"Fan or Follower" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole

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I have an emergency, what is your location?

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There is aيفrock onIA

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psyco

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rescue a kid

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because there's a very war for your soul

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Hey, man, we

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rescue radio.

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Here we come.

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We have a situation.

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We have a crisis.

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What is our location?

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Father God, where are we at in our walk with you right now?

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We pray that you'd give us wisdom and divine connection

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that your kingdom come your will be done on earth and it's

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through us through us as it's being done declared in heaven

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that we're connected with you Lord God in in the heavenly

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realms and Lord Jesus you descended to the earth.

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You rescued us through that awesome incredible act of love

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and sacrifice giving your own life for our lives that we

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might be rescued ransomed and the debt of sin and death be

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fully paid for by your death and resurrection father.

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We thank you Jesus for giving us wisdom Council Authority

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and the and the design the invitation to follow you and

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so we thank you today for giving us eyes to see ears to

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hear a heart to receive that revelation and put it in our

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hearts to follow you Lord God even as it is already in our

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spirit now, let it transfer to our soul and I thank you Lord

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God that we've given you've given us power over all the

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part of the enemy.

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Nothing shall by any means hurt us we can tread on serpents

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and scorpions and you said whatever you bind is bound

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whatever you loose is loose and we also thank you Lord that

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we are in this covenant with you to promise that no weapon

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formed against us will prosper that no word said deed done

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or action taken against us against your people against

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the remnant will be able to be used by the enemy to bring

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forth any shame trouble or destruction father.

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God cover our families those who work for us pray for us

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and love us cover those who come to us for help and prayer

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those who are listening today cover and keep and encourage

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each one father in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Well, here we are here.

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We are following Jesus.

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But the question is are you a fan or a follower a fan or a

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follower a fan of Jesus because he's the trending it's trending.

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Yeah, you know, I could say are you a fickle fan or a faithful

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follower, you know, sometimes fans of sports teams their fan

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when they're doing well, and when they're not doing well,

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they kind of melt away.

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Yeah, but well following Jesus, what is that?

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What does it mean?

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Matthew chapter 4 verse 18 and Jesus walking by the Sea of

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Galilee saw two brothers Simon called Peter Andrew his brother

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casting a net into the sea for they were fishermen.

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Then he said to them follow me and I will make you fishers of

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men.

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They immediately left their nets and followed him going on

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from there.

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He saw two other brothers James the son of Zebedee and John his

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brother in the boat was everybody their father mending

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their nets and he called them and immediately they left the

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boat and their father and followed him.

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Yeah, and so we get a little deeper on this in Matthew chapter

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16 and beginning with verse 24.

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Then Jesus said to his disciples if anyone desires to come

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after me let him deny himself take up his cross and follow

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me for whoever desires to save his life.

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For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world and

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loses his own soul or what will a man give in exchange for his

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soul for the son of man will come in the glory of his father

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with his angels and then he will reward each one according to

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his work.

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Yes, we look at this verse this passage a little more in-depth

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if anyone desires to come after me.

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So this is the first verse of Matthew chapter 4 verse 18 and

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depth if anyone desires to come after me so there has to be

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that desire to come after him that revelation that calling

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invitation whatever from the Lord God to follow him but with

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that following with that follow and that's a simple command

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follow me Jesus didn't say be good to get to heaven.

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He said follow me two words actually and those two words mean

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everything and can encompass your whole life.

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But he said he who comes after me let him deny himself take up

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his cross and follow me.

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So what does that mean denying ourselves that means the bottom

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line to following Jesus really is death to the carnal man and

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the old man the old self letting go of denying giving up your

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you know, what that looks like the old self and you know reckoning

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that old man dead indeed to sin but alive and to God through

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Christ Jesus our Lord so denying him is a process.

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I think it's an instant thing but it's also a process because

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Jesus said we know this verse very well in John chapter 3.

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He said except a man be born again.

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He cannot see the kingdom of God.

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So what does that imply?

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It implies that we have to die die to be born again.

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You can't be born again until you're dead.

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So reckoning the old man dead is part of this denial process

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denying ourselves denying what we think it should be and

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following Jesus.

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Well, why would anybody want to do that?

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Because we're we spend a lot of us spend our lives wanting to

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fulfill ourselves our destiny all our dreams our destiny.

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We want to do it.

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Nobody nobody's going to tell me what to do.

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I'm just going to I'm going to do it my way.

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I want to fulfill what who I am and what I am or what I think

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I am.

