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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these

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Speaker 2: new sermons every week. I hope you're blessed today.

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Speaker 1: Come on, church. How about we put our hands together.

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Speaker 1: How about we open our mouth? How about we release

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Speaker 1: the phrase? How about we lift up the name Above

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Speaker 1: all names, they're not the name of Jesus. Every tongue

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Speaker 1: would confess, every knee would vow that he is Lord.

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Speaker 1: He's Lord in my heart, he's Lord over your life,

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Speaker 1: He's Lord in this place. Let's magnify, let's lift up.

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Speaker 1: It is right that we would praise them in this

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Speaker 1: place today. Oh my soul, what a beautiful time of worship,

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Speaker 1: worshiping the name of Jesus, the name of Jesus. And

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Speaker 1: every single one of us will receive a reward one

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Speaker 1: day when we get to see him face to face

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Speaker 1: and he speaks over you, well done, good and faithful servan.

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Speaker 1: That's the goal of our life, to run after Jesus,

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Speaker 1: to just And I'm seeing people in the faith running

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Speaker 1: after him. I know you don't feel like you're moving fast.

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Speaker 1: It's all about their direction. You're moving towards Jesus today,

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Speaker 1: and as we move towards Christ, there's some voices from

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Speaker 1: your past telling you, do you know what you did?

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Speaker 1: They're trying to tie you to your past like a shame.

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Speaker 1: But your future is in front of you with Jesus.

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Speaker 1: The Apostle. Paul talks about that in Philippians. He calls

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Speaker 1: that trash, say trash those thoughts of your past, those

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Speaker 1: things that you're shackled to. As you move into the future,

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Speaker 1: you're tied back to it. What's your it? What's that

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Speaker 1: thing that you feel like you left in the past,

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Speaker 1: but it's in the car with you this morning. What's

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Speaker 1: that thing that's intimidating you, making you feel like you

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Speaker 1: got to slow the pace because you're not worthy to

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Speaker 1: run after Jesus. The devil can't steal the direction, but

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Speaker 1: he can get you to forfeit the speed. What's the it?

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Speaker 1: Paul tells us to forget it. What's the it you

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Speaker 1: need to forget today? An unnamed enemy will never be defeated.

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Speaker 1: What's the it? What's the it? What's the it? Some

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Speaker 1: of you the it you hope nobody sees?

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Speaker 1: Is the browser on your search history. You hope you

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Speaker 1: cleared what is the it's And Paul says we need

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Speaker 1: to forget it and run into the future towards Jesus,

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Speaker 1: that we need to forget what's behind move into the future.

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Speaker 1: But Paul just doesn't talk about the trash being the

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Speaker 1: it he needs to forget. He talks about the trophies

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Speaker 1: because some of us feel like if I could just

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Speaker 1: have it, then I would be good. Any other it

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Speaker 1: than Jesus is not it? What's your it? If I

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Speaker 1: could just marry it, if I got a little more

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Speaker 1: of it in my bank account, if I could just

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Speaker 1: everybody would praise me for it. What's your its? Theologian said,

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Speaker 1: Jesus plus nothing equals everything, but Jesus plus anything equals nothing.

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Speaker 1: I wonder what you're it is today? And I want

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Speaker 1: to give you a verse before we sit down. Out

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Speaker 1: of Philippians, chapter three, verses twelve through fourteen. This is

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Speaker 1: what Paul has to say about it. Say it. It

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Speaker 1: just isn't the trash. It is also the trophies, because

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Speaker 1: Paul said, man, I've got a lot of things that

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Speaker 1: I've been running after. The goal of my life wish

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Speaker 1: to be noticed, to be a person of fame. He

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Speaker 1: listens inheritance and his accomplishments, and that used to be it,

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Speaker 1: and then he had is such a profound encounter with

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Speaker 1: Christ it changed. I wonder how God wants to grades

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Speaker 1: you're it today? One of the it of putting in

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Speaker 1: your pocket is the thing you've been motivated by. I

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Speaker 1: wonder if somebody else's praise, who might not even be watching,

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Speaker 1: is the it you're working for. And Jesus is over

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Speaker 1: here saying I'm it. I'm all you need. I'm all

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Speaker 1: gotta forget it. Paul says this. He says, not that

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Speaker 1: I've obtained all of this or have already arrived at

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Speaker 1: my goals, but I press on to take hold for

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Speaker 1: that which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters,

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Speaker 1: I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold

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Speaker 1: of It's but one thing I do. Forgetting what is

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Speaker 1: has called me heavenward. In Christ Jesus, what's the it

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Speaker 1: you need to forget today? And here's the title that

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Speaker 1: I want us to consider for the next few minutes

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Speaker 1: we're together. It is this, Say it out loud, say

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Speaker 1: see it differently. Now, you didn't say it like you

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Speaker 1: meant it. Say it like you had coming from your

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Speaker 1: deepen your soul. Say see it differently. A high five

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Speaker 1: someone on your way to your seat. Thank you, worship teams.

