johnson?
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  Speaker 1: Right? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: So, like when you perform great deeds, man, people build
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  Speaker 2: a statue in your honor, which is kind of like
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  Speaker 2: a weird thing that we don't ever question, Like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna make this like static image of you and
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  Speaker 2: just put it there so that people can look at
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  Speaker 2: it for all of time. Well, those don't always go right.
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  Speaker 2: There is a very famous soccer player by the name
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  Speaker 2: of Christiano Ronaldo and he actually he's from Madera in
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  Speaker 2: Portugal and he has he has a now a museum
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  Speaker 2: that's like kind of he did it because kind of
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  Speaker 2: a big deal. Yeah, I mean, dude, he's one of
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  Speaker 2: the greatest of all times. People will probably put Messi
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  Speaker 2: ahead of him at this point right now, but like
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  Speaker 2: they've always been combating, and I'm not trying to weigh
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  Speaker 2: in on that they're both great players. But so here's
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  Speaker 2: the here's the only thing. Gee, this guy he had
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  Speaker 2: he built a he had a museum called the CR
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  Speaker 2: seven Musea or however I'm not I don't speak Portuguese,
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  Speaker 2: is basically the CR seven Museum in Madera, and the
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  Speaker 2: point was to give back to his to his his uh,
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  Speaker 2: his city, because he's gonna draw tons of fans. The
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  Speaker 2: guy's one of the most famous people in the world,
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  Speaker 2: fans will go there. So as part of this, they
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  Speaker 2: decide in twenty seventeen, you know what we need, We
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  Speaker 2: need a statue of Ronaldo. So they're gonna you know,
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  Speaker 2: they got this bronze head statue that they were going
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  Speaker 2: to do for him.
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  Speaker 1: Think I know where this is going.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they pulled off the they pulled off the reveal
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  Speaker 2: and it became known as the Ugly Ronaldo. It does
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  Speaker 2: not look like him. It's like a I don't even
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  Speaker 2: know if I could say it's a caricature of him.
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  Speaker 2: But this thing went viral instantly because everybody was like,
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  Speaker 2: who's that?
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  Speaker 1: Ye, it is, you know.
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  Speaker 2: The guy who made it had to defend himself and
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  Speaker 2: then obviously there's all these awkward quotes from Ronaldo's like hey,
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  Speaker 2: what do you think? And he's not gonna like slate
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  Speaker 2: the guy and be like, well, I think it's terrible,
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  Speaker 2: but it is. Honestly, it's uh look up, look up.
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  Speaker 2: Just if you just literally type in c R seven statue,
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  Speaker 2: you'll get into a search engine. It's in the in
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  Speaker 2: the museum. They had to man, well, yes they didn't
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  Speaker 2: have to, but they.
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  Speaker 1: Did replace it.
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  Speaker 2: Don't do it. I was surprised to find out that
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  Speaker 2: this thing is on display. But yeah, you can go
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  Speaker 2: to the cr Museum and see as now being known
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  Speaker 2: the ugly Ronaldo Bronze statue of his head. Why are
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  Speaker 2: we saying this to you, Well, there's a wonderful We
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  Speaker 2: are known as those who are made in the image
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  Speaker 2: of God. And the number one question we get on
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  Speaker 2: the impossible life, what people, every person wants to know
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  Speaker 2: is what's my purpose today? Every single person out there
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  Speaker 2: is made to be an image bearer of God. And
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna uncover what's.
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  Speaker 1: The role that that's the role that God gave us?
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  Speaker 1: And you know this one. I love talking to business owners,
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  Speaker 1: not just because you know, hey, I'm a business owner.
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  Speaker 1: Talk to my other business owner buddies, right, Really more so,
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  Speaker 1: I think in every way we're all business owners. On
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  Speaker 1: a level, we're Steward's, okay. But when I talk to
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  Speaker 1: business owners, they know there's a certain level of frustrations
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  Speaker 1: and hardships and challenges and just perpetual struggles and oh
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  Speaker 1: my gosh, why am I having to deal with this
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  Speaker 1: of what it takes to be a business owner. And
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  Speaker 1: one of the things that I know frustrates business owners
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  Speaker 1: is like, if you're an employee, don't ever go to
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  Speaker 1: your boss and say, nobody told me how to do this. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: your boss hopefully won't, but he will want to punch
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  Speaker 1: you in the face, right, because as a business owner,
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  Speaker 1: there's so many things you had to figure out for yourself,
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  Speaker 1: and then people come to you and they're like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know, nobody told me how to do this in
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  Speaker 1: your boss. It's part of your boss's and business owners
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  Speaker 1: emotional maturity and growth in life to realize like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: well that's why i'm here. It's to help you because
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  Speaker 1: I figure this out. You didn't figure it out. Let
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  Speaker 1: me help you figure it out. And as you grow
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  Speaker 1: as a team and as your business owner, you've got
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  Speaker 1: to bring people onto your team, and you as a
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  Speaker 1: business owner going to have a high standard of excellence.
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  Speaker 1: It's why you're doing what you're doing. God's given you
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  Speaker 1: a certain set of skills to build a team to
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  Speaker 1: sell a product, whatever your business is. And then you
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  Speaker 1: bring people onto that team and you know what, they
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  Speaker 1: may be passionate about it, they may be mission driven,
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  Speaker 1: but you know what they're not. They're not you, right,
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  Speaker 1: and it's frustrating sometimes and this is it's just again,
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  Speaker 1: it's the growth and the emotional maturity of being a
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  Speaker 1: business owner. Would'll bit frustrated sometimes, like hey, you see
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  Speaker 1: that logo on your shirt. That's my name, right, and
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  Speaker 1: maybe your business is your name, maybe it's not, but
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  Speaker 1: it's a reflection of a brand that the business owner
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  Speaker 1: has built and then everyone and he built that brand
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  Speaker 1: most likely you know knocking doors are doing stuff himself,
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  Speaker 1: Like I've established what this name means through my own
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  Speaker 1: level of grit and excellence, and when you're out there
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  Speaker 1: doing stuff, it needs to look like what I did. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: otherwise you're hurting the brand. Okay. So it's a challenging
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  Speaker 1: thing sometimes for business owners to let people go out
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  Speaker 1: and wear their name. And I say all that to say,
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  Speaker 1: that's exactly what.