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Yeah, but the thing is too is that that's kind of like we do

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it in our own self and our own strength.

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We seek to save our lives.

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We lose it, you know, but you lose your life.

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You find it you find your fulfillment of who you are who

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you've called who you're called to be by following Jesus.

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Well, that's a don't find it on your own.

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But sometimes people say why should I why should I follow

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Jesus?

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I want to do what I want to do.

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Well, you know, that's the temptation.

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That's the bait on the hook.

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That's the what is in front of me right now is I get to do

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what I want to do and that's just the world's, you know,

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world's philosophy that you can, you know, be all that you

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want to be but but it's really a trick because the world is

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all set up for you not to be able to succeed at anything

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you really do.

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And we just end up, you know, being a you know, a clog a

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cog in their in their wheel of destruction.

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But Jesus is offering us something that doesn't look

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very appealing, you know, deny yourself take up your cross

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follow me when someone took up their cross back in that

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day.

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They took up the it's basically the cross beam of the

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cross when they were there on their way to the execution

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when people saw them carrying that cross beam down the

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street to the place where they were going to be crucified.

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They knew it was a one-way trip taking taking up your

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cross.

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You're going you're not coming back.

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Well, I don't think people really recognize that because

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really the problem with following Jesus is, you know,

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we're not dead.

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You know that the Bible got a Galatians exact Romans.

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They all talk reckon the old man dead and indeed into sin

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but alive into God Galatians.

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I have been crucified with Christ.

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It is no longer I who live or you know, it's living and

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denying myself.

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It is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me and

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the faith in the son of God or of the son of God which now

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lives in me and I live unto him.

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He is my life to live as Christ to die is gain.

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These are deep revelations that don't come to a toddler in

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Christ.

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They come as we walk with the Holy Spirit.

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The Holy Spirit is leading us as we're following Jesus.

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He reveals the depth of the of the invitation the death

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depth of the possibilities and the death and destruction to

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the old carnal ways and this is something that we cannot

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accomplish.

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You cannot accomplish your spirituality without the Holy

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Spirit without the word of God and I think a lot of people

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just go to church and see okay.

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These are the 10 things I need to do to be a Christian and

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they just kind of work the plan without their heart or their

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spirit being involved in it.

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Well the if you look back to the Hebrew definition of follow,

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okay Hebrew language.

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It means to actively walk in pursuit of God's ways to actively

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walk in pursuit of God's ways.

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Now the the Greek version the New Testament written in the

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Greek that word follow there means to join someone as a

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companion on a journey.

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So yeah, that's cool walk in the same path and it really means

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literally to put your feet in the same footsteps as the one

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you're following.

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Yeah, Jesus said we are his disciples or followers of him

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and you know, that's a kind of a comforting thing that we're

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not packed walking on this path of life all by ourselves, you

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know, it's not up to me and my you know ingenuity or my clever

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abilities to survive.

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It's really a matter of surrendering submitting and being

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protected by the promises of God as he walks with us in this

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on this crazy journey because we don't know what that bottom

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line is going to look like.

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Although Romans 6 12 says do not let sin rule as king in your

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mortal short-lived perishable body to make you obey it and

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it's less evil passions and cravings.

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So what's happening is there's a war going on between our

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desires evil passions cravings that are in us from the enemy

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and and also the desire to do great things.

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I believe we're desiring because God made us to desire and do

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accomplish great things because he made us his children.

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So our aspirations and our desires are to be completely fulfilled

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and in this and but we think maybe it's in this life that all

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this has to be done.

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I'm not sure.

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I think we continue on as we enter into Eternity, but for the

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Now the bottom line of following Jesus is really really death

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of the old man.

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Like we said crucified with Christ is, you know, the old man

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is really the reconstructed man.

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We are created by God, but Satan is trying to reconstruct us

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adapt us modify us to live in the paradigm of the snake pit

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with its new goals.

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It's expectations.

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It's thrills.

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It's to fit in to submit to a different set of expectations

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and activities and to be accepted and elevated by that system.

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And that's where we have to deny ourselves deny that option

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and follow Jesus because we cannot enter into that life of

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surrender until we cannot enter into the new life the new birth

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the born-again birth without dying.

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And that means letting go of surrendering to trusting in

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allowing the Lord God to by his Holy Spirit is word to guide

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us and we walk in his truth his options obedience to his word,

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even though at times it looks like that is not very profitable

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or comfortable.

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So death requires that so to start.

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So what is the death required to restart our lives into this

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eternal life?

