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Speaker 1: the damage sin caused. What an amazing experience to not

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Speaker 1: today's Daily Prayer for more inspiration and an incredible message

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Speaker 1: from our feature pastor, stay tuned to pray dot COM's

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Speaker 2: Hi, it's Samantha Taylor. Welcome to my radio show on Prey.

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Speaker 2: I am excited to be bringing this message to you.

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Speaker 2: This new show is called Divine Life Transformation. Why divine

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Speaker 2: because it's guided by God and understanding what does the

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Speaker 2: by the renewing of the mind. But make sure you

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Speaker 2: also check out my new TV show on Prey as well.

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Speaker 2: It just launched. So the TV show is every Thursday morning,

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Speaker 2: And if you didn't see the episode on self Control,

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Speaker 2: you gotta check it out. You can see it on

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Speaker 2: my page in this Prey app, just search for my

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Speaker 2: take you on a hike. Actually I teach you in

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Speaker 2: I'll give this again at the end. It's a divine

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Speaker 2: you truly know if you're born again? You know, that's

433
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Speaker 2: a question to ask yourself, How do I know if

434
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:31,880
Speaker 2: I'm born again? Well, if you didn't have a conversion

435
00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:34,639
Speaker 2: with God, with Christ and the things that I've spoken

436
00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:37,720
Speaker 2: about earlier, but you didn't start to see a new

437
00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:41,800
Speaker 2: nature happen, that you didn't have any thoughts change, You

438
00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:44,960
Speaker 2: had no concern sinning and doing the same sins you

439
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:48,480
Speaker 2: did before you met Christ. You had no issues, you know,

440
00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:52,080
Speaker 2: doing things that were just not of God, and you

441
00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:55,640
Speaker 2: know they're not of God, but yet you completely ignore

442
00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:57,840
Speaker 2: the fact that they are, and you don't have any

443
00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:01,080
Speaker 2: issue with it, meaning you just sin it's no big deal.

444
00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:05,000
Speaker 2: That would be a sign that maybe you did not

445
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:08,199
Speaker 2: become born again because part of being born again is

446
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:10,960
Speaker 2: a new nature. You are a new creation now when

447
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,399
Speaker 2: you go through a process. Absolutely, you're not going to

448
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:17,720
Speaker 2: change everything overnight. I've been very open with you guys

449
00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:20,280
Speaker 2: that when I got born again on April sixteen, twenty

450
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:23,720
Speaker 2: nine years ago, I went through a process that we

451
00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:26,800
Speaker 2: cleaned up our life, got off drugs, changed so many

452
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:30,240
Speaker 2: parts of our life, but we got back into drugs.

453
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:33,840
Speaker 2: So I was still a Christian. I still had not

454
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:37,399
Speaker 2: renewed my mind though, and transformed my mind to be

455
00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 2: not following those ways. But you can guarantee I felt

456
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:44,320
Speaker 2: more guilty about it. It was an issue for me.

457
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:46,359
Speaker 2: It was not something that I just did it and

458
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:48,200
Speaker 2: be like, oh, well it doesn't matter. No, I knew

459
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:51,639
Speaker 2: it mattered. But I was struggling with the sin that

460
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 2: I was struggling with. Does that mean I was a sinner? No,

461
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:58,520
Speaker 2: because that's an identity. I wasn't a sinner because I

462
00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:01,960
Speaker 2: was righteous, holy and pure and just by my spirit.

463
00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:05,440
Speaker 2: But my human side of me, well, from my thought,

464
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 2: my will, my mind, emotions were reverting back to old

465
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:13,119
Speaker 2: behaviors of drug addiction. And it was by the grace

466
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:15,439
Speaker 2: of God that he finally got ahold of me again,

467
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:19,760
Speaker 2: and I finally submitted and I once it hit and

468
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 2: God showed it to me, and I was like, I

469
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 2: am done, by the grace of God. Had never gone

470
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 2: back to drugs, and that was over twenty five years ago.

471
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,320
Speaker 2: So I was a drug addict for ten years, probably

472
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:34,560
Speaker 2: closer to fifteen. I'd have to look up the numbers,

473
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,320
Speaker 2: because I started doing drugs when I was in seventh grade.

474
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 2: So this is where I'm very open and transparent about

475
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 2: these things, because it's very helpful for you to know.

476
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:47,960
Speaker 2: When I talked to you about this transformation stuff, it's

477
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,920
Speaker 2: not just some scriptures I read in the Bible. I mean,

478
00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:54,480
Speaker 2: I was so struggling in my life that it is

479
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:57,760
Speaker 2: a miracle that I'm alive, and it is a miracle

480
00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:00,920
Speaker 2: that my brain is not destroyed from the amount of

481
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 2: drugs that I did and that I did not die

482
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:06,359
Speaker 2: from the amount of overdoses that I almost had. So

483
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 2: this is where it's important for you to know these

484
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 2: things that it's not just some idea that I have

485
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 2: about what it means to transform your mind. And I'm

486
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:19,920
Speaker 2: talking about like a serious life transformation, and God has

487
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 2: done it in me. And when he finally you know

488
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:24,960
Speaker 2: he got ahold of me. But also when I submitted,

489
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:28,119
Speaker 2: because there is that part of that free will. You

490
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:31,080
Speaker 2: can fight God if you say no, God, I don't

491
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 2: want what you have for me. I'm not following you.

492
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:36,960
Speaker 2: I don't want that. That's a free will. You do

493
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:40,360
Speaker 2: have a free will. We are not robots. Part of

494
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 2: love is free will. If you don't have a free

495
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:47,440
Speaker 2: will to love, then that's not truly love. Because love

496
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:52,360
Speaker 2: is desiring to care for someone, desiring to want them.

497
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 2: That you want that person, you love them, you are

498
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,360
Speaker 2: choosing to love them as well. And this is where

499
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Speaker 2: the interesting part comes in. That God is the only

500
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,960
Speaker 2: one that can open our eyes to be able to

501
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 2: see that love for him. Even in the scriptures it

502
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 2: says that no man can come to Christ except if

503
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:13,000
Speaker 2: he's called by God. So we didn't just find God

504
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:17,440
Speaker 2: one day. We actually responded to God calling us. And

505
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 2: there are so many scriptures that talk about that that

506
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 2: he's the one that woos us. He's the one that

507
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 2: calls us, and all of a sudden you finally respond.

508
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 2: Someone invited you to church, you didn't go. You saw

509
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,520
Speaker 2: a show on TV, you didn't go. You saw got

510
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 2: a book that you read that you know, talked about God,

511
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 2: didn't respond, and then all of a sudden, there's that

512
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 2: one moment that you finally see it. And that's what

513
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 2: happened to me on April sixteenth, twenty nine years ago.

514
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 2: So this is where when we think about that process

515
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 2: of how do you actually transform? So when I did

516
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 2: go back to drugs after I became born again, doesn't

517
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 2: mean my spirit wasn't still born again and I wasn't

518
00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 2: going to heaven. It does not mean that. What means

519
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 2: is that I was They call it backslid and does

520
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 2: talk about reverting back to your former ways before you

521
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:10,680
Speaker 2: knew Christ, So that that is backsliding. So this is

522
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:13,240
Speaker 2: where we find those balances. Well what does that mean?

