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Speaker 1: I'm Granger, I'm the an Man, I'm Tyler, I'm Parker.

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Speaker 2: What's up, everybody?

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the ninety nine for one podcast, where our

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Speaker 3: goal is to seek the one and equip the ninety

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Speaker 3: nine to do the same. It's gonna be a good

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Speaker 3: show today episode two.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, back for episode two. Today we're gonna be talking

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Speaker 4: about how should Christians feel about nicotine? This actually started

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Speaker 4: as a conversation off Mike's last week. It just naturally

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Speaker 4: started for like, Hey, that would be a good idea,

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Speaker 4: let's talk about that. So we are here this week.

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Speaker 4: Before we do, thank you for watching, listening, commenting everything

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Speaker 4: that you did on episode number one. Fantastic first episode

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Speaker 4: and it seems like a lot of you guys liked

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Speaker 4: it too. Kendall want to send a shout out to you.

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Speaker 4: I somehow stumbled into your world. I think talking to Granger,

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Speaker 4: I do not listen to country music. In fact, I

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Speaker 4: kind of dislike it. In fact, I'm not a fan

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Speaker 4: of most of the things that would probably make up

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Speaker 4: your typical viewer or listener. Despite all of this, I've

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Speaker 4: been greatly encouraged by your journey and have been inspired.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: So I like it.

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Speaker 4: Ricky Boyd said, I'm excited about this new podcast. I

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Speaker 4: still hope you stay relatable to the average guy you

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Speaker 4: always have been. Remember the passes. It says, now the

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Speaker 4: tax collectors and sinners are all gathered around to hear

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Speaker 4: Jesus excited about the new chapter and God is key,

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Speaker 4: no doubt. But some talk about trucks and four wheel

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Speaker 4: drives and just guy stuff mixed in keeps it relatable

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Speaker 4: and brings some new viewers. I know you aren't trying

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Speaker 4: to reach big volumes of people, but it's not a

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Speaker 4: bad thing if you do. Love your podcast. I love

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Speaker 4: the approach of like talking to a buddy in the cab.

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Speaker 2: Of a pickup truck.

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Speaker 4: I like that too. Cindy said, I absolutely love this

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Speaker 4: new podcast. I followed your podcast journey since it started

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Speaker 4: in your bus. Love seeing how God has changed your

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Speaker 4: life and the lives of your brothers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: My request to these comments, thank you all y'all for

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Speaker 3: these comments. My request is put where you're from?

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Speaker 4: Yes, absolutely, I'd love to know where you're listening or

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Speaker 4: watching from. That would be really cool.

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Speaker 3: I would like to know for the next episode where

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Speaker 3: the furthest person is from us, right now maybe maybe Kintaro.

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Speaker 4: And I was just about to say soon as soon

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Speaker 3: You'd better be watching, Yeah, Kintaro. Just incredible, incredible story

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Speaker 3: from Ye Nation. I haven't even told you this, amen,

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Speaker 3: but as the Lord is working in his heart and

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Speaker 3: Cantaro started for everybody, just to just a backstory. I mean,

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Speaker 3: most of us know him, but he was just a

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Speaker 3: fan of the music. He came, I believe twice to

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Speaker 3: hear me play in the second time he came was no, no, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: it came to us. The first time was our farewell tour.

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Speaker 3: I believe that was the first time he came. And

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Speaker 3: he came to Billy Bob's and so saw our final show.

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Speaker 3: So we met him. Came from Japan. It's a big

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Speaker 3: deal to have a you know, a guy from Japan

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Speaker 3: he's been a big fan of the apparel company Ye Ye.

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Speaker 3: So then he comes again for Ye Fast last year

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Speaker 3: and he told me something. He said, Hey, man, you

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Speaker 3: you mentioned at Billy Bob's that you asked the crowd,

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Speaker 3: he goes, I don't really know what that next stage is.

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Speaker 3: You're talking about the God and stuff, but I'm interested

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Speaker 3: in knowing how to follow you there. And so we

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Speaker 3: don't know what to think of all this, but I'm

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Speaker 3: interested in hearing more. So we continued to talk, continue

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Speaker 3: to have these conversations, and I got him started on

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Speaker 3: I'm asking to do is just show up, just keep

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Speaker 3: He even said, I screenshoted the message from a long

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Speaker 3: what I've done to God, and I ask Lord Jesus

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Speaker 3: to save me. It was like the most beautiful unscripted

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Speaker 3: and I said, brother, you here a Christian. What you're

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Speaker 2: He advanced.

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Speaker 3: Then we went on a search for a church. Japan

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Speaker 3: And we went through a few different churches, but we

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Speaker 3: the members there, the pastor there. They baptized him. Since

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Speaker 3: timelines going by. Everyone's pouring into them. He's starting to

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Speaker 3: just anxiety levels going down. The pastor everyone's seeing this.

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Speaker 3: And just a few days ago he reached out to

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Speaker 4: No way, are you serious. That's incredib I was gonna say.

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Speaker 4: He's starting to provide commentary on his readings every day

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Speaker 3: Let me let me read you what he said today

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Speaker 3: we talk every day. But he said, he's talking about

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Speaker 3: He said, Today I saw my favorite Christian customer friend.

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Speaker 3: She came in and we had some conversations. She mentioned

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Speaker 3: that her son is influenced by my faith, talking about

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Speaker 3: some amazing ideas. I'm willing to invite him to my

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Speaker 3: start in Matthew one man.

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Speaker 4: Incredible. I love that that's the one that was reached.

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Speaker 3: Now going to start reading. The process begins again. Yep,

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Speaker 4: That was good. That was really good. We give away

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Speaker 4: of a book, first book last week that has been picked.

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Speaker 4: So if check your DMS or whatever, Cayden's taking care

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Speaker 4: of that. We'll have another book giveaway at the end

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Speaker 4: a little bit later on. But first, our topic today,

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Speaker 4: how should Christians feel about nicotine. So how did this

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Speaker 4: this conversation started because we were talking about do we

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Speaker 4: First I want to say that any any kind of

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Speaker 4: has nothing to do with actual medical advice. So no

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Speaker 4: one take it as that if there is any in here.