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Jesus said that's the process the born-again process that we

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have to you know, get out of this world die to this world exit

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this world, although we still are here domiciling here for a

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time, but we're our values our goals our aspirations our vision

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our destiny is to do the will of God and see his kingdom come

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you know, this is a war of Kings exactly but what happens is

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I think we have to get past a lot of people have to get past

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this idea.

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I want to do it my way, you know, rather than his way and

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here we discover it takes a revelation on his way is the

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best it's too bad that a lot of people have to exhaust

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themselves, you know, wear themselves out almost die get

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all beat up you get addicted get messed around and what

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relationships trying to do things and collapse get sick

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and some people, you know, just choose to end their lives

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because I just they run into the wall.

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Yeah, but it's interesting that it's really kind of an insult

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to us, but it's it's a good thing in a sense that we we spend

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our life trying to wear ourselves out doing it our way and

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we think oh God's got something very nasty for us.

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God's got something that's it's going to restrict my freedom.

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It's something that's boring.

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It's dead.

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That's such a lie from the enemy and because Jesus has said

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I have come to give them life and life more abundantly and

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a full rich fulfillment not without trial not without suffering

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but the way to Jesus said the way to find your life is to

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lose it lose it for his sake and the Gospels and so

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he's he's not here to give us a boring life.

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his chosen destiny for us.

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that you're following our temptations from the enemy enticing

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and seducing us.

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God uses that in his gracious mercy to bring us back into

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the fullness of new life.

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life in Christ is actually death and we have to start with

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that because again going back.

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himself yourself take up his cross daily take up our crosses

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daily follow him follow me become a disciple being committed

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to the hardships and the rejections of the world because

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that's what's going to happen.

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remain in a place of obedience.

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believing in his word believing in his faithfulness believing

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that God is able to you know, complete the work he's begun

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in us letting his words overwrite the script the programming

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that Satan has set us up to promote his evil present.

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our own destruction the destruction of everything good to

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actually to defeat God.

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That's his ultimate goal and he's using every resource including

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the ones God has put here for us to use and us Satan is using

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those to prove himself right and destroy everything.

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the programming of this world the mesmerizing pull of the

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attractions the distractions the seductions of this world is

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to die to ourselves, you know, it's like this most people like

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to add Jesus to their lives like you'd add a suitcase to your

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journey to a far country.

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They just wanted to be there can be at their convenience.

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Jesus said I am the way the truth and the life and I just I

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am the journey.

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I am the yeah, he is the journey.

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He is the way he's yeah, but Jesus, you know, isn't a some

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religious talisman or some good luck charm that we hang around

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our neck to ward off danger and demons Jesus is wants to become

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our life.

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We live and move and have our being.

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So the bottom line is death or get in or get out.

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It's not about doing the right things for God or to make God

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like us or be happy with us.

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It's about being the son or daughter.

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He has created you to be it's about living out your true identity

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being true to who is who you are who you belong to and what

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he's created to be being true to who we are no matter what

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the enemy throws at us.

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No matter what the lies no matter what the pit no matter what

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the pit falls.

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This is the this is the test down here on the are we going

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who's reporter we going to believe are we going to believe

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what God says or what the devil says so because Satan wants

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to destroy us by dividing our house.

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He wants to set us up in opposition to our self get us confused

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about following Jesus and try to follow our own selves or

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someone else.

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sheep know my voice.

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So part of you know, following Jesus that you know, James

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and John and Peter and Andrew and Matthew and they heard

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the voice of Jesus literally.

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He said come follow me.

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it's just my imagination or how weird is that to fall but

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God speaks.

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He speaks to us through his written word.

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He speaks to us through the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit

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speaks to us to our spirits so that we can know that we know

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what we know even though your mind isn't sure about it.

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Your soul is not sure about it.

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Your spirit is sure about it because you're following Jesus.

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Now, there's a lot of miscommunication misunderstandings

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misinterpretations of things that Satan tries to throw in

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that conversation.

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No doubt, but as we submit to God wait for him don't bite

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the hook let God make the choices for you and just follow

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him and are satisfied with what he's doing in your life and

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how fast it's going because we somehow have this idea that

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I should be great.

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Yes, we should be I should be known.

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Yes, you should be I want to be appreciated.

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Yes, you should be because all these things are put in our

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heart by God, but at the same time going about our ways to

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get those that appreciation that attraction that confidence

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that you know that love going about it our way oftentimes

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only is a destruction of the real process and the goal we're

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looking for.

