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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. Competition,

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Speaker 1: just like any other aspect of life, can be either

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Speaker 1: about it, Competition is at the heart of the human experience.

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Speaker 1: That's a good thing. The desire to press on, to

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Speaker 1: push forward. That competitive spirit is definitely of God. But

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Speaker 1: as a Christian, it must be applied to your life

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Speaker 1: in a godly fashion. If not, it can take hold

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Speaker 1: of you. It can be become something altogether different in

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Speaker 1: your life, something that becomes problematic, even harmful. Competition is

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Speaker 1: certainly in the air today, and you can feel this

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Speaker 1: excitement as millions of Americans and people from all over

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Speaker 1: the world really gather around their TVs with this this

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Speaker 1: anticipation of their team securing the win. Now, the very

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Speaker 1: definition of competition means a contest in which a winner

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Speaker 1: is selected from among two or more entrants. So this

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Speaker 1: means by that definition that there will there'll be a winner,

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Speaker 1: and of course they'll be a loser. So in a

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Speaker 1: case like the Super Bowl, competition is that propellant. It

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Speaker 1: propels each member of the opposing team to train, to

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Speaker 1: work hard so that they may excel in their performance

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Speaker 1: for this particular big game or any game. This oftentimes.

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Speaker 1: I know that athletics can go down an unhealthy path

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Speaker 1: at times, but more often than not, this is a

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Speaker 1: healthy display of the competitive spirit, that spirit that does

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Speaker 1: push you, that does propel makes you want to be better,

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Speaker 1: not so you're better than the other person in some

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Speaker 1: but that competitive spirit, that ability to push on and

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Speaker 1: push forward and build your muscles stronger, make yourself quicker,

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Speaker 1: when catching a ball, That all these things are about

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Speaker 1: training your body by way of discipline to do beneficial things.

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Speaker 1: So if you're involved in sports, and today's offbviously a

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Speaker 1: huge sports day, that many of you watching the Big

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Speaker 1: Game are really focused on the fact that this is

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Speaker 1: normal limits to achieve a goal. That's the competitive spirit

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Speaker 1: in a healthy place. But there is an unhealthy side

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Speaker 1: This is not the competitive spirit, but the spirit of pride,

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Speaker 1: and conceit. The Father certainly does not approve of this

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Speaker 1: kind of competition, James four to six says, but he

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Speaker 1: gives more grace. Therefore, it says, God opposes the p

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Speaker 1: but gives grace to the humble. Giving that grace to

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Speaker 1: the humble is showing that there there is a place

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Speaker 1: for you to be competitive, but to still be in

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Speaker 1: that that that place of humility, knowing that you're pushing

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Speaker 1: that I designed you to desire to propel yourself and excel,

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Speaker 1: but to also be of a humble spirit. Because when

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Speaker 1: you latch onto pride, when you get to that place

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Speaker 1: not even it's not even competition. It's just you wanting

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Speaker 1: it doesn't even matter how you get there. And to

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Speaker 1: competitive spirit, you want to do things right, you don't

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Speaker 1: But you can see where people tried to even apply

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Speaker 1: The original Olympics were abolished in three ninety three a d.

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Speaker 1: and he used this pitch. Let us export our oarsmen,

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Speaker 1: true free trade of the future, and the day it

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Speaker 1: in a healthy way, propelling one another by way of competition.

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Speaker 1: is God going to How is God going to bless that?

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Speaker 1: Why would God bless that? You hear stories of sportsmanship,

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Speaker 1: whether the win is worth anything. So you have this

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Speaker 1: competitive spirit you want God to bless. But if you

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Speaker 1: there by your side the entirety of the way, coaching, instructing, encouraging. However,

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Speaker 1: if you push the rules aside, only being in that

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Speaker 1: At first, as a believer, you might hear the word

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Speaker 1: competition and think, well, competition is bad thing, right, isn't

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Speaker 1: that when two people are fighting over the same thing.

