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Romans twelve and this is Paul talking to 42 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:59,160 Speaker 5: the Romans, and he's encouraging them and urging them with 43 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 5: great firm to change their minds to be more like God. 44 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 4: And he says this. 45 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 5: He says, do not be conformed to this world, but 46 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:17,680 Speaker 5: be transformed by the renewing of your minds. See, he 47 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:21,360 Speaker 5: knew that God wanted to do something in his people, 48 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:24,520 Speaker 5: but they couldn't keep thinking the old way and have 49 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:26,519 Speaker 5: the new things that God wants to do. 50 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 4: You've heard it said like this. 51 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 5: They couldn't put new wine and old wine skins. They 52 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 5: had to change their mind. And you know what, that's 53 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:40,760 Speaker 5: the same with us today. We can't be conformed to 54 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:44,960 Speaker 5: this world's culture. We can't be conformed to the wrong 55 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:48,920 Speaker 5: types of thinking. We have to be transformed by the 56 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:53,240 Speaker 5: renewing of our mind. You see, our salvation on this 57 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:57,359 Speaker 5: earth starts in our mind. If you're born again today, 58 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:00,880 Speaker 5: if you've given Jesus your life, you're a new creature 59 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:06,080 Speaker 5: in Christ Jesus, and so your spirit has been made new. 60 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:09,079 Speaker 4: It has come alive in Christ Jesus. 61 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 5: The problem is our mind needs to catch up with 62 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 5: what's going on in our spirit, all right, But we 63 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 5: can do that by not conforming to our old thinking, 64 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:23,920 Speaker 5: but submitting ourself to the word of God, to the 65 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:27,880 Speaker 5: teachings of God. You see, we are so blessed because 66 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 5: we can get the word of God at our fingertips. 67 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 5: We can google the Word of God. We can take 68 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 5: our phone and get our bib ble apps. We can 69 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 5: listen to podcasts. We can turn on the internet, we 70 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 5: can turn on the TV listen. We can put our 71 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:51,160 Speaker 5: music on our Christian faithful music that declares the goodness 72 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:51,680 Speaker 5: of God. 73 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:53,800 Speaker 4: We are so blessed. 74 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:58,920 Speaker 5: We have to submit and stay under this word of 75 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 5: God so that it can change our thinking. You see, 76 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 5: some people may not have been brought up in church. 77 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 5: I was brought up in church, but you may not 78 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 5: be have been. So maybe you have some things that 79 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 5: are contrary to what God wants you to think today. 80 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 5: Some of you have addictions. It's contrary to what God 81 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 5: has for you today. You see, God is saying, don't 82 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 5: be conformed by a habit, don't be conformed by an addiction, 83 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:33,480 Speaker 5: don't be conformed by the cultures of this world, the 84 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:37,720 Speaker 5: way this world thinks, but be transformed by the renewing 85 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:42,839 Speaker 5: of your mind. You have the choice of what you 86 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 5: listen to, of what you put yourself under. And God 87 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 5: is saying, renew your mind, change your mind, get into. 88 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:55,360 Speaker 4: What I have for you. 89 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:57,760 Speaker 5: You see, I talk to people all the time who 90 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:01,799 Speaker 5: have an addiction, and they are ruggling to break the addiction. 91 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 5: And what I tell them is just don't stay down, 92 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 5: get back up, put yourself under the word of God. 93 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:12,520 Speaker 5: And those strongholds, those things that are trying to hold 94 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 5: you back, they can't stand. 95 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:15,719 Speaker 4: Up against the word of God. 96 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:20,120 Speaker 5: It's only a matter of time before your mind catches 97 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 5: up with what the spirit is doing. 98 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:24,799 Speaker 4: In Ephesians, the Bible says. 99 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 5: To him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above 100 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 5: all we can ask, think or imagine. 101 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:33,919 Speaker 4: I love that God can do anything. 