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All right , hello everyone and welcome to

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Christian Warrior Mission

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. It's , you know I'm sorry I'm

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running about 10 minutes behind tonight . Chores

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, you know , chores , chores , chores

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. So I'm trying to see right now

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. Okay , yes , I just checked

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my sound . I apologize for

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any echo as I have to check

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my own sound . Andy

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, look , can't wait for you to come back to church

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. It

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would be a great day when you come back in the door

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. So , as you guys

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know , we are here to fight

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three battles . Okay

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, first battle get a humble and grateful

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heart lined onto the Lord All

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right . Second battle to

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pursue a relationship with

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God through prayer and

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studying his word . Okay

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, studying his word , not

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speed reading through it , but deliberately

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chewing on it , and then

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spending some time in the body

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and praying for one another , All right

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. So let's get some

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. Get the first battle done with and

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claim one victory . Dear

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we Father , lord , we thank you . We

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thank you for all our blessings . We

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thank you for the little things , the

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things that go unnoticed . We

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thank you for the countless protections that

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we enjoy

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the benefit of but don't even see

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. Well

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, we know you play an active role in our life and

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, more than all we wish to do is serve you . We

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seek to serve you as humble instruments

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and tools . All

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of us here Say

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send us . If

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you want to use a hammer , use

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a hammer . If you want to use one

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of us as a screwdriver , use

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a screwdriver . If you want to use one of

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us as a saw or

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a scalpel or wrench

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, use us

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. Lord , pray

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that we serve

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you with every beat of our heart and proclaim

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you with every breath of our lungs . In

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Jesus name , we pray , Amen . All

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right , guys , we are in John

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15 . And

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again , you're going to hear some language

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that is

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going to jump out at you . Right

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, it's going to jump out at you , so

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let's get into it . All

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right , my old

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man glasses . Chapter

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14 , verse one . I am

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the way . The truth

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. That was yesterday . We

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are in chapter 15 , verse one

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. I am the true vine . I

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am the true vine and the father is the

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vine dresser . Every

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branch of me that does not bear fruit

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, he takes away , he

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prunes that it may bear

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more fruit . Already . You are clean

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, because

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the word that I have spoken to you Bid

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me , and I knew as

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the branch cannot bear fruit by itself

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unless it abides in the vine . Neither

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can you Unless you abide in

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me . I am the vine , you are

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the branches . Whoever embides in

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me and I and him , he

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it is that bears much fruit . For

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apart from me , you can do

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nothing . If anyone is not in Biden me , he

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is thrown away like branches and withers

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. The branches are gathered and thrown into

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the fire and burned . If you

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abide in me , in my words , abide

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in you , ask whatever you wish . You

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are the vine , you are

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the fruit , you are the

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fruit , you

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are the fruit . Ask whatever you

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wish and it will

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be done for you . By this my father is glorified

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, that you bear much fruit and

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so proved to be my disciples . As the father has loved me

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, so have

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I loved you . Abide in my love . If

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you keep my commandments , you

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will abide in my love , just as I

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have kept my father's commandments and abide in his

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love . These things

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I have done . I have kept my

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commandments and abide

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in his love . These things . I have spoken to you that

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my joy may be in you and your

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joy may be full . So before we finish

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the second half of this , I want to go in and hit

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some things . So

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, vine and the vine dresser and the

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vine , the branches and the vine

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, just basically that you have to be connected to the vine

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To grow . All

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right . Now one of

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the things here that is very interesting and so

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Is well , this

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part is Can

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be frightening to some . Every branch of me

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that does not bear fruit , he takes away the father and

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that , all

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right . So what that means is people who are fake followers

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of Jesus , what we would call fire insurance . They

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are cultural Christians , they

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are people who Are not allowed to go out of their

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homes , and so they

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are people who who

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Like

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to pretend , and you know

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, and say Jesus is their savior

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, but he's not their

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Lord . And you're going to see that again when I go back over to the other paragraphs

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and I just the

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paragraph of this , and one of the things here that's

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very interesting Is the pruning . All

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right , he takes away every branch that

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does not bear fruit , and so he

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prunes that it may bear

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more fruit , sorry

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. So let me go back to every branch of me that

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does not bear fruit , he takes away , and

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every branch that does bear fruit

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, he prunes that it

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may bear more fruit . Now , this

