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Speaker 1: Let us pray. Therefore, if any man be in Christ,

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Speaker 1: he is a new creature. Old things are passed away. Behold,

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Speaker 1: all things are become new Tewod Corinthians five seventeen. Thank

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Speaker 1: you Jesus for coming into my life and taking over.

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Speaker 1: I belong to you and have been cleansed from my

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Speaker 1: old sinful nature. That life no longer appeals to me.

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Speaker 1: I want nothing to do with it. You have given

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Speaker 1: me a new life in you. As I decrease and

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Speaker 1: let you have your way in my life, I see

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Speaker 1: that new life growing. You are teaching me to walk

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Speaker 1: with the same bold confidence you have. You humble me

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Speaker 1: with your greatness. As I search your word for understanding,

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Speaker 1: you give me wisdom and strength. I have new eyes

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Speaker 1: and desires. I see how different I am becoming. I

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Speaker 1: rest in your presence. Thank you Lord for this new

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Speaker 2: Amen.

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Speaker 2: The title of today's message is new you.

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Speaker 5: It's always nice to get something new, you know, And

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Speaker 5: But if a woman says to you, I don't have

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Speaker 5: anything new to wear? Right, So I need something new

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Speaker 5: to wear, not what I have. There's a city in England,

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Speaker 5: a what there's a New York. Now the New York

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Speaker 5: So this thing about being new, you read the definition

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Speaker 5: So you say I got a new car. It turns

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Speaker 5: of a sudden, like a breeze, a wind that you

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00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:40,919
Speaker 5: can't see, the spirit of God bam hit your life

437
00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:42,480
Speaker 5: and you go what was that and where did that

438
00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:45,399
Speaker 5: come from? Don't ask so many questions. Say Lord, is

439
00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:48,840
Speaker 5: that you? And he says, yeah, that's me. You sense that.

440
00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:51,920
Speaker 2: Respond to that and say, Okay, I don't want to

441
00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:53,080
Speaker 2: fight to you. I know you exist.

442
00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:55,640
Speaker 5: It looks like you've touched my heart, You've touched my life.

443
00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:57,920
Speaker 5: You've stirred me in some way and given me faith

444
00:20:57,960 --> 00:20:58,399
Speaker 5: to believe.

445
00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:00,200
Speaker 2: I'm going to believe. Now.

446
00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:03,760
Speaker 5: Here's what you can't do just because the new guy

447
00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:06,280
Speaker 5: moves in your house. It may take a while for

448
00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:09,480
Speaker 5: the new guy to take over the house. And don't

449
00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:12,000
Speaker 5: be discouraged. Don't grow weary. We talked about with some

450
00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:15,600
Speaker 5: men recently in Well Doing. Because the transition. You say, well,

451
00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:17,800
Speaker 5: it should all be new, it should be immediate. The

452
00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:22,399
Speaker 5: reality is it's not. It's a process. Birth is an event.

453
00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:26,840
Speaker 5: Growing up is a process. New birth is an event.

454
00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:30,320
Speaker 2: Growing is a process, and so it is going to

455
00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:30,919
Speaker 2: be messy.

456
00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:34,080
Speaker 5: Why do you think versus like in first Johnny says,

457
00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:36,280
Speaker 5: if we confess our sins, he's faithful and just to

458
00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:38,679
Speaker 5: forgive us and to cleanse us from all and righteousness.

459
00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:41,760
Speaker 5: Those verses are in there because we sin, and so

460
00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:45,080
Speaker 5: when you sin, you confess, And hopefully what will happen

461
00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:47,520
Speaker 5: is you'll get tired of confessing. If not, just get

462
00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:50,440
Speaker 5: tired of sinning, because at some point you just feel

463
00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:52,800
Speaker 5: like an idiot. Why am I back here confessing the

464
00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:56,320
Speaker 5: same thing I've been confessing for thirty years. This doesn't

465
00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:58,280
Speaker 5: make any sense. This is not who I'm supposed to be,

466
00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:01,080
Speaker 5: who I even want to be? Who will deliver me

467
00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:04,199
Speaker 5: from the body of this death? That literally says, okay,

468
00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:07,360
Speaker 5: so only death or Jesus returning delivers you from this.

469
00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:11,000
Speaker 5: So you're stuck in this body with two people. But

470
00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:13,400
Speaker 5: every day you wake up you make a decision. Who's

471
00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:14,240
Speaker 5: running this house?

472
00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:15,200
Speaker 2: Okay?

473
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Speaker 5: Go to Romans chapter six. Romans chapter six, verse one,

474
00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:25,480
Speaker 5: what shall we say? Then shall we continue and sin?

475
00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:28,120
Speaker 5: That grace may abound? Now there's some people that take

476
00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:31,119
Speaker 5: this route. And actually, there was a time I became

477
00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:32,400
Speaker 5: a Christian as a child.

