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Speaker 1: Let us pray, then, said Jesus unto his disciples. If

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Speaker 1: any man will come after me, let him deny himself

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Speaker 1: and take up his cross and follow me. Matthew sixteen

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Speaker 1: to submit all I am and all I have to you.

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Speaker 1: It's not much in comparison to what you have given me,

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Speaker 1: but it is all I have. There's nothing that I

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Speaker 1: want in this world more than to know you and

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Speaker 1: to be pleasing in your sight. I want a decrease

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Speaker 1: and surrender my expectations and desires to your purifying fires.

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Speaker 1: As you purify my heart and mold me into your purposes,

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Speaker 1: you are fashioning a new person in me. You are

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Speaker 1: restoring my dignity and teaching me how to rule over

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Speaker 1: the works of the enemy. Then I might have the

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Speaker 1: power to set captives free. When I deny myself, I

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Speaker 1: am exchanging my life for yours. Your life is far

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Speaker 1: more than I could ever hope to be. As I

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Speaker 1: cast off the old nature and put on the new

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Speaker 1: life in Christ, I am filled with joy and confidence.

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Speaker 1: I sense your presence within me at all times. I

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Speaker 1: hear your words flowing through me, and I watch you

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Speaker 1: move through my hands. As I pray for the sick

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Speaker 1: and oppressed. You have given me purpose and meaning in

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Speaker 1: my life. I will take up my cross and follow

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Speaker 1: you into the darkest dungeons. For you are with me.

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Speaker 1: I know you will protect me, and I fear no evil,

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Speaker 1: for thou art with me in Jesus name. Amen. Thank

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Speaker 3: You're in the midst of a movement? Can you feel it?

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Speaker 3: You know? The first movement sounded a little like this,

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Speaker 3: Come follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

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Speaker 3: What did we learn about the movement at its very beginning?

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Speaker 3: We learned that it involved a simple invitation. Everybody say invitation, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: simple invitation. Come. What else did the movement involve? Imitation?

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Speaker 3: and I will make you. Everybody say impartation. Impartation, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: you were gonna get some new character you follow Jesus.

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Speaker 3: He was gonna get inside of you, and he was

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Speaker 3: gonna make you someone different. And he says, I will

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Speaker 3: make you fishers of men. Everybody say impact, impact, right.

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Speaker 3: So this movement that Jesus started at its very beginning

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Speaker 3: started with an invitation, right, and then it went to imitation.

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Speaker 3: Men started becoming like the man that they were following.

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Speaker 3: And then there was this impartation. As men started to

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Speaker 3: three years, twelve guys, twenty one centuries, and we're still

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Speaker 3: a part of that movement right now. It's still going on.

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Speaker 3: It's still going on. And you see, that's what we

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Speaker 3: have to know about movements. My good friend doctor Damon Friedman,

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Speaker 3: he's an expert on movement, and he says, you need

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Speaker 3: four things. This guy was an Air Force combat controller,

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Speaker 3: got his masters at Harvard. He understands what movements are.

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Speaker 3: And he said, you got to have activating agents. That's

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Speaker 3: pillar number one. Pillar number two. You got to have

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Speaker 3: a shared identity and shared convictions. So you got people

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Speaker 3: share convictions. He goes, but that's not enough. You got

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Speaker 3: external expression, activating agent, identity and convictions, internal network, and

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Speaker 3: then outward expression. Everybody say, outward expression, outward expression, that's right.

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Speaker 3: be loosed in heaven. Remember when your dad gave you

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Speaker 3: the keys of the car right, pretty exciting feeling. But

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Speaker 3: So get this, in a specific city, in a specific

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Speaker 3: cultural and global moment, there was a planned eruption of

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Speaker 3: Everybody say, called men. I believe God's called you to

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Speaker 3: is going to change you forever. So what happens they

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Speaker 3: What did the city of Jerusalem see? They saw men

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Speaker 3: people saw men who knew that they had a way

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Speaker 3: They used to say these things, now they don't say

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Speaker 3: And what do we witness An eruption of the Holy

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Speaker 3: among the people. We see an eruption of the greater

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Speaker 3: But greater works than these will they do? You know

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Speaker 3: that's called in football terms. I hand off. He handed

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Speaker 3: A force full wind, blue embers turned into wildfires. Called

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Speaker 3: guess what you're called men? You're in a specific space,

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Speaker 3: and you're in a specific city, the city of Austin, Texas.

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Speaker 3: I don't know why, I tell you from the left coast.

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Speaker 3: don't know why God selected Austin, but we knew early on,

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Speaker 3: as we prayed, Lord, Where do you want to start

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Speaker 3: know this. Look up here. God's not playing nickel poker either.

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Speaker 3: handing each man in this room the keys to the kingdom.

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Speaker 3: I believe God is igniting a movement where people around

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Speaker 3: There's gonna be an interruption of salvation, just like there

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Speaker 3: you to take that out right now, it's probably under

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Speaker 3: Everything that you're gonna experience in this conference is intentional worship.

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Speaker 3: Prepares the way for the Word. As you worship and

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Speaker 3: you get a vision of God, and as you begin

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Speaker 3: to go, well there's Him and I'm not him, you

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Speaker 3: We're gonna let God's son tell us by his own

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Speaker 3: gonna let God's spirit form us into powerful community. Everybody say,

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Speaker 3: it gives you that integrity. Jake is living with integrity.

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Speaker 3: When you know who you are, you start living out free,

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Speaker 3: freely using the right things. What a concept. And then

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Speaker 3: when you live out your truest identity, write this down.

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Speaker 3: It should get your best energy. Write that down. And

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Speaker 3: we see this in Jesus living out his truest identity.

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Speaker 3: Let's read John four thirty four together. Ready, my food,

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Speaker 3: said Jesus, is to do the will of him who

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Speaker 3: sent me and to finish his work. You're made by God,

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Speaker 3: You're made for God, and one day you'll go to God.

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Speaker 3: But between now and then, you're going to do the

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Speaker 3: work that God created you to do. Amen, the city

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Speaker 3: needs you to be the man that he created you

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Speaker 3: to be and to do the work that He's called

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Speaker 3: you uniquely to do. Let's read John nine to four together. Ready,

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Speaker 3: as long as it is day, we must do the

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Speaker 3: works of him who sent me. Night is coming when

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Speaker 3: no man can work. Where's the urgency come from. It's

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Speaker 3: because he knows who he is. He knows he's made

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Speaker 3: by God, he knows he came from God. He knows

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Speaker 3: he's going to God, and he knows that he has

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Speaker 3: limited time to get the work done that God has

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Speaker 3: assigned him. Everybody say this with me. Limited time, unknown ending,

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Speaker 3: scheduled meeting. Let that sink in for a second. All

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Speaker 3: of us in this room have limited time. We have

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Speaker 3: an unknown ending. You don't know what's gonna happen when

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Speaker 3: you pull out of the parking lot here at celebration.