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Speaker 1: Tell me welcome all of our locations. We're honored to

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Speaker 1: have you with us today. Normally you would see Pastor

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Speaker 1: get me. I am l B. I am one of

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Speaker 1: the pastors here at Elevation. My wife Janet, and I

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Speaker 1: one of the greatest moves of God on the planet

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Speaker 1: for the last twenty years. And I look out and

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Speaker 1: I'm like, Holy cow, Lord, you did immeasurably more than

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Speaker 1: we could ever ask or imagine. God, you are that good,

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Speaker 1: you are that kind. And I would be remiss if

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Speaker 1: I didn't take a minute to celebrate our pastors, Pastor

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Speaker 1: Stephen and Pastor Holly. Tell me thank them. For twenty

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Speaker 1: years they've faithfully preached the Word of God, and they're

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Speaker 1: incredible on the platform, but they're even greater off the platform.

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Speaker 1: They love their family, the way they lead this church,

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Speaker 1: the way they pray for you and intercede for us.

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Speaker 1: You are led by some incredible pastors. Pastor Stephen, Pastor Holly.

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Speaker 1: We honor you, we love you, we thank you.

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Speaker 1: Such a joy to be with you. I get the

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Speaker 1: privilege of opening up God's Word with you. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: be in the Book of Philippians. My hope is to

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Speaker 1: pull on a thread to show you one theme that

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Speaker 1: runs through this incredible Book of Philippians. But I didn't

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Speaker 1: own a Bible until I was twenty seven, and I

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Speaker 1: remember getting my first Bible, ripping a cellphane off it

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Speaker 1: and smelling it. I was like, it's my Bible. I'm

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Speaker 1: so proud of it. And I went to a Bible

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Speaker 1: study the next day with some people that were theologians,

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Speaker 1: they were doctors, and they're talking about provenient grace and

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Speaker 1: propreciation and oh Badia, and I'm like, oh my, and

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Speaker 1: like and they're flipping to these books in the Bible.

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Speaker 1: And I was so excited about my Bible the night before,

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Speaker 1: word of God. Whether you're a season or you just

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Speaker 1: tore the sellafan off, God has something for you from

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Speaker 1: his word today. Every other book you read, this is

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Speaker 1: it will challenge you, it will encourage you. And I

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Speaker 1: want to be in this book of Philippians. And because

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Speaker 1: I think the thing I want you to help you

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Speaker 1: we conform it into our image rather than being conformed

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Speaker 1: into its image. I'll pull a verse out of Philippians,

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Speaker 1: shoehorn to make it fit our situation. Philippians, Chapter four,

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Speaker 1: first four thirteen. It's this verse that everybody uses. I'm

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Speaker 1: use this verse. I can do all things through Christ,

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Speaker 1: who strengthens me to say I'm going to play in

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Speaker 1: the league one day. Oh yeah, And I will make

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Speaker 1: in the NBA. You need to see it differently. Some

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Speaker 1: to see differently. I want to look at Philippians four

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Speaker 1: from the Book of Philippians. It's this passage that if

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Speaker 1: you've been around church, you've heard it preached, you've said it,

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Speaker 1: Philippians four to six. It says, do not be anxious

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Speaker 1: with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And yes, it says,

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Speaker 1: do not be anxious. But maybe the author Paul sees

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Speaker 1: he writes to the Philippian Church, and it's unlike any

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Speaker 1: But I think the Philippian Church was Paul's favorite church.

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Speaker 1: It's not a letter of getting better theology. It is

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Speaker 1: the smallest church. It would have been dozens. It would

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Speaker 1: have been this little section over here in about five

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Speaker 1: rows back on. That would have been about the size

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Speaker 1: of this ministry. And here we are, two thousand years

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Speaker 1: later talking about a partnership with the smallest thing. Significance

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Speaker 1: is never determined by size. It is always demonstrated by sacrifice.