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Speaker 4: But we started with and also name brands. Should we

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Speaker 4: bring that up because it's kind of okay, well, because

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Speaker 4: we're talking, so we don't give medical advice, but we

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Speaker 4: be sponsored. It's Zen? Is that is that one of them?

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Speaker 4: Is that a big one? Yeah, that's where the conversation

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Speaker 4: think I've heard of health benefits from nicotine. And the

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Speaker 4: first thing people think is, no way, smoking is terrible.

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Speaker 4: in super small doses that can be beneficial to some people.

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Speaker 4: Do I say that, I say that correctly.

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Speaker 3: This podcast is not about giving health advice. No, that's

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's yeah, that's what I said at the very beginning. Continue, yes,

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Speaker 2: So what's the question.

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Speaker 2: Well, don't ask me that because I'm struggling with it

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Speaker 1: Are you for me?

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Speaker 3: That actually makes you a perfect person to speak to it,

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Speaker 3: because you're a Christian that uses nicotine.

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Speaker 2: It's perfect. Yeah. Yeah, you know how this started for me.

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Speaker 2: No. No, I am the guy.

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Speaker 3: I am the guy that has trademark put a good

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Speaker 4: I don't know trademark. I wake up? Did you or

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Speaker 4: did Earl? I'm confused now because I mean here, let's

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Speaker 4: I'm a country boy.

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Speaker 2: It's twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 3: I'm back picking college football games based on who's more

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Speaker 2: A little bit.

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Speaker 3: We like to call, dip them and pick them.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, both y'alls four right are we'll talk?

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Speaker 3: So yeah, there's endless stories about Earl Dibbles Junior and nicotine.

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Speaker 3: So that that's why I think, I think this is

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Speaker 3: Internet of of conversations like this that don't overlap into

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Speaker 3: legalism sure, or abusing cheap grace. So what's the conversation

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Speaker 2: Where do we fall?

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Speaker 4: What would you say your struggle is?

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Speaker 4: It's a new base for you. You have to go

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I don't, to be honest with you, I

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Speaker 5: So I just was I was kept away from nicotine

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Speaker 3: People would train other people to do something that's actually

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Speaker 3: And so it's interesting because I didn't really either. I

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Speaker 2: And then I wasn't. I didn't know.

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Speaker 3: But anyway, so then that turned into probably Copenhagen. Then

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Speaker 3: He's like, man, you got you can go mess up

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Speaker 3: And then that's me and you Todler about the same time.

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Speaker 5: I can talk about this briefly. I don't know how

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Speaker 3: Well, the only reason I say is because I don't

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Speaker 5: And that was never really appealing. This is all before

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Speaker 4: What about it?

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Speaker 2: When did you start doing that? I don't really know

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Speaker 5: And I was always just like I don't I don't

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Speaker 5: but that wasn't until I was in my mid twenties

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Speaker 5: and I had a buddy who showed me. I can't

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Speaker 5: remember the name of it was like an equivalent of adderall. Uh,

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Speaker 5: and it was like to work because you know, I

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Speaker 5: was super productive. I like to work really hard and uh.

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Speaker 5: And so I like took one of those pills and

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Speaker 5: like what like had the most productive day of work

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Speaker 5: in my life, and I was like, this is amazing.

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Speaker 5: It was like a right around the time when what's

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Speaker 5: the movie, uh, Wolfule Wall Street, No, not Wolf Limitless Limitless? Yeah,

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Speaker 5: Limitless came out and well we all know how that

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Speaker 5: movie ends or like it ends up being really bad

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Speaker 5: for him. But anyway, Yeah, so I ended up getting

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Speaker 5: an adderall prescription and called my doctor said like I

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Speaker 5: couldn't focus or whatever, just to get an aderall prescription.

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Speaker 1: And so took that pretty often at work or when

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Speaker 1: we'd go out to bars or whatever. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: So that's that's what I preferred naturally in my flesh

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Speaker 5: over nicotine, which is no better. It's just like we're

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Speaker 5: all wiredly, wired differently to our different temptations.

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Speaker 2: I guess I will.

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Speaker 4: Jump back into this conversation here in just a second.

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Speaker 4: The first Parker I saw you walk in when he

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Speaker 4: came in today, you brought some new shirts from EE Apparel.

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Speaker 5: Right, what I've got, I've got three new shirts that

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Speaker 5: we just released on Friday of our there are variations

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Speaker 5: of our best selling shirts that we've literally ever done.

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Speaker 5: It's our three best selling faith shirts and we just

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Speaker 5: did each one in a new color. So we've got

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Speaker 5: this no Weapon Forged tea just in a clean royal blue.

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Speaker 5: For those who just like a little bit of color,

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Speaker 5: We've got our christ As King tea that I'm wearing

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Speaker 5: right now, the original and military green.

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Speaker 1: We did one in black. A lot of people requested that.

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Speaker 5: And then lastly our nine to nine four one tu

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Speaker 5: was originally in brown and we did a new color

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Speaker 5: of that in cream. So really excited to change up

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Speaker 5: the colors. And yeah, the response to the Faith stuff

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Speaker 5: has just been amazing.

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Speaker 2: What sizes are those?

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Speaker 1: These are medium on him for you?

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Speaker 2: Thank you?

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Speaker 4: Yes, you want to get your own sizes, go to

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Speaker 4: EUI dot com right now or right here. It's linked

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Speaker 4: in the podcast.

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Speaker 3: So now the table set and you're not off the hook,

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Speaker 3: part er, you know.

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Speaker 2: That's why I did that. Let's go to the Bible.

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Speaker 3: I think probably a good place to start it would

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Speaker 3: be Romans twelve It's a good place to start for

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Speaker 3: a lot of things. When when Paul says, I appeal

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Speaker 3: to you there, for brothers, while the mercies of God,

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Speaker 3: to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and

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Speaker 3: acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. And he

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Speaker 3: goes on to say, famously, do not be conformed to

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Speaker 3: this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind.