523
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:15,960
Speaker 2: And how how am I putting on the ways of

524
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:20,000
Speaker 2: Christ and taking off my former ways. So there's two

525
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 2: main areas that I saw in my life that I

526
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 2: started to see massive transformation. And the first area was

527
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:32,400
Speaker 2: my relationship with God. So really knowing God, really personally

528
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:35,960
Speaker 2: having an intimate relationship with him. So being born again

529
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:39,360
Speaker 2: is the foundation of that. You can't truly you can't

530
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:43,760
Speaker 2: have a relationship with your Creator without Christ, there's no

531
00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:48,080
Speaker 2: access to God, the Father without through Jesus Christ. So

532
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:53,280
Speaker 2: we're talking about a holy, righteous God that cannot look

533
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:56,640
Speaker 2: upon and have a relationship with us through sin. That's

534
00:30:56,680 --> 00:31:00,080
Speaker 2: why Jesus Christ is the mediator of the Bible talk

535
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 2: about and he actually paved the way for us to

536
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 2: be able to have a relationship with our creator. So

537
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 2: that's where when you realize, Okay, so God sees us

538
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:15,160
Speaker 2: through Christ. So that's the foundation of the relationship. That's

539
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 2: the foundation of knowing God. But then as it develops

540
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 2: your relationship with him, you spend time with him, you

541
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:26,040
Speaker 2: get to know him, you get to you know, connect

542
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,840
Speaker 2: with him. And the Bible is very clear that God

543
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:32,920
Speaker 2: talks to us. Most people don't hear an audible voice,

544
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 2: but it's an internal knowing and it sounds like your

545
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:39,520
Speaker 2: own thought in your mind. When I first started getting

546
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 2: more familiar with this, it was sounded like my own

547
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:44,920
Speaker 2: thoughts speaking to me, Like you know, your thoughts go

548
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 2: through your mind and you're like, oh, that was a thought, Well,

549
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 2: was that actually God speaking to you? So this is

550
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 2: where God taught me over the last twenty five years

551
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 2: how to be very clear of hearing his voice. And again,

552
00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 2: it's not an audible voice. I have never heard the

553
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:01,880
Speaker 2: massive audible voice of God. So there's one or two

554
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 2: times that have been stronger than anything I've ever experienced,

555
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:08,959
Speaker 2: but it was not an audible voice. So when you

556
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 2: get to know your creator, you develop this relationship. You

557
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 2: get to know this creator, your God. And as you

558
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:23,080
Speaker 2: become intimate in this relationship, you get to know his character,

559
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 2: his nature more. You start to understand more who this

560
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 2: amazing creator is. And as you get to know him more,

561
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 2: you desire to follow him more. You want to follow

562
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:40,520
Speaker 2: him more, You desire to be more like him. Christian

563
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 2: means christ like, so you actually want to be more

564
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 2: like what the Bible says. And this is where this

565
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 2: relationship starts to develop. So you become born again, born

566
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 2: from above, and that your process of your free will,

567
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:00,480
Speaker 2: that God is the one that woos you to him,

568
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 2: that you admit that you need him, that you want him,

569
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 2: that you want him in your life, and you want

570
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 2: this relationship. As that develops, Wow, it is the most

571
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 2: beautiful thing that you could ever imagine. And I know

572
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:17,440
Speaker 2: many of you experience that on a regular basis, but

573
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:23,240
Speaker 2: I have watched such a beautiful experience. I am talking

574
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:26,959
Speaker 2: about such an intimate relationship with God that it is

575
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 2: so beautiful and so caring and so loving. It just

576
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 2: amazes me. So that personal relationship is developed over time

577
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 2: that connection. Think about from a human perspective, when you

578
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 2: fall in love with someone, you get to know them,

579
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 2: you spend time with them. You would not have developed

580
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:53,840
Speaker 2: that relationship and been experiencing love if you had not

581
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 2: developed a relationship over some time, getting to know that person,

582
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 2: spending time with them, learning their ways. So this is

583
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 2: the way that I have noticed for myself that when

584
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 2: I started to transform. Number One, it was really having

585
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:13,640
Speaker 2: a strong relationship with God. And it started with becoming

586
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 2: born from above, with believing that Jesus Christ paid for

587
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:20,799
Speaker 2: my sins and I was now a believer. Then as

588
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 2: my relationship developed with him, I was more drawn to

589
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:28,480
Speaker 2: wanting to be like the Bible says, to be christ Like.

590
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:32,839
Speaker 2: I wanted to be like the Bible talked about. I

591
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 2: wanted to align my life with the ways of God,

592
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:41,759
Speaker 2: my new nature, my new desires. The Bible says we're

593
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:45,600
Speaker 2: a new creation, but we must be renewed in our

594
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:50,839
Speaker 2: mind to be transformed. So when that word renewed means renovation,

595
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 2: the word transformed comes from a word of metamorphosis, which

596
00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:00,719
Speaker 2: is the same thing from a butterfly. When a butterfly

597
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 2: cocoon and a caterpillar, which I did not know this either,

598
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:10,399
Speaker 2: that a caterpillar is actually butterfly eggs. I mean, it's

599
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 2: not like the caterpillar just turns into a butterfly. Maybe

600
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:16,399
Speaker 2: you didn't know this either, but they're actually cat there

601
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:21,240
Speaker 2: butterfly eggs that a butterfly laid, and it's a caterpillar first,

602
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:24,440
Speaker 2: and then it becomes a butterfly. Sadly enough, I did

603
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:26,920
Speaker 2: not know that until I started researching that last year.

604
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:30,439
Speaker 2: So it goes into cocoon and then it turns into

605
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:34,799
Speaker 2: a butterfly. Well, there's a transformation process, and that word

606
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 2: transformation means to go from one form to another. You're

607
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 2: transforming from one form to another, a caterpillar to a butterfly.

608
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:51,200
Speaker 2: But yet, remember that that caterpillar already had the DNA

609
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:55,800
Speaker 2: inside of it to become a butterfly. It was already

610
00:35:56,120 --> 00:36:01,520
Speaker 2: inside of it, so as it transformed, it became this butterfly.

611
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:07,400
Speaker 2: That word transform also means an adjustment of parts. So

612
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:09,279
Speaker 2: this is the study that I've been on for the

613
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 2: last like four days. I mean it was just amazing.

614
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 2: I mean I had so many times and just crying

615
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:17,280
Speaker 2: and weeping and journaling and talking to God and getting

616
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:19,920
Speaker 2: answers of this stuff. And then he said it was

617
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:25,719
Speaker 2: showing me about this transformation, that this cocoon is a

618
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 2: period of time that the caterpillar goes inside and the

619
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:34,760
Speaker 2: parts of the caterpillar have to be adjusted to become

620
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:39,799
Speaker 2: the butterfly. Well, if that word transformation being renewed in

621
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:44,360
Speaker 2: your mind, to be transformed, to be in another form,

622
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 2: to be metamorphosis like a caterpillar to a butterfly, to

623
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:54,439
Speaker 2: have an adjustment of parts, what vehicle is that done

624
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 2: in the renewing of your mind? So the renovation of

625
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:04,440
Speaker 2: your mind, you're thinking, your patterns, your behaviors are done

626
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 2: through the transformation of adjusting those parts. And that's when

627
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 2: I started dying all these things together. I'm like, oh

628
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:16,920
Speaker 2: my goodness, that is so awesome. I was just so

629
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 2: encouraged to get scripture after scripture that was showing me this.

630
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:25,320
Speaker 2: So I started asking, okay, so what is the adjustment

631
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 2: of parts? That adjustment again, is your brain, your thinking,

632
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:34,399
Speaker 2: your will, your mind, your emotions, your behaviors, your desires

633
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:37,560
Speaker 2: to serve God and follow after God in the ways

634
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:40,600
Speaker 2: of God. Do you want to just do whatever you

635
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:43,240
Speaker 2: want and not care what God wants for your life?

636
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 2: Or does your life now line up with saying, Wow, God,

637
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:49,839
Speaker 2: you are my creator and I want to follow after you,

638
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 2: and I want to do what you want me to do.

