1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:04,920 Speaker 1: Or saith he it altogether for our sakes. For our sakes, 2 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:09,240 Speaker 1: no doubt this is written that he that ploweth should 3 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:13,800 Speaker 1: plow and hope, and he that thresheth in hope should 4 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 1: be partaker of his hope. First Corinthians nine ten, Father, 5 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:22,319 Speaker 1: thank you for your word that teaches me how to 6 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:26,480 Speaker 1: live and what to expect. You never muzzle the ox 7 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 1: when he is treading grain. As he grinds out the grain. 8 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:33,200 Speaker 1: It is appropriate for them to be nourished in order 9 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 1: for them to have the strength as they continue to 10 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:39,120 Speaker 1: tread the grain. The same way, the workmen are not 11 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:42,839 Speaker 1: to be deprived of proper sustenance and receive compensation for 12 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 1: their labors. Neither are those who labor in the Word 13 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 1: and your mission field, those that are committed to preaching 14 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 1: and teaching your word, or the Lord's plowmen. They work 15 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:02,160 Speaker 1: alongside him to break up the fool grounds of men's hearts, 16 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 1: and so the seeds of righteousness into their souls. As 17 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:10,479 Speaker 1: they labor and hope with the Lord, they should also 18 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 1: be partakers of the same hope given to others. You 19 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:20,000 Speaker 1: are just and fair and are pleased with those who 20 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:23,520 Speaker 1: plow and hope, as they should to enjoy the fruit 21 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 1: of their labors. You are a rewarder of those who 22 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:31,120 Speaker 1: seek You and provide for those who dedicate their lives 23 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 1: to serving You. As I labor to reach the lost 24 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 1: with the word of truth that I'm faithful to strengthen 25 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 1: them in righteousness, it is only fair that I should 26 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 1: hope to be provided with food and shelter for family 27 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 1: and myself in Jesus name. Amen. Thank you for listening 28 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:57,200 Speaker 1: to today's daily prayer for more inspiration and an incredible 29 00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 1: message from our feature pastor. Stay tuned to dot COM's 30 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 1: Sunday Service. Welcome to Sunday Service, the podcast that's meant 31 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:13,960 Speaker 1: to inspire you to live a better life and grow 32 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: your faith for eternity. I'm your host, Matthew Potter, and 33 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 1: today we are honored and blessed to feature Beth Jones 34 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:25,800 Speaker 1: from Kalamazoo, Michigan. And now let's dive into the word. 35 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:31,640 Speaker 1: How is everybody doing? We're going to talk today about 36 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:34,760 Speaker 1: the greatest life. What in the world does the Lord 37 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 1: have in mind for us? Because of the Christ Jesus 38 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 1: paid on the cross? What does he have in mind 39 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 1: for us? And I don't know how it was with you. 40 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:46,520 Speaker 1: But you know, oftentimes we grow up and we put 41 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:50,200 Speaker 1: religious glasses on and see God in ways that the 42 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 1: Bible doesn't describe him, and then we see life in ways. 43 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:57,320 Speaker 1: We see our life in ways that maybe the Bible 44 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily define or describe. And I don't know about you, 45 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:03,040 Speaker 1: but it's a happy day when you take off the 46 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 1: old religious glasses and put on Bible glasses and see 47 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:09,040 Speaker 1: what the Lord has said and what the Lord has 48 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:12,120 Speaker 1: promised and how he wants to empower us to do 49 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:14,800 Speaker 1: and to be all that He's called us to do 50 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:16,680 Speaker 1: and being. So that's what we're going to talk about today, 51 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 1: the greatest life because of the Greatest Man. Amen. Amen, 52 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:25,280 Speaker 1: all right, if you got your bibles, go ahead, let's 53 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 1: go to John ten ten. John ten ten, of course, man, 54 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:31,360 Speaker 1: if you know this verse, but I love it, and 55 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 1: it says in the amplified version of the Bible, it 56 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 1: says this. It says, the thief comes only in order 57 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:41,800 Speaker 1: to steal and to kill and to destroy. So, yes, 58 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 1: there is a thief. There is an adversary. There is 59 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:47,360 Speaker 1: someone who doesn't want you to live the God life, 60 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 1: the greatest life, and his goal all along in every 61 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 1: area of life always is to steal, steal your joy, 62 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 1: steal your marriage, steal your health, kill everything that could live, 63 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 1: and destroy. He's on a mission to do that. But 64 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 1: Jesus said, I have come. I have come for another reason. 65 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 1: I have come that they may have and enjoy life 66 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:18,480 Speaker 1: and have it in abundance to the full until it overflows. Well, 67 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:20,240 Speaker 1: there's a lot of keywords in that, but I think 68 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:24,159 Speaker 1: one major keyword and there is enjoy. That's where you 69 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:27,360 Speaker 1: have to take the religious glasses off sometimes that Jesus said, 70 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 1: I've come that they could have and enjoy life and 71 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 1: have it in abundance. I mean, there is nothing stingy 72 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:39,599 Speaker 1: about the Lord. Aren't you glad? There is no lack 73 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:42,160 Speaker 1: with the Lord. There is nothing stingy, there is nothing 74 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 1: barely get along. There's only so much to go around. 75 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:50,800 Speaker 1: There is nothing of that in the Lord. He's the 76 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:53,159 Speaker 1: god of more than enough. And then in case we 77 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:55,480 Speaker 1: didn't get it fully, he said, listen, I want you 78 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 1: to have life to the full until it overflows. And 79 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 1: you know, I know for myself, man, I had to 80 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:05,400 Speaker 1: get my mind renewed to this God of the Bible 81 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:09,880 Speaker 1: because I had a different paradigm and this whole idea 82 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 1: that God wants you to live the overflowing life and 83 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 1: in every area. You know, sometimes we can a little 84 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:19,599 Speaker 1: bit hyper spiritualize things and think, well, that only means spiritually, 85 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:24,479 Speaker 1: just spiritually, but it's in every area of your life, 86 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 1: it's in every area of my life. He wants us 87 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:30,679 Speaker 1: to have life to the full and tell it overflows 88 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:34,360 Speaker 1: in abundance, have and enjoy it. Now look at this verse, 89 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 1: and Timothy give you a couple of verses, and then 90 