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Speaker 3: You think you do, but you don't. And then when

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Speaker 3: your heart stops, either you go to God or God

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Speaker 3: comes for you, you're gonna be standing face to face

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Speaker 3: with your King. So when you live out your truest identity,

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Speaker 3: what does it mean? Write this down? This means I

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Speaker 3: will be focused. I will be focused when you know

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Speaker 3: the clock is ticking. You're focused when there's two minutes

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Speaker 3: on the clock and you got to drive the length

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Speaker 3: of the field. You are focused. When you realize there's

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Speaker 3: a deadline, you are focused. We are not guaranteed tomorrow,

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Speaker 3: Jesus said, as long as it is day. That means

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Speaker 3: we have a little bit of time, just a little bit,

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Speaker 3: because day is going to end and it's going to

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Speaker 3: turn tonight when no man can work. God put you

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Speaker 3: on earth to fulfill his purpose through your life. The

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Speaker 3: Bible says that you are His workmanship created in Christ

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Speaker 3: Jesus to do good works. Everybody say, do good works.

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Speaker 3: Do good works which God has prepared in advance for

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Speaker 3: you to do. God's God works. For you to do

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Speaker 3: that only you can do. The question is are you

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Speaker 3: doing them? Are you focused? Lastly, what Jesus teaches us

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Speaker 3: about living out our truest identity is it reflects our

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Speaker 3: ultimate destiny. And here we find the connection in Jesus

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Speaker 3: between his discipline on earth and his hope of going

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Speaker 3: back to heaven. And we see it in John chapter seventeen.

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Speaker 3: Jesus looked toward heaven and prayed, Father, the hour is come.

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Speaker 3: Glorify your son, that your son may glorify you, for

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Speaker 3: you granted him authority over all people, that he might

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Speaker 3: give eternal life to all those you have given him.

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Speaker 3: Let's finish it together. Now, this is eternal life that

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Speaker 3: they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ,

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Speaker 3: whom you have sent, I have brought you glory on

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Speaker 3: earth by finishing the work you gave me to do.

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Speaker 3: And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the

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Speaker 3: glory I had with you before the world began. Wow,

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Speaker 3: how did he bring God glory on earth by finishing

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Speaker 3: the work God gave him to do. If you're alive

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Speaker 3: and your heart is beating, got work for you to do?

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Speaker 3: Do you know what it is? And are you doing it?

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Speaker 3: That's why we're here. Man. God's resetting our identity. He

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Speaker 3: wants us to live out our truest identity. So if

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Speaker 3: Jesus's truest identity reflects his ultimate destiny, what does it

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Speaker 3: mean for him in this short time that we have

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Speaker 3: on earth? Write this down. This means I will be faithful.

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Speaker 3: I will be faithful. So let's say it together. Everybody

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Speaker 3: say fearless, Everybody say free, Everybody say focused, everybody say faithful.

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Speaker 3: Now write this down. This is Jesus. Now write this down.

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Speaker 3: Jesus is in me, and now write this down. This

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Speaker 3: is me. If Jesus is fearless, if Jesus is free,

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Speaker 3: if Jesus is focused, and Jesus is faithful with the

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Speaker 3: time that he had on earth, and Jesus lives in you,

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Speaker 3: then this is you. Through the power of the Holy Spirit,

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Speaker 3: Can I get an amen on that one place? This

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Speaker 3: is why you're here. You're here to hear this Jesus

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Speaker 3: wants you to know I live in you. This is

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Speaker 3: me and I live in you, which means, this is

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Speaker 3: you in the spaces and places where I have put

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Speaker 3: you in the families, where I have put you in

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Speaker 3: the marriages, where I have put you in the workplaces.

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Speaker 3: I have put you in the cars. I have put

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Speaker 3: you on the athletic fields. I have put you in

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Speaker 3: the high schools. I have put you in the colleges.

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Speaker 3: I have put you in the entrepreneurial space that I

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Speaker 3: have put you. This is me and I live in you.

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Speaker 3: This is you. And identity is so important. Identity commands energy.

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Speaker 3: What's commanding your energy? How would we know? Just look

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Speaker 3: at your behavior? What's commanding a person's identity always commands

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Speaker 3: their energy and leads to an expression. That's why the

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Speaker 3: Bible is so big on identity. Let's read One Timothy

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Speaker 3: six eleven and twelve. Ready, but you, man of God,

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Speaker 3: flee from all this and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance,

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Speaker 3: and gentleness. Fight the good fight of the faith. Take

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Speaker 3: hold of the eternal life to which you were called

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Speaker 3: when you made your good confession in the presence of

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Speaker 3: many witnesses. And there we see identity. What's his identity?

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Speaker 3: Man of God? Around my church, I call every man

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Speaker 3: a man of God if he knows Jesus. Why because

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Speaker 3: that's who he really is, and I want him to

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Speaker 3: live out that identity versus money man or pleasure man

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Speaker 3: or thrill man or porn man or whatever. You're a

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Speaker 3: man of God. So what does the man of God do? Wow,

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Speaker 3: he flees from culture and he pursues God. We live

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Speaker 3: in the culture, but we're not of the culture. What

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Speaker 3: else does he pursue? Godliness? Faith, love, righteousness, gentleness, endurance.

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Speaker 3: He fights, He fights for his faith. A lot of

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Speaker 3: us just roll over. It's like, well that's not popular.

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Speaker 3: Well you know, we're not real popular in the media.

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Speaker 3: Oh oh, somebody might call me a big I don't

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Speaker 3: know what it is that causes men to retreat. But

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Speaker 3: you don't have to retreat. Jesus didn't. This is Jesus.

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Speaker 3: Jesus is in you. This is you Amen. Living out

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Speaker 3: my truest identity means. And you look at that language fight,

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Speaker 3: the good fight of the faith. We're in a fight.

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Speaker 3: Living out my truest identity means. Write this down. I

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Speaker 3: am dangerous with goodness. I want to know why. Because

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Speaker 3: Jesus was the original dangerous good guy. You know the

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Speaker 3: Marvel cinematic universe. Anybody been to a Marvel movie? Right,

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Speaker 3: what do you got? You got people who have special power,

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Speaker 3: special gifts. They get to stick it to the bad guy. Right,

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Speaker 3: they get to defend the weak, they get to deliver justice.

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Speaker 3: That is fantasy. You want to live in the reality

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Speaker 3: that God has called you to. You come to know

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Speaker 3: Christ as your savior. He will call you a son

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Speaker 3: of the king, and you'll start advancing the kingdom and

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Speaker 3: you'll start doing what God has called you do in reality,

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Speaker 3: in reality, not fantasy. Why are we giving billions of

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Speaker 3: dollars to the entertainment industry to vicariously feel something that

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Speaker 3: God is hardwired into every man to be great and

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Speaker 3: to do great things. That's why God created you. But

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Speaker 3: then there's that rip off thing. Well I can't really

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Speaker 3: experience that. Well, that's why you're called to this space.

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Speaker 3: God says, you are my son, you are a part

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Speaker 3: of my kingdom. You can experience that. Stop getting ripped off.

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Speaker 3: It's important. That's why you're here. You're here to hear

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Speaker 3: that message. So when you're living out your truest identity.

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Speaker 3: It makes you fearless, it makes you free, it makes

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Speaker 3: you focused, makes you faithful. You start fighting the good

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Speaker 3: fight of faith. But the context of us making that

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Speaker 3: commitment to identity is community. Everybody say community. Now you

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Speaker 3: might understand that team, fraternity, community, my bros, my homies,

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Speaker 3: whatever you wanna call your group of friends. All Right,

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Speaker 3: you become like the people you hang out with. There's

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Speaker 3: a way to be believe and behave when you're in

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Speaker 3: a group of duds. In fact, I look at how

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Speaker 3: many guys are here right now, and I'm like, either

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Speaker 3: something really bad's gonna happen or something really good's gonna happen,

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Speaker 3: because we're all just one bad idea away. Amen. When

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Speaker 3: you're with this many guys just like, Hey, I got

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Speaker 3: a good idea. It's not so much a good idea.