639
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:56,120
Speaker 2: I want to do what you created me for. And

640
00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:58,399
Speaker 2: the beautiful thing is the Bible says that God gives

641
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:01,879
Speaker 2: us the desires of our heart, but you also put

642
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 2: those in us. So that's one beautiful thing. I mean,

643
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:06,440
Speaker 2: think about all the gifts that you might have that

644
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 2: are actually natural, God given gifts that other people don't have.

645
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:13,800
Speaker 2: Maybe you're an amazing photographer, or you have a beautiful voice.

646
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 2: You didn't give yourself that voice. God gave that to you.

647
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Speaker 2: So this is where when we look at that and

648
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Speaker 2: realize that this whole transformation process, when he gives us

649
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 2: clues that tells us in the Bible what that means

650
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 2: and gives us examples of what being transformed means, and

651
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Speaker 2: that it is similar to a caterpillar going to a butterfly,

652
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:39,799
Speaker 2: the adjustment of those parts. So the first thing, like

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Speaker 2: I mentioned, and transformation is having of course, being born again,

654
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:45,800
Speaker 2: a born above experience that you are now born of God,

655
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 2: and developing that relationship, that time with him, the character, development,

656
00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 2: the personality you spend time with him in your prayer,

657
00:38:56,040 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 2: in personal time with him, communicating with him, getting to

658
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 2: know your creator. I would say the second area that

659
00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:07,120
Speaker 2: really transformed me in my life was really diving into

660
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Speaker 2: the Bible and really understanding more what the scripture said

661
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:13,920
Speaker 2: and how they applied to my life. What does the

662
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:16,800
Speaker 2: Bible say about this? What does the Bible say about

663
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Speaker 2: our mind, our will, our emotions, our cravings, you know,

664
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Speaker 2: what does the Bible say about how we actually change

665
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:27,880
Speaker 2: our life? That's what the Bible tells us. So getting

666
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 2: into the scriptures and understanding what the Bible says is

667
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 2: very different than just having knowledge of a scripture. So

668
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:38,440
Speaker 2: if you know the scripture and you can memorize that,

669
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:41,760
Speaker 2: that's data, that's information, But if you don't actually apply

670
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Speaker 2: it in your life, in your thinking, to affect your behavior,

671
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 2: to transform by the renewing of your mind. Remember, we're renovating,

672
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 2: we are renovating the mind. We're getting all this stuff

673
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Speaker 2: out that's not of God thinking, you know, that are

674
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Speaker 2: not the ways of God, the thinking of the world.

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Speaker 2: Get that stuff out, and you're in putting. You're renovating,

676
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Speaker 2: You're putting in that new kitchen. You're putting in the

677
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Speaker 2: new thinking and the new behavior patterns of the ways

678
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Speaker 2: of God. And how do you know what that is?

679
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Speaker 2: If you don't get into the Bible, how do you

680
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Speaker 2: know what that is? If you don't spend time with

681
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:21,279
Speaker 2: your Creator, how do you know what that is? So

682
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:23,600
Speaker 2: this is what we're talking about, is not only the

683
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Speaker 2: relationship with God, but understanding what the Bible says as

684
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Speaker 2: much as you possibly can, and reading scriptures to understand

685
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Speaker 2: more what the Bible speaks about about every area of

686
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Speaker 2: our life. I've been studying deeply the Bible for I

687
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Speaker 2: would say, not far after I got born again. So

688
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Speaker 2: there was that period where I struggled with drugs, and

689
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Speaker 2: that's probably one of the reason why I did right,

690
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Speaker 2: because I wasn't reading my Bible much then. But when

691
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Speaker 2: I got away from it, you know, those kind of

692
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Speaker 2: things that can impact your behavior. But I would say overall,

693
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Speaker 2: I've been studying the Bible very intensely for over twenty

694
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Speaker 2: five years, probably closer to twenty seven. And when I

695
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Speaker 2: say intensely. I mean deep studies like going into the

696
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Speaker 2: Hebrew and the Greek and studying for an hour two

697
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Speaker 2: hours the average and hour a day. I mean that's

698
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Speaker 2: still the life that I live now, is every morning

699
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Speaker 2: an hour a day in the morning with God, because

700
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Speaker 2: I know how critical that is, and that might not

701
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Speaker 2: be something that you're called to, that might not be

702
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 2: something that's possible in your life right now, but there

703
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 2: needs to be a time that you spend with God.

704
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Speaker 2: Maybe it's only ten minutes, and then maybe you grow

705
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Speaker 2: in that because I didn't start at an hour, but

706
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:39,040
Speaker 2: there's times where I'll go four or five six hours

707
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 2: because I'm studying and I'm really understanding more about the scriptures.

708
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 2: So knowing more about the Bible, what does it say?

709
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Speaker 2: And how do you transform your life through the Bible?

710
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Speaker 2: True transformation that Romans twelve one through two talks about

711
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:59,959
Speaker 2: by the renewing of your mind, renovating your mind restructure.

712
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Speaker 2: That word when you dig deeper also means reversal by

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Speaker 2: repetition and intensity. So I'm like, okay, well, because I

714
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,320
Speaker 2: kept wanting to find out, well, how is human behavior

715
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 2: impacted by this and how are we changing by these things?

716
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Speaker 2: That the Bible says, well, if renovation goes back to

717
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Speaker 2: the original word of repetition with intensity and reversal. I

718
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Speaker 2: was about falling off my chair when I saw that one,

719
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:33,960
Speaker 2: because I found that one quite some time ago, and

720
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Speaker 2: I'm like, whoa, wait a minute, that's what we have

721
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:40,880
Speaker 2: to do and rethinking, how are we rethinking now? Now?

722
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Speaker 2: We need to think like Christ. There's another scripture that

723
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Speaker 2: talks about that the things that you used to do

724
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Speaker 2: before you knew Christ, you became ashamed of if you

725
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:51,319
Speaker 2: did them. Now, like you think about how you used

726
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 2: to live your life, some of us way worse than

727
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 2: others that you look back at you You're like, oh, my goodness,

728
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Speaker 2: I'm so embarrassed that I actually lived that way that

729
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Speaker 2: I did those things. So these are the things that

730
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Speaker 2: I'm talking about, you before Christ and you after Christ.

731
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Speaker 2: So that difference of understanding the repetition with intensity and reversal,

732
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Speaker 2: how do you actually renovate your mind? Got out the

733
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Speaker 2: old put in the new. It tells us to put

734
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Speaker 2: off the former ways and put on the ways of Christ.

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Speaker 2: But between those two statements, it says, by the renewing

736
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Speaker 2: of the spirit of your mind. So we are to

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Speaker 2: put off, which also means cast aside, and we are

738
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Speaker 2: to put on the new ways. We are to put

739
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:42,360
Speaker 2: on the new ways of God. And this is where

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Speaker 2: it's just so amazing when you can go into the

741
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:48,440
Speaker 2: Bible and find these ways that he talks about. So

742
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:51,799
Speaker 2: in Matthew twenty two twenty nine, these people came up

743
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:53,960
Speaker 2: to him because they were talking to him about something,

744
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:57,280
Speaker 2: and they were asking him questions Jesus, and Jesus said,

745
00:43:57,600 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 2: you are mistaken because you do not under stand the

746
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:03,720
Speaker 2: scriptures and you do not know the power of God.