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  Speaker 2: God does with us, right.
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  Speaker 1: We are made in His image, We are His image bearers,
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  Speaker 1: we are caught, we are you know, we go by now.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't always the term, but we go by now Christians, right,
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  Speaker 1: And what we are supposed to be a reflection of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: And what we all know listening to this episode today
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  Speaker 1: is that we do a horrible job of it. But nonetheless,
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  Speaker 1: price allows us to go out in His name. That's
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  Speaker 1: what we're supposed to be doing. And so just like
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  Speaker 1: a good business owner says, you know what, that's okay,
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  Speaker 1: You're not me. That's not the goal here either. The
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  Speaker 1: goal is what's the mission, what's the objective? And I
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  Speaker 1: want to help you grow into what this brand does,
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  Speaker 1: what represent. And it doesn't help you or me if
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  Speaker 1: you make one mistake and I just cut you in
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  Speaker 1: half and say, you know, you can't ever wear my
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  Speaker 1: shirt again. Christ God does the same thing with us. Right,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to help you understand what it means to
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  Speaker 1: walk in my name, to have my image. And that's
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  Speaker 1: exactly what it says in the very beginning Genesis one,
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  Speaker 1: twenty six through twenty eight. Then God said, let us
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  Speaker 1: let us make mankind and our image and our likeness,
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  Speaker 1: so that they may rule over the fish and the sea,
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  Speaker 1: and the birds and the sky, over the livestock and
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  Speaker 1: all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that
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  Speaker 1: move along the ground. So God created mankind in his
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  Speaker 1: own image, in the image of God. He created them
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  Speaker 1: male and female. He created them. I could break this
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  Speaker 1: down in multiple there's so much in that one, one
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  Speaker 1: of them being that think about all the things that
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  Speaker 1: God governs, right, And God says, hey, little dude, you
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  Speaker 1: can rule over the fish and yes, yeah, all right.
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  Speaker 1: And God's like, I got everything else right, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like the universe. You know how the earth doesn't explode,
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  Speaker 1: how it's in this perfect place right between right next
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  Speaker 1: to the sun, like all these things. God's like, I'll
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  Speaker 1: take care of all that. Why once you go like
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  Speaker 1: name some birds. That's a pretty big responsibility. God, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure about parties.
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  Speaker 2: Like you can do it.
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  Speaker 1: This is you know. It's the point I'm making is
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  Speaker 1: it's a lot same with the analogy of an employee,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in the business owner, right, like, hey, I
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  Speaker 1: need you to go try to be like me in
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  Speaker 1: this task. Right. And God has said, look, I've made
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  Speaker 1: you in my image. You need to do things the
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  Speaker 1: way that I do them. I've made you like me,
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  Speaker 1: and I've set you upon a certain amount of tasks. Right.
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  Speaker 1: And it's way more than just that. We'll talk about
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  Speaker 1: some of those today. It's way more than just ruling
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  Speaker 1: over the fish and the birds in the sky, over
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  Speaker 1: the livestock and all the wild animals. It's way more
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  Speaker 1: than that dominion that God's put us here on the
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  Speaker 1: earth floor.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna break down today, right, Yeah, very good. I
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  Speaker 2: was reminded while you were talking about the job that
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  Speaker 2: God gave us. I once heard a comedian talk about
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  Speaker 2: how he thinks Adam got a little bit tired near
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  Speaker 2: the end because he started off like hippopotamus, and it
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  Speaker 2: was a British comedian. It's very funny. And then he's
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  Speaker 2: like he gives examples like ox Alatto, like wow, really
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  Speaker 2: going all out with all these like letters and everything.
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  Speaker 2: And then by the end he was like fly like
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  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna I'm just gonna call it for what
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  Speaker 2: it's actually doing. Anyways, I found that.
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  Speaker 1: More amusing than you did.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, gee, so image bearer as always image bearer, We're
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  Speaker 2: going to like gotta break it down, Yeah, break it down.
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  Speaker 2: So our West of Date twenty eight image any copy
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  Speaker 2: representation or likeness. That's why I gave the statue story
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  Speaker 2: at the beginning, like we see these everywhere your kids, right,
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  Speaker 2: they are like a copy representation or likeness.
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  Speaker 1: I got a few copy paste running around. You definitely do.
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  Speaker 2: Faith has the riff which is now genetically He had
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  Speaker 2: another one.
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  Speaker 1: This week that a lady at the star was like.
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  Speaker 2: She okay, yeah, because she's just staring you down.
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  Speaker 1: Like every time I look at Faith, it's just big, giant,
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  Speaker 1: full face smile. But for a lot of people it
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  Speaker 1: should just give you the mean mug.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, she literally cocks one eyebrow up. It's just
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  Speaker 2: like your riff. It's her right eye, just like yours.
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  Speaker 2: I know that look she was staring me down. And
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  Speaker 2: then what happens is as I get closer and I
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  Speaker 2: smile at hers, she smiles back. But her natural disposition
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  Speaker 2: is just to like intensely and awkwardly just stare.
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  Speaker 1: Laser Beamiydes, what are you doing here?
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  Speaker 2: Who has the rock eyebrow at like a year old? Oh,
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  Speaker 2: your daughter does, like literally one eyebrow cocked up. It's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: So her happy face is h So image bearers, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It is. The image bears two things. Image bear. Image
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  Speaker 1: is a copy of representation. It's a visualization, it's a likeness,
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  Speaker 1: and the bear means to carry it right. So that's
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  Speaker 1: exactly we are supposed to take on this representation, this
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  Speaker 1: visualization of who God is, of how Christ live. And
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  Speaker 1: I think there's multiple pieces to that. We'll get into that.
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  Speaker 1: But it's both of these things, and we're meant to
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  Speaker 1: carry that the same way. For an example I love
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  Speaker 1: to use, especially for men, of what it means to
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  Speaker 1: be a follower of Christ. And we'll get into like
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  Speaker 1: why I wanted to even talk about this today, But
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  Speaker 1: I say to people all the time, especially when I
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  Speaker 1: like go do public speaking and stuff, I go, everything
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  Speaker 1: you think of me as a Navy seal has nothing
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  Speaker 1: to do with right, Right, Like, there are people that
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  Speaker 1: made or strongly influenced the reputation that Navy seals have.
