Speaker 1: Hey, I'm coming to you now from the basin. This
Speaker 1: is a special bonus teaching that I recorded just for
Speaker 1: you to break it down a little more, to take
Speaker 1: it a little deeper.
Speaker 2: I hope you enjoy this overflow message. Let me know,
Speaker 2: let's go.
Speaker 1: Since I'm saying there's so much more to the story,
Speaker 1: I just want to point out that so much more
Speaker 1: to the story may not just mean that it isn't
Speaker 1: finished yet, like that there's more to come, but it also,
Speaker 1: as a phrase, could mean the story as it has
Speaker 1: been so far is much different than what you've been
Speaker 1: told about it. Because in storytelling, point of view is everything.
Speaker 1: So I want to talk about that point of view
Speaker 1: is everything.
Speaker 2: Point of view is everything.
Speaker 1: Have you ever had a situation that felt really big
Speaker 1: to you in one moment and really small in the next.
Speaker 2: What was different?
Speaker 1: You know, the situation obviously can change, but let's say
Speaker 1: it didn't. Have you ever had a situation that felt
Speaker 1: in the moment like the biggest thing in the world.
Speaker 1: Later you saw that kept me up at night? That okay,
Speaker 1: is probably that the point of view changed. The point
Speaker 1: of view changes sometimes because of you changing. Sometimes the
Speaker 1: point of view changes because of you as you change,
Speaker 1: the way you see things changes as you mature, as
Speaker 1: you grow, as you get tools. You should be able
Speaker 1: to look back over your life and go, oh, wow,
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 2: A jerk there.
Speaker 1: And you don't even have to necessarily call the person
Speaker 1: and say I was a jerk four and a half
Speaker 1: years ago, but at least to know it moving forward,
Speaker 1: and sometimes you make repairs in relationships, and sometimes it
Speaker 1: would do more harm to open an old wound. But see,
Speaker 1: the point of view changes because of you changing, and
Speaker 1: if you don't let God change you, that's where you
Speaker 1: get stuck in a story. You go, oh, man, this
Speaker 1: always happens to me and never gets my way, and
Speaker 1: everybody always picks on me.
Speaker 2: What is the why is everybody always picking on me? Character?
Speaker 1: Maybe you can put it in the comments for me,
Speaker 1: I don't remember, but you know, point of view is
Speaker 1: everything when it comes to not only how you tell
Speaker 1: a story to a friend. I was telling somebody the
Speaker 1: other day about working with a certain individual and I
Speaker 1: was like, that was awesome.
Speaker 2: They came in, they gave their all.
Speaker 1: It was incredible, and sitting in the room didn't look
Speaker 1: like they were on the same page as me. This
Speaker 1: person who had come in and worked with me. I
Speaker 1: had seen right, they were all in, they.
Speaker 2: Were going hard.
Speaker 1: The person in the room had been involved in the
Speaker 1: lead up to the person coming in to work with me,
Speaker 1: and in the lead up the person was really difficult, noncommittal, indecisive.
Speaker 1: I put a lot of extra strain on my team
Speaker 1: who was helping to arrange all of the details.
Speaker 2: And so.
Speaker 1: You know, in that particular situation, the person that was
Speaker 1: sitting in the room with me had information that changed
Speaker 1: the way that I saw the story.
Speaker 2: There will be.
Speaker 1: Times in your life where either an outside observer or
Speaker 1: an inward witness will call to your mind something that
Speaker 1: you just.
Speaker 2: Know happened this way. I know they took advantage of me.
Speaker 1: I know I did ninety seven percent of the work
Speaker 1: and got three percent of the credit.
Speaker 2: And then.
Speaker 1: Time shifts the story because of you changing, growing, evaluating,
Speaker 1: experiencing life, gaining ability for empathy. Because of you changes
Speaker 1: your point of view changes. Now I'm gonna bring this
Speaker 1: to the gospel real quick, because we could do Joshua
Speaker 1: and Moses, but we could also do.
