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Speaker 1: Romans twelve. One. Father, when I accepted your son Jesus,

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Speaker 1: Daily Prayer. For more inspiration and an incredible message from

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Speaker 2: Hi and Samantha Taylor, Welcome to Divine Life Transformation. This

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Speaker 2: is the radio show where we go over how to

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Speaker 2: new to my show, I have a radio show every

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Speaker 2: and I take you into some epic sceneries. We've been

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Speaker 2: showing you the things that He's showed me how to

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Speaker 2: about this topic because God has completely transformed my life

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Speaker 2: you guys learn how do you think different, how do

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Speaker 2: So when you ask yourself, well, what really is a

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Speaker 2: nine years ago, I went through a process that we

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Speaker 2: cleaned up our life, got off drugs, changed so many

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Speaker 2: parts of our life, but we got back into drugs,

435
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Speaker 2: so I was still a Christian. I still had not

436
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Speaker 2: renewed my mind though, and transformed my mind to be

437
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Speaker 2: not following those ways. But you can guarantee I felt

438
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Speaker 2: more guilty about it. It was an issue for me.

439
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Speaker 2: It was not something that I just did it and

440
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Speaker 2: be like, oh, well it doesn't matter. No. I knew

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Speaker 2: it mattered, but I was struggling with the sin that

442
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Speaker 2: I was struggling with. Does that mean I was a sinner? No,

443
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Speaker 2: because that's an identity. I wasn't a sinner because I

444
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Speaker 2: was righteous, wholly and pure and just by my spirit.

445
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Speaker 2: But my human side of me, well, from my thought,

446
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Speaker 2: my will, my mind, emotions were reverting back to old

447
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Speaker 2: behaviors of drug addiction. And it was by the grace

448
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Speaker 2: of God that he finally got ahold of me again

449
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:12,400
Speaker 2: and I finally submitted, and I once it hit and

450
00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:14,480
Speaker 2: God showed it to me, and I was like, I

451
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Speaker 2: am done, by the grace of God, had never gone

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Speaker 2: back to drugs. And that was over twenty five years ago.

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Speaker 2: So I was a drug addict for ten years, probably

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Speaker 2: closer to fifteen. I'd have to look up the numbers,

455
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Speaker 2: because I started doing drugs when I was in seventh grade.

456
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Speaker 2: So this is where I'm very open and transparent about

457
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Speaker 2: these things, because it's very helpful for you to know.

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Speaker 2: When I talked to you about this transformation stuff, it's

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Speaker 2: not just some scriptures I read in the Bible. I mean,

460
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Speaker 2: I was so struggling in my life that it is

461
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Speaker 2: a miracle that I'm alive, and it is a miracle

462
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Speaker 2: that my brain is not destroyed from the amount of

463
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Speaker 2: drugs that I did, and that I did not die

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Speaker 2: from the amount of overdoses that I almost had. So

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Speaker 2: this is where it's important for you to know these

466
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Speaker 2: things that it's not just some idea that I have

467
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Speaker 2: about what it means to transform your mind. And I'm

468
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Speaker 2: talking about like a serious life transformation. And God has

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Speaker 2: done it in me. And when he finally you know,

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Speaker 2: he got ahold of me. But also when I submitted,

471
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Speaker 2: because there is that part of that free will. You

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00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,720
Speaker 2: can fight God. If you say no, God, I don't

473
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Speaker 2: want what you have for me, I'm not following you.

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Speaker 2: I don't want that. That's a free will. You do

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Speaker 2: have a free will. We are not robots. Part of

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Speaker 2: love is free will. If you don't have a free

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Speaker 2: will to love, then that's not truly love. Because love

478
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Speaker 2: is desiring to care for someone, desiring to want them.

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Speaker 2: That you want that person, you love them, you are

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Speaker 2: choosing to love them as well. And this is where

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Speaker 2: the interesting part comes in that God is the only

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Speaker 2: one that can open our eyes to be able to

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Speaker 2: see that love for him. Even in the scriptures it

484
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Speaker 2: says that old man can come to Christ except if

485
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Speaker 2: he's called by God. So we didn't just find God

486
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Speaker 2: one day. We actually responded to God calling us. And

487
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Speaker 2: there are so many scriptures that talk about that that

488
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Speaker 2: he's the one that woos us, He's the one that

489
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Speaker 2: calls us, and all of a sudden, you finally respond.

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Speaker 2: Someone invited you to church, you didn't go. You saw

491
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Speaker 2: a show on TV, you's got a book that you

492
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Speaker 2: read that you know, talked about God, didn't respond, and

493
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Speaker 2: then all of a sudden, there's that one moment that

494
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Speaker 2: you finally see it. And that's what happened to me

495
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Speaker 2: on April sixteenth, twenty nine years ago. So this is

496
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:38,480
Speaker 2: where when we think about that process of how do

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Speaker 2: you actually transform? So when I did go back to

498
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Speaker 2: drugs after I became born again, doesn't mean my spirit

499
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Speaker 2: wasn't still born again and I wasn't going to heaven.

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Speaker 2: It does not mean that. What means is that I

501
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Speaker 2: was They call it backslidden. I don't believe that word

502
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 2: is in the Bible anywhere, but it does talk about

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Speaker 2: reverting back to your former ways before you knew Christ.

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Speaker 2: So that that is backsliding. So this is where we

505
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 2: find those balances, Well what does that mean? And how

506
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 2: how am I putting on the ways of Christ and

507
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Speaker 2: taking off my former ways. So there's two main areas

508
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Speaker 2: that I saw in my life that I started to

509
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Speaker 2: see massive transformation. And the first area was my relationship

510
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Speaker 2: with God. So really knowing God, really personally having an

511
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Speaker 2: intimate relationship with him. So being born again is the

512
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Speaker 2: foundation of that. You can't, truly you can't have a

513
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Speaker 2: relationship with your creator without Christ. There's no access to

514
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Speaker 2: God the Father without through Jesus Christ. So we're talking

515
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 2: about a holy, righteous God that cannot look upon and

516
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:51,719
Speaker 2: have a relationship with us through sin. That's why Jesus

517
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 2: Christ is the mediator the Bible talks about, and he

518
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 2: actually paved the way for us to be able to

519
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 2: have relationship with our creator. So that's where when you realize, Okay,

520
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:08,200
Speaker 2: so God sees us through Christ. So that's the foundation

521
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Speaker 2: of the relationship. That's the foundation of knowing God. But

522
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Speaker 2: then as it develops your relationship with him, you spend

523
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Speaker 2: time with him, you get to know him, you get

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Speaker 2: to connect with him. And the Bible is very clear

525
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Speaker 2: that God talks to us. Most people don't hear an

526
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Speaker 2: audible voice, but it's an internal knowing and it sounds

527
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Speaker 2: like your own thought in your mind. When I first

528
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Speaker 2: started getting more familiar with this, it was sounded like

529
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Speaker 2: my own thoughts speaking to me. Like you know, your

530
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Speaker 2: thoughts go through your mind and you're like, oh, that

531
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Speaker 2: was a thought, Well, was that actually God speaking to you?

532
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Speaker 2: So this is where God taught me over the last

533
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Speaker 2: twenty five years, how to be very clear of hearing

534
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 2: his voice. And again it's not an audible voice. I

535
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:53,520
Speaker 2: have never heard the massive audible voice of God. So

536
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:56,680
Speaker 2: there's one or two times that have been stronger than

537
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Speaker 2: anything I've ever experienced, but it was not an audible voice.