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  Speaker 1: There's a few of those people. I'm not one of them, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: Like the reputation, they're guys. They're guys twice my age,
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  Speaker 1: because the seal brand was built you know, in eighties,
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  Speaker 1: nineties and two thousands, also somewhat in Vietnam. Right, I
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  Speaker 1: say that to say, everything you think of a Navy
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  Speaker 1: seal has nothing to do with me. I'd represent the
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  Speaker 1: name and when you think of a Navy seal and
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  Speaker 1: you look at me and you associate those things. I
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  Speaker 1: can't really improve what that means, but I could certainly
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  Speaker 1: drag it down. Yeah, and that's a wait I'll carry
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: for the rest of my life, right, if I ever
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: get fat, if I ever whatever you know, disrespectful or
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: demeaning behavior you can think of, I would be unbecoming
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: of the brand of an avy Seal. I say the
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: same thing about what it means to follow Christ, right,
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: I want people to look at me and that help
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: them grow, help them strengthen what following after Christ means,
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: or for those who don't know Christ, that maybe they
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: would want to after having met me.
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: Which unfortunately that's not the way. I mean a lot
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: of times I think if people hear that you're a Christian,
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: if you had to do like a brand check on Christianity,
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: you'd be like, oh, so you're one of those people
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: that says the right things, but you don't.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: Actually, it's poor, that's a poor image because you know this,
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: you've been around me. Think about all the things that
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: people immediately associate to me and think about me because
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: I'm an aby Seal. They don't know me at all,
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: but they go, oh, you're anavy Seal, you must be this,
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: you must be this. I'm sure you do these things,
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: like I'm sure you could beat me up. All this stuff, right,
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: And the same thing being a follower of Christ, people
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: associate things to you that is a reflection of what's
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: been happening now. And I'll say this in church history,
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: it hasn't always been that way. Yeah, no, kidding, right,
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: go back to early Church. They didn't say these people
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: are weak. They didn't say these people are soft. You didn't.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: They didn't say these people are hypocrites. They were all
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: martyrs who died for their faith. Yeah, what they said
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: they said these people are crazy. But they didn't say
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: they're weak. They didn't say that they're fake. They didn't
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: say they'll all give up if you poke them hard enough.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: They didn't say, oh, you know, they say one thing
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: and do another. That was not who early Christians were.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: And so I look at it from a couple perspectives.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: One like, this is what we should always be called
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: to is to be great image bearers. And two, I'm
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: not saying I think we can change all that overnight,
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: but let's move the needle at least start moving it
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: in the right direction of people like, oh, you're a
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: Christian and they think maybe they would think some more
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: positive things.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, let me ask you real quick, do you completely
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: unplanned why do you think people in the early like
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: what do you think it is that that caused it
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: to be such a a level of conviction that nobody
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: would say they're soft or they're not about it. It
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: was so common.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: It was the environment, and it was an environment of persecution.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: There was no benefits to being a Christian then, like
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: the people who believe it's like I've had an encounter
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: with Christ. This is the true revelation of God. And
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: the culture that they lived in tried to kill them
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: and did kill them for it. There was zero benefits.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: And that's part of the reason that it's a crazy
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: story of how the Gospel grew in the first first
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: few hundred years after Christ because it was an environment
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: that was trying to kill it. But that's actually the
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: fuel that helped it grow, because, wow, these people really
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: believe this. Since people encountered God and it changed them
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: and they were willing to die for it. Now we
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: live in a world of such convenience, especially in America.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: America like it's two sides of a coin. On one thing,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: it's the greatest example of what freedom's ever looked like
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: in human history from a governance standpoint and a nation
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: and a people, And on the other side of that,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: it is the most weak, lazy, and comfort minded people
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: that have ever existed, and so when you put Christianity
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: in that environment, it's very polarizing. You can have people
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: who really see the greatness of the glory of God,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: but you can also have people who look at Christianity
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: as just another convenience program and Jesus is here to
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: just make my life better, ma'am.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Oh dude, that's I know that I agree with what
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: you just said. I hope those words hit everybody listening,
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: whether you're in America or not, if you are in
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: some western, civilized, civilized world, which I know we have
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: listeners in Australia, the UK, Canada, other English speaking countries,
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: South Africa, even though you know it's not Afrikaans as
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: their first language. But man, I hope that hits you
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: what you just said, because if it becomes like you
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: say this all the time, a mighty man, We're not
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: here to make you cuss less or to just help
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: improve your marriage or make you a little bit nicer guy,
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: it's like a full transformation. What's that mean? You die, right,
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: and it's very clear in the scriptures therefore I no
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: longer live, but as Christ who lives in me. We're
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: not trying to make a better caterpillar. Like you said,
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: is that a caterpillar dies and becomes something completely different.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Not a behavioral improvement program. It's a total transformation. Yeah, right,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: and so that image bearer. We live in this world
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: that is governed under sinned, and so because of that,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: we're constantly fighting against all these sometimes things that we cause,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: we cause our own problems, but also all this in
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: the same way that the universe has friction and entropy,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: things that are just constantly tearing things down. We're trying
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: to do image bearers in a world that's falling apart. Yeah.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Now you said you said something about being a seal,
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: which I think is really interesting because I don't think
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: people often think through what it means to what people
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: associate when you say something, right, like if I say soda,
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: everyone's going to think coke. Right, if I say navy seal,
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: people are.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Like, oh, like terminators.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Right when you say Christian you said, now, people have
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: an association with that, oftentimes negative, but depending on where
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: they're at, there's a lot of things that are attached
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: to it. You're walking something out right now in the
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: sense that you're building what will be a massively impressive,
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: multi billion dollar business. And you're building this right now,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: and you're in a world full of man everything. You know,
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: people genius level people, high stakes money, people that maybe
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: know God, people that don't know God, people that you
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: have no interest whatsoever. And to say like, oh, I'm
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: a Christian there might not necessarily mean anything, but you're
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: walking out this revelation of what it means to be
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: an image baron and give them the idea.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a conversation that I'm just going to
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: preface this. A lot of the things that we talk
