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Welcome to the podcast of the 
White Church in Adelaide, South 

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Australia. 
Excellent. 

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Just over the last couple of 
weeks, even again, preparing for

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this morning. 
And it was even actually a word 

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that was spoken over Hilary and 
I like years ago when we're at 

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Kingdom life, just about, you 
know, this collective call of 

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let my people go. 
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that again, you know, in the 
last couple of weeks, just let 

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my people go. 
And it's, it's not just for 

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people that don't know him to be
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That's a huge one. 
That's one that we're pushing 

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into as a local church. 
We want to see people set free. 

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But even just for us as 
followers of Christ, we want to 

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be free. 
The, the church is bound in many

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things. 
The church is the church as a 

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whole. 
I mean, is we are distracted in 

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a lot of things and we need to 
be set free so that we can just 

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get on with the, the stuff that 
he's called us to do. 

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And so that's the, that's the 
sense that I'm getting. 

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And I think that flows on into 
the Philippines, the, the church

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that's there. 
I think it's all over the world.

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I think that there's, I feel 
like God's wanting to wake up 

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his church and let us see 
clearly where we've been LED 

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Australia, where we've where 
we've been just taken over by 

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the things that are less 
important and, and all these 

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sort of things. 
So, you know, I spoke about last

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week, just about we spoke about 
God and being set apart and 

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being holy and being, you know, 
so much beyond ourselves and, 

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and these sort of things, this 
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And you'll remember that I spoke
about being holy as, as in being

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set apart. 
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set apart and being holy is 
being, making ourselves 

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available to be used by him. 
So I can choose to be holy to 

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the Lord. 
I can choose to be set apart for

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the plans and purposes of God. 
And so holiness in that sense is

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is what I'm going to be 
continuing to talk about this 

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morning. 
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about being absolutely perfect 
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perfect and getting everything 
right, perfect holy in that 

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sense, it's like, but being set 
apart for the plans and purposes

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of God. 
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him, choose to set apart the 
things that are distracting, set

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apart the things that are 
getting in the way and focus on 

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the good things, on the things 
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So holiness set apart. 
I'm just going to read this 

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scripture again from Isaiah 55, 
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It says, my thoughts are not 
your thoughts, nor are my ways 

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your ways, says the Lord. 
For as the heavens are higher 

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than the earth, so are my ways 
higher than your ways, and my 

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thoughts than your thoughts. 
So He is so far above us in His 

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thinking, in His ways. 
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our ways and look to Him and 
take on His ways and take on His

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way of thinking. 
And you know, because He is so 

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far above us in all things, in 
His thinking, in His ways. 

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That means that people, humanity
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under his ways. 
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that we live by, you know, the 
Bible says that it talks about 

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the the ways that seem right to 
a man, the ways that we think 

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are good are below what what is 
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And so the default pattern that 
we can live by, like if you just

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live in a default pattern, just 
going about your life and just 

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doing what seems right to you, 
we are living that's not set 

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apart, living to the Lord. 
That's like a default pattern. 

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Our world lives in this default 
pattern of what we think is 

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right and and good and just. 
But it's not the the the higher 

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core, It's not the above core. 
It takes effort to live set 

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apart from the Lord. 
Is this making sense? 

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You know, if unless we're 
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His ways and applying His ways 
to our lives, where there's 

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every chance that we're just 
living aimlessly, there's every 

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chance that we're being LED 
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Like we're either just off doing
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because we're not seeking his 
ways and we're not in in putting

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into practice his ways. 
So we're just wondering or at 

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the very or, or the worst case 
scenario for that is that 

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there's an enemy out there 
that's wanting to pull you 

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further and further away from 
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So This is why we have to be 
diligent in knowing His ways, 

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seeking His ways, and applying 
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I thought about I forgot to 
bring, I was going to bring a 

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balloon and I was going to blow 
it up and I was going to hit it 

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up in the air. 
And the default pattern of this 

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balloon is just to come down 
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And so if I want to keep that 
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I'm going to have to I'm going 
to have to keep inputting. 