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Speaker 3: That by testing you may discern what is the will

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Speaker 3: of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. And

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Speaker 3: that's actually part of the prayer we prayed right for

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Speaker 3: this this podcast, And I actually didn't mean to do that,

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Speaker 3: but that we would present our bodies as a living

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Speaker 3: sacrifice and what we do and what we say because

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Speaker 3: because he says, this is our spiritual worship?

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Speaker 4: And then.

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Speaker 3: How do we how do we view everything else in

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Speaker 3: our life with that lens? Like everything starts there? So

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Speaker 3: how how is whether it's caffeine or nicotine, or alcohol

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Speaker 3: or adderall or whatever it might be, or food, fast

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Speaker 3: food or sugar, or our money or or career or

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Speaker 3: anything really anything or our gifts? How are we using

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Speaker 3: this to present our bodies as a living sacrifice, holy

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Speaker 3: and acceptable to God?

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Speaker 1: Holy?

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Speaker 3: Meaning set apart meaning different than the world, which he

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Speaker 3: goes on to say, don't be conformed in this world,

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Speaker 3: but be transformed by the renewal of your mind. The

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Speaker 3: transformed by the renewal of your mind is actually a

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Speaker 3: really good argument against any kind of numbness, against any

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Speaker 3: kind of drunkenness or anything that that numbs and blurs

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Speaker 3: your mind as as a way to forget or to

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Speaker 3: step away from reality. I mean, that's not that's not

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Speaker 3: this conversation with nicotine, because nicotine is as a focuser

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Speaker 3: like adn'tall it's a focuser. It's it is to help

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Speaker 3: you think more clearly. But the argument against alcohol is

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Speaker 3: be it is, Hey, you're renewed by by the You're

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Speaker 3: transformed by the renewal of your mind. Use your mind,

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Speaker 3: which it goes against any kind of Eastern religion that

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Speaker 3: says for step out of your mind, forget, don't think,

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Speaker 3: try not to think anything. You know, that's the Eastern meditation.

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Speaker 3: Christianity is the opposite. It's fill your mind, and we

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Speaker 3: go on to read it's fill your mind with with Christ. Ultimately,

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Speaker 3: the things that are acceptable, things that are holy, things

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Speaker 3: are good. You don't know those things unless you're in

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Speaker 3: the Word and you're able to discern what the will

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Speaker 3: of God is for you. So that's how we start

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Speaker 3: First Corinthians six. It's interesting, I will not be master.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I was gonna say. The next one you go

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Speaker 2: to is I will not be mastered by anything. Yeah. Perfect,

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Speaker 2: So that but like you said, drunkenness and all that,

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Speaker 2: it's like, okay, alcohol, drunkenness, like, okay, that's explicit in

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Speaker 2: the Bible, but nicotine is not. But you go to

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Speaker 2: first Corinthian six twelve, I will not be mastered by anything,

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Speaker 2: and then you ask your question, I'm mastered by this

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Speaker 2: adderall am, I'm mastered by this nicotine exactly. Okay, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's so that's a different conversation.

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Speaker 3: Or filling the blank. Gambling sports, sports like you said,

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Speaker 3: yeah McDonald's. Yeah, that list goes on and on and on,

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Speaker 3: uh or or port.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's a very relevant example. Exercise, workout, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: twenty five hards, sure sports. I think you said that

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Speaker 2: my favorite team.

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Speaker 3: Sure work being addicted to work, workaholics, anything that has

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Speaker 3: all that could be end of it, right.

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Speaker 4: Yes, well, and I think the best way to deterprete

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Speaker 4: that too, is to ask yourself those questions, can I

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Speaker 4: stop it? And and you know, do you are you

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Speaker 4: planning your day around using it or making it a

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Speaker 4: part of Okay, I can get to this point with

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Speaker 4: this much and get to the next point with this much.

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Speaker 4: And you know, like you said now that that what

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Speaker 4: used to do that for you is now the baseline.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and you got to go above it trades.

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Speaker 2: The clarity and the focus for dependence, right yep. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: It's it's interesting to hit first Grantons because we're we're

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Speaker 3: preaching through that right now in our church, and Marshall

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Speaker 3: actually just preached first Granthian six.

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Speaker 2: The back half of it.

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Speaker 3: I wanted to look at two at like romans.

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Speaker 2: We can kind of live in.

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Speaker 3: Those two, those two chapters, but six sixteen. See if

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Speaker 3: I find out there is do you not know that

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Speaker 3: if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you

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Speaker 3: are slaves to the one whom you obey, either of sin,

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Speaker 3: which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness.

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Speaker 3: We are slaves to whoever or whatever we obey.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I was going to say that next to the

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Speaker 2: slave thing, it's like you become enslaved by these things,

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Speaker 2: and then what did Christ do? He came to set

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Speaker 2: us free. Yeah, Galatians five to one for freedom, Christ,

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Speaker 2: to set us free. Stand firm therefore, and do not

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Speaker 2: be conformed to get into the yoke of slavery. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So that argument taller is it just crushes the idea

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Speaker 3: of I can't help myself, I can't help it. No,

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Speaker 3: you've been set free in Christ. You've been given the

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Speaker 3: ability Mom's eight thirteen to kill sin. And we haven't

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Speaker 3: arrived there yet with that. That nicotine is sin, but

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Speaker 3: the sinful behavior that comes from it, that being dominated

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Speaker 3: by it, being motivated to do it.

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Speaker 2: The Bible is not.

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Speaker 3: The Bible is not explicit about consumption as much as

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Speaker 3: domination over you. Right, does this substance have dominion over you?

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Speaker 3: Not the consumption part, but does it have control over you?

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Speaker 3: Then you're in sin. Then having it or taking in.

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Speaker 2: It is sin.

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Speaker 4: Ye.

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Speaker 5: So Christ set believers free from enslavement to sin.

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Speaker 1: That's what the Bible's saying.