478
00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:34,040
Speaker 2: Didn't make a lot of sense.

479
00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:37,479
Speaker 5: For a long time, someone explained grace to me and

480
00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:39,959
Speaker 5: here's what can happen to you. When you understand grace.

481
00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:44,760
Speaker 5: You can go on a wahoo trail like, oh, okay,

482
00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:49,400
Speaker 5: you know I got grace. So grace means no matter

483
00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:51,600
Speaker 5: what I do, he's got to forgive me. So then

484
00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:54,439
Speaker 5: you go on kind of a shooting spree of sorts.

485
00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:56,639
Speaker 5: I can just do this and that and that, and

486
00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:58,800
Speaker 5: what's God gonna do. He loves me, so he's got

487
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Speaker 5: to forgive me. Christians went with that back in that

488
00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,560
Speaker 5: time and said, well, you know where it's all this

489
00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:06,600
Speaker 5: grace and all this forgiveness and we can live like

490
00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:08,880
Speaker 5: hell and He'll just forgive us and it'll be okay.

491
00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:11,399
Speaker 2: So this is addressed. What shall we say? Then?

492
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Speaker 5: Shall we continue and sin that grace may abound? So

493
00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:15,919
Speaker 5: if there's grace is so great, let's send more so

494
00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:19,119
Speaker 5: we can use it up, certainly. Not how shall we

495
00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:21,560
Speaker 5: who died to sind live any longer in it? Or

496
00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:23,240
Speaker 5: do you not know that as many of us as

497
00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:26,560
Speaker 5: were baptized into Christ, Jesus were baptized into his death.

498
00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:28,359
Speaker 5: And by the way, the word baptized in the Bible

499
00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:30,280
Speaker 5: doesn't always mean what you think it means. The word

500
00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:34,119
Speaker 5: baptized simply means to put into. So it's not always

501
00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:38,920
Speaker 5: about water baptism, it's about being put into Christ. Therefore

502
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:41,480
Speaker 5: we are buried with him through baptism into death.

503
00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:43,760
Speaker 2: And just as Christ was raised from the dead.

504
00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:46,000
Speaker 5: By the glory of the Father, even so we should

505
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:49,879
Speaker 5: also walk in what newness of life it should change?

506
00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:53,439
Speaker 2: Now, this is what is so easy and convincing.

507
00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:57,639
Speaker 5: Frankly, for people who meet someone who says they became

508
00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:00,320
Speaker 5: a Christian, you say, well, but you're still a screw up.

509
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:03,359
Speaker 5: Don't act like you figured it all out if you

510
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:06,240
Speaker 5: just became a Christian. I've changed some diapers in my life.

511
00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:08,560
Speaker 5: Those first black ones. I can't figure out what those are.

512
00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:12,000
Speaker 5: What's the name of those black ones? The Maconian?

513
00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:12,520
Speaker 2: You don't know?

514
00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:14,520
Speaker 5: Yeah, I look at she's got a newborn in her arms,

515
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:16,560
Speaker 5: like she knows what that is for sure?

516
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:18,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, those are. That's like, who.

517
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:20,600
Speaker 5: About to take this baby back? Look what just came

518
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:23,160
Speaker 5: out of that butt? You know, it's like, how my gosh.

519
00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:26,000
Speaker 5: So you go, well, but why are you saying that?

520
00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:30,320
Speaker 5: That's just natural? Okay, So babies generate diapers and they have.

521
00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:32,440
Speaker 2: To be changed. So same thing with new believers.

522
00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:36,040
Speaker 5: But when people who are not Christians observe someone and

523
00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:39,159
Speaker 5: it's real, it's not perfect. They go, Okay, so you

524
00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:41,800
Speaker 5: became a Christian. Yeah, but you're still struggling. Yeah, I'm

525
00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:43,840
Speaker 5: still struggling, but I don't feel the same way.

526
00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:45,760
Speaker 2: And I've got an answer. I got peace, I got joy,

527
00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:47,920
Speaker 2: I got forgiveness. They go, okay, I can maybe deal

528
00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:50,920
Speaker 2: with that, and then they watch and go, so you're changing.

529
00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:54,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm changing, And the conversations are different, the topics

530
00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:57,280
Speaker 5: are different. The places you go start changing, the desires,

531
00:24:57,320 --> 00:24:58,960
Speaker 5: thing you don't want to do anymore. It just starts

532
00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:01,560
Speaker 5: to change. And that person's he says, well, wow, dude,

533
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:04,399
Speaker 5: you're not the same person. It's like you're a new person.

534
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:10,560
Speaker 5: Why because you are a new person. Second Corinthians, Chapter five,

535
00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:13,960
Speaker 5: Second christ Chapter five. Let's get down of verse fourteen.