538
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 2: So when you get to know your creator, you develop

539
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 2: this relationship. You get to know this creator, your God.

540
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Speaker 2: And as you become intimate in this relationship, you get

541
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Speaker 2: to know his character, his nature more. You start to

542
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 2: understand more who this amazing creator is. And as you

543
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 2: get to know him more, you desire to follow him more.

544
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 2: You want to follow him more, you desire to be

545
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 2: more like him. Christian means christ like, so you actually

546
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 2: want to be more like what the Bible says. And

547
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:44,120
Speaker 2: this is where this relationship starts to develop. So you

548
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 2: become born again, born from above, and that your process

549
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 2: of your free will, that God is the one that

550
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 2: woos you to him, that you admit that you need him,

551
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Speaker 2: that you want him, that you want him in your life,

552
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 2: and you want this relationship. As that develops Wow, it

553
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 2: is the most beautiful thing that you could ever imagine.

554
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Speaker 2: And I know many of you experience that on a

555
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:15,000
Speaker 2: regular basis, but I have watched such a beautiful experience.

556
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 2: I am talking about such an intimate relationship with God

557
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:26,280
Speaker 2: that it is so beautiful and so caring and so loving.

558
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:31,640
Speaker 2: It just amazes me. So that personal relationship is developed

559
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 2: over time that connection. Think about from a human perspective,

560
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 2: when you fall in love with someone, you get to

561
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 2: know them, you spend time with them. You would not

562
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:46,560
Speaker 2: have developed that relationship and been experiencing love if you

563
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:51,480
Speaker 2: had not developed a relationship over some time, getting to

564
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 2: know that person, spending time with them, learning their ways.

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Speaker 2: So this is the way that I have noticed for

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00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 2: myself that when I started to trans form Number one,

567
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 2: it was really having a strong relationship with God. And

568
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 2: it started with becoming born from above, with believing that

569
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 2: Jesus Christ paid for my sins and I was now

570
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Speaker 2: a believer. Then as my relationship developed with him, I

571
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:19,719
Speaker 2: was more drawn to wanting to be like the Bible

572
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:24,320
Speaker 2: says to be christ Like. I wanted to be like

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Speaker 2: the Bible talked about. I wanted to align my life

574
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Speaker 2: with the ways of God, my new nature, my new desires.

575
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:37,040
Speaker 2: The Bible says we're a new creation, but we must

576
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Speaker 2: be renewed in our mind to be transformed. So when

577
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:47,520
Speaker 2: that word renewed means renovation, the word transformed comes from

578
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 2: a word of metamorphosis, which is the same thing from

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Speaker 2: a butterfly. So when a butterfly cocoon and a caterpillar,

580
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Speaker 2: which I did not know this either, that a caterpillar

581
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 2: is actually butterfly eggs. I mean, it's not like the

582
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 2: caterpillar just turns into a butterfly. Maybe you didn't know

583
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:10,759
Speaker 2: this either, but they're actually cat there butterfly eggs that

584
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 2: a butterfly laid, and it's a caterpillar first, and then

585
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Speaker 2: it becomes a butterfly. Sadly enough, I did not know

586
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 2: that until I started researching that last year. So it

587
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:24,560
Speaker 2: goes into cocoon and then it turns into a butterfly. Well,

588
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 2: there's a transformation process, and that word transformation means to

589
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 2: go from one form to another. You're transforming from one

590
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 2: form to another, a caterpillar to a butterfly. But yet,

591
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 2: remember that that caterpillar already had the DNA inside of

592
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:49,879
Speaker 2: it to become a butterfly. It was already inside of it,

593
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:55,440
Speaker 2: so as it transformed, it became this butterfly. That word

594
00:34:55,520 --> 00:35:00,840
Speaker 2: transform also means an adjustment of parts. So this is

595
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 2: the study that I've been on for the last like

596
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 2: four days. I mean, it was just amazing. I mean

597
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 2: I had so many times and just crying and weeping

598
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 2: and journaling and talking to God and getting answers of

599
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:14,840
Speaker 2: this stuff. And then He's just showing me about this transformation,

600
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:19,239
Speaker 2: that this cocoon is a period of time that the

601
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 2: caterpillar goes inside and the parts of the caterpillar have

602
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 2: to be adjusted to become the butterfly. Well, if that

603
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 2: word transformation being renewed in your mind, to be transformed,

604
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 2: to be in another form, to be metamorphosis like a

605
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:44,480
Speaker 2: caterpillar to a butterfly, to have an adjustment of parts,

606
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:49,280
Speaker 2: what vehicle is that done in the renewing of your mind?

607
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 2: So the renovation of your mind, you're thinking, your patterns,

608
00:35:53,640 --> 00:36:01,880
Speaker 2: your behaviors are done through the transformation of adjusting those parts.

609
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 2: And that's when I started dying all these things together.

610
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:08,600
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, my goodness, that is so awesome. I

611
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:12,600
Speaker 2: was just so encouraged to get scripture after scripture that

612
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:16,120
Speaker 2: was showing me this, So I started asking, okay, so

613
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:19,800
Speaker 2: what is the adjustment of parts? That adjustment is your brain,

614
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:24,359
Speaker 2: your thinking, your will, your mind, your emotions, your behaviors,

615
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:28,440
Speaker 2: your desires to serve God and follow after God in

616
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:31,319
Speaker 2: the ways of God. Do you want to just do

617
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:34,080
Speaker 2: whatever you want and not care what God wants for

618
00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:37,919
Speaker 2: your life? Or does your life now line up with saying, Wow, God,

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00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:41,239
Speaker 2: you are my creator and I want to follow after you,

620
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:43,399
Speaker 2: and I want to do what you want me to do.

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Speaker 2: I want to do what you created me for. And

622
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Speaker 2: the beautiful thing is the Bible says that God gives

623
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:53,279
Speaker 2: us the desires of our heart, but you also put

624
00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:55,440
Speaker 2: those in us. Think about all the gifts that you

625
00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:58,759
Speaker 2: might have that are actually natural, God given gifts that

626
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 2: other people don't have. Maybe you're an amazing photographer, or

627
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:05,720
Speaker 2: you have a beautiful voice. You didn't give yourself that voice.

628
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:08,319
Speaker 2: God gave that to you. So this is where when

629
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 2: we look at that and realize that this whole transformation process,

630
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:15,839
Speaker 2: when He gives us clues that tells us in the

631
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:19,840
Speaker 2: Bible what that means and gives us examples of what

632
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 2: being transformed means, and that it is similar to a

633
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 2: caterpillar going to a butterfly, the adjustment of those parts.

634
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,880
Speaker 2: So the first thing, like I mentioned and transformation is having,

635
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 2: of course being born again, a born above experience that

636
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:37,280
Speaker 2: you are now born of God, and developing that relationship,

637
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:41,239
Speaker 2: that time with him, the character, development, the personality you

638
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:45,879
Speaker 2: spend time with him in your prayer, in personal time

639
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 2: with him, communicating with him, and getting to know your creator.

640
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 2: I would say the second area that really transformed me

641
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 2: in my life was really diving into the Bible and

642
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:59,759
Speaker 2: really understanding more what the scripture said and how they

643
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 2: have applied to my life. What does the Bible say

644
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:05,400
Speaker 2: about this? What does the Bible say about our mind,

645
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:08,400
Speaker 2: our will, our emotions, our cravings? You know, what does

646
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:11,800
Speaker 2: the Bible say about how we actually change our life?