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is your sanctification

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, as your bad habits

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and the old use fall away . That's God cutting

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it away . One of the things that he cut away

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from me immediately once

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I was saved , without me even trying , was my

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listening to like vile death

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metal , like I used to listen to Slayer

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and the most my favorite song

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was God Hates Us All . And once I

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got saved I was

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repulsed by the music that

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I used to live to . I remember

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the first time I went to the gym after I was saved . I

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sat there for like 10 minutes skipping songs

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because my whole playlist

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was just against God . But

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you'll also notice that you'll start you

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should not be cussing as much and that'll fall

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away . I was

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a legitimate sailor as a seal and

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I cussed as one , and

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as I , god

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is pruning that away from me . Am I perfect

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with it ? No , not

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at all , you know , but

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I'm down like 99%

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, okay

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that's , I still get some ways

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to go , but I'm down like 99%

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percent . So that's

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God cutting parts away from you , and

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some of that might be a poisonous relationship

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. You know toxic friendships

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, bad

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habits , you

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know , and some of them , like when

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God cuts them away , they're painful . That

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is part of his pruning process to

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get you to bear more fruit , like

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my mom who's going through , you

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know , fentanyl withdrawals . After being

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on fentanyl for 15 years , she's

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going through some pain right now . God is pruning

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her , you

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know , and she's going to bear

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much more fruit after

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that is done . So

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again , I found that amazing

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. The

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other line , that and you know the

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first couple of chapters is if anyone

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does not abide in me , he

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is thrown away like a branch of withers . The

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branches are gathered and thrown into the fire

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and burned . That's

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final judgment . So

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now ? So

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here we go Now , picking it back up in verse nine

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that I read to you as the father has

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loved me , so I have loved you . Abide

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in my love . If

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you keep my commandments

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, you will abide in my love

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, just as I have kept

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my father's commandments . And

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abide in his loves . These

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things I've spoken to you , that

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my joy may be in you and that

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your joy may be full . Okay

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, remember , if you

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keep my commandments

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, okay , that

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is conditional , not unconditional

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. If you keep

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my commandments , this

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is my commandment that

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you may love one another as I have loved

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you . Greater love has

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no one than this that someone

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lay down his life for his friends . You

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are my friends if

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you do what I command you . Let

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me read that again , you

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are my friends if you

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do as I command you . No

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longer do

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I call you servants , for

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the servant does not know what his master

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is doing , but I have called

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you friends , for all

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that I have heard from my

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father I have made known to

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you . Now

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let's see if these words jump out at you . You

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did not choose me , but

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I chose you and appointed

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you that you should go and bear

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fruit and that your fruit

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should abide , so that

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whatever you ask the Father in my name

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, he will give to you . He

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will give it to you . These

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things , I command you so

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that you will love one another . Verse

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18 , the

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hatred of the world If

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the world hates . You know

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that it has hated me before . It hated you . If

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you were of the world , the world would love

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you as its own , but because

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you are not of the world but

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I choose you out

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of the world , I chose you out of the world

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. Again , I

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want , when we're talking about Calvinism

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and we're talking about predestination and

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the elect if you were of

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the world and the world loved you as its own

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. But because you are not of the world but

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I chose you out of the world

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. Therefore , the world hates you . Remember

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the word that I

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said to you a servant

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is not greater than his master . If

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they persecute me , they will also

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persecute you . If

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they kept my word , they will

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also keep yours . But

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all those things they will do to you

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on account of my name , because

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they do not know him who sent me . If

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I had not come and spoken to them , they

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would not have been guilty of sin , but

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now they have no excuse

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for their sin . Whoever

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hates me hates my father

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also . If I

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had not done among them the works that no

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one else did , they would

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not be guilty of sin , but

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now they have seen and hated both

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me and the father . But

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the word that is written in their law must

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be fulfilled . He's

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quoting it . They hated me

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without cause . When

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the helper comes , whom I will send

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to you from the father , the

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spirit of truth who proclaims from

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the father , he will bear witness

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about me and you also

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will bear witness because

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you have been with me from

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the beginning . This

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is where you

14:07

see the logic behind . God

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loves the sinner , the sinner

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, but hates the sin . Where that

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breaks down , all

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right , this is where God loves you just as

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you are , really breaks apart