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Speaker 1: And this church, why would they respond in such an

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Speaker 1: extrivagan way, say we've got to do something about Paul

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Speaker 1: in prison. Could you hand me that bag? Run underneath

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Speaker 1: you there? So they sit together like, we got to

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Speaker 1: do something. We just can't talk about it, feel bad

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Speaker 1: about it. We need to do something. We need to

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Speaker 1: take up a love offering. Being around church in the

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Speaker 1: length of time you've heard about love offerings, sometimes they'll

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Speaker 1: guilt you into giving. They had the guilt nobody into

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Speaker 1: giving to this thing year. But they said, our man

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Speaker 1: is in prison, he shackled, he's waiting trial, and we've

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Speaker 1: got to do something about it. So what are we

447
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Speaker 1: going to do. We're going to gather our reserves. Underneath

448
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Speaker 1: your seat there, could you reach and grab dead? Yeah?

449
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Speaker 1: I didn't make it easy and some he says, I

450
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Speaker 1: got a new cloak. How about we send that to

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Speaker 1: Paul because he's probably gonna be cold, because sometimes we

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Speaker 1: think about giving Oh I got the thing I don't

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Speaker 1: use anymore. I said, no, no, no, no, we're gonna we're

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Speaker 1: gonna have send him extravagant love. We're gonna give him

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Speaker 1: the best becky underneath your seat right there, could you

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Speaker 1: grab me that? And so he says, I know Paul's

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Speaker 1: like a like a writer, and I just got this

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Speaker 1: new parchment, So how about we send that to him

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Speaker 1: as well? And they put it in the bag because

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Speaker 1: we need to send something to Paul. We just don't

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Speaker 1: want him to feel bad. We want to do something

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Speaker 1: about it. But I got some new parchment. But underneath

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Speaker 1: your seat, you've got some pens, and you've got some ink.

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Speaker 1: Would you put it in the bag. I wonder what

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Speaker 1: you're sitting on today. I wonder what you're sitting now.

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Speaker 1: God said, I need to release and underneath your seat

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Speaker 1: he had some because we need to send him money

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Speaker 1: because he's in prison. They give no food, no clothes,

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Speaker 1: no time to put it in the bag. Yeah, so yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: why don't you put in the back because I want

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Speaker 1: to keep it in my pocket. How did they see

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Speaker 1: it different? This is either something I worship or something

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Speaker 1: I use to worship. It changes once you encounter Christ,

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Speaker 1: you serve with it. And now like, okay, we got

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Speaker 1: eight hundred miles we got the gift collected, we got

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Speaker 1: some money, we got some stuff, and now we need

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Speaker 1: to get it to Pall eight hundred miles away. We

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Speaker 1: can't call ups, there's no courier service. So at this

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Speaker 1: point in Christian circles, whenever you talk about we got

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Speaker 1: an opportunity, this is wherever starts looking at the ground.

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Speaker 1: And because when I picture the Philippian Church, I'm picturing

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Speaker 1: people like, no, pick me, let me go, Let me go,

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Speaker 1: because the only way you'll see it differently is when

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Speaker 1: you don't see self in the picture. One person agreed

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Speaker 1: in the back, thank you. Now, no you can't telling God?

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Speaker 1: Would you change it? And he says, no, no, I need

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Speaker 1: to change the way you see it. You need to

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Speaker 1: see it differently. And so they picked a guy named Epaphroditis.

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Speaker 1: Say Apaphroditis, as it's hew word, we'll just go with e.

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Speaker 1: If if you're pregnant looking for a name. I can

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Speaker 1: just submit to you a Paphroditis. So Epaphroditis is going

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Speaker 1: to be the guy to deliver the thing. He's got

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Speaker 1: to go three hundred and fifty miles of land, one

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Speaker 1: hundred miles of ocean, and three hundred and fifty miles

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Speaker 1: of more lands just to get to roam. It's going

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Speaker 1: to take him six weeks with good weather, up to

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Speaker 1: three months with bad weather. And someone's like, absolutely, and

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Speaker 1: we got our own e right here. You don't know

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Speaker 1: this guy, but this is Chris Everett. When I think

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Speaker 1: about it, Paphroditis, this is right here, this because what

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Speaker 1: you don't know about this man is he represents the

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Speaker 1: generosity of our house. Because that's what Epaphroditis got to do.

