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In chains I was bound, I was a madman on the run

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Through the hills I wandered, I was running from the sun

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But truth found me there, it was in my darkest hour

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I traded my black heart for joy, for something real, something with power

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Truth set me free. Truth came to me. I once was blind and now I see. Truth set me free.

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Oh, oh, truth set me free. Oh, oh, truth set me free.

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Welcome to Tell the Truth, a weekly podcast about faith, current events, and life in general.

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Brought to you from Mountain View Baptist Church, live every Monday night at 6 p.m. Central Time.

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And welcome back this week.

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We are on episode 50, and I think that's a good one to have all the bugs worked out and you get to see us for the first time.

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If you're watching on Rumble, if you're listening everywhere else, yeah, we sound about the same.

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It is great to be back, and I hope everybody had a wonderful Memorial Day.

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Took the time to remember the people who have given so much for our country.

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That is definitely something worth honoring.

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Amen.

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Brother Dennis, how are you doing tonight?

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Doing good.

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Doing good.

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Doing good.

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Nice, un-rainy day.

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Yeah.

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Right?

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Yeah.

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We need a little break.

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My garden's, like, about to rot.

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That's a lot of rain.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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We've been waterlogged for like three weeks, and I don't like it.

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Yeah.

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We need some, but man.

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Yeah, it's been a lot.

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A lot of rain.

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It'll go away just as a squeeze it came.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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The ground will suck it up.

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The sun will soak it up.

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More long we'll be praying for rain.

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Yeah.

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It's dry.

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It's dry.

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Yep.

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How are you doing tonight, Brother Brian?

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Good, brother.

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Good, brother.

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Had a good weekend.

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Nicole and I, we had a date night last night.

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That's not something we usually do on a Sunday night,

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But the dates for our date kind of worked out where it was on a Sunday night.

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We went and seen Nate Bargettsey last night.

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And great, great show.

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Great comedy show.

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Man, the Lord gave us laughter, you know.

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And if you ever want to go see just a clean show, no foul language or anything,

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and just hear a guy talk about life and have you rolling, man, he's the dude.

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He's great.

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Awesome.

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Yeah.

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Well, that sounds like you had a great time.

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And I love that you get to tell on yourself about skipping church on Sunday night.

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Yeah.

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I also had a Wagyu steak last night, too.

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It was, man.

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Dumb tea.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That was good.

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I love it.

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I love it.

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Well, tonight, I think we're going to be continuing a little bit about what Tanner preached on last night, which is service and.

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What was it?

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Submission.

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Submission.

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Yeah.

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And obedience.

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Obedience.

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And the difference between those.

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And I think that's going to be a great conversation.

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I will throw out real quick just a little social media stuff.

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It's kind of nice to see conversations breaking away from some of the craziness, which one of the things is one of those crazy things.

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But the other part, I got to watch all the last two or three weeks as people have finally taken the time to read the terms and conditions for the new Nintendo Switch that came out.

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That's a $500 device that you don't own.

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You're buying a license to use the hardware that you dropped $500 on.

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And if you do anything with it that they don't like, they maintain the right to turn it off for you as an individual.

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Wow.

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And so it's been kind of funny to watch a bunch of Gen Zers about 20 years old going, hey, wait a minute.

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This is crazy.

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And, of course, all the Gen Xers, you know, y'all's age is going, yeah, that's what we've been saying for years.

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So it's been kind of funny to watch all these young folks and all these, the couple of generations older than them being like, yeah, we've been trying to tell everybody.

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And all the millennials are sitting in the middle going, we don't understand any of it.

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So it has been hilarious.

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And I very much enjoy getting to see that take the spotlight for a few weeks.

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But then last night I saw one that absolutely floored me, blew my mind.

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And it was something that I kind of, I've said for a long time, would eventually bite everybody.

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You know, we've we've had and we've talked about on here before how the transgender nonsense is just so crazy.

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And at the end of the day, it's because they made a big deal of it.

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Like we didn't make a big deal.

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We were like, hey, look, you know, as long as you leave everybody alone, we don't care.

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Do what you want. Just leave everybody alone.

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And we were fine with it until they started.

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Well, we want to be allowed into women's sports and we want to be allowed into women's only spaces.

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And we want to allow, you know, start forcing this on kids.

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And people started kind of taking notice and going, oh, well, we've been ignoring you for the last 50 years because you were a small group of people that left everybody alone.

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Well, now you're not leaving everybody alone.

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And, of course, a lot of states are talking about passing laws about restroom usage and things like that, which most of us agree with.

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And I think I tend to agree with those.

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And one of the South Carolina found out the unintended consequence of actually trying to force that because there's a bar out there that says, hey, look, you use the bathroom of what you are, not what you think you are.

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And a transgender man went to go in the women's bathroom because a transgender man, of course, is a man who was born a woman, probably hasn't had all the surgeries and everything yet is still very much female.

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But this gal has had a lot of hormones and has a full beard and has had stuff flattened out and everything and went walking in there and got confronted by not only the bouncer from the bar, but the police showed up and had a conversation with them.

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And then realized, oh, wait, you're actually.

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And I'm like, yeah, you know, 30 years ago, this wouldn't have happened because we didn't care.

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So, well, 30 years ago, it was on MASH and a guy named Clinger trying to get out of there or whatever.

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Yeah, he was trying to be crazy.

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And it was interesting to me because one of the people I saw weigh in on it, I don't know if you've ever seen him on Twitter.

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I actually always thought this guy was a guy.

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His name is Buck Angel.

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And he looks like about a 60-year-old granddad.

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Nice long beard.

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He's kind of thin and wiry, but muscled up.

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Very manly looking man.

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Nope, he was born a woman.

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And he transitioned about 40 years ago.

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He's probably in his late 50s, early 60s now.

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And he was like, yeah, this is why I wanted y'all to shut up.

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And he was like, I've been telling y'all this whole time.

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He's like, this wasn't a problem when I was doing this stuff because it was like eight of us and we kept our mouth shut.

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And he said, and now y'all are creating a problem for everybody.

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And he weighed in and he's like, look, this is what y'all wanted.

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Y'all want everybody to recognize you and be aware of you.

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Well, guess what?

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Now they're aware.

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Well, because you realize the perversion of it.

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Yeah.

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I mean, you realize the perversion.

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Who wants a man going into a restroom with his little girl?

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No, exactly.

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Or vice versa.

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Yeah.

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Same thing.

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And, you know, and I hate it because, like I say, in this particular case and in Buck's case, I mean, if he walked into the men's restroom, I wouldn't have thought a thing of it.

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But if I see him walk into a woman's bathroom, I'm going to walk up and be like, hey, whoa, whoa, what are you doing?

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Yeah.

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And he's aware of that.

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Like, well, she is aware of it.

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It's kind of hard because, like I say, I've always thought of this person as being a man.

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And when it turned out and he was like, no, here's all the medical records and everything from it.

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It was like, oh, wow, dude.

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But he's also dead set against transitioning people.

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He's like, hey, you know, he said, you know, it worked out for me.

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I got really, really, really lucky that I didn't end up in worse shape than I'm in.

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Because he talks about the health problems he has from the transition and all the problems.

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But it's the mental issues that really.

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Oh, yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Well, and even he says, you know, step one should always be, hey, just because you think differently, how about you just learn to accept it?

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And he's like, we should start there and then go on.

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he's and and he even talks about he's like because that's exactly what i did he said step one was

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you know let's try to accept this and then i got experimented on yeah and he's very honest about it

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i mean he's very just out there and i it was interesting to see somebody like him that everybody

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has just completely ignored and now he's very much like look he's like if you if you're an adult and

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you make this decision he's like i'm not going to say anything to you because as long as you leave

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everybody else alone i'm fine with it but he's like everybody pushing this on kids he said y'all

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stop he said you do not know what you're signing them up for and he's he's given lists of like

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there's muscle in like his arms and legs that isn't right because they had to remove parts of

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it to try and use it to rebuild to build things to make him into a man and he's like and it just

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he said like he's like there's all these health problems that go along with it and he's like i'm

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having to take all kinds of uh immune uh immunosuppressants and stuff now to to keep his

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body from just going haywire and it's so sad so sad but um hey look this is one of those things

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that now it's being talked about being there's some laws being talked about being passed around

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it which i think is a good thing and as an unintended consequence uh if if if you've already

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gone through all the transition stuff and you absolutely look like the other gender you are

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probably going to get some really funny looks and some really odd questions being asked of you

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if a lot of these laws get passed, but we didn't pick this fight. And I, you know, I hate it,

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but it is what it is. And if everybody would have, would have kind of left this, let this be,

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you know, things could have continued where we, we started out telling kids, Hey, look,

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you're unique, you're special. And if you happen to have a brain that's wired weird,

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let's start with just accepting that and then move on from there. And okay, cool. You can think about

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things in a different way. Let's start there and then figure out, you know, what we can do to help

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you accept the fact that your body is your body. Well, the despicable thing is that parents have

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checked out and they're, they're letting their children be mutilated. That that's where the fight

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really starts. You know, these kids, these kids are confused. They don't know what to do. They don't,

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they may change their mind in a week. Right. That's right. And these parents have completely

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checked out. And anytime you have conversations with people that are older, that have been through,

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that have been through that when they were younger, they across the board, a hundred percent of the

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they do not let kids do this.

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Like it is not a question for them.

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It is kids should not be doing this.

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And the people I see pushing it, to be perfectly honest, are really not even I wouldn't classify

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them as transgender.

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They're drag queens.

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They're people that make zero effort.

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They don't do anything to try and try and conform to anything.

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They're just like, no, I'm just going to dress up like a caricature of what I think the other

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gender is.

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And then I'm going to push it on kids.

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So that was an interesting conversation I saw come up, and I thought it was really interesting to see how many people in the community.

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There were some people that very quickly said, well, he shouldn't have been going in the women's bathroom.

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And everybody's like, he's not a he.

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Just because of the facial hair.

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But let's be clear, though.

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You know, the whole thing comes from the confusion.

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Satan.

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It's Satan.

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It's Satan.

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It is.

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It is.

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It is.

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And he causes confusion in all of our minds in different ways, but that's the way he affects those folks that believe they're born one way and try to change themselves into something else.

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God has turned everything upside down.

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Yeah.

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The entire purpose of Satan is to confuse us and to divide us.

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And he's done, I think, an absolutely fantastic job of it the last 40, 50 years or so because we are super divided and super confused about a whole lot of things in society that there shouldn't be any confusion or division over.