747
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Speaker 2: So Jesus Christ said that to the people asking these

748
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 2: questions about things that happen in heaven, you know. Afterwards,

749
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:13,360
Speaker 2: and he says, you're mistaken because you don't know the

750
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 2: Bible and you don't know the power of God. So

751
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 2: to me, those are very clear directions of Jesus Christ

752
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:24,080
Speaker 2: that we are to know the word of God, but

753
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:27,440
Speaker 2: also to the most of our ability understand what the

754
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:31,200
Speaker 2: power of God is, to be able to clearly understand this,

755
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:34,560
Speaker 2: because if we don't understand this, then we're not going

756
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Speaker 2: to be able to walk it out. We're not going

757
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Speaker 2: to be able to walk in the ways of the Spirit,

758
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Speaker 2: because if we do that, we will want the ways

759
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:44,839
Speaker 2: of the Spirit, and all of a sudden you will

760
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:47,719
Speaker 2: start to see your life transform and you won't even

761
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 2: want the old ways. You won't even think the same

762
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:53,440
Speaker 2: way anymore. And if you've been a believer for quite

763
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 2: some time and you've been maturing in the ways of God,

764
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Speaker 2: you would say, yeah, I've seen that happen. I actually

765
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Speaker 2: am not this same person that I used to be.

766
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 2: I don't think the same I don't have the same desires.

767
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:08,279
Speaker 2: That is a good thing. That is confirmation that you

768
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:11,520
Speaker 2: are born again, that you have a new nature, that

769
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:14,160
Speaker 2: you are a child of God again. If you have

770
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:17,680
Speaker 2: no concern whatsoever, and you do not care about any

771
00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:19,960
Speaker 2: of that stuff, then that might be a time to

772
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:23,319
Speaker 2: have a real moment with God and really seek him

773
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:28,000
Speaker 2: and pray and have a conversation with Him about your spirit.

774
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 2: Because the Bible is very clear about eternal life. There

775
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:36,080
Speaker 2: is heaven and eternity, and there is hell an eternity,

776
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:40,480
Speaker 2: and those are just things that are not something to ignore.

777
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:45,359
Speaker 2: Because we are talking about eternity forever, we can't even

778
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:49,520
Speaker 2: we can't even wrap our mind around what forever means.

779
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:53,400
Speaker 2: I don't think we can comprehend for a second what

780
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Speaker 2: that actually truly means to the level of on this earth,

781
00:45:57,400 --> 00:46:02,080
Speaker 2: for just a blink of an eye is forever to

782
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Speaker 2: no end. And that's the part that is just so

783
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Speaker 2: amazing when you look at it. So in tewod Corinthians

784
00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 2: five seventeen through eighteen, it talks about being a new

785
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:14,120
Speaker 2: creature in Christ. So this is a scripture that I

786
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:16,719
Speaker 2: was talking about, and it says, therefore, if any man

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Speaker 2: be in Christ, he's a new creature. All things have

788
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Speaker 2: passed away. Behold, all things are new, and all things

789
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:28,000
Speaker 2: are of God, who has reconciled us to himself by

790
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Speaker 2: Jesus Christ. Remember I talked about how the Bible says

791
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:33,840
Speaker 2: that you cannot get to God except through Christ. That

792
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:38,400
Speaker 2: we've been reconciled to God through Jesus Christ and is

793
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:42,799
Speaker 2: given to us the ministry of reconciliation. So when you

794
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:47,000
Speaker 2: see those scriptures, that's where it's just so powerful to

795
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:52,120
Speaker 2: study these things. It's so powerful to recondition the mind.

796
00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:54,600
Speaker 2: This is what we are doing when we are reading

797
00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 2: the Bible. We are reconditioning our mind, we are reconditioning

798
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:04,319
Speaker 2: our behavior, we are reconditioning how we think we are

799
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:08,840
Speaker 2: reconditioning what we are doing, and by doing this, we

800
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:13,919
Speaker 2: are putting new understanding in our brain of how we

801
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 2: function as a child of God. Before we met Christ,

802
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:21,359
Speaker 2: we did not know this information that we weren't even

803
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:25,040
Speaker 2: aware of it. But by reading the Bible and getting

804
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 2: this relationship with God active and active in your life,

805
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:33,760
Speaker 2: you are teaching your mind. You are teaching your brain

806
00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:38,839
Speaker 2: what it means to follow God. You are transforming by

807
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:42,360
Speaker 2: the renewing of your mind, putting off the old things

808
00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:45,520
Speaker 2: being renewed in the spirit of your mind, and putting

809
00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:49,440
Speaker 2: on the ways of Christ, putting on the new things.

810
00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:54,000
Speaker 2: So to me, that is required to dive into the

811
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:59,480
Speaker 2: scriptures to understand what they say. What are they saying

812
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:03,280
Speaker 2: about guidance in these things? How do we live our life?

813
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:06,840
Speaker 2: What is God saying about how we live our life

814
00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:09,879
Speaker 2: and how we follow after God. And that's why it's

815
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:12,800
Speaker 2: so important to get into the Bible to be able

816
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:16,160
Speaker 2: to see what these scriptures talk about and how to

817
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:20,239
Speaker 2: actually live them out. But this is part of the renovation,

818
00:48:20,719 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 2: This is part of the transformation. This is part of

819
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:30,640
Speaker 2: just changing your old ways so that you can think

820
00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:35,000
Speaker 2: more clearly that you can think more like the ways

821
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:41,319
Speaker 2: of God. The transformation process of renovating your mind and

822
00:48:41,560 --> 00:48:44,800
Speaker 2: putting in the new things of God, the new ways

823
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:48,439
Speaker 2: of God. This does not happen without being born again first,

824
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:53,680
Speaker 2: So that's the foundation, that's the total foundation. First. Then

825
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:57,319
Speaker 2: as you transform and your mind is renewed, you are

826
00:48:57,480 --> 00:49:03,080
Speaker 2: renovating it by adjusting parts because you're being transformed from

827
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Speaker 2: one thing to another. That thing before was before you

828
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Speaker 2: knew Jesus. Your mind was not transformed. You didn't think differently.

829
00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 2: You were the same way that before you knew Jesus.

830
00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:18,719
Speaker 2: And that's the point of the transformation. So when you

831
00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:22,000
Speaker 2: think about again that scripture that says the deeper meaning

832
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:29,040
Speaker 2: of renewing is with repetition, intensity and reversal. Repetition meaning

833
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:32,200
Speaker 2: I went back to drugs after I became a believer,

834
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Speaker 2: not soon after, but a couple of years. I believe

835
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Speaker 2: I'd have to go back and track it. But it

836
00:49:37,640 --> 00:49:39,920
Speaker 2: was a couple of years later. I got back into

837
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:44,000
Speaker 2: drugs after I was a Christian. So what was I doing?

838
00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:47,120
Speaker 2: I was going to former ways before I knew Christ.

839
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Speaker 2: But I was convicted about it. I struggled with it.

840
00:49:50,120 --> 00:49:52,399
Speaker 2: It wasn't something that I just did as easily as

841
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:56,520
Speaker 2: I did before I became a Christian. So when you

842
00:49:56,560 --> 00:50:01,719
Speaker 2: think about the repetition with intensity and reverse, sometimes you

843
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:05,880
Speaker 2: have to do it repetitively. You're talking about ingrained behavior

844
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Speaker 2: patterns that have been so ingrained in your mind for

845
00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:12,800
Speaker 2: your entire life. You're talking twenty thirty, forty fifty sixty

846
00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:17,200
Speaker 2: years for some of you. So those behavior patterns, those

847
00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:20,960
Speaker 2: are what must be renewed. That's what must be renovated.

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Speaker 2: That's what must have. Repetition with intensity and reversal, reversal

849
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:30,799
Speaker 2: from what you're old ways to the new right. We're renovating,

850
00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:34,680
Speaker 2: we're new creation. You're going from a caterpillar to a butterfly.