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Speaker 1: No definition of competition means a contest, and yes, there

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Speaker 1: But this can be used in a positive way to

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Speaker 1: propel you. Today is a big contest. You've got competition

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Speaker 1: to take great discipline. And that's why people appreciate big

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Speaker 1: sports competitions like the super Bowl, because what it takes

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Speaker 1: to act win is something to be proud of. But

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Speaker 1: that doesn't help anyone. It actually tears people down. God

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Speaker 1: to do it righteously. One Corinthians nine twenty four through

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Speaker 1: the prize. Run in such a way that you may win.

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Speaker 1: Everyone who competes in the games exercises self control in

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Speaker 1: all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath,

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Speaker 1: as to not without aim, as not without aim. I

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Speaker 1: But I discipline my body and make it my slaves,

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Speaker 1: so that after I have preached to others, I myself

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Speaker 1: will not be disqualified. Isn't that a concept of competition,

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Speaker 1: being disqualified, not playing by the rules, not having that

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Speaker 1: make you disqualified in the Kingdom of God. When you're

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Speaker 1: out as a Christian. You should use these things to

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Speaker 1: propel you, to excite you, to make you want to

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Speaker 1: one Corinthians nine. Not just winning at all costs. That's

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Speaker 1: not blessed by God. Lisa, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. My question is should Christians tap to their bodies?

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Speaker 1: Well? Should they? Or can they?

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Speaker 2: Should they? According to scriptures? Should they?

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Speaker 1: Should they? Is going to be an individual choice because

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Speaker 1: there's nothing in the Bible that says they cannot. There

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Speaker 1: is Leviticus nineteen goes through some religious laws that some

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Speaker 1: people get confused about. That says in verse twenty eight,

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Speaker 1: you shall not make any cuts in your body for

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Speaker 1: the dead, nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves. I

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Speaker 1: am the Lord. The verse there is actually talking about

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Speaker 1: a practice. As a matter of fact, most of these

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Speaker 1: because just above it it says you shall not round

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Speaker 1: edges of your beard. So if you shaved, you'd be

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Speaker 1: falling into the same category of tattoos. Then also, the

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Speaker 1: use for pierce. So any woman that pierces our ears

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Speaker 1: would now have problems. So any man that shaves, or

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Speaker 1: any woman that pierces her ears would now have a problem,

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Speaker 1: not just the tattooing. So really, when it's speaking about

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Speaker 1: tattooing here, it's not it's speaking about a process that

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Speaker 1: and that it should not be brought to pass by Christians.

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Speaker 1: But having a tattoo for a Christian is not inherently wrong.

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Speaker 1: It depends on the content, of course, but it's not

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Speaker 2: All right, thank you, you're welcome.

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Speaker 1: Howcome I got the impression that maybe that's not the answer?

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Speaker 1: She was looking for. Sometimes you just pick up on subtleties,

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Speaker 1: tiny little subtleties. That's kind of what I do here.

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Speaker 1: But the Bible is filled with many things, and the

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Speaker 1: best advice I can give you is to see that

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Speaker 1: difference between prescription and description. These are two very important

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Speaker 1: principles I want you to hear, and I want you

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Speaker 1: to understand the difference between a difference between prescriptive language

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Speaker 1: It's describing something that happened. If it's prescriptive, there's an admonishment,

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Speaker 1: there's a statement of understanding, this is what you should

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Speaker 1: or this is what you should not do. And with

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Speaker 1: the Christian it gets even more difficult because now you

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Speaker 1: are looking into what you refer to as the Old Testament,

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Speaker 1: and you're seeing things in there that are based on

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Speaker 1: our Jewish brothers and sisters, and they were trying to

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Speaker 1: abolish appearing to look like your average every day he

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Speaker 1: then who did whatever? There most certainly are rules to

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Speaker 1: oh polenty. There's more than ten commandments. Let me assure you,

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Speaker 1: it's not just ten. There are over four hundred commandments

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Speaker 1: in scripture, and to hear those and to respond to

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Speaker 1: them is wonderful. However, don't get lost. Don't get lost

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Speaker 1: in some of the statements, some of the descriptions of

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Speaker 1: some that have been pulled over through the entirety of scripture.

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