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And I think that kind of segues into it.

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You want to know how to avoid the confusion and the division?

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Obey and admit.

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Yeah.

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So let's swing into it.

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Go ahead.

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Well, no, Tanner, man, he did an outstanding job last night.

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And talking about there's a difference between submission and obedience.

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And you can't really obey the way you should obey without submitting first.

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Right.

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Right.

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We have to submit to God.

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And I don't know, it opened my eyes on some stuff.

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And I've been thinking about it all day pretty much.

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But Jesus told a parable about this that he didn't bring up last night, but I wanted to bring it up today.

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It was, oh, where was it?

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Let's see.

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Matthew 21, starting at verse 28, Jesus says, but what do you think?

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A man had two sons, and he came to the first and said, son, go to work today in the vineyard.

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And he answered, I will not.

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But afterward, he regretted it and went.

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The man came to the second and said the same thing, and he answered, I will, sir.

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But he did not go.

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Which of the two did the will of his father?

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They said, the first.

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Jesus said to them, truly, I say to you that the tax collectors and prostitutes will get

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into the kingdom of God before you.

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Right.

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It's the difference between one kid didn't submit, but he obeyed.

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Yeah.

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And the other one pretended to submit and didn't obey, right?

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Yeah.

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So what is submission?

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What is submission?

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I mean, it's given in to the will of something.

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Right.

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Right.

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And in this case, of course, given in to the will of God.

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And that's what we have to do.

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If we're going to be sold out, men and women of God, then we've got to submit to God.

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And like you said, and like Tanner said last night, you can't submit unless you obey.

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And you're willing to obey.

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And where do we find our obedience at?

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We find it in the Word of God, right?

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Yeah.

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I mean, he gives us instructions.

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He gives us scripture after scripture after scripture.

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And we find ourselves, and I know Tanner, Nicole, and I got to listen to him on the way back home last night.

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And he talked about different aspects of being submissive in the workplace and different things like that.

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And so there's so many places that we need to be submissive in.

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James 4, 7.

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Did he read that last night?

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I don't remember if he read it last night or not.

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I don't know what I had that one to.

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Yeah, that's a good one.

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Yeah, just submit yourselves, therefore, to God and resist the devil, and he'll flee from you.

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So if you want to know how to get rid of those contrary thoughts that you have that are contrary to God's word, if you want to get rid of those things that creep up, oh, God, where did that come from?

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Those are the times that you submit, right?

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You say, Lord, I belong to you.

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I don't belong to him.

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And whatever this is and whatever this is entering into my mind, get rid of it, Lord.

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I trust in you and obey you.

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And he says, if we do that, he said, Satan will flee.

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Because he doesn't have a place there.

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He doesn't have a hold there.

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Yeah, and that's one of those that a lot of people will quote the second part of, right?

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Yeah.

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Resist him and he'll flee you.

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Yeah.

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The key part is submit to God.

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And we submit.

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We submit, like I said, by being in the word, by being in prayer, by keeping a steady, close relationship with him.

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That's right.

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Does that mean we never mess up?

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No.

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No.

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No.

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The devil's always after us.

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And it ain't so much the devil, as far as I'm concerned, it's my own heart.

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It's my own flesh that I'm battling every day.

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That's right.

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Amen.

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And if we come after life from a place of victory where we've already won,

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then submitting gets a lot easier, don't it?

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It does.

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It absolutely does.

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We're already victorious.

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And he tells us that in 1 Peter 5, verse 6.

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It says, humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, so that at the proper time he may exalt you.

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So, in other words, he's got something prepared for you.

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Follow him now.

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And I think what we find in this life that we live in, that submission is not easy.

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It's not our nature.

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The sin nature that we have in us does not want us to submit to anything.

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It doesn't want to submit to God, to authority, to government, to any of those things, even if those things are set in place to protect us.

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Now, not all of those entities are to protect us, but those things are set in place to protect us.

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We still don't want to submit.

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I think one of the things he talked about last night was speaking.

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I'll be honest with you.

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Sometimes I have an issue with that.

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I don't submit like I should.

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But those things are set in place that they protect us.

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And that's why God wants us to submit to him, right?

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Because he wants the very best for us.

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And even in the submission that we have here, we may not always find ourselves in the best place.

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We may not always find that things go exactly like we think they should or, you know, that life goes to the T.

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Like, okay, if I submit to God, I'm going to have the best job.

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I'm going to have the best money.

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You know, my family's going to be great.

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Everything's going to be fine.

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Everybody's going to be healthy.

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Nobody's ever going to die.

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You know, all these things.

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But that's not it.

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He said that he may exalt you in due time.

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Right.

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It's coming.

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Right.

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And it all revolves around humility, right?

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It's like Jesus said, if you want to come to me, you come as a small child.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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And that's submission.

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It is.

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That's complete submission.

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Knowing that he is the authority.

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I mean, this wrote down the Greek word, but it's not even worth saying.

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But it means to place under, to subject, to subordinate, to submit, be under obedience.

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Yeah.

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Amen.

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And we do that with a proper view of who God is, right?

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Who God is and what he's doing.

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And like you said, we know that he has our best interest at heart.

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He's given us these laws and these rules, not to make it hard on us, but to protect us and to protect other people from us.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Hebrews chapter 13, this is another one that I've seen.

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Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls.

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As those who will have to give an account, let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

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So, you know, there's folks that really care about us.

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I look back at my dad and the pastors that I grew up with and the men of God that are sitting in this room right now with me and that go to this church that they have, I believe, my best interest at hand.

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They love me and they care about me and they want to preserve what God has done in me.

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I'm not talking about losing your salvation.

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I'm talking about living a life, a constant life in the light of Jesus Christ and living that out in the lost and dying world.

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Yeah, and it's not just mechanical obedience.

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No, it's not.

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And Paul says something about that in Colossians.

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I think a lot of people get in a trap as Christians thinking, well, I've got this set of rules.

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I've got to obey them.

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And if I don't obey them, I'm going to be in big trouble or maybe even go to hell.

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You know, and we have this twisted view of what grace is and what salvation really is in Christ Jesus.

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But Paul says this in the Colossians chapter two.

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He says, I said, if you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why is if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees such as do not handle, do not taste, do not touch, which all refer to things destined to perish with use in accordance with the commandments and teachings of men.

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These are matters which have to be sure the appearance of wisdom and self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body, but are no value against fleshly indulgence.

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Yeah.

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See, the laws can't change our heart.

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That's right.

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They can't change what we want to do.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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But God can.

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That's right.

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And sometimes we're so we're so set on what what you have to do, you know, like the rules and not not necessarily biblical rules, but our rules.

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Yeah.

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Don't do this.

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Don't wear this.

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Don't do.

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Don't be here.

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Don't go there.

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Don't, you know, all these things.

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And, of course, that's not that we don't live a godly life and a pure life before him.

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That's what we're supposed to do.

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But there's some things that don't make a hill of beans, right?

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I mean, they're just man-made rules that we try to enforce and make everybody follow that really, when it comes right down to it, it doesn't make a difference in eternity.

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And if it doesn't, then, hey, you know, Christ himself, I mean, Christ himself obeyed the Father, right?

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He said many times he came to do the will of the Father, not his own will.

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And what a, if I can find it again here, when he was in the garden and he said,

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he said, let this cup pass from me.

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You know, he said, but nevertheless, thy will be done.

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Right.

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And I'm paraphrasing there, but he wanted to do God's will.

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Right.

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He knew that, okay, all right, you know, if this is the only way to do this, if this is the only thing that we can do to save them, I'm willing to do this.

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And I think that's in the word of God, not because that Jesus was actually questioning God.

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He knew exactly what he had to do, where he had to go.

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But I think that that was for us to see, right?

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Like if there was another way besides obeying my father, besides submitting to my father, if there was any other way, then, okay, he would show it to us and we could do that.

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But this is it.

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This is the only way.

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Well, and that's the thing.

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Everything that Christ did showed us how we are to submit, how we are to obey, how we are to apply ourselves to what God has for us.

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And I think people just – we forget.

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We lose sight of that sometimes that here he was that entire thing in the garden.

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As you said, the whole point of that was to really show us the difference between just obeying and not actually submitting and doing both because he was being obedient.

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And there was that submission of I don't want to do this.

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I don't desire to do this.

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I don't have a desire to go out here and die and be killed and be tortured and be brutally treated more horribly than even the worst criminals were treated.

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Yeah.

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And yet he submitted, and yet he did it.

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And he kept submitting.

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He did.

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It wasn't just in the Garden of Gethsemane when he's struggling in prayer.

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Yeah.

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He submitted when the soldiers came to get him and said, don't you think I could call down 12 legions of angels?

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Yeah.

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Amen.

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And then he kept submitting while he was beaten, kept submitting while he's on the cross.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Amen.

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And that's hard.

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And he submitted from the very beginning, right?

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Yeah.

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When the father said, this is how we're going to have to do this, right?

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You're going to be born of a virgin and you're going to live a life of 33 years and then you're going to suffer and you're going to die and you're going to feel human emotions.

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But you're going to be without sin.

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And, you know, okay, dad.

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Okay, dad.

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I mean, it's the submission.

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to a father and that's what it is with us right to a good good father that we that we trust that

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he has our best interests and so i want to submit to that yeah yeah and that leads us to straight to

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obedience don't it does yeah it does yeah yeah yeah that was uh ah this went right out of my head i

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was no i was thinking about uh uh the the picture of this that we have here um is marriage right

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In Ephesians 5 and 6, it kind of lays it out.

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And this is where some women might get a little riled up about,

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but it says to submit to your husband for the wife.

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That's right.

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And it's submitting to a godly husband is the intention.

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That's right.

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Right.

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But the man has to submit also.

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Right.

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He has to submit to God.

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That's absolutely right.

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It doesn't work at all.

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No, it doesn't.

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Because ultimately, and this is what I always tell couples,

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especially when I'm doing pre-marriage counseling,

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to break down what it means to submit to a godly man.

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He submits to God.

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You submit to him.

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So ultimately, you are submitting to God.

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Not that he is God, but by following him,

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if he is the man that he needs to be,

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then you're also following God in turn.

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And that's what he's called us to do, right?

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Now, I think that in the marriage,

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There is equality in our marriages, of course.

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We make decisions together.

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The Bible says we become one.

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But the Bible also says that the man is the head of the household spiritually as God is our head, right, as the head of the church, as Christ is the head of the church and gave himself for it.

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So the love that we have is a sacrificial love.