851
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 2: As an example, of course, that's not what we are,

852
00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 2: but it's an example of that word metamorphosis. You're going

853
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:44,280
Speaker 2: from a baby believer, a Christian, a babe. The Bible

854
00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:49,360
Speaker 2: calls us an infant to a mature of full of age.

855
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Speaker 2: It calls us when we are more mature walking in

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Speaker 2: the ways of God. So this is where when we

857
00:50:55,040 --> 00:51:00,560
Speaker 2: look at that and realize, Wow, with repetition, repetitiveness, sometimes

858
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:04,520
Speaker 2: it's going to take some repetition, but with intensity because

859
00:51:04,560 --> 00:51:06,600
Speaker 2: sometimes it's intense. Right, You're not going to just all

860
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:08,320
Speaker 2: of a sudden be a totally different person and be like,

861
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:11,520
Speaker 2: look that was easy, bam. So stand my fingers. Everything's different.

862
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:16,400
Speaker 2: Some people when they get born again, they get immediately

863
00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:22,520
Speaker 2: delivered from drugs, immediately delivered from cigarettes, immediately delivered from alcohol, pornography,

864
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:27,920
Speaker 2: whatever sin they're dealing with. Some people get immediately delivered

865
00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:30,239
Speaker 2: in their body and they live it out from the

866
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:34,720
Speaker 2: day they become born again. Others have to walk it out.

867
00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:39,840
Speaker 2: Others did not experience that miracle. Doesn't mean they can't

868
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:43,640
Speaker 2: know it did not happen for them, And that's where

869
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:46,480
Speaker 2: it's important to know. It doesn't mean you didn't get saved.

870
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:49,160
Speaker 2: And that's also the terminology the Bible talks about being

871
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:52,800
Speaker 2: born again. It's also being saved because you're being saved

872
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:55,960
Speaker 2: from eternal damnation Hell and you're going to Heaven. You're

873
00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 2: being saved from a life of sin and destruction to

874
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:02,799
Speaker 2: follow after God. That's what you're being saved from. So

875
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:05,319
Speaker 2: when you don't know those terms in the beginning, it's like, well,

876
00:52:05,320 --> 00:52:06,880
Speaker 2: what do I need to be saved from? I mean,

877
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:09,440
Speaker 2: I remember, I remember saying that when I didn't know

878
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:11,600
Speaker 2: I things of God, and those words just seemed odd

879
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:14,160
Speaker 2: to me. I didn't understand what they meant. So this

880
00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:17,920
Speaker 2: is what I'm talking about, is that repetition with intensity

881
00:52:18,239 --> 00:52:21,759
Speaker 2: and reversal. This is why I have loved how God

882
00:52:21,800 --> 00:52:24,480
Speaker 2: has had me dive so deeply into the Bible and

883
00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:30,839
Speaker 2: studying these words. God has kept me following him by

884
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:34,400
Speaker 2: spending time with him and getting in his word. And

885
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:37,600
Speaker 2: when you think about going twenty five years with never

886
00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:41,880
Speaker 2: once regressing back to drugs, Now, I did drink alcohol,

887
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:44,960
Speaker 2: so I've been off alcohol for fifteen years. So that

888
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:46,839
Speaker 2: took some time to work out of me. I never

889
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:50,320
Speaker 2: did drugs again, but then I still struggled with alcohol

890
00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:53,160
Speaker 2: for a little while. So this is where the process

891
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:56,480
Speaker 2: of transformation for me took a quart of a century.

892
00:52:56,680 --> 00:52:59,680
Speaker 2: You know, it wasn't something that happened overnight. But now

893
00:52:59,719 --> 00:53:02,680
Speaker 2: I've been off alcohol for about fifteen years. I've been

894
00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:06,080
Speaker 2: off sugar for over ten years, and you know, it's

895
00:53:06,120 --> 00:53:09,560
Speaker 2: just so amazing when I'm watching the transformation power of God.

896
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:12,839
Speaker 2: All of that stuff has been renovation. All of that

897
00:53:12,920 --> 00:53:16,440
Speaker 2: has been renovating the old, getting the old out and

898
00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:20,440
Speaker 2: putting the new in and It also has been with repetition,

899
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:25,120
Speaker 2: with intensity, with reversal. It's been adjusting of my parts

900
00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:29,040
Speaker 2: inside my mind, my will, my emotions, my desires to

901
00:53:29,280 --> 00:53:33,120
Speaker 2: serve God, to follow after God, submitting to God, being

902
00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:36,880
Speaker 2: obedient to God in times that I didn't want to be.

903
00:53:37,440 --> 00:53:40,520
Speaker 2: I had to obey God and do what God said,

904
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:42,920
Speaker 2: and I wanted to because I was His child, but

905
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:46,839
Speaker 2: I was also, you know, struggling with those things. So

906
00:53:47,239 --> 00:53:49,960
Speaker 2: this is where when you think about and think about

907
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:54,480
Speaker 2: all these areas in your life and how you have

908
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:58,600
Speaker 2: been transforming over all this time. It is a process.

909
00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:03,720
Speaker 2: Will you ever be fully transformed like you just arrived?

910
00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:07,600
Speaker 2: I think there's levels of it. I think you reach

911
00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:11,800
Speaker 2: levels of growth, and then when you reach that level,

912
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:14,760
Speaker 2: then you go the next level of growth, the next

913
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:17,239
Speaker 2: level of awareness until the day we die and our

914
00:54:17,280 --> 00:54:20,640
Speaker 2: spirit goes and be with God forever an eternity. I

915
00:54:20,719 --> 00:54:24,440
Speaker 2: just think it's a process. But I can tell you

916
00:54:24,520 --> 00:54:27,920
Speaker 2: that the level I walk spiritually with God now is

917
00:54:28,080 --> 00:54:31,719
Speaker 2: so different than fifteen years ago. The maturity level in

918
00:54:31,760 --> 00:54:35,719
Speaker 2: your mind, your will, your emotions, your behaviors, in you

919
00:54:35,840 --> 00:54:39,399
Speaker 2: as a believer as well, You do grow up in

920
00:54:39,440 --> 00:54:42,799
Speaker 2: your knowledge as a believer. So that's why it's so

921
00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:45,640
Speaker 2: important to know the ways of God. And in Galatians

922
00:54:45,680 --> 00:54:49,160
Speaker 2: five sixteen through seventeen, it says that I say, then

923
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:51,360
Speaker 2: walk in the spirit, and you will not fulfill the

924
00:54:51,440 --> 00:54:54,640
Speaker 2: lust of the flesh, for the flesh luss against the

925
00:54:54,680 --> 00:54:57,440
Speaker 2: spirit and the spirit against the flesh, where they are

926
00:54:57,600 --> 00:55:02,120
Speaker 2: contrary to one another. That you cannot do the things

927
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:05,400
Speaker 2: that you would, meaning that you want, you want to

928
00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:07,799
Speaker 2: do better, but you just can't get yourself to do it.

929
00:55:08,080 --> 00:55:10,319
Speaker 2: You just you know, it's just something that you struggle with.

930
00:55:10,360 --> 00:55:14,359
Speaker 2: Then you're trying. So this is the process of that transformation.

931
00:55:15,200 --> 00:55:19,520
Speaker 2: Now that word walk actually means to regulate one's life,

932
00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:24,160
Speaker 2: to conduct yourself. So you walk out your life is

933
00:55:24,200 --> 00:55:27,200
Speaker 2: how you regulate your life, how you conduct yourself, what

934
00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:30,440
Speaker 2: is your behavior? How do you actually live your life?

935
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:33,040
Speaker 2: And that's just one thing that when you study the

936
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:36,080
Speaker 2: scriptures and you break them down, it's like, wow, that

937
00:55:36,239 --> 00:55:39,120
Speaker 2: just makes so much more sense than it did before.