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So it's not about you know, Jesus forcing us to do something

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this following following him is a voluntary desire on our

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part to live in accord with him with the truth and so many

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people they don't want to live in the unity of the truth and

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peace with ourselves and others they try and they live a kind

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of a double life.

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We live a double life a Christian life to on a torture

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rack.

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We're divided splits in our affections our motives our

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pursuits our purposes for living and when you're in a divided

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house Jesus at a divided house cannot stand.

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Well really following Jesus is becoming his student right his

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student.

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I mean one who we study him.

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We follow him.

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We learn from him.

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We we learn his ways.

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We said we take on his spirit.

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We take on his character and that is really the final goal

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for us is to be conformed to the image of Jesus on but why

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would we want to do that?

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Why you know people are happy.

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They've got their their money.

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They've got their house or they got their poverty and they got

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their struggle whatever they got seems like people are believing

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I've got it is what it is.

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I mean, I hate that but that's saying it is we stop saying it

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is that out of your vocabulary if you want things to change so

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but anyway, so they've been dulled down in their expectations

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or they've been exhausted or their bodies are weakened and

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they're sick.

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They're you know, they just don't have any energy or anointing

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or vision or revelation to see anything change.

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They're beaten down flat into the ground.

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And so is there in that position or they're in that other

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position where I can do this just give me another day.

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Give me another week.

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Give me another dollar and I'll show you I can do this.

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So we're we're motivated on either end of that spectrum to

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prove something or to collapse and we don't realize that the

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Lord God is in the midst of all of it to try to he doesn't try

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but calling us to let go of open your hand.

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You think you got something in your hand you want to keep but

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if you don't open your hand, you can't receive what the Lord

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has for you, which is better.

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And so we've been saying is really done a number on us to

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collapse the divide destroyed to set us up in opposition to

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ourselves and even even through things that look good the

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expectations of this world to fit in to follow to be loved to

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find meaning and purpose fun, you know, are we following a

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scoundrel because really Jesus the by their fruits you shall

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know them.

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So what is the fruit of everything you're doing if you

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just just extrapolated to the end?

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What is the fruit of it?

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What is the it's up to me.

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I've got to do all this stuff to stay safe.

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And then at the end, what do I do at the end?

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Where do I go at the end?

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Whose Kingdom do I join?

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The fact is that we know unless the Lord comes, you know, we

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believe in the Rapture if the Lord comes for us in that

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manner, but the thing is we're going to be terminated here on

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Earth one way or another one way or the other.

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We're on a terminal course and are transferred.

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We're going to be transferred transferred.

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But you know, our life is just short to where it says like

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it's a vapor.

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It's just like a little puff of steam.

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Yeah, and what will you all do you get the more you realize

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how short your life?

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Well, what are we going to do at the end?

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Are we going to regret or rejoice?

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What is Jesus said?

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Well, we read it earlier.

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What shall profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, you

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know, and lose his soul?

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Well, look at this.

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So, you know, we live in this world.

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We do what the world says we try to make money get in the

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system get involved be a good, you know, take part in the

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gross national product to become a faithful white or blue

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collar clog in the in the system for Satan.

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And what is that in the end the world hates us because it

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hated God who fathered us.

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So even though you think you can get the world to like you

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they're going to you know, do something nice for you give

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you a safe retirement.

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Whatever they're going to do that the world this world system

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not all the people in it, but many of them but this world

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system hates us because we're made by God.

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So you're deceived in the thinking that they're they're

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drawing you in and comforting you and giving you hope and

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opportunity and blessing because you we have been then seduced

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by an enchanted by and spell bone a spell bound by their

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bait.

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The devil is got bait on the hook and it's only for one

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purpose that you become the lunch in his frying pan.

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So and here's another side the further you drift out to see

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the further away from the shore the more difficult it is to

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get back to solid ground.

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So the more we drift away from the truth the more endangered

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we are in our final outcome.

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So, you know, it's not good to wait till you you've tasted

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the world and figured out it's bad.

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It's good to start following Jesus in the beginning before

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you drift out to sea and become lost because a lot of people

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don't get rescued.

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They don't get they get out there and they're lost and then

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what happens?

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Well, we don't know what happens.

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I mean, it's tragic whatever it is because they are not found

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they're lost.

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They don't complete.

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They don't have solid ground to stand and the best thing to

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do is get back to the land to get back to the truth and you

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know stop and think about this to Jesus did not come to help

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us cope or survive.

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He came that we might have life and life more abundantly and

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thrive.

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So what have you believed about Jesus?

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What have you believed about the gospel?