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. You are

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Jesus's friend and you

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abide in him if you do

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as he commands . If

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, does

14:35

that mean it's works-based ? No , it

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means that if you convert , truly

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convert , and you are a Christian and

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you love Jesus , obviously you're

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gonna read his word . If

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you don't read his word , how are you gonna know what he wants

14:49

you to do and how much do you really love

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him ? How much do you really love

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Jesus if you don't read what

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he said to you ? That

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means you love the idea of the Jesus but

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you don't love him . How

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much do you love Jesus when

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you

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know and you spend so much

15:18

time pursuing other things

15:20

other than a relationship with him ? Look

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at your schedule . Look

15:29

at your entertainment . What

15:32

do you do other

15:35

than family and work and

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work more

15:40

than you spend time reading the Bible and

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pursuing a relationship with God ? Those

15:45

are gonna be your idols . If

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you spend six hours

15:51

a week watching football or

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10 hours a week watching football and

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you give the Bible all 30 minutes

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on Sunday

16:02

, god

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doesn't take well to being second

16:07

in anything . God

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wants the best of you . He

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will not accept your leftovers . He

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will not accept your leftovers . We

16:35

have to prioritize our relationship

16:37

with Christ . It

16:40

has to become a consuming fire

16:42

. It

16:45

has to become your

16:47

. Every other thought . Excuse

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me , does

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that always happen

16:58

with me ? No , but

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I pray , as I continue to mature as a Christian , that

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I will be pursuing him with

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everything I have . I

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have no more . I

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don't know what you'd call it me time . My

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time is either working family or pursuing

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the Lord . Don't

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have any entertainment

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time . That

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took discipline , it

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took need and it took pruning . I

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don't know how many hours of my life I have wasted

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on video games or something

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that means nothing particularly

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eternally . I don't know how many

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thousands of hours I

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wasted watching sports , how

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many stats and how much I cared

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and how much , as an atheist

18:14

, I prayed for a play or

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a kick or a catcher , or a throw

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or a sack or a fumble . How

18:22

much energy I

18:24

wasted in

18:26

that heresy . And

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I'm not going to obey his commands . If

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you're his friend , that's what you'll do You're

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going to have to purge your entertainment

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. I've touched on this

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a few times , but I think it's really important . If

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what you're listening to or

19:03

watching makes you want

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to do things that are against

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God , get

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rid of it . You

19:13

must get rid of it . Jesus

19:15

is pulling you right back down

19:18

the hill . Jesus

19:31

told us to love our enemies , the

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hardest command of all . Paul

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says that we battle not against flesh

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and blood , but powers and principalities

19:47

. There's

19:51

a part in that that most bookworm

19:54

theologians miss . When

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you're fighting the ISIS fighter or

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you're fighting the terrorist , you

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should not hate them . That

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is misplaced hatred . You

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hate the evil that

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has twisted them and deceived

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them . That

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is the power and the principalities . But

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guess what the powers and principalities

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are ? The puppeteers and

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ISIS and Hezbollah

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, and Nazis

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and communists , and

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you name it . They're

20:39

the puppets . So

20:43

, yeah , we have to deal

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with them and we have to neutralize

20:50

them and we have to fight them , but

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they are only the

20:56

weapons of

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the true evil that has deceived

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them . You

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hate in your life , whether

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they be political leaders , groups

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, whatever . You

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would love a redeemed version

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of them because

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the Holy Spirit would be

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aligned with them . You

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would love them . You would redeem Nancy

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Pelosi and Joe Biden

21:30

, donald Trump , whoever

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you want to pick . If

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they were redeemed , they'd

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be serving our Lord and you would love them and

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you would forgive them . That's

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what we're talking about there . So

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we're going to keep talking about idols

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when we come back

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. False idols , 15 second

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break , alright

22:31

. So what do

22:33

you know more about

22:35

than Jesus ? I'll

22:38

give you an alibi for your work , because

22:41

you're going to do that at least

22:43

eight hours a day , but

22:45

outside of your profession . What

22:49

do you know more about than

22:51

Jesus ? You

22:54

can probably list them . It's probably a

22:56

lot . It's probably your favorite football

22:59

team , baseball team , basketball team

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, your

23:03

favorite series . You

23:06

can know everything about Yellowstone or Game of Thrones

23:09

or whatever , or some game

23:11

that you played in

23:13

a series of games Metal

23:17

, gale , scare , solid , whatever

23:21

. Those are your idols

23:23

and those are pulling

23:26

you from God . You

23:32

need to know everything about the Patriots

23:35

Everything

23:38

. I couldn't name a single player on the team right now ? Not

23:45

a

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one . I know everything about Tom Brady