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Speaker 5: Theiralations, Yeah, Paul is saying Christ died to set you

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Speaker 5: free from the yoke or that like harness, like a donkey,

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Speaker 5: who's who's pulling a wagon. That harness was we were

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Speaker 5: slaves to our sin, whatever that's sin, and maybe and

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Speaker 5: then Christ dies to then lift that so that we're

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Speaker 5: no longer enslaved to our sin.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly right.

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Speaker 1: That's interesting.

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Speaker 3: So to that, Parker, what's interesting about the you know,

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Speaker 3: the constant tension that the Bible presents us is that

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Speaker 3: we are set free and so flee. You know, you're

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Speaker 3: you're set free from it, so get away from it.

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Speaker 3: But both of those things exists. Being set free from

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Speaker 3: it doesn't mean you stay in it. And you know,

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Speaker 3: but I thought you just set them set.

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Speaker 2: Free from it. Yeah, so get away from it.

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Speaker 3: Wait, no, that's a tension that runs through the entire

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Speaker 3: canon of the Bible. And so we mentioned this a

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Speaker 3: little bit last week. But check out Romans eight thirteen

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Speaker 3: that says, well, let me go to twelve. So, then, brothers,

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Speaker 3: we are debtors not to the flesh, to live according

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Speaker 3: to the flesh. Romans eight thirteen. For if you live

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Speaker 3: according to the flesh, you will die. But if by

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Speaker 3: the spirit you put to death the deeds of the body,

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Speaker 3: you will live. Like, wait, aren't you writing this to Christians.

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Speaker 3: You're saying I'm gonna die if I if I stay

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Speaker 3: in sin, if I don't put it to death, you're

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Speaker 3: saying I'm going to die. Yeah, that's what That's what

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Speaker 3: he's saying. But aren't I secure in Christ?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, you're You're.

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Speaker 3: Secure in Christ. Both do it? You are this, so

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Speaker 3: now act like it, act on it. But Romans eight thirteen,

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Speaker 3: it's clear that he says, for if you live in Morthrus,

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Speaker 3: you will die. But if you buy the spirit, put

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Speaker 3: to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

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Speaker 3: You can't do it by yourself. You buy the spirit,

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Speaker 3: you do it. You try to do it by yourself,

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Speaker 3: then you're stuck in legalism. There's a I notice in

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Speaker 3: my reading.

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Speaker 2: The other day.

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Speaker 3: Let me let me show you guys another one. This

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Speaker 3: is crazy.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 3: It's two Timothy. He does the same thing he says

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Speaker 3: in what verses This is verse twelve, he says, I

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Speaker 3: am convinced that he talking about God is able to

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Speaker 3: guard until that day what has been entrusted to me.

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Speaker 3: And then verse fourteen, by the Holy Spirit who dwells

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Speaker 3: within us, guard the good deposit and trusted to you.

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Speaker 3: So he's saying, I am confident that God is going

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Speaker 3: to guard what He's given me. So Timothy guarded guard yours.

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Speaker 3: You know, that's the tension. I'm confident God is going

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Speaker 3: to guard me get the deposit given me, namely the Gospel,

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Speaker 3: my salvation, so I need to guard it. But the

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Speaker 3: key is the key is what he says, by the

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Speaker 3: Holy Spirit, the same thing he says in Romans eight thirteen,

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Speaker 3: by the Holy Spirit who dwells within us, guard the

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Speaker 3: good deposit and trusted to you. So this just destroys

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Speaker 3: the idea of cheap grace. It destroys the idea of

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Speaker 3: I'm saved, like I could do. You know, I'm saved.

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Speaker 3: God has set freedom for freedom. Christ has set me free. Brother,

658
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:15,719
Speaker 3: so I could just go and yeah, yeah, I do.

659
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,760
Speaker 3: Send nobody's perfect. That's what people say, nobody's perfect.

660
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Speaker 2: I don't think. I think that's the sign of not

661
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:24,319
Speaker 2: a true believer, because if you're a true believer, you're

662
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 2: not you don't have that heart posture. You're like, Lord,

663
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Speaker 2: I want to obey the Lord. I want to know

664
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Speaker 2: the Lord. I want to know what the Lord says

665
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:32,920
Speaker 2: I should be doing and do him.

666
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Speaker 5: What's interesting is Christ set us free. I just can't

667
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 5: really get over that Galatians five to two. You set

668
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:47,759
Speaker 5: us free from the yoke of slavery. We were slaves,

669
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Speaker 5: and he died so that we could be free. But

670
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 5: the perception of Christianity to the world is a horrible

671
00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:02,600
Speaker 5: burden of rules and obedience, and that actually true freedom

672
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:07,880
Speaker 5: is found just in doing your own thing outside of

673
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:11,000
Speaker 5: God or religion or faith.

674
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Speaker 1: You know, it's just completely backwards.

675
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Speaker 2: Exactly how does that end up for him? How does

676
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 2: that feel? How does it feel after that one night stand?

677
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:21,800
Speaker 2: Feel good about it? You have a little guilt and

678
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:25,360
Speaker 2: a little shame, a little doesn't feel that good? What's

679
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 2: what is that? Is it? Oh? Is it the sin?

680
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:30,200
Speaker 2: Is it sin? That's why the Lord?

681
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:30,319
Speaker 1: Oh?

682
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:31,360
Speaker 2: Because the Lord loves me?

683
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:33,319
Speaker 3: You know.

684
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:36,359
Speaker 2: It's like it's just mind blowing. Yeah, every everything. Yeah,

685
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:37,840
Speaker 2: give me all the money in the world, all the

686
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:39,760
Speaker 2: women in the world. How'd that work out for Solomon?

687
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 2: David likes Sheba. Like once you understand that that he

688
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:50,440
Speaker 2: loves you and he's he's laying out his commands and

689
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:52,840
Speaker 2: because of his love for you, because he created you

690
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 2: and knitted you together and your mother's womb, like it

691
00:35:56,640 --> 00:36:01,239
Speaker 2: changes everything everything we think we want. It's pretty much

692
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 2: the opposite of what we should be doing and what

693
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 2: the Lord has planned for us. Yeah, makes sense.