102 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:37,680 Speaker 5: But listen to the second part, according to the power 103 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:41,359 Speaker 5: that works in us. See, God is saying, when you 104 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 5: transform your mind, you line your mind up with the 105 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 5: power that's in you. See, there's power in a made 106 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:50,919 Speaker 5: up mind. There's power in a mind that says, no, 107 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:53,919 Speaker 5: I'm not staying here. I'm on my way to greater places. 108 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:57,119 Speaker 5: I'm on my way to God's destination. I'm not gonna 109 00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 5: be held down by always in old patterns of things. 110 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:03,320 Speaker 5: You see, I think about the apostle Paul, and he 111 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 5: was so passionate to let them know by the mercies 112 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 5: of God, by the grace of God, this can happen 113 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 5: for you. You see, people they drink drinks to detox 114 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 5: their body. Have you ever heard somebody say, you know, 115 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:19,200 Speaker 5: drink this for five days and it'll get all the 116 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:20,440 Speaker 5: junk out of your body. 117 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:21,039 Speaker 3: You know. 118 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:23,239 Speaker 5: They say that the stuff we eat, even the water 119 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:26,560 Speaker 5: we drink, you know, has toxins in it. So people 120 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:29,960 Speaker 5: want to be healthy, they want to detox their body. Listen, 121 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:31,839 Speaker 5: when you read the word of God and put yourself 122 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:32,720 Speaker 5: under the word of God. 123 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:34,640 Speaker 4: Your detoxing your mind. 124 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:40,480 Speaker 5: You're dislodging strongholds, your weakening their grip on you. Listen, 125 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:44,720 Speaker 5: you're in a battle. You're in a battle, and it's 126 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:47,240 Speaker 5: time to stand up and fight. 127 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:50,520 Speaker 4: It's time to say, I'm not gonna let the wrong 128 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:53,040 Speaker 4: words come out of my mouth. I'm not gonna let 129 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:55,279 Speaker 4: my whole way of thinking stop me. 130 00:06:56,640 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 5: I've heard people who are fighting illnesses and they listen 131 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:02,240 Speaker 5: to the Word of God constantly. 132 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 4: They've constantly got it going. 133 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:06,120 Speaker 5: Whether they have the Word of God, whether they have 134 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:09,120 Speaker 5: a good teaching, whether they have joel, whether they have praise. 135 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 5: They are constantly bathing and sanctifying their mind in the 136 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 5: word of God. See, we're justified in our spirit, but 137 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:20,200 Speaker 5: we have to be sanctified in our mind. That means 138 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:22,920 Speaker 5: we have to set our mind apart from the old 139 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 5: way of doing and being, and we have to get 140 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:30,080 Speaker 5: in God's way of doing and being. You see, if 141 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:32,760 Speaker 5: we want to know God's will, We're gonna have to 142 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 5: know God's way. Now, he was telling them, don't be conformed, 143 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 5: but be transformed. And he was saying, this is a process. 144 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:44,680 Speaker 5: Don't get down on yourself. It's a process. And then 145 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:47,640 Speaker 5: he went on to say this. He says, do not 146 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 5: be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the 147 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:54,800 Speaker 5: renewing of your mind. That by testing you may be 148 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:58,560 Speaker 5: able to discern the will of God for your life. 149 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:02,320 Speaker 5: What is pleasing, right and acceptable. How many of you 150 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:03,720 Speaker 5: want to know the will of God for your life. 151 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 4: I want to know the will of God for my life. 152 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 4: I want to know the will of God for my life. 153 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:12,760 Speaker 5: And God is saying, through this transformation, through this new 154 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 5: way of thinking, you can take all these choices and 155 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 5: you can put them under the scrutiny of what you know. 156 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 5: You can test it and see shall I make it 157 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:26,440 Speaker 5: or shall I not? Shall I choose it, or shall 158 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 5: I go the other way? See, you can put the 159 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 5: choices you make every day under the scrutiny of the 160 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:35,760 Speaker 5: word of God. See, God wants us to walk in 161 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 5: confidence before him. He wants us to know what his 162 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 5: will is so we'll know what way to go. It's 163 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:46,640 Speaker 5: kind of like taking a test. Have you ever gone 164 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 5: in when you're in school to take a test or 165 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:51,080 Speaker 5: for your job. The better you knew the material, the 166 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 5: more confident you were, the more answers. 