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And this is the picture of us 
following the Lord. 

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It's going to take continuous 
input to keep you from falling 

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back down into the default 
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You know, this balloon, if this 
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this balloon doesn't want to 
forgive, doesn't want to 

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forgive, doesn't want to 
forgive, doesn't want to 

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forgive, right. 
But if I'm, I want to forgive, I

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want to forgive. 
I choose to forgive, I will 

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forgive. 
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Like there's a we have to 
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prompted in the right direction.
And that's the the job of the 

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Holy Spirit in and through us. 
He wants to prompt us. 

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He wants to lead us. 
He wants to guide us. 

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And God puts people in your 
lives to speak his word, to 

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speak truth. 
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leadership in the church is to 
lead people, is to bring the 

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word of God, bring truth, bring 
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And so we have to be diligent in
listening and hearing and 

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inputting, sorry, putting those 
things into practice in our 

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lives. 
Otherwise we're just floating 

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downwards, downwards, downwards.
We're just by default, we're 

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just falling further and further
away from the ways of the Lord. 

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So because we live in a fallen 
world, this is the thing that's 

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pulling it all down. 
You see, like this, this default

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pattern, we live in a fallen 
world that isn't the Kingdom of 

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the Lord. 
There's another Kingdom at play 

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here, and it's not his Kingdom. 
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Kingdom of God would be to say 
that anything which is under the

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rule and the reign of King 
Jesus, that's the Kingdom of 

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heaven, that's the Kingdom of 
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Anything that is under the 
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Christ is the Kingdom because 
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The word Kingdom and king are 
used interchangeably in the 

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Scripture. 
You can't have a Kingdom without

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a king. 
The Kingdom of God is not here 

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unless the king is here. 
And the king lives in you and I 

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through the Holy Spirit. 
And so think about that. 

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If the things of our lives, if 
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of the king, it's not the 
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And so this world system that we
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authority of the king. 
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I mean that that which is ruling
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people. 
There is a world system that we 

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live in that brings influence 
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direction. 
You know, this is the balloon 

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coming down. 
This is the influence, This is 

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the direction of this world 
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This world system has a ruler, 
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We know who that is, right? 
Satan is the Prince of this 

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world. 
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Jesus, he says to Jesus, I will 
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of these kingdoms belongs to me,
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worship me. 
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Jesus means that Satan has this 
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Satan is leading the kingdoms of
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He is the Prince of this world. 
One John 519 says, We know that 

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we are of God, and the whole 
world lies under the sway of the

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wicked. 1 The whole world is 
being influenced by the wicked 

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one. 
And you and I are in this world.

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But see Ron, but not of this 
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Do you see? 
We are in this world which is 

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led by the Prince of this world,
but we have given ourselves over

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to the King. 
We have said, Lord, I will serve

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you, I will follow you and then 
so I'm operating under another 

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Kingdom in in this world system.
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is not under the authority of 
Christ, right. 

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It's not like it's even if you 
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leaders that are Christians that
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that now we can follow that 
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Do you see? 
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We we have to live and trust our
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And so. 
You know, our like we have to be

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the word says that we have to be
under the authority of our 

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government. 
You know that we're called to 

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pray for our leaders and pray 
for our government. 

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So in a sense, we have to 
respect the authority of our 

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government because God puts the 
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This is what the word says. 
But when our government tries to

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force us to do things contrary 
to the word of God, we can't 

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yield to those things. 
There's a, there's a line that 

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is drawn that when we are 
commanded to do things that the 

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Lord forbids us from doing, we 
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We have the right to say, no, 
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the king. 
That thing I will not do. 

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And so, you know, we see this in
the time of Nebuchadnezzar with 

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the fire and Daniel and these 
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And so, you know, it cost them 
their lives or it would have 

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cost them their lives had God 
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But we are coming into a time 
where our governments are going 

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further and further away from 
that wish is of the Kingdom of 

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God. 
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when our governments are going 
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things that we just can't do. 
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We don't serve our governments, 
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And just because the government 
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doesn't mean that it's OK for 
you and I, there's a lot of 

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things that the, our government 
would say that thing's OK to do.