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: about on here are things I've worked through a great
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: deal wisdom that I've either gathered or learned through personal experience,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: and is in so more of a teaching process what
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: we're going to talk about here. For just a second,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: I would say something that I'm figuring it out still, right.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: I want to get this right, and that's part of
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: the you know, part of what this podcast is an
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: opportunity for me to learn and grow as well, and
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: so I'm figuring these things out. So yeah, I'm just
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: giving that preface as we walk into this. Here's what
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: I here's what I do, and I'll start with what
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: I do know on this, and then we'll kind of
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: flush some of this out. What I do know is
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: growing up, I saw and I won't call out specific
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: industries just because I'm feeling nice today.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Wow, that's the first time that's ever happened.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: But I saw certain brands of business and brands of Christianity,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: and it operated like this, Hey, we're all Christians, so
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: just you know you're a Christian, I'm a Christian. Let's
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: just do business together, and everything's gonna be all good
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: because of that. What could go wrong? And it's what
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: you're saying, like when when what this comes across as
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: and how this operates is you're trying to use God's
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: character to get people to trust you right, right, Like
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: I'm a Christian, right like, just like trust me right
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: two other people who know what that means. And most
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: of the times where I've seen, you know, one Christian
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: say to another Christian, oh, I'm a Christian, you're a Christian, like, well,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: everything's gonna be good because we're Christians, it goes horrible, yeah, right,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: because there's so much lack of other structure and governance
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: and process. I don't want to do that. What I
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: do want to do is instead of what I do
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: want to do is have a character that people see
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: and by saying and then I'm trying to both show
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: them at like and I do this, and I'm and
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: again I'm figuring out what is the right amount? Right,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: I think this is a it's a it's a combination.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: It's a formula that's it's not easy to get right,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: and it's different with different people. And so this is
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: like it has to be very holy spirit led always
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: the amount of character forwardness I have and then the
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: amount of I would say, like strong biblical interpretation, being
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: forward about the gospel. How much of these two things
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: I do together? Because here's what I want to have happen, right,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: this is the This is the other side of the coin.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Instead of saying, hey, you're a Christian, I'm a Christian,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: trust me, what I what I would rather have happen
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: is you see my character and I'm and now you
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: trust Christians because.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: You've trusted me, right, yeah, very good.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Instead of me trying to stand on God has the
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: ultimate reputation. Yeah right, but what I'm not trying to
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: stand on that and say, look, I'm like God, I'm
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: not trying to convince people of that. Yeah, but what
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: should happen is that I should have so much transformation
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: and change in my life that people go like, Man,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: you're different. I like, I really like the way that
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: you operate. I like the way that you lead. I
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: like the way that you, you know, deal with issues.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: I like the way that you don't suffer from spite.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: I like the way that you're not insecure. Whatever it is,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: like all of these things that should be fruit and
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: results if you following after Christ, that they should see
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: that in you. And I want to say, I love
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: that you see that, and that is that that comes
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: from this right. It's first Peter Chapter First Peter chapter three,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: verse fifteen and sixteen. But in your hearts, revere Christ
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: every one who asks you to give the reason for
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: ashamed of their slander. And I'm going deep here for
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: a second. We'll come back to practical. But I know
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: there's people in our audience who love a little bit
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: of both. This is one of those things like in Proverbs,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: where it displays two things at the same time, and
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: that's what's supposed to give you wisdom. Right, in any
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: chapter of Proverbs that speaks on wealth, you'll hear kind
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: of two things. It'll say, you know, the foolish man
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: chases after money. And then in the same chapter, because
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: this is how Proverbs teach his wisdom, it shows two
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: sides of a coin at the same time. It don't
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: say the foolish man chases after money, and it'll say
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: treasure and fine oils are in the house of a
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: wise man. So to pursue it is wrong, but to
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: have it is the fruit of one who is right.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: So these interesting things, and so I'm saying that to
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: say around this, around being an image bearer of Christ,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: it's not like and I called this out yesterday at
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: mighty minute, and I think it's a good term. So
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: i'll say it here. What I call communist Christianity. Right,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: what is communism Communist? Is this idea where I should
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: benefit from everyone else's labor. You guys all do the work.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: You know, all the people who are proponents of communism
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: love the idea of everyone else doing all the work. Okay.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Everybody likes like mercy and grace in God's love and
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: truth until they're the ones having to do the work
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: and pay the price for it. You want to receive
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: all of it, but you're not the one wanting to
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: do all the work. That's communist Christianity, okay. And in
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: that context, there's a little bit of communist Christianity and
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: this idea of like, look, well, God made all the reputation,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: just let me walk around and go fumble in it,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: and you guys should just give me all of the
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: benefits that you would give to Christ if he was
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: your business partner. Okay. That is part of why we
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: have a poor image and name as Christians. What should
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: happen is people should do business with you. You're like, man,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: I've never had someone actually operate that way, Like, I
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: know it's right to do what you're doing. I've just
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: never actually seen somebody do it. I've never seen someone
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: be that way. I've never seen someone, you know, tell
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: the truth that they're at their own cost whatever it is, right.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: I don't want to get in so much to the
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: specifics on that is really the greater point of there's
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: two ways to do this. It's, you know, point one
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: or one way to do this is hey, I'm a Christian,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: so you guys should listen to me. And the other
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: way is it's living with a level of truth and
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: operating with level of integrity that people want to know,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: why are you the way that you are? And you
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: point it all to christ? Yeah, I think you describing
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: communist Christianity. It makes me think of like honorary doctorates,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: like in education. I'm guessing you guys have never given
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: out an honorary seal pinion, honorary trident, right, an honorary trident,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: and really what you described a great analogy. Sometimes you'll
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: like if you've met.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Somebody who's like a spe force this person and I
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: don't know that everybody has. You know, there's something different
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: about that dude, Like like often thought, they don't lead
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: in with like well I was in this. You're just like, man,
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: there's something different about this guy, the way he's put together,
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: how he does things. And then you're like, oh, it