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And so they're submitting to someone who would die for them, who would give their life for them, who would give up everything for them.

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That is the kind of man that a woman could submit to.

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And that's kind of a rare man these days, isn't it?

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Oh, gosh, yeah.

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Would sacrifice for his family.

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So many just leave.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Or just bail out.

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They stay, but they're checked out.

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Yeah, maybe.

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And video games or alcohol or drugs or whatever it may be, just checked out.

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You know, that submission applies, you know, in marriages, like we were saying earlier, to government officials.

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You're submitting to God when you submit to them.

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Within reason, right?

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We don't go in the face of God's laws.

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That's right.

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We have a line.

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Yes.

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But the same with your boss at work.

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You know, Tanner mentioned that last night, too.

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Yeah.

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We have to submit to these things.

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And, man, it's harder for men.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, it is.

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It really is.

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Because we feel like we won't be in charge.

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Yeah.

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You know, and if we're not in charge, then we're, we're not in charge.

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What's going to happen?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Well, and I feel like that's where we as Christians have dropped the ball a little bit, if that makes any sense.

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Because you have all of these people that have for years been talking about what the right way to have this relationship between a husband and wife and a man and a woman and how these relationships should work and what it should look like.

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And I mean, this has been going on, again, 40, 50, 60 years in the culture.

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And we've been having these discussions.

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And I feel like the church kind of dropped the ball there where we didn't go, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

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When we're talking about, and we didn't say it loud enough, I don't think, when people would be like, well, you're not supposed to just go in here and blindly obey your husband.

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Yeah, we don't expect that.

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We expect him to be a loving husband.

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We expect him to have this very specific set of things that he follows, and it's being like Christ.

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And when he's failing at that, that's our job as men of God to go to him and say, hey, son, you need to shape up.

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You've got to lead.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

00:27:35.840 --> 00:27:36.980
And that's on us.

00:27:37.100 --> 00:27:45.460
That's on us as Christian men to go when we see a brother failing at that and just have that conversation and say, look, I know you may be trying.

00:27:45.510 --> 00:27:47.380
You may be doing what you think is right here.

00:27:47.780 --> 00:27:50.200
However, here's the problem with what you're doing.

00:27:50.680 --> 00:27:52.380
And it's not coming down on each other.

00:27:52.540 --> 00:27:54.480
It's not being mean to each other.

00:27:54.600 --> 00:27:57.640
It's not being spiteful or trying to stir up trouble within the church.

00:27:57.860 --> 00:27:59.500
It's us holding each other accountable.

00:27:59.760 --> 00:27:59.820
Yeah.

00:28:00.180 --> 00:28:04.480
And I don't want to chase a rabbit too far down the road, but in saying that, you think about that.

00:28:04.740 --> 00:28:07.720
It is our job to go to another brother.

00:28:08.300 --> 00:28:08.500
Absolutely.

00:28:08.700 --> 00:28:11.720
And just like you said, but what if it's not a brother?

00:28:12.580 --> 00:28:15.500
What if it's a marriage where they're unequally yoked?

00:28:15.840 --> 00:28:17.500
And then there she is.

00:28:17.660 --> 00:28:20.120
And that's why the Bible warns against that, right?

00:28:20.320 --> 00:28:20.540
Absolutely.

00:28:20.710 --> 00:28:29.640
But then also the Bible tells us that if you're in a marriage that's unequally yoked, then do everything you can to stay in that marriage and to lead that person to him.

00:28:29.920 --> 00:28:38.620
Well, and that's where I feel like the ladies of the church have a responsibility for that other – let's say she is a sister – to go and have that conversation with her.

00:28:38.660 --> 00:28:42.800
And that's where our older ladies need to be stepping up for that discipleship for women.

00:28:43.060 --> 00:28:44.500
That's what it looks like.

00:28:44.500 --> 00:28:53.220
To help her to get to that point where she can accept it and go home and say, look, I'm not going to nag on you to come to church, but I'm going to love you to church.

00:28:54.220 --> 00:28:56.540
And then ultimately it's going to be up to him.

00:28:56.840 --> 00:28:58.020
It's a terrible thing.

00:28:58.120 --> 00:28:58.920
I've watched it happen.

00:29:00.139 --> 00:29:04.880
But sometimes, many times, the Lord does a great work in it, right?

00:29:05.520 --> 00:29:10.420
And that person ends up submitting to God because he sees his wife as submissive.

00:29:11.660 --> 00:29:17.640
And I'm not telling you as a wife to follow somebody who beats the mess out of you.

00:29:18.740 --> 00:29:20.660
I'm not talking about that type of relationship.

00:29:21.860 --> 00:29:26.240
That's a whole different ballgame, and there's a whole lot of counseling that needs to be done in and around that.

00:29:26.320 --> 00:29:34.360
And that, again, is where I think as Christians, we need to be very loud about saying, hey, look, that's where you're getting counselors involved.

00:29:34.660 --> 00:29:41.080
That's where you're – if it is bad enough that you're getting physically injured, you get law enforcement involved.

00:29:41.560 --> 00:29:42.780
We've got to put a stop to this.

00:29:42.790 --> 00:29:43.620
We have to deal with that.

00:29:43.760 --> 00:29:43.920
That's right.

00:29:43.990 --> 00:29:48.560
And, hey, if that's a brother in Christ, let the church know that this is happening.

00:29:49.380 --> 00:29:57.620
We will absolutely, if you don't think we wouldn't be picking up the phone and calling the police or if nothing, at the very least, pulling the guy off to the side and going, well, what was this about?

00:29:58.080 --> 00:29:59.500
What do you think you're doing?

00:29:59.960 --> 00:30:02.040
This is not how you live as a man of God.

00:30:02.240 --> 00:30:04.780
And you have a choice at this point.

00:30:04.900 --> 00:30:05.860
You're either going to counseling.

00:30:06.080 --> 00:30:07.520
You're going to get this dealt with.

00:30:08.120 --> 00:30:10.680
And we're going to get her somewhere safe for a little while.

00:30:11.100 --> 00:30:13.340
And your family is going to be safe from you while you get this counseling.

00:30:13.600 --> 00:30:15.620
Or we're just going straight down to the courthouse right now.

00:30:15.620 --> 00:30:18.380
And we'll just turn you into the police and we'll let them lock you up.

00:30:18.500 --> 00:30:20.160
You can just go away, take your pick.

00:30:20.450 --> 00:30:22.420
But you don't be putting your hands on your family like that.

00:30:22.720 --> 00:30:24.520
And we as Christians have not.

00:30:25.040 --> 00:30:29.620
And I'm not again, I'm not justifying the world's view of all this.

00:30:30.040 --> 00:30:34.900
But we have Christians have kind of dropped the ball there and not been really vocal about that and saying, no, no, no, no.

00:30:35.360 --> 00:30:42.580
We absolutely categorically will not stand for this because we don't we don't exercise church discipline anymore.

00:30:42.720 --> 00:30:46.580
Yeah, I mean, and and, you know, it needs to happen.

00:30:46.610 --> 00:30:47.880
It has to happen at times.

00:30:47.980 --> 00:30:49.500
It's not something we want to do.

00:30:49.600 --> 00:30:50.520
It's a balancing act.

00:30:50.600 --> 00:30:51.780
It is a balancing act.

00:30:51.920 --> 00:30:52.740
Yeah, you've got to be careful.

00:30:52.820 --> 00:30:53.660
You can't just go out.

00:30:53.800 --> 00:30:54.440
You're out.

00:30:54.600 --> 00:30:54.940
You're out.

00:30:55.060 --> 00:30:55.320
You're out.

00:30:56.120 --> 00:30:56.760
You're out.

00:30:58.880 --> 00:31:02.640
But I mean, there's a place and a level, and there's a way to do it, right?

00:31:02.800 --> 00:31:03.880
I mean, go to the brother.

00:31:04.300 --> 00:31:07.640
If the brother won't listen, bring him before some other people.

00:31:07.820 --> 00:31:11.000
And if he won't listen, then you bring him before the church.

00:31:11.400 --> 00:31:14.440
You know, that's the balancing act in it.

00:31:14.740 --> 00:31:19.880
But let's not – like I said, we're not out there jumping at every little nitpick thing.

00:31:19.960 --> 00:31:21.180
There wouldn't be none of us in church.

00:31:22.520 --> 00:31:24.440
I guess there are churches out there that do that, though.

00:31:24.560 --> 00:31:24.780
Yeah.

00:31:24.980 --> 00:31:25.340
Oh, yeah.

00:31:25.540 --> 00:31:25.640
Yeah.

00:31:25.920 --> 00:31:27.860
There's lamb bass people.

00:31:28.180 --> 00:31:30.720
I mean, every little thing.

00:31:31.540 --> 00:31:31.680
Yeah.

00:31:31.800 --> 00:31:37.140
Well, and that is one of the things that is commanded of the church is that we are to hold each other accountable.

00:31:37.260 --> 00:31:43.320
It's commanded to all Christians, and that goes along with being obedient and surrendering and being submissive.

00:31:44.020 --> 00:31:45.580
I mean, God tells us to hold each other accountable.

00:31:45.700 --> 00:31:47.060
He didn't just say that for no reason.

00:31:47.340 --> 00:31:49.560
He expects us to hold each other accountable.

00:31:49.640 --> 00:31:49.940
That's right.

00:31:50.040 --> 00:31:57.000
And to make wise decisions in those times and places that we have to do those things, that's why you got more than one person in charge, too.

00:31:57.200 --> 00:32:00.760
I mean, you want to put a group of men together that will, okay, wait a minute.

00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:01.560
Let's talk about this.

00:32:01.720 --> 00:32:02.580
Let's back up a minute.

00:32:02.680 --> 00:32:04.500
Maybe this is not what we need to do.

00:32:04.600 --> 00:32:09.500
Maybe we haven't took the proper steps, you know, and go through the right steps and do the right thing.

00:32:09.640 --> 00:32:11.000
More people can see it from more angles.

00:32:11.100 --> 00:32:11.520
That's it.

00:32:11.800 --> 00:32:11.920
Yeah.

00:32:12.200 --> 00:32:12.300
Yeah.

00:32:12.740 --> 00:32:15.180
Sometimes you can get too personally involved in it.

00:32:15.260 --> 00:32:16.880
And you're like, you know, you got to be careful.

00:32:17.050 --> 00:32:17.600
You got to be careful.

00:32:17.880 --> 00:32:18.720
And I really do.