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And we would say, as a son of 
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thing. 
And so this is being set apart 

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from the from the ways of this 
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We got to set we, we, we, our 
standard is Christ, our, our, we

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are being led by him, his ways. 
And so anything that's not under

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the authority of the King, we 
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You see, we have to be careful. 
Times are coming, guys. 

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And now where our world's being 
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Our world's getting dark. 
Things that are really wicked 

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are becoming normal and being 
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do in our world today. 
We're not going to go into all 

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these things. 
We have to be mindful. 

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We have to have wisdom, 
understanding of the times and 

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seasons that we're living in. 
What about the world monetary 

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system that we live under? 
This is not a Kingdom system. 

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This is one of debt, of owing, 
of being enslaved. 

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Our monetary system that's in 
operation in our world is not a 

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Kingdom system. 
And so just because the bank 

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says you can have as much money 
as you want, I will loan you as 

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much as you want. 
These are not the principles of 

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the Kingdom of God. 
There is a way that we are 

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instructed to handle our 
finances and our money, and it 

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is not what the world says is 
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This is another one of these 
things that we're going to have 

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to separate ourselves from the 
things of this world, from the 

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things that the world says is 
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And the Scripture must be our 
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God has given us very clear 
instructions for money, but 

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again, we're not getting into 
these things specifically, but 

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God shows us the way to live. 
He shows us what is right and 

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just and good and we can go on 
and on in our education, the 

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system and education system and 
health organisations and all of 

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this stuff. 
There's all this stuff that we 

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get. 
There's all these areas of the 

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world system that, you know, 
seems to be the way that seems 

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right to a man, but it's not. 
And we are being LED away from 

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those things. 
We have to distance ourselves 

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from a lot of these things. 
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What about culture? 
What about the Australian 

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culture that we live in? 
There's a lot of good things 

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about the Australian culture. 
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an Australian. 
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We were talking on on just the 
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in Australia. 
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Australia. 
I love coffee, but it's more 

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than that. 
I love the, you know, that we 

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would go out for coffee. 
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drink coffee together and talk 
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to know people over coffee, this
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And so we can embrace that as a 
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to make decent coffee because we
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And so I'm just slipping this in
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This is just like we feel to do 
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And so if that's something that 
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that is good, you can contribute
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I'm just putting that out there.
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buy a coffee machine, we're 
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If you like coffee, let's own 
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Let's carry this together. 
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coffee, but there is an expense 
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So we're going to have to carry 
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We don't want people that are 
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coffee and all this sort of 
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We want to be a generous church,
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generous church, we have to be a
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So anyway, I'm going to leave 
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I'm going to leave that alone 
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But, you know, and I know other 
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are not good. 
You know, we were talking on 

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Friday night about this culture 
of just, you know, giving each 

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other a hard time and, and 
laughing at each other and, you 

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know, these sort of things. 
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You know, this is not the, the 
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would find Jesus doing, making 
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Do you see what I'm saying? 
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area here in our culture that we
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set apart from, take a hold of 
the good things, set apart those

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things that are not in line with
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And so we want to be a loving 
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We want people to be safe here. 
We want people to come into this

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space and feel welcome and not 
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time for the clothes they wear 
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of these things or for the fact 
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their head, like whatever it is.
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Like, we're so harsh sometimes 
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friends with these people and 
stuff like that. 

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Like, you know, we would give 
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sometimes from the front here. 
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into this space that don't know 
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our friendships, this is not a 
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OK, so let's just be mindful of 
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All right, One other thing that 
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about this world system that we 
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time, especially phones. 
I've I've put my phone over 

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here. 
Phones. 