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:39,279 Speaker 1: we're gonna get into some really really practical and I 91 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:44,839 Speaker 1: hope inspiring things today. First Timothy six, here's what the 92 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:47,279 Speaker 1: apostle Paul said, is to teach those who are rich 93 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:51,159 Speaker 1: in this world not to be proud and not to 94 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:55,400 Speaker 1: trust in their money, which is so unreliable. But their 95 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:59,440 Speaker 1: trust should be in God, who richly gives us all 96 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 1: things we need for our enjoyment. Tell them to use 97 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 1: their money to do good. They should be rich and 98 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:10,040 Speaker 1: good works and generous to those in need, always being 99 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 1: ready to share with others. By doing this, they will 100 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:15,279 Speaker 1: be storing up their treasure as a good foundation to 101 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:21,479 Speaker 1: the future so that they may experience true life. Talking 102 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:23,920 Speaker 1: about life, and it's so interesting here, you know, sometimes 103 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:26,600 Speaker 1: again going back to just the mindset we have when 104 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:29,359 Speaker 1: it comes to God and comes to life so many times, 105 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:33,039 Speaker 1: and it's just the enemy. But the enemy wants people 106 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:37,239 Speaker 1: to be mad at rich people, and that somehow or another, 107 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:39,880 Speaker 1: God doesn't want people to have money. Well, you can't 108 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:43,599 Speaker 1: give what you don't have. So how can you be 109 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:45,840 Speaker 1: generous and give and do all the stuff God wants 110 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:48,600 Speaker 1: us to do if you don't have something. So he's 111 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 1: not against people having money. He's against money having people, 112 00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:55,039 Speaker 1: but he's not against you having money. Money's neutral. This 113 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 1: is a little rabbit trail, but here, just go with it. 114 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:01,600 Speaker 1: Money's neutral. You know, in the hands of a good person, 115 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:04,359 Speaker 1: it does good things. In the hands of an evil person, 116 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:07,080 Speaker 1: it does evil things. Money is not moral or a 117 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 1: moral it's just neutral. So let's be the people that 118 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 1: are doing according to this verse and living with a 119 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 1: generous spirit, having whatever God's given us in terms of 120 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:21,880 Speaker 1: resources and wealth and material things to enjoy life and 121 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 1: to do good things. And he says, look, those people 122 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:28,920 Speaker 1: are going to enjoy true life, real life, and not 123 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:30,640 Speaker 1: just in this life, but also in the life that 124 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 1: is to come. So we're just painting a little picture 125 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 1: on the front end. God wants you to enjoy life. 126 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 1: You don't look like you're enjoying it right now. God 127 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:45,960 Speaker 1: wants you to enjoy life. Let's do it one more time. 128 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:54,560 Speaker 1: God wants you to enjoy life. So then, how what 129 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 1: are some really practical ways? Look at this in Proverbs 130 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 1: go to Proverbs eight. And while you're heading there, let 131 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 1: me just give you a couple of quotes you've heard before. 132 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 1: But Eleanor Roosevelt said this life is what you make it, 133 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:12,680 Speaker 1: always has been and always will be. Well, that's not 134 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:16,120 Speaker 1: a Bible verse, but it is a truth. Leon Potillo 135 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 1: some of you might remember him, he used to have 136 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 1: a song life is what you make it. It's all 137 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 1: up to you. Well, it's up to you, and the 138 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 1: Holy Spirit's up to you walking with God. But God's 139 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 1: not forcing us to have life. And God's not living 140 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:33,280 Speaker 1: our lives for us. The Holy spirits our helper. He 141 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 1: helps us live life, but he doesn't live it for us. 142 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:39,720 Speaker 1: And I know sometimes in the Christian world we give this, 143 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:43,839 Speaker 1: we get a little bit of a fatalistic attitude, meaning, well, 144 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:46,200 Speaker 1: God'll just do it, God'll just do it all. I'll 145 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:49,560 Speaker 1: just wait for the magic wand God'll just do it. Well, 146 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 1: God does a lot, and he did a lot on 147 00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:54,679 Speaker 1: the cross and made a way for you and I 148 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 1: to have a bundle life. But he doesn't live your 149 00:08:57,559 --> 00:09:02,439 Speaker 1: life right. The Holy Spirit helps us. Life is what 150 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 1: you make it, and it is time for the Church 151 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:08,280 Speaker 1: and Christian people. Don't wake up and live life. Live 152 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:12,600 Speaker 1: life that is influential. Live life you enjoy, and use 153 00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:16,480 Speaker 1: your wealth for good things. And all the people said 154 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 1: Wayne Dyer said this. He said, the number one regret 155 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:22,960 Speaker 1: of the dying is this. I wish I'd had the 156 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:27,520 Speaker 1: courage to live the life I wanted rather than doing 157 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:30,840 Speaker 1: what others wanted of me. So, however much time you 158 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:34,079 Speaker 1: have left, let's live life. Let's live the life God's 159 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:36,679 Speaker 1: called you to live. Proverbs eight twelve. I love this. 160 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 1: I'll give you a couple of versions. This is one 161 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:42,360 Speaker 1: of my favorite little hidden verses and proverbs from all time. 162 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:45,960 Speaker 1: Really in the Passion Bible, it says this, for I 163 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:50,240 Speaker 1: am wisdom, I am shrewd and intelligent. I have at 164 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:57,240 Speaker 1: my disposal living understanding to devise a plan for your life. 165 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 1: This idea that God wants to help us devise a 166 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:06,839 Speaker 1: plan by wisdom for our lives. In the Young's literal translation, 167 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:10,640 Speaker 1: it says, I wisdom have dwelled with prudence and a 168 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 1: knowledge of devices I find out. I like that word devices, 169 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:20,080 Speaker 1: or to devise. In the King James Bible, this verse 170 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:23,480 Speaker 1: says this, I wisdom dwell with prudence and find out 171 00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:31,360 Speaker 1: the knowledge of witty inventions. Witty inventions. I think the 172 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:33,360 Speaker 1: Lord all the time, And as we get into this today, 173 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:35,640 Speaker 1: I think you'll see he has been already for a 174 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:37,360 Speaker 1: lot of your life and a lot of my life, 175 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:42,920 Speaker 1: giving us witty inventions. He's helped us all along to 176 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:46,880 Speaker 1: devise a plan to live our lives. But I'm hoping 177 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:51,200 Speaker 1: today that you be inspired and motivated and encouraged to go. Okay, Lord, 178 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:54,600 Speaker 1: I am taking the lid off. What have I been thinking? Okay, 179 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 1: So let's go with number one. You guys ready Number one, 180 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:01,160 Speaker 1: Live your life and forget your age. There's an author. 