00:32:19.400 --> 00:32:19.540
Yeah.

00:32:19.550 --> 00:32:26.040
You know, Paul, Paul laid something out in first Corinthians chapter seven, where he talked about the unbelieving spouse and the believing spouse.

00:32:26.260 --> 00:32:26.320
Yeah.

00:32:26.620 --> 00:32:34.080
And he said, he said, if you're if you have a woman has an unbelieving husband and he consents to live with her, she must not send her husband away.

00:32:34.260 --> 00:32:35.120
And same for the man.

00:32:35.320 --> 00:32:35.380
Right.

00:32:35.820 --> 00:32:40.780
But he goes on to say, but if the unbelieving one leaves, let him leave.

00:32:41.200 --> 00:32:41.280
Yeah.

00:32:41.400 --> 00:32:43.940
brother or sister is not under bondage, but God has called us to peace.

00:32:44.180 --> 00:32:44.420
That's right.

00:32:44.740 --> 00:32:45.580
So there's a point.

00:32:46.120 --> 00:32:46.240
Yeah.

00:32:46.460 --> 00:32:46.580
Right.

00:32:46.820 --> 00:32:49.740
If they want to leave, you don't just hold them down.

00:32:49.920 --> 00:32:50.240
That's right.

00:32:50.620 --> 00:32:51.000
That's right.

00:32:51.300 --> 00:32:52.400
And that's sad.

00:32:52.520 --> 00:32:53.200
It is sad.

00:32:53.280 --> 00:32:54.460
You continue to pray for them.

00:32:54.580 --> 00:32:59.540
But like I said, there's a lot of ladies and gentlemen, too, in that situation.

00:33:00.220 --> 00:33:00.360
Yeah.

00:33:02.280 --> 00:33:06.840
But, you know, and this whole obedience thing is perspective, too.

00:33:07.140 --> 00:33:07.240
Right.

00:33:07.520 --> 00:33:11.140
I mean, it's our perspective versus God's perspective.

00:33:11.360 --> 00:33:14.900
And I thought about Proverbs 3 is one of my favorite verses.

00:33:15.080 --> 00:33:19.800
But I had a, I remember when I was a kid, we got this, had this little hill.

00:33:20.880 --> 00:33:25.480
This little dad had laid a bunch of rock on the side of this hill and it was really steep.

00:33:26.720 --> 00:33:29.300
And it came down and hit like a patio thing down there.

00:33:29.860 --> 00:33:36.500
And so me and my buddy, we would get on our bicycles, you know, and we'd hit that hill.

00:33:36.620 --> 00:33:39.440
And then we made us a little ramp and then we'd jump that ramp, you know.

00:33:39.500 --> 00:33:43.420
And then and and dad's like, it's probably not a good idea.

00:33:43.600 --> 00:33:45.140
You know, he had a better perspective.

00:33:45.760 --> 00:33:46.060
Yeah.

00:33:46.200 --> 00:33:49.200
What was probably going to happen if I done that.

00:33:49.360 --> 00:33:50.420
But I went ahead and done it.

00:33:50.420 --> 00:33:51.600
And my buddy went ahead and done it.

00:33:51.600 --> 00:33:53.440
My buddy landed on the handlebars one day.

00:33:53.450 --> 00:33:59.780
I think I ended up on my back one day, you know, but but but but God sees things differently than we do.

00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:00.180
Right.

00:34:00.280 --> 00:34:08.020
And in Proverbs three, five and six, it says, trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding.

00:34:08.340 --> 00:34:15.760
all your ways acknowledge him and he will direct your past and so it's what what we see as lord

00:34:16.100 --> 00:34:21.860
you want me to be obedient in this right maybe it's a time in our life maybe it's a place that

00:34:22.240 --> 00:34:27.379
that we're transitioning that god's calling us to something here something different uh something

00:34:27.429 --> 00:34:34.399
we're struggling with praying about and and maybe maybe god says it's time to go or maybe god says

00:34:34.419 --> 00:34:36.280
It's time to stay, and we're wanting to go.

00:34:36.840 --> 00:34:40.000
So there's a lot of perspective involved in obedience,

00:34:40.280 --> 00:34:43.639
but we need to find out what is God's perspective on this.

00:34:43.720 --> 00:34:45.740
Where does he want me, and what does he want me to do

00:34:46.159 --> 00:34:48.600
so that I can be obedient to him,

00:34:48.820 --> 00:34:50.520
or that I can be submissive to his will?

00:34:50.600 --> 00:34:51.960
You're reading my mind or what?

00:34:54.280 --> 00:34:54.379
Yeah.

00:34:54.780 --> 00:34:55.500
No, it's true.

00:34:56.000 --> 00:34:59.900
And if we're not submitting to him, we can't hear him.

00:35:00.080 --> 00:35:00.980
Yeah, that's right.

00:35:01.380 --> 00:35:03.159
And we've got to find a way to get quiet

00:35:03.180 --> 00:35:05.420
Because, well, I got this – oh, I do.

00:35:05.680 --> 00:35:06.240
Maybe I'm crazy.

00:35:06.330 --> 00:35:06.660
I don't know.

00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:09.140
But I got this constant noise going on in my head.

00:35:09.240 --> 00:35:13.460
And it's just I'm thinking, I'm singing, you know, all kinds of junk going on in my head.

00:35:13.560 --> 00:35:15.380
And I don't ever quiet down enough to hear him.

00:35:16.540 --> 00:35:18.000
And we got to find time to do that.

00:35:18.080 --> 00:35:18.280
Amen.

00:35:18.820 --> 00:35:19.160
Amen.

00:35:19.240 --> 00:35:19.560
We do.

00:35:19.820 --> 00:35:19.980
We do.

00:35:20.200 --> 00:35:21.320
Well, I know that's how I am.

00:35:21.370 --> 00:35:24.140
You know, I get involved with – I've got work stuff.

00:35:24.550 --> 00:35:29.260
And that's, you know, the minute I'm not focused on something else, I'm thinking about something at work.

00:35:29.380 --> 00:35:37.120
I'm thinking about something at the kids, the school, doctor's appointments, things that need to be done, get them over to places they need to go and getting this done and that done.

00:35:37.120 --> 00:35:39.740
And then, oh, we got stuff going on at church and I got this and I got that.

00:35:40.140 --> 00:35:43.780
And there's constantly just something in there nagging at your attention.

00:35:44.160 --> 00:35:44.300
Yeah.

00:35:44.820 --> 00:35:44.920
Yeah.

00:35:45.820 --> 00:35:47.980
That's like Brother Dale said at Scott's ordination.

00:35:48.120 --> 00:35:50.780
He said, if you don't know what to do, don't do anything.

00:35:51.120 --> 00:35:51.900
Yeah, that's right.

00:35:52.120 --> 00:35:52.540
Be still.

00:35:52.720 --> 00:35:53.020
Be still.

00:35:53.360 --> 00:35:53.420
Wait.

00:35:53.720 --> 00:35:55.600
Well, and that was exactly what I was about to say.

00:35:55.940 --> 00:35:59.740
And God tells us to be still and know that I am God.

00:36:00.040 --> 00:36:02.460
That command is there for a purpose.

00:36:02.640 --> 00:36:05.560
I mean, God doesn't just say, you know, and I know it's not one of the commandments.

00:36:05.860 --> 00:36:09.240
It's not, you know, but God doesn't just tell us stuff to just tell us.

00:36:09.799 --> 00:36:13.360
He's not just like, oh, I'm just throwing this out there as a suggestion.

00:36:13.560 --> 00:36:15.920
You know, if you get a chance, just be still and know that I'm God.

00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:17.380
It's no, do it.

00:36:17.600 --> 00:36:19.480
Yeah, that's exactly right.

00:36:19.620 --> 00:36:20.620
And it's easier said than done.

00:36:20.860 --> 00:36:23.380
Well, he commands us to do a lot of things that we look over.

00:36:23.740 --> 00:36:28.460
We don't put in that category of his commandments.

00:36:28.800 --> 00:36:35.380
But when God makes a statement and it's not a question, he's telling us this is what you need to do.

00:36:35.520 --> 00:36:40.220
Yeah, and I'm finding lately in my life, too, I've been kind of really pursuing this hearing God thing.

00:36:41.060 --> 00:36:44.140
And I've found lately that most times when God's telling me,

00:36:44.300 --> 00:36:48.140
Doc, if a thought pops in my head and it's out of the Bible, a direct scripture quote, that's him.

00:36:48.440 --> 00:36:48.560
Yeah.

00:36:48.840 --> 00:36:48.940
Right.

00:36:49.220 --> 00:36:56.740
But most times when it's not biblical stuff, just other stuff and life stuff, that most times he speaks to my heart instead of my head.

00:36:56.940 --> 00:36:57.120
Yeah.

00:36:57.400 --> 00:36:59.880
That I'll feel something in here instead of hearing it here.

00:37:00.180 --> 00:37:00.340
Right.

00:37:00.620 --> 00:37:00.720
Right.

00:37:00.960 --> 00:37:01.180
Amen.

00:37:01.820 --> 00:37:03.340
And I'm going to see how that goes.

00:37:05.740 --> 00:37:06.840
So far, I haven't killed anybody.

00:37:10.360 --> 00:37:18.480
Well, you know, and that's right back to what he was preaching about Saturday.

00:37:19.180 --> 00:37:23.280
telling us that you've got to be listening for these things,

00:37:23.330 --> 00:37:25.560
and you've got to be following that direction of God,

00:37:26.980 --> 00:37:29.200
whether you're a church leader, whether you're a church member.

00:37:30.880 --> 00:37:34.260
And I think Sunday was when you had made the statement of,

00:37:34.320 --> 00:37:38.240
I'm not going to ask how many people have heard audibly the voice of God,

00:37:38.400 --> 00:37:40.960
because we might have a different conversation that we need to have.

00:37:42.499 --> 00:37:43.520
But it is.

00:37:43.600 --> 00:37:46.680
It's just that smallness.

00:37:47.440 --> 00:37:49.680
Yeah, that still, small voice, that peace.

00:37:49.920 --> 00:37:50.400
And that's funny.

00:37:50.740 --> 00:37:54.520
And Elijah, that example of him, God spoke to him.

00:37:54.660 --> 00:37:55.320
What was it?

00:37:55.780 --> 00:38:01.540
An earthquake, and there was a tornado, and fire, and still small voice.

00:38:01.580 --> 00:38:04.360
Still small voice is what he heard the loudest.

00:38:04.620 --> 00:38:04.780
Yeah.