167 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:57,479 Speaker 4: You got right. It's kind of like that God. 168 00:08:57,280 --> 00:09:00,319 Speaker 5: Is saying, this transformation comes a little by little, but 169 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 5: keep gaining knowledge, keep testing your choices by what you 170 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:08,200 Speaker 5: know to be right. You know, we make choices every 171 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 5: single day, and those choices make us so it's so 172 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:18,760 Speaker 5: important that we put our choices under God's authority. 173 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 4: Now. You know, sometimes we don't want to put. 174 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:27,000 Speaker 5: Every choice under God's authority because some choices. 175 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:29,040 Speaker 4: We just want they look so good. 176 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 5: God, I can fix this with you later. Let me 177 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:36,319 Speaker 5: go ahead and make this choice, you know what. 178 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:37,920 Speaker 4: And God knows that. 179 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:40,960 Speaker 5: I mean, we've all been there, we've all done that. 180 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:42,760 Speaker 4: And the good thing about God he can. 181 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:45,360 Speaker 5: Take our bad choices and bring him glory and us good. 182 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:46,800 Speaker 4: All right, he can. 183 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 5: He's a good God, and he loves us, and I 184 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:52,160 Speaker 5: love the fact that he's not judging us. The point 185 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 5: is is that we need to not be afraid to 186 00:09:55,400 --> 00:10:01,600 Speaker 5: take our attitudes, our unforgiveness, our habits, everything about us 187 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:04,800 Speaker 5: and put it under the submission of God. See Paul 188 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 5: was saying, be a living sacrifice. That's how he started 189 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:10,560 Speaker 5: a be a living sacrifice. What he was saying, he 190 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:14,480 Speaker 5: was going, go all in, Go all in. Don't hold 191 00:10:14,559 --> 00:10:17,959 Speaker 5: back certain areas of your life. You have a bad habit, 192 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 5: put it under God's authority. 193 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:22,720 Speaker 4: Don't hold on to it and say, God, I'll fix it. 194 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:24,800 Speaker 5: As soon as I fix it, then I'll come over 195 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:25,440 Speaker 5: here and give. 196 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 4: It to you. 197 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:29,160 Speaker 5: God is saying, give it all to me, the good, 198 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:32,439 Speaker 5: the bad, the ugly. Put it under my word. Let 199 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:36,400 Speaker 5: me break those things off of your life. See Jesus 200 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:40,439 Speaker 5: came as the living Word. The Bible says he came 201 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 5: as the Word made incarnate, man made flesh, and he 202 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:47,880 Speaker 5: walked among them. And do you know that when you 203 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:50,800 Speaker 5: read the word of God, you get good teaching. You're 204 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 5: walking with Jesus. And he's still doing what he did 205 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:57,199 Speaker 5: those days in the Bible. He's still healing, he's still delivering, 206 00:10:57,400 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 5: he's still setting free. 207 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:01,760 Speaker 4: He's still restoring take his hand and put all of 208 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 4: it under his authority. 209 00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:07,720 Speaker 5: We can't be afraid and listen. You know, we have 210 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:10,080 Speaker 5: big decisions that we have to make in our life. 211 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:12,120 Speaker 5: I've heard people say, I want to know the will 212 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:15,079 Speaker 5: of God. Should I take this job, should I start 213 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 5: this business? Should I go back to college? Is this 214 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 5: the person I should marry? And those are all very 215 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:25,040 Speaker 5: important decisions. But we need to put every decision under 216 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:27,440 Speaker 5: the will of God, because the better choices we make, 217 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:31,240 Speaker 5: the closer we are to those better decisions on those 218 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:32,640 Speaker 5: big issues of our life. 219 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 4: When I was a young girl, I remember my heart. 