938
00:55:39,880 --> 00:55:42,840
Speaker 2: Now in Hebrews five thirteen through fourteen, that's where it

939
00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:46,160
Speaker 2: talks about us as babes. It calls us. It says,

940
00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:51,440
Speaker 2: for everyone that uses milk is unskillful. In the word

941
00:55:51,600 --> 00:55:55,120
Speaker 2: of righteousness, or he is a babe and he's talking

942
00:55:55,160 --> 00:56:00,360
Speaker 2: about believers. So those that must have the milk because

943
00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:03,520
Speaker 2: they can't consume the meat of the word. The Bible says,

944
00:56:03,719 --> 00:56:09,480
Speaker 2: which it also refers to deeper principles of God, deeper understanding. Scripturally,

945
00:56:09,719 --> 00:56:12,360
Speaker 2: there's things you don't understand when you first get saved.

946
00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:14,960
Speaker 2: But as you learn more knowledge and you get more

947
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:18,759
Speaker 2: relationship with God and closer to God, than you understand more.

948
00:56:19,239 --> 00:56:24,240
Speaker 2: So it talks about how you're unskillful in the Word

949
00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:28,520
Speaker 2: of righteousness. So the Bible and the Word teaches us

950
00:56:28,560 --> 00:56:32,440
Speaker 2: of righteousness. So when it says we are unskilled, that

951
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:35,600
Speaker 2: means we don't know the word, we're not educated on it,

952
00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:38,799
Speaker 2: we don't understand what it says. And that is unskilled

953
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:43,200
Speaker 2: of the Word of righteousness. Then it says, but strong

954
00:56:43,360 --> 00:56:48,040
Speaker 2: meat belongs to them that are of full age or mature,

955
00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:53,680
Speaker 2: even those by reason of use, have exercised their senses

956
00:56:54,480 --> 00:56:58,080
Speaker 2: to discern both good and evil. So what does that mean.

957
00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:02,000
Speaker 2: It means by using, and that word used means habit

958
00:57:02,400 --> 00:57:05,080
Speaker 2: as well, So that's a whole other topic. Building your

959
00:57:05,120 --> 00:57:08,680
Speaker 2: habits around your life that you're actually able to discern

960
00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:12,080
Speaker 2: the difference between good and evil, and that means the

961
00:57:12,160 --> 00:57:15,200
Speaker 2: choices that you make. Do you make choices that are

962
00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:18,000
Speaker 2: good in your life or cause evil in your life?

963
00:57:18,360 --> 00:57:20,440
Speaker 2: You know, the Bible says that evil is not just

964
00:57:20,480 --> 00:57:22,880
Speaker 2: like we think of like axe murderers and these horrible

965
00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:27,480
Speaker 2: things for the word evil, but it also means discomfort.

966
00:57:27,840 --> 00:57:32,640
Speaker 2: It means toil, it means struggle, it means harm. It

967
00:57:32,680 --> 00:57:36,120
Speaker 2: means things that are you know, causing challenges in your

968
00:57:36,160 --> 00:57:42,280
Speaker 2: life and discomfort. So it's not just this really heavy, intense,

969
00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:46,560
Speaker 2: destructive thing when we think evil like a murderer, which

970
00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:50,680
Speaker 2: is horrible of course, but something that is evil causes

971
00:57:51,400 --> 00:57:55,920
Speaker 2: disruption and pain in our lives. So those that become

972
00:57:55,960 --> 00:57:59,240
Speaker 2: more mature in the ways of God, you are actually

973
00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:04,160
Speaker 2: exercizing by use of your senses, which is your ability

974
00:58:04,280 --> 00:58:08,520
Speaker 2: to perceive and judge things that you actually are able

975
00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:12,320
Speaker 2: to discern the difference between good and evil. That's when

976
00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:15,520
Speaker 2: you mature more in your relationship with God. That's when

977
00:58:15,560 --> 00:58:21,200
Speaker 2: you actually get more mature, you grow up more. Now

978
00:58:21,200 --> 00:58:24,760
Speaker 2: you're not an infant anymore because you make choices based

979
00:58:24,800 --> 00:58:28,880
Speaker 2: on wisdom on the ways of God. You now are

980
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:32,760
Speaker 2: transformed by the renewing of your mind over time is

981
00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:36,200
Speaker 2: a process that happens. But as you start to see

982
00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:41,080
Speaker 2: decisions that you are making that is based on wisdom

983
00:58:41,440 --> 00:58:46,320
Speaker 2: and being skillful in the words of righteousness and knowing

984
00:58:46,360 --> 00:58:49,680
Speaker 2: what the Bible says. Remember Jesus said in Matthew twenty

985
00:58:49,720 --> 00:58:53,240
Speaker 2: two that you are mistaken because you don't know the

986
00:58:53,280 --> 00:58:56,400
Speaker 2: word the Bible. You don't know the scriptures, and you

987
00:58:56,520 --> 00:58:59,160
Speaker 2: don't know the power of God. So as you start

988
00:58:59,200 --> 00:59:01,880
Speaker 2: to see this, you know come together in your life

989
00:59:01,880 --> 00:59:05,360
Speaker 2: and you start to see this relationship with God just

990
00:59:05,440 --> 00:59:08,560
Speaker 2: develop stronger and stronger. And then you get into the

991
00:59:08,600 --> 00:59:11,240
Speaker 2: Word and you study the Word and you watch it

992
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:16,440
Speaker 2: change your thinking. You watch it renovate you as a person.

993
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:20,960
Speaker 2: You are adjusting in parts, you are transforming into this

994
00:59:21,160 --> 00:59:26,160
Speaker 2: new creation. And see this is the dual thing going

995
00:59:26,200 --> 00:59:27,600
Speaker 2: on here. And again I want to make sure I'm

996
00:59:27,640 --> 00:59:31,800
Speaker 2: scripturally explaining this properly. There is a new creation in Christ,

997
00:59:32,160 --> 00:59:34,840
Speaker 2: that you are made a new creation when you are

998
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:39,360
Speaker 2: born again. But then there's the process of becoming regenerated.

999
00:59:39,400 --> 00:59:44,600
Speaker 2: The Bible talks about that you are transformed into more

1000
00:59:44,680 --> 00:59:47,200
Speaker 2: of the ways of God that you are following after

1001
00:59:47,240 --> 00:59:49,680
Speaker 2: the ways of the spirit, and that is just a

1002
00:59:49,880 --> 00:59:53,000
Speaker 2: beautiful thing to think about. So one scripture I was

1003
00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:56,160
Speaker 2: really encouraged in is Tewod Corinthians four sixteen, which is

1004
00:59:56,200 --> 01:00:00,480
Speaker 2: actually my born again birthday four sixteen. It says, inwardly

1005
01:00:00,720 --> 01:00:05,320
Speaker 2: we are being renewed day by day, although the outwardly

1006
01:00:05,560 --> 01:00:09,400
Speaker 2: person is perishing your body because it's temporal. It says

1007
01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:14,440
Speaker 2: we are being renewed inwardly day by day, your soul,

1008
01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:18,840
Speaker 2: your mind, your will, your emotions, lining it up with

1009
01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:22,560
Speaker 2: the ways of God, lining it up with how does

1010
01:00:22,600 --> 01:00:24,920
Speaker 2: God want you to live your life? How does he

1011
01:00:24,960 --> 01:00:27,000
Speaker 2: want you to think? How does he want you to

1012
01:00:27,080 --> 01:00:31,080
Speaker 2: pursue the destiny that He's created you for? And that

1013
01:00:31,240 --> 01:00:34,800
Speaker 2: is the beautiful part when you think about being transformed

1014
01:00:35,120 --> 01:00:38,480
Speaker 2: by the renewing of your mind. And that's why this

1015
01:00:38,640 --> 01:00:43,160
Speaker 2: show is called Divine Life Transformation. So we are going

1016
01:00:43,320 --> 01:00:47,440
Speaker 2: deep into the scriptures and discovering how do you actually

1017
01:00:47,440 --> 01:00:50,280
Speaker 2: apply this to your life. How do you strengthen your

1018
01:00:50,280 --> 01:00:54,480
Speaker 2: relationship with God? How do you get where that's important

1019
01:00:54,480 --> 01:00:56,640
Speaker 2: to you that you spend time with Him? How do

1020
01:00:56,720 --> 01:00:59,840
Speaker 2: you study the Bible? How do you digest the Bible?