694
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:11,760
Speaker 3: So with this idea of of does it have dominion

695
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 3: over you? Does it have domination over you? Like you

696
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:17,359
Speaker 3: were talking about Toller, we should ask ourselves the question

697
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 3: with anything nickotine, caffeine, we should ask the question, can

698
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 3: I quit at any time? Can I quit? Is this

699
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:28,960
Speaker 3: a tool for me to focus?

700
00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:30,359
Speaker 2: Yes?

701
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:34,280
Speaker 3: But does it have domination over me? Could I quit tomorrow?

702
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:37,279
Speaker 3: If the answer is yes, okay, If the if the

703
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 3: answer is I need it it, I must do this

704
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:43,839
Speaker 3: to feel normal, then it is not neutral and it

705
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:44,759
Speaker 3: has powered over you.

706
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 2: Yeah.

707
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Speaker 3: So once again, I'll say this a thousand times. We

708
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:58,000
Speaker 3: should ask this question about anything anything over us. Can

709
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 3: I back away from it? Do I have to play

710
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 3: in my day around it? Am I extremely irritable, anxious,

711
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:10,400
Speaker 3: distracted without it? Then that's a sign that you're a

712
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:13,440
Speaker 3: slave to it. And if you are a slave to it,

713
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 3: then flee from it. Because you been set free, you

714
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:19,240
Speaker 3: have the power by the Holy Spirit as a Christian

715
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:21,920
Speaker 3: just to flee from it. If you're not a Christian,

716
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:24,239
Speaker 3: that's a different discussion. And we're going to get to

717
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:26,880
Speaker 3: the Gospel after this, because this podcast is about reaching

718
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 3: the one and empowering the ninety nine to do the same.

719
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:33,839
Speaker 3: But it's a Christian believing that you're forgiven by the

720
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 3: blood of Christ. You've turned from your sin, you've repented

721
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 3: of it, and you're trusting him, not in your own

722
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,840
Speaker 3: good works, but of you're trusting in Christ for what

723
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 3: He's done on the Cross to forgive you. If that's you,

724
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:48,920
Speaker 3: you've been set free. And to that verse Galatians five

725
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:54,319
Speaker 3: to one, stand firm therefore, and do not submit again

726
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 3: to a yoke of slavery.

727
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 2: That's what he says.

728
00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 3: You've been set free in Christ. Cool end the story. No,

729
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:03,400
Speaker 3: so stand firm and don't submit again to the slavery.

730
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Speaker 5: That you came from, which reminds me the Israelites having

731
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:09,080
Speaker 5: been set free in the Old Testament when they are

732
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 5: slaves in Egypt. Moses leads them out, freeing them, and then.

733
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Speaker 1: They kind of don't want to go back.

734
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Speaker 5: Yes, And it's like pointing out the temptation in our

735
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 5: hearts of like we've been set free and part of

736
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:27,239
Speaker 5: our flesh kind of wants to go back a little bit.

737
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Speaker 2: Yes.

738
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Speaker 3: Is it a refuge? Are you seeking refuge and peace

739
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 3: from it, and that's not always a bad thing. We're

740
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:42,360
Speaker 3: talking about ultimate refuge, ultimate peace.

741
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:44,799
Speaker 2: You know.

742
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:48,720
Speaker 3: The reason I frame it that way is because isaily

743
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 3: I put my seatbelt on because it gives me a

744
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 3: little peace.

745
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:55,319
Speaker 2: It's not ultimately say alcohol, man, Man, this was a

746
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 2: tough day at work right five o'clock somewhere. Man, this

747
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 2: drink is great. This hits the spot. The short term

748
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:06,240
Speaker 2: piece that I feel from these couple of drinks is awesome.

749
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've heard it said, like, what's your pacifier if

750
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:12,360
Speaker 5: you get really bad news in a stressful situation?

751
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:15,920
Speaker 1: Are what are you prone to desire?

752
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:16,840
Speaker 2: It is?

753
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:19,239
Speaker 5: It is z in? Is it a dip? Is it

754
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:23,239
Speaker 5: a beer? What is it that you're using? Is it pornography?

755
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:26,320
Speaker 5: What is it that you're using in that stressful situation?

756
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 5: Because each of us has our temptations to go to

757
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:32,600
Speaker 5: anything other than God for help in that anxious moment.

758
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Speaker 4: I think it's part of a revelation to you're talking

759
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 4: about the the yoke of slavery. Reason your flesh will

760
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 4: want to and calls back to some of that, even

761
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:49,759
Speaker 4: though it is enslavement, is your flesh is not going

762
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:54,560
Speaker 4: with you where your spirit is going, your spirit, your

763
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:58,040
Speaker 4: soul is leaving your body and going somewhere else. And

764
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:01,239
Speaker 4: this is all your flesh has, and that's why it

765
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 4: cries out to you so much. This is all I have,

766
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:07,600
Speaker 4: but it's not all you have, because your promise is

767
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 4: it's we've talked we I don't think on the mic,

768
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:13,000
Speaker 4: but we've talked about before this whole time. Here is

769
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:16,839
Speaker 4: a waiting room for an eternal time. We're all just

770
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:19,279
Speaker 4: all in the waiting room, doing our doing our thing.

771
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 4: Some getting that revelation. The ones who Christ is called

772
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,400
Speaker 4: are are getting that revelation that your yeah, your flesh

773
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:30,719
Speaker 4: stays here, but your your your spirit goes somewhere else.

774
00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:33,719
Speaker 4: I could I could see why in recognizing that it

775
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 4: is your flesh and not and not the Holy Spirit

776
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:43,200
Speaker 4: living in you calling for that old or longing for

777
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:49,080
Speaker 4: that old enslavement because it's dying. Yes, so good not

778
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:50,680
Speaker 4: going with you. You know.