23:53

and Tom Brady never knew

23:55

a single thing about me . He didn't

23:57

even know he existed . I

23:59

existed , I had my problems

24:01

, my struggles . What

24:03

do you know ? Who does Jesus ? I

24:07

poured all this energy , prayed

24:11

for my football team to win a game . How

24:15

stupid was I ? Nothing

24:21

in this world is

24:24

as useless as professional sports

24:26

. One

24:29

millionaire playing another millionaire in

24:32

a kid's game , and it doesn't matter

24:34

who wins . Cancer is not

24:36

cured , world peace doesn't break

24:38

out . It's a distraction

24:40

to keep you away from God . You

24:42

think it's an accident that Super

24:45

Bowl Sundays or that

24:47

pro footballs on Sunday ? I

24:54

think it's an accident . Now

25:02

, everybody

25:04

in their brother is trying to get you to gamble

25:07

in football . It used to be

25:09

something that was completely illegal and

25:11

you used to have to have a bookie and you bet

25:13

with the bookie on who would win

25:15

and what and all that . What

25:18

I want to do is keep you enslaved to

25:21

it Football

25:26

and baseball and escaping your family and escaping your problems

25:28

and running away from God . Well

25:30

, that wasn't addictive enough . Let's

25:33

roll in gambling addictions

25:36

into this . Now

25:56

it becomes a

25:59

desperate act . Instead

26:02

of praying to God , we go better on a

26:04

game to fix our problems . Instead

26:08

of leading our families , we escape

26:10

to the tailgate , where there are

26:12

other children called men that

26:15

we hang out and that's where we do

26:17

our fellowship . And

26:21

if you want to talk about two sports

26:25

that are absolutely tearing us apart , well

26:27

, look no further than the NFL , which now

26:30

plays the black national anthem . There's

26:33

only one national anthem , guys , one

26:39

. The

26:47

NBA same thing . Both

26:49

of them Basically

26:52

run by BLM trying to get us

26:54

to hate one another , particularly

27:01

vile because the NBA is

27:03

basically owned and run by

27:05

China . Now he

27:13

used to destabilize us more and make us

27:15

hate one another . I

27:23

remember probably with the highest sports in

27:26

my mind was

27:28

after 9-11

27:30

, watching that game , u2

27:35

performing the

27:37

halftime show , where

27:40

I watched sports

27:43

and music and entertainment

27:45

help heal the nation

27:47

. It was amazing

27:50

. From

27:52

that moment on , the enemy knew

27:54

that they had to destroy

27:56

it . So they have . Now

27:58

it's all sexualized and nasty

28:01

and gross and

28:03

racist and everything else

28:05

trying to divide us Blacks hating

28:07

whites . You know whites

28:09

hating blacks because blacks hate the whites

28:12

. It's

28:14

just gotten disgusting

28:16

. Do

28:29

you spend more time in your day or stand

28:31

than you do reading the Bible ? If

28:35

you do , it's a problem . Now

28:38

if you need it for food because you're starving

28:41

, god gets it . But

28:48

if it's your hobby , if

28:52

you're spending more time in your Bible

28:54

I mean in anything than

28:56

your Bible it is a problem

28:58

. There

29:02

are so many great pastors

29:04

online I'm like the worst one . I

29:07

don't know why you guys watch me , but I'm

29:09

thankful you do . So

29:14

many amazing , knowledgeable

29:16

men and men , particularly men

29:19

, but there's actually , you know , some

29:21

women out there , not pastors , but

29:24

have some knowledge as well . But

29:32

the men that I follow Paul Washer , doug

29:34

Wilson , vodibaca , alistair

29:38

Begg , rc Sproul

29:43

Now

29:51

do they do

29:54

? I agree with them all 100% . No , there

29:57

are some of them who I think are too hyper-intellectual

30:00

and they've lost touch with the common

30:02

man . Their

30:05

language is PhD

30:08

ish , and

30:14

I wish there would just be common English . Martin

30:19

Luther translated German , not

30:21

into high educated German , but

30:24

into common German . High

30:33

, try to take all

30:35

of that and distill it down into common

30:37

sense English

30:39

. We're

30:58

going to take another 15 second break

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. We're going to come back and we'll grow

31:03

into a prepper segment .