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Speaker 3: We should do that, sure, but we understand the power

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Speaker 3: of community. And you know what, You're gonna connect somewhere.

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Speaker 3: Maybe you didn't connect in your family, so you went

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Speaker 3: and found a whole group outside your family. You connected there.

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Speaker 3: Maybe you connected in a social way, or an academic

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Speaker 3: or an athletic way, or a hobby way. You're gonna connect.

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Speaker 3: We're built for connection. But you know what God says,

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Speaker 3: write this down. My truest identity requires his strongest community.

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Speaker 3: And we're gonna unpack what dangerous good community is gonna

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Speaker 3: involve because this room is getting back together and we're

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Speaker 3: gonna be in community and we're gonna tell you about that.

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Speaker 3: But let's just read some of God's word. What does

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Speaker 3: God have to say about his strongest community. Let's read

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Speaker 3: two Timothy two twenty two together, Ready, pursue righteousness, faith, love,

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Speaker 3: and peace along with those who call on the Lord

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Speaker 3: out of a pure heart. The fuel cell of identity

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Speaker 3: is being in a community that powers it. For a

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Speaker 3: long time in my life, I didn't have a community

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Speaker 3: that supported my identity in Christ. But I had to

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Speaker 3: find it. And you know what, the devil doesn't want

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Speaker 3: to come out of this conference for you to in

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Speaker 3: community with some other men that are hard after God,

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Speaker 3: that are fully committed. Listen, you're gonna be around some

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Speaker 3: guys and maybe they have a sword of commitment to Jesus.

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Speaker 3: You want to be around guys that have a full

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Speaker 3: commitment to Jesus. Amen, let's read on Corinthians twelve twenty one. Ready,

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Speaker 3: the eye cannot say to the hand, I don't need you,

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Speaker 3: and the head cannot say to the feet, I don't

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Speaker 3: need you. You see, God built us to be tightly connected.

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Speaker 3: We're a body. We need each other. And men become

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Speaker 3: men in the company of other men, for better or

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Speaker 3: for worse. It's true around the world they become like

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Speaker 3: the male culture. They immerse themselves in. And when you're

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Speaker 3: a follower of Jesus, God says, your truest identity in

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Speaker 3: Christ requires his strongest community. So what does dangerous good

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Speaker 3: community look like and involve? Write this down. Dangerous good

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Speaker 3: community involves unity. The word unity is in the word community.

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Speaker 3: Do you notice that it requires unity. Let's let God

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Speaker 3: tell us what that looks like. Psalm one point thirty

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Speaker 3: three says this, how good and pleasant it is when

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Speaker 3: God's people live together in what unity? It's like precious oil.

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Speaker 3: Pour it on the head, running down on the beard,

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Speaker 3: running down on Aaron's beard, down on the collar of

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Speaker 3: his robe. It is as if the dew of herman

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Speaker 3: were falling on Mount Zion. Let's finish it together, for

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Speaker 3: there the Lord commands his blessing even life forevermore. Wow,

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Speaker 3: you know what that's a picture of it's two guys.

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Speaker 3: It's two guys. It's Aaron and it's Moses, and they're

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Speaker 3: consecrating each other in God to serve God. And there

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Speaker 3: is this precious oil that was poured over the head

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Speaker 3: of the man who was consecrating himself to God. It's

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Speaker 3: the oil of the presence. Everybody say, oil of the presence,

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Speaker 3: Oil of the presence. And so the Psalmist is building

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Speaker 3: this picture and he's watching, he's looking at these two

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Speaker 3: guys and they're consecrating themselves before the Lord, and it's

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Speaker 3: like oil, and he's thinking about, Wow, there's a moment

640
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:24,799
Speaker 3: in Israel's culture where a man commits himself to God

641
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 3: into serving God, and there's the oil of the presence

642
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:33,319
Speaker 3: and it's poured over the man by another man. And

643
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:38,240
Speaker 3: in that space, look what happens for there the Lord

644
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Speaker 3: does what commands his blessings, even life forevermore. You're in

645
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Speaker 3: a space of blessing. Say I'm in a space of blessing.

646
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:46,439
Speaker 3: I'm in a space of Yeah, you're in a space

647
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Speaker 3: of blessing right now. But guess what, the space of

648
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 3: blessing doesn't end here. It's gonna continue after this conference

649
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Speaker 3: and we're gonna be together. This group is gonna be

650
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Speaker 3: together after this conference. So dangerous. Good community involves unity. Second,

651
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 3: dangerous good community involves proximity. Everybody say proximity. Proximity right,

652
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 3: that just means close, all right. When you think of close,

653
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:15,600
Speaker 3: just think quarterback under center. Think singer and audio engineer, right,

654
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:20,879
Speaker 3: think about sniper and spotterer. Just think about proximity. They're

655
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:26,799
Speaker 3: helping each other accomplish the goal in each other's mission, right,

656
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:30,279
Speaker 3: one is deeply connected to the other. One helps the other,

657
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:34,040
Speaker 3: one blocks for the other, one enhances the other. The

658
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Speaker 3: Bible says this Proverbs twenty seven to seventeen. Let's say

659
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Speaker 3: it together. Ready, as iron sharpens iron, so one person

660
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 3: sharpens another. It's not two swords coming like this. The

661
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:48,239
Speaker 3: image is of a piece of metal, a blade on

662
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Speaker 3: a grinding stone. How many people hunt? We're in Texas.

663
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Speaker 3: Anybody hunt? How Who has a buck knife? Anybody have

664
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Speaker 3: a buck knife? Usually they sell it with this little

665
00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 3: rocket's diamond plated steel. Right, it's just got something that's

666
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:04,360
Speaker 3: sharper than the edge. Right, So when you rub the

667
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:07,480
Speaker 3: metal up on the edge, you get to shape the blade.

668
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Speaker 3: That's the picture you know when you rub up against

669
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Speaker 3: when you do that metal on sharpening stone hot or cold? Hot, right,

670
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:21,880
Speaker 3: little friction right gets a little warm on that blade.

671
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Speaker 3: Might even see sparks if the grinding wheel is spinning

672
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Speaker 3: and you're you're moving the blade across that way. That's

673
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Speaker 3: the picture. Guys. You're gonna be dull unless you're up

674
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 3: against a man who will make you sharper. Some of

675
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Speaker 3: you are here today and there are faces coming into

676
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Speaker 3: your minds. They're dulling your blade. And can I just

677
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:46,719
Speaker 3: tell you the city of Austin needs you sharp. You

678
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:49,080
Speaker 3: need to cut, you need to slice, you need to perform,

679
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:52,200
Speaker 3: You need to dice. Maybe you'll even make some Julian fries.

680
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:56,040
Speaker 3: I don't know, but God wants you sharp. Ask somebody

681
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Speaker 3: who uses a blade and then when they go to

682
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:03,360
Speaker 3: use it, it's dull. What's the emotion that goes with that? Frustration?

683
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:10,520
Speaker 3: Can't cut? Can't cut here landscapers blades are dull. Hairstylist

684
00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:13,880
Speaker 3: scissors are not sharp. They have to keep them sharp

685
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Speaker 3: on a continuous basis. Why because they have to perform right.