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How have you been deceived and tricked into thinking?

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I've got to do it myself or I'll wait till later.

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I won't you know, I'll follow Jesus when I've finished what

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I want to do.

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How does this work for us?

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The thing is I keep coming back here to Ecclesiastes chapter

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12 verse 1 remember now your Creator in the days of your

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youth before the difficult days come and the years draw near

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and you say I have no pleasure in them.

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Now some of us, you know, we're older.

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So, you know, we don't you wish those of you that came to

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Christ when you were older don't you wish you would have come

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to him when you were young a lot of people do think of all

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the grief it would have saved for you.

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Yeah, not to say there wasn't grief and difficulty because

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Satan makes sure there's a plenty of that.

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But the thing is you became victorious you overcame you

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were strengthened in your character in your resolve in

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your in your in your I guess the word will be character in

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your character becoming more like Jesus and then we go back

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to he who seeks to save his life will lose it and he loses

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it from Isaac.

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This isn't sound like good a good policy.

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This doesn't sound like good advice lose your life.

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Give it up.

500
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He says he's not the way of the world.

501
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No Jesus said, you know to receive that life.

502
00:26:27,199 --> 00:26:31,300
Jesus had to die to give up his will to enter into the

503
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blessing the father for him, but it's the same for us to

504
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enter into that life of peace and in the power of his

505
00:26:37,500 --> 00:26:40,000
presence and into the kingdom of his purposes and he's

506
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prepared for us.

507
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We have to follow Jesus.

508
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Let me just give you some of these things.

509
00:26:46,199 --> 00:26:48,900
Okay, I'm going to give you a list of 10 things.

510
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Oh listen.

511
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I love this of 10 things like this.

512
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No, I hate him.

513
00:26:52,300 --> 00:26:54,000
Anyway, this maybe I like this one.

514
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Maybe you like I think you like this.

515
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All right.

516
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So and you can write this down or listen again and you

517
00:27:00,500 --> 00:27:04,099
don't rewind in this.

518
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:08,599
But anyway, following Jesus means you hear his voice,

519
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:09,300
right?

520
00:27:09,699 --> 00:27:13,300
You have to hear his voice and then secondly is doing

521
00:27:13,300 --> 00:27:15,300
what he says obeying repent.

522
00:27:15,300 --> 00:27:19,099
Yeah, follow me come turn around and another part of

523
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following Jesus is accepting your identity in him.

524
00:27:22,699 --> 00:27:25,699
Discovering and accepting who he is.

525
00:27:25,699 --> 00:27:27,699
Well that comes through the revelation of the Holy Spirit

526
00:27:27,699 --> 00:27:31,599
who causes us to discover who we really are and then

527
00:27:31,599 --> 00:27:34,400
following Jesus is trusting him throughout the journey

528
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:38,199
during the wonderful not panic and the day is don't

529
00:27:38,199 --> 00:27:40,800
don't freak out when things get real tough, right?

530
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:44,500
And then another part of following Jesus is enjoying

531
00:27:44,500 --> 00:27:45,500
his presence.

532
00:27:46,199 --> 00:27:49,300
Proverbs 16 or Psalm 16 11 in his presence.

533
00:27:49,300 --> 00:27:51,199
There's fullness of joy in his right hand.

534
00:27:51,199 --> 00:27:52,300
There are pleasures for everyone.

535
00:27:52,300 --> 00:27:55,099
You know people who would have not experienced that

536
00:27:55,099 --> 00:27:55,800
presence.

537
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:57,699
Don't think don't value it.

538
00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:00,500
The only ones who really value it are the ones who

539
00:28:00,500 --> 00:28:01,400
have experienced it.

540
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:04,500
So it is hard to use that as a motivator.

541
00:28:04,500 --> 00:28:07,199
If you've never experienced the presence of God and

542
00:28:07,199 --> 00:28:10,199
then and then relying on his power you when you're

543
00:28:10,199 --> 00:28:13,099
following you you're relying on not on your own strength

544
00:28:13,300 --> 00:28:16,000
you're relying on the power of the Holy Spirit to do

545
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:20,400
what to just to be able to follow to keep to keep

546
00:28:20,500 --> 00:28:23,000
walk to do what he said to do to do you know heal

547
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:24,199
the sick cleanse the lepers.

548
00:28:24,300 --> 00:28:26,000
That's actually kind of fun stuff to do.

549
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:27,099
You know, it really is.

550
00:28:27,099 --> 00:28:30,300
I mean God gives us fun stuff to do really meaningful

551
00:28:30,300 --> 00:28:30,500
stuff.