00:38:06.100 --> 00:38:06.340
Yeah.

00:38:07.240 --> 00:38:08.880
Yeah, he can speak to us any way he wants to.

00:38:09.240 --> 00:38:09.800
And he does.

00:38:09.840 --> 00:38:11.040
He speaks to us through circumstances.

00:38:11.500 --> 00:38:17.500
He speaks to us through Christian friends, through your pastor, through just a lot of different ways.

00:38:18.010 --> 00:38:20.440
But to get that personal thing, man, submit.

00:38:20.900 --> 00:38:21.120
Yeah.

00:38:21.610 --> 00:38:21.740
Amen.

00:38:22.040 --> 00:38:22.460
Submit.

00:38:22.740 --> 00:38:23.000
Amen.

00:38:24.660 --> 00:38:25.640
Romans 12.

00:38:30.220 --> 00:38:31.920
Looking in verse 1 there, it says,

00:38:32.010 --> 00:38:38.500
And I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies as a living sacrifice.

00:38:39.160 --> 00:38:43.180
Now, if you're going to be a sacrifice, a living sacrifice, then you've got to be submissive, right?

00:38:43.400 --> 00:38:43.900
Died yourself.

00:38:44.080 --> 00:38:44.880
You've got to die to yourself.

00:38:48.420 --> 00:38:53.380
Holy, acceptable unto God, which is your – and this is the part that gets me right here.

00:38:53.740 --> 00:38:59.520
So he uses words like sacrifice, holy, and acceptable unto God.

00:38:59.880 --> 00:39:02.780
And then he tells us that it's our reasonable service.

00:39:03.380 --> 00:39:03.620
Yeah.

00:39:03.900 --> 00:39:05.120
This is reasonable, right?

00:39:05.400 --> 00:39:08.580
This is not something that's – so when you're following the voice of God,

00:39:08.700 --> 00:39:11.380
when you're listening to the voice of God, when you're hearing the voice of God,

00:39:11.860 --> 00:39:16.060
and you decide, okay, I'm going to be obedient to that, I'm going to submit to that,

00:39:17.440 --> 00:39:22.000
then it's not something that's really that crazy or outlandish, right?

00:39:22.080 --> 00:39:22.520
It's not.

00:39:22.560 --> 00:39:27.500
I mean, if God calls you to China, if God calls you to the Middle East somewhere,

00:39:27.880 --> 00:39:32.760
to us, it may seem like, well, I mean, you know, my life on the line.

00:39:33.320 --> 00:39:38.720
But Paul is saying here in Romans that it's reasonable that we do this.

00:39:39.120 --> 00:39:40.540
This is a reasonable thing.

00:39:41.840 --> 00:39:53.420
And when you really put it in perspective, what is not reasonable for the Savior who died for our sins, who gave it all up, who decided to lose his life so that we could gain ours?

00:39:54.000 --> 00:39:57.760
And I mean, nothing that he could ask me to do would be unreasonable.

00:39:57.900 --> 00:39:59.260
And he didn't die to make us comfortable.

00:39:59.460 --> 00:40:00.980
No, no, he didn't.

00:40:01.140 --> 00:40:02.700
He died to get us out of our comfort.

00:40:02.900 --> 00:40:11.280
Yeah, what we think we should do, what our perspective is, and to join or to line up with his.

00:40:11.960 --> 00:40:19.700
Because when God tells us, you know, hey, if you'll pray this prayer or if you'll ask anything in my name, I'll do it, right?

00:40:20.440 --> 00:40:22.180
It doesn't – we've talked about this before.

00:40:22.380 --> 00:40:26.900
It's not talking about, you know, money and things and whatever you want.

00:40:27.080 --> 00:40:28.460
You know, he's not a genie in a bottle.

00:40:28.520 --> 00:40:43.480
He's saying, when you line up with my will, what is good and acceptable and right before me, when you line up with that and you submit to it and you obey my voice, then this is it, right?

00:40:43.700 --> 00:40:44.940
This is good.

00:40:45.100 --> 00:40:45.920
This is acceptable.

00:40:46.120 --> 00:40:49.240
This is reasonable for me to ask you to do this.

00:40:49.740 --> 00:40:49.920
Yeah.

00:40:50.180 --> 00:40:51.260
That's, yeah.

00:40:51.640 --> 00:40:52.840
Holy sacrifice, man.

00:40:54.760 --> 00:40:56.900
That's an ugly word to choose, isn't it?

00:40:57.140 --> 00:40:57.260
Yeah.

00:40:57.580 --> 00:40:59.520
If you think of a sacrifice, you just think of blood.

00:41:00.079 --> 00:41:00.400
Burnt.

00:41:00.600 --> 00:41:00.840
Blood.

00:41:01.800 --> 00:41:02.020
Yeah.

00:41:02.359 --> 00:41:02.680
Yeah.

00:41:02.960 --> 00:41:05.180
And I don't know if he's going that far with it.

00:41:05.619 --> 00:41:08.320
But that is what we're called to be is dead to ourselves.

00:41:08.560 --> 00:41:10.180
And that's an everyday struggle.

00:41:10.500 --> 00:41:10.880
That's right.

00:41:11.500 --> 00:41:13.100
And it's just, man, I want what I want.

00:41:13.520 --> 00:41:13.840
Yes.

00:41:13.980 --> 00:41:14.540
I want it now.

00:41:14.740 --> 00:41:15.420
Of course we do.

00:41:15.940 --> 00:41:16.120
Yeah.

00:41:16.840 --> 00:41:16.940
Yeah.

00:41:17.260 --> 00:41:17.880
Of course we do.

00:41:18.120 --> 00:41:20.640
But to submit, we got to do those things, right?

00:41:21.040 --> 00:41:23.840
Jesus said, if you want to follow me, take up your cross, right?

00:41:24.200 --> 00:41:24.260
Yeah.

00:41:24.380 --> 00:41:25.300
Take up your cross and follow me.

00:41:25.340 --> 00:41:27.120
Whoever wishes to save his life will lose it.

00:41:27.240 --> 00:41:29.120
Whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

00:41:29.200 --> 00:41:29.340
Yeah.

00:41:29.760 --> 00:41:29.860
Yeah.

00:41:30.160 --> 00:41:36.600
And that's where the rubber meets the road because that's where most everybody says,

00:41:37.960 --> 00:41:39.800
I've got to go bury my dad who's not dead yet.

00:41:39.900 --> 00:41:40.000
Yeah.

00:41:40.320 --> 00:41:44.220
You know, I've got to go take care of the family business.

00:41:44.500 --> 00:41:48.960
I've got to go do this thing or that thing or whatever it is.

00:41:49.600 --> 00:41:52.820
And then, Lord, then, Lord, I'll follow you.

00:41:53.080 --> 00:41:54.800
And that's what he told me.

00:41:54.980 --> 00:42:00.260
He said, the foxes have holes, and the birds have nests, but the Son of Man hath no place to lay his head.

00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:03.460
Knocks the prosperity gospel right in the head, doesn't it?

00:42:03.580 --> 00:42:04.620
I mean, it really does.

00:42:04.770 --> 00:42:10.160
When you look at the life that Jesus lived, and I mean, you know, Joel, you got it wrong, buddy.

00:42:10.440 --> 00:42:12.360
Yeah, Jesse Duplantis.

00:42:12.520 --> 00:42:13.020
Yeah, yeah.

00:42:13.110 --> 00:42:13.680
He has a quack.

00:42:13.800 --> 00:42:14.320
Yeah, yeah.

00:42:14.730 --> 00:42:18.940
I don't know if we don't get sued over that, but the dude's talking about how Jesus lived.

00:42:20.199 --> 00:42:24.600
Yeah, talking about how many houses he's got, and bribe and plane, and all this stuff, and how God's blessed him.

00:42:24.700 --> 00:42:29.360
And if Jesus was alive today, he'd be driving a Cadillac and have a Learjet.

00:42:29.700 --> 00:42:29.900
Uh-huh.

00:42:30.260 --> 00:42:30.380
Uh-huh.

00:42:30.700 --> 00:42:30.920
No.

00:42:31.160 --> 00:42:31.440
No.

00:42:31.880 --> 00:42:32.400
No, he wouldn't.

00:42:32.460 --> 00:42:34.500
No, that's not the way that he lived.

00:42:34.560 --> 00:42:34.760
No.

00:42:35.220 --> 00:42:35.320
No.

00:42:35.480 --> 00:42:40.160
I mean, if that was the truth, then he would have lived that same way in that time, right?

00:42:40.260 --> 00:42:40.480
Right.

00:42:40.480 --> 00:42:41.860
What would be comparable in that time?

00:42:42.160 --> 00:42:43.280
He would have lived in a palace.

00:42:43.420 --> 00:42:44.940
He would have had the best clothes.

00:42:45.100 --> 00:42:45.860
He would have had servants.

00:42:46.520 --> 00:42:53.300
And instead of having servants, he taught the people that were around him to learn how to serve, to learn how to submit.

00:42:53.720 --> 00:42:53.860
Watch.

00:42:54.500 --> 00:42:56.020
Jesus said, watch me submit.

00:42:56.500 --> 00:42:56.580
Right.

00:42:56.760 --> 00:42:57.500
Watch me obey.

00:42:58.160 --> 00:42:59.820
And you do what I do and you'll be okay.

00:43:00.170 --> 00:43:00.300
Yeah.

00:43:00.420 --> 00:43:01.600
This is how you do this.

00:43:01.740 --> 00:43:01.800
Yeah.

00:43:01.890 --> 00:43:03.800
I mean, he wouldn't have been born in Bethlehem.

00:43:04.300 --> 00:43:04.360
No.

00:43:04.580 --> 00:43:05.640
Not loud in a stable.

00:43:05.860 --> 00:43:06.040
No.

00:43:06.360 --> 00:43:06.480
Right.

00:43:06.560 --> 00:43:08.160
He'd had more of the life of Moses.

00:43:08.460 --> 00:43:08.600
Yeah.

00:43:08.840 --> 00:43:08.940
Yeah.

00:43:09.040 --> 00:43:09.680
Oh, yeah.

00:43:09.860 --> 00:43:10.300
I've been born.

00:43:10.440 --> 00:43:10.600
Yeah.

00:43:10.640 --> 00:43:11.920
I've been born in Rome somewhere.

00:43:12.220 --> 00:43:12.300
Yeah.

00:43:12.580 --> 00:43:12.980
Yeah.