220 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:38,360 Speaker 5: I would just say to God, God, when I get 221 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:41,080 Speaker 5: married someday, all I know is this, I want a 222 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:44,720 Speaker 5: man who loves you more than I do. You see 223 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 5: my heart said this, God. I don't want to be 224 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:49,800 Speaker 5: dragging anybody up. I don't want to be constantly pushing 225 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:51,880 Speaker 5: them up. But I don't want them to sharpen me. 226 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:56,440 Speaker 5: I want us to be better together. I want us 227 00:11:57,559 --> 00:12:00,760 Speaker 5: to do great things for you. Now, I just want 228 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 5: to tell you this. Don't say this part, but this 229 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:04,560 Speaker 5: is literally what I said, because if I was you, 230 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:08,120 Speaker 5: I would find a man with a job. But I 231 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:11,559 Speaker 5: said I said, God, he doesn't have to have a 232 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 5: lot of money. You know what, he didn't have to 233 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:16,520 Speaker 5: be rich. God, I just want him to love you. 234 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:19,520 Speaker 5: Because my heart was like this, God, you can do 235 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:22,040 Speaker 5: anything in our life. If we serve you, we can 236 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:22,800 Speaker 5: rise higher. 237 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:23,800 Speaker 4: We can do anything. 238 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:28,200 Speaker 5: But the bottom line is my gold standard is that 239 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:32,640 Speaker 5: he loves you a lot. So when I met Joel, 240 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:37,280 Speaker 5: he looked good on the outside, in fact, from the outside, 241 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:40,440 Speaker 5: and he looked like he was perfect. But you know what, 242 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:43,120 Speaker 5: I didn't want to just judge him from the outside. 243 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:46,640 Speaker 5: I wanted to judge my who I was gonna marry 244 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:49,720 Speaker 5: by the word of God. And although he looked good, 245 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:52,640 Speaker 5: he seemed to have the right credentials, you know what, 246 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:53,679 Speaker 5: that wasn't good enough. 247 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:57,319 Speaker 4: I watched him, I studied him. I saw if his. 248 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:00,520 Speaker 5: Beliefs lined up with his actions. I watched how he 249 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:03,760 Speaker 5: treated his family, what he said about his friends, his 250 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:08,480 Speaker 5: generosity towards others. See, I let that character line itself 251 00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:11,600 Speaker 5: up with the word of God. Then I could make 252 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:16,800 Speaker 5: an educated, bodily decision. You see, God wants us to 253 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:20,320 Speaker 5: be confident in our decisions as our minds are graining 254 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:23,439 Speaker 5: more knowledge and being transformed. Then we can test our 255 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:27,600 Speaker 5: choices and make the right decisions. Well, I had the 256 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:30,840 Speaker 5: peace of God. He asked me to marry, so I did. 257 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 5: Thirty years later. It's been a wonderful decision. It's been 258 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:43,240 Speaker 5: a great decision. Can I tell you girls, don't judge 259 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:47,240 Speaker 5: from the outside. Make sure their character lines up. You're 260 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 5: far too valuable to get together with someone who. 261 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 4: Doesn't appreciate you. 262 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:55,800 Speaker 5: And know how to bring out the best in you, 263 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:58,440 Speaker 5: who doesn't serve the living God. 264 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:00,800 Speaker 4: You see, I'm made my decision. 265 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:03,200 Speaker 5: I'd rather be home with a peanut butter and jelly 266 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:05,959 Speaker 5: sanwich than with a man that wasn't good enough for 267 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 5: me and God. 268 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:09,880 Speaker 4: All right, it's not worth it. 269 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:16,760 Speaker 5: Every decision you make. Use the word of God as 270 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:20,680 Speaker 5: your goal standard. Keep conforming to God's word and his likeness. 271 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:25,360 Speaker 5: Don't conform to the world, don't conform to habits. You 272 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:27,600 Speaker 5: may be fighting something right now, and I just want 273 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:31,600 Speaker 5: to encourage you to get yourself, submit yourself under the 274 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:34,080 Speaker 5: word of God. Don't let anything come out of your 275 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:37,200 Speaker 5: mouth that doesn't line up with what you want. Listen, 276 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 5: when you're in a fight, you've got to fight to 277 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:42,560 Speaker 5: the end. You got to be serious about where you're going. 278 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:47,360 Speaker 5: God's work will renew you, strengthen you, and refresh you. 279 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:50,440 Speaker 5: It'll detox all those old ways and I'll bring you 280 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:51,840 Speaker 5: into the new ways of God. 281 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:54,400 Speaker 4: We love you so much. You're awesome. 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