536
00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:17,639
Speaker 5: Too many of us are trying to get along with

537
00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:21,879
Speaker 5: the first birth. You're trying to be accommodating the new man.

538
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:25,359
Speaker 5: The new person is trying to say to the original guy, Look,

539
00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:27,800
Speaker 5: we can figure this out. Like you know what, I'll

540
00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:30,160
Speaker 5: make concessions. I'll let you do this if you'll let

541
00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:32,280
Speaker 5: me do that. You got to shoot that guy in

542
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:32,720
Speaker 5: the head.

543
00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:34,639
Speaker 2: Better than that.

544
00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:36,639
Speaker 5: You don't have to shoot him in the head. He's dead,

545
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:39,720
Speaker 5: Paul said, what, I'm crucified with Christ? Now, how is

546
00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:41,600
Speaker 5: that possible? Paul wouldn't hang him on the cross when

547
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:44,000
Speaker 5: Jesus on the cross. But the point of it is

548
00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:47,520
Speaker 5: when Jesus died. Paul's realize I died. See, you just

549
00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:49,720
Speaker 5: think that old guy is still alive, and so you

550
00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:51,920
Speaker 5: behave as though he's still alive, and let him run

551
00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:54,760
Speaker 5: your life instead of going he's dead. I don't have

552
00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:57,280
Speaker 5: to live this way anymore unless you choose to. And

553
00:25:57,320 --> 00:25:59,440
Speaker 5: then where does that get you? Nothing new?

554
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:01,679
Speaker 2: I can tell you. It's all the old stuff.

555
00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:05,159
Speaker 5: For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge

556
00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:07,600
Speaker 5: thus that if one died for all, then all died,

557
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:10,119
Speaker 5: and he died for all, that those who live should

558
00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:12,679
Speaker 5: no longer for themselves, but for him who died for

559
00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:16,400
Speaker 5: them and rose again. Therefore, from now on we regard

560
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:19,080
Speaker 5: no one according to the flesh, even though we have

561
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:22,240
Speaker 5: known Christ according to flesh. Yet now we know him

562
00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:26,440
Speaker 5: thus no longer. Okay, So I look at somebody who

563
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:29,359
Speaker 5: becomes a Christian not been a Christian young, you know

564
00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 5: they're making a mess so you say, but okay, but

565
00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 5: that's that's not working.

566
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:36,080
Speaker 2: They're newborns. It's no change.

567
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:39,240
Speaker 5: Yes there's change, but you've got to stop looking at

568
00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:42,200
Speaker 5: people for the old person they were and start looking

569
00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:44,560
Speaker 5: at them as though they're a new person and assume

570
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:46,560
Speaker 5: they're going to grow, they're going to change, it's all

571
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:49,560
Speaker 5: going to be okay. But what do churches do. Someone

572
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:51,760
Speaker 5: comes in, they fall on their butt and we pounce

573
00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:54,119
Speaker 5: on them. Oh, if you were really a Christian, you

574
00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 5: wouldn't be living like that you did. Why are you

575
00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:00,280
Speaker 5: busting their chops when you filled diaper after diaper way

576
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:01,080
Speaker 5: past your time?

577
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,200
Speaker 2: Right? So you have to be gracious, you say, yes,

578
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:04,600
Speaker 2: it's sin.

579
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 5: But they're newborns, so it takes some time to get

580
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 5: up and run and it's gonna be messy.

581
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 2: Okay. So you patiently help people grow.

582
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:15,240
Speaker 5: And say, okay, so what are we doing, Like, well,

583
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:16,879
Speaker 5: I went back out there and did this or that

584
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 5: whatever you're you know, if it's drugs, alcohol, some sexual thing, whatever.

585
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:22,600
Speaker 2: It is, you say, well, I went back out. Okay,

586
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:24,680
Speaker 2: Well let's stop going back out. That's not who you

587
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:26,919
Speaker 2: are anymore. What do you mean? That's not who I am?

588
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:28,880
Speaker 2: That's what I'm doing, but that's not who you are.

589
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:32,439
Speaker 5: One of the trickiest things in the world is to

590
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 5: take in somebody who has been a drug addict, maybe

591
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,920
Speaker 5: drug dealer, alcohol, whatever it is, some addiction. They've ended

592
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,639
Speaker 5: up in prison, they've been you know, told what you know,

593
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 5: almost died when you were born, you're a loser, you'll

594
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:46,440
Speaker 5: never amount to anything. And so you take that person

595
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:49,960
Speaker 5: and they believe all that stuff, and then you put

596
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:52,040
Speaker 5: the new man in there. They become a Christian and

597
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 5: now God himself lives in there. And you start trying

598
00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:56,520
Speaker 5: to explain them, say, look, the stuff you were told,

599
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:59,120
Speaker 5: the lies you were told based on what you where

600
00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:01,840
Speaker 5: you came from, and your behavior. That is not who

601
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:05,879
Speaker 5: you are anymore. You have options, you don't have to

602
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,280
Speaker 5: live that way anymore. Then what does the devil do? Say, dude,

603
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:11,720
Speaker 5: don't listen to them. You had no other option.