779
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 3: Another aspect of this is is the reason I quit

780
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Speaker 3: dipping on stage is because I felt convicted that I

781
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:03,759
Speaker 3: was putting a stumbling block in front of others. Yeah,

782
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:05,520
Speaker 3: so that's another thing that goes with any of this.

783
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 3: And if I'm on stage and there's kids, for one,

784
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:20,839
Speaker 3: seeing this seeing in this case tobacco being glorified, which

785
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 3: is interesting because people have smoked cigarettes and cigars and pipes,

786
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 3: good Christian men, But that was long before we realized

787
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:32,440
Speaker 3: this causes lung cancer that is actually really bad for you.

788
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 3: So it also goes with our own wisdom. You know,

789
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:39,640
Speaker 3: most theologians back in the old days, we're smoking pipes

790
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:42,839
Speaker 3: as they were doing commentaries. But I recognize that this

791
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 3: is a stumbling walk on top of other people that

792
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:47,919
Speaker 3: might say. Someone say, I have a brother that comes

793
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:49,960
Speaker 3: in that's been a spiritual brother.

794
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:50,760
Speaker 2: Not you guys.

795
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:55,479
Speaker 3: He's been struggling with nicotine and he's trying to quit,

796
00:41:56,600 --> 00:42:00,200
Speaker 3: and he's twenty two days out. You know, he's been

797
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:04,000
Speaker 3: struggling with mental focus and he's he's off of it

798
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 3: and he's feeling way better, and he is if he's

799
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:08,400
Speaker 3: is he gonna come to my house and I'm gonna

800
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:10,279
Speaker 3: pop in some zen be like how you doing?

801
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 1: Brother?

802
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:13,719
Speaker 3: Hang on and say no, that's a stumbling block. That's

803
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 3: a Romans fourteen stumbling block in front of my brother.

804
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 3: And if I don't have the ability to stop that,

805
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:21,880
Speaker 3: then I have a problem.

806
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:26,280
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, for sure, then you're being selfish.

807
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, then I'm not loving my neighbor.

808
00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 4: Right.

809
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 5: Is it physically possible to do zen and not be

810
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:39,880
Speaker 5: dominated by it, to not need it? Do y'all know

811
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:42,480
Speaker 5: anybody that's just like yeah, every once in, I'm just

812
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:43,040
Speaker 5: throwing is in.

813
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:45,319
Speaker 1: I think he's an honest question.

814
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:49,720
Speaker 2: I think it's a personality. With me, I'm like very

815
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:53,719
Speaker 2: addictive personality. I'm all in or all out. You guys

816
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:56,400
Speaker 2: know that. I've said that multiple times. I'm not gonna

817
00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:58,880
Speaker 2: have one tequila shot, I'm gonna have ten. I'm not

818
00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 2: gonna have one nick A teen pouch. I'm gonna have

819
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:05,439
Speaker 2: the whole can. Like, that's just ingrained in me. It's hard.

820
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:09,879
Speaker 2: So I think it different people, different personalities. I think

821
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:13,360
Speaker 2: it's possible, but I can. I mean, I have to

822
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 2: be very careful.

823
00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 3: But I remember when when Lincoln and I went to

824
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:20,920
Speaker 3: the Texas A and M Mississippi State game and I

825
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:23,240
Speaker 3: had a bunch of buddies from college and my buddy

826
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 3: Scott Rice was there and he had some were sitting

827
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:29,640
Speaker 3: on the little balcony and I was like, can I

828
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:30,160
Speaker 3: have one of those?

829
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 2: He's like yeah, And.

830
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:32,719
Speaker 3: Then we sat there. I put through one end and

831
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:34,960
Speaker 3: watched the football game and it was with my buddies,

832
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:37,239
Speaker 3: and I remember being like, this is cool.

833
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:38,960
Speaker 2: You used to tell me. And I don't know if

834
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:40,759
Speaker 2: you're still there, obviously, I guess you still do it,

835
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 2: Like I just want to enjoy it, like if I'm

836
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:46,000
Speaker 2: deer hunting or if I'm if I'm going to shast fishing. Yeah,

837
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:49,319
Speaker 2: in the summertime, and you know, and you can go

838
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:51,719
Speaker 2: months without doing it, and then you'll do one, and

839
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 2: then you'll go months again. You'll go deer hunting, do

840
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 2: one maybe football game. Yeah, it's like you're saying that.

841
00:43:58,120 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 2: I'm just like blank space, Like, wow, there is no

842
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:02,400
Speaker 2: way I could ever do that.

843
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 4: You can't do that. Yeh.

844
00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:05,760
Speaker 2: That's why I had to quit drinking. Yeah, I haven't touched.

845
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:09,520
Speaker 2: You can't social drink. There'll be three years sober this year.

846
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:12,239
Speaker 2: Like it's just because I'm fig trying to figure that out.

847
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 2: I just had to stop. Yeah, just had to stop.

848
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:19,440
Speaker 3: No, your growth, Tyler is so encouraging. You've grown and

849
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 3: like you've you've come so far, and and that Romans

850
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 3: twelve really is you, like you you do not conform

851
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:32,400
Speaker 3: to the world because you've been your your mind has been.

852
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 2: Transformed by the gospel. Yeah, it's a it's all the

853
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:38,279
Speaker 2: Lord and not me. Yeah, it's all the Lord. Like

854
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:40,359
Speaker 2: for everything you're saying right now, it's like, yeah, I'd

855
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:42,800
Speaker 2: love to go home and play some Grand Theft Auto

856
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:45,480
Speaker 2: and get drunk on some whiskey and eat some pizza

857
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:48,279
Speaker 2: to night. But the Lord is like, now, that's just

858
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:50,279
Speaker 2: not in the cards. What you just described is like

859
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:52,040
Speaker 2: what you used to say is like your that was.

860
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 3: Your ideal night play grant thee I mean, order a pizza, well,

861
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:57,279
Speaker 3: the whole thing, and drink a whole couple.

862
00:44:57,280 --> 00:44:59,080
Speaker 1: Well, we used to always talk on the road like

863
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:00,160
Speaker 1: we play.