647
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Speaker 2: That's what the Bible tells us. So getting into the

648
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Speaker 2: scriptures and understanding what the Bible says is very different

649
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:24,239
Speaker 2: than just having knowledge of a scripture. So if you

650
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 2: know the scripture and you can memorize it, but if

651
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 2: you don't actually apply it in your life, in your thinking,

652
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:35,759
Speaker 2: to affect your behavior, to transform by the renewing of

653
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:39,640
Speaker 2: your mind. Remember we're renovating. We are renovating the mind.

654
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Speaker 2: We're getting all this stuff out that's not of God,

655
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:46,400
Speaker 2: thinking that are not the ways of God, the thinking

656
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 2: of the world. Get that stuff out, and you're in putting.

657
00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:53,880
Speaker 2: You're renovating. You're putting in that new kitchen. You're putting

658
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 2: in the new thinking and the new behavior patterns of

659
00:38:57,719 --> 00:38:59,840
Speaker 2: the ways of God. And how do you know what

660
00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 2: that that is? If you don't get into the Bible,

661
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:03,960
Speaker 2: how do you know what that is? If you don't

662
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 2: spend time with your creator, how do you know what

663
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 2: that is? So this is what we're talking about, is

664
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Speaker 2: not only the relationship with God, but understanding what the

665
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:17,920
Speaker 2: Bible says as much as you possibly can, and reading

666
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 2: scriptures to understand more what the Bible speaks about about

667
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:27,800
Speaker 2: every area of our life. I've been studying deeply the Bible,

668
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Speaker 2: for I would say, not far after I got born again.

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Speaker 2: So there was that period where I struggled with drugs,

670
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Speaker 2: and that's probably one of the reason why I did right,

671
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Speaker 2: because I wasn't reading my Bible much then. But when

672
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Speaker 2: I got away from it, you know, those kind of

673
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:46,719
Speaker 2: things that can impact your behavior. But I would say overall,

674
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 2: I've been studying the Bible very intensely for over twenty

675
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:53,279
Speaker 2: five years, probably closer to twenty seven. And when I

676
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 2: say intensely, I mean deep studies like going into the

677
00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 2: Hebrew and the Greek and studying for an hour two

678
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:02,239
Speaker 2: hours the average, and hour a day. I mean that's

679
00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 2: still the life that I live now, is every morning

680
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:07,280
Speaker 2: and hour a day in the morning with God, because

681
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 2: I know how critical that is, and that might not

682
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:12,239
Speaker 2: be something that you're called to, that might not be

683
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:15,319
Speaker 2: something that's possible in your life right now, but there

684
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Speaker 2: needs to be a time that you spend with God.

685
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:20,520
Speaker 2: Maybe it's only ten minutes, and then maybe you grow

686
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Speaker 2: in that because I didn't start at an hour, but

687
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,800
Speaker 2: there's times where I'll go four or five six hours

688
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:30,320
Speaker 2: because I'm studying and I'm really understanding more about the scriptures.

689
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 2: So knowing more about the Bible, what does it say?

690
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Speaker 2: And how do you transform your life through the Bible?

691
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Speaker 2: True transformation that Romans twelve one through two talks about

692
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:46,960
Speaker 2: by the renewing of your mind, renovating your mind, restructuring.

693
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Speaker 2: That word when you dig deeper also means reversal by

694
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Speaker 2: repetition and intensity so I'm like, okay, well, because I

695
00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:00,000
Speaker 2: kept wanting to find out, well, how is human behavior

696
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Speaker 2: impacted by this and how are we changing by these

697
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:09,080
Speaker 2: things that the Bible says, Well, if renovation goes back

698
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Speaker 2: to the original word of repetition with intensity and reversal.

699
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Speaker 2: I was about falling off my chair when I saw

700
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Speaker 2: that one, because I found that one quite some time ago,

701
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 2: and I'm like, whoa, wait a minute, that's what we

702
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:27,720
Speaker 2: have to do and rethinking how are we rethinking now? Now?

703
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:30,799
Speaker 2: We need to think like Christ. There's another scripture that

704
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:33,239
Speaker 2: talks about that the things that you used to do

705
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Speaker 2: before you knew Christ, you became ashamed of if you

706
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:38,160
Speaker 2: did them. Now, like you think about how you used

707
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:40,359
Speaker 2: to live your life, some of us way worse than

708
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:42,440
Speaker 2: others that you look back at you you're like, oh

709
00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:45,439
Speaker 2: my goodness, I'm so embarrassed that I actually lived that way,

710
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:48,319
Speaker 2: that I did those things. So these are the things

711
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:52,240
Speaker 2: that I'm talking about, you before Christ and you after Christ.

712
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:58,480
Speaker 2: So that difference of understanding the repetition with intensity and reversal,

713
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 2: how do you actually renovate your mind? Got out the

714
00:42:03,080 --> 00:42:07,040
Speaker 2: old put in the new. It tells us to put

715
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Speaker 2: off the former ways and put on the ways of Christ.

716
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Speaker 2: But between those two statements it says, by the renewing

717
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:18,359
Speaker 2: of the spirit of your mind, so we are to

718
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Speaker 2: put off which also means cast aside, and we are

719
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:25,840
Speaker 2: to put on the new ways. We are to put

720
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Speaker 2: on the new ways of God. And this is where

721
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:31,960
Speaker 2: it's just so amazing when you can go into the

722
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Speaker 2: Bible and find these ways that he talks about. So

723
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Speaker 2: in Matthew twenty two twenty nine, these people came up

724
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Speaker 2: to him because they were talking to him about something,

725
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 2: and they were asking him questions Jesus, and Jesus said,

726
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Speaker 2: you are mistaken because you do not understand the scriptures

727
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Speaker 2: and you do not know the power of God. So

728
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Speaker 2: Jesus Christ said that to the people asking these questions

729
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Speaker 2: about things that happen in heaven afterwards, and he says,

730
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Speaker 2: you're mistaken because you don't know the Bible and you

731
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:03,839
Speaker 2: don't know the power of God. So to me, those

732
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:08,399
Speaker 2: are very clear directions of Jesus Christ that we are

733
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Speaker 2: to know the word of God, but also to the

734
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Speaker 2: most of our ability understand what the power of God is,

735
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Speaker 2: to be able to clearly understand this, because if we

736
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Speaker 2: don't understand this, then we're not going to be able

737
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Speaker 2: to walk it out. We're not going to be able

738
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Speaker 2: to walk in the ways of the spirit, because if

739
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Speaker 2: we do that, we will want the ways of the Spirit,

740
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Speaker 2: and all of a sudden you will start to see

741
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Speaker 2: your life transform and you won't even want the old ways.