604
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:13,200
Speaker 2: This is it.

605
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,119
Speaker 5: There's a guy in the room right now. For years,

606
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 5: I've been walking with this guy and before he was

607
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 5: a Christian, early on he was a I don't want

608
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 5: to ask him so anyhow he you know, he was

609
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 5: dealing drugs, marijuana, some other stuff. That was just a

610
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:29,479
Speaker 5: way of life. That's how he made a living. So

611
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:32,000
Speaker 5: he becomes a Christian. He starts walking with God, and

612
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:35,160
Speaker 5: what do you think happened? He's not making as much money.

613
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:36,840
Speaker 5: He's trying to do the right thing. He gets a job,

614
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 5: and then the devil says, what same thing. We have.

615
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:40,560
Speaker 2: Strippers show up from time to time.

616
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 5: And if you're making twelve hundred bucks a day and

617
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:49,480
Speaker 5: you become a Christian, and some smart Christian looks, he says, well,

618
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:51,600
Speaker 5: you need to stop doing that and get you a job. Okay,

619
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 5: what are you gonna do fifteen bucks an hour? Your

620
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:56,479
Speaker 5: resume is going to say good on a poll. I mean,

621
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 5: what are you gonna say? Well, you need to stop

622
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 5: doing that and go do this. There's going to be

623
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:06,120
Speaker 5: an adjustment period. Beautiful girl showed up years ago, was

624
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 5: a stripper and she stopped.

625
00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 2: But the guy that ran the club, these guys know

626
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:12,680
Speaker 2: what they're doing, and he'd call her.

627
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 5: He'd say, hey, I know you don't want to do

628
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:16,240
Speaker 5: this anymore, but I know you got a truck payment

629
00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 5: coming up and I just need somebody for Friday night.

630
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 5: Will you just come in? You know what you make

631
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:24,120
Speaker 5: and then you go back out. You can get out

632
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 5: of here, the devil's a snake.

633
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 2: Get you going.

634
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 5: I got another buddy talked to smoke crack. Anythink, well,

635
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 5: do you have any normal friends?

636
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:33,120
Speaker 2: Not a lie?

637
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 5: But and he said he quit smoking crack and he

638
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:41,680
Speaker 5: locked himself in his house and the dealers knocked on

639
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 5: his door and would leave it at the door free

640
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:47,400
Speaker 5: because they knew if they got him going again, he

641
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:50,800
Speaker 5: was back. So you say back to my friend here, dude,

642
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 5: you can't have a job. I went to see him

643
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:54,600
Speaker 5: one day at work and a drug dealer showed up

644
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 5: at his job, and you said, where are you going?

645
00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 5: The same place you're going. You think this isn't going on.

646
00:29:59,400 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 2: Where you live.

647
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 5: This is how crazy the world is. I could literally

648
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 5: ask one of these kids, hey, cal I'll give you

649
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 5: a number. I could have drugs delivered to this room

650
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 5: within about ten minutes. Anybody know that's a fact. If

651
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:13,320
Speaker 5: you need the number, all those people have the number.

652
00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:17,760
Speaker 2: Right. So you sit.

653
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 5: Down with a guy and he's going to work and

654
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:21,840
Speaker 5: he's dealing drugs. That's not going to work because I know,

655
00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 5: but I need some extra cash. So it takes a

656
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 5: while for him to get you know, say, okay, I

657
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,560
Speaker 5: can't do that. Anymore. But he's not doing that anymore.

658
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 5: We we gonna shoot you in the head. Because he's

659
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 5: still struggling. He said, well, there's church discipline. There's verses

660
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 5: in there about, you know, throwing people out of the church.

661
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,520
Speaker 5: That is the last resort. And this guy is not

662
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 5: saying I don't want to do what God wants me

663
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,960
Speaker 5: to do. I'm just struggling, all right. The next verse

664
00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 5: Second Corinthians, chapter five. So because of what he said, therefore,

665
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 5: if anyone is in Christ, he's a what Now look

666
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:56,480
Speaker 5: at these two words new creation? Now what does that mean?

667
00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 5: That means it's unlike anything else. Literally, God, who can

668
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 5: create something from nothing. When you became a Christian, he

669
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 5: made you a new creation.

670
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:06,360
Speaker 2: You look in the.