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All right , let's get into one

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of my passions , which is prepping

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. There are multiple

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cases of serious preppers in the

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Bible . We all know Noah , we

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all know Joseph

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, but

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every leader is some form of prepper . So

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is David . As

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followers of Christ , we have to be

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preparing , depending

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on your eschatology , whether you're a pre-millennial

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, post-millennial or millennial . Regardless

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, we must prepare for the worst

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case scenarios . We

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must continue to push

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ourselves to get better . I

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am hoping that

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you guys will see

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that

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being a Christian warrior

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is

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a lifestyle . That's

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what the 90-day Crucible Challenge is

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about . It

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is a lifestyle . A

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way of life Not

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fashion , but a way of life

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, a

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way of life better than lifestyle . Faith

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, number one . Family

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, number two . Fitness

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, number three . Fundamentals

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, which is skill set number

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four . Finances

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, number five . Deliverally

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. Working on those and

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strengthening those

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five areas of your life will make you the most

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dangerous person you can possibly

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be . And

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yes , I am calling you to be dangerous . As

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a man , you 1,000%

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need to be dangerous . My

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daughters will be dangerous . As

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a Christian warrior , you should be

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the trained swordsman

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with the sheath sword that

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only takes it out to

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defend himself , those

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he cares or the defenseless

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. That

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is what we are called to do , and

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that is why we need to work on those five

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things Faith

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, because we are called to lead

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in faith , and two , because

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we are warriors . We may be meeting our maker

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any minute , but

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that goes for the entire human race . None

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of us will promise the next second , but

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the warrior . The

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warrior gets to die in a noble way . The

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warrior gets to die in sacrifice

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and service . Not

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a heroine or fentanyl or

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some other tragic meaning . Was death

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this

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lifestyle ? Or sorry , this way

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of life ? Once

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you identify yourself as

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a Christian warrior , once

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you mean it and you're not just want

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to wear a cool shirt , the

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world is going to hate you

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. Which

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brings us back to our Bible

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message . Friends

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are going to abandon you . Why ? Because

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Christ is first in your life . You're

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going to find that you're just going to get hungrier and hungrier

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and hungrier for things of Christ . You're not

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going to want to talk about the stupid football game

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you didn't watch last Monday . You

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could care less . There

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are things you've got to do skillsets

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you need to develop , knowledge you

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need to gain a relationship

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. You need to redeem people

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you need to save . That

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is what it is to be a Christian to

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be driven and driven

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, and driven to

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always be doing something

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, whether it be always be

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mentoring , always be studying

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, always be learning , always

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be loving . Now

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, today , I

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had to pour myself out into

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a few people and

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it put me on edge . I

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wasn't the best person that I could be around

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my family because I

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didn't have any time for the things that I needed

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to do

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. That's my job as a Christian warrior staying

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in the gap and

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a fight for people To

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give them cover so they can stand back up

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and find alongside me . Now

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, if they're traitors and they're

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working for the enemy and they're trying to suck

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you down , well , you

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give them cover . They show who they

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are . You forgive them . You

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move on . You

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move on . You don't let them suck you down to hell

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. You

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don't cash your pearls before swine . If

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you're going to take on this identity , you

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are going to have a life of principle . That is going

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to cost you a lot . It

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cost me my business , it's

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cost me friends , it's cost me family

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members a

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lot of finances all

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worth it times a thousand

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, times a million , because

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I know who I serve . My

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life is not complicated . It's

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broken down to one thing do

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the next right thing , according

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to Jesus , one

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step at a time . Do the next right thing

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. Do the next right thing . Do

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the next right thing . If you

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just do that moment

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to moment , you

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will become formidable for the

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kingdom . You

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don't need to be a world-class sniper . Is that

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a great skill set to have ? Absolutely

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. I'd

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rather you be the best dad and

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a husband that you can be . So instead

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of wounding your whole family and

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then becoming wounders and just

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turning more and more people into

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sending them to hell , you

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have single-handedly rescued

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your entire family , the

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people that are going to react , and you become a

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force multiplier for this . This

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is a war and

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you're either flipping people to our side , the

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side of Christ , or you're sending them