181 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:04,280 Speaker 1: In fact, she's the most prolific novelist. Her name is 182 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:08,520 Speaker 1: Barbara Cartland. She wrote seven hundred and twenty three books 183 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:11,640 Speaker 1: in her lifetime. It's a lot of books. It's a 184 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:14,880 Speaker 1: lot of books. She sold between six hundred million and 185 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,560 Speaker 1: two billion books. She wrote her first book at twenty one. 186 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:20,199 Speaker 1: But here's the cool part. She wrote her last book 187 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:25,120 Speaker 1: at ninety seven. Between the ages of seventy seven to 188 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:29,400 Speaker 1: ninety seven, a twenty year window. Between seventy seven and 189 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:34,720 Speaker 1: ninety seven, she wrote four hundred romances. We don't necessarily 190 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:37,240 Speaker 1: endorse her genre of book, but we do enduse what 191 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 1: she did. A lot of people at seventy seven, you know, 192 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:45,520 Speaker 1: have retired and are living in the villages. America's Friendly 193 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:49,760 Speaker 1: his hometown. At seventy seven, for the next twenty years, 194 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:56,000 Speaker 1: she wrote four hundred books. Live your life. Forget your age. 195 00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 1: Some of you authors out there, you always want to 196 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:00,560 Speaker 1: write a book, and you think, oh man, I'm forty. 197 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:05,599 Speaker 1: It's way too late. You haven't even started yet. You 198 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 1: got a book in you write that book. You got 199 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:10,120 Speaker 1: a song in you write that song. You got something 200 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:14,240 Speaker 1: in you to create, to develop. Do it. Live your life. 201 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 1: Forget about how old you are. Well, people at my 202 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:19,880 Speaker 1: age wouldn't do this. Well, then don't be like people 203 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:26,760 Speaker 1: your age. How about this guy, Bob Becker. He's seventy 204 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:29,960 Speaker 1: from Fort Lauderdale. He was the oldest finisher in twenty 205 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:33,480 Speaker 1: fifteen at the bad Water one hundred and thirty five. 206 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:38,320 Speaker 1: That's one hundred and thirty five mile intense physical foot 207 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:41,720 Speaker 1: race covering one hundred and thirty five miles. He did 208 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:44,720 Speaker 1: it in forty one hours. But that's not all Bob 209 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:47,000 Speaker 1: got done with the race. He decided to walk in 210 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:51,520 Speaker 1: additional eleven miles up a fourteen thousand foot incline, and 211 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:54,720 Speaker 1: then he wanted to do the whole route again. It's 212 00:12:54,760 --> 00:13:00,400 Speaker 1: called the bad Water Double. How old was Bob seventy oh. 213 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:04,160 Speaker 1: He did take a little nap though in between, in 214 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:07,920 Speaker 1: between the first half and the second half. He just 215 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:10,959 Speaker 1: decided to do it. He's an ultra marathoner. Previously he 216 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 1: would do one hundred mile plus races. You always wanted 217 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:18,719 Speaker 1: to do the Chicago Marathon. You always wondered if you 218 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:23,680 Speaker 1: could qualify for the Boston number two. Reinvent yourself or 219 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:27,600 Speaker 1: something else that We've talked about this concept many times, 220 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:31,600 Speaker 1: but George Bernard Shaw said, life isn't about finding yourself. 221 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:35,640 Speaker 1: Life is about creating yourself. In that sense, take what's 222 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:38,320 Speaker 1: been done a million times before and just reinvent it. 223 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:42,720 Speaker 1: So we know Steve Jobs reinvented the phone. You know, 224 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:44,840 Speaker 1: the rotary of course, we had but even like the 225 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:46,600 Speaker 1: flip phone, and we had some phones it were just 226 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 1: more functional. But he turns the iPhone into a piece 227 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 1: of art. Elon Musk takes the car and he reinvents 228 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:58,439 Speaker 1: it into the Tesla, the electrical car, and solar panels 229 00:13:58,480 --> 00:13:59,840 Speaker 1: on a bunch of other things he's doing in the 230 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:04,520 Speaker 1: technology world, Howard Schultz. We used to pay fifty cents 231 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:08,920 Speaker 1: for a cup of coffee at the gas station. Now 232 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:12,400 Speaker 1: we pay four dollars, and we're happy to do it. 233 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 1: And we wait in line. What did he do? He 234 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:19,320 Speaker 1: took a cup of coffee. It existed. He didn't invent coffee. 235 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:23,240 Speaker 1: He took something that existed and he just put a 236 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:25,520 Speaker 1: new twist on it. He perked it up. If you will. 237 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 1: Where's the drum and the crash the symbol crash. Take 238 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:36,640 Speaker 1: something that exists and reinvent it. The surfboard. Okay, the 239 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:41,680 Speaker 1: surfboard was first invented in nineteen twenty six, the surfboard. 240 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:44,760 Speaker 1: But do you know over the years there's thirty variations 241 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:49,320 Speaker 1: of the surfboard. It all came from the surfboard, the snowboard, 242 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:52,920 Speaker 1: the snow skate skis, the skateboard, the wakeboard. I mean, 243 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:56,200 Speaker 1: just start going down the list, there's thirty variations of something. 244 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 1: What was it originally a surfboard? So what do you 245 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:01,760 Speaker 1: have a expertise and what's in your world that you 246 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:06,080 Speaker 1: could reinvent? Ponder? Think about it. What does God do? 247 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 1: He gives us the knowledge of witty inventions? Now this 248 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:15,000 Speaker 1: is an interesting thought. Here, we'll go to the Second Chronicles. 249 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:17,320 Speaker 1: We'll see this in the Bible. I love this stuff. 250 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:21,000 Speaker 1: You guys like this kind of stuff. It's inspiring, it's motivating. 