686
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:22,719
Speaker 3: God has called us a blade in his hand, and

687
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Speaker 3: he needs us sharp, sharp for his purposes. Sharp to

688
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 3: love sharp, to step into spaces, to deliver, slice through

689
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Speaker 3: the injustices of culture, to bring the Kingdom of God

690
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Speaker 3: into these spaces. But not if you're dull, Not if

691
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Speaker 3: you're hanging around people who dule your commitment and identity

692
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Speaker 3: to God. Let's read Psalm one oh one, verses six

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Speaker 3: and seven. Ready, my eyes will be on the faithful

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Speaker 3: in the land that they may dwell with me. The

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Speaker 3: one whose walk is blameless will minister to me. That's

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Speaker 3: the man after God's own heart. That's the man he's

697
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Speaker 3: looking for. A certain quote in a friend, who are

698
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Speaker 3: his eyes on the faithful? Remember we talked about that

699
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Speaker 3: when we're talking about Jesus' identity. It reflects his ultimate destiny,

700
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Speaker 3: and because he knows where he's going, he's faithful in

701
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Speaker 3: the present. That's who you're looking for. You're looking for

702
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:19,000
Speaker 3: a person who knows who they are, they know what

703
00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:21,440
Speaker 3: to do, they know they have limited time and unknown

704
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:23,799
Speaker 3: ending in a scheduled meeting with Jesus. That's the guy

705
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Speaker 3: you want to hang out with. And that's the dangerous

706
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Speaker 3: good fellowships that we're going to be forming out of

707
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Speaker 3: this conference. Number three. The dangerous good community involves transparency.

708
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Speaker 3: Oh no, there are some guys here right now they're

709
00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:38,040
Speaker 3: just like, oh no, I knew he was going to

710
00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:40,680
Speaker 3: talk about it. I knew he was talking about getting honest,

711
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:43,760
Speaker 3: you know, telling everybody what's going on in your life,

712
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:47,480
Speaker 3: your struggles, all that stuff. You know. I've been doing

713
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:50,480
Speaker 3: men's ministry for over thirty years. Men are like icebergs.

714
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:54,040
Speaker 3: You only see the tip, but you know who crashes

715
00:46:54,719 --> 00:46:58,360
Speaker 3: on the jagged edges of their lack of transparency and

716
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:02,280
Speaker 3: honesty with God's self and others, their families, their wives,

717
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:05,000
Speaker 3: because they won't tell people how they're really doing. And

718
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Speaker 3: when they can't tell people how they're really doing in

719
00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 3: the moment, they can't get help. And when they don't

720
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Speaker 3: get help, they feel more isolated, and the wall to

721
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:14,440
Speaker 3: ask for help gets higher and higher and higher. Because

722
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Speaker 3: when you ask a guy how he's doing, he goes,

723
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:21,400
Speaker 3: saw good, who's this person? Saw good? Who's this person?

724
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Speaker 3: Saw good? Right, it can't be all good because it's

725
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:29,799
Speaker 3: earth right. He just said, in this world you'll have tribulation,

726
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Speaker 3: but take courage. I've overcome the world. So when it's good,

727
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:36,840
Speaker 3: it can't be all good. But when it's bad, it

728
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:40,880
Speaker 3: can never be all bad. There's blessings even when things

729
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:46,120
Speaker 3: aren't going good. Chris Kilala, our speaker right worshiping in

730
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Speaker 3: the midst of loss, finding God's goodness even when he

731
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Speaker 3: does it feel like it. Let's read the scripture Proverbs

732
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Speaker 3: twenty eight thirteen. Ready, he who conceals his transgressions will

733
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Speaker 3: not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will

734
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Speaker 3: find compassion. You know, I've ministered to millions of men.

735
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:10,319
Speaker 3: I've gotten hundreds and hundreds of thousands of feedback. And

736
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Speaker 3: you know what the number one comment was. It certainly

737
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Speaker 3: wasn't Kenny Luck's the best speaker. That's not what the

738
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Speaker 3: comment is. It's I didn't realize I wasn't alone. And

739
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Speaker 3: that sets men free when you realize you're not alone.

740
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Speaker 3: But you know who tells you you're alone, the devil,

741
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Speaker 3: Because if he can tell you, hey, you're alone, you're weird,

742
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:33,880
Speaker 3: you're a freak. No one else has your problems. You

743
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:35,160
Speaker 3: pull up to a stoplight and you look at the

744
00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:36,520
Speaker 3: guy in the other car and you're like, he has

745
00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 3: his life all together? Why because he drives the Mercedes. Somehow,

746
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:43,759
Speaker 3: like the brand of the car he drives is infused

747
00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:49,279
Speaker 3: mystically into his character. No, he's just as bad off

748
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:51,960
Speaker 3: as you are. It's just that he's driving maybe a nicer,

749
00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 3: faster car. But we compare and we look and we're like,

750
00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:57,800
Speaker 3: oh my gosh, I compare how I'm feeling on the

751
00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:00,960
Speaker 3: inside about myself to everybody's outside. And when I do that,

752
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:03,359
Speaker 3: I get depressed and I get sad. And then when

753
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:05,480
Speaker 3: I get depressed and sad, I want to feel better,

754
00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:07,719
Speaker 3: and then I do stupid things to feel better that

755
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:09,520
Speaker 3: make me feel like a boy and not a man.

756
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Speaker 3: Can I get a witness. I've been there. I know

757
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:17,920
Speaker 3: exactly how that cycle goes, you know, But you're not alone,

758
00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:23,240
Speaker 3: that's the response. And when you look at scripture, it's like, hey,

759
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Speaker 3: it is stupid if you're a man of God not

760
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:30,960
Speaker 3: to tell another man what's really going on in your life.

761
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 3: Who can pray for you, who might have been through

762
00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:36,279
Speaker 3: what you went through, or who might have help for

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Speaker 3: you and wisdom and advice to get you out of

764
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Speaker 3: that pit. Amen, But you've got to in faith, be real.

765
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Speaker 3: Only a fool would give up on that. But that's

766
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Speaker 3: the lie from the devil. Don't do that, don't share that. Oh,

767
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:53,240
Speaker 3: then your image will blow up what your Instagram image?

768
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:57,319
Speaker 3: I mean, is that a real thing? It's just an image? Right.

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Speaker 3: We look at the scripture and it says this Ames

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Speaker 3: five sixteen. Let's read it together. Ready, Therefore, confess your

771
00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:07,200
Speaker 3: sins to each other and pray for each other so

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Speaker 3: that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous

773
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Speaker 3: person is powerful and effective. I cannot tell you how

774
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Speaker 3: many slimy pits I've been in, how many coldest sacs

775
00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:22,719
Speaker 3: of life, how many uncontrollable situations when men in my

776
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:26,200
Speaker 3: life showed up and they started to lay their hands

777
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Speaker 3: on me and pray over me powerfully, and they begin

778
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Speaker 3: to call down the Kingdom of God into my life,

779
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:33,880
Speaker 3: when I didn't even have the faith to pray because

780
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Speaker 3: I was so broken. And then there was a shift.

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Speaker 3: He realized that your life can change in a second.

782
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Speaker 3: But you know what, God can change it even faster.

783
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Speaker 3: God can move supernatural forces. God can start shifting the atmosphere.