742
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Speaker 2: You won't even think the same way anymore. And if

743
00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:40,440
Speaker 2: you've been a believer for quite some time and you've

744
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:43,879
Speaker 2: been maturing in the ways of God, you would say, yeah,

745
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:46,520
Speaker 2: I've seen that happen. I actually am not the same

746
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:48,319
Speaker 2: person that I used to be. I don't think the

747
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:51,200
Speaker 2: same I don't have the same desires. That is a

748
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 2: good thing. That is confirmation that you are born again,

749
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:58,480
Speaker 2: that you have a new nature, that you are a

750
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Speaker 2: child of God. And if you have no concern whatsoever

751
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 2: and you do not care about any of that stuff,

752
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:06,800
Speaker 2: then that might be a time to have a real

753
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:10,640
Speaker 2: moment with God and really seek him and pray and

754
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:15,440
Speaker 2: have a conversation with Him about your spirit. Because the

755
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Speaker 2: Bible is very clear about eternal life. There is heaven

756
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Speaker 2: and eternity, and there is hell an eternity, and those

757
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:27,560
Speaker 2: are just things that are not something to ignore. Because

758
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Speaker 2: we are talking about eternity forever. Can't we can't even

759
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:36,640
Speaker 2: wrap our mind around what forever means. I don't think

760
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 2: we can comprehend for a second what that actually truly

761
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:43,759
Speaker 2: means to the level of on this earth for just

762
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Speaker 2: a blink of an eye. An eternity is forever to know. End.

763
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Speaker 2: So in Tewo Corinthians five seventeenth, you're eighteen, it talks

764
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Speaker 2: about being a new creature in Christ. So this is

765
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Speaker 2: a scripture that I was talking about, and it says, therefore,

766
00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 2: if any man be in Christ, he's a new creature.

767
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 2: Sure all things have passed away. Behold, all things are new,

768
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Speaker 2: and all things are of God, who has reconciled us

769
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Speaker 2: to himself by Jesus Christ. Remember I talked about how

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Speaker 2: the Bible says that you cannot get to God except

771
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:19,000
Speaker 2: through Christ. That we've been reconciled to God through Jesus

772
00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:23,000
Speaker 2: Christ and is given to us the ministry of reconciliation.

773
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Speaker 2: So when you see those scriptures, that's where it's just

774
00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:32,279
Speaker 2: so powerful to study these things. It's so powerful to

775
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 2: recondition the mind. This is what we are doing when

776
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:39,400
Speaker 2: we are reading the Bible. We are reconditioning our mind.

777
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:45,200
Speaker 2: We are reconditioning our behavior. We are reconditioning how we think,

778
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:50,359
Speaker 2: we are reconditioning what we are doing. And by doing this,

779
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:55,439
Speaker 2: we are putting new understanding in our brain of how

780
00:45:55,480 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 2: we function as a child of God. Before we meet Christ,

781
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:03,160
Speaker 2: we did not know this information that we weren't even

782
00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:06,760
Speaker 2: aware of it. But by reading the Bible and getting

783
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:10,719
Speaker 2: this relationship with God active in your life, you are

784
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:15,160
Speaker 2: teaching your mind. You are teaching your brain what it

785
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:20,160
Speaker 2: means to follow God. You are transforming by the renewing

786
00:46:20,239 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 2: of your mind, putting off the old things being renewed

787
00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 2: in the spirit of your mind, and putting on the

788
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:30,680
Speaker 2: ways of Christ, putting on the new things. That is

789
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Speaker 2: required to dive into the scriptures to understand what they say.

790
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Speaker 2: What are they saying about guidance in these things? How

791
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Speaker 2: do we live our life? What is God saying about

792
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:47,920
Speaker 2: how we live our life and how we follow after God?

793
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 2: And that's why it's so important to get into the

794
00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 2: Bible to be able to see what these scriptures talk

795
00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:57,920
Speaker 2: about and how to actually live them out. But this

796
00:46:58,120 --> 00:47:02,720
Speaker 2: is part of the renovation, This is part of the transformation,

797
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 2: This is part of just changing your old ways so

798
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:13,360
Speaker 2: that you can think more clearly, that you can think

799
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:17,719
Speaker 2: more like the ways of God. The transformation process of

800
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:22,320
Speaker 2: renovating your mind and putting in the new things of God,

801
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:26,319
Speaker 2: the new ways of God. Then as you transform and

802
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:30,880
Speaker 2: your mind is renewed, you are renovating it by adjusting

803
00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:35,960
Speaker 2: parts because you're being transformed from one thing to another.

804
00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 2: That thing before was before you knew Jesus. Your mind

805
00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:43,200
Speaker 2: was not transformed. You didn't think differently. You were the

806
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:46,160
Speaker 2: same way that before you knew Jesus. And that's the

807
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:50,600
Speaker 2: point of the transformation. So when you think about again

808
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:54,560
Speaker 2: that scripture that says the deeper meaning of renewing is

809
00:47:54,600 --> 00:48:01,120
Speaker 2: with repetition, intensity and reversal. Repetition meaning I went back

810
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 2: to drugs after I became a believer, not soon after.

811
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Speaker 2: What was I doing? I was going to former ways

812
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:10,600
Speaker 2: before I knew Christ. But I was convicted about it.

813
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:13,080
Speaker 2: I struggled with it. It wasn't something that I just

814
00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:16,080
Speaker 2: did as easily as I did before I became a Christian.

815
00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:21,160
Speaker 2: So when you think about the repetition with intensity and reversal,

816
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 2: sometimes you have to do it repetitively. You're talking about

817
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:29,520
Speaker 2: ingrained behavior patterns that have been so ingrained in your

818
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 2: mind for your entire life. You're talking twenty thirty, forty

819
00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:37,640
Speaker 2: fifty sixty years for some of you. So those behavior patterns,

820
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:42,040
Speaker 2: those are what must be renewed, that's what must be renovated.

821
00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:48,040
Speaker 2: That's what must have. Repetition with intensity and reversal, reversal

822
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:51,879
Speaker 2: from what you're old ways to the new right. We're renovating,

823
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:55,759
Speaker 2: we're new creation. You're going from a caterpillar to a butterfly.

824
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Speaker 2: As an example, of course, that's not what we are,

825
00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:01,399
Speaker 2: but it's an example of that word meta morphosis. You're

826
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Speaker 2: going from a baby believer, a Christian, a babe. The

827
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Speaker 2: Bible calls us an infant to im mature of full

828
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Speaker 2: of age. It calls us when we are more mature

829
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:15,759
Speaker 2: walking in the ways of God. So this is where

830
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Speaker 2: when we look at that and realize, Wow, with repetition,

831
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Speaker 2: repetitiveness because sometimes it's going to take some repetition, but

832
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:27,319
Speaker 2: with intensity because sometimes it's intense. Right, you're not going

833
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:28,880
Speaker 2: to just all of a sudden be a totally different

834
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:31,000
Speaker 2: person and be like, look that was easy, bam, to

835
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:35,359
Speaker 2: stand my fingers. Everything's different. Some people when they get

836
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:40,040
Speaker 2: born again, they get immediately delivered from drugs, immediately delivered

837
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Speaker 2: from cigarettes, immediately delivered from alcohol, pornography, whatever sin they're

838
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Speaker 2: dealing with. Some people get immediately delivered in their body

839
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Speaker 2: and they live it out from the day they become

840
00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:57,879
Speaker 2: born again. Others have to walk it out. Others did

841
00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:01,719
Speaker 2: not experience that miracle. I mean, they can't know it

842
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:05,480
Speaker 2: did not happen for them. And that's where it's important

843
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:07,880
Speaker 2: to know. It doesn't mean you didn't get saved. And

844
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:11,080
Speaker 2: that's also the terminology the Bible talks about being born again.

845
00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:14,560
Speaker 2: It's also being saved because you're being saved from eternal

846
00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:17,640
Speaker 2: damnation Hell and you're going to heaven. You're being saved

847
00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:21,800
Speaker 2: from a life of sin and destruction to following after God.