1021
01:01:00,120 --> 01:01:02,560
Speaker 2: How do you see it change your thinking. These are

1022
01:01:02,640 --> 01:01:05,080
Speaker 2: all things God has done in me, and these are

1023
01:01:05,200 --> 01:01:08,560
Speaker 2: all things that He is allowing me to have this

1024
01:01:08,640 --> 01:01:12,560
Speaker 2: platform to be able to help you do the same thing.

1025
01:01:12,920 --> 01:01:16,120
Speaker 2: And that is what I'm so excited about, because I

1026
01:01:16,200 --> 01:01:17,720
Speaker 2: know that He is the one that has called me

1027
01:01:17,800 --> 01:01:20,280
Speaker 2: to this, and I am so honored and so humbled

1028
01:01:20,280 --> 01:01:23,200
Speaker 2: to be able to do this and just help bring

1029
01:01:23,760 --> 01:01:26,919
Speaker 2: What does it mean to have a truly transformed life?

1030
01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:29,720
Speaker 2: So I went through those phases in the beginning where

1031
01:01:29,760 --> 01:01:33,920
Speaker 2: I struggled with drugs and alcohol, and then even after

1032
01:01:33,960 --> 01:01:37,360
Speaker 2: I overcame drugs and alcohol, I still struggled with food.

1033
01:01:37,640 --> 01:01:40,840
Speaker 2: So I was a total glutton idolatry of food. I

1034
01:01:40,840 --> 01:01:44,040
Speaker 2: would binge on five thousand calories. I mean I would

1035
01:01:44,240 --> 01:01:46,600
Speaker 2: I never purge my food, thank God, but I would

1036
01:01:46,600 --> 01:01:49,720
Speaker 2: eat until the point of nausea. And I mean I

1037
01:01:49,960 --> 01:01:53,800
Speaker 2: was a wreck. So when I talk about transformation, I'm

1038
01:01:53,880 --> 01:01:58,240
Speaker 2: talking about true transformation that I don't struggle with any

1039
01:01:58,280 --> 01:02:01,439
Speaker 2: of that stuff anymore. It's never like in and out

1040
01:02:01,480 --> 01:02:05,960
Speaker 2: of struggle. No, it's gone. I have been completely renovated,

1041
01:02:06,400 --> 01:02:10,720
Speaker 2: completely gutted out that old kitchen, adjusted those parts. But

1042
01:02:10,760 --> 01:02:13,920
Speaker 2: it did not happen without diving into my relationship with

1043
01:02:13,960 --> 01:02:17,680
Speaker 2: God and diving into my personal time with God, prayer

1044
01:02:17,760 --> 01:02:20,439
Speaker 2: time in the Word. And then the other thing too,

1045
01:02:20,680 --> 01:02:23,520
Speaker 2: of course, is getting in the Word, diving into the

1046
01:02:23,520 --> 01:02:28,000
Speaker 2: Bible and understanding what the scriptures talk about, understanding what

1047
01:02:28,040 --> 01:02:31,439
Speaker 2: the Bible says about how we live this life transformed.

1048
01:02:31,920 --> 01:02:35,160
Speaker 2: And that's just something that is so exciting to be

1049
01:02:35,320 --> 01:02:38,120
Speaker 2: able to show you that because God did it in

1050
01:02:38,160 --> 01:02:40,760
Speaker 2: me first, and he showed me how to do it

1051
01:02:40,800 --> 01:02:43,600
Speaker 2: through his word. And when I asked him, what do

1052
01:02:43,680 --> 01:02:45,760
Speaker 2: you want me to talk about in the show that

1053
01:02:45,800 --> 01:02:48,640
Speaker 2: you're giving me, I wasn't clear on what the topic

1054
01:02:48,720 --> 01:02:51,040
Speaker 2: truly was going to be or even the name. And

1055
01:02:51,080 --> 01:02:53,320
Speaker 2: he said to me, I want you to show them

1056
01:02:53,360 --> 01:02:56,200
Speaker 2: how to transform their life like I did for you

1057
01:02:57,160 --> 01:02:59,880
Speaker 2: and my relationship with you and in knowing the Word.

1058
01:03:00,840 --> 01:03:02,920
Speaker 2: And I knew that that's what the show is going

1059
01:03:03,000 --> 01:03:05,440
Speaker 2: to be about because that's exactly what God has done

1060
01:03:05,480 --> 01:03:08,880
Speaker 2: in my own life. So I want to wrap this

1061
01:03:09,040 --> 01:03:13,440
Speaker 2: up with praying for you because maybe you never had

1062
01:03:13,480 --> 01:03:17,280
Speaker 2: an experience, you never had the conversion, Maybe you don't

1063
01:03:17,320 --> 01:03:20,880
Speaker 2: know if you're born again, Maybe you never actually had

1064
01:03:20,920 --> 01:03:24,000
Speaker 2: that moment where you submitted your life to God and

1065
01:03:24,040 --> 01:03:27,200
Speaker 2: you actually became born again. So I don't want to

1066
01:03:27,240 --> 01:03:30,880
Speaker 2: close this out without giving you that opportunity to say

1067
01:03:30,920 --> 01:03:35,440
Speaker 2: that prayer, because it's something that is just an admittance

1068
01:03:35,640 --> 01:03:39,000
Speaker 2: and the understanding of a moment with God. So you

1069
01:03:39,080 --> 01:03:43,200
Speaker 2: guys all know the story. And John three were Nikodemus,

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Speaker 2: who was a Sanhedrin. He was a scholar, and he

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Speaker 2: Christ was the promise Messiah that they were promised. Many

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Speaker 2: of the Jews did not believe that they were still

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Speaker 2: waiting for their promise Messiah. So if you don't know this,

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Speaker 2: they were promised many many years ago that they were

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Speaker 2: going to have a Messiah that was going to come

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Speaker 2: and rescue them. Well, the Jewish culture did not believe

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Speaker 2: that Christ fit the things that they thought the Messiah

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Speaker 2: would arrive at. But there were some people that believed

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Speaker 2: he was the promise Messiah. And Nikodemus started to have questions,

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Speaker 2: are you the promised Messiah? I think you are the one,

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Speaker 2: And then he started to realize he was the one.

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Speaker 2: But because of his position in being a scholar in

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Speaker 2: that community, he would go. He went in the middle

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Speaker 2: of the night to speak to him, because remember, the

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Speaker 2: persecution was intense for not only the Roman government but

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Speaker 2: also the Jewish culture was persecuting people that were, you know,

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Speaker 2: being around Jesus, and so it's just so intense when

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Speaker 2: you really realize those things of what those people did

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Speaker 2: to catapult our faith in Christ. Now, the Holy Spirit

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Speaker 2: was a huge part of that, but it's just so

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Speaker 2: amazing when you think about what God has done in

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Speaker 2: the people of that who He has been, you know,

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Speaker 2: working through to carry the message out of who Christ

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Speaker 2: is and what this faith in the Bible and God is.