552
00:28:30,500 --> 00:28:32,900
And then another thing part of following Jesus is

553
00:28:32,900 --> 00:28:37,000
recognizing and rejecting the lies and the devices

554
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,599
of the enemy and that's really fun to do because a

555
00:28:39,599 --> 00:28:41,400
lot of people are bound by those lies.

556
00:28:41,699 --> 00:28:44,699
If you can spot them and turn away from them turn

557
00:28:44,900 --> 00:28:47,599
spot help someone else reject them.

558
00:28:47,599 --> 00:28:51,000
You're going to be fine and then calling out Jesus

559
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:54,300
is simply keep your focus on him keeping your focus.

560
00:28:54,300 --> 00:28:55,300
How do we do that?

561
00:28:56,500 --> 00:29:00,500
The Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit the Word of God,

562
00:29:00,900 --> 00:29:04,099
you know, stay let the word dwell in your heart

563
00:29:04,099 --> 00:29:05,800
richly by faith.

564
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:09,000
It's not a lot of this list is not, you know, haven't

565
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:09,500
read all yet.

566
00:29:09,500 --> 00:29:12,699
But this list is not about trying to do stuff to be

567
00:29:12,699 --> 00:29:13,300
something.

568
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:17,300
No, it's out of the being that this doing comes right

569
00:29:17,300 --> 00:29:20,199
and it's not all about doing here.

570
00:29:20,199 --> 00:29:22,800
It's just and he says and there's no turning back,

571
00:29:23,500 --> 00:29:25,900
you know, if you set your hand to the plow and look

572
00:29:25,900 --> 00:29:28,000
back you're not fit for the kingdom of heaven.

573
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:31,000
So there's no looking back or changing your mind.

574
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,199
And then the following Jesus is really as you follow

575
00:29:34,199 --> 00:29:36,699
him you become more like him.

576
00:29:38,500 --> 00:29:42,099
Jesus said it's in Matthew 10 24 and 25.

577
00:29:42,099 --> 00:29:45,699
It's enough for a teacher a student to be as their

578
00:29:45,699 --> 00:29:48,599
teacher and basically is what he's saying.

579
00:29:49,199 --> 00:29:52,099
The teacher the student is to become more and more

580
00:29:52,099 --> 00:29:57,400
like the teacher and then in Romans 8 29 says he's

581
00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:01,099
predestined us to be conformed to the image of

582
00:30:01,099 --> 00:30:01,900
his son.

583
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:06,800
So becoming like him and it's not just a list of

584
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:07,500
all this stuff.

585
00:30:07,500 --> 00:30:10,699
I've got to do but this is kind of a description

586
00:30:11,300 --> 00:30:15,300
really a description of what it is to follow Jesus.

587
00:30:15,300 --> 00:30:18,199
Well, and part of that too is what we're looking

588
00:30:18,199 --> 00:30:21,500
at right now is to count the cost when you count

589
00:30:21,500 --> 00:30:23,599
the cost of something how much it's going to cost

590
00:30:23,599 --> 00:30:25,500
you to do something or how much you're going to

591
00:30:25,500 --> 00:30:27,199
have to invest or put into it.

592
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:29,900
What you really are looking at is the end result.

593
00:30:29,900 --> 00:30:31,000
What do you want?

594
00:30:31,199 --> 00:30:32,500
What are you trying to get out of this?

595
00:30:32,500 --> 00:30:33,199
What are you trying to build?

596
00:30:33,199 --> 00:30:34,400
What are you trying to accomplish?

597
00:30:34,599 --> 00:30:36,699
So when you're counting the cost you have to also

598
00:30:36,699 --> 00:30:39,800
look at the end to see if the cost is worth it.

599
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,500
If you're willing to that and what you're asked

600
00:30:42,599 --> 00:30:46,199
God is asking us to do here is invest your whole

601
00:30:46,199 --> 00:30:49,400
life every part of your life your gifts your

602
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:52,199
talents your abilities your life your breath your

603
00:30:52,199 --> 00:30:53,199
health your children.

604
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:57,199
He's asking us to reinvest everything.

605
00:30:57,199 --> 00:31:01,099
He's given us reinvested in his kingdom.

606
00:31:01,599 --> 00:31:04,300
And so that's an awesome invitation, but most

607
00:31:04,300 --> 00:31:06,400
people don't even consider it.