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to hell . Recently

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, by

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the grace of God came

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up with another

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, what I would call Jasonism

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. First

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is , just do the next thing . I try to break things down

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to simple levels . I'm

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a simple guy . That's

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what I thought about it after reading the Bible , and

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I failed at this this evening . Every

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room you ever walk into for the rest

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of your life . You're one of two things . You're

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either a light that brightens the room or

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you're a shadow that darkens it . Don't

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you ever be a shadow . Fight

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that nature in you , so

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into that room of bright light and burn

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so bright that

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everyone's day gets better because you

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are there . Pause

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before you walk through the door . Check yourself

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. Have the discipline to do this . Don't just walk

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through the door like I did tonight and completely

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screwed it up because I was stressed

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out and things

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weren't going the way I wanted to . I

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should have stopped at the door , reset

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and said who are you ? I'm

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a son of a living God . I

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am a Christian warrior for Jesus Christ

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, and when I walk through this door they're

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going to see Jesus man

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. I wish I did that . I'm

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ashamed I didn't . Now

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, there was no fight there

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was no , nothing , but there was a missed opportunity

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. There

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was a missed opportunity to

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breathe Christ into everyone around

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my table . Shame

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on me . I

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will do better and

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you can do better . Do

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the next right thing be

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the light when you walk into

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the room Pause , set

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your feet , feel

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your identity in God , declare

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who you are , realize

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who you are , embrace

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it and walk into the room like

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the sun the

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sun above and the sun of man . That

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is how you live . You

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do that and

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people will talk about you long

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after you're gone . Your

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impact will be eternal . So

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much better than a football game . So

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much better than beating your favorite video

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game . So much

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better than a show Stepping

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into a room and breathing Christ to everyone there

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. Now I did

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catch myself and no matter

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, I was 10 minutes late . You know , I was 10 minutes late

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because my two baby girls

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had a ball and they wanted to play

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. Catch me . You're darn right . I'm going to stop

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and do that with them . They're

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so hungry for my attention and

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it always won't be that way . So

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, again , I

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need to stop and be the light . I

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need to obey Jesus commands

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. I'm

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preparing for the show and my

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daughter B just

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wants to jump off that couch . She

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jumps so high and wants to be so proud

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for a verb . I'm trying

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to type away things and she's like I got to

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watch . You're darn

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right , I'm going to watch . I'm

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going to make eye contact , I'm

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going to put everything down for a moment and

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drink in my daughter , who

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is treating me like I'm the most important

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person in the whole world . How many

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other people do that for you ? How

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many people look at you like

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you are everything to them , you're

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significant other . If you're lucky , I'm

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blessed , blessed , not lucky

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. In

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your children , most

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everyone else likes you will say

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kind things and there will be a button there Not

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your kids calling

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their young , not

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before you kill their heart by

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ignoring them . We

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always have to be discipling . Sometimes

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makes things take three , four

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times as long Instead

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of just doing something teaching

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them how to do it , correcting

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them , even though it's so painstakingly

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slow and you're behind schedule

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and you get a bunch of different things to do and you're late , but

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it matters . It

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matters eternally . When

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you're dead and gone , those are going to be the things that you remember

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. They're not going to remember

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what . You're not going to remember hardly

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any presents . You ever bought them . They're

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going to remember the way you looked at them , how

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you laughed and

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how you loved them . I

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know I said I was going to talk

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about prepping , kind

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of went off on a tangent there . Working

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on your family is prepping guys . It's

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not as sexy as the shooting , not

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as cool as that Lauren

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says . I think I have a fly in

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my mic . I

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think you have a fly in

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your mic . Could

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be there about a thousand flies in this room . Are

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you guys hearing some weird sound ? If

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you are , I apologize my audio

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. I probably have to get another sound board here

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. I've had this one for a bit .

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I don't know my P Lauren's audio on her phone .

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So if anyone else can verify

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that there's some annoying sound other than

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my voice , ha

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ha , ha , ha

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, ha , ha ha

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. Ugh , see , I don't know where they would get in . I don't know

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. Nope

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, I don't see one . Lauren , working

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on your family and your relationships is

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prepping . You need to make them

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resilient for the hard times that are coming ahead

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by disciplining

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them onto the Lord of Jesus . The Lord

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Jesus Christ . They'll

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be able to bury you . Oh

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, there's definitely one flying around here .