Speaker 2: Jesus and the Disciples.
Speaker 1: Moses disciple, Joshua, Jesus disciple, Peter Imagine the difference of
Speaker 1: Peter telling the story about Jesus in the garden of
Speaker 1: Gethsemane before and after the resurrection. Imagine he's telling the
Speaker 1: story they came up to get Jesus. He was praying,
Speaker 1: we were sleeping. Maybe he leaves that part out of
Speaker 1: the story. He was praying, we were sleeping, and I
Speaker 1: was trying to help, because when Barabbas came to get him,
Speaker 1: I cut his ear off, and Jesus didn't even appreciate
Speaker 1: what I did for him.
Speaker 2: He put his ear back on. He undid the work
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, you know, at the cross,
Speaker 1: when he denies Jesus in the courtyard, and then isn't
Speaker 1: there at the cross, and then he's out fishing, and
Speaker 1: Jesus comes to get him and talks about feed my sheep,
Speaker 1: and he goes on in his ministry in the light
Speaker 1: of the empty tomb rather than in the shadow of
Speaker 1: the cross.
Speaker 2: I believe he told a different story.
Speaker 1: After he had lived through a few stages of life,
Speaker 1: and you will too, You will too. Maybe at the
Speaker 1: at the time he wrote first Peter, because he was
Speaker 1: older than he's saying, humble yourself like you don't know
Speaker 1: what you don't know. Point of view is everything. I
Speaker 1: was young and now I'm old, but I never seen
Speaker 1: the righteous forsaken. And you know, we are not always
Speaker 1: on the same page with God. We're not always on
Speaker 1: the same page with God's spirit. And maybe be helpful
Speaker 1: for us today sometimes to find those points of communion
Speaker 1: and contact with God so we can get on the
Speaker 1: same page, so that we can have his point of view.
Speaker 1: You know that God has a purpose in the earth,
Speaker 1: and he's working that purpose in your life. And there
Speaker 1: is a bigger picture than any particular incidents or preference.
Speaker 1: There's a bigger picture than your past up to this
Speaker 1: point or your present pain. And to get into that
Speaker 1: place with God where you can say, all right, Lord,
Speaker 1: I want you to be my new point of view.
Speaker 1: And that means allowing him to speak things about you
Speaker 1: how he sees you.
Speaker 2: Because God sees you different.
Speaker 1: Then you see you, your situation, your struggle, the injustices
Speaker 1: that have been done to you, the mistakes that you've made,
Speaker 1: and what you need to do next and what you
Speaker 1: can do next.
Speaker 2: Point of view is everything the Saint Peter that was.
Speaker 1: Saying, never Lord telling Jesus what to do was say,
Speaker 1: and humble yourself because of you changing, because of view,
Speaker 1: because of you changing as you change, your point of
Speaker 1: view changes.
Speaker 2: Point of view is everything in the story.
Speaker 1: So little exercise that I was introduced to recently, it
Speaker 1: was saying, how would somebody who admires you describe you?
Speaker 1: Try seeing yourself through the eyes of someone who admires you.
Speaker 1: Now that's hard for me because I am very self critical.
Speaker 1: I have a hard time giving myself credit, and because
Speaker 1: of that, I probably don't encourage others as much as
Speaker 1: I should. But I'm working on this. And the advice
Speaker 1: I see yourself through the eyes of someone who admires
Speaker 1: you sounded good to me and a little fluffy, if
Speaker 1: I'm honest. But in the process of considering it, I
Speaker 1: realized that my wife Holly sees me through eyes of admiration.
Speaker 1: And it's not the kind of admiration that's based on
Speaker 1: a lack of information where she doesn't know me really
Speaker 1: well and she only sees a certain side.
Speaker 2: Of me, so she admires me. She sees everything.
Speaker 1: She sees the days in the past where I couldn't
Speaker 1: get out of bed because I was depressed.
Speaker 2: She sees the days where I go hide.