608
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:08,900
They throw that invitation out with the the junk

609
00:31:08,900 --> 00:31:11,900
mail because they don't realize what they're

610
00:31:11,900 --> 00:31:13,300
being invited to do.

611
00:31:13,300 --> 00:31:16,300
So counting the cost right now is you're sitting

612
00:31:16,300 --> 00:31:16,500
there.

613
00:31:16,500 --> 00:31:18,800
Where are you at in your life?

614
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:20,400
Do you like where it's going?

615
00:31:20,599 --> 00:31:22,199
Do you like where it's going to end up?

616
00:31:22,199 --> 00:31:24,300
Do you like what is it's you're going to be able

617
00:31:24,300 --> 00:31:27,099
to accomplish through the what you're doing now

618
00:31:27,099 --> 00:31:30,000
because what you're doing now will either provide

619
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:33,400
or diminish in the end what you're going to

620
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,000
receive what you're going to accomplish what

621
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:35,500
you're going to be.

622
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:39,400
So when counting are the cost the I kingdom come

623
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:42,800
thy will be done simple words, but they really

624
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:46,900
mean, you know that you're committing your

625
00:31:46,900 --> 00:31:52,800
dedicate your investing all of your life resources

626
00:31:53,099 --> 00:31:55,599
in the kingdom of God and that is what it really

627
00:31:55,599 --> 00:31:58,300
means to deny yourself take up your cross and

628
00:31:58,300 --> 00:32:00,300
follow him because it's that cross is going to

629
00:32:00,300 --> 00:32:02,099
cross your will sometimes because your will says

630
00:32:02,099 --> 00:32:03,800
oh, I want to take the day off.

631
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:05,900
I want to you know, lounge around.

632
00:32:05,900 --> 00:32:08,900
I want to do something fun, whatever and this

633
00:32:08,900 --> 00:32:11,500
but the things God has for us to do are not just

634
00:32:11,500 --> 00:32:13,300
fun. They're awesome.

635
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:14,400
They're meaningful.

636
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:15,699
They're rejuvenating.

637
00:32:15,900 --> 00:32:19,000
They're refreshing even the battles are rejuvenating

638
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,900
because we know that there's there's a spirit

639
00:32:21,900 --> 00:32:24,599
of God in us that gives us authority power peace

640
00:32:24,599 --> 00:32:27,500
and and and confidence to do those things.

641
00:32:27,500 --> 00:32:31,599
It's a matter of living in and living with things

642
00:32:31,599 --> 00:32:33,400
that are of eternal value.

643
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,500
Yeah, what really matters most for all eternity

644
00:32:36,599 --> 00:32:39,000
What matters most for all eternity is the souls

645
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,300
of people what matters most for all eternity is

646
00:32:41,300 --> 00:32:43,900
what you choose to do now what you choose to do

647
00:32:43,900 --> 00:32:48,199
now. Yeah living relating everything to their

648
00:32:48,199 --> 00:32:52,099
you're doing here to over there to over there

649
00:32:52,099 --> 00:32:54,599
and yet it's not just over there because God is

650
00:32:54,599 --> 00:32:55,800
really inside of us.

651
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:56,699
He's with us.

652
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:58,199
He is in the midst of us.

653
00:32:58,199 --> 00:33:01,800
His kingdom is here on Earth and we the Holy

654
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:03,699
Spirit is causing us to help us to see the

655
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:07,800
distinction between the deception and the treachery

656
00:33:08,099 --> 00:33:11,099
and and what Satan makes it to look like and

657
00:33:11,099 --> 00:33:13,199
the truth of what God shows us through his word

658
00:33:13,199 --> 00:33:13,800
and spirit.

659
00:33:14,199 --> 00:33:17,300
So as we're standing in these in this place

660
00:33:17,300 --> 00:33:19,400
today, what are you going to do?

661
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:21,699
Are you going to make a decision to turn around

662
00:33:21,699 --> 00:33:25,300
or maybe intensify your following it with Jesus

663
00:33:25,500 --> 00:33:27,800
trusting him committing it to him father.

664
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:31,000
We just ask that you give us the divine Holy

665
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:35,500
Spirit courage power authority to see what's

666
00:33:35,500 --> 00:33:36,800
really going on down here.

667
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:39,900
See it for what it really is and out of that

668
00:33:39,900 --> 00:33:43,500
revelation make a decision to live and not to

669
00:33:43,500 --> 00:33:46,000
venture out on our own but to stand and having

670
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:49,099
been all to stand and declare thy kingdom come

671
00:33:49,199 --> 00:33:52,300
in and through us in and through us through whatever

672
00:33:52,300 --> 00:33:53,300
that looks like Lord.