671
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 5: Mirror and say, that's me, that's not you. That's the

672
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 5: house you live in, but that's not the you. You

673
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 5: that's gonna live forever, not the physical peace, because you're

674
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 5: gonna have a new body, new heaven, new earth. All

675
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,239
Speaker 5: this stuff's in the Bible. So you say, well, that's

676
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 5: who I see in the mirror. When a new man,

677
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:24,400
Speaker 5: new woman moves in, and you're a new creation. Even

678
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 5: the person you see in the mirror starts looking different

679
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 5: because your life begins to change from the inside out.

680
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 5: So if anyone is in Christ, he's a new creation.

681
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 5: Old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become

682
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 5: what new. So give it time for the new to

683
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:43,000
Speaker 5: kick in. Don't give up on new.

684
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 2: It's better now.

685
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 5: This is what I think Christians think and kind of

686
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 5: why I'm going here today.

687
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 2: What we have kind of been somehow.

688
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 5: Adopted and believed, is that God just took you and

689
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 5: he has refurbished you.

690
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 2: He's remodeled you. What are my other words here.

691
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:06,640
Speaker 5: He's restored you, He's improved you, he's making you better.

692
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:09,720
Speaker 5: He's just painting over the rust. He sanded you down

693
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 5: and got you you know. You say, well, it's kind

694
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 5: of like you go to a junkyard. I think I've

695
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,320
Speaker 5: talked about those garage shows. I love these shows where

696
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 5: they go get, you know, a car out of the dump,

697
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 5: the pant what do they call it, salvage yard, and it's.

698
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 2: A terrible car.

699
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 5: They load it up, they take it in and they

700
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 5: take it apart, and they dip it in acid and

701
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 5: get you know, and they rebuild the car.

702
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:30,240
Speaker 2: That's not what this is talking about.

703
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 5: We're not rebuilding you, you get a new you. You say, oh,

704
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 5: but God restored my life. He may have restored the

705
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:41,240
Speaker 5: new new, but not the old new, not the old guy.

706
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 5: You can't restore that guy.

707
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 2: He's dead. We don't need him.

708
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 5: So if you ever figure out there's a new you

709
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:51,480
Speaker 5: and what is possible with him in that life, your

710
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 5: life's gonna go nuts in the best of ways, because

711
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:56,479
Speaker 5: then you start going to get Wait a minute, so

712
00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 5: I'm not some old thing that's just been fixed up.

713
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 2: No, there's a new you.

714
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 5: And so you say, well, God, what does that mean.

715
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:05,120
Speaker 5: I've only had one new car in my whole life,

716
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 5: and I'm gonna tell you something. It's different because I

717
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 5: usually had old cars and would never leave the house

718
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:17,960
Speaker 5: without jumper cables, either for me or somebody else, because

719
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 5: if you're always getting jumps from somebody else, there's no

720
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 5: way you're not gonna be willing to jump other people.

721
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 2: Not in that way.

722
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 5: But you know, you just if they need help, you

723
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 5: got to stop and help. So I usually stop and

724
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 5: help people because I had so many people stop and

725
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:31,320
Speaker 5: help me. I'm gonna tell you something about my old

726
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 5: seventy eight Lincoln. I really don't even know where it

727
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 5: is today. But I would not take it back restored

728
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 5: over a new car, because there's nothing like new. If

729
00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 5: Phesians chapter four. If Phesians four seventeen, this I say, therefore,

730
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 5: and testifying the Lord, that you should no longer walk

731
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 5: as the rest of the gentiles walk in the futility

732
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:57,280
Speaker 5: of their mind, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from

733
00:33:57,280 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 5: the life of God because of the ignorance that is

734
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 5: in them, because of the blindness of their heart, who,

735
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 5: being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to

736
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:09,400
Speaker 5: work all uncleanness with greediness. But you have not so

737
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:11,880
Speaker 5: learned Christ, if indeed you have heard Him and have

738
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:14,440
Speaker 5: been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus,

739
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 5: that you put off concerning your former conduct, the old man,

740
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 5: which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be

741
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,000
Speaker 5: renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you

742
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 5: put on the new Man, which was created according to

743
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 5: God in true righteousness and holiness. So the other day

744
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 5: I'm doing some work. It's hot, I come in the house,

745
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:37,920
Speaker 5: and if you can smell yourself, you stink. If someone

746
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:41,320
Speaker 5: else can, you smell bad. If you can smell yourself.

747
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:45,439
Speaker 5: You really stink. Okay, So I come in, I take

748
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:49,560
Speaker 5: those sweaty, dirty clothes off, kind of drape them over

749
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:51,440
Speaker 5: the clothes hamper, because you don't want to pile them

750
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 5: in there that things start growing within ten minutes. You know,

751
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:55,840
Speaker 5: you just want to drape them. Maybe they'll dry off.

752
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:59,520
Speaker 5: I jumped in the shower and got completely clean, and

753
00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:01,400
Speaker 5: then I go those clothes and put him back on.