848
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:24,560
Speaker 2: That's what you're being saved from. So when you don't

849
00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:26,480
Speaker 2: know those terms in the beginning, it's like, well, what

850
00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:28,120
Speaker 2: do I need to be saved from? I mean, I

851
00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 2: remember I remember saying that when I didn't know I

852
00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:32,880
Speaker 2: things of God, and those words just seemed odd to me.

853
00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:36,040
Speaker 2: I didn't understand what they meant. God has kept me

854
00:50:37,080 --> 00:50:40,440
Speaker 2: following him by spending time with him and getting in

855
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:43,919
Speaker 2: his word and when you think about going twenty five

856
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:48,319
Speaker 2: years with never once regressing back to drugs. Now, I

857
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:51,720
Speaker 2: did drink alcohol, so I've been off alcohol for fifteen years,

858
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Speaker 2: so that took some time to work out of me.

859
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Speaker 2: I never did drugs again, but then I still struggled

860
00:50:57,280 --> 00:50:59,839
Speaker 2: with alcohol for a little while. So this is where

861
00:50:59,920 --> 00:51:03,360
Speaker 2: the process of transformation for me took a quart of

862
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:06,680
Speaker 2: a century. You know, it wasn't something that happened overnight.

863
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 2: But now I've been off alcohol for about fifteen years.

864
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:12,880
Speaker 2: I've been off sugar for over ten years. It's just

865
00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:16,200
Speaker 2: so amazing when I'm watching the transformation power of God.

866
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:19,480
Speaker 2: All of that stuff has been renovation. All of that

867
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:23,040
Speaker 2: has been renovating the old, getting the old out and

868
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:27,080
Speaker 2: putting the new in. And it also has been with repetition,

869
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:31,760
Speaker 2: with intensity, with reversal. It's been adjusting of my parts

870
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:35,680
Speaker 2: inside my mind, my will, my emotions, my desires to

871
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:39,759
Speaker 2: serve God, to follow after God, submitting to God, being

872
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:43,520
Speaker 2: obedient to God in times that I didn't want to be.

873
00:51:44,080 --> 00:51:47,160
Speaker 2: I had to obey God and do what God said,

874
00:51:47,520 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 2: and I wanted to because I was his child, but

875
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:53,759
Speaker 2: I was also struggling with those things. So this is

876
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:56,640
Speaker 2: where when you think about and think about all these

877
00:51:56,719 --> 00:52:01,800
Speaker 2: areas in your life and how you have been transforming

878
00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:05,480
Speaker 2: over all this time. It is a process. Will you

879
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:10,600
Speaker 2: ever be fully transformed like you just arrived? I think

880
00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:14,640
Speaker 2: you reach levels of growth and then when you reach

881
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:17,800
Speaker 2: that level, then you go the next level of growth,

882
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:20,640
Speaker 2: the next level of awareness, until the day we die

883
00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:23,880
Speaker 2: and our spirit goes and be with God forever an eternity.

884
00:52:24,160 --> 00:52:27,200
Speaker 2: I just think it's a process. But I can tell

885
00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:30,080
Speaker 2: you that the level I walk spiritually with God now

886
00:52:30,719 --> 00:52:34,360
Speaker 2: is so different than fifteen years ago. The maturity level

887
00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:39,319
Speaker 2: in your mind, your will, your emotions, your behaviors, in

888
00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:42,879
Speaker 2: you as a believer as well, you do grow up

889
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:46,440
Speaker 2: in your knowledge as a believer. So that's why it's

890
00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:48,799
Speaker 2: so important to know the ways of God. And in

891
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:52,719
Speaker 2: Galatians five sixteen through seventeen, it says that I say,

892
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:55,040
Speaker 2: then walk in the spirit, and you will not fulfill

893
00:52:55,080 --> 00:52:58,200
Speaker 2: the luss of the flesh, for the flesh luss against

894
00:52:58,280 --> 00:53:01,000
Speaker 2: the spirit and the spirit and the flesh where they

895
00:53:01,040 --> 00:53:05,359
Speaker 2: are contrary to one another. That you cannot do the

896
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:09,040
Speaker 2: things that you would, meaning that you want, you want

897
00:53:09,080 --> 00:53:11,279
Speaker 2: to do better, but you just can't get yourself to

898
00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:13,319
Speaker 2: do it. You just you know, it's just something that

899
00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:16,279
Speaker 2: you struggle with then you're trying. So this is the

900
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:20,960
Speaker 2: process of that transformation. Now that word walk actually means

901
00:53:21,040 --> 00:53:26,120
Speaker 2: to regulate one's life, to conduct yourself. So you walk

902
00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:29,239
Speaker 2: out your life is how you regulate your life, how

903
00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:32,200
Speaker 2: you conduct yourself? What is your behavior? How do you

904
00:53:32,320 --> 00:53:35,359
Speaker 2: actually live your life? And that's just one thing that

905
00:53:35,440 --> 00:53:37,920
Speaker 2: when you study the scriptures and you break them down,

906
00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:41,160
Speaker 2: it's like, wow, that just makes so much more sense

907
00:53:41,480 --> 00:53:46,160
Speaker 2: than it did before. Now in Hebrews five thirteen through fourteen,

908
00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:49,040
Speaker 2: that's where it talks about us as babes. It calls us.

909
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:54,160
Speaker 2: It says, for everyone that uses milk is unskillful in

910
00:53:54,239 --> 00:53:57,680
Speaker 2: the word of righteousness, for he is a babe, and

911
00:53:57,719 --> 00:54:02,439
Speaker 2: he's talking about believers. So those that must have the

912
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:06,000
Speaker 2: milk because they can't consume the meat of the word.

913
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:09,759
Speaker 2: The Bible says, which it also refers to deeper principles

914
00:54:09,800 --> 00:54:14,480
Speaker 2: of God, deeper understanding. Scripturally, there's things you don't understand

915
00:54:14,560 --> 00:54:16,560
Speaker 2: when you first get saved. But as you learn more

916
00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:20,040
Speaker 2: knowledge and you get more relationship with God and closer

917
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:23,600
Speaker 2: to God than you understand more. So it talks about

918
00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:29,600
Speaker 2: how you're unskillful in the Word of righteousness. So the

919
00:54:29,640 --> 00:54:33,480
Speaker 2: Bible and the Word teaches us of righteousness. So when

920
00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:36,560
Speaker 2: it says we are unskilled, that means we don't know

921
00:54:36,680 --> 00:54:39,880
Speaker 2: the word, we're not educated on it, we don't understand

922
00:54:39,880 --> 00:54:43,440
Speaker 2: what it says. And that is unskilled of the Word

923
00:54:43,480 --> 00:54:47,880
Speaker 2: of righteousness. Then it says, but strong meat belongs to

924
00:54:48,040 --> 00:54:52,160
Speaker 2: them that are of full age or mature, even those

925
00:54:52,239 --> 00:54:58,279
Speaker 2: by reason of use, have exercised their senses to discern

926
00:54:58,480 --> 00:55:01,440
Speaker 2: both good and evil. So what does that mean. It

927
00:55:01,560 --> 00:55:05,839
Speaker 2: means by using, and that word used means habit as well,

928
00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:08,800
Speaker 2: So that's a whole other topic, building your habits around

929
00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:12,720
Speaker 2: your life, that you're actually able to discern the difference

930
00:55:12,760 --> 00:55:15,719
Speaker 2: between good and evil. And that means the choices that

931
00:55:15,760 --> 00:55:18,759
Speaker 2: you make. Do you make choices that are good in

932
00:55:18,800 --> 00:55:21,560
Speaker 2: your life or cause evil in your life? You know,

933
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:23,799
Speaker 2: the Bible says that evil is not just like we

934
00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:26,640
Speaker 2: think of like axe murderers and these horrible things for

935
00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:31,840
Speaker 2: the word evil, but it also means discomfort. It means toil,

936
00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:36,400
Speaker 2: it means struggle, it means harm, It means things that

937
00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:40,560
Speaker 2: are you know, causing challenges in your life. And discomfort.

