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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you

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Speaker 1: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and

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Speaker 1: share it with a friend. Reappreciate you and pray for

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Speaker 1: God's very best in your line. Well, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: It's always a joy to come into your homes, and

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Speaker 1: if you're ever in our area, please stop by and

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Speaker 1: be a part of one of our services. I promise

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Speaker 1: you we'll make you feel right at home. But thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for tuning in, and thank you again for

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Speaker 1: coming out today. I like to start with something funny,

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Speaker 1: and I heard about this elderly lady. She was at

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Speaker 1: the store and she accidentally locked her keys in her car,

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Speaker 1: and she was using a coat hanger to try to

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Speaker 1: get it open with no success. She prayed and asked

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Speaker 1: God to help her. About this time, this real rough

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Speaker 1: looking guy drove up on a motorcycle. We're in leather, tattoos,

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Speaker 1: a skull cap. In fifteen seconds, he had her car

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Speaker 1: door opened. She hugged him and said, Lord, thank you

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Speaker 1: for sending me this nice man. He said, Lady, I'm

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Speaker 1: for auto theft. She gave him a bigger hug and say, Lord,

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Speaker 1: thank you, you even sent me a professional. Hold up

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Speaker 1: your Bible, say it like you mean it. This is

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Speaker 1: my Bible. I am what it says I am. I

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Speaker 1: have what it says I have. I can do what

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Speaker 1: it says I can do. Today I will be talked

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Speaker 1: the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert,

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Speaker 1: my heart is receptive. I will never be the same.

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Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk

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Speaker 1: to you today about it's the heart that matters. All

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Speaker 1: of us have areas that we struggle in. We make

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Speaker 1: mistakes and do things that we know we shouldn't. We

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Speaker 1: told ourselves we weren't going to give into that temptation anymore,

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Speaker 1: but we did it again. We lost our temper, didn't

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Speaker 1: keep our word, maybe compromised with some friends. It's easy

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Speaker 1: to go around feeling guilty and condemned wrong on the inside,

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Speaker 1: thinking I can't believe I'm still struggling in this same area.

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Speaker 1: Voices will whisper. God's never going to bless you. You

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Speaker 1: can't get it right, you don't deserve it. Just sit

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Speaker 1: on the sidelines. We think we have to have a

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Speaker 1: perfect performance for God to bless us. Once we get

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Speaker 1: rid of all these weaknesses, once I overcome in these

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Speaker 1: areas that I'm struggling in, then I'll have God's favor.

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Speaker 1: Then I'll feel good about myself. But the scripture says

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Speaker 1: God searches the earth to show himself strong in people

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Speaker 1: whose hearts are turned perfect toward him. God is not

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Speaker 1: looking for people who have a perfect performance, perfect behavior,

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Speaker 1: people who never make a mistake. He's looking for people

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Speaker 1: who have a perfect heart turned toward him. That means

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Speaker 1: you may make mistakes, but you have a desire to

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Speaker 1: please him deep down. You want to honor him your life.

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Speaker 1: It's your heart that matters. God looks on the inside.

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Speaker 1: He is more pleased with someone with a right heart

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Speaker 1: that makes mistakes every once in a while than someone

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Speaker 1: We see this in the scripture. The pharisees kept all

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Speaker 1: wasn't right. They were self righteous, proud, critical, and even

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Speaker 1: though they performed perfectly, Jesus said to them, you're like

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Speaker 1: but on the inside there's a major problem. When Jesus

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Speaker 1: chose his twelve disciples, it was just the opposite. He

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Speaker 1: didn't choose people who had it altogether. He chose a

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Speaker 1: a doubter. It looked like he'd made a mistake. These

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Speaker 1: what God can see that others cannot see is the heart.

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Speaker 1: People look on the outside at the performance, the behavior,

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Speaker 1: I can see your heart is turned toward me. God

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Speaker 1: your attitude, your character may need some improvement. We all do.