784
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Speaker 3: He's shifting it right now because you're realizing, Hey, yeah,

785
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Speaker 3: I got to decide who I'm going to be, so

786
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Speaker 3: I know what to do, and I to do it

787
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Speaker 3: with other people. You know. Transparency is the lifestyle of

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Speaker 3: the dangerous good and a hallmark of our community and

789
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Speaker 3: this movement worldwide. I want you to watch this.

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Speaker 6: From an inappropriate relationship to a business deal gone bad,

791
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Speaker 6: to number of times my wife in particular, saying I

792
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Speaker 6: just can't take the hits anymore.

793
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Speaker 7: Martin. I just was so prideful.

794
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Speaker 6: I was so bent on it being everybody else's problem

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Speaker 6: and nothing had to do with me. More than five

796
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:57,520
Speaker 6: years ago now, my wife lovingly told me that her

797
00:51:57,560 --> 00:52:01,160
Speaker 6: plan was to leave when I'm going to daughter was

798
00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:04,480
Speaker 6: going to college. That gave me a heads up, thank God,

799
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Speaker 6: to really assess what I wanted and who I wanted

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Speaker 6: to be.

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Speaker 7: As a man.

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Speaker 6: Marriage and family are everything to me, and knowing that

803
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Speaker 6: I could lose all of that, I distinctly remember saying, Okay, Lord,

804
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Speaker 6: I'm finally going to be the man that you want

805
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Speaker 6: me to be. And I just pressed into that. I

806
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Speaker 6: did whatever I needed to do to.

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Speaker 7: Be that man.

808
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Speaker 6: In The big big thing that helped me was being

809
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Speaker 6: a part of men's group. I heard said that you're

810
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Speaker 6: only as sick as a secret you keep, and.

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Speaker 7: Man, that was that truth for me.

812
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:44,000
Speaker 6: And as I told my secrets of other men told

813
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Speaker 6: their secrets, and it was amazing how similar we were

814
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Speaker 6: in the things that we struggle with and think and

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Speaker 6: battle and.

816
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Speaker 7: Let occupy our minds.

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Speaker 6: That started a journey of just becoming a part of

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Speaker 6: abandoned brain. Others the fraternity of men of God that

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Speaker 6: one sharpen each other. Proverbs talks about sharpening iron.

820
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Speaker 7: Sharpening iron. I heard that so often.

821
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Speaker 6: I never really knew what it was until now. It's

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Speaker 6: giving up everything that you think is not going to

823
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Speaker 6: be loved and bringing it to the light, bringing.

824
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Speaker 7: It to a group of trusted men.

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Speaker 6: And letting them say, man, we love.

826
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Speaker 7: You and we're here for you.

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Speaker 8: And that's huge, knowing you're not alone, image, being right,

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Speaker 8: being in control, being comfortable, We're all what drove me.

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Speaker 6: Today, What drives me is whatever God wants me to

830
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Speaker 6: be and do all that. My wife sees the changes,

831
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Speaker 6: my kids see the changes in me. They don't often

832
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Speaker 6: know quite what to do because it's still new for them.

833
00:53:57,000 --> 00:54:00,759
Speaker 6: This hard, driving, not vulnerable guide that they've seen and

834
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Speaker 6: grown up with is changing softer, vulnerable, honest, And so

835
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Speaker 6: now I'm a sharpened tool to be used by God.

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Speaker 7: For whatever his purpose is.

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Speaker 6: And there's nothing better than being in his hand and

838
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Speaker 6: being used.

839
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Speaker 7: However, he wants to use me.

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Speaker 3: Amen. Amen, Amen. It's stupid to keep secrets. But you

841
00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:28,480
Speaker 3: know what, Satan loves your secrets because the more you

842
00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:32,600
Speaker 3: keep a secret, then he has power over you. He's

843
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:36,000
Speaker 3: a liar, and when you have secrets and you hold

844
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Speaker 3: them inside, you're giving Satan the power of the lie.

845
00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:42,399
Speaker 3: He can control you because then it changes the way

846
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Speaker 3: you talk with people and you could get help. But no,

847
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Speaker 3: I got the secret. But that's what's so great about

848
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Speaker 3: that testimony is that transparency has a lifestyle. Not only

849
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Speaker 3: liberates you to get help, but it hits Satan in

850
00:54:58,280 --> 00:55:01,720
Speaker 3: the mouth because the power of the lie no longer

851
00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:04,600
Speaker 3: has control over you. Now you have the help of God.

852
00:55:04,800 --> 00:55:07,799
Speaker 3: You're walking in the light, you're getting counsel from other men,

853
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:11,440
Speaker 3: and now you're getting free. That is the lifestyle of

854
00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:15,680
Speaker 3: the dangerous good right there. The fourth thing that dangerous

855
00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:22,399
Speaker 3: good community involves is accountability. Accountability. The Bible talks about

856
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:26,120
Speaker 3: that in Proverbs twenty seven, very straightforward. Let's read it together.

857
00:55:26,840 --> 00:55:31,640
Speaker 3: Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Wounds from a

858
00:55:31,719 --> 00:55:36,600
Speaker 3: friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses. Man,

859
00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:38,680
Speaker 3: I've been doing this for a long time, and I

860
00:55:38,719 --> 00:55:41,640
Speaker 3: see guys with friends and they just say, Oh, you're great,

861
00:55:41,840 --> 00:55:44,719
Speaker 3: You're wonderful. What you do, what you feel like, do

862
00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:47,960
Speaker 3: what your heart says, do what's best for you. You

863
00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:55,439
Speaker 3: do you really, at the expense of it may be

864
00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:59,800
Speaker 3: being wrong, or maybe it harming their relationship with God,

865
00:56:00,520 --> 00:56:03,480
Speaker 3: or at the expense of maybe harming their relationships with

866
00:56:03,560 --> 00:56:08,080
Speaker 3: their wives or their children or their legacy. Really, the

867
00:56:08,120 --> 00:56:11,240
Speaker 3: Bible says that wounds from a friend can be trusted,

868
00:56:11,239 --> 00:56:15,560
Speaker 3: but an enemy multiplies kissed his My brother in law

869
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Speaker 3: has done over twenty five thousand surgeries. He's the chief

870
00:56:18,560 --> 00:56:23,040
Speaker 3: of surgery at Mercy Hospital in Sacramento. And when Christian

871
00:56:23,080 --> 00:56:25,920
Speaker 3: cuts on people and then he closes them up, and

872
00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:28,640
Speaker 3: maybe he takes out a cancer, maybe he takes out

873
00:56:28,640 --> 00:56:33,239
Speaker 3: a rupture appendix, maybe he repairs a lower intestine. Right.

874
00:56:34,120 --> 00:56:36,120
Speaker 3: Does it leave a mark on their body? Yes? Or no?

875
00:56:36,920 --> 00:56:40,200
Speaker 3: Yes it does. Was it a stab to kill? Yes

876
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:44,600
Speaker 3: or no? Was it a cut to heel? Yes it was.

877
00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:48,320
Speaker 3: When you're honest with a buddy, you can love somebody,

878
00:56:48,320 --> 00:56:50,440
Speaker 3: but sometimes you got to love him with the truth. Amen.