Speaker 1: Out in my man cave mind and barely engage with
Speaker 1: the family. She sees the days that I'm irritated, she
Speaker 1: sees the days that I'm short tempered, she sees the
Speaker 1: days that I doubt myself, you know, on an even
Speaker 1: more practical level, the messes that I make.
Speaker 2: She sees the slob that I can be.
Speaker 1: And yet even today, as I was waking up, I
Speaker 1: opened this letter that she had written me. She gave
Speaker 1: me a stack of letters for Christmas, and there were
Speaker 1: only about four or five of them, but I was
Speaker 1: on the fourth one, and she put a picture of
Speaker 1: me with a little note about me.
Speaker 2: And it was a picture that she took of me
Speaker 2: getting ready to preach in Los Angeles last year.
Speaker 1: And in the picture, I'm kind of like sitting there
Speaker 1: with my head in my hands, with my Bible in
Speaker 1: my hand. And I know how I felt in that moment,
Speaker 1: which was like, I'm not the man for this. Who
Speaker 1: do I think I am going out to preach to
Speaker 1: twelve thousand people at the forum in LA You know,
Speaker 1: I feel all this self doubt, and I can almost
Speaker 1: see the self doubt when I'm looking at the picture.
Speaker 1: But she wrote me a note saying thank you for
Speaker 1: working hard, thank you for not just relying on your
Speaker 1: gifts strictly, but seeking God to preach to us. And
Speaker 1: she said, I hope you forgive me for taking this
Speaker 1: picture without asking your permission. And I thought, man, I
Speaker 1: need to see myself sometimes through her eyes, because all
Speaker 1: I see in those moments is what I don't have
Speaker 1: when I'm afraid I can't do. But she saw a
Speaker 1: man who was trying to seek God and lean into him.
Speaker 1: Point of view is everything point of you, The point
Speaker 1: of you. The point of your life is not just
Speaker 1: to be self serving. The point of you, The point
Speaker 1: of your life is to not just be a consumer
Speaker 1: who eats all the messages professional marketers send to you
Speaker 1: every day. The point of you is to glorify God
Speaker 1: and to know him and to make him known. And
Speaker 1: so when God says to Joshua, you will lead these
Speaker 1: people to inherit the land which I promised their ancestors,
Speaker 1: Joshua is getting God's point of you. Point of view,
Speaker 1: What is the point of you being in this marriage,
Speaker 1: What is the point of you being in this family,
Speaker 1: What's the point of you being on that job?
Speaker 2: What is the point of you being.
Speaker 1: In that city Toronto, Wichitah, Houston, Charlotte. What is the
Speaker 1: point of you being there? Is so the glory of
Speaker 1: God can be revealed. He told Joshua, you are leading
Speaker 1: these people into the promise, and God is fulfilling his purpose.
Speaker 1: And from God's point of view, it didn't start with you,
Speaker 1: So don't start with you. How could it stop with you.
Speaker 1: He will begin a good work in you will be
Speaker 1: faithful to complete it. God sees the end from the beginning.
Speaker 1: That's his point of you. Point of view is everything.
Speaker 2: I believe that God can take you into the future.
Speaker 1: Do you remember the apostle John, He said, after this,
Speaker 1: I looked in there before me. It was a door
Speaker 1: standing open in heaven John revelation for one. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was different point of view, right. The voice say,
Speaker 1: come up here, I'll show you the things that much
Speaker 1: must take place.
Speaker 2: After this, God said, I'll show you. Get with me.
Speaker 2: Get around people.
Speaker 1: Who will not flatter you, not just gas you, and
Speaker 1: not only admire you in an empty way. People who
Speaker 1: God can put in your life to see the things
Speaker 1: that God put inside of you. Of view point of view,
Speaker 1: Kingdom of Heaven is you and living from the inside out.
Speaker 1: Looks like trusting God even when you can't see what
Speaker 1: he's going to do, getting his point of view, his promise,
Speaker 1: and walking in it. And I hope you enjoyed the podcast,
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