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Oh my goodness, phones are 
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I mean, they have already, but 
into all of the countries of the

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world, all of the nation's 
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This thing lives with you. 
This thing, this, this phone of 

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of mine here, this thing is 
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of the time, right? 
This thing, this is like I've 

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got this default pattern now of 
just picking it up and opening 

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things by default. 
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This thing's dangerous, guys. 
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movies and TV screens. 
Our kids are growing up in a 

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world of screens and they want 
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We have to. 
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We are called to be set apart. 
We need to be mindful of the 

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dangers that we live with every 
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This thing will rob you of your 
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You know, we will say things 
like, I don't really have enough

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time to spend time with the 
Lord, to pray. 

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I don't really have an hour to 
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before the Lord. 
I've got an hour to be on social

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media and to look for things to 
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Do you see what I'm saying? 
Like this, this thing, this 

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thing is taking over people's 
lives. 

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They say that, you know, I was 
Googling. 

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You know, because I'm preparing 
to speak while I'm away in the 

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Philippines, I was like, I 
wonder what the culture's like 

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over there with phones. 60% of 
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Philippines have a mobile phone 
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These things are out of control,
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And so, gosh, we need to be 
mindful of these things. 

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You know that AI, now that 
people are becoming best friends

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with AI, people that are lonely 
now who their best friend is an 

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AI program. 
Do you see what is happening 

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here? 
You know, social media promised 

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to connect us with each other. 
Social media promised for us to 

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be a greater community of 
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And the only thing that it's 
done is isolated us from each 

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other. 
We are less connected with each 

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other now than we were before 
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That is a problem, church. 
That is a problem for a body of 

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people that's called to be 
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one another, to live our lives, 
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one another, that we'd be living
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This is one of those things in 
our world that we have to set 

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apart from. 
I'm not saying turn your phone 

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off. 
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we're not going to be on the 
Internet or any of these things.

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You know, when, when the Lord 
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throw our TV in the bin. 
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had kids. 
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like just getting out of the 
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our world system. 
You know you're going to have a 

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hard time even banking without 
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come, right? 
All of the branches are closing.

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You're not going to be able to 
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But we have to be careful that 
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that we use them in a necessary 
way, but we don't get taken over

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by these things. 
And so this distraction, this is

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the enemy's plan, isn't it? 
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technology and, and the way that
things are going and just see if

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your eyes are open, you can look
at it and go, this thing has 

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been created to take people away
from the Lord, to take people 

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away from each other and away 
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And so let's not be distracted. 
We've got to wake up church and 

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one of the push backs that I 
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people about screen time and 
movies and social media and this

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is I would say things like, 
yeah, but I only watch this to 

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listen to preaching to watch 
movies about the Lord and you 

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know, social media to reach all 
my friends. 

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I I use it for the good. 
It's all I do. 

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And it's an interesting thing 
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week, you know, when, you know, 
when we first started following 

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the Lord, I, I watched so many 
sermons and it was good because 

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it like I, I grew so fast. 
I was just like, I couldn't get 

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enough of the word of God. 
I couldn't get enough of, of, 

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you know, this one guy in 
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how I could have this real 
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And I was just, I was loving it.
But I realized after a period of

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time that it's like I'm just 
spending all my time listening 

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to someone talk about how to 
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and it's taking over my time of 
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Do you see what I'm saying? 
So you could listen to so many 

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sermons and so much preaching 
and so many Christian movies and

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so much stuff, and it could just
get in the way of your own 

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personal relationship with the 
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It could get in your way of, of 
your own relationship with his 

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body. 
Does that make sense? 

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Be wise, be careful. 
It's like going to, you know, I 

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heard someone quote years ago, 
it was just like, don't go to 

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Bible college at the expense of 
going to your Bible. 

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Do you see what I'm saying? 
Like don't just like don't just 

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stop reading your Bible and just
go let go sit under someone and 

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let him teach you about the 
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Read the Bible, learn about the 
Bible and Bible college is fine 

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and all of those things, but 
read your Bible. 