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There's like a hundred of them .

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I left the garage door open today and they're all

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in here . When

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the times are bad , good , you need to pour

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into everyone with everything you can , and when

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the times are bad , you still need to pour

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into them , even though you're fighting , even

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though you're fighting to survive . Things

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don't have to be big , they

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just have to be thoughtful . They have to be

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deliberate . So

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fortify your family , let

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them

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know that you're proud of them and

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also call them on their BS . If

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they suck at something , tell them they suck at it and help them get better

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at it . So again , the 90 day Crucible Challenge

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is starting on

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October 30th . I am

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going to be starting probably a week earlier . I think I'm starting

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this Monday . May even

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start tomorrow , but I don't know . My

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I've got a book slammed through this weekend

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. We're

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processing , you know , three to five weeks of the day , but I'm

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not sure if I'm going to

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be able to do it . I'm not sure if I'm

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going to be able to do it . I'm going to be processing , you know , three

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to five , three to four pigs this weekend

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and a ton of other projects we got

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going on . So you know

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, I'm trying to get this stuff done to get ready

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for this , but I'm

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going to start probably a week ahead so

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that I can post

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things at least

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going to be one day ahead so I can post what

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I did to inspire you and show

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you what I'm doing . Okay

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, I'm working with our web

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designer to get a space done

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for the 90

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day Crucible Challenge which

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I hope will become

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your way of life for

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the rest of your life . I

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pray in two years there are going to be people

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like , yeah , I'm on day 942

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or 612

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. I'm

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just thinking how amazing our community will be

51:51

. How

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many marriages will be redeemed , how

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many protocols will return home

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, how

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many relationships mended , how

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many souls saved . I

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can't wait . I

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hope you'll join me . I

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hope and pray that you'll

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make time to do it . It

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doesn't take a lot of time . I'm already really

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good at three of the five things . I'm

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already really good at three of the five things . I'm

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already really good at three

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of the five things . I

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already do well with my time in the Lord . I

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already do well with the family . I

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already do and I do well with the fundamentals , the

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skillset . Right now

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I suck at the fitness and

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I suck at the finances . I'm

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just full transparency . So

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I'm praying that

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I can keep those three up , get

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back into the shape I want to be , to

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be more financially stable

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after the initial setup of

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getting this farm and operation up and running

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and after

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losing my job . I

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pray you're going to invite people to come with us

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and

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we're going to be talking about it every night on

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the show and

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I can't wait to see where you guys are at and

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how you guys do and how it changes your life . Then

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we'll have a forging here where

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everyone who wants to come can come

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here for a long weekend and

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we'll have one heck of a weekend . I

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heard that buzz . So

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, all right , that's two battles

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, one . Let's

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get the third battle run and let's pray for one another

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. Dear Heavenly Father , lord

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, we thank you for this fellowship . We

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thank you for everyone who comes here and locksheels

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with us , who

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drops what they're doing in their busy lives to spend

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an hour growing

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a knowledge of you , lord , and

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deliverally growing together

55:06

. Lord

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, help us and bless us

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to go into the 90-day

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Crucible Challenge Strong . Help

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us recruit others . Help

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us empower them to succeed . Lord

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, help us to always do the next

55:34

right thing . Remind

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us before we walk into a room to

55:41

set our feet , remember

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who we are , remember who you

55:45

are , remember

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to embrace our

55:52

role as a Christian warrior and

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to take that room by storm , to

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be the light , to

56:08

breathe Christ into everybody in that room

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, to

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never be the shadow . Lord

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, I pray a prayer of protection over this congregation

56:19

, over the

56:21

persecuted church , over

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first responders at home , troops

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overseas and the veterans of yesteryear

56:28

. Lord , I pray

56:30

that America would hit her knees , that

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she'd repent , turn

56:36

and seek your face and

56:40

then you would heal her . We

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would once again become one nation under

56:45

God , indivisible , with

56:48

liberty and justice for

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all . Lord

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, I pray that this congregation now would

56:56

, this fellowship , would put

56:58

on the full armor of God , pick

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up the sword of the spirit and strap on

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the shield of faith and

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boldly step into the shield wall , locking

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shields with those to the left and right as

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we charge , to take ground for

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your glory , your glory . Only In

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Jesus' name we pray amen . God

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bless you all and

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I thank you .