00:43:13.280 --> 00:43:13.480
Yeah.

00:43:13.900 --> 00:43:14.260
Absolutely.

00:43:14.700 --> 00:43:16.780
But I don't understand how people get there.

00:43:16.860 --> 00:43:20.060
You know, they read all these blessings, these promises to Israel in the Old Testament and

00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:24.260
land of milk and honey and all this stuff.

00:43:24.840 --> 00:43:27.680
and apply it to themselves like that's the end goal.

00:43:27.960 --> 00:43:28.640
Yeah, yeah.

00:43:28.920 --> 00:43:29.700
It's the end goal.

00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:32.160
And Jesus told a parable that hits them too.

00:43:32.480 --> 00:43:37.040
It talks about a farmer who laid up for himself just huge amounts in his storehouse

00:43:37.480 --> 00:43:39.460
and said, I'm going to spend the rest of my life kicked back.

00:43:39.620 --> 00:43:39.800
Yeah.

00:43:40.100 --> 00:43:40.180
Right?

00:43:40.440 --> 00:43:41.180
He said, you fool.

00:43:41.320 --> 00:43:42.960
Your life's demanded of you this night.

00:43:43.040 --> 00:43:44.980
Yeah, you're not going to get to enjoy any of this.

00:43:45.420 --> 00:43:45.620
Yeah.

00:43:45.800 --> 00:43:46.940
Somebody else is going to get it.

00:43:46.980 --> 00:43:50.480
And in one aspect, it is the end goal, but it's not the end goal here.

00:43:51.080 --> 00:43:54.280
He's got something prepared for us that's much greater than that.

00:43:54.300 --> 00:43:56.540
anything that we could be offered here.

00:43:56.720 --> 00:43:57.060
We're here.

00:43:57.460 --> 00:43:58.000
Yeah, yeah.

00:43:58.210 --> 00:44:01.340
I mean, so, you know, Jesse, Joel, y'all got what you've got.

00:44:01.950 --> 00:44:02.640
I mean, you know.

00:44:03.160 --> 00:44:04.300
Yeah, Lazarus, right?

00:44:04.300 --> 00:44:05.140
I mean, that's it.

00:44:05.340 --> 00:44:05.880
That's it, yeah.

00:44:06.060 --> 00:44:07.220
They're nice life here.

00:44:07.600 --> 00:44:08.460
The rich man.

00:44:08.590 --> 00:44:09.100
The rich man.

00:44:09.180 --> 00:44:09.600
Yeah.

00:44:09.840 --> 00:44:10.080
Bad.

00:44:10.460 --> 00:44:11.260
Yeah, that's it.

00:44:11.500 --> 00:44:11.840
That's it.

00:44:11.960 --> 00:44:13.480
Now the roles are reversed.

00:44:13.640 --> 00:44:16.640
And now I'm hoping I don't lose everything because we're talking about this.

00:44:19.500 --> 00:44:20.700
Because I'm comfortable, man.

00:44:20.920 --> 00:44:21.060
Yeah.

00:44:21.720 --> 00:44:27.680
comfortable in my home and my house where i'm at and or you know god call you out right when you

00:44:27.820 --> 00:44:31.960
start talking about this stuff god start saying okay let's you talked a really good game now let's

00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:37.980
see what you'll do with it yeah okay job and satan kind of thing going on yeah yeah yeah yeah not

00:44:38.280 --> 00:44:43.580
asking for that probably but you know but it's just like when we started and we talked about this

00:44:43.670 --> 00:44:49.380
in there before too but we uh uh when we i had i done a study on wednesday night on on spiritual

00:44:49.400 --> 00:44:55.440
warfare and by the time we got about three weeks into it everybody was like please stop let's go

00:44:55.440 --> 00:45:01.740
let's don't do this anymore you know because i mean satan will attack and he does yeah let's talk

00:45:01.740 --> 00:45:09.160
about blessings man yeah but we are blessed i mean even if we got nothing look where job was got

00:45:09.380 --> 00:45:14.220
nothing didn't have his health didn't have anything left right that's right and dude was still blessed

00:45:14.250 --> 00:45:19.360
he was he was god came and talked to him personally god blessed him in the end he assured him he was

00:45:19.380 --> 00:45:23.920
And the Bible tells us we've been blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms.

00:45:24.140 --> 00:45:24.360
That's right.

00:45:24.740 --> 00:45:24.860
Amen.

00:45:25.680 --> 00:45:25.920
Amen.

00:45:26.820 --> 00:45:27.000
Amen.

00:45:27.180 --> 00:45:30.920
He said he will set us in heavenly places.

00:45:31.220 --> 00:45:37.880
I mean, you know, that's I think I think at this point it's it's our it's our thought process.

00:45:38.320 --> 00:45:39.780
It's our which where our hearts at.

00:45:39.960 --> 00:45:41.280
Yeah, that's what he's talking about.

00:45:41.460 --> 00:45:42.040
There's spiritual.

00:45:42.300 --> 00:45:43.620
You know, it's a spiritual thing.

00:45:43.720 --> 00:45:49.640
And he says, I'm going to let you enjoy some heavenly things while you're here on earth.

00:45:50.440 --> 00:45:55.040
And we feel those things when we're obedient to him, when we submit to him.

00:45:55.240 --> 00:46:00.140
I mean, you're not going to feel that and know what that's like outside obedience.

00:46:00.460 --> 00:46:05.880
And I don't want to talk too much about feelings, but I mean, it is those good church services that you have.

00:46:05.880 --> 00:46:07.820
And those times that you, it is real.

00:46:07.880 --> 00:46:09.460
It's not just a feeling.

00:46:09.640 --> 00:46:11.720
It's a stirring of the Holy Spirit of God.

00:46:11.800 --> 00:46:21.040
Now, there's some things that are mustered up and, you know, people try to drum up some type of emotion in you or something.

00:46:21.280 --> 00:46:24.560
But we know when the Holy Spirit is real, it's real.

00:46:24.780 --> 00:46:25.300
Yeah, yeah.

00:46:25.630 --> 00:46:25.720
Amen.

00:46:26.020 --> 00:46:26.400
Amen.

00:46:26.530 --> 00:46:34.380
And, man, I felt that Sunday afternoon, you know, I go down to the assisted living home and play some songs and give a devotion and stuff.

00:46:35.000 --> 00:46:36.360
And I was playing some songs down there.

00:46:36.370 --> 00:46:38.880
And I don't know if I was just kind of feeling flat when I went in there or whatever.

00:46:39.480 --> 00:46:41.300
But all of a sudden, my arm hair starts standing up.

00:46:41.360 --> 00:46:47.180
yeah i'll start singing louder amen you know you feel that stuff you feel the presence of god you

00:46:47.180 --> 00:46:51.880
do yeah and man that's awesome that's a sneak peek of heaven and it really is it really is

00:46:52.060 --> 00:46:57.180
feel that joy that love the peace and it's just like nothing can touch you at that moment in that

00:46:57.280 --> 00:47:03.760
time yeah yeah you know i think that's what it in and so you feel those things even in it even in

00:47:03.780 --> 00:47:10.680
the worst times too and sometimes in the worst times you feel them even uh more right yeah when

00:47:10.840 --> 00:47:16.260
i think about these missionaries that are obedient to the point of death uh that that they lay down

00:47:16.270 --> 00:47:23.960
their lives for uh for the cause of christ uh you know and and you you hear you read in uh uh this

00:47:24.090 --> 00:47:29.740
uh the martyrs i can't remember what the the life of the martyr i think is what it is um it gives

00:47:29.760 --> 00:47:35.100
little clips and things about all the voice of the martyrs voice of the martyrs yes uh you know

00:47:35.100 --> 00:47:39.520
you hear you have all these stories all the time these these people are dying for their faith and

00:47:39.560 --> 00:47:44.140
they're and they're singing right i mean they're getting their their heads sawed off and they're

00:47:44.300 --> 00:47:50.500
singing and yeah and of course it just makes the enemy even more angry you know but but god does

00:47:50.720 --> 00:47:56.800
something in that moment in time he he did it we have an example with stephen yeah when stephen

00:47:56.800 --> 00:48:02.580
with stone i mean he was looking up and he was seeing the glory of god and he was going wow this

00:48:02.960 --> 00:48:07.320
is or you know am i getting hit with a rock i don't feel anything right now you know what's going on

00:48:07.520 --> 00:48:13.160
yeah it will be marshmallows yeah yeah i mean he was god god took him to a place and put him in a

00:48:13.360 --> 00:48:19.420
place of of man just i'm gonna bless you in this moment i'm gonna i'm gonna bring peace to you in

00:48:19.500 --> 00:48:24.460
this moment i'm gonna bring hope to you in this moment and i'm assuring you that what you're doing

00:48:24.480 --> 00:48:28.060
and the life that you're living is all going to be worth it.

00:48:28.180 --> 00:48:29.360
It's all going to be worth it.

00:48:29.380 --> 00:48:33.640
Yeah, and he glorified God in that moment, too, and made a witness to some evil men.

00:48:33.760 --> 00:48:34.260
Boy, he did.

00:48:34.410 --> 00:48:36.580
One of them did a 180, didn't he?

00:48:36.600 --> 00:48:38.300
One of them had to change his name, right?

00:48:38.520 --> 00:48:38.700
Yeah.

00:48:39.160 --> 00:48:39.760
Yeah, he did.

00:48:40.240 --> 00:48:40.520
He did.

00:48:40.780 --> 00:48:43.480
He was holding their coats while they stoned him to death.

00:48:43.780 --> 00:48:47.780
And I'll forever say that that was probably a huge –

00:48:48.000 --> 00:48:53.540
I know that the biggest turning point, of course, was meeting Christ on that journey,

00:48:53.720 --> 00:49:00.440
on that road in Damascus, but he had to have started something in Paul's heart

00:49:01.080 --> 00:49:04.560
when he watched them stone Stephen, and he saw how Stephen,

00:49:05.400 --> 00:49:10.560
with just great spirituality, handled that and was rolled over.

00:49:10.570 --> 00:49:11.200
He was looking.

00:49:11.280 --> 00:49:13.440
He's like, what's he looking at?

00:49:13.610 --> 00:49:15.840
You know, what's he saying that I don't see?

00:49:16.480 --> 00:49:19.680
And then Jesus said, I'll show you what he sees that you don't see.

00:49:20.100 --> 00:49:21.040
I'll show you myself.

00:49:21.250 --> 00:49:23.540
So he got a picture of it.