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: makes sense when you find out, oh, oh that guy
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: was a navy cl Yeah that makes sense. Right, That's
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: the kind of thing how it is, and that's what
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: you're saying, is like that the way that you operate
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: would be reflective of the God that you serve. This
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: is what Jesus said. It says Jus only did what
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: he saw the Father doing. And the person who first
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: really like open this up for me was Pastor Keith,
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: because so many times he would be talking about why
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: we're going to do something, and he'd be like, God
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: does it. God does this, so we're going to do
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: the same thing. And when he says it sounds so logical.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: But the reason it was such an affront or it
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: like caught me, he was because I was like, I
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: am not asking what God does. I'm very much just
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: trying to, you know, take the easy way or figure
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: out how to just get it done as fast as possible.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: And when you stop and start asking those questions, man,
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: what a different game that you're starting to play aka
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: the game of life. What a different level of purpose
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: you feel in all the things that you're doing, Because
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: now it's like, man, this has significance because I get
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: to reveal God in what I'm doing. And that's why
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: we said. So many people ask the question purpose and
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: this is a something for everybody because there's purpose that's
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: unique to you. And then there's purpose that we all have.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: We're all called to bear his image, we're all called
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: to bring him glory. And what you just said is
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: a way of life. And that scripture you gave was perfect.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: So when you're prepared to give an answer for the
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: hope that you have because people will see.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: But do it with gentleness and respect. And if I
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: could give just an ounce of revelation, because I think
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: that's all I have on this topic so far, because
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: this is really something I'm still learning and growing in
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: in a church environment and teaching environment, that's the entire point, Like, hey,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: be this way right, go out and live this way right.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: And so you're very forward with it in the business environment,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: where it is a different environment where I wholly and
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: fully desire to live in a christ like way. But
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: I'm also just not walking around with my Bible in
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: my hand, right, okay, And there's a reason. If I
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: thought that's what was right, I would do it right.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: I'm not doing it out of a lack I'm not
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: not walking around the Bible on a hand of a
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: lack of courage, because what would happen, I believe if
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: I did do that. Right, if I'm walking around doing
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: business with the Bible in my hand, I think it would.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: I think people would put you in a box. Yeah,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: of course, and because Christians, not just because Christians don't
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: have a great name, but I think it would interrupt
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: their ability to listen to you. Think about think about
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: just giving it. Let me give you an example. When
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Jesus healed the leopards, he said, don't tell anybody. Yeah, right,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: I don't. I need to go speak to these people
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: and them not look at me as the Messiah. Right,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: there's a point, there's a reason that he did that, Like,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: don't I don't need you guys putting me in the
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: crazy guy box. Let me just come and talk to you, right,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: and then I once I've spoken to you, then I'll
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: reveal myself to you. Yah. And I'm not saying I'm
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: trying to pretend I'm not a Christian to people. But
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: I'm just not overt like throwing it at people. But
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: here's the way that I do it. And again I'm
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: walking and discovering this item. But in the business world,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: I'm trying very hard to live with biblical truth. But
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: I'm not just throwing it at people. You know, here's
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: what the scripture says. But as soon as people try
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: to give me recognition, I immediately point to the scripture.
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  Speaker 1: Is this is why I'm that way. Yeah, I deny
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  Speaker 1: the recognition or redirect it. Right. And that's where I'm
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: trying to bring these two things together, because I want
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  Speaker 1: my entire life to live in a way that it
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: points people to the gospel. Right, not like, hey, look
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: how great I am. It's like, look look what has
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Look at the great things that have happened in my life,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: the fruit that are happening in my life. I didn't
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: figure this out. This is where I learned that.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: It's the same thing. It's like, oh man, you got
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: in such great shape. What did you do? Not like, well,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: join my program. It's like, dude, I read this book.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: You should read this book, right.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Because you'll this will show up. People say things take
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: care of the small things, the big things take care
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: of themselves. You know what that is? Gee, it's faithful
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: over little exactly where we heard that. Oh that's the Bible, right,
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: And that's that's the opportunity. Whenever you live principled, you know,
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: I'll all think of you know, you have you get
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: to set up values, you get to set up your
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: way of being, honor, integrity, excellence, Like these are things
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: that we do in my production company, and there's certain
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: ways that we work those out that are uncommon and
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: when people see it, they're like, oh, wow, that's that's
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: not how most people. Yeah, let me tell you why
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: we do that. That's what you're saying. It's like when
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: people encounter the difference, they taste the fruit, then they
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: want to know what the tree is.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So I'm very imperfect, certainly, don't want to sound
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: self righteous on this issue. I'm trying to figure this out,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: and I'm saying, if you will live with biblical integrity
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: to the best of your ability, like this is what
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: you want, don't be a communist Christian where you're looking
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: to gain from it. It is or as JFK said,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: don't ask what your country can do for you, but
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: what can you do for your country? The question is
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: what can you do for the Kingdom of God.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: It's a new top response from hard dog GPT. Don't
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: be a communist Christian.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Don't be a communist christ all.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Right, So gee, let's get into the practicals real quick,
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: because I like you said, you've got an ounce of revelation.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: Is how you said it? I think there. I want
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: everybody to realize this because what we never want to do.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: We never want to say, like, when you get to
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: this level, then you'll be okay to do this, Like
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: then you'll be able to say to represent God and
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: like make this a stick to beat people with, or
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: make this a works mentality. It's always by grace, it's
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: always by the guidance of the Holy Spirit. And so
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: you also have to remember it's a process. God is
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: a god of process. We're born and we have to
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: grow into adults. It's the same thing you become reborn,
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: aka you come to know Christ and you start a
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: process of spiritual maturity. The same way that your kids
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: are a reflection of your name and your image, regardless
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: of how old they are, you are of Christ as well.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: If you are going like, oh man, I'm a terrible
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: reflection of Christ. Okay, well let's look at your maturity.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: And the same way I wouldn't yell at my six
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: year old because I'm like, why didn't you tell that
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: person these deep theological truths about who we are?