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Let the Lord teach you the Holy 
Spirit God Jesus said I'll send 

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my Holy Spirit and he will teach
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So that's a personal 
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his word. 
This is the the what God wants 

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for us. 
So if the life that you and I 

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live is no different to any 
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earth right now in terms of what
we're doing with our time and 

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and you know, the things that 
we've given over to, if my life 

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looks the same as a non 
believer, some I've missed it, 

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something's wrong here. 
You know, if I spend just as 

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much time in front of a screen 
as my neighbor and, you know, 

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tie on a bit of bit of pray, bit
of prayer and a bit of worship 

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or whatever on the side sort of 
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This is not the calling of the 
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We are called to seek the Lord. 
And whatever other time you've 

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got outside of those most 
important things, you have time 

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to do whatever, whatever you 
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Does this make sense? 
We're going to seek the Lord for

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real. 
So what does it actually mean 

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then to be set apart for the 
Lord? 

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How am I to live a life that's 
set apart for Him? 

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I would say that a real 
connection with God is what 

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separates me from anyone else in
the world that doesn't know Him.

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Like a real connection with the 
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That I spend time with him. 
That I speak to him but that He 

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speaks to me. 
That I give Him space to talk to

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me. 
That I'm attentive to His words.

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That I have a desire to be with 
Him. 

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The other thing that I would say
is real connection with, with 

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people, with his bride. 
That's what separates us from 

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the world. 
That's what separates us from 

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the world system. 
We have a a body of believers 

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that we're connected to, that we
do life together. 

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We have something very special 
here in Christ that needs to be 

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a huge importance to us. 
It means to be like, it's like 

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God said, you know, love God 
with all your heart, with all 

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your mind, love your neighbor as
yourself. 

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It's like these two things. 
It's like I love the Lord with 

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everything and I love his 
people. 

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I love people. 
That's the thing that separates 

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us from the world. 
We love the Lord, we love each 

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other and we have a heart for 
the loss. 

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We want to see other people come
into this thing. 

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We have a desire to see people 
saved, all of those people out 

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there that don't know him. 
We want them to come and 

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experience something that is 
real here. 

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So there's a, a, a sense of 
having a heart for the lost. 

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And when you have a heart for 
the lost, you know what you do, 

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you speak, you seek the Lord for
the lost. 

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You think about the lost a lot. 
I wonder, I wonder if we're 

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honest, you know, because we 
can, we can sit here and we can 

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say I've got a heart for the 
lost. 

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How often do you even think 
about them through your daily 

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life? 
How often does it come up? 

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How often do you pray for 
people? 

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How often do you meet someone 
and think, oh gosh, I wish that 

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person knew the Lord. 
Do you see what I'm saying? 

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Like a, a set apart believer 
seeks the Lord, seeks his 

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people, seeks the lost to come 
into, you know, the Lord's 

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presence also. 
And so it looks like something 

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practically, doesn't it? 
Because if you look at your 

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daily life, like let's take 
yesterday for example, think 

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about your day yesterday for a 
moment. 

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Did you seek the Lord? 
Did you seek out his people? 

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Did you pray for any? 
Was there any lost person that 

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you were like, oh gosh, Lord, 
come on Lord, come on Lord, let 

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this people go free. 
You know that cry set my people 

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free. 
The cry of the Lord should be 

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the cry of our heart. 
Set these people free. 

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Lord, do you see what I'm 
saying? 

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No pressure. 
Don't look back on yesterday and

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go, oh, I'm blowing it. 
Today is a new day. 

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Today is a new day. 
Tomorrow is a new day. 

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We are we are listening to what 
the Lord's saying. 

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We want to be a set apart 
believe group of believers and 

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we can and we should and we and 
we and we should have that 

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desire to do that. 
Do you see how this ties in with

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hospitality? 
Do you see how all of this being

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set apart for the Lord just 
lends itself to being hospitable

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to to seeking the needs of 
others, to opening up your home 

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to people to be getting in into 
other people's homes 

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hospitality. 
All right, I'm bringing this to 

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a close. 
We spoke about I think I 

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mentioned it this morning, but 
this question that's that's in 

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our hearts for this season as a 
local church. 