754
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 2: Why are you making weird noises?

755
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 5: Because who would do that? Why you keep doing that?

756
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 5: You go to God, you confess your sin. Okay, it's

757
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:14,359
Speaker 5: all better, and then you go in the dirty clothes

758
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:15,480
Speaker 5: and put your dirty clothes back on.

759
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 2: Why are you putting dirty clothes on? Put the new

760
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 2: man on?

761
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 5: Because that old guy's which got you in trouble the

762
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 5: first place. So you say, well, what does all that mean?

763
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:25,719
Speaker 5: How does that apply? The scripture talks about putting on

764
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:27,799
Speaker 5: the whole armor of God is though that's something you

765
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 5: can't do physically. It's not a physical armor, it's a

766
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:33,080
Speaker 5: spiritual armor. So this new man it's not a physical thing,

767
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:35,319
Speaker 5: it's a spiritual thing. But you say, Lord, it's like,

768
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:38,280
Speaker 5: I want this guy off of me, and I'm putting

769
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:42,640
Speaker 5: on the new Man. I want this guy. How many

770
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:45,920
Speaker 5: military guys have got in the room? Any marines? We

771
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:48,359
Speaker 5: got a lot of marines in here. Okay, stand up.

772
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:50,879
Speaker 5: You know marine dude. You just got a white shirt

773
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:53,360
Speaker 5: on and some pair of pants. How's he a marine?

774
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:56,840
Speaker 5: Right in colonsole? Marine all day long? Now if he

775
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,880
Speaker 5: runs outside, goes in the bathroom and puts his uniform

776
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:01,799
Speaker 5: and walks back in the here, the old room would

777
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:06,279
Speaker 5: stand up almost because he put on marine. Does that

778
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 5: make sense? So he can hide in that? He can't

779
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:12,239
Speaker 5: hide in marine. And there's something that happens to you

780
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 5: when you put that uniform on. Right, It's not like

781
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:17,919
Speaker 5: going out in street clothes. Okay, you can sit him.

782
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:20,759
Speaker 5: Thank you, sir for your service too. So y'all see

783
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:23,560
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. So you wake up and go. I

784
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 5: don't want to wear marine out there today because they

785
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:26,920
Speaker 5: all have to live a different life.

786
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 2: People see me differently, and.

787
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:31,440
Speaker 5: You know they'll be talking to me and stuff. I

788
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:33,640
Speaker 5: just want to chill and hide out there. No chilling

789
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:35,399
Speaker 5: and hiding out. When you're a Christian, you put him

790
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:38,319
Speaker 5: on and go. And when you put on the Lord

791
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 5: Jesus Christ, when you put on the new man. People

792
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:43,960
Speaker 5: will see that. You say, how are they going to

793
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 5: see that? There's no way they can't see it. That's

794
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 5: just how it works, because you will live differently with

795
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:52,839
Speaker 5: that on, as opposed to the other stinky stuff you've

796
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 5: been wearing. All right, let's try a few more verses

797
00:36:56,080 --> 00:37:00,440
Speaker 5: then i'll quit. Colossians Chapter three, similar deal Colossians three.

798
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:03,399
Speaker 5: A couple books to the right can here He gives

799
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,799
Speaker 5: some very practical specific stuff Colossians three nine.

800
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:08,920
Speaker 2: Do not lie to one another?

801
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:12,440
Speaker 5: Why, since you have put off the old man with

802
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:14,920
Speaker 5: his deeds, stop lying.

803
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:17,239
Speaker 2: To each other? And he said, well, who's lying? Don't

804
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:21,400
Speaker 2: raise your hand if you're lying, right, But you'd be

805
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 2: amazed how much lion goes on. That's the old man,

806
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:26,680
Speaker 2: he said. I don't think I'm a liar.

807
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:28,880
Speaker 5: I didn't think I was a thief until I got

808
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:31,360
Speaker 5: out on that driving range. He said, well, but that's

809
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 5: you know, that's just a little technicality.

810
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:34,440
Speaker 2: It is what it is.

811
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 5: One of my favorites is somebody calls your house and

812
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:41,480
Speaker 5: one of your kids answer the phone, Hello, is your

813
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 5: mommy there? And Mom's waving her hand at her kid,

814
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:47,120
Speaker 5: like I'm not.

815
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 2: Here, So the kid goes, she says, she's not here.

816
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:58,799
Speaker 5: Until they learn how to lie, and then they're not

817
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:01,400
Speaker 5: telling the person that you're actually lying.

818
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 2: You sae, well, dude, we just do that.

819
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:05,319
Speaker 5: You know, you're teaching your kids to lie, and then

820
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 5: they lie later and you go why they lieing?

821
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:07,799
Speaker 2: You taught them?