879
00:56:51,239 --> 00:56:52,879
Speaker 3: You don't tell him what they need, what they want

880
00:56:52,880 --> 00:56:54,279
Speaker 3: to hear. You got to tell him what they need

881
00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:56,680
Speaker 3: to hear, because you're being unloving. If you're one of

882
00:56:56,680 --> 00:56:58,799
Speaker 3: those friends who just says, hey, man, I'm your biggest fan.

883
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:04,359
Speaker 3: A fan is not a friend. A fan multiplies kisses. Right,

884
00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:07,640
Speaker 3: look at what the Bible says and Psalm one five,

885
00:57:07,719 --> 00:57:11,239
Speaker 3: let's read it together. Let a righteous man strike me.

886
00:57:11,600 --> 00:57:15,279
Speaker 3: That is a kindness. Let him rebuke me. That is

887
00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:18,560
Speaker 3: oil on my head. My head will not refuse it,

888
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:21,880
Speaker 3: for my prayer will still be against the deeds of

889
00:57:22,040 --> 00:57:25,280
Speaker 3: evil doers. In other words, David is saying, you know what,

890
00:57:25,360 --> 00:57:26,760
Speaker 3: if you have a hard truth and you need to

891
00:57:26,760 --> 00:57:28,520
Speaker 3: speak it to me, I want you to speak it

892
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:32,680
Speaker 3: to me. I'm giving you permission to speak truth to

893
00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:36,280
Speaker 3: me because I'm a man of God. And in the end,

894
00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:38,520
Speaker 3: I may not like what you're gonna say, especially if

895
00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:43,000
Speaker 3: the topic of discussion is me. I may not like it. Right.

896
00:57:43,920 --> 00:57:46,880
Speaker 3: You may wound me. It's gonna leave a mark, But

897
00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:49,840
Speaker 3: my character is going to be intact. My relationship with

898
00:57:49,880 --> 00:57:53,200
Speaker 3: God is gonna stay intact, my relationship with other people

899
00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:55,760
Speaker 3: is gonna stay intact. And I'm gonna go from boy

900
00:57:55,840 --> 00:58:01,160
Speaker 3: to man. Amen. See, toddlers can't control the impulses. Oswald

901
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:04,000
Speaker 3: Chambers says, impulse is okay in a child, but it's

902
00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:10,080
Speaker 3: disastrous in a man. Impulse must be trained right, trained

903
00:58:10,760 --> 00:58:16,040
Speaker 3: into intuition through discipline, the discipline of accountability. The fifth

904
00:58:16,080 --> 00:58:21,040
Speaker 3: thing that dangerous good community involves is frequency. Frequency, and

905
00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:23,440
Speaker 3: we all know what that means. Another word for frequency

906
00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:26,400
Speaker 3: is consistency. Can you get good at anything if you're

907
00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:29,880
Speaker 3: not consistent? Yes or no. Now there's other people who

908
00:58:30,040 --> 00:58:33,200
Speaker 3: get really consistent, and they practice it, and they show up,

909
00:58:33,280 --> 00:58:34,760
Speaker 3: and they show up the next week, and they go

910
00:58:34,800 --> 00:58:36,240
Speaker 3: to the gym, or they go to practice, or they

911
00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:37,920
Speaker 3: go to a training, and they keep showing up and

912
00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:39,880
Speaker 3: they keep getting good, They keep taking their swings in

913
00:58:39,920 --> 00:58:42,600
Speaker 3: whatever area of life they're trying to get better at,

914
00:58:43,200 --> 00:58:45,760
Speaker 3: and they have this frequency about it. Why because it

915
00:58:45,960 --> 00:58:53,000
Speaker 3: matters to them. If your identity in Christ matters to you,

916
00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:57,880
Speaker 3: you will frequently get together with other men who share

917
00:58:58,200 --> 00:59:02,400
Speaker 3: that identity and your belief. You'll get together. Look at

918
00:59:02,400 --> 00:59:05,960
Speaker 3: what the scripture says. Let's read it together. Let us

919
00:59:06,080 --> 00:59:09,959
Speaker 3: hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who

920
00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:13,200
Speaker 3: promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may

921
00:59:13,280 --> 00:59:16,960
Speaker 3: spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not

922
00:59:17,240 --> 00:59:20,320
Speaker 3: giving up meeting together as some are in the habit

923
00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:24,280
Speaker 3: of doing, but encouraging one another, and all the more

924
00:59:24,600 --> 00:59:31,440
Speaker 3: as you see the day approaching pretty straightforward, you can

925
00:59:31,640 --> 00:59:34,520
Speaker 3: encourage one another and sharpen and spur one another on

926
00:59:34,800 --> 00:59:37,760
Speaker 3: if you're giving up meeting. And that's where some of

927
00:59:37,800 --> 00:59:40,320
Speaker 3: you feel a little bit convicted. Right now. That's okay.

928
00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:46,000
Speaker 3: God's got you, We got you, got you covered, because

929
00:59:46,040 --> 00:59:47,880
Speaker 3: this room's going to be getting back together. But let's

930
00:59:47,880 --> 00:59:54,760
Speaker 3: get to the main point. Everybody say, unity, proximity, transparency, accountability,

931
00:59:55,400 --> 00:59:59,040
Speaker 3: and frequency. You get into a group of men who

932
00:59:59,080 --> 01:00:02,640
Speaker 3: practice those things, you will become so dangerous with goodness.

933
01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:05,040
Speaker 3: You're not going to believe the things that you start doing.

934
01:00:05,880 --> 01:00:08,520
Speaker 3: So what's God's saying to us men, when he's talking

935
01:00:08,560 --> 01:00:12,480
Speaker 3: to us about living out our truest identity in community?

936
01:00:12,720 --> 01:00:14,800
Speaker 3: All right, write this down. God is saying to his

937
01:00:14,960 --> 01:00:24,120
Speaker 3: sons in Austin, Texas, Isolation kills, but connection conquers. Isolation kills,

938
01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:28,520
Speaker 3: but connection conquers. You heard Pastor Jason talk about a lion.

939
01:00:28,600 --> 01:00:33,600
Speaker 3: You know how lion's hunt, right, they get whatever they

940
01:00:33,600 --> 01:00:37,880
Speaker 3: want for lunch, panicked and running and in a hurry

941
01:00:38,760 --> 01:00:42,480
Speaker 3: and busy, and they get him running until some poor

942
01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:47,200
Speaker 3: whatever zebra antelope just kind of starts tacking away from

943
01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:53,160
Speaker 3: the herd, and then whatever moves away. That's the one

944
01:00:53,200 --> 01:00:56,600
Speaker 3: they focus on the attack in numbers. The Bible says

945
01:00:56,600 --> 01:01:00,160
Speaker 3: that Satan prowls around like a roaring lion looking for

946
01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:05,480
Speaker 3: someone to what devour to have you for lunch. You

947
01:01:05,520 --> 01:01:08,000
Speaker 3: know what, You were never intended as a man of

948
01:01:08,040 --> 01:01:11,320
Speaker 3: God to live like that. And God is saying to us,

949
01:01:11,760 --> 01:01:16,560
Speaker 3: Sons of the King, connection is not a consideration. Sorry,

950
01:01:16,760 --> 01:01:20,880
Speaker 3: I know. We live in a sort of democracy where

951
01:01:20,960 --> 01:01:23,479
Speaker 3: so it's like, no, I can choose. I can choose

952
01:01:23,480 --> 01:01:28,200
Speaker 3: who my mortgage guy is, my barista, my mechanic, the

953
01:01:28,200 --> 01:01:31,360
Speaker 3: phone guy. I can open, you know, get online and

954
01:01:31,840 --> 01:01:35,040
Speaker 3: go to Angie's list and pick who I want when

955
01:01:35,080 --> 01:01:38,520
Speaker 3: I want. And it's like we have this endless accessories.