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It's what are you wanting to do 
in and through this people? 

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Lord, this is the question that 
we want to ask the Lord 

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together. 
Lord, what do you want to do in 

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and through us as a people? 
God's got an answer for this 

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question. 
There is something that the Lord

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wants to do in US and through 
us. 

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If we would listen, if we would 
set ourselves apart to be used 

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by Him. 
You know that setting apart, 

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it's to be used for His purpose.
So that's the question that 

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we're going to continue to ask 
over and over. 

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Can I say that when when we're 
gathering together, when we're 

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going to be together, ask this 
question of yourself, say, Lord,

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what are you wanting to do in 
and through your people today? 

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And we'll come together and 
we'll hear what it is that the 

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Lord's wanting to do in and 
through his people. 

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And we'll get on. 
We'll get on with it. 

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We'll get on with whatever the 
call is. 

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We'll get on walking down the 
road that he has for us as a 

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people. 
I believe that the answer to 

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this question for us in the 
right now is the Lord wants us 

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to be set apart from the things 
of this world. 

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The Lord wants us to be diligent
in what we're giving ourselves 

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to because we're either giving 
ourselves over to this world and

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the the systems of this world in
default, we're giving ourselves 

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over to the ruler of this world,
or we're giving ourselves over 

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to the king to be effective, to 
be used by him. 

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And so the, the question for you
and I, as we, as we go about our

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lives, as we leave this place 
is, Lord, what are the things 

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that I need to be setting apart 
from what do you want from me, 

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Lord? 
It's a good question, isn't it? 

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You know, I spoke when I started
speaking, I said that we want to

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hear what the Lord says and we 
want to put it into practice. 

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The putting it into practice is 
the hardest fit. 

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Hearing from the Lord is easy. 
I hear some people go, I don't 

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hear from the Lord. 
You got a whole book that talks 

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about the Lord is speaking to 
you, right? 

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So you can hear from the Lord. 
Now it's time to put it into 

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practice. 
I'm going to close here with 

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Matthew 2128. 
This is Jesus speaking and he 

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says, but what do you think? 
That's a good way for Jesus to 

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start, isn't it? 
Listen up guys. 

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What do you guys think? 
Listen to this Jesus is saying, 

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what do you think? 
A man had two sons and he came 

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to the 1st and he said, son, go 
walk today in my vineyard. 

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And he answered and said, I will
not. 

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But afterward he regretted it 
and he went. 

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Then he came to a second, a 
second son and said likewise. 

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He said, go into my vineyard. 
And he answered and said, I will

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go, Sir. 
But he did not go. 

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Which of these two did? 
The will of the father? 

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We say a lot of amens. 
I'm guilty of this. 

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I know that we are of, of 
saying, Yep, Yep, OK, Lord, Yep,

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I'm listening to you, Lord. 
All right, God, Yep. 

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I know what you're saying. 
And then you never go into the 

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field. 
Which of these sons did the will

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of the Father? 
We don't want to just hear. 

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We don't want to just hear what 
the Lords is saying. 

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We want to do what the Lord is 
doing. 

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It'd be better for us to go. 
I'm not doing that. 

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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, 
Lord, not doing that, not doing 

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that, Lord, be better to say no 
now and then walk out of here 

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and just go, oh, gosh, I'm going
to have to do that. 

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I know the Lord do you say what?
Do you see what I'm saying? 

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Better to say no and then just 
to do it anyway than to say yes 

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and do nothing with it. 
So anyway, we're all in the same

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boat together. 
I like, I have to hear all these

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same words that I just spoke and
I have to do something with it. 

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And the doing something with it 
is the hard part. 

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But let's do this together. 
Let's trust that the Holy Spirit

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will lead us, guide us, shape 
us, grow us, empower us to see 

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this thing through. 
Amen. 

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