251 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 1: It makes you open up your heart and go, Okay, God, 252 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:24,800 Speaker 1: what do you want to do in my life and 253 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:28,360 Speaker 1: through my life? In Second Chronicles twenty six, then all 254 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:31,120 Speaker 1: the people of Judah took you Ziah, who was sixteen 255 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 1: years old, and made him king in place of his 256 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:35,200 Speaker 1: father Verse four. He did what was right in the 257 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:38,640 Speaker 1: Lord's sight, to the extent that his father Amaziah had done. 258 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:42,760 Speaker 1: He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah. 259 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:46,440 Speaker 1: And as long as he sought, inquired, of yearned for 260 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 1: the Lord, God made him prosper. Well, you see the 261 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:53,160 Speaker 1: priorities there, don't you When you're seeking the Lord. As 262 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:54,920 Speaker 1: long as you're seeking the Lord, as long as your 263 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:57,320 Speaker 1: heart's toward God, as long as your heart is to 264 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:00,080 Speaker 1: be blessed, to be a blessing, to enjoy life, and 265 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:03,680 Speaker 1: to do good, to seek the Lord. God is all 266 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:06,640 Speaker 1: good with prospering you, with blessing your life. And he 267 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:09,840 Speaker 1: did that for Yusiah verse seven. God helped him against 268 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:12,840 Speaker 1: the Philistines and the Arabs, who dwelt in different places 269 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:15,320 Speaker 1: there over in the Middle East, and the Ammonites paid tribute, 270 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 1: and his fame spread even to the border of Egypt. 271 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 1: He became very strong, and then he had some commanders 272 00:16:21,640 --> 00:16:23,880 Speaker 1: under him, and under their command there was an army 273 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 1: of three hundred thousand plus who could fight, and so 274 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:31,760 Speaker 1: on verse fourteens the verse okay, verse fourteen. Yusiah prepared 275 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 1: for all the army shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, 276 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:39,800 Speaker 1: bows and stones to sling. In Jerusalem. He made machines 277 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:45,560 Speaker 1: devices invented by skillful men, to be on the towers 278 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:49,080 Speaker 1: and on the corner bulwarks with which to shoot arrows 279 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:51,240 Speaker 1: and great stones. And his fame spread, for he was 280 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 1: marvelously helped until he was strong. What is this whole 281 00:16:54,920 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 1: story about. It's about tapping into God's wisdom. It was 282 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:00,120 Speaker 1: about how God gave him the knowledge of witty idea 283 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 1: of invention. And back in the day they invented the 284 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:05,760 Speaker 1: machine we know as the catapult and put it up 285 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:07,320 Speaker 1: on the corners of the walls, and it was something 286 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:09,560 Speaker 1: to help them protect their city. Well, what does God 287 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:11,920 Speaker 1: do for people when you seek Kimmy makes you prosper 288 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 1: and then he gives you the knowledge of a witty idea. 289 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:17,640 Speaker 1: Doesn't always have to do with business, It doesn't always 290 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:21,400 Speaker 1: have to do with armies and battles, but it does 291 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:23,600 Speaker 1: have to do with your life. Do you need a 292 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:26,199 Speaker 1: witty idea to deal with your kids? Do you need 293 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:29,040 Speaker 1: a witty idea in your marriage? What do you need 294 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:33,520 Speaker 1: God to give you a witty reinvention of There are 295 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:36,679 Speaker 1: some stories, and I think these are interesting, of people 296 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:38,399 Speaker 1: over the years that give God all the credit for 297 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:40,520 Speaker 1: the inventions. Of course, you guys know, many of you 298 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:44,919 Speaker 1: know the story of George Washington Carver. Humbly, he attributes 299 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:48,919 Speaker 1: the Creator for all of the inventions. He came up 300 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:52,640 Speaker 1: with hundreds of inventions for the use of the peanut, 301 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 1: hundreds and hundreds of uses for the peanut, and he 302 00:17:57,320 --> 00:17:59,480 Speaker 1: gives credit and says, the Lord has guided me and 303 00:17:59,480 --> 00:18:02,720 Speaker 1: without my savior. I am nothing. The guy who invented 304 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:06,040 Speaker 1: the laser printer, Gary Starkweather said, I believe that to 305 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:09,119 Speaker 1: a great extent, the creativity we possess is because the 306 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:13,760 Speaker 1: Creator put it there. God put things in us as tools, 307 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 1: developers and creative individuals, and I think it has to 308 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:20,480 Speaker 1: please him when he sees us using those faculties to 309 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:25,640 Speaker 1: make something completely new. There's a lot of stories about 310 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:27,879 Speaker 1: people over the years, and some were believers and some 311 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:30,480 Speaker 1: were but nonetheless, God's the author of all things anyways, 312 00:18:31,119 --> 00:18:33,480 Speaker 1: that had dreams over the years and needed to solve 313 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:36,960 Speaker 1: some problems. Here's a couple Mendela have created the periodic 314 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:39,760 Speaker 1: table from a dream. He's trying to figure out how 315 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:41,159 Speaker 1: to put all the atoms in some kind of a 316 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:47,159 Speaker 1: logical order because he hadn't nothing else to do, so 317 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:49,240 Speaker 1: he had a dream and he got the periodic table. 318 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:54,080 Speaker 1: August Kakol solved the structural riddle of the benzine molecule 319 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:56,720 Speaker 1: from a dream. Again, these are things that I know 320 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:58,119 Speaker 1: a lot of us are staying up late at night 321 00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:05,240 Speaker 1: working on as well. But Frederick Banting isolated insulin with 322 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:08,960 Speaker 1: help from a dream. Elias how finished the sewing machine 323 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:13,360 Speaker 1: the lockstitch component of a sewing machine. Einstein got the 324 00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:15,680 Speaker 1: theory of relativity in a dream. Actually it was through 325 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:17,200 Speaker 1: he had a dream about being in the speed of 326 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:20,479 Speaker 1: light and got the theory of relativity as a result. 327 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:23,520 Speaker 1: Otto Low, the father of neuroscience, had two dreams two 328 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:26,360 Speaker 1: nights in a row, because he thought that nerves were 329 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:28,720 Speaker 1: conducted by the chemistry in the body. But he had 330 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:32,280 Speaker 1: two dreams in a row that he saw the formula 331 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:36,480 Speaker 1: that nerve signals were transmitted using chemical instructions. Well, the 332 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:38,600 Speaker 1: Holy Spirit can teach us and reveal things to us 333 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:40,960 Speaker 1: in a lot of ways. What's the point. The point 334 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 1: is reinvent yourself or something else. Number three, intentionally practice 335 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:51,919 Speaker 1: one thing ten thousand times now. Malcolm Gladwell made this 336 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:55,159 Speaker 1: famous in his book Outliers. He told the story of 337 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:58,040 Speaker 1: the Beatles how they got their ten thousand hours in 338 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:00,879 Speaker 1: They had their first gig in nineteen six They were unknown. 