956
01:01:38,520 --> 01:01:41,680
Speaker 3: It's a consumer culture. You can't have consumer culture in

957
01:01:41,720 --> 01:01:47,840
Speaker 3: your walk with Christ. Connection is not a consideration. Connection

958
01:01:48,360 --> 01:01:51,520
Speaker 3: is a command for Sons of the King. God wants

959
01:01:51,520 --> 01:01:55,280
Speaker 3: you to hear that word, and it comes with the

960
01:01:55,280 --> 01:01:57,960
Speaker 3: promise of God, and it's right there in your workbook.

961
01:01:59,120 --> 01:02:01,720
Speaker 3: Proverbs two twenty to twenty two. Let's read that together.

962
01:02:02,200 --> 01:02:05,560
Speaker 3: So you will walk in the way of good men

963
01:02:06,040 --> 01:02:08,920
Speaker 3: and keep to the paths of the righteous. For the

964
01:02:09,120 --> 01:02:12,600
Speaker 3: upright will live in the land, and the blameless will

965
01:02:12,640 --> 01:02:15,560
Speaker 3: remain in it, but the wicked will be cut off

966
01:02:15,600 --> 01:02:19,720
Speaker 3: from the land, and the treacherous will be uprooted from it.

967
01:02:20,160 --> 01:02:24,680
Speaker 3: You see, in community, you keep your identity in community.

968
01:02:24,880 --> 01:02:28,320
Speaker 3: The land you live in experiences victory. You want to

969
01:02:28,360 --> 01:02:30,600
Speaker 3: know why cities are suffering. You want to know why

970
01:02:30,640 --> 01:02:33,080
Speaker 3: injustices happen all the time. You want to know why

971
01:02:33,080 --> 01:02:35,960
Speaker 3: there's forty two million women who are sexually trafficked and

972
01:02:36,080 --> 01:02:37,960
Speaker 3: used every day. You want to know why there's one

973
01:02:38,040 --> 01:02:42,120
Speaker 3: hundred and seventy three million orphans on planet Earth right now,

974
01:02:42,240 --> 01:02:45,680
Speaker 3: and there's seven hundred million men who name the name

975
01:02:45,680 --> 01:02:50,080
Speaker 3: of Jesus is because Satan does not have us connected

976
01:02:50,360 --> 01:02:54,000
Speaker 3: in community. Because if we were in community, if we

977
01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:56,840
Speaker 3: were a band of brothers, if we were together and

978
01:02:56,880 --> 01:03:00,600
Speaker 3: we were moving and encouraging one another, we'd be experienced victory.

979
01:03:00,640 --> 01:03:04,040
Speaker 3: And when you experience victory, the people around you experience victory.

980
01:03:04,120 --> 01:03:07,080
Speaker 3: When you experience victory, your marriage experiences victory. When you

981
01:03:07,160 --> 01:03:12,080
Speaker 3: experience victory, your community, your block experiences victory. But we're

982
01:03:12,080 --> 01:03:15,000
Speaker 3: not together. So do you think that Satan's strategy in

983
01:03:15,040 --> 01:03:17,760
Speaker 3: this room right now is to keep you from connecting

984
01:03:17,800 --> 01:03:21,360
Speaker 3: to other men of God? Yes or no? Yes, yet

985
01:03:21,520 --> 01:03:26,200
Speaker 3: that's why we've got you. You See, identity in community

986
01:03:26,520 --> 01:03:30,400
Speaker 3: is what is coming, I believe for every man here,

987
01:03:30,440 --> 01:03:33,840
Speaker 3: because that's a prophetic word for this space. This room

988
01:03:33,960 --> 01:03:36,560
Speaker 3: is going to get back together. And here's a preview

989
01:03:36,920 --> 01:03:40,000
Speaker 3: of the group experience that you are going to be

990
01:03:40,080 --> 01:03:42,320
Speaker 3: asked to join for the next five weeks. Let's roll this.

991
01:03:58,040 --> 01:04:00,960
Speaker 9: I don't know about you, but I'm done and choking

992
01:04:01,200 --> 01:04:03,880
Speaker 9: on the bad news that comes on the news cycle

993
01:04:04,000 --> 01:04:07,800
Speaker 9: every day about broken male culture, men who have been

994
01:04:07,800 --> 01:04:13,880
Speaker 9: given strength, power, influence, position, and then men using all

995
01:04:13,920 --> 01:04:17,880
Speaker 9: of that power and strength and influence to abuse or

996
01:04:17,960 --> 01:04:22,440
Speaker 9: hurt other people. I'm tired of twenty seven million women

997
01:04:22,600 --> 01:04:23,560
Speaker 9: around the world who.

998
01:04:23,400 --> 01:04:26,240
Speaker 3: Wake up every day with a job. They're called prostitutes

999
01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:30,040
Speaker 3: and sex slaves. I'm tired of seeing the orphan epidemic.

1000
01:04:30,800 --> 01:04:35,120
Speaker 3: I'm tired of seeing fatherlessness that's creating cycles of chaos

1001
01:04:35,160 --> 01:04:40,400
Speaker 3: and dysfunction, especially when I know that there are hundreds

1002
01:04:40,400 --> 01:04:44,640
Speaker 3: of millions of men walking the planet right now who

1003
01:04:44,760 --> 01:04:50,960
Speaker 3: claim an affiliation with Jesus Christ. Now those guys need

1004
01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:55,360
Speaker 3: to stop being affiliated and start getting activated and join

1005
01:04:55,480 --> 01:05:00,000
Speaker 3: what I'm calling a new wave of masculinity that doesn't

1006
01:05:00,120 --> 01:05:05,040
Speaker 3: mind being strong, but pair's character and compassion with that strength,

1007
01:05:05,520 --> 01:05:11,720
Speaker 3: called the Dangerous Good Movement. As this movement grows from

1008
01:05:11,760 --> 01:05:15,760
Speaker 3: the grassroots and cities and countries and communities and villages

1009
01:05:16,240 --> 01:05:19,640
Speaker 3: all over the world, to have men rise up in

1010
01:05:19,680 --> 01:05:23,880
Speaker 3: the spirit of Christ to bring what He brought to

1011
01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:27,560
Speaker 3: broken male culture, which is to turn it on its head,

1012
01:05:28,040 --> 01:05:31,280
Speaker 3: to start raising the value and protecting and defending women,

1013
01:05:31,560 --> 01:05:35,800
Speaker 3: raising the value protecting and defending children, making the commitment

1014
01:05:36,200 --> 01:05:39,560
Speaker 3: to the family and to doing good, and then to

1015
01:05:39,680 --> 01:05:45,560
Speaker 3: confronting injustice and evil right where it starts in their neighborhood,

1016
01:05:45,680 --> 01:05:49,600
Speaker 3: on their block, in their city, and not standing for

1017
01:05:49,640 --> 01:05:52,600
Speaker 3: it in the name of Jesus, into God's glory. So

1018
01:05:52,680 --> 01:06:04,360
Speaker 3: catch the vision and join the Dangerous Good Movement. Amen,