938
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:46,799
Speaker 2: So it's not just this really heavy, intense, destructive thing

939
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:50,160
Speaker 2: when we think evil like a murderer, which is horrible,

940
00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:55,520
Speaker 2: of course, but something that is evil causes disruption and

941
00:55:55,640 --> 00:55:59,440
Speaker 2: pain in our lives. So those that become more mature

942
00:55:59,600 --> 00:56:03,600
Speaker 2: in the way of God, you are actually exercising by

943
00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:07,759
Speaker 2: use of your senses, which is your ability to perceive

944
00:56:08,200 --> 00:56:12,120
Speaker 2: and judge things that you actually are able to discern

945
00:56:12,520 --> 00:56:15,760
Speaker 2: the difference between good and evil. That's when you mature

946
00:56:15,840 --> 00:56:19,080
Speaker 2: more in your relationship with God. That's when you actually

947
00:56:19,560 --> 00:56:23,560
Speaker 2: get more mature, you grow up more. Now you're not

948
00:56:23,600 --> 00:56:27,560
Speaker 2: an infant anymore because you make choices based on wisdom

949
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:32,520
Speaker 2: on the ways of God. You now are transformed by

950
00:56:32,520 --> 00:56:35,640
Speaker 2: the renewing of your mind over time is a process

951
00:56:35,680 --> 00:56:39,239
Speaker 2: that happens. But as you start to see decisions that

952
00:56:39,280 --> 00:56:44,080
Speaker 2: you are making that is based on wisdom and being

953
00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:48,640
Speaker 2: skillful in the words of righteousness and knowing what the

954
00:56:48,680 --> 00:56:52,480
Speaker 2: Bible says. Remember Jesus said in Matthew twenty two that

955
00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:56,520
Speaker 2: you are mistaken because you don't know the word the Bible,

956
00:56:56,800 --> 00:56:59,120
Speaker 2: you don't know the scriptures, and you don't know the

957
00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:01,920
Speaker 2: power of God. So as you start to see this,

958
00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:04,399
Speaker 2: you know, come together in your life and you start

959
00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:09,600
Speaker 2: to see this relationship with God just develop stronger and stronger.

960
00:57:09,640 --> 00:57:11,760
Speaker 2: And then you get into the Word and you study

961
00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:15,200
Speaker 2: the Word and you watch it change your thinking, You

962
00:57:15,239 --> 00:57:20,040
Speaker 2: watch it renovate you as a person. You are adjusting

963
00:57:20,080 --> 00:57:23,520
Speaker 2: in parts, you are transforming. That you are made a

964
00:57:23,560 --> 00:57:26,760
Speaker 2: new creation when you are born again. But then there's

965
00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:31,200
Speaker 2: the process of becoming regenerated. The Bible talks about that

966
00:57:31,320 --> 00:57:36,040
Speaker 2: you are transformed into more of the ways of God,

967
00:57:36,200 --> 00:57:38,640
Speaker 2: that you are following after the ways of the Spirit.

968
00:57:39,040 --> 00:57:41,480
Speaker 2: So one scripture I was really encouraged in is Tewod

969
00:57:41,480 --> 00:57:45,840
Speaker 2: Corinthians four sixteen. It says, inwardly we are being renewed

970
00:57:46,120 --> 00:57:50,800
Speaker 2: day by day, although the outwardly person is perishing your

971
00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:54,480
Speaker 2: body because it's temporal. It says, we are being renewed

972
00:57:54,640 --> 00:57:59,120
Speaker 2: inwardly day by day, your soul, your mind, your will,

973
00:57:59,360 --> 00:58:02,920
Speaker 2: your emotions, lining it up with the ways of God,

974
00:58:03,320 --> 00:58:06,320
Speaker 2: lining it up with how does God want you to

975
00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:08,840
Speaker 2: live your life? How does he want you to think?

976
00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:12,000
Speaker 2: How does he want you to pursue the destiny that

977
00:58:12,040 --> 00:58:15,360
Speaker 2: He's created you for? And that is the beautiful part.

978
00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:19,200
Speaker 2: When you think about being transformed by the renewing of

979
00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:23,520
Speaker 2: your mind. And that's why this show is called Divine

980
00:58:23,560 --> 00:58:27,800
Speaker 2: Life Transformation. So we are going deep into the scriptures

981
00:58:27,880 --> 00:58:31,920
Speaker 2: and discovering how do you actually apply this to your life?

982
00:58:32,160 --> 00:58:35,040
Speaker 2: How do you strengthen your relationship with God? How do

983
00:58:35,120 --> 00:58:38,560
Speaker 2: you get where that's important to you that you spend

984
00:58:38,600 --> 00:58:41,120
Speaker 2: time with Him? How do you study the Bible? How

985
00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:43,920
Speaker 2: do you digest the Bible? How do you see it

986
00:58:44,040 --> 00:58:46,880
Speaker 2: change your thinking? These are all things God has done

987
00:58:46,920 --> 00:58:49,800
Speaker 2: in me, and these are all things that He is

988
00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:53,720
Speaker 2: allowing me to have this platform to be able to

989
00:58:53,880 --> 00:58:56,600
Speaker 2: help you do the same thing. And that is what

990
00:58:56,640 --> 00:58:59,760
Speaker 2: I'm so excited about, because I know that He is

991
00:58:59,800 --> 00:59:01,720
Speaker 2: a that has called me to this, and I am

992
00:59:01,840 --> 00:59:04,080
Speaker 2: so honored and so humbled to be able to do

993
00:59:04,120 --> 00:59:08,320
Speaker 2: this and just help bring What does it mean to

994
00:59:08,360 --> 00:59:11,600
Speaker 2: have a truly transformed life? So I went through those

995
00:59:11,600 --> 00:59:15,480
Speaker 2: phases in the beginning where I struggled with drugs and alcohol,

996
00:59:15,840 --> 00:59:19,200
Speaker 2: and then even after I overcame drugs and alcohol, I

997
00:59:19,240 --> 00:59:22,120
Speaker 2: still struggled with food. So I was a total glutton

998
00:59:22,480 --> 00:59:26,440
Speaker 2: idolatry of food. I would binge on five thousand calories.