339 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:03,879 Speaker 1: They were playing in Germany in local clubs, but by 340 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:07,080 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty two, two years later, they played eight hours 341 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:10,600 Speaker 1: a night, seven nights a week for quite some time. 342 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:13,399 Speaker 1: By nineteen sixty four, the year they came out of 343 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:17,240 Speaker 1: the scene internationally, the Beatles had played over twelve hundred 344 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 1: concerts together. Doesn't maybe seem like a lot to us. However, 345 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:25,720 Speaker 1: by way of comparison, most bands today don't play twelve 346 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 1: hundred times together in their entire career. What was the 347 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:32,160 Speaker 1: secret in part with the Beatles? He talked about they 348 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:35,919 Speaker 1: just mastered it his thing, and many others concur that 349 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:40,600 Speaker 1: mastery happens when you do something ten thousand times. It 350 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:42,800 Speaker 1: just become you become a master of it. It's you're 351 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:45,199 Speaker 1: not nervous, you're not scared, you're not inept. No, you 352 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:47,240 Speaker 1: know you know how to do it. You've done it 353 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:49,760 Speaker 1: ten thousand times. There's a couple of quotes I want 354 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:51,760 Speaker 1: you to see these. Bruce Lee said, I don't fear 355 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:55,000 Speaker 1: the man who practiced ten thousand kicks. I fear the 356 00:20:55,000 --> 00:21:00,400 Speaker 1: man who practiced one kick ten thousand times. They're something 357 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:06,560 Speaker 1: about intentionally practicing the thing you do ten thousand times, 358 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:09,720 Speaker 1: said whole mantra, don't be the jack of all trades 359 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:14,400 Speaker 1: and the master of none. What's your niche? What's your thing? 360 00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:21,320 Speaker 1: What are you good at? Do that thing? In one 361 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:23,080 Speaker 1: of the books I was reading, there's a guy who's 362 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:26,240 Speaker 1: an investor and an author, and he was talking about 363 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:28,800 Speaker 1: his daughter who was playing tennis with his daughter, and 364 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:32,560 Speaker 1: so her backhand was not very good. So rather than 365 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:35,160 Speaker 1: just go and play tennis, he went and bought two 366 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:37,320 Speaker 1: hundred tennis balls, and he thought, I'm just gonna start 367 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:40,479 Speaker 1: hitting tennis balls to her backhand. And so he just 368 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:43,040 Speaker 1: began to serve and to hit tennis balls to her backhand, 369 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:46,400 Speaker 1: two hundred of them over and over without hardly any breaks. 370 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:50,239 Speaker 1: And her percentage of success was about five percent. She 371 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:52,399 Speaker 1: wasn't very good and she was crying and I'm terrible 372 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:54,320 Speaker 1: and this is no fun and I'm not doing well. 373 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:57,639 Speaker 1: And he didn't hit anything else or just backhands, and 374 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:00,160 Speaker 1: he said, don't worry. He said, your brain is learning 375 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 1: right now. Your backhand's not learning, but your brain is learning. 376 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:06,440 Speaker 1: They went out the very next day and did it again, 377 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:10,680 Speaker 1: and she improved by sixty percent. What they do they 378 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:12,920 Speaker 1: just did the same thing over and over and over. 379 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 1: Sometimes I know I'm guilty, and I think maybe many 380 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:17,920 Speaker 1: of us are. Sometimes we've got a lot of things 381 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:21,080 Speaker 1: going and we're, you know, an inch deep in a 382 00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 1: mile wide. Maybe we need to be a mile deep 383 00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:26,120 Speaker 1: and an inch wide. Maybe we need to figure out, 384 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:27,760 Speaker 1: what's our niche? What's your thing? What is it that 385 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:31,800 Speaker 1: you're good at. Maybe it's in musing, maybe it's in athletics, 386 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:34,000 Speaker 1: maybe it's in business. Maybe it's some kind of a 387 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:38,480 Speaker 1: skill you have. And you might say, they did the math. 388 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:42,359 Speaker 1: They said that the ten thousand times thing is equivalent 389 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:44,800 Speaker 1: to forty at what is it forty hours a week 390 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:49,119 Speaker 1: for five years. If you did something for forty hours 391 00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:52,760 Speaker 1: a week for five years intentionally, not just like going 392 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:56,159 Speaker 1: to your job, but something intentionally for forty hours a 393 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:58,720 Speaker 1: week over five years, that would be equivalent to this 394 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:02,639 Speaker 1: mastery status. So what is it? What is it for you? 395 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:06,919 Speaker 1: What's the niche? Focus on it? Give yourself to it. 396 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:12,159 Speaker 1: That might mean saying yes to a lot of opportunities 397 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:16,240 Speaker 1: rather than saying no. Say yes. You know, back in 398 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:20,120 Speaker 1: the day we first started preaching and speaking and stuff. 399 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:23,440 Speaker 1: On one hand, okay, let me give you a little 400 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:25,639 Speaker 1: parenthetical here. On one hand, yes, you want to be 401 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:28,160 Speaker 1: led by the Holy Spirit because you can't do everything. 402 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:30,840 Speaker 1: You want to be led by the Holy Spirit to 403 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:32,920 Speaker 1: what he's leading you to do. And there are seasons 404 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:34,679 Speaker 1: of pulling away and getting with the Lord. We're going 405 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:36,960 Speaker 1: to talk about that in a minute. But in this 406 00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 1: context saying yes to things. Don't say no, just say yes. 407 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:42,959 Speaker 1: And so back in the day we first started speaking, 408 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:45,199 Speaker 1: you know, sometimes we get an invitation to preach somewhere, 409 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:48,960 Speaker 1: and you know, in a good way we would pray 410 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,320 Speaker 1: about it. Well, let's pray about it. Lord, you want 411 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:53,439 Speaker 1: us to go there. But really the truth is in 412 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:58,040 Speaker 1: that season is sort of like yes, yes, he wants 413 00:23:58,040 --> 00:23:59,720 Speaker 1: you to go places. You guys need some practice. You 414 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:01,800 Speaker 1: need to you need to know how to how to ministry. 415 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:03,560 Speaker 1: You need not know how to study and put together 416 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:06,640 Speaker 1: a message and meet some new friends and ministry and things. 417 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:11,679 Speaker 1: And so don't overanalyze things, either over spiritualize it or 418 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 1: over analyze it to the point you just stay stuck. 419 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:18,240 Speaker 1: You got one foot nail to the floor. You got 420 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:20,600 Speaker 1: one foot nail to the floor, and you're just doing 421 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:24,360 Speaker 1: this your whole life. Boy Lord, I wish you'd hurry 422 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:30,879 Speaker 1: up and do something. And all the people said, Hey, 423 00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:34,840 Speaker 1: I hope you are enjoying today's message, and I wanted 424 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:39,360 Speaker 1: to interrupt this program to bring you a special announcement. 