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Speaker 1: He got to be the one to show up at

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Speaker 1: the prison and represent the people of Philippi with an

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Speaker 1: extravagant love offering. Oh my soul, this is Chris. He's

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Speaker 1: a part of our outreach team. He gets to take

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Speaker 1: offerings collected by the House of God and show up

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Speaker 1: in places and let us bless you on behalf of elevations.

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Speaker 1: This is a Paphididacey, This is thank you Chris for

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Speaker 1: doing that. I like to think aspirationally I would sign

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Speaker 1: up for that, but in reality I kind of like

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Speaker 1: take a back seat to that. Why because I'm all

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Speaker 1: about me Jesus. Wait now, the song is all about you, Jesus.

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Speaker 1: But if Paphroditis is like I will inconvenience myself. And

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Speaker 1: if we think about Chris Everett e going being gone

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Speaker 1: because you're not just gonna deliver it. You're gonna stay

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Speaker 1: with him because he has no capacity to go by groceries.

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Speaker 1: So you're gonna stay there meet his needs, and you're

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Speaker 1: gonna come back whenever the prison is said. And so

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Speaker 1: you're gonna hit pause on your life dot dot. I

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Speaker 1: want to follow you, Jesus, But have we done by

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Speaker 1: four o'clock? If it's on Tuesdays after nine am, but

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Speaker 1: before ten am, and it's got to be between sixty

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Speaker 1: eight and sixty nine degrees. We have a conditional calling.

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Speaker 1: If it meets the right conditions, then we'll sign up

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Speaker 1: for it. The Philippian Church did not carry a conditional calling.

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Speaker 1: And the reality is when God comes to you and

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Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit is saying I want to partner with you,

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Speaker 1: you treat Jesus like a silent partner in a business.

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Speaker 1: A silent partner has no voice in the organization, but

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Speaker 1: they get to enjoy all the benefits. I wonder how

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Speaker 1: many of you have turned down the dial of the

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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. You're not even listening to it. And the

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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit is trying to tell you. Give that up,

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Speaker 1: take it out from underneath your seat, Quit building your

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Speaker 1: stone on storehouses. How about you start serving somebody else

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Speaker 1: rather than serving your self. But I got the dial

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Speaker 1: turned down, and the Holy Spirit isn't even speaking. I

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Speaker 1: guess he just doesn't speak to me. No, I've made

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Speaker 1: him a silent partner, and a paphroditis, it says this.

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Speaker 1: So Paphfriditis delivers the offering, and here we come in

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Speaker 1: chapter two, verse twenty five and twenty eight. Paphorditis gets there. Now,

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Speaker 1: Paul writes in his letter, because the offering shows up

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Speaker 1: with the paphoriditis he gets. And then Paul writes this

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Speaker 1: letter back. And if Paphriditis actually delivers the letter back,

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Speaker 1: he says, but I think it necessary to send back

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Speaker 1: to you. A Paphordite is my brother, coworker, fellow soldier

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Speaker 1: who is also your messenger, whom you sent to take

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Speaker 1: care of my needs. For he longs for all of

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Speaker 1: you and is distressed because you heard he was ill.

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Speaker 1: Indeed he was ill, and he almost died. I'm sorry, er, Chris,

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Speaker 1: but God had mercy on him, not only on him,

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Speaker 1: but also on me to spare me sorrow upon sorrow.

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Speaker 1: The most interesting verse there. I thought Paul was the

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Speaker 1: man of joy, and here he's talking about sorrow. To

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Speaker 1: be fully human doesn't mean you don't have suffering. To

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Speaker 1: be fully human means both can exist in the same space.

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Speaker 1: Maturing in our faith is to have joy and suffering

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Speaker 1: and sorrow in the presence of both of each other,

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Speaker 1: and neither one disqualified the other. And some of you

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Speaker 1: don't feel like you have permission for joy because you

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Speaker 1: have some sorrow. Here we have Paul ill, I've got sorrow.

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Speaker 1: And here's the reality. This next verse will flip you out.

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Speaker 1: Some of you, you've read the Bible your whole life.