1019
01:06:05,320 --> 01:06:09,760
Speaker 3: all right, say this with me. Identity in community, say

1020
01:06:09,800 --> 01:06:15,040
Speaker 3: bravery in community. You see the big wheels of your life,

1021
01:06:15,160 --> 01:06:17,800
Speaker 3: the major shifts in your life, the big wheels of

1022
01:06:17,840 --> 01:06:20,880
Speaker 3: your life, the shifts, the big changes They turn on

1023
01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:26,200
Speaker 3: the small axles of choice. Single choices set in motion

1024
01:06:27,120 --> 01:06:29,560
Speaker 3: massive shifts. If you don't believe that. In the Bible,

1025
01:06:29,560 --> 01:06:32,240
Speaker 3: it says justice through the disobedience of the one man,

1026
01:06:32,320 --> 01:06:35,600
Speaker 3: say one man, one man, many were made sinners. So

1027
01:06:35,760 --> 01:06:39,120
Speaker 3: also through the obedience of the one man, say one man,

1028
01:06:39,960 --> 01:06:44,040
Speaker 3: many were made righteous. Two guys, two gardens of temptation,

1029
01:06:44,480 --> 01:06:47,960
Speaker 3: two different choices. One choice brings death and the other

1030
01:06:48,320 --> 01:06:52,640
Speaker 3: brings life. Big wheels. Turn on the small axles of

1031
01:06:52,680 --> 01:06:56,520
Speaker 3: your choices under pressure. And the big wheel for this

1032
01:06:56,640 --> 01:07:01,240
Speaker 3: space is the city of Austin the transformation of that city.

1033
01:07:01,280 --> 01:07:04,440
Speaker 3: This small axle that puts in that in motion is

1034
01:07:04,480 --> 01:07:08,800
Speaker 3: the individual. Listen, look up here, the individual choice and

1035
01:07:08,840 --> 01:07:12,520
Speaker 3: the collective choice that we are gonna make right now.

1036
01:07:13,760 --> 01:07:17,960
Speaker 3: And the choice is this. This room is going to reassemble,

1037
01:07:18,400 --> 01:07:22,880
Speaker 3: say how for five weeks here on the celebration campus,

1038
01:07:22,920 --> 01:07:25,120
Speaker 3: here at their other campus in your church, if you

1039
01:07:25,200 --> 01:07:28,760
Speaker 3: came with another church, you're gonna assemble at your campus.

1040
01:07:30,760 --> 01:07:34,760
Speaker 3: And it's all in preparation for an eruption of the

1041
01:07:34,880 --> 01:07:39,040
Speaker 3: dangerous good being sent into the city of Austin to

1042
01:07:39,120 --> 01:07:42,720
Speaker 3: too good now. Usually in a room like this, for

1043
01:07:42,840 --> 01:07:45,480
Speaker 3: me eighty percent of the guys will go you know what,

1044
01:07:45,720 --> 01:07:47,880
Speaker 3: I hear the word of God talking to me. I

1045
01:07:47,960 --> 01:07:49,840
Speaker 3: want to be a part of that. But I believe

1046
01:07:50,720 --> 01:07:53,320
Speaker 3: that we can get to close to one hundred percent.

1047
01:07:53,440 --> 01:07:56,000
Speaker 3: Turn to the back of your wookbook right now. We're

1048
01:07:56,000 --> 01:07:58,080
Speaker 3: just gonna do one thing and then the worship team

1049
01:07:58,440 --> 01:08:01,160
Speaker 3: is going to lead us in another in another set,

1050
01:08:01,200 --> 01:08:03,680
Speaker 3: and we're going to seal our commitment in worship. But

1051
01:08:03,760 --> 01:08:06,200
Speaker 3: in the back of your workbook there's this page. It's

1052
01:08:06,240 --> 01:08:09,880
Speaker 3: called making my Connection. If you're hearing the voice of

1053
01:08:09,920 --> 01:08:13,640
Speaker 3: God and you're ready to get connected in commune, if

1054
01:08:13,680 --> 01:08:16,200
Speaker 3: you believe that isolation kills in connection, all I want

1055
01:08:16,240 --> 01:08:18,960
Speaker 3: you to do is to take your pen and just say,

1056
01:08:19,120 --> 01:08:21,080
Speaker 3: right the third box it says I'm going to be

1057
01:08:21,160 --> 01:08:25,160
Speaker 3: starting or participating in a dangerous good fellowship. That's all

1058
01:08:25,160 --> 01:08:27,799
Speaker 3: I want you to do. Just cross that cross that box,

1059
01:08:32,080 --> 01:08:33,920
Speaker 3: cross that box, and then close it back up because

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Speaker 3: we're going to collect that a little later. But I

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Speaker 3: want to seal this decision and worship. Father, thank you

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Speaker 3: for speaking so clearly through the life of your son.

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Speaker 3: Thank you that when we are living out our truest identity,

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Speaker 3: we're fearless we're free, we're focused, and we're faithful because

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Speaker 3: we know that one day we're gonna end up standing

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Speaker 3: in front of you, face to face, and we want

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Speaker 3: that moment to be filled with joy and as little

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Speaker 3: regret as possible. And God, we can do it. But

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Speaker 3: we have to have community. We have to be connected.

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Speaker 3: And this city is dying for a movement of men

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Speaker 3: who know who they are, who know what to do,

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Speaker 3: and they're doing it together in community. And so Father,

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Speaker 3: I declare identity, the identity that they have in Christ.

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Speaker 3: Over this room, I declare the community of God. That

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Speaker 3: these men would get together and that they would not

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Speaker 3: suffer from isolation anymore, but that they would connect and

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Speaker 3: that they would conquer in the name of Jesus. And

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Speaker 3: God's men said, Amen, I pray, fam, it's Kenny Luck here.

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Speaker 3: I want you to just imagine with me for a second,

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Speaker 3: the seven hundred million men on planet Earth right now

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Speaker 3: that name the name of Jesus living out their truest

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Speaker 3: identity in Christ and doing that in a community.

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Speaker 10: Of men all over the world.

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Speaker 3: Imagine God's sons worldwide, spirit empowered activated, making new choices,

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Speaker 3: billions of collective choices as a group every day that

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Speaker 3: show love for God and love for people in the

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Speaker 3: spaces and places that they uniquely occupy across cultures and countries. Okay,

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Speaker 3: imagine that.

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Speaker 10: Then imagine the impact of that on the hundreds of

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Speaker 10: millions of women and children connected to that same seven

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Speaker 10: hundred million men and the delivery of God's love to them,

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Speaker 10: the delivery of God's justice, the delivery of God's blessing

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Speaker 10: in Jesus name through God's sons who are living out

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Speaker 10: their truest.

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Speaker 3: Identity and community. Now that right there, that's a movement

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Speaker 3: the world is waiting for. That is a mood the

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Speaker 3: devil fears deeply. It's also a movement that you can

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Speaker 3: be a part of. Whether you're a man or a woman,

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Speaker 3: you can participate in that movement. You could support it,

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Speaker 3: be a part of it. But more importantly, I want

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Speaker 3: you to see something. It's a movement that connects masculinity

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Speaker 3: to eternity and an identity in Jesus. And if you

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Speaker 3: want to see how that movement rules out, simply click

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Speaker 3: the link below and watch session two of this message.

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