425 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:43,040 Speaker 1: I wanted to offer you a free book that will 426 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:47,040 Speaker 1: help you grow in your relationship with the Lord. Just 427 00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:51,320 Speaker 1: click the free book button on the Prey dot Com 428 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:55,560 Speaker 1: app or go to the Basics Withbeth dot Com to 429 00:24:55,680 --> 00:25:00,160 Speaker 1: get your free copy of the Seven Basics the These 430 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:05,200 Speaker 1: seven truths will definitely set you up for an intimate 431 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:10,800 Speaker 1: and successful relationship with the Lord. Now let's head back 432 00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:17,680 Speaker 1: into our regularly scheduled program number four. Do the friendship math? 433 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:22,399 Speaker 1: Do the friendship math? Jim Rohan says, you are the 434 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:26,000 Speaker 1: average of the five people you spend the most time with. 435 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:29,040 Speaker 1: They're influencing you because you know, we're all we're kind 436 00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:31,320 Speaker 1: of tribal people in that sense. I mean, we sort 437 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:33,920 Speaker 1: of end up getting into our tribes. And the people 438 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,240 Speaker 1: you hang with are the people You pick up their habits, 439 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:40,760 Speaker 1: you pick up their language, their lingo, you pick up 440 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:44,760 Speaker 1: their dress, the way they dress, you pick up their attitudes. 441 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:49,879 Speaker 1: And he says, we become the average of the five 442 00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:53,760 Speaker 1: people we spend the most time with. So do the 443 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:57,159 Speaker 1: friendship math. Who are you hanging out with? Who's who's 444 00:25:57,280 --> 00:26:00,959 Speaker 1: influencing you? Who are you the average? You know, if 445 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,760 Speaker 1: you looked at five people you really hang with, see 446 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 1: if it's true in your life? Are you the average 447 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:08,400 Speaker 1: of those five people? And do you like that average. 448 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:11,720 Speaker 1: Is that where you want to be? Or are you like, no, man, 449 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:15,639 Speaker 1: I need to I need to expand my world. You know, 450 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:20,800 Speaker 1: the Bible says bad company corrupts good character. You know, 451 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:26,359 Speaker 1: if you get around people that are negative and complainers, haters, 452 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:29,199 Speaker 1: they hate church, and they hate the government, and they 453 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:31,439 Speaker 1: hate what's going on in the world, and they hate everything, 454 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:36,199 Speaker 1: well you're going to be the average of that. Or 455 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:40,320 Speaker 1: you can get around really positive, faith filled Jesus, loving God, 456 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:46,439 Speaker 1: honoring validators. Come on, you can get around people that 457 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:49,720 Speaker 1: are a lot like Christ. You can get around people 458 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:51,760 Speaker 1: with the bigger world? Man, do you know how big 459 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:54,160 Speaker 1: your world can become? There used to be a book 460 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:58,159 Speaker 1: years ago it's called is Your God Too Small? If 461 00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:00,440 Speaker 1: you get around people who don't have a small God? 462 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:02,879 Speaker 1: Do you get around people who believe the Bible that 463 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:05,439 Speaker 1: with God all things are possible? Do you know that 464 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:09,280 Speaker 1: affects you? That affects how you talk, It affects how 465 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:14,840 Speaker 1: you think. Yeah, so, who's in your world? And if 466 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:17,800 Speaker 1: you need to change up some friendships? Do it? Iron 467 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:21,760 Speaker 1: sharpens iron. There's a famous phrase. It says, show me 468 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:25,840 Speaker 1: your friends, I'll show you your future. It is so true. 469 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,800 Speaker 1: Parents you know it. You spend all this time working 470 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:32,040 Speaker 1: on those kids, training them, raising them up, teaching them 471 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:35,600 Speaker 1: to be polite, to have manners, to be courteous, to obey, 472 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:39,240 Speaker 1: to have respect, to get good grays, to be friendly, 473 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:40,960 Speaker 1: to love the Lord. I mean, all this stuff you 474 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:44,600 Speaker 1: invest into your kids, and don't you know they get 475 00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:47,560 Speaker 1: around one or two bad apples in high school or 476 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,160 Speaker 1: middle school, and it feels like all that hard work 477 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:53,760 Speaker 1: goes out the drain. Why because bad company corrupts good character. 478 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:58,240 Speaker 1: But iron sharpens iron. If you need to make some changes, 479 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:02,240 Speaker 1: don't apologize. This is your life. If you're living, you 480 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:07,440 Speaker 1: are living your life due the friendship math and all 481 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:12,600 Speaker 1: the people said number five, we're talking about the greatest life. 482 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:17,600 Speaker 1: Number five. Get more bobbers in the water. John Wooden 483 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:21,560 Speaker 1: said this, don't let making a living prevent you from 484 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:26,080 Speaker 1: making a life. Statistics tell us the average multi millionaire 485 00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:30,680 Speaker 1: has seven streams of income. So what are we talking about. 486 00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:32,840 Speaker 1: Get more bobbers in the water. If you've taken financial 487 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:36,719 Speaker 1: peace around here, you've heard the conversation about getting passive income, 488 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:41,160 Speaker 1: another stream of income, residual income, and there are you 489 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,560 Speaker 1: have the capacity. We live in the technology age, you 490 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:47,600 Speaker 1: have the opportunity. We'll come back and talk about some 491 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,280 Speaker 1: of these actually when we meet up again and talk 492 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 1: about the second half of the Greatest Future. But just 493 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,200 Speaker 1: to plant some thoughts now, no matter what God's called 494 00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,720 Speaker 1: you to, whether it's ministry or business or whatever, don't 495 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:02,840 Speaker 1: forget the four ours, because this is how people accumulate 496 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:07,240 Speaker 1: wealth in this world. And here they are number one rentals, 497 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:14,160 Speaker 1: number two renewals, number three royalties, and number four real estate. 498 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:17,040 Speaker 1: At this conversation many times with our kids when they 499 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:20,360 Speaker 1: were little, to plant in them this idea that God 500 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:24,760 Speaker 1: always has streams and rivers. God always has witty ideas 501 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:27,560 Speaker 1: when it comes to rentals. If you buy ten chairs 502 00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:30,080 Speaker 1: and rent them, you're sitting at the beach in your 503 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:32,120 Speaker 1: lawn chair, but your ten chairs are making money for 504 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:36,520 Speaker 1: you because they're using it at somebody's open house. If 505 00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:40,800 Speaker 1: you have a residual or a renewal, a subscription business 506 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:44,440 Speaker 1: of some sort, insurances in that category as well, how 507 00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:46,920 Speaker 1: many you signed up for something for only four ninety 508 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:51,040 Speaker 1: nine a month and every month they're getting your four 509 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:59,280 Speaker 1: ninety nine, but you just forgot to unsubscribe. Residuals, royalties, licensing, 510 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:01,960 Speaker 1: something have something that you license so others use it. 511 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,480 Speaker 1: You get a royalty, you write a book, you write 512 00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:09,680 Speaker 1: a song, you sew an app on a license, royalties, 513 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:13,440 Speaker 1: it's passive it it's another stream of income. And then 514 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:16,080 Speaker 1: real estate. I mean, she's laguish. If you watch TV, 515 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:21,120 Speaker 1: the fixer Upper, flip flop thing is going crazy. Why 516 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:23,760 Speaker 1: because you've realized there's a lot of money to be made. 517 00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:25,720 Speaker 1: If you're smart and if you do it right, and 518 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:27,800 Speaker 1: if you're led by the spirit, you can buy and 519 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 1: sell real estate. The four hours. What are we talking about. 