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Speaker 1: Thing you've never seen this verse, he says, they're twenty eight. Therefore,

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Speaker 1: I'm all the more eager to send him to you,

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Speaker 1: so that when you see him again, will I may

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Speaker 1: have less anxiety? Now does anybody see the apparent contradiction

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Speaker 1: that Paul has posed to the people in Philippi. Chapter four,

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Speaker 1: verse six is do not be anxious about anything? And

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Speaker 1: we only preach chapter four verse six. Have you any

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Speaker 1: of you ever read chapter two twenty eight? Have you

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Speaker 1: even even know that verse was in the Bible? He says,

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Speaker 1: I want to send this sick guy to you so

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Speaker 1: I will have less anxiety. Here's what I want to

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Speaker 1: have subtitle for this sermon, upgrade your anxiety, because we

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Speaker 1: translate the same word in the English, but it's two

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Speaker 1: different words in the original language. In chapter four, verse six,

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Speaker 1: it is the concerns of self, he says, do not

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Speaker 1: be anxious about yourself? Who can add a day of

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Speaker 1: their life by worrying? In chapter two, it is the

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Speaker 1: concerns of others who be anxious. That's the subtitle about

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Speaker 1: the right thing. There's an anxiety that somebody else has

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Speaker 1: that you are called to carry. But the reason I

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Speaker 1: can't carry their anxiety is because I'm consumed with mine.

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Speaker 1: How do I see it differently? So Paul is speaking

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Speaker 1: to the Philippian church and he's giving them this lesson

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Speaker 1: and how to see it differently? And when I take

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Speaker 1: a group photo of all of us, and so I

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Speaker 1: take a group photo, and who do you look for

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Speaker 1: first in the photo. We're all narcissistic. We all start

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Speaker 1: with self. That's the problem is we stop there. We

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Speaker 1: only ever see ourselves in the scene. I'm gonna sound

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Speaker 1: like an old man for just a minute, as one

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Speaker 1: of the elders of this church. How do we handle anxiety?

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Speaker 1: It all depends on which anxiety you're caring. Is it

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Speaker 1: yours or somebody else's. What does it mean to upgrade

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Speaker 1: our anxiety and consider somebody else's. We live in a

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Speaker 1: world that worships self. We're in a world and the

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Speaker 1: mind of the flesh, and what we're going to contradict

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Speaker 1: right now is very practically the mind of the flesh

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Speaker 1: in the mind of the spirit. The mind of the

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Speaker 1: flesh is what you're born into the world with. The

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Speaker 1: mind of the flesh is telling you trust yourself, look

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Speaker 1: out for yourself, discover yourself, find yourself, defend yourself, indulge yourself.

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Speaker 1: And it's all about self promotion, self protection, self fulfillment,

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Speaker 1: self gratification, and being true to your self. And we

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Speaker 1: live in a world that idolizes self care. And I

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Speaker 1: have searched the scriptures, I cannot find anything in the

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Speaker 1: text that talks about self care. And what I do

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Speaker 1: read in the text that Jesus said, if anyone would

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Speaker 1: come after me, he must pick up his cross daily,

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Speaker 1: deny himself and follow me. How do you see it differently?

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Speaker 1: I like self care, I mean, get your protein, get

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Speaker 1: your workout. But self care without self denial is self

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Speaker 1: indulgence and it leads to self worship. If you look

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Speaker 1: hashtags for self care, you'll see one hundred and one

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Speaker 1: million hashtags. Do you assert your self denial about twelve thousand?

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Speaker 1: Paul said, do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit,

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Speaker 1: but in humility consider others better than yourself. Denying the

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Speaker 1: flesh doesn't mean you deny that anxiety exists. It means

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Speaker 1: that you don't let it dominate your thinking and drive

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Speaker 1: your decisions. And what I want to contrast is the

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Speaker 1: mind of the flesh and the mind of the spirit.

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Speaker 1: When we are born into this world, we are hardwired

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Speaker 1: with the mind of the flesh. The flesh is self seeking,

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Speaker 1: self serving, and it is wicked. And we're living in

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Speaker 1: a culture that's all about ubu and the scriptures are

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Speaker 1: all about no, no, no, that's the problem. We need to

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Speaker 1: deny that. What you see in the Philippian Church is

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Speaker 1: the Philippian Church was concerned about Paul. Paul was concerned

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Speaker 1: about the Philippian Church, and then then the Epaphroditis was

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Speaker 1: concerned about Paul. And then Paul became concerned about a paphroditis,

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Speaker 1: and then the Philippian Church learned that he was sick,

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Speaker 1: and they became concerned about a paphrodize and you see

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Speaker 1: everybody else. The reason they saw it differently is they

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Speaker 1: weren't seeing self. What does it mean for us to

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Speaker 1: deny ourselves in Philippians? Because the question here is not

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Speaker 1: what do you see? But it's how do you see?

