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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation

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Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank

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Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope

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Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to

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Speaker 1: see God has moving in your life. Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 1: The premise of Do the New You is that the

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Speaker 1: main thing that God changes through anything we go through

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Speaker 1: is us. And if you have believed the lie that

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Speaker 1: the you you have met so far is all there

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Speaker 1: is to you, I think we want to come to

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Speaker 1: you with an announcement. You haven't really met you yet.

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Speaker 1: The two things we just said, if you put them together,

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Speaker 1: will change your life. Because I said that the you

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Speaker 1: that God sees is history to him, and then Brendan said,

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Speaker 1: but it's a mystery to me. I haven't met that

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Speaker 1: version of myself yet, but God has. And I love

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Speaker 1: it because it's exactly what I'm trying to say. It's

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Speaker 1: history to him. He's already seen it. He's not waiting

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Speaker 1: for me to become someone he could love. I used

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Speaker 1: to feel like that. I think a lot of people

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Speaker 1: who believe in Jesus feel like there is a version

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Speaker 1: of you that is patient, kind and loving, and God

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Speaker 1: will really like hanging out with that guy, and he

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Speaker 1: could really use that person. When you become that, then

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Speaker 1: God can use you. That's not how God sees it.

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Speaker 1: It's history to him. He's already seen it. It's just

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Speaker 1: coming forth in your life. So what's a mystery to

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Speaker 1: me is history to him. And apart from just rhyming

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Speaker 1: like it gives me a new tool for what I

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Speaker 1: want to become in my life. It's not just let

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Speaker 1: me grind to get there and then I'll be worthy

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Speaker 1: of love. One of our favorite authors, Richard Rohor, says

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Speaker 1: that most of us were taught that basically God's love

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Speaker 1: was ward for when we change, that God will love

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Speaker 1: us more when we But actually, he says, God's love

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Speaker 1: is the resource by which we change. Oh I love that.

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Speaker 1: So it's not something that we're changing for so that

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Speaker 1: God will love and accept us more. Is something that

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Speaker 1: we're changed by. It is the resource. I love that.

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Speaker 2: I think that is a big part of my Christian

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Speaker 2: faith and discovery was Oh I don't I don't have

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Speaker 2: to go earn his love like I was already saved

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Speaker 2: by grace, Like this idea that you that acceptance already happened, right,

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Speaker 2: that the sacrifice and Jesus experience opened up the grace

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Speaker 2: that allows me to live through that love. I have

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Speaker 2: to earn it and then have it and then enjoy it.

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Speaker 2: It's like, oh, it's here, it's available, it's been granted.

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Speaker 2: I'm accepted already, and I can act through that. And

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Speaker 2: that's hard for people because we don't like our so often.

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Speaker 2: So you say, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, God likes me.

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Speaker 1: Sure, it's pretty sure.

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Speaker 2: But when you really step into that and you realize

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Speaker 2: you're already accepted, and now you act through acceptance versus

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Speaker 2: acting through earning, you're a different power.

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Speaker 1: You're in a different place.

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Speaker 2: Right when I walk on stage, if I'm acting through acceptance,

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Speaker 2: there's a personal power. There's an authenticity, there's a versus

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Speaker 2: a connection. There's different If I think I got to

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Speaker 2: go get the roar, I'm scrambling the whole stage.

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Speaker 1: I'm scrambling for the roar. I'm scrambling for the rawer

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Speaker 2: Right, you're doing things to be accepted, to get the praise,

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Speaker 2: When you do get the roar, you feel empty because

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Speaker 2: you weren't acting through acceptance. You are scrambling to get it.

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Speaker 1: That's it, man. It's really about whether you are chasing

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Speaker 1: want to live more into that. Because you talk about

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Speaker 1: summoning yourself. And one thing about Christians, sometimes if something

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Speaker 1: our mind, like summoning. Is this a seance? Am I

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Speaker 1: of summoning the self that God sees into the first

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Speaker 1: I stop. Yes. And I'm going to give you these

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Speaker 1: mindsets and Brendan's gonna help me unpack them over the

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Speaker 1: next few episodes of this masterclass. But I want you

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Speaker 1: that in the comment, even though you're like, I am stuck.

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Speaker 1: and Silas seems stuck in prison, but they praised God

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Speaker 2: I love every section of this chapter because it reminds

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Speaker 2: more you spin in doubt.

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Speaker 2: And people always mistake the signal for doubt as a

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Speaker 2: not saying stop. Doubt is a signal to learn. And

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Speaker 2: And so when you realize that, like, oh, I'm having

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Speaker 2: Right right, Well, I think a lot of themes of

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Speaker 1: When what your book is teaching stuck was.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. You know, when you say stuck, you're probably thinking

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Speaker 1: whether that's in their business or whether they had wrecked

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Speaker 1: I've heard you say this phrase before. I love it.

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Speaker 1: You go, I've tried everything, right right, yeah, and you go, oh, yeah, everything, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I've tried everything, and then walk through it because you

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Speaker 1: well I tried everything. Awesome.

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Speaker 2: And I say, well, if you tried everything, show me

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