520 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:34,920 Speaker 1: We're saying, get more bobbers in the water. Maybe none 521 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,360 Speaker 1: of these float your boat, but there's something that will 522 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:39,560 Speaker 1: float your boat. And we'll talk about that in our 523 00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:42,520 Speaker 1: next time together a little more. Okay, let's do number six, 524 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,960 Speaker 1: number six, find the new in the old. I love 525 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,120 Speaker 1: this Picasso said, I'm always doing things I can't do. 526 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:52,280 Speaker 1: That's how I get to do them. You know, depending 527 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:55,160 Speaker 1: on what you do, what you're called to do, depending 528 00:30:55,160 --> 00:31:01,160 Speaker 1: on your talents, your skills creatively, athletically, in business, in engineering, 529 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:04,400 Speaker 1: in sales. I mean, whatever it is you do, man, 530 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:07,000 Speaker 1: I'll tell you what you could get a jump on. 531 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:09,680 Speaker 1: Some of your competitors by going back to the old, 532 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:14,200 Speaker 1: the stuff that's long since been forgotten. But it was gold, 533 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:18,200 Speaker 1: It was gold, There was wisdom there, There were insights there. 534 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:20,800 Speaker 1: What if you go back to the old and study 535 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:25,000 Speaker 1: the last hundred years of the stuff that is available 536 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:27,920 Speaker 1: in your particular field of interest, find the new in 537 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:33,040 Speaker 1: the old? All right? Number seven? Own five words? Own 538 00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:36,400 Speaker 1: five words? What five words do you own? What five 539 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:39,880 Speaker 1: adjectives would describe you? And you get to pick them? 540 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:41,720 Speaker 1: What five words you say? Oh man, if people were 541 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:44,120 Speaker 1: describing my life, okay, my funeral, what do I want 542 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:48,560 Speaker 1: them to say? What five words do you want to 543 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:51,440 Speaker 1: describe you? And then see? The cool thing about words, 544 00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,800 Speaker 1: as you guys know, is the power of life and 545 00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:59,280 Speaker 1: death is in the tongue, the words you speak, the 546 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:01,360 Speaker 1: words you believe, even your heart, those are the things 547 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:03,160 Speaker 1: that become true of you. As a man thinks in 548 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:05,800 Speaker 1: his heart, so is he? So what are the five 549 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:09,080 Speaker 1: words for you? I have five words. I'm not going 550 00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:11,400 Speaker 1: to share your mind, because their mind, but you get yours. 551 00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:14,920 Speaker 1: We have words for the church. I have five scriptures. 552 00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:16,480 Speaker 1: I mean, you can do a lot of different categories 553 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,720 Speaker 1: if you want. But what five things? What five words 554 00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:22,440 Speaker 1: are your words? What five scriptures? What five words? For 555 00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:28,440 Speaker 1: each one of your kids? Own five words that describe you, 556 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,800 Speaker 1: and it'll be a self fulfilling prophecy, is what it'll 557 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:34,640 Speaker 1: turn out to be, all right, Last, but not least, 558 00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:40,400 Speaker 1: remember what you loved In third grade? Doctor Seuss said, 559 00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:42,880 Speaker 1: you have brains in your head, you have feet in 560 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:46,520 Speaker 1: your shoes. You can steer yourself, and a direction you choose. 561 00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:51,360 Speaker 1: Who remembers being six, seven, eight, nine, ten, first, second, 562 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:55,960 Speaker 1: third grade? Elementary age? What did you love? Think back? 563 00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,680 Speaker 1: What you love? What you do When you didn't have pressure, 564 00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:02,200 Speaker 1: when you didn't have responsibilities, when you didn't have deadlines, 565 00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:05,320 Speaker 1: when you could just daydream and spend your days the 566 00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:09,000 Speaker 1: way you wanted, When you could just run around the neighborhood, 567 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:12,160 Speaker 1: when you could just play in the basement, when you 568 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,880 Speaker 1: could lay in bed and do whatever you wanted. What 569 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:20,800 Speaker 1: did you do in those innocent years of elementary and 570 00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:23,360 Speaker 1: third grade is a good, you know, a good place 571 00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:26,040 Speaker 1: to think about what you do would you like to do? 572 00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:29,320 Speaker 1: Because interestingly enough, the Lord, you know, he's the one 573 00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:32,640 Speaker 1: that's wired us. He doesn't wire you for something when 574 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:36,040 Speaker 1: you turn twenty, you are wired for some things. From birth, 575 00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:39,120 Speaker 1: and when you go back and look, you'll see some 576 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:41,840 Speaker 1: fun patterns. I was talking to one of my sisters, 577 00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:43,280 Speaker 1: and you know, back in the day, we used to 578 00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:46,239 Speaker 1: love my sisters. And I used to love to like 579 00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:50,960 Speaker 1: create carnivals and dramas and plays and have a production 580 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,720 Speaker 1: in our garage. And we go around the neighborhood and 581 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:55,680 Speaker 1: invite all the kids to come, and we get people 582 00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:57,760 Speaker 1: to be in the cast. And we were putting on 583 00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:00,840 Speaker 1: these dramas in our garage. It's just little elementary kids, 584 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:04,320 Speaker 1: like our house was the carnival house for fun stuff 585 00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:05,880 Speaker 1: like that. And I've laughed. I'm like, oh my gosh, 586 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:10,120 Speaker 1: my whole life has been evince. I used to love 587 00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:13,080 Speaker 1: to write poetry. I used to love to write, and 588 00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:14,759 Speaker 1: I would I was a letter write I'd write letters 589 00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:17,120 Speaker 1: to my friends all the time. Nobody wrote me back, 590 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:20,480 Speaker 1: but I'd loved writing letters. I love to write, and 591 00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:23,000 Speaker 1: I love to listen to music and write lyrics. And 592 00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:25,120 Speaker 1: I remember, in fact, I heard it on the radio 593 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:27,200 Speaker 1: in the airport the other day. I said that Jeffer said, 594 00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:30,759 Speaker 1: I know all the words of the song. You're gonna 595 00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,200 Speaker 1: get a kick out of this. It was Shares song 596 00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:38,680 Speaker 1: Share half Breed. I don't know why, but there were 597 00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:41,360 Speaker 1: two songs back in the day. I'm like, oh, I 598 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,040 Speaker 1: want to know those words. I literally played the forty 599 00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:45,879 Speaker 1: five on my record player over and over and over 600 00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:50,520 Speaker 1: and wrote down all the words to half breed. Half Breed. 