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Speaker 1: A little bit of trivia about me. I've had cornea

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Speaker 1: transplants on both of my eyes, so I have donor

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Speaker 1: tissue in both of my eyes. In my early twenties, says,

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Speaker 1: I was legally blind in both eyes, and I had

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Speaker 1: a genetic condition that deformed my corneus. And we couldn't

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Speaker 1: fix it with contacts, we couldn't fix it with lasik,

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Speaker 1: we couldn't fix it with all the King's horses and

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Speaker 1: all the king's men couldn't put it back together again.

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Speaker 1: And no matter what I tried in my human effort,

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Speaker 1: I would always have a distorted picture. That is the

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Speaker 1: mind of the flesh. And it is so prevalent and

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Speaker 1: so pervasive that we had to cut it out and

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Speaker 1: give me a whole new surface to see things through.

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Speaker 1: And the mind of the flesh is You're hardwiring. If

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Speaker 1: Paul says this in chapter chapter three, verses eighteen and nineteen,

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Speaker 1: he says, for I've often told you before, and now

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Speaker 1: tell you again, even with tears, many live as enemies

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Speaker 1: of the Cross of Christ. And what he's talking about

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Speaker 1: is people of RELEGI gated the Holy Spirit to a

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Speaker 1: silent partnership. He's not talking about people trying to destroy Christianity.

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Speaker 1: He's talking about people claiming Christianity yet living in a

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Speaker 1: very different way. I will come on Sunday, I will

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Speaker 1: wear the bling, but I will do my own chink

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Speaker 1: kajing kajing. I was really bad, but I liked it.

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Speaker 1: It was good because here's what he says. In verse seventeen.

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Speaker 1: He says, again, this is the mind of the flesh.

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Speaker 1: Their destiny is destruction. Their God is their stomach. They're

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Speaker 1: being driven by flesh, by the carnal nature, trying to

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Speaker 1: satisfy yourself. And he says, and it becomes and their

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Speaker 1: glory is in their shame. And eventually that gluttony becomes

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Speaker 1: their glory. And now they start posting it for everybody

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Speaker 1: to see, the depravity. And he says, their mind is

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Speaker 1: set on earthly things. The mind of the flesh is

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Speaker 1: caught up in earthly things. The it is, if I

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Speaker 1: could have it, how do you see it differently? I've

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Speaker 1: got to have a different mind. What you think in

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Speaker 1: your mind is what you see with your eyes. Paul

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Speaker 1: contrasts that with the mind of the spirit in Philippians

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Speaker 1: chapter four, right after he talks about do not be

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Speaker 1: anxious in anything but everything, with prayer and petition, present

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Speaker 1: your request to God, and the peace of God will

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Speaker 1: guard your heart and mind. In Christ Jesus, he goes

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Speaker 1: right into this. Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever true, whatever

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Speaker 1: is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely,

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Speaker 1: whatever is admirable, if anything is excellent or praise worthy,

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Speaker 1: think about such things. That's the mind of the spirit.

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Speaker 1: And it's amazing how Paul is saying the anxiety in

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Speaker 1: yourself to deny that means I'm not going to let

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Speaker 1: that dominate my thinking. But the way I deny myself

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Speaker 1: is by serving somebody else. This is the upside down

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Speaker 1: part of the kingdom. Because the world tells you to

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Speaker 1: get ahead, you've got to store it up to get ahead.

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Speaker 1: You've got to be concerned about yourself. But the mind

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Speaker 1: of the spirit the kingdom, the greatest will be the least,

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Speaker 1: and the least will be the The first shall be

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Speaker 1: the and the last will be the Those who are

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Speaker 1: fresh others will they themselves be. Some of you have

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Speaker 1: an anxiety that you're trying to satisfy through self care

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Speaker 1: that will never be filled. It will leave you empty,

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Speaker 1: drinking salt water, and you wonder why you're parched. But

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Speaker 1: the currency of the Kingdom is very different. You see,

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Speaker 1: the currency of the world is it's all about self,

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Speaker 1: and we borrow that currency from the world, and we

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Speaker 1: wonder why we're spiritually bankrupted. Is that will not work

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Speaker 1: over here in the Kingdom. The way you get filled

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Speaker 1: up is by being poured out. That's the kingdom. That's

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Speaker 1: the kingdom. So you want to see it differently. How

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Speaker 1: about the very thing you want? You go find someone

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Speaker 1: to serve. Some of you feel like you're not noticed.