864
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:02,839
Speaker 2: We'd play Tuesday night, Wednesday night, Thursday night, Friday night,

865
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:05,719
Speaker 2: Saturday night. It's like, and you drink. You have like

866
00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:08,160
Speaker 2: again alcohol every show, it's new alcohol, new bottles, and

867
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:09,680
Speaker 2: so it's like, yeah, I might have a few drinks.

868
00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:12,600
Speaker 2: And then we start asking the question like are we alcoholics?

869
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:15,239
Speaker 2: We drink like five nights out of the week, like probably,

870
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:17,239
Speaker 2: And then we'd go home for a couple of days

871
00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:19,960
Speaker 2: and be like, well, it's Sunday night or Monday night,

872
00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:22,960
Speaker 2: might as well drink tonight, might as well drink every

873
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Speaker 2: other night and then my something in my stomach starts hurting,

874
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Speaker 2: like a sharp pain, you know, like that's probably from

875
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Speaker 2: all the whiskey, but I'm not going to go to the doctor.

876
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Speaker 2: And then when I stopped drinking, it's like it just

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Speaker 2: went away, whatever that pain was.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think one of the things that we could

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Speaker 3: we could say here is that. And one of the

880
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:45,520
Speaker 3: things we want to model with this podcast is bouncing

881
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Speaker 3: everything off the Bible. What does the Bible say? What

882
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:50,000
Speaker 3: does the Bible say? What does the Bible say? How

883
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 3: should we think through this? Because we're being sanctified by

884
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Speaker 3: the word of God, and so we must be engaged

885
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Speaker 3: with the Word of God, sit under faithful preaching of

886
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:05,040
Speaker 3: the Word of God, to being being nourished by our

887
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Speaker 3: own personal time with the Lord around other believers, around

888
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Speaker 3: other believers, the stumbling block like yes that say, hey, brother,

889
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Speaker 3: I've noticed you've been doing this a lot lately. I

890
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Speaker 3: just I want to make sure it's not harmful for you.

891
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Speaker 3: We need brothers walking with us like that, they could

892
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Speaker 3: hold us again. You remember when you used to say

893
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Speaker 3: you need to upgrade your five Have you ever thought

894
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:28,840
Speaker 3: that that is that's actually biblical advice?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, talk about the five people around you.

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Speaker 3: You remember that old thing, the old the old idea

897
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Speaker 3: of upgrade your five.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that. I didn't know that you become

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Speaker 2: the five people that you surround yourself, you become.

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Speaker 4: I've heard that.

901
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Speaker 2: It's like if if you're hanging out with five people

902
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Speaker 2: that work work out, you're going to become the next.

903
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Speaker 2: Like if you're hanging around five people that drink, you're

904
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Speaker 2: going to start drinking. Like if you were hanging around

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Speaker 2: five people that go to church and love the Lord,

906
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Speaker 2: probably going to become the fifth you know, like that

907
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Speaker 2: sort of thing that's proverbs. Yeah, so you need to

908
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:03,799
Speaker 2: constantly check your circle so.

909
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:06,399
Speaker 3: That what used to be true for self help and

910
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Speaker 3: in advancement in the industry is actually also true with

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Speaker 3: biblical advice. You need you need. You need godly brothers

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Speaker 3: around you. Sisters, you need godly sisters around you. Men,

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Speaker 3: you need godly brothers around you. Check your five right now.

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Speaker 3: Everybody that's listening right now, look at your hand and

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Speaker 3: count five.

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Speaker 2: Count to five.

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Speaker 4: That's good.

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Speaker 3: Who are they? You are going to become the common denominator.

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Speaker 2: Of those five?

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Speaker 3: Do you have Do you have a brother that loves

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Speaker 3: you enough to say, brother, you Okay, I've been praying

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Speaker 3: for you. I've noticed you've been having the six pack

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Speaker 3: after work?

924
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Speaker 2: Is everything?

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Speaker 3: Okay, I'm concerned about this, like it takes love. That's

926
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Speaker 3: not judgment, you know, that's not Hey, I don't judge.

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Speaker 3: That would be out of contact to say that. That's

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Speaker 3: love of a brother. Right, So we have we have

929
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Speaker 3: to have a five in fact one, two, three, four, five,

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Speaker 3: We've got six in this room. We got press and

931
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Speaker 3: sitting with us listening in we got Caden New Year.

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Speaker 4: Well but that's right, that's it's you and five who

933
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Speaker 4: you're five? Yeah, so it's six people.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go.

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Speaker 3: That's that's a that's a good example. Yeah, another plug

936
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Speaker 3: for a healthy local church. Must have a healthy local church.

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Speaker 3: That's the easiest way to upgrade.

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Speaker 2: You're five.

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Speaker 4: Do you have a you have a good book for

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Speaker 4: us this week? Yes?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, last week we did that. We're gonna sign this

942
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Speaker 3: one because we didn't have it. But I've got a

943
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Speaker 3: new copy now I had a fresh copy.

944
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Speaker 2: Well, giveaway for this week is called.

945
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Speaker 3: What is a Healthy Church?

946
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Speaker 4: That's a great book and it's quick and it's insightful.

947
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Speaker 2: Yeah.

948
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Speaker 3: So if you're wating to upgrade your five and you're like, well,

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Speaker 3: I'm not part of a local church, or maybe I'm

950
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Speaker 3: part of local church, but I'm not really sure if

951
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Speaker 3: it's healthy. There's a difference between a false church and

952
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Speaker 3: a gospel preaching church church. False churches, no, there's no consideration.

953
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Speaker 3: But the gospel preaching churches. You could have an unhealthy

954
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Speaker 3: gospel preaching church. You know they have to preach the gospel.