601 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:56,520 Speaker 1: That's all ever heard Halfbreed. It's like, not even a 602 00:34:56,520 --> 00:35:01,000 Speaker 1: great song. The second one it was I got a 603 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,799 Speaker 1: brand new pair of roller skates. You got a brand 604 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,680 Speaker 1: new key. I think that we should get together and 605 00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:10,520 Speaker 1: try them out to see it isn't dada Dad thought 606 00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:18,840 Speaker 1: a rat. Oh I got a brand new So why 607 00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:21,480 Speaker 1: in the world, I don't know, But you know that 608 00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:23,920 Speaker 1: was a clue for me, because I still to this 609 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,360 Speaker 1: day love to write, of course, and love There's something 610 00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:29,120 Speaker 1: about music. There's something about lyrics, There's something about that 611 00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:33,440 Speaker 1: creative thing. It's just there. Well, don't suppress all that stuff. 612 00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:36,640 Speaker 1: What's the Lord put in you? It's just who you are. 613 00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:40,080 Speaker 1: What did you love to do in third grade? Go 614 00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:42,320 Speaker 1: back and revisit that and say, Okay, in a holy spirit, 615 00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:44,880 Speaker 1: how does this? How does this make sense in my life? 616 00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:49,520 Speaker 1: How does this make sense in my season? Amen? What 617 00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:52,920 Speaker 1: are we talking about? How to live the greatest life. 618 00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:56,919 Speaker 1: So I hope you got stirred up, inspired and really 619 00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:58,640 Speaker 1: just spend some time with the Lord saying, Okay, God 620 00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:03,279 Speaker 1: help me, Holy Spirit, give me the knowledge of the devices, 621 00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:07,600 Speaker 1: the witty inventions for my life. And all the people said, 622 00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:10,719 Speaker 1: let's pray, Father, thank you so much for your word. 623 00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:14,080 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for stirring us up today, encouraging us, Lord, 624 00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:18,080 Speaker 1: getting the wheel spinning on the inside, creative thoughts and 625 00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:23,360 Speaker 1: ideas and witty inventions, wisdom from heaven. Lord, that we 626 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:25,640 Speaker 1: would be those people that are blessed to be a blessing. 627 00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:29,399 Speaker 1: That we're enjoying life, We're enjoying your goodness. But God, 628 00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:34,760 Speaker 1: that we're all so very intentionally being a blessing and 629 00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:38,160 Speaker 1: doing good things for your purposes, for your honor and glory. 630 00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:40,799 Speaker 1: I pray God, you'll take what was shared today, water it. 631 00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:44,280 Speaker 1: I pray you'll cause it to sprout up and produce 632 00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:48,279 Speaker 1: eternal fruit in the lives of each and every person. 633 00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:51,200 Speaker 1: And while our heads are still bowed, eyes are still closed. 634 00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:53,640 Speaker 1: If you're here this morning, you may be here and 635 00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:56,319 Speaker 1: you may say, man, I didn't know God cared about 636 00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:58,400 Speaker 1: my life like that. I thought he just wanted me 637 00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:00,279 Speaker 1: to be religious. I didn't know God cared about like 638 00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:03,800 Speaker 1: my whole life. What kind of a God is this? Listen, 639 00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:07,960 Speaker 1: if you've never come to know Jesus Christ personally for yourself, 640 00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:12,120 Speaker 1: today's your day. And again, while heads about, eyes are close, 641 00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:14,960 Speaker 1: if you would like to say, Jesus be the Lord 642 00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:17,240 Speaker 1: of my life today. I need you in my life. 643 00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:20,319 Speaker 1: I need your forgiveness, I need your mercy, I need 644 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,719 Speaker 1: your help. And today is my day of surrender and 645 00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:26,479 Speaker 1: surrendering my life to you. Lord, Jesus be the Lord 646 00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:28,480 Speaker 1: of my life. If all of that fits your heart, 647 00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:33,239 Speaker 1: with every head bowed, eyes closed, just so that you 648 00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:35,439 Speaker 1: can mark this down in your own heart and mind, 649 00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:37,239 Speaker 1: lift your hand to heaven and say that is me 650 00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:39,560 Speaker 1: and I want some prayer. We're going to pray together 651 00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:41,759 Speaker 1: as a whole church family in just a minute. Lift 652 00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:43,560 Speaker 1: your hand up, if that is you, You're like, I 653 00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:49,120 Speaker 1: need Jesus in my life today. Looking around and it's 654 00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:50,759 Speaker 1: hard to see, but if your hands up, the Lord 655 00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:52,360 Speaker 1: sees it. That's the main thing. I want you to 656 00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:54,240 Speaker 1: have your hand up so that you remember the moment 657 00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:56,880 Speaker 1: you put your hand up and the Lord saw it, 658 00:37:56,960 --> 00:38:00,800 Speaker 1: and you know it. Let's pray Father, all those hands, 659 00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:03,319 Speaker 1: and so let's all say this together. Say it with me. 660 00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:08,120 Speaker 1: Say Jesus, I do believe that you are the Lord 661 00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:12,520 Speaker 1: and that God raised you from the dead, and right 662 00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:17,080 Speaker 1: now I invite you to be the Lord of my life. Jesus, 663 00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:20,839 Speaker 1: come into my heart. Thank you that you forgive all 664 00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:26,920 Speaker 1: of my sins. And from this moment forward I declare 665 00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:33,720 Speaker 1: Jesus Christ is the Lord of my life. Amen. Amen, 666 00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:37,719 Speaker 1: Praise the Lord. That's the best decision for the greatest 667 00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:43,040 Speaker 1: life ever. Thank you so much for listening to today's message. 668 00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:46,200 Speaker 1: I really hope you were encouraged, and if you were, 669 00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:49,680 Speaker 1: I would love to hear from you. Please email us 670 00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:52,400 Speaker 1: to let us know what the Lord is doing in 671 00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:55,840 Speaker 1: your life, and don't forget to get your free copy 672 00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:59,960 Speaker 1: of the Seven Basics book by clicking the free book 673 00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:04,000 Speaker 1: button on the prey dot Com app. Also, if these 674 00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:08,600 Speaker 1: messages are encouraging you, would you like to help us 675 00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:14,319 Speaker 1: help more people learn the Bible Basics. 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