822
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 5: How good enough for you? And it's always circumstantial. Well,

823
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:15,399
Speaker 5: I wouldn't always lie, but you know I was taught

824
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:18,080
Speaker 5: to lie where you needed it. So then you're filling

825
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 5: out your taxes and you need it, and now you're lying, thief?

826
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 2: Have I left anybody out today?

827
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 5: I'm trying to hit all the targets as much as possible.

828
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:28,920
Speaker 2: Do not lie to one another.

829
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:31,200
Speaker 5: Since you have put off the old man, with his deeds,

830
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:33,319
Speaker 5: the way he lives, the way he works, and have

831
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:36,240
Speaker 5: put on the new man, who is renewed in knowledge

832
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 5: according to the image of him who created him.

833
00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 2: Look at this created him. So it's going back to

834
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:41,919
Speaker 2: this deal.

835
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 5: This new Man was created where there is neither Greek

836
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:49,399
Speaker 5: nor Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, Barbarian Scythian slave, nor free,

837
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,680
Speaker 5: but Christ is all and in all. So it's not

838
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:55,400
Speaker 5: about where you're from background, either new man or no

839
00:38:55,480 --> 00:39:01,319
Speaker 5: new man. Okay, last one Revelation twenty one. And this

840
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 5: is where it kind of gets a little exciting, because

841
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:07,120
Speaker 5: we put everything in terms of what we see, in

842
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:10,200
Speaker 5: categories that we have, and what you know it'll be

843
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 5: like based on what we know.

844
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:13,919
Speaker 2: Revelation twenty one, Verse one.

845
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 5: Now I saw what a new heaven and a new

846
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 5: earth for the first heaven and the first earth had

847
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 5: passed away.

848
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:26,279
Speaker 2: Now you say, well, how is that possible? That can

849
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:27,880
Speaker 2: never happen. It's not going to happen.

850
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:31,120
Speaker 5: Now I have not seen the new heaven and the

851
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:34,279
Speaker 5: new Earth. Someone has, who's seen it. This writer has

852
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 5: seen it.

853
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:35,760
Speaker 2: What does he say?

854
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 5: I saw a new heaven, So he has seen something

855
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:42,240
Speaker 5: that nobody had ever seen, including himself, and no category

856
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:44,399
Speaker 5: for you say, well, it'll probably kind of look like this.

857
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 5: Let me tell you something about the universe. This is

858
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 5: just God showing off temporary house and we don't even

859
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:53,239
Speaker 5: know where the edge of this thing is. So if

860
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 5: this is something he just kind of created to do

861
00:39:56,719 --> 00:40:00,840
Speaker 5: his thing while we're here, then what the world is

862
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:03,000
Speaker 5: heaven going to be like? I'll tell you it'll be

863
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 5: something new I has not seen nor ear heard nor

864
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 5: has entered the heart of man the things that God

865
00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:10,359
Speaker 5: had prepared for those that love him.

866
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 2: And why because.

867
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Speaker 5: It's new, it's totally different. So when God says he

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Speaker 5: has a new place for us there, and he has

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Speaker 5: a new life for us here, you need to get

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Speaker 5: in on that new life. Keep reading. This saw new

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Speaker 5: heaven and new earth. For the first heaven and the

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Speaker 5: first earth had passed away, and there was no more sea.

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Speaker 2: The sea's gone.

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Speaker 5: Then I John saw the Holy City New Jerusalem, coming

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Speaker 5: down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride

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Speaker 5: adorned for a husband. And I heard a loud voice

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Speaker 5: from heaven saying, behold, the Tabernacle of God is with men,

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Speaker 5: and He will dwell with them, and they shall be

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Speaker 5: his people. God himself will be with them and be

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Speaker 5: their God. And God will wipe away every tear from

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Speaker 5: their eyes. And there shall be no more death, nor

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Speaker 5: sorrow nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for

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Speaker 5: the former things have passed away. Than he who sat

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Speaker 5: on the throne said, behold, I make all things new.

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Speaker 5: And he said to me write these words for their

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Speaker 5: true and faithful. So you want a new life, You

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Speaker 5: got to get a new life. You can't just change

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Speaker 5: your location and think that's going to change your life,

889
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 5: because wherever you go, there you are, and if there's

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Speaker 5: not a new you there, it's just going to be

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Speaker 5: the way it was the other place.

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Speaker 2: So where do you start? You say, God, I've only

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Speaker 2: been born once.

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Speaker 5: I'd like to add a second berth and see what

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Speaker 5: this is that you're describing in what is possible with

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Speaker 5: a new person living in this old body? And let

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Speaker 5: the new guy run my life because the other guy

898
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Speaker 5: is running my life and running my life.

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Speaker 2: How much more devastation have.

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Speaker 5: You got to see for you to say, okay, God,

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Speaker 5: I'll do what you want me to do. How much

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Speaker 5: more pain? How stubborn are you going to be? How

903
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Speaker 5: stupid are you going to be? How I can do it?