955
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Speaker 3: They preached that Jesus died for your sins. It's unhealthy

956
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Speaker 3: in so many other ways. And then there's a healthy

957
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Speaker 3: gospel preaching church. If you want to upgrade your five

958
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Speaker 3: and you're wondering about your church, or you don't have

959
00:49:21,640 --> 00:49:25,200
Speaker 3: a church, here's the book giveaway for you. I'm going

960
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Speaker 3: to do these book giveaways every episode, but this is

961
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Speaker 3: not about only getting it to the person that wins

962
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Speaker 3: the giveaway. It's about everyone else that goes think I'll

963
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Speaker 3: go to Amazon and check that one out ten bucks

964
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Speaker 3: on Amazon. And it's very short, written by a dear

965
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:46,840
Speaker 3: brother of ours, the pastor that Parker spent five months

966
00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:50,400
Speaker 3: learning under and then pressing, who sitting here with us?

967
00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:52,800
Speaker 3: New to our church? And you've been reading this book.

968
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Speaker 3: How you got in a chapter two chapters in? You've

969
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Speaker 3: gout two chapters in. Okay, it's going to start gett real. Yeah. Uh.

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Speaker 4: It's less than fifteen dollars and depending on where you are,

971
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Speaker 4: you can get it overnight too.

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Speaker 2: Okay for all the church.

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Speaker 3: So what we're gonna do is we're gonna each we'll

974
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Speaker 3: write you a message, each of us here in this cover,

975
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Speaker 3: and we're gonna give away right now.

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Speaker 4: So healthy Church.

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Speaker 3: Okay, comment wherever you're listening right now, whether it's iHeart

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982
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Speaker 4: Let's go there and put healthy Church a comment to

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985
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986
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Speaker 3: Wrap up our topic here. Scripture does not explicitly reject

991
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Speaker 3: or or forbid nicotine. It does not, but we need

992
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Speaker 3: we must be wise. Freedom does not mean indifference. Grace

993
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:24,160
Speaker 3: does not mean self deception. That's what we named the

994
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Speaker 3: title of this podcast. How should Christians feel about nicotine?

995
00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:30,920
Speaker 3: Not should Christians use nicotine? That would be legalism. But

996
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Speaker 3: we must think through these things as brothers. Parker, can

997
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Speaker 3: you give us a gospel to end this episode?

998
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Speaker 1: A gospel? Yeah, Gospel means good news. The primary message

999
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Speaker 1: of Christianity is not be a better person. It's not

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Speaker 1: for all these rules.

1001
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Speaker 5: It's not don't drink or smoke or do anything bad.

1002
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:54,680
Speaker 5: The message of Christianity is that God created human beings

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Speaker 5: to love him and serve him and obey Him for eternity,

1004
00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:02,200
Speaker 5: but that man kind did not do that, that man

1005
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Speaker 5: has turned away from God and has worshiped and served

1006
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Speaker 5: God's creation over him. That we're not naturally good, that

1007
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Speaker 5: we don't have a little bit of good deep deep

1008
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Speaker 5: deep down in us, that were not born morally neutral,

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Speaker 5: but that there's no one good on planet Earth, that

1010
00:52:18,880 --> 00:52:21,160
Speaker 5: we've all turned from God, and that our hearts are

1011
00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:24,840
Speaker 5: desperately wicked and we're sick and actually dead in our sins.

1012
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:28,120
Speaker 1: And because God is a good judge who.

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Speaker 5: Does not let the guilty go unpunished, just like a

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00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:35,800
Speaker 5: good judge in your local city wouldn't let a guilty

1015
00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:39,120
Speaker 5: criminal go unpunished. So God on Judgment Day is going

1016
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Speaker 5: to rightly and justly judge sinners.

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Speaker 1: And based on our sins.

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Speaker 5: The Bible says that the wages of our sin is death,

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Speaker 5: and that we deserve good, just, eternal condemnation for our

1020
00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:54,400
Speaker 5: sins and hell. But God, not desiring that anyone would perish,

1021
00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:58,600
Speaker 5: sent his son Jesus Christ, who did obey the law perfectly,

1022
00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:01,279
Speaker 5: who lived the perfect life that we were supposed to live.

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00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:04,759
Speaker 5: And on the cross he took on the penalty for

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Speaker 5: our sins, substituting himself in our place, taking on the

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Speaker 5: wrath of God. And he died, and three days later

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Speaker 5: he rose from the grave, showing that Jesus was the Christ,

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Speaker 5: the Messiah, he was the son of God. And now

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00:53:19,920 --> 00:53:22,440
Speaker 5: he sits at the right hand of God, calling all

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00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:25,160
Speaker 5: of us to repent or turn from our sins, to

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00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:29,880
Speaker 5: trust his sacrifice on the cross alone for our salvation,

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00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 5: so that on Judgment Day, God says why should I

1032
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:36,160
Speaker 5: let you into heaven. It's not because I tried my best.

1033
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:41,320
Speaker 5: It's well because Christ lived the life that I was

1034
00:53:41,320 --> 00:53:44,799
Speaker 5: supposed to live, and I recognized my sin and I

1035
00:53:44,840 --> 00:53:46,680
Speaker 5: trusted in him, and you gave me a new heart

1036
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Speaker 5: that then wanted to obey and.

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Speaker 1: Serve you because of your grace, not because of anything

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Speaker 1: that I did.

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Speaker 2: In that Gospel.

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Speaker 3: That good news that Parker just said to that, Paul

1041
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Speaker 3: writes in Romans One, for I am not ashamed.

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Speaker 2: Of the Gospel what Parker just said.

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Speaker 3: For it is what Parker just said. It is the

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Speaker 3: power of God for salvation to everyone who believes. To

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Speaker 3: the jew first and also to the Greek. For in

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Speaker 3: it what Parker said, the righteousness of God is revealed

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Speaker 3: from faith. For faith, as it is written, the righteous

1048
00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:24,319
Speaker 3: shall live by faith. The Gospel is the power of

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00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:28,480
Speaker 3: God for salvation. It is what converts unbelievers to believers.

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Speaker 3: It's what brings people from death to life and from

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Speaker 3: darkness to light. That's how we'll end the episode. Love

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Speaker 3: you guys, See you next Monday.

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Speaker 4: Yegee.