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Speaker 1: How about you notice somebody today. Some of you have

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Speaker 1: a whole day of self care with getting all the

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Speaker 1: nails done. Praise God, get your nails done. But I

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Speaker 1: wonder if there's a fourteen year old drowning and anxiety

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Speaker 1: in the space, what would it look like for you

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Speaker 1: to invite them along and just pour into somebody else

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Speaker 1: what you want poured into you. Some of you, men,

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Speaker 1: your partnership with Jesus is a private entity. It's all

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Speaker 1: about you building and accumulating trophies, and it's not a

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Speaker 1: public corporation meant to bless everyone. And my sanctuary is

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Speaker 1: the golf course. I wonder if there's a twelve year

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Speaker 1: old little boy who doesn't have a father that would

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Speaker 1: love for you to just how about you come up

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Speaker 1: golfing with me, and the very thing you want you

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Speaker 1: give away and from that God brings it back to you.

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Speaker 1: And then four verse nine, he says, think about love

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Speaker 1: these things. It's a thinking thing. How's you think in

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Speaker 1: your mind? Is what you see with your eye? You

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Speaker 1: will only see it differently when you have a different mind.

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Speaker 1: An old mind will not have new thoughts. You cannot

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Speaker 1: upgrade an outdated operating system that is defunct. It will

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Speaker 1: not work. You will not see it differently. And he

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Speaker 1: says this in verse nine, He says, whatever you've learned

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Speaker 1: to receive from me and seen in me, put it

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Speaker 1: into practice. Say practice it sound like Alan Ivers said,

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Speaker 1: we talk about practice man practice means repetition. Because Paul

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Speaker 1: would also pen do not conform any longer to the

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Speaker 1: pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing

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Speaker 1: of your You've got such ingrained patterns about self. Unless

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Speaker 1: you're intentional, you'll just fall into the patterns. And the

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Speaker 1: difference between a road in a rut is one gives

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Speaker 1: you direction, the other one you can't get out of.

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Speaker 1: And he says, it's in the mind, it's in the space,

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Speaker 1: but you need to put it into practice. All of

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Speaker 1: you are going back to it and you're looking at God.

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Speaker 1: If you just change it, then I would be happy,

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Speaker 1: I guess. Says no, No, No, I need you having

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Speaker 1: a new mind looking at it. If my husband would

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Speaker 1: just get his it together, it says no. If you

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Speaker 1: would get it in your mind, you would see potential

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Speaker 1: where you've only seen problems. How on earth can I

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Speaker 1: be in a prison and have purpose? It's because I

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Speaker 1: reasoned in my mind Jesus defeated death. I don't have

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Speaker 1: to fear death. Now what you've got prison guards. And

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Speaker 1: where Paul closes this whole thing, his central treatise, right

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Speaker 1: in the middle of this amazing book, is in Philippians,

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Speaker 1: chapter two, verses five through eleven, and he says this.

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Speaker 1: He says, in your relationships with one another, have the

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Speaker 1: same mindset as Christ Jesus. You see the battle in

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Speaker 1: the mind, the mind of the flesh, the mind of

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Speaker 1: the spirit. And he says to you, if you want

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Speaker 1: to see it differently, have a different mind, have the

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Speaker 1: mind of Jesus, because when you have the mind of Jesus,

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Speaker 1: you will see it differently. And he says, this is

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Speaker 1: of our Savior, who, being in very nature God, did

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Speaker 1: not consider it quality with God, something to be used

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Speaker 1: for his own advantage. You see he's throwing shade on

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Speaker 1: the first atom. Adam thought he would be like God,

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Speaker 1: and he trusted his own wisdom, and he looked at

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Speaker 1: something that said, oh it's pleasing, and he ate it.

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Speaker 1: And he didn't see that it would kill him. Some of

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Speaker 1: you are eating your own wisdom, and you wonder why

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Speaker 1: you're dying. It's the mind of the flesh. It's what

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Speaker 1: I think is right, It's what I'm justified in doing.