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Speaker 1: So I'm going to show myself strong in your life now.

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Speaker 1: you think you should be in life. The scripture says

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Speaker 1: God changes us from glory to glory. You may not

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Speaker 1: realize it, but you're in a phase of glory right now.

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Speaker 1: Learn to enjoy the glory that you're in while God

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Speaker 1: of glory. Too often we're not gonna feel good about

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Speaker 1: who we are until our behavior gets better, until we

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Speaker 1: we'll start accepting ourselves. The problem with this approach is

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Speaker 1: always be some reason to feel wrong about who we are.

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Speaker 1: You have to accept yourself right where you are. Faulse

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Speaker 1: in Awe. You are not a finished product. God is

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Speaker 1: the potter, you are the clay. He's still working on you.

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Speaker 1: He goes at his own pace. Nothing you can do

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Speaker 1: the sooner you say God, my life is in your hands.

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Speaker 1: Not just my goals and dreams, but my flaws, my weaknesses.

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Speaker 1: These areas that I struggle in God, I know only

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Speaker 1: you can give me the grace to overcome. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: do my best. I'm gonna work with you, but in

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Speaker 1: the meantime, I'm going to accept myself and enjoy the

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Speaker 1: glory that I'm in. Now I've learned if you'll keep

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Speaker 1: The Disciples started off rough, they had a lot to overcome,

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Speaker 1: Remember it happened the night before Jesus was crucified. A

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Speaker 1: young lady saw him and said, that's a disciple. I

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Speaker 1: saw him with Jesus. Peter started cursing her out, let

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Speaker 1: he still wasn't perfect. You would think God would say, Peter,

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Speaker 1: but he does expect us to keep trying to keep growing.

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Speaker 1: heart perfect turned toward God. Why don't you beating yourself

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Speaker 1: I know I'm growing. I know I'm improving. My heart

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Speaker 1: I'm in the process of being changed. But too many

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Speaker 1: people they go around feeling wrong on the inside. They're

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Speaker 1: you're not going to have good relationships. Quit taking inventory

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Speaker 1: When God made you, he wasn't having a bad day.

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Speaker 1: You are not a mistake. You have been fearfully and

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Speaker 1: wonderfully made. In fact, when God created you, he stepped

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Speaker 1: on the breastplate of God's approval. Every day. You need

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Speaker 1: you that you are proud of me. When you put

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Speaker 1: when you know you've been approved by God. You're his

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Speaker 1: prized possession. He created you in his own image. Don't

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Speaker 1: go through life being against yourselves. Well, Joel, God doesn't

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Speaker 1: He doesn't say I'll approve you when you perform perfectly.

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Speaker 1: he approves you right where you are. He may not

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Speaker 1: approve all of your behavior, but he approves you. God

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Speaker 1: said you were good before you did one good thing.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to keep working trying to gain God's approval,

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Speaker 1: you already have it. You may make mistakes, we all do.

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Speaker 1: That's what you do, that's not who you are. We

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Speaker 1: get our performance mixed up with our identity. Yes, someone

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Speaker 1: who are you? Often they'll say, I'm a business person,

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Speaker 1: I'm a firefighter, I'm a pastor, I'm a coach, I'm

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Speaker 1: an architect. The truth is, that's what you do, that's

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Speaker 1: not who you are. Who you are is a child

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Speaker 1: of the Most High God. That's where your value, your

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Speaker 1: worth comes from from your who, not your due. Because

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Speaker 1: you may do things that are not who you are. Well, Joel,

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Speaker 1: I'm an alcoholic. I got this problem with drinking. That's

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Speaker 1: what you do. That's not who you are. Well, I

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Speaker 1: an event, it is not a person. Nothing you can

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Speaker 1: do changes your value. You're who has been set by

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Speaker 1: the creator. But the enemy would love for us to

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Speaker 1: go around like we don't deserve God's blessings. He's called

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Speaker 1: the accuser constantly whisper in your ear. You're still struggling

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