00:49:23.680 --> 00:49:26.040
You know, and I, you know, I don't know that they listed.

00:49:26.420 --> 00:49:28.440
I'm not I'm not adding anything to the Bible.

00:49:28.600 --> 00:49:29.400
So please don't say that.

00:49:29.880 --> 00:49:39.020
But, you know, I mean, I don't know that they could have listed the whole conversation that he and God had, you know, but and but I'm sure that that that Paul was like, whoa, this is what Stephen's saying.

00:49:39.300 --> 00:49:46.360
This is a little bit of what he felt, you know, and then Paul later on was actually stoned himself.

00:49:46.940 --> 00:49:47.000
Yeah.

00:49:47.180 --> 00:49:47.500
Yeah.

00:49:47.820 --> 00:49:48.300
Left for dead.

00:49:48.500 --> 00:49:53.180
And people wonder, too, maybe that's the point where he was taken to the third heaven and shown a lot.

00:49:53.240 --> 00:49:53.440
Yeah.

00:49:53.520 --> 00:49:53.700
That's right.

00:49:53.940 --> 00:49:54.080
Yeah.

00:49:54.340 --> 00:49:55.260
He may have been dead.

00:49:55.280 --> 00:49:56.080
He may have been dead.

00:49:56.220 --> 00:49:57.740
A lot of scholars think that he was.

00:49:57.940 --> 00:49:58.080
Yeah.

00:49:58.320 --> 00:49:58.400
Yeah.

00:49:58.560 --> 00:49:58.660
Yeah.

00:49:58.820 --> 00:50:03.680
But that Paul guy, man, he's really interesting because you think about him holding the coats at Stephen.

00:50:04.140 --> 00:50:06.080
This is not far after the death of Christ.

00:50:06.620 --> 00:50:06.720
Right.

00:50:06.800 --> 00:50:07.640
So he knew Jesus.

00:50:07.760 --> 00:50:10.780
He probably heard Jesus's sermons and he probably hated him.

00:50:10.960 --> 00:50:11.300
Oh, yeah.

00:50:11.520 --> 00:50:13.400
Just was so against him.

00:50:13.640 --> 00:50:15.140
It was blasphemy to him.

00:50:15.340 --> 00:50:15.480
Yeah.

00:50:15.660 --> 00:50:15.840
Yeah.

00:50:16.280 --> 00:50:16.340
Yeah.

00:50:16.680 --> 00:50:17.400
Just man.

00:50:18.760 --> 00:50:21.180
But he was just his own fire for Jesus as he was.

00:50:21.280 --> 00:50:21.840
He sure was.

00:50:22.240 --> 00:50:22.800
He sure was.

00:50:22.880 --> 00:50:32.720
He took somebody in their character and who they were because he had ingrained that in Paul, not to do bad, but to do good.

00:50:33.320 --> 00:50:35.500
And it's the same way today, right?

00:50:35.980 --> 00:50:42.600
That's why we need to raise our children to be obedient, to raise our children to be submissive to authority, to what is right.

00:50:43.300 --> 00:50:49.020
And then when they grow up, sometimes I think we try to beat their personalities out of them a little bit.

00:50:49.460 --> 00:50:56.660
But we've got to learn how to wreck that personality because it was Paul's personality,

00:50:56.710 --> 00:51:03.600
the same personality he had that he was so against Christ saying that he was God

00:51:04.740 --> 00:51:10.820
that when the switch was flipped, then he was like, hey, this is God.

00:51:11.020 --> 00:51:12.860
This is the Son of God.

00:51:12.890 --> 00:51:14.100
This is God in human flesh.

00:51:14.340 --> 00:51:19.720
He was a virgin, died on a cross, rose again, ascended into heaven, come back.

00:51:19.920 --> 00:51:23.100
And, you know, and he's coming back to get us one day.

00:51:23.200 --> 00:51:27.820
And so Paul was so excited about that because that was the personality they had.

00:51:28.260 --> 00:51:36.200
And so I think that we can teach our children to be both submissive and obedient, but also not beat their personalities out of it.

00:51:36.440 --> 00:51:40.780
God was ingrained and placed in drug it out of them.

00:51:40.880 --> 00:51:40.960
Yeah.

00:51:41.240 --> 00:51:41.500
Oh, yeah.

00:51:41.780 --> 00:51:41.980
Yeah.

00:51:41.980 --> 00:51:42.680
E.D.D. stuff.

00:51:42.900 --> 00:51:43.520
Perhaps a lot.

00:51:43.760 --> 00:51:43.820
Yeah.

00:51:44.180 --> 00:51:44.980
Yeah.

00:51:45.780 --> 00:51:46.060
Yeah.

00:51:47.780 --> 00:51:47.940
Yeah.

00:51:47.940 --> 00:51:51.680
I just think about the Paul, Paul, man, I'm a big Paul fan.

00:51:51.720 --> 00:51:52.580
I guess you can tell.

00:51:53.300 --> 00:52:00.340
But he's talking about, you know, the peace of God, surpassing all comprehension, guard your hearts and your minds and cross Jesus.

00:52:00.600 --> 00:52:02.860
And that comes no other way but submission.

00:52:03.260 --> 00:52:03.400
Yeah.

00:52:03.800 --> 00:52:03.940
Amen.

00:52:04.280 --> 00:52:05.020
No other way.

00:52:05.400 --> 00:52:05.680
Amen.

00:52:06.340 --> 00:52:08.880
And keep it keeping our eyes on what's real.

00:52:09.260 --> 00:52:09.320
Yeah.

00:52:09.500 --> 00:52:13.360
You know, this world around us is it's real, but it's not forever.

00:52:13.720 --> 00:52:13.780
Yeah.

00:52:13.960 --> 00:52:17.440
And when we focus on Jesus, and Paul says that in the Colossians,

00:52:17.620 --> 00:52:19.940
to set your mind on things above, not on things of the earth.

00:52:20.180 --> 00:52:22.300
That's right, because all these other things are distractions.

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They are.

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I mean, politics gets to be a distraction.

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And I'm not saying there's not things that we have to be involved in

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and be passionate about to put Christ in places and authorities

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and different things like that.

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But I'm saying we can get so caught up in all this in a way that it distracts us

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purpose of what God's called us to.

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And we can drive people away to getting on these soapboxes about things that don't have

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anything to do with God or eternity.

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Absolutely.

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And it's one of those things.

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You have to always remain aware of what's going on as Christians because we have a job

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to do and we have a responsibility and remain aware of it, but don't get obsessed with it.

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If you let it obsess you, if you let it just eat you up and fill every single day and all

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You're supposed to be still and know he's God.

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You're supposed to be filling your mind with the scripture.

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You're supposed to be filling your thoughts with setting your thoughts on things above.

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That's what we're called to do.

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You have to be aware, but not – again, it's part of that being in the world, but not of it.

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We're in it, so we have to be aware of what's going on around us, but we're not getting caught up in it and swept up in it.

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Right.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Good talk, guys.

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Good talk.

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Well, yeah, I think that pretty well winds us down for tonight.

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Man, that was a really good talk.

00:53:44.880 --> 00:53:45.800
I like that one.

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And I loved it last night when Brother Tanner started preaching that.

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Because, boy, he handed me the slides for it beforehand, and I went, ugh.

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Yeah.

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PowerPoint.

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That was awesome.

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Yeah, he's done a great job.

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Yeah.

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He sent those over to me, and I took one look at him, and I went, oh, this is going to sting.

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And he did.

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He did a fantastic job.

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He did.

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It is.

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It's such a hard thing for us as Christians sometimes to forget, or such an easy thing for us to forget.

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that obeying without submitting is what way, way too often we find ourselves doing.

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Yeah, Lord, I'm going to go do it.

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You know, three or four days later.

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Well, have you done it yet?

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Well, I'm getting to it.

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I'm getting to it, Lord.

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I'm getting to it.

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Yeah.

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And that's not how it works.

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It needs to be a joyful thing.

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It needs to be a, okay, yes, I'm going to go do it right now.

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And it's what we teach our kids to do.

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You know, if you're doing your job as a parent, there are times where you're sitting down with

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your kids and you're saying, hey, look, I told you to go do this.

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I expect it done in the next five or 10 minutes.

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I expect you to be doing this.

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I understand you might be doing something right now that you've got to put down and put

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some things away so that they're not out in the way and then go do it.

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But I expect it to be done very quickly.

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Submission is a process.

00:54:59.430 --> 00:55:01.540
I mean, yeah, it's we don't submit.

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I'm not saying we don't submit to the full will of God, but we've got to submit to the

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will of God that is in our lives right now.

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In other words, what I'm saying is first we submit to the Holy Spirit when the Holy Spirit knocks on our heart's door and we accept Christ as Lord and Savior.

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We don't immediately from that point go, OK, now I'm going to go ahead and submit to being a pastor or preacher or evangelist or whatever, you know, or going straight into a mission where there's some growth to be done.

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Right. There's some there's some discipleship that needs to be done.

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So then you start submitting yourselves to people who want to disciple you and teach you and help you to grow.

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And then you might say, hey, you know, I feel like God's calling me to drive that bus or I feel like God's calling me to, you know, help with that that mission closet, that food pantry, that this thing, that thing.

00:55:55.840 --> 00:55:59.100
And then God says, hey, I really you know, you've been studying.

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You've been you've been enthralled in my word.

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You've been you've been taught.

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And so now it's time for you to get off the meal and get on the meat.

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And then you say, hey, I want to teach that Sunday school class or at least be a helper in Bible school or teach that Bible.

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So there's submission that goes.

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It continues all through your life.

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It continues all through your life.

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And it needs to be intentional.

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It has to be intentional.

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You have to be listening.

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And it's that thing that when you're given the command to go and do, move and make that move.

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But, you know, and that's the thing, you know, you point that out, you're going to get saved.

00:56:38.520 --> 00:56:46.940
God is, it is a rare individual where God saves them and immediately says, I need you to go do this.

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It is, you're saved.

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You're going through the growth and the discipleship and the learning.

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Because if nothing else, you're learning to listen and you're learning to hear his voice because you haven't been listening to it.

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Look what he done with Paul.

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Paul didn't go straight and start preaching, right?

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He said, hey, here's where I want you to go, and I'm going to put you with somebody who's going to teach you for a little while.

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We're going to grow you.

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You're going to get there, but you're not there yet.

00:57:13.780 --> 00:57:20.180
Now, Paul's learning process was greatly accelerated because of the position he held prior to this.

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Because of his past knowledge.