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Speaker 5: That's two year old nonsense. I can do it by myself.

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Speaker 5: It's not going to happen. So you get a new birth.

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Speaker 5: And if you've got the new birth, then get in

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Speaker 5: on the new life. You see, Well, I don't know how.

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Speaker 5: Why do you think think we're so big on discipleship?

909
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Speaker 5: It's raising kids. So someone comes along and says, okay,

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Speaker 5: did you know this? I had no idea about that?

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Speaker 5: Why didn't somebody tell me this, And I've shared this before.

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Speaker 5: When the old man that helped me, Claude helped.

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Speaker 2: Me, I got furious.

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Speaker 5: I was so stinking angry because he was teaching me

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Speaker 5: things that someone should have taught me years before. That

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Speaker 5: will saved me tons of pain about how to live

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Speaker 5: the new life that God intended, not that old crap

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Speaker 5: I was stuck in. So why do we get so

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Speaker 5: upset that you and why do we push so hard

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Speaker 5: that you were left with just the old man, because

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Speaker 5: that's not how God intended this. Well, I'm going to

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Speaker 5: go to some church where they'll leave me alone.

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Speaker 2: I pray you don't.

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Speaker 5: If you're going to go to some other church, go

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Speaker 5: somewhere that's pushing to try to help you live the

926
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Speaker 5: life that God intended, where you find out who the

927
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Speaker 5: new you really is.

928
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Speaker 2: And our Father, thank you so much for your word.

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Speaker 2: Thank you that it works, it is true.

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Speaker 5: And I pray Holy Spirit, that you would help people

931
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Speaker 5: understand and see these things maybe like they never had before.

932
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Speaker 5: Only you can do it and bring your word to

933
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Speaker 5: life and give us understanding the wisdom that we need

934
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Speaker 5: to apply it to our lives and to pursue you

935
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Speaker 5: in what is possible. I pray for people, especially Lord,

936
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Speaker 5: who are sick of their sin, sick of what they

937
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Speaker 5: set out to prove, that they could take the benefits

938
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Speaker 5: of having a home in heaven and just go live

939
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Speaker 5: like hell with no consequence. And clearly you love us

940
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Speaker 5: too much not to discipline us and bring us back

941
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Speaker 5: to yourself. So thank you for that, Thank you for

942
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:38,640
Speaker 5: being merciful, and that your mercies are new every morning,

943
00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 5: that you come at us all the time, trying to

944
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:45,040
Speaker 5: woo us to yourself, draw us to yourself. So first

945
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Speaker 5: of all, Lord, for anybody that a breeze is kicked

946
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Speaker 5: up on spiritually and they know that you have touched

947
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 5: their heart and their life, and they would just finally

948
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:55,960
Speaker 5: yield and say, God, I know you are and I

949
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Speaker 5: see that you're a rewarder of those that diligently seek you.

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Speaker 2: So I'm after you. You you're after me.

951
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Speaker 5: Now I'm after you, and I understand now that I'm

952
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Speaker 5: a sinner and I will never be able to fix

953
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Speaker 5: this by myself. I see that Jesus died on the cross,

954
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Speaker 5: was buried and raised from the dead to offer me

955
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Speaker 5: not just eternal life with you forever, but an abundant life,

956
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Speaker 5: a new life between here and Heaven. I cannot live

957
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:23,080
Speaker 5: this old life anymore. Lord, so I accept. I accept

958
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Speaker 5: the forgiveness of my sin. I accept the gift of

959
00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:27,400
Speaker 5: eternal life. I ask you to come live in this

960
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Speaker 5: body like a new person has moved in, and show

961
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:34,359
Speaker 5: me what you intended. I know it'll be messy, as

962
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Speaker 5: has been stated, but Lord, be patient with me. I

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Speaker 5: know you will, and send people to help me make

964
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Speaker 5: sense of this and live the life that you intended.

965
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Speaker 5: Thank you for loving me, Thank you for saving me,

966
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Speaker 5: and that I now know I will spend eternity with

967
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:51,880
Speaker 5: you forever and Father for those that are Christians already

968
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Speaker 5: and there's nothing but the first birth run and everything,

969
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Speaker 5: and somebody would just say enough, I'm putting him off.

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Speaker 5: I'm putting the new man on, and I am going

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Speaker 5: to live the life that has been possible through what

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Speaker 5: Jesus did in my behalf. And see who the new

973
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Speaker 5: me is. Lord, honor these decisions that are made, and

974
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Speaker 5: give people encouragement and courage, and surround us with each other,

975
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Speaker 5: fill us from the inside out with you, and help

976
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Speaker 5: us do what only you can do, but what you intended,

977
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Speaker 5: And we pray it all in Jesus' name.

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