673
00:33:53,300 --> 00:33:55,000
You are faithful to complete the work you've

674
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,699
begun in us and you have a wonderful destiny

675
00:33:58,000 --> 00:33:59,900
that is being accomplished even in through us

676
00:33:59,900 --> 00:34:01,599
right now even through the difficulties even

677
00:34:01,599 --> 00:34:03,800
through the temptations even through the things

678
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:07,300
where we're miserably failing at you Lord God

679
00:34:07,300 --> 00:34:10,100
are weaving those things into a beautiful tapestry

680
00:34:10,100 --> 00:34:13,300
of truth and victory in our lives in Jesus name.

681
00:34:13,500 --> 00:34:16,699
Let's believe God and follow him for those that

682
00:34:16,699 --> 00:34:20,300
are trying to be a Christian trying to live

683
00:34:20,300 --> 00:34:21,199
the Christian life.

684
00:34:21,199 --> 00:34:21,500
Yeah.

685
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:23,000
Yeah, give it up.

686
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,800
Yeah, just give it up and follow Jesus.

687
00:34:26,899 --> 00:34:29,300
It's very simple follow surrender.

688
00:34:29,699 --> 00:34:30,399
Trust.

689
00:34:30,500 --> 00:34:31,000
Amen.

690
00:34:32,399 --> 00:34:34,899
Well, you've got a lot of resources a lot of

691
00:34:34,899 --> 00:34:36,399
tools a lot of weapons.

692
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:39,800
Well, you know, one of the things that we don't

693
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:42,199
talk much about is our YouTube channel.

694
00:34:42,500 --> 00:34:44,500
I think you can find it under Marjorie Cole's

695
00:34:44,500 --> 00:34:48,399
the OLE and or life recovery or life recovery

696
00:34:48,399 --> 00:34:48,899
dot com.

697
00:34:48,899 --> 00:34:50,199
There's many life recoveries out there.

698
00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:54,199
I get that but if you want to just have some

699
00:34:55,399 --> 00:34:58,199
teaching, you know, that's helpful to kind of

700
00:34:58,300 --> 00:35:01,100
put things in position perspective put things

701
00:35:01,100 --> 00:35:04,399
in place kind of get a clear understanding of

702
00:35:04,399 --> 00:35:09,399
spiritual warfare healing difficulties, the

703
00:35:09,399 --> 00:35:12,800
you know, the way the justice of God if you

704
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:14,800
want some of these answers, I would encourage

705
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,500
you to just go to the YouTube channel and begin

706
00:35:17,500 --> 00:35:20,300
to watch some of those things we have available

707
00:35:20,300 --> 00:35:20,699
there.

708
00:35:20,899 --> 00:35:23,800
Also, we've got many many books in our in our

709
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:25,800
bookstore arsenal in our arsenal.

710
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:29,699
Yeah, and on Amazon.com check out spiritual

711
00:35:29,699 --> 00:35:32,000
warfare and how deliverance can change your

712
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,000
life because literally that is how some people

713
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:35,300
need to have their lives changed.

714
00:35:35,300 --> 00:35:40,600
We heard recently from people in another country

715
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:44,300
who have your books translated into their

716
00:35:44,300 --> 00:35:48,300
language and they said, you know, they came up

717
00:35:48,300 --> 00:35:52,000
to us recently and said we we've read all your

718
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,500
books and we're doing what it says and we're

719
00:35:54,500 --> 00:35:56,899
applying it to others and it works.

720
00:35:57,600 --> 00:35:59,199
They were so thrilled.

721
00:35:59,300 --> 00:36:00,800
Yeah, because they'll be able to help other

722
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:01,800
people through the truth.

723
00:36:02,300 --> 00:36:04,899
They were so blessed and blessed to be a

724
00:36:04,899 --> 00:36:05,399
blessing.

725
00:36:05,399 --> 00:36:05,899
Yes.

726
00:36:05,899 --> 00:36:07,699
So thank you for joining us today.

727
00:36:08,100 --> 00:36:10,300
Give this information rescue radio to some of

728
00:36:10,300 --> 00:36:11,000
your friends.

729
00:36:11,399 --> 00:36:14,199
Let's get on this train and get going because

730
00:36:14,199 --> 00:36:16,300
God's Jesus is coming back soon.

731
00:36:24,699 --> 00:36:25,399
I just don't know.

732
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,300
Rescue radio because there's a war for your

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soul.