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I mean, he could have told you the first five books of the Bible.

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He could have probably quoted them word for word.

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Well, I started saying he knew the first five plus all the entire history of the Jewish people, plus everything that had happened since then and everything that was going on.

00:57:34.960 --> 00:57:38.560
And I mean, he had all of this knowledge, but now he understands it.

00:57:38.700 --> 00:57:39.360
Yeah, exactly.

00:57:39.960 --> 00:57:40.120
Yeah.

00:57:40.260 --> 00:57:42.280
Now he has understanding God put it together.

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That's when you see if you ever, you know, when you meet a Jewish Christian and they've got both parts of it together.

00:57:49.520 --> 00:57:55.380
Like, OK, I understand Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy.

00:57:55.780 --> 00:57:57.260
I understand all those.

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And I get it, you know, but they don't really get it until they look, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

00:58:04.260 --> 00:58:09.840
And then they're like, whoa, okay, so this is what Isaiah was talking about.

00:58:10.120 --> 00:58:16.000
This is what the prophets were predicting, and Jesus is that man.

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And they put it all together, and it's powerful.

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Now you think about this.

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Think about this.

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The rapture takes place, and it could take place at any time, any moment, and the church is gone.

00:58:27.220 --> 00:58:36.200
When the church is gone, the Bible says that there's going to be 144,000 people that are going to be saved that are of Jewish descent.

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And it's 12,000 from each 12 tribes.

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And so these 144,000 Jewish believers are going to be like 144,000 Billy Grahams or whoever, right here in Rogers.

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or, you know, I mean, they're going to be going out there and they're going to be, I mean, firing the gospel because they have got a complete understanding of God's word from front to back.

00:59:03.240 --> 00:59:07.920
And now they are like, hey, this this this thing that we've been waiting on, it's already happened.

00:59:08.100 --> 00:59:11.900
And we missed it. We got some making up to do. Right. And they're going to be preaching hard.

00:59:12.140 --> 00:59:17.020
Well, you know, I I always remember the story of Dwight Moody and D.L. Moody.

00:59:17.060 --> 00:59:23.680
If you listen to Moody Radio in this area, he's the person that founded that organization, the Moody Bible Institute.

00:59:24.140 --> 00:59:31.020
And his thing was rushing down from his hotel room and grabbing the first person he saw on the street.

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Have you heard about grace?

00:59:33.440 --> 00:59:34.260
Do you know about grace?

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And people were looking at you.

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Is this man out of his mind?

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He's like, you don't understand.

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I mean, and that's what we should be doing.

00:59:43.260 --> 00:59:45.080
But think about those 144,000.

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That's exactly what they're going to be doing.

00:59:46.980 --> 00:59:49.240
Do you people understand this is it?

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You have one more chance God doesn't have to give it to you.

00:59:52.430 --> 00:59:54.980
He could wipe this whole planet out tomorrow.

00:59:55.200 --> 00:59:57.780
We did not deserve this chance, and he gave it to us anyway.

00:59:57.980 --> 00:59:58.760
It's going to be hard.

00:59:59.080 --> 01:00:01.140
It's going to be rough, and things are going to be horrible.

01:00:01.940 --> 01:00:03.820
But do you guys understand what grace is?

01:00:03.830 --> 01:00:05.800
Do you guys understand what he's given us here?

01:00:05.980 --> 01:00:11.300
And the gift that that is, when somebody grabs a hold of it and gets it in that type of way,

01:00:12.080 --> 01:00:15.040
It's how we see in modern day.

01:00:15.040 --> 01:00:17.340
We see these whole villages.

01:00:18.680 --> 01:00:25.380
People end up going to these remote parts of the world and evangelize there as missionaries.

01:00:26.020 --> 01:00:28.600
And then you see one person saved.

01:00:28.960 --> 01:00:31.780
And then the next thing you know, you see the whole village saved.

01:00:32.280 --> 01:00:36.060
And it snowballs because they've never heard anything like this before.

01:00:36.640 --> 01:00:40.600
And they grab a hold of it and they're like, whoa, there's somebody that created us.

01:00:40.820 --> 01:00:42.020
There's somebody that loves us.

01:00:42.120 --> 01:00:43.520
There's somebody that died for us.

01:00:44.180 --> 01:00:46.040
And we're over here killing each other.

01:00:46.200 --> 01:00:49.560
We're over here at war, and it solves war problems.

01:00:50.980 --> 01:00:56.800
Most of these places are dealing with a lot of black magic and things like that,

01:00:57.320 --> 01:00:59.640
especially in a lot of the African countries and stuff.

01:01:00.080 --> 01:01:06.660
And you have warlocks and all these witches and people who come to know Christ

01:01:07.480 --> 01:01:10.100
and completely change like Paul did.

01:01:10.300 --> 01:01:15.240
know and say well i've been going the wrong way for the wrong person and now i know what grace is

01:01:15.460 --> 01:01:21.480
yeah that's absolutely yeah so we're so spoiled that we're not set on fire like that it's like oh

01:01:21.480 --> 01:01:27.260
yeah yeah i got saved you know granddaddy got saved my grandma got saved mom dad you know down through

01:01:27.300 --> 01:01:33.620
generations we know church we know church upside down and left and right but man do you know jesus

01:01:33.940 --> 01:01:39.459
do you know the one that he's called us to be obedient to him to submit to him and it's not a

01:01:39.480 --> 01:01:45.260
bad thing. It's a good thing. He loves us that much. At the end of the day, have you heard about

01:01:45.700 --> 01:01:53.740
grace? And it was wonderful hearing Saturday night when he even multiple times, he said,

01:01:53.920 --> 01:01:58.540
grace, that unmerited favor, grace, and I noticed almost every time he said grace,

01:01:58.600 --> 01:02:05.380
the unmerited, we didn't earn it. We don't deserve it. Be on fire. Be on fire. Surrender,

01:02:06.100 --> 01:02:12.120
obey and be on fire and go out and do the good work that he has put in us.

01:02:12.640 --> 01:02:13.680
This world's searching.

01:02:14.380 --> 01:02:14.900
It's searching.

01:02:15.510 --> 01:02:17.380
The lost people are searching for something.

01:02:17.560 --> 01:02:19.120
They're searching for God, and they don't know it.

01:02:20.680 --> 01:02:23.540
I can't remember the line that Zach Williams uses in the song.

01:02:23.540 --> 01:02:28.600
He said, Jesus was looking for me, but I didn't know it.

01:02:28.680 --> 01:02:29.320
Something to that effect.

01:02:30.860 --> 01:02:33.780
They don't know, and they're trying to fill that hole in their hearts

01:02:33.940 --> 01:02:35.000
with everything under the sun.

01:02:35.840 --> 01:02:40.140
And like these tribes off that they're filling it with these false idols and all this other stuff.

01:02:41.080 --> 01:02:49.360
And when they finally see it, when they finally see the purity, the love of the actual God, the actual creator reaching out to them specifically.

01:02:49.800 --> 01:02:49.920
Yeah.

01:02:50.940 --> 01:02:51.060
Wow.

01:02:51.400 --> 01:02:51.580
Yeah.

01:02:51.720 --> 01:02:52.240
It's amazing.

01:02:52.480 --> 01:02:53.740
It's a powerful thing.

01:02:54.000 --> 01:02:56.740
It's a powerful thing that we've been given and that we're called to do.

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And yeah.

01:03:00.620 --> 01:03:03.420
So next week, we look forward to having everybody again.

01:03:03.780 --> 01:03:06.580
And it looks like all of our equipment worked well this week.

01:03:06.890 --> 01:03:15.860
We had a nice stream, so you can go watch our VOD on Rumble to see the actual video of the live stream.

01:03:17.520 --> 01:03:22.680
And then you can get the audio, of course, on YouTube, Facebook, and then through the podcast apps.

01:03:22.860 --> 01:03:24.680
I'm just as good looking as I am.

01:03:25.480 --> 01:03:25.740
Absolutely.

01:03:32.020 --> 01:03:33.980
Well, you know, people have been asking for it.

01:03:34.050 --> 01:03:34.380
Who knows?

01:03:34.450 --> 01:03:37.040
They might send us messages and say, hey, can you turn the cameras off?

01:03:37.660 --> 01:03:39.900
We'll go back to just saying.

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We could all shave.

01:03:42.060 --> 01:03:42.680
That's right.

01:03:42.930 --> 01:03:43.040
Yeah.

01:03:43.620 --> 01:03:47.140
Hey, well, you know, that strips about 10 years off of me when I shave.

01:03:47.700 --> 01:03:49.700
That's why I said you could not shave with me.

01:03:49.860 --> 01:03:50.240
Yeah.

01:03:50.859 --> 01:03:51.700
I don't have permission.

01:03:52.220 --> 01:03:53.180
I get forgiveness, though.

01:03:56.559 --> 01:03:57.480
Oh, man.

01:03:59.599 --> 01:04:01.440
Well, thank you all for joining us.

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And we look forward to next week.

01:04:03.120 --> 01:04:05.000
And I look forward to having another great conversation.

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And Brother Dennis, if you would, we'll let you pray us out.

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All right.

01:04:08.560 --> 01:04:09.440
Father in heaven, thank you.

01:04:09.660 --> 01:04:18.220
Thank you for this opportunity to speak of you, Father, of your mercy, of your kindness, of your love to us in Christ Jesus, of your grace.

01:04:18.520 --> 01:04:19.940
Lord, your grace is so great.

01:04:20.120 --> 01:04:21.580
And we are so thankful for it.

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Father, I pray for everyone listening tonight and watching tonight, Father, that you would bless them, that you would introduce them to Jesus.

01:04:30.820 --> 01:04:35.780
Father, that they would come to know you more, come to draw closer to you.

01:04:36.090 --> 01:04:44.580
Father, that you would bless them with more knowledge of you and a deeper understanding of who you are and what you're doing in this world and drive us to submit to you more and more and more.

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Father, thank you.

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Thank you.

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Bless this audience.

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In Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Amen.

01:05:00.620 --> 01:05:06.360
Lee Henderson, Tatum Harris Spears, and Josie Partain for our theme song, Truth Set Me Free.

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I've been Tyler Goza on production and audio. We hope you can join us live next Monday at 6pm

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Central. Thank you for listening.

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But truth found me there. It was in my darkest hour. I traded my black heart for joy, for something real, something with power.

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Truth set me free, truth came to me, I once was blind and now I see, truth set me free, oh, oh, truth set me free, oh, oh, truth set me free.