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Speaker 2: It's just so amazing when you think about it. So

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Speaker 2: this is where I started asking myself, well, okay, so

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Speaker 2: what is the new creation and what is born again?

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Speaker 2: And Nicodemus came to Christ in the middle of the

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Speaker 2: night in John chapter three. I would recommend that you

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Speaker 2: read through that whole chapter and just see what it says.

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Speaker 2: He calls him a rabbi. He says, you are from

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Speaker 2: God and you work miracles, because nobody could work those

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Speaker 2: kind of miracles if you weren't from God. So it's

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Speaker 2: interesting because he didn't recognize him at that moment as

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Speaker 2: the Messiah as the Lord as the one that you

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Speaker 2: know was the promised King. But he was calling them

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Speaker 2: a rabbi, and he did say, you are from God

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Speaker 2: because you do miracles. No one could do those kind

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Speaker 2: of miracles if you weren't from God. Jesus said back

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Speaker 2: to him, he didn't even ask this question. But Jesus

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Speaker 2: said to him, you cannot see the Kingdom of God

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Speaker 2: unless you are born again. And nico Dimus was like,

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Speaker 2: what do you mean born again? How am I supposed

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Speaker 2: to go back to my mother and be born again?

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Speaker 2: And Jesus was not speaking of that. He said, you

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Speaker 2: must be born of the spirit. You were already born

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Speaker 2: of flesh. That flesh is of flesh, And if you

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Speaker 2: read through John three, it'll talk about all of that.

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Speaker 2: He said, the being born of flesh is of flesh,

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Speaker 2: and being born of the spirit is of the spirit.

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Speaker 2: Those are two different births. So even though we've heard

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Speaker 2: the term born again, it was like, wow, okay, that

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Speaker 2: just helped me understand a little bit differently. And that

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Speaker 2: word again means born from above, So we now are

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Speaker 2: of water. It also says through the human of our mother.

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Speaker 2: That was the first birth. The second birth that's required

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Speaker 2: to get you into the Kingdom of God is the

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Speaker 2: birth of your spirit. And that's the birth that is

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Speaker 2: born again. That is the birth that is born from above.

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Speaker 2: And it says that when we have that birth conception,

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Speaker 2: you know, the Bible calls it, that we are now

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Speaker 2: a child of God, that we are now in the

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Speaker 2: family of God, that we are now children of God.

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Speaker 2: And that's the part that you know, I just kind

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Speaker 2: of dug deeper and deeper. And the other thing, and

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Speaker 2: I know this is I don't want to say common sense,

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Speaker 2: but common knowledge. When you study the scriptures, what is

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Speaker 2: truly becoming born again? And the foundation of that is

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Speaker 2: believing that Jesus Christ died for our sins and that

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Speaker 2: we cannot get into Heaven without that awareness that we

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Speaker 2: repent of our sins and we know we need a

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Speaker 2: savior and that Jesus Christ is the solution for that,

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Speaker 2: that he came here on this earth to die for

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Speaker 2: us to pay the sins or the world. The Bible says,

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Speaker 2: and that that is when you become born again. And

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Speaker 2: I knew that in parts of me, but I don't know.

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Speaker 2: It was just something that I realized all together, that

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Speaker 2: being born spiritually is truly having the revelation and admittance

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Speaker 2: and acceptance that we are sinners without Jesus Christ, and

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Speaker 2: that we need to have connection with God and the

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Speaker 2: only way to have that connection with God is through

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Speaker 2: the blood of Christ. And I know you might have

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Speaker 2: been taught that in different ways, but it's just that's

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Speaker 2: one thing that I'm diving into is how do I

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Speaker 2: really explain that scripturally and be able to show that

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Speaker 2: scripturally as well. So being born from above is the

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Speaker 2: fact that human beings have sin. Why because of Adam,

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Speaker 2: that when Adam and Eve sinned, you know, Adam and Eve,

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Speaker 2: both of them, that sin came onto the human race,

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Speaker 2: and that every person has sin. That's just they are

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Speaker 2: called sinners, every single human being. And the only way

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Speaker 2: to take that away from them is to be bought

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Speaker 2: at a price, which is the blood of Christ. So

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Speaker 2: that's where when you start to study the scriptures and

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Speaker 2: seeing when the Bible talks about his crucifixion and what

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Speaker 2: he did. He paid the price for all of the sin.

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Speaker 2: He took on all of the sin of all humanity,

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Speaker 2: and he paid for it. And part of becoming born

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Speaker 2: again is in that moment of conception of reception that

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Speaker 2: you've accepted that that you've realized it, that you've repented

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Speaker 2: of your sin and you've asked God and received God

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Speaker 2: Jesus Christ into your heart as your savior. That is

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Speaker 2: being born again. So if you are seeing all these

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Speaker 2: things that I've explained and you realize, you know, I

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Speaker 2: want to have this relationship with my creator. I want

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Speaker 2: to know this God you're talking about, the one that

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Speaker 2: puts you on this earth, the one that puts your

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Speaker 2: spirit inside your mother's womb and that gave you life.

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Speaker 2: That is your creator, and he wants to have a

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Speaker 2: relationship with you. But it is required to have a

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Speaker 2: relationship with this creator, who is wholly, pure, righteous and just,

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Speaker 2: you have to have the sins paid for that is

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Speaker 2: on the human race because of the fall of man.

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Speaker 2: And that's something that when you realize that and realize, well,

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Speaker 2: I know I've sinned. I know I've been a sinner

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Speaker 2: and done things that are not godly, and I know

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Speaker 2: I need a savior. I know that I need to

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Speaker 2: have a relationship with my creator. But to be in

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Speaker 2: connection with this creator, we must be born again. So

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Speaker 2: I'm going to say this prayer and just say it

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Speaker 2: after me, and just you know, pray it with all

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Speaker 2: of your heart as well. Lord Jesus, I come before

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Speaker 2: you now, and I thank you for what you did

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Speaker 2: for me on the cross. I thank you that you

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Speaker 2: have paved a way for me to have eternal life

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Speaker 2: with you. And I repent of my sins. I repent

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Speaker 2: of not following you or wanting a relationship with you.

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Speaker 2: And I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, that

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Speaker 2: you are the lord of my life. I receive the

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Speaker 2: free gift of being born from above. And I thank

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Speaker 2: you God that I am now a child of God.

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Speaker 2: I thank you that I am in your kingdom and

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Speaker 2: I have eternal life now. And I pray that you

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Speaker 2: guide me, that you instruct me, and you show me

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Speaker 2: how to transform my life. In the name of Jesus,

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Speaker 2: we pray. Amen. Well, Hey, I believe that that is

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Speaker 2: your moment in conversion right there, that if you said

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Speaker 2: that prayer and you have never had that revelation and

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Speaker 2: repentance before God and receiving the free gift of eternal

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Speaker 2: life through Christ Jesus, which the Bible says that in

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Speaker 2: so many places that now today it's your birthday. This

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Speaker 2: is your spiritual birthday today. So happy birthday, document this down,

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Speaker 2: whatever day this is for you, because that is something

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Speaker 2: that is so amazing that God brought you here. God

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Speaker 2: brought you right here, right now, at this moment. He

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Speaker 2: knew where you would be, He knew what you struggled with,

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Speaker 2: and he knew that some of you did not know

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Speaker 2: him yet and some of you just met him. And

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Speaker 2: I am so honored to be able to be an

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Speaker 2: ambassador for God, to be a servant for God, and

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Speaker 2: I am so excited for your life to be transformed,

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Speaker 2: and I am so honored to be a part of

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Speaker 2: that because obviously God divinely brought you here and I

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Speaker 2: am just so excited for you. So everything that I've

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