999
00:59:26,480 --> 00:59:28,520
Speaker 2: I never purge in my food, thank God, but I

1000
00:59:28,520 --> 00:59:31,680
Speaker 2: would eat until the point of nausea, and I mean

1001
00:59:31,800 --> 00:59:35,400
Speaker 2: I was a wrecked So when I talk about transformation,

1002
00:59:35,760 --> 00:59:39,920
Speaker 2: I'm talking about true transformation that I don't struggle with

1003
00:59:40,120 --> 00:59:43,360
Speaker 2: any of that stuff anymore. It's never like in and

1004
00:59:43,400 --> 00:59:48,160
Speaker 2: out struggle. No, it's gone. I have been completely renovated,

1005
00:59:48,560 --> 00:59:52,840
Speaker 2: completely gutted out that old kitchen, adjusted those parts. But

1006
00:59:52,960 --> 00:59:56,200
Speaker 2: it did not happen without my relationship with God and

1007
00:59:56,320 --> 00:59:59,800
Speaker 2: diving into my personal time with God, prayer time in

1008
00:59:59,800 --> 01:00:02,600
Speaker 2: the Word. And then the other thing too, of course,

1009
01:00:02,680 --> 01:00:05,640
Speaker 2: is getting in the Word, diving into the Bible and

1010
01:00:05,800 --> 01:00:10,040
Speaker 2: understanding what the scriptures talk about, understanding what the Bible

1011
01:00:10,080 --> 01:00:13,840
Speaker 2: says about how we live this life transformed. And that's

1012
01:00:13,880 --> 01:00:17,720
Speaker 2: just something that is so exciting to be able to

1013
01:00:17,840 --> 01:00:20,400
Speaker 2: show you that because God did it in me first,

1014
01:00:20,960 --> 01:00:23,000
Speaker 2: and he showed me how to do it through his word.

1015
01:00:23,480 --> 01:00:25,640
Speaker 2: And when I asked him, what do you want me

1016
01:00:25,720 --> 01:00:28,000
Speaker 2: to talk about in the show that you're giving me,

1017
01:00:28,480 --> 01:00:30,960
Speaker 2: I wasn't clear on what the topic truly was going

1018
01:00:31,000 --> 01:00:33,360
Speaker 2: to be, or even the name. And he said to me,

1019
01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:36,040
Speaker 2: I want you to show them how to transform their

1020
01:00:36,080 --> 01:00:39,840
Speaker 2: life like I did for you, and my relationship with

1021
01:00:39,880 --> 01:00:43,360
Speaker 2: you and in knowing the word, and I knew that

1022
01:00:43,360 --> 01:00:45,400
Speaker 2: that's what the show is going to be about because

1023
01:00:45,400 --> 01:00:47,760
Speaker 2: that's exactly what God has done in my own life.

1024
01:00:48,240 --> 01:00:52,400
Speaker 2: So I want to wrap this up with praying for

1025
01:00:52,520 --> 01:00:56,360
Speaker 2: you because maybe you never had an experience, you never

1026
01:00:56,440 --> 01:00:59,960
Speaker 2: had the conversion, Maybe you don't know if you're born again,

1027
01:01:00,280 --> 01:01:04,080
Speaker 2: Maybe you never actually had that moment where you submitted

1028
01:01:04,080 --> 01:01:07,440
Speaker 2: your life to God and you actually became born again.

1029
01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:10,840
Speaker 2: So I don't want to close this out without giving

1030
01:01:10,880 --> 01:01:14,320
Speaker 2: you that opportunity to say that prayer, because it's something

1031
01:01:14,360 --> 01:01:19,600
Speaker 2: that is just an admittance and understanding of a moment

1032
01:01:19,680 --> 01:01:22,480
Speaker 2: with God. So you guys all know the story. And

1033
01:01:22,600 --> 01:01:26,760
Speaker 2: John three were Nicodemus, who was a sanhedron. He was

1034
01:01:26,840 --> 01:01:30,560
Speaker 2: a scholar, and he was a Jewish scholar, and he

1035
01:01:31,040 --> 01:01:35,000
Speaker 2: started to believe that Christ was the promise Messiah that

1036
01:01:35,040 --> 01:01:37,800
Speaker 2: they were promised. Many of the Jews did not believe

1037
01:01:37,840 --> 01:01:40,920
Speaker 2: that they were still waiting for their promise Messiah. So

1038
01:01:40,920 --> 01:01:43,680
Speaker 2: if you don't know this, they were promised many many

1039
01:01:43,760 --> 01:01:45,800
Speaker 2: years ago that they were going to have a Messiah

1040
01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:47,760
Speaker 2: that was going to come and rescue them. Well, the

1041
01:01:47,880 --> 01:01:51,960
Speaker 2: Jewish culture did not believe that Christ fit the things

1042
01:01:52,040 --> 01:01:55,040
Speaker 2: that they thought the Messiah would arrive at. But there

1043
01:01:55,040 --> 01:01:58,120
Speaker 2: were some people that believed he was the promise Messiah,

1044
01:01:58,320 --> 01:02:02,720
Speaker 2: and Nicodemus started to have questions, are you the Promised Messiah?

1045
01:02:03,080 --> 01:02:05,000
Speaker 2: I think you are the one? And then he started

1046
01:02:05,040 --> 01:02:07,760
Speaker 2: to realize he was the one, but because of his

1047
01:02:07,920 --> 01:02:12,320
Speaker 2: position in being a scholar in that community, he would go.

1048
01:02:12,440 --> 01:02:15,280
Speaker 2: He went in the middle of the night to speak

1049
01:02:15,280 --> 01:02:19,520
Speaker 2: to him, because remember the persecution was intense. So it's

1050
01:02:19,600 --> 01:02:22,320
Speaker 2: just so intense when you really realize those things of

1051
01:02:22,320 --> 01:02:29,240
Speaker 2: what those people did to catapult our faith in Christ. Now,

1052
01:02:29,240 --> 01:02:31,160
Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit was a huge part of that, but

1053
01:02:31,200 --> 01:02:36,000
Speaker 2: it's just so amazing when you think about what God

1054
01:02:36,080 --> 01:02:40,360
Speaker 2: has done in the people who He has been working

1055
01:02:40,440 --> 01:02:44,680
Speaker 2: through to carry the message out of who Christ is

1056
01:02:44,880 --> 01:02:47,960
Speaker 2: and what this faith in the Bible and God is.

1057
01:02:48,040 --> 01:02:50,600
Speaker 2: It's just so amazing when you think about it. So

1058
01:02:50,720 --> 01:02:52,960
Speaker 2: this is where I started asking myself, well, okay, so

1059
01:02:53,040 --> 01:02:55,360
Speaker 2: what is the new creation and what is born again?

1060
01:02:55,720 --> 01:02:58,600
Speaker 2: And Nicodemus came to Christ in the middle of the night.

1061
01:02:59,080 --> 01:03:01,960
Speaker 2: In John chapter I would recommend that you read through

1062
01:03:02,280 --> 01:03:05,400
Speaker 2: that whole chapter and just see what it says. He

1063
01:03:05,440 --> 01:03:08,800
Speaker 2: calls them a rabbi. He says, you are from God

1064
01:03:08,880 --> 01:03:12,120
Speaker 2: and you work miracles, because nobody could work those kind

1065
01:03:12,120 --> 01:03:15,400
Speaker 2: of miracles if you weren't from God. So it's interesting

1066
01:03:15,440 --> 01:03:19,400
Speaker 2: because he didn't recognize him at that moment as the Messiah,

1067
01:03:19,680 --> 01:03:22,120
Speaker 2: as the Lord, as the one that you know was

1068
01:03:22,160 --> 01:03:25,360
Speaker 2: the promised King. But he was calling him a rabbi,

1069
01:03:25,480 --> 01:03:27,680
Speaker 2: and he did say, you are from God because you

1070
01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:29,920
Speaker 2: do miracles. No one could do those kind of miracles

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Speaker 2: if you weren't from God. And Jesus said back to him,

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Speaker 2: he didn't even ask this question, but Jesus said to him,

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Speaker 2: you cannot see the Kingdom of God unless you are

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Speaker 2: born again. And Nicodemus was like, what do you mean

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Speaker 2: born again? How am I supposed to go back to

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Speaker 2: my mother and be born again? And Jesus was not

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Speaker 2: speaking of that. He said, you must be born of

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Speaker 2: the spirit. You were already born of flesh. That flesh

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Speaker 2: is of flesh, And if you read through John three,

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Speaker 2: it'll talk about all of that. He said, being born

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Speaker 2: of flesh is a flesh and being born of the

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Speaker 2: spirit is of the spirit. Those are two different births.