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Speaker 1: It's what I think I deserve. And it says of Jesus,

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Speaker 1: he deserved all of doubt, Yet he didn't use it

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Speaker 1: for his own advantage. In the garden, he said, do

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Speaker 1: you not know my father would release twelve legions of angels,

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Speaker 1: seventy two thousand angels could come. He says, no, I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to take advantage of what is mine. He

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Speaker 1: was fully God and he's fully human, but he's not

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Speaker 1: just fully human. He shows you the true human that

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Speaker 1: you and I were made to be. Self care will

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Speaker 1: never conform you into the image of Christ self denial will,

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Speaker 1: it says. Rather, he made himself nothing by taking the

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Speaker 1: very nature of a servant. You mean he's seated in

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Speaker 1: glory and he takes on the form of a slave. Yes,

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Speaker 1: he humbled himself and being found in the appearance as

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Speaker 1: a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death.

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Speaker 1: Death wasn't giving the orders. He was telling Death what

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Speaker 1: to do. He was being obedient to Father that led

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Speaker 1: him to death. And some of you will not listen

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Speaker 1: to the Holy Spirit because you don't like the destination.

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Speaker 1: And what do I want to tell you? When you

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Speaker 1: look at it through the mind of Jesus, he will

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Speaker 1: give you the grace to take another step and another step.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to do it, deny it, but I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna follow the Holy Spirit as he leads me. Became

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Speaker 1: obedient to death, even death on a cross. You see,

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Speaker 1: the world saw the cross and as an instrument of

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Speaker 1: torture and death and justice. And Jesus looked at that

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Speaker 1: same cross and he saw deliverance. He saw he he

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Speaker 1: saw wholeness. He saw it differently. What prison are you?

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Speaker 1: In the mind of the flesh will not see anything different.

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Speaker 1: But the mind of the spirit can bring me joy

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Speaker 1: in the middle of a prison cell. Therefore God exalted

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Speaker 1: him to the highest place, and he gave him the

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Speaker 1: name that is above every name, that at the name

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Speaker 1: of Jesus, every knee should bow in heaven and on

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Speaker 1: earth and under the earth, and every tongueing knowledge that

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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God, the

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Speaker 1: Father that is our savior, that is our King, that

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Speaker 1: is our Redeemer, that is our Manuel, God with us.

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Speaker 1: He came to walk on this earth for you, for me,

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Speaker 1: to forgive you of our sins. He came to make

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Speaker 1: you hold everyone standing in all of our locations, because

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Speaker 1: when you're born in this world, you're born dead in

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Speaker 1: your sin, and it's so pervasive that Jesus needed to

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Speaker 1: die so that you could be forgiven. And for some

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Speaker 1: of you, God is knocking on the door of your

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Speaker 1: heart right now, and he's saying, would you let me in?

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Speaker 1: Would you choose to receive the gift of salvation by

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Speaker 1: confessing your sinner in need of a savior. Some of you,

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Speaker 1: you have tried to do everything in your human strength,

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Speaker 1: in your human power, and it will not satisfy what

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Speaker 1: could only be satisfied through Jesus. And when you receive

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Speaker 1: the gift of salvation, you also receive the person of

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Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit who comes inside you, and he dwells

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Speaker 1: within you. Would you buy your heads, would you close

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Speaker 1: your eyes? Would you open your heart to consider? Have

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Speaker 1: you trusted in Jesus? And at the name of Jesus,

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Speaker 1: every need would bow and every tongue would confess and

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Speaker 1: is moment for someone to bow their knee and to

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Speaker 1: confess with their mouth that they're a sinner and you

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Speaker 1: need to save your church family. We're going to say

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Speaker 1: a prayer together out loud for the benefit of somebody

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Speaker 1: who's recognizing I need to be rescued from my sin.

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Speaker 1: Pray this with me, church family. I believe that Jesus

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Speaker 1: Christ is the Son of God who died on the

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Speaker 1: cross and rose from the grave to forgive me of

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Speaker 1: my sin. I give you my life, I give you

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Speaker 1: my sin, I give you my shame. Forgive me, and

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Speaker 1: I'll spend my life following you with your heads to

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Speaker 1: body and your eyes to close. If you just place

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Speaker 1: your faith in Jesus, I am going to count to three,

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Speaker 1: and when I get there, without hesitation, you are going

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Speaker 1: to boldly shoot your hand into the air on the

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Speaker 1: counter of three, one, two, three. Come on, shoot that

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Speaker 1: hand up. Come on, all across the auditorium, all across

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Speaker 1: all of our locations. Come on, if you're online, let

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Speaker 1: us know you just made that decision, the greatest decision

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Speaker 1: you will ever make, a decision no man can take

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Speaker 1: from you. Come all us worship the name of Jesus.

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