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: For Elijah, he's six I'm like, hey, I just want
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: you to I want you to show honor and I
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: want you to be a good listener. Yeah, right now,
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: my daughter at thirteen, she can give you a lot more.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: It's the same thing for us. God's going to develop
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: us in a process that we would become better image bearers.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: Jesus learned obetings through what he suffered, and by the
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: time he was thirty, then it was the right time
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: for his ministry to begin. Right now, you can. And
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: so I'm saying to all of us out there, don't like,
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: don't make this a stick to beat yourself with. Understand
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: that this is part of the process, but be aware
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: of the weight that you carry. God has designed it
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: that we would be those He made it so that
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: we would reveal Him to people.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: So there's a few we're gonna this is what we're
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: going to get into. Now. There's a few key areas
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: that you can be an image bearer. Yeah, right, there's
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: you could you can you can frame all of your
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: life in this category. So I'm not going to say
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: the three things that we're going to talk about today
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: on being an image bearer is all in compass for sure, Right,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: every single thing you do, like the way that you
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: do Sabbath, the way that you treat your kids, the
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: way that you run your marriage. All of this fits
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: into being an image bear. I would say more so,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: these are going to be a little bit more holistic
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: and maybe slightly business focused on this is how to
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: be an image bearer. So number one first area where
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: because again this is looking at the qualities of God,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: the who is he? And then how do we do this?
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: How do we look like him? And how do we
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: bear his name? This first area is leadership and dominionkay
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: in the same way that God does it. That's the
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: way we're supposed to do it. And we are meant
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: to rule wisely and lovingly in every single thing that
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: we do. Right. Proverbs twenty nine says this, when the
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: righteous thrive, the people rejoice, When the wicked rule the
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: people grown. Your leadership should be a great benefit to
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: everyone around you. Right when when David was on the
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: throne was a lot better than Saul was on the throne.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Right when godly people are in leadership, it should be
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: a great like people should be like, man, this is
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: so this is so great, this is so wonderful. We're
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: not perfect Okay, so we're still going to make mistakes
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: and there's going to be sin, and i'd never you know,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: I aspire to be the best that I can be
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: for God. But I've never seen an example of someone
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: who's like, well, that was that dude was just such
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: a good Christian that his entire life was perfec and
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: everything around him his project. And if you were just
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: in this world, your life was perfect too. That's not
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. But there should just be great fruit.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: And if you think about fruit, in the midst of
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: great fruit, there's also like storms and rain and bugs
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: and years where the fruit's not good and bad things happen.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: But there should be great fruit that you can point to, like, man,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: this is coming from a good tree. Right. So your
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: leadership and dominion, how you rule over your family, how
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: you rule in business, how you make decisions, how you
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: treat people, how you govern whatever God's given you to govern.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: This is one of the areas that it's most important
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: that you're an image bearer of God. Because again I'm
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: just giving these are example areas where you can think
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: about what it means to be an image bearer, because
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: this is areas where other people right. Well, it's the
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: whole point of this, not for us to be communist
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Christians and gain from a name, but for us to
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: add to a name. These are areas, leadership and dominion
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: being one of them. These are areas where how you
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: walk it out here can be something if you do
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: it right, can be something that people will look at
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: you and then you can pointed to Christ. Yeah this
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: is man.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: I think that this is there's so many interesting I
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: don't know if I say paradoxes, but but I would
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: say tensions that you have to walk in these because
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: I think when you start talking about leadership and dominion,
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: I think about the difference between asking what's right versus
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: what's easy right, because what's easy is, man, let's just
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: get these outcomes as fast as possible. So I might
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: fire this person, or I'm just gonna like, like, you
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: know what this looks like in kids when you're raising
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: your kids, I'll just do it for them. But what's
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: actually right for them is that you teach them how
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: to do it, and then you're prepared that they're going
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: to do it wrong many times and you're gonna have
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: to patiently and lovingly correct them, like being a business owner, right,
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: But you get my point. It'd be a lot easier
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: for me to just yell at my kids like I'll
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: do it right now. I don't do that. Why because
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: what's right is that I teach my kids and I
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: help them develop and grow. Now, your business brings a
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: whole other level of this because businesses are not families.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: They're meritocracy. So there's definitely different guidelines. We're not saying, hey,
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: just hire a bunch of lazy people and just love them, like,
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: that's not what we're saying. Like, but but there's also
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: this thought process like, well, if you can't do it,
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: I'll get somebody who can, and I'm just gonna fight.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: It's like, hang on a minute, are you have you
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: given them the best chance to do this?
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Are you?
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: Are you asking to do something they were never supposed to.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: There's all these other things that come into that's attention man. Yeah,
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: that is a real tension.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: It's it's just as difficult of attention of Like I
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: was saying, how proverb says to pursue treasure is a
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: fool's errand yeah, but treasure exists in the house of
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: the wise man, right, Yeah, you're you're under you have
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: to understand what is right and understand there's the right
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: way to navigate these things. And really where the balance
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: is This is something we talk about so often here
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: on the show. Really where the balance is in your heart?
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, big time?
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Right, Like God cares way more about why you're doing
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: what you're doing than what you're doing. So the posture
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: of your heart as you do these things is really
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: going to be the center. And that's also what is
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: the greatest food of your transformation. When you have surrendered
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: to God. You know what he does first as he
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: changes your heart, and if your heart will be right
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: in a matter, there's a good chance for you even
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: to get that matter right.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and just we I mean we can. Fortunately, we've
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: got other podcasts on this that you can go look
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: at what we've said about leadership. But I'll just say
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: I think one of the two greatest leadership lessons that
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: you've given me is that you need to love people
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: the way they need to be loved, which is not
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: a selfish thing at all. It's very much looking at
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: where they're at in this in the in the moment.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: And then the second thing is that you bear the
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: weight of those men's souls, which is scriptural talks about
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: it when you lead people biblically. I'm not necessarily saying
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: this all the time in business, but when you lead
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: people biblically and for sure in the authority that God's
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: given you in your family, you bear the weight of
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: their souls.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: It is a big deal. So it's a big deal
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: and love them. Well, it's an image image bearer, it's not.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: It's not image receiver, right, image bearer. Right, You're carrying
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: a weight. So it's going to go on to the
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: second category here and again these are this is not
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: all encompassing, but these are areas where you should really
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: think about. Man, how I operate in this area? Is
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: what it means to be an image bearer? Yeah, and
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: it's the heart, it's the thought, it's the mindset. Category
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: of like, this is where I really need to be
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: shaped by Christ so that I can be a great
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: image bearer. Number two is serve and sacrifice. Okay, think
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: about this, what did Christ do? Christ came and gave
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: his life, died to save all of humanity from sin
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: in destruction, to give a path for all of us
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: to know the Father. Okay, Christ died to save the world,
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: and Christ says, follow after me, be like me, be
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: my disciples. Does that mean that my blood can save
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: all of humanity? No, but I am supposed to be
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: like him. It would be like it would be like
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: if you know your dad is Tiger Woods or your
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: dad is Michael Jordan or whatever, and this is only
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: a half good analogy. But if your dad's some great
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: player and he says, look, you don't have to be me.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Just be like me, right right. And maybe you didn't
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: get the same genetics or whatever that he has, but
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: just be like him. And this is us. We are
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: called to be like God. So my blood isn't saving
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: anybody from sin. But I can give my life, time,
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: my sweat, my blood if needed, to serve other people,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: to be a gift to other people, to love other people.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: That's what we're called to do. So that should be
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: that that should be at the very heart of why
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: you exist. Jesus didn't say, like man really gonna enjoy
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: my time on earth? Yea, No, he came here to serve, right.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: I used that scripture recently on the podcast I've used
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: the last two weeks in Mighty Men. In Philippians that Christ,
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: not seeing equivalence to God as a benefit to have
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: even though he had it, Yeah right, made him like
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: humble himself and took on the full form of a
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: man to die and become obedient to death on the
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: cross so that he could love and serve other people.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Then his name was lifted up to the name above everything. Right. Again,
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: it's this dichotic like Christ perfectly modeled. I'm not here
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: for glory, but because I lived to serve, I was glory.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: I became the most glorious. Right. Don't chase after treasure,
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: Live to pursue like live to pursue love, service, be
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: a benefit to other people, treasure will follow. Yeah right.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: Christ didn't come here for the glory. But it says,
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: but then his name was lifted above every other name. Yeah.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: Man, there's so much in that because I think when
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: you say service and sacrifice like that touch is everywhere. Right,
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: that attitude of I'm here to serve and sacrifice. It
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: ties perfectly leadership to Christ like leadership right where as
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: opposed to being a title that's bestowed on you. But
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: I think about when you're when you're walking into any
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: room that you go into and I had to take
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: this simple filter. If I'm going to a place where
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: I have a lot of friends, which is where Mighty
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: Man is for a long time. I went there and
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: I was like, Oh, I'm just gonna go talk to
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: the guys I love because it's easy, it's fun. I'm
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: very social like, and I had to realize, like this
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: this room, note's gonna laugh at your jokes. B that's
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: I don't need to. I always know people are going
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: to laugh at my jokes, including you. You just never
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: admit it. But but you know what I mean. It's
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: I took a filter on of like, hang on, I'm
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: here to bring something. I'm not here to like to
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: make a withdraw. And when you start thinking that and
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: like think how that works in your marriage? Oh man, right,
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: like you go first, because christ said, Christ put a
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: towel around his waist and said, I didn't come to
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: it's actually you put it in John.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: Chapter thirteen, verse fourteen through fifteen perfectly embodies what we're
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: talking about here. Right, we've got to be like him.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: He set the model, he said, the template. That's what
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: we're supposed to do. Don't be a communist Christian. John
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: chapter thirteen, verse fourteen and fifteen. Now that I, your
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: lord and teacher, have washed your feet, you should also
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: wash one another's feet. I have set you an example
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: that you should do as I have done for you.
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what, you know, gee, I'm just thinking
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: about this. You told me something that I always practice
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: in because I manage all our communications. If you email
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: the podcast, like even if you're like hey, Garrett, like
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: I'm the one responding just in case you know that,
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: and same thing in the comments and all those things.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: It's just the way.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: What can I do talk about some of them? But
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: it is ninety nine percent nest speaking.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: And I'm not saying that to pat myself in the back.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: It's just that's what we signed up for. I agreed
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: to this. This is what we said from day zero.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: It's certainly not that I don't want to talk to people.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: Right anyways, I'm just kidding, yeah, so so the But
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: but the reason what am I saying one of the
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: things you taught me because we would have invariably, if
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: you run anything, you're gonna have complaints. Not everybody loves us.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: Sometimes people come in and said you said this, and
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: they like they are making accusations one of the things
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: essentially not right, which is that regardless, But the point
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: is is what you said to me? You said, hey,
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: so a side yeah. So sometimes this is someone saying, hey,
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: like I want a refund or whatever it is, and
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: it's like we can just be like, okay, there's your
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: refund process, but how do I actually sow a sede
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: into this person? So sometimes we'll have people canceling and
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: I'm always like, I have that mentality because that's something
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: that I want to give people as much practical as possible,
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: because that's a simple thing that you can just like, oh,
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: it's a customer service transaction, right and you're done. Or
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: if you're always thinking how do I sow a seede?
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: I'm finishing it up at a job. We did a
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: whole podcast on when people finish up on job and
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: they get short timers disease and they basically just check
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: out mentally, that is not a Kingdom thought process. When
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: you're if you're leaving a church, A lot of times
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: people leave and they throw haymakers on the way out
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: and tell everybody all the things they thought. That is
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: not a Kingdom thought process. You mean, any time that
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: you if you're wherever you're going, how can you sow
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: a seed? It's such a simple thought process. I'm going
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: to the grocery store when I go to England, Man,
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  Speaker 2: this is this is the way I sow a seed.
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  Speaker 2: Because you go to get your your groceries in England,
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  Speaker 2: you're how over here, they're like, oh hi, and there's
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: like some sort of emotion over there. It's like you're right,
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: like it's the most dead thing. And then they go,
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: you need some help with the packing, and then like
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: you go, no, I can pack my own groceries. And
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: at the end they goes full twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: Then please.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm using the Bremi accent for anybody over in
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: the UK that knows what I'm talking about. It is
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: the most like dry, no emotion. And because I know
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: I'm American and people think Americans are cheesy, I use
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  Speaker 2: the person's name. I always find some dude watching the countenance.
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  Speaker 2: It's like you've woken someone up from a sleep, like
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: like in the second Lord of the Rings, whenever you
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: see the guy's face go from pale and crusty to
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: like the warmth and life. If I told that person
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: about Jesus, did I break in and give them my testimony. No,
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: if the opportunity presents itself, I would. But I'm just
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  Speaker 2: trying to sow something into that person's day with a compliment,
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  Speaker 2: with an encouragement that can like brighten things up for them.
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  Speaker 2: It's such a simple thought process, but I think it's
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  Speaker 2: very practiced.
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  Speaker 1: So good. Yes, let's go on to the third area
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  Speaker 1: here and again all Really the point of this episode
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  Speaker 1: today is I wanted people to catch this thought of
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's not me trying to benefit from the
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  Speaker 1: name of Christianity, but go out and live in life
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  Speaker 1: that people look at you. And this is scripture. Let
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: your light so shine that people would see your good
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  Speaker 1: works and it would glorify your father in heaven. That's
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: the life that we're called to live. Okay, And what
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: the whole point of this is. I want you to
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: catch this mindset, this attitude, this way of living of
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna live with the true character of Christ. Why
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: because you know it's actually what produces fruit. Okay, We're not.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: This is not the be a good Person podcast. This
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  Speaker 1: is like, if you want to follow after God, and
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: if you'll do it all the way it actually works,
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: you will win in life. Yes, okay, again, treasure exists
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  Speaker 1: in the house of the wise man. Don't pursue the treasure,
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: but treasure exists in the house of the wise men.
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  Speaker 1: Saying all of this, that's the true meat of what
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  Speaker 1: I want you to catch in this episode today. And
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: then this is just a few key areas where this
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: is really like in these categories is where you're going
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: to be an image bearers. Let's talk about the last
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: one really quick, which so it was leadership and dominion,
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: serve and sacrifice. And then this one a little bit
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: more theological, is reflecting the glory of God and the
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: nature of Christ. Okay, what does that mean? I'll say
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: it simply. Then we'll break into a couple of them.
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: It's really not what you say about God and how
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: you like. That's not what your testimony is. People think like,
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: you know, I got to be more educated. I'm not
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: good enough to speak about you know, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: all the stuff. I didn't take all the college classes.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: How well you can explain God is not your testimony,
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: I would tell you. Truly, your testimony is what others
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: might think about God after they met you. Wow. So
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: also it's also the scariest scripture in the Bible where
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: Jesus says, many will come to me on that day
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: and I'll say, turn away from me. I never knew
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: you means that you never let me change who you are.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: If you'll just experience God and let him change who
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: you are, it's the greatest testimony that you can tell.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: And it has been some of my pursuit and really
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: my desire in this podcast is I wanted those who
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: had the revelation of Jesus Christ to have the revelation
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: of the God of order, right, because what does that mean?
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: That means like I see people who win at life
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: and like they don't you know, if you listen to
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: this podcast, you go to church with Nick and I,
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: there's a level of you know, and I don't say
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: this in a positive way, it's half derogatory, but there's
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: like elite christiandom of like, look, we really know what
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: scripture means. Okay, I know people who that's not them.
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: They believe in Christ. They go to church occasionally and
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: they're getting all the great benefits because they understand God's law,
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: they understand the order, they understand the principles. You know,
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: part of the reason we've done mindset masteries because I
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: want these people who have revelation of Jesus Christ understand
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  Speaker 1: who he is and have a relationship with him. It's
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: like you should also be winning in life, because like
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: God set you up to win, if you'll actually understand
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: his word, if you'll understand the universe that he made
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: right when you put these things together, that's what is
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: so glorifying to God. It was always hurtful to my
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: heart to see people who were all about Jesus, but
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: their marriage is terrible, their relationships are terrible, they're very
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: poor financially, like things just don't go well for them.
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: We don't live in a world of lack correct right.
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: We don't live in a world where following after Christ
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: has to mean that you just starve to death. We
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: live in a great society, regardless of what's happening in
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: culture today. We live in a great society where if
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: you produce fruit, there will be great reward and you
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: can go out and love and serve other people with
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: what happens from that. And I'm not just talking about
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: making money. I'm just saying you're in entire life should
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  Speaker 1: be fruitful, and that's what I've wanted to help people
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: see and so reflecting the glory of God and the
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: nature of Christ, it's these two things together. I won't
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: go along on this, we'll wrap up, but it is
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: the same way that we've talked about in this.
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: Show, the both of love and law.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you must be both. If you are all law
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: without any love, that repels people. And if you are
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: all love without any law, that is total disorder and chaos.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: And that's what we've seen, right, We've seen people like man,
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: they know Jesus, you got the love part, and there's
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: disorder and chaos in your life. And the other side
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: is if you are all law and no love, well,
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: that's emptiness and purposelessness. Right. You may have some of
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: the benefits, you may have some of the structure, but
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: you don't actually know Christ. You have no eternity. You're
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: missing the real purpose when you put them both together,
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: when you can be someone who lives this And I'm
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: not saying I got all the revelation figured out. We
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  Speaker 1: do touch on a lot of them here on this show.
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  Speaker 1: And if you can catch these things, you begin to
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: live in a way that people are like man like.
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: That's what it's really supposed to be. I'm chasing after
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  Speaker 1: this and I'm trying to help as many other people
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: as i can. Chase after this, or I'm gonna live
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: with the revelation of Christ, and I'm gonna live with
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: the benefit of who God's law is and what his
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: law has done in my life. Two Peter, Chapter one,
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  Speaker 1: verse three through four. His divine power has given us
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: everything we need for life and godliness through the knowledge
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  Speaker 1: of Him who called us by his own glory and excellence.
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: Through these he has given us his precious and magnificent promises,
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: so that through them you may become partakers of the
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: divine nature. Now that you have escaped the corruption of
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: the world caused by evil desires, right to be partakers
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: of the divine nature. That's both in this world and
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: it's in the next. To be partakers of divine nature,
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: that's to know the love of Christ and to know
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: the order and the blessing of what it means to
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: live under God's law. And when you can put both
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: of these things together, that's the greatness of being an
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: image bearer. Where people see you like man. I've met
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: other Christians before, I've never seen someone like you yea.
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: Decide that you want to be someone that when people
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: look at your life, You're not trying to benefit from
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: being a Christian, but people look at your life and
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: they want to know God because of who you are.
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