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Speaker 2: So even though we've heard the term born again, it

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Speaker 2: was like Wow. Okay, that just helped me understand a

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Speaker 2: little bit differently. And that word again means born from above.

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Speaker 2: So we now are born spiritually. We were born of

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Speaker 2: the earth, of the flesh of water. It also says

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Speaker 2: through the human of our mother, that was the first birth.

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Speaker 2: The second birth that's required to get you into the

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Speaker 2: Kingdom of God is the birth of your spirit. And

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Speaker 2: that's the birth that is born again. That is the

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Speaker 2: birth that is born from above. And it says that

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Speaker 2: when we have that birth conception, you know, the Bible

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Speaker 2: calls it that we are now a child of God,

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Speaker 2: that we are now in the family of God, that

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Speaker 2: we are now children of God. What is truly becoming

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Speaker 2: born again? And the foundation of that is believing that

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Speaker 2: Jesus Christ died for our sins and that we cannot

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Speaker 2: get into Heaven without that. That we repent of our

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Speaker 2: sins and we know we need a savior, and that

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Speaker 2: Jesus Christ is the solution for that, that he came

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Speaker 2: here on this earth to die for us to pay

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Speaker 2: the sins for the world, the Bible says, and that

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Speaker 2: that is when you become born again. The being born

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Speaker 2: spiritually is truly having the revelation and admittance and acceptance

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Speaker 2: that we are sinners without Jesus Christ, and that we

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Speaker 2: need to have connection with God and the only way

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Speaker 2: to have that connection with God is through the Blood

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Speaker 2: of Christ. And I know you might have been taught

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Speaker 2: that in different ways, but it's just that's one thing

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Speaker 2: that I'm diving into, is how do I really explain

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Speaker 2: that scripturally human beings have sin? Why because of Adam,

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Speaker 2: that when Adam and Eve sinned, you know, Adam and Eve,

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Speaker 2: both of them, that sin came onto the human race,

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Speaker 2: and that every person has sin. That's just they are

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Speaker 2: called sinners, every single human being, and the only way

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Speaker 2: to take that away from them is to be bought

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Speaker 2: at a price, which is the blood of Christ. So

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Speaker 2: that's where when you start to study the scriptures and

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Speaker 2: seeing when the Bible talks about his crucifixion and what

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Speaker 2: he did. He paid the price for all of the sin.

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Speaker 2: He took on all of the sin of all humanity,

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Speaker 2: and he paid for it. And part of becoming born

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Speaker 2: again is in that moment of conception of reception that

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Speaker 2: you've accepted that that you've realized it, that you've repented

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Speaker 2: of your sin and you've asked God and received God

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Speaker 2: Jesus Christ into your heart as your savior. That is

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Speaker 2: being born again. So if you are seeing all these

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Speaker 2: things that have explained and you realize, I want to

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Speaker 2: have this relationship with my creator. I want to know

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Speaker 2: this God you're talking about, the one that puts you

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Speaker 2: on this earth, the one that puts your spirit inside

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Speaker 2: your mother's womb and that gave you life. That is

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Speaker 2: your creator, and he wants to have a relationship with you.

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Speaker 2: But it is required to have a relationship with this creator,

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Speaker 2: who is wholly, pure, righteous and just, you have to

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Speaker 2: have the sins paid for that is on the human

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Speaker 2: race because of the fall of man. And that's something

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Speaker 2: that when you realize that and realize, I know I've sinned.

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Speaker 2: I know I've been a sinner and done things that

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Speaker 2: are not godly, and I know I need a savior.

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Speaker 2: I know that I need to have a relationship with

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Speaker 2: my creator. But to be in connection with this creator,

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Speaker 2: we must be born again. So I'm going to say

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Speaker 2: this prayer and just say it after me, and just

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Speaker 2: pray it with all of your heart as well. Jesus,

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Speaker 2: I come before you now, and I thank you for

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Speaker 2: what you did for me on the cross. I thank

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Speaker 2: you that you have paved a way for me to

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Speaker 2: have eternal life with you. And I repent of my sins.

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Speaker 2: I repent of not following you or wanting a relationship

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Speaker 2: with you. And I pray in the name of Jesus Christ,

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Speaker 2: that you are the Lord of my life. I receive

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Speaker 2: the free gift of being born from above. And I

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Speaker 2: thank you that I am now a child of God God,

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Speaker 2: and I pray that you guide me and you show

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Speaker 2: me how to transform my life. In the name of Jesus,

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Speaker 2: we pray Amen that if you said that prayer and

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Speaker 2: you have never had that revelation and repentance before God

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Speaker 2: and receiving the free gift of eternal life through Christ Jesus,

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Speaker 2: that now today this is your spiritual birthday. Document this down,

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Speaker 2: whatever day this is for you, because that is something

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Speaker 2: that is so amazing that God brought you here. He

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Speaker 2: knew where you would be, he knew what you struggled with,

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Speaker 2: and he knew that some of you did not know

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Speaker 2: Him yet and some of you just met Him. And

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Speaker 2: I am so honored to be able to be an

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Speaker 2: embassad that are for God to be a servant for God,

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Speaker 2: and I am so excited for your life to be transformed,

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Speaker 2: and I am so honored to be a part of

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Speaker 2: that because obviously God divinely brought you here and I

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Speaker 2: am just so excited for you. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 2: my new radio show on Prey. Make sure you see

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Speaker 2: my new TV show that airs every Thursday, and we're

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Speaker 2: going to go deeper on the radio show about the

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Speaker 2: topics that are in that TV show. You want to

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Speaker 2: check that out, go to my profile or channel in

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Speaker 2: pray and make sure you follow me so you can

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Speaker 2: get notified when I post new videos. And every single

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Speaker 2: week I'll be on this radio show. So do make

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Speaker 2: sure you see the TV show on the Prey app.

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Speaker 2: About the episode I did on self control, you can

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Speaker 2: find it on my page in this app if you

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Speaker 2: just search for my name and hey, tell a friend

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Speaker 2: to you, you got something out of it. On my page,

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Speaker 2: you can also leave a testimonial to let me know

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Speaker 2: how this is impacting your life. Just go in the

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Speaker 2: Prey app and find it there. If you want a

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Speaker 2: way to get a more detailed list of scriptures to study,

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Speaker 2: like a pdf that you can print out and have

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Speaker 2: to have us a resource. Text the word divine life

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Speaker 2: to the number five eight six, five hundred seven three

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Speaker 2: three three. All right, I'm Samantha Taylor. I'll talk to

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Speaker 2: you on the next TV show or on the next

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Speaker 2: Prey radio show. Bye bye. You will be like God,

